The federal government recently reiterated its position on the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA), saying that Nigeria is not against the pact.
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who said this in a keynote at the 2018 Africa Trade Forum in Lagos, said although, Nigeria was yet to sign the agreement, the country was not against it. He said the federal government was still consulting all stakeholders to ensure that concerns and challenges are addressed, ostensibly before the country can put pen to paper.
"I can tell you that there is virtual unanimity from those against and those for the AfCFTA on the benefits of intra-African trade for development, poverty reduction and job creation," he told delegates who attended the two-day forum.
The Vice President added: "Across the board all stakeholders point to the issues where the policymakers are required to act in coordination regionally in dealing for example with issues like agreement on rules of origin which is critical to avoid abuse, that third parties cannot benefit from an agreement their government has not signed, trade finance and related subjects.
"Although most stakeholders support the agreement, there are concerns about impact especially on the local markets and the need to protect the agreement from abuse by third parties.
"This is an opportunity for us to get this right and implement the agreement correctly," he said. He lauded the ACFTA as "the most significant Pan African agreement in this generation that we have yet signed as the continent." "It's impact on commerce and practically everything else will arguably be most profound," Osinbajo added.
The consultation process, he said, remained diligent, rigorous and transparent and was yielding positive results. "Since its establishment, the pace of outreach to improve on it, to build capacity and to sharpen expertise has accelerated.
"Nigeria as Africa's biggest market is most likely to benefit the most or lose the most from the AfCFTA," the vice president added. Led by business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Nigeria's businesses and industrialists were unanimous that it was a question of when the country signs, not if it would sign the agreement.
On his part, Dangote said consultations being carried out by the government were crucial to ensure all concerns are addressed. "Nigeria did not rush to sign the agreement because there are consequences and Nigeria has some big industries.


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So, Diablo 3 is out today, eh? I'm glad you're taking the time to watch today's scene! ;D
If you have picked it up, what are your first impressions? I enjoyed Diablo 1 and 2, though I never beat either of them. If I had less on my plate, I would probably give Diablo 3 a shot, but, like Mass Effect 3, I think I'll wait for the Game of the Year edition!
Speaking of RPGs, what are your favourite iOS/Android RPGs? (Not counting ports, like Chrono Trigger! :D)
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Great scene! I'll try Diablo later aswell ;)
Lucas on May 16, 2012 at 12:40 am
To be completely honest Joe: What i found in diablo I and II: Very good combat for the time (you know, the golden 90s) and very easy to jump right into… what i do not like in the Diablo games: Weak, weak, weak story, no charactert options whatsoever (in relation to the story that is) I find the rightclicking to become rather tiresome, and in general neither of the two previous games could entertain me for more than a couple of hours, due to the fact that they required so little of my attention that i oculd play whilst thinking about completely other things, and suddenly i would realise that i had now beaten the entire game.
And what I keep hearing people say is that it is a good RPG. But diablo is not an RPG, the fact that you have levels does not make it an RPG, that is just a way to measure what kind of power your toon has. Diablo 1 and 2 didn't give you any real character options in relation to story. Its an action hack and slash, dungeon runner game, and theres nothing wrong with liking or disliking the genre, personally i feel theres no immersion in the games, which is why i dont play them.
Rasmus Nielsen on May 16, 2012 at 12:44 am
-GASP- THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED~! :3 -fanboy squeal-
Maybe the gang can get Zombie paper there! :3
AcadianBacon on May 16, 2012 at 12:47 am
Good scene btw :)
I'm guessing someone is an Earthbound fan? Caught the reference right away, it's strangely very fitting!
DJ Deadbeat on May 16, 2012 at 12:48 am
@Rasmus Nielsen – Good points! You're right that Diablo 1/2 aren't very immersive and I never felt a connection to my character. Probably why I never beat them! But, you're also right that the approachable combat system makes the game enjoyable, at least for a little while :D
@AcadianBacon & DJ Deadbeat – Glad you got the reference! Send the pizza delivery guy! :D
Joe on May 16, 2012 at 12:52 am
Nice scene. I didn't realise you'd update so quickly, I've only just finished reading EVERYTHING :D
Roy Ashton (Frembra) on May 16, 2012 at 1:04 am
@Rasmus Nielsen @Joe
Now I feel a little relieved I wasn't the only one who didn't finish that game.
I've borrowed it from my friend a long time ago (Borrowing… lol, What game can you possibly borrow today? Not a Blizzard one that is for sure.) but it just got more boring as I progressed. I couldn't find a character I truly enjoyed playing as and maybe there was too much variety. And definitely too much griding. I gave up in Act 3 in the jungle/swamps, it was too big and the fetish creatures annoyed me to no end. Maybe it also had to do something with my exploring nature in games, because I like to find explore and see every corner of the map. I realized that I'm that kind of person in general and it happens in every game I play. If the story doesn't interest me anymore I usually just won't finish the game, because I explored everything I was interested in and now it became boring. I've yet to play a really good (true) RPG that I also had finished.
Also I loved today's comic. I wonder who that mutant will turn out to be.
Otter on May 16, 2012 at 1:45 am
I prefer horror games that takes place in modern times or later
Pouar on May 16, 2012 at 2:48 am
first scene takes place between Twoson and Fourside (lol earthbound reference)
oh, someone already got that
@Otter I personally enjoy the Final Fantasy series (YES ALL OF THEM).I enjoyed 8 and 9 the most and well 7 is kinda overrated.But as far as in general then Final Fantasy is all about story.You just blend in and you stay in.I would like to think of it as reading a good book.
Anyway the scene was wonderful and i really do hope that Joe gets it together.I mean he being an ass is regular but he needs to understand that he is currently just a civilian.Or maybe the elder is watching over his shoulder making sure he doesnt get into trouble.Well i guess well find out…
Dagzter on May 16, 2012 at 3:57 am
Finally, this is what i have been waiting for. Joe finally meets Annika!
Leinahtan on May 16, 2012 at 5:29 am
@Rassmuss I dissagree. For a game of that time, Diablo was a pioneer in RPGs. Yeah, nowadays we have games that let us choose a race, face, colours, accessories, and recently there has been a huge increase in games that let you be the protagonist of the story and proggress it as you like. Making your choices and having them affect your movement. But at that time games where JUST recently stopped being DOS games, RPGs where just starting to appear in videogame format, they couldn't have just jumped into a perfect RPG just like a real life one. That would have taken too many years for a buissness that was just starting. It was non-profitable to make a game it'd take 10 years to develop, whose graphics would stay low and possibilities still limited. Diablo was indeed an RPG. You chose which path you took. Maybe not so much story wise, but still a lil in that sense, since some of the things you did had impact on your story line. Such an example would be the quest on which you have to retrieve the inn keeper's sign, you could choose to return it or to give it to the goblins, and you couldn't go back in that. You could choose a class, and which armour you would use, which combination of weapons with special abilities combined with yours. You could choose your style of play aswell as your stats, and the damage, amongst many other things, was subject of many variables, such as armour, dice luck, str/int/agi, mana/hp. Well developed RPG games where scarce in the time Diablo 1 came out, it was like an experiment, much like a dungeon run, but with an RPG variable that increases and goes further every time. You can't expect the first try to be perfect. I believe it to be a great successful pioneer of its time and a good base for future RPGs. Blizzard in fact developped ALOT further, and is now one of the best RPG makers, with a game such as WoW. If you know how to immerse yourself (you can't expect the game to do it for you ALWAYS specially not if you have lots of choices) Warcraft has an IMMENSE lore, with thousends of plot twists and wonderful story line! Diablo may not have help much story, but it did hold some aswell, and Diablo 3 is the final compilation of years of developing the story that was being tested in Diablo 1. If you search the dungeons and find the books you'll get some insigh to the story, and if you get into it in Diablo 2, it expands alot more. And the story references also appear as items. And lots of items have their own story, aswell as the characters and they even add some story to certain rooms of the dungeon. It may not immerse you, but I'm sure you can get immersed if you get into it. Maybe you just didn't like the theme of the story, because I sure did, and I immersed just fine. Final Fantasy is another RPG pioneer aswell. But their story… Hell man, it extends on too many levels. I still love that one though Joe :D
Luio on May 16, 2012 at 5:36 am
i must admit i would be playing diablo 3 but the servers are down :(
saper on May 16, 2012 at 6:21 am
This made my day much better.
Brenkie on May 16, 2012 at 7:05 am
I would have chosen Minecraft Pocket Edition,but you said no ports :(.Plus,I might pick up Torchlight 2.
Edward on May 16, 2012 at 7:05 am
@Otter
I did however beat the whole Diablo II campaign, i just don't remember much of it, because it did not keep me very focused.
Rasmus Nielsen on May 16, 2012 at 7:12 am
@ Dagzter
well, i don't quite agree on the FFVII thing, though i cannot speak for the game it self, only the movie and Crisis core, and I read up on the story and loved it. But It's really a matter of preference
oh…my..god
Spencett on May 16, 2012 at 7:41 am
Great scene :D
zach on May 16, 2012 at 7:43 am
Glad to see the Mother series getting some love. Keep up the awesome work, Joe.
Garrant on May 16, 2012 at 8:13 am
Uh oh. This can't be good for anyone. Sam has taken control of Bug it seems and HEY LOOK A BUS IT'S A MIRACLE FOR ONCE THERE IS A MOTORIZED VEHICLE OTHER THAN A CAR YAY!!
illeatyourself on May 16, 2012 at 9:11 am
I found this website after playing (some) of the game on mochigames.com. I thought "Oh good another stupid comic for four year old hipsters." I quickly realized just how good this web comic was. I became addicted and although I am very easily distracted (squirrel!) I basically read this comic for three days straight to catch up. I then realized I had reach the last comic so far. All I could think was FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU—-!!!!!!!! I can't WAIT for the second game to be made and I will try my best to contribute in anyway possible. Love your comics and you better not stop making them! I need to know what the heck is going on in Joe's mind! And I doubt you get many comments like this without the whole "First!" thing going around or other random stuff. Anyway, keep working hard on all this and I hope your family is doing well. I assume your son (sorry if I'm wrong I've been reading these fast) is almost two years old by now. Tell him happy birthday from me if I don't post again on his birthday. Good luck with your game and comics!!
Smores on May 16, 2012 at 10:06 am
I'm sorry. Happy belated birthday to your son. Hope he goes as super Jesus for halloween if you celebrate it. I wouldnt't know. :P Same ending as my last comment.
It's him. It's Samuel. He went into the mind of a Mutant. But wait…DON'T FRIGGIN TELL ME! SAMUEL = MUTANT BEST FRIEND OF WEREWOLF!
Anon on May 16, 2012 at 11:43 am
Honestly, I will never play Diablo 3. I absolutely DESPISE it when a game demands that I have the internet to even install it. I can understand such a thing for an MMO, which has online right in the bloody name and doesn't even have a single-player function, or for games that are only distributed on the internet, such as Minecraft. But a game with a single-player feature that I can buy in a store? No. NEVER. I should not be required to purchase a function for a game that could otherwise run without it. To me, these are not games, but instead trash. And that is all that Diablo 3 will be to me. I will not be forced to have the internet connection to install a game to play on my own, let alone keep a constant connection while playing! It, to me, is disgusting and repulsive!
As such, I refuse to play Steam games too. The idea that my game playing experience is also depending on a third (fourth if you want to include the power companies) party is also deplorable.
BloodWolf7 on May 16, 2012 at 4:46 pm
@BloodWolf7
I used to feel the same way as you, but then i took an epiphany to the brain; A lot of the games i REALLY want to play, i do not have access to otherwise, so its not really that much of a choice for me. Besides i dont really think the interwebz will just dissappear overnight. But i totally get what you mean!
Rasmus Nielsen on May 16, 2012 at 4:54 pm
@Rasmus Nielsen
There were a few games I was curious about, a couple I kinda wanted to play even. I made an exception for StarCraft II because it was a Christmas present and would have been rude not to play it, but to me it's like I'm handing over my rights as a gamer. I don't feel like the companies respect me as a gamer, or even want my business. I won't be changing my mind, and my feelings are fairly well known. So, unless someone is deceived into buying a Steam game or something, I won't be making any other exceptions out of politeness. At times, I'd really like to develop games just to stick it to these companies.
My rights are not for sale, and I will not just give them away. Be it to a government, or to a company.
I can't tell whether the mutant was talking to Bernie or Joe when he mentioned a sister. If Bernie, then I presume the mutant is Samuel in the mutants body. If Joe, then maybe the mutant is Bug? Agh, I dunno.
Bill on May 17, 2012 at 12:09 am
@Bill – I think he was talking to Bern when he said sister, cuz Bug, and Sam for that matter, doesn't know Joe has a sister, and Sam knows about Bern's and his sis's father.
Anyways, just going to state a theory I thought up, but couldn't get the right timing to state it (till now?).
You know how Sam was able to take over Joe's body and said it was 'suppose' to be a 'clone' for him to use right? And how he first sent one of his 'mind clones' into a body that seems to have been in a 'car crash'?
Well my theory is that person was Joe, reason he was able to access that body is that their generics are similar (how he looks like Sam's 'clone'), and Joe's alter ego is Sam's 'mind clone', just gone out of whack due to the coma.
Now then, Joe's powers, as you can tell, are due to 'Powerfist' (going to name 'Alter Joe' that, since reg Joe has no powers), and reason he could 'mindcraft' was due to PF's presences – that's why he can't go into the 'mind world' without help. Anyways, since PF is sealed Joe can't use his powers, can tell since it was stated earlier that PF was the reason that he was invulnerable.
Now then, my newest theory. Sam is able to take control of the mutant's body because it's brain isn't there, was taken by the machines (if it's Bug, if not then because the mutant was one of Ben's experiments gone wrong?), so he has full access to it.
Blank on May 17, 2012 at 12:55 am
@Smores Hehe, welcome to the club. :) The three day reading happened to me as well when I first found the comic :D
It's Samuel in the mutants body. When Joe and Samuel met they were inside of the "Dream World" and Joe was a blocky figure that he created, that's why he said it's good to see Joe not so blocky this time. Bug has never even seen Joe I don't think. Samuel was also talking to Bernie when he mentions a sister, he didn't shift back over to Joe after he started talking to Bernie.
Jade on May 17, 2012 at 4:02 am
Hm…I was wondering when Samuel would reappear again. Perhaps he has solutions to Joe and Bernie's respective problems.
@BloodWolf7 I really don't see the issue you have with Steam, unless it's because there's a lack of a hard copy game. Steam has the option to play games offline. In fact, you'd really only need to go online once (unless you're buying other games or you want to play online multiplayer which would be redundant). There's an option right under the Steam tab that says "Go Offline". It is a misconception that Steam games cannot be played without an internet connection.
TheSolarKnight on May 17, 2012 at 5:51 am
@TheSolarKnight
That's usually the response I get, but that's a misunderstanding. I guess I should work on my phrasing better, for that I apologize. My concern is that you are required to have the internet to install a game that doesn't actually need it to be played. It has single player options and you shouldn't have to have the internet to install a game that can be played by yourself. Even if it's a game that's largely purchased for it's multiplayer options, that still doesn't justify, to me, requiring everyone to have to have the internet to so much as install a game when there will be people who will just want to play it on their own.
Also, my wife has Steam games and her "offline" function hardly seems to work right most of the time.
BloodWolf7 on May 17, 2012 at 8:35 am
What?You guys figured out that it was Sam in Bug's body before me??*rage*
Edward on May 17, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Okay, so no ports, that leaves off Kingdom of Dragon Pass, I guess. I'm not quite sure if it counts as an RPG anyway, I just know it's the best game I ever had for any phone thing ever.
Merostomata on May 17, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Well I also helped spread the news on the forums by adding my string in it. Joe was more than happy to use it for his news for fellow forumers. Good scene Joe!
ZidaneRobbie on May 17, 2012 at 10:42 pm
@BloodWolf7 – You know, to download something, unless you have a hard-copy (CD/USB/etc), you would need the internet right (well not really the internet, more of a server that has that data of that game and such, not a tech person so can't really say)? How else are you going to download it?
Steam is more of a storage and load, from my analysis, like a NDS and the little cartridge.
Blank on May 18, 2012 at 1:28 am
THREED!!! <>
Loving this comic :D so unique!
Anoise on May 18, 2012 at 1:39 am
@Blank
Yes, of course, but we were talking about hard copies weren't we? If you look up at my earlier comments I said;
"I can understand such a thing for an MMO, which has online right in the bloody name and doesn't even have a single-player function, or for games that are only distributed on the internet, such as Minecraft."
Diablo3 was sold over the internet, but it was also sold via hard copy. As are may games that are "Steam titles", such as L4D, and Left4Dead2. We're not talking about Cave Story+, without a physical medium of transportation and sharing outside of a few flash drives. We're talking about games that are DISTRIBUTED VIA PHYSICAL MEDIUM that happen to require AN UNNECESSARY SERVICE, merely because they are forcing you to do so in order to play the game. This is done by needing the internet to install the game completely, or done by requiring a CONSTANT ONLINE CONNECTION in order to play the game, despite it not actually needing the connection.
If you were to make it not require those functions the game would be almost entirely, if not entirely, unchanged by them. You are BEING FORCED TO SUBSCRIBE TO AN UNNECESSARY service, that is my point and why I refuse to play these games, why I refuse to give my cash for these games. The fact that most of us present have access to the internet at this time is irrelevant. There are still people who do not have regular access, for whatever reason, and would be forced to purchase this extra service.
It is sometimes claimed that this is for piracy protection, but it does not stop it and does not really deter people. I've known people who have pirated SCII, and I'm sure that there are ways to pirate DIII as well. The infinite download and storage does not make up for it, as this is a service that they could very easily have offered to people who have the internet and would want to register their game online, while still allowing people to purchase and play offline, without ever needing the internet.
I hope that I have better explained my issues here, instead of making things more confusing.
Awesome :) Love the pocalypse :DDDDDDDDDD
Devil_Surge on May 18, 2012 at 9:06 am
Well, it is supremely awesome :D
BloodWolf7 on May 18, 2012 at 11:09 am
Joe,why you no make new scene?
:( Joe is a normal guy with a normal life just like you and me. The only difference is that he spends most of his spare time creating this. So maybe he just doesn't have the time at the moment. Maybe his baby is sick. Maybe he is in hospital. Think about it.
The Khan on May 18, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Or of course he could be working on The Pocalypse Defense II. Cut the guy some slack, he's a busy guy. I'm sure he's fine. We all have finite time and the comic isn't even his job, just a supremely awesome thing he does.
( I don't know if someone arleady said it,but I just had this idea )
IT'S BUG! The Machines's elimination progress advanced his intelligence and now he's MORE INTELLIGENT,has a PERSONALITY and all!
Or he's Zomgack.
Happy Vampire on May 19, 2012 at 3:15 am
Anyway.. Diablo 3 is nice,tryied out all classes and hate only the Daemon ( I know it's Demon,feels empty without that 'a'.. :3 ) Hunter. For the rest is mostly awesome,the story is good,mobs aren't impossible..
..I still prefer StarCraft 2 anyway,infactly I keep playing it atleast the double of D3 :P
Holy cow! How many times do you have to kill Bug to make him stay dead!? Uncooperative as Joe has been over the past 3-ish panels, he does kinda have a point… I'd like to see all that (although still somewhat overbearing at times) angst turn into a passionate defensive attitude towards New H-townIcan'tspell.
Dyl on May 19, 2012 at 10:05 am
look look guys anyone who thinks its bug is an idiot, its Sam, the one who possessed Joe's body for a short while earlier, he is just in Bug's body
Kendal on May 19, 2012 at 1:23 pm
It's that Samuel dude. I think that's his name. He found another body to inhabit. Do you remember seeing Joe and Bug talking in the bream world? No. They didn't. And there were only very few who were talking to him when he was a block person.
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Christian Gottlob Neefe (Chemnitz, 5 de febrer de 1748 - Dessau, 28 de gener de 1798) fou un organista, compositor d'òpera i director d'orquestra alemany.

Primerament estudià Dret a Leipzig i després música amb Hiller. El 1776 fou nomenat director de companyia d'actors dramàtics Sailer i més tard organista de palau de Bonn on tingué per deixeble a Beethoven. Va ajudar a Beethoven en la composició d'algunes de les seves primeres obres.

Entre les seves diverses composicions cal citar les òperes Die Apotheke, Amors Guckkasten, Der nee Gutsherr, Heinrich und Lida, Die Einspruck, Zémire und Azor, Adelheit von Veltheim, Die Romr in Deutschland, Sophonisbe, etc.

A més, se li deuen, gran nombre de música religiosa, entre elles, Pater nostre, Deum Unendlichen de Klopstock, i moltes composicions instrumentals.

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Data from one of the first genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which focused on Parkinson's diseases and was funded in part by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF), is now being made available to researchers through the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), both of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NHGRI hopes to speed up research by making previously unavailable GWAS data sets publicly available to the research community.
The study, conducted by researchers at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in collaboration with scientists at Perlegen Sciences, Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., was the first genome-wide association study applied to Parkinson's disease. It was funded under MJFF's Linked Efforts to Accelerate Parkinson's Solutions (LEAPS) initiative.
The raw data from a GWAS study is frequently useful to other researchers who may combine it with their own data to improve the analytical power and even make new discoveries. But such information may not be deposited in unregulated public databases because the data typically contain details that could be used to identify study volunteers, potentially violating their privacy. In order to protect the volunteers' privacy, NIH requires the data submitters to remove identifying information (names, social security numbers, etc.). In addition, researchers who want to use the data must ask for permission and agree to other data use limitations, such as safeguarding participants' privacy and using the data in ways consistent with consent agreements signed by study subjects. The researcher requests are then reviewed by a data access committee or DAC. Data access committees have been established at several NIH institutes that organize and support GWAS. Because this project was primarily supported by a private foundation, it lacked a DAC to review access requests, so it was considered an "orphan" data set.
NHGRI's data access committee recently agreed to adopt the study and manage the data access approval process so that the data could be made widely available while ensuring the appropriate protections for confidentiality and privacy.
The Mayo-Perlegen LEAPS Collaboration study will be added to dbGaP, the database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbgap) operated by the National Library of Medicine's National Center for Biotechnology Information. The dbGaP database contains individual-level data on genotype (an individual's genetic makeup), and phenotype (observable traits and characteristics). The Mayo-Perlegen LEAPS Collaboration is the second dataset on Parkinson's disease available through dbGaP. The first was the NINDS-Genome-Wide Genotyping in Parkinson's Disease: First Stage Analysis and Public Release of Data, which is available through dbGaP at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?id=phs000089. It was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Aging, another component of NIH.
"The Michael J. Fox Foundation is committed to spurring innovation by creating every possible opportunity for researchers to collaborate and share their knowledge," said Katie Hood, chief executive officer of The Michael J. Fox Foundation. "We are hopeful that NIH's initiative in hosting the Mayo-Perlegen data will accelerate efforts to identify genetic factors underlying Parkinson's disease."
Additional funding for the work was also provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and NINDS, both part of the NIH. The Mayo-Perlegen LEAPS Collaboration study was published online in September 2005 in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
For researchers who want to view the Mayo-Perlegen LEAPS Collaboration data, dbGaP offers two levels of access. The first is open access, where certain data are available without restriction, and the second is controlled access, which requires authorization. The open-access section allows users to view study documents that do not risk identifying individual participants, such as protocols and summaries of genotype and phenotype data. The controlled-access portion of the database allows approved researchers to download individual-level genotype and phenotype data from which the study participants' personal identifiers, such as names, have been removed.
NHGRI's DAC has agreed to manage data access for all genome-wide association studies submitted to dbGaP that are not associated with other NIH Institutes, including studies submitted by corporate entities. "Taking on all these orphan studies will result in significantly more data being available through dbGaP and will greatly enhance the discovery opportunities for researchers mining these data," said NCBI Director David Lipman, M.D.
Researchers interested in accessing the Mayo-Perlegen LEAPS Collaboration study dataset should go to dbGaP's Web site and complete a request for access to the individual-level data at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?id=phs000048. Information on data access request procedures is available through the dbGaP "controlled access" Web page, at http://dbgap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/aa/wga.cgi?login=&page=login.
Although personally identifying information is not included in the database, concern remains that it may someday be possible to identify someone based on their genetic profile. For this reason only researchers agreeing not to attempt to identify individuals in the database will be given access to the data, as outlined in NIH's Policy for Sharing of Data Obtained in NIH Supported or Conducted Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-088.html.
Researchers interested in submitting similar datasets to dbGaP should contact dbGaP staff at dbGaP-help@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. The institutional certification that NHGRI will require for submitting datasets is also described in NIH's Policy for Sharing of Data Obtained in NIH Supported or Conducted Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) at the link above.
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What's With This Vaccine Rollout?
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VACCINE ROLLOUT CONCERNS MUST BE ADDRESSED: City Council Member Mark Levine (left), who is chair of the council's Health Committee, Dr. Cherisse Berry, of Bellevue Hospital and the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and Anthony Feliciano, director of the Commission for People's Health Services, spoke about vaccine issues at a Zoom forum on January 19, 2021. The forum was co-sponsored by Progressive Action of Lower Manhattan, Uptown Progressive Action, and the 504 Democratic Club.
By Penny Mintz
On January 12, 2012, Governor Cuomo expanded the categories of people eligible to obtain the COVID vaccine. People over 65 years of age and immunocompromised people were added to the statewide pool of those entitled to get the vaccination shots. Overnight, 2,500,000 people citywide could schedule and receive the vaccine.
Problems immediately ensued.
During a public forum on January 19th, City Council Member Mark Levine, who is chair of the council's Health Committee, discussed the two main problems. First, although there are 2,500,000 people now eligible, the city is getting only about 100,000 doses per week. Levine's prediction that, "unless we get an unexpected delivery this week from the federal government, we're going to have to start canceling appointments" was accurate. The supply was exhausted by Friday, January 22nd. The number of doses was increased to about 116,000 doses per week on January 26th, but that supply is still woefully inadequate.
The supply problem can be laid directly at the feet of the Trump administration. The federal government neglected to organize the production, delivery and administration of the vaccines that are so crucial to end the COVID-19 pandemic. They could have used the Defense Production Act, passed during the Korean War, to force production of the components of the vaccine, but they declined to do that. Levine calls this an "epic failure." He is hopeful that the Biden administration can "right the ship" and "force production of the key components that are slowing down the supply chain."
The second problem with the rollout is the broken scheduling system in New York City. "What we need is a system comparable to what you can get on a travel website, which allows for a single, unified front end for scheduling," says Levine. "Right now you've got to create a new account for potentially dozens of providers and go through an eligibility screen for every one of those providers, and then only to have to go down the rabbit hole again for another one."
This is a problem that we clearly have the technology to solve. Unfortunately, there are currently no efforts in the works to do so.
The pandemic will be behind us when about 75% of the population have received the vaccine and are therefore immune. As of this writing, about 150,000 people have received the first dose, and 52,000 have received the second dose. So 52,000 of the nearly 9,000,000 people in New York City are now immune. We are a very long way from herd immunity.
Dr. Cherisse Berry, of Bellevue Hospital and the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, explained how the vaccine works. The vaccine delivers genetic material to our bodies that overwrites the genetic codes that are already there. The mRNA in the vaccine enables our bodies to produce antibodies and immune cells that attack the spike proteins on the virus. This genetic material is a variation of vaccines that have been around for 30 years, Dr. Berry says. The particular vaccines that Pfizer and Moderna engineered to be effective against COVID-19 were tested on 70,000 healthy volunteers. "Of those, 10 percent in both studies were Black Americans. Latinx Americans were 13 percent of the Pfizer study and 20 percent of the Moderna study."
MYTH: The vaccine contains live virus. FACT: No live virus is injected. It does not give you COVID.
MYTH: The vaccine was developed too quickly.
FACT: This type of vaccine has been around for 30 years.
According to Dr. Berry, the vaccine is "94- to 95-percent effective against clinical disease and 100% effective against severe disease," which means that about 95 percent of those inoculated never get sick at all and about five percent experience mild illness. No one who was vaccinated became severely ill. Dr. Berry also said that the vaccine is safe for use by pregnant and breastfeeding women and by people with a history of allergies, although they must be watched for 30 minutes after receiving the vaccine.
Despite its safety and efficacy, nearly 30% in the first group of the eligible people declined to take the vaccine.
Anthony Feliciano, director of the Commission for People's Health Services, explained that people of color have a rational basis for their hesitancy. Among other historical atrocities, they have been victims in the Tuskegee syphilis study; women and children were victims of radiation experiments from the 1950's up until the 1970s; and more recently, doctors in detention centers in Texas and Georgia have removed the uteruses of immigrant women. Thus, despite the fact that the highest rates of loss from COVID are found among Black and Indigenous Americans, hesitancy remains a factor.
A concern that was raised throughout the January 19th forum was access for people with disabilities. Unless they fall into the so-far-undefined category of those who are "immunocompromised," their needs have so far been ignored. Trina Rose, who attended the forum, pointed out that people with disabilities are at risk from exposure by their home health-care providers, who are not yet eligible for the vaccine. Natalie DeVito raised the additional concern of those with disabilities who are eligible but would be unable to either get to a vaccine distribution site or wait on line to receive the inoculations. These are concerns that must be addressed.
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Time of the Locust by Morowa Yejide
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Time of the Locust
By Morowa Yejide
via Amazon.com
Atria Books | 256 pages | ISBN 9781476731360 | October 2015
A deeply imaginative debut novel about a family in crisis, Time of the Locust "deftly brings together the fantastic and the realistic, and touches on a variety of issues, from politics, race, and murder to disability, domestic tragedy, and myth…[and] spins them with gold and possibility" (The Washington Post).
Sephiri is an autistic boy who lives in a world of his own making, where he dwells among imagined sea creatures that help him process information in the "real world" in which he is forced to live. But lately he has been having dreams of a mysterious place, and he starts creating fantastical sketches of this strange, inner world.
Brenda, Sephiri's mother, struggles with raising her challenged child alone. Her only wish is to connect with him—a smile on his face would be a triumph. Sephiri's father, Horus, is serving a life sentence in prison, making the days even lonelier for Brenda and Sephiri. Yet prison is still not enough to separate father and son. In the seventh year of his imprisonment and at the height of his isolation, Horus develops extraordinary mental abilities that allow him to reach his son. Memory and yearning carry him outside his body, and through the realities of their ordeals and dreamscape, Horus and Sephiri find each other—and find hope in ways never imagined.
Deftly portrayed by the remarkably talented Morowa Yejidé, this "unique and astounding debut" (New York Times bestselling author Lalita Tademy) is a harrowing, mystical, and redemptive journey toward the union of a family.
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A Part in History : My Biased Summary
Most information about my family, Hoffa, and the Kennedys is publicly available, and anyone with access to the internet can sort through immense amounts of data and make assumptions and guess what happened. I did, and though I still don't know for sure what happened, this is my biased summary.
Kennedy's assassination shocked the world and became a defining event for a generation, and people from that generation report knowing where they were when they heard the news. Newspapers said that when Hoffa heard that Kennedy died, he told reporters who happened to be interviewing him at the time, "Bobby Kennedy is just another lawyer now." He was referencing what was commonly known then, that President Kennedy had appointed his little brother, Harvard lawyer Bobby Kennedy, as the US Attorney General, the most senior prosecuting attorney in America, and had tasked him and an entire team of FBI agents to focus on taking down Hoffa and the Teamsters. With President John F. Kennedy dead, Hoffa and most pundits assumed Bobby would be replaced by the already appointed President Johnson, Kennedy's former vice president. The reporters left, and Hoffa told his trusted Teamster leaders, big, rough men like Chuckle O'Brien and Frank Fitzsimmons, "One brother down, one more to go." He hated both John and Bobby Kennedy, but everyone already knew that.
Hoffa was said to be the most famous man in America not a Kennedy, and his public, visceral hatred of the Kennedys and their reciprocated hatred of him was so overt and so fierce that reporters dubbed it "The Blood Feud." At times, the Blood Feud sounded like schoolboy taunts, Bobby would call Hoffa a "snot nosed piece of shit" and Hoffa would call Bobby a "spoiled brat." He hated all the Kennedys, John, Bobby, Teddy, and their extended family, but he was especially vocal against Bobby, "the runt of the litter," his most pesky annoyance from a family of Harvard educated modern aristocrats who were setting up all of their children to become presidents. They were just as overt in their intentions as Hoffa was in his, and for many years, Hoffa and Bobby's taunts were followed daily and nationally. Their feud was said to be the most common discussion topic among every day people, not unlike any politically charged and dramatic topic today, except that it lasted almost two decades.
Except for the Kennedys, everyone in America seemed to love or at least respect Hoffa. He was a self made, working class man. Almost every working person in America was somehow associated with the Teamsters; three million official members by 1957 at a time when there were only 170 million people in America; approximately 60 million workers. And every product on every shelf in every store across the country, every piece of construction material and all office supplies and almost anything anyone touched had been transported there by a Teamster along America's new interstate system that had been built with the help of a lot of Teamsters.
Anyone who worked with wheeled vehicles relied on the Teamsters, from dump truck drivers to golf cart caddies, and Hoffa could slam the economy to a halt by calling a strike. And he supported other unions. He and my grandfather were both showcased walking picket lines with striking teachers, manufacturers, and laborers that weren't truck drivers; they implied that the Teamsters would strike, too, to support all of working class America. The Kennedy's were college educated privledged people, "spoiled brats," and Hoffa was a self made David tackling Goliath.
The Kennedy's knew that Hoffa was receiving millions of dollars each month in unregulated union dues – three million members times a few dollars a month was a lot of money back then. Hoffa used the dues and the Teamsters pension fund, money to pay full time union employees and cover members's lost wages during strikes, and openly funded mafia activities, like the construction of new Las Vegas casinos; and, interestingly, Hollywood films. In return, Teamsters were given contracts to transport all construction materials and other goods for Las Vegas – whatever those goods were – and promised not to strike.
For films, Teamsters shipped almost all Hollywood film sets across the country and housed famous actors in Teamster trailers during filming; if you watch credits scroll at the end of movies from those decades, the Teamster logo is the final credit and takes up the entire screen. It's a huge ship's steering wheel and a horse head; coincidentally a severed horse head was used by actors portraying mafia hit men in The Godfather to strong arm fictionalized Hollywood producers. Hoffa was as subtle as a severed horse head placed in your bed, and he went unchallenged in his role connecting mafia and working class Americans in a unsurprising, mutually beneficial arrangement that gave us Las Vegas and entertaining films without government oversight. Sure, Kennedy put a man on the moon, but millions of people get to visit Las Vegas each year, and that felt more real and tangible for most people than a big metaphorical step for mankind.
Everyone knew Hoffa hated the Kennedy brothers; he had even publicly said he was glad the president was dead. But, the government wouldn't overtly suspect Hoffa of President Kennedy's death for another 15 years, in the 1979 JFK Assassination report that would, confusingly, remain classified and hidden from the public for another 15 years. Instead, everyone in 1963 focused on the president's killers they knew or suspected and searched for a bigger plot or conspiracy behind the murder of the century.
Two national dramas unfolded in parallel: The Blood Feud against Hoffa, and the pursuit of Kennedy's assassin or assassins. Of course, the later focused on Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby at first.
Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed a police officer, J.D. Tippit, forty five minutes after Kennedy was shot, though he wasn't a suspect in Kennedy's death yet. Oswald was discovered in a downtown movie theater where he had ducked inside to hide after killing Tippet. Kennedy was reported dead in Parkland Memorial Hospital within two hours of being shot, and Oswald was charged with his murder in addition to Tippit's, who was apparently just a bystander doing his job and unaware that Oswald was armed with a revolver and mentally unstable. Oswald was arrested and read his Miranda Rights, and he said that he was being set up, that was just a "patsy," a part in a bigger conspiracy, a sacrificial pawn in a game of chess orchestrated by others.
Two days later, police were escorting Oswald through the police station on live television, handcuffed and surrounded by police and reporters, and 110 million people saw Jack Ruby walk past the police and reporters and remove a Colt Cobra .38 special snub nosed revolver from his trench coat pocket and shoot Oswald point-blank in the stomach. The world continued to watch, live and real time, as police pounced on Ruby and rushed Oswald to Parkland Memorial Hospital. He died down the hall from President Kennedy's body less than 48 hours after the president was reported dead, without saying more anything more about his involvement.
The world soon learned that Oswald was a former U.S. marine, a trained marksman, and had been monitored by the FBI and CIA ever since he had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and returned with a Russian bride and their baby boy. Inexplicably, the FBI had even paid for the Oswald's airplane ticket back home, and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had allowed him to continue traveling abroad, including a now famous trip to Mexico City the summer of 1963 in an unsuccessful attempt to bypass the new embargo and fly to Cuba from Mexico; his intention, he would often say, was to meet Castro and discuss pro-Cuba, anti-America and anti-Kennedy organizations. After failing to reach Cuba, he returned to New Orleans, his home town, and moved to Dallas a few months before he allegedly shot and killed President Kennedy; I say "allegedly" despite what is accepted today only because The United States does not try deceased people who can not speak for themselves in court, and I believe that point is often overlooked.
In the chaos surrounding Kennedy and Oswald's deaths, police found Oswald's rifle, a surplus Italian army carbine, in the sixth floor of a downtown book depository overlooking the president's parade route from 60 feet up and 265 feet away. Forensic analysis would eventually show that the 6.5mm bullet that killed Kennedy had been fired from Oswald's rifle, and someone found a matching bullet in Parkland Hospital beside the Texas governor, who had been riding with Kennedy and was also shot but survived. Those bullets matched another one that had been discovered in the home of a well known army general, Major General Edwin Walker, who had survived an assassination attempt six months before Kennedy died. Oswald's wife would later testify that her husband had confessed that murder attempt but had promised her he'd stop shooting people; apparently, he had been contemplating killing people for a long time.
The gun that shot at Walker and hit Kennedy was proven to be Oswald's. Unique marks and scratches matched photos he had taken with it in his Dallas apartment's back yard in April of 1963, posing militantly before he tried to shoot General Walker. In the photo, he's holding two fringe newspapers, "The Worker" and "The Militant." His revolver is strapped to his hip like a cowboy, police officer, or vigilante. He had shown the photo around town to impress people – I don't know if it did, and the jury's still out – and mailed copies to mainstream newspapers saying "be prepared for anything," but editors didn't print it. Police discovered the photo when they searched his apartment; after being arrested, Oswald claimed it was his face on an altered photo. Police also found a receipt from a Dallas gunsmith showed that Oswald had paid him $7 to install a high powered scope on the notoriously inaccurate Italian carbine, a shortened rifle intended for close up combat, not distance shooting. He didn't deny that. He had used multiple aliases throughout, such as as "Harvey Lee" and "A. Hidell," but most physical descriptions and signature forensics and FBI and CIA surveillance photos strongly suggested that Lee Harvey Oswald was the most likely assassin, and over the decades the evidence has withstood scrutiny from trained experts and enthusiastic hobbyists with increasingly sophisticated technology, and the most advanced tools of 2020 continue to validate the 1963 evidence against Oswald.
But, there are still questions. No one has explained how Oswald was offered a job at the book depository a few weeks before Kennedy's death, or why his carbine didn't have any fingerprints, or why three 6.5mm bullets like the ones discovered at Parkland Memorial Hospital were left on the windowsill; and an unrelenting list of inconsistencies and omitted testimonies and opinions from limited perspectives of what is or isn't possible. To this day, reputable surveys still show that most people feel there are too many unanswered questions to assume Oswald's solitary guilt.
America couldn't try Oswald in 1963, so even with considerable evidence prosecutors relied on an investigation led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the senior judge of the US Supreme Court. Warren had 30 years of experience and had earned bipartisan respect politically. He was already a household name because of his judgement on controversial cases in the 1950's and 1960's, like Roe vs. Wade, Brown vs. The Board of Education, and a lesser known case that led to The Miranda Rights, the right to remain silent, that anything you say under arrest could and would be used against you in a court of law, if you survived. Ten months after Ruby killed Oswald, the 888 page Warren Report concluded that "Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he shot and killed President John F. Kennedy." But even today, every reasonable survey shows that the majority of Americans still believe that President Kennedy was killed as part of a larger plot. And, at the time, Dallas had been called "The City of Hate" by many reporters because so many conservative people were so vocal about their hatred of the Kennedy, a young Irish Catholic president with haute ideals, so almost anyone could be a suspect. Theorists suggested Kennedy's murder could have been coordinated by local militants, the mafia, Cuba or Russia, Vice President Johnson, military generals and civilian contractors profiting from the Vietnam conflict, and an endless list of conspiracy theories and combinations thereof. Not everything is coordinated, and coincidences happen. Investigators began by focusing on whether or not Oswald could have shot Kennedy from his perch six floors up and 265 feet away, assuming that one of the people Oswald had tried to impress with his rifle hadn't planted it there.
Trained marksmen tried to recreate Oswald's alleged shot with using the infamously inaccurate Italian army carbine, but even with a scope they failed and said it was impossible that Oswald, who was a terrible shot according to his military history, had hit the president from the book depository. Some say the carbine was planted and there may have been other shooters, perhaps on a grassy knoll that was closer to the president's convertible, a now infamous spot where some witnesses claimed to have seen other suspects; those witnesses wouldn't be called to testify in the Warren Report. But, other marksmen with similar credentials succeeded, and some say Oswald could have done it, too. He may have even gotten lucky, a poor shot who aims incorrectly and, ironically, hits his target in a comedy of errors. We'll never know what Oswald could or couldn't have done, because Ruby killed him before he could be interrogated or hooked to one of the famous FBI lie detector machines that were new and popular at the time.
Most people suspected, and even still suspect, that Ruby killed Oswald to silence him on behalf of some other person or organization. Ruby was a Dallas night club owner, air force veteran, low-level mafia strong man, and former business agent for a Dallas dump truck union that joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
No rational person doubted that Ruby killed Oswald. 110 million witness saw him shoot Oswald on live television and Ruby confessed. He said he loved the Kennedys and was distraught and emotionally unstable and shot Oswald to protect Kennedy's widow from having to experience a drawn out trial. He said he acted impulsively, distraught and driven by sadness. His defense attorney claimed temporary insanity, a new concept at the time, or a relatively minor charge of unmeditated, impulsive, 3rd degree murder. But, Ruby had said things that implied otherwise, even after being read his Miranda Rights, such as he had planned to shoot Oswald three times, but had been stopped by Dallas police; American justice says everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Twelve jury members listened to the evidence and Ruby's cross examination and the evidence that he had "planned to shoot three times," and they unanimously convicted Ruby of first degree, premeditated murder, and the judge sentenced him to life in prison.
While Ruby was incarcerated, the FBI and Earl Warren and even private investigators had full access, and they grilled him on any possible connection to a bigger plot against Kennedy. He continuously denied it, and even passed one of the FBI's lie detector tests. In 1964, the 888 page Warren Report detailed all the interviews they had conducted and presented all the evidence they had analyzed, and Warren said the committee he had led and his eponymous report that Ruby was uninvolved in a bigger plot; famously, Warren concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone, and that neither Ruby nor anyone else had killed Oswald as part of a bigger plot to kill Kennedy. But, over the next two years, Ruby changed his stories multiple times and later claimed, among many things, that he was part of something bigger and that the government was trying to kill him by injecting him with cancer cells. He died of a pulmonary embolism secondary to lung cancer in Parkland Memorial Hospital on January 3rd, 1967. He was 56 years old. He had been a lifelong smoker. Of the many things I read he said before dying, what I recall most often is, "No one will ever know my part in history."
Parallel to the Warren investigation, Bobby Kennedy continued to pursue Jimmy Hoffa with even more intensity than their previous Blood Feud, presumably because he had been shown the FBI reports of Hoffa and my grandfather. Edward Partin had been one of Hoffa's inner circle, sort of. He was a respected Teamster leader, physically large and imposing but with a twinkle in his eye and a subtle smile and southern accent that made him seem kinder and more mellow and nicer than he was. In 1962, ostensibly after the FBI report that foreshadowed Kennedy's assassination, Partin was in a Baton Rouge jail cell on three separate indictments – manslaughter, kidnapping, and embezzlement – and he called Bobby Kennedy from his jail cell within 48 hours after being arrested and was released inexplicably. Behind the scenes, Bobby Kennedy and Walter Sheridan, the head of the FBI task force against Hoffa, asked him to infiltrate the Hoffa's inner circle and find "anything" against the Teamster president. The US Attorney General cleansed Partin's current criminal charges and whitewashed his previous ones and plastered him across national media as a hero, willing to risk his life for the good of America. Somehow, they even glossed over Partin's dishonorable discharge from the marines and rape of a girl in Woodville, Mississippi.
National headlines in Look! and Life magazines read, "Inside Hoffa's savage kingdom: an insider tells his story," and their feature stories showed photos of Big Daddy – that's what my family and a lot of Baton Roug called Ed Partin – in all of his charm, posing shirtless in his boxing gloves and exaggerating his military service and portraying himself as a family man. Media showed him playing with his kids, my dad and aunts and uncle, and in televised news, Big Daddy spoke with a charming southern drawl and smiled and was polite yet direct and concise and seemed like an all American hero and family man.
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover personally oversaw Big Daddy's lie detector tests and published the results in national media with photos of him hooked to machines and surrounded by federal scientists in white lab coats. Hoover told America that Edward Grady Partin was trustworthy. He also released the first part of the FBI's surveillance of Partin and Hoffa, the part about using plastic explosives to kill Bobby Kennedy, and the story of Big Daddy was headlined in Look! and Life magazines.
In media coverage, Big Daddy said he was probably asked to obtain explosives because Hoffa knew he did business with Carlos Marcello, the New Orleans crime boss, and that oversaw Teamsters shipping in and out of the port of New Orleans, including trade with Fidel Castro and Cuba; the feud between Castro, President Kennedy, and the mafia was already international news, albeit less followed than the Blood Feud, and it seemed likely that Big Daddy could obtain anything Hoffa needed from New Orleans. Those are the stories I recall personally, to this day, and though I'm not an expert on lie detector machines, I believe that Big Daddy did, indeed work with Marcello and Castro and he kept plastic explosives, guns, and cash stashed all over Baton Rouge for reasons he never shared. But, that's speculation, unverifiable yet probable, especially because so much else about my family has been verified by court records, the FBI, and Look! and Life.
In 1964, exactly 100 days days after President Kennedy was killed, Hoffa was on trial in Chatanooga, Tennesee for a seemingly minor incident: jury tampering. But, if convicted, he faced 11 years in prison. Despite the minor charge – but still a felony, possibly amplified because of fledgling labor union laws – Bobby Kennedy and his FBI task force were in Tennessee, led by FBI leader Walter Sheridan, a respected agent with thirty years of service investigating high profile criminals. The task force monitored everything the Teamsters said or did, and used my grandfather as a "walking recorder" who secretly reported what he saw and heard daily. Hoffa was on trial for a seemingly small event in 1962, jury tampering, but he knew Bobby and the FBI and prosecutors were in Chatanooga, plotting a legal attack, and Hoffa was exceptionally cautious. At one point he asked Partin to guard the door against FBI moles, mafia hitmen, prosecutor's spies, and anyone else threatening him.
Despite the surveillance, Hoffa was sure he'd be found innocent until prosecutors called their surprise witness and Big Daddy stood up. Hoffa muttered, "My god, it's Partin," and Hoffa's mood changed and Partin spoke charmingly in his southern drawl, and the jury had probably already seen him in national news and knew that even J. Edgar Hoover vouched for him, and they found Hoffa guilty of asking Big Daddy to give $25,000 to a juror two years previously, around the time of the FBI report foreshadowing President Kennedy's death. No one had recorded Partin's statement from then, and no money had exchanged hands, and the juror was unaware that he had been targeted. But Edward Partin swore under oath that he was telling the truth, and the jury believed him more than the most famous man in America not a Kennedy, and the judge sentenced Hoffa to eleven years in federal prison for jury tampering.
Coincidentally, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin in 1968, after the Hoffa verdict he had spent more than a decade pursuing, but before Hoffa would go to prison. I never saw a connection, and I only mention it here to emphasize that the late 1960's were a time of many assassinations and conspiracy theories: the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and a long list of people had been monitored by Hoover's FBI and shot and killed in the 1960's, especially around the equally famous Summer of Love in California and Woodstock. Assassinations seemed to be part of the American culture back then – even the government sanctioned CIA was overtly trying to kill Castro – and perhaps murder was less remarkable then than it is now. Perhaps we're a more peaceful society now. But, in 1968, Hoffa didn't slow down when someone killed Bobby, as if Bobby's ghost were still pursuing him, and he continued to fight Ed Partin's testimony with the full force of his rage and intensity and resources.
Over a few years, Hoffa's extensive legal team was able to bring his conviction through several appeals and all the way to the US Supreme Court – only 60 to 80 cases do out of thousands that try each year – and Hoffa vs. The United States was overseen, coincidentally, by Chief Justice Warren.
Warren was the only dissenting of nine Supreme Court judges, and he questioned the other eight for allowing my grandfather's testimony to stand. Warren seemed genuinely perplexed at how no one saw what he saw. He said the case was an afront on American justice, and though he didn't discuss it in his memoir about famous cases, he documented his disgruntlement in Hoffa vs The United States, a permanent and public record, so that all of posterity would know his thoughts. Like most Supreme Court cases, judges document their thought processes, because they know that their decisions have long term ramifications. Their decisions affect our children and our children's children. He detailed his disdain for Big Daddy and the legal process of using him to send Hoffa to prison in a three page missive permanently attached to the Supreme Court ruling. He wrote things like, "Edward Partin was a jailbird, languishing in a Baton Rouge jail," with "every incentive to lie,"
"A motive for his doing this is immediately apparent," he wrote. "- namely, his strong desire to work his way out of jail and out of his various legal entanglements with the State and Federal Governments. And it is interesting to note that, if this was his motive, [Partin] has been uniquely successful in satisfying it. In the four years since he first volunteered to be an informer against Hoffa, he has not been prosecuted on any of the serious federal charges for which he was at that time jailed, and the state cahrges have appartently vanished into thin air."
Warren commented on the fact that my grandmother, Norma Jean Partin, was being paid a monthly salary by the federal government; he pointed out that we were a noteworthy case in history, America's first "paid informants," paid a monthly allowance and assigned federal marshals as protection against inevitable retaliation and potentially a conflict of interest. To this day, my family history in Hoffa vs. The United States is used as a legal precedent for paying witnesses and their families in high profile cases involving the mafia or spies or other dangerous situations. But the biggest conflict of interest was Big Daddy Himself. Warren went into exacting detail in several pages of a missive focused on Ed Partin's many crimes – rape, manslaughter, embezzlement, assault and battery, etc. – and emphasized the irony that Big Daddy's latest crime was lying to a jury. But, Big Daddy's testimony was upheld because Warren was outvoted by eight other supreme court justices for reasons I don't understand – presidents appoint justices for life, and it would difficult to influence eight of nine supreme judges – and Hoffa was imprisoned for jury tampering despite Chief Justice Warren's thorough and rational argument against trusting anything my grandfather said.
The Hoffa missive and Warren Report do not indicate that Chief Justice Earl Warren had read Hoover's report on Hoffa and Partin, and I think that's as remarkable as the report itself.
Big Daddy returned to Baton Rouge and members of Teamsters Local #5 unanimously elected him back into power. After attempts were made on his life, Walter Sheridan assigned more federal marshals to follow and protect my family, and our history reads like one of the mafia movies popular at the time. We always knew that, and so did a lot of other people and prosecutors who were perplexed by how Big Daddy got away with so many crimes. One of the most poignant examples is from a 1960's New Orleans Picaune newspaper, the most widely circulated Louisiana newspaper at the time, and highly respected; it would win many mainstream awards. It quotes the Louisiana Governor McKiethen soon after Big Daddy returned to Baton Rouge:
"I won't let Partin and his gangster Teamsters run this state!"
McKiethen went on to describe in detail what he'd do to stop Big Daddy. The reporter quoted him and went on to describe how Big Daddy and Uncle Doug and had led a team of 30 armed Teamsters in a small fleet of trucks into labor negotiations with a cement manufacturing plant in Plaquimine, a small river port across the Mississippi from Baton Rouge. The reporter was thorough and reported on the ensuing shootout, saying that so many companies had been strongarmed by Partin that the cement company decided to hire a team of mercenaries, a posse of sorts, to stand and fight. They talk about how people were shot or died from shotgun blasts and rifle fire that day, and asked why police did nothing. Even after all of that, and more from other reporters, no Louisiana governor found a way to stop Big Daddy and his gangsters. The Teamsters were, and are, a powerful political influence in America.
Hoffa was released from prison a few years early and famously disappeared from the parking lot of the Red Fox restaurant in Detroit a few months later, in the summer of 1975. Before he died, he must have thought about my grandfather's testimony often, and he summarized how everyone was fooled in the autobiography he authorized as soon as he was released from prison. In chapter ten of "Hoffa by Hoffa," "Chattanooga Choo Choo," he simply says that "Edward Partin was a big, rough man who could charm a snake off a rock," and then gives his version of what happened, and he continues the Blood Feud. To emphasize how much he hated Bobby, the chapter dedicated to him seven years after his murder is entitled, "The Spoiled Brat," and even the chapter about Ed Partin evolves into a rant against Bobby and how the FBI "railroaded" Hoffa in Chatanooga; hence his pun in chapter ten, "The Chatanooga Choo Choo."
As I mentioned, from what I've seen and read, Hoffa wasn't subtle. He hated the Kennedys. Interestingly, even though the JFK Assassination Report says Hoffa was one of three suspects, the congressional committee admits that Hoffa was too intelligent to simultaneously be so vocal against Kennedy and act on his rage when pursued by an FBI task force for so many years. His transparency and consistency was acknowledged and respected, even by those prosecuting him.
Hoffa vanished a few weeks after penning his autobiography, and coincidentally the US Congressional Committee on Assassinations was formed shortly after, in 1976, and though Hoffa's body was never found he was pronounced dead shortly before the 1979 JFK Assassination report was released to for President Carter's review and contradicted the Warren Report and said that Hoffa was one of three prime suspects behind President Kennedy's. Their conclusion was based strongly on the 1962 FBI report on Hoffa and Partin's plot.
Edward Grady Partin was a big man, one of the physically large and morally unhindered men who surrounded the fierce yet diminutive Hoffa; and, practically speaking, a small version of Jimmy Hoffa when it came to leading the Teamsters. He operated regionally instead of nationally, and governors pursued him like presidents had pursued Hoffa, and state Attorney Generals instead of Bobby Kennedy.
The similarities between Partin and Hoffa were obvious to anyone watching, and for many years conspiracy theorists followed my grandfather's actions more than the FBI seemed to, and they published articles in fringe newspapers that were not unlike todays opinionated and unproven internet blogs, vlogs, and podcasts: full of speculation, and fueled people who like to read, see, and hear what they already believe or suspect. They pointed to his relationships with Ruby, Marcello, and Castro. Many reported having seen a photo of him and Ruby from just before Oswald was killed; a hand held, old school, single copy with a negative somewhere, and probably black and white. Some reputable researchers, Louisiana lawyers and college professors, linked him to Oswald, claiming he had driven Oswald from Baton Rouge or New Orleans to Dallas despite evidence otherwise – Oswald had taken a bus ticket and their was a receipt and witnesses – and some speculated that Big Daddy continued to kill Hoffa's associates, like the actor Audie Murphy in 1971. But nothing stuck, and over time names like Ed Partin, Audie Murphy, and Walter Sheridan became footnotes in history; hence my puns about being a small part in his story.
I was born Jason Ian Partin on October 5th, 1972, the son of Edward Grady Partin Junior. My grandfather, Edward Grady Partin, ran Teamsters Local #5 for thirty years; his brother and son, Uncle Doug and Uncle Kieth, both Partins, each ran Local #5 for thirty years, too. The Partins have run the southeast Teamsters for 90 years. Kieth is still there, almost ready to retire. Similarly, James Hoffa Junior is still the national Teamsters president, and his family has run the national union for just as long as my family ran unions in the south. Edward Partin Junior was never a Teamster, but he went to prison on federal drug trafficking charges.
I've never been a Teamster, and I look at my Partin history more as an observer than a participant. I may make a few historical errors here and there; I'm not a historian or a published writer with an editor. But, everything I've written about Hoffa and the Kennedys and my family is publicly available, including my own court history, and I'll preemptively share a bit about me so that you may see some of the biases I have.
Online court records from the Baton Rouge 19th judicial court in East Baton Rouge Parish say that I was removed from my family as an infant, and a Louisiana judge assigned my physical protection to a guardian, Ed White, because of my family's "intemperance," an inability to act with moderation or restraint. I can't deny that. I remained in and out of the foster system, seeing my Partin family on some weekends and holidays until Hoffa famously disappeared, and Big Daddy lost his federal protection and went to prison in 1980. He was released early for declining health and returned to Baton Rouge in 1986 and died on March 11th, 1990. By that time, I was 17 but emancipated, declared a legal adult at age 16; but, ironically, closer to my grandfather and Partin family than ever before because he had changed after prison and needed to be cared for by my family, especially my aunts and uncles. Walter Sheridan had been calling Aunt Janice daily in the weeks leading to Big Daddy's death, asking what he had been saying, and plain clothed FBI agents attended his funeral on March 16th, along with the mayor and reporters from major newspapers and a few celebrities, and they questioned everyone coming and going, including the reporters. They didn't seem interested in what Aunt Janice told them, that she'd never forget his final words as long as she lived, "No one will ever know my part in history."
The New York Times reporters summarized what they knew by 1990, and not even investigative reporters seemed to have read the 11 year old JFK Assassination Report, and their impression of Edward Partin was still that of an antihero who had helped Bobby Kennedy when asked. They repeated what had been told in apparent news media and movies for 30 years. His obituary was national news, perhaps for the older generation who still remembered the handsome, shirtless, charming man from Look! and Life. The final word on Edward Grady Partin was, among other things, that he helped Bobby convict Hoffa.
Mr. Partin, a native of Woodville, Miss., was business manager for 30 years of Local 5 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters here.
Mr. Hoffa went to prison after the jury-tampering conviction. James Neal, a prosecutor in the jury-tampering trial in Chattanooga, Tenn., said that when Mr. Partin walked into the courtroom Mr. Hoffa said, "My God, it's Partin."
The Federal Government later spent 11 years prosecuting Mr. Partin on antitrust and extortion charges in connection with labor troubles in the Baton Rouge area in the late 1960's. He was convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice by hiding witnesses and arranging for perjured testimony in March 1979. An earlier trial in Butte, Mont., ended without a verdict.
Mr. Partin went to prison in 1980, and was released to a halfway house in 1986. While in prison he pleaded no contest to charges of conspiracy, racketeering and embezzling $450,000 in union money. At one time union members voted to continue paying Mr. Partin's salary while he was in prison. He was removed from office in 1981.
He helped Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy convict Mr. Hoffa of jury tampering in 1964. Mr. Partin, a close associate of Mr. Hoffa's, testified that the teamster president had offered him $20,000 to fix the jury at Mr. Hoffa's trial in 1962 on charges of taking kickbacks from a trucking company. That trial ended in a hung jury.
In 1992, almost three decades after President John F Kennedy was shot and killed, a popular film by Oliver Stone, a Vietnam veteran and famous producer of epic films about presidents and wars and American pop culture – like Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors, Natural born Killers, etc – screened his film JFK for congress and their families. The film launched nationally and was immensely popular and presented facts in a way that made people question if JFK's murder was orchestrated by Americans interested escalating the Vietnam conflict and profiting from it; a common consequence of wars is that military contractors become wealthier. The film JFK sparked voters to demand access to the JFK Assassination report; despite the 1976 Freedom of Information Act, every president could withhold what they read from the public, but presidential candidate Bill Clinton promised to release it, and in 1992 he released approximately 60%, including the part about Edward Partin. The JFK Assassination Report contradicted the Warren Report and said that President Kennedy's assassination was likely part of a larger, coordinated plot, and that the three primary suspects for orchestrating it, men with the means and motivation to carry out such a plan, were Hoffa, Marcello, and a third mafia leader whose name I can never recall. The authors of the report emphasized the similarities between Kennedy's murder and Hoffa and Partin's plot, but couldn't find evidence, and said that it was unlikely that an intelligent person under so media and FBI scrutiny, especially someone who had publicly displayed hatred and motivation and knew that anything he said could incriminate himself. Conspiracy theorists ran with the 60%, though no one felt it resolved anything, and the sagas of JFK and Jimmy Hoffa plodded along, gaining bits and pieces of new information with each new president and whatever they choose to release. Fact and fiction mixed and muddled and became something unlike anything I've seen since.
In 2018, the very large actor Craig Vincent worked with my family to research his role as Ed Partin in Martin Scorese's film about about Hoffa, "The Irishman," based on a memoir by a former mafia hitman nicknamed The Irishman who claimed, probably truthfully, to have killed Hoffa in 1975. As far as I can tell, no one making the film had read the JFK Assassination report and linked those events, if they were indeed linked. No one knows. When we spoke, Craig said he had recently been diagnosed with cancer, and we spoke more of the present than the past.
In 2020 the Covid19 global pandemic slammed the world to a halt, and Big Daddy's little brother, former Teamster leader Doug Partin, died peacefully in a Mississippi veterans home at age 90. His autobiography is available on Amazon, and is entitled, "From My Brother's Shadow." Uncle Kieth is currently president of Local #5; he's fine with anything I write. I spent most of 2020 researching this book and resisting the urge to make a lot of puns about 20/20 hindsight; I succeeded, for the most part, now that I look back on it.
Almost everything I wrote has been on Archives.gov and SupremeCourt.gov since the internet became a thing some time in the 1990's. The final part of the JFK Assassination report will be public, because the Biden administration plans to release the final 0.6% by 2024. I don't know what Presidents Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush Jr., Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan, and Carter saw in the 1979 Congressional Committee on Assassination's report on President Kennedy's assassination that they choose to keep secret from the public, or why President Biden is waiting until the end of his first term to release the final tiny bit of it. I don't even know all of the report is real; anyone can add a piece of paper to a stack of documents and type any date on it they choose. It's not difficult, especially with a huge pile of paper memos that no one seems to read or verify. Anyone who's modified a printed high school report card knows it's easy to fake – I did it often growing up – and the report from J. Edgar Hooover about Hoffa and Big Daddy is so precise and so relevant and yet so well hidden that it sounds like fake news to me. It's too perfect. But I believed it when I was a kid, before anyone else knew, and I made choices accordingly.
I'm Jason Ian Partin, the grandson of Edward Grady Partin Senior. This memoir is my small part in his story, and this sentence is the last time I'll intentionally use that Partin pun.
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Big Daddy, Edward Partin Senior, and my dad, Ed Partin Junior, and some of my aunts and uncle on top of the Baton Rouge State capital observation deck.
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Mick Mulvaney aims to install ally as head of legislative affairs which could give him more control of agenda
Published Wed, May 22 20191:45 PM EDT Updated Wed, May 22 20192:28 PM EDT
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Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and his advisors are looking to install a top ally to become the head of the administration's legislative affairs office.
"I know its going to be a Mick person," a source who was in the White House in recent days told CNBC. "Everyone over there keeps saying 'its going to be another Mick person,'" this person added.
One of the people being pushed to succeed Knight is a former OMB advisor who has since become a lobbyist at Harbinger Strategies.
Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), listens during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, not pictured, and workers in the Oval Office of the White House during a 'Cutting the Red Tape, Unleashing Economic Freedom' event in Washington, D.C, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018.
President Donald Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, and his closest advisors are looking to install an ally atop the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, CNBC has learned.
Mulvaney has signaled he'd like to see someone who's worked with him at the Office of Management and Budget to succeed the departing Shahira Knight, according to people familiar with the matter. Mulvaney has continued to be the director of OMB while managing the staff at the White House.
For Mulvaney, having someone he trusts as the new head of the legislative team could allow him to be directly involved with negotiating and passing critical pieces of legislation throughout the rest of the president's time in office.
Trump announced Tuesday that Knight would be stepping down from her post and heading to the private sector after being the office's director since the start of the administration. Knight was a key player in helping pass the Republican tax reform plan while a member of the National Economic Council.
One of the people being pushed to Trump and his aides to step in for Knight by Mulvaney's confidants is Jonathan Slemrod, a former associate director for legislative affairs at OMB under Mulvaney, people close to the White House said on condition anonymity.
Politico reported in January that over the course of his first month as acting chief of staff, Mulvaney had brought on at least half a dozen OMB aides to join him at the White House and was looking to add more to his ranks.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to comment on the record when asked about Mulvaney's influence and whether Slemrod is under consideration. A spokesman for OMB referred questions about Mulvaney and Slemrod to the White House. Slemrod did not return repeated requests for comment.
Slemrod is currently a lobbyist out of Harbinger Strategies in Washington, D.C., with clients ranging from Blackstone, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Facebook and Home Depot, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Harbinger's website shows that while he was at OMB, he "worked with members of Congress and staff, Administration officials, White House components including the Office of Legislative Affairs," and goes on to say he had a role in getting enough votes to secure approval of the tax reform bill that passed through Congress in 2017.
The website also has a direct quote from Mulvaney, showering praise on Slemrod's previous efforts at OMB.
"Jonny's contributions to both the Office of Management and Budget and the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection can't be overstated," he said. "A close, trusted advisor, his knowledge of both policy and procedure helped President Trump achieve some of his biggest legislative victories."
Slemrod was also previously a legislative assistant to Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.