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In her compelling new memoir, "Lipstick Jihad," Azadeh Moaveni gives the reader a guided tour through the underground youth culture in Tehran, introducing us to kids who follow an " 'as if' lifestyle," as though their society were not under the thumb of hard-line mullahs, as though it were "permitted to hold hands on the street, blast music at parties, speak your mind, challenge authority, take your drug of choice, grow your hair long, wear too much lipstick."

She takes us to Ally McBeal nights in Tehran, to a "post-revolutionary, posh health club," to a Tehran fashion show and to a "techno-Ashoura" party, held on the anniversary of the holy day when the prophet Muhammad's grandson Hossein was martyred in the seventh century. She writes that "in Tehran, where Western movies were officially banned, everyone had a filmi, a video guy, who schlepped a trunkload of new films around to his clients' homes as a sort of mobile video store," and that many teenagers "worked fiercely to imitate music videos and Hollywood movies to every last detail," assuming, "with a touching naïveté, that all guys should act like Carson Daly."

Ms. Moaveni, who worked as a reporter for Time magazine in Iran before joining The Los Angeles Times to cover the war in Iraq, grew up in California, the daughter of Iranian émigrés. The story she tells in these pages is partly the story of her efforts to grapple with her own identity: as an Iranian growing up in an America unable to forget the Iranian hostage taking of 1979, and later as an American journalist in an Iran that remained, on an official level anyway, militantly anti-American.

It is the story of an American reporter trying to deal - personally as well as professionally - with the myriad restrictions placed upon women in Iranian society, and the story of a young woman trying to come to terms with her family's memories of an Iran now vanished and with her own conflicted sense of loyalty to both countries.

Growing up in California, Ms. Moaveni felt that "the shame of the revolution" placed enormous pressure on her and other second-generation children to fit in, "to be ever more exceptional," to "achieve more, acquire more degrees." When she moves to Iran in 2000, she finds herself becoming outraged over indignities perpetrated by the regime's morality police - indignities accepted by her Iranian friends with cynical resignation. Her friends in Tehran tell her that she smiles too much (a sure sign she is American), and remind her that in Tehran "having a facade is normal, because being honest is such a hassle."

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This sense of being an outsider in two worlds may have made daily life difficult for Ms. Moaveni, but it also makes her a wonderfully acute observer, someone keenly attuned not only to the differences between American and Iranian cultures, but also to the ironies and contradictions of life today in Tehran - a city where men and women can ride motorbikes together but must queue in segregated lines at the passport office; a city where the restrictions on male-female relationships (meant to instill a solemn sense of decency) have inflamed people's carnal instincts, making them "preoccupied with sex in the manner of dieters constantly thinking about food."

Ms. Moaveni observes that the harsh dress codes imposed on women have encouraged an obsession with plastic surgery aimed at perfecting the face. She writes that "low-grade depression was a national epidemic" in Iran, and that since contempt for the system has tainted many people's traditional esteem for Islam, more and more people are turning to Eastern spirituality, yoga and homeopathy for relief. And she argues that "the mercenary survival skills young people had been forced to develop prevented them from making lasting attachments" because "love involved the suspension of selfishness, and the anarchic culture of the regime had made selfishness paramount."

Because Ms. Moaveni tends to rely heavily on sources who belong to the educated upper middle class, it's hard for the reader to tell just how representative her impressions might be. But her book lays out a rich, tactile portrait of her and her friends' daily life in Tehran, suggesting that "at some historic moment impossible to pinpoint, around the turn of the millennium, Iranians' threshold for dissimulation and constriction sank, and people simply began acting differently." Women stopped carrying socks in their purses (in fear that they would have to cover their sandal-clad feet) and began wearing lipstick. Cautious, penny-pinching citizens bought illegal satellite dishes. Intellectuals began writing "vicious satire and stinging commentary." And "people of all ages turned up music in their cars, caroused with the opposite sex."

Those residents of Tehran determined not to be "marooned at home with bad Islamic television," she writes, learned how to navigate the mullahs' rules and maneuver around the police. "A culture of transgression" flourished: women learned they could flout the limits on dress and comportment "in the right neighborhood, at the right time of the day or month, in the right way," just as young couples learned they could circumvent prohibitions "with the right verbal pretexts, at the right times, in the right places."

Ms. Moaveni argues that these grass-roots changes will eventually alter the trajectory of Iran's history, that the younger generation - born just before the revolution or along with it - "is transforming Iran from below": "From the religious student activists to the ecstasy-trippers, from the bloggers to the bed-hopping college students, they will decide Iran's future." She also notes, however, that the optimism initially engendered by the reform movement in the late 1990's has given way more recently to disillusionment, to the realization that with the hard-liners controlling the judiciary, the armed forces and state institutions, there are no easy ways to move a reform agenda forward.

She writes that many activists, subjected to harassment and blackmail from the hard-liners, "simply gave up their political work, in return for promises that they and their families would be left alone," and that "as the life was slowly pummeled out of the reform movement throughout 2000 and well into the spring of 2001," the thinking of many Iranians underwent a shift "from a specific hope vested in recognizable figures, to the distant, abstract conviction that things would change because they must."

In fact, throughout this volume, Ms. Moaveni seems to be in a dialogue with herself about the country's future: at one moment deeply depressed over the realization that "Iranian society was sick," "spiritually and psychologically wrecked"; the next moment angry at Americans eager to depict the country as "exclusively static, declining and repressive" and intent on ignoring the many ways in which social life there was changing. She laments the effect the revolution has had on people's lives and dreams, and yet contends that it had the ironic effect of making "a huge segment of Iranian society more tolerant": "By taking rigid moralism to such a bloated, extreme level, the regime had shown definitively that minding thy neighbor's religiosity was an ugly way to live."

After 9/11, with America at war in Afghanistan, Ms. Moaveni decided to return to the United States. Whereas she had been able up to that point to work "with a relative freedom that surprised" even her, the Iranian government had begun to clamp down, and her sessions with a government minder she calls Mr. X grew increasingly vociferous. In large measure, she suggests, this was because President Bush's depiction of Iran in his 2002 State of the Union address as part of the "axis of evil" had inflamed the government's suspicions and served as "a divine gift to the hard-liners, who were running out of excuses for their ongoing repressiveness."

Near the end of this illuminating book, Ms. Moaveni writes: "The country was under attack, said the hard-liners, and everyone needed to band together. Internal conflict would no longer be tolerated. If the ostensible goal of the Bush administration was to promote tolerance and democracy in the Middle East, thereby discouraging militancy and religious extremism, then its policies had neatly produced the opposite effect."

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Saeed Pourkay sold his Persian soup, ash reshteh, at the Union Square Holiday Market. This past March, he set up inside a pizzeria. Credit Robert Caplin for The New York Times

The scent of rose water is imperceptible at Pizza Paradise, obscured by pepperoni’s more flagrant bouquet. Nevertheless, rose water is here, in a corner of this otherwise utilitarian pizzeria on 18th Street, alongside fenugreek, pomegranate molasses and black limes, sour and smoky from having been slaked with boiling water and left in the sun.

These are not experimental pizza toppings but ingredients in the dishes at Taste of Persia NYC, a takeout counter tucked into one of Pizza Paradise’s front windows. The space is compact: to the left, a row of chafing dishes; at the back, two giant rice cookers dwarfing a sink scaled for a child’s play kitchen; and in the middle, Saeed Pourkay, beaming in his crimson chef’s coat.

For two decades, Mr. Pourkay, a Tehrani émigré, ran a print shop across the street from the pizzeria. After cashing out his share in the business a few years ago (to go “searching for my happiness,” he said), he started selling ash reshteh, a wondrous, wintry, outrageously thick Persian soup, at the Union Square Holiday Market. Fans clamored. Happiness was found. This past March, he returned to 18th Street and set up under his former neighbor’s roof.

Here, in an imposing vat, is the justly fabled ash reshteh, a result of the eight-hour communion of five kinds of beans, a riot of herbs and onion cooked down to a sweet density. Dark and luxuriant, it has no broth and only a trace of oil. Broken strands of linguine snake through it. Fenugreek lurks, faint but insistently bittersweet, underscoring cinnamon, cardamom and ginger. But it is the garnishes that turn it into poetry: caramelized, verging-on-burned garlic; dried mint flicked in a pan; crispy fried onion; and a swirl of kashk, a Persian whey more sour than yogurt, with a bite like feta.

The remaining dishes (mostly rustic stews simmered for hours, sometimes days) change daily. Hope for gheimeh bademjan: long, curling halves of Chinese eggplant trimmed with yellow lentils and hunks of Angus beef; fesenjan, in which evanescent rose water mediates between sour-sweet pomegranate molasses and the earthbound pull of walnuts ground fine; khoresh beh, which employs beef as merely a foil for quince; and ghormeh sabzi, a deep green fluid patchwork of parsley, cilantro and spinach, with a whiff of fermentation from black limes. (I did wish that Mr. Pourkay offered a combination platter, because the stews are best appreciated in conjunction.)

Each stew is presented on top of Persian basmati rice, which is a labor in itself. Mr. Pourkay washes the rice four times, pours it into a pot of boiling salted water, drains it, douses it with cold water, then puts it into the rice cooker with a little water and oil and leaves it to steam. What emerges is a cloud base of fluffy grains without a hint of cling, striped with gold from a sluicing of crushed saffron dissolved in hot water.

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It is worth it to wait while Mr. Pourkay meticulously spoons out tasting samples and totes up bills on a calculator, with the front door swinging back and forth and people brushing past, occasionally knocking you on the shoulder. The food invokes the ancient splendors of the spice route, but it comes in ordinary plastic bins; forks and napkins must be foraged from the (very accommodating) pizza workers. In the back is a dining room with glaring fluorescents, should you care to eat in.

Mr. Pourkay must cook around the pizzeria’s kitchen schedule, which means only in early morning and late afternoon. (“I’ve been here since 1:30 a.m.,” he told me one day.) This hardly seems a sustainable state of affairs.

A call to action, then: please, will some investor swoop in and give Mr. Pourkay a little more real estate to work with? He has dreams of making faloodeh, the Persian frozen dessert of rice noodles and rose-water syrup, and of devising innovative ways to serve tahdig, the crusty layer of rice at the bottom of the pot. I dream, too.

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A City in Limbo After the Shutdown

What happens to the nation’s capital when the government is shut down?

By A.J. Chavar on Publish Date October 1, 2013. Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times. Watch in Times Video »

WASHINGTON — If there was a symbol on Tuesday of America’s pent-up frustration with a gridlocked political system, it was this: Scores of aging World War II and Vietnam veterans pushing past barricades to honor their fallen comrades at a memorial closed by a government shutdown.

The veterans arrived in Washington from Mississippi and Iowa, having spent thousands of dollars to charter “honor flights” to the capital. But like those of many others across the country, their plans collided with the reality of a Congress frozen by ideological disputes and unable to agree on how to keep the government open.

Lawmakers helped the veterans get past the barriers, but others around the country were not so lucky as tourists were blocked from their destinations and more than 800,000 federal employees were told to stay home.

Cleveland Faggard, 89, of Moss Point, Miss., who had been an aviation machinist for the Navy, had helped push past a black metal blockade after about a dozen Republican members of Congress arrived, responding to e-mailed pleas from the veterans. “I was just praying to the Lord,” Mr. Faggard said. “He took care of it.”

Around the country, barricades and padlocks closed off access to federal facilities as the vast machinery of the federal government began systematically shutting down operations for the first time in nearly two decades.

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Employees feared they could be out of work for weeks, and many of them were angry. “Once the mortgage payment comes around and I don’t get the paycheck, it’s going to be a problem,” said Sherilyn Garnett, 44, a federal prosecutor from Altadena, Calif. “It’s stupid. It’s really stupid.”

In Washington, Tina Miller, who works in law enforcement for the federal government, said the shutdown would have a wide impact. “It’s going to have effects for everybody and the community, everything,” she said. “I’m not sure why they wouldn’t think of that.”

Americans seeking a variety of services at federal buildings found the doors shuttered, with no indication of when they might reopen.

When Sheila Caraway, 23, arrived at the Internal Revenue Service office in downtown Los Angeles, she was turned away by a security officer who explained that parts of the government had been shut down. She left the I.R.S. without the tax refund that she had hoped would help pay for her cable TV bill.

“This is crazy. I don’t like it. It’s been over a year, and I haven’t gotten my refund,” Ms. Caraway said, explaining that she had not followed the recent political struggles in Washington. “I think everyone is crazy right now.”

Among the most noticeable impacts of the first shutdown of the Internet era: Many complex government Web sites were suddenly replaced by one-page notices like the one at, which declared that “due to the lapse in government funding, sites, services, and all online survey collection requests will be unavailable until further notice.”

Government Twitter accounts also went dark.

The reality of the shutdown began to become clear early Tuesday. Children’s playgrounds in small pocket parks around Capitol Hill were closed. The military service academies suspended all intercollegiate sports competitions. The National Zoo’s online “Panda Cam” stopped showing images of Mei Xiang’s latest cub. Officials stopped giving tours of Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay.

At the Statue of Liberty in New York, tourists from Norway and Beijing were prevented from getting close to the monument of freedom.

Haiyan Wang’s 9-year-old nephew, Tony, had been “wanting to go inside the Statue of Liberty for a long time,” Ms. Wang said Tuesday morning at Liberty State Park in Jersey City. She said her visiting relatives did not really comprehend what had happened in Washington because “the Chinese government never closes down.”

Mail delivery continued as usual, financed by fees rather than the federal budget. Amtrak trains continued to run and officials said meat inspectors, border control agents and Transportation Security Administration screeners would stay on the job.

After a general retreat on Monday, global investors reacted calmly on Tuesday in the hours after Congressional negotiations collapsed, as investors focused on the Oct. 17 deadline for raising the debt ceiling. Stocks on Wall Street closed slightly higher, while European and Asian stocks were mixed. Bond and foreign exchange markets were quiet.

Those looking for financial data to assess the impact of a shutdown will have to do it without help from the Congressional Budget Office and the Census Bureau, both of which are closing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is scheduled to issue its monthly jobs report this Friday, is also closing and said the jobs report would most likely be postponed.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission said it would stop recalls of products that do not present an imminent threat to consumer safety. The Food and Drug Administration, which inspects the majority of food Americans eat, suspended routine establishment inspections and monitoring of imported foods and drugs.

The Centers for Disease Control furloughed about 68 percent of its staff and said the shutdown would significantly reduce its capacity to respond to food-borne illnesses and disease outbreaks. Federal Communications Commission officials said the agency would send all but about 38 of its 1,716 employees home for the duration of the shutdown.

At the Justice Department, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. pledged to give back a portion of his salary in solidarity with his employees. Meanwhile, a federal judge denied a shutdown-related request from the Department of Justice to delay the antitrust case merger trial of American Airlines and US Airways, citing the need for an expeditious trial.

Traveling on Tuesday in Seoul, South Korea, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called the shutdown “nonsensical” and “needless” and said it would lead to the immediate furlough of about 400,000 civilian employees. (Mr. Obama signed legislation late Monday night ensuring that uniformed members of the military will get paid during the shutdown.)

“It does cast a very significant pall over America’s credibility with our allies when this kind of thing happens,” Mr. Hagel told reporters.

Officials informed lawmakers that about 72 percent of the intelligence community’s civilian work force were furloughed. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, angrily denounced the shutdown as “the biggest gift that we could possibly give our enemies.”

The crowds were lighter than normal early Tuesday at L’Enfant Plaza in Washington, where there are a number of federal agencies. Phillip Davenport, a management analyst at the Federal Aviation Administration, who was deemed an essential employee, said he was expecting a heavier workload.

During the last shutdown 17 years ago, Mr. Davenport was on active duty in the military, based in Alaska, he said. “Back then, I don’t remember for sure, but we came to work regardless of whether we were paid or not,” he said.

About 8 a.m., the steps of the Lincoln Memorial were being taped off by National Park police, metal barricades were erected and tourists were being turned away. Across Washington, commercial establishments sought ways to try to minimize the impact, with bars and restaurants advertising “shutdown specials.”

At Z-Burger, a popular restaurant in the Washington area, owners pledged to make good on their promise for a free burger for every furloughed federal worker. In a Twitter post, it said: “AlmostHere IF #GovernmentShutdown #FREE #Burgers.”

Correction: October 1, 2013

An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of a panda at the National Zoo. It is Mei Xiang, not Mei Xian.

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West: Wisconsin 85, Oregon 77

Wisconsin Tops Oregon With Surge in 2nd Half

Frank Kaminsky (44) was one of five Badgers to score in double figures.CreditCreditJonathan Daniel/Getty Images

By Pat Borzi

MILWAUKEE — The booing started as soon as Oregon took the court for warm-ups before its N.C.A.A. Tournament game with Wisconsin. Not that the players expected anything else. Bradley Center is about an hour’s drive from Madison, and anyone not wearing Badger scarlet and white on Saturday stood out like an extra from a 1930s gangster film.

So several Ducks players turned to the stands and vigorously waved their arms, imploring the fans to boo louder. Why not? Oregon thought it could push the pace on the Badgers, and figured that any high-scoring game favored them.

But in the final seconds, with Wisconsin’s 85-77 victory assured, it was the Badgers’ turn to hoot, jump and wave, a victory celebration they surprisingly had enough energy left to enjoy.

The most productive offensive team in Coach Bo Ryan’s 13 seasons at Wisconsin trailed by 14 points late in the first half, surged ahead with about 13 minutes to play, then hung on when Oregon turned cold late, delighting the boisterous crowd of 18,026. Wisconsin (28-7), heading to the Round of 16 for the third time in four years, will meet the winner the Baylor-Creighton game in the West Region on Thursday in Anaheim, Calif.

“I want to thank every individual in the building,” guard Josh Gasser said. “I know that’s impossible. But they were awesome.”

Oregon (24-10) scored only 5 points in the final 3 minutes 5 seconds, while allowing 13. In a pivotal possession with less than two minutes left and the Badgers trailing by a point, Wisconsin grabbed three offensive rebounds before finally scoring on a 3-pointer from the right wing by Ben Brust that made the score 77-75 with just over a minute to play.

“As soon as I let it go, I knew it was going down, which was a good feeling.” Brust said. “I just knew we had to get back and play some defense, because the game wasn’t over.”

It soon was. Oregon’s Joseph Young missed a runner in the lane, and the Badgers sank 8 of 10 free throws in the final 32 seconds. Wisconsin did not permit a single fast-break point in the second half after giving up 19 in the first and held Oregon to 28 points over all in the final 20 minutes.

“To be able to handle that smack in the face in the first half, and come back and deliver one of our own, says a lot about this group,” Ryan said.

Forward Frank Kaminsky’s 19 points led five players in double figures for Wisconsin. Young had 29 points and Jason Calliste 20 for Oregon, which shot 40.9 percent from the floor in the second half after hitting 55.6 percent in the first.

Wisconsin trailed, 56-46, before pulling ahead on a 16-3 run, with four players contributing 3-pointers.

“We just didn’t get the stops,” Oregon Coach Dana Altman said. “They got easy baskets there. Then when we finally kind of got the ship righted and got back on course, took a one-point lead late there, we couldn’t get a rebound.”

In a breathless first half, Oregon beat the Badgers downcourt repeatedly to lead by 49-37. Wisconsin shot well, too — 48.3 percent — but Oregon’s effectiveness in transition as well as off turnovers (10 points) made the difference. The score was 40-35 when Oregon ran off 9 consecutive points near the end of the half, including a sequence that left Ryan livid.

Oregon’s Ben Carter accidentally hit Sam Dekker of Wisconsin in the mouth as Dekker jumped for a pass with 1:13 remaining, drawing a little blood but no foul. Ryan complained through the stoppage of play as the officials reviewed video, then received a technical foul after play resumed. Dekker finished the half on the bench, but returned for second half.

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Police on Long Island Are Working Illegally With ICE, Suit Says

Driving on Long Island in August, Denis Guerra Guerra was stopped by the police in Nassau County for failing to signal when changing lanes, a traffic infraction punishable by a ticket. Two weeks later, he was deported to El Salvador.

A police officer had taken his identification — a passport from El Salvador — and discovered a pending order of removal from immigration authorities.

On Monday, lawyers from the Central American Refugee Center, a Long Island immigrant legal services organization commonly known as Carecen, and the Hofstra Law Clinic filed suit against Nassau County in state Supreme Court, saying that the county police department was cooperating with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in ways that break state law.

Elise Damas, a lawyer for Carecen, announced the suit at a news conference at Hofstra University.

“Carecen seeks an ironclad assurance that Nassau County will act in accordance with New York State law, and not just with federal immigration policies,” she said. “Nassau County police are tasked with ensuring the safety of all communities countywide, a goal which cannot be achieved until immigrants feel protected.”

Peter L. Markowitz, a professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, called the lawsuit significant, saying: “New York State laws strictly define when it is O.K. and not O.K. for a state officer to make an arrest. And that does not include the authority to make civil immigration arrests.”

Mr. Guerra Guerra, 30, is not named in the lawsuit. He is a client of Ms. Damas’s, though, and she said he was the impetus for the suit. But since he is in El Salvador, the lead plaintiff in the case is “Jane Doe,” a 26-year-old undocumented immigrant living in Nassau County. The woman has had no interaction so far with local police but, the suit claims, is at risk because of county policies; the lawyers declined to name her because she is applying for asylum.

Lt. Richard LeBrun, a spokesman for the county police department, responded to the lawsuit by stating the department’s policy, which has been in effect since January 2007: “The Nassau County Police Department will not inquire into any person’s immigration status unless they are arrested for a crime. This includes the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses and anyone who calls the police seeking assistance.” The police may report the presence of an undocumented immigrant upon arrest, the policy says.

In August, Nassau’s acting police commissioner, Patrick J. Ryder, issued a statement saying that Mr. Guerra Guerra’s lack of a driver’s license and registration prompted further questions, which led to the discovery of a box cutter in his car. He was arrested on charges of possession of a weapon, but those charges were dropped at the precinct.

The Nassau County attorney, Carnell Foskey, said that he would not comment on “matters of litigation.”

The suit said the county’s policy was flawed on two fronts: first, that the Nassau police’s holding undocumented immigrants who are not accused of other crimes was unlawful, and second, that the county’s policy of honoring requests from ICE to hold immigrants for 48 hours at local jails, know as detainers, creates an environment of fear where immigrants would be reluctant to report crimes.

Ms. Damas said that the police department was afraid it would lose federal funding if the Trump administration considered the county unwilling to assist immigration authorities.

In fact, after the suit was filed on Monday, the Department of Justice announced it would award more than $98 million to police departments that promised to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The money would pay for additional officers.

“It’s the federal government coming in and getting involved in law enforcement in our community,” Ms. Damas said.

Donna Zak, the supervisor of the immigration unit at the Legal Aid Society on Long Island, said that before President Trump took office, “Someone who was brought in on a traffic infraction would not have been held for ICE.” Now, she said, “The ICE holds are growing in numbers.”

While there have been several federal challenges to local authorities cooperating with ICE detainers over time — and especially the last five years — a recent state court decision in Massachusetts offers a precedent for the New York case. The judge for the state Supreme Court determined that Massachusetts court officers could not arrest and hold an individual solely on the basis of a federal civil immigration detainer.

Asked about the Nassau suit, Christopher Lasch, a professor University of Denver Sturm College of Law, who studies detainer law, said, “It’s a sensible challenge because it goes straight to what is perhaps the easiest question for the state court to answer: does our state law give our officers the ability to make civil immigration arrests.”

Arielle Dollinger contributed reporting.

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Pressure Grows for U.S. Olympic Committee Chief to Step Down

Scott Blackmun, chief executive of the United States Olympic Committee, in 2017. He has been highly regarded and viewed as a stabilizing force in the organization.CreditCreditLee Jin-Man/Associated Press

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — As the Winter Olympics prepared to open on Friday, the United States Olympic Committee defended its embattled chief executive, saying it would not immediately replace him despite growing calls for his resignation resulting from the uproar over sexual abuse of gymnasts by a former national team doctor.

The chief executive, Scott Blackmun, was not here to lead the American delegation; he had said he would be unable to attend the opening ceremony Friday in order to undergo treatment for prostate cancer.

Larry Probst, the chairman of the Olympic committee, said at a news conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea, that no decision on Mr. Blackmun’s future would be made until the completion of an independent investigation into how the organization handled the sexual abuse accusations.

Mr. Probst, however, did seem to support Mr. Blackmun while also suggesting the brewing crisis could have been managed differently.

“We think that we did what we were supposed to,” he said. “Could we have done more? Of course. You can always do more.”

Regarding Mr. Blackmun, Mr. Probst said, “He has served the U.S.O.C. with distinction” since becoming its chief executive in 2010. “We think that he did what he was supposed to do and did the right thing at every turn.”

At the same time, Mr. Probst said that after the results of the investigation are made public, “whatever actions are required and are appropriate, based upon on that investigation, will be taken by our board.”

To the hundreds of girls and women who have said they were sexually abused by Dr. Lawrence G. Nassar, the gymnastics team doctor who has been convicted of multiple sex crimes, Mr. Probst said, “The Olympic system failed you and we are so incredibly sorry.”

He did not say specifically that the U.S.O.C. had failed the athletes, seeming to choose his words carefully, perhaps attempting to shield the Olympic committee’s liability in several lawsuits that have been filed. Asked to clarify, Mr. Probst noted that the U.S.O.C. was part of the Olympic system.

More than 260 athletes, several of them Olympic medalists, have accused Dr. Nassar, who has been sentenced to decades in prison, of abusing them, often in the guise of medical treatment.

The appearance of scores of the athletes at his sentencing hearings last month threw the Olympic committee into crisis as several publicly accused it of not doing enough to protect them.

Through his tenure as chief executive, Mr. Blackmun has been highly regarded and viewed as a stabilizing force in an organization previously troubled by chaotic leadership. He has served in a number of roles at the U.S.O.C., including general counsel.

Mr. Blackmun’s diligent efforts to repair a damaged relationship between United States Olympic officials and the International Olympic Committee resulted in Los Angeles being named as the host city for the 2028 Summer Games.

But criticism of the U.S.O.C.’s handling of the gymnastics abuse scandal — one of the largest in sports history — has led two United States senators and a group of about 30 former Olympians, athletes’ representatives and child-advocacy experts to call for Mr. Blackmun to step down.

“He’s done,” said Edward G. Williams, a lawyer in New York who competed in the biathlon in the 1968 Winter Olympics and is a prominent advocate for athletes’ rights. “Scott’s leadership flaw was that he forgot who he serves. He serves the athletes; he doesn’t serve the N.G.B.s,” parlance for national sports governing bodies.

Mr. Williams is a chief organizer of a group of athletes, coaches and lawyers called the Committee to Restore Integrity to the U.S.O.C. This week, the group called for Mr. Blackmun’s ouster, after similar demands made recently by Senators Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, and Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa.

The senators called for Mr. Blackmun to step down after a report in The Wall Street Journal that the U.S.O.C. did not intervene despite learning in 2015 from U.S.A. Gymnastics that gymnasts were victims of possible sexual misconduct by Dr. Nassar, a year before accusations became public in an investigation by The Indianapolis Star.

The U.S.O.C. has said it followed proper procedures and was told that the authorities were being contacted. But The New York Times has reported that as an F.B.I. investigation plodded along between July 2015 and September 2016, at least 40 girls and women say Dr. Nassar molested them during that period.

The Olympic reform group has sent a 13-page report to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which is investigating the sexual abuse of gymnasts.

In its letter, the reform group described what it said was a failure by Mr. Blackmun and the Olympic committee to sufficiently protect athletes from sexual abuse over the past three decades in various sports such as gymnastics, taekwondo, swimming and speedskating.

Athletes who complained of sexual abuse were left to fend for themselves in arbitration instead of being able to rely on the U.S.O.C. for safety, the group said in its report. As a result, it said, Mr. Blackmun and the Olympic committee “created the underlying conditions for sexual abuse to thrive by cutting athletes off from institutional support.”

One of the reform group members is Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a three-time gold medalist in swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and a lawyer who said she was serving as an expert on sexual abuse on behalf of some gymnasts in civil litigation.

In a statement, Ms. Hogshead-Makar said that Mr. Blackmun “allowed one of the country’s largest youth-serving organizations to avoid basic child protection measures, such as prohibitions on adults being alone with children.”

She added: “He has instructed the U.S.O.C. to sit on the sidelines when athletes have been sexually abused. He has ignored the pleas of athletes, all in order to serve the U.S.O.C.’s corporate interests of limited civil liability. He does not deserve to lead our Olympic team.”

Mark Jones, a spokesman for the U.S.O.C., said Friday: “We’ve seen the letter and obviously fundamentally disagree on a number of points. There are some instances in the letter that are flat-out untrue, and we look forward to further discussing it with the House Energy and Commerce Committee.”

Steven Ungerleider, a sports psychologist in Eugene, Ore., who said that his consulting team had interviewed 18 of Dr. Nassar’s accusers, provided The Times with an email copy of a letter he said he had recently sent to Mr. Blackmun, urging him to resign.

Mr. Ungerleider, who has been affiliated with the U.S.O.C. for three decades, wrote that he urged Mr. Blackmun more than a year ago to intervene with U.S.A. Gymnastics and to say something public about the abuse scandal.

Mr. Blackmun’s reply, according to Mr. Ungerleider’s letter, was that lawyers representing the Olympic committee recommended that officials “keep our heads low and our mouths shut.”

The athletes abused by Dr. Nassar needed the U.S.O.C.’s support, but instead received a “deathly silent” response from Mr. Blackmun, Mr. Ungerleider wrote. He added, “Your lack of oversight, fiduciary duty and moral compass has been despicable.”

Mr. Jones said he had not yet seen Mr. Ungerleider’s letter and would not comment until he had read it.


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‘Witch’, ‘Anti-American’, ‘Icon’, ‘Bubby’: US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been called it all. Before she became the ‘Notorious RBG’ and an internet sensation, Ginsburg was laying the foundation for a fairer and more just America by fighting against gender discrimination well before women were welcome in the courthouse. Surmounting the rampant sexism of America in the 1950s, Ginsburg defied expectations by being appointed to the Harvard Law Review before transferring to Columbia Law School where she graduated tied for first in her class.

Unreservedly supported by her husband Marty (and free to pursue her passions), Ginsburg was blazing a highway of progress one step at a time. The Women’s Liberation movement of the 1970s allowed the reserved yet powerful Ginsburg to utilise her legal prowess to push the revolution forward with the American Civil Liberties Union. Working on sex discrimination cases for both men and women, her professional life was focused on providing equal protection under the law and elevating women from second-class citizenship. “It was like teaching kindergarten,” Ginsburg muses, recalling her experience trying to open the eyes of male lawmakers to the glaring inequalities faced by women and minorities.

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“Ginsburg has never shied away from tough stuff, and West and Cohen echo that approach during the film’s opening credits, which include a slew of slurs unleashed against the associate justice during her long tenure (terms like ‘anti-American’, a ‘zombie’, and ‘vile’ are tossed around, while our own president pipes in to call her a ‘disgrace’). When Ginsburg finally appears on screen, she’s working out while wearing a bright purple sweatshirt bearing two words: ‘super diva’. The message is clear: She’s tough as nails, and she couldn’t care less what the haters think. That’s only the half of it.” — Kate Erbland, Indiewire


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Robert D. Schlimmer passed away December 7, 2016, in Davenport at the age of 77.

He was born to Robert and Esther Schlimmer on October 1, 1939, in Spokane.

He was a member of the Washington Association of Wheat Growers and the Odessa Trading Company and was named a past Lincoln County Conservation farmer of the year.

Robert enjoyed fishing, loved his Chihuahua dogs, and loved to farm. He was a graduate of Odessa High School.

He is survived by his wife, Valerie (Vaughan) Schlimmer; five children, Dennis, Alan, Mark, Stephen, Lisa, and step-daughter Jessica Houston. He has 11 grandchildren; three sisters, Darlene Kagele, Colleen Titcomb, and Terri Carlson, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Robert is preceded in death by his parents Robert and Esther Schlimmer, and one beloved son Robert A (Robby) Schlimmer in 2012.

Graveside services were held Tuesday, December 20, at the Odessa Cemetery, followed by a memorial service at the Chapel of Strate Funeral Home in Davenport. Memorials may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in memory of Robby Schlimmer. Please sign the online guest book at Strate Funeral Home in Davenport is caring for the Schlimmer family.

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Patrolman Wister Lee Reece

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End of Watch Tuesday, November 5, 1957

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Patrolman Wister Reece was shot and killed in Richmond County after stopping the driver of a vehicle for speeding.

After the shooting, the suspect fled but was later pulled over by Patrolman J. T. Brown in Lee County. During that stop the suspect also shot and killed Patrolman Brown. The vehicle, later found to be stolen, was being driven by a New York state mental hospital escapee. The escapee was en route to Mississippi to attempt to break his brother out of death row.

Three weeks later the suspect was captured in Bakersfield, California. Since his escape a month earlier, it was discovered that he was involved in numerous burglaries in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina.

He was convicted of two counts of first degree murder and sentenced to two life terms on March 19, 1958. The suspect, who was North Carolina's oldest and longest serving inmate, died in prison July 21, 2012. He was 90 years old.

A section of U.S. 74 near Hamlet, North Carolina, was renamed in honor of Patrolman Reece. He is buried in Eastside Cemetery, Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina.

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Patrolman Herbert Brantlinger was shot and killed while investigating a gasoline theft which was in-progress at a service station on U.S. Route 19 in South Fayette Township. As he dismounted his motorcycle he was struck with rifle fire. The suspect was apprehended and sentenced to life.

Patrolman Brantlinger had been with the agency for almost two years and was survived by his mother.

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The OECD Business and Finance Outlook is an annual publication that presents unique data and analysis that looks at what might affect and change, both favourably and unfavourably, tomorrow’s world of business, finance and investment. Using analysis from a wide range of perspectives, this year’s edition addresses some forces influencing economic developments that have contributed to recent surprises in elections and referendums. A common theme of these surprises has been voter discontent with globalisation and immigration that are perceived to be causes of unemployment and falling living standards for substantial segments of society in a number of OECD countries. This Outlook’s focus is on ways to enhance “fairness”, in the sense of strengthening global governance, to ensure a level playing field in trade, investment and corporate behaviour, through the setting and better enforcement of global standards. A brief review of important developments contributing to post-war globalisation is provided and a number of policy domains are covered. These include exchange rates and capital account management, financial regulation since the global financial crisis, the rising weight of state-owned enterprises in the world economy, competition policy to deal with international cartels, the cost of raising capital, responsible business conduct and bribery and corruption.

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Office Favorite Makes Me Want To Abandon Ship

Dear Office-Politics,

I work in a very small business (about 11-12 employees). How do I handle an office favorite?

We have one co-worker whom the bosses dote on and she can do no wrong, she gets taken out to special lunches, gets preferential treatment, unearned days off etc… However, she does less than nothing, preferring to shove responsibilities off on others and taking the credit.

Employee morale is at an all time low. Do I abandon ship?

dr. rick brandon
dr. marty seldman

Dear Ready-to-Abandon-Ship,

In your letter to us you are asking two questions:
(1) How do I handle an office favorite?
(2) Do I abandon ship? (i.e. Is this so bad that I should leave?)

Let us quickly answer the second question and then spend more time on providing tips related to your first question.

In terms of should you leave, we would say no. You probably have a strong sense of fairness and this behavior on the part of the bosses offends you. Why stay? We didn’t read anything in your letter about you being mistreated. Your bosses are demonstrating an unfortunate bias called the “halo effect.” The “halo effect” sounds like a positive thing but it has a negative effect on team members like yourself and eventually the bosses and even the recipient of favoritism.

The “halo effect” is an undeserved benefit. Someone is given the benefit of the doubt in all cases; imbued with qualities they don’t have; policies are not enforced; their achievements are magnified; and their failures are often rationalized away.

There are many reasons why leaders slip into this overly rosy view of certain people. When we coach leaders we teach them skills to avoid this bias because the behavior stands out in neon to everyone on the team and reflects poorly on their leadership.

However you, if you stay, are in the position of having to deal with it. Given your feelings, you may have a tendency to avoid this woman or even bad-mouth her. That would be risky behavior. Her position with the bosses gives her immense power. She can hurt you and you cannot touch her unless she makes blatant mistakes.

We would coach you to try to overcome your feelings towards her and build a relationship. She has access and influence with the bosses and is in a position to help you sell your ideas or yourself.

Unfortunately, the “halo effect” is so common that if you left, you would probably run into it again. In fact, many people have experienced the “halo effect” in their own families if there were multiple siblings.

Whenever we can in a seminar, and as coaches, we try to eliminate the “halo effect” on teams. You may not have enough power to change things and unless you have a safe way of pointing out the behavior we would be careful. Many bosses, unfortunately, will interpret feedback about this as criticism.

If there is interest in future letters, we can describe why some people benefit from the “halo effect”, and what leaders can do to guard against this bias.

Thanks for writing to Office-Politics.

Rick Brandon, Ph.d. and Marty Seldman, Ph.D. Co-authors,
Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company Success

cover of Survival of the SavvyRick Brandon, Ph.d. and Marty Seldman, Ph.D. are Co-authors, Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company Success. Dr. Rick Brandon is CEO of Brandon Partners. He has consulted and trained tens of thousands at corporations worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries. Dr. Marty Seldman is one of America’s most experienced executive coaches. His 35-year career includes expertise in executive coaching, group dynamics, cross-cultural studies, clinical psychology, and training.

Publication note: This letter was originally published in 2006. We are republishing the best letters from Office-Politics and integrating them with our blog format.

  1. 6 Answers to “Office Favorite Makes Me Want To Abandon Ship”

  2. It’s not possible for me to build any relationship with my office princess. She has made it abundantly clear that she wants to be my friend and turn me into some kind of surrogate daughter. Weird or what? My only way of dealing with this is to keep her at arms length as much as possible as she is so objectionable and strange.

    By carole on Jul 17, 2007

  3. Is it a lost cause if a member of your team and yourself are in competition for a management position and that person has the halo effect and wants nothing to do with you as you are a major threat? i.e. More qualified and educated and more experience in the profession. The other person is in company 8 years, I am in over 2. What do you think?

    By Mr possiblygonenextweek on Jul 21, 2007

  4. I am in a similar position, only I recently told the “favorite” off. This person has cried and complained about her duties so much that co-workers, to include supervisors, do not go to her for assistance unless there are no other personnel available to assist them. There is high turnover in the position similarly assigned to her because her duties are routinely “dumped” on the other person, which, over time causes them to leave. I have observed this for several years and finally got tired of co-workers (supervisors as well) complaining to me about our manager’s failure to deal with this person’s lack of cooperation and avoidance of work. I am now looking for a new job because this has gone on for years and this person cannot retire for several years.

    By A Bagley on Aug 10, 2007

  5. Hi Drs. Brandon and Seldman,

    I read your post “Office Favorite Makes Me Want To Abandon Ship.” Very insightful way to describe the halo effect, in addition to the fact that you gave “ready to abandon ship” some solid pointers on how she should handle the situation.

    I actually referenced your post on my blog http://www.laborrelations101.com. Thank you for the post. Take care.

    Jason J. Greer

    By Jason Greer on Sep 8, 2007

  6. I’ve got a doozy of a princess with a halo – She’s hung around for DECADES but does absolutely nothing except send personal e-mails and call girlfriends ALL DAY. This person has numerous perks, never uses vacation time when she takes time off (3 weeks this year already), and has complains NON STOP when anyone dares to give her an assignment. What’s worse, the rest of us are forced to listen to every single development in the life of her little precious children (adults) and are treated with a serious cold shoulder if we don’t jump for joy. She’s got a golden halo, though. Refuses to retire, and contributes NOTHING to this place.

    By Sheesh on Mar 19, 2008

  7. We are in a small office (family owned) business with 12 office staff. There is a purchasing agent that has the power to take the boss (owners son) golfing every chance he gets, acts superior to all other staff, even to the point of looking down his nose at everyone (literally). He does not have the skills that others in the office have but because he coddles the boss at every chance, especially on the golf course (no others in the office golf), and is loud and haughty around the office. the rest of us have been there longer and work as hard if not harder at their jobs, put off outside interests to help out but this person gets all the praise. It is a small enough office (spacewise) that all can hear his braggings. Being nice to this person only brings his contempt. How do you handle this?

    By Frustrated on Apr 21, 2009

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Mei Kei Industrial Building
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Mei Kei Industrial Building
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Hump Day Doujin: Handmade

Wow, that long weekend fucked me up, so I forgot to do the HDD on time. Haha. Hope you can forgive me. So this week, we’re doing some hot, sexy, hot and sexy, also sexy, and last but not least hot Hand Made May doujin.

The manga, called HANDMADE by JUMBO MAX is one that I’ve liked for a good while because it doesn’t fuck around with this namby pamby talking and not-being-naked business. It’s one of those manga that I don’t think we’ve featured yet, but are certainly popular. In fact, sitting here, I’m wondering how we missed the disembodied penis doujin up to this point. This whole book is extremely well drawn, as is the standard for JUMBO MAX and most of Hump Day Doujin’s books. What this book is being featured for is the put hot, sex-filled joy. You might catch a hip occasionally, but doujin like this are extremely satisfying for fans of the characters. Especially this one. You run the entire Hand Made May harem and there’s no need for lead up or discussion, it’s pure spank-bait. Is it wrong that I find these to be among the best doujin around? Maybe I’m just a lazy pervert sometimes. Anyway, the book is well worth the 3000 yen asking price. I mean, 42 pages of pure sexy sexing. Yessir. Here are some preview shots. The book is more of the same, which is a good thing.


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Balance Sheet Forecasting Demystified

by Alan Hart May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016

A new and sensible approach to creating a forecasted balance sheet

Have you ever wondered why forecasting of the corporate balance sheet is something we seldom see or hear about? Or why many finance managers and professionals dismiss it as an unnecessary activity with no real benefit to the company? The answer, according to my interpretation and understanding, is that doing a good job of forecasting a complete and accurate balance sheet is very hard, probably impossible using conventional tools (traditional CPM tools, spreadsheets, etc.).

A lot has happened since the first attempts at forecasting a corporate balance sheet. In the early days of computerized planning and budgeting the main goal was to forecast the cash flow of the company; cash leaving and entering the company in various budgeting periods (months, quarters, etc.). The focus wasn’t really on generating a “future” balance sheet with all of its components clearly presented, but more on the general accounts, such as cash, and maybe receivables, inventory and payables.

With the available tools at the time, the cash flow forecast was usually not presented in a standard Statement of Cash Flow. Management was able to see how much cash would be required in each period and anticipated cash receipts during the budget year. The accuracy of such forecasts was always questionable, but at the time it was the only method known and used.

Those who have done cash forecasts know how hard it can be, especially if any degree of detail and accuracy is expected. The end result was often far from the actual results but it was a step in the right direction.

Can a Balance Sheet be accurately forecasted? That depends on the definition of accuracy. Under ideal circumstances a forecasted balance sheet can only be as accurate as the income statement forecast. You grossly overestimate your sales in certain budget periods and the forecasted balance sheet, assuming it perfectly tracks the forecasted P&L, will be off too.

Nevertheless, if the forecasted Balance Sheet and its Statement of Cash Flows companion are not synchronized to the P&L and to each other, any degree of accuracy and completeness can never be achieved. This is why most of the popular planning and budgeting software solution used today are not able to provide their users with an accurately synchronized set of financial statements.

In an earlier blog entry, Take Advantage of your Planning & Budgeting Software’s GL we saw that in order to achieve a meaningful set of synchronized forecasted financial statement the software must employ a general ledger at its core and automatically make journal entries in response to budget line forecasted activities (e.g., sales and expenses in budget periods, forecasted capital asset acquisitions, etc.).

Finance executives, finance managers and finance professionals now have a set of tools to deliver a forecasted Balance Sheet and a Statement of Cash Flow that perfectly track the budget and its forecasted Income Statement. These look exactly like the actual financial statements, only represent future budget periods instead of actual accounting periods’ performance.

While I perfectly understand why they did this with the existing tools and software architecture, company CFOs and other finance executives can no longer dismiss this radically new approach as irrelevant or unnecessary. It’s good to see technology innovations finally reaching corporate finance management and embraced by organizations’ leadership teams.

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Jayant Patel, former Portland-area doctor, convicted for 3 fatal surgeries in Australia

patel_9.JPGDr. Jayant Patel (center) arrives Friday at the Supreme Court in Brisbane, Australia, with his lawyer, Michael Byrne, (left) and his wife, Kishoree as the jury deliberates on three counts of manslaughter and one of grievous bodily harm. Patel, 60, who formerly practiced in Portland, was found guilty Tuesday on all of the counts involving his patients at Bundaberg Base Hospital.
SYDNEY, Australia -- An American doctor accused of botching a string of operations while he was the chief surgeon at an Australian hospital was found guilty Tuesday of killing three patients and grievously harming another.

Jayant Patel, 60, formerly of the Portland area, was ordered into police custody until Thursday's sentencing after a jury returned guilty verdicts on all charges. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Patel did not visibly react when the verdict was read and he was led away. His wife, Kishoree Patel, left the courthouse in tears without speaking to reporters.

Patel had pleaded innocent to three counts of manslaughter and one count of causing grievous bodily harm to patients while working as director of surgery between 2003 and 2005 at a public hospital in Bundaberg, a sugar industry town 230 miles north of Brisbane in Queensland state.

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The trial came more than 25 years after questions were first raised about Patel's competency. It marked a milestone for many former patients and their families, who have waited years to face the man they accused of irreparably damaging their lives.

Prosecutor Ross Martin described Patel as a "bad surgeon motivated by ego" who tried to restore his reputation by carrying out surgery he was not competent to perform.

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Patel did not speak at the trial. However, defense lawyer Michael Byrne said that he was a hardworking doctor devoted to his patients and that all of the patients named in the case had consented to the surgeries and knew the risks.

Patel graduated from medical school in his native Jamnangar, India, in 1976 and entered a residency program in New York state two years later.

He has faced complaints about his competency since the early 1980s, when he practiced in the United States. In 1984, New York health officials fined him and placed him on probation for three years for failing to examine patients before surgery.

He later worked at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Portland. Kaiser banned him from liver and pancreatic surgeries in 1998 after reviewing 79 complaints about Patel. The Oregon Board of Medical Examiners later cited him for "gross or repeated acts of negligence."

In 2003, Patel took up a posting at the Bundaberg Base Hospital. He left Australia in 2005, just as questions began to be raised about his record.

An investigation in Australia led to an extradition request. In 2008, the FBI arrested Patel at his home in Oregon. He was brought back to Australia and the trial began that year.

Patel was found guilty of the manslaughter of Mervyn John Morris, James Edward Phillips and Gerry Kemps, and the grievous bodily harm of Ian Rodney Vowles.

Judy Kemps, Gerry's widow, said she was relieved that the ordeal had ended with justice.

"It's been a long five years but it's all over," she told reporters. "I'm just so happy. I'm free. It's closure all right."

The jury heard evidence that Patel rushed Gerry Kemps into surgery on his esophagus without proper planning, then failed to spot profuse internal bleeding and stitched up the patient. The 77-year-old died of blood loss.

Morris died after Patel failed to identify the cause of rectal bleeding. In Vowles' case, Patel found a benign cyst during a colonoscopy and removed the bowel rather than ordering a biopsy. The specimen later showed no sign of cancer.

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The old bridge, which sat in 900 acres of Ministry of Defence (MoD) land, was around 150 years old and had reached the end of its serviceable life.

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I don't know about you, but I can't believe we're less than 6 weeks out from school starting again!!!

I feel like we just started our summer break, and yet we're already half way through it. With all the Back to School mega deals at the office supplies stores and Target already displaying all of their supplies, it sure doesn't feel like July. I realize some schools are now year-round so they have a legitimate reason for putting it out so early, but it still feels crazy!

Nevertheless, all of this has made me get in the mood to start preparing for our school year. I made a variety of First Day Of School signs for my son to pick from (and to also list of Etsy). Since this is a new blog, I decided to offer three of them for free for the next week. Please leave a comment if you were able to enjoy them!

I have three options -- click on the image of the style that you prefer for a FREE download. (Deal expired on July 20, 2017 -- still available on Etsy

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Thank you for checking out the new blog and be sure to follow for more printables in the future!

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