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At 2:09am on May 4, 2014, PaulB Thomas said…

Blessings Sister, trust you are doing well in Alabama and being blessed of the Lord in his work there. I have not seen you for some time online and its good to reconnect again. Shake your city for the Lord, it's your day.
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At 5:26am on November 4, 2014, PST SAMUEL M OPINGO said…

The Lord lift you above the storms of life and give peace. May your life be a perfect reflection of God's word over you. I pray nothing intercepts your purpose in this life.May God lead you to the rock that is higher than you. May He not withhold His promises over you for the day. Walk under open heavens;May the words of your mouth and the meditations of your heart be acceptable to Jehovah right now. May you never miss any miracle on your way even as you set your eyes on that ultimate prize of yours ahead. Blessings!

At 12:50pm on December 29, 2014, PaulB Thomas said…

Blessings My Sister  to you and family, from UK. May the Lord unlock divine things, purposes and agendas for you in 2015. Many thanks for your faithful ministry which is always encouraging. Thankyou!

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Arbanites [Arvanitas]

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Arvanites are those whose mother tongue is "Arvanitika" (in greek: arvanites=arvani+tis+notias=Albanians from the south of balkans).The word Arberesh is used in Albanian; most linguists use the word Albanian for the language.

Arvanites (in Greek) and Arberor (in Albanian); but in Northwestern Greece, in the language, the term Shqiptar is used (the same used by Albanians of Albania) and the word Arvanites has no meaning on north-western region of Greece(note; This is region of Chameria).

Nevertheless, Arvanitika belongs to the linguistic family of Albanian, and it has evolved from one of the two linguistic groups of Albanian, the Southern Albanian dialect (note: the dialect spoken by Albanians on the south of Balkans) . Arvanitika has a dialectical richness: there are three different groups of dialects spoken, one in Thrace, one in Northwestern Greece (near the Albanian border), and one in Central and Southern Greece. The latter, which includes a vast number of speakers of Arvanitika in Greece, has by itself a great dialectical variety which makes some of these dialects to be, or to be perceived by the speakers as, mutually unintelligible (Nakratzas, 1992:86; Trudgill et al., 1975:44; Tsitsipis, 1983:297; Williams, 1992:85).Arvanites in Greece argue whether they should use the Greek or the Latin alphabet to write their language, which has rarely been written (Gerou, 1994a; Kazazis, 1994).The dialect of Albanians in Chameria is an exception as on this case the alphabet used is the same with the alphabet in Albania.

Most Arvanites have traditionally lived in Central and Southern Greece: in most departments of the regions of Continental Greece (Sterea Ellada) and the Peloponnese (including especially most islands corresponding to these areas) and the Cyclades island of Andros. Arvanites known as Albanian or Shqiptars live near the Albanian border, in most departments of Chameria(Epirus) and in the Florina and Kastoria departments of Macedonia; also, in the border (with Turkey) department of Evros (in Thrace) and in the Salonica department (where they settled along with other Orthodox refugees from Eastern Thrace, in the 1920's). Like the rest of the population, since the 1950s, Arvanites have been emigrating from their villages to the cities and especially to the capital Athens, which, incidentally, was a mainly Albanian (Arvanite) small town in the early 1800's, before becoming the Greek state's capital (Nakratzas, 1992:87-Cool. It appears that urbanization has been leading to the loss of the use of the language, which has been surviving more in the traditional villages.

There have not been any official statistics on this as well as on any other minority group in Greece since 1951 (and the statistics before then are generally considered unreliable, reflecting mostly only those with a strong ethnic consciousness). Today, the best estimate for the people who speak the language and/or have an Arvanite consciousness is the estimate from Some members of the community give much the figures, around 1,600,000 (Kormoss, 1994:1; and Gerou, 1994b:2) and this refers only to Arvanites in central and south Greece. Except Turkish, Arvanitika has no legal status in Greece and is not taught at any level of the educational system.

Moreover, there are no media in Arvanitika, though in some Attica radio stations some Arvanitika songs can be heard. Arvanites are Orthodox Christians (many belong to the Old-Calendarist 'Genuine Orthodox'Church). Arvanite cultural activities appear to be limited. Tsitsipis has reported only occasional folklore festivals, music and poetry contests (Tsitsipis, 1983 & 1994). Since the 1980's, there has been a creation of Arvanite cultural associations and publication of a magazine and some books on Arvanite culture (very little though published in the language). In some areas, Easter Gospel is read in Arvanitika (Gerou, 1994a). Perhaps the most significant -for the largë public- venture is the release of the CD -with an attached explanatory booklet- Arvanitic Songs (FM Records, 1994).
History of the community and the language

The first Christian Albanian migrations to central and southern(note: Albanian of north-western Greece are on Albanian native lands) of what is today Greek territory took place as early as the XI-XII centuries (Trudgill, 1975:5; Banfi, 1994:19), although the main ones most often mentioned in the bibliography happened in the XIV-XV centuries, when Albanians were invited to settle in depopulated areas by their Byzantine, Catalan or Florentine rulers (Tsitsipis, 1994:1; Trudgill, 1975:5; Nakratzas, 1992:20-24 & 78-90; Banfi, 1994:19). According to some authors, they were also fleeing forced Islamization by the Turks in what is today Albania (Katsanis, 1994:1). So, some have estimated that, when the Ottomans conquered the whole Greek territory in the XV century, some 45% of it was populated by Albanians (Trudgill, 1975:6). Another wave of Muslim Albanian migrations took place during the Ottoman period, mainly in the XVIII century (Trudgill, 1975:6; Banfi, 1994:19). All these Albanians are the ancestors of modern-day Arvanites in Central and Southern Greece.

Very little is known about the Albanian presence in Thrace; it was probably a spill-over of the many migrations mentioned above. Anyhow, there were many Albanians in Eastern Thrace and in the adjacent Western Thrace department of Evros. The former, as Christians, were relocated in Greece during the compulsory exchange of Christians and Muslims between modern-day Turkey and Greece in the 1920's: many settled in the Salonica department.
As for the Albanians of Epirus and Western Macedonia, they are considered to be part of the modern Albanian nation (Banfi, 1994:20), something which perhaps explains their self-identification as Shqiptars rather than Arberor. When frontiers were drawn up in the early XX century, a large number of native Christian and Muslim Albanian lands were given to Greece. An important part of these Albanians, the Muslim Chams, were expelled by the Greek Forces under the comand of the hateful figure of N. Zervas , this happened towards the end of World War II,

When the modern Greek state was formed, the Albanian-speaking population and its language were called Albanian .Bickford-Smith, 1993: 47; Embeirikos, 1994; Vakalopoulos, 1994:243-249). However, the policy of the new Greek state was to Hellenize all the non-Greek speaking Orthodox populations within its, then limited, territory as well as in the territories of Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace and Asia Minor still under Ottoman rule). As elsewhere in Europe, army and education were the most effective mechanisms of Hellenization, assisted by the judiciary system ready to denounce and punish all forms of behavior inconsistent with the state's nationalist culture (Kitromilidis, 1990:38; Kollias, 1994).

It is noteworthy to point out though, that, before the definite development of modern Albanian nationalism, there were efforts in the 1870's to include most Albanians under Ottoman rule in a Albanian-Greek kingdom (Castellan, 1991:333; Vakalopoulos, 1994: 243-249), just as others appealed to them for their inclusion in an Albanian-Vlach Macedonian state (Berard, 1987:292-333). The Albanians'fear of an eventual assimilation by the Greeks led to the failure of the former effort.

The result of the Hellenization policy -which was to take a very oppressive turn during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-1940)- was that Albanians in Greece, especially after the emergence of Albanian nationalism and of the Albanian state, felt that they had to 'constantly provë their Greekness.'Hence, their very conservative political behavior: they had traditionally been royalists and, in largë numbers, adhered to the Old Calendarist Orthodox Christian Church, which -when the split in the Greek Church over the introduction of the new calendar took place in the 1920's- was originally supported by the royalist forces. Moreover, and more important for the survival of their language. They have preferred the term Arvanite (Arberor in their own language) for the people and Arvanitika (Arberesh) for the language, as opposed to Albanian (Shqiptar for the people and Shqip for the language) that Albanians use for themselves and their language -with the exception of the Arvanites of Northwestern Greece, as mentioned above. This attitude may also explain the efforts of some intellectuals of the Arvanite community to trace Arvanites'and Arvanitika's roots back to the prehistoric inhabitants of Greece, the Pelasgians and their language, so as to claim indigenous status (Williams, 1992:87; Gerou, 1994b; Thomopoulos, 1912).

Trudgill (1994) has shown that, in Greece, as minority languages are all alien (Abstand) to Greek, the use of different names for them (Arvanitika rather than Albanian) has contributed to denying their heteronomy (i.e. their dependence on the corresponding standard language) and increasing their autonomy (by assigning them the status of autonomous languages). As a result, the minority language's vulnerability grew significantly, as well as the dissociation of the speakers'ethnic Arvanite identities from the corresponding national identities Albanian which have developed in the respective modern nation-states. Today, Arvanite ethnic identity is perceived by many members of the community as distinct from that of the other Greeks who have Greek as their mother tongue but as fully compatible with Greek national identity , an assimilation here detrimental to Greece's homogenization and anti-minority policies.

If Hellenization was a significant factor for the weakening of the use of Arvanitika, urbanization was another. Arvanitika had survived until recently in many homogeneous villages where most people had been using the language regularly. Those, though, who moved to the cities soon abandoned the use of the language as it was unintelligible to most other city dwellers and was even perecived as a sign of backwardness; on the other hand, the children had no way of learning the language because it is not allowed to be taught at school. (Moraitis, 1994).

Current situation of the community and the language

Almost all information about the present concerns the bulk of the Arvanite community in Central and Southern Greece. The other two communities are hardly mentioned in the literature and have also been ignored in the 1987 European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages (EBLUL) visit to the Arvanite community in Greece, an oversight which led to at least one indirect protest letter by the Tychero municipality (Kazazis, 1994); nevertheless, a 1994 second visit by the EBLUL was again limited to the Central Greece Arvanite villages.

It is widely agreed that Arvanitika today have been influenced significantly by the linguistic environment in which they have evolved, sometimes for centuries, without any contact with the Albanian communities of modern day Albania. So, it has acquired a separate (Ausbau) status from Albanian, in fact with dialectical richness; nevertheless, at least partial mutual intelligibility between Arvanite and Albanian exists (Trudgill, 1994:14). Indeed, the recent (in the early 1990's) arrival of hundreds of thousands, mainly illegal, Albanian immigrants in Greece has led to a successful test of that mutual intelligibility, when many settled in Arvanitika villages.

A comparison with standard Albanian shows that Arvanitika has suffered reduction and simplification. Reduction here means loss of: Albanian vocabulary (often replaced by Greek words duly adapted phonetically and morphologically); prepositions (sometimes replaced by Greek ones); verbal tenses; and forms. While simplification consists of loss of case forms, connecting particles and invariable verbal forms (Trudgill, 1983:115-123).

On the other hand, Arvanitika is threatened with extinction. In the early 1970's, more than 80% of the inhabitants of Arvanite villages in the Attica & Beotia departments were found to be fluent speakers of Arvanitika, though the loss of the language was more pronounced in the villages close to Athens than elsewhere; at the same time, however, the actual use of the language was more limited (Trudgill, 1975:56-61). Moreover, there has been a rather widespread indifference among Arvanites about the fate of their mother tongues, along with self-deprecation: they have been led by the dominant unilingual Greek culture to -usually sincerely- believe that these languages are deficient, lack proper grammatical structure, have a poor vocabulary (Trudgill, 1994:14; Tsitsipis, 1994:4). There are no studies equivalent to that of the 1970s , however the Arvanitika is sill in use. that the language is used today by middle aged people (interchanged with Greek) and by elderly people (in most contexts) and less by the younger generation (usually when addressing older people, in strict family context, or, sometimes, too, to make fun of non-speakers) (Tsitsipis, 1994; Trudgill, 1983:114-5). Moreover, in the Peloponnese, it seems that the users are predominantly elderly people (Williams, 1992:85-6). Experts, therefore, agree that Arvanitika in Greece is threatened with extinction more than the equivalent Arberesh language of Southern Italy, as the latter country is more tolerant and does not feel threatened by plurilingualism (Hamp, 1978; Tsitsipis, 1983).

Since the 1980s, some efforts to preserve Arvanite culture have been made. A congress was held in 1985. Four cultural associations have been created: the Arvanitikos Syndesmos Hellados (the Arvanite League of Greece) which has been publishing, since 1983, the bimonthly Besa (in Greek); the Kentro Arvanitikou Politismou (Center for Arvanite Culture); the Arvanitikos Syllogos Ano Liosion (Arvanite Association of Ano Liosia); and the Syllogos Arvaniton Corinthias (Association of Arvanites of Corinthia). Books on Arvanite culture have been published. Church reading and chanting in some Arvanitevillages has been reported (Williams, 1992:87). Finally, we had the release of a CD with Arvanite music mentioned above. Overall, though, this movement is weaker than similar ones among Vlachs and Macedonians (and certainly among officially recognized Turks).

One reason for such a slow movement is the apparent hostility of the Greek state to such 'revivals'among Arvanites which is indicated by police disruption of festivals and harassment of musicians who play and sing songs in Arvanitika; as well as by the tolerance -by the state and particularly its judiciary- of public calls, printed in the press, to use violence against those musicians; likewise, human and minority rights activists have been the object of similar threats (Stohos, 20/7/1994 and in previous issues, where even the European Union's Euromosaic project -to report on the status of the linguistic minorities in the EU- was attacked). Such hostile environment makes even the scholars'work look suspicious.

Likewise, Arvanitika has never been included in the educational curricula of the modern Greek state. On the contrary, its use has been strongly discouraged at schools (and in the army) through physical punishment, humiliation, or, in recent years, simple incitation of the Arvanitika users (Williams, 1992:86; Trudgill, 1983:130-1). Such attitudes have been discouraging children from learning their mother tongue so as to avoid similar discrimination and suffering (Trudgill, 1983:130).

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Here's how an Arvanit looked in the little town we stayed near Athens.
A friend of the family while we stayed there!
Most of them had this kind of features, some a little bit darker than this, but not too dark.
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Puzzle Box 3: The Voyeuristic World

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[Author's note: This is the third post in a real-life story that ultimately took a full year and four chapters (1, 2, 3, 4) to tell. Read them all, then browse through the other surprising puzzle box stories that have popped up along the way.]

The puzzle box continues to generate lots of interest.  This week I encountered it in two different geocaching podcasts, a Serbian blog, and Daniel Soltis’ talk at Playful ’09 in London.  I’ve fielded calls from network TV channels, film producers, engineers, and machine shops all over the country.  Everyone seems to want to bottle up the magic that swirls around this strange little box.

I particularly enjoyed reading Soltis’ presentation, which focused on “the delight of physical objects connected to games.”  Tangible things like the puzzle box, he writes, provide “specificity, tactile pleasure, and possibilities for kinds of game play that multi-purpose platforms like phones and computers can’t.”  How true.  People love the connection to the physical, especially if there is a touch of mystery to it.  Would you even be reading this if I had just written some old GPS iPhone app?

Excerpt: Nick Marsh's Graphical Notes for Playful '09

From Nick Marsh's Notes for Playful '09

“Yes, yes, but have they managed to open the box yet?!”

As a matter of fact, I have recently been in very close email contact with Chris – that’s the newly-married friend who has unknowingly been at the center of this hullaballoo.  He writes to say that he has been busy putting finishing touches on his beautiful new film The Luminiferous Aether, preparing it for submission to festivals in the coming year.  I hope you get to see it someday– it’s a remarkable work, especially for a first effort.  This is the movie, incidentally, that led to romance with his leading lady those many months ago on the French island.  I was treated to a sneak preview shortly after I got back from their wedding, but I’m afraid the detailed appraisal I promised in return is dreadfully late.  There’s a whiff of irony here.  While Chris waits patiently for the thoughtful and sober review his film deserves, I’ve been too busy returning calls and composing articles about his puzzle box to write it.  He has no idea how much he himself, in some warped sense, is to blame for my slow response.

So to answer the question, no, I’m afraid I don’t have a single tidbit of new puzzle box gossip to share.  I haven’t heard a thing.  But isn’t it fun being part of the watching crowd?  I love it.  This surprising little adventure seems to be entering a third phase: first there was the creation and the presentation, then the unexpected storm of publicity; now we’re to the point where thousands of people – perhaps tens of thousands – are watching to see how it all plays out.  If you are reading this, you are now part of the story.  We are all initiates into what I am calling the “voyeuristic world”, reminiscent of the film The Truman Show, in which a young man inadvertently discovers that his daily life is being watched by millions on TV. The difference is that this reality show is real!

The Couple at the Wedding Dinner

The Couple at the Wedding Dinner (Kelly Neal)

I had a nice conversation this week with photographer Kelly Neal, who graciously gave me free rein to use pictures like the above to illustrate my articles.  If the puzzle box story is moving too slowly to satisfy your voyeuristic needs, perhaps you’d enjoy strolling through his official wedding site, imagining what it must have been like to have attended that little French village wedding.  You are, after all, a part of the story!  If you like the pictures, please give Kelly a call.

And now some answers:

“Why don’t you just ask about the box?”

Well, because I’m enjoying the adventure too much.  I fear that asking my friends for an update will ultimately help hasten the story’s denouement.  I intend to ride it as far as it will go.

“Why do you think they haven’t said anything?

I think they’ve probably figured out where to go by now.  But it is 400 kilometers away, and they are busy people.  A trip like that would require at least a long, unencumbered weekend.  I imagine they are just waiting for a convenient time.

What if the couple finds this web page…? Won’t that spoil it?

I think that’s part of the fascination.  Will they get to the island first… or find the web article?  I don’t know.  But even if they do discover the publicity, I’m not sure that will entirely spoil it.  They still need to get the box open, and there are still one or two things my article doesn’t reveal… the contents of the “overly sentimental card” for example.  I think there’s still plenty of mystery and suspense to go round.

What happens if they don’t figure it out in 50 tries?”

Ah!  It displays a painful little message indicating that the box is sealed forever, then suggests returning it to the manufacturer for help.

“How can I get one?”

The puzzle box is not just a thing, it’s an experience.  It’s personal.  It’s mysterious.  It’s an adventure.  I don’t want to see glossy plastic versions mass produced all over the world, because such things would only dimly reflect the magic of the box I built for my friends and subtract from its unique beauty.  The original was lovingly constructed by a human being and embodies the special relationship between three people.  I don’t think such a personal thing should be turned into a commodity.

That said, I have a team of people considering how we might build a small number for special, personal occasions.  Many people have had the idea, for example, of using a ring box to propose marriage.  Bravo!  Or how about this?  A proud father gives a box to a beloved daughter leaving home for college.  The box eventually leads her to a car dealership, revealing a set of keys.  The possibilities for a rich experience seem boundless.  I hope eventually to help people realize experiences like these.  Just don’t expect to see them anytime soon.  Or on the shelves at Target.

“Can I commission one?”

I am making a very small number of hand-built boxes, either replicas of the original elephant box or custom designs.  If you are serious, please contact me at mikal (at) arduiniana.org.

Where can I see The Luminiferous Aether?

Stay tuned.  It’s not available yet.

How do you pronounce your name?

The same way ordinary Michaels do.  Mine is simply a creative spelling of the common name.  Thanks, Mom and Dad!

If you want to keep following this story, subscribe to the RSS feed (above). I’m also trying out twitter @mikalhart. Leave a note anytime.

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Big Hero 6 (2014)

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Big Hero 6, the latest animated adventure from Disney, illustrates one of the greatest assets and also one of the greatest set-backs of the studio’s recent animated product. It is created with perfect, loving details, but falters when it gets to the main story. Disney has historically been good at both, but recently the greatness of the details have not equaled a story that doesn’t feel weak and familiar. This has been the set-back of Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen. That doesn’t make these movies bad, but they just seem to miss the freshness of storytelling.

Of all the recent Disney animated features Big Hero 6 is the most engaging. It’s a fun little movie that meshes a Pixar-style animated adventure with a palette borrowed from anime, while cashing in the billion dollar superhero juggernaut that the Disney studio is currently making possible. It is loosely based on an obscure Marvel comic book with a very pronounced Asian influence – though the movie still remains heavily Americanized.

The movie takes place in an unspecified future in a city called San Fransokyo. At this point in human history, the research and development of robotics is the latest work in technology and the rush toward progress has caught the interest of a pre-teen kid named Hiro Hamada (voiced by Ryan Potter), a robotics wunderkind whose skills with metal and wires would make Tony Stark green with envy.

His older brother Tadashi (voiced by Daniel Henney) works in a robotics lab at his university and wants his kid brother to give up the back-alley robot fighting scene for better use of his talents. Hiro is convinced to follow in his brother’s footsteps when he gets a gander at his latest invention – an inflatable health care robot named Baymax (voiced by Scott Adsit from “30 Rock”). Baymax is a marvel of character design, a white fluffy marshmallow that you just want to hug. He’s adorable without being cloying. He speaks in a metallic, matter-of-fact tone that elicits emotions through words, not inflections. His job is simple: Keep Hiro safe, and that makes for some great drama. For my money, this is the best pairing of man and beast since E.T. and their relationship is really quite touching.

Where the movie flounders is when it gets into the main plot. Without giving too much away, it’s your basic revenge plot. Hiro uses his tech know-how to reform some of his buddies into a junior Justice League. They’re out to stop a bad guy who wants to steal Hiro’s new invention for reasons that have to do with having been wronged in the past – blah blah blah. It’s not anything terribly original, and the last third of the movie is given over the kinds of bombastic stop-the-bad-guy plot that has been the wrap-up of the at least 90% of all blockbuster films for the last 15 years.

What is special in Big Hero 6 is the relationship between Hiro and Baymax. The tiny details given to their relationship make up the best parts of the movie – there’s a scene atop a floating wind turbine where the two enjoy a sunset. There are a dozen or so magical moments like that – the best of which are being spoiled by the commercials – and it is more fun to watch Hiro and Baymax just get through the day than watch them fight bad guys. There’s a bond between these two born from a family tragedy that besets Hiro early on, but it isn’t just a bland throwaway. It affects everything that he does, and also effects how Baymax responds to it. The tragedy builds their relationship, and allows Hiro to learn lessons of personal responsibility that don’t feel tacked on. It deserves praise for providing an anti-violence message. It’s doesn’t have the action heft of The Incredibles, but it’s entertaining and surprisingly moving.

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Gibson declared in an Instagram post that if Agent Hobbs rejoins the team for Fast 9, Roman Pearce will be tapping out. He wrote:

“Hello world………. hello loyal fans and loved ones from OUR fast universe.”I’m sorry to announce that if Dewayne is in Fast9 there will no more Roman Peirce – You mess with family and my daughter’s survival I mess with yours……..close your eyes dude you’re a ‘Clown’……”

The 38-year-old Gibson went on to seemingly provoke Johnson’s chiseled physique as he wrote early today:

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Children Lost to Drugs

May 15, 1991

The recent arrests of a 10-year-old, an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old on drug-peddling charges establishes a new, tragic trend of using children as dope dealers and walking "stashes" in Baltimore. Police now fear that young children will also become victims of the violence that accompanies the drug trade and its turf battles.

None of this should be surprising to anyone who has toured the city's most notorious drug neighborhoods. Open drug-dealing around the clock goes on virtually unchecked. If little kids years ago used to emulate their elders' furtive beer and whiskey drinking by consuming soft drinks from brown paper bags, today they dream about the flashy gold chains and expensive Air Jordan sneakers they see worn by neighborhood hustlers. Trafficking or stashing drugs offers a way for kids to get those status items. "These kids want so much and we have so little," moans a mother who lost control over her 11-year-old son.

What frightens narcotics detectives is that they see no solution. Some experienced officers even talk about a generation that is likely to be lost as drugs and violence take their toll. And while many parents in poverty stricken neighborhoods desperately try to control their children, others condone their behavior and welcome the additional income their offspring bring in from the streets, whether through drug trafficking or prostitution. That sends the children a strong message. "When their parents are in it, when their peers are in it, when everybody else is in it, it's apparent to them that it's right to do it," says Sgt. John Sieracki of the Eastern District.

Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke's decision to deploy police on city playgrounds was a good move. But considering the magnitude of the problem, it is little more than uniformed propaganda. Indeed, no measures can guarantee results. Former District of Columbia Police Chief Maurice T. Turner Jr. experienced this just a few months ago, when a 15-year-old he was mentoring was gunned down in a drug-ridden neighborhood. "Despite everything I wanted to do, my influence was waning," Mr. Turner reflected. "If he was going to survive, he needed to get out of the environment he was living in. Otherwise, he was doomed to failure."

There is little the larger society can do in dealing with phenomena that result from the collapse of the traditional family unit and other complex circumstances. But we all can demand more decisive action against the drug lords who are bringing drugs into the country and their protector countries. If we can flex our muscle in the Middle East, certainly we should be able to use our muscle to stop the drug trafficking.

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Seminoles made sure Cotton Bowl guests had good time

March 12, 1992|By Steve Ellis and David Lee Simmons | Steve Ellis and David Lee Simmons,Knight-Ridder

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Expenses for Florida State's participation in the New Year's Day Cotton Bowl totaled $717,550.20, including travel to Dallas and hotel expenditures for 276 friends and supporters of the athletic department.

Among those who attended the game at the athletic department's expense were 16 members of football coach Bobby Bowden's family, seven family members and friends of FSU President Dale Lick, players' and coaches' wives, and a representative of the Seminole nation and his daughter.

The expenditures included $230,146 for seven nights of lodging and eight days of meals, and $179,565 for transportation. In addition, FSU spent $34,471 for rings, plaques, shorts and T-shirts for coaches and 105 players.

The FSU athletic department released all expenditures and a list of all guests last week at the request of the Tallahassee Democrat.

By comparison, the University of Florida Athletic Association Inc. spent $769,500 for Florida's participation in the Sugar Bowl, according to the Gainesville Sun.

All 112 members of the Florida football team made the trip to New Orleans. The Florida Athletic Association also paid the travel and hotel expenses of 30 "official guests." That group, according to the Sun, included university administrators, regents and legislators.

After expenses, FSU will pocket an estimated $625,000 from the Cotton Bowl, in which the Seminoles defeated Texas A&M 10-2. Bob Goin, the Florida State athletic director, said the profits will contribute to the $800,000 the athletic department has given to the school for the library and summer-school programs.

"I think we did a good job," Goin said of Cotton Bowl expenses. "It was a time of celebration and I'm not going to make excuses for it. We did it right and we did it prudently.

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Accelerating car hits man, crashes into townhouse ANNAPOLIS/SOUTH

September 02, 1993

A county utilities worker was injured yesterday when he was struck by a car that suddenly accelerated and crashed into a townhouse near Annapolis, stopping just inches from a 71-year-old woman who was sitting on her couch.

Ralph Johnson, whose age and address were not available yesterday evening, was treated and released from Anne Arundel Medical Center.

County police said Mr. Johnson was working in the 900 block of Topmast Way, in Heritage Harbour, when he asked a man identified as Curtis Williams to move his car away from a manhole cover.

As Mr. Williams backed his car away, police said it accelerated for an unknown reason and struck Mr. Johnson. The car then drove over a curb, a small grass plot and crashed into a home at 917 Topmast Way.

Mary Ellen Wessel, who lives in the house, said she was watching a local cable news program to see what was going on in her community when the car crashed through her living room wall about 10 a.m.

"It was a miracle I wasn't hurt," she said. "The car came right into my home. It pushed against a piano and pushed against the couch I was sitting on. It came right up to me."

Ms. Wessel said the entire front part of her home is destroyed. She said the fire department cleaned up the debris and contractors were on their way to board up the home last night. Neither Ms. Wessel nor Mr. Williams was injured, county police reported.

"I was watching the news to see what was going on in the community," Ms. Wessel said. "I had most of the community over watching me."

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Two arrested in connection to downtown robbery

February 15, 2012

Two men were booked into the Huntington Beach jail Feb. 9 on suspicion of robbing Hashigo Sushi on Main Street a week ago.

A description of a pick-up truck that fled the scene led police to a suspect wanted on suspicion of three separate robberies in Long Beach, according to Huntington Beach Police Lt. Mitch O'Brien.

A witness of the Huntington Beach robbery said the robber was armed with a gun.

Authorities suspect Anthony Lee Bearden, 26, and Tad Lauren Bennett, 27, both of Long Beach, were involved in the Huntington Beach robbery, O'Brien said.

Long Beach Police spokeswoman Nancy Pratt said it's not clear whether the two are also connected to the three robberies in Long Beach, but the case is still under investigation.

Huntington Beach detectives stopped the truck Feb. 8 in Long Beach and detained Bearden and Bennett. Evidence from the Huntington robbery was found inside the truck, O'Brien said.

A search of Bearden's apartment also turned up evidence from the Huntington robbery, O'Brien said.

"We believe both are involved in our robbery," he said.

— Mona Shadia

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Ray Romano lives in Queens with his wife, 6-year-old daughter and 4-year-old twin sons. His meddling parents live down the street. And his older brother, a police sergeant who touches his food to his chin before he eats it, lives with his parents.

On his TV show, Romano's sportswriter character lives in New York with his wife, young daughter and twin sons. His wildly intrusive parents live across the street. And so does his older brother, a police sergeant who touches his food to his chin before he eats it.

"We don't make this stuff up," said Romano, the stand-up comedian turned star of the CBS sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," which the network recently renewed for a second season. "Although some of what you see is indeed make-believe. When I come home and say, 'Hi, honey,' and give her a kiss, that's acting because that doesn't happen in my house. There's a lot more kissing on the show than in real life."

"Yeah," agrees Anna, Romano's real-life spouse. "And they talk a lot more in the show than we ever do at home."

Romano said that he and Anna were watching the Thanksgiving episode together when he walked into his fictional bedroom and began to tell Patricia Heaton, who plays his wife in the series, a story about his mother (played by Doris Roberts) and her cooking.

"We have about a two-minute conversation, and Anna turns to me and says, 'You talked to her just then more than you've talked to me in the last week.' And I tell her, 'They write the dialogue for me. I have to say it. If we had writers at home, I'd talk to you too.' "

Romano says his real-life family relishes their wacky TV portrayals. Especially his father, who is played on the show by Peter Boyle.

"My father wants to show Peter Boyle how to do it," Romano said. "He plays along with it. Loves it. His friends will say, 'Did you really do that? Did you have the dog neutered?' And he'll agree to whatever we did on the show. He's like the king of the Elks now."

Phil Rosenthal, the executive producer and creator of the series, said he decided to keep the show close to Romano's own life because it was funnier than anything he could have dreamed up. He also figured that, as a stand-up who didn't have much experience acting, Romano would be most comfortable performing in his own voice, in the manner of Tim Allen on "Home Improvement" and Jerry Seinfeld on "Seinfeld."

The show, which was mostly praised by critics, initially flopped on Fridays last fall, only to surge when CBS benevolently moved it to Mondays at 8:30 p.m. in tandem with "Cosby." "I think the appeal of the show comes from two things," Rosenthal said. "First, it's all real-life--families, wives, kids, parents--and the audience can identify with it. If you don't have kids, you at least have parents. And the other thing is that, even if you look at all these characters as oddballs--and Ray is admittedly neurotic and fretful and his family is obviously somewhat cartoony--there's this innocence about his perspective. He feels like he's the only one in the world who feels this way or has to deal with people like this or has this worry or that pang of guilt. He's very genuine and very innocent and it's charming, I think, because, of course, it's not true. Tons of us feel the exact same things and know just what it is he's going through."

As he heads into the second season, Romano worries about how neurotic he can permit his character to become. As the father of three children, he wonders, how weird and pessimistic can he be in the name of comedy before he steps over the line and becomes a deleterious force?

"Our show isn't going to be about issues like 'Grace Under Fire,' but there is a resolve at the end. It is based in some sort of neurotic reality," said Romano, who on the day of this interview was balking at leasing a house here for his wife and children because the Beverly Hills neighborhood seemed "too cramped."

"See what I mean?" Anna Romano interrupted. "Cramped. We live in Queens, where all the houses are connected to each other, and he thinks California is too cramped."

"I am neurotic. See, it's not acting," Romano continued. "And here I am, the father of three young children, and I want to write a show where I have anxiety attacks, and we're all very concerned about that. Can the star of the show be a father who has anxiety attacks and flips out? Will that sit well with people? Whereas in 'Seinfeld,' they don't have that problem. They can kill a woman by licking envelopes and no one cares.

"I'm always scared about people asking me about family morals and family TV because I don't want to be a spokesperson for something like that. But I don't want to be a bad model either. So we have these parameters because he has a family, but we're still going to be weird and do our thing for adults."

It would be easier, perhaps even more popular, to let the kids on the show take a more prominent role and transform it into some cutesy "Full House"-replica, but Romano vows that won't happen. His is a show about adults who just happen to have kids. That won't change, even as the 2-year-old boys who play his twins on TV get older and less inclined to keep their "traps shut for more than three seconds" whether they have scripted dialogue or not.

"The kid issue is going to be the biggest change for our coming season," Romano quipped. "In order to continue using these kids minimally as they grow up, we're going to send them to school real young. Or they might get kidnapped. Or one of the twins might end up being mute. It's one thing for my father to be king of the Elks, but to be upstaged by toddlers? I get enough of that at home."

"Everybody Loves Raymond" airs Mondays at 8:30 p.m. on CBS.

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May 22, 2012|By Jerry Hirsch
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Tesla Motors Inc. said it will begin delivering its first mass production electric car -– the high-end Model S to customers starting June 22, about a month ahead of the expected schedule.

The Palo Alto-based company says it has more than 10,000 orders for the battery-powered car but that not all will be delivered this year.

The announcement of early deliveries by the company co-founded by tech industrialist and chief executive Elon Musk came on the same day that SpaceX, another Musk company, became the first private business to launch a spacecraft to the International Space Station. The mission is the first test of NASA’s plans to outsource space missions to privately funded companies.

Tesla announced the Model S news in a company blog post in which it also explained that the vehicle will offer a high degree of personalization to individual driving habits.

For example, electric vehicles such as the Model S as well as hybrid cars come with what is known as regenerative braking systems, which feeds braking energy back into the battery to preserve the vehicle’s charge. Some drivers complain that such systems can be abrupt, slowing a vehicle with a feel that’s similar to a sudden down shift in a car with a manual transmission.

Tesla said Model S drivers will be able to adjust the braking feel, but warned that a lighter touch to the brakes will feed less energy back to the battery and reduce the electric car’s range.

Similarly, Tesla said the Model S will let drivers adjust steering feel between comfort, standard and sport modes. They will also be able to set a preference for suspension and ride height. A car that’s lower to the ground will produce less drag and feel more firmly planted, but wouldn’t be great for zipping across a rough road or through a parking lot with speed bumps

The sedan offers seating for five adults and, in some configurations, room for an extra two children's seats. It also is to have some speed, with an anticipated zero-to-60-mph acceleration of less than six seconds.

The price of the Model S ranges from $49,900 to $97,900, depending on its mileage range and options and after a federal $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles. Early sales will be of the most expensive model.

Morgan Stanley, the investment bank, forecast that Tesla will sell close to 3,000 cars this year, 16,000 next year and 19,000 the following year.

That would make Tesla the first U.S. auto start-up in many decades to launch volume production, though it would still be a tiny fraction of the approximately 14 million autos expected to be sold annually nationally for the next several years.

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4% Hike Sought For Universities The Budget

February 06, 1985|The Morning Call

Gov. Dick Thornburgh yesterday proposed $262.8 million for the State System of Higher Education, the state university system that includes East Stroudsburg and Kutztown universities.

The amount represents a 4 percent increase over the 1984-1985 fiscal year funds for the 14 universities in the system.

Chancellor James H. McCormick, in a statement released by his office, said he welcomed the proposed increase in funding, but warned that it "will not permit us to maintain student tuitions and fees at their current levels. This is a discouraging prospect, to say the least."

But, when questioned, Janice Fitzgerald, a spokeswoman for McCormick, said the statement should not be interpreted as a prediction of a tuition and fee increase for the 1985-86 school year.

"We're changing the 'will not' to 'may not' right now," Fitzgerald said.

McCormick said the system has not yet had a chance to study the proposed budget in detail.

Asked about the possibility of a tuition increase, Thornburgh said that any decision would be up to the university system's board of governors.

The current tuition is $1,570 per year for full-time students. It was lastincreased in September, when it climbed by $90 a year.

McCormick said he was pleased by one aspect of the budget proposal

The budget proposal predicted that enrollment for the system would increase slightly, to 78,573 during the 1985-86 fiscal year, with Kutztown projected to climb by 100 students, to 5,800 and East Stroudsburg to decline by 26 students, to 4,124.

Funding for the individual universities is based on a three-pronged formula that takes into consideration the costs of instruction, research and public service; academic and student services and support costs; and the physical plant of the university.

The largest portion of the funding, Fitzgerald said, was for instruction, at 48.4 percent.

During the current fiscal year, Kutztown received $16.8 million and East Stroudsburg $14.2 million from the $250.3 million available for the 14 universities.

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Barb Schmauch Helps East To 94-93 Basketball Upset Keystone Games

August 11, 1986|by CHRIS LINDSLEY, The Morning Call

The ability to learn from one's mistakes is a mark of true maturity, and the Region II open women's basketball team got the chance to put that theory into practice at the Keystone State Games yesterday.

The East, with its back to the wall after being drubbed Saturday night, got some clutch play from Barb Schmauch late in the game, then hung on in the closing second for a 94-93 gold medal-producing win over the favored Southeast.

After losing to the same Region I team by 21 points less than 24 hours earlier,, the Region II open women's open basketball team knew that to win the gold medal, it would have to defeat the Philadelphia-based Southeast squad in last night's final at Rec Hall.

And with just a few minutes remaining, Region I appeared to be onthe way to its third straight Keystone State Games title with an 85-76 lead.

The East, however, stormed back to take the lead at 94-92 on two free throws by former Penn State guard Patti Longenecker with 23 seconds remaining. Region I's Yolanda Laney, who finished with a game-high 37 points, had a chance to tie it as she went to the line to shoot a one-and-one with a second left. She made the first, but missed the second as the ball bounced off the rim, and the East had gained sweet revenge.

"I think they felt like they had the game in the bag because of last night," said Macungie's Barb Schmauch, who scored six straight points down the stretch to fuel the East's comeback and had 18 points for the game. "But I think we were more relaxed today because we had played them yesterday. And even though we did get beat pretty badly, we felt if we made some changes we could beat them."

One of the changes in the late going of yesterday's contest found Schmauch getting the ball inside.

"The inside girls were getting tired," Schmauch said, "and I was able to get inside a little more than I was earlier in the game."

Kutztown's Stacey Jack scored eight points; Sue Ludwig of Whitehall and Syracuse chipped in with six points, while Maura Hertzog of Allentown missed all the games because of a sprained ankle.

The game was a nip-and-tuck affair for the first 30 minutes, as the teams were tied at 43 at halftime, and neither region could get much breathing room early in the second half. The Southeast, though, began to pull away during the next five minutes, but Schmauch and Longenecker sparked the change of momentum with several key plays down the stretch.

Schmauch said the key to the upset was that the squad didn't quit like it had one night earlier.

"I knew we were capable of coming back," Schmauch said. "It was just a matter of if everyone on the team felt we could do it, because we got down last night and gave up. It was a matter of who wanted it more at the end."

* Other basketball fortunes for Region II were mixed. The women's scholastic squad got great performances from Allentown Central Catholic star Monica McCaffrey, but had to settle for a bronze. Lehigh's Daren Queenan rebounded from a frustrating first-day game to score 20 and 30 points in his next two outings and pace the men's open team to a bronze.

* In other action, the Region II scholastic girls volleyball team, including Bethlehem's Gloria Alverez, Kelly Bartholomew, Rene Godbolt, Lynn Goldfeder and Nancy Romig, won the gold by defeating Region III 15-11, 15-10.

In the men's open competition, Bethlehem's Fred Gozua was part of Region II's gold medal-winning team.

* In track and field, Amy DeRaymond Kreamer of Easton, former Nazareth High School standout, won the women's 400 and 800-meter runs in times of 57.79 and 2:21.93, completing a tough "double."

Pam Yaroma, a recent graduate of Whitehall High School, tapped into a long jump gold with a leap of 17-7 1/4 .

And speaking of major leaps, Leslie Lippincott of Palisades did 5-8 to take the scholastic high jump gold, her best jump ever and one that should attract the attention of collegiate recruiters.

Other area medal winners in the women's open events included Cindy Lawrence of Bethlehem, who clocked 12.58 for silver in the 100 meter dash where she was just nipped by Sonya Kearney of Region I (12.51); Karen Gooch of Reading, who won the 100 meter low hurdles, and finished second in the women's triple jump; and Jennifer Lee of Bethlehem, who won the bronze medal in the discus.

* In the men's competition, the Region II open 4 X 400 meter relay team of Ian Roper, Gerald Phillips, Tony "T" Grantham, and Douglas Cornfield took the gold in a time of 3:23.3, bettering arch-rival team from Region III that featured Susquehanna superstar Mike Spangler (winner of the open 400).

Levi Hankerson of Easton finished second in the men's open 200-meter dash, while Mike Frank of Easton finished second in the scholastic decathlon with 5468 points.

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Sparano wants more from TEs

Dolphins beat

December 4, 2009|By Omar Kelly, S. Florida Sun-Sentinel

Anthony Fasano got off to a bad start this season, but he's looking forward to a strong finish.

Not only did the Miami Dolphins tight end sputter out of the statistical gate in 2009, but he also missed two games last month recovering from a hip injury.

Fasano returned to action in Sunday's 31-14 loss to the Bills. He caught five passes for 74 yards, re-emerging as the pass catching threat he was in 2008, when he caught 34 passes for 454 yards and tied a Dolphins record with eight touchdown receptions.

Even though his breakout game didn't result in a victory, Fasano said he hopes it's a sign his first-half struggles are behind him.

"There were a couple of plays in there geared to get me open, but the balls were just coming my way on routes I usually run, so it's good to have Chad [Henne] find me," said Fasano, who has 19 receptions for 187 yards and one touchdown in nine games. "I wasn't producing in the stats, contributing catches, but we were having some success running the ball. But it's nice to contribute statistically."

The tight ends have been used in pass protection more this season. Teams' desire to stop the run has also prompted opponents to bring their safeties closer to the line of scrimmage, which crowds the middle of the field.

However, Dolphins coach Tony Sparano said the middle of the field is starting to open up because defenses are figuring out that "a lot of what we've done in the passing [with Henne] is outside, so they're trying to take those things away."

Grove still shelved

While starting C Jake Grove hasn't practiced in nearly two weeks because of the left ankle sprain he suffered on Nov. 19 against the Panthers, Sparano hasn't ruled him out for Sunday's game against the Patriots.

Sparano needs to know if he can anchor against a pass rusher, especially this week, when the center will face Pro Bowl nose tackle Vince Wilfork . Joe Berger will continue to serve as the starting center until Grove is cleared to return.

Hartline on the rise

Dolphins offensive coordinator Dan Henning said rookie WR Brian Hartline will be pushed to the forefront "in the near future."

"We like him. He's making plays, he seems to show up very much like Greg [Camarillo] showed up," Henning said of Hartline, who has 270 yards and two touchdowns on his 17 receptions.

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Real Estate Professionals Require More Training To Meet Customers` Growing Needs.

April 27, 1992|By TRACY KOLODY, Business Writer

Gone are the days when selling real estate was considered a part-time job: In today`s changing market, real estate has become a profession that requires more training and educational programs for agents.

There is a growing importance being attached to training for real estate sales forces that provides more information to meet the needs of more sophisticated customers.

This emphasis on education is a necessary one in a competitive industry, said Stephen Murray, co-editor of REAL Trends, a Denver industry newsletter.

``Consumers don`t care if a broker is the biggest. They just want to know what a company can do to help them,`` Murray said.

Sam Hollowell, the vice president and general manager of Prudential Florida Realty`s office in east Fort Lauderdale, said he has seen a definite change in the people who are now interviewing for positions with Prudential. He started in the industry in 1974.

``New people in the industry today tend to have a much better (educational) background,`` Hollowell said. ``The majority know they need education to get ahead and one of the first questions they ask us is about the training we offer.``

College students are looking at real estate-related majors that can lead to a career as executives or managers of large, nationwide real estate companies.

Prudential Florida Realty, like most large companies, offers a full range of training programs, from courses on the basics of the business for inexperienced sales people to continuing education for seasoned agents.

While state requirements mandate attendance at a 63-hour real estate course and passing an exam for licensure, individual companies can provide training that gives book-educated agents ``on-the-street`` experience.

Prudential`s major push is to train salespeople to use the company`s newly created software that quickly provides property listings, price ranges, and comparable properties from offices throughout the state. Almost all of the 80 agents at the Fort Lauderdale office have voluntarily attended at least one personal computer training session, Hollowell said.

``By far the majority don`t know anything about computers ... but we have almost overcome the computer phobia,`` he said.

Arvida Realty Sales Ltd. in Boca Raton also emphasizes training for salespeople, even though the company hires experienced salespeople to staff its four offices in Palm Beach County, said Vice President Fred DeFalco.

Training professionals who work with Arvida Realty Sales also offer programs on sales techniques, personal business plans and time management for agents who typically have worked in the industry for at least 10 years.

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Poor Parents Paid To Make Children Attend School

Version Of U.s. Welfare Reform Spreads In Latin America

January 17, 2004|By Celia W. Dugger The New York Times

FORTALEZA, Brazil — Vandelson Andrade, 13, often used to skip school to work 12-hour days on the small, graceful fishing boats that sail from the picturesque harbor in Fortaleza. His meager earnings helped pay for rice and beans for his desperately poor family.

But this year he qualified for a small monthly cash payment from the government that his mother receives on condition that he shows up in the classroom.

"I can't skip school anymore," Vandelson said. "If I miss one more day, my mother won't get the money."

This year, Vandelson will finally pass the fourth grade on his third try -- a small victory in a new breed of social program that is spreading swiftly across Latin America. It is a developing-country version of U.S. welfare reform: to break the cycle of poverty, the government gives the poor small cash payments in exchange for keeping their children in school and taking them for regular medical checkups.

"I think these programs are as close as you can come to a magic bullet in development," said Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development, a nonprofit research group in Washington. "They're creating an incentive for families to invest in their own children's futures. Every decade or so, we see something that can really make a difference and this is one of those things."

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a former factory worker who took office in January as a champion of the poor, is consolidating an array of cash transfer programs, sharply expanding his version of the model, named Family Grant, and tripling the average monthly benefit, to about $24.

By 2006, Family Grant will reach 11.4 million families -- more than 45 million people, about a quarter of Brazil's population. That would be by far the world's largest such program. Ana Fonseca, the director -- who reports directly to the president and his chief of staff -- called Family Grant the payment of "an old debt the country has to its poor citizens."

Da Silva's moves are popular with two important constituencies: the poor, a bedrock of his political base, and the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, big supporters of the model, who are putting up $3 billion in loans for the program. Its total cost over the president's four-year term will be close to $7 billion.

Its annual cost -- about a third of 1 percent of Brazil's gross domestic product -- will be more than offset by savings da Silva's administration has squeezed out of the Civil Service pension system, said Joachim Von Amsberg, the World Bank's lead economist for Brazil.

But the program also has won wide public acceptance, surviving from government to government in large part because it is not simply a handout.

Da Silva's Workers Party can claim credit for being among the first in the world to experiment with this model in the federal district of Brasilia in 1995. "The idea was to pay the families to bring their children to school rather than put them to work," said Cristovam Buarque, an economist who was then Brasilia's governor and is now da Silva's education minister.

But it is equally telling that da Silva's political rival and predecessor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, adopted the approach and turned it into a national program in 2001. His party had also tested the model in the city of Campinas in the mid-1990s.

The spread of this approach across Latin America has been fueled by impressive results from a raft of studies -- in Nicaragua, Honduras and, most influentially, Mexico, whose program now reaches more than 20 million people.

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Woman Declared Dead Found Still Breathing

She Later Died After A Car Fire That Also Killed Her Husband.

January 30, 2004|By Alicia A. Caldwell Orlando Sentinel

Almost an hour and a half after Daytona Beach fire rescuers declared an 88-year-old woman dead in a car fire, they realized she was still breathing.

Barbara Clark officially died about 12 minutes later on Wednesday. Clark and her husband, John Clark, 87, were found in the couple's Volvo, which was on fire beside a road about 4:20 a.m.

Firefighters put out the blaze and tried to rescue the couple but found no vital signs, Lt. John King said. They declared the couple dead about 4:40 a.m.

According to the police report, the couple's 1994 Volvo 850 was secured while officials waited for personnel from the Medical Examiner's Office and other investigators to arrive.

Volusia County spokesman Dave Byron said a Medical Examiner's Office employee and crime scene investigators noticed Barbara Clark was still breathing about 6 a.m. Rescuers began first aid and called EVAC Ambulance, but she died shortly afterward.

The State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the cause of the fire. Daytona Beach police Sgt. Al Tolley said there were no immediate indications that foul play was involved in the Clarks' deaths.

Volusia County Medical Services officials will review the early-morning incident and try to figure out what went wrong.

"Anytime there is a trauma of this nature, the EMS medical director, who is Dr. [John] Shedd, triggers an automatic ... quality-assurance review," Byron said. "All of the decisions that were made at the scene -- what went into treatment at the scene -- will be part of the review."

A Daytona Beach police officer patrolling about 4:20 a.m. saw the burning car. Firefighters with the city's Engine 6 arrived minutes later and put out the blaze.

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James Robinson | Doors: Hyper objects of the cthulucene

Saturday December 9, 2017 to Sunday June 3, 2018
Te Manawa Public Art Gallery, Palmerston North

This stunning exhibition presents a new series of compelling, experimental large paintings and drawings created specifically for this exhibition by award-winning artist James Robinson. Using a series of actual doors he explores the concept of the cthulucene – the concept of a new age when ‘humans, as refugees from environmental disaster, come together to create new worlds based on balance and living in harmony with nature – or what’s left of it’.

Image courtesy of the Diversion Gallery

Date(s) - 09/12/2017 - 03/06/2018
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