There is just something about a car being something that it's not supposed to that I will always love. Whether it's a swole up four door that can make 10 second passes, or an LS swapped import breaking all the limits, it is a underestimated and overlooked hustler. Ultimately, it is what's on the inside that counts.
My 300C SRT8 fits the contrarian mold to a tee. It is a muscle-bound warrior in a buttoned-up suit and tie. The 300 was meant to be a platform of cars that would rival the top end quality German makers for the luxury sedan market, and it has all of that, with just the right touch of badass straight outta Detroit.
As soon as you get inside and see the AFR gauges and boost gauges on the A-pillar, you know that something is way different with this car. What can I say — I believe in building things that have way more power than they may need.
Hit the key, and all the digital gauges illuminate to life, with a strong, powerful, ground-shaking rumble coming out of the stainless steel exhaust.
Once initial shock settles down, you can start to hear the automatic whine of the supercharger bringing in air to feed the bored and stroked 426 Hemi.
From the outside, the car looks like its ready to fit in at a business meeting and talk about sales forecasts. But with that engine running, the sound its making says,"watch this — I'm about to spin these tires like a clock and leave you in a cloud of smoke".
I love this car because of its mix of modern day and old school technology, and unique place on the road — it's definitely not something you going to see every day. This car gives me yet another way to stand out from the rest of them.
What wheels you got? Let me know below. Share the story of your V8 monster and maybe I will send you Gear to go rep your lifestyle.
Be on the lookout for my next blog post: Big, Loud, and Proud: Having a Blast with Guns.


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Blog Tour & Giveaway: Spin The Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
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Spin the Dawn (The Blood of Stars #1)
by Elizabeth Lim
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: July 9th 2019
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Project Runway meets Mulan in this sweeping YA fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and embarks on an impossible journey to sew three magic dresses, from the sun, the moon, and the stars.
Maia Tamarin dreams of becoming the greatest tailor in the land, but as a girl, the best she can hope for is to marry well. When a royal messenger summons her ailing father, once a tailor of renown, to court, Maia poses as a boy and takes his place. She knows her life is forfeit if her secret is discovered, but she'll take that risk to achieve her dream and save her family from ruin. There's just one catch: Maia is one of twelve tailors vying for the job.
Backstabbing and lies run rampant as the tailors compete in challenges to prove their artistry and skill. Maia's task is further complicated when she draws the attention of the court magician, Edan, whose piercing eyes seem to see straight through her disguise.
And nothing could have prepared her for the final challenge: to sew three magic gowns for the emperor's reluctant bride-to-be, from the laughter of the sun, the tears of the moon, and the blood of stars. With this impossible task before her, she embarks on a journey to the far reaches of the kingdom, seeking the sun, the moon, and the stars, and finding more than she ever could have imagined.
Steeped in Chinese culture, sizzling with forbidden romance, and shimmering with magic, this young adult fantasy is pitch-perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas or Renée Ahdieh.
The sun was in a hurry to rise, or so it felt. Light washed out the blanket of stars above me. I watched the morning crawl over the sea, until it touched my street and my house.
Only that I must succeed-at all costs.
This was where it would begin. Where I would restore honor to my family's name. Where I would prove that a girl could be the best tailor in A'landi.
Many of you have already served as court tailors, but the imperial tailor is among the most esteemed and privileged of His Majesty's loyal servants. It is a position that is held for life and brings much prosperity to the one who is deserving.
Elizabeth Lim grew up on a hearty staple of fairy tales, myths, and songs. Her passion for storytelling began around age 10, when she started writing fanfics for Sailor Moon, Sweet Valley, and Star Wars, and posted them online to discover, "Wow, people actually read my stuff. And that's kinda cool!" But after one of her teachers told her she had "too much voice" in her essays, Elizabeth took a break from creative writing to focus on not flunking English.
Over the years, Elizabeth became a film and video game composer, and even went so far as to get a doctorate in music composition. But she always missed writing, and turned to penning stories when she needed a breather from grad school. One day, she decided to write and finish a novel — for kicks, at first, then things became serious — and she hasn't looked back since.
Elizabeth loves classic film scores, books with a good romance, food (she currently has a soft spot for arepas and Ethiopian food), the color turquoise, overcast skies, English muffins, cycling, and baking. She lives in New York City with her husband.
Review of Spin The Dawn:
Review: (5 Stars): Spin The Dawn was an amazing story of a young woman who disguises herself as her brother to win a competition to help her struggling family. Maia has been working with her father as a tailor while her brothers went off to fight in the war and when the Emperor requests her father, Maia has to make a decision. She decides to cut off her hair and pretend to be her brother, Keton, to compete in the hopes of being chosen as the Imperial tailor.
Spin The Dawn was a beautifully written tale that kept me spellbound as Maia competed in each task to win the position as the Imperial tailor. Maia was such a great character and she faced so many challenges as she tried to win against each of the more experienced tailors. Her designs were so beautiful and intricate and I got lost in this wonderful story. This is the first book in a new series and I'm dying to see what happens next for Maia.
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The hotel's pared-back design and emphasis on reflection, relaxation, and kinship is intended to offer an alternative to Ibiza's clubber-oriented resorts. Rather, it is more a return to the hippy scene that dominated the Spanish isle in the 1950s and 60s.
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5 Lunchtime Links: Winslet reveals 'Titanic' truth
Amanda O'Donnell @amandamodo
Oct 12, 2016 at 12:01 AM Sep 23, 2018 at 11:03 AM
Actors Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet attend The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 30, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. 25650_014 (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Turner)
1. Kate Winslet reveals crucial information about "Titanic" ending.
During her appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Monday Kate Winslet revealed what we always knew to be true about the ending of "Titanic": There was room on that raft. After Kimmel commented on people's excitement over the mini Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio reunion at the Screen Actors Guild awards, he said, "Even though, in a way, you let him freeze to death in the water." Winslet responded, "I think he could have fitted on that bit of board." While it's comforting to hear Winslet admit to what we've all thought for years, it's sad to think Jack could be alive right now had she just scooted over.
2. Willie Nelson meets the Muppets.
Willie Nelson found friendship in felt when he met the cast of "The Muppets" and posted a picture with the whole puppet game on Instagram Sunday. The photo is captioned "Willie jammed with The Electric Mayhem Band yesterday!" but it isn't the country singer's first Muppet collaboration. Nelson previously recorded and released a cover of Kermit the Frog's "Rainbow Connection." While neither the Muppets nor Wilson released details about the reason for the meeting, it's assumed it is most likely for a guest appearance on the gang's ABC show.
3. Easy Tiger makes list of best beer bars in America.
Bakery and beer garden Easy Tiger has been recognized for something other than its pretzels. The East Sixth Street bar was included on USA Today's Readers' Choice Top 20 Beer Bars in America, and is now in the running to make it to the top 10. Readers are now being asked to vote which 10 of the 20 bars deserve to make it to the top. Easy Tiger is currently ranked at No. 9. You can vote for the bar, which USA Today called "a great place for fine beer and conversation," here.
4. Ladie Gaga to perform David Bowie tribute at Grammys.
The Grammys announced today that Lady Gaga will play a special tribute to the late David Bowie during the award show in Las Vegas Feb. 15. While little was revealed about what the show will consist of, it was called a "multisensory tribute." Nile Rodgers, who worked on Bowie's 1983 hit "Let's Dance," will be the musical director for the tribute.
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Fitness writer Pam LeBlanc is on a mission. She managed to snap a picture of Austin's "Thong Guy" clad, as usual, in only a thong, out for a December ride. But what she desperately wants is a chance to speak with him, and maybe get some background on his elusive persona and even more elusive attire. She's on the hunt and any help readers can offer will be appreciated. Have you seen Thong Guy recently? Let her know by either emailing pleblanc@statesman.com or calling 512-445-3994.
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Knowing how to get rid of back acne is important. We know that having to live with back acne can put you in embarrassing situations where you will feel self conscious. You might even have a hard time showing it to a doctor. Understand that back acne treatment is not going to be the same as it would for facial acne, because it is going to take a lot more to get rid of it. There are a lot of people who have back acne who ignore it, and this causes the scarring to only get worse.
Back acne, even though it does happen a lot, is not at all similar to facial acne. However, back acne can be a lot more severe and painful. It can cause a person to have a hard time wearing a shirt, laying down on their back at night, or even using certain cleaning products when they are in the shower.
Back acne happens primarily because there are pores on the back that are much bigger than those on the face. These pores make far more oil than those on the face. Seeing as how these pores are bigger, it means a larger quantity of skin cells are going to be made as a result. This is going to lead to the pores being clogged up, and acne is going to occur as a result. When it does it can be very visible and cause you to want to hide it from view. This is also what causes back acne in women.
The skin on your face and back are also not the same. Skin that is on the back is far more thicker in nature, and it is also tougher than facial skin. As a result this means back some back acne products and treatments you might use for your face are not going to work as good on the back.
The best thing you can do in order to keep the problem of back acne at bay would be for you to prevent the problem from occurring in the first place. If you have it already you can also take measures in order to avoid the condition getting worse or causing long term scarring. The first thing you will want to do is monitor how much you sweat, because sweat that becomes dry on your skin can cause back acne. You also have to be careful of dirt and bacteria that might be on places you sleep. You should clean these areas frequently. If you like to workout for instance, make sure you put a clean towel on the bench or mat you will be using.
If you expose your back to bacteria and other germs these are going to serve to clog your pores even more and make it likely you will get back acne. If you want to know how to get rid of back acne one thing you have to do is use clean towels, make sure your sheets are clean, do not wear tight clothes, instead wear loose cloths that are going to make way for sweat to dry and air to get through to the body.
In order to prevent the problem of back acne you will need to keep your skin as clean as possible. Washing is a must, but you must also make sure you are drinking plenty of water. Avoid sodas and other sugary drinks. Make sure you are keeping your skin properly moisturized, and use a bath scrubber in order to help get rid of dead skin cells. This will encourage new skin growth and prevent scarring.
There are lots of people who believe getting a facial pack for their back might actually work to treat the problem, such as it would for the face. In some cases it might, because when used it will ensure there will be no dirt clogging up the pores on the back, which lead to pimples and full blown acne. Give it a try and see if it works for you.
A few products you might want to try would include vitamin E, which is known to have a lot of benefits for the skin. You will also want to try some Aloe Vera, which is best used alongside Vitamin E. Aloe Vera is known to contain healing abilities and it helps to reduce acne scars. Aloe Vera will serve to help reduce instances of swelling as well as redness that comes with back acne.
If you want stronger treatments you might want to consider utilizing medicated creams. Some of these creams would include Benzoyl peroxide or even salicylic acid. You will want to make sure you follow the instructions really well when using one of these products. Also, these two products are not to be used alongside each other.
You can also try natural treatments, which are known to be less risky. Some of these might not produce any results for you, but they are worth a try. Apple cider vinegar is something you might want to try, because it is supposed to eliminate bacteria and it helps to restore the Ph balance of the skin. Tea Tree Oil also works to treat skin problems, because it helps to fight off bacterias that are known to cause break out. You would need to make sure you use this treatment frequently.
If you are plagued with back acne scars, you will want to utilize treatments that are offered through a medical professional. Microdermabrasion for example can help get rid of acne scars. It is a chemical peel process that involved scrubbing and cleaning the back. Then you have acne laser treatment, which helps to eliminate the redness that comes with scarring.
Back acne treatment is going to have different effects based on the severity of a given case. Knowing how to get rid of back acne though by focusing on cleanliness is a good first step. The information listed in this article, besides the methods to treat back acne scars, should provide you with a basic plan to know how to get rid of back acne.


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Artois Championships 2007 — 105-й розыгрыш ежегодного профессионального теннисного турнира среди мужчин, проводящегося в Лондоне (Великобритания) и являющегося частью тура ATP в рамках международной серии.

В 2007 году турнир прошёл с 11 по 17 июня. Соревнование продолжало европейскую серию травяных турниров, подготовительную к Уимблдону.

Прошлогодние победители:
 в одиночном разряде —  Ллейтон Хьюитт
 в парном разряде —  Пол Хенли и  Кевин Ульетт

Общая информация
Первым номером посева в одиночном турнире стал Рафаэль Надаль (№ 2 в мире на тот момент). Испанец не смог оправдать свой статус, уступив в полуфинале Николя Маю, накануне старта соревнования не попавшему даже в посев соревнования. Француз затем добрался до титульного матча (дебютного на подобном уровне), где на решающем тай-брейке уступил второй ракетке турнира Энди Роддику. Прошлогодний чемпион — Ллейтон Хьюитт — защищал свой титул, но уступил уже на старте.

Парный турнир свёлся к борьбе лидеров посева: полуфинальные пары составила первая четвёрка этой группы, а титульный матч разыграли альянсы Даниэль Нестор / Марк Ноулз и братья Брайаны. Американская команда оказалась чуть слабее своих оппонентов, уступив им по итогам двух сетов. Прошлогодние чемпионы — Пол Хенли и Кевин Ульетт — защищали свой титул и дошли до полуфинала. Последняя несеянная команда уступила в четвертьфинале, причём один из трёх альянсов, добравшийся до этой стадии, не должен был играть лондонский приз вовсе, попав в сетку лишь после позднего снятия с турнира другой команды.

Соревнования

Одиночный турнир
 Энди Роддик обыграл  Николя Маю со счётом 4-6, 7-6(7), 7-6(2).
 Роддик выигрывает 1-й титул в сезоне и 22-й за карьеру в основном туре ассоциации.
 Маю сыграл свой дебютный финал в основном туре ассоциации.

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 Парный турнир
 Марк Ноулз /  Даниэль Нестор''' обыграли  Боба Брайана /  Майка Брайана со счётом 7-6(4), 7-5.
 Ноулз выигрывает 2-й титул в сезоне и 46-й за карьеру в основном туре ассоциации.
 Нестор выигрывает 2-й титул в сезоне и 48-й за карьеру в основном туре ассоциации.

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Финал

См. также
 Artois Championships
 ATP Тур 2007
 Мировой тур ATP 250

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт

Великобритания
Теннис
Июнь 2007 года
2007
2007 год в Лондоне

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Residents in Spain They have made 197.3 million trips in 2018, 1.9% more than in 2017, and they spent almost 47,082 million euros, 6.4% higher than the previous year, according to the Resident Tourism Survey (ETR / Familitur) prepared by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
90.2% of trips made by Spaniards last year had as a main destination Spain, compared to 9.8% of trips abroad. The trips with internal destination have accumulated 81% of the overnight stays and 65.8% of the total expense, with an average cost of 48 euros. Conversely, trips abroad have accounted for 19% of overnight stays and 34.2% of total spending, with an average daily expenditure of 106 euros.
As a whole, the overnight stays corresponding to the trips made by the Spanish in 2018 have reached 801.6 million, similar figure to 2017. The main reasons to travel were leisure (51%), with an accumulated expense of 60% of the total, and visits to family and friends (35.6%). The average daily cost for leisure trips was 64 euros and the highest average was for business trips (116 euros).
In the fourth quarter of 2018, residents in Spain have made 40.2 million trips, an increase of 0.5% compared to the same period of 2017, with an expense of 9,028 million euros, 5% more. 89.6% of the trips in this period had as main destination the national territory, 0.9% in annual rate. On the other hand, trips abroad, which represent 10.4% of the total, increased by 14.4%.
In 62.1% of trips, residents opted for non-market accommodation. These have accumulated 60.7% of overnight stays and they had a daily average cost of 30 euros, while the average expenditure of tourists who stayed in a hotel was 134 euros.
In the internal trips, spending in bars and restaurants represented the highest percentage of total expenditure (26.8%), followed by accommodation (24.5%) and transportation (22.9%). With regard to travel abroad, the most important item was transport (29.2%), followed by lodging expenses (20.3%) and tourist parks (18.8%).
By quarters, the highest average daily expenditure was recorded in the second and fourth quarters for linternal trips (57 euros) and in the second trips abroad (132 euros). On the other hand, the lowest average expenses were in the third quarter (40 euros in internal trips and 90 euros in those made abroad).
Andalusia (16.6%), Catalonia (12.8%) and the Valencian Community (9.9%) were the main destinations of travelers, while La Rioja (0.8%), Navarre (1.3%) and the Balearic Islands (1.8%) occupied the last places.
The daily average expenses the highest were in trips to the Balearic Islands (75 euros), the Community of Madrid (74) and the Canary Islands (68). On the other hand, the lowest average values took place in Castilla-La Mancha (35 euros), Castilla y León and Extremadura (37).
Residents in the Community of Madrid were the ones who made the most trips, with 18.1% of the total, followed by residents in Catalonia (17%) and Andalusia (15.3%). The highest average expenses were for residents of the Balearic Islands (73 euros), the Canary Islands (68) and Catalonia (66), while the lowest were among residents of Extremadura (50 euros), Región de Murcia (52) and the Valencian Community (53).


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November Calliope Poetry Reading
Presented by West Falmouth Library at West Falmouth Library, West Falmouth MA
Calliope, a community for poets, will present its next reading on Sunday, November 8 from 3 to 5 PM at West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway. Featured poets are Mary Kane, Alan Feldman, Kirun Kapur, and Jenifer Browne Lawrence. A $5 donation is suggested.
Mary Kane of Falmouth is the author of a full-length collection of poetry, "Door" (One Bird Books, 2013), and two chapbooks, "She Didn't Float" and "After We Talk About the Recent Deaths of Our Parents and about
Mary Kane of Falmouth is the author of a full-length collection of poetry, "Door" (One Bird Books, 2013), and two chapbooks, "She Didn't Float" and "After We Talk About the Recent Deaths of Our Parents and about Compassion as Handled by Chekhov." Her poems have appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal as well as on Poetry Daily and Poem of the Moment (masspoetry.org). She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches writing at Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Alan Feldman's latest collection, "Immortality" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015), was awarded the Four Lakes Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, including "The Best American Poetry," and in the 2016 edition of Common Threads, the poetry discussion project of Mass Poetry. He is a summer resident of Wellfleet and offers free, drop-in poetry workshops at the Wellfleet Public Library.
Kirun Kapur is the winner of the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry (2012) and the Antivenom Poetry Award for her first book, "Visiting Indira Gandhi's Palmist" (Elixir Press, 2015). She is the founder and director of the North Shore arts program, The Tannery Series, and has taught creative writing at Boston University. She was recently named an "Asian-American poet to watch" by NBC News.
Jenifer Browne Lawrence is the author of "Grayling" and "One Hundred Steps from Shore." Her awards include the Orlando Poetry Prize, James Hearst Poetry Prize, Potomac Review poetry award, and a Washington State Artist Trust GAP grant. Most recently, her work has appeared in Los Angeles Review, Narrative, North American Review, and Rattle. She was raised in Alaska, works in civil engineering, and lives on Puget Sound in Washington, where she edits Crab Creek Review.
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The Task Force for Global Health
The Task Force for Global Health was founded by public health pioneer and former CDC Director Bill Foege in 1985. Established as the Task Force for Child Survival, Dr. Foege was solicited as a neutral convener to help four global health organizations in the quest to improve childhood immunization rates in Africa. Our mission has expanded beyond Child Survival over the last 27 years with new programs and initiatives to improve global health for the bottom billion. Today, The Task Force for Global Health continues in that role of neutral convener, staying behind the scenes and putting our partner organizations in the spotlight.
Our operating structure is comprised of the primary non-profit organization, The Task Force for Global Health (the Task Force), and a non-profit subsidiary of the Task Force, Global Health Solutions (GHS). Both the Task Force and GHS are recognized non profit 501 (c) 3 organizations.
The Task Force has been involved in the fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) for nearly 25 years, beginning with the Mectizan Donation Program and our partnership with Merck in 1987. Our work in the NTD sector focuses on the treatment, prevention, and elimination of widespread and disabling tropical infectious diseases in poor communities throughout Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Also the Task Force established the Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center (NTD-SC) in early 2013, with funding from the Gates Foundation. The NTD-SC will collaborate with the NTD community to address priority research gaps.
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Mafia nerds, rejoice and be refreshed! I'll be speaking Monday evening, August 13th, at Nerd Nite Noho, a monthly gathering at the World War II Club in Northampton, Massachusetts. Join us! I'll be in a double header: the other half of the evening will be on feminist comics. So much cool, they turn off the A/C. (Just kidding. It's very comfortable. And there's a bar!)
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By Justin Cascioin Appearances, Springfield MA August 10, 2018 133 WordsLeave a comment
Nothing could tear apart these early Mafia families in Utica, New York. Not even murder.
Pietro Lima and his brother-in-law, Dominick Aiello, were in a hurry the night they were killed, summoned by a late night phone call. It was November, and the men left home in such a rush that neither was fully dressed; they'd thrown coats over slippers and pajamas. The men were found dead in their car in the morning, evidently shot at close range by someone sitting in the back seat. In other words, they were executed by someone they trusted. Though never charged, it's widely believed that the powerful Falcone brothers were behind their deaths.
Pietro Lima
The Falcones were long time associates of Pietro Lima and his extended family, who had been running and distilling illicit alcohol in Utica since the start of Prohibition. Even after its repeal in 1933, the families continued to dodge taxes with their unlicensed stills. They were also part of a network of criminals that spanned the United States. Despite indictments for conspiracy in the early 1940s, the Falcones were not identified by federal investigators as Mafia bosses until their arrest at the famous 1957 gathering in Apalachin, New York.
The elder of the two murder victims, Pietro Lima, was born in 1869 or 1870 in Bagheria, a few miles from the city of Palermo. He immigrated around the turn of the century with his wife, Providenza Aiello, and their oldest child, Grace. They settled first in Brooklyn, where the rest of Pietro and Providenza's children were born. By 1920, the family had moved, with several of their extended relations, to Utica, in Oneida County, New York, about 75 miles east of Lake Ontario. Across the water was Prince Edward Island, in Canada. It was a good location for transporting alcohol into the US during Prohibition, an activity Pietro was involved in with the husband of his niece, Rosario Gambino. The two were stopped together in 1924 in a car full of Canadian ale, but they were able to overturn their conviction the following year on the grounds the police did not have a search warrant.
Joseph Lima
In 1928, Pietro and Rosario were both prosperous business owners in Utica, and the fathers of large families. Rosario, formerly a longshoreman, owned a gas station. Pietro, a grocer, owned his home next door to his eldest daughter, Grace, and her husband. His son, Joseph, was most likely being groomed to take over the family business. He had been married for four years to Nellie Caputo, whom he'd vigorously courted in her family's Brooklyn bake shop, and they had one child, a son.
Based on interviews the police conducted with family members, Nellie sparked the fateful argument that November by remarking on how Joseph had let "some Italian girl" wreck his car. The fight escalated and Nellie left the house with their son, going to the home of Rosario Gambino, a couple blocks away.
The Lima, Aiello, Gambino, and Falcone families, all of whom moved to Utica in the years leading up to Prohibition, were related by marriage, as well as through their criminal activities. All recent immigrants from Palermo and Bagheria, they also shared a connection in Brooklyn, having spent time there, upon their arrivals in the US, living in the same Cobble Hill neighborhood. A Falcone stood as godfather to Joseph Lima, in 1901 in Brooklyn, and the Caputo family bakery where Joseph wooed Nellie is still operated by the original owner's descendants.
It's not clear why Nellie went to the Gambino home after her argument with her husband. Perhaps she spent a lot of time with Angelina Gambino, making it a natural choice. She may have come to know the Gambinos well in Brooklyn and sought them out as old friends after her marriage brought her to Utica. But she could not have been ignorant of the power play she was about to make.
At around ten o'clock that night, Joseph Lima and his father, who'd both been drinking, decided it was time to bring Nellie back home. They got one of Joseph's brothers, Charlie, and Grace's husband, Lawrence, to go with them to the Gambino home to retrieve her. But Nellie refused to leave with them, and Rosario Gambino backed her up, increasing the stakes for the Lima men. He said she could stay the night if she wanted.
Peter Gambino
Eventually, Joseph and the other young men left, but Pietro Lima remained in his onetime partner's driveway, drunk and yelling insults at the house. Close to midnight, Rosario came outside again with his eighteen year old son, Peter, and told Pietro to go home. Pietro refused. Rosario then told his son to move their car, and as Peter started to comply, he saw Lima reach for a gun. Peter leaped in front of his father to protect him. A gun fired, and Peter went down, hit in the chest.
More shots were fired—both Pietro and Rosario were armed with handguns—and the two men managed to seriously injure one another. Rosario was shot in the stomach, and Pietro was struck at least twice, in the leg and the scrotum.
Pietro's sons and son-in-law returned to the scene, and Charlie and Lawrence took Rosario Gambino, who was evidently the most seriously injured, to the hospital in their car. Meanwhile Pietro and the young Peter Gambino limped off together to find a doctor for themselves. They made it a few blocks before the older man collapsed. His gun was dropped into a sewer, and later retrieved from its catch basin as evidence.
Police arrived at the Gambino home, and the women inside would not let them in, so officers broke in and began searching for evidence. They quickly found Rosario's gun, hidden in a warming oven. Joseph Lima arrived and claimed to be there to visit his wife, who had been ill. He demanded to know what was going on.
On the street corner where Pietro Lima collapsed was a cafeteria from which an ambulance was called to take the two injured men to the same hospital as Rosario. All three men were operated upon. Peter Gambino had been struck in the collarbone, but was expected to survive.
By the following morning, Rosario was dead. He left a widow and ten children, the youngest under two. A collection was taken at the viewing, to pay for his burial. The following day Peter, still in the hospital, was finally informed of his father's death. Nearby, Pietro Lima was recovering from his own injuries, and expecting to face manslaughter charges upon his release.
Following news of Rosario's death, it was reported in the newspaper in Utica that Nellie's relatives were coming from Brooklyn to take her home with them. Police found Pietro's discarded gun, as well as those stashed in the Gambino home, and learned that Peter Gambino's injury came not from Pietro Lima, but from the gun of his late father. A suit was filed by the dead man's estate against Pietro Lima, to support the widow and children.
As bad as it seemed, immediately after the shooting, it appears that the families worked things out. The manslaughter case against Pietro would be hard to press without the cooperation of the Gambinos. Peter was the only witness to his father's shooting. In the end, Pietro was charged only with having an unregistered gun, and even in this, his niece, whom he had widowed, pleaded with the judge for a lenient sentence. The practical reasons are clear: better that Pietro was free and earning to support both their families, than for him to be imprisoned. Pietro Lima pleaded guilty to the gun charge and got a suspended sentence and a fine, on the understanding he wouldn't be prosecuted in Rosario Gambino's death.
Six years later, when it was Pietro and Dominick who were killed, money and family ties once again kept the victims' families silent. Four years after her husband's murder, Paolina Aiello was discovered to possess a high volume, state of the art "super still" in her home. After massive arrests in an alcohol conspiracy netted the Falcone brothers, reporters came around to Mrs. Aiello's little grocery, which she had run from the family's garage since the early years of her marriage. She had nothing but good things to say about Mr. Falcone, whom she had known for twenty years and whose son, a lawyer, was married to Mrs. Aiello's daughter. It was Mrs. Aiello whose real estate holdings financed Salvatore Falcone's $20,000 bail.
By Justin Cascioin Utica June 7, 2018 1,465 Words2 Comments
The Piranio brothers of Corleone founded the Dallas Mafia.
The Dallas crime family was founded around 1921 by brothers Carlo and Joseph Piranio from Corleone. The Piranio brothers were part of a network of immigrants from this town, related through blood and marriage, active in the Mafia in Corleone and in American cities including New York, New Orleans, Dallas, and Los Angeles, in the first half of the 20th century. Along with Giuseppe Morello, Leoluca "Mr. Luke" Trumbatore, and Ignacio "Jack" Dragna, Carlo and Joe Piranio are among the first Mafia bosses in the United States. All were born in Corleone.
Carlo Piranio (Source: Viralnova)
Carlo was born Calogero Piranio on 21 May 1875, the son of Arcangelo Piranio and Orsola Trumbatore. He was named after his paternal grandfather, as is traditional in Corleone for the first born son. The surname "Piranio" is sometimes misspelled "Pirano" when referring to Carlo and Joseph in Dallas. In Corleone, the original spelling of their family's name is "Praino," seen more often in older records.
Carlo's brother, Joseph, was born Giuseppe on 11 August 1878, named after his maternal grandfather. Arcangelo died the following year, at just 32 years old. Orsola remarried within the year, to Leoluca Cascio. Orsola and Leoluca had at least four more children, the last known born in 1896.
According to his answers on future census records, Carlo had emigrated by this time. He lived first in Shreveport, Louisiana, where his brother, Joseph, joined him around the turn of the century. Thomas Hunt writes that Carlo developed a paralysis of the right arm around 1899, a few years before his brother arrived in Louisiana. The paralysis may have been related to Carlo's ultimate cause of death.
Carlo and Joseph are distantly related to "Mr. Luke" Trumbatore, who led the New Orleans Mafia (which operated throughout the state). Trumbatore is a closer cousin of Giuseppe Morello, another distant cousin of the Piranios. Morello operated primarily in New York with his half-brothers, the Terranovas. Trumbatore initially emigrated to New York before relocating to New Orleans.
Giuseppe Morello
Like the Piranio brothers, Morello was born in Corleone, lost his father while he was still young, and was raised by a stepfather. The Morello-Terranova family spent some of the years between 1892-1903 in the American South, in both Louisiana and Texas. Giuseppe's stepfather, Bernardo Terranova, was known to be active in the Mafia in Corleone. Leoluca Cascio, the Piranio brothers' stepfather, was the son of a cab driver: one of the rural entrepreneurial professions associated with Mafia activity in Corleone.
Carlo married Clemenza Grimaldi, also from Corleone, and they had their first child, Angelo, in 1904 in Shreveport. Joseph also married around this time, to Lena la Rocca, who was born in New Orleans of Italian parents.
The brothers moved their young families to Dallas, Texas, by the 1910 census, when they shared a household on Main Street. Carlo was reportedly a grocery storekeeper at this time, and Joe a grocery salesman. When Carlo's third child was born in 1917, the family lived on Dawson Street, and Carlo reported his profession as real estate agent. In 1919, Carl was charged with receiving thousands of dollars worth of stolen war bonds.
Prohibition began in 1920. That year's census reports that Carlo was still a real estate agent. His brother owned a tobacco shop, the J.T. Piranio Company, wholesale cigar dealers at 603 Harwood St. near Cadiz. Joe's brother-in-law, Frank Aloi, lived with him in that year's census. Aloi owned a grocery store.
Joseph Civello was an associate of the Dallas Mafia who also brought his family to Texas from Louisiana. His family operated groceries in Dallas that were also fronts for illegal activities for at least two generations, beginning during Prohibition.
In 1928, Civello was assigned to kill Joe DeCarlo, a bootlegger and druggist who had stopped making tributary payments to Carlo Piranio. Civello met DeCarlo in a pharmacy while carrying a shotgun, which discharged, hitting DeCarlo in the abdomen. The gunshot was ruled an accident, in large part on the assertions of DeCarlo, himself, made before he died.
Carlo Piranio died early in 1930, at age 54, from a tumor of the spine. Upon Carlo's death, Joe took over leadership of the Dallas Mafia from his brother and remained the boss until his death in 1956.
According to his biography on Find A Grave, Joe owned a number of bars and a construction business, as well as gambling operations and a construction labor racket. In the 1930 census, Joe is called a builder for a contractor. By this time, Joe's parents in law had also joined them in Dallas, and lived a couple doors down from Joe and Lena. Living between Joe and his in-laws were the families of one of his capos, Frank Ianni, and of Louis Cascio, both merchants.
Joe's daughter, Ursula, married Joseph Lisotta in 1932. Joseph's father was born in Corleone. Originally trained as a civil engineer in university, and employed in this profession by the city of Dallas, Lisotta bought a tavern shortly after Prohibition's repeal, in 1933. The tavern was a popular gathering place: according to one anecdote in his obituary, Joseph Lisotta would host "special customers" for after-hours spaghetti dinners. Lisotta's Tavern shut its doors for good in 1956, when the district voted to become "dry."
The same year the Tavern closed, Ursula's parents both died: first her mother in February, and then her father, eight months later, by suicide. Joe Piranio, the boss of the Dallas Mafia until his death, was 78 years old. Joseph Civello took over leadership, which he held until his death in 1970.
Arther, Azure. "Tales From the Speakeasy: Who Is the Dallas Crime Family?" Published 24 December 2016. http://cw33.com/2016/12/24/tales-from-the-speakeasy-who-is-the-dallas-crime-family/ Accessed 4 September 2017.
Carlo T. Piranio on Find A Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30428215 Accessed 4 September 2017.
"Dallas crime family." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_crime_family Accessed 4 September 2017.
Hunt, Thomas. "The Mafia of Dallas: 1910-1970." Published July 2010 in Informer Journal. Pp. 16+.
Renfrow, David. "Joseph Lisotta Owned Oak Cliff Tavern." Dallas Morning News. 19 January 2006. Metro:12B.
Feature Image: Elm St at Night, Dallas, TX. Wikimedia Commons
By Justin Cascioin Dallas September 5, 2017 November 2, 2017 1,042 Words3 Comments
The story of Corleone's influence on the Mafia extends to dozens of cities and towns throughout the United States.
Springfield, Massachusetts, has been controlled by the Genovese crime family for as long as there has been a mafia presence in New England. The marriages of Pasqualina Albano Siniscalchi Miranda, called the "Bootleg Queen" of Springfield's Little Italy by the local newspapers of the time, may be among the earliest documented relationships between the crime families of New York and Springfield.
At the onset of Prohibition, in 1920, Vito Genovese went into bootlegging in New York with his childhood friend, "Lucky" Luciano, as well as Frank Costello, Gaetano "Three Finger Brown" "Tommy" Lucchese, Meyer Lansky, and "Bugsy" Siegel. Prohibition was a period of enormous growth for organized crime, and it was during this time period that the Sicilian Mafia became the most powerful force among the gangs of New York. Neapolitan immigrant Michele Miranda, also active in the Mafia in New York at this time, was an associate of both Tommy Lucchese and of Gaetano Reina's crime family in the Bronx: Reina is from Corleone.
In western Massachusetts, Carlo Siniscalchi, an immigrant from Quindici, a small village in Naples, was about to become the Bootleg King of Springfield's Little Italy. His 1915 marriage to Pasqualina Albano, who was born in the neighboring town of Bracigliano, calls him a saloon keeper from Brooklyn. The couple lived on the South Side and had five children. In Springfield, Carlo reportedly made and sold first candy, and then macaroni. On the eve of Prohibition, according to the federal census, Carlo owned a candy store. Within a year, he was killed by a fellow bootlegger, whose supply Siniscalchi had cut off. Indications are that his widow continued the business.
Carlo was born Salvatore Carluccio Siniscalchi in Quindici
Two years into Prohibition, Costello, Luciano, and their closest Italian associates joined the Sicilian Mafia crime family led by Joe "the Boss" Masseria. Genovese's work for Masseria would extend from bootlegging to extortion and murder. He and Frank Costello are both said to be associates of Pasqualina Albano's second husband, Antonio Miranda, whom she married sometime between early 1923 and the fall of 1924. Antonio and Michele Miranda are brothers from San Giuseppe Vesuviano, in the same region of Naples as Quindici and Bracigliano, a hotbed of Camorra activity.
From his obituary in The New York Times
Like Pasqualina's first husband, Carlo, Antonio Miranda was from Italy by way of New York. Miranda's travel records call him a carpenter or joiner. In January 1923, he appears on the manifest of the Conte Rosso, joining his brother Michele at an address on Broome Street, in Little Italy, Manhattan. A year later, Michele appears on the Conte Verde, rejoining Antonio half a block away on Mott Street. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics later reported that Michele traveled frequently to Italy, and the same appears to have been true of Antonio, who returned again from Naples in October 1924, this time to his new wife, Pasqualina, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The first week of February, 1930, Antonio Miranda died from septicemia. Local news reported the infection started on his foot, with the removal of a callus. A college student donated blood for a transfusion, in an unsuccessful attempt to save Miranda's life. The certificate of his death reveals that the infection that killed Antonio was of a more intimate nature. A pelvic infection, and not a surgical site on his foot, was the origin of the blood infection that killed Antonio Miranda. Although the most common causes of such an infection are gonorrhea and syphilis, Miranda's case was reportedly caused by a bout of the flu.
Non-Italians in Springfield had long regarded "the Italian colony" as a world apart from their own: a foreign, dirty, and dangerous place. Little was known of the wealthy real estate developer who had married the widowed "Bootleg Queen." His funeral was lavish, on a scale not seen before in Springfield. Mourners arrived from distant cities, deflecting discreet inquiries from journalists. On the day Antonio Miranda was buried in St. Michaels Cemetery, flowers rained down upon the procession, delivered by an airplane rented for this purpose.
The same month Antonio died in Springfield, Joe Masseria, in New York, allegedly ordered two murders: Gaspar Milazzo in Detroit, and Gaetano Reina in the Bronx. These hits sparked the Castellammarese War, which would rage for a year and a half. Vito Genovese is said to have murdered Reina, whom Masseria suspected of helping his archrival, Salvatore Maranzano, in Brooklyn. Genovese and Michele Miranda, also known as Mike, became close near the end of the war. The two were arrested together on murder charges, on which they were acquitted.
Much of what's known of Miranda's personal life comes from a Federal Bureau of Narcotics profile. The birth date and relations in the FBN report have been mostly corroborated by census records and travel manifests. He married Lucia DiLaurenzo in 1926, and they had one child, a son. Michele and his wife can be seen traveling together on the same manifest with gangster Davide Petillo and his sister, in October 1932. (Petillo gets a mention in another post, Gay Liberation and the Mafia.)
Two and a half years after Antonio's death, and one month after Michele and Lucia returned to New York, Pasqualina was killed in a drive by shooting. She was in her car, parked across the street from the home of one of her employees in an illicit distillery operation. The attack came in the early hours of the morning, as Pasqualina sat with her "trusted lieutenant" in bootlegging, Michele Fiore. Fiore, described in the news at the time as having spent more of his time in America inside of prison than out, was a relative by marriage, the brother of Pasqualina's sister's husband. The following year, Fiore was killed in a barber shop. None of their attackers were ever identified.
Michele Miranda was respected among the gangsters in New York as a peace broker. He was a made member of the Genovese crime family, which had once been, in the years before Prohibition, the Morello-Terranova gang of East Harlem. Miranda was Vito Genovese's consigliere from 1957 until his retirement, in 1972. He died the following year.
Featured Image: Detail of Water Street and the South Side, from View of Springfield, Mass. 1875.
By Justin Cascioin Springfield MA August 6, 2017 November 2, 2017 1,081 Words1 Comment
At the end of Prohibition, the Young Turks fought a colonial war for the Sicilian Mafia in New York.
The Families of the Genovese and Lucchese trace their roots directly to two mafiosi from Corleone: boss Giuseppe Morello, and his captain, Gaetano "Tommy" Reina. During the first Mafia war in New York, between the Corleonesi and the Napolitani, Morello's half-brother Nick Terranova was killed by one of the Camorra (the Neapolitan Mafia), and their brother Vincenzo took over the Morello-Terranova Family. Reina left and formed his own Family, which he put under the protection of Joe Masseria (originally from Menfi, a coastal town in Agrigento province) in the late 1920s.
Prohibition strengthened the Mafia, providing them the opportunity, according to Joe Valachi, to get into racketeering in a big way, on the level with other, non-Mafia criminal organizations operating in the US. In 1922, Masseria survived an assassination attempt. He made Morello his conisigliere. Increasingly, the Mafia in the US overcame its provincial prejudices enough to forge working relationships with Jewish, Irish, and African-American criminals, and for the first mixed gangs to form. Yet a long simmering antagonism between Sicilians from Corleone and those from Castellammare del Golfo flared once more at the end of Prohibition.
The Castellammarese War of 1930 in New York was a colonial war. On one side was Joe Masseria, the most powerful figure in organized crime, with a coalition of allies including the Corleonesi Giuseppe Morello, Lucky Luciano (from Lercara Friddi), and Al Capone (born in New York of Italian mainland parents). On the other side were Salvatore Maranzano and the Castellammarese, backed by Don Vito Cascio Ferro, one of the most powerful men in Sicily at the time. Cascio Ferro sent Salvatore Maranzano to New York to form a monopoly on criminal enterprise. When Joe Valachi got out of prison the first time, he emerged to learn of "trouble in the air" between Tom Gagliano and Ciro Terranova. This was the beginning of the war.
This war is often characterized as one between the "Young Turks" behind Masseria, and the "Mustache Petes" on Maranzano's. Although Masseria was killed first, it was the Young Turks who ultimately won New York.
Cascio Ferro had lived for a few years in the US, in New York and in the South, like the Morello-Terranova family. He escaped prosecution for his participation in Morello's counterfeiting racket, and returned to Sicily in 1904. His power there extended over several towns, including Corleone, where he temporarily eclipsed the native Fratuzzi. In 1909, he ordered the murder of the American policeman, Joe Petrosino, who pursued him on charges of killing Benedetto Madonia in New York, the famous "Barrel Murder." Following his arrest in 1925, Ferro's star began to fall. Mussolini's prefect in Palermo, Cesare Mori, attempted to stamp out the Mafia entirely, from 1925-29. Ferro was imprisoned for life, beginning in 1930.
Before the Castellammarese War, Tommy Reina began paying tribute to Joe Masseria. Masseria put additional pressure on Reina, who may have switched to Maranzano's side. Whether he did or not, the rumor of it reached Masseria, who ordered Reina's murder. Masseria was killed in April 1931. Accounts of Masseria's assassination vary and legends abound. It appears that the animosity came from his own men, who resented the war's effects on their own profits.
Maranzano, the victor, held a meeting in which he laid out many of the structural details that would later form Lucky Luciano's "Commission": the rules that would permit the peaceful coexistence of New York's Five Families, as well as Mafia families in other American cities. Despite these signs of progress, Maranzano was regarded by his lieutenants as another "Mustache Pete." Besides his support from the clannish Castellammarese, there was his distrust of Luciano's Jewish associates. The "Young Turks" struck again. Maranzano was killed five months after Masseria.
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Lucky Luciano built the Genovese monopoly on gay nightlife in New York City in the 1930s. The Stonewall Inn was the site of a violent protest against police raids—and against mafia involvement in gay bars. Ed "The Skull" Murphy (top right) was working the door of the Stonewall Inn the night of the famous riot.
Of the Five Families of New York, Lucky Luciano's was the one we now call the Genovese crime family. Originally the Morello gang, when Luciano took it over in 1931 it had been most recently run by Joe Masseria, Maranzano's challenger in the Castellammarese War. Until 1957, when Vito Genovese went to prison for trafficking heroin through his gay bars, it was called the Luciano crime family.
Luciano had long experience in running brothels, bars, prostitution rings, and even drug smuggling. To support his speakeasies during Prohibition, Luciano had mafia-backed vendors for liquor, cigarette vending machines, pool tables, and most importantly, police protection. Investing in "fairy places" or "fag bars" was part of a diverse portfolio of organized crime, and an area in which the Luciano family excelled. Their monopoly on gay nightlife in New York City would not be broken for fifty years.
By the mid-1800s, New York had recognizable gay community in several neighborhoods, including Greenwich Village. In George Chauncey's "Gay New York," he writes that at least three different locations in Little Italy had young male prostitutes working in them in 1908. Phillip Crawford Jr, in his book, "The Mafia and the Gays," writes that before Prohibition began in 1920, the LGBT community in the city enjoyed some degree of social acceptance in these gay enclaves.
Yet in 1923, the law in New York City prohibited loitering to solicit gay sex. When Prohibition was lifted, eleven years later, the new State Liquor Authority considered any establishment that served alcohol to gay customers to be "disorderly houses" or places where "unlawful practices are habitually carried on by the public."
A wider group of Americans, including homosexuals, enjoyed a brief period of greater social acceptance during WWII, when everyone was needed in the war effort, whether in the service or as a civilian. When the war ended, large numbers of queer people in the military ended their service, and chose to remain in the cities where there was community. Gay spaces became even more coveted as LGBT people faced increasing discrimination in the Cold War years.
Although decriminalized after 1950, sodomy was still a misdemeanor, and various kinds of discrimination were still legally applied to the LGBT community. Apartment owners and employers did not have to rent to, or employ, people they knew or suspected were queer. A bar could lose its license not only by permitting same-sex kissing, touching, or dancing in their establishment, but simply by allowing gay people to congregate. In his book, Crawford offers an example in the 1965 investigation that shut down the Julius Restaurant: police descriptions of mincing gaits, tight clothes, and men who called one another "honey," were the legal grounds on which the restaurant's license was suspended.
The businesses that served the LGBT community, were those that paid off the police. And that meant gay bars were run by the mafia. Historians have connected all five of the families to gay bars in New York, with the majority belonging to the Genovese.
People who would today identify as members of the LGBT community, lived marginalized or hidden lives in the 1950s and 60s. "The down low" was the only option for virtually everyone who patronized gay establishments in those days. For transgender people, the options were extremely limited. "Butches," "queens," and other gender transgressors lived in danger roughly proportionate to their visible queerness. The more privileged members of the LGBT community, who could pass as heteronormative and cisgender, were by necessity closeted in most aspects of their lives. They, too, needed public spaces to meet their own kind in relative safety.
At the same time that tourists poured into Anna Genovese's well-produced drag shows, vice squads enforced antiquated "sumptuary laws" that dictated the number of articles of clothing (some sources say three, others five) corresponding to one's biological sex, which had to be worn at all times in public, or risk arrest for impersonation of the opposite sex.
In transgender activist Leslie Feinberg's fictionalized autobiography, "Stone Butch Blues," Feinberg's alter ego, Jess, identifies as a butch and dresses as many transgender men do today, binding her chest and wearing a packer in her briefs. Jess and her butch friends work in factories, where they trade the relative freedom to be openly butch, for being the lowest-status workers, whatever their seniority. When an older member of the community dies, her family buries her in a dress, a humiliation her friends also suffer, in order to be allowed to attend the funeral.
The gendered names, pronouns, clothes, and roles that queer people embraced, fifty years ago, are not the same ones used today by the majority of LGBT people. Choices were more limited, and both mainstream and queer cultures change over time. Feinberg's book, which also depicts police violence in a bar raid, offers a window on a life that was not much documented, and was often purposely erased by family histories.
Being queer in the 1960s and early 70s was not just grounds for "black sheep" status in the family. Insurance companies would not bond anyone in the financial industry who had an arrest record, whether for "impersonation," "lewd acts," "solicitation," or any of the other crimes under which gay life was categorized. To be publicly, noticeably (to straights) lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender was illegal, which meant accepting as a fact of life, socializing in spaces where illegal activity was protected and flourished. Mafia-managed bars ran the rackets that had always accompanied the gay bar trade, since at least the beginning of the century: prostitution of both sexes, including minors, pornography sale and production, drug trafficking, blackmail, and extortion.
In addition to crime, poor conditions and sleazy business practices went along with black markets, and gay bars were no exception. The Stonewall Inn was re-opened in 1967 by Tony Lauria, the son of a mafioso, with Genovese family backing, as a bottle club, meaning it didn't need a liquor license. The Stonewall's claim to fame was that it was the only gay bar in town that permitted dancing. The missing amenities included an emergency exit and running water. In 1969, the Stonewall was responsible for transmitting hepatitis by serving drinks in dirty, used glasses.
The mafia has always preyed upon the most downtrodden of its own people. Despite the predatory relationship between them, the mafia and the LGBT community, they were not mutually exclusive in their membership. Vito Genovese's wife, Anna, ran one of his gay nightclubs and was reputed to be lesbian. Figures including David Petillo, Ed Murphy, and John D'Amato, tell us that gay mafiosi existed, with varying degrees of acceptance by the mafia, and by the gay community. Matty "the Horse" Ianniello, acting boss of the Genovese family for ten years (between prison terms for racketeering), was widely acknowledged as "the Genovese capo who controlled much of New York's gay nightlife." He paid off the police to protect Lauria's Stonewall.
Ed Murphy (1926-1989), born Edward Francis Murphy and nicknamed "The Skull," was a former pro wrestler (not to be confused with another wrestler called Skull Murphy, who died in 1970). Ed was a mafioso, and in 1969, a closeted gay man. He ran prostitution rings, and worked as a bouncer in gay bars. The Skull was working the door of the Stonewall the night of the police raid that kicked off the riots. The police, according to David Carter and Lucian K. Truscott IV, were targeting mafia activities, not the clientele, but as Zagria points out, if that was their goal, they were failures, from planning to execution. If you're really going after someone for blackmailing closeted patrons, do you raid the bar when it's open for business and full of customers? And then do you let your target slip away into the crowd while arresting a paddy wagon full of trans patrons?
The predation of both the police and the mafia were the targets of the fury that was unleashed when police raided the Stonewall Inn in June, 1969. One of the goals shared by the Gay Activists Alliance and Gay Liberation Front, two groups that came out of the Stonewall protests, was to get organized crime out of the gay bars. But with gay liberation, those same bars were now cash cows, and the mafia was less likely than ever to want to let go of them. It would be another generation before Giuliani's aggressive targeting of organized crime in New York in the mid 1980s broke the monopoly on gay bars in the city. The anti-mafia part of the Stonewall story is virtually unknown in the LGBT community. Perhaps this is a sign of the mafia's success in suppressing anti-mafia sentiment, and riding the coattails of the civil rights movement after Stonewall.
Christopher Street Liberation Day, as it was first called, commemorated the Stonewall uprising on its first anniversary, 28 June 1970, with a march from Greenwich Village to Central Park. Four years later the Stonewall's old bouncer, Ed Murphy, convinced the committee to reverse the parade route to its present trajectory, so it ended on Christopher Street, where attendees could drink in the many Mafia-owned establishments. Murphy came out as gay in the late 70s, and rode in the parade with a sash calling him the Mayor of Christopher Street. He died of AIDS in 1989. Murphy's obituary called him a gay-rights leader.
"Stonewall Riots: A Gay Protest Against Mafia Bars." On the blog "Friends of Ours: Mostly About Organized Crime." (Written by the author of "The Mafia and the Gays," Phillip Crawford Jr.) Published 7 June 2010. Accessed http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/2010/06/the-stonewall-riots-a-gay-protest-against-mafia-bars.html 13 April 2016.
"The Stonewall Inn" Published 27 June 2011 on "A Gender Variance Who's Who" blog. Accessed http://zagria.blogspot.com/2011/06/stonewall-inn.html 14 April 2016. (Quotes Carter, an historian who wrote a book on the subject in 2004, and Truscott, who covered the 1969 uprising for the Village Voice.)
Nianias, Helen. "How the Mafia Once Controlled the New York Gay Scene" Interview with Phillip Crawford Jr, author of The Mafia and the Gays. Published 30 July 2015. Accessed http://www.vice.com/read/how-the-mafia-once-controlled-the-new-york-gay-scene-616 13 April 2016.
"Edward Murphy, 63, A Gay-Rights Leader." Published 2 March 1989. Accessed http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/02/obituaries/edward-murphy-63-a-gay-rights-leader.html
Image credits: Stonewall image is By Diana Davies, copyright owned by New York Public Library – Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4547643. Ed Murphy mugshot is from http://aelarsen.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/stonewall-strange-but-true/ . Lucky Luciano image is in the public domain.
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Loans of up to £175,000 are now available to help people build their own homes in the Highlands.
The Scottish Government's £4 million Highland Self-Build Loan Fund which launched in April 2016 is extending opportunities for people to self and custom build homes across the region.
The available loan funding has now been increased from £150,000 to £175,000 to help an even greater number of people across the Highland Council area.
The Highland Self Build Loan Fund is a Scottish Government pilot scheme which aims to rejuvenate what was once the main housing delivery model in the Highlands, and generate growth in the "self-build" sector again. It is being administered by The Highlands Small Communities Housing Trust, who are now accepting applications.
The fund will increase economic activity in the area and provide financial assistance to people who have in recent years been unable to progress with their self-build projects.
Announcing the changes to available loan funding, Housing Minister Kevin Stewart said:
"This £4 million Self-Build Loan Fund is an important opportunity to address the lending difficulties experienced by households looking to build their own homes, and explore how we can increase housing supply while allowing customers to input into the design.
"We have taken on board feedback that the £150,000 cap is too restrictive, which is why we are now increasing this cap and making loans of up to £175,000 available for people to build homes that can better suit their needs. We will continue to monitor and review the pilot over its two year lifespan.
"This loan fund is part of our More Homes Scotland approach. The government is determined to accelerate housing supply across all tenures, to support families across Scotland get on the housing ladder."
The Highland Self Build Loan Fund is already providing loans which are allowing development to take place across the Highlands, including in smaller rural communities, where new build housing is scarce. This will help meet the housing needs of the community, and will therefore prevent outward migration and boost local employment and skills.
Individuals and families, may have found themselves spending years trying to obtain suitable finance to help them build their own homes, many of which may have spent a considerable amount of time in unsuitable living conditions.
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"We are delighted to see in the upper limit increased for applications to £175,000. The Scottish Government's Highland Self Build Loan Fund now has the potential to assist many more Highland households to build their own homes and provide the added social and economic benefits at the same time. We welcome this flexible and responsive approach and the many other new initiatives being provided by The Scottish Government. It is an exciting time for housing options in Scotland."
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Khloé Confirms Kim is 'in Love'
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Khloe Kardashian is not holding anything back when discussing her sister Kim's relationship with Pete Davidson
Yes, shortly after thursday night's episode of Hulu's "The Kardashians" aired, a fan tweeted "kimberly is in LOVE lmao it's so cute #TheKardashians"
Khloe took to twitter to respond to the fan's tweet, writing, "Isn't it??? She is in LOOOOOVVVEEEE"
Before Khloe's somewhat confirmation, Kim has yet to publicly state whether or not she was "in love" with boyfriend Pete Davidson. Most recently, when asked by a producer if she calls her connection with Davidson "love" during a confessional interview on "The Kardashians", Kim coyly responded with a smile: "I don't know if that's any of your business."
However, in this same confessional interview, Kim went on to give fans more insight into the start of her relationship with Pete. As she told the viewers: "Pete and I have been dating for a few months. We're doing really, really good. Pete said 'I'm gonna grow on you. Just wait. He knew. He said 'I give it four months and you're gonna be obsessed. I was like, okay, we'll see…"
Obsessed or "in LOOOOOVVVEEEE" as Khloe put it so well! Khloé Confirms Kim is 'in Love'
Kim and Pete were first linked in October 2021 shortly after she hosted "Saturday Night Live." At the time, Kim admitted that she wasn't looking for anything serious when she reached out to Davidson, but they later began a relationship.
They do say sister's know best! I guess we'll just have to stay tuned for Kim's official confirmation.
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Ottawa, January 7, 2021 — The Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF/FCE) is proud to launch the contest "Étudier en enseignement, ça me parle!" as part of the national campaign "Enseigner, ça me parle!".
In response to the current shortage of Francophone teachers, the worst that the French-language education system has ever known, the CTF/FCE wishes to offer moral and financial support to Canadian youths who want a teaching career. The Federation will grant five scholarships of $5,000 each through its "Étudier en enseignement, ça me parle!" contest.
CTF/FCE President, Shelley L. Morse, explains: "To start with, teaching is an extremely rewarding occupation! By seizing the opportunity to join the teaching community, young people are also grasping the possibility of having a positive influence on future generations, in Canada and elsewhere. They will play a fundamental role in ensuring the vitality and renewal of our Francophone communities."
All of the students enrolled in a French-language Faculty of Education in Canada (outside Quebec) are eligible. The contest is open until March 12, 2021, 11:59 p.m., and the winners will be selected on March 19, 2021. For contest terms and conditions and to enter, see: https://www.cameparle.ca/a-ton-tour/ (in French only).
The campaign "Enseigner, ça me parle!" is possible thanks to funding from Canadian Heritage under the 2018–2023 Action Plan for Official Languages.
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A national alliance of provincial and territorial teacher organizations, the CTF/FCE represents more than 300,000 elementary and secondary school teachers in Canada.
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During an active shooter situation, a lockdown can be an appropriate response, but it's not the only option available, Norwood Police Chief Bill Brooks said at the Sept. 22 Norwood School Committee meeting.
"We have expanded the old lockdown approach," Brooks said. "Some of the students could be better off if they evacuate the school."
In order to accommodate such evacuations, the police and school departments have partnered with St. Timothy's Church. The church will be used as a rally point for students and staff who leave the building.
St. Timothy's was selected because it is large enough to hold an entire school's student population, is in a well-known location in town and is easy to access, Brooks said.
In the unlikely event of a school shooting and an evacuation, the Police Department will take command at the school, and concern parents will be directed to St. Timothy's Church, Superintendent James Hayden said.
"The bottom line is we want to save lives and make sure our children are taken care of," he said.
Brooks acknowledged the old lockdown model still has a place, but as school shootings have grown more sophisticated, the response must as well.
"You have choices. You don't have to simply lockdown," Brooks said. "If you're faced with an assailant head on, you might have to take matters into your own hands."
In addition, the Norwood Public Schools have made some improvements to make locking down a more viable option.
"Now, all interior doors are lockable. This was not the case before," Brooks said, so teachers can lock their classroom door, instead of just barricading it, in the event of an active shooter.
The school department will run an active shooter drill this year. Last year, Officer Chris Padden led a similar drill at the Coakley Middle School. Padden has received a grant from the Department of Homeland Security to hold a similar drill this year.
Hayden added that all parents will receive a letter about the school department's safety procedures, as well as how to discuss crisis situations with children.
"This is like fire safety from years ago when we were in school," Hayden said. "Not only do we need to know about fire safety, we need to know how to protect ourselves in dangerous situations."
All police cruisers have exterior door keys to all schools and all police officers have been issued a access card for the school's electronic locks.
In addition, officers are receiving tours of every Norwood school will be familiar with the environment should an emergency arise, Brooks said.
In addition, school security cameras can now be accessed by police at the Norwood Police station, not just at the schools themselves.
"We can see the feeds for most cameras, and we can pull up most sites," Brooks said. "This is brand new. It is within the last six months that that feed was brought to the police station."
Jack Tolman at NPA-TV is also involved in the security measures. Tolman is creating a video for students to watch about school safety.
"We're putting together a training movie that talks about decision making and how to leave a building," Hayden said.
Staff writer Brad Cole can be reached at 781-433-8339 or bcole@wickedlocal.com. Like The Norwood Transcript and Bulletin on Facebook and follow @bradcolewrites and @NorwoodTranscri on Twitter.


I am new to the forum and it looks like a pretty nice place to be. My name is Patty. I spend a lot of time making decor and crafts for my home. I just really enjoy making new items and spending the time doing so. I have recently opened up a web store and am very exited to be able to share my creations with others!
Hello and welcome. We have a home decorating area where you can share photos. I hope you'll show us what you do.
Spacecrafts are not private that are the property of the NASA that send the scientist to the space for satellite issues. That time is not far when assignment help reviews will attach with the satellite that will in control of scientist.
Even I make some home decor items at home. But, I sell them to an e-commerce website that pays me a royalty.


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Pop icon Cher wants Leni to lead
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The stakes are high for the 2022 presidential elections as the country is divided into factions depending on their bet. Presently, Vice President Leni Robredo and former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. are the top candidates among the five other presidential aspirants that Filipinos are supporting immensely.
Even celebrities are expressing their support for their respective candidates. Some local personalities who publicly announced that they stand behind Leni are Robi Domingo, Carmi Martin, Angel Aquino, Marjorie Barretto, and Saab Magalona, among others.
With many Filipinos across the globe voicing their opinions on the matter, it'll only be a matter of time before other countries and celebrities catch wind of what's happening in the country.
Much to the Filipinos' surprise, US singer Cher, the Goddess of Pop, publicly announced her support for Leni as the next president of the Philippines.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock (10012822cc) Cher on stage during the curtain call for "The Cher Show" Broadway musical opening night at the Neil Simon Theatre, in New York "The Cher Show" Broadway Opening Night, New York, USA – 03 Dec 2018
It began with Cher tweeting, "Excuse Don't Know Leni," to which a Filipino netizen proudly replied, "Leni Robredo is the current Vice President of the Philippines and soon to be our President!"
Enlightened and amused by this claim, Cher replied with a powerful message about how women like Leni should hold positions of power to get the job done.
"Bravo! Let women do it! Let Leni and all women fighting to save [the] climate, children, elderly, poor, and homeless people of all colors, ethnicities, and LGBTQ+. Force honor in government makes medical care, education, and childcare free. Tax corporations, stop child labor, animal cruelty, etc. #2GETHERWERSTRONG," her tweet read.
Although social media platforms have seen their fair share of edited endorsements from foreign personalities on who to vote for this upcoming 2022 presidential election, Cher's approval is authentic and has left everyone in awe at this development.
Unfortunately, not everyone saw Cher's support for Robredo as positive. Within minutes of her tweet, the renowned global pop icon received commendations and backlash from netizens. But being the unbothered queen that she is, Cher remains steadfast with her decision, saying she's "trying to help make changes."
"I don't know everything, everyone. Cut me some slack. I work hours every day, sometimes talking to several continents at once trying to help, make changes. Bye," she said in a separate tweet.
Whether her latest tweet is meant for the Filipino netizens attacking her for her decision or not, there's no denying that Cher wants a woman to lead the Philippines to get the job done effectively.
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(Reuters) - Two officers of a Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) subsidiary were indicted in Oklahoma on charges of bribing foreign officials to secure aircraft maintenance contracts, while two others pleaded guilty to related criminal charges, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
The charges, unsealed on Friday, were filed in January of 2012 against four directors of BizJet International Sales & Support, a U.S.-based unit of Lufthansa that provides aircraft maintenance, after a joint probe by the DOJ and FBI.
The men are accused of offering "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in bribes to Latin American military officials in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the DOJ said in a statement on Friday.
The recipients of the bribes, to ensure aircraft maintenance contracts for BizJet, include officials at the Mexican Policia Federal Preventiva and the Estado De Roraima in Brazil, the DOJ said.
The charges follow an $11.8 million penalty paid last year by BizJet stemming from the same alleged corrupt practice.
Two of the men have already pleaded guilty, according to the DOJ. Paul DuBois, the company's former vice president of sales, admitted to one count each of violating and conspiring to violate the FCPA, while Former Vice President of Finance Neal Uhl pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the FCPA.
Both men were sentenced in federal court in Oklahoma on Friday to probation and eight months home detention.
BizJet's former Chief Executive, Bernd Kowalewski, along with former Sales Manager Jald Jensen, were indicted on charges of violating and conspiring to violate the FCPA and laundering money. Both are believed to be abroad, the DOJ said.
A spokeswoman for BizJet did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Lufthansa could not immediately be reached.
FCPA investigations are fairly common among U.S. companies, but the DOJ has had some trouble making charges stick. Last year, the department moved to dismiss a case involving almost two dozen defendants in the arms industry after prosecutors were unable to convince two juries that what the defendants did was illegal.
Another federal judge in California in December 2011 dismissed the conviction of power products company Lindsey Manufacturing based on what he said was prosecutorial misconduct.
The BizJet charges reflect the department's "continued commitment to holding individuals accountable for violations of the FCPA," Mythili Raman, acting assistant attorney general, said in the DOJ's statement.
"Business executives have a responsibility to act appropriately in order to maintain a fair and competitive international market," Parlave said in the statement.


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Q: binomial expansion questions Are the following answers correct and if not, how can I correct them?

(a) Write the expansion of $(2h+t)^5$.

I know Pascal's triangle has coefficients 1, 5, 10, 10, 5, 1
for a fifth degree binomial. So I should have $$1(2h)^5(t)^0+5(2h)^4t^1+10(2h)^3t^2+10(2h)^2t^3+5(2h)^1t^4+1(2h)^0t^5.$$
Simplifying this should give me $$32h^5+80h^4t^1+80h^3t^2+40h^2t^3+10ht^4+t^5.$$

(b) Consider the previous result as a description of flipping 5
  unfair coins. Even though the coin is unfair, which two outcomes are equally likely?

I'm not sure because normally the outcome is equally likely if the coin is fair but here I'm going to assume it's the outcomes with the same coefficients? I don't know why though. Also I haven't learned any probability in class and this was from a past exam I got wrong.

(c) Consider again $(2h+t)^{100}$. Imagine you added every coefficient
  in the expansion. What would be the total?

So it would be
$$\sum_{n=0}^{100} 2^n*1^{100-n}.$$

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(b) Consider the previous result as a description of flipping 5 unfair coins. Even though the coin is unfair, which two outcomes are equally likely?

Your guess is correct in question (b)
In the expression $(2h+t)^5$, $h$ represents a head and $t$ represents a tail. $(2h+t)^5$ is actually a description of five identical unfair coins each has $\frac{2}{3}$ chance getting a head and $\frac{1}{3}$ getting a tail. In the expanded form: $$32h^5 + 80h^4t^1 + 80h^3t^2 + 40h^2t^3 + 10ht^4 + t^5$$
We can see that the probabaility of getting 4 heads and 1 tail or getting 3 heads and 2 tails are both $\frac{80}{32+80+80+40+10+1} = \frac{80}{243}$.

(c) Consider again $(2h+t)^{100}$. Imagine you added every coefficient in the expansion. What would be the total?

It is often useful to simplify the case and find the pattern first. From the (b) part, we can see that the coefficient of $32h^5 + 80h^4t^1 + 80h^3t^2 + 40h^2t^3 + 10ht^4 + t^5$ add up to $243$, which is $3^5$. By following this pattern, we can find out the answer of (c) is $3^{100}$.
You may want to know why the pattern is like this. Here is the justification. Let's consider$(2h+t)^5$ again. When we plug $h=1$ and $t=1$, the equation becomes $$32(1)^5 + 80(1)^4(1)^1 + 80(1)^3(1)^2 + 40(1)^2(1)^3 + 10(1)(1)^4 + (1)^5 = 243$$
It is now clear that we can find the sum of coefficient just by plugging 1 in all the variables. Therefore the answer will be $$(2(1)+1)^{100} = 3^{100}$$

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The import of paper and paperboard in India rose by over 60 per cent during the first half of the current financial year to touch an all-time high of 10.5 lakh tonnes, as against 6.5 lakh tonnes a year ago, according to the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCIS) data released on Wednesday.
IPMA said the import of paper and paperboard from the ASEAN countries, with nil rate of import duty under a free-trade agreement (FTA), had more than doubled to 2.1 lakh tonnes from 0.8 lakh tonnes.
In the past six years, imports have risen at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.8 per cent in value terms to Rs 8,237 crore in 2016-17 from Rs 3,411 crore in 2010-11. In volume terms, imports grew by 17.6 per cent to 14.2 lakh tonnes in 2016-17 from 5.4 lakh tonnes in 2010-11.
"Paper is being imported at a cost which in many cases is less than input cost in India. India is one of the few growing markets for paper. However, most of the growth in demand is being met by imported paper while domestic capacities are lying underutilised," said Saurabh Bangur, president, IPMA.
Inadequate raw material availability is a major constraint for the dometic paper industry.
Also, mill-delivered cost of domestic wood in India is higher by almost $30-40 a tonne as compared to other Asian countries. Due to this, the cost of paper production in India is higher by $100 a tonne.
The Centre's policy of extending preferential tariff treatment to the import of paper and paperboard under trade agreements is further aiding in imports.
Under the India-ASEAN FTA, import duties on almost all tariff lines under paper and paperboard have been progressively reduced, and from a base rate of 10 per cent, the basic customs duty came down to zero. Under the India-Korea comprehensive economic partnership agreement, the basic customs duty has been progressively reduced and will be zero per cent with effect from January 2018. Conventional markets for China and Indonesia have been the US and the European Union. In both these markets, anti-dumping and/or anti-subsidy tariffs have been imposed on the import of paper and paperboard to protect their domestic industries, Bangur said.


Yesterday I set up a new Mac.
I copied settings from an older Mac, and after installing the hubiC application, it seemed that everything was up and running.
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Checked the website, and didn't find the files there either.
The same thing actually happened once before, but I can't recall the circumstances then.
Anyone knows what might be causing this? I never deleted these files myself.
Thankfully the backups are still there.
Maybe someone from hubiC can explain to me what has happened, and if I should feel safe in the future.


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