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Bala Deshpande

Senior Managing Director, New Enterprise Associates

Bala joined NEA in 2008 as Senior Managing Director for New Enterprise Associates (India) Pvt. Ltd based in Mumbai. She is responsible for creating and building India platform for NEA. NEA’s investments in India will primarily be in the mid-market growth space with deal sizes ranging above $ 10 million. This would include opportunities driven by emerging secular trends such as growing urbanization, consolidation across various fragmented sectors especially services etc.

Prior to this, she was Senior Director of Investments at ICICI Venture where she had been since 2000. At ICICI Venture, she used her operational experience to identify opportunities for investment and to play a strategic role in shaping the future of investee companies. She was a Director in several companies including Pantaloon Retail, Air Deccan, Nagarjuna Construction, Welspun, TechProcess Solutions, Info Edge etc. Her private equity experience has seen the full cycle from nurturing young companies to executing multiple exits including IPO’s, buy-backs, strategic sales, and capital market divestments.
Prior to ICICI Venture, Ms. Deshpande worked with leading multi national companies such as Bestfoods, Cadburys, and ICI. She was a part of the Strategic Planning Team at Bestfoods and was also nominated for the Women Leadership Forum held at Bestfoods, New York. Ms. Deshpande has a master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from Jamnalal Bajaj, Mumbai.

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M K Sankaran Namboothiri is a Carnatic musician and a playback singer. He is respected for his knowledge of Carnatic Music. Sankaran Namboothiri started his career at a very young age. Sankaran Namboothiri ‘s concerts combine sophisticated vocal skills and rhythmic patterns of classical music with the popular demand for entertainment value.Sankaran  Namboothiri  has been invited to give concerts in many countries, including USA, Germany, France, Britain, Switzerland, Holland Australia , Keniya, Middle East and many more. Till date, he has given over 5000 concerts worldwide His immense versatility in all the fields of music, his mesmerizing voice, his unique way of rendering the compositions helped him to carve out a niche in the Music era. , he represents a new era in Carnatic music. Like the galaxy of giants preceding him, he has helped in the preservation of the musical heritage in his own way.
     He is a good play back singer too. Sung for a film VADAKKUMNATHAN under the music direction of Sri Raveendran(2004), MADHU CHANDRALEKHA,KANAKA IMHASANAM, SURYAN, ANCHIL ORAL ARJUNAN, NIVEDYAM,ROMEO,SWARNAM and many more….

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New works explains why eggs vary in shape; still to come: why their colors and sizes vary so much as well.

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A surprisingly simple explanation for the shape of bird eggs

A sandpiper’s egg is shaped like a teardrop, an owl’s like a golf ball, and a hummingbird’s like a jelly bean. Now, for the first time, scientists have a convincing explanation for this stunning diversity: The shape of a bird’s egg depends on how much its species flies.

“It’s nice to see a complete story of egg shape,” says Mark Hauber, a behavioral ecologist at Hunter College in New York City who was not involved in the work. “[It’s] an instant classic article.”

Princeton University evolutionary biologist Mary Stoddard has long been fascinated that eggs are so diverse, even though they all basically do one thing—nourish and protect the developing chick. Fortunately, over the past century, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in Berkeley, California, has amassed thousands of egg shells from 1400 species and put digital photos of them online.

Stoddard and her colleagues wrote a computer program, Eggxtractor, that picks out the egg in any image and measures its length, width, and shape. The team used those measurements to determine how far from perfectly spherical each of nearly 50,000 eggs was—that is, how pointy or elongated it was. Some eggs are both pointy and elongated, some are one but not the other, and some are neither. But no eggs are short and pointy—approximately the shape of a hot air balloon.

Knowing that an egg’s shape is determined not by the shell itself but by the membrane inside, Stoddard worked with Harvard University physicist L. Mahadevan and his student Ee Hou Yong to come up with a mathematical representation based on the membrane’s properties and how much pressure it received—from the developing chick on the inside. They then used their model to create scores of egg shapes by altering the membrane’s stiffness and changing the pressure. “Adjusting these [features], allows us to generate the entire diversity of egg shapes that we observe in nature,” Stoddard says. The only one a real bird couldn’t easily generate: an egg shaped like a hot air balloon.

This alone impresses experts in the field. “What’s cool is you have the [overall] formula for egg shape,” says Martin Sander, a paleontologist at Bonn University in Germany.

When Stoddard and her colleagues made a family tree of 1000 bird species, they realized that each group of birds tended to have a characteristic egg shape. But there seemed to be little correlation between that shape and nest type, nest location, or the number of young in a clutch—all previous proposed explanations for the shape of eggs.

As part of the work, the team also evaluated whether a proxy for flying ability—the ratio of a bird’s wing length to its width—had an effect. “There was an obscure hypothesis that egg shape could be related to flight ability that no one had paid any attention to,” Stoddard says. To her team’s surprise, flying ability matters, they report today in Science. Good flyers like sandpipers and murres tend to lay eggs that are more elongated and more asymmetrical—a bit like the shape of a Zeppelin—likely because lots of time in the air requires lightweight, compact bodies. Meanwhile, birds that spend little or no time in the air, like tropical pittas and trogons, have more spherical eggs.

The reason, Stoddard speculates, is that round eggs require a wider pelvis than ones that are more elongated. Thus, just as birds that spend most of their time airborne have evolved more streamlined bodies and lighter, small skeletons, they have also evolved streamlined egg shapes to fit through the pelvis, she says.

“I’m surprised, but I’m also convinced,” Sander says. “Based on this data set, they are making a very good case.” He and Hauber are pleased that now they can guess how good a flyer a species is just by the shape of its eggs. “You can take this study and look at the egg and vey immediately get some general information,” Sander says.

The work is significant on two levels, Stoddard says. For one, understanding egg shape and the role the membrane plays “could be of value to the egg industry,” she says, perhaps by helping it create more durable eggs. But for her, just solving the puzzle of egg diversity is reward in itself. “Eggs aren’t just a favorite breakfast food,” she explains. A specialized egg, like that of modern birds, made it possible for developing young to survive on land, she notes, and thus allowed our land vertebrate ancestors to leave the seas about 360 million years ago. “They kick-started a revolution.”


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Croke Park Final 2018

On 22nd October 2018 our girls school team made it to Croke Park for the Corn Comhair Linn Final.

When we got there we went into the dressing room and then into the green room to warm up. Then we walked up the steps and saw all our Maelruains supporters cheering and shouting our names. All our names and numbers came up on the jumbo screen. When the whistle blew we were ready to fight but after a tough match unfortunately we didn’t win. We had a great time.

By Zara, Leah, Eve, Nicole and Shonagh

Cumann na mBunscol Final Croke Park

A huge congratulations to our senior girls football team who made it to the finals in Croke Park against Gaelscoil Thaobh na Coille today. The whole school went to cheer them on. The girls played fantastically well but unfortunately we didn’t get a win this time.

Check out the girls in action.

Halloween Art 2018

Well done to all the creative pupils in Scoil Maelruain! Check out their amazing spooktacular display.

Halloween Art

Bicycle Shed Clean up.

Well done to the Student Council and the Green Committee who did a fantastic clean up job on the bicycle sheds.

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Dramatic Thriller: A former FBI agent won't give up his search to find the man who raped and murdered his colleague's young adult daughter thirteen years ago.
It's the present day and former FBI agent Ray Kasten (CHIWETEL EJIOFOR) has arrived in the office of Los Angeles District Attorney Claire Sloan (NICOLE KIDMAN) with the belief that he's finally found the killer of Carolyn Cobb (ZOE GRAHAM), the young adult daughter of his former coworker and friend, Jess (JULIA ROBERTS), who still works in the D.A. office. Ray believes the perp is stable worker Beckwith (JOE COLE) who looks similar to the original suspect, but Claire isn't sure about reopening the case, especially since thirteen years have passed since the crime was committed.

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A private sewer lateral is an underground pipe that is part of your home or other building’s plumbing. It conveys wastewater or storm water from your property to SD1’s public sewer system. A property owner is responsible for the sewer lateral that connects an individual building’s plumbing to SD1’s sewer. Individual property owners are responsible for maintaining their laterals, just like other pipes in and around the building. It is important that property owners take care of their private sewer laterals in order to protect their home or business and the environment.

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  • Remove any prohibited storm water connections to the sanitary sewer system. Improper connections include roof downspouts, groundwater sump pumps, foundation drains and drains from window wells, driveways, etc. This extra water may overload the sanitary sewer system and cause sewage overflows or basement backups.
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If a home or other building is experiencing blockages or sewer backups, or if sewage is overflowing into the environment, your private lateral may be defective. Sinkholes can also be a sign of defective laterals.

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Richard Schulman is a municipal lawyer and litigator with Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg & Bagley in San Diego.

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The California Supreme Court recently made it more probable that even small development projects will need costly and time-consuming environmental impact reports (EIRs). It did this by directing lower courts to favor the evidence supporting challenges to these small projects.

Proposition D on next month's ballot would increase the sales tax in the city of San Diego for five years once the city's auditor certifies that the city has taken 10 steps toward fiscal restraint. This column won't advise you whether to vote for the tax increase or against it -- that depends largely on whether you think you'll get your money's worth from it.

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This catalogue was published to accompany the solo exhibition Sean Landers at Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, from November 8 to December 21, 2012. The texts by Sean Landers are transcriptions of the paintings in the exhibition and reveal deeply personal tenets to which Landers has remained true throughout his artistic practice. Each work is an ode to mortality and underscores the intent and the significance of the art-making individual, and humanity as a whole, as time moves on.

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Co-Occurring Disorders: The Risks and Dangers

Co-occurring disorders

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Co-Occurring Disorders: The Risks and Dangers

By Jennifer Woodson

For many people with mental health issues, learning to cope with the overwhelming feelings of stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, or schizophrenia can be extremely difficult. Because these issues are all so complicated and varied, the reasons a sufferer begins to abuse substances are varied as well. They may be dealing with the aftermath of a particular stressful event, or they may use a substance to numb their pain or feel “normal”. It’s important to be supportive of your loved one with a co-occurring disorder and find ways to help him seek the treatment he needs.

Because mental health issues and substance abuse occur together and make each other worse, it’s imperative that they are treated together. Most health experts agree that treating one without the other ultimately won’t cause either one of them to improve, and the professionals at a substance abuse treatment facility likely won’t be prepared to handle matters having to do with mental health. Taking care of both disorders at once is called integrated treatment.

An individual who is dealing with a co-occurring disorder is at risk for many issues; here are a few of the risks involved with neglecting to seek diagnosis and treatment.

They often mask one another

Because mental illness is often masked by substance abuse–and vice versa–it can be difficult to properly diagnose a co-occurring disorder. A person with a dependence on alcohol may be using that substance to numb himself due to the pain of depression, but because the symptoms of both are so similar, it can be hard to detect. Also, a substance can make a mental health issue even worse, causing the symptoms to change over time. This can also lead to the individual receiving a misdiagnosis or going for help from the wrong place.

“Nearly 74 percent of Americans who seek help for depression or symptoms of depression will go to a primary care physician rather than a mental health professional,” writes Mental Health America.

They can cause problems elsewhere

Co-occurring disorders can cause issues in many aspects of an individual’s life. They can lead to problems at work or school and in relationships; they can cause physical health issues; they can put the individual at risk for sexually transmitted diseases, as people who are under the influence of a substance are more likely than others to engage in unsafe sex. When untreated, these disorders can cause even bigger problems.

They can cause a seemingly endless cycle

Because individuals with co-occurring disorders use substances to help balance out their feelings–unknowingly making those feelings even worse and more difficult to deal with–a cycle is created that can seem impossible to get out of.

“The relationships between severe mood disorder and substance use problems certainly go in both directions — with people using substances to blunt severe symptoms, and those substances making symptoms worse in the long run,” says psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Simon.

Feelings of hopelessness may follow, prompting suicidal thoughts or even self-harm. It’s important, then, for these individuals to receive the proper treatment from professionals who understand the benefits of treating both the substance abuse and the mental health disorder. For more information about how to help someone who is battling a co-occurring disorder, read on here.

For people who are dealing with the overwhelming feelings that can come with a mental health issue, their outlook may become bleak. They may give up things they once enjoyed doing, or they might isolate themselves from friends and family. Help your loved one find the right sort of treatment, as well as support that will continue into the future to ensure there are no relapses.

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Stations of the Cross

First Station

Jesus is condemned to death

Jesus is standing before angry people who are yelling and saying mean, hurtful things to him. They scream at him. Some of them tell lies about him, saying that he did bad things.

But Jesus stays quiet, even though he knows that he will be hurt. He knows that God is with him. He even asks God to help him forgive the people who are yelling and telling lies about him.

Second Station

Jesus is made to carry his cross

When the soldiers put a big, heavy cross on Jesus' shoulders, Jesus doesn't fight with them or say angry words to them. He knows that he has to carry this cross a long way, and he knows that the way will be very hard for him at times. But Jesus knows that God is with him, and he asks God to help him to carry this cross, even though it is heavy.

Third Station:

Jesus falls for the first time

Jesus is so tired as he walks along the road with the heavy cross on his shoulders. The cross keeps pushing into his shoulder, and the stones on the road hurt his feet. People yell and push him; the soldiers shout for him to move faster.

Then Jesus falls, and the soldiers yell at him more. How tired Jesus is! Jesus prays in his heart, “God, help me remember that you are here.”

Fourth Station

Jesus meets his mother

As Jesus walks slowly with the cross on his shoulders, a woman comes up to him. It’s Jesus’ mother, Mary. How sad for them to see each other now. Mary feels so sad because she sees how much he is suffering, and Jesus sees the sadness Mary feels. Even though they both know that God is with them, they can’t even say anything to each other,

because they are so sad.

Fifth Station

Simon of Cyrene helps carry the cross

Jesus is so tired that the soldiers know he cannot carry the heavy cross by himself. So they look around and see

someone who looks strong enough to help Jesus carry this cross. This person's name is Simon.

Jesus just looks at Simon and quietly whispers, “Thank you” to Simon. Then they continue on the long road, carrying the cross together.

Sixth Station

Veronica wipes the face of Jesus

Jesus is hot, tired, and sweating. His hair is all tangled, and he is covered in dust from the long walk.

Suddenly, a woman pushes her way out of the crowd and stands in front of Jesus. She takes a clean cloth and gently wipes Jesus’ face. Jesus is so thankful that he leaves a picture of his face on her cloth.

Seventh Station

Jesus falls for the second time

How very tired, weak, and sad Jesus is now. Even though he keeps trying to walk with the heavy cross, he just can’t keep going.

The noise from the crowd and from the soldiers makes him feel even worse. Then Jesus falls, because he just can’t take another step.

Eighth Station

The women of Jerusalem mourn for Jesus

After Jesus gets up, he continues on the road carrying his heavy cross. He passes some women who are

crying because they are so sad to see Jesus suffer.

But instead of thinking only of himself and how bad he feels, Jesus tells the women not to keep crying because of him. He tells them, instead, to take care of others, and especially to take care of their children.

Ninth Station

Jesus falls for a third time

Jesus is so tired now that he can hardly take another step. It is hard for him to breathe. He has been walking a long time along the dusty road, and he has no energy left. He just can’t go on anymore.

Then Jesus falls down in the street for the third time. He is so very tired. Jesus asks God to help him. And Jesus gets up again, even though it is hard for him to do.

Tenth Station

Jesus is stripped of his garments

Finally Jesus reaches the hill that is the end of the road he has to walk. Jesus knows that he will die here. But before he dies, the soldiers will do more to him. They pull off his long robe, and almost all his clothes are taken from him.

Jesus stands in front of the crowd with only a small piece of cloth covering part of his body. Jesus asks God to help him remember that he is not alone, that God is with him through all this.

Eleventh Station

Jesus is nailed to the cross

How much Jesus hurts as the soldiers nail him to the cross. He hurts all over; he is tired and thirsty; he knows that he is going to die. But he looks at the people who have hurt him and, instead of saying bad things to those people, Jesus asks God to forgive them.

He looks at his mother and tells her to take care of others. Even when he is dying, Jesus is thinking of other people.

Twelfth Station

Jesus dies upon the cross

Finally, after the long walk, after falling three times, after having the men beat him, after being nailed to the cross and suffering on the cross, Jesus bows his head and dies.

Now this part of his life is over. There is nothing left for Jesus to give or to do. Jesus has given his life for all of us.

Thirteenth Station

The body of Jesus is taken down from the cross

Now Jesus’ lifeless body is taken down from the cross. No more pain or suffering for Jesus; all the pain is over. Mary, Jesus’ mother, holds him tenderly in her arms. How sad she is. And how sad Jesus’ friends are. They are crying as they hold his body.

Fourteenth Station

The body of Jesus is laid in the tomb

Jesus’ friends wash his body and wrap it in a clean sheet. They touch his body gently, and then they put his body into a tomb. When they are finished, they push a very large stone over the entrance, so that no one can go inside.

Now there is darkness in the tomb where Jesus’ body lies, and all of his friends go home because they are very sad and tired.


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Vida B. Hellmann

Hellmann, Vida B., 90, a retired educator and most recently a professional storyteller of adults, died Thursday, November 22, 2018 at the Fall River Jewish Home.  Born in Fall River, MA, a daughter of the late Abraham and Nellie (Feldman) Branz, she had lived in Providence, Narragansett, Bristol, and several cities outside the New England area before returning to her roots and settling in Barrington, then Tiverton and finally back to Fall River. A graduate of Russell Sage College, she received a Master’s degree from the University of Rhode Island and additional certification from UCLA. As an educator, Vida taught every level from nursery school to graduate seminar courses at the university level. While a Narragansett resident, she taught several levels at the South County Hebrew School and was a lecturer at URI, as well as CCRI and Roger Williams Open Division.  A member of South County Players, she starred in Harvey and Plaza Suite.  She was a specialist at Philadelphia’s Upsal School for the Blind and, in California, taught in a halfway house for the mentally disabled and at a resource center for students with learning disabilities.  For ten years, she was a master teacher of English as a second language, giving workshops throughout the state and retiring from the Los Angeles School District in 1990. As a professional storyteller “for grown-ups” she appeared in local venues, such as the Barrington library and various assisted living facilities, as well as conferences and festivals in Newport, Middletown, New London, Hartford, Boston, the Jonny Cake Festival in Peacedale, as well as in Toronto Canada, where she was featured on CBC’s radio program, Cloud Nine.  Vida was a member of Temple Habonim, Adas Israel, the Little Rest Storytellers, the Connecticut Story Telling Center, Lanes (the League of New England Storytellers), the National Storytelling Network and the Boston Jewish Storytelling Network.  For over ten years she was docent at the Haffenreffer Museum and a volunteer for the East Bay Information Center.  Vida is survived by a daughter, Dvorah Kaufman and her husband, Tom, of Madison, WI; two sons, Benjamin Hellmann and his partner, Karen, of Fall River and Joel Hellmann, of East Providence; a sister, the late Phyllis Ainspan, and her surviving husband, Martin, of Albany, NY; eight grandchildren: Noah Kaufman, Zachary Kaufman, Sara, Andrea Lee, Joshua, Gabby, Ryan Hellmann, and Jonathan Nelligan.  Graveside services and shiva will be private.  In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made to your favorite charity or Sara M. Ainspan Memorial Israel Scholarship, c/o Temple Israel, 600 New Scotland Ave., Albany, NY 12208, in memory of Vida’s niece, or U.S. Holocaust Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, S.W., Washington, DC 20024-2126.

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Maxi Skirts and Meatballs Equal Comfort

Wearing: When trying to decide what to wear for my first day at the office where I’m working this summer, two things crossed my mind. One, I was told it is a casual environment, so I don’t want to overdress (at least not the first day) and two, offices are usually cold. I’m sure that’s not always the case, but it seems like every time I’ve worked in an office I’ve been miserable if I didn’t have a cardigan or jacket with me, even in the summer. Especially in the summer.

White tee: Old Navy; vest: Gap; maxi skirt: Old Navy; earrings: Charlotte Russe; sandals: BC Footwear

I hate being cold so much that I’ve contemplated bringing a blanket to places where I know it will be cold. Well, I did not embarrass myself by bringing a blanket to my first day of work, but I did bring the next best thing: a maxi skirt. My legs stayed nice and toasty as I typed away. My arms on the other hand, were a little chilly. I guess I should have brought a maxi skirt Snuggie (which I suppose would just be a long-sleeved maxi-dress).

Eating: Just as a maxi-skirt could be considered comfort-clothes, meatballs certainly are comfort food. Particularly when they’re accompanied by a bowl full of pasta. I made a variation of Rachael Ray’s recipe for veal polpette (mini-meatballs), but since I was on a turkey kick this week (it was on sale) I made turkey polpette instead. If you'd like a printable recipe, go here.

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How To Get Rid of Acne

April 20, 2011

There are tons of products available on the market as well as different ways that can help you on how to get rid of acne. However, it is also very important to know the real cause why you suffer from it since it facilitates what kind of treatment or products that you have to use, for it to be effective, and of course, to avoid products or ways that would just waste your money, time and energy in the end, since those are not effective at all.

It’s also very essential to know what your skin type is, for you to have an idea on what kind of beauty products to use that suits you.

The best way and the safest way on how get rid of acne is simply having a healthy lifestyle, since one of the causes of acne is due to stress and the kind of lifestyle we have, such as our diet. So, as much as possible, we have to eat more fruits and vegetables, and drink lots of water as well, to achieve a clearer and smoother skin naturally. And always remove your make-up before going to bed since it can clog our pores, and it has ingredients that can be harmful to our skin, and these are the things that we need to prevent from happening. External factors can also contribute to acne formation such as pollution, and the like, so, it’s very necessary to wash our face in the morning and at night with a mild facial wash, to remove all the dirt that can clog our pores. A regular exercise could also help in achieving a clearer skin, and of course, get enough rest and enough sleep at night, since having enough sleep could actually help in achieving a beautiful skin.

Suffering from acne is kind of depressing to those who are experiencing it. It can also lower your self-esteem that can affect your confidence in dealing with other people. I totally understand the sentiments of the people who have this problem, since I had acne problems back in my teenage years. I also had difficult times on how to get rid of acne since it seemed that I have tried everything just to get rid of it. It came to a point wherein I ran out of idea on what product to use since like I said, I felt that I have tried all the products available on the market that promise to cure acne. But thanks to my friend who told me to use Pond’s Anti-bacterial facial scrub. At first, I was skeptical about it and I thought it was not effective at all. Nevertheless, when I started to use it, I noticed that my pimples were slowly vanishing for a week of using it. And I’m so surprised that for a month of using Pond’s Anti-bacterial facial scrub, my pimples totally vanished. At that time, I’m just so overwhelmed and the happiness I felt was truly indescribable, for the reason that I’ve been suffering from acne problems for almost a year.

Nonetheless, what worked and effective for me won’t necessarily mean that it would work for everyone. This is just my little way of saying to those who are experiencing acne problems and at the moment, they are losing hope on how to get rid of acne, that there are products on the market that could really help you in getting rid of acne, so just try those products that safe to use and trusted by its consumers. Try products that suit you, and don’t forget to practice a healthy lifestyle as what I’ve mentioned above.

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Daesh-Taliban clashes kill 13 militants in Afghanistan

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Wednesday, 17 February 2016

More than a dozen people have been killed and several others injured during clashes between the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group and Taliban militants in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar.

Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for the provincial governor, said the two sides engaged in heavy exchanges of gunfire in the Achin district of the beleaguered province, which is situated over 150 kilometers (93 miles) east of the capital, Kabul, on Tuesday.

He added that the clashes claimed the lives of at least 13 individuals from the two sides, and left eight others injured.

Last month, at least 30 people were killed in clashes between Daesh and Taliban in the Bati Kot district of Nangarhar Province. Earlier, in December 2015, skirmishes between Daesh militants and Taliban extremists in the Chaparhar district of the same Afghan province had left at least 15 people dead. Two civilians were caught in the crossfire and sustained gunshot wounds.

Afghanistan, parts of which have long been considered a bastion of Taliban, has recently been seeing the emergence and limited expansion of Daesh. Nangarhar, in particular, is one area where Daesh has visibly gained a foothold.

On June 16, the Afghan Taliban militant group warned Daesh ringleader, Ibrahim al-Samarrai, also known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, against “waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan.”

Afghanistan is gripped by insecurity 15 years after the United States and its allies attacked the country as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror. Although the 2001 attack overthrew the Taliban, many areas across Afghanistan still face violence and insecurity.

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Coachella is right around the corner and there’s nothing better to get you in the mood than the new movie Cover Versions.

Cover Versions follows a band named Star Foxy as they’re gearing up to play at a big festival much like Coachella. The night before their gig, they end up having a wild party that takes a murderous turn. Each of the members of the group then tell varying accounts of the night but just who is telling the truth?

The film stars Austin Swift, Katie Cassidy, Jerry Trainor, Drake Bell, Debby Ryan, Ashley Argota & Jenn An and is directed by Todd Berger. Reading that cast list, a lot of those names may sound familiar if you grew up on Disney Channel or Nickelodeon. However, if you were expecting a g-rated Coachella flick, this is not it. This is a fun, wild movie that will show you a side of these former teen stars you’re probably not used to, and that’s what we love about it.

Ashley Argota stars as “Amber” in the film who is one of the women who may not be exactly who you think they are which is a big part of the fun and the mystery. We had a chance to chat with Ashley all about the filming process, breaking away from her Nickelodeon past and much more.

Cover Versions is such an interesting and edgy film. What was it about the film or the character of “Amber” that made you want to say yes?
Ashley Argota: Character wise, I just love getting to play the badass or the villain in any given project because it’s more fun for me. It’s worlds more fun for me to play that than a goody two shoes character. Also the script was so well written and it was so interesting to see such a huge event from all these people’s different perspectives and then find out what the real version of all that was.

What’s fun is you don’t even know if the version we see at the end is really even completely true until the twist because it’s all he said she said. When you read the script did you know where it was going before you read the ending or were you surprised?
AA: I did not know what was going to happen. I had sides for my audition so I knew at one point I was going to hold a gun to somebody because that’s what it said in my audition. I knew she started off pretty sweet and I knew something had to happen somewhere but when I started reading the script I didn’t understand what was going on until I got to those very few last pages and realized that we were even worse than I thought.

The filming for this must have been tricky since you’re doing some of the same scenes over and over just with slight differences depending on which character is narrating that part. What was the filming process like? Did you film all the versions for one scene at once or did you film it by storyline?
AA: We shot everything as “we’re in the ping pong set right now and we’re going to film all 5 versions of the story we have in the ping pong set.” I actually had a notebook and I color coded all the different versions of the script. There’s very subtle differences between every person’s versions with not only the acting but how it’s shot and the different looks and reactions. I knew very early on in the process I was going to get pretty confused pretty quickly because things move quickly on a movie set so I ended up just writing down different people’s versions. Every morning I could look at the notebook and know what I was filming and it was an easy way to keep track of everything and Todd, the director, was very helpful and gave us a giant diagram of all of the versions of the story.

As far as the cast goes, you’ve known a lot of these people for a long time. Was that fun to walk on to set and have a reunion?
AA: Yeah, “iCarly” was the first thing I did on Nickelodeon before “True Jackson” and my storyline in “iCarly” was with Jerry Trainor so it was really cool to see him again. After iCarly I didn’t really get to work with Jerry except for doing game shows on Nickelodeon and stuff like that. It was great to act with him again. Debby Ryan I’ve known for so long, I think she came to one of our very first True Jackson tapings ever and we just never got a chance to work together. I remember seeing each other and just being so ecstatic that after like 7 or 8 years of knowing each other we finally got to work together. It was really cool because they’re two remarkable and wonderful and talented human beings and so the fact I got to see them every day and work with them it was awesome.

A lot of the cast come from Nickelodeon & Disney stars where you end up with a certain stigma when it comes to acting. In this movie, we see very different sides of all of you as it’s not particularly a kid friendly movie. Did trying to break away from the stereotype factor into taking this role and do you look at roles differently now or do you not think about it?
AA: I try to not think about it too much, I do get there’s kind of a stigma around it. I try and gravitate towards characters and scripts that intrigue me and that I think would be fun to play. I was very fortunate when I got “The Fosters” I feel like kind of broke me out of the goodie two shoes, Nickelodeon, Disney whatever you want to call it stigma. I got to play a badass on that show who was a high school dropout that just wanted to play music and live on the road. I feel like doing that show broke me out of that but after looking at other roles I try to not think about it too much. I love my job so I try to pick scripts and characters that I know I’m going to have fun with.

Austin Swift is one of your co-stars in this film. What was it like working with him since he’s fairly new as an actor and you’re a bunch of vets.
AA: He did not feel new to the game at all, he knew exactly what he was doing. I feel like he was the most prepared out of everybody. He always offered very interesting insight into the different points of view of everybody. He was very chill to work with, he was so much fun, super kind. We had a great time with him and I think his version of the story always makes me laugh because Jackie just comes off as such a bitch to him and it makes me laugh every time I watch it.

Now lets play a little word association for your cast.
Katie Cassidy: Talented
Drake Bell: Guitar, he loves music
Jerry Trainor: Hysterical
Austin Swift: Quiet
Debby Ryan: Long time friend and I love her
Jenn An: Rock climbing
Yourself, Ashley Argota: Awkward

I love that Cover Versions tells the story from different points of view. Is there a project you’ve seen that you’d love to see it told from a different point of view?
AA: For some reason Tommy Wiseau comes to mind because I saw The Disaster Artist and The Room a million times. I guess more from Tommy’s point of view. I think he’s a fascinating person and I’d love to learn more about him. I’d love to see more of his point of view of the world/what he was thinking when he made The Room.

Your character is kind of a groupie for Star Foxy. Is there a band or artist you love so much that you’d consider being a groupie for?
AA: I feel like I’d follow Adele anywhere she went. I’m not really a band person. Maybe 10 years ago it’d be NSYNC or Backstreet Boys.

Lastly, what do you think viewers can learn from Cover Versions?
AA: The truth will always come out somehow, some way. You never know who may be watching.

Cover Versions is available now on Digital and On Demand. Get it on iTunes here.


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Pick-a-Pay Loans Prove That The Lowest Monthly Payments Isn't Always The Best Deal

Posted by  on Jul 20, 2009

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Option ARMs (or pick-a-pay loans) generated proportionally more loan delinquencies and foreclosures than sub-prime mortgages for the third straight month. As of April, California-based First American CoreLogic revealed data showing 36.9% of Option ARMs were at least 60 days past due, while almost 20% were already in foreclosure. While sub-prime mortgages were more prevalent, these Option ARMs still maintain a substantial position on many bank's balance sheets.

These Option ARM loans provided homeowners with a variety of monthly payment options, one of which allowed borrowers to pay below the amount of interest charges due. As a result, these loans were exposed to the possibility of negative amortization since loan balances could increase. Surprisingly, even homeowners with relatively good credit standings became attracted to these exotic loans and their artificially low monthly payments. Many attempted to take advantage of skyrocketing home prices, while keeping their investments at a minimum with the lowest monthly payment option. Unfortunately, as home prices eventually headed south, this risky investment quickly turned into one of the most dangerous loans available. In the meantime, government intervention has kept current mortgage rates for these loans relatively stable since so many are vulnerable to the adjustable rate indices.

Loans Still Vulnerable Even with Lowest Mortgage Rates in Years

And while those who hold these loans are most susceptible to negative equity and adjustable mortgage rates, almost everyone should consider the likely fate of these loans. Due to increasing mortgage balances and depreciating home values, many of these loans will inevitably recast causing serious issues in the near future. Even with the lowest mortgage rates in years, most of these homeowners will still face a 7.5% increase on their minimum monthly payment option because of the way these loans are structured. And when the loan finally recasts, many borrowers will be shocked by the fully amortized payment spread over the remaining years left in the loan.

As these loans continue to grow in size, speculators should be concerned with how many homeowners will be willing to pay for a home that is so grossly upside down on its mortgage. This is the true concern as it affects everyone within an arm's length distance of these ticking time bombs, and not just the borrowers who hold these loans.

Although these loans are quite rare nowadays, potential home buyers and existing homeowners should take this as a reminder that even the lowest monthly payment isn't always the best deal available.

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Mischief Afoot

Here is how I know there was mischief afoot and that there was a recent "fight" in the basement.

They were found in that order on my camera...and, apparently....this was the photographer/evidence gatherer......

I still do not know what actually happened in the basement....but those involved keep laughing about I guess it wasn't that serious, just messy, huh?


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How the inefficient Amazon India turned my simple shopping into hell

This is my recent experience as to how Amazon India turned my simple shopping into a hellish experience and it proves the fact that it is one website which doesn’t listen to its customers despite placing misleading ad about being a customer centric company. The issues were very simple- only 2 of them but the 3rd grade attitude by Amazon turned it into a complex snowball of issues and I grappled with them for 10 days with multiple calls, tweets and mails.

The first issue which I have been telling Amazon India since very long, five years back at Delhi and from the past 8 to 9 months in Lucknow which they don’t listen and take no action is that their delivery guys while handing over the products to the customers don’t give the smart phone to the customer to sign it post delivery for the signature. They fraudulently sign on behalf of the customer. If you’re not vigilant enough they won’t hand you the smart phone or either park their vehicle a few houses away from your home, and over the package to you and by the time used to look up from the package they would have sped off. I had complained about the same to Amazon India 'N' number of times and all I got every time was the bloody “We’re sorry sir this won’t happen again” which had no meaning to it because it happened again the next time. Well I’m no loyal customer to any website because I go by the line which says that “Don’t love your company too much, you never know when it stops loving you”. So I had placed orders for products around Diwali and Amazon automatically created 3 different order numbers for the same. On the next day after Diwali I received a delivery of two products and the guys who came to deliver the product handed me the package and when I asked them about the signature they said “Sir no need” and by the corner of my eye I could see that he had scribbled something on the phone. Due to it had been a festive atmosphere and didn’t wanted to make a scene I let it go but immediately I contacted Amazon India through phone and chat support and re scheduled all my undelivered 4 products to the next Saturday instead of the coming Monday and Thursday. All I wanted to take the delivery of the products myself and check whether they do the same thing. I had also warned Amazon that in case on the next delivery if I find the delivery guys doing the same trick I would hand over their guys to the police and register a complaint against them for making fraudulent deliveries.

I was given the go-ahead from both phone and chat saying that all deliveries had been rescheduled to the next Saturday i.e. 7 days from then. The next shocker came when on Monday morning I got a message that my products are out for delivery. Shocked at the drama going on I again contacted Amazon, gave them an earful, they said rescheduling has done and no delivery would be attempted but the guys attempted delivery irrespective of that . I had already warned my family to turn the guys back saying that rescheduling had been done well in advance. They did so and for the whole day there was a stream of attempted deliveries and we had to turn all of them away. This was a Monday and after talking to customer care again Tuesday passed peacefully but the problem started again on Wednesday when some Monday items were again rescheduled for delivery on the day. Again I had to go through the whole drama but nothing happened except for numerous customer care calls. On Thursday morning when I received the notification that one of my product was out for delivery I immediately called up the delivery guy and told him that the product had been already rescheduled and no need to go. He made me talk with his senior who after listening to all that had been going on with me, suggested that he mark that product as delivered, will keep it with him because due to some issues he can’t keep a product more than two days with him, after that the system would lodge it to be returned back. He gave me his personal number and told me that only after talking to me on Saturday would the delivery be made. I did not want it to go into another hassle so I said yes and this thing was final.

In all this meantime drama, one delivery guy instead of rescheduling it for Saturday had marked the product as “customer refused, return to seller” instead of “customer refused, delivery rescheduled” and what that did was to mark my products as being returned back. When in the next 72 hours hours I had to start getting the delivery I was getting confused by this new development so I contacted customer care. The lady on the phone understood or try to understood, God knows what she understood and  initiated a dummy return request so that I refuse the guy who comes to pick up the product as a replacement and the same product which has not been delivered to me in the first place is delivered finally. Problem started the next day when the guy came to pick up the product which was not there in the first place, he started calling and pressurizing me to cancel the order so that God knows what happens? When I opened my Amazon account I saw that another replacement had already been shipped for 2 of the same products and here is one guy who was telling me to cancel it and I was confused that which to cancel and which to let it come? Finally I did nothing and frustrated by the fact that nobody at Amazon India (I call them deaf, blind and idiots) was listening and all I was made to do was make rounds of customer care executives who were not even patching me up with their higher management in the first place when they clearly understood that my problem is well above their pay scale.

Frustrated, angry I sent my whole email transcript which had been going on with the social media escalation team to Jeff Bezos at Amazon US (with no hope of any reply ever). To my surprise by the evening I got a call from Amazon India, the person into the executive customer relations team which they term as the highest level of escalation. I was so angry that explaining the whole matter again I minced no words with Amazon and how a simple thing had turned into a nightmare for me. He said that he would be looking into it and he admitted the fact that customer care people messed it up in the very first place from the very beginning. Next day another person from the same team called because as I replied to the mail that all Amazon India deserves is a negative rating and I won’t rate my experience ever with them. I gave him my peace of mind too and although he said that the dummy transaction and the promise by that executive to personally deliver were both against Amazon SOP. I don’t care what is within the rules and what’s against… All happened with me was just pure crap. The delivery senior did keep his promise and he was well before time at my home personally delivering the package. While talking he told me that that’s the problem with Amazon that energy scheduling information is never updated to the local delivery hubs.

Just 6 simple items due to one serious issue of not making deliveries properly lead to rescheduling which in turn was so screwed up that it created a lot of problems in between. After all the drama that you have read being unfolded, here is my observation and complaints regarding Amazon India-

1. Do make sure that either you or any of your family member does sign after taking delivery, don’t leave it to those guys, in order to save time they might forge signatures names.

2. Don’t fall into the trap of “we’re sorry sir this won’t happen again or I personally make sure sure that you receive the product on time” lines spoken by customer care executives.

3. Be careful while rescheduling your deliveries because the centralised servers would be updated but you’ll have problems with the local delivery hubs.

4. Amazon India does not have a proper escalation, nodal or appellate authority where you might escalate your complaint. The customer care executives would try to act as if they know everything but in reality they know "Ghantaa".

5. All you would ever get is copy pasted responses on either email or Twitter. The alarm bells did not ring up in Amazon when they clearly knew that I was in touch via calls, tweets, mails simultaneously. The escalation team did not try to look into the picture even then.

6. The very top level of Amazon India management seems like people who are sleeping because I have doubt whether or not they actually even know that what’s going on.

7. In the extreme case you are frustrated just like me with Amazon India and no resolution in sight I suggest you to kindly drop your correspondence email to Jeff Bezos at Amazon US (just Google his email ID and you’ll get it). His team at US would forward it to the concerned people here in India and then somebody from the higher-level escalation team might call you up and discuss your issue.

8. Even after so many years of Indian operations, Amazon India behaves as a whatever is happening with you is happening for the first time, they are part bunch of totally ignorant people who have no clue with the problems faced by the customers.

9. Even when the issue was urgent, the social media escalation team was sending me standard replies that it would take 3 to 4 days to come up with an update and I was like “the war will get over the next three hours and I will wait for 3 days??

10. Expecting them to help you out with your issue??? Forget it...

That’s the reality of the so-called customer centric company in India.

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WASHINGTON - Homeowners saddled with toxic drywall want Congress to push China to pay for costly cleanups.

As lawsuits against Chinese wallboard manufacturers make their way through American courts, homeowners say they are struggling without financial relief to renovate their homes. They want the Chinese government to speed up cash settlements -- and they want U.S. officials to make it happen.

"The Chinese government isn't being held accountable for a toxic product," said Kelley Spellman, one of about a dozen homeowners from Southeastern states who aired their grievances Monday to U.S. senators. "Nobody is stepping up to the plate to be accountable."

Spellman has spent more than $100,000 tearing out the toxic drywall in her condo in Dade County, Fla., she said. After she began removing it, she learned of an April 2010 federal court ruling that called for repairs to include replacing a home's electrical components, new appliances and flooring.

She said she wants the federal government to loan her and others money to pay for the fixes until the Chinese producers pay. "All my credit cards are maxed out," Spellman said.

The homeowners also demonstrated outside the Senate office building, carrying signs. They had a simple message: We need your help holding Chinese drywall companies accountable for their actions.

The toxic drywall -- which can release a rotten-egg smell, destroys electrical equipment and sometimes leads to breathing problems -- has devastated thousands of American homeowners in the last two years. The tainted material, imported and used during last decade's construction boom, is estimated to have been used in 60,000 to 100,000 homes, primarily in Florida and Louisiana.

Those noxious fumes and electrical damage have resulted in more than 3,700 complaints from residents in 40 states, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the federal agency that investigated the material.

Thousands of lawsuits have targeted homebuilders, drywall distributors and Chinese manufacturers. Some homeowners are not sure they will ever get reimbursed for the renovation fee.

One major manufacturer, Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co., has begun to settle cases, but another has ignored legal action.

Robert Gurnee's house in Virginia Beach, Va., smells like gunpowder from toxic Chinese wallboard, he said. He does not have the estimated $300,000 necessary to tear out and replace the toxic material, but Gurnee and his wife still are living there and waiting for renovation funds from Taishan Gypsum.

That manufacturing company, owned by the Chinese government, has ignored legal action proceeding against it, he said.

"There's been a lot of lip service paid, but no action. We don't seem to be able to get anybody to pressure the Chinese," he said. "We can talk about it all we want, but until someone pressures the Chinese government, I don't think we are going to get anywhere."

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The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger, reviewed.

The Chickenshit Club Passionately Indicts the Justice Department. Why Do Its Arguments Feel So Inert?

The Chickenshit Club Passionately Indicts the Justice Department. Why Do Its Arguments Feel So Inert?

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A new book indicts the Justice Department with a fiery passion. So why do its arguments feel so inert?

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In April, the New York Times published a nearly 8,000-word story about what James Comey was thinking last year while overseeing FBI investigations into both sides of the 2016 presidential race. Through interviews with the former FBI director’s friends and associates, the story pulled off the neat trick of explaining the reasoning behind the difficult choices Comey made as the election raged around him while leaving no doubt that he had grievously miscalculated.

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A few days after I read and enjoyed the Times piece, a colleague recommended I go back and download an episode of the paper’s new morning podcast, The Daily, in which one of the journalists who worked on the story, Matt Apuzzo, talked in a conversational, first-person mode about what was going through his head as events unfolded. Over the course of 30 minutes, I listened on the edge of my seat as Apuzzo, with the help of host Michael Barbaro, offered a vivid, gripping glimpse into what it was like to report on Comey during one of the most extraordinary years in FBI history. Listening to the podcast, I felt like I was getting a candid, emotional play by play about how it all really went down from a savvy, well-informed friend sitting next to me at a bar.

I thought about that episode of The Daily as I read Jesse Eisinger’s The Chickenshit Club, a new book that opens the hood of the Justice Department and follows the churn of its changing character from the beginning of the Enron scandal in the early 2000s through the aftermath of the financial crisis. Eisinger is a senior reporter at ProPublica who won a Pulitzer for his investigative work on Wall Street wrongdoing, and The Chickenshit Club can be read as a reaction to the years he spent covering the financial world in the wake of the 2008 crash. Why, Eisinger wanted to know, had federal prosecutors managed to put just one relatively obscure banker in prison in connection with all the misbehavior that had led up to and followed the crisis? Whose fault was it that the Justice Department, which brought cases against more than 1,000 people in connection with the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s, had become timid and soft on corporate crime since the turn of the century?

Named after a phrase James Comey once used to describe unambitious prosecutors who never lost cases because they played it so safe, Eisinger’s book describes the onset of a new age of caution and impotence at DOJ. His account is animated by clenched-jaw conviction: Eisinger sees a profound moral tragedy in the department’s failure to hold Wall Street executives criminally accountable for their role in causing and profiting from the crisis, and he believes the very notion of justice has been undermined by the government’s willingness to let wealthy, lawyered-up executives walk while zealously filling America’s prisons with poor people.

Eisinger’s book makes the case that, starting with the controversial prosecution of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm in 2001, a combination of political pressure, changes in the institutional culture at DOJ, and aggressive lobbying by the defense bar led to a “blunting and removal of prosecutorial tools in white-collar corporate investigations.” Thanks to the adoption of policies that were overly deferential to executives, Eisinger argues, and a loss of appetite at the highest ranks of the DOJ for the complexity and risk inherent in white-collar prosecution, the government allowed its hands to be tied in the face of financial crimes that “sapped the economy and created an uneven playing field” for investors. “The government failed,” as a former top prosecutor from Manhattan’s Southern District told Eisinger after the financial crisis. “We didn’t do what we needed to do.”

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The Chickenshit Club is an admirably lucid, nuanced book about the tangle of complicated changes that, over the past decade or so, converged to make the DOJ less bold and less capable in its pursuit of corporate criminals. But as I took in Eisinger’s findings—his detailed accounts of financial deals gone wrong and hard decisions fumbled by DOJ officials—I couldn’t help but wish that the book that came out of his reporting was more like that Times podcast. As much as I was learning, I wanted to feel more like I was inside Eisinger’s head, following along with his thought process as he reported out his story and got to know and understand its main characters. More than that, I wanted him to show me the buildup of the passion that fuels his book—how he came to believe in the ideas he argues for in it and how he learned the system well enough to authoritatively evaluate its breakdown.

Instead, Eisinger begins his narrative with his point of view fully formed, making clear from the start that he wants to leave his readers no less worked up than he is about the moral blindness of a justice system that’s more tolerant of large-scale financial fraud than street-level drug dealing. To this end, Eisinger recounts one tale after another, with disappointment and sometimes outright disgust in his tone, about banks lying to shareholders about their balance sheets, political appointees in the Justice Department electing not to charge individual executives out of fear that they’d lose, and companies paying former prosecutors millions of dollars a year to defend them in court.

It’s no insult to Eisinger’s explanatory powers to say that the financial crimes he describes in the book are extremely hard to grasp. Indeed, the impossible complexity of most white-collar crime is one of the central obstacles to prosecuting the people who indulge in it, and the details of fraudulent transactions are often so complicated that when government lawyers present their evidence to jurors, they have to simplify their allegations to a radical degree in order to make themselves understood. One way Eisinger could have compensated for the opacity of white-collar crime—one way he could have made the more confusing parts of the narrative more viscerally bracing—would have been to insert himself more into the story. No doubt he had his own share of difficulty wrapping his head around how exactly some of these executives broke the law; by letting readers watch him fight through the thicket, I suspect he could have injected a level of human clarity into a subject that is inherently—perhaps even deliberately—hard for ordinary people to connect with.

That doesn’t mean the insights that Eisinger seeds throughout The Chickenshit Club aren’t persuasively communicated. Three in particular come through loud and clear. First, that there is a highly trafficked revolving door between the DOJ and private law firms, and that both sides changed how the other did business—“ultimately to the benefit of corporations.” Second, that within the population of lawyers, regulators, judges, and politicians who have concerned themselves with white-collar crime since 2001, many have exhibited a bizarre protectiveness toward corporations and the executives who run them. And third, that when prosecuting white-collar crimes, government lawyers have too often decided they’re satisfied shaking down companies for settlement money paid for by shareholders, instead of taking on the much harder task of bringing charges against individual executives.

With these arguments as its backbone, The Chickenshit Club reads at times like a reported polemic—an argument delivered by an omniscient, disembodied narrator who is less concerned with emotionally engaging his readers than with articulating a forceful diagnosis. Matt Apuzzo on The Daily, on the other hand, struck me as a self-conscious explorer—a human being delivering a propulsive, intimate account of his journey from ignorance (when he and his colleagues started working on the Comey story) to enlightenment (when they finished it). In contrast, the only hint we get as to how Eisinger felt and what he was thinking about as he worked on this book comes on the acknowledgments page. There, from the safety of the back matter, Eisinger writes:

As a financial journalist, I have lived with the crisis for well over a decade. … After I wrote a series of stories on the collaterized debt obligation market for ProPublica with my colleague Jake Bernstein, I waited for the government to charge bankers with criminal wrongdoing. And waited. The indictments never came.

I wish there were more material of that nature in the book itself—more about what made Eisinger care about this subject in the first place, more about how he first formulated the questions he wanted to answer, and more about how he went about answering them.

Eisinger, I suspect, is too disciplined and traditional a journalist to have subsumed his arguments about the DOJ within a first-person story of discovery. But while it’s impressive to me how self-assured he is in his judgment—especially when making pronouncements about who was right and wrong in extremely arcane disputes—that assuredness was no doubt earned through years of hard work, and The Chickenshit Club would have had a more sustained, lively pulse if it had been framed around that process.

I suspect some people would tell me that kind of “process”-oriented journalism is precious and self-aggrandizing—that building a story around the so-called vertical pronoun inevitably takes the focus off the story and puts it on the storyteller. These people would note that it’s no accident I’m comparing The Chickenshit Club to a podcast—a journalistic form that is dominated by narratives in the key of “how I got the story.” No doubt it’s a technique that can be misused and overused and used as a crutch. (Every once in a while you’ll read or hear a piece about how someone didn’t get the story. While there are some good entries in this mini-genre—Serial, Ron Rosenbaum’s 1997 Esquire piece about looking for and failing to find J.D. Salinger—they usually read like long-winded excuses that would have been better off left in the drawer.) But there is nothing embarrassing about letting readers into your head as you solve a puzzle when doing so brings them closer to the action. Among other things I would have loved to hear about Eisinger’s relationship with Jed Rakoff, one of the few heroes in the book, and someone who clearly had a powerful influence over the way Eisinger thinks. By the same token, I would have also loved to hear about his relationship—or even lack thereof—with Lanny Breuer, the “precise and buttoned-down” criminal division chief who serves as an avatar in The Chickenshit Club of everything that went wrong at DOJ under Obama.

I can think of no subject that calls out for a personable, transparent narrator more urgently than financial crime, which requires journalists to write about abstract investment “instruments” and deceptive accounting procedures that by their nature are less immediate than “blue-collar” crimes like murder and drug dealing. Getting to sit firmly on the author’s shoulders while trying to wrap your head around stuff that complex can help a reader assimilate facts, form reactions to them, and remember them. At the very least, having a little more Jesse Eisinger in The Chickenshit Club would have made the book more accessible. It could have also created room for Eisinger to engage in a less inert, more discursive mode as he felt his way toward the truth.

The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger. Simon and Schuster.

The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

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