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The U.S. Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Database was developed collaboratively with a wide variety of partnerships. Some of these stakeholders helped to launch the database in 2001 and have contributed along the way. Those stakeholders that convened at the 2009 Stakeholders Roadmap Meeting have pledged to support project development moving forward, as described in the meeting minutes.

Principal Supporters

The supporters below have participated in or funded the project since its development and launch in 2001.

  • American Chemistry Council
  • American Plastics Council
  • Athena Institute
  • Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials
  • Franklin Associates
  • General Services Administration
  • Institute of Environmental Research and Education
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Portland Cement Association
  • Sylvatica
  • U.S. Car Project (Ford, General Motors, and DaimlerChrysler)
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • U.S. Department of Energy
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • U.S. Green Building Council
  • U.S. Navy
  • Vehicle Recycling Partnership of United States Council for Automotive Research LLC (USCAR)

Current Project Supporters

The following groups participated in the Stakeholders Roadmap Meeting in February of 2009 to provide input for the development of the U.S. Life Cycle Inventory Database Roadmap.

  • The Aluminum Association
  • American Chemistry Council
  • American Institute of Steel Construction
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Athena Institute
  • BD Medical
  • Black & Veatch
  • The Carbon Trust
  • Concurrent Technologies Corporation
  • Decra Roofing Systems
  • Earthshift
  • Ecointesys
  • Five Winds International
  • Franklin Associates
  • Green Building Alliance
  • Green Seal
  • GreenBlue
  • Institute for Environmental Research and Education
  • Metal Building Manufacturers Associations
  • Metal Construction Association
  • National Association of Home Builders
  • National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  • National Trust for Historic Preservation
  • Navarro Research & Engineering
  • North American Insulation Manufacturers Association
  • PE Americas
  • Shaw, Inc.
  • Steel Recycling Institute
  • Sylvatica
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service R&D
  • U.S. Department of Energy
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • U.S. General Services Administration
  • U.S. Green Building Council
  • University of Arkansas
  • University of California, Santa Barbara


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NBA: Nate Robinson To The Denver Nuggets

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Nate Robinson will join the Denver Nuggets. Photo credit NBA
Our number rated NBA unrestricted free agent left without a team is now reportedly joining the Denver Nuggets. Based on recent reports, Nate Robinson will be joining the Mile High team for the next two years for $4.1 million.

Robinson was resurgent during the playoffs helping the injury depleted Chicago Bulls make it to the second round of the NBA Eastern Conference playoffs. This makes the sixth team he has played for in the NBA.

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Chase Medical
30 Sep 2016
Bolton, Greater Manchester, England
Nurse practitioner, Practice nurse
Job level:
Deputy Manager / Senior Staff, Manager, Qualified (non-manager)
Full time, Part time
Contract type:
£ 40000 - 52000 Per year
Closing date:
30 Oct 2016

Nurse Practitioner, Bolton, Permanent Opportunity

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Nurse Practitioner to join an extremely successful GP surgery North of Bolton. Boasting impressive patient testimonials and regularly praised for their outstanding patient care, this is a position that can't be missed.

Position: Nurse Practitioner

Hours: Extremely flexible - up to full time

Salary: Competitive and negotiable DOE - circa band 8a/8b

Location: North of Bolton

The surgery are offering a very attractive employment package including:

* Flexible hours

* Competitive and negotiable salary

* Full NHS pension

* Support through any training needs

* Onsite parking

* Convenient location

To be considered you must be a confident, prescribing Nurse Practitioner who is able to work autonomously and hit the ground running. Experience with acute conditions and home visits are essential.

We expect a great deal of applicants - apply today to avoid missing out!

Who Are Chase Medical?

We are a Nursing agency with an excellent reputation in finding work for Nurse Practitioners and Practice Nurses in Primary Care settings. Currently, we work with up to 30% of all GP surgeries in the UK and this figure is growing daily. Chase Medical are experts in negotiating terms of employment on your behalf - this includes salary and annual leave etc.!

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Chase Medical is an agency that specialises in both permanent positions and locum work, for Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Practice Nurses within a Primary Care Setting.

Offering Staff fantastic flexibility and control over your working life:

• Work the Hours of YOUR choice

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• Chase work really hard to find shifts / opportunities near you

• So if you're an Advanced Nurse Practitioner/ Nurse Prescriber or Practice Nurse within Primary care, we can help you.

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About me

I am a fully qualified nutritional therapist with 8 years experience. I am based in Acton and also practice at Nuffield Health in Covent Garden. I work with clients who have a range of health issues offering nutrition advice and resources to help them meet their health goals.

My focus is on long term behaviour change and health coaching particularly for weight loss and healthy eating generally. It is my belief that sustainable weight loss is all about a change in behaviour and not just diet alone.

I also specialise in the low-FODMAP diet. The challenge is that there is a little practical support available to help those following the diet, especially if they are trying to manage this while cooking for others. I am able to offer full support and can provide you with all the resources you need.

In addition to my clinic work I also offer:

  • Nutrition related workshops to the corporate sector or to the local community
  • Healthy cooking master classes
  • Nutrition advice to restaurants including recipe analysis
  • Nutrition support to schools and colleges including talks and workshops
  • Diagnostic testing for example food intolerances

Some of my work involves cooking and recipe development, I often help families, students and individuals with meal planning. Many of my clients struggle to find the time to plan meals and need support and inspiration for cooking healthy meals.

I have a recipe and nutrition resource website where people can access my recipes and other information.

I am committed to treating my clients in a compassionate, non-judgmental way, providing them with the understanding, encouragement, education and ongoing support needed to reach their goals.

Training, qualifications & experience

I studied nutritional therapy at Westminster University and was awarded my BSc (HONS) in 2004. I have since attended numerous courses on health coaching and mentoring, cardiovascular disease, weight management and children's nutrition.

  • I have been trained to provide full HMOTs which includes glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure checks.
  • Over the past year and a half I have worked with Transport for London at numerous health fairs providing health checks and nutrition advice to their employees.
  • Within the corporate sector my clients include: Google, The Discovery Channel, Nomura, Allen and Overy, Financial Ombudsman, Credit Suisse, Aviva and Deloitte

2015 Completed a health mentoring training course run by Nuffield Health

2014 Health Checker Certificate

2011 Health Trainer Certificate - NHS Trust

2009 Diploma in the Psychological and Nutritional Management for Obesity and Eating Disorders

2008 BSc (HONS) Nutritional Therapy

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Areas of nutrition I deal with

* If you have been diagnosed or suspect you may have one of the medical conditions starred above, you should consult your GP for advice, diagnosis and treatment and always inform your health professional before starting any alternative or additional therapies, treatments or making any major changes in your diet or exercise programme.

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£75.00 = an initial consultation (90 minutes)

£55.00 = follow up

£125.00 = 1 initial and 1 follow up

£300.00 = weight management package (6 consultations)

£85.00 = including low FODMAP resource book including recipes

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  • Before the consultation you will be asked to complete a 3 day food diary and questionnaire. This will help me to have an overview and analyse our diet.
  • A survey will be made of any health problems, as well as previous medical and family history. Your diet and lifestyle will be reviewed. Diagnostic tests can be arranged if necessary. A personalised nutrition and lifestyle program will then be specifically designed for you. These will be sent to you with all the resources you need.
  • During the consultation process Jessica will help you to understand the relationship between what you eat and the way you feel both emotionally and physically.

"As a fully qualifed nutritionist, it is my aim to help you to maximise your health potential and to empower you to take control of your health, by showing you how even small changes can make a big difference".

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Teens can learn dating safety All teens wanting to learn about safe dating are invited to attend the Bentonville Public Library’s Dating Awareness Safety workshop at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. The workshop is a part of the Teen Life Skills workshops where teens can learn a wide array of topics that will prepare them for life outside of high school. This program is for teenagers in seventh through 12th grade.

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Designers Coco & Breezy Discuss The Importance Of Heritage

The sisters are half-black, half-Puerto Rican

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September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage month. If you’re not of Hispanic or Latino descent, this celebration might’ve missed your radar. It’s not recognized in the same way that Black History or even Asian-Pacific Heritage month is, but it deserves acknowledgment all the same.
In honor of the oft-overlooked happening, Brisk Iced Tea is teaming up with influential Hispanic creatives—Roc Nation executive Lenny Santiago, designer Rob Garcia, creative director Aerosyn Lex, and designers Coco & Breezy—to give young aspiring artists the chance to express what their culture means to them through music, art, and fashion. The winners get a trip to Long Beach, California, where they’ll attend ComplexCon and receive one-on-one mentorship advice from the group.
We chatted with the twin sisters, eyewear designers, and DJs Coco & Breezy about the program and how their heritage influences their work. Read what they had to say, ahead.
You guys are partnering with Brisk Iced Tea for the Brisk Mode program. Can you tell me a little about how you became involved with the initiative and why it's so important to the both of you?
We're really excited about the Brisk Mode program because, for us, we're all about music, art, and fashion. Not only are we eyewear designers, but we also DJ, and all of our music and our eyewear is inspired by our artwork. We're half Puerto Rican, half African-American, and the program is a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, which is awesome and we're really excited to express our heritage, express our creativity, and share it with the world with this contest.
The coolest part is that the winners will get a chance to go to ComplexCon and they'll be able to meet Breezy and I, plus the other influencers that are of Latin Hispanic cultures. We will hang out and mentor someone for each day. One day, Breezy and I might be able to hang out with someone that won an art section and the next day, we might hang out with someone with music since we're part of music as well. That's what makes it cool and different for us. I feel like this platform gives people from around the world the chance to be able to meet people that are actually doing it. I think a lot of people have ideas and motivation, but they don't have the right mentors around them. One of our biggest passions, as entrepreneurs, is being able to mentor other creative people that don't have direction, so we're really excited to be a part of this campaign.
When you were first starting out, did you have any mentors?
Actually, when we first started, we used to watch business interviews, and one of the first interviews we watched was with Shane and Shawn, they are twins, and they had a footwear company called Shane and Shawn. The first thing they said in their interview was to find a mentor. As soon as we saw that, we hit them up on Twitter and said, ‘Hey, we saw one of your interviews and you said that people need to find mentors, be shameless, and don't be afraid to ask questions.’ The next day, they set up to have coffee with us. Since then, they've been our mentors.
I think it's also important too that you have can have more than one mentor. You can have one mentor that helps you with your creativity side, you can have another mentor that helps you with your business management questions, you can have another mentor that helps you figure out how to balance your personal life and business.
When you are serving as the mentors, what do you hope to teach to help guide these young girls and boys who are taking part in this program?
When mentoring our peers, one of our goals is to teach people to be extremely fearless and to never let fear interfere. If they have an idea, to realize that it's really possible, dream big, and don't be afraid of making mistakes. We want to share our stories. We started from nothing. We started, literally, with zero dollars, an idea, a passion, and moved to New York City. We hope to share our personal experiences with people, because that, right there, is authentic and they'll feel like they can do it as well. I'm pretty sure that we're going to be around the same age group as well. We were 19 when we started our company. Now we're 26, and we've been doing it full-time ever since. We are from a Latina background, and the majority of the people will be from a Hispanic background. That's something that's very relatable, to show them that we're here with you, we're family, too, and you can do it as well. We always tell people that if your family doesn't support you or you friends don't support you, Coco & Breezy will support you.
What does your heritage mean to you and how has your relationship with your heritage changed or evolved over the years?
We're so thankful to be able to grow up with two different cultures: Our dad being African-American from the south, and mom being Puerto Rican. There weren't a lot of Puerto Ricans where we grew up in Minnesota, and we grew up with extreme culture. We were always different from the other kids, and it gave me the confidence to love our heritage. Our parents always told us to love who we are and love where we came from. Being Latina, it's helped us in the office with our spiciness, going to meetings—you know how we are [laugh]. It's just inspired us because your heritage is your roots and your roots are what drive your creativity.
Do you think that your heritage is reflective in your eyewear or even in your DJ work at all? If so, in what way?
Yeah, I definitely think that it's reflective everywhere. Definitely, in our DJ work, we'll always mix salsa into all of our sets. We'll actually leave the DJ booth every time and start salsa dancing in the middle of the dance floor. People are so funny because we are Afro-Latinas, so people also don't know that we're Hispanic. That's why it's really important to us as well because now we can share and show them how our heritage is important to us and open people's minds that we are Hispanic; we come in all colors, there's no certain look. That's how you show that your culture and your heritage really inspires you, where you can't just judge somebody by their outside. We are proud Puerto Ricans. Our heritage really helps our artwork, it helps our life, it's been a really big part of our life. Since we moved to New York, we're around more people within our cultures. We've learned more about it and felt more comfortable about it.


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an emoji movie is really happening

*heart eyes emoji*

Emojis: They started from the bottom (in your text messages), and now they're here (on the big screen).

The cartoony phenomenon has officially taken over the world and will be soon taking over theaters. It was recently announced that an animated film centered around the cute digital images is officially in the works. The movie will be produced by Sony Pictures Animation and will be co-written and directed by Anthony Leondis, who previously directed Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters and Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch.

Although the plotline—as well as the Emojis that will be featured in the film—have not been announced yet, we can’t help but look like the heart eyes Emoji after hearing this news.

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Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Photos of Kristen Stewart On The Set Of Her Latest Movie

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When Kristen Stewart asked if I wanted to come visit her in Japan, where she was working on a film, I didn't hesitate; I grabbed my camera and went. Well, there was a little coordinating but that part is really boring.
Never did I think I'd be on the set of an actual feature film, let alone be in Japan and with one of my closest friends. But in the end of 2014, that's exactly where I was. Specifically, I visited Tokyo, Kyoto, and Awaji Island, three of the locations where Equalsa science fiction-romantic-drama hybrid was shot. Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart play two people living in a world where emotions are not allowed to exist. When they both become infected with a disease that gives them back their ability to feel compassion and love, the film turns into a sort of futuristic Romeo and Juliet
Hanging out behind the scenes, I got a glimpse into a whole other side of the filmmaking process: the quiet moments, the in-between thoughtfulness. Click through to see what I saw.


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Add Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Phillip and James Zappalorti to the list of bias-crime victims in New York. The Phillips, a black couple, recently bought a house in a predominantly white Brooklyn neighborhood. A week later, the house burned in what investigators say was a case of racially motivated arson. Mr. Zappalorti, a Staten Island resident, was killed last month, allegedly because he was gay.

Such incidents are lamentable. No less lamentable is the failure of New York's Legislature to address the hate behind these crimes.

In the three years following the racial assaults in Howard Beach, Governor Cuomo and the State Assembly have supported bills that would allow prosecutors to upgrade the severity of the charge in bias-related crimes - crimes involving an assailant who seemed to be motivated by racial, religious, ethnic or sexual bigotry.

But each year, the State Senate has balked. Some of the senators resist extending protection to homosexuals. Others, however, question the whole idea of making bias crimes into a special category.

These are outdated concerns. Attacks against homosexuals, or those believed to be, may be growing faster than other bias-related crimes. Mr. Zappalorti, an emotionally disturbed Vietnam veteran, was allegedly killed by two men after they taunted and harassed him, calling him ''queer'' and ''faggot.'' Though not deadly, the hate directed against Mr. and Mrs. Phillip was equally heinous.

Such crimes threaten the tolerance required to sustain a heterogeneous society. That's why legislation passed recently by the U.S. Senate authorizing the Justice Department to compile national statistics on hate crimes is welcome. Society has a right to declare that crimes motivated by bigotry deserve special notice and punishment.

Some politicians in Albany understand that. Governor Cuomo is soon expected to introduce a revised, strengthened version of the legislation passed earlier by the Assembly. It's time for the Senate to join the struggle.


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A Parks Department summer employee, praised as "extraordinarily intelligent" and "well-behaved" by his co-workers, was arrested Thursday night and accused of touching a young girl sexually in one of the city's public pools.

The incident at the Red Hook Pool in Brooklyn follows more than a dozen other recent reports of similar attacks in the city's pools. But this was the first time that a worker at a pool was accused of such a crime, the Parks Department said.

It came the same day that three young boys who had been swimming in the Betsy Head Pool in East New York were charged with trying to rip the bathing suit off of a 12-year-old girl. The two episodes were the first of their kind since the Police Department announced two weeks ago that it would increase security at the pools. Co-Workers Are Shocked

The arrest of the Parks Department employee, Wesley Theogene, 21, shocked his fellow workers and supervisors at the Red Hook Pool at 151 Bay Street. Under a glaring hot sun, with hundreds of children jumping and splashing in the water, they described him as a sincere young man who had worked at the pool as a maintenance worker and seasonal aide for the last five summers, without incident or complaint.

"Everyone honestly is stunned," said Ed Pagan, a pool supervisor. "This is the first trouble we've had at the pool this summer. An accusation like this is a black eye for everyone."

Carl Snipe, the department supervisor at the pool, said that he dismissed Mr. Theogene yesterday morning.

Parks Commissioner Betsy Gotbaum seemed perplexed by the episode, saying that Mr. Theogene "has an exemplary record and is one of best workers we have."

"This has been such a bad summer," she said. "Can you imagine if we didn't take this kind of action?" Accosted a 13-Year-Old

Mr. Theogene, a Hunter College senior who lives at 147-15 Weller Lane in Rosedale, Queens, had gone off duty at 4 P.M. Thursday and decided to swim and play volleyball on the pool deck, said Stewart Desmond, a spokesman for the Parks Department. Mr. Desmond said that it is not uncommon for employees to use the pools after they have signed out for the day.

The police said that about 6:30 P.M., Mr. Theogene accosted a 13-year-old girl, first trying to put his hand inside her bathing suit and then touching her breasts. The officer assigned to the pool stepped forward and arrested him, the police said.

The summer job Mr. Theogene held is coveted work for many high school and college students. Mr. Desmond said that Mr. Theogene had been screened in the typical manner, and had been interviewed by one of the Parks Department's borough supervisors and fingerprinted.

So far this summer, 18 young women have reported being attacked in city pools, resulting in 33 arrests, Mr. Desmond said.

Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly recently announced that officers assigned to the pools would not be pulled off pool duty for other emergencies and that officers would be more aggressive in dealing with roughhousing in the pools.


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When Jeanne Levy-Church created the JEHT Foundation in 2002 to promote justice, equality, human dignity and tolerance, she tapped into investments run by Bernard L. Madoff.

Those investments were initially made more than three decades ago by her father, Norman Levy, who entrusted his real estate fortune to Mr. Madoff. Financed solely by regular contributions from Ms. Levy-Church, the foundation gave away more than $75 million over the next few years.

But on Monday, the young foundation announced that it would cease operations by the end of January — a victim of the same investments that made it a star in liberal philanthropic circles. “The returns had been steady and strong for all these years,” said Robert Crane, the foundation’s chief executive. “It was shocking.”

Mr. Madoff’s investment firm, Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities, collapsed last Thursday when federal regulators arrested him on charges that he had masterminded a scheme defrauding investors of $50 billion by his own estimate.

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Elite Swiss banks, prominent billionaires, asset management companies and wealthy retirees have lost billions in the scandal.

Around the country, the nonprofit community is reeling from the Madoff scandal. At least two other foundations have been forced to close their doors, having lost virtually all their assets to what authorities describe as a Ponzi scheme that depended on new investment money to pay off on earlier investments.

Charities that depended on those foundations for financing, like the Innocence Project and the UJA Federation, and wealthy donors like Norman Braman, Mort Zuckerman and J. Ezra Merkin have now added the Madoff scandal to the list of reasons that fund-raising has been crimped this fall. In some cases, the foundations had placed their money with Mr. Madoff directly; others had invested with funds that turned assets over to him. And some nonprofits relied on a steady stream of money from donors, like Ms. Levy-Church, with now vanishing fortunes.

“It’s not catastrophic, but it does hurt us,” said Madeline deLone, executive director of the Innocence Project, which was supported by JEHT in its work to use DNA evidence to exonerate improperly convicted criminals and to reform criminal justice.

The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, the Ramaz School and Yeshiva University are among the charities that invested in the Madoff funds, often on the advice of wealthy donors on their boards, and are now grappling with the fallout.

Elie Wiesel’s Foundation for Humanity had $37 million invested with Mr. Madoff. It realized a return of $310,520 in 2006. Credit Suzanne Plunkett/Bloomberg News

“We are just waiting to understand exactly what’s going on,” Marc Winkelman, the chief of the Texas-based chain of Calendar Club stores and the treasurer of the Wiesel organization, said on Friday. “It’s of course an upsetting thing.”

According to its 2006 tax form, the most recent available, the Wiesel Foundation realized a $310,520 gain that year on some $37 million of securities traded on its behalf by Mr. Madoff. It is unclear what portion of the organization’s endowment that $37 million represents. Mr. Winkelman did not return a call seeking clarification.

The tax forms show trading of well-known stocks like Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo and I.B.M., as well as government bonds, all of which may have led the Wiesel organization to believe that its portfolio was well diversified.

Yeshiva University lost $100 million to $110 million on investments in Madoff’s funds, having already seen its endowment drop to $1.4 billion, from $1.8 billion, after turmoil in the markets.

In a letter to donors, the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington said it had $10 million invested with Mr. Madoff, about 8 percent of its endowment as of Nov. 30. The organization said it would work to recover the money.

The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System reported that it had a $5.7 million exposure to Madoff Securities in the form of a gift from a donor who insisted that it be invested that way. “The donor who contributed the funds has graciously agreed to reimburse the health system for any financial loss,” the organization said in a statement.

The Ramaz School, where Mr. Merkin was on the investment committee, lost some $6 million invested with Mr. Madoff, according to a letter sent to board members and two parents whose children attend the school.

“It is a small part of our endowment," said Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the Ramaz principal. “We will be able to continue functioning normally.”

Miriam Rinn, a spokeswoman for the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America, the umbrella organization for J.C.C. organizations in the United States and Canada, said it was still working to determine how much it might have lost in the Madoff scandal.

The headquarters of the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation of Salem, Mass., which was forced to shut down last week. Credit Steven Senne/Associated Press

“We’re shocked,” Ms. Rinn said. But “we’re still going ahead with all of our services.”

The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation, which supports organizations like the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach in Florida, said it lost $145 million, or 45 percent of its assets at the end of last year, because of investments with Mr. Madoff.

“I was stunned and saddened to learn about the allegations against Bernie Madoff,” Carl Shapiro said in a statement. “It is devastating to think that so many charities, individuals and institutions that had put their trust in Mr. Madoff have had their lives so negatively impacted.”

He said his foundation would work to recover its investment and would honor all its commitments.

The SAR Academy, a Jewish school in the Bronx, had roughly a third of its $3.7 million in assets invested with Mr. Madoff, according to an e-mail message it sent to donors and parents. That exposure was through the Ascot Partners, an investment fund run by Mr. Merkin, the chairman of GMAC.

And Steven Spielberg’s Wunderkinder Foundation, which supports organizations like the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Chabad charity Children of Chernobyl, had investments with Mr. Madoff, although a spokesman said he did not know how much.

The Chais Family Foundation in Encino, Calif., announced over the weekend that its losses had forced it to stop operating, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The foundation had $178 million in assets in May 2007, according to its tax form.

The Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation of Salem, Mass., had about $7 million at the end of 2006, but was forced to shut down at the end of last week.

Ms. Levy-Church and her husband, Ken Levy-Church, supported JEHT each year with a contribution from their Madoff funds. There will be no more.

“Our programming is totally dependent on the ongoing funding, so for all intents and purposes it has ceased,” said Mr. Crane, JEHT’s chief executive. “People with grants currently in hand will keep that money, of course, but we can’t make good on pledges and grants that are for multiple years.”

The foundation’s 24 employees are losing their jobs, and organizations like Human Rights First and the Juvenile Law Center are losing revenue.

Elisa Massimino, the executive director and chief executive of Human Rights First, said JEHT had been a “significant” supporter of the organization, particularly its work on national security and civil liberties.

Correction: December 18, 2008

Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about the effect on several charities of a fraud involving a Wall Street investment fund run by Bernard L. Madoff misidentified an investment concern that worked with Mr. Madoff’s fund on behalf of the SAR Academy, a Jewish school in the Bronx. It is Ascot Partners, an investment fund operated by J. Ezra Merkin — not the Ascot Fund, which is a charity affiliated with the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.

Also because of an editing error, the article misstated the effect of the closing of the JEHT Foundation, whose money was invested in Mr. Madoff’s fund, on the Center for Investigative Reporting. The center has received significant grants over the years from the foundation and its budget this year includes money from previous JEHT grants, but the center is not “losing revenue.”

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Barack Obama, microphone in hand, stares off into the distance of a nearly empty room, a bemused grin on his face that seems to say, “Where is everybody?” Suddenly, a woman beelinesto the president, climbs to join him on his platform — there’s no security around to stop her — and leans in for a kiss. The guy she’s with laughs and says, “Don’t mess up his face!” before snapping a picture. I’m at the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, where Obama recently joined figures like Colin Powell, Zora Neale Hurston and Malcolm X, amid three floors of displays.

This is something of a homecoming for me. I lived here in the early 1990s, when I came to take a job at City Paper, the local alternative weekly. Even then, Baltimore had a reputation for intractable urban blight, but I cherished the city for its unexpected gems, like the George Peabody Library, known for having one of the most spectacular interiors of any library in the world, where I spent countless hours immersed in century-old volumes.

If you tuned into David Simon’s television triumph “The Wire,” which portrayed this city as a violent, impoverished hellhole, then it’s almost impossible to imagine that Baltimore was once one of the nation’s most prosperous centers of commerce. But in the process of becoming a sort of second city to the new capital in the early 1800s (Washington, D.C., is just 40 miles away), its legacy became muddled. I don’t think I ever fully understood this town during the time I lived here.

Within hours of being back in town, determined to discover the Baltimore that slipped past me, I’m already a bit choked up. But it has nothing to do with nostalgia. The wax museum is located on North Avenue, and I find that the street is still bracketed with boarded-up row houses. Once a vibrant thoroughfare, it never quite recovered from the riots of ’68 in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and various exhibits at the museum (including a graphic history of lynching in the basement) only serve as reminders of still-raw civic and national wounds.

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But just a mile west of the museum, I stumble upon Station North, an emerging district of galleries, theaters and artist studios. Cultural attractions — including the Charles (an art-house cinema that started out in 1939 as an all-newsreel movie house) and the galleries at the nearby Maryland Institute College of Art (Jeff Koons is a graduate) — have dotted the area for decades. But lately it has gained critical mass with the addition of newer places like the four-year-old Load of Fun Studios (an exhibition/performance space in a reclaimed office furniture warehouse) and the three-year-old Single Carrot Theatre. In ’92, I was mugged near this area, and it’s inspiring to see Baltimore healing itself in a way that feels grass-roots — unlike its famously developer-revived Inner Harbor neighborhood.

Godforsaken tourist trap! That’s what I thought of the Inner Harbor when I lived here. Such was my aversion to one of its main draws, the Harborplace mall, a “festival marketplace” dating back to 1980. A generic, cookie-cutter mall seemed to me an affront to a city that I appreciated for its pronounced misfit vibe.

But my hotel is near the harbor, so I’m heading there nonetheless. On the way, I stop at the Brewer’s Art, a local landmark of a bar in a beautifully preserved row house in the historic Mount Vernon neighborhood. I grab an Ozzy, a Belgian-style ale brewed on site. (“Have you had an Ozzy before? Brace yourself, it’s fast-acting,” my bartender says, pointing out its high alcohol content.) Slightly buzzed and determined not to eat crab cakes at an Inner Harbor restaurant, I grab dinner at the Helmand, a popular Afghan restaurant owned by Qayum Karzai, a brother of the Afghan president Hamid Karzai. (The kaddo borawni — fried and baked pumpkin with a yogurt garlic sauce — is exquisite.)

And then, just a few blocks farther south, in a small park surrounding the Washington Monument (which predated D.C.’s by 55 years), I take in an impromptu classical concert. Lured by what sounded like a string quartet, I thought I might be hearing a performance at the august recital hall of the Peabody Institute conservatory, where Stravinsky and Emerson lectured. But then I find the actual source: an open window on an upper floor of an adjacent building that directly overlooks the Naiad, a bronze statue of a nymph frolicking in a fountain. It’s a ridiculously civilized, serene moment — completely at odds with the rough, troubled Baltimore of popular imagination. I’m almost relieved when other musicians, presumably in another rehearsal room, noisily overlay their own discordant performance on top of the string quartet. Back to reality.

WHEN I LIVED HERE, I was a regular at the Baltimore Museum of Art, with its sizable collection of Post-Impressionist masterpieces, including the largest trove of Matisses in the United States, as well as the Walters Art Museum, known for its Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities. But the American Visionary Art Museum, dedicated to the work of self-taught artists, opened after I left. And so the next day, after a morning jog around the periphery of the Inner Harbor — I feel stupidly surprised to discover that Baltimoreans use it as an urban park, even as tourists cluelessly descend on the mall — I make my way to the AVAM in nearby Federal Hill, for centuries a neighborhood of shipyard workers, now increasingly gentrified.

The museum offers a generous nod to local icons, including a giant sculpture of Divine, the drag queen made famous by John Waters, Baltimore’s favorite son, as well as to outsider artists from around the world. (A current exhibition features the works of Iroquois Indians, Holocaust survivors and the great-grandson of Czar Alexander III.) But I’m most enthralled by a massive seven-panel work by the late James Snodgrass, a mannequin repairman who became entangled in the TV quiz-show scandal of the late ’50s. (He testified before Congress that he’d been secretly coached.) An eerie landscape populated by hundreds of teeny human figures, it doubles as a hazy portrait of a reclining female figure if viewed from a distance. It’s a Bosch-meets-Botero fantasia, and it’s startlingly beautiful.

I spend the afternoon in Hampden, near the Johns Hopkins University campus. It’s a residential neighborhood with a stretch of eclectic boutiques, cafes, bookstores and antiques shops. (O.K., some of them are glorified junk shops, but Baltimore has pretty cool junk.) I spend way too much time in particular at the True Vine, a vinyl emporium where Dusty Springfield meets Yoko Ono meets Ennio Morricone. It’s the kind of place that, were it in New York, would have been turned into a Marc Jacobs store by now.

OVER a MEATLOAf dinner at the Metropolitan Coffeehouse & Wine Bar in Federal Hill, my old friend, the writer Michael Yockel (he hired me at City Paper), is picking apart my theory about his hometown. I’m suggesting that it’s one of the last genuine midsize American vernacular cities — a big small town that’s somehow retained its rough edges, its singularity, its historical quirkiness. Every city, Yockel counters, has its pockets of weirdness — it’s just that Baltimore has had some effective PR over the years thanks to a certain filmmaker. “And there’s a John Waters waiting to happen in plenty of other cities!” he says.

He’s right, of course. Visitors coming to Baltimore looking for beehive hairdos can still find them, particularly at Hampden’s campy annual HonFest (“Hon” being the term of endearment for a certain sort of trapped-in-the-’60s Baltimore biddy). But it strikes me that Baltimore is most engaging when the outside world isn’t giving its opinion.

I’m thinking of this one evening at the Talking Head, a small rock club inside the massive venue Sonar, where I catch a performance by Magic Missile, a band from suburban Arbutus, Md. (David Byrne, whose band inspired the name of this club, spent his teen years in that same town.) The club is half empty — a lot of nontouristy Baltimore, come to think of it, can feel underpopulated. But the three baby-faced members of Magic Missile decide to make the best of it.

While the previous band finishes its set, I notice a drum kit set up behind me, and a mic stand immediately to my right. Magic Missile, it seems, will not be taking the stage. Before they dive into a string of their signature under-two-minute pop-punk tunes — “I’m Sorry for Something That I Didn’t Do” is my favorite — the lead singer Sam Reiser instructs the audience to cluster between him and his bandmates.

It feels like a very Baltimore moment: rather than play from the stage to a half empty room, the band decides to join the audience and play to an entirely empty stage. [?][?][?] SIMON DUMENCO

HOTELS Hilton Garden Inn Baltimore Inner Harbor A deluxe waterfront hotel that houses the Maryland Athletic Club. 625 South President Street; (410) 234-0065;; doubles from $119. Hotel Monaco Baltimore This boutique-style hotel occupies the beautifully renovated landmark Baltimore & Ohio Railroad headquarters. 2 North Charles Street; (443) 692-6170;; doubles from $159.

RESTAURANTS AND BARS The Brewer’s Art Wide selection of ales and an ambitious gastropub menu. 1106 North Charles Street; (410) 547-6925;; entrees $19 to $27. The Helmand Afghan specialties include chopan, a half rack of lamb, and kaddo borawni, a sweetened pumpkin dish. 806 North Charles Street; (410) 752-0311;; entrees $13 to $22. Lexington Market In operation since 1782, this is a good lunch option for soul food and traditional crab cakes. 400 West Lexington Street; Metropolitan Coffeehouse & Wine Bar Eclectic menu with everything from shish kebab to stuffed shrimp. 902 South Charles Street; (410) 234-0235;; entrees $14 to $19. Woodbery Kitchen Casually upscale farm-to-table restaurant in a former iron foundry. 2010 Clipper Park Road, No. 126; (410) 464-8000;; entrees $16 to $31.

CULTURE American Visionary Art Museum Dedicated to self-taught and outsider artists. 800 Key Highway; (410) 244-1900; The Baltimore Museum of Art Features works by Degas, Matisse, Picasso and van Gogh, as well as an impressive collection of African art. 10 Art Museum Drive; (443) 573-1700; George Peabody Library This grand space, part of Johns Hopkins University, holds more than 300,000 volumes. 17 East Mount Vernon Place; (410) 659-8179; Load of Fun Studios A community-based gallery. 120 West North Avenue; The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum More than 100 figures as well as special exhibitions like the Underground Railroad and Islamic Africa. 1601-03 East North Avenue; (410) 563-3404; The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University The music conservatory offers various workshops and concerts. 17 East Mount Vernon Place; (410) 234-4500; Single Carrot Theater A popular venue for experimental plays. 120 West North Avenue; (410) 844-9253; The Walters Art Museum Works ranging from ancient Egypt to the 20th century. 600 North Charles Street; (410) 547-9000;

NIGHT LIFE An Die Musik An 80-seat classical and jazz club that occupies a parlor room in a Mount Vernon town house and has an excellent record store. 409 North Charles Street; (410) 385-2638; The Talking Head Club The place to catch local and emerging bands. Next door is Sonar, a warehouse-size space that books touring rock and indie acts. (Listings for both are at 407 East Saratoga Street; (410) 783-7888.

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The Americans arrested Wednesday in Pakistan were, from left, Waqar Khan, Ramy Zamzam, Umer Farooq, Ahmed Abdullah Minni, and Aman Hassan Yemer. Credit Sargodha Police Department, via Associated Press

WASHINGTON — As the years passed after Sept. 11, 2001, without another major attack on American soil and with no sign of hidden terrorist cells, many counterterrorism specialists reached a comforting conclusion: Muslims in the United States were not very vulnerable to radicalization.

American Muslims, the reasoning went, were well assimilated in diverse communities with room for advancement. They showed little of the alienation often on display among their European counterparts, let alone attraction to extremist violence.

But with a rash of recent cases in which Americans have been accused of being drawn into terrorist scheming, the rampage at Fort Hood, Tex., last month and now the alarming account of five young Virginia men who went to Pakistan and are suspected of seeking jihad, the notion that the United States has some immunity against homegrown terrorists is coming under new scrutiny.

It is a concern that President Obama noted in passing in his address on the decision to send 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan, and one that has grown as the Afghan war and the hunt for Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan intensifies.

“These events certainly call the consensus into question,” said Robert S. Leiken, who studies terrorism at the Nixon Center, a Washington policy institute, and wrote the forthcoming book “Europe’s Angry Muslims.”

“The notion of a difference between Europe and United States remains relevant,” Mr. Leiken said. But the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the American operations like drone strikes in Pakistan, are fueling radicalization at home, he said.

“Just the length of U.S. involvement in these countries is provoking more Muslim Americans to react,” Mr. Leiken said.

Concern over the recent cases has profoundly affected Muslim organizations in the United States, which have renewed pledges to campaign against extremist thinking.

“Among leaders, there’s a recognition that there’s a challenge within our community that needs to be addressed,” said Alejandro J. Beutel, government liaison at the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Washington, and main author of a report by the council on radicalization and how to combat it.

Mr. Beutel, a Muslim convert from New Jersey, said the council started a grass-roots counterradicalization effort in 2005, but acknowledged that “for a while it was on the back burner.” He said, “Now we’re going to revive it.”

F.B.I. investigators were in Pakistan on Friday questioning the five Virginia men. But it remained unclear whether the men would be deported to the United States, and whether they had broken any laws in either Pakistan or the United States.

At a news conference Friday at the small Virginia mosque where the men had been youth group regulars, mosque officials expressed bewilderment at claims that the men wanted to join the jihad against American troops in Afghanistan.

“I never observed any extreme behavior from them,” said Mustafa Maryam, who runs the youth group and said he had known the young men since 2006. “They were fun-loving, career-focused children. They had a bright future before them.”

Also at the press briefing, asked about reports that the five men had contacted a Pakistani militant via the Web, Mahdi Bray, the head of the Freedom Foundation of the Muslim American Society, told reporters that YouTube and social networking sites had become a dangerous recruiting tool for militants.

“We are determined not to let religious extremists exploit the vulnerability of our children through this slick, seductive propaganda on the Internet,” said Mr. Bray, who is organizing a youth meeting later this month in Chicago to address the issue.

“Silence in cyberspace is not an option for us,” he said.

The detention of the Virginia men — ranging in age from late teens to mid-20s — would have prompted soul-searching no matter when it occurred. But it comes after a series of disturbing cases that already had terror experts speculating about a trend.

There were the November shootings that took 13 lives at Fort Hood, with murder charges pending against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American-born Muslim and an Army psychiatrist.

There was the arrest of Najibullah Zazi, born in Afghanistan but the seeming model of the striving immigrant as a popular coffee vendor in Manhattan, accused of going to Pakistan for explosives training with the intention of attacking in the United States.

There was David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American living in Chicago, accused of helping plan the killings in Mumbai, India, last year and of plotting attacks in Denmark.

There was Bryant Neal Vinas, a Muslim convert from Long Island who participated in a rocket attack on American troops in Afghanistan and used his knowledge of commuter trains in New York to advise Al Qaeda about potential targets.

There were the Somali-Americans from Minnesota who had traveled to Somalia to join a violent Islamist movement.

And there were cases of would-be terrorists who plotted attacks in Texas, Illinois and North Carolina with conspirators who turned out to be F.B.I. informants.

Bruce Hoffman, who studies terrorism at Georgetown University, said the recent cases only confirmed that it was “myopic” to believe “we could insulate ourselves from the currents affecting young Muslims everywhere else.”

Like many other specialists, Mr. Hoffman pointed to the United States’ combat in Muslim lands as the only obvious spur to many of the recent cases, especially those with a Pakistani connection.

“The longer we’ve been in Iraq and Afghanistan,” he said, “the more some susceptible young men are coming to believe that it’s their duty to take up arms to defend their fellow Muslims.”

A few analysts, in fact, argue that Mr. Obama’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan — intended to prevent a terrorist haven there — could backfire.

Robert A. Pape, a University of Chicago political scientist, contends that suicide attacks are almost always prompted by resentment of foreign troops, and that escalation in Afghanistan will fuel more plots.

“This new deployment increases the risk of the next 9/11,” he said. “It will not make this country safer.”

Yet amid the concern about the five Virginia men and the impact of the wars on Muslim opinion, Audrey Kurth Cronin of the National War College in Washington said she found something to take comfort in.

“To me, the most interesting thing about the five guys is that it was their parents that went immediately to the F.B.I.,” she said. “It was members of the American Muslim community that put a stop to whatever those men may have been planning.”

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close this bookEthnicity and Power in the Contemporary World (UNU, 1996, 298 pages)
close this folder5. Dynamics of the Moldova Trans-Dniester ethnic conflict (late 1990s to early 1990s)
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6 The august 1991 coup attempt and the transition to independence

The failure of the August 1991 coup in the USSR can be regarded as the landmark of the fourth stage of socio-political transition in Moldova. Two events of major significance mark this period: Moldova's declaration of complete independence in August 1991, and worldwide recognition of the new republic after the definitive disintegration of the Soviet empire and the resignation of Gorbachev in late December 1991.

Together with the Baltic states, Moldova was among those few Union republics to condemn the organizers of the Communist putsch in Moscow from the outset. On 21 August, an extraordinary session of the Moldovan Parliament called for active resistance against the Union structures and against the putschists. After the failure of the Moscow coup, on 23 August, the Moldovan Parliament banned all activities of the Communist Party in Moldova (ST, 28 August 1991).

On 27 August, the Declaration of Independence and the secession of Moldova from the USSR was adopted by the Parliament. On the same day, Moldova's independence was recognized by Romania; two days later, diplomatic relations were established between the two states. On 23 October, the government of Moldova declared republican ownership of all industrial enterprises formerly under Union structures. In November/December 1991, the Moldovan Parliament adopted legislative acts on the creation of a national army, internal troops, frontier guard, and special police detachments (OPON). Nationwide presidential elections were to be held on 8 December.

As in other ex-USSR republics, the removal of the Union centre and the process of state-building were accompanied by growing differentiation and rivalries within the elite of the titular nationality. The radical wing of the Moldovan nationalist movement, headed by Moldova's former Prime Minister M. Druk, called for the restoration of Greater Romania within the 1940 borders, through reunion of independent Moldova with Romania and presentation of territorial claims to the Ukraine. A large group of Moldovan intellectuals, followed by some of the rank and file, left the MPF, disapproving of Druk's radicalism. The majority of the Moldovan elite backed the moderates, headed by Moldovan President Snegur, whose policies envisaged strengthening Moldova's independence, preserving economic ties with other ex-USSR republics, and joining the Commonwealth of Independent States.

On 14 October 1991, the MPF declared its transition into opposition to the Snegur government (NM, 24 October 1991). After that, the MPF leaders called a boycott of the forthcoming presidential elections. On 1 December, a rally of the coalition of radical nationalist parties declared the formation of a "Pan-Romanian National Council of the Reunion," for Greater Romania within the borders of 1940. This Council consisted of radical nationalist Moldovan Parliament deputies and their colleagues from the Romanian Parliament who belonged to right-wing opposition parties in Romania (NM, 4 December 1991).

At the nationwide elections held in Moldova on 8 December, Snegur won the presidency, receiving 98 per cent of the vote. Voter turnout was high, at 83.9 per cent (NM, 13 December 1991). The failure of the MPF boycott and the victory of Snegur demonstrated the popular support and legitimacy enjoyed by the moderate nationalist leaders.

The same period between August 1991 and December 1991 was marked by a new crisis in inter-ethnic conflict between the Moldovan majority and the Russophones of left-bank Moldova. Since the very beginning of the August coup attempt in Moscow, Trans-Dniestrian and Gaganz leaders had supported and expressed allegiance to the putschists. After the failure of the coup, on 25 August, the Supreme Soviet of the PMSSR proclaimed Trans-Dniester independent from Moldova. The Moldovan Parliament did not recognize this proclamation, and on 27 August the Moldovan central authorities issued an order authorizing the arrest of separatist leaders of Trans-Dniester and Gagauzia. The next day, a special decree of President Snegur abolished or suspended the publication of almost all local Russian language newspapers, accusing them of Communist propaganda and support of the coup junta (ST, 28 August, 4 September 1991).

On 1 September, the Russophone population of Trans-Dniester began a railway blockade of Moldova demanding the release of the arrested leaders and threatening to interrupt electricity and gas supplies to right-bank Moldova, populated predominantly by Moldovan's. On 2 September, the outlawed Supreme Soviet of the PMSSR approved the Constitution of the republic, adopting the former socialist Moldovan state emblem and flag as symbols of the Republic of Trans-Dniester (IZ, 2, 3 September 1991; ST, 7 September 1991).

From 9 September, in the towns and cities of Trans-Dniester, armed formations of so-called "forces of self-defence of Trans-Dniester" and "detachments of people's militia" (people's volunteer corps), subordinated to staff headquarters in Tyraspol, came into being. On 21 September, the Trans-Dniestrian "parliament" approved a "law" on the creation of Trans-Dniestrian republican armed forces (the republican guard) and announced military mobilization of Russophone males aged 20-40 (IZ, 10,11 September 1991; ST, 14, 21 September 1991). Sentries and control posts were stationed by Trans-Dniestrian guardsmen and militia on all roads and on the Dubossary Bridge.

A particularly explosive situation arose in Dubossary, with its mixed Moldovan and Russian population. The city police and executive power were controlled by Moldovans, while the legislative local bodies were controlled by the Russian majority. On 25 September, after five Russian civilians were arrested by the police and accused of non-compliance, Russian citizens attacked the central office of the city police and the building of the Dubossary branch of the Moldova State Bank. The ensuing police control action resulted in three casualties. Groups of Moldovan peasants from nearby villages arrived in the city to support the police (IZ, 27 September 1991; ST, 2 October 1991).

A delegation of deputies of the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet arrived in Moldova to assist in settling the conflict. On 1 October, an agreement was signed between the Moldovan government and representatives of left-bank Moldova. It provided for the liberation of the arrested separatist leaders, mutual withdrawal of additional Moldovan police forces and Trans-Dniestrian guards from Dubossary, and an end to the railway blockade of right-bank Moldova. However, control posts stationed by Trans-Dniestrians on the roads and on the Dubossary Bridge remained (NM, 4 October 1991).

Inter-ethnic conflict did not abate, however. Russophone leaders insisted that Moldova should recognize the independence of Trans-Dniester as an indispensable precondition for initiating negotiations on Trans-Dniester's entering Moldova as an ethno-territorial autonomy with the right of free secession. The Moldovan central authorities, however, rejected direct bilateral negotiations with the leaders of separatist parliaments and refused to recognize the legitimacy of these bodies, demanding their dissolution and the return of deputies from Trans-Dniester and Gagauzia to the central Moldovan Parliament as a precondition for examining the minorities' demands.

In October 1991, the Supreme Soviets of Trans-Dniester and Gagauzia called for local referenda to be held on independence and presidential elections on 1 December 1991 (NM, 17, 31 October 1991). Starting in November 1991, Trans-Dniestrian Russophones made attempts to subordinate local organs of social control to the authority of the Trans-Dniester republic. The decree issued by the head of the Trans-Dniestrian Department of Internal Affairs envisaged the establishment of a Trans-Dniestrian militia instead of Moldovan police officers, and required dismissal of any policemen disinclined to swear allegiance to the PMSSR (NM, 15 November 1991).

On 1 December 1991, two separatist leaders, I. Smirnov and S. Topal, were elected president at the local elections held in Trans-Dniester and Gaganzia, respectively. The referenda held the same day supported independence from Moldova. On 3 December, the Supreme Soviet of Trans-Dniester approved the creation of the Trans-Dniestrian Ministry of Defence and Security. G. Yakovlev, Commander-in-Chief of the 14th Soviet Army, located in the region, expressed his support for the PMSSR (NM, 4, 7 December 1991).

In mid-December 1991, a new crisis in inter-ethnic disputes erupted, with violent clashes in left-bank Moldova. On 16 December, Russophone militiamen attacked and occupied the local offices of Moldovan police in the Grigoriopol and Slobodzeja districts, which had refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Trans-Dniestrian republican authorities (NM, 17 December 1991). The Dubossary Bridge was once again reported to be seized by Trans-Dniestrian guardsmen, and the town of Dubossary cut off from the neighbouring Moldovan villages. On 7 December, about 700 armed guardsmen and three armored personnel carriers under Trans-Dniestrian "Dniester" formations of guardsmen were reported to be gathering in Dubossary district (NM, 14 December 1991). The Russophone Dubossary City Council and the local radio called on citizens to blockade the city police office, and presented Moldovan policemen with an ultimatum to leave the city. The policemen rejected this and staged a defence, calling for support from Kishinev.

Moldovan peasants from neighbouring villages who hastened to help the besieged policemen were stopped at the Dubossary Bridge by shots from Trans-Dniestrian guardsmen. Additional police detachments from Kishinev made an attempt to enter Dubossary. Exchanges of fire and clashes between the Moldovan OPON detachments and Trans-Dniestrian guardsmen resulted in five killed and twelve wounded (NM, 17 December 1991). Minor armed collisions were also reported in Kamenka and Grigoriopol districts.

In late December came reports of potential trouble. The command of the 14th Soviet Army promised support to the Russophones in the event of new intervention from the Moldovan police. On 25 December, the first semiarid groups of Russian Cossacks from the Don region of the Russian Federation were reported to have arrived as volunteers in Tyraspol, to swear allegiance to the PMSSR as a sign of solidarity and support to their Russian ethnic brethren in Trans-Dniester (MN, 21, 26 December 1991).


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Daniel Linder’s face was wrought with disappointment, but the Oakdale High senior’s voice had an unmistakable semblance of pride on Saturday as he summarized the 14-game journey he and 50 football teammates shared this season. Oakdale snared Valley Oak League co-champion status and then dispatched all comers on the way to the D3 final, closing the year at 10-4 overall.

“This team has persevered all year long,” Linder said. “We had ups and downs early on, but we kept fighting and getting better every week.

“It’s just a heartbreaker to lose tonight.”

Opponent Del Oro landed just one offensive score — an ultra-deceptive pass from goal line formation — but big plays on defense and special teams allowed two more touchdowns and a 21-0 Golden Eagle win in a rainy Sac-Joaquin Section Division III championship game at Sacramento State on Dec. 4.

“Del Oro is dynamite, and everything they were billed to be,” Oakdale head coach Trent Merzon said. “We knew coming in that we were going to have to be perfect and more.

“These things are hard to win, and when you get to this stage you will always have to beat a great team, and Del Oro is a great football team.”

Oakdale was unable to convert fourth downs in Golden Eagle territory, and saw the game’s only field goal attempt sail wide-left after a 45-yard try from Mustang Justin Martin.

Del Oro defenders clogged the middle on Marcus Hernandez runs and gang-tackled Linder and Marcus Northcutt on each sprint to the outside.

Sophomore quarterback Spencer Thomas was spectacular for the second straight week, but his 75-yard rushing performance and 36-yard passing stanza represented most of Oakdale’s 221 yards from scrimmage.

“I wanted to carry the seniors to a section title in their last year but it just didn’t work out,” Thomas said. “We played pretty good tonight and we know this team had a great year.”

Del Oro snared the game’s only first half score after repeated third and short runs in goal-line formation set up a brilliant tight end pass to a wide open Shoichi Martinson on third and two from Del Oro’s 28-yard line.

The Golden Eagles scored again to open the second half after Russell Smith corralled a short kickoff and broke through a frenzy of players for a 70-yard kick return.

The final last score of the soggy night came after an Oakdale screen pass deflected into the hands of Del Oro’s Kai Vonalvensleben for a 47-yard interception return with 4:16 to play.

The play effectively put a championship for Oakdale this season out of reach, but did nothing to taint a tremendous season for Thomas and the 26 Mustang seniors who rallied behind him.

“Our underclassmen truly understand that they are going to miss our seniors,” Merzon said. “They’ve done some tremendous things. I’m just so proud of this group, so proud of our seniors.”

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Peters Township seniors Cole Kochman and Mike Woltz headed to Youngstown State and Robert Morris

February 25, 2013
Jason Mackey / Observer-Reporter Peters Township seniors Mike Woltz, left, and Cole Kochman signed National Letters of Intent to play Division I football. Kochman is headed to Youngstown State University, and Woltz will play for Robert Morris University.

Cole Kochman and Mike Woltz always figured they’d play college football.

Predicting how that dream would come to fruition? No, the two Peters Township seniors couldn’t possibly have imagined that.

Position changes, some necessitated by weight gain, others by injuries, and a near-amputation of Kochman’s left leg all provide ample context to the National Letters of Intent Kochman and Woltz signed with Youngstown State and Robert Morris, respectively, not long ago.

“It’s been a dream of mine since I started playing football,” Woltz said. “I’ve always looked up to watching guys on TV play football. It’s something that I’ve wanted to do.”

Kochman has a tattoo on his thigh, over the muscle that was once choked off from his body’s blood supply, an incident so serious that his father, Curtis, actually signed papers to authorize amputation of Cole’s leg.

“Coming back from that and getting a scholarship really means a lot,” Kochman said.

Both Kochman and Woltz grew up playing football in youth leagues together, Kochman when he was 6, Woltz a year later.

Kochman comes from a football family: Curtis Kochman played defensive back at West Virginia from 1983-87, and Cole’s uncle, Dave Johnson, has been a college assistant for nearly 30 years.

“Football has been a big part of my life,” Kochman said. “I’ve always dreamed of signing that National Letter of Intent and playing Division I college football. It feels great to complete the goal I’ve had since I was 6 years old.”

Cole Kochman, like Woltz, was originally a quarterback, at least until he broke his collarbone as a sophomore.

That was more than two years after Kochman, at a Penn State lacrosse tournament, injured his thigh and learned he was suffering from acute compartment syndrome – essentially the lack of blood flow to the muscle.

Emergency surgery was performed in the middle of the night, and it turned out amputation wasn’t necessary, though Kochman did have to learn how to walk and use his leg again.

The entire situation afforded Kochman a second lease on life and continues to serve as a motivating factor.

As a rush end in Peters Township’s 4-4 scheme, the 6-3, 210-pound Kochman had 55 tackles, two sacks and two tackles for a loss, helping the Indians make the playoffs the past three years – rare for a school that generally prefers its football European style.

Woltz, who once competed for playing time with Kochman, played quarterback until his junior year before he wound up being moved to fullback, linebacker and eventually tight end because he filled out.

He’s now 6-3, 215 pounds and spent the season mostly blocking for running back Mike Minjock, who ran for 1,323 yards and 17 touchdowns.

“They’re two guys who will do anything you ask them to do,” Peters Township coach Rich Piccinini said. “They’ll play anywhere and do pretty much anything workout-wise.”

Last week, that meant driving from school to Evolution Sports Institute in Bridgeville to suffer through a two-plus-hour session with several other area football players.

Kochman and Woltz both pay $415 a month for membership to ESI, the workouts running four days a week and usually alternating between upper and lower body.

One example of a workout that sticks out for Woltz: bench press, four sets, weight going from heavy to light, in between sets alternating pull-ups until fail, usually around 50 or 60 total.

The workouts are so intense that the two friends will often be training alongside NFL players such as Ryan Clark, Sean Lee, Paul Posluszny, Max Starks and Willie Colon.

“When it gets hard, we get on each other about it,” said Woltz, who will actually switch positions again and play outside linebacker at Robert Morris.

About 30 minutes into a workout last week, word started to circulate about Kochman and Woltz once playing quarterback. Laughter ensued. Nobody could believe it.

But spend only a few minutes with these two, and it doesn’t seem that strange, especially when you consider the work they’ve put in. Work that together helped them achieve lifelong goals of playing Division I football.

“Me and Cole have always been close,” Woltz said. “Working out with him has almost made it feel like he’s my brother; we can talk to each other about anything.”

Said Kochman, “Since we moved positions, it almost feels like we’ve gotten closer.”

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‘Assisting Children Together’ — Ryan’s story

Ryan, 9, holds his knees up to his chest behind the living room couch. As he rocks himself slightly, the sleeves of his oversized t-shirt reach sharp elbows, which seem to row his bony body forwards and backwards. His piercing blue eyes are glued to the carpet.

After several minutes, Ryan comes out and starts playing again with his towheaded sister Audrey, 5. Their mother, Mindy, is sitting at the kitchen table, still dressed in her brightly patterned CNA scrubs. She cleans the white boards Audrey and Ryan used for a game of bingo with her earlier.

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Twelve more people have tested positive for tuberculosis, though local health department officials said those patients are not contagious.

Correction: An earlier version of this article contained incorrect information about who was included among the 12 additional positive tests.

Twelve more people have tested positive for tuberculosis, though local health department officials said those patients are not contagious.

The 12 people had been in close contact with a North Marion High School student who tested positive for TB in July.

The 12 include close family members and friends of the original student, as well as students from North Marion High. The original student attended summer school at North Marion Middle.

Craig Ackerman, Marion County Health Department spokesman, said 171 people were identified as having close contact with the original student. Of the 143 who have been tested so far, 12 tested positive.

“The CDC (federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) states that if everyone in America was tested for TB, 5 to 10 percent would test positive,” said Ackerman.

Since none of the 12 people who tested positive have symptoms, they cannot spread the disease.

“These types of cases are called 'latent TB infections,' ” Ackerman noted. “People with latent TB infection have TB germs in their bodies, but they are not sick because the germs are not active.”

Though people with the latent TB infections cannot spread the germs to others, “they may develop TB disease in the future if not treated preventively,” he said.

Health officials said the 12 who tested positive will be evaluated for treatment. Health officials are still actively trying to track down the other 28 people who need to be tested.

Despite the fact the new TB cases are not contagious, Ackerman said “we're not taking this lightly. The agency is still trying to find the final 28 people.”

Due to privacy laws, the names, ages and genders of the affected people were not released on Friday.

The School District has been working with the health department since the first TB case was discovered, providing the names of students and faculty, as well as bus-mates, who had the closest contact with the original student.

District spokesman Kevin Christian said on Friday that the health department offered to send officials to both North Marion schools during open house to address parental concerns a few weeks ago.

Christian said both principals said they could handle the questions. Those principals reported they had received very few, if any, phone calls from parents.

Christian said since those people who tested positive are not contagious, they can attend school until the health department recommends otherwise.

“There shouldn't be an issue,” Christian noted.

TB germs do not live on surfaces of desks, walls or other items. It is airborne. TB is a disease that usually infects the lungs, but at times can affect other parts of the body.

“It is spread when an infected person coughs, talks, sings or sneezes untreated TB germs into the air,” a health department release noted early this month. People who breathe in the germs can become infected.

Officials say TB is less contagious than measles, mumps, chicken pox and influenza. Even if a person is infected, the bacteria can remain dormant and not contagious to others. Only a person who is sick with the TB disease can spread it.

Symptoms include a cough lasting more than three weeks, night sweats lasting more than a week, unexplained weight loss, a productive cough or coughing up blood. The side effects of TB include fatigue, shortness of breath, and/or chest pain or tightness.

For more information about TB, visit Residents with questions can call the health department at 629-0137.


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Arts preview: A new pavilion, biennials and more

The biggest single event this fall in the visual arts will probably be the opening of the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, Oct. 2 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The 45,000-square foot structure will house three new exhibitions during its opening. PHOTO BY ALEX VERTIKOFF; TEXT BY RICHARD CHANG, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

This fall, the biggest single phenomenon in the area arts scene is probably the opening of the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The $53 million pavilion – one of the largest naturally lighted, open-plan museum spaces in the world – will open with a free community weekend Oct. 2-3.

Three exhibits will also commence in the Renzo Piano-designed single-story structure: "Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection," "Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico," and "Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915."

While museums were actively expanding just a few years ago, budgets have tightened and ambitions have been reigned in. LACMA appears to be the only area museum that's opening a new building this season.

As for trends, museums continue to showcase their permanent collections – perhaps a move to save money, as huge, international blockbusters can be cost prohibitive.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is presenting L.A. artists from its permanent collection in "The Artist's Museum" at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary and Grand Avenue locations. In Santa Ana, the Bowers Museum is showcasing "Weird and Wonderful: Celebrating 75 Years of Collecting" through Nov. 14.

Other highlights from the 2010-11 season include rarely seen "spectre" paintings by Eva Hesse at the Hammer Museum (Sept. 25-Jan. 2); a John Paul Jones retrospective at the Laguna Art Museum (Oct. 31-Jan. 23); the contemporary group show "Suggestivism" at the Grand Central Art Center (Feb. 5-April 10); and the first comprehensive North American retrospective of Blinky Palermo at LACMA (Oct. 31-Jan. 16). Palermo is well known in Europe as one of the foremost postwar painters, but his work is rarely seen in the United States.

To borrow an exhibit title from the Bowers, it's going to be a weird and wonderful season at art museums across Southern California. All you have to do is go out and have a look.

"Siqueiros: Landscape Painter," Through Jan. 30, Museum of Latin American Art. David Alfaro Siqueiros is known as one of the master muralists of Mexico, but this show reveals that he was a major landscape painter as well. The show includes approximately half of the 150 landscapes that Siqueiros created in his lifetime. Admission is $9 general, $6 seniors and students, free for children under 12. MOLAA, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach. 562-437-1689. molaa.org

"Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico," Oct. 2-Jan. 9, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Olmecs were the first civilization in Mesoamerica. This exhibit, the first West Coast U.S. presentation of colossal works and small-scale Olmec sculptures, will include enormous basalt portrait head of rulers and small-scale jadeite objects. The show coincides with the bicentennial of Mexico's independence and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution. It will also help inaugurate the new Resnick Pavilion. Admission is $15 adults, $10 for students 18 and older and seniors, free for children 17 and younger. LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. 323-857-6000. lacma.org

2010 California Biennial, Oct. 24-March 13, Orange County Museum of Art. Curator Sarah Bancroft has selected more than 40 artists and collaborative groups from San Francisco to San Diego who represent exciting developments in contemporary art. The biennial will include painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation and performance. Programs are planned through the run of the show. Admission is $12 adults, $10 students and seniors, free for children 12 and younger. OCMA, 850 San Clemente Drive, Newport Beach. 949-759-1122. ocma.net

"All Things Bright & Beautiful," Nov. 10-June 11, Irvine Museum. This traveling exhibition returns to the Irvine Museum, featuring 58 important California Impressionist paintings from the museum's permanent collection. Artists include Franz A. Bischoff, Anna Hills, Edgar A. Payne, Guy Rose and William Wendt. Admission is free. Irvine Museum, 18881 Von Karman Ave., Suite 100, Irvine. 949-476-0295. irvinemuseum.org

"Photography from the New China," Dec. 7-April 3, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center. This exhibition offers a cross-section of Chinese photographs produced since Deng Xiaoping introduced the current period of opening and reform. The show highlights the Getty's recent acquisition of photos by Hai Bo, Liu Zheng, Song Yongping, Rong Rong and Wang Qingsong. Some dominant styles are featured, including performance for the camera, the incorporation of family photographs, and an emphasis on the body. Other themes include prerevolutionary Chinese literati and the newly rampant consumerism. Admission is free; parking is $15. Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles. 310-440-7300. getty.edu

"Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color and Space," Dec. 12-Feb. 27, the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. This will be the first museum exhibition to situate pioneering Latin American artists among the international canon of those working with light and space. Artists will include Carlos Cruz-Diez, Lucio Fontana, Julio Le Parc, Hélio Oiticica and Jesús Rafael Soto. Admission is $10 general, $5 seniors and students, free for children under 12. Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 152 N. Central Ave., Los Angeles. 213-626-6222. moca.org

"Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World," Dec. 18-March 13, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art. This show will feature 75 rare and important artifacts from the founding father's life. The interactive, hands-on exhibit will include personal belongings used during his early years as a rebellious teenager in Boston, objects that came from his life as a printer, and items from his years of service to the American colonies and the newly formed United States. Admission is $12 adults, $9 seniors, students and children 6-17, free for children under 6. Bowers, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana. 714-567-3600. bowers.org

"Mexico Expected/Unexpected," Feb. 4-May 15, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla. This show highlights more than 100 artworks from the Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection, one of Mexico's most comprehensive contemporary art collections. Artists include Francis Alÿs, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Orozco, Damian Ortega and Melanie Smith. The show will be jointly presented at MCASD and the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. Admission is $10 general, $5 seniors, students and military, free for folks 25 and younger. MCASD, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. 858-454-3541. mcasd.org

"Noguchi East Meets West," Feb. 27-May 15, Laguna Art Museum. An exhibit of 50 sculptures and drawings spanning 60 years of Isamu Noguchi's illustrious career. This will be a rare retrospective exhibition of Noguchi's work to be shown in California. A display on Noguchi's "California Scenario" at South Coast Plaza Town Center will also be on view at Laguna. Admission is $12 general, $10 seniors, students and military, free for children under 12. Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach. 949-494-8971. lagunaartmuseum.org

"California Design Biennial: Action/Reaction," July 18-Oct. 31, Pasadena Museum of California Art. This show is well into next year, but still worth mentioning. The fourth design biennial will showcase the most significant and innovative designs being created in California. The exhibit will not feature a juried competition, but will instead have a separate curator for each design category: industrial design, fashion, graphic, transportation and architecture. Felt Bicycles from Irvine will be part of the show. Admission is $7 adults, $5 seniors and students, free for children under 12. Pasadena Museum of California Art, 490 E. Union St., Pasadena. 626-568-3665. pmcaonline.org

Contact the writer: 714-796-6026 or rchang@ocregister.com

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Inauguration trivia answers

Inauguration trivia answers:

1. C. Start spreading the news: George Washington took the oath of office as our nation's first president in 1789 on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City. He went to Philly the next time.

2. C. Dolley Madison organized the first official inaugural ball in Washington D.C. for husband James Madison when he became the nation's fourth president in 1809.

3. C. It cost $4 to attend that first ball, and 400 people snatched up the tickets.

4. B. Didn't you see the movie? African Americans first marched in Lincoln's second inaugural parade. Women, by the way, weren't included until 1917 at Woodrow Wilson's second inauguration.

5. B. Lady Bird Johnson held the Bible in 1965 when Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in.

6. A. In 1949, Harry Truman's inauguration was broadcast on TV. John Kennedy's 1961 inauguration was the first televised in color. Bill Clinton's second inauguration in 1997 was the first webcast.

7. C. William Henry Harrison spoke for an hour and 45 minutes in 1841, so long that exposure to the elements is blamed for the pneumonia that led to his death after a month in office.

8. B. Cowboy star Montie Montana threw a lasso around President Eisenhower as he reviewed the inaugural parade. The Secret Service did not tackle Montana or his horse.

9. C. Thomas Jefferson walked to the Capitol building from a nearby boarding house to take the oath of office in 1801, the first inauguration held in Washington D.C.

10. C. Since George Washington first invoked God at the end of his oath, every other president except Theodore Roosevelt has done the same.

11. All three are correct: Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and John Kennedy all kept with longstanding tradition and wore top hats. But Kennedy was the last to do so.

12. B. Everybody remembers Aretha Franklin's hat – a $179 production by Detroit-based Mr. Song Millinery, customized with Swarovski crystals. The song she sang was "My Country tis of Thee.

13. C. John Quincy Adams refused to put on his big-boy pants and snubbed campaign foe Andrew Jackson with a no-show.

14. A. George W. Bush spoke for a little more than 20 minutes at his 2005 inauguration and said the word "freedom" 20 times.

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Acknowledging arts patrons

It's the elite of an elite group, and they will be feted at the Guilds of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts' first Ambassador's Club Dinner on Wednesday at the Center Club. The honorees include Elizabeth Segerstrom, Julianne Argyros, Sandy Segerstrom Daniels, Zee Allred, Black Starr & Frost and South Coast Plaza.

Individuals and representatives from the corporations will meet for dinner and some light entertainment. Each will be given a specially designed commemorative gift.

“The Guilds' board of directors wanted to create a unique and lasting way to acknowledge the honorees,” said Marilyn McCorkle, chairman of the Guilds of the Center. “The title of ambassador is so appropriate. Guilds members have always thought of themselves as ambassadors to our community on behalf of the center. Our honorees and sponsors have personally expanded this role by endorsing, encouraging and supporting the work of the Guilds.”

The evening will be the official kickoff to the 2013 spring fundraiser, slated for April. The theme and more details will be announced that night, but the centerpiece of the dinner is a salute to the ambassadors. “We look forward to giving them an enthusiastic round of applause,” McCorkle said.

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Orchestrating hope through music

A class of students who are just beginning their summer program at RYTMO draw what they feel as music plays in the background during their Level 1 music course. The program is divided into 4 levels, and advances students based on their accomplishments and projects that they set out to do based on their musical interests. From hip-hop to blues, students learn about the history of music and the technology necessary to make their own songs. KEVIN LARA, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

How you can help

You can download RYTMO's volunteer application from its website, Through its Music Mentoring Program, volunteers can work one-on-one with students on character development, leadership development, career exploration or academic achievement.

Location: 1007 E. North St.

More info: Email or call 714-776-0467. You can also visit the RYTMO page on Facebook at

The studio door, while not quite hidden, is hard to see when you’re walking up East North Street in Anaheim. An addition sits behind a one-story house, inconspicuous enough but for the eight teenagers loitering in front of it.

They mill about one early summer afternoon in that way only high school kids do: hands in pockets and heads bowed. They take turns stealing glances at the door, which is still shut.

Reaching Youth Through Music Opportunities (RYTMO) is an after-school, nonprofit music program, teaching such subjects as music history, music theory, songwriting, digital recording, beat-making and music business at Love & Laughter Recording Studios.

It was named Anaheim’s nonprofit of the year in 2009, and Mayor Tom Tait recently recognized it in front of the City Council.

Since 2003, RYTMO has served more than 900 at-risk children in Orange County in a way schools increasingly can’t afford to.

Some of the students have nowhere else to turn, Executive Vice President Mike Anderson said.

Which does not take away from the buzz palpable outside the studio. New students here for orientation stare spellbound at the door, or perhaps through it, imagining what waits inside.

This door marks a way into the music industry, RYTMO Executive Director Joey Arreguin will tell the teenagers more than once in the next two hours.

And it’s a way out: of gangs, of shelters, of the past.

Joey Arreguin and Mike Anderson founded RYTMO in 2003 after decades-long careers in the business. The executive duo have littered songwriting credits throughout TV, music and film industries.

The mayor said RYTMO represents Anaheim’s core values.

“This is our year of kindness,” he said. “This is a perfect example of the power of kindness to change the city on a holistic level.”

Anderson said the proof is in RYTMO’s graduates. Several still live in Orange County and return often to volunteer.

Steve Salazar, 27, of Santa Ana graduated in 2008. He helps teach songwriting and production when he’s not working on his next album with his band, The Renegades.

When he spots talent, he invites students to collaborate.

“I feed off the kids’ excitement all the time,” Salazar said.

Or there’s John Lars, 19, of Anaheim who graduated last year. Beginning his second year at Cal Poly Pomona this fall, he helps teach music software.

Besides the resume boost of logging time in the studio, he said mentor relationships with the staff keep him coming back to pay it forward.

Salazar recalls his first time showing up to the tucked-away studio where professionals the likes of Jon Bon Jovi and Del Atkins, bassist for Dr. Dre, have recorded.

“You just see that building pop up from nowhere,” Salazar said. “You’re forming your own dreams before you even step inside.”

And then, when he walked through the door, he was in awe, he said.

“It reassures your sense of hope – like, I have access to all this. This is my opportunity.”

Contact the writer: or 714-704-3725

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Volunteers commemorate 9/11 with garden project

Lance Cpl. Pedro Flores, left and Lance Cpl. William Crabb put wood stainer on a garden box at Kinoshita Elementary School. JOSH FRANCIS, FOR THE REGISTER

Other efforts

OneOC collected more than $25,000 from sponsors. Approximately 580 volunteers donated 1,160 hours of time to the 30 projects that were coordinated by OneOC and their nonprofit partners.

Source: Dan Pittman

Seven Marines and a Navy petty officer marched onto Kinoshita Elementary School's campus on Sept. 11 to lend a hand with the school's garden.

The project was coordinated by the Santa Ana-based nonprofit OneOC, which organized similar projects at schools in Orange County to commemorate the 12th anniversary of 9/11.

“We wanted to get out in the community and let people know we're here for them,” said Navy Petty Officer Cory Barnes, a religious programs specialist. “We are glad to help, especially on the 12th anniversary of 9/11.”

This is the first time the group of Marines from Camp Pendleton and Barnes worked with OneOC, but they said it hopefully won't be their last.

Kinoshita Principal Jose Luis Pedraza said it shows the mostly low-income students at his school that people care about them and their school. The project was intended to help the school maintain several garden boxes that are used to harvest food. The food is then donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank.

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