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Intimate letters
Well, I haven't finished it yet but I wanted to share the second anecdotal volume I got from the Worcester Public Library, Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott by Jessie Bonstelle and Marian De Forest, published in 1914.
Origin of the book – inspired by Jo
Both women felt compelled to compile this little book after a day (and all night long) pilgrimage to Concord and Orchard House. Jo March had been a strong influence in their lives:
"In the case of the two editors, both from early childhood found their inspiration in Jo. One, patterning after her idol, sought success in a stage career, beginning to "act" before a mirror, with a kitchen apron for a train and a buttonhook for a dagger. The other, always with a pencil in hand, first copied Jo by writing 'lurid tales' for the weekly sensation papers, and later emerged into Newspaper Row."
Fruit of the pilgrimage
After visiting Orchard House and pouring over the actual journals and letters of the family, the authors asked permission of the Louisa May Alcott Memorial Society to reprint some of the material. After encountering some resistance ("And, asking, they were refused, because of a feeling that the letters and journals were intimate family records, to be read, not by the many, but by the few. This same sentiment withheld the dramatization of "Little Women" for many years."), Bonstelle and De Forest were finally granted permission after arguing that the Alcotts were public personalities and therefore the intimate family letters and journals belonged to the world.
And thus we have, I believe, the first volume to reveal these letters (except perhaps for Ednah Dow Cheney's book, Louisa M. Alcott, Her Life, Letters and Journals, though I am not sure because I haven't read her book yet).
Value of the book
Although the book is overly sentimental, there is a lot of value in these letters, especially if you learn to read between the lines.
While I haven't yet finished the book, I've read enough to see the striking difference in tone between the letters Bronson Alcott wrote to his eldest daughter Anna, and the ones he wrote to Louisa.
Good daughter, bad daughter
Many have said that Anna was Bronson's favorite for she best represented his personality. She also affirmed his theories about children and the Divine that resided in them.
Louisa, on the other hand, threw a monkey wrench into those theories.
What resulted was a lifelong silent battle between father and daughter as the daughter sought to live her life authentically while the father tried to fit a square peg into a round hole. The result was a frustrated father and a daughter with a skewed self-image, burdened with guilt.
Bronson writes of Anna, "She is happier, more capable of self control, more docile and obeys from love and faith. She has fine elements for excellence, moral and intellectual."
And he writes of Louisa, " "Louisa is practical, energetic. The first imagines much more than she can realize; the second, by force of will and practical talent, realizes all that she conceives—but conceives less; understanding, rather than imagination—the gift of her sister—seems to be her prominent faculty."
No problem there. But then we get into the letters. Here's one he wrote to Anna (bold is my emphasis):
Lettters to Anna
"For Anna
You were once pleased, my daughter, with a little note which I wrote you on Christmas Eve, concerning the birth of Jesus. I am now going to write a few words about your own Birth. Mother and I had no child. We wanted one—a little girl just like you; and we thought how you would look, and waited a good while for you to come, so that we might see you and have you for our own. At last you came. We felt so happy that joy stood in our eyes. You looked just as we wanted to have you. You were draped in a pretty little white frock, and father took you in his arms every day, and we loved you very much. Your large bright eyes looked lovingly into ours, and you soon learned to love and know us. When you were a few weeks old, you smiled on us. We lived then in Germantown. It is now more than eight years since this happened, but I sometimes see the same look and the same smile on your face, and feel that my daughter is yet good and pure. O keep it there, my daughter, and never lose it.
Gentle instruction
In these little excerpts from a second letter, Bronson offers instruction to Anna:
"First-Your Manners. Try to be gentle . . . Love is gentle: Hate is violent . . . Second: Be Patient . . . Patience is, indeed, angelic; it is the Gate that opens into the House of Happiness . . . Third: Be Resolute: Shake off all Sluggishness, and follow your Confidence as fast as your feelings, your thoughts, your eye, your hand, your foot, will carry you. Hate all excuses: almost always, these are lies. Be quick in your obedience . . . Resolution is the ladder to Happiness . . . Fourth: Be Diligent . . . Halfness is almost as bad as nothing: be whole then in all you do and say." (I particularly love the wisdom of being resolute!)
A study in contrasts
And now, notice the difference in tone as Bronson addresses Louisa (this was given to her on her birthday – bold is my emphasis):
"For Louisa
My Daughter,
You are Seven years old to-day and your Father is forty. You have learned a great many things, since you have lived in a Body, about things going on around you and within you. You know how to think, how to resolve, how to love, and how to obey. You feel your Conscience, and have no real pleasure unless you obey it. You cannot love yourself, or anyone else, when you do not mind its commandments. It asks you always to BE GOOD, and bears, O how gently! how patiently! with all endeavors to hate, and treat it cruelly. How kindly it bears with you all the while. How sweetly it whispers Happiness in your HEART when you Obey its soft words. How it smiles upon you, and makes you Glad when you Resolve to Obey it! How terrible its punishments. It is GOD trying in your soul to keep you always Good.
You begin, my dear daughter, another year this morning. Your Father, your Mother, and Sisters, with your little friends, show their love on this your Birthday, by giving you this BOX. Open it, and take what is in it, and the best wishes of
Your Father.
Beach Street,
Friday morning, Nov. 29, 1839."
On a mission to save
You can see in the illustration all the use of capital letters, exclamation points and underscores revealing the amount of emotion that went into this letter. Bronson was on a mission with Louisa to save her soul: his own words indicate that he felt it his vocation to save all children: "I shall redeem infancy and childhood, and, if a Saviour of Adults was given in the person of Jesus, let me, without impiety or arrogance, regard myself as the Children's Saviour. Divine are both missions."
A spirit Bronson could not accept
While I believe his intentions were rooted in love for Louisa, it's obvious he could not accept her as she was. The willfulness, stubborn tendencies, mood swings, temper, etc. flew in the face of his theories of children as home to the Divine Spirit. This second daughter to him was more like the devil, and he felt compelled to save her.
A father in tune with his children
Yet, there is much to admire about Bronson as a father. His affinity with the childish mind and the attention to the details of their lives is unusual, more maternal than paternal. He knew exactly what made a child tick as shown in this letter to Louisa. She had run away from home (apparently she was with her grandfather – no explanation of how she got there) and he was trying to coax her back (bold is my emphasis):
"Cottage, Sunday June 21st,
We all miss the noisy little girl who used to make house and garden, barn and field, ring with her footsteps, and even the hens and chickens seem to miss her too. Right glad would father and mother, Anna and Elizabeth, and all the little mates at School, and Miss Russell, the House Playroom, Dolls, Hoop, Garden, Flowers, Fields, Woods and Brooks, all be to see and answer the voice and footsteps, the eye and hand of heir little companion. But yet all make themselves happy and beautiful without her; all seem to say, "Be Good, little Miss, while away from us, and when we meet again we shall love and please one another all the more; we find how much we love now we are separated."
I wished you here very much on the morning when the Hen left her nest and came proudly down with six little chickens, everyone knowing how to walk, fly, eat and drink almost as well as its own mother; to-day (Sunday) they all came to see the house and took their breakfast from their nice little feeding trough; you would have enjoyed the sight very much. But this and many other pleasures all wait for you when you return. Be good, kind, gentle, while you are away, step lightly, and speak soft about the house;
Grandpa loves quiet, as well as your sober father and other grown people.
Elizabeth says often, "Oh I wish I could see Louisa, when will she come home, Mother?" And another feels so too; who is it?
His notice of such detail endeared him to me. Yes, he was manipulating his daughter (and often this manipulation became dangerous) but how many fathers take the time to notice these little things in the lives of their children? This is usually the mother's strength (and in this family, it was).
This is just a taste of Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott. It doesn't appear to offer much at first glance, but if you're a detective like me, there is a lot to find.
Have you ever read any of the letters and/or journals of the Alcott family? What was your impression?
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jbee says:
I *think*, but I'm not positive, that she was sent to her grandfather because Abba was about to give birth to May, and Louisa was too much for Abba to handle that late in her pregnancy (especially after the miscarriages and other issues Abba had had recently). I can't remember where I read that. May was born about a month after that was written. I could be remembering it wrong, though.
susanwbailey says:
That is true, I have read that in Matteson's book. I think the authors of Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott got a bit confused with the facts. Louisa was certainly known to run away from home but she was in fact sent to her grandfather's at the time you suggest.
Oh, and I am halfway through Little Women Abroad, the collected letters of LMA and May when they were in Europe. I am enjoying it, but it is slow reading because of the footnotes, so I'm taking it in small doses. It is interesting to read the letters and compare them to the anecdotes in Shawl Straps (she used the letters to write Shawl Straps).
Oh that's a good idea, a good way to read that book.
Jillian ♣ says:
These letters made me misty-eyed — especially those to Anna. I don't think he was all bad, though he simply didn't understand Louisa. I think in some ways, with the daughters he understood, he must have been a very good father.
I agree. He showed an unusual tenderness towards his children. See, this is why these anecdotal books have their value. They're frustrating because there are no footnotes and there is a lot of heresay and speculation. But at the same time, it presents impressions by average people of extraordinary ones. In the end I am getting a much more well-rounded look at Bronson especially. And I'm getting details on the "lesser knowns" like Anna and Lizzie. There's a lot on Anna that I plan to share soon from both books.
I actually went back to the Worcester Library today and asked if I could buy these books since they had fallen off the radar. They said they couldn't sell them because it being a city library and it being the 2nd or third largest city in our state, that it is a repository for such old books. That satisfied me and at least I have the e-books. 🙂
p.s. I am also getting the impression from the Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott that the authors felt that Bronson's attempts to form Louisa into a more conventional woman was quite acceptable for the time and they appear to admire him for it. We have a very different perspective today, having greater respect for those who don't fit the mold (though it's certainly not a perfect world!)
QNPoohBear says:
The public library has a copy of this book! I'll have to look for it next week. I have an 1890s copy of Life, Letters, Journals and I must have read some excerpts from Louisa's childhood journals at some point. It's always fascinating to read first hand accounts. I love diaries!
Me too. Yesterday at Houghton Library I read some of Anna's early diaries and photographed a copy of Lizzie's diary from Hillside so I could pour over it. They remind me of my mother's childhood diaries.
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October 2012 , 48:138 | Cite as
Microscopic analysis of band structures in odd mass 79–89Y isotopes
Chetan Sharma
Preeti Verma
Suram Singh
Arun Bharti
S. K. Khosa
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
The positive-parity yrast bands of 79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89Y isotopes have been studied using the projected shell model (PSM). Nuclear-structure properties like yrast spectra, transition energies, band diagrams, kinetic moment of inertia, rotational frequencies and reduced transition probabilities (B(M1) and B(E2) are calculated. The results obtained from the PSM calculations are also compared with the available experimental as well as theoretical data and, in general, a reasonable agreement is obtained between them. Calculations in the present work also predict that these isotopes have multi-quasiparticle structure.
Shell Model Prolate Band Diagram Rotational Band Valence Neutron
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Sharma, C., Verma, P., Singh, S. et al. Eur. Phys. J. A (2012) 48: 138. https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2012-12138-x
Received 10 April 2012
Revised 26 July 2012
Accepted 20 September 2012
DOI https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2012-12138-x


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2. Payment: We may use and disclose protected health information about you so that the treatment and services you receive at Compleat KiDZ may be billed to and payment may be collected from you, an insurance company, or a third party. This may include certain activities that your health insurance plan may undertake before it approves or pays for the health care services we recommend for you such as: making a determination of eligibility or coverage for insurance benefits, and reviewing services provided to you for medical necessity. For example, if you have a back injury, we may need to give your health plan information about your condition, supplies used, and services you received.
3. Healthcare Operations: We may use or disclose, as needed, your protected health information for healthcare operations. These uses and disclosures are necessary to run Compleat KiDZ and make sure that all of our patients receive quality care. For example, we ma)'use protected health information to review our treatment and services and to evaluate the performance of our staff in caring for you. We may also combine protected health information about many patients to decide what additional services Compleat KiDZ should offer, what services are not needed, and whether certain new treatments are effective. We may also disclose information to doctors, nurses, technicians, medical students, and other personnel for review and learning purposes, we may remove information that identifies you from this set of protected health information so others may use it to study health care and health care delivery without learning the identities of specific patients.
We may share your protected health information with third party "business associates" that perform various activities (for example, billing or transcription services) for our practice. Whenever an arrangement between our practice and a business associate involves the use or disclosure of your protected health information, we will have a written contract that contains terms that will protect the privacy of your protected health information.
We may use and / or disclose protected health information to contact you to, remind you about an appointment you have for treatment or medical care.
We may use or disclose your protected health information, as necessary, to provide you with information about treatment alternatives or other health--related benefits and services that may be of interest to you. You may contact our Privacy Officer to request that these materials not be sent to you.
4. Other Permitted and Required Uses and Disclosures That May Be Made Without Your Authorization or Opportunity to Agree and Object:
We may use or disclose your protected health information in the following situations without your authorization or providing you the opportunity to agree or object. These situations include:
(i) Required by Law: We may use or disclose your protected health information to the extent that the use or disclosure is required by law. The use or disclosure will be made in compliance with the law and will be limited d to the relevant requirements of the law. You will be notified, if required by law, of any such uses or disclosures.
(ii) Public Health: We may disclose your protected health information for public health activities and purposes to a public health authority that is permitted by law to collect or receive the information. For example, a disclosure may be made for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability.
(iii) Communicable Diseases: We may disclose your protected health information, if authorized by law, to a person who may have been exposed to a communicable disease or may otherwise be at risk of contracting or spreading the disease or condition.
(iv) Health Oversight: We may disclose protected health information to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law, such as audits, investigations, and inspections. Oversight agencies seeking this information include government agencies t-rat oversee the health care system, government benefit programs, other government regulatory programs and civil rights laws.
(v) Abuse or Neglect: We may disclose your protected health information to a public health authority that is authorized by law to receive reports of child abuse or neglect. In addition, we may disclose your protected health information if we believe that you have been a victim of abuse, neglect or domestic violence to the governmental entity or agency authorized to receive such information. In this case, the disclosure will be made consistent with the requirements of applicable federal and state laws.
(vi) Legal Proceedings: We may disclose protected health information in the course of any judicial or administrative proceeding, in response to an order of a court or administrative tribunal (to the extent such disclosure is expressly authorized), or in certain conditions in response to a subpoena, discovery request or other lawful process.
(vii) Law Enforcement: We may also disclose protected health information, so long as applicable legal requirements are met, for law enforcement purposes, these law enforcement purposes include (1) legal processes and otherwise required by law, (2) limited information requests for identification and location purposes, (3) pertaining to victims of a crime, (4) suspicion that death has occurred as a result of criminal conduct, (5) in the event that a crime occurs on the premises of our practice, and (6) medical emergency (not on our premises) and it is likely that a crime has occurred.
(viii) Research: We may disclose your protected health information to researchers when their research has been approved by an institutional review board that has reviewed the research proposal and established protocols to ensure the privacy of your protected health information.
(ix) Criminal Activity: Consistent with applicable federal and state laws, we may disclose your protected health information, if we believe that the use or disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public. We may also disclose protected health information if it is necessary for law enforcement authorities to identify or apprehend an individual.
(x) Military Activity and National Security: When the appropriate conditions apply, we may use or disclose protected health information of individuals who are Armed Forces personnel (1) for activities deemed necessary by appropriate military command authorities; (2) for the purpose of a determination by the Department of Veterans Affairs of your eligibility for benefits, or (3) to foreign military authority if you are a member of that foreign military services. We may also disclose your protected health information to authorized federal officials for conducting national security and intelligence activities, including for the provision of protective services to the President or others legally authorized.
(xi) Workers' Compensation: We may disclose your protected health information as authorized to comply with workers' compensation laws and other similar legally established programs.
5. Other Permitted and Required Uses of Disclosures That Require Providing You the Opportunity to Agree or Object
We may use and disclose your protected health information in the following instances. You have the opportunity to agree or object to the use or disclosure of all or part of your protected health information. If you are not present or able to agree or object to the use or disclosure of the protected health information, then we may, using professional judgment, determine whether the disclosure is in your best interest.
Others Involved in Your Health Care or Payment for our Care:
Unless you object, we may disclose to a member of your family, a relative, a close friend or any other person you identify, your protected health information that directly relates to that person's involvement in your health care. If you are unable to agree or object to such a disclosure, we may disclose such information as necessary if we determine that it is in your best interest based on our professional judgment. We may use or disclose protected health information to notify or assist in notifying a family member, personal representative or any other person that is responsible for your care of your location, general condition or death. Finally, we may use or disclose your protected health information to an authorized public or private entity to assist in disaster relief efforts and to coordinate uses and disclosures to family or other individuals involved in your health care.
6. Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information Based upon Your Written Authorization Other uses and disclosures of your protected health information will be made only with your written authorization, unless otherwise permitted or required by law as described below. You may revoke this authorization in writing at any time. If you revoke your authorization, we will no longer use or disclose your protected health information for the reasons covered by your written authorization. Please understand that we are unable to take back any disclosures already made with your authorization.
C. YOUR RIGHTS
Following is a statement of your rights with respect to your protected health information and a brief description of how you may exercise these rights
1. You have the right to inspect and copy your protected health information
This means you may inspect and obtain a copy of protected health information about you for so long as we maintain the protected health information. You may obtain your medical record that contains medical and billing records and any other records that we use for making decisions about you. As permitted by federal or state law, we may charge you a reasonable copy fee for a copy of your records.
2. You have the right to request a restriction of your protected health information
This means you may ask us not to use or disclose any part of your protected health information for the purposes of treatment, payment or health care operations. You may also request that any part of your protected health information not be disclosed to family members or friends who may be involved in your care or for notification purposes as described in this Notice of Privacy Practices. Your request must state the specific restriction requested and to whom you want the restriction to apply.
We are not required to agree to a restriction that you may request. If we agree to the requested restriction, we may not use or disclose your protected health information in violation of that restriction unless it is needed to provide emergency treatment. With this in mind, please discuss any restriction you wish to request with your health provider.
You may request a restriction by making your request in writing to our Privacy Officer. In your request, you must tell us (1) what information you want to limit; (2) whether you want to limit our use, disclosure, or both; and (3) to whom you want the limits to apply, for example, disclosures to your spouse.
3. You have the right to request to receive confidential communications from us by alternative means or at an alternative location
We will accommodate reasonable requests. We may also condition this accommodation by asking you for information as to how payment will be handled or specification of an alternative address or other method of contact. We will not request an explanation from you as to the basis for the request. Please make this request in writing to our Privacy Officer.
4. Your may have right to amend your protected health information
This means you may request an amendment of protected health information about you in a designated record set for so long as we maintain this information. In certain cases, we may deny your request for an amendment. If we deny your request for amendment, you have the right to file a statement of disagreement with us and we may prepare a rebuttal to your statement and will provide you with a copy of any such rebuttal. Please contact our Privacy Officer if you have questions about amending your medical record.
5. You have the right to receive an accounting of certain disclosures we have made, if any, of your protected health information This right applies to disclosures for purposes other than treatment, payment or health care operations as described in this Notice of Privacy Practices. It excludes disclosures we may have made to you if you authorized us to make the disclosure, to family members or friends involved in your care, or for notification purposes, for national security or intelligence, to law enforcement (as provided in the privacy rule) or correctional facilities, as part of a limited data set disclosure. The right to receive this information is subject to certain exceptions, restrictions and limitations.
6. You have the right to obtain a paper copy of this notice from us
upon request, even if you have agreed to accept this notice electronically.
D. COMPLAINTS
You may complain to us or to the Secretary of Health and Human Services if you believe your privacy rights have been violated by us. You may file a complaint with us by notifying our Privacy Officer of your complaint. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint
You may contact our Privacy Officer at (704) 824-7800 for further information about the complaint process.
This notice was published and becomes effective on August l, 2011.
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Point out Sen. Melanie Scheible (D) discusses community plan on a televised episode of Nevada Newsmakers. She supports a bill cracking down on guns in casinos. (Graphic: Nevada Newsmakers)
Current law requires safety guards at resort-casinos to tell armed website visitors that firearms are not authorized on a resort residence, in accordance to the Affiliated Press. If the armed particular person refuses to go away, protection can contact local law enforcement and report the person for trespassing.
Beneath Senate Invoice 452, security could make contact with law enforcement and report a individual suspected of carrying a firearm without the need of providing the trespasser a verbal warning, the AP described. The evaluate also would make carrying a firearm into casinos a gross misdemeanor punishable by a 12 months in jail and a $2,000 fine.
If approved at the Legislature and signed by Gov. Steve Sisolak (D), the measure would only implement to huge resort-casinos that decide-in. A vacation resort would be necessary to write-up on its residence and web site that guns are not allowed. This also would implement to concealed have license holders.
Sen. Melanie Scheible (D) claimed lodge-casinos must be give that solution.
"We ought to be shelling out exclusive consideration to the resorts, the casinos, the lodges, and all of the sites that people come from all more than the planet to see, and assure that they can be safe and sound even though they are there," the Las Vegas lawmaker reported.
Assemblywoman Shondra Summers-Armstrong (D) cautioned that the evaluate could consequence in racial profiling.
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We ought to be in a position to have interaction with law enforcement in order to give support to clear away that person from the property," she claimed.
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Bringing Positivity and Inclusion to the Table: Sodexo's Disability Hiring Program
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Kevin's Story
Kevin will be the first to tell you that he is a people person — and it is easy to see why. His sense of humor, high energy, and positivity are hard to miss in National Geographic's Food Court, where he works both in the front and the back of the house to ensure that the center's employees are well taken care of during their lunch breaks.
"I love my job. I especially like speaking with our customers and making sure that they have what they need to be happy. My job is to make the customers happy and I take pride in that."
Kevin is one of several employees with disabilities who were hired this year at Sodexo's site at the National Geographic's headquarters in downtown Washington, DC through a partnership between Sodexo and The Arc of the United States. Laura Monto, General Manager of Sodexo's site at National Geographic, was inspired to create the internship program from the personal experience of being an aunt of a young man with autism. "Knowing how sharp, caring and eager to learn my nephew is, I wanted to provide people with disabilities with the opportunity to learn valuable professional skills and be part of an inclusive team of hardworking and dedicated individuals," said Monto.
The Arc and Sodexo's Long-Standing Collaboration on Disability-Inclusive Hiring
The Arc and Sodexo started a similar joint-disability hiring initiative in 2017 at a site in Philadelphia. The site's General Manager, Dolores Abbonizio, has worked for Sodexo for three decades and has more than 20 years of experience in successfully hiring people with disabilities. More than just creating job opportunities for people with disabilities, Abbonizio believes that creating this program has positively impacted the lives of her employees without disabilities, a positive feeling which is also felt by guests and senior leadership alike. Abbonizio said that her site's success at hiring and retaining employees with disabilities comes from her entire team's buy-in to creating an inclusive working and learning environment. "There are certain things that need to happen and systems that need to be in place in order to create a disability-inclusive workplace, but it begins with the whole team's commitment to making sure that all of our employees feel welcome and are set up to succeed," said Abbonizio.
Managing a disability-inclusive workplace does have some challenges, but Laura Monto points out that these are no different than managing any other sites she has worked at in the past. "Whether an employee has a disability or not, there is always a learning curve and every individual has a unique work style and personality," said Monto, "The key to creating a truly inclusive environment is to provide the right supports to your employees to create equity, while ensuring that you treat them all equally and with respect," Similarly, Dolores Abbonizio said that understanding an individual's skill set and career goals is critically important to setting them up for success in the workplace. "When you're working with a new hire, regardless of their abilities, it is important to make sure that their skillsets are matched to the tasks and responsibilities given to them so that they can succeed, create positive momentum and grow," said Abbonizio.
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Back at Sodexo in DC, Kevin is now an integral part of Sodexo's team at National Geographic and continues to improve his performance and gain autonomy. Aside from what he brings to the table professionally; Kevin's positive attitude and energy is felt throughout his workplace. Kevin's success at Sodexo is the result of his hard work, but also of the enabling and inclusive environment that Laura Monto and her team have created. The Arc and Sodexo plan to take the lessons learned from its local successes in Washington, DC and Philadelphia and work with other sites in Sodexo's national network to bring disability-inclusion to scale at Sodexo. "[Hiring people with disabilities] has always been a positive experience," said Abbonizio.
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Home > WashPost Reports ATF Attempt to Spike Whistleblower's 'Fast and Furious' Book; Places It on Page A8
WashPost Reports ATF Attempt to Spike Whistleblower's 'Fast and Furious' Book; Places It on Page A8
By Ken Shepherd | October 8, 2013 1:30 PM EDT
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has put the kibosh on a book by whistleblower John Dodson not because he would disclose any sensitive, classified information but rather "because the agency says it would hurt morale," reported Washington Post staffer Sari Horwitz in Tuesday's paper in her 16-paragraph story, "ATF rejects 'Fast and Furious' book."
While clearly such a story is worthy of front-page coverage, editors shuffled it off to page A8. Among the stories on A1 today, the story least-worthy of front-page real estate was William Wan's "Apple for the teacher? In China, many think bigger." Wan's story focused on how bribery was crucial to procure slots at the better public schools in Communist China. An interesting story, but of less import to Americans than a federal agency quashing a book by a whistleblower.
Horwitz noted that the left-leaning ACLU "came to Dodson's defense Monday and filed a protest with the ATF...saying the decision violates his 'constitutional protections.'"
At no point in her story, however, did Horwitz consider the negative political repercussions for the Obama administration nor inquire to what extent the White House may have leaned in on officials in the ATF to kill the book project. Instead, Horwitz uncritically relayed the party line from the bureaucracy:
A law enforcement official said that a government-wide ban prevents federal employees from receiving compensation "from any source other than the government for teaching, speaking or writing that relates to the employee's official duties." The official said the ATF is conducting a review to determine whether Dodson would be revealing any information that is "law enforcement sensitive." If not, the official said, Dodson could publish his book without receiving compensation.
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Trump says he does not want war after attack on Saudi oil facilities
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US President Donald J. Trump speaks to the media from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC USA, 16 September 2019. [EPA-EFE/JIM LO SCALZO]
US President Donald Trump said on Monday (16 September) it looked like Iran was behind attacks on oil plants in Saudi Arabia but stressed he did not want to go to war, as the attacks sent oil prices soaring and raised fears of a new Middle East conflict.
Iran has rejected US charges it was behind the strikes on Saturday that damaged the world's biggest crude-processing plant and triggered the largest jump in crude prices in decades.
Relations between the United States and Iran have deteriorated since Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear accord last year and reimposed sanctions over Tehran's nuclear and ballistic programs.
Washington also wants to pressure Tehran to end its support of regional proxy forces, including in Yemen where Saudi forces have been fighting Iran-backed Houthis for four years.
The United States was still investigating if Iran was behind the Saudi strikes, Trump said, but "it's certainly looking that way at this moment."
Trump, who has spent much of his presidency trying to disentangle the United States from wars he inherited, made clear, however, he was not going to rush into a new conflict on behalf of Saudi Arabia.
"I'm somebody that would like not to have war," Trump said.
Several US Cabinet members, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, have blamed Tehran for the strikes. Pompeo and others will travel to Saudi Arabia soon, Trump said.
A day after saying the United States was "locked and loaded" to respond to the incident, Trump said on Monday there was "no rush" to do so.
"We have a lot of options but I'm not looking at options right now. We want to find definitively who did this," he said.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the strikes were carried out by "Yemeni people" retaliating for attacks by a Saudi-led military coalition in a war with the Houthi movement.
"Yemeni people are exercising their legitimate right of defense," Rouhani told reporters during a visit to Ankara.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi called the allegations "unacceptable and entirely baseless."
The attacks cut 5% of world crude oil production.
Oil prices surged by as much as 19% after the incidents but later came off their peaks. The intraday jump was the biggest since the 1990-91 Gulf crisis over Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
The market eased from its peak after Trump said he would release U.S. emergency supplies and producers said there were enough stocks stored up worldwide to make up for the shortfall. Prices were around 12% higher by afternoon in the United States.
Saudi suspicions
Saudi Arabia said the attacks were carried out with Iranian weapons, adding that it was capable of responding forcefully and urging UN experts to help investigate the raid.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Iranian threats were not only directed against the kingdom but against the Middle East and the world.
While the prince did not directly accuse Tehran, a Foreign Ministry statement reported him as calling on the international community to condemn whoever was behind the strike.
"The kingdom is capable of defending its land and people and responding forcefully to those attacks," the statement added.
Saudi Arabia and Iran have been enemies for decades and are fighting a number of proxy wars.
Trump said he had not made commitments to protect the Saudis.
"No, I haven't promised Saudis that. We have to sit down with the Saudis and work something out," he said. "That was an attack on Saudi Arabia, and that wasn't an attack on us. But we would certainly help them."
Two sources briefed on state oil company Saudi Aramco's operations told Reuters it might take months for Saudi oil production to return to normal. Earlier estimates had suggested it could take weeks.
Saudi Arabia said it would be able to meet oil customers' demand from its ample storage, although some deliveries had been disrupted. At least 11 supertankers were waiting to load oil cargoes from Saudi ports, ship tracking data showed on Monday.
Rising tensions
Tension in the oil-producing Gulf region has dramatically escalated this year after Trump imposed severe US sanctions on Iran aimed at halting its oil exports altogether.
For months, Iranian officials have issued veiled threats, saying that if Tehran is blocked from exporting oil, other countries will not be able to do so either. But Iran has denied a role in specific attacks, including bombings of tankers in the Gulf and previous strikes claimed by the Houthis.
US allies in Europe oppose Trump's "maximum pressure" strategy, arguing that it provides no clear mechanism to resolve issues, creating a risk the enemies could stumble into war.
Trump has said his goal is to force Iran to negotiate a tougher agreement and has left open the possibility of talks with Rouhani at an upcoming UN meeting. Iran says there can be no talks until Washington lifts sanctions.
UN Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths told the UN Security Council on Monday it was "not entirely clear" who was behind the strike but he said it had increased the chances of a regional conflict.
But the US ambassador to the world body, Kelly Craft, said emerging information on the attacks "indicates that responsibility lies with Iran" and that there is no evidence the attack came from Yemen.
Iran's Yemeni allies have promised more strikes to come. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group carried out Saturday's predawn attack with drones, including some powered by jet engines.
"We assure the Saudi regime that our long arm can reach any place we choose and at the time of our choosing," Sarea tweeted. "We warn companies and foreigners against being near the plants that we struck because they are still in our sights."
U.S. officials say they believe that the attacks came from the opposite direction, possibly from Iran itself rather than Yemen, and may have involved cruise missiles. Wherever the attacks were launched, however, they believe Iran is to blame.
The attacks have raised questions about how the kingdom, one of the world's top spenders on weaponry, much of it supplied by US companies, was unable to protect oil plants from attack.
Sensing a commercial opening, President Vladimir Putin said Russia was ready to help Saudi Arabia by providing Russian-made air defence systems to protect Saudi infrastructure.
Russia and China said it was wrong to jump to conclusions about who was to blame for the attack on Saudi Arabia.
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Florida Health Policy Expert On The Disappointing Rollout Of Healthcare.gov
WJCT 89.9 FM Jacksonville | By Melissa Ross
Published October 22, 2013 at 2:06 PM EDT
President Obama addresses supporters in the White House Rose Garden Monday, Oct. 21, on the problems with Healthcare.gov.
Federal contractors now say they've identified most of the main problems crippling Healthcare.gov, the main site of the online health insurance marketplace set up under Obamacare.
The serious flaws on the site have made it difficult, if not impossible, for many to sign up for health insurance, dogging the White House as Republicans still opposed to the law say "I told you so."
On Monday, President Barack Obama called the problems unacceptable and vowed to get them fixed.
(VIDEO: President Obama's Rose Garden address on the technical glitches plaguing Healthcare.gov)
Despite his remarks, some contractors are telling the press that a fix to the site is likely still weeks away.
The website is where Americans from the 36 states that declined to set up their own insurance exchange must go to enroll, a group that includes Florida.
Carol Gentry, editor of Health News Florida, joined WJCT's Melissa Ross to discuss the latest news on the implementation of the health exchanges and take listeners questions and comments on Obamacare.
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Ponca City, OK
Renovation and New Entry Project: The building was originally designed in 1937 by Winkler and Reid. A complete renovation of the interior included a new Media Center, Computer Labs, Home Ec Labs, Administration Offices, restrooms, second floor fire escapes, as well as numerous classroom remodels. Interior Art Deco building details were replicated and historic wood work was restored and refurbished.
Office Remodel: In this project the existing main office was remodeled and a new covered entry was added to provide a sheltered outdoor waiting area for bus pick up and an accessible entrance. The design replicates the Art Deco design of the building.
Secure Vestibule Remodel: The existing entry was remodeled to provide a secure entry vestibule while still maintaining the existing aesthetics and function of the office and main entrance.
New Windows and HVAC replacement: The existing mechanical systems throughout the school were replaced and updated to make the heating and cooling for this building more efficient. The new windows were also designed and installed to increase the efficiency of the building while still maintaining the iconic Art Deco proportions.
Completion Date: 2017
112 N. 3rd
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P 580 765 3317
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