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On Bishops and Catascops
-- by St. Andrew of Ufa in 1928
Repost from Catacomb History. Original article here
Excerpt: "What is Christianity? What is Church life? Christianity is an ardent love toward Christ our Saviour; Christianity is not an abstract idea but an unceasing ardency of spirit, prayer, joy, enthusiasm, sacrificial Eucharistic striving toward Christ. It was in this spirit that the first Bishops of the Church, the Holy Apostles and their great successors, the enlighteners and holy Martyrs, who formed religious communes of brotherhoods around themselves; in these communes the flame of grace-filled faith and brotherly love was always alive. The whole meaning of life to these communes was in Christ: every Christian could say of himself that for him, Christ was his life, while death was an acquisition… And everyone that accepted baptism was consciously preparing himself for suffering in Christ's name. Thus, the ardent faith of the Bishops drew the pure of heart to them and the Holy Church."
There is much value in this article. Here, a saint explains the reality towards which all Christians of every generation must be watchful: some bishops are faithful and some are not. In some you will find truth and salvation, in some you will not. St. Andrew opens his argument saying this isn't an invention of our day who have political differences with our bishops. No. This phenomenon can be found in the Church by the time of St. Athanasios of Alexandria. Those who watched the Russia's New Martyrs course will see in this article how today's Church faces very similar temptations. Bishops (sometimes most bishops) collaborate with godless civil leaders to do damage to the Church. St. Andrew gives us example, writes that even Russian Councils that have long-standing, nevertheless, did damage to the Russian Church. Those who are "wary" or (to use another common translation of the Scriptural and ascetical command) "watchful" will see the relevance in how the lay people relate to bishops in our age, and in any age in the Church's past, present, and future.
-- From the Editor.
Caveant Christiani!
(Be wary Christians)
A suspicious reader, having read this title, may think that we, taking advantage of revolutionary freedom, abuse it and introduce into use the hitherto unheard of word "catascop"[*], completely unnecessarily and superfluously. Incidentally, this word had been introduced into Church language very long ago and not by us, but by Saint Athanasius of Alexandria who had to suffer much from false bishops throughout his long-suffering episcopal life - these did not give him rest even in exile. It is these prevaricating and false Bishops that the Saint Athanasius called "catascops". The exact translation of this Greek word into Russian will be made further on: in the meantime, we remind the reader that the word "Bishop" means overseer - overseer of the sanctity and purity of Ecclesiastical life. One might assume, therefore, that the word "catascop," in the terminology of St. Athanasius, is the opposite of a bishop.
From the treacherous activity of these catascops, we shall see that this is so: a catascop is a creature who promotes himself as a replacement for a true Church Bishop when such a true people's Bishop becomes uncomfortable to the sinful land.
Catascops are people that wear the costume of a Bishop, but in reality are anti-Bishops such as Caiaphas, who was identified as the High Priest by his vestments, but whose soul belonged to the crowd which the Church song labels: "who are murderers of the righteous".
Unfortunately, it's a great pity that Ecclesiastical history reveals a mass of persecutions against the righteous Saints by the unlawful catascops. Dear reader, open "The Lives of the Saints" and you will literally find narrations about the activities of the catascops from the very first pages. Here is the "Lives of the Saints" for January: the lives of Saints Basil the Great, Athanasius of Alexandria, Maximus the Confessor, and the Russian Saint Phillip of Moscow. The Global-bearers of the contemporary darkness have always feared the light and always strive to extinguish every source of Christian light. They drove out the true Bishops and replaced them with substitutes, with those who were ready to bow down to any darkness for the sake of personal benefit. And in the life of the Holy Church, there were terrible times when hundreds of Bishops and dioceses fell away from the true Faith, and She only survived in the wilderness among the persecuted laity.
For example, the Council of Rimini (in the year 359), which had 400 Bishops, and the Council of Seleucia of the same year, which had 150 Bishops, simultaneously betrayed the Orthodox Faith by carrying out the will of unlawful Emperor Constantius and his heretical courtiers. Having betrayed the Faith, these 550 catascops expelled such a righteous figure as Saint Athanasius, who at the time remained the only illuminator of the Faith in the whole of the Orthodox East.
At this same time, Saint Hilary of Poitiers raised his voice in the West against these unlawful Bishops. He wrote in horror to these apostates: "A servant – I am not saying a good servant but a decent one – cannot tolerate the insult inflicted on his master. A soldier protects his king, even at the risk of his own life – shielding him with his own body. A watchdog barks at the slightest sound and throws itself at the first suspicious figure. While you, Bishops, listen quietly when you are told that Christ is not the true God! Your silence is a sign of agreement with this blasphemy – and you stay silent! But what am I saying! You even protest against those who are defending the truth! You are joining your voice with the stranglers of truth!".
Such can be false catascop-Bishops who for the sake of their own welfare are ready to sell the truth and strangle their brothers.
But let us read about the Lives of the above-mentioned holy fathers.
When Saint Basil the Great carried out his Episcopal duties, his contemporary – the Emperor Valens (himself an Arian who considered Jesus Christ to be a simple Jew), continually interfered in Ecclesiastical affairs and expelled Orthodox Bishops. Those Bishops that were firm in their faith were driven out from their cathedras by Valens who replaced them with his own Arain-catascops; the feeble-hearted cowards were forced to betray Orthodoxy. Finally, Valens met Basil the Great, who expressed unshakeable valor in the confession of his faith. The enraged Emperor screamed at the Saint: "Nobody has ever dared to speak to me like that!" Saint Basil quietly responded with: "It's only because you haven't as yet met an actual Bishop of the Church".
The entire life of Saint Athanasius of Alexandria was a continuous struggle primarily with the unworthy catascop-Bishops who used the civil authorities to achieve their dark goals. Even the Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine was among the persecutors of Saint Athanasius, after the entire Council of Bishops, headed by the unworthy Eusebius of Nikodim, demanded the removal of this great Saint. But the most severe persecution of Athanasius was the fourth and last one. At the time, the ruler was Magnentius – the murderer of Emperor Constans.
This Magnentius instigated a cruel persecution against Saint Athanasius and all of his adherents who acknowledged him as their lawful Patriarch; bound Bishops were led away by soldiers, the houses of widows and orphans were plundered, Christian maidens were locked in yokes, and pure pillaging occurred in the townships. And all of this was done before the eyes of the Bishops, who at the same time were conducting their own dirty works. In the end, they achieved the exiling of the Orthodox Bishops Ammonius, Moynus, Gaius, Adelphius, Athenodorus and many others who were then replaced by Arians subservient to the murderer Magnentius.
Meanwhile, the Orthodox population of Alexandria deeply resented the iniquity of these rapist bishops; believers rushed to their temples to protect them. But the lawless Bishops didn't stop at anything: savage clashes occurred (massacres), followed by murders and the vandalism of the seized temples. Such were the most striking strokes, in the life of Saint Athanasius, in his struggles with the Bishop-apostates.
The life of Maximus the Confessor presents itself as an entire history of his struggle with the Monothelite Emperor and his hench-Patriarchal helpers – Sergius, Pyrrhus, and Paul. Saint Maximus declared: "When I will see the Church of Constantinople as She was previously, then I will enter into communion with Her. As long as there are heretical temptations and heretic bishops, no word or deed will convince me to ever enter into communion with them."
When the false Bishop Theodosius (the royal catascop) tried to convince Saint Maximus to fulfil the will of the Emperor, Saint Maximus asked Theodosius if he remembered those sworn promises that he gave before the Holy Gospel. Theodosius replied: "What can I do when the pious Emperor wants the complete opposite?" Then, Saint Maximus sternly censured him: "Why did you and those with you give your promise before the Holy Gospel if you didn't have a firm intention of fulfilling your promise? Truly, all of the heavenly powers will not convince me to do what you propose. For what answer will I give - not I say – to God, but to my conscience, if, because of the empty glory and opinion of man, I reject the right Faith that saves those who love it?"
We have presented only a few examples (and only from the one January Volume of "The Lives of the Saints") of how many great Bishops-Confessors endured tortures from their contemporary catascops. These sad examples can be multiplied to the extreme. But let us leave Greek history: and let us look at the history of the Russian Church. To our great sorrow, in the history of the Russian Church you can also find a sufficient number of catascops. But, of course, at different times there were different numbers.
As is known, the history of the Russian Church falls into two parts, which are very different from each other as pertains to the character of the Church authorities. The first part was before the schism of the Old Believers and the second was after the notorious Council of 1667, which blessed and approved all of the violence of the Tsars against the religious conscience of the subjects. During the reign of Tsar Peter the Great, these violations and the torture of Christians was cynically savage.
Peter hated the appearance of any type of freedom or independence among his subjects, and being a firm atheist himself, he drove out faith in others with a fanatical cruelty. That's why, before Tsar Peter, unworthy bishops were found only as a rare exception, and after his upbringing – on the contrary – genuine church bishops began to be found only on very rare occasions.
As far as we know, before the Council of Bishops in 1667, there were only three cases of treason among the Bishops. The first was during the times of Ivan the Terrible and concerned the Martyred Metropolitan Phillip. This great Saint fearlessly denounced Ivan for his atrocities. This made the Tsar furious and he brought his spiritual father to trial, and demanded from the court the condemnation of the innocent sufferer.
The presiding judges with Archbishop Pimen of Novgorod as the head, judged Phillip as being guilty. The last words of the Saint were: "Tsar, do you think I am afraid of death? Having achieved old age, I am ready to commit my soul unto the Almighty – my Judge and your Judge. It's better to die as an innocent martyr than to silently tolerate abominable lawlessness. I am leaving the staff and mantle to the Metropolitan. And to you, all of the enlighteners and servants of the altar, shepherd faithfully the flock of Christ; prepare to give an answer and fear the heavenly Tsar more than the earthly one."
But the enlighteners and servants of the altar had long ago forgotten about Christ's flock, as the will of the earthly Tsar was far more frightening than any Heavenly Judgment to them… Metropolitan Phillip, the faithful servant of the Holy Church and of Her people, was defrocked and killed.
The second major historical example of the betrayal of God's truth and the Church to be voiced by a Bishop was the case of Metropolitan Gelasius of Krutitsk. Boris Godunov sent this Metropolitan to Uglich to investigate the death of the Tsarevich Dimitri. And this Metropolitan (truly a catascop) reported to his master that which he wanted to hear – that Dimitri's death was simply a random act of suicide. Such were the Metropolitans from Krutitsk!
The next significant false Bishop in the history of the Russian Church was Archbishop Ignatius of Ryazan. At the time, the Impostor Dimitri was made very uncomfortable by the Patriarch Job who was beloved of the people. It was necessary to get rid of him – and get rid of him they did. He was incarcerated in the Staritsky monastery. Ignatius was then elevated to his position - naturally without any election. When Ignatius hypocritically asked for a blessing from the former Patriarch, Job responded: "A gang has a head, a flock has a pastor". The new false Patriarch was agreeable to anything! He agreed to elevate the pseudo-Dimitri to the throne and to marry him to Marina Mnishek – a Papist whom he anointed with Holy Chrism before giving them Holy Communion... For these types of catascops – everything is possible!
We will not, here, innumerate the minor betrayals by the catascops in Russian Church history, because we are not in the least bit interested in describing betrayals by Bishops against the Holy Church. Our only aim is to prove to the reader that sometimes obedience to bishops is extremely destructive for everyone that comes into contact with them… Caveant christiani!
Therefore, we will bypass even the frightening Council of 1667, when 2 Eastern Patriarchs accepted enormous bribes in order to carry out the will of the unhinged mind of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich, and cursed the entire history of the Russian Church with all of the Saints of the Russian land...
This was so deformed and unheard of that the best Russian people - immediately and decisively - moved away from all state-official church administration, and organized their own personal Church**, whose history is one of continuous suffering for the independence and freedom of Church life.
On the part of the civil tsarist authorities, the persecution of this church-communal freedom began, and the best and most firm in the faith of the Russian people began to starve in prisons, burn in log cabins, thousands were sent to hard labor and were beheaded... Meanwhile, the cathedra of Moscow Metropolitan-Martyr (Phillip) was occupied by the torturer-Patriarch Joachim, who was concerned not so much for the interests of the church laity as for his personal welfare.
But now, Emperor Peter sat on the Russian throne – a complete agnostic and delinquent, blasphemer and debaucher - as it should be for an ungodly one. For him and his obduracy, the very existence of the Patriarch was unacceptable, because even in silence, the head of the faithful people was an accusation of the Tsar's lawlessness. And Peter, without thinking, placed a "Locum tenens to the Patriarchal throne" in place of a Patriarch. The first "Locum tenens" was Stephan Yavorsk, whose Catholic name was Stanislaus... It is from here that, in Russia, began all types of Church forgeries and fabrications – all types of "Locum tenens", replacements and others, etc...
Thus, Stephan was the first helper to the godless Peter. The second assistant was Theophan Prokopovich, who carried the name of Elias in the Catholic school: this was the second "Locum tenens" and a heavy drunkard. Under these "Locum tenens", the Russian clergy were drawn into a system of police informants; they were obliged to inform the government authorities concerning those parishioners who were dissatisfied with the government. With this, the priest was obliged to inform even in those cases where he found out such information during confession...
It was the most treacherous system on the part of the government. And only St. Demetrius of Rostov objected to this system; the remaining bishops turned into formal catascop spies. It is from these catascops that a "holy governing Synod" was formed, which replaced the Patriarch.
The actual "Locum tenens" to the patriarchal throne became the prosecutor of the Synod, who chose as the members of the "holy Synod" those who held views compatible with his own. Among them were clandestine Masons, open atheists, kind officers and doctors-gynecologists. And each of these members chose as his helpers, Bishops (catascops) according to his own taste... One can only imagine what type of Church administration it was! The name of this department was given by one fatal Russian surname – it was one continuous rasputinism!
Catascopes and rasputinism are completely inseparable from each other both ideologically and in fact.
But what is so especially frightening about Ecclesiastical catascops to the Holy Church? We will try to answer this question. This is our answer: before anything else, the catascops fully compromise Church life among the unbelievers, catascops disintegrate the inner life of the Church, and finally – the catascops with their total unscrupulousness defile whatever environment they have to mix into. We will now attempt to elucidate our three answers.
What is Christianity? What is Church life? Christianity is an ardent love toward Christ our Saviour; Christianity is not an abstract idea but an unceasing ardency of spirit, prayer, joy, enthusiasm, sacrificial Eucharistic striving toward Christ. It was in this spirit that the first Bishops of the Church, the Holy Apostles and their great successors, the enlighteners and holy Martyrs, who formed religious communes of brotherhoods around themselves; in these communes the flame of grace-filled faith and brotherly love was always alive. The whole meaning of life to these communes was in Christ: every Christian could say of himself that for him, Christ was his life, while death was an acquisition… And everyone that accepted baptism was consciously preparing himself for suffering in Christ's name. Thus, the ardent faith of the Bishops drew the pure of heart to them and the Holy Church.
The catascops cannot be compared with Ecclesiastical Bishops in any shape or form.
For catascopes, concerning the essence of the matter: the Church, as a mystical, God-established community - this doesn't exist to them, there is no community at all, but there is only a chancellery, and at best the "Office of the Orthodox Confession", established some time ago, and then formed, re-formed, registered etc. etc...
In such an "Institution", no burning of the heart is required at all! All that is required is the authority of the bishop, the prestige of the bishop's authority and universal silence with a sinking heart. That's the whole content of church life! This content is extremely similar to absolute emptiness: it has bred a huge mass of Russian sectarianism around the Russian Orthodox Church, for no living soul, of course, will agree to the voluntary fading of all its heartfelt abilities.
Thus, the catascops are systematically humiliating and demeaning Church life among both the faithful and the unbelievers. We stated that Christian baptism, in the first period [of Church history], was a baptism into martyrdom, and as models of such a Confession were the bishops of the Church, who defended church dogmas. These are not the same times!
We recently heard how after spending several months in prison in 1922, one sharp-witted Bishop told his parishioners that "now my main dogma is: don't sit in prison". You will agree, dear reader, that such a "main dogma" is incapable of inspiring anyone unto any [salvific] feat; on the contrary, such extreme unscrupulousness can alienate not only feeble souls from the Church, but even those that are honest and sincere.
That's why instead of enthusiasm, instead of an Ecclesial crucifixion, we now see at every step only an oath, treason and a pathetic imitation of the modern traitors of the Holy Church – the catascopes. Only recently, such a scene played out in a Soviet institution. One elderly citizen went there and asked for a place for fifty rubles. As his merit before the Soviet government, he cited the following: "I am a former priest, I publicly renounced my rank and announced it in the newspaper."
- Why did you do that?
- In order to get a place in the civil department.
- And only for fifty rubles?
- Yes.
- So if you sell your faith for 50 rubles, then for how many kopecks will you sell us?
A typical conversation! And how often one hears of such conversations! Thus, the catascopes from the former "Office of the Orthodox Confession" are corrupting their flock with just their presence!
How do you distinguish a genuine Bishop from a genuine catascop?
This is a very important question, because both the Bishops and catascops wear the same vestments: in church, they have the "same services"... Nearly everything is the "same" to the eyes of the short-sighted people, who are unfamiliar with Church life. In fact, there is a huge difference between a Bishop and a catascop - approximately the same as between a living creature and a stuffed animal - or between a genuine priest and a hooligan, attired in church vestments.
It's completely unthinkable for a genuine Bishop not to be among his Church flock - to be outside of his spiritual, Ecclesiastical family. He knows his flock by name, and the flock knows his voice. To him, his flock is the beloved brothers and sisters to whom he gives his soul, his salvation. To a Church Bishop, his flock is his family to which he is tied organically and inseverably. He cannot "rule" this family; this family cannot "subordinate" itself to its Bishop – because these are not "family" words. No! A Bishop "gives birth" to his blessed family – just as the Apostle Paul did - after lengthy "birth pangs", and this family lives in his heart and is nourished by his heart-felt love. A genuine Bishop relies only on people and knows only their Ecclesiastical needs.
For a catascop, there is no family. To him, it's all sentimental nonsense.
To him, only the directives of the authorities exist - for this, it's imperative for him to have a command "centre". Without this "centre", a catascop cannot live, cannot breathe. A "centre" is as essential to him as air - without the "centre", it is as inconceivable as the "genuine Russian people" were without gendarmes and genuine Russian insults... A catascop by nature and without fail must control someone, "lord over" someone, register someone, report to someone, inform on someone, etc, etc... And with this and without fail, be a lackey to someone and cringe a little…
Where is there brotherhood here?! Here, there is only the lord's [catascop's] cry unto the – silencing of the flock and the shearing, shearing, shearing…!
Yes-Yes! Between a Bishop and a catascop – there is a huge difference! Between them, a massive chasm has been confirmed! Although on the face of it there is a big similarity, and it would appear they seem to be the same.
In conclusion, I have to apologize to the reader. At the beginning of the article, I promised to give you an exact translation of the word "catascop". Unfortunately, despite my exhaustive search in various languages of the Middle East – including Greek, I was unable to find the translation. Therefore I can only surmise the meaning of this word and leave the rest to the reader.
* Catascopes (Greek: κατασκοπος - spies [or stool pigeons]) - a common name for military personnel who carried out observation, reconnaissance functions both in their own and in enemy territory with the subsequent transfer of this information to the military command; in Russian language, the word "spyatai" would most accurately correspond to this Greek term.
** These opinions of St. Andrew on the "Old Believer" schism are not entirely consistent with the consensus of the Saints.
(The text above has been kindly translated by Seraphim Larin)
[For more information concerning St. Andrew of Ufa please see: At the brink of eternity: the miraculous death of St. Andrew of Ufa (†1937) (catacombhistory.blogspot.com)]
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Key councilman says city shouldn't zone longtime liquor stores out of business
By By Yvonne Wenger and The Baltimore Sun
A key City Council leader says Baltimore should find another way to crack down on problem liquor outlets rather than force about 100 of the longtime neighborhood stores out of business through a zoning overhaul, as proposed by the administration.
Council Vice President Edward Reisinger said a blanket policy is unfair to upstanding store owners and the city should instead use other tools to fine and if necessary shut down liquor stores and taverns that break the law.
Reisinger, who is leading the council's review of a proposed new zoning code in Baltimore, said he sees the approach as a middle ground between affected store owners who worry the city's decision will cause them financial ruin and community activists who see the stores as magnets for crime.
"Compromise — that's my focus," Reisinger said. "There is going to be a lot thrown on the table. Everyone is entitled to come up with their opinions, ideas and solutions. We're going to have to look at all of it, digest it, analyze it and come up with what's best."
The council on Tuesday will begin a series of work sessions — which could take up to a year to complete — to evaluate the 350-page proposal to determine how to control Baltimore's future growth by mapping where homes can be built and businesses can operate. The effort is the first complete overhaul of the city's zoning code in more than 40 years.
As part of the plan, the administration of Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake has proposed about a third of the city's liquor stores in residential areas be forced to close or take up another line of business within two years. Several council members, including Sharon Green Middleton, have said they agree with the measure as a means of fighting crime. Several others, including Carl Stokes, say they agree with Reisinger's compromise approach.
Nationally, cities have long used zoning laws and other regulations to control the density of alcohol outlets. Research has linked the businesses to higher rates of murder, rape and poor health for communities.
The city's health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, said research has shown a correlation between a high concentration of liquor stores and violence in communities. Recent studies in Washington, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Houston and Los Angeles have demonstrated the presence of such stores are a predictor of crime, she said.
Most of the proposed zoning provisions, such as limiting surface parking lots downtown and allowing artisans to reuse old industrial buildings, haven't drawn much debate. The code, called TransForm Baltimore, was developed by the city's planning department over the last five years and the council held about 10 hearings in 2013 to gather public input.
Pitted against one another in the liquor store debate are influential community activists, such as Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development, or BUILD, and powerful lobbyists Lisa Harris Jones and Sean Malone, who represent a network of Korean-American store owners.
The majority of the affected stores are owned by Korean-Americans.
The liquor stores that would be affected have been operating continually since at least the 1970s.
Even so, the businesses in question aren't zoned under the existing code to match the neighborhoods where they are. Rather they were nonconforming use operations under previous incarnations of the zoning code and the permissions under which they are allowed to operate have been passed down from one generation to another.
Some package goods stores in the city are skirting existing law by obtaining tavern licenses to stay open later, but continue to operate primarily as carry outs, Reisinger said.
He said the city could do more to enforce laws against loitering and the sale of alcohol to minors as ways to shut down problem stores.
"A liquor license is a privilege," Reisinger said. "If they are violating that privilege, they shouldn't have a license."
Barbot, the health commissioner, said Baltimore has more than twice the number of alcohol outlets it should based on population. The city would need 30 times as many grocery stores and four times as many parks to have numbers comparable to the proliferation of liquor stores, according to the health department.
Ian Lee, manager of his family's liquor store in Lower Edmondson Village, opposes the administration's plan as "fairly arbitrary." He said his family has worked hard to be a good neighbor by following the law and contributing to the community through food drives and Fire Department donations.
"My parents, as well many of the other store owners, mortgaged their home and took out their life savings to open their businesses," Lee said. "A lot of them are close to retirement age. The city is not compensating them for anything. They just want them out."
Liquor store owners don't want drug dealers loitering outside their businesses any more than the council members do, Lee said. But closing down his family's business won't eliminate crime, he said.
"It's bad for business and it's bad for their customers," he said.
David H. Jernigan, director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, said courts have regularly upheld the rights of government to regulate liquor businesses, such as banning drive-thru liquor stores or requiring specific distances between bars and schools, he said.
Commonly, though, Jernigan said, governments have taken the approach described by Reisinger, which is to regulate problem liquor stores with inspections and enforcement of strict operating conditions. That approach must include levying fines and fees to pay for the effort, he said.
"It is really clear from a public health standpoint, this is our opportunity to make Baltimore a safer place," Jernigan said.
BUILD organizer Terrell Williams said some community members are frustrated by council members who are looking to accommodate store owners. The city should limit liquor stores to main thoroughfares, he said.
"This law was written 40 years ago and here we are saying, 'Let's compromise.' We've waited 40 years," Williams said.
Middleton said the southern part of the Park Heights community has more liquor stores in a mile radius than any other place in the state. She said she wants the city to reduce the number of package goods stores not zoned properly, including six or seven in Park Heights.
Middleton said early in her council tenure she spent a night with police on a sting targeting illegal activities inside and outside liquor stores in her district. She called the experience "a rude awakening" that revealed alcohol sales to minors, business owners motivated by profits and people up to no good hanging around the stores.
"This is a main problem at the center of my district," Middleton said. "I have been completely up front: There has never been any compromise with me."
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Michael Maturo Keeps RXR Capital Flowing
Michael Maturo's financial leadership makes RXR Realty a leader in New York's fiercely competitive commercial real estate market.
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It's a good bet that most people who walk by 61 Broadway have no idea that the Class A office building in downtown Manhattan was the city's seventh tallest structure when it opened in 1914, much less that it was designed by the architect Francis Kimball for the Adams Express Company.
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But when passersby look up to admire the 33-story tower's handsome terracotta facade, one thing is impossible to miss: the blue banner bearing the logo of RXR Realty Corp., owner and operator of the 33-story property. The company has a passion for trophy buildings and develops a bold vision for each asset it acquires. Once transformed, a building begins its service as brand ambassador.
Each RXR asset has a unique story. In April 2016, RXR sold a 49 percent stake in 61 Broadway to China Orient Asset Management and landed $290 million in debt from Bank of China and SL Green Realty Corp. for the office property's recapitalization. Spearheading this notable deal and many others for RXR was Michael Maturo, the firm's president & CFO.
As a founding managing partner of RXR, Maturo has been a key force in the multibillion-dollar private real estate company's strategy of owning a portfolio of the highest quality and best-performing real estate in New York City and the surrounding area. RXR's high-profile Manhattan holdings encompass trophy assets like The Helmsley Building, 75 Rockefeller Plaza and the Starrett-Lehigh Building. Beyond New York City limits, RXR is also leading one of the nation's largest suburban revitalization efforts as master developer of New Rochelle, N.Y.'s $4 billion redevelopment program.
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"Mike is pragmatic in his decision-making, and he gets to fair solutions for both sides," said Michael Tepedino, senior managing director, capital markets at JLL, who has known Maturo for 26 years. "He thinks about business from a win-win perspective, not a win-at-all costs perspective. All of the constituents that Mike works with—tenants, investors, lenders, brokers—enjoy working with him, and therefore RXR."
RXR, which has offices in Midtown Manhattan and Uniondale, N.Y., was formed in 2007 by CEO and Chairman Scott Rechler after SL Green's $6 billion acquisition of Reckson Associates Realty Corp. In all, RXR manages 71 commercial real estate properties and investments representing an aggregate value of approximately $20.5 billion. Those assets comprise approximately 31.4 million square feet of commercial properties (including approximately 6.0 million square feet of buildings securing debt and preferred equity investments); some 2,500 multifamily units in operation or under development; and development rights for approximately 3,700 rental and for-sale units in the New York City metropolitan area.
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Assisted by his team of 60 finance and asset management specialists, Maturo heads RXR's capital raising and spends much of his time on corporate strategy, sales of assets, refinancings, recapitalizations and joint ventures. Maturo develops, implements and oversees RXR's investment fund and asset management businesses as well as the company's capital markets activities.
Andy Jonas, managing director and global co-head of real estate at Goldman Sachs & Co., has worked with Maturo on numerous equity, debt and strategic transactions, and cites the executive's accomplishments in raising billions of dollars in capital and completing acquisitions valued in the tens of billions. "Mike has an amazing ability to understand all the details of a transaction," Jonas said. "He has a deep knowledge of legal, tax, accounting and financial issues impacting real estate transactions."
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Maturo is also a respected voice in RXR's collaborative process that positions properties in the marketplace. "We do a lot of creative things. We look at our customer base and understand trends ahead of where most people see them," says Maturo. "We think outside the box on how we can differentiate the products we put in the market."
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A high-powered future in real estate executive was far from Maturo's thoughts while he was growing up in northern New Jersey. "I was fairly athletic," he says, "so I spent a lot of time on whatever field I could get to." Today the busy executive and father of three still manages to work out daily. "I box and I do Pilates three days a week through a bootcamp workout," Maturo reports. "I play basketball every Sunday with the same bunch of guys for the last 25 years," he adds. He also finds time for his favorite charities, serving as chairman of the Catholic Community Foundation of Long Island.
Maturo has applied the same energy, loyalty and focus to real estate—a path that opened up unexpectedly. Upon graduating from Seton Hall University in New Jersey, Maturo was faced with choosing between multiple job offers, including one from a real estate consulting firm. A trusted friend, who also happened to be a CEO, advised: "You're better off specializing in something than being a Jack-of-all-trades." Maturo took the suggestion to heart and has never looked back.
75 Rockefeller Plaza Photo courtesy of RXR Realty
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By the time of the Reckson/SL Green merger in 2007, Maturo was serving as Reckson's president, board member and chairman of the investment committee. During a quarter century at Reckson and RXR, Maturo has completed over $37 billion in capital markets transactions
"Mike has been a great partner for Scott Rechler and Jason Barnett (Reckson's vice chairman & general counsel) and has played an integral role in the tremendous success of RXR," said Jonas. "Mike's knowledge of financial products and his ability to interact with investors, rating agencies, lenders and real estate owners has allowed RXR to become one of the leading real estate owners/operators."
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Some real estate watchers attribute RXR's success to its regional focus. "We've been developing and operating in these markets for over 50 years. My partners and I have been executing together for the last 25 years," Maturo observed.
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Q: Under what conditions does a quotient module $A/B\cong C$ imply the direct sum $A\cong B\oplus C$? Suppose we have some finitely generated $R$-modules $A,\,B,\,C$ such that $A/B\cong C$.
Under what conditions is it necessarily true that $A\cong B\oplus C$? Clearly the converse to this is true, but I was wondering if this is ever an if and only if? I would expect it to fail when we lose the condition of finitely generated but beyond that I am unsure.

A: This is precisely the extension problem for modules; if $A/B \cong C$, the standard lingo is that $A$ is an "extension of $C$ by $B$."
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SHMTCouplingMatrix

This routine returns the multitaper coupling matrix for a given set of power spectra of arbitrary localization windows. This matrix relates the global power spectrum to the expectation of the localized multitaper spectrum.

Usage

call SHMTCouplingMatrix (mmt, lmax,tapers_power, lwin, k, taper_wt)

Parameters

mmt : output, real*8, dimension (lmax+lwin+1, lmax+1)

The full multitaper coupling matrix that relates the global power spectrum to the expectation of the localized multitaper spectrum.

lmax : input, integer

The spherical harmonic bandwidth of the global power spectrum.

tapers_power : input, real*8, dimension (lwin+1, k)

An array of power spectra of the k windowing functions, arranged in columns.

lwin : input, integer

The spherical harmonic bandwidth of the windowing functions in the array tapers.

k : input, integer

The number of tapers utilized in the multitaper spectral analysis.

taper_wt : input, optional, real*8, dimension (k)

The weights used in calculating the multitaper spectral estimates. Optimal values of the weights (for a known global power spectrum) can be obtained from the routine SHMTVarOpt.

Description

SHMTCouplingMatrix returns the multitaper coupling matrix that relates the global power spectrum (assumed to be stationary) to the expectation of the localized multitaper spectrum. This is given by eqs 4.5 and 4.6 in Wieczorek and Simons (2007):

< S_{Phi Phi}^(mt) > = M^(mt) S_{ff}

where S_{Phi Phi} is a vector containing the lmax+lwin+1 localized multitaper power spectral estiamtes, S_{ff} is a vector of the global power spectrum up to degree lmax, and < ... > is the expectation operator. The coupling matrix is given explicitly by

M_{ij} = Sum_{l=0}^L Sum_{k=1}^K a_k S_{hh}^{k}(l) [ C_{l0j0}^{i0} ]^2

where a_k are the taper weights, S_{hh} is the power of the window, and C is a Clebsch-Gordon coefficient.

Note that this routine returns the "full" coupling matrix of dimension (lmax + lwin + 1, lmax + 1). When multiplied by a global input power spectrum with bandwidth lmax, it returns the output power spectrum with a bandwidth of lmax + lwin. In doing so, it is implicitly assumed that input power spectrum is exactly zero for all degrees greater than lmax. If this is not the case, the ouput power spectrum should be considered valid only for the degrees up to and including lmax - lwin.

References

Wieczorek, M. A. and F. J. Simons, Minimum-variance multitaper spectral estimation on the sphere, J. Fourier Anal. Appl., 13, 665-692, doi:10.1007/s00041-006-6904-1, 2007.

See also

shmultitaperse, shmultitapercse, shreturntapers, shmtvaropt, shmtdebias

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Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) holds talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, Oct. 21, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]
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Q: SQLAlchemy: How to bind scoped session to request I am new to sqlalchemy and it seems that I still miss several fundamental concepts. I want to use sqlalchemy to handle db interaction in a multi-thread web application.
So I start with
import sqlalchemy
from sqlalchemy                 import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm             import sessionmaker, scoped_session

engine          = create_engine('mysql://mydb')
session_factory = sessionmaker( autocommit  = False,
                                autoflush   = False,
                                bind        = engine )
Session         = scoped_session(session_factory)

I use a MoinMoin wiki that handles the requests, so I have an object macro.request containing the request.
I now have a method in some class, say
def do_sth():
    session = Session()
    # use the session to get some data from the db

Where and how do I tell the Session object which request it is linked to?

Reading Multi-threaded use of SQLAlchemy, it says

The ScopedSession object by default uses [threading.local()] as storage, so that a single Session is maintained for all who call upon the ScopedSession registry, but only within the scope of a single thread. Callers who call upon the registry in a different thread get a Session instance that is local to that other thread.

so " Callers who call upon the registry in a different thread get a Session instance that is local to that other thread."

How is a Session instance local if I never told it which request it is linked to?

A: The SQLAlchemy documentation says

So our above example of scoped_session usage, where the same Session object is maintained across multiple calls, suggests that some process needs to be in place such that mutltiple calls across many threads don't actually get a handle to the same session. We call this notion thread local storage, which means, a special object is used that will maintain a distinct object per each application thread. Python provides this via the threading.local() construct.

So even though I have not figured out how to obtain the current thread's pid from the given session, the threading module is used to link the session to the thread. In particular, one can check the session's hash key
session.hash_key

in the example in the question to test that Session() provides the same session in two calls if and only if both were made in the same thread.
So in summary, the sessions are linked properly to the requests as long as every request is handled by its own thread.


Conferences are a great way to spread the word about your brand and create influential connections. Attend more without breaking the bank.
One of the most effective ways to spread the word about your brand and create is through industry events and conferences.
I've seen this firsthand within my own business, as I always see an uptick in engagement and job inquiries when I attend a conference — not to mention an avalanche of ideas! But as a solopreneur, I'm responsible for my own income, and I have to keep a close eye on my spending habits.
After , I swore to run my business without debt. This meant I had to start thinking outside the box to afford certain things for my career.
In the new world of work, it's not only acceptable but highly encouraged to to gain sponsorships with other companies within your industry.
If you have a blog or business website, reach out to brands you can promote at the event. A lot of companies these days want to put a face to their product and are more than happy to work with other brand ambassadors who will help spread the word at industry events.
This is something my friend Shannyn Allen does very well. She shares her insights and strategies for landing big-time sponsorships on her blog. In fact, it's that helped me land a $300 partial sponsorship to a blogging conference last year.
Did you know a lot of events offer an (or cut of the sales) to anyone who gets other participants to show up for the event? Yep, you can basically get paid to promote the event to your network.
Of course, it's only fair to promote events you plan to attend and can endorse yourself. Hawking products that don't line up with your business, just to make some money, is a good way to ruin your reputation.
isn't always a bad thing! Putting on a big event takes a lot of work and a lot of people pitching in to make it happen. Event coordinators are always on the lookout for more volunteers who can lend a helping hand. In return, you could get a free ticket to the conference, including a backstage pass and even free food.
It might take some extra work, but at the end of the event you will have saved money, made a few new friends and possibly landed some leftover swag from brands. Who doesn't love free stuff?
The type of event you're attending will determine the kind of perks you can receive for being a speaker. Sometimes you might be able to get an event ticket for free while getting paid to speak. Other times you might only get free access and a nice hotel stay.
My friend Amanda Abella and received a free ticket to the event, plus a free hotel stay during her time there. For us solo business owners who are bootstrapping our businesses, these small perks really add up. All for just a half an hour of speaking time.
This is a simple tip, but it's worth a reminder nonetheless. Snatching up tickets when they first go on sale can save you hundreds of dollars. ( to tweet this tip.) If you're fairly certain what events you want to attend this year, go ahead and buy the early bird tickets when they first become available for sale.
Even if you don't end up going to the event, it's a lot easier to sell a $200 ticket versus a $600 ticket because you waited too long. This is especially smart for popular industry events and conferences that tend to sell out.
I had this experience for this year's , where I purchased my ticket for $197. Unfortunately, I had to pass on the event since I got the flu, but at the last minute I was able to sell my ticket to a fellow entrepreneur for the same price. It would have cost her $697 if she purchased it from the website directly. So it was a win-win for both of us!
As you can see, it's all too simple to attend industry events and market your business without spending a lot of money.
Big conferences can have a hefty price tag, which could lead to overspending if you're not careful. But with some creative thinking and a little hard work, you can promote your career without debt.
is a writer and solopreneur on a mission to help other solo biz owners discover financial freedom. You can connect with her at , or on Twitter @carefulcents.
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FEMA contractor says she is a "scapegoat" in controversy over canceled contract
danielfela/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The woman at the heart of a controversy surrounding a cancelled $156 million contract to provide 30 million meals for victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico says she is being turned into a scapegoat for problems with how FEMA handles contracts with small businesses.
House Democrats have asked for the Oversight Committee to subpoena FEMA officials to explain why the contract was issued to a small company called Tribute Contracting, LLC run by Atlanta-based business owner Tiffany Brown — the sole employee listed for that business.
Brown and FEMA disagree on why the contract was canceled—the agency says the deliveries were late, she says there were logistical breakdown that caused delays and communication issues with the agency.
As Democrats turn a critical eye on the agency's response to Hurricane Maria, Brown also says she's now been turned into a scapegoat for flaws in FEMA's process for dealing with small business contracts.
"I resent the fact that this is turning into an attack, it's an attack on FEMA using me as a vessel. Please don't use me as a vessel. If you want to attack FEMA or address FEMA's concerns please attack it from a more intelligent perspective instead of it being about me," Brown said Friday.
Democrats on the House Oversight committee are asking for FEMA officials to be subpoenaed to explain why such a large contract was granted to such a small company in the first place. Ranking Member Elijah Cummings and Rep. Stacey Plaskett, who represents the U.S. Virgin Islands, say in a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy that Tribute has a history of failing to fulfill government contracts and that FEMA officials should have considered that in their decision.
The Democrats say the contract, which was first reported by The New York Times, is an example of problems within FEMA similar to problems with the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.
"It appears that the Trump Administration's response to the hurricanes in Puerto Rico in 2017 suffered from the same flaws as the Bush Administration's response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005," Democrats on the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee wrote in a letter demanding FEMA officials explain how and why it canceled contracts related to hurricane response.
"One of the primary reasons FEMA failed to deliver these meals is because it inexplicably awarded a contract worth approximately $156 million to deliver 30 million emergency meals to a tiny, one-person company with a history of struggling with much smaller contracts," Democrat Elijah Cummings, D-Md., wrote in the letter.
The committee letter lists five previous government contracts with Tribute from 2013 and 2014 that were cancelled "for default" or for inability to deliver the products ordered in the contract. One of those contracts was with the Government Printing Office which issued a decision in 2016 that "no agency in the executive branch" would enter contracts with Tribute until 2019. But FEMA said in its statement that exclusion only applied to GPO.
Brown told committee staff that she proposed supplying the meals at the lowest cost, according to the letter, and that she "worked 24 hours a day, 7 days a week" to fulfill it. She also told committee staff that FEMA knew she would use subcontractors to produce and deliver the meals.
"It is difficult to fathom how FEMA could have believed that this tiny company had the capacity to perform this $156 million contract," Democrats wrote in the letter. "There have been numerous examples of disastrous contracting decisions by agencies that selected the lowest bidder without conducting an adequate analysis of the company's ability to deliver on the contract."
Cummings and Plaskett are asking for the committee to subpoena FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security for documents related to the Tribute contract but also all documents related to contracts that have been cancelled or are in default that are related to hurricane response in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
A FEMA spokesman said in a statement to ABC News on Wednesday that the contract with Tribute was terminated "when it became clear the vendor couldn't meet requirements."
Language in its contract with Tribute allows FEMA to cancel at any time if Tribute defaults on the contract but also for the government's "sole convenience."
FEMA said in a statement Wednesday that it has delivered more than 60 million meals to Puerto Rico as part of hurricane response and that there were ample supplies in the pipeline when the Tribute contract was terminated.
FEMA and the Puerto Rico power authority drew fire last year for awarding a $300 million contract to restore electricity to a small company from Montana and ultimately canceled the contract after concerns were raised about the company's prices, how the contract was granted and whether the company was able to complete the work.
The latest controversy is detailed in dozens of pages of emails and documents provided to ABC News showing the back-and-forth that led FEMA to terminate a multi-million dollar contract for badly-needed meals in the midst of its response to the hurricane that devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The company hired to produce the meals for FEMA, Tribute Contracting, LLC, is listed as a consulting firm on a website listing the company as one of several businesses run by Brown.
FEMA said it terminated the contract with Tribune after just 50,000 meals were delivered because they arrived late and didn't meet requirements that the meal and heating component be combined in a single package.
But Brown says that FEMA knew about the changes in the schedule and that not only were requirements for the meals not specified in the contract but that FEMA officials were aware she planned to send meals and heating components separately. She said she thought FEMA would give her a chance to correct the problem.
"It was jarring to me that it was being terminated at all," Brown said.
The meals were sent to Jacksonville, Fla. for FEMA to take to Puerto Rico, according to a copy of the contract Brown provided to ABC News.
The contract called for all 30 million meals to be provided by October 23, but Brown told FEMA officials in an email exchange on Oct. 19 that, because of issues with suppliers, all 30 million meals would instead be delivered by November 7 – two weeks after the deadline.
She told ABC News on Friday that the original schedule in the contract was flexible and that she had been communicating with FEMA officials about the changes.
After Brown notified FEMA in the Oct. 19 email that 36,000 meals were en route – with the meals packaged separately from the heating component – a FEMA official told her that was not acceptable and told her not to deliver the meals.
"This is a logistical nightmare," the official wrote in an email to Brown informing her the contract would be terminated. Brown said Friday that FEMA knew she never intended to package the meals and heating components together.
She's filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security inspector general alleging that the real reason FEMA cancelled is the dispute over whether the meals were "self-heating meals" as called for in the FEMA contract and not the delay.
Brown has also appealed the contract cancellation and is seeking a settlement of at least $70 million. She says she wants to make sure the other companies she hired are "made whole" and are able to pay the debt they took on to fulfill the contract for $30 million.
When asked about details of the contract dispute, FEMA told ABC News on Wednesday it would be inappropriate to comment on a pending appeal.
The meals FEMA told Brown not to deliver were supplied by a nonprofit subcontracted by Tribute called Breedlove, which provides food for humanitarian relief. Breedlove signed a contract with Tribute on October 13 to provide 828,000 of the 30 million meals requested by FEMA.
Breedlove's CEO Bill Miller told ABC News that they do not produce self-heating meals and that a heating component was not part of their contract with Tribute.
Brown said that the entire conversation around her contract is not about how her company was vetted, but about the way FEMA handles these contracts by paying for meals or supplies on delivery instead of up front. She said she tried to get larger companies involved but they would not enter into an agreement without payment up front.
"I don't want this to turn into a narrative about small businesses being able to collaborate with each other, that's not what this is about," Brown said. "What it's about is a lack of infrastructure, particularly payment infrastructure on FEMA's part to provide support for a contract of this magnitude to move forward. There are no magic fairies of financing that will provide that."
Brown said she knows what it's like on the ground after a disaster because she lost family members in Gulfport, Miss. after Hurricane Katrina. She said she and the other small businesses she worked with were excited to help the people of Puerto Rico.
"I think there's a lacking of seeing the human aspect of everyone, the human aspect of the citizens of Puerto Rico and how they feel, the human aspect of the business owners trying to support them just trying to help out maybe that doesn't have the larger infrastructure but out of the kindness of their own heart they want to be able to help they're not seeing the human aspect they're only seeing a lowest possible bid or trying to meet a budget and not about the people," Brown said Friday. "And I really want it to be about the people."


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Broadway.com Summer Camp, Day 25! Sarah Brightman Prepares for Liftoff with Far-Out 'Space Disco' Video
by Ryan McPhee • Aug 25, 2014
We're gonna be honest: Things around the Broadway.com offices have gotten really boring the last few weeks. It's sweltering, it's humid, and worst of all, no new Broadway shows open until after Labor Day. But never fear, dear readers, we've got a great way to spice up the month of August: Broadway.com Summer Camp! Each day for 31 days, we're highlighting the campiest, craziest, wildest—and did we mention campiest?—videos we can find. Put on your gaudy bathing suit and dive in!
This intergalactic video was submitted by reader Maryellen D. "What's hotter than disco? SPACE DISCO!" she writes. Sarah Brightman's fascination with outer space goes back further than we thought. A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far, away,) the West End and Broadway star made her singing debut alongside the dance troupe Hot Gossip with "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper." This was before she was hanging out with Buzz Aldren, and even before she was hitting high Es in The Phantom of the Opera. Maryellen says, "I love the choreography, costumes, catch disco beat, and how they incorporated all sorts of science fiction references," which range from Star Wars, to 2001: A Space Odyssey to Flash Gordon. All that's missing is some space food.
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3:18. Hey, that pose looks just like something out of Phantom! You know, if the Phantom were a gyrating, shirtless spaceman.
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Claire has over 20 years' experience as a High Court litigator. Claire's practice focuses on defamation and privacy, in addition to data protection and protection from harassment. Claire also undertakes complex High Court commercial litigation, including claims for professional negligence and financial mis-selling.
Claire recently led the ground-breaking litigation against Google which established the so-called 'Right to Be Forgotten' in England and Wales. The court ordered Google to delist results about a man's past conviction from searches against his name, upholding his claim for breach of data protection rights and misuse of private information. The case addressed what the judge called 'novel questions which have never yet been considered in this court.' For this, Claire was named 'Lawyer of the Week' in The Times newspaper.
Claire has worked on a wide variety of cases, including complex libel litigation to trial and in the appellate courts (for example Berezovsky v Fridman, in which a jury awarded Mr Berezovsky £50,000 in damages and Berezovsky v Terluk (in which Mr Berezovsky was awarded £150,000 in libel damages), defending a Twitter libel, and numerous claims against various national newspapers and broadcasters. Recently, Claire acted for Impresa Publishing SA, a leading Portuguese publisher defending a libel claim brought by a Portuguese-Angolan national whose claim was struck out as an abuse of process.
Claire's clients include politicians, celebrities, business people, professionals and academics. She likes to work with her clients to find practical solutions to their problems. She has considerable experience in reputation management, providing urgent trouble-shooting advice pre-publication or pre-broadcast and, often working alongside PR advisors, she gives discreet advice to companies and high-profile individuals on how to deal with unwanted media scrutiny generally.
Claire maintains a broad media practice extending to advice on passing off and trade mark infringement and regularly gives lectures and conducts seminars on the subject of defamation and privacy and reputation management.
Claire has acted on behalf of a large number of individuals and businesses against banks relating to the mis-selling of derivative products. In 2014, she acted for a company in liquidation in a claim for professional negligence against the company's former solicitors, which resulted in a payment in damages of £10m.
Claire is a member of the business advisory board of the School of Business and Law at the University of East London.
Litigator specialising in defamation, reputation management and privacy law, and in commercial litigation.
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Finding a Gardener in Stewarton: Sorting out a dreary and overgrown garden is not everyone's cup of tea, so if you find yourself in this situation you should not be afraid to ask for some outside assistance. When you take the plunge and do this, be careful who you choose. Do you call the "guy down the street" or an established local Stewarton gardener? Whilst even professional Stewarton gardeners don't always have formal qualifications, they can usually be relied upon to have more horticultural knowledge than any "fellow down the road" is apt to have. The choice is yours at the end of the day.
If you cherish your garden you will want a gardener with some savvy, who appreciates what you have and looks after it correctly. So, your main objective must be to find a trustworthy Stewarton gardener who has a reputation for doing an excellent job. If you've got trees, plants and shrubs needing special attention, this will become more important still. Never compromise, get yourself a decent Stewarton gardener.
No matter what size your garden is there will always be jobs that require attention as part of a routine. Spring is the busiest time with jobs needing to be done more frequently than during the rest of the year. Most people in Stewarton who have gardens will typically need tasks done like hedge cutting, general cleaning, mowing lawns and weeding. Bigger tasks such as fence repairs, patio installation, driveway cleaning and waste removal can also be handled by the majority of gardeners.
The rates charged by professional gardeners varies widely but if you are paying an hourly rate of about £20, that is reasonable. Usually gardeners will not be happy doing just one hours work. The majority will generally prefer to spend 2 to 3 hours on each visit. This is to allow for travel, unloading tools and waste disposal.
Asking for money up front is not normal for gardeners (unlike builders), so be extra careful if they do. When the work has been completed to your satisfaction it would not be unusual for your gardener to ask for payment in cash. Having proof of payment is essential to avoid quarrels about unpaid bills, so make sure you get a receipt.
Before any work commences make sure your gardener is clear about what needs to be done and has a plan of action to complete it. It is nice to have an expert on hand to help whip your garden into shape, make sure you exploit their knowledge to the full. Verify that any garden waste resulting from the work will be taken away, not all gardeners will do this.
It doesn't hurt to offer your gardener a drink during their toils, after all gardening is thirsty work. You can expect your gardener to very much appreciate gestures like this and to repay you with increased output. Don't be afraid to wander out and have a chat with your gardener when circumstances permit, this will help build a friendly connection with the gardener and encourage a sharing of ideas. This doesn't mean you should stay there chattering all day though, you will be simply delaying their progress.
Stewarton Garden Design: You might need to find a specialist Stewarton garden designer if you are planning to totally re-design your garden. Some gardeners in Stewarton branch out into this area of gardening whilst other concentrate on the more routine jobs. A quick discussion should soon reveal if your gardener is comfortable dealing with garden design. If not it will be a case of finding an expert.
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The price is set up at the amount of 79900 Euro.
The vehicle was manufactured in 2014.
Gross Vehicle Weight: 49000 kg.
Engine/driveline: Euro 5, diesel, 441 hp, gearbox: automatic, transmission: Automatikgetriebe.
Wheel formula and suspension type: suspension: spring/air, number of axles: 5, lift axle, steering axles, wheel base: 5400 mm, brakes: drum, dual wheels.
Body: loading length: 7000 mm, loading width: 2340 mm, loading height: 1700 mm, pump.
The payload is 31400 kg.
Exterior measurements: length – 9900, width – 2500, height – 3500.


Der dialektische Materialismus und die klinische Medizin.
This small monograph is essentially propaganda, setting forth the ideas and theories of Soviet Rupublicanism so far as the philosophic view of medicine is concerned. It is of little value, except to show the trend of scientific and philosophic thought as applied to medicine in present day Russia.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 1933;7(5):680.