Years ago on a trip to Sonoma, I was introduced to Sojourn Cellars, an up and coming winery located off the square in the Sonoma Plaza. Our visit happened to coincide with Gary Vaynerchuk’s Wine Library TVepisode featuring Sojourn. To make a long story short, Sojourn, who was unaware of the tasting, ranked number one in the blind tasting and arrived at their office the next morning to a full voicemail box or orders – completely selling them out of that particular pinot. Our group sat down with Craig Haserot, co-founder and proprietor of Sojourn Cellars, and heard his great story.

Sojourn is a boutique winery that specializes in pinot noir, chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon. The winery sources fruit from Napa and Sonoma and began as a collaboration betweentennis buddies who loved wine. Craig and Ellen Haserot and Erich Bradley, who was an assistant winemaker at Arrowood Winery, developed a plan and Sojourn was born over the next 10 years.

Fast forward about six years where I had just assumed my new volunteer position as chairman of the wine committee for Lakewood Country Club. One of our missions is to have more boutique winemaker dinners at the Club. Sojourn was one of the first wineries who came to mind so I picked up the phone and they accepted.

The dinner, which was spearheaded by Chef William Kovall, was amazing. We had a five course meal matched the wines. Sherrie Perkovich, director of marketing for Sojourn, told us all about the winery and the wines. Highlights were as follows:

Seared


Scallop with English Peas, Artichoke, Pancetta and Herb Butter Nage paired with the 2013 Sangiacomo Chardonnay. With notes of crème brulee and citrus, the delicious scallops absolutely sang. I may have inhaled this prior to the picture being taken.

Bacon Wrapped Ring Neck Pheasant with Caramelized Pear, Morel Risotto and Roasted Pheasant Jus with the 2013 Sangiacomo Pinot Noir. This wine was earthy and had notes of deep cherry and mushrooms.

Tellicherry Peppered Seared Venison with Crushed Sweet Potato, Pine Nut and Huckleberry with the 2013 Gaps Crown Vineyard Pinot Noir. This had bigger fruit than the last and evolved in the glass with notes of herbs, chocolate, berry and Asian spice.

Prime New York Strip with Fiddle Head Ferns, Wild Ramp, Fennel Scallop, Potato and Blackberry Gastrique with the 2012eight different municipalities and focuses on the Monastrell grape.

Like Alicante, Bullas has existed since ancient Roman time and evolved from a Moore influence to Christian influence over time. The region changed from a producer of bulk wines in the 1980s to an official DO in 1994. The landscape is also limestone and has numerous valleys with unique microclimates with mountains to the west. The weather is challenging with very hot summers and very cold winters.

As part of MGW Group’s mission to create unique wines from organically grown grapes, Bodegas Lavia was created.Bodegas Lavia is a boutique winery focused on balancing the fruit that is yielded with expressing the unique terroir in their wines. The winery was built in 2003 and is located in Venta del Pino, an area


temperatures that tend to shift to frequent frosts in the Winter creating extreme temperatures ranging from day to night.

Ramon Castano Santa is the original visionary behind the winery. Ramon has been involved in the wine business since 1950 when the family built its first winery in Yeda, a small city near Villena,. The family acquired Sierra Salinas vineyards in the beginning of 2000 and built the winery, Bodagas Sierra Salinas, which is named after a mountain range. The winery was up and running in 2006. The Castano family made a bet on Monastrell (a red wine grape variety), and wanted to balance the legacy, quality and technology to make the best wine possible. The production of Sierra Salinas will never pass 200,000 bottles because the family believes thatthe wines need to show the authenticity of the soil, terroir and the people. In 2013, MGWines Group acquired the property.

We met with Winemaker Sebastien Boudon, who came to Spain from France because he was excited about the opportunities in the region. He took us through the winery and showed us the unique temperature control system designed to manage the extreme temperatures as well as the gravity system the winery uses to avoid pump racking. The grapes are processed on three levels of the building – the vinification plant is one the first floor; the grapes are pressed on the second floor and the bottling occurs on the third floor. The grapes are hand picked and harvested in small batches to make sure the best fruit is used,


made and then tasted wines and cheeses from around the world – Spain, Austria, France and California primarily. I loved the Qupe Marsanne which had layers of caramel, butterscotch, almond and a lot of complexity. Just delicious. Other stand-outs were The Franc Cabernet France and Chateau Paul Mas Rhone. We talked wine storage, sustainable wines, tasting and Old World vs New World wines.

In the Wines Series 301 class, we focused on wines from Italy and France. They did a nice job in covering the geography of the region, which highlighted the complexities to help attendees understand the differences between the regions of Napa Valley, France (ranging from the Loire Valley to Champagne to Cotes du Rhone to Burgundy to Bordeaux. Right Bank Merlots to Left Bank Cabernets) andthat saw 175 Grateful Dead concerts, went on tour with them and lived to tell the tale. Then you find out he’s an esteemed winemaker for Murphy Goode, a newly converted runner (lost 50 pounds since he started), believes in giving back to the community to bring his dad’s legacy to life and is just an all-around cool person.

David Ready started his career in winemaking in 1985 when his dad strongly suggested getting a job would be a good idea. He grew up in Minnesota, played in rock band for a time and is a huge Vikings fan. He worked harvests in Australia and Sonoma. David moved back to California approximately 20 years ago and it’s been home since. He worked his way up from cellar master to


assistant winemaker and then served as the winemaker for Zinfandel in 1997. Today he supervises 18 wines.

David came through town last month to talk about his Homefront Red release, which raised 300K for Operation Homefront, a 501c (3) organization developed to support the families of deployed service members immediately following 9/11. The organization provides emergency financial and other assistance to the families of service members and wounded warriors. And the cool thing is that the distributors and sales people for the winery have chipped in to support the effort as well.

Ready wanted to do this to honor his father who passed away during the fall of 2010. He pondered what it meant to “do good” with the current owners of the winery. His father served in Vietnam andAndo Hiroshige Art Prints

Ando Hiroshige was one of the most famous Japanese artists of the Ukiyo-e school. He was especially revered for his landscapes depicting lyrical scenes of everyday life.
Hiroshige was born in Edo (now Tokyo). When he was orphaned at the age of twelve, he assumed his father's job as firefighter. Soon, however, he was inspired by the prints of the esteemed artist Hokusai to become an artist. Hiroshige apprenticed himself to the artist Utagawa Toyohiro and for many years continued working as both a firefighter and an artist. In 1823, he was finally able to turn his firefighting duties over to his brother and devote himself full-time to painting.
Many of the Hiroshige prints in our collection were taken from Hiroshige's final, masterful series entitled One Hundred


Famous Views of Edo. They were produced between 1856 and 1858 when Hiroshige was an accomplished artist at the height of his skill and renown.
Hiroshige became one of the most popular and prolific artists of his period, producing 5400 prints over his lifetime. Though Hiroshige's work was not as daring as that of Hokusai, the artist he so admired, Hiroshige was revered then and now for his poetic chronicles of daily life in 19th-century Japan.the government offices and also a kind of shtadlan [intermediary] with the landowner. There also was a nemen (treasurer). The kahal also maintained a royfe [health practitioner], who treated poor sick people at the expense of the
community, a barber, a midwife, and a pharmacist.

Over the individual communities stood the Va'ad Haglil (district council), which was selected at a convention of the leaders of the
communities of the district and of special delegates. The chief of the Va'ad Haglil had the title Parnes Haglil. The Va'ad Haglil met once a year to take care of all the important items and measure out the
taxes for each community in the district. The Va'ad Haglil had a district rov (Av-Bes-Din Haglil [chief judge] of the district), a government shtadlan [intermediary], a writer, shamesim


The finance minister of Poland often took part in the sessions of the Va'ad, and the Va'ad was the officially recognized representative of Polish Jewry before the king.

The growth of Jewish settlements in Poland led to the fact that many Jews
settled on land owned by the nobility. As long as the settlements had been
small, they had been mostly concentrated on land owned by the king, and the
king had protected them as his own, since he did not want to lose them
because of the large income he received from them.

In 1539 the nobility won a big victory over the king, and the Sejm (Parliament) that convened in Piotrkow decided that all Jews who lived on
noblemen's land would become the absolute property of the landowners.2 This created two categoriesof Jews. In towns belonging to the king Jews were
on a higher level. In the towns and villages of noblemen, Jews were subject to
the caprice of the landowner. If the nobleman was a fine person, he protected
his Jews from hatred, the burghers, guilds, ecclesiastical organizations, and
random anti-Semitism. If, however he was a Jew-hater, he would often blackmail
the Jews in order to extort even more money. The Jews were powerless, because
they no longer had royal protection.

There were, however, also cases when the position of the Jews truly improved
and Jews actually stood up to the anti-Semitic plague.

The noble landowning family Lasocki in Brzezin  the owners of Brzezin in
the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries  continually improved the town, built churches, and always
needed money. The Lasockis put the Jewish taxes


a Jewish settlement in Brzezin is 1564.4 Kutno, which at that time also belonged to the Lentchitser Wojewodstwo [Leczycy Province] is mentioned as having Jews in 1513. The supposition that
when King Kazimierz the Great gave Brzezin the privilege of becoming a town in
1366 a significant Jewish community was already there  has not been
confirmed.

The Polish writer Sarniecki wrote in 1558 that there were skilled artisans in
Brzezin whose products were sent to other towns in Greater Poland. A large
number of the skilled artisans were Jews.

During the 17th century the general conditions in Poland seriously worsened. The Jewish
situation became catastrophic. Chmielnicki descended on hundreds of Polish
towns and killed off entire communities. Swedish troops came to help him in the
battle, which was a rebellion against the king of Poland, and overwhelmed
entireJewish communities. The Swedes caused great destruction in Brzezin, but
the great tragedy came later. Although the Jews were among the most loyal
supporters of Polish power, this did not prevent the church from taking
advantage of the alleged miracle of the Madonna of Czestochowa,
thought to have caused the defeat of the Swedes. The priests instigated doing
away with unbelieving Jews (the Swedes, as Protestants, had also counted them
as unbelievers) and called for pogroms against the Jews. In 1656 a terrible
pogrom occurred in Brzezin. Forty Jewish families were murdered by Hetman
[military chief] Stefan Czarniecki's troops.5 The Brzeziner Poles helped, and it is thought that at that time the majority
of the Jews of Brzezin met a violent death.6 Pogroms carried out by similar gangs also took place in Kalisz and Piotrkow.
In Piotrkow they


slaughtered fifty families, the entire Jewish population.7

A short time later, however, the Jewish population in Brzezin, as in many other
Polish towns, increased greatly, not only from natural growth, but also
principally from a large immigration to Poland. Jews who had been banished from
Austria, Bohemia, Silesia, and the German provinces came to Poland in
multitudes. A portion of the banished settled in Brzezin.8

Jews in Brzezin in 1764

Subsequent to the time in Poland when the Va'ad Arba Artzot was dissolved in 1764, a census of Jews was conducted in Brzezin, as in all
Polish towns.9 The count for the head tax was applicable to all Jews without any distinction
as to sex and social standing  except for children who were not yet nine years old.

In order to establish the statistical validity of thiscensus, it is necessary
to point out that the census was carried out by a special
inspector, who had to be a nobleman, together with the parnes hakhodesh and the rov and shames of the town.They had to go into all the Jewish houses and record the family names and given
names of all the souls in town. The Jews from the surrounding villages had to
come to the town and, under oath, register all the souls in their families.10

The Jewish population in Brzezin and environs in 1764 was given as 243. Two
hundred and three Jews lived in Brzezin, and forty Jews lived in the
surrounding seven villages that belonged to the Brzeziner Jewish community.
Koluszki was at that time a village with eight Jews that belonged to the
Brzeziner Jewish community.

After carrying out the


census the inspector had to travel to Leczycy, the
capital city of the province, and deliver the registers into the hands of the
official counterswho were appointed by the Sejm. Then the Jewish inspectors had to swear an oath in the synagogue that they
had omitted no one. But, in spite of all the precautions of the law, the
registers did not show the true number of Jews in Brzezin. Paying two gulden a year per head led many Jews to find means to conceal themselves from the count. In 1775 the head tax was raised to three gulden and in 1779 by another half gulden.

Still, the count of 1764 is considered to be of extraordinary importance.
First, it took place 215 years after the first Jewish census in Poland, and it
showed thebelonged to Brzezin. Return

In the 17th and 18th centuries a fine Jewish life bloomed in Brzezin that was well-known all over
Poland. There were rebbes [Hasidic rabbis] in Brzezin who were considered famous people in the Jewish
world of the time in Poland. From Brzezin they spread Hasidism far and wide all
over Poland. A notable example from that generation of good Jews
was Reb Fiszele (Efroim) Szapiro,12 who was a rov [official town rabbi] in the neighboring town Strykow and was known as Reb
Fiszele Strykower. Always absent-minded and pensive, a homebody who knew
nothing about the shape of a coin, he always ate in his private room in the
service of Torah, always practicing mortification of the flesh and fasting
while the Spirit was in the Disapora. The Holy Light [from title of
book he


wrote], as the Hasidic literature dubbed him, came from Podolia, the cradle of
Hasidism. His father, Reb Jozef-Lajb, who was called by the name
Hasid because of his strict piety, was a student of Reb Jakub Jozef
from Polonnoye, one of the major students of the Baal-Shem-Tov and author of
the well-known Hasidic seyfer [book] Toldes Yakov Yosef [Family ofJacob Joseph].Reb Fiszele Szapiro was born in Belotserkovka, where his father was the rov (1743).

Because of the Haidamak [Cossack] slaughters and massacres of Jews under the
leadership of Gonta and Zheleznyak (Tamuz [June-July] 1768), Reb Jozef-Lajb, with members of his household, fled to
Balta and became a maged meshorim [itinerant preacher]. However, soon afterwards the Turks dominated this town on
one side and the Poles on the other. Not having time to run away to theTurkish
side, which many Jews had done, Reb Jozef-Lajb remained on the Polish side.

However, he could not remain there long either. Because of the frequent wars,
he had to take his wandering stick and get under way with his family. On the
way, in various towns he gave sermons and lived on alms, and upon coming to
Brzezin, he settled there. He became a preacher and taught grown young men, and
from this, frugally maintained himself. There his family branched out into tens
of families.

His son, Reb Fiszele, left Brzezin and stayed a long time with Rebbe Reb Ber, the Mezritcher [from Miedzyrzecz] maged, and also with Reb Elimelech from Lizhensk [Lezajsk]. While at the latter's,
he studied and devoted himself to Cabala [Jewish mystical philosophy], together
with the Kozhenitser [from Kozienice] maged Reb Isroel'cie. Then


he returned to Brzezin, married his second wife there,
spent many years af kest [receiving room and board from in-laws while studying] and later was accepted
by the neighboring town of Strykow as rov. He had children in Brzezin  Reb Jekiel Brzeziner and Reb Icek, later rov in Zarnow. His son-in-law, Reb Rywen Kosher, was rov in Ujazd.

In Brzezin, as in the entire region at that time, the Hasidim did not have any
home base. Becoming a rov, Reb Fiszele established a nest there for Hasidism, from which he became the
spiritual leader of the movement. Being very famous as a kodesh [holy man] and a bal-moyfes [miracle worker], he had a large following grouped around him, and the great rebbes of Poland sent Jews with heavy hearts to him, andhe brought with him the Rebbe Reb Henoch from Aleksandrow. Reb Fiszele gave the sholem with his bare hand. On the spot Rebbe Reb Henoch edged forward and also received the greeting with the bare hand. It
immediately dawned on Reb Fiszele that he had given sholem without a covered hand to some stranger, causing him great consternation. He
calmed himself only after the Pshiskher told him who and what Reb Henoch was.

Rebbe Reb Henoch and the Tshekhanover [from Ciechanow] rebbe, Reb Abramele, then became his closest Hasidim, serving at Rebbe Reb Fiszele's side for many years.

Then the following story was told:

A complete upheaval suddenly occurred in the rebbe's court. The Rebbe Reb Fiszele closed himself in his secluded chamber and would no longer permit anyone near him. One could


rant as long as one wanted  it was useless.
There was a commotion in the Hasidic world. There was no one to defend the Jews
during bad times occuring then in Poland because of the wars with Russia. Rebbe Reb Bunem learned about it and came running at full speed to see what was happening there. Rebbe Reb Fiszele could not refuse him and opened his closed door. When asked why he
closed himself in, Rebbe Reb Fiszele naively responded as follows:

Some time ago, a man came, very bitter; who was burdened with a large family
but had no way to support them. Rebbe Reb Fiszele advised him to play the lottery, and he promised him that he would
be successful. The man actually obeyed him, but when the man did notironing?  and he
began to build the suke for the rebbe. Rebbe Reb Fiszele, thoroughly delighted with the little tailor, asked him what he
wanted for the work  riches or long life. The little tailor asked that
the rebbe sit with him in Gan-Eden [Paradise]. The tsadik promised him. It did not take long before the little tailor became sick, and
on the same day  17thTevet [DecemberJanuary] 1822  that Rebbe Reb Fiszele, the saintly Jew, died at the age of 80, the little tailor also died, and he was buried next to Rebbe Reb Fiszele, just as he wished.

Rebbe Reb Fiszele left two sons, Reb Jekiele Szapiro in Brzezin and Reb Icek in
Zarnow, and a son-in-law, Reb Rywen Kosher, who was rov in Ujazd.

Reb Jekiele Brzeziner married off


his son, Reb Jeszajele, to the daughter of a
doctor to rebbes, Reb Dawid-Chaim Bernard from Piotrkow, who had become a bal-tshuve [newly observant] at an advanced age. The Hasidim grumbled a great deal to Rebbe Reb Fiszele over this shidekh [match]. He consoled his Hasidim that because of that shidekh a cure will come into the family. And when Reb Jekiel Szapiro
became ill, he actually traveled from Brzezin to his mekhutn [daughter-in-law's father], the doctor, to undergo treatment. Reb Jekiele died
19 Sivan [MayJune] 1840 in Piotrkow.

In Brzezin Reb Jekiele Szapiro was a prominent merchant, a military contractor,
and a successful man; on account of animosity, his competitors created serious
disturbances and rebelled against permitting him to be the successor to his
great father, so the dynasty ended with Rebbe Reb Fiszelea very rich man. He was renowned far and wide for his
great wisdom. He was an affable, popular person. He loved workers, and in his
businesses he employed only Jews. He helped the poor mit rat un tat [with advice and deed].

Later Reb Wolf relocated to Lodz and died in 1891; he was more than 83 years old.

In the second half of the 19th century, Jews in Brzezin began to develop the garment industry. During a
period of some ten years Brzezin grew to become the greatest tailoring center
in Poland. This was the glorious epoch of Brzezin, when its production and its
workers were known throughout the entire world (see chapter Tailors in
Brzezin).

Hundreds and hundreds of Jewish young people came to Brzezin from near and far
to work and learn tailoring. Later


they spread the trade and the name of
Brzezin over many lands. The boisterous growth of the new industry was a
completely Jewish accomplishment, and that is how it remained, with
insignificant exceptions, until the Nazi destruction.

With their effort and virtuous hard-working lives, Jews raised the status of
the town Brzezin and the surrounding towns. From approximately three hundred
souls at the end of the 18th century, the number of inhabitants in Brzezin reached nine thousand at the
beginning of the 20th century. The Jewish population multiplied from 27.1 percent, in 1827, to more
than double in 1913. At that time Jews were 54.4 percent of the inhabitants and
formed the absolute majority of the population of the town.

Even during the time of the vicious extermination, there were still a thousand
Jews employed in the garment tradeAs a young man he
studied in Brzezin under the supervision of his father, the old Brzeziner rov, Reb Izrael Fajnkind. Return

According to Abraham Arzi-Tenenbaum in The History of the Jews in Lodz, Reb Szmuel Brzeziner was one of the first Jews in Lodz. He was a very important community leader and one of the first dozors [Jewish community overseers] in Lodz. Return

The Great Synagogue in Brzezin

Translated by Renee Miller

Edited by Fay Bussgang
The great synagogue in Brzezin, because of its architecture, was famous
throughout all of Poland. In several articles in this Yizkor book, the history
of the destroyed synagogue was reported in detail, including information about
those who were involved with building this beautiful synagogue that brought
such honor to our town.

The Jews in Brzezin took great care of the Great Synagogue


became effective May 1, 1982, limited certification for participation in the program in which Develo-cepts wished to participate (ICF-MR) to a maximum six-bed facility, and to facilities not located within a three-mile radius of another ICF-MR facility. Develo-cepts proposed a fifteen-bed facility which was located within one mile of another ICF-MR facility.
There is disputed evidence that the Department of Human Resources denied Develo-cepts' certification. On January 11, 1982, Ms. Fitzsimmons received a letter stating that the Department denied certification. On March 3, 1982, however, Develo-cepts' attorney received a letter stating that Develo-cepts would be allowed 120 days after the completion of this litigation "to meet certification requirements."
On October 23, 1980, appellee filed its Original Answer, and then the parties began discovery. On January 20, 1983, appellee filed itsIt remains to be seen how much success the line attains, but it has the promise of being a potent combination of youth (Patrick) and experience (JVR and Voracek), size (all three) and puck skill (all three), playmaking prowess (Voracek), shooting ability (JVR) plus Patrick's rapidly emerging multi-dimensional game. Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol said that it was not a tough decision to open camp with the three players together.

Nothing is set in stone in terms of the Flyers' opening-night line combinations, especially not during the early days of training camp. Nevertheless, there is a good chance that, come Oct. 4 in Vegas, Nolan Patrick will center left wing James van Riemsdyk and right wing Jakub Voracek.

"It makes sense on paper, but until you see it up close


I thought there was today."

While the trio is in its nascent stages as a line, there were several junctures in Friday afternoon's session where the line clicked during the drills.

"I thought we were making some good plays for Day One. I thought it was as much chemistry as you could have for one skate together. It felt good," Patrick said.

Patrick and Voracek were regular linemates last year in the second half of the season, primarily with Oskar Lindblom on left wing. While often effective with Lindblom, the line's goal production could increase with the addition of van Riemsdyk, a 36-goal scorer last season.

"I'm comfortable with Jake. We played together quite a bit last year. Obviously, JVR's an unbelievable player. You can just tell from one skate. He seesthe ice so well. The short passes he can make and the plays he makes, it's going to be fun to get a chance to play with him," Patrick said.

Back in 2011-12, which was Voracek's first year with the Flyers and the third and final season of van Riemsdyk's early career stint with the Flyers, the two sporadically were linemates with one among Max Talbot, Danny Briere or a rookie Sean Couturier as their center. Both Voracek and JVR were young players at the time. They have matured and changed in players in the years since then.

Has Voracek noticed an on-ice difference with van Riemsdyk from the six subsequent years in which JVR played for the Toronto Maple Leafs before his return to the Flyers this summer?

"It's hard


to say right now. When we played Toronto, obviously you see him on the ice but you are more focused on your own team and your own performance. Obviously, we're on the same line right now. I'll tell you more after we play a couple games together. …Should be fun," Voracek said.

During his time in Toronto, van Riemsdyk grew very accustomed to playing with Tyler Bozak (now with the St. Louis Blues) as a fixture on his line. The third member of the line changed frequently. After the first day of camp, JVR said that he fully expects that some time will be needed to get acclimated to the team and his new linemates. He, too, was pleased with the early signs.

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Leon Haughton, who has lived in Maryland for 10 years, had gone back to visit his family in Jamaica over Christmas.

The 45-year-old had bought three bottles of honey from his favorite roadside stand to bring back with him.

His long ordeal started on December 29 when he landed back at Baltimore-Washington International Airport and customs agents had a dog sniff his bags.

He assumed the dogs had sniffed the KFC chicken he had in his bag but was surprised when agents seized the three bottles of honey he uses to sweeten his tea.

Leon Haughton, who has lived in Maryland for


10 years, was taken into custody after flying in from Jamaica when authorities suspected his honey was actually liquid methamphetamine

The agents told him they suspected him of transporting liquid methamphetamine.

'I'm 100 percent sure I don't have drugs. I only have honey,' Haughton recalls telling the agents, according to the Washington Post.

He fainted after they placed him in detention and he was taken to jail.

Haughton and his attorney Terry Morris believe he was stereotyped because of his race.

They said he was questioned while in custody about a 'big Jamaican gang and drug dealing conspiracy'.

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Authorities then sent the bottles to a second laboratory in Georgia after the first was judged to be insufficiently equippedto analyze the liquids.

Although he had a green card granting him legal residence in the U.S., Haughton's arrest set in motion a detention process with immigration.

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R. Peter and Judith Finke of 27 E. Thruston Blvd. in Oakwood announce the wedding of their daughter, Rachel Finke, to Michael Chambers of Cincinnati, Ohio. The wedding will be held at St. Rose Catholic Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rev. Barry Windholtz will be officiating at the wedding. Honor Attendants will be Rachel’s sisters, Kathleen and Sarah. Best man will be Ralph Chambers and Bridesmaid will be Maggie Miller. Ushers will be James White, Christopher Chambers, Peter Chambers and Richard Chambers.

Rachel graduated from Alter High School and the University of Notre Dame where she graduated with a BA and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. She currently works at Proctor & Gamble as a Brand Manager.

Michael is a graduate of Xavier High School and ofMiami University. He currently works for Hyde Park Mortgage. He is the son of the late Ralph and Elaine Chambers.
Following the ceremony a reception will be held at The Cincinnati Club.

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Mr. and Mrs. David Vail announce the marriage of their daughter, Melissa Kathleen to Michael David Archer, son of Mr. Michael Archer and Mrs. Mary Strawser on Saturday, June 21.

The wedding took place at St. Albert the Great Church in Kettering with Father Chris Conlon of the University of Dayton officiating. Maid of Honor was Jessica Buzenski, a friend of the bride, and Best Man was Tyler DeSantis, a friend of the groom.

The bride attended Bethel High School and is a graduate of the Ohio Dominican University with a bachelor of science degree as an intervention


specialist.

The groom is a graduate of the United State Air Force Academy with a degree in electrical engineering. He is currently a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force stationed at Eglin AFB located in Okaloosa County, Fla.

Constance Mahle named Dayton Rotary president

The Rotary Club of Dayton has a new president for 2008-2009. Constance M. Mahle took over the leadership of the club from outgoing President Dave Neer of Kettering on July 1. Mahle joined Dayton Rotary in March 1998. Her efforts have earned her recognition as a Paul Harris Fellow, a J.R. Woodhull Fellow and a Frederick C. Smith Fellow.

Professionally, Mahle has served as the executive director of the Montgomery County Medical Society in Dayton since 1997. In addition to her service at Rotary, Mahle wasa past board member of the American Cancer Society and Zonta International. She lives in Oakwood and is a member of Holy Angels Church.

The Rotary Club of Dayton is a fellowship of diverse business and professional leaders who commit their time and talent to staying informed and serving the club, the community and the world. The Rotary Club of Dayton was organized on May 27, 1912 and was chartered as the 47th club of Rotary International on June 2, 1913.

We invite all local business professional to attend our regular Monday Club meetings, held at 12 Noon at Sinclair Community College, Building 12, 444 West Third Street, Dayton, Ohio 45402. Please call 937-228-3331 for reservations. For more information on the Rotary Club of Dayton and Rotary International, please visit


and lifestyle.

Julie Shone-Baker joined her late mother in the business in 1981 and now operates the store with her husband Chris Baker. A third generation is becoming involved; as the Baker Children, Erin and Josh, help at the store when their teen schedules permit. Perhaps the store’s continuing success over thirty years is due in part to close family ties.

The Elan staff is like a part of that family. Elan maintains a staff of around a dozen local women. Some of these women have been with the store for 15 to 20 years. The store has always been owned and operated by women, as well. The store is probably best known for unique, often artisan-crafted designs and locally produced fashion shows benefitting the Opera Guild and the Daytonof their lives.”

Golden girls and a golden celebration

By Abby Mansfield

Since 1959, the Holiday at Home parade and festival has been a favorite tradition in the Kettering and surrounding communities. Families flock to partake in games, art and auto shows, concerts and the parade. For a few young women, however, the most anticipated event of the festival comes before Labor Day weekend: the Miss Holiday pageant and election of the queen and her court.

Five lucky girls aged 17 through 21 are chosen based on their “poise, personalities, appearance, and community service,” as stated by the Holiday at Home website, to receive a scholarship and the honor of appearing on the float. What follows is a short profile of each young lady and why she thinks the Holiday at Home


Labor Day tradition has been such a roaring success for the past 50 years.

Miss Holiday at Home for 2008 is Katrina Baker of Beavercreek, ironically self-proclaimed as “not a pageant type of person.” She is 18 years old and a junior at Ohio State University, having completed college-level courses during high school. While she is currently studing Business Administration and Law, her true passion seems to lie in the performing arts. At the tender age of ten she started classical voice lessons at Miami University; at age twelve she was accepted into the Wright State College of Music and began formal training in opera as well; when she was thirteen she recorded her first CD. Baker performed live in Orlando at the ages of fourteen and fifteen, andfreshman at Ohio University, where she will study Education, specifically Secondary English. In high school, Byer was a member of the National Honor Society, the Track and Field Hockey teams, as well as a member of the student government. In addition, she has been employed at the Lincoln Park Retirement home since grade 10.

Byer says she has attended the Holiday at Home festivities, “since before I can remember, honestly,” and has been in the parade on multiple occasions with her school and job. She decided to enter the pageant as a service opportunity in this “incredible community event.” When asked why she thought the festival was so successful, Byer said it was because Holiday at Home had become an ingrained tradition in the Kettering community, which people “carry


in their family.”

Dacey Jackson of Oakwood is 19 years of age and a freshman attending Notre Dame University this fall. She is currently enrolled as a chemical engineering major with a pre-med curricular track as she hopes to be a medical researcher someday.
“I always used to go to the Holiday at Home parade with my family. I like the way the community comes together for it,” she said. In addition to being chosen as one of the four Princesses in the Holiday at Home Court, Jackson was also chosen for the Skip Lowe Scholarship.

Dacey is contributing to her college tuition in a number of ways. Her mother Healy mentioned the Holiday at Home pageant to her and the scholarship that went with it. Dacey was working at Smithelementary school as a janitor for the summer at the time. “Just think, you can be a janitor during the day and a Princess at night!” her Mom quipped Dacey also performed a major public service when she traveled to Bolivia for six weeks and worked in a shelter called Nuestra Casa, refuge center for sexually-abused girls. She has also raised over $2800 selling homemade pesto sauce around the Oakwood and Kettering area.

Brittany Sanders, age 18, of Kettering, will be attending Miami University this fall to study pre-med with a major in Psychology. During high school, she was involved with cheerleading for her school and a select team, as well as competitive dance, Spirit Club, the school news magazine and various volunteer activities. Sanders has already participated in


the path of history. He is also the Teacher who comes and will come in glory”. (Catechesi Tradendae 9) In Jesus Christ, Lord and Teacher, the Church finds transcendent grace, permanent inspiration and the convincing model for all communication of the faith.

An apt beginning. Jesus is not only the model for all of us in living the Christian life. Jesus is the model catechist, and we look to him for the basis of Christian pedagogy–how to teach. Jesus Christ is both practice and theory for the Church.

You might share my inclination to skip over those quotations at the beginning. The Hosea passage is extremely illustrative. The bishops chose to illustrate Christ’s teaching method not with a quotation from the Law, but from the Prophets. And not just anyprophet, but one (who along with Jeremiah) offers the most tender emotional plea for intimacy and compassion. God is at one with the people chosen. The ideal catechist, one might say, is as close with her or his charges.

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in the case of a bond line, these forces include normal forces acting perpendicular to a bond line and shear forces acting along the bond line.
Apparatuses and methods have been known for instrumenting a joint means to measure normal and shear stresses. For example, the use of various types of strain gauges to measure such forces are well known. Sensing devices are also known in which such strain gauges are used in combination with bridge circuitry such as a Wheatstone bridge.
The accurate measurement of shear forces exclusive of normal forces, however, has eluded effective measurement. Shear forces may be particularly insidious forces, especially along an adhesive bond line. It is often highly desirable to design a component or system so that shear forces and their detrimental effects canthe first wall relative to the second wall along a direction parallel to the y-axis. The sensing device comprises first and second sensor elements, each extending between the opposing portions of the first and second walls for outputting sensor measurement signals representative of the physical stress. The first sensor element has a first longitudinal axis intersecting the central axis at a first oblique angle xcex1 and the second sensor element has a second longitudinal axis intersecting the central axis by a second oblique angle xe2x88x92xcex1. The arrangement of the first and second sensor elements permits measurement of the stress and, more preferably, a component (or components) of the stress. In a particular embodiment, from the sensor measurement signals, the shear component preferably can be determined substantially exclusive of


cross section is square. The sensor body may have an open chamber with a periphery bounded by the first, second, third, and fourth walls.
In another embodiment, the sensor body comprises third and fourth parallel walls spaced apart from and opposing one another, and fifth and sixth parallel walls spaced apart from and opposing one another. In this embodiment, the six walls form a block, preferably having an enclosed chamber bounded by six walls.
In another embodiment, the sensor body comprises at least first, second, third, and fourth walls forming a block with first and second pairs of diagonally opposed corners. The first sensor element comprises a first strain gauge having opposite ends respectively connected proximate to the first pair of diagonally opposed corners of the block to extend diagonallyacross the block. Likewise, the second sensor element comprises a second strain gauge having opposite ends respectively connected proximate to the second pair of diagonally opposed corners of the block to extend diagonally across the block and cross the first sensor element.
In the exemplary embodiments, the first and second sensor elements are strain gauges, each having a respective longitudinal axis. The first and second strain gauges are each arranged to undergo equal compression or extension along the longitudinal axes thereof representative of the normal component of the deformation stress applied to the sensor body. Also, the first strain gauge is arranged to undergo compression along the longitudinal axis thereof and the second strain gauge is arranged to undergo extension along the longitudinal axis thereof of equal magnitude (yet


Superorganism: Superorganism Review

Superorganism feels like a band that couldn’t have existed until now. The London-based art collective sprouted when Orono Noguchi—a teenage singer who was born in Japan but went to high school in Maine—befriended a New Zealand pop-rock quartet called The Eversons. In early 2017, the band demoed a song, sent it to Orono and invited her to add vocals. The result became Superorganism’s first single, “Something For Your M.I.N.D.” Sample clearance issues forced a brief eviction from the Internet, but not before it had stoked significant interest in this strange new group.

Since, Superorganism has added three more vocalists, and seven of the eight members live and make music together in London in a sort of DIY version of a Big Pop production house. They work likeMini Review - Nocturnal Animals

Nocturnal Animals (out Nov 10) is from director Tom Ford and is a beautifully told tale of revenge and the struggle to escape one's past. The performances are superb (Michael Shannon is tipped as an awards season contender) and the film is also to be admired for its colours, lighting and imagery. This has booked a place in my top 10 list for the year. Grade: A.


and are more likely to have power in relationships," Christobel Asiedu said. "So, you would think a higher education would mean a lower probability of being in an abusive relationship or staying in one. But in Malawi and Ghana that doesn't really make any difference."

One of the study's main goals was to show that risk factors for domestic violence differ throughout Africa, a point policymakers will hopefully keep in mind when drafting preventive measures, according to Christobel Asiedu.

The research was facilitated through the Association of Advancement of African Women Economists, which was founded by Elizabeth Asiedu, and strives to support the scholarship of African women economists.

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About the American Sociological Association

The American Sociological Association, founded in 1905, is a non-profit membership association dedicated to serving sociologists in their work,The engine in the truck had run for about 800,000 miles and needed an in-frame overhaul. An "in-frame overhaul" is not a complete overhaul of the engine, rather, the engine remains within the truck, and certain repairs are made to cure particular problems. Easley and his brother performed the overhaul themselves and installed a number of new parts they purchased from a Caterpillar dealer. These parts carried a one year/100,000 mile factory warranty. They installed rod bearings, main bearings, an oil pump, pistons, a liner kit, and a new head. They did not replace or repair some of the original engine parts such as the camshaft, crankshaft, front housing, rocker arm assembly, in-take manifold, exhaust manifold, valve covers, water pump, or camshaft followers (also known as roller lifters


or roller rockers).
¶ 3. After these repairs were made, Easley drove the truck for another 400,000 miles, until he began to experience problems with the truck consuming large amounts of oil. In May of 1990, Easley took his truck to Day Motors to have the oil problem fixed. Day Motors gave the truck an in-frame overhaul during which they installed new heads into the engine, replaced the cylinder repacks head, replaced the after cooler core rod, replaced the main bearings, and re-cut the block due to its age. These new parts all had the Caterpillar 1 year/100,000 mile warranty on them. This was all Day replaced on the truck. Day offered Easley an extended warranty, but he did not take it.
¶ 4. At the time of the workFlight SWA4013 was a Southwest Airlines scheduled passenger service from Chicago, Illinois to Branson, Missouri. The incident occurred on the 14th of January, 2014.

The aircraft was a Boeing 737-7H4 registration N272WN.

In the cockpit was

the captain, who was Pilot Monitoring,

the first officer, who was Pilot Flying,

a company dispatcher who observed from the flight deck jumpseat.

Flight SWA4013 departed late that evening; however the departure and initial climb were uneventful.

As they climbed away from Chicago, the flight crew discussed their destination at Branson Airport (BBG). The captain had never flown into Branson and first officer had only been to the airfield once before, using runway 32.

Based on the wind conditions that night, they agreed that runway 14 would be in use for landing. Runway 14 didn’t have an ILS, so they


planned to fly a visual approach backed up by an RNAV instrument approach.

This meant that the Pilot Flying would fly the approach based on being visual with the runway but that the Pilot Monitoring would track the navigation beacons in order to ensure that they remained on course. The navigation display shows the aircraft position, the distance and bearing to the navigation beacon, and the ground speed or time to the navigation beacon.

The captain set up the distance measuring equipment (DME) for the runway 32 localiser. The navigational beacon was located on the far end of their runway, making it trivial to navigate to the right place.

The sun set at about 17:17. At 17:27, the first officer began a standard briefing for the Branson Airport approach. He expectedminutes later, they cleared the flight direct to Branson Airport. The crew picked up the automated weather report and airport information, which confirmed that runway 14 was in use. As the aircraft descended through 18,000 feet, the first officer called for the descent checklist.

When they were about 60 nautical miles (110 km) northeast of Branson Airport, air traffic control cleared the flight to descend to 4,000 feet and to expect a visual approach to runway 14. The controller told them to proceed directly to the VUCUG waypoint, which is the final approach fix for the RNAV runway 14 approach.

In the cockpit, the flight crew noted that they were putting a 5 and 10 mile ring around “it”, presumably in reference to Branson Airport’s location on their navigation display.

For


the flight crew had been lucky, the lights would have been off and they would never even have known that the airport was there.

The controller at Branson Airport tower said that to save money, he normally kept the runway edge lights off until the aircraft was reported on arrival. There’s no log to show when the runway lights were turned on that night, but the controller believes that he turned them on at 18:00, when he was notified by Springfield ATC that the flight was inbound. Before the lights were turned on, only the runway end identifier lights and the precision approach slope indicator could help the crew locate the airfield.

It was about 1800 when the flight crew were looking out at the city lights and trying toRepeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), later renamed the National Abortion Rights Action League, helped make abortion legal. He provided statistics to the Supreme Court in Roe to help support that decision. He was also the former director of New York’s City’s Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health, the largest abortion clinic in the world at the time. In the late 1970’s he turned against abortion to become a prominent pro-life advocate, wrote Abortion America, and produced the powerfully revealing video, “The Silent Scream.” He later admitted that the statistics he presented to the high court were intentionally misrepresented. As he wrote: “We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated.


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515 KM from State capital BhopalElaine Pagels: Why we may have to rewrite the history of the Gospel of Judas

[ELAINE PAGELS is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and has published widely on Gnosticism and early Christianity. Her latest book, coauthored with Karen King, in Reading Judas.]

The first time I heard of the Gospel of Judas was about five years ago, when I got a call from someone who said, I have a book for you to edit—the Gospel of Judas. That astonished me, since I knew that the "church father" Irenaeus had mentioned such a gospel nearly 2000 years ago, denouncing it as terrible blasphemy: but no one had ever seen it, or known whether it actually existed.

But this dealer in Cleveland was telling me he had it


there. Was he telling the truth? I called the Met, the Getty, and the Frist to ask about him, and they told me that he is a reputable dealer who has important material—but when I called back he suddenly stopped answering the phone. I realized then what already had seemed likely—that the book had been stolen from Egypt, and could not be legally sold.

I located a man who often bought rare books from this dealer, and who also has given many of them to Princeton, hoping that he might buy the Gospel of Judas, give it to Princeton, and then return it formally to Egypt, which would legalize the arrangement. Then we could photograph and publish it—that was the plan.

So I went to Madison Square Garden to meethad happened: the dealer didn't realize that when you have a Greek or Coptic text, the title is often placed at the end of the text. It turns out that the previous 26 pages were the actual Gospel of Judas—a fascinating dialogue between Jesus and Judas about what happened when Judas handed Jesus over for arrest—and why he did it. Startlingly, this gospel presents Judas Iscariot as Jesus' favorite disciple, the only one whom he trusts with his deepest mysteries. And all the other disciples appear as people who completely missed the message of Jesus, and entirely distorted it—and this is what has come down to us as "Christianity."

Many people see the main message of Jesus as "Jesus died for your sins"—and see Jesus' death as a sacrifice


accuse them of complicity in murder—the Gospel of Judas shows "the twelve disciples"—stand-ins for church leaders—offering human sacrifice on the altar—and doing this in the name of Jesus! Conservative Christians hate gospels like this—usually call them fakes and the people who publish them (like us) anti Christian. There was a great deal of censorship in the early Christian movement—especially after the emperor became a Christian, and made it the religion of the empire—and voices like those of this author were silenced and denounced as "heretics" and "liars." The story of Jesus was simplified and cleaned up—made "orthodox."

But what really happened in the early movement is far messier, more intriguing, and more human. These recently discovered sources show us what was censored—and what those who didn't become "orthodox" wereHe was dearly loved by his family. He left behind: his mother, Sally Kanagy; his father, Joseph Kanagy; a sister, Brooke Bolig and husband, Sam; a nephew, Sam; a niece, Alyssa; the large Kanagy family with lots of aunts, uncles and cousins; and the Driesbach family and cousins.

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Zachary Joseph Kanagy

On June 19, 2009, he married Angel (Smith) Kanagy. She and her children, Timothy Hook Jr. and Jade Smith, reside at 800 Country Lane, McVeytown.

He was a quiet guy who had a hard life with many battles including cancer.

He liked to make people laugh and had a big heart. He was a big teddy bear. He loved his little dog Sadie like a child.

Zachary was a 2002 graduate of Indian Valley High School. He was employed at Spectrum


Technologies in State College.

He attended Calvary Bible Church in Lewistown.

A funeral service will be held in his memory at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at Calvary Bible Church with Pastors Howard Houtz and Paul Kampa officiating.

Burial will take place at St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Belleville.

His family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, at Calvary Bible Church.THE VILLAGES, Fla. — Floridians could eventually gain access to cheaper foreign prescription drugs under legislation signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Floridians could get cheaper medication from Canada, elsewhere

Legislation allows creation of 2 drug importation programs

Consumers pay 30-190% more for meds than other Western countries

RELATED: DeSantis Wants to Import Cheaper Prescription Drugs from Canada

The Republican governor signed the bill Tuesday in The Villages, home to one of the state's largest retirement-age communities.

The legislation allows creation of two prescription drug importation programs subject to federal government approval. DeSantis has said President Donald Trump supports the initiative.

U.S. consumers pay some of the highest prescription drug prices in the world, as much as 30 percent to 190 percent more than other western countries.

Supporters say the bill would give Floridians a


Wembley Stadium has been awarded the highest standard of sustainability by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

England’s national stadium – which is owned and operated by the Football Association – secured the international standard for event sustainability management systems (ISO 20121) for its work in regulating the stadium’s social, economic and environmental impact across all its events.

Led by the Football Association’s Sustainability Team, environmentally-friendly achievements at the stadium have included reducing landfill waste to zero, piloting reusable cups and eliminating plastic straws at the venue and donating soil from the pitch to local parks as part of a re-generation initiative.

According to Sarah Smith, Wembley Stadium facilities manager, the certification is a "significant milestone" for Wembley Stadium and for The FA – which owns the venue.

"This is a hugeKKK propaganda spread throughout West Manchester movie theater parking lot

John Buffone , Sam Ruland | York Daily Record

Show Caption Hide Caption Infiltrating the 'BlacKkKlansman' story Spike Lee's latest movie "BlacKkKlansman" is based on a book by Ron Stallworth, an African-American detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. At the film's New York premiere, stars John David Washington (who plays Stallworth) and Topher Grace (who takes on the role of former KKK leader David Duke) talked about channeling their real-life counterparts onscreen. (July 31)

Anne Gray was walking out of Regal Theater in West Manchester Township Saturday night when she saw a number of people visibly upset.

When she got to her car, she understood why.

Slipped into the door handle was a paper flier produced by the Ku Klux Klan. The


stop in Pennsylvania. He said the group plans to distribute them all over the United States.

"I hope people go out and inform themselves," Jones said. "If they did, they would see that the movie is unrealistic and inaccurate."

More: 'Too much hate:' State taking action after third incident in four months

More: Anti-Semitic graffiti found in Manchester Twp.

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West Manchester Township police could not be reached for comment, nor could a spokesperson for the movie theater.

Though there might not be legal ramifications, Gray hopes the incident will spark a conversation.

"I feel like we should talk about it. This is an opportunity to let peopleof Huntington Park Club Corporation (Huntington Park Club), Bell Gardens Bicycle Club (Bell Gardens Club), California Bell Club (California Bell), The Anthony Company, dba The Normandie Club, The El Dorado Club, and The Horseshoe Club, aka "Gardena Card Clubs", (Anthony) (collectively, plaintiffs),[1] and a permanent injunction restraining and enjoining the County from preventing or otherwise interfering with the playing of the game commonly known as pai gow in plaintiffs' gaming establishments.
We reverse the judgment.

*244 ISSUES PRESENTED
The principal issue is whether the term "percentage game" in Penal Code section 330 (section 330) is unconstitutionally ambiguous or vague. In resolving that issue we must also determine the definition of percentage game. Our remaining inquiry is whether pai gow, as played in plaintiffs' gaming establishments, violates the proscription in section 330


against banking games or percentage games.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL STATEMENT
In August 1984, the City of Huntington Park enacted an ordinance which authorized plaintiff Huntington Park Club to play the game "pai gow" in its gaming club.[2] On December 12, 1984, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office rendered an opinion stating that the version of pai gow in which a dealer plays against more than one player is a "banking game," prohibited by section 330.
On December 13, 1984, the Chief of Police of the City of Huntington Park officially notified plaintiff Huntington Park Club that the playing of pai gow, "or any other game as a banking or percentage game" was a violation of section 330, and ordered plaintiff to cease and desist from such activities.
On December 20, 1984,Huntington Park Club commenced the underlying civil action against the City of Huntington Park, the County of Los Angeles, and Does, seeking a judicial declaration that the playing of pai gow is lawfully permitted, and injunctive relief forbidding the defendants from enforcing the cease and desist order and forcing plaintiff to cease operating its pai gow gaming tables.
On January 18, 1985, Judge John Cole issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the County of Los Angeles and the City of Huntington Park, inter alia, from preventing or otherwise interfering with the playing, in plaintiffs' gaming establishments, of the game known as "Chinese Pai Gow" so long as pai gow was played in the latter's gaming establishments pursuant to the terms of that injunction (preliminary injunction).
On April 11, 1985, Division Seven


of this court denied the County's petition for a writ of mandate or prohibition with respect to the preliminary injunction.
*245 Pai gow is intended to be played or has been played at plaintiffs' establishments in accordance with the terms of the preliminary injunction.[3]
The present action was tried before the court on July 13 through 17 and 20, 1987.
On December 15, 1987, the trial court issued a statement of intended decision in which the court stated that the term "percentage game" in section 330 was unconstitutionally vague and that pai gow was not an illegal banking game or percentage game.
On February 8, 1988, the court granted the County's motion to reopen for the purpose of introducing additional documentary evidence into the record.
On February 12, 1988, judgment, which had firstbeen entered January 20, 1988, was reentered in favor of plaintiffs and against the defendants, including the County, and all persons acting in concert with them or at their direction, on their complaint for declaratory relief and a permanent injunction.
In the judgment the court found that "Pai Gow, as played in plaintiffs' clubs and as hereinbelow described, is neither a banking game nor a percentage game.... [T]he game of Pai Gow, as lawfully played in plaintiffs' clubs, is characterized by, among other things, the following: [¶] (a) The game of Pai Gow is played with domino-like tiles. [¶] (b) In each round of play, there is one hand out of eight maximum hands dealt which is designated as the dealer hand. More than one participant may wager on


the injunction was not a banking game under section 330 since the house (one of the plaintiffs) does not play, does not cheat, and does not pay less than full odds. In other words, the plaintiffs have no interest in the outcome of the game or in who wins or loses.
(7b) The County challenges the court's finding on the ground the court erred in applying the following definition of a banking game, which was impermissibly based on expert testimony: A banking game under section 330 "is a game in which one player (the house) continuously banks the games and has a fund of money against which all players bet. The house pays all winners and collects all losses." The County argues that the term "banking game" in sectionQ:

Using GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP on column that contains NULL

I have the following table (see it on SQL Fiddle) (I created to break down my problem):
| ID | word    |
----------------
| 5  | "Hello" |
| 6  |  NULL   |
| 7  | "World" |
| 8  | "World" |

Now I want to count the number of occurrences of each word using GROUP BY word WITH ROLLUP. The NULL in the column word of the row generated by the ROLLUP should be replaced by "total":
SELECT
  ID,
  ifnull(word, "total") as word,
  count(*) as occurrences
FROM test
GROUP BY word WITH ROLLUP;

The problem is that it also replaces the NULL in the record with the amount of rows where words is NULL:
| ID


Jerrilynn Patton, better known as Jlin

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On October 19, 2018, six days after producer Jerrilynn "Jlin" Patton performed at the 16th annual iteration of experimental-music festival Unsound in Krakow, Poland, she decided to cancel her appearance a week later at the Semibreve Festival in Portugal. "I've never had to cancel a show due to my health, but this time I have to," she wrote in an Instagram post at the time. Patton had worked for years at a U.S. Steel mill in Gary, Indiana—she left that job in late 2015, nine months after releasing her debut album—but she says she's never experienced anything as exhausting as her tour schedule. To recuperate, she flew to India to stay with her girlfriend, illustrator and designer Nafisa Crishna, wholives in Bangalore. "I was dehydrated, my stomach was upset," Patton says. "She just nursed me back to health until I could function again."

Thankfully Patton is functioning again—last week she performed two nights in Abu Dhabi, her first appearances since Unsound, and on Saturday, February 16, she plays a late-night set at Pitchfork's new Midwinter festival. This multiday event focuses on avant-garde, fringe, and outre music, and presents more than two dozen artists in various spaces at the Art Institute of Chicago from Friday through Sunday. Five musicians appear in the museum's galleries all three nights, among them Portland guitarist Marisa Anderson and Chicago vocalist Haley Fohr of Circuit des Yeux, while the marquee names (whose sets require "add-on tickets") play in four different halls and auditoriums. Jlin


is among the most enticing, though she shares the bill with plenty of high-profile talent, including chameleonic composer and performance artist Laurie Anderson, ambitious jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, postrock veterans Tortoise (performing all of 1998's TNT), and British shoegaze favorites Slowdive, whose 1995 album Pygmalion Pitchfork reissued in December in conjunction with record club Vinyl Me, Please.

Patton, 31, suspects that the fatigue that laid her low last fall had its beginnings in 2016, when she was working simultaneously on two major undertakings. Her shape-shifting second full-length, Black Origami, came out on Planet Mu in May 2017, and by December it seemed like no "best albums" list was complete without it. She also scored a stage show by internationally renowned choreographer Wayne McGregor, Autobiography, that premiered at Sadler's WellsTheatre in London in October of that year (Planet Mu released the music in September 2018). "I would tell anybody, 'Do not ever do two major projects in one year,'" Patton says. "I did it, but it definitely beat me."

Patton, who lives with her parents in Gary when she's not flying around the world, upended her entire schedule while working on Autobiography. "I would sleep from six in the evening to two in the morning, and I would start working at about two, two-thirty," she says. "I could get into the workflow. Once everybody got up, I probably was in the groove by then, so it was fine. I would work up until six. It actually got the job done." Because McGregor and his team were on Greenwich


all-ages Jlin

Part of Pitchfork Midwinter. Sat 2/16, 10:30 PM, Chicago Stock Exchange room, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan, sold out, all ages

Patton was four when she first heard footwork at a neighbor's house. "I was like, 'Oh my God,' and I just never forgot that sound," she says. "That's how it started, and I loved it ever since." She first tried making footwork herself after she enrolled in Purdue University Calumet (now Purdue University Northwest) in August 2005. She'd signed up to double major in computer graphics technology and architectural engineering, with a minor in mathematics, but music increasingly took precedence.

Patton spent much of her free time on streaming site Imeem in search of new footwork tracks and artists. In the late aughts, she began tocommunicate with a network of Chicago producers on MySpace. The first person she contacted, Avery Seaton (who now goes by DJ Seven Six), sent her a copy of FL Studio in 2008. "The first week I couldn't get it to make a sound, and I was like, 'Man, forget this, I'm not doing this,'" Patton says. "Then I went to YouTube one day, and they had FL tutorials up—I watched one and I was like, 'Oh.' The first sound that I made, I was like, 'Oh, I'm in! I'm a musician!'"

One of Patton's three favorite discoveries on Imeem was a producer named Clarence Johnson, better known as DJ Roc. In 2005, the year Patton started college, Johnson had cofounded a footwork production collective called Bosses of the Circle,


and it'd been going strong for four years when Patton messaged him out of the blue with a track she'd made. "I liked her music from the jump," Johnson says. "When I asked her where she's from, I'm like, 'Really? Indiana?'" Patton became a member of Bosses of the Circle without further ado. "It was cool, 'cause I was at a really low point in my life," she says. "It was nice to be a part of something."

Jlin performs at Pitchfork Midwinter on Saturday night.

Photo by Ebru Yildiz

Patton was unhappy with the way her studies were going. "I was running away from life—'cause I didn't like my majors," she says. "I should've just majored in math and left it at that." She'd developed a powerful love for math,particularly calculus, while still in high school, and to this day she works on math problems to calm her nerves: "It's just a relaxing thing." Instead of going to her classes, Patton would hole up in the school's Gyte Building, which housed several science labs, and work on tracks. "I would do calculus by myself in the basement of that building for, like, four hours before I would start making music," she says.

Patton found her voice as a musician as her academic career fell apart. She dropped out of college, but her tutelage under Johnson continued. "We was even doing sample battles," he says. "She make a track, and I make a track off the same sample." Johnson also helped connect Patton to influential London electronic label Planet


Mu and its founder, Mike Paradinas, aka producer µ-Ziq. In 2010, as Johnson prepared his first full-length for the label, The Crack Capone, he also helped recruit other producers for Planet Mu's first footwork compilation, Bangs & Works. Johnson told Patton about the comp, and in June 2010 she reached out to Paradinas on Facebook.

"I was befriending many producers from Chicago—I needed their help to identify tracks on YouTube battle videos," Paradinas says. "Jlin was very friendly and helpful." Patton had offered Paradinas a couple of her tracks for Bangs & Works. "Her initial tracks were full of spirit and rough round the edges, much like other footwork tracks from that time," Paradinas says. He'd finalized the compilation's track list before Patton submitted her work, but he hadn'tsettled on a name, and she was happy to help on that front too: she suggested using the title of one of DJ Trouble's contributions, "Bangs & Works."

Planet Mu's second Bangs & Works compilation, released in November 2011, included two tracks of Patton's, both of which she'd previously posted online. "I used to put up these videos on Facebook," Patton says. "I put up 'Erotic Heat,' and Mike came to me and said, 'I gotta have that on a compilation.' I said, 'OK,' and he said, 'I want "Asylum" too.'"

"Erotic Heat," with its froggy synth loop, cross-stitched hi-hats, and rattling percussive patterns dropping into the mix at unexpected angles, became Patton's breakthrough. American clothing designer Rick Owens used an extended version of it to soundtrack his Paris Fashion


Week showcase in 2014. Patton, who'd taken a job as a mobile equipment operator at U.S. Steel in 2012, brought her mom to Paris for the occasion—she saw it as an opportunity to make amends for dropping out of college. "That's why it was so important for me that she went," Patton says. "Because I was like, 'I'm not a failure—I messed up, but I'm not a failure.'"

When Patton told Paradinas about Paris Fashion Week, he suggested that Planet Mu release a full-length of her music. With help from producer and labelmate Jamie Teasdale (aka Kuedo), Patton finalized a track list for what would become her first album, Dark Energy, which came out in March 2015. At that point she was using FL Studio, a digital audio workstationof confidence," Paradinas says. Patton also began to drift away from footwork. "The second album, it started to change drastically," she says. "My pyramid shifts constantly—but Black Origami, the closer I got to the end of it, that's when that shift was really, really happening." One obvious sign that Patton had begun working with a new musical language was her choice of collaborators on Black Origami—most notably composer Holly Herndon and sound artist William Basinski (who also performs at Midwinter this weekend). She'd been pen pals with Herndon since 2011, and she'd met Basinski at a show in Los Angeles. They were bound to cross paths eventually, given the rarefied musical world in which they all travel: like Patton, each has a hard-to-classify aesthetic that pushes its idiosyncrasies


Director Profiles

Meet the people who are guiding CNO Financial Group as a leading provider of insurance products to middle-income working and retired Americans.

Gary C. Bhojwani

Chief Executive Officer, CNO Financial Group, Inc.

Director since May 2017

Gary C. Bhojwani became chief executive officer of CNO Financial Group on January 1, 2018. He was elected a director of CNO Financial in May 2017 and serves as a member of the Executive and Investment Committees.

Bhojwani previously served as president of CNO Financial from April 2016 through December 2017. His areas of responsibility included overseeing CNO's three business segments—Bankers Life, Colonial Penn and Washington National—as well as marketing, underwriting and new business.

Prior to joining CNO, Bhojwani was a member of the Board of Management of Allianz SE from 2012 to 2015. He was chiefexecutive officer of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America from 2007 through 2012, and was president of Commercial Business, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company from 2004 to 2007. Bhojwani was chief executive officer of Lincoln General Insurance Company from 2002 to 2004, founder and chief executive officer of Avalon Risk Management from 1998 to 2002 and president, Trade Insurance Services from 1995 to 1997.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in actuarial science from the University of Illinois and a Master of Business Administration, with dual concentrations in finance and marketing, from the University of Chicago.

Bhojwani is a current board member of Allina Health, Hormel Foods, Minneapolis Institute of Art, American Council of Life Insurers and America's Health Insurance Plans; and a past board member of the Financial


Edward H. Nessel is 1998 USMS Coach of the Year

A key figure in New Jersey swimming

Edward H. Nessel, coach of Garden State Masters in New Jersey, has been named the 1998 USMS Coach of the Year. The award is presented annually by the Coaches Committee to the coach who has done the most to further the objectives of Masters swimming.

For the past 18 years, Nessel has been instrumental in the establishment and maintenance of Master swimming programs in New Jersey. He started three Masters clubs and for the past seven years has presided over an alliance of smaller teams under the Jersey Masters banner. He has been a long-time member of the New Jersey LMSC Board of Directors and chairs both the Officials Committee and the Wellness andFitness Committee. Also within the New Jersey LMSC, he directs the New Club Mentoring Program.

Annually, Nessel runs clinics covering both swimming technique and health concerns. In addition, he conducts numerous one-on-one critiques and is recognized as a leader in technical instruction and innovative training techniques. He is published regularly in SWIM magazine, the American Medical Athletic Association Quarterly, and LMSC newsletters.

On a national level, he established and currently runs the USMS Book Lending Library and has served on the Coaches and Sports Medicine Committees. His contributions have extended beyond USMS, extending into Special Olympics, where he has served as consultant and coach.

Paul Cox, New Jersey LMSC Chairman, says Nessel is "the epitome of a caring and professional coach. He willingly shares his wealth of knowledge with others on


all levels and helps others embrace the values, vision, mission and objectives of USMS."

from Swim magazine

Here's an earlier story on Ed:

You could say that Ed was actually embarrassed into swimming. It took place during the summer, after his 10th birthday, at the Roxy Hotel in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. He really was uncomfortable in the water and was deathly afraid where the water was too deep to stand. His dad tried many times to show little Eddie how to swim, but to no avail; I guess, though he loved his dad, Ed had no confidence in him when it came to the water. In actuality, no one to date could get Ed Nessel into the water without somewhat of a struggle.

You name the sport, EdNessel was good at it; a natural athlete as long as it was on terra firma. It was no big thing to approach breathlessness on land; in fact, breathing hard while playing ball or bike-riding was anticipated, even welcomed. It meant a big effort was being put forth, and Ed was never one to quit. Most of his contemporaries would knuckle under long before he did, and he was proud of this.

After a few days at the Roxy Hotel, a middle-aged man named Sid befriended the Nessels. It came to light that Sid was an ex-Navy frogman. Watching Sid swim back and forth in the pool, intrigued Ed. Sid made it look so easy. He never seemed to run out of breath. And it was that, and that


alone, which made Ed envy him.

With just one offer from Sid to show him how it was done, Ed agreed to join him in the pool. To mom and dad Nessel's amazement, their son was able to get through the water somewhat comfortably in just three days. Hindsight proved 20/20 in that the secret here was just learning to relax and to coordinate the breathing cycle with the arm and leg movements.

It seemed that Sid created a monster. One month later at their swim club's summer championships, Ed Nessel took the silver medal in the 10-and-under 25-yard freestyle. The dye was cast. From the age of 11 on, Eddie Nessel was synonymous with fast age-group swimming in central New Jersey.

Though his high school had no swim team, EdNessel became an AAU New Jersey State swimming champion. He would have liked to have swum in college but was warned it would be tough, very tough. Someone from the University of Miami knew the Nessels and offered the prospect of swimming there. But the costs of going to that school was beyond the Nessel's education budget.

Offered a full academic scholarship to study pharmacy at nearby Rutgers University, swimming became an afterthought.

He missed the sense of being "in shape", but had to settle for some intermittent pool time between labs and lectures.

Not until he got married at 27 did he add somewhat of a steady diet of swimming to his weekly schedule; two days was the average, but at least it was something. Ed progressed up the corporate


ladder in the field of pharmacy, and before he realized it, he was in his mid-30s with two children. He made sure they both were comfortable in the water as soon as possible. His daughter, Lee, became so comfortable that she grew to be the New Jersey Senior State Champion, a high school All-America, a five- time Junior National qualifier, and a gold-medalist at the World Maccabi Games in Israel. And Jason was ranked as high as second in the nation in the 10-and-under 50-yard butterfly and was New Jersey's best "flyer" through the age of 12.

An offer from the University of Miami proved too much to ignore. Off Lee went to the "land of coconuts and palm trees" and rose to be the team captain, first teamBig East, Academic All-America, and Miami's Female-Scholar-athlete of the year (1996). She also became Miami's selection for NCAA Woman-of-the-Year. Needless to say, Ed was very proud; but unbounded joy and pride did not make up the overall ambiance at the Nessel household.

The third child, Matthew, had been born with fetal distress and had severe cerebral palsy. It was a daily struggle to deal with Matt, but Ed and his wife, Eileen, were determined to give their son the best life possible. Matt's condition really put a strain on the Nessel's home life.

Ed remembered how swimming always made him feel good. He joined a local Masters team at the age of 36 to try and create a balance in his life. It worked; Ed really "dived" into Masters with


all his energies. He could come home after a 10-hour day and go to night and weekend practices. After a few months, he attended local swim meets. Though he got nervous, just as in his youth, he would feel a sort of euphoria after the competition. This became addicting, and he rearranged his life to include definite time slots for the pool. He made excuses to get to the pool, not to not get there!

Things were going along "swimmingly" until one day, at age seven, Matt choked to death on food. Ed tried first to revive Matt with CPR, then watched as the EMTs and local police worked over him in vain. Masters swimming would fill an even more important part of his life now. So important, iffact, that he left pharmacy and began coaching swimming full time. He had been involved with coaching for years, part time; first with age-groupers, then with the Masters, then both. But the futility of Matt's life, and the emptiness of his death, left Ed emotionally bankrupt. Again swimming came to his rescue, and his life changed lanes at middle age,

Always the sprinter, Ed began sculpting his workouts around the tenets and precepts of swimming fast and always working technique. He firmly believed in strength, both as to move through water quickly and to prevent injury. He patterned his age-group workouts and his Masters practices similarly. The only difference would entail the physiology of ageing; allowing more rest for the older swimmer, as compared to the age-groupers. 3,500 yards


per practice with a max of 4,000 made up an average 90-minute age-group session five days per week, while 3,000 to 3,500 yards became the Masters task four times weekly.

His two masters degrees in biochemistry and public health aided him in his structuring of practices, no "garbage yards," everything done for a purpose.

Ed became involved at the national level in Masters with participation in the YMCA Masters Nationals every year from 1986. He also attended many national conventions and became a member of the national Coach's Committee and the national Sports Medicine Committee. He is also the national USMS book librarian and the author of many articles on sports medicine and nutrition and health in national swimming magazines, the American Medical Athletic Association (of which he is alife member) Quarterly and his LMSC newsletter, The Fast Lane.

1997 was a banner year for Ed: his masters team won the men's and combined small team division championships at YMCA Nats, and he was asked to coach the USA Junior National Team at the 15th World Maccabi Games in Israel. The Junior National Team, made up of 13 to 17 year olds, won 34 out of 36 gold medals and set many meet records. Ed was proclaimed "Coach of the Meet." Three weeks in the "Holy Land" with his team, left Ed both exhilarated and exhausted, but with memories for a lifetime.

At the most recent YMCA Nationals, daughter, Lee, was a large part of the women's championship: her seven gold and two silver made her high-point winner of


the team. Ed's team (Ocean County YMCA) had the oldest woman, Julia Dolce, 88, and the youngest, Lee Nessel , 22, at the meet and both on the same team. Lee is now a sports reporter for the Key West Citizen where she resides.His importance lies in the fact that his tomb was virtually intact when it was discovered in the early part of the 19th century.

He wasn't all that important as a historical figure. He was a child-king who came to the throne at ca 9 years of age and ruled some 10 years. Or more likely, his advisors ruled most of that time So, he didn't really do all that much.


man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

Epictetus saw that any time we complain about or grieve for things that are lacking, we’re refusing to celebrate this moment as it is—refusing to acknowledge our blessings.

And to really put things in perspective, consider this: Epictetus spent his childhood as a Roman slave, and he lived (most of) his life with a completely disabled leg, which was either disabled at birth or broken beyond repair by his slave master.

Dude had it rough as fuck. And yet, in spite of his unfortunate circumstances, Epictetus celebrated his life and went on to become one of the most popular and sought-after philosophers of his time. Kind of makes a lot of ourthe most who is content with the least.”

Diogenes, as a practicing Cynic, led an ascetic life of extreme deprivation, living without a home, in the streets, cloaked in rags, eating and drinking only what was necessary.

Diogenes once said, “I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.” This guy was the polar opposite of a complainer; he was actively trying to learn how to be content with the bare essentials. In one of the greatest books I’ve ever opened, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, William B. Irvine wrote the following of Diogenes:

“He believed hunger to be the best appetizer, and because he waited until he was hungry or thirsty before he ate or


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Did Prime Minister David Cameron commit necrophilia with a pig's head?

Doing the rounds on Twitter at the moment is the idea that UK Prime Minister David Cameron did something unspeakable to a dead pigs head when he was in University.
Twitter being Twitter, the actual details of the events are sparse and unreliable. I have seen some people indicating that the source of this claim comes from Lord Ashcroft, but I can't find anything concrete.
Did David Cameron really 'insert his private parts' into a dead pigs head?

A:

Probably not.
This story "hit the papers" shortly before October 2015 when the book Call Me Dave, a biography of the then-prime minister David Cameron was released. The book was written by Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Okeshott.
The book alleges that as a student at


BWW Review: TEA IN TRIPOLI by Bernadette Nason

Award winning Austin actress and master storyteller Bernadette Nason, has written a memoir of her time working as a secretary for an Italian oil company in Libya under the repressive rule of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. TEA IN TRIPOLI is an utterly delightful, intimate tale of this extraordinary woman and her adventures halfway across the globe.

Nason weaves her spell on the reader with her witty prose, conversational style and peerless storytelling in TEA IN TRIPOLI. I've had the opportunity of seeing her on stage in her delightful one woman show, STEALING BABY JESUS, I read her memoir with the same rapt attention that I felt watching her performance. As a young woman in Winchester, England, she was determined to quench her thirstfor travel and when her job in London became intolerable, she virtually jumped at the chance to work as a secretary for an Italian oil company in Tripoli, Libya. The culture shock going from Great Britain to North Africa alone would be enough for most people to recoil in terror. The year was 1984 and dictator Muammar Gaddafi's anti-western regime complicates Nason's experience in foreign climes making it much more difficult, and dangerous. Blessed with an indomitable spirit and a mother who sent sheets of toilet paper in her letters, she does her utmost to make her own oasis in the Sahara. While Bernadette's memory is remarkable, copies of letters written home supplement her narrative where necessary, but it's her emotional connection to events 33 years ago that's


incredible. She makes what I would consider living in Hades, into a charming, though sometimes frightening, story that is beautiful in its intimacy. The lack of what modern people consider the bare necessities of life forced Ms. Nason to become inventive and find comrades in the oddest places. The title itself refers to the impossibility of getting a decent cup of English tea in her new home. Since Libya is an alcohol free society, the brewing of secret stashes of rice wine became a top priority and an almost frenetic social life became a way of coping with isolation from familiar climes. The danger of living in a country that has Morality Police is real and hovers over every event like a dark, menacing storm. Several of storiestourism and tourism improved. WOW Philippines and Intramuros, all became popular. We became president of the Pacific Asia Travel Association. After tourism, I joined the Senate and the Red Cross]."

Boasting of his achievements, the president of the Philippine National ed Cross said the PNRC now has a fire brigade with 10 fire trucks and would soon have ambulances and rescue trucks.


Santa Rosa, California (CNN) Laurie Martinez has slept in a tent every night since a fire ripped through her neighborhood in Santa Rosa, California.

She walked several blocks to a local center on Wednesday to find out what help is available and began the process of piecing her life back together.

"Everyone has to start over," she said.

She and her family were displaced by one of the massive Northern California fires last week.

The fire didn't discriminate. The most destructive fire in California history torched Santa Rosa's high-end homes, middle-class neighborhoods and a mobile home park. It left the entire spectrum of the city's population in distress as homes and businesses went up in flames.

And because of the housing crunch gripping the San Francisco Bay Area, survivors of the fire arebeen going night-to-night, and it's stressful," said Conway on Wednesday.

She wore a look of fatigue, and a pair of denim shorts and zip-up jacket -- the same clothes she had on when she fled her house more than a week ago. She held her cell phone in one hand and a clump of documents in the other as she bounced from call to call.

Conway's house, which was in the Fountaingrove neighborhood, was destroyed. She hasn't decided whether to rebuild her home, where she lived for 20 years. But since the night of the fire, she has slept on the floor of a sporting goods store, at a cousin's house and in hotels.

Displaced residents are in shelters, mobile homes, staying with friends and family, or bouncing from one hotel


to another, trying to figure out where they can stay after their homes were reduced to ash.

Some have gone to stay with family more than a hundred miles away. But many told CNN that they want to stay close to Santa Rosa. They've lost their homes, they don't want to lose their jobs, too.

No housing means no place to put donations

Martinez, her three daughters and two grandchildren had lived in a two-bedroom apartment. The building didn't burn down, but there was so much smoke damage, they can't stay there, she said.

Her five family members now share a bedroom in a house about 20 miles away in the city of Monte Rio, but Martinez stayed behind in Santa Rosa, preferring to stay in a tent to avoid overcrowding. Sheset up the tent near a shelter, so she could wash and use the facilities.

Laurie Martinez has lived in Santa Rosa since she was three-years-old.

"It's been really humbling," she said. "No one looks down at you. This is a resort area, a vintage town. Everybody didn't want homeless people on the streets. Now people are homeless."

Martinez sleeps in the tent shared with her cousin and charges her phone in her daughter's car during their visits.

After visiting the local assistance center, she received a list of low-income housing resources to call -- a stack of paperwork stuffed inside a grocery bag. But she wasn't confident she'd find a place for her and her family.

Their belongings, which were mostly in storage, were destroyed in the fire. Martinez said there have


been generous offers of donated items and clothing, but they can't accept them.

"There's nowhere to put it," she said. "There's no storage. My family is living in one room."

'I don't know where everyone's going to go'

The remains of fire-damaged homes and cars smolder at the Journey's End Mobile Home Park in Santa Rosa, California, on October 9.

Santa Rosa, a mixed-income community is about 50 miles north of San Francisco. It was one of the last vestiges of affordable housing compared with the rest of the Bay Area.

The value of a typical Santa Rosa home was around $600,000, compared with San Francisco's $1.2 million and Marin County's $1 million, according to 2017 data from the National Association of Realtors.

Before the fires, the city had already been grappling with severelack of housing and a 3% vacancy rate.

"The inventory was constrained prior to the fire," said Rick Laws, senior vice president in Santa Rosa for Pacific Union International real estate agency. "Now, we have lost about 5% of the housing stock of Santa Rosa, so that's huge."

Photos: Wildfires blaze in California Aerial images showing parts of Sonoma and Napa County that have been hit by wildfires. Hide Caption 1 of 33 Photos: Wildfires blaze in California Colby Clark, left, comforts her mother, Bonnie Trexler, after law enforcement escorted them to Trexler's home in Napa, California, to retrieve medicine and personal items on Wednesday, October 11. Trexler was one of the lucky few in her neighborhood whose home was spared. Deadly wildfires have been tearing through the state, destroying