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Home News Belgian serial rapist will not be euthanized: minister
Belgian serial rapist will not be euthanized: minister
A serial rapist and murderer who had won the right to die under Belgium's controversial euthanasia laws will not now be put to death following fresh medical advice, authorities said Tuesday.
Frank Van Den Bleeken, who has spent 26 years in jail for repeated rapes and a rape-murder, will instead be moved from his prison in the northwestern city of Bruges to a new psychiatric treatment centre in Ghent, Justice Minister Koen Geens said.
The Flemish-language newspaper De Morgen reported Saturday that Van Den Bleeken would be voluntarily euthanized by lethal injection in Bruges prison on January 11.
The report sparked complaints from human rights activists that Belgium was flouting its own euthanasia laws by failing to provide proper treatment for such cases.
Geens said in a statement he "takes note of the decision of doctors treating Mr Frank Van Den Bleeken to no longer continue the euthanasia procedure."
He gave no reason for the decision, citing medical privacy.
The rapist and murderer had for years requested that the state help him end his life due to what his lawyer Jos Vander Velpen called "unbearable" psychological suffering because he was unable to check his violent sexual impulses.
His wish was granted by doctors in September.
Belgium legalised euthanasia in 2002, the second country in the world to do so after The Netherlands, and logged a record 1,807 cases of euthanasia in 2013.
Its strict conditions for a mercy killing include that patients must be capable, conscious and have presented a "voluntary, considered and repeated" request to die.
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Lawyer Vander Velpen said last year the sex offender met all legal conditions, and for the last few years had felt he "couldn't stand to live like this any longer and could no longer accept the pain".
"I am a human being, and regardless of what I've done, I remain a human being. So, yes, give me euthanasia," Van Den Bleeken said at the time in comments on VRT Flemish Belgian television.
Van Den Bleeken, considering himself a menace to society, had refused to be considered for early parole, but found the conditions of his detention inhumane.
He had requested a transfer to a specialised psychiatric centre in The Netherlands for treatment or, failing that, a mercy killing.
Belgian authorities at the time denied the transfer request and senior officials said Van Den Bleeken also refused the option of being moved to the new facility that opened in Ghent in November.
But Geens, who took office with a new government in October, said the prisoner would now be transferred to the centre in Ghent where he would undergo observation about the long-term treatment he needs.
He added that Belgian authorities had also undertaken "very recent and intense contacts" with their Dutch counterparts that "offer a very clear prospect for a rapid transfer to a centre in the Netherlands specialised in long stays."
The minister said that since assuming office he has made contacts to develop over the next six months new possibilities for treatment of long-term prisoners suffering from "deep psychological problems."
He observed that there was a lack of such care in Belgium and that the country had been condemned for it by the European Court of Human Rights.
In February last year, Belgium became the first country to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children of all ages, after a heated debate in which critics questioned a child's ability to make the decision to die.
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Girls living in remote tribal communities in India's Tamil Nadu state have a chance to break out of the cycle of illiteracy and poverty at a residential educational facility funded by the Emirates Airline Foundation.
The foundation bought the land and funded the construction of the Emirates-AIM for Seva Student Home for Girls, which cost nearly US $70,000. In addition, the $17,000 annual running expenses will be funded by donations over the next 20 years.
Girls are free to learn and play in the secure environment of the hostel which opened in 2007 and provides a safe haven for them while they attend a government school in nearby Dharmapuri.
The success of the home, which also offers training in music, craft classes, gardening, tailoring and folk dancing, has led to expansion plans – again funded by the foundation – which will take its roll to more than 100 girls.
The home was initiated by AIM for Seva, an NGO which has built similar homes across India, and provides the girls with free accommodation, food, medical assistance and supplementary education.
Living at the Emirates-AIM for Seva Student Home, the girls are protected from being pulled into child labour, while it also gives them better chance to launch a career and help their families escape the poverty they are trapped in.
With virtually no public transport, the great distance between home and school made attending difficult for these girls whose parents are mostly agricultural labourers with an average monthly income of $25.
Many have to move away from the villages to find employment, which often results in the girls also working to provide for the family or skipping school to stay at home and assist in domestic chores.
Visalakshi, now one of the home's fortunate residents, used to stay with relatives in Belamaranahalli village as her parents work in Bangalore earning their daily wages. She says she's thrilled about her new home, adding: "I want to be a doctor. Nobody in our village has become a doctor. Now I will definitely become one and serve the community."
Hemlatha Ravi, Treasury & Taxation Manager, Corporate Finance, Emirates Group, said: "It is heartening to know that step by step AIM for Seva is improving the quality of life of many.
"When Emirates decided to fund one of the AIM for Seva student homes in Tamil Nadu, I visited a couple of their existing homes there. The best testament comes from the smiling faces of incredibly bright children whose lives have been touched.


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Metropolitan Planning Council announces new Board of Governors Chair and members
With the addition of five new recruits, MPC's Board has expanded to 52 active members.
CHICAGO, IL – Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) has elected a new Board Chair and five new Board members.
MPC takes a creative approach to ensure economic and community development in the Chicago region is equitable, to preserve and protect our precious open spaces and natural resources, and to push for the infrastructure investments needed to keep residents on the go. The organization's Board of Governors, which is comprised of senior business and civic leaders, is a vital part of moving this ambitious agenda forward.
At the end of 2018, Todd C. Brown concluded his two years of service as Board Chair. Ellen Carnahan, Principal at Machrie Enterprises LLC and former MPC Co-Vice Chair for Development, has been elected as Brown's successor.
"We're grateful for Todd's leadership and responsiveness during what's been a transformative time for MPC and the Chicago region," says MarySue Barrett, President of MPC. "There's no better person I can think of to continue to build upon this momentum than Ellen Carnahan."
Carnahan is a highly successful investor with more than 20 years of venture capital and technology experience. She is an active member of Chicago's corporate and entrepreneurship community, and serves on the board of the Illinois Venture Capital Association. She has also served as board chair of the Chicago affiliate of Communities In Schools, a national nonprofit that connects students with social services and provides casework support within schools to prevent dropouts.
Carnahan will lend her expertise to advance the organization's priorities over the next two years. In 2019, MPC priorities include inspiring and assisting the new state and city administrations; deepening community relations and engagement; securing sustainable state revenue for transportation; advancing solutions to address lead in water at the state, city and suburban levels; expanding local government technical assistance; piloting new innovations in stormwater infrastructure; and implementing racial equity frameworks and policy recommendations.
MPC is also excited to welcome the following five people to our Board of Governors for a 2019 to 2021 term:
Ramiro J. Atristaín-Carrión, Managing Director, Atristain Financial Advisors, LLC. Atristaín-Carrión is the Managing Director of Atristain Financial Advisors, LLC—a financial and business consulting firm. Previously, he served as vice president of BMO Harris Bank, which is part of BMO Financial Group (Bank of Montreal) and as senior vice president of Asset Management at Capri Capital, LLC. He is an adjunct professor at Brennan School of Business at Dominican University, a member of the Board of Directors of Stuart Investments, a co-founder and chair of the board of a surgical foundation, and chair of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's (CSO) Latino Alliance. Atristain will join MPC's Investment Committee.
Juan Carlos Linares, Executive Director, LUCHA. Linares is committed to building community and advancing housing as a human right. He is the Executive Director of LUCHA, a Chicago-based affordable housing development agency which also offers housing counseling, foreclosure prevention and legal assistance to over 8,000 clients annually throughout the Midwest. He currently serves as Chairman of the Illinois Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, has a mayoral appointment to the Chicago Low-Income Housing Trust Fund Board, and serves on the Boards of Urban Theater Company and the Woodstock Institute. Linares also serves on Northeastern Illinois University's EI Centro campus Advisory Council where he teaches Political Science, and is also on the Adjunct Faculty at The John Marshall Law School. Linares is an active partner with MPC on Elevated Chicago, dedicated to equitable development near transit.
David Mook, Chief Private Banking Officer, U.S. Bank. As Chief Private Banking Officer for U.S. Bank Wealth Management, Mook leads a team of banking professionals who provide credit products, credit underwriting and credit portfolio management services for clients of Ascent Private Capital Management and U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management. He brings to this role more than 30 years of experience, particularly in middle market commercial banking. Mook was previously with JPMorgan Chase, where he held a variety of management positions, including Regional Capital Advisory Practice Lead of Private Banking for the Midwest and West. Mook will assist MPC's advocay for statewide sustainable transportation revenues and reforms.
Robert Reiter, President, Chicago Federation of Labor. Reiter is the President of the Chicago Federation of Labor, the third largest central labor council of the national AFL-CIO. He previously served two terms as Secretary-Treasurer of the CFL from July 2010 to May 2018. He is a third-generation member of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150. Throughout his career, he has worked as a labor attorney, an organizer, a negotiator and a lobbyist. Reiter is the voice of every CFL-affiliated union on big picture issues. He is also lending his voice to issues related to international trade, meeting periodically with dignitaries from various European countries and experts from the agricultural, manufacturing and financial industries. Reiter is a valued advisor to MPC and its partners on legislative advocacy.
Alana Ward Robinson, President & CEO, Robinson Group Consulting, Inc. Alana is a creative business executive with more than 30 years of experience in driving increased value through technology leadership and innovation. She has led business process reengineering initiatives up to $100 million, served as CIO of companies with revenues up to $5 billion, and held seats on numerous civic and non-profit boards. Since 2004, she has applied that expertise as the founder and Managing Principal of Robinson Group Consulting, Inc. Her company delivers strategic global information technology consulting services with a specific focus on driving organizational change and providing objective leadership in the successful implementation of enterprise-wide projects. Robinson's track record will ensure that MPC remains on the technological cutting edge.
MPC also thanks former Board members who concluded their service in 2018: John S. Gates, Jr., Chairman & CEO, PortaeCo LLC (who continues as a MPC Executive Advisor); Lisa Snow, Managing Director, Disputes and Investigations, Duff & Phelps; and Monique Brinkman Hill (who continues as a member of MPC's Regional Planning & Investments Committee).
For more information, contact Emily Blum, MPC Director of Marketing and Communications, at 312.863.6018 or eblum@metroplanning.org.
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A new breed of twentysomething sommelier has emerged, notes Lettie Teague: confident, ambitious and extremely fast-moving.
By Lettie Teague Updated March 31, 2015
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Although we live in a youth-obsessed culture, there are a few professions where experience is still considered a desirable thing. Lawyer, doctor and sommelier are three that first come to mind. At least until recently. Now it seems as though every sommelier I meet has the gleaming white teeth and wispy goatee of someone not long out of his teens. Suddenly, the old '60s saying Never trust anyone over 30 has become a wine-service creed.
Where did all these new wine professionals come from? Did they drop out of college, or perhaps high school? Did they apprentice in France or obtain student loans to study the art of decanting? Most importantly, how much could they really know about wine after drinking it legally for such a short time? Wine, after all, is a complex subject, requiring years of study, tasting and travel to understand. And yet these twentysomethings have sped through the process in remarkable time, learning the names of the important producers, tasting the best vintages, creating interesting wine lists and achieving positions of considerable power—often before turning 25.
How does someone who can't even legally rent a car acquire such influence? A few possible explanations occur to me. For starters, there are a lot of new young wine drinkers around: In fact, wine consumption in this country has grown to such a degree that by 2008, the U.S. will be the largest wine-consuming country in the world. And who better to give advice to the young than a peer? Then of course there are so many new wines that need explaining, made from obscure grapes from obscure countries (Tannat from Uruguay, Žlahtina from Croatia). Who can revel in such arcane facts more easily than someone who's just spent four years studying plant biology, econometric theory and Proust?
But to truly understand what the twentysomethings are doing, and how well, I knew I needed to see them in action. So I called up friends and colleagues and solicited the names of some rising young stars, sommeliers who'd created particularly noteworthy lists. Then I set out on a five-city tour in search of some answers—and youthful insight.
First, I focused on New York, where the concentration of wine service juniors seemed highest. For every twentysomething sommelier that I found, I heard about five or six more.
I met Troy Weissmann almost a year ago, when he was 26. My friend Peter and I had gone to Beacon for lunch. Troy had recently assumed his duties there, fresh from a sommelier position at Jean Georges. When he first approached us, Peter suggested we ask for ID since Troy looked to be about 17. And yet he proved more articulate than most sommeliers twice his age. He had opinions about all kinds of wines—both well-known and not. We chatted a bit about Susana Balbo, a top Argentine winemaker whose Torrontés (a little-known white varietal) was on Troy's wine list. Troy was a big fan of Argentine wines and hoped to visit Argentina sometime soon. Several other young sommeliers said much the same thing. Indeed, their fascination with Argentine wine seemed to equal their interest in American or French.
In the weeks that followed, I went back to Beacon a couple of times searching for Troy. But he was traveling in France, according to the woman at the maître d' desk. She named a far-off date as the time when he would return. I made a reservation for that date and moved on.
I'd happened upon Troy quite accidentally, but I learned about BLT Steak's 28-year-old wine director Fred Dexheimer long before meeting him, thanks to a series of enthusiastic press releases. Fred, it seemed, had won a local sommelier competition and had placed third in a contest abroad. Intrigued, I made plans to eat at BLT Steak with my husband and two wine-merchant friends.
Fred had a wispy mustache and looked even younger than his advertised years. He stopped by our table and suggested a French country white and a Priorat red from Spain. "Those are the same two wines he recommended the last time I was here," whispered one of the wine merchants. Did twentysomething sommeliers develop fixations on wine like other twentysomethings did on music, playing the same album over and over?
Several months later, I heard Fred had also been named wine director of BLT Fish. How did he manage two busy restaurants? I asked Fred, over dinner at BLT Fish. Fred had a couple of assistants, most of whom were a few years older, he said. But he had no problem with the age gap. "I'm a 28-year-old who's really 30," he explained, adding, somewhat mysteriously, "I grew up around a lot of older people. I saw things I shouldn't have."
I figured Fred wasn't talking about seeing his elders drinking red wine with fish, but there wasn't time to pursue this particular thread. Fred's presence was required by a table of men. "I'll be back," he promised, leaving my friend and me the wine list. I found it very fairly priced with plenty of good choices, though many of them were esoteric (Swiss Pinot Gris from Neufchâtel; Ribolla from Friuli, Italy; and again, the Torrontés of Susana Balbo).
Fred returned a few minutes later. "I want to introduce you to one of my guilty pleasures," he said, producing a bottle of 2001 Montus Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh Sec, a white wine from southwest France. From a respected producer of Madiran (the region's much better-known red), this deep gold-colored white was made from the obscure Petit Courbu grape. Its aroma reminded me of Viognier, though in the mouth it was more like a well-oaked California Chardonnay.
"It tastes like a California Chardonnay," I said to Fred, noting the lavish amounts of new oak. Fred disagreed with me, insisting "No, it doesn't. It tastes like a Burgundy." After Fred left, my friend said, "It tastes like cologne." Fred checked back to see how we liked it. Not much, we confessed. "You're the first people who haven't liked this wine," he said, sounding hurt. "Could we try something simpler, like a Riesling?" asked my friend. Fred left and returned with a lovely 2003 Schloss Gobelsburg Urgestein from Austria. And though we praised this alternative enthusiastically, Fred still seemed a bit forlorn. He wanted us to like his first wine. Twentysomething sommeliers certainly seemed more emotionally invested in their selections—they wore their wine passions on their sleeves.
A few days later, I left for Philadelphia, where I hoped to meet John Rothstein, the 29-year-old sommelier at Barclay Prime steak house. Conservatively attired in a Brooks Brothers-type suit and tie, John told me he was a "certified sommelier" who had worked for nearly seven years with the Starwood hotel group. I thought his certificate should have been in physical fitness, as he was the most agile sommelier I'd met; he spent well over 20 minutes squatting quarterback-style next to my table as we mulled over various possible wines by the glass. John recommended an Argentine Malbec: "There are lots of exciting wines from Argentina," he opined. Then why was there only one on the Barclay Prime list, which was dominated by California Cabernet? His clients wanted those wines, John replied, although he was trying to change their minds: "We didn't have any Argentine wines on the list at all when I got here. But now every time a Cab is depleted, I add something from Argentina or Chile."
Did that mean he preferred New World wines to those of Old World countries like France? "I love old white Burgundies," John replied. What were his favorites? "I tell people my favorite wines are the wines of the day," John answered. "For example, if it's freezing out, maybe you need a Châteauneuf-du-Pape to heat your body up." (Would that make it a sort of vinous Ben-Gay?) But what were some specific wines that he'd been impressed by, wines he'd particularly enjoyed? "I did have a '63 Haut-Brion once that was pretty incredible," replied John, naming one of the single worst vintages in the history of Bordeaux.
John had received an Introductory certificate from the Court of Master Sommeliers, an international organization dedicated to improving wine service and knowledge. Anyone, in the business or not, can take this course, which covers "wine service, social skills and legislation" among other things, though not tasting ability, according to Kathleen Lewis, a Court representative. The course has a 95 percent pass rate, she added.
A Master certification was the goal of many young sommeliers. Almost all the ones I met were working on getting one—taking classes, tasting wines and entering competitions. "There's been a tremendous increase in the number of sommeliers who want to be Masters," acknowledged Larry Stone, himself among the first (he became a Master in 1987). Wine director of Rubicon in San Francisco, Stone is on the board of directors of the Court of Master Sommeliers and a mentor to two decades' worth of the best wine pros in the business.
The Master certification, however, is far from easy to achieve; it takes years of testing at various levels and exams that are both written and oral, with lots of blind-tasting. No wonder only a handful of candidates secure the title each year, though this year there were an unprecedented 11 new Masters—10 men and one woman.
I'd met up with Larry in Seattle, where I'd gone to see Nelson Daquip, a 27-year-old sommelier at Canlis Restaurant—famous for its large, far-reaching wine list. A native of Hawaii, Nelson had moved to Seattle "for wine." Tall and good-looking with very white teeth, Nelson smiled quite often, as did his peers. (Were twentysomething sommeliers better-natured than their senior counterparts, or did they just have superior dental work?) When I asked what he thought of the wines of Washington State, he answered, "They're the best." He was particularly devoted to Washington Syrah. Nelson smiled and said his feelings about Oregon wine were much the same. He'd met with several Oregon winemakers and named two—Doug Tunnell and Tony Soter—he particularly admired. Nelson was currently a sommelier only three nights a week, but he was studying hard with his mentor, Shayn Bjornholm, the 35-year-old Canlis wine director (and a new Master Sommelier), and with a teacher who drove down from Vancouver each Sunday to conduct an eight-hour class. Nelson suggested a very good Cristom Pinot Noir, the 2002 Marjorie Vineyard to drink with my duck, saying, "Pinot Noir and duck are a classic combination." It had been the lesson of the Sunday before.
Shane Lessard, the 28-year-old wine director at the restaurant UpStairs on the Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was leading a wine class on the night that we met, lecturing a roomful of Harvard MBAs about Pinot Noir. "But I'll be in the dining room, too," Shane assured me, straightening his already impeccable cuffs.
Shane's wine list was eclectic and well priced. He'd allotted full pages to producers and importers he admired, with a wide selection of their wines and even brief (and highly flattering) biographies. Shane explained, "Having just one wine on a list is like hearing only one song by a band on the radio; I wanted to offer the entire CD." The analogy made sense: The pages of the wine list read like album liner notes from an impassioned fan. Among Shane's favorites were Au Bon Climat, Silvio Jermann and Isole e Olena wineries and two importers, Kermit Lynch and Terry Theise, whom Shane called "a special person in the world of wine."
Shane had been in the restaurant business for more than seven years even before he'd graduated from college in New Hampshire with a degree in economics. He was largely self-taught about wine, though he too was studying for his Master's and had just passed the first-level exam. Shane loved small-grower Champagnes and featured five from Terry Theise (on the Theise page), including one of my favorites, the Pierre Peters Blanc de Blancs.
I'd hoped to fly to Atlanta the following day to meet Chantelle Grilhot, a 23-year-old sommelier who'd won the south-central regional competition for young sommeliers back when she was 22. But Chantelle was in France and wouldn't return to her job at The Ritz-Carlton Buckhead's Dining Room for a week. Twentysomethings certainly spent a lot of time in the air; by contrast, Larry Stone told me he was at Rubicon six nights a week.
So I visited Jeremy Noye, the 28-year-old wine director of New York's Bistro du Vent, instead. The first time I'd met Jeremy, he'd talked me out of ordering a $55 Gigondas in favor of a much cheaper and little-known Languedoc red that turned out to be quite delicious. Twentysomething sommeliers don't seem to believe that you need to spend hundreds of dollars in order to get a good bottle of wine. Perhaps because they haven't been making much money themselves for too long.
On the other hand, it could be that they just really love obscure wines. When I told Jeremy I might order the 2002 Domaine du Closel Savennières ($44), a Loire Valley white from a great producer and year, Jeremy answered, "You could," in a neutral tone that suggested he had another, more adventurous idea. "Or you could try the Cour Cheverny Cuvée Renaissance Le Petit Chambord de Cazin" ($42). This was a Loire Valley white made from the almost-extinct Romorantin grape, found in the tiny appellation of Cour Cheverny.
Wasn't even a reasonably obscure Savennières interesting enough to a twentysomething sommelier? But I trusted Jeremy's palate and liked his ideas about wine, so I took him up on the suggestion. The Cour Cheverny was a deep gold-colored white, exotic though perhaps a bit schizophrenic. Up-front, it was lush, ripe fruit while the finish was all acidity. While I wasn't enthralled, to Jeremy's credit, he'd called the wine's profile perfectly: "On the edge between Chenin and Sauvignon Blanc."
It turned out Chantelle had visited Bistro du Vent only days before I had. "I was looking for a wine called Cour Cheverny and the sommelier actually had one," she said when we finally met in Atlanta. It seemed like a pretty remarkable coincidence. What had inspired Chantelle's search anyway? "I'm looking to add to our selection of Loire wines," she replied. But what about adding a few more-obvious wines, like Pouilly-Fumé? After all, she had only one on her list. And no Muscadet at all. Chantelle only smiled in what seemed like a vaguely pitying way.
Chantelle was quite poised, although I was surprised by how small she turned out to be. She was nearly dwarfed by the elaborate decor of the Dining Room, never mind the enormous wine trolley she pushed around. Indeed, the sight of Chantelle at work with her wine trolley reminded me of a line in A Midsummer Night's Dream: "And though she be but little, she is fierce."
And Chantelle's ambition was certainly fierce. "I'm very confident in my passion, and I know the future is full of amazing opportunities," she declared, adding that she was competing in the young sommeliers finals and planned to acquire her Master's.
Chantelle's mentor and former employer was Philippe Buttin, the wine director of Atlanta's Joël restaurant. Buttin had recommended Chantelle for the Ritz job. "Philippe felt I was ready for this opportunity," she said, "I trust him completely. He's been in this business a long time." How long? "He must be 39 years old. And he's still working the floor," Chantelle said, in a tone of disbelief. Chantelle wanted to travel as well, and there were many places on her list, including Argentina and Alsace. "I want to have Jean Trimbach show me the Clos Ste. Hune vineyard," she said, naming a legendary Alsace wine. I mentioned I'd visited recently. "I saw the Rosacker vineyard, where Clos Ste. Hune comes from," I said. "Really? Rosacker?" she repeated, giving my pronunciation a corrective tweak.
A few hours later, I watched Chantelle wheel her trolley to the table next to mine. The man wanted a glass of port to drink with his cheese. What kind of port do you like? asked Chantelle, who promptly recited the possible types: ruby, tawny, 20-year-old tawny, 40-year-old tawny, vintage, colheita. What about a 1900 colheita? she suggested. It was a beautiful wine and would really be something, she promised. Naturally, the man agreed. And Chantelle triumphantly wheeled her trolley away.
I was impressed. And I had a feeling that Larry Stone would have been too. "Young sommeliers have so much zeal and so much passion," he'd told me. "It's good for the business." It certainly seemed to be. These men and women worked long hours constructing creative and challenging wine lists. And while some could be a bit overzealous, their enthusiasm was inspiring and certainly helped to sell a lot of wine—from small-grower Champagne to colheita port to what was surely the entire production of the appellation of Cour Cheverny.
I finally succeeded in having dinner at Beacon on a night Troy was there. In the year since I'd first met him, he had grown a mustache and a goatee. Where had he been all this time, in addition to France? "I've been doing some consulting, some private parties. Waldy [Malouf, Beacon's chef and owner] wants me to do more work outside the restaurant," he said. But did that mean he was spending less time on the floor? Troy nodded and looked a touch regretful. I thought of Larry Stone, the most famous sommelier in the country, still working the floor of Rubicon so many nights, after so many years. Troy paused. "Time goes by too fast," he said.


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Assets in Wells Fargo's Health Savings Accounts program grew to more than $809 million in 2012, an increase of 31 percent, the bank reported. The number of HSA accounts grew to a record 365,000 by year end, the bank also reported.
The latest Wells data confirms the growing popularity of HSA plans, which allow contributors to put away pretax funds to pay for health-related expenses.
Wells Fargo HSA accounts carry an average balance of $2,736, or about 20 percent more than the industry average of $2,283, Ryan also said. Workers saved an estimated $100 million in taxes in 2012 through their Wells Fargo HSAs, Ryan said.
HSA contributions are tax deductible, or can be made pretax through payroll deductions. Earnings and interest accumulate tax-free. Withdrawals are tax-free when used for qualified medical expenses. Unused HSA funds do not expire at year-end and carry forward year after year, helping build tax-free savings that can be used to pay for medical expenses in retirement.
Enrollment in HSA programs has climbed steadily since they were introduced in the mid-2000s.
According to data released last year by America's Health Insurance Plans, which represents the nation's health insurance industry, the number of covered lives under HSAs went from about 1 million in 2005 to 13.5 million in January 2012.
HSA programs in all market categories – individuals, small group and large group – have recorded enrollment increases, with the large-group segment growing fastest over the last seven years, according to AHIP.
Wells Fargo is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.4 trillion in assets. It serves an estimated one in every three households in the nation.


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Film Review: We Burn Like This
by Director Alana Waksman – FREESTYLE DIGITAL MEDIA
reviewed by Eric Hillis
When an angry man throws a beer bottle from his truck and yells "Go back to your own country!" at young roommates Rae (Madeleine Coghlan) and Chrissy (Devery Jacobs), it's unclear which of the two is the intended target of his bigotry. Is it the Native American Chrissy, whose people defiantly returned to Montana despite being forced South? Or could it be the Jewish Rae, a descendant of Holocaust survivors who has lost touch with her heritage?
Rae seems to believe it's the former, until she finds a flyer warning of the "Jewish run media" taped to her front door. Did everyone in the neighborhood receive the same flyer or was she singled out? Having not given much thought to her background, Rae finds herself on a path to reconnecting with her faith. Microaggressions, like an ex-boyfriend complaining that the portrait she painted of him makes him look "Jew-eyed," begin to make Rae all too aware of her outsider status.
When Chrissy ditches Rae for a new boyfriend, Rae turns to nights drinking alone in local bars. There she meets Wolf (Andrew Rizzo), a 40-something drug dealer who likes to get high on his own supply. The not-so-subtly named Wolf might as well be draped in a red flag, but Rae falls for him, her attraction cemented when she reveals the burn scars on her chest from a childhood incident and he barely bats an eyelid.
Addicted to oxycontin and barely able to function without alcohol, Rae hits rock bottom and returns to her mother (Casidee Riley). There she begins to examine scars of both a physical and mental nature. Rae learns the truth of how she was burned and delves into the history of her great-grandmother, who escaped a concentration camp. Unlike her mother, who has kept her faith a secret so as not to stand out, Rae begins to defiantly embrace her Jewish identity.
Writer/director Alana Waksman, whose own grandparents were Holocaust survivors, was inspired to make her feature debut when she began to experience antisemitic taunts in the weeks following the 2016 election of Donald Trump. All of her fears, frustration and anger have made it onto the screen in the form of Rae, embodied in striking fashion by Coghlan.
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THE VIEW - (9.20.12) Sherri Shepherd's husband, Lamar Sally is today's guest co-host on 'The View.' Guests include Dr. Mehmet Oz and 'Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars' Apolo Anton Ohno and Karina Smirnoff. 'The View' airs Monday-Friday (11:00 am-12:00 pm, ET) on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images)LAMAR SALLY, SHERRI SHEPHERD
Sherri Shepherd's ongoing divorce battle with her estranged-husband, Lamar Sally, took an interesting turn this week as reports surfaced that "The View" co-host is reportedly fighting to attain custody of the couple's unborn child, according to pre-nuptial documents obtained by TMZ.
Sally's separation request requested primary custody of the child, who's due on July 28 via a surrogate. However, Shepherd has asked in the divorce documents to enforce the couple's prenuptial agreement, in which Sally agrees that the host will have full custody of the newborn. But the television writer has alleged that the agreement is based on "fraud," in hopes to nullify the document.
Prior to Sally and Shepherd's now public split, she opened up to Hello Beautiful during the July 2013 premiere of Kevin Hart's "Let Me Explain" on the difficulties of meeting new friends and the importance of healing following a breakup.
"I don't do new friends very easily because I have a hard enough time keeping up with my old friends and new friendships, you know, it takes, you know, to really develop a friendship you need to go through things and I'm not trying to go through new things with new people," she said.
"I get over a breakup…with time. You have to know time will dull everything and I think don't get back into a new relationship until you heal. You gotta go through it to get over it. So, take time out after a break-up to know who you are and be by yourself and to be ok with being by yourself."
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Berry passed away on June 20 at the age of 94 in Medford, Oregon. Dorothy was born on a farm near Kamsack, Saskatchewan on March 2, 1921 to John and Elizabeth Konkin.
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Berry passed away on June 20 at the age of 94 in Medford, Oregon.
Dorothy was born on a farm near Kamsack, Saskatchewan on March 2, 1921 to John and Elizabeth Konkin.
She attended local schools and graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1941 with a B.Sc. degree in Home Economics. She served in the Canadian Red Cross from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War. She moved to California in 1948 and began work as the food editor for the Oakland Tribune. Dorothy married Samuel H. Berry, a prominent defense lawyer, in 1952 and gave birth to her son, Samuel Jr., in 1956. In addition to being a wife, mother and homemaker, Dorothy was involved in various charitable organizations in the San Francisco East Bay for about 35 years.
She also enjoyed gardening, including the cultivation of rhododendrons.
She and Sam enjoyed close friends and travel during this especially happy period of her life. After her husband passed away in 1990, Dorothy developed her interest in duplicate bridge, which she played for the next twenty years. In 1997, she moved to Medford, where her son and his family live.
Here she enjoyed watching her grandchildren grow up and making new friends in the local bridge chapter. Dorothy is predeceased by her brothers Peter and John and is survived by herbrother Jim (Konkin). She is also survived by her son Samuel Berry Jr., her daughter-in-law Mary and her granddaughters Ashley and Jennifer. In accordance with Dorothy's wishes, no service is planned.
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Army veteran Darrell Armstrong participates in sailing lessons along the Hudson River as part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Adaptive Sports Program. Darrell has attended sailing and fencing programs for the past four years as a part of the physical and mental support he receives from the VA as a veteran injured during his service. Darrell served as a Sergeant in infantry units abroad during the 1980's. He was honorably discharged after sustaining military operation-related injuries to his legs at a young age.
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Joie de Kitty: Now I know my ABCs?
Now I know my ABCs?
So, last week I learned the alphabet song in Hebrew, so I know the names of the letters and what order they go in.
This week's challenge: learn to recognize them all and write them correctly. I'm at the point right now where I can sing my ABCs, but I can't tell the difference between P and T. Can someone please tell me why hay and chet look so much alike? Or dâlet and chaf sofît? Or shin and sin?


The Carson High wrestling team received a rude awakening from Damonte Ranch in a match between two of the Northern 4A's top squads.
Damonte Ranch stunned Carson by winning nine of 10 matches that were wrestled as it defeated the Senators 46-30 at home on Wednesday. The only wrestler who was able to win for Carson was Garrett Truesdell, who won by pin at 215 pounds.
Carson's other four wins came by forfeit. Todd Banko (119), Brian Halverson (125), Robbie Bozin (130) and Kyle Banko (135) all won by forfeit. Matt Heath also lost a close 6-5 decision at 189.
The Senators were without two of their starting wrestlers in Martin Azzam (152) and Travis Lamborn (160). Both were held out as a precaution to save them for this weekend's Las Vegas Tournament.
Lamborn sat out with an abdominal strain and Azzam sat out with a minor ankle injury. Had those two wrestled, it could have reversed the result, but Carson coach Tyson Thivierge said he and his team still obviously weren't happy with their effort.
"It was basically the consensus that nobody was happy with their performance," Thivierge said. "Nobody was satisfied with the way things went. "That just was basically the consensus up and down the board.
"We were faced with a challenge and we weren't ready. It's all preparation for zone in February. That's what I told the kids.
Carson will compete in the Las Vegas Tournament on Friday and Saturday. The event features more than 60 teams from all over the Western United States.


I found this recipe and changed it a bit to use whole wheat flour and evaporated cane juice. The last time I made them, I also changed the recipe to be fat free (besides the soy milk), and they worked fabulously! I hope you enjoy!
For frosting I've used powdered sugar (from evaporated cane juice) and cinnamon and evaporated cane juice. You could also make a frosting using earth balance butter, soy milk, and powdered sugar.
laur, these look amazing! do you really just use prunes and water? or do you do the lecithin and citric acid? what are the proportions? how 'bout you just post the recipe for wonderslim.
My mom used to make donuts when we got up to watch the Sat. afternoon session of General Conference at 6:00 Sunday morning. I'm glad we don't have to watch it that way, but I'm sure donuts would make me very popular with the kids watching it in my house. I've always kind of thought about making them, but the whole frying thing is so unappealing. I'm happy to have a recipe for baked donuts. If I want to be slightly less healthy than you, how do I convert evap. cane juice back to sugar? Is it more similar to brown or white and do I use the same amount or change it? Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Oh, and I forgot to say I still have a container of prunes that Rachel won't eat, so I'm totally going to use them to make donuts. Yea!
Yes, I will buy a donut pan for these.
Hmm. I've never even thought about making granola bars. That would be nice though. I will be on a search, and let us know if you find a good one!
I finally bought a donut pan on Saturday and then made these for a little treat that night - they were a big hit. I sprinkled some with powdered sugar, and then dipped the rest in a chocolate glaze (powdered sugar, cocoa powder, soymilk). I was glad you warned to only fill each spot 1/3 full - I was tempted to do more, but they ended up perfect. I'm thinking I want to get another pan - my batter made about 18 donuts (but that was with little helpers taking tastes).


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Cangaia de Jegue is a Brazilian band from Jequié, southwest Bahia, Brazil. It has released albums Cangaia de Jegue (2004) and Você vai ver (2006) and a live album Cangaia de Jegue – Ao Vivo) in 2009. The band is very popular in Bahia state which is its base.  The greatest claim to fame of Banda Cangaia de Jegue is their hit "Ai se eu te pego!". The song appears also in their promotional CD album of same title Ai se eu te pego!.  The song co-written by Sharon Acioly and Antônio Dyggs (and sung much earlier by Os Meninos de Seu Zeh directed by Antônio Dyggs), became a later massive Brazilian and international hit by Brazilian singer Michel Teló with slightly amended lyrics.

Career
In August 2002, four Brazilian university students got together in Jequié nicknamed "A cidade do sol" (city of sun) forming a band that played at university gigs and various social occasions. They wanted to call it the Cangaia band (local slang for "yoke" put on animals to carry the load). But discovering that the name was already used by another band, they decided to add "of something" so they picked the donkey (jegue) renaming the band "Cangaia de Jegue" (the yoke of the donkey) in a cheeky reference to the commonly known area "República dos Jegues" (the republic of donkeys).

Becoming instantly popular in their city, singer Norberto Curvello penned the song "Saudade do Interior" in gratitude followed by the 2004 self-titled album Cangaia de Jegue, with many tracks becoming hits on local Bahia radio, most notably the songs "O beijo teu" (Your Kiss) and "De frente pro mar" (Beachfront) with the latter becoming popular with Estakazero, a well-established local band, doing a cover of the Cangaia track. Cangaia also took part in João de Jequié, Forró da Margarida, Forró da Onça, and were regular features at Jaguaquara  and Forró , in Itiruçu.

In 2006 the band moved to Bahia's bigger coastline city Salvador for bigger opportunities, releasing their second album Você vai ver (meaning You will see) following it up with a DVD launched in Jequié first and then in other cities, thus competing with better known bands like Estakazero and Seu Maxixe.

After the success of the song "Ai se eu te pego!" by Michel Teló, Cangaia de Jegue are enjoying a huge increase in their popularity throughout Brazil as fans check the earlier version of the song before Michel Teló's release.

Members
The initial formation of the band was just 4 members
Norberto Curvêllo (vocals and guitar)
Marcelo Capucho (bass drums)
Junior Bomfim (triangle)
Humberto Júnior (bass)

The present day formation is made up of 6 permanent members:
Norberto Curvêllo (vocals and guitar)
Junior Bomfim (triangle and vocals)
Allê Barbosa (bass)
Clécio Carvalho (accordion)
Serginho di Boca (bass drums, drums, vocals).
Bruno Valverde (guitar).

Sometimes Marcelo Tribal also takes part with bass drum and percussion.

Discography

Albums
2004: Cangaia de Jegue
2006: Você vai ver (The album contains collaboration with Leo Macedo (of band Estakazero))
2009: Cangaia Inté o Sol Raia (CD / DVD) (Contains collaborations with Circuladô de fulo, the trio Virgulino, Rastapé and Waldo)
2009: Cangaia de Jegue – Ao Vivo (live album)
2010: Ai se eu te pego (promotional CD)
2014: Cangaia de Jegue (CD)

Ai se eu te pego!
Track list
"Chama essa cerveja"
"Dedinho na boca"
"Cachaça véa"
"Ai se eu te pego"
"Solteiro de novo"
"Sei não"
"Balada"
"Cachaça na mão"
"Mulher danada"
"Do jeito que tu vaz e carinhoso"
Coração tapado"
"Agora é beber"
"Galera louca"
"Neide"
"Festa de camisa"
"Triste, allegre"
"Me chama de my love"
"Sinto falta" (bonus)

Singles
2004: "Saudade do Interior"
2006: "O beijo teu"
2006: "De frente pro mar"
2008: "Ai se eu te pego"
2009: "Dança do Ice"
2011: "Bolo doido"
2012: "Sexta feira, sua linda"
2014: "Jeito carinhoso" (Cangaia feat. Tom)
2015: "Pegou, beijou"

References

External links
Official website
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube

Brazilian musical groups

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Part of FRIGID New York
Classic magic tricks with a modern sense of humor and a surprisingly sweet agenda
Audience participation is expected
1 hour, no intermission
$10 Student/Senior
To purchase tickets visit horsetrade.info
A Case for Magic
Written and Performed by Robert Malissa
Part of the 2018 FRIGID New York Festival
Off Off Broadway, Solo Show
Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street
by Taylor Black on 3.1.18
A Case for Magic.
BOTTOM LINE: A fun evening of classic magic tricks that sets out to show why magic still has its place in our lives.
Robert Malissa is, in his own words, "a magician, and I have issues." After being told as a street performer that magicians are "the lowest form of entertainment," Malissa set out to craft his response, a theses in defense of the prestidigious arts. His "case" is, as it turns out, quite simple: Not only is magic fun, but the spark of wonder that magic brings out deserves its time in the sun, and perhaps we're all a little better off when we come together to bring that spark back into our lives.
In A Case for Magic, Malissa takes us through the classic, instantly recognizable tricks of the magic trade. The program hits all the notes of the typical magic shop kit or street performance, from linking rings and cups and balls, to mind-reading and rope-dividing, to, of course, plenty of card tricks. Each piece starts with the expected trickiness of the bit, but ends in a surprising place, showing that Malissa has more up his sleeve than he initially lets on.
Malissa's unaffected and uncharismatic stage presence is surprisingly charming—think more Ben Stein than David Copperfield—and his joy and excitement is infectious. This jubilant sincerity carries him easily through the challenge of audience-participation performance, and the clever gimmickry he uses to draw audience members onto the stage is one of the most memorable aspects of the show. The mundane corporate world operates in the show as character and constant butt of the jokes as Malissa hires "employees" and "interns" as assistants—complete with a bevy of all-too-relatable jokes about internships—and the narrative of the "case" gives the show the feel of a performative TED talk, complete with headset and one-line elevator pitch.
The production is simple and apparent, with no smoke and mirrors or elaborate theatrical elements to suggest any kind of trickery. The phrase "nothing fancy" is here not a missed opportunity but a clarity of vision that honors Malissa's love of the craft and the sense that, in the end, we know nearly as much about the tricks performed onstage as he does. While he doesn't painstakingly dissect tricks a la Penn and Teller or Mythbusters, he plays with the waxing and waning of the "spark" of magic and the desire to ruin it for ourselves by learning how it's done. The technique is quite effective, as Malissa transforms a tutorial on where best to hide red balls into a madcap scavenger hunt as he steadily scales the trick up into an impressive and surprising feat. The temptation to ask "how did he do that?" is quickly replaced by the understanding at the heart of the "case": It is, in the end, far more fun to enjoy the spark of wonder for exactly what it is.
And this is perhaps what most carries the show. At every stage of the performance, Robert Malissa is exactly who he is (well, except for that one time he is Bela Lugosi), and a show that revolves around "tricks" instead feels like the most sincere thing in the world. As a performer who wants most of all to share his love of magic with others, and to share time, space, and stories with the world, the simple fun of A Case for Magic makes for a solidly joyful evening of fringe theater.
(A Case for Magic plays at the Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street, through March 2, 2018. The running time is 1 hour. Performances are Wed 2/14 at 8:50, Thu 2/15 at 7:10, Mon 2/19 at 5:30, Tue 2/20 at 10:30, Wed 2/28 at 8:50, and Fri 3/2 at 6:50. Tickets are $12 ($10 students, seniors, and military) and are available at horsetrade.info.)
A Case for Magic is written and performed by Robert Malissa.


Now I got lazy and bought a pre made pie crust but it is simple to make yourself. All you need is 1 1/2 cup of graham cracker crumbs, 1/4 cup of sugar and 1/4 cup of butter melted. Mix all ingredients together, press into pie plate and bake in a pre-heated oven at 375 degrees F. for 8 mins. Allow to cool and use the same as the pre made version.
Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees F. To make the filling separate 5 egg yolks into a mixing bowl and beat.
Next add condensed milk and lime juice.
Mix and pour mixture into pie crust.
Place the pie into the oven to bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven, allow to cool and top with lime wedges. Whipped cream also makes a nice topping for this pie.
If you're going to Antigua give Miracle's key lime pie a try. If you're stuck at home try this easy key lime for a delicious treat. I can see why this pie won awards in 1999.
This looks great - and EASY! I love key lime pie, but had no idea it was so easy to make. I am going to give this a try. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I love key lime pie! This recipe does look easy and delicious. And I completely agree - good key lime pie is never green in color. ;) Thank you for linking up at the Family Joy Blog Link-Up Party. Hope you are having a great week!


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Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey agreed to remove the shipping containers on federal lands currently acting as a wall along the state's southern border.
A lawsuit from the Biden administration last week claimed that the makeshift wall had been erected "unlawfully and without authority," thereby "damaging the United States." The government of Arizona agreed to cease activity on National Forest System lands for "any purpose relating to installing shipping containers along the international border," according to a court document filed on Wednesday. Ducey's administration will "remove all previously installed shipping containers and associated equipment, materials, vehicles, and other objects" by January 4, according to the document.
Ducey, who is scheduled to depart office next month, issued an executive order in August which allowed 3,820 feet of the previously open border to be closed with 130 shipping containers within 11 days. The initiative expanded to other parts of the border, with 6,680 feet of containers stacked two-high throughout Cochise County by early November.
The lawsuit from the Biden administration came after Ducey refused to comply with a demand to remove the containers from federal land in Yuma County. Arizona officials told the Biden administration that the state would not remove the containers until a permanent barrier is constructed.
A section of the barrier toppled in August; construction crews initially said that the containers were knocked over by the wind, while Ducey staffers attributed the event to foul play.
Ducey spokesman C.J. Karamargin said in a statement that the barrier was a "stopgap measure" meant to reduce illegal border crossings until the Biden administration offered a permanent solution, details of which are reportedly forthcoming. "Finally, after the situation on our border has turned into a full-blown crisis, they've decided to act," he said in a statement. "Better late than never. We're working with the federal government to ensure they can begin construction of this barrier with the urgency this problem demands."
The announcement comes shortly after Chief Justice John Roberts blocked the end of Title 42, a provision that gives commanders-in-chief the power to shut down immigration as an emergency action to keep communicable diseases out of the United States. Border cities such as El Paso had braced for an influx of migrants.
As many as 4.9 million migrants have entered the United States under the Biden administration, according to data from the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Some 66 individuals from the terror watchlist crossed the border between October 2021 and July 2022; in the previous five years combined, only 30 aliens from the terror watchlist had been apprehended.
Another report from the Center for Immigration Studies found a 71% decline in removals for migrants who had been arrested for a crime under the Biden administration, as well as a substantial decrease in the removal of convicted felons. "Immigration enforcement in the interior of the country has dropped dramatically under President Biden's policies," Center for Immigration Studies Director of Policy Studies Jessica Vaughan wrote. "These policies have exempted nearly all but the most serious criminal aliens from arrest and removal and have imposed cumbersome new procedures and paperwork for ICE officers to complete cases."
Dillon Burroughs contributed to this report.
In what may be the most divisive period in modern American History, even more divisive than the turbulent sixties due to today's lack of patriotism, consider what are the major catalysts causing so much of this calamity of conflict, and vote: What most instigates the division of America, on this day September 20, 2022?
Racism within our society
Sex realignment to the detriment of our society.
Biden /Harris Wide Open Southern Border Policy for the Demographic Upheaval of OUR Constitutional Republic
Rampant Crime in Democratic controlled cities, and the possible contagion elsewhere
Covid Pandemic, and its mishandling at the political, and bureaucratic levels.
The unresolved questions /allegation regarding the flawed 2020 General Election
January 6th Riot or "Armed Insurrection", depending upon patriotic perspective
Joe Biden as Divisive Leader; Ineffective and Corrupt Executive
Failed Education Industry, from an overall perspective, regarding all levels of education.
Propagandistic Media in complete conflict with the First Amendment's guarantee of Freedom of Speech, and the awesome responsibility of a Free Press..
"Orangeman Bad!"
Bureaucracy rushing to a behemoth size, its unjustified expense, and far too often overreach.
The Weaponized Deep State for political purposes
A secular ambivalence to all that is real.
Record number of overdose deaths from opioids and now Fentanyl
Biden Administration's disastrous Foreign Policy
Bidenflation /supply chain failure inevitably evolving into stagflation and recession.
"Ultra MAGA Extremists" freely speaking louder AND LOUDER!
The previous poll on Eastern NC NOW showcased what are many of OUR Constitutional Republic's certain obstacles to remain viable, where the top encumbrance to that continuance as a functioning Republic was the Biden /Harris Wide Open Southern Border. Understanding this overwhelming concern to real America citizens: Do you believe it important to challenge the veracity of those legislated concerns of Democratic Socialists by transporting Illegal Migrants to their Sanctuary cities, counties and states for their direct care?
Yes; test the depth of their "compassion" by giving Democratic Socialists an opportunity to enact all Sanctuary provisions in their communities to test how much they truly do care.
No; the Biden /Harris Wide Open Southern Border Project is designed to only inundate "Red States" to begin their Demographic Upheaval for the benefit of we Democratic Socialists, our politics.
I generally do NOT care about politics, but it is fun watching abject hypocrites squirm; maybe I will start getting more involved.
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New facial scans of air travelers trigger controversy
Here's a look at Delta's facial recognition scanners at gates (Image: Delta)
As the Department of Homeland Security continues to expand the use of facial recognition cameras at U.S. airports, and as more airlines test the technology at boarding gates, a new report has cast doubt on the effectiveness and legitimacy of the entire project.
DHS is already using biometric facial scanning of some travelers departing the U.S. at several airports, including Boston, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Miami, New York JFK, Washington Dulles, Chicago O'Hare, and Houston's two airports. The agency has been planning to expand it to all major U.S. international gateway airports this year. The scans verify the identity of departing travelers by comparing facial images to a DHS biometric database.
But a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators has asked DHS to stop expanding the program after a new report from the Georgetown University Law School questions the accuracy of the scans, and notes that Congress has never authorized the collection of facial scans from U.S. citizens by DHS.
The Georgetown University Law School's Center on Privacy and Technology issued the report, which says that the so-called "biometric exit" project could end up costing taxpayers $1 billion. "Yet, curiously, neither Congress nor DHS has ever justified the need for the program," the report said.
Tech vendors like NEC specialize in facial recognition systems. (Image: NEC)
It also charged that the facial scanning program "stands on shaky legal ground." Although Congress has given DHS a green light to collect biometric data from foreign nationals at U.S. entry and exit points, it has "never clearly authorized the border collection of biometrics from American citizens using face recognition technology," the report said. "Without explicit authorization, DHS should not be scanning the faces of Americans as they depart on international flights – but DHS is doing it anyway."
The Georgetown study also charged that the DHS facial recognition program has a relatively high error rate, misidentifying as many as one out of every 25 travelers. "At this high rate, DHS' error-prone face scanning system could cause 1,632 passengers to be wrongfully delayed or denied boarding every day at New York's JFK International Airport alone," the study said. You can see the full report here.
British Airways self-service boarding gates include facial scans. (Image: British Airways)
After the report came out, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators wrote to DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen asking the agency to stop expanding the program at U.S. airports, "and provide Congress with its explicit statutory authority to use and expand a biometric exit program on U.S. citizens." They also cited the Georgetown Law report's figures about the program's error rate in verifying identities.
Last month, Delta started working with DHS to begin facial scans of passengers departing Atlanta as they board flights to Paris out of Gates E10 and E12 at ATL, allowing travelers to decide whether or not they want to participate. And British Airways recently announced it is incorporating facial scanning technology into tests of "self-service biometric boarding gates" at Los Angeles International, similar to technology the airline already uses at London Heathrow's Terminal 5.
Filed Under: Airlines, Airports, Technology, TSA/security Tagged With: airports, biometric, boarding, cameras, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, expansion, facial recognition, Georgetown Univerity Law School, opposition, problems, report, scanning, senators, technology
Delta, TSA test fingerprints as boarding passes
TSA is testing fingerprint ID verification for PreCheck members at Denver and Atlanta. (Image: TSA)
In the latest efforts to test biometric identifiers for airline passengers, the Transportation Security Administration this week started using fingerprint scanners to verify identities at the Atlanta and Denver airports, and Delta said it will work with Customs and Border Protection on a test of facial recognition technology at Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson and New York JFK.
TSA said its tests will be conducted at one PreCheck lane at Atlanta and one at Denver. TSA already has electronic fingerprints of persons who joined PreCheck, and it will match those records with a fingerprint scan taken at the checkpoint to verify identity. The technology also precludes the need for a boarding pass.
"Once the technology finds a fingerprint match, it is able to obtain the passenger's boarding pass information through Secure Flight," TSA said. "Participation is voluntary and all passengers who choose to participate will then be subject to the standard ticket document checking process of showing their boarding pass and identification document." The technology ultimately could automate the document checking process by eliminating the need for an ID check and a boarding pass, TSA noted.
Delta said its facial recognition testing with CBP will be used this summer for passengers departing on international flights. Passengers at the test gates will have an image of their face captured by a camera at the same time they self-scan their boarding pass. The technology will compare the individual's identity as verified by the facial scan with itinerary information in Delta's ticketing database.
Here's a look at Delta's facial recognition gates at JFK's Terminal 4 (Image: Delta)
"Upon successful screening at JFK, the eGate will open for individual customers to pass into the boarding area," Delta said. "In Atlanta, a self-contained unit will capture and verify customer's identity before the customer continues on to boarding. All customer data is securely managed by CBP."
The JFK test started this week at Delta's Gate B24, and will be deployed at Atlanta's gates E10 and E12 later this summer.
JetBlue recently announced similar testing of facial recognition technology for its flights from Boston to Aruba starting this month, and Delta is testing fingerprint scans for entry to its Sky Club at Washington Reagan National for SkyMiles members who also participate in the CLEAR trusted traveler program.
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Filed Under: Airlines, Technology, Trends, TSA/security Tagged With: Atlanta, biometric, Delta, Denver, facial recognition, fingerprint, identity, New York JFK, security, TSA, verification
CLEAR adds 5 big Delta airports
CLEAR lanes will soon be available in 22 U.S. airports. (Image: CLEAR)
The CLEAR trusted traveler program, which provides members with expedited access to TSA security checkpoints, is embarking on a big national expansion.
CLEAR said it added a presence at New York JFK a few weeks ago, and will do the same at New York LaGuardia today (January 25). It will then add lanes at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson later this month, followed by Minneapolis-St. Paul and Los Angeles International later in the first quarter.
Are you noticing a pattern here? Last year Delta made an investment in the company, which refocused expansion efforts at Delta hubs. See CLEAR gets second wind.
At New York JFK, special lane are now available in Delta's Terminal 2, and at LaGuardia in Delta's Terminal D, with more locations coming at both airports, the company said. At Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson, the lane will be in Delta's South Terminal. It will also be in MSP's South Terminal, and locations at LAX will be announced soon– but at least one (if not the only) location will be Delta's Terminal 5.
The new airport locations will give the company a presence in 22 airports around the country, "covering the majority of flights in the U.S.," the company noted. In the past year, it added locations at Detroit Metro, Seattle-Tacoma, Washington Dulles and Washington Reagan National.
But it's important to note that while CLEAR is available at 22 airports, it's NOT available at all entry points at those airports. And CLEAR lanes are not always open. So even if you are flying Delta, you should probably check to find out exactly where the lanes are located and when they are open.
CLEAR members with biometric IDs can bypass security lines. (Image: CLEAR)
CLEAR uses kiosks with biometric technology – fingerprint and iris scans — to verify the identity of its members at airport security checkpoints, and allows them to bypass the long lines that other travelers often encounter. (This is separate from TSA's PreCheck program, and does not provide access to PreCheck lanes unless the member is also a participant in PreCheck.)
Membership costs $179 a year, although discounts are available to members of Delta's SkyMiles program, varying by elite levels. Delta last year acquired a minority stake in the company and has supported its expansion to airports where the carrier has a hub or a major presence. New members who sign up at the airport will get a one-month free trial and can start using it right away. Read: How to get the Delta Discount at CLEAR
In addition to the airports mentioned above, lanes are also available at San Francisco, San Jose, Denver, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston Bush Intercontinental, Houston Hobby, San Antonio, Austin, Orlando, Miami, Las Vegas, Baltimore-Washington, Seattle and New York's Westchester County Airport.
More information is available at www.clearme.com.
Are you a CLEAR member? What do you think about the service? Are you more likely to get it based on this expansion? Please leave your comments below.
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Filed Under: Airports, Technology, TSA/security Tagged With: airport, airports, biometric, checkpoints, CLEAR, Delta, expansion, lanes, security, TSA
CLEAR lanes coming to ATL, LAX, NYC
The CLEAR trusted traveler program is expanding to four more airports. (Image: CLEAR)
CLEAR, the members-only organization that lets you bypass those long security lines and go right into screening, will soon be available in four more major airports.
In an email to members, company said that it plans to open new CLEAR lanes at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson, Los Angeles International, New York LaGuardia and New York JFK. It did not say exactly when it would appear in those airports – just that "We will be sharing launch dates in the coming weeks." What's also not clear (couldn't help myself!) is whether CLEAR will only operate at Delta terminals at LAX and NYC or if it will be in multiple terminals as at SFO.
CLEAR already has airport lanes at Austin, Baltimore/Washington, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston Bush Intercontinental, Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and both Washington D.C. airports. You can look up exact CLEAR locations here.
CLEAR's new logo
Earlier this year, Delta acquired an equity stake in CLEAR, and since then the company has been expected to open new facilities at the carrier's primary airports – and the four new ones certainly fill that bill.
Standard membership in CLEAR costs $179 a year, but Delta's involvement in the company has brought discounts for SkyMiles members based on their elite status. Membership is free for Diamond Medallions, and just $79 a year for Platinum, Gold and Silver Medallions. Non-elite SkyMiles members are eligible for a $99 CLEAR annual membership.
CLEAR gives members biometric-based IDs that let them access priority lanes for security screening. That gets them quickly into the regular screening process — or even into PreCheck for eligible flights, if they are a member of that TSA trusted traveler program. With regular PreCheck lines getting longer at some airports as TSA continues to push for greatly expanded traveler participation in that program, CLEAR might be a better way to go if it's available at your preferred airports. (It's definitely save me a few hundred dollars in flight change fees when I've been late to the airport, or been surprised by super-long lines.)
Have you used CLEAR or do you plan to now that it's hitting critical mass in terms of key airports? Please leave your comments below.
Filed Under: Airports, Technology, TSA/security Tagged With: airports, Atlanta, biometric, CLEAR, Delta, expedited, JFK, LaGuardia, locations, Los Angeles, new, New York, screening, security, SkyMiles
Clear gets a second wind
The Clear trusted traveler program will be expanding to more airports. (Image: Clear)
Longer PreCheck lines and a big new investor are breathing new life into Clear, the biometric-based trusted traveler membership program that lets travelers go directly into the TSA screening process.
Once TSA revved up its PreCheck expedited screening program, things didn't look good for Clear, which costs more to join ($179 a year for a standard membership vs. PreCheck's $85 for five years) and was only available in a handful of airports (13, vs. 160 for PreCheck). But now Clear's fortunes appear to be changing, according to The Wall Street Journal (paywall).
It notes that Clear's membership roster has tripled over the past 12 months, and now totals half a million. PreCheck has also been growing, leading to longer lines at its airport checkpoints as the number of travelers continues to surge and TSA implements more stringent security procedures following terrorist attacks in Europe.
Nonetheless, Clear handles only a tiny fraction of the traffic at airport security– for example, the WSJ reported that it handled only about about 10,000 out of the 2 million passengers at Las Vegas McCarran in March. At SFO, Clear entry points usually look like the one pictured below.
Clear entry points at SFO rarely appear to have much business (Photo: Chris McGinnis)
But Clear members, who check in with biometric identifiers, are are escorted straight into the front of the screening lines (although they don't qualify for PreCheck screening unless they join that program separately). What's more, some PreCheck members have complained that TSA doesn't always keep those expedited checkpoints open even at airports where they exist.
And Clear recently got a big vote of confidence from Delta Air Lines, which bought a 5 percent stake in the company and plans to hand out memberships to its top SkyMiles elites.
The new investment from Delta is expected to speed up Clear's expansion to more airports – especially those where Delta has a major presence. For example, Clear is expected to debut at Seattle-Tacoma next month, the Journal noted, adding that Clear expects to be in 24 airports by year's end.
Readers: Do you use Clear, or did you use it in the past? Tell us about your experience with it, and whether you might use it again in the future.
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Filed Under: Airports, TSA/security Tagged With: airport, biometric, CLEAR, Delta, expansion, PreCheck, security


Dining out should be a very pleasant experience, where the conversation and banter flow, but how often can this be ruined by the noise inherent in any dining establishment? Noises like those from fellow diners and, of course the all too common clatter from cutlery and crockery.
Ace Acoustics, by installing the renowned Whisper Walls systems, will minimise the noise generated by all this normal restaurant activity and create an aural ambience in which the conversation will flow, along with the wine, and allow the diners to concentrate and relish the dishes before them. Restaurant designers can also select from a range of elegant Whisper Walls special features and choose colours and finishes from a virtually limitless array of fabrics or print custom images.


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Q: libksba install hangs up - rvm install 2.1.1 I'm trying to get ruby on rails set up on my work machine.
I'm trying to update ruby using rvm, but everytime I try, it gets hung up on the libksba install.
I've run brew doctor, brew update, chased many rabbit holes, and still no luck!
The error I get is:
Error running 'requirements_osx_brew_libs_install libksba',
showing last 15 lines of /Users/myusernamehere/.rvm/log/1400009026_ruby-2.1.1/package_install_libksba.log
++ case "$1" in
++ [[ -t 1 ]]
++ return 1
++ printf %b 'There were package installation errors, make sure to read the log.

Try `brew tap --repair` and make sure `brew doctor` looks reasonable.

Check Homebrew requirements https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation\n'
There were package installation errors, make sure to read the log.

Try `brew tap --repair` and make sure `brew doctor` looks reasonable.

Check Homebrew requirements https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation
++ case "$_system_version" in
++ return 1
Requirements installation failed with status: 1.

brew tap --repair seemingly does nothing, and brew doctor gives no errors!
Any ideas?
I've typed my fingers to bloody stumps trying to find a fix for this.

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Published on Apr 21, 2012In this one-hour video, Attorney John E. Campbell explains the main aspects of the mortgage crisis that has devastated the U.S. housing market and the economy.
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBbwb6Sv4PM was produced by John Campbell and Erich Vieth, who are both attorneys (along with Alicia Campbell) at Campbell Law, LLC in St. Louis, Missouri. http://campbelllawllc.com/ John is also on the faculty of Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver. A substantial part of their law practice concerns issues pertaining to mortgage fraud and unlawful foreclosures. The attorneys of Campbell Law have filed numerous individual and class action lawsuits on behalf of behalf of homeowners.
Center for Responsible Lending http://www.responsiblelending.org/ (start with the "Mortgage Lending" tab on the home page.


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Q: What To create Multiple form with multistep in php on single page I have 3 radio buttons, upon click on each of them a form will appear, and inside each form 3 step will be there.I created one form with multisteps on radio button click. But I am having trouble in creating the other two.Please help me out

A: I have created a basic structure so that when you click on form 1 radio button then form 1 main will open and same process will be for form 2 and form 3.

<input type="radio" class="form1" name="form1"/>Form1

<input type="radio" class="form2" name="form1" />Form2

<input type="radio" class="form3" name="form1" />Form3

    This is form1

    This is form2

    This is form3

Only you need to paste your code that you have created for one multi-step form within div which class is form1_form, form2_form, form3_form. and change class accordingly of your multistep form.


THE rapid rise of the cruise industry is putting pressure on ports as popular ones handle hundreds of vessel calls and hundreds of thousands of passengers each year. As well as key environmental considerations, vessel operators and the cruise terminals need to be able o handle the requirement of excursions, victualing, bunkering and passenger emplaning as they join and leave the vessels.
With so much activity, that is often seasonal, ports are turning to digital solutions to improve information flows and situational awareness. The delay of one vessel arriving in a port can have a knock on effect with other vessels, excursions and the whole port dynamic according to Mikael Lind and other authors in the latest STM Validation project and Port CDM Concept note published here on Fathom.World.
The authors refer to a little know introduction of the Port CDM (collaborative Decision Making) principles at the Port f Stavanger which started in late 2015.
With so many cruise ship port calls (more than 200 in the 2017 summer season) and so many businesses and organisations being involved in handling each port call, the aim was to increase situational awareness and port call efficiency with a standardised automated messaging system.
In addition to improving port call efficiency through the PortCDM demonstrator, the Port of Stavanger has been able to identify cost savings amongst the port companies.
The Concept Note also identifies how the PortCDM process could benefit cruise vessel reporting under the Norwegian Environmental Port Index. By creating better operational efficiencies, and having vessels spend less time idling or waiting for services, emissions are reduced, which would act in favour of vessel owners seeing reduced port fees.
Hey Buddy!, I found this information for you: "PortCDM and the case for the streamlined cruise ship port call". Here is the website link: https://fathom.world/portcdm-case-streamlined-cruise-ship-port-call/. Thank you.


Are There Any Home Remedies for Keeping Birds Away?
Homemade bird repellents include visual deterrents, physical barriers and sprays intended as taste aversions in the birds' food sources. Some birds may cause damage to homes if left unchecked.
Visual deterrents can be placed around the area to discourage birds from returning. Placing reflective objects, such as a sphere covered with holographic material or iridescent bird foil around the home area, frightens birds, as the reflective qualities create an illusion of constant movement. Placing bird netting or spikes around roosting areas such as rooftops and ledges helps keep birds from gathering or creating homes.
Methyl anthranilate spray has a taste birds find unpleasant. The spray can be applied to wood surfaces on the exterior of a home and grass to deter certain birds, such as woodpeckers or Canada geese.


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Q: User-friendly error messages when removing row with Foreign Key REFERENCE constraint What would be best practice to handle removal of db row that has FK REFERENCE constraint? My goal was to present more user-friendly error messages to the end-user. Note that I dont want to delete department with employees and that I dont want to have cascade delete on tables.
For example if we have two tables:
-- Department table
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Department](
    [Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [Name] [varchar](50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_Department] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
    [Id] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

-- Employee table
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Employee](
    [Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [Name] [nchar](10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,
    [DepartmentId] [int] NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_Employee] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
    [Id] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employee]  WITH CHECK ADD  CONSTRAINT [FK_Employee_Department] FOREIGN KEY([DepartmentId])
REFERENCES [dbo].[Department] ([Id])
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employee] CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_Employee_Department]

And if one wants to delete row from department table, where this row is referenced in employee table. What should one do?

*

*Before executing DELETE statement, check if row is referenced in employee table and gracefully return error to GUI (with eployee list if necessary)

*Execute DELETE statement and do catch exception like:
catch (SqlException ex)
{
    switch (ex.Number)
       case 547: HandleErrorGracefully()
}

*Some other way?
Would be nice if someone have code/link to application sample ...

A: Option 3: Do both 1 and 2
There is the potential for someone to insert in another process between the check (passes) and the delete failing.
In this case, you can just say "sorry, something went wrong" to the user (but log it), and see if they want to try again. Then the check wil intercept it.

A: Be nicer!
Show the departments and number of employees in it, only enable delete option if number of employees is 0.
Rely on the referential integrity to stop coding errors, not user ones...

A: @gbn's answer is a good way to go. But you could also put ON DELETE CASCADE on the foreign key relation, and ask the user something like "Are you sure you want to delete this department and all its employees?".

A: I too had the same issue few days/months back. After lot of googling, I came to the resolution of translating error messages in DAL using SqlHelper class.
I handled this issue using the following way.
Created some classes that were derived from Exception class as shown in the diagram.
DalExceptionClass:Exception

ForeignKeyException: DalException

in SqlHelper
public void ExecuteNonQuery(string procedure)
{
    try
    {
      con.open()
       cmd.executenonquery();
      con.close();
      //Sql Exception is raised
    }
    catch(SqlException ex)
    {
        throw TranslateException(ex);
    }
}

using code in the link, I translated Sql Exceptions to DalException rather than Exception
protected DalException TranslateException(SqlException ex) {
    DalException dalException = null;

    // Return the first Custom exception thrown by a RAISERROR
    foreach (SqlError error in ex.Errors) {
        if (error.Number >= 50000) {
            dalException = new DalException(error.Message, ex);
        }
    }

    if (dalException == null) {
        // uses SQLServer 2000 ErrorCodes
        switch (ex.Number) {
            case 2601:
                // Unique Index/Constriant Violation
                dalException = new DalUniqueConstraintException("{0} failed, {1} must be unique", ex);
                break;
            default:
                // throw a general DAL Exception
                dalException = new DalException(ex.Message, ex);
                break;
        }
    }

    // return the error
    return dalException;
}

Please note  case 2601:
I sent custom message here.
Now at my DAL, I will handle DalException only which will return me exception message as

"{0} failed, {1} must be unique"   using string.Format(msg,
  "Insertion", "Client" );

this will send an exception to BAL as "Insertion failed, Client must be unique" which could somewhat be a granual message.
Edit
this will be handled at DAL as
    public Client Insert()
    {
    try
       {
        _repository.Insert(client);
       }
    catch(DalException ex)
       {
//wrap message since, error will always be in client entity as client's method is being called. Also, insertion is being failed.
         throw new BusinessException(string.Format(ex.message), "Insertion", "Client");
       }
    }

References
How to manipulate SqlException message into user friendly message
http://www.reflectionit.nl/DAL.aspx
What should be the strategy to handle the sql exceptions?


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Q: How to create a district or school? It does not seem like Google Classroom gives the ability to create a school or district.
I have been tasked to add this platform to one of our application that pull data from various Student Information System.
So I would like to know if there are any notion of school or district within Google Classroom.
The only entities I see are, student, teachers and course, but this is not enough from me to process a district.
Please advise.

A: This feature doesn't exist in Classroom API yet. You can either make your own workaround by writing your own code implementation or try filing a feature request.


In 1996, I worked in the fisheries service at NOAA. That year, Congress passed legislation to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the primary law that governs our nation's ocean fish. The updated law established an important mandate for the agency: conserve fish. Our previous goal, decades long, was simply to promote fishing.
Along with subsequent reforms to the act, the legislation spurred many years of hard work by NOAA and advocates for sustainable fishing. The United States is now on the path to end overfishing and rebuild long-depleted species.
Already, 2013 is shaping up to be an important year for the health of our nations' fisheries. NOAA recently concluded a public comment period on a wide range of policy issues that could determine the future course of U.S. fisheries management. We may see new proposed rules within the next six months.
Some of these proposals would take us backward, with costly new delays and exemptions that could allow overfishing and reverse conservation gains. Other proposals offer an opportunity to improve the health of our oceans, by managing our fisheries as part of the larger ecosystem. This holistic approach — often called "ecosystem-based fisheries management" — looks beyond the health of individual species to also consider the food and habitat they rely upon. More than 46,000 public comments urged NOAA to advance conservation reforms such as limiting catch levels for important prey species to help ensure healthy populations of large predatory fish.
"Ecosystem-based fisheries management" may sound wonky, but it is not a new idea. In 1871, the head of the newly established U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries (the precursor to today's fisheries service), Spencer Fullerton Baird, launched some of the nation's first marine ecology studies. Baird recognized that studying only single species "would not be complete without a thorough knowledge of their associates in the sea, especially of such as prey upon them or constitute their food." He urged federal officials to consider the complex connections between fish and the ocean environment.
NOAA has come a long way over the past 140 years. In 2012, it achieved a historic milestone by establishing science-based catch limits to end and prevent overfishing on all ocean fish species managed by the regional fishery councils. It has also made great strides in rebuilding depleted fish populations such as mid-Atlantic summer flounder, Pacific lingcod and Atlantic scallops.
NOAA should heed the thousands of citizens who have asked it to move forward to manage fish comprehensively by protecting the habitats they depend on and the food they eat. This is an invaluable opportunity to apply the ecosystem-based approach that Baird envisioned almost 150 years ago to manage and conserve fish in the 21st century.