Questions about allowed or reasonablness of expenses have been coming up a lot lately in these forums. So I want to offer a few general points.
First, the context of expenses in BK. The puproses of listing income vs. expenses is to determine if you have any disposible income to pay something back to your creditors. This aspect of BK is overseen by the US Trustee (which is different than the BK Trustee). Afterall, the chapter 7 trustee does not want your case converted to a 13 because they don't get anything, thus, its the US trustee that looks at expenses.
When it comes to expenses, there are two questions (1), what expenses are allowed, and (2) of those that are allowed, what is a reasonable amount for those expenses. (Side note on the new law, the new bankruptcy law will take a lot of the guess work out this as the new law will use IRS tables, but that is not a good thing in that for most people what they actually spend vs what they are allowed spend according to the IRS will vary widely).
As for what is allowed, your starting point for expenses is to figure out what your expenses "actually" are. For those that don't use personal accounting software, start with a bank statement and figure out where your money goes. Some expenses are pretty easy, rent/mortgage, utilities, insurance, etc. Others are not so easy. About all we can assist you with in this forum is help you identify lost expenses, i.e. many people forget about hygiene and grooming, recreation, etc. Plus, there is generally time between when you decide to file and actually file, start keeping track of how you spend money on a day to day basis, are you eating lunch out every day, how often do you have to go to the store for items, etc.
The bankrutpcy court allows expenses that are "reasonably necessary to live". The phrase is very general on purpose, but allows a variety of expenses. The obvious expenses excluded from this list are payments to unsecured creditors (i.e. your credit card payments). Another big one that doesn't count., 401K loan repayments.
As for reasonablness, this is more of a common sense question. The bankruptcy code does not require you to be destitue to file BK, but at the same time you can't be driving a Mercedes 500 SEL with a $975 per month lease payment. Second, no one on this forum can really answer that for you, there is too much regional variation. Again, take some time to figure out your expenses and list what your expenses actually are. Generally, when someone asks me if an expense is reasonable, my reply is, "is that what you actually spend". If yes, then there is not much else you can do.
In general, an experienced attorney in your area can assist you with determining what is reasonable.
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In general, and experienced attorney in your area can assist you with determining what is reasonable.
I was just going over my expense sheet that my lawyer drew up for me and everything looks pretty close to par (with a little give and take in a few categories) but I got to looking at the clothing budget - and he entered $70/month for clothing. I can't for the life of me remember discussing clothing budget with him, but there it is. If I were to guess it would probably be more like $50 or so (but it's a big guess).
I guess if you add in a suit every couple of years (which I do get) it might even out there, I dunno. Anyone know the IRS budget for clothing? I looked for it online, but wasn't able to find the page that I was looking at last week.
My lawyer bumped mine up also to $65 for a single person and my current income falls in the 3rd column. That was much higher than I initially listed, but he had also given me a good piece of advice in that expenses should list what I'd actually be spending without having to cut corners to try and pay the bills. That is one expense that I have kept low by just wearing what I have until it wears out so that I could pay my bills, so it would have been higher without all the CC debt or if I'd have run up my bills by buying new clothes. I do need to get some new clothes and work boots for a new job I'm starting so that expense will be going up. An old coworker would hate that IRS limit, he spends more than that just on one pair of jeans and has problems paying his bills, but everyone has different priorities.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was looking for....thank you very much, my mind is at ease!
My attorney determined our clothing expense to be $200 - for 3 of us. I really sweated that one too because I don't spend $200 a month for clothes at least not every month; only for birthdays, Christmas, school clothes, etc. The trustee didnt question it so I guess it was okay. I am embarrassed to say I don't even know what the allowable expense for clothing is.
I've seen this IRS link before and it covers expenses. Is there and actual link available that covers rents/mortgages? I know they vary from region to region too especially since my rent here in the North East is probably double of a mortgage down south. I looked and couldn't find it.
AH-HA! Now this is where I am going to confuse things. The [unofficial link removed] software has only a "few" categories in which to add these expenses, so some things had to be added together.
So on the form7 software, there isn't a place for "housekeeping/supplies" so I put that under "Home Maintenance (repairs & upkeep)". Is that correct? She rents!
And for "Other - (pet supls, haircuts, cosmetics, tobacco)" I have $150.00.
So these two categories together are $450.00, and if I take the IRS food $231, personal care and expenses $26, and the miscellaneous for $108 it's $365.
This is what she spends, we could produce receipts to show it. Most of the "other" is her stupid cigarettes! Will they say that is unnecessary expense and make her lower that expense? She buys a pack a day at $4 each.. That's $120 a month! So out of the $150 a month, that only leaves $30 a month for pet supplies/haircuts, cosmetics, which is pretty accurate because one month she'll buy pet stuff, then the next month she won't have to buy as much, but will get her hair cut for $15.
The form7.com software also doesn't have a category for presents for holidays/birthdays/etc. Can I put that amount into the "charitable contributions" category?
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Ugh have to retype this whole post since my browser flaked out on me and I lost what I had typed.
This came in handy for me since the official form didn't have as many categories and I was forgetting some of my expenses until I used that. My lawyer gave me the official form to fill out (http://www.uscourts.gov/bkforms/official/b6j.pdf) and after using the calculator what I did was just merge the additional expenses into whatever category best fit.
Whittio - Since your mother can produce receipts I wouldn't be too worried about the expenses being a little higher than the IRS guidelines as long as the BK petition is filed before 10/17. Regarding the cigarettes, while it would be good for her health to quit, I don't think the trustee would disallow it from what I have read of other cases involving smokers. It might be suggested that she try to quit though as I would probably do if I were a trustee, but then again I'm biased as I've always hated it and lost my mother to cancer caused by an old coworker's secondhand smoke. Even with my feeling in regards to smoking if I were a trustee I wouldn't outright disallow as many people can't just up and quit cold turkey. My best friend took about a year I think to finally quit and I just caught him with a pack the other day even though he hadn't smoked in probably a decade. Even if she smoked generics it is still an expensive habit these days. I just looked back at my petition and it appears I may have forgot to add the gift expenses in, but you might want to throw those in other also. I'm not sure how safe it would be to include those as charitable contributions if the trustee asked for proof on those. I kept mine at $10 for that even though the ACS Relay for Life got a donation of $250 the weekend before I filed, but my sister put that on her MC so the receipt has her name and I still have to get her the money. The trustees are trying to find the fraudulent filers so as long as you are honest there hopefully won't be any problems. Good luck!
YES! That official form for Schedule J is what I have here too that comes with the form7.com software. It just doesn't seem to have nearly the sections as the federal worksheet you also posted. And I don't have a clue where to put the gifts at, she doesn't spend a lot, we estimated $400 a year for birthdays/Christmas.. but that's another $33.33 per month!
I couldn't agree more about the smoking. The whole reason mom is in debt is pretty much directly related to smoking. She had clogged arteries in her legs from smoking. And after 3 years, 3 surgeries, and 3 years off work, she pretty much supported herself on the cards. It's so hard to get caught back up! Just her first surgery alone was something like $68,000.. although Medi-Cal paid for most of her medical bills, she just had to pay $150 for a bill that was from 2 years ago, they forgot to bill her!
Anyway.. I am still trying to find someone to look at these for us, and I am going to make mom file these. Knowing me, and knowing her, I'll end up having to do it too.. she just irks me to no end with her laziness! GRRRR.. I hope I am never a burden on my children like she is to me!
Like I said it appears I completely forgot to add my gift expenses in even after using that calculator, but I think Other is probably the best since the others don't seem to really fit. There is a section (#7) on the Statement of Financial Affairs for reporting gifts over a certain amount to individuals and charities, you'd think they would have included a line then on the expense listing.
Sounds like your mother had a similar type of health problem that old coworker of my mom had. She had to have some vein scrubbing procedure done twice thanks to her heavy smoking. When she got it done the first time she was supposed to have quit, but lied to her husband and got her fix in at another of the companies locations. She didn't want to get caught at the location she worked at by her husband walking in unexpected. I guess some people never learn, but I bet she didn't have a pleasant night when her husband learned she had been lying and had to have the procedure repeated. I'm just glad she was smart enough not to show up at my mom's funeral as she was not well liked by my family obviously. My dad and I had to hold back 2 uncles at her sister's funeral years ago when they tried to go after the alcoholic abusive husband who caused it so I'm glad we didn't have a scene at my mom's.
An old bill from a couple years ago was why my friend just had that pack of smokes again along with some work stress he said. The phone company just found hit him up for a couple year old bill from when he was living with his ex-fiance still. She had been disconnected so they got the phone hooked up in his name then and it appears she hadn't paid that either and just tracked him down to demand the money. I guess he forgot that was in his name when he broke it off and moved out. She could buy another horse, but not pay utilities and to think I felt guilty at first when I filed, at least I was current on everything.
If you haven't had any free consultations with lawyers you might want to just to get their advice on the case and expenses. I've heard other pro se filers have done that even though they had no intentions of hiring any of the lawyers. It will give you a good idea of acceptable expenses and any problems that might pop up due to specifics with her case.
Thank you so much Miyamoto(and everyone else on past threads)!! I couldn't find this Housing form anywhere. This Forum has helped me sleep better then Tylenol PM. I was afraid that my $1400.00 rent that I'm paying to rent my house would look a bit high, but my State & County have allowed me $1700. I was proposing to fund my ch13 with about $350 per month for 36 months since that's truthfully all I can afford and all of my expenses are in line with the IRS standards.
Your welcome, just glad I can be of some help as I've gotten a lot of help on the various forums which have soothed my nerves. No more e-mails from the lawyer to relax. LOL I get answers faster usually by just bypassing him for most things, especially as that bit about you get abandoned after the 341 seems to be true. Good luck with your case.
Calculator for expenses ... link broken?
That link is broken... anybody got one that works now?
I'm in N. California ... Thanks for your replies!
10/27/05: Filed all schedules, etc.
My Son just started collecting SSI Disablity the lawyer says even though it is exempt he has to account for all his expenses otherwise they take the remainder for life. Has anyone else had this problem?
his entire life? somehow i think something got misinterpreted there. god i hope so.
i think it would probably be that they can never touch any of it, but for debts to be dismissed then he is going to have to meet the income/expenses requirements and show that he doestn have extra to pay.
its a great question and i have no idea. i.e. what would this mean? that he could never be in a chapter 13 since they cant take that money at all, ever?
Im not an attorney or a trustee. You cant trust me either though!
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The Normans built the first castle on the site during the 12th century. Castel dell'Ovo stayed important until King Charles I of Anjou build a new castle called "Castel Nuovo", and then moved his court to that location. Castel dell'Ovo then turned into a prison.
A small fishing village called Borgo Marinaro got established around the castle's eastern wall during the 19th century. This village is currently well known for its marina and restaurants.
The castle is approximately 200 by 45 meters and a large round tower stands outside the castle walls to the southeast. The area can be used for multiple usages such as taking wedding photos, holding special events and organizing exhibitions.
Underwater archaeologists have discovered what appears to be a 2500-year-old harbor associated with the origins of the first Greek settlement of Paleopolis (which preceded the ancient city of Neapolis, now Naples) in the sea next to the castle.
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Should Universities Revisit their Colonial Legacies?
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by Hugh McDonnell
"The days of Britain having to apologise for its colonial history are over. We should move forward." So announced former student in the history department here at Edinburgh – Gordon Brown. Speaking in 2005, his remarks chimed with a growing trend of revived imperialism, enlisting a range of opinion from Tony Blair's advisor Robert Cooper, historian Niall Ferguson, Michael Gove, and even travel presenter Michael Palin.
I suggest that what was at work in Gordon Brown's claim can be understood in the distinction that the great German philosopher, Theodor Adorno, made between working through the past, and working upon the past. Working through the past defines a mode of thought, like Brown's, that does not mean seriously grappling with the past at all, nor exploring the ways in which it still impacts on our shared world today. 'On the contrary,' as Adorno wrote, its intention is to close the books on the past and, if possible, even remove it from memory.' Likewise, what Brown was essentially saying was that any moral debts outstanding from Britain's colonial venture – if there ever even were any – have long been repaid, and that the imperial past is no longer relevant.
Interestingly, Gordon Brown's advice to forget about the past and move forward echoes certain arguments during the recent Rhodes Must Fall debate. Some defenders of keeping the statue of arch-imperialist Cecil Rhodes on its pedestal at Oriel College Oxford expressed sympathy for the Rhodes Must Fall side, but ultimately said "don't get het up about the statue and the past it represents. Instead, move forward and think about how we can make universities more inclusive now.
I suggest that what in each case was expressed as seemingly good advice not to immobilise oneself thrashing out long expired issues amounted to, in effect, a settlement of the issue on the cheap. Saying "look not at the past but the future" superficially seems quite sensible, of course. But it can amount to defusing the weightiness and urgency of a debt and obligations outstanding for over a century or centuries. Conversely, if one thinks only in terms of the present and looks forward, one has all the time in the world. And having disposed of that historical baggage one is more at leisure to address anti-colonial claims in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone whatsoever. What's more, it depoliticises the issue by foreclosing the question of historical responsibility and causation, and renders post-colonial divisions and hierarchies a technical administrative issue.
If these instances of working through the past are unsatisfactory – just as is the equally prominent culture of colonial amnesia – what would working upon the past imply for the question of whether or how universities should revisit their colonial legacies? Workingupon the past refuses the notion that the past can be deleted, but holds out the promise that it can be progressed on. So, I want to set out a case that colonial legacies in society in general require revisiting – albeit in a particular way – and talk about how universities specifically are implicated, both in the sense of being inextricably intertwined with the concerns of society as a whole, and in the sense that universities have their own specific historical place in colonialism, which poses questions for us in the university community.
Now, if we as students and scholars are concerned about society, why should we take umbrage with colonialism and its memory and representation? Fundamentally because, I would stress, European colonialism involved tremendous violence, and that violence still permeates the present, which requires reckoning with.
An immediate qualification is required here. This kind of anti-colonial critique is often accused of being itself simplistic. Perhaps a good example here is the work of the historian Linda Colley, who argues that the historical multifacetedness and complexity of the British Empire precludes judgements about its uniformity, its racism, its ethics, and its military disposition.
Certainly, one should agree that European colonial empires were multifaceted, internally contradictory, involved multifarious actors who don't fit neatly into categories of perpetrators or criminals, had differing or multiple logics over place and time, and can't be reduced to sheer calculation of annexation and exploitation, and so on.
Yet, for all that, I would resist what I would call 'complicating away injustice'. I mean by this the presupposition that if things are complicated we should evacuate our understandings of violence, subjugation, and injustice in all their various forms. This complicatedness, in other words, cannot annul but must be incorporated into an understanding of the colonial proliferation of violence.
In that vein, I hypothesise, that even if unevenly, a common grammar ran through European colonialism, which impacts on society today, though not necessarily in a direct mode of linear descent or direct causation. This is that the imperial division of the globe promoted a heightened reverence for the perceived strong, and accentuated disdain for the perceived weak. This connects in turn to the conceptualisation of perceived gradations within humanity, with those granted full human status pitted against what Paul Gilroy terms infrahumanity – those who, somehow, are not quite fully human, and so can be treated accordingly. These are identifiable throughout European colonial violence, which, after all, included racist despotism built on ethnic cleansing, enslavement, continual wars and savage repression, land theft, merciless exploitation, vast economic underdevelopment, execution and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands who fought for self-rule, concentration camps, medical experimentation, and overseeing famines that killed millions of people.
If this double grammar takes on different forms and intensities today, I suggest it's a heritage that contributes to how European societies are shaped, and that this becomes clearest in terms of differing presuppositions about the appropriateness of certain groups to be more exploited; to carry fewer citizen rights, or equal rights but emptied of content; and the greater acceptability of their exposure to violence. As just one illustration, Victor Kiernan – a historian who spent his whole career here at Edinburgh, by the way – described nineteenth century British colonial troops raucously laughing whilst mocking the voices of members of the local Indian populace. I was struck by the uncomfortable echo in the footage, which you can see on youtube, of police officers in Hull standing over the body of Christopher Alder, a former soldier of Nigerian descent, who was left to die face down on the police station floor with his trousers and underwear pulled down around his knees whilst officers made monkey noises and laughed over his lifeless body. Judges, incidentally, decided there was no case to be prosecuted.
So, in sum, I would foreground the judgement of Paul Gilroy that colonialism and its successor racism have debased humanism and damaged democracy and hope. And if we reject being an ivory tower standing apart from society we have to reckon with this.
To bring us back more closely to the role of universities, it's certainly the case that as repositories of history and cultural memory they have both the responsibility and means to contribute substantially to highlighting and interrogating this situation. But again, this is a controversial claim. Opinions of what academics do often ranges from an impatience with "looking for problems" to an aggrieved sense that academics simply belligerently force their PC dogmas down the throats of the very taxpayers who pay their salaries.
However, I would defend critique against the allegation of being a dirty word. On the contrary, it seems to me, it's about taking democracy seriously and holding it to rigorous standards accordingly, and calling into question hierarchies and violence that undermine it.
None of this is to say universities have lived up to this role particularly well, and its complicity with colonialism is just one way in which it has fallen short. This is not just about rogue individuals like Rhodes and their venerated place in university public space, but also about the application of knowledge. Even if we would want to take issue with some of his conclusions, since Edward Said's work Orientalism we can't think about colonialism without looking at the mutual implication of knowledge and power.
More concretely, we would also need to look our institution in the mirror in the sense of always thinking through what we teach and study, and take very seriously the university's role in reproducing the stratification of society, which I mentioned above in terms of colonial legacies. It's striking that no less than 95% of undergraduates here at Edinburgh are white. Likewise, it's important that we're reflexive and critical about what universities as institutions as a whole do. An important example here being the successful campaign a couple of years ago to force Edinburgh to withdraw investment in technology used in offensive drones.
Finally, following on from mentioning what the question of colonialism requires of us in terms of self-reflection, a couple of vague thoughts about how to orient ourselves in this kind of inquiry into the colonial and post-colonial past and present. I think humility is really important here. If I've really only raised questions or sketched out inexhaustively issues to be considered, this is quite deliberate. If we accept that our privilege – i.e. in my case speaking as a white male academic – entails responsibilities, then we also need to recognise it brings with it glaring blind spots, so that it would be absurd for, say, me to hold forth on how communities most effected by colonial and post-colonial pasts and presents should be represented or what they should so. Democracy is poorly served by undercutting it.
So, in conclusion, commitment to working upon rather than through the colonial past precludes its quick dismissal, the depoliticisation of historical injustice and violence, requires rigorous scholarship that does not sooth power or defer to the status quo, and an extension of that energy and commitment that goes into scholarship into thinking about and debating the democratic nature of the university itself.
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The UK carbon reduction programme was implemented following a pilot scheme in 2009 that revealed substantial energy savings could be made without the need for heavy capital investment. By the end of 2011, all Toyota and Lexus Centres had been subject to surveys to identify where savings could be made. Centre principals were given training in energy management and all premises were equipped with energy monitoring devices to monitor progress.
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L'ancien hôtel de Mesmes est un hôtel particulier détruit en 1838 pour la création d'un lotissement sur le passage Sainte-Avoie ouvert au 62 rue du Temple.

Histoire
L'hôtel  est construit au milieu du  pour le connétable de France Anne de Montmorency (1492-1567) par l'architecte Jean Bullant  rue Sainte-Avoye (actuelle rue du Temple) dans le . Il comprenait une galerie décorée de fresques en 1557 par Nicolò dell'Abbate ainsi qu'un appartement de bains. Il s'étendait de l'actuel passage Sante-Avoie jusqu'à la rue de Braque. Théophile de Viau y habita.

En 1632, François Mansart construisit une nouvelle aile sur le jardin pour le duc de Montmorency Henri II de Montmorency mais celui-ci fut exécuté la même année et ses biens furent vendus. L'hôtel est acquis en 1634 par Henri de Mesmes, président à mortier du parlement de Paris et prévôt des marchands de Paris de 1618 à 1622 et reste jusqu'en 1780 dans la famille de Mesmes qui lui donne son nom. Nicolas Fouquet, nommé par Anne d'Autriche surintendant des finances en 1653 y séjourna de 1651 à 1658.

Jean-Antoine de Mesmes le fait réaménager en 1704 par Pierre Bullet puis par Germain Boffrand. Après sa mort, ses héritiers le louent et John Law y installe ses bureaux.

Il fut acquis par Louis XVI en 1780 pour y installer la recette générale des Finances dirigée par Jean-Claude Geoffroy d'Assy propriétaire de l'hôtel d'Assy 58bis rue des Francs-Bourgeois.

L'hôtel reste le siège de l'administration des contributions indirectes jusqu'à sa vente en 1826 à M. Cogniet qui en démolit la plus grande partie pour lotir le terrain en 26 lots autour d'une rue ouverte sur la rue du Temple, le passage Sainte-Avoye, bouleversé en 1838 par le percement de la rue Rambuteau.

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Il en subsiste le bâtiment sur rue du  à usage locatif et une partie de l'aile droite dans le passage Sainte-Avoye.
Ses  dépendances 7 rue de Braque ou Petit hôtel de Mesmes sont détachées du grand hôtel et vendues à Guillaume Reynal, payeur des rentes de la ville de Paris en 1767.

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Articles connexes
 Hôtel de Montmorency
 Petit hôtel de Mesmes

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Mesmes
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My grandparents were very faithful followers of Christ. You can search this blog for my eulogies for them. They weren't perfect of course, but you would have enjoyed knowing them, particularly as I knew them. They were good people. Respected, loved, and effective. They figure heavily into my daily Bible reading for today, which comes from Hebrews chapter 12.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverancethe race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.
Are my grandparents part of this "cloud of witnesses?" That's honestly difficult to tell. The writer may have only been talking about those he listed in the previous chapter. If that's his standard, then of course they are not in the cloud of witnesses. Most likely, since the writer was focusing on Jewish believers (as the book's name suggests), he meant those who had gone before the Jewish ethnicity. That would mean that the writer's "cloud of witnesses" included only those in the previous chapter.
However, I don't think that I'm stretching the word too far by saying this is really about legacy. Not mine or yours, I might add, but legacy of those who were before us. For the Jewish believer, or for the Jew who was attempting to decide between remaining orthodox or going the way of the new faith, remembering Abraham, Able, Sarah, and others and what they did in faith would be vital. It is those legacies that define faith for the Hebrew.
Just like that, my grandparents define my faith. My grandfather taught me how to dive into scripture (particularly through dispensationalism and the gap theory) and pick it apart. I grant that he may have sometimes picked it too clean. My grandma, on the other hand, provided me a stable, consistent model of someone who just didn't give up on God and who showed what it meant to be in God's word.
So for me, and again I don't think I'm stretching the word of God too much, my grandparents and others provide this cloud of witnesses for me to remember. This is particularly true for me as I try to live out my faith, flawed though that faith is.
Who comprises the cloud of witnesses in your life? Who's example are you attempting to emulate? Please comment and share!


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Last year, architect Bob Perrin sued Douglas County over its effort to force him to sell this building at 420 S. 18th St. Perrin quietly celebrated Tuesday.
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Owner says he'll sue over Douglas County's plan to seize building for juvenile justice center
By Hailey Konnath World-Herald staff writer
The owner of a century-old building at 18th and Howard Streets says he plans to file a lawsuit challenging Douglas County's move to seize his property and demolish it, making way for a $120 million juvenile justice center.
"I think it's atrocious," Bob Perrin said Tuesday afternoon, following a nearly seven-hour meeting during which the Douglas County Board took initial steps on the project, including using eminent domain to take his building at 420 S. 18th St. "It's absolutely atrocious."
The County Board's decision came even as one board member said he had concerns about the financial burden the project would place on the county and what he perceives as a lack of transparency in discussions about the project.
"You're going to make us strapped for cash for the foreseeable future," board member Jim Cavanaugh said.
But proponents said it was necessary to keep momentum going on the proposed facility, which has been years in the making.
The center, which would be funded through bonds issued by the Omaha-Douglas Public Building Commission, would most likely require an increase to the county's property tax rate of about 3 cents per $100 of valuation. That means the owner of a $150,000 house would pay an extra $50 a year, based on projections from County Finance Director Joe Lorenz.
Cavanaugh argued that there needed to be more opportunities for public input before the county forged ahead. He expressed concern with the board's decision to use a private, nonprofit organization to oversee the project, pointing out that such an organization isn't subject to open meetings or public records laws.
"We should slow down and take a deep breath and look at this and other alternatives to this before we plunge ahead, destroying further downtown architecture," he said.
The six other board members said the new juvenile justice center is urgently needed. The Douglas County Courthouse, across the street from the proposed site, is overflowing, and its juvenile justice floor is old and gloomy and presents safety concerns, with people accused of serious crimes mingling with youths in court for family matters.
According to plans presented to the board at the end of June, the new youth detention campus would include space for juvenile courts and related services, new offices for attorneys and a juvenile detention center.
[Read more: See the plans for the juvenile justice center]
"This is an extension of our current courthouse, which is the people's house," said board member Mary Ann Borgeson, who has long championed a new juvenile justice center. "We want to make it the best."
City Councilman Ben Gray also urged the board to support the juvenile justice center. There's no time for thumb-twiddling, he said. The courthouse is out of space.
"We've got to stop putting a Band-Aid on a cancer patient," he said.
Several defenders of Perrin's building who spoke during the public hearing said Omaha has a poor track record of preserving old buildings. They asked why the county couldn't just look elsewhere to build the center.
But that location is pivotal to the county's juvenile justice center goals, as they've been outlined so far, proponents say. Currently, law enforcement officers shuttle young people from the county's youth detention center at 42nd and Pacific Streets downtown for court hearings. Having the center closer to the courthouse is not only convenient for attorneys, probation officers, law enforcement and the young people — it's safer, proponents have said.
Perrin said his building is integral to the character of its neighborhood, and he was frustrated at what he said was a lack of communication from the county during this process.
The county offered to pay Perrin $900,000 for the building in May. He declined the offer. The building was assessed for tax purposes at $457,000 this year, according to the Douglas County Assessor's Office.
"I think it's invaluable," he said at Tuesday's meeting. "It's a community asset. It's a gem."
Borgeson emphasized that there would be more opportunities for public input as the project progresses and that the plans aren't set in stone. The next steps, she said, are awaiting Perrin's official response to the initiation of acquisition proceedings and determining the justice center's specific needs. Then the nonprofit organization will be able to move forward with design.
[Read more: Nonprofit would develop justice center]
"We want input," she said. "It's not that we're trying to shut anybody out who was here today to provide input."
During the meeting, the County Board also approved:
» A request for $1.45 million in advance funds from the Omaha-Douglas Public Building Commission for the first phase of work on the juvenile justice center.
» The terms and conditions of a private, nonprofit corporation formed to develop the juvenile justice center.
» Several agreements between the county and the building commission, saying the two entities would work together on planning, financing, design, construction and other components of getting the center off the ground. Those will still need building commission approval.
» The 2018-19 Douglas County budget. The tax rate is to stay the same, at about 28 cents per $100 of assessed valuation.
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S DUNCAN Jul 10, 2018 1:22pm
Shame on you for tearing down yet another historic building.
PAUL ANDERSON Jul 10, 2018 2:11pm
The Board is trying to cover it up. How they avoided the open meeting laws by creating a non profit. This is questionable at best. Thanks James Cavanaugh for your questioning. This is not over yet.
BOB JONES Jul 10, 2018 4:02pm
Soon there wont be anything downtown to remind us of our history. Just ugly old buildings built in the 70's. These old buildings are irreplaceable. Made of brick to stand for centuries. For some reason Omahan's have no thoughts for the past or desire to renovate. Just bulldoze and move further west. Try stepping outside of your comfort zone once in a while and try something new that is old. Why would you tear down perfectly good infrastructure only to build something else? Civic auditorium could have been used to play high school basketball games at. Think outside the box.
Jeff Hicks Jul 10, 2018 6:31pm
There are hundreds of abandoned properties in Ben Gray's District 2. Why not utilize some of them instead of letting them continue to blight entire neighborhoods? Why not make good use of already useless properties instead of tearing down yet another historic downtown building?
ROBERT MORGAN Jul 11, 2018 10:50am
MARY GAUGHAN Jul 10, 2018 9:51pm
I hope the owner sued and wins. It's time
our historic structures were saved. and given
a new life. The County can't even take care
of the tres in front of the Court House. This building is historic. Build the JJC at the site of the old
Civic Center. Another option is to tear down blighted properties South of 19th & St. Mary's
Ave. That's just a few short blocks from the
Court House. Bill Gaughan - Omaha
ROBERT OURADA Jul 11, 2018 6:51am
Didn't we just spend a lot of money to refurbish the 6th floor of the Douglas County Courthouse for Juvenile Court? Didn't we just spend millions to add on to the juvenile facility adjacent to County Hospital?
And now we need to spend millions more for a new facility in downtown?
Is the long term outlook for juvenile crime that bad?
KRISTINE RADUECHEL Jul 11, 2018 7:13am
Find another building.
BRIAN LEIMBACH Jul 11, 2018 7:19am
This is the result of the voters in Douglas County continuing to re-elect the same members over and over and over again. Decisions like this happen when elected officials face no consequences or competition at the ballot box.
EXACTLY Boyle and Duda are the worst
Why not use the grounds of the old Civic Auditorium for a new multi-level County Courthouse and youth detention facility. Seems stupid to tear down a building that has to run in conjunction with another facility
TIM FAIR Jul 11, 2018 12:31pm
If they want to keep the juveniles away from adult criminals and they have their own judges why do they want/need to connect it to the city county building?? Seems to me they could build it anywhere in the county and achieve that goal quite well.
As the saying goes, "follow the money". Maybe the OWH will keep tabs of this "non-profit" like they did Goodwi$$.
Hjalmer Anderson Jul 11, 2018 4:52pm
Omaha has vast expanses that desperately need to be leveled and redeveloped. Why knock down a building that's capable of being rehabbed into a great new/old building? They knocked down all of Jobber's Canyon and now we wish we still had some of that back.
Bill Kline Jul 12, 2018 5:06pm
Voters need to pay attention when a government entity employs tactics such as creating a non-profit to avoid open meeting laws. Thanks James Cavanaugh for raising this issue.
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Recently, several people have asked me exactly what it is I'm doing here. "Just working. Doing some research. You know, usability stuff."
Lame, I know. But when it comes to work, its hard to know how much is enough and how much is too much. That's the good thing about a blog: no one's being held captive. If I'm boring, you can just hit the back button and get back to reading Dlisted.
I work in the Affective Technology Research Group at the Open University of Catalonia. Our goal is to understand how a person's emotional response to a learning environment influences their engagement and desire to learn. To do that, the team is continually evaluating new tools designed to measure emotion (a notoriously tricky endeavor). From observation techniques (quite literally pulled from a script of the t.v. show Lie to Me), to physiological sensing tools like face readers and galvanic skin sensors to neuropsychological measures like EEG, the team triangulates different methods in their pursuit of reliable insight into learners' expectations, feelings, aspirations, desires, interests and aesthetic preferences.
Of course, it would be a whole lot easier (not to mention cheaper) just to ask people how they feel, but it turns out human beings hide and repress our emotions for a million big and small reasons. We lie. We forget. We just don't know. Even in seemingly mundane tasks, emotions can be quite complex – a messy mix of different high and low intensity feelings that are difficult to sort out on a therapists' couch, let alone in a usability lab.
My main project at UOC is a research study to evaluate a self-response survey method called "affect-tagging". It looks something like this: Bring 50 students into a lab and record them performing tasks in the UOC's Virtual Campus – the online portal through which all content delivery and student/teacher interactions are facilitated. After the tasks, ask them to complete a survey about their experience -- half get a verbal survey and the other half get a non-verbal survey using animated characters depicting a relevant set of emotions: happiness, desire, fascination, satisfaction, sadness, disgust, boredom and dissatisfaction, each relating to different aspects of the portal's usability, likeability and aesthetics. We then compare their self-reported responses against an expert emotional heuristic assessment (Again, see Lie to Me) or biofeedback data (Again, face scanners and skin sensors). That's it. Measure, analyze, rinse, repeat. The goal is to find the self-report tool (cheap and easy) that most reliably captures a user's true emotion, as indicated by the other, more expensive and time consuming methods.
Before I left, I told my friend Carol a little about the work I'd be doing. Her first question was so obvious, yet I hadn't really thought about it. "How will you do research on a portal written in another language," she asked "and with users who don't speak English?" Carol, you'll be interested to know that I still haven't quite figured that out yet.
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After 3 days of touring the city, learning the metro and drinking mojitos on the beach, today was the first day of my research internship at the Universidad Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). An alarm clock malfunction (or rather, the realization that my clock had been set at the wrong time for 2 days), left me rushing out to the metro barely awake, only to find that the L7 stop near my apartment is under construction. I arrived at the university half an hour late, but was relieved to find my new boss, Eva de Lera, terrifically warm and gracious. I think she took pity on me because I was positively shiny with sweat after climbing the steep hill from the metro to the office, which is situated in an exclusive residential area in the mountains surrounding the city. The UOC is one of a handful of global, accredited universities in the world with an entirely virtual campus. It was founded in 1994, with the mission to leverage the concept of mainstream personal computing and the newly emerging Internet to offer a world-class, highly accessible, distance education to students all over the world. It was an absolutely revolutionary idea in 1994, but today there are several other "open" universities, including two in London and China built on a similar model. With 100% of the students and faculty working remote from campus and from one another, the success of the model is utterly dependent on the school's state-of-the-art Virtual Campus, a technology platform through which all content and interactions are delivered and facilitated. Beyond usability, affective engagement and emotionally-rich human-through-computer-to-human interaction is the critical design goal. To that end, Eva has tasked me with helping her define new and better ways to measure affect, beyond satisfaction surveys and even facial scanning and skin conductivity. I'm excited to dive into the innovative work Eva's team has already published on e-learning, emotion and HCI. We're meeting on Monday to discuss which specific projects I'd like to tackle while I'm here!


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Jane's focus at the Neroli Clinic is to combine the power of traditional medicine with the wisdom of complementary therapies. She believes that this integrated approach can treat most conditions by supporting the body's natural capacity to manage change, self-repair, and find health.
Particular interests lie in Start of Life Care and Loss Resilience.
Start of Life Care treatments are tailored to optimise conditions for conception, promote a comfortable pregnancy and a gentle birth for both mother and baby. By relieving tensions following labour, the natural process of family bonding follows effortlessly.
Loss Resilience - We all feel loss at some point in our lives. Sometimes we get so busy with loss that we forget what actually survives. Craniosacral therapy can provide the platform and the respect to allow exploration around this subject.
Jane is a qualified member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, and is registered with the Health Professions Council (UK) and the Jersey Healthcare Professions. She is a qualified reflexologist and a network member of the CranioSacral Society. She undergoes regular training in the UK to stay informed about the most recent research and development as part of her commitment to continuous professional development. This includes completing specialist post-graduate maternity reflexology training with Susanne Enzer, and CranioSacral training in conception and pregnancy, and paediatrics with the Upledger Institute.
"I'd suffered with severe headaches and sinus pain for three years, and had become very low in mood and energy. Out of desperation I contacted the Neroli Clinic and made an appointment with Jane Fullerton for a consultation. The relief from pain was almost instant, even after my first session.


"Toi is the Maori word for art and the literal translation of rorohiko, the Maori word for computer, is �electric brain'. Rorohiko is morphed into Rerehiko and Toi Rerehiko is a moving image art form immersed in Maori tradition, tikanga (custom) and values which uses digital and electronic media."
Digital video artist Rachael Rakena has exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, China, Italy, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, France, Spain, Britain and the United States. Among other large group exhibits, her work has been included in Pasifika Styles at Cambridge University and in Dateline: Contemporary Art from the Pacific at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.
Rachel Rakena's Haka Peepshow installation, The Octagon, Dunedin 2011.
In 2006, Rachael and artist Brett Graham represented New Zealand at the Sydney Biennale with their collaborative work UFOB. In 2007, their work Aniwaniwa was selected for the Venice Biennale and, in 2008, her work Pacific Washup was included in the Busan Biennale. In 2009, Rachael's work was included in the Spanish exhibition FEEDFORWARD which explored how artists are using digital technologies to interpret the world.
Of Maori and Pakeha descent, her inspiration comes from family; she uses contemporary technology, new language and digital media to create artwork that expresses traditional Maori culture and identity. Few artists need to invent a word to describe their art form, but Rachael did: Toi Rerehiko.
Rachael is a lecturer at Massey University's School of Maori Visual Arts.


Saturday in general is not considered a business day. While many businesses, such as stores and restaurants are open for business on Saturday, most businesses are closed, such as accounting, the stock markets, etc. Instead, Saturday as well as Sunday, are considered to be part of the weekend.


TAIPEI – Paraguay, Taiwan's only remaining diplomatic ally in South America, signed a strategic alliance with the island nation during the official visit of its president, which concluded on Thursday.
China has been pressuring its allies to break ties with Taiwan, which it considers a breakaway territory with no sovereignty of its own.
For the Paraguayan leader, the alliance with Taiwan is based on mutual benefit given the economic complementarity and opportunities that Paraguay offers to Taiwanese capital as a platform to other markets, not only the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).
Abdo Benitez said that despite the geographical distance between the two countries, they both promoted independence and sovereignty.
"(The visit) sought to strengthen our friendship through strategic alliances so that both peoples can prosper from the potential that each one has," said the president, who mentioned the agreements reached between Paraguay and Taiwan in investments, trade, education, public security, infrastructures and armed forces.
A joint statement was signed during the visit, ushering in a new era of bilateral relations and strategic alliance, according to the Paraguayan president.
Paraguay's reiteration of its commitment to Taiwan comes after five of its diplomatic allies broke ties with Taipei to establish relations with Beijing since Tsai Ing-wen won the presidential elections in Taiwan in 2016, including Panama, Dominican Republic and El Salvador.


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As if the smart home market wasn't competitive enough already, Samsung just unveiled a new device called the Galaxy Home speaker. It first appeared during their Galaxy Note 9 event taking place in New York City. Really, we've known about the speaker for a while now — this is just our first time laying eyes on it.
It's powered by Harman's AKG audio technology, and houses Samsung's Bixby voice assistant.
What is Samsung's Galaxy Home Speaker?
The Galaxy Home speaker resembles a cauldron or stemless wine glass perched atop a tripod.
Right off the bat, it's important to note that there are no details on release date or prices just yet. It looks like Samsung is keeping that information close to the chest, at least until launch.
What we can see, however, is the visual design alongside mention of some of the more prominent features.
Outside of looks, the Galaxy Home smart speaker doesn't appear to be much different from Google Home, Amazon's Echo devices or Apple's HomePod. It is, after all, a speaker outfitted with various "smart" functions.
The Galaxy Home speaker was unveiled on stage at Samsung's Galaxy Note 9 event in New York.
It has a round design — similar to Google Home — except it's propped up by a tripod base. Samsung says that there are eight microphones tucked inside, which allows for accurate far-field voice recognition. What does that mean? Well, apparently the speaker knows your position in a room and can direct audio towards you.
It also features the obvious voice controls, compatibility with streaming services like Pandora and Spotify, and everything else we've come to expect from modern smart speakers. As for whether or not Bixby is any better than the other voice assistants out there, well, that all depends on what you prefer. At this point, the playing field is pretty even.
Ultimately, the first company that can incorporate natural language recognition and speaker support into a robotic body that can actually do things — like make a sandwich — wins.


Will the Colts Be Able to Keep Adam Vinatieri?
Once the lockout ends, Adam Vinatieri will become a free agent. After a pretty down year in 2009, Vinatieri came up big last season for the Indianapolis Colts, with many clutch kicks. If it weren't for the sloppy defense on the last drive of the Colts' loss to the New York Jets in last year's playoffs, everyone would be praising Vinatieri for his clutch, game-winning kick.
Many people would love to have kicker like Vinatieri on their squad, but it doesn't look like it will happen as Indy will try it's best to keep him. Plus, Vinatieri has said before that he would love to stay here.
Although kickers aren't really a huge part of the game, Vinatieri is not your average kicker. Who knows? If it wasn't for him, the Colts probably wouldn't have been in the playoffs.
Who knows what the future holds if they have him for 2011.


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Reynolds senior Fiona Gregg is only 17, but her artistic talent is beyond her years. Gregg currently has an art show running at the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective's gallery until Jan. 3, featuring more than a dozen of her paintings and etchings with a central theme of personal reflection.
An artistic high school senior has recently opened a brand new exhibit of her work, thanks to Victoria's Fifty Fifty Arts Collective.
Fiona Gregg, 17, unveiled "Resemblance" at the collective's Douglas Street gallery last Thursday, showcasing more than a dozen paintings and etchings she's done over the past several years. The Reynolds student was selected for the show after the collective put a callout for artists on Facebook.
One of the central themes throughout Gregg's work is reflection, figuratively and literally. Her exhibit is described as the culmination of her desires "to bridge the gap between artist and audience," through the use of mirrors alongside her art to create a stronger level of immersion.
"I really wanted to have the viewer a part of the show – I feel like a lot of the time I go to galleries, I can appreciate the work but I can't always relate to it," she said.
Some of the mirrors are positioned so that viewers can look into a mirror with Gregg's work behind them and put themselves into the painting. Others are cracked, representing different parts of Gregg and her reflection into her past, she said.
Most of her work is inspired by personal relationships and the stereotypical idea of the nuclear family.
Her exhibit runs until Jan. 3 at the gallery, located at 2516 Douglas St. The collective's hours are posted online (thefiftyfifty.net/about), though Gregg said they may be closed on certain days over the Christmas season. To inquire about their hours, email thefiftyfifty@gmail.com.


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Q: Create folder during install module So, I create module, which implement import/export some data. Everything work fine. The logic of import in next : I take a file in var/[module_name]/import/. (This file will be put by some another service)
My question is: What is the best way to create this folders [module_name]/import when some one will take my module in other project?
I think about to write instruction ('create folder in var...'), and also I think about installer, but I guess it is not good idea
Any advice?

A: If you have a separate extension for import/export just add this in the install script of you extension:
$io = new Varien_Io_File();
$io->checkAndCreateFolder(Mage::getBaseDir('var').DS.'[module_name]'.DS.'import');

It will create the folder with 777 permissions.

A: I think that extension which creates files in that folder should take responsibility of creating that folder.
If your extension just reads files from the folder, than you can specify the path to directory as  config value and make in editable from backend.
In this case admin could specify in which folder to search import files.

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175 // only rotate when the hotspot isn't the center though.
267 // It has to be done before the calculations, because it moves the origin.
282 // FIXME assumes that 1qu is 1 pixel in the sprite like in SPR32 format. Should not do that, but instead query the source image! This bug only applies to the roundtopixels case, though.
290 // It has to be done before the calculations, because it moves the origin.
303 // snap to "good sizes"


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Inside the monster's lair: Jeffrey Epstein pictured on his 75-acre estate dubbed 'pedophile island'
Chilling new images from inside Jeffrey Epstein's luxury 75-acre estate, dubbed 'pedophile island', offer a direct insight into the murky world of the late sex offender and the shady goings-on on the privately owned Little Saint James.
In one of a series of disturbing and never before seen pictures, all provided by alleged victim Chauntae Davies, a seemingly disinterested Epstein chats on the phone, as a young blonde woman, thought to be be his assistant Sarah Kellen, massages his shoulders, smiling at the camera.
In another a grinning Ghislaine Maxwell – named by dozens of Epstein's accusers as a co-conspirator or procurer of victims – sits at an opulent marble table, with a tray of food, surrounded by documents and letters.
And in perhaps the most alarming image of all, five young women, including accuser Davies, sit on a balcony in the sunshine with the idyllic backdrop of a Caribbean beach behind them.
But Davies, and others, says their time on the island was far from idyllic. In fact it was on Little Saint James, based off the coast of St. Thomas, where Davies, now 40, said Epstein raped her before bragging about his relationship with Prince Andrew. Davies said the disgraced financier became a 'monster' behind closed doors.
And it was here that the royal, forced to retire from royal duties after his disastrous Newsnight interview, has admitted to visiting, adding that Epstein might have cleaned up before his visits.
A seemingly disinterested Epstein chats on the phone, as a young blonde woman, thought to be be his assistant Sarah Kellen, massages his shoulders, smiling at the camera. The picture was taken Epstein's 75-acre estate, dubbed 'pedophile island'
A grinning Ghislaine Maxwell – named by dozens of Epstein's accusers as a co-conspirator or procurer of victims – sits at an opulent marble table, with a tray of food, surrounded by documents and letters in another image. She is joined by an unidentified man standing in a white t-shirt and black shorts, on the phone. Maxwell looks directly at the camera
In perhaps the most alarming image of all, five young women, including accuser Davies, sit on a balcony in the sunshine with the idyllic backdrop of a Caribbean beach behind them. But Davies, and others, says their time on the island was far from idyllic. In fact it was Little Saint James, based off the coast of St. Thomas, where Davies, now 40, said Epstein raped her
It was also on the island that Virginia Roberts said in sworn evidence to a Florida court that she and Andrew and around eight other young girls had sex together. These claims were later struck from the record and are strenuously denied by the duke.
It is not known when exactly the pictures were taken or if they were all taken by Davies but Epstein bought the island in 1998 for $7.95 million and Davies says she escaped his clutches by 2005.
Epstein was first sentenced to 18 months in prison and registered as a sex offender in 2008. He was arrested again in July of this year, just days after Chauntae gave evidence to the FBI against him, before being found dead in his prison cell a month later.
Dress in a white shirt Epstein, who bought the high-security getaway in 1998, sits at a marble table with cream chairs. His assistant Kellen is dressed in a skimpy tank top and pants and she rests her hands on his shoulders.
The disgraced financier appears to be holding his glasses and had a sheet of paper in front of him. There is enough space, on what appears to be outside decking, for a second table behind the pair. Lamps line the stone walls. The white doors are closed with the shutters open.
He then is pictured in a later image, which appears to have been taken on the same day, this time wearing two pairs of glasses as he sifts through papers.
Maxwell, wearing a black tank top, looks directly at the camera and grins in one picture.
Ghislaine, the daughter of later media baron Robert Maxwell has been less forthcoming since the death of her former boyfriend, going completely under the radar. Although it is now claimed she is preparing to speak to the FBI about her connection to pedophile.
She appears to be sitting at the same, or a similar table, to that of Epstein as he received his personal massage from Kellen. The same large water jug is seen in front of him as was in front of Maxwell, who was said to have been a regular visitor to 'pedophile island'.
An unidentified man standing in a white t-shirt and black shorts and on the phone, also appears in the image.
The startling picture of the five women could easily be mistaken for one taken on a girls holiday. The group are all dressed in tanks tops. Davies, wearing a blue top, white skirt and summer hat smiles as she sits on the balcony. But behind the picturesque setting lay a sinister culture of rape and assault, according to Davies.
Epstein, dressed all in black, walking boots and a black cap, leaning back on a clifftop balcony. The sex offender appear to have a wry smile and is alone in the image. It was on this island that Prince Andrew, forced to retire from royal duties after his disastrous Newsnight interview, has admitted to visiting, adding that Epstein might have cleaned up before his trips
Epstein is pictured in a later image, this time wearing two pairs of glasses as he sifts through papers on the large decking area. Lamps line the stone walls. The white doors are opened in this image with the shutters closed
Pictures from inside the home show four poster beds covered with mosquito nets. The white wooden slat doors are again visible. Virginia Roberts also said in sworn evidence to a Florida court that she and Prince Andrew had sex together on the island, a claim he strenuously denies and which were later struck from the record
Another shows a full bed plus a single side by side, with the same white sheets and wooden frames. It is not known exactly when the images were taken but Epstein bought the island in 1998 for $7.95 million and owned until his death in August
A swimming pool at the estate is seemingly closed off to prying eyes, surrounded by bushes and trees, pictured. There are several loungers round the pool, a picture shows, but no one using them or in the water
Another image of Davies shows her again smiling in front of a stunning view of a beach. Sarah Ransome, an alleged British victim of Epstein, claimed she was raped up to three times a day during her months imprisoned there
Other images show Epstein, dressed all in black, walking boots and a black cap, leaning back on a clifftop balcony. The sex offender appear to have a wry smile and is alone in the image.
Another of Davies shows her again smiling in front of a stunning view of a beach. And pictures from inside the home show four poster beds covered with mosquito nets. The white wooden slat doors are again visible. Another shows a full bed plus a single side by side, with the same white sheets and wooden frames.
A swimming pool at the estate is seemingly closed off to prying eyes, surrounded by bushes and trees. There are several loungers round the pool, a picture shows, but no one using them or in the water.
Epstein was first registered as a sex offender in 2008. He was arrested again in July of this year, just days after Chauntae gave evidence to the FBI against him, before being found dead in his cell a month later
One picture of the stunning surroundings appears to show the view from the balcony Epstein and Maxwell were pictured at. An uninterrupted view of the sea stretches out in front of the building.
A similarly picturesque image of Davies in a summer dress in front of blue skies and a sandy beach continues to hide the horrors of what was really happening on the island.
Epstein is said to have bought Little Saint James in 1998, importing 200 workers, building a stone mansion, two guest houses, a helipad and a bizarre gold-domed structure that resembles a temple.
Sarah Ransome, an alleged British victim of Epstein, claimed she was raped up to three times a day during months imprisoned there.
She says she was so determined to escape that she hatched a plan to swim the surrounding shark-infested waters. However she was spotted on the video cameras Epstein installed across the island and stopped by his cronies.
Chauntae said she fell into the pedophile's clutches when she was a 21-year-old trainee massage therapist in Los Angeles and treated Ghislaine Maxwell at Beverly Hills' Four Seasons Hotel.
Davies, who worked as Epstein's masseuse and as an air hostess on his private plane the 'Lolita Express', alleged to The Sun on Sunday that she was later raped by the billionaire on the private island.
'I was very aware of Jeffrey Epstein's friendship with Prince Andrew and Fergie right away', she said. 'It was one of several bragging tactics he used to further induce his power and privilege. He bragged a lot. He bragged about how he'd lent money to the Duchess.'
She also called on the Prince to speak to the FBI. 'There is no way you could have been a friend of Jeffrey's and not know what was going on', she said. 'I don't see how you could see somebody with another young girl all the time and there never being a conversation about it. It doesn't add up.'
Davies, who is now 40 and pictured left, who worked as Epstein's masseuse and as an air hostess on his private plane the 'Lolita Express', alleged to The Sun on Sunday that she was later raped by Epstein on the private island. Prince Andrew, right, has always denied any allegations of wrongdoing during his friendship with Epstein
Davies, now 40, said Epstein raped her before bragging about his relationship with Prince Andrew. Davies said the disgraced financier became a 'monster' behind closed doors. She has previously stated that she was raped by the billionaire the third or fourth time they met on the Caribbean island
After being summoned from his bungalow to the main compound Davies said: 'I knew this late-night call on an island where I already felt isolated did not feel right. She led me to another, bigger private villa on the opposite side of the main house; Jeffrey and Ghislaine's villa.' She said Epstein undressed her despite her pleas to stop
Davies has previously stated that she was raped by the billionaire the third or fourth time they met on the Caribbean island.
After being summoned from his bungalow to the main compound Davies said: 'I knew this late-night call on an island where I already felt isolated did not feel right. She led me to another, bigger private villa on the opposite side of the main house; Jeffrey and Ghislaine's villa.'
She said Epstein undressed her despite her pleas to stop.
Andrew has previously admitted visiting the island and was named as a passenger on Epstein's jet, known as the Lolita Express for its orgies, in August 2001, for a trip from New York to New Mexico.
Prince Andrew has always denied any allegations of wrongdoing during his friendship with Epstein.
Ms Davies also described how she spent two weeks 'vomiting myself to death' in a hospital after the alleged attack.
'He [Epstein] took me by the wrist. I was searching for words but all I could say was please stop, but that only seemed to excite him more,' she told a New York courtroom the first time that she spoke publicly about the event.
She was was among dozens of women who spoke in court in Manhattan in August about how he abused them.
Andrew has previously admitted visiting the island, pictured, and was named as a passenger on Epstein's jet, known as the Lolita Express for its orgies, in August 2001, for a trip from New York to New Mexico
Sarah Ransome, an alleged British victim of Epstein, claimed she was raped up to three times a day during months imprisoned there. She says she was so determined to escape that she hatched a plan to swim the surrounding shark-infested waters, pictured. However she was spotted on the video cameras Epstein installed across the island and stopped by his cronies
Chauntae said she fell into the pedophile's clutches when she was a 21-year-old trainee massage therapist in LA and treated Ghislaine Maxwell at Beverly Hills' Four Seasons Hotel. One of the lunches laid on for guests on the island is pictured
Davies claimed that the first time she met Epstein to give him a massage, he masturbated in front of her. She was horrified but went back to continue working for him, she said, partly because of the support she received from Ghislaine.
She said she was too frightened to report him or leave because, she claims, both he and Maxwell made it 'clear' how powerful he was.
Virginia Roberts claims she had sex with the duke in three of Epstein's homes – his Manhattan mansion, his Palm Beach estate in Florida and on his private island in the US Virgin Islands. The Prince has admitted to visiting all three locations but denies all of the allegations against him.
Before the financier's death, Maxwell was named in lawsuits as having facilitated alleged abuse. She has always denied wrongdoing and has never been arrested or charged.


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You can tell a lot about a surgeon's experience by the amount and quality of their before and after pictures. A surgeon with 5-10 facelift (and or other procedures) is probably much less experienced than a surgeon with thousands of before and after pictures. With almost 7,000 before and after images on our site, Dr. Niamtu exhibits the level of experience that most patients are looking for in a cosmetic surgeon.
How Do I Find all the Before & After Pictures?
Each page that contains before and after picture galleries has a floating Gallery icon at the bottom of the browser window. Clicking on the Gallery icon will bring up the various picture galleries. So, for example if you go to the eyelid page, you will see the icon and clicking on that will bring up the hundreds of eyelid before and after photos. Each procedure page that has before and after pictures will have the Gallery icon.
The galleries have numerous pages which can be viewed by clicking on the page numbers at the bottom or each gallery (shown in the red circle above).
Before and after pictures have long been the standard to show changes from cosmetic surgery. Unfortunately, many surgeons take very few steps to standardize their photography. Dr. Niamtu personally devotes extreme time and effort to standardize the before and after images on this site. We have invested painstaking efforts to keep the poses, lighting and sizes similar on all photographs. We are extremely grateful for the hundreds of patients on this site who have allowed us to use their images to educate other patients. Without them, it would be much more difficult to illustrate post operative changes. You may notice that some patients may have makeup on in their "after" pictures and not in their before pictures. This is not done in any means to be deceptive and is a very common situation for all surgeons. Although all of the pictured patients have given us permission to use their pictures, many of them do not desire to have post operative images showing them without makeup. We duly respect the wishes of our patients and again thank them for participating in our web site.
You may notice that some patients have "shiny" skin in their post operative images. This is especially common for the skin resurfacing pictures. The reason for this is that part of our goal for all cosmetic patients is medically based, life time skin care. Some of the patients shown are in the midst of skin rejuvenation programs and may be wearing moisturizers or other skin care products that appear "shiny" on some pictures.
Finally, we have attempted to categorize the results in the most simple way. Some patients have had single procedures while others have had multiple procedures. In other words, a patient shown on the facelift page may have also had eyelid surgery and vice versa.
Dr. Niamtu is a surgeon, not a professional photographer and it is his sincere desire to provide the most standardized images that can be taken in the realm of a busy cosmetic surgery practice and we think we excel in this more than 99.9% of practices who take pictures.
Also take note that although we only post a small fraction of our actual cases, we have hundreds of times the number of images that most surgeons have on their sites. Always keep in mind the experience of your surgeon when considering cosmetic facial surgery.
Niamtu J. The Impact of Deceptive Photography on Our Profession. Plast Surg Prac. 2011; 21(10):26-28.
Niamtu J. Techno pearls for digital image management.