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This is a harrowing read, and in the end you may ask yourself, as I asked myself: how was the nation not protected from such criminality?  Decades of organized crime involvement culminated in the most corrupt and dangerous president in American history, one who now presides over a reeling nation in the throes of a deadly pandemic. 

We watch in horror and disbelief, daily, as he ineptly--or maliciously--mismanages the nation’s response to covid-19, contributing to a death toll expected to surpass that of the Vietnam War...twice.  How did we get here?

This is must reading.

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IN THE EARLY 1980s it was decided—by whom, and for what ultimate purpose, we can’t say for sure—that Donald John Trump would build a casino complex in Atlantic City, New Jersey—probably the most mobbed-up municipality in the state. Dealing with the mafia might have dissuaded some developers from pursuing a Boardwalk Empire, but not Trump. He was uniquely suited to forge ahead.

Donald’s father, the Queens real estate developer Fred Trump, had worked closely with Genovese-associated and -owned construction entities since building the Shore Haven development in 1947, when Donald was still in diapers (the first time around). Fred was an early mob adopter, the underworld equivalent of an investor who bought shares of Coca-Cola stock in 1919. The timelines is important to remember here. Organized crime did not exist in any meaningful way in the United States until Prohibition. Born in 1905, Fred Trump was just two years younger than Meyer Lansky, the gangster who more or less invented money laundering. Thus, Donald Trump is second generation mobbed-up.

When Donald first ventured from Queens to the pizzazzier borough of Manhattan in the seventies, he entered into a joint business deal with “Big” Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino syndicate, and Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, of the Genovese family he knew well through his father and their mutual lawyer Roy Cohn. As part of this arrangement, Trump agreed to buy concrete from a company operated jointly by the two families—and pay a hefty premium for the privilege. Only then, with double mob approval, could he move forward with the Trump Tower and Trump Plaza projects. (Among Cohn’s other clients at the time was Rupert Murdoch, whom he introduced to Trump in the seventies; you would be hard pressed to find three more atrocious human beings).

Atlantic City is in South Jersey, closer to Philadelphia than New York, so to build “his” casino, Trump needed to play ball with the Philly mob. That meant dealing with Nicodemo “Little Nicky” Scarfo, head of the most powerful mob family in Philadelphia. Land that Trump needed for his casino was owned by Salvie Testa and Frank Narducci, Jr.—hit men for Scarfo, collectively known around town as the Young Executioners (the nickname was not ironic). To help negotiate the deal, Trump hired Patrick McGahn, a Philly-based attorney known to have truck with the Scarfo family.

(The last name should sound familiar; Don McGahn, the former White House Counsel, is Patrick McGahn’s nephew. And Don McGahn is not the only Trump Administration hire with ties to the Philly mob. Among Little Nicky’s associates was one Jimmy “The Brute” DiNatale, whose daughter, Denise Fitzpatrick, is the mother of none other than Kellyanne Conway. A number of wiseguys paid their respects at DiNatale’s 1983 funeral. I don’t want to make the mistake of condemning Conway or Don McGahn for the sins of their relations. But given Trump’s OC background, it’s fair to question why he chose two children of mobbed-up families for his inner White House circle.)

Trump acquired the needed Atlantic City property at twice the market value: $1.1 million for a lot that sold for $195k five years before. But there were legal pratfalls, shady dealings, chicanery with the documents. The New Jersey Gaming Commission was investigating the matter, because casino owners could not, by law, associate with criminals. And most of Trump’s friends were crooks. It looked like Trump was in trouble—not only of losing his gaming license, but of criminal indictment.

And then, something miraculous happened. On 4 November 1986, Scarfo and eleven of his associates were indicted on charges that included loan sharking, extortion and conducting an illegal gambling business in a racketeering conspiracy. Prosecutors had tried for years to take down Little Nicky. And now, after all that time, they finally had their evidence. Not only that, but the investigation into Trump? It went away. Poof—as if it never existed.

A confidential informant, or “CI,” is a mole run by law enforcement within a criminal enterprise. Not a “rat,” whose treachery is well known to his comrades, but a craftier, more duplicitous breed of rodent. Crimes committed by the CI are overlooked, or allowed to continue unabated, in exchange for good intelligence—“treasure,” as Control calls it in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

A fictional example of a CI is the Greek, a character on the show The Wire (spoiler ahead). Baltimore law enforcement piece together that the Greek is the head of a crime syndicate that deals in narcotics and human trafficking. But when they finally move to arrest him, the operation is kibboshed by the feds, for whom the Greek is a Confidential Informant. This is extremely frustrating for viewers of the show, who rightly regard the Greek as the cause of so much woe in West Baltimore.

In real life, there are two famous examples. The first is Whitey Bulger, the head of the so-called Winter Hill Gang, which operated for decades in Somerville, Massachusetts. In 1975, Bulger became a Confidential Informant for the FBI, handled by a corrupt agent named John Connolly. His intelligence helped take down a rival mob family in Providence, Rhode Island—a city notorious for the influence of organized crime. In exchange, Connolly allowed Bulger and his associates to operate with impunity. At least 19 people were killed by the Winter Hill Gang while the feds looked the other way. When the FBI finally realized its mistake, Connolly tipped off Bulger, who went on the lam for 16 years. He was finally arrested in 2011; by then he was in his eighties. He was killed in prison seven years later.

The second famous CI is Donald Trump’s former associate Felix Sater. Racketeering charges against him back in 1998 ended with a fine of just $25,000—a slap on the wrist. From then on, Sater become a top echelon confidential informant, feeding law enforcement intelligence of “a depth and breadth rarely seen,” as court filings show. “His cooperation has covered a stunning array of subject matter, ranging from sophisticated local and international criminal activity to matters involving the world’s most dangerous terrorists and rogue states.”

The winsome ex-con, still one of the more puzzling figures of Trump/Russia, “continuously worked with prosecutors and law enforcement agents to provide information crucial to the conviction of over 20 different individuals, including those responsible for committing massive financial fraud, members of La Cosa Nostra organized crime families and international cyber-criminals,” prosecutors claim. “Additionally, Sater provided the United States intelligence community with highly sensitive information in an effort to help the government combat terrorists and rogue states.”

His intelligence helped prosecutors break up the “Pump and Dump” and “Boiler Room” mob operations in the 1990s. He turned over useful information about the Genovese crime family (note: the same family Fred Trump fronted for), and provided ample dirt on international arms dealing (note: Jeffrey Epstein’s specialty). And his crowning achievement: he helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden (funny how the Russian mob knew where he was). Sater is proud of his CI work, and has talked it up the last few years, probably to counter his association with the mafiya, and with Trump.

We know about Bulger being a CI because his handler turned out to be crooked. We know about Sater being a CI because he outed himself prior to his sentencing in 2009—and because he keeps boasting about it. If Sater had not come forward, Loretta Lynch, the former Attorney General, would not have been legally permitted to reveal his status.

That’s the thing about Confidential Informants: they are confidential. The informant doesn’t want to be made as a mole, any more than law enforcement wants to burn a source. Both sides are bound to secrecy. It is the good guy version of omertà.

The only way to know for sure if Donald John Trump is a Confidential Informant is if he admits it himself (unlikely), or if law enforcement comes forward (illegal). But the circumstantial evidence is compelling. The pattern is: 1) Trump deals with mobsters as usual; 2) Law enforcement begins investigating Trump; 3) Mobsters suddenly get busted, while 4) investigation into Trump is scuttled. This happened three times that we know about. I’m not counting the first known instance of Trump providing information to prosecutors, concerning Cody and concrete, in the late 70s:

I can conceive of no scenario in which Trump was not a CI, and a top echelon one at that. He’s avoided indictment too many times. No one is that lucky.

Or, put another way: How can someone that lucky manage to run a fucking casino into the ground?

Salvatore Gravano, known as “Sammy the Bull,” was an underboss of the Gambino crime family. After the assassination of “Big” Paul Castellano in 1985—an audacious hit, done in broad daylight—John Gotti was installed as the figurehead capo. But in practice, the Bull was the one calling the shots. His territory? Manhattan. For as long as he was in power, any construction that took place in New York, New York had to be approved by Gravano. “I literally controlled Manhattan,” he told ABC News. He did a lot of business deals with Donald John Trump, and speaks of him fondly.

After his arrest on 11 December 1990, Gravano turned state’s evidence to help put away Gotti, his nominal boss. The lead prosecutor of the case? Robert Swan Mueller III. (This is why, when Trump found out Mueller was named Special Counsel, he collapsed into a chair and muttered, “I’m fucked.”)

We know that Gravano flipped on Gotti. But who flipped on Sammy the Bull?

On 19 July 1990, the Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) of the State of New Jersey opened an investigation into Donald John Trump, regarding the Trump Organization’s business dealings with Joseph Weichselbaum, a mob associate and embezzler who had been convicted not once, not twice, but three times. Trump hired Weichselbaum’s company to provide helicopter transportation to Atlantic City, conveying high rollers to and from New York. As a casino owner, Trump was prohibited by law to do any business with the serial felon. He not only continued to do so, but he went to bat for the guy, going so far as to write him a letter of recommendation. (There’s more bizarre stuff with Wiechselbaum, whose case wound up being initially tried by Trump’s sister, a federal judge, but I won’t get into it here).

Six months after the DGE opened its investigation, Gravano got pinched. And once again, as if by the wave of a magic wand, Trump’s legal troubles seemed to vanish.

It’s worth noting here that Sammy the Bull likes Trump personally, then and now, and seems not to blame him for ratting him out. There were likely others who informed on Gravano, too. But given the timing, the investigation against Trump, his disastrous finances at the time, and his long familiarity with federal prosecutors, it stands to reason that Trump, too, turned on his longtime business associate.

The Kurt & Courtney decade was unkind to Donald John Trump. The Bush I recession hit his businesses hard. Trump filed for bankruptcy protection for Trump Taj Mahal (1991) and Trump Plaza (1992). Again: our “lucky” guy had managed to go bust in the casino business. In between those bankruptcy filings, he lobbied Congress for tax relief for real estate developers, began phoning reporters claiming to be a publicist named John Barron, had an affair with a D-list actress named Marla Maples, and divorced his wife of 14 years, the mother of his kids Donald, Ivanka, and Eric: the former Ivana Zelníčková. (Sidenote: Ivana Trump’s father was a big wheel in Czechoslovakia’s Státní bezpečnost intelligence service; Miloš Zelníček helped raise his grandchildren, especially Don Jr., who speaks fluent Czech…but this is a subject for another dispatch).

Things were going south fast. Trump desperately needed a lifeline. He found one in Moscow.

The Soviet Union collapsed on Christmas Day 1991. What the West viewed as the triumph of capitalism over communism was really the subversion of a conventional superpower by the shadowy forces of transnational crime. The Cold War was not over; it just shifted modes of attack. In the early 90s, Russia invaded the United States—not with soldiers, but with mobsters.

The commander of this underworld incursion was a violent ex-con named Vyacheslav Ivankov, known as “Yaopnchik,” or “Little Japanese.” Hardened in the brutal Soviet prison system, Ivankov was a member of the vor y zakone, or thieves-in-law—the arm of the Russian mafiya that originated in the post-Second World War gulags. He was such a nasty, violent motherfucker that when it was necessary to rough someone up to extort them, he didn’t send in a subordinate—he did the job himself.

Ivankov arrived to the United States in 1992, ostensibly to work in the film industry. Even the new Russian government warned the FBI that he was up to no good. The feds lost sight of him almost immediately, even as he traveled from New York to Florida and everywhere in between, consolidating power, and displacing the Italian mob. (That brazen 1985 hit on “Big” Paul Castellano was instrumental in achieving this Vor hegemony, as the Gambino boss neither liked nor trusted the Russians). Per the testimony of Bob Levinson, the FBI’s foremost Russian mob expert:

Ivankov’s organization’s income was derived from a number of sources: his group was implicated by sources to have been involved in the “gasoline tax scam” whereby so-called “daisy-chains” of petroleum handling companies were established with the specific intention of defrauding governmental tax authorities using non-existent or ghost companies to pay the gasoline taxes due.

A primary source of the group’s funds was the collection of “krisha” or protection money from wealthy Russian and Eurasian businessmen operating between North America and the former Soviet republics. In addition, the Ivankov organization organized the collection of, in effect, a “street tax” from Russian-born and Eastern European criminals who were operating their illegal enterprises in North America. Ivankov organization members fanned out across the United States and Canada identifying and then approaching these criminals saying that each now had to contribute to an “obshak” (mutual benefit fund) being collected and organized by the Ivankov group.

In addition, Ivankov and other members of his organization settled business disputes for Russian and Eastern European businessmen operating between North America and the former Soviet Union, receiving in return a percentage of the amount in dispute, usually hundreds of thousands of dollars. Through his authority as a “thief-inlaw” and the head of a criminal organization, Ivankov was able to exercise a kind of informal power in the émigré business community tantamount to decisions made by formal, official courts of law. Those who went against the decisions made by Ivankov and his associates were usually met with violence, including beatings and/or murder.  

As Little Japanese worked the States, Semion Mogilevich, the current head of the Russian mob, set up his base of operations in Budapest, Hungary, where he moved in 1992 with his Hungarian girlfriend. “The Brainy Don,” as he is called, soon acquired a bank in Russia, which allowed him access to the global financial system. Meyer Lanksy may have invented money laundering, but it was Mogilevich who took it to Hollywood, so to speak: Lansky wrote the book, and the Brainy Don made it into an international blockbuster. (Note: Levinson, the FBI agent, moved to Budapest around this time, to investigate Mogilevich more closely.)

For three fruitful years, Ivankov did his thing, laying the foundation for what would become the world’s pre-eminent organized crime operation—more S.P.E.C.T.R.E. than GoodFellas. He ran amok. Law enforcement had no idea where he was….until, one day in 1995, they found him living in a deluxe apartment at—you’re not gonna believe it—Trump Tower. And that was not the only Trump property he frequented: Ivankov was also a regular at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. He was arrested in June of 1995, convicted, imprisoned, and deported to Russia in 2004 to face murder changes. Once home, he was promptly acquitted. He was gunned down in Moscow in 2009.

This monster was living in Trump’s building, gambling in Trump’s casino.

What was Donald John Trump doing in 1995? Failing tremendously. That was the year when he declared a loss of an unfathomable $916 million on his tax returns. It was also at this time that Trump Tower became a sort of Moscow on Fifth Avenue, with any number of Russian mobsters scooping up apartments—an arrangement that began in 1984, when the Russian mobster David Bogatin purchased five condos for $6 million. Trump Tower was one of just two buildings in all of New York City that allowed units to be purchased by shell companies. Why did Trump, virtually alone among New Yorkers, allow these fishy deals?

As the indefatigable Craig Unger writes in the Washington Post,

the shady Bogatin deal began a 35-year relationship between Trump and Russian organized crime. Mind you, this was a period during which the disintegration of the Soviet Union had opened a fire-hose-like torrent of hundreds of billions of dollars in flight capital from oligarchs, wealthy apparatchiks and mobsters in Russia and its satellites. And who better to launder so much money for the Russians than Trump — selling them multimillion-dollar condos at top dollar, with little or no apparent scrutiny of who was buying them.

Over the next three decades, dozens of lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, mortgage brokers and other white-collar professionals came together to facilitate such transactions on a massive scale. According to a BuzzFeed investigation, more than 1,300 condos, one-fifth of all Trump-branded condos sold in the United States since the 1980s, were shifted “in secretive, all-cash transactions that enable buyers to avoid legal scrutiny by shielding their finances and identities.”

Unger continues:

The Trump Organization has dismissed money laundering charges as unsubstantiated, and because it is so difficult to penetrate the shell companies that purchased these condos, it is almost impossible for reporters — or, for that matter, anyone without subpoena power — to determine how much money laundering by Russians went through Trump-branded properties. But Anders Aslund, a Swedish economist, put it this way to me: “Early on, Trump came to the conclusion that it is better to do business with crooks than with honest people. Crooks have two big advantages. First, they’re prepared to pay more money than honest people. And second, they will always lose if you sue them because they are known to be crooks.”

It is simply inconceivable that a creature of the underworld, a man who had extensive dealings with mob figures for his entire career, would, in a moment of dire need, be unaware that mobsters were buying his properties, using shell companies to conceal the origin of the dirty rubles.

It is also inconceivable that a mobbed-up real estate developer—a crook whom the government of Australia would not grant a gaming license because of his obvious mob connections; the subject of a 41-page initial investigation by the Department of Gaming Enforcement in the State of New Jersey that, taken together, is positively damning—could have avoided indictment for all these years unless he was covertly helping out law enforcement. Trump is a criminal, yes, but his crimes are not as heinous as Ivankov’s, or Gravano’s, or Scarfo’s. Prosecutors would happily toss a minnow like Trump back into the sea if it helped them catch the big fish.

Nothing about Trump’s term as president suggests he’s turned his back on organized crime. He hasn’t “gone legit.” His Twitter antagonists comprise a “Who’s Who” of the FBI’s Russian mob experts: Robert Mueller, Andrew McCabe, Bruce Ohr, Lisa Page. He has attacked the credibility of those who know what he really is. That is what made Trump’s attacks on Mueller so ironic. He impugned the former FBI director as corrupt, while depending on his incorruptibility to not reveal his (alleged) CI status.

To reiterate: we cannot know for sure if Trump was a CI unless he admits to being one (maybe Yamiche Alcindor can goad him into admitting it?), or if the federal prosecutors in the know break protocol to expose him.

As it stands, prominent G-men have given us clues. When McCabe was fired, he began his statement thus: “I have been an FBI Special Agent for over 21 years. I spent half of that time investigating Russian Organized Crime as a street agent and Supervisor in New York City.” The subtext there is that McCabe knows who Trump is.

In the excerpt of his book Higher Loyalty sent to the press, James Comey compared Trump to Gravano. “The [loyalty] demand was like Sammy the Bull’s Cosa Nostra induction ceremony—with Trump in the role of the family boss asking me if I have what it takes to be a ‘made man.’ ” Of all the famous mafiosos, why did Comey choose Gravano, a relatively obscure figure, as the comp? He wants us to dig into Gravano.

(Gravano himself was asked about the Comey pull-quote by Jerry Capeci of Gangland News; he said, “The country doesn’t need a bookworm as president, it needs a mob boss. You don’t need a Harvard graduate to deal with these people…[Putin, Kim, Xi] are real gangsters. You need a fucking gangster to deal with these people.” This seems to indicate that Sammy the Bull thinks Trump is a “mob boss” and a “fucking gangster.” Takes one to know one?)

Unless he thought it would help him avoid prison, Trump will never cop to being a Confidential Informant. We can only infer that he served that function by presenting the circumstantial evidence to support the hypothesis. But plenty of people can confirm or deny (rather than refuse to confirm or deny) Trump’s involvement. Bob Mueller, certainly, but every prosecutor too that dealt with Scarfo, Gravano, and Ivankov, and plenty of smaller cases besides.

When a Confidential Informant is deliberately fucking up the federal government’s response to a pandemic—when his willful negligence will cost hundreds of thousands if not millions of American lives—protocol must be sacrificed for the greater good. Is not the purpose of that law, of all laws, to protect the people from enemies foreign and domestic? And has not the COVID-19 response, or lack thereof, proven Trump to be an active enemy of the United States?

We don’t need more careful legalese. We don’t need more cryptic phrasings along the lines of “If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.” We need to hear, loud and clear, what the FBI knows. We need to be told, unequivocally, that Trump is an inveterate crook—a real crook; an actual criminal; not just a cute Twitter assertion—and, even more surprising, and contrary to all recent evidence, that he is capable of telling the truth when it serves him.

Notes:

This piece was written under the expert guidance of Lincoln’s Bible. If you don’t already do so, please follow her on Twitter, and check out her own mafiya reporting at Citjourno.

I encourage everyone to read the State of New Jersey Department of Gaming Enforcement investigation report on the allegations against Donald John Trump in the Wayne Barrett book Trump: The Deals and the Downfall.

The late Bob Levinson was the FBI’s best Russian mob fighter. His Ivankov testimony is also essential reading.

The photo at the top is the Greek, from The Wire—the best show in the history of television.

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It is of utmost significance to have a mutual understanding of mortgage loan terms when purchasing a home. The crucial things you need to know are how the loan term affects your month-to-month payment and the amount of interest you will need to pay throughout the loan duration.

Canales stated he wishes to hire people for the security information, and motivated "retired police officers, former military" and those with related experience to use.

Look at a sex culprit computer system registry online to make sure you are moving into a safe neighborhood prior to you buy that dream house. While the sex culprit registry is public, you had finest check it yourself, as the representative and seller are unlikely to voluntarily disclose this details. So ensure not to buy a home prior to researching the local sex transgressor computer registry.

The proposed dispensary is at the previous site of Hairy's Animal Supply, and the building still houses the Fur's- a-Flyin' canine daycare and grooming company.

Have an inspector take a look at the house you prepare to buy. A home inspector will look over every part of the property to make sure that you are not purchasing a home with major problems that are hidden. Not just will this cost a lot, you might have to alter your living situation until it's repaired.

Regional resident Marcia Morrison, who went to the meeting with her pet "Wyatt," asked Genderson if he prepares to displace Fur's- a-Flyin' to develop his cannabis store.

Purchase a home with more than one fireplace just if your environment necessitates it. Several fireplaces do not get utilized as a basic guideline, and they are an annoyance to keep clean.

" You will find that we are a city of highly faithful people," she stated. "If they are dislodged, we will not take it gently." She said the pet dog grooming business has been left in the dark about the dispensary's strategies.

It is essential to get pre-qualified for a home mortgage before you go looking for a home. You will avoid losing your time and the representatives time by limiting your search to homes you can pay for to buy. In addition, protecting a home loan is a prolonged process that can extend the home purchasing process.

Genderson said he wasn't knowledgeable about the problem, and would be happy to consult with the dog groomer. "We're not here to kick any tenant out," said Gendron.

When you are considering acquiring a building for business usage, do your research study on the surrounding area to guarantee it is a safe and stable location. If you decide to open your business in a crime-ridden or downtrodden part of town, you are not most likely to protect an affluent client base. Speak with your real estate agent about where you ought to open a shop.

Holistic Industries on Might 1 got a provisional certificate of registration from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to develop a medical cannabis shop in Easthampton.

Before you buy a property, guarantee you do thorough research study of the neighborhood. If the area isn't ideal, you'll be disturbed with the home regardless. Understanding the environment and its environments can assist to minimize the opportunities of remorse in the future.

In April, the company won last state accreditation for its soon-to-open medical dispensary in Somerville, as well as gained a final certificate for its Monson grow facility at 96 Palmer Rd

. If you wish to purchase a new home, measure it sensibly. Ascertain by inspecting public records that the owner has correctly noted the square video of the home. If the disparity between the numbers is more than a hundred square feet, hesitate about making an offer on this listing or start examining why the discrepancy exists.

In Easthampton, Holistic Industries will require an unique license from the Preparation Board. However initially, it needs to send its recreational marijuana application to the state. The "neighborhood outreach conference" was the first step in the state process, and needed by the Cannabis Control Commission.

Get a house assurance by method of a guarantee. You need to look for a guarantee whenever you buy a house, no matter if you acquire it from a brand-new construction builder or an existing homeowner. The contractor needs to stand by his/her work for a minimum quantity of time. Prior owners of your newly-purchased house ought to have no problem supplying a home service warranty of some duration as a way of compensating you for repair work that may have to be made.

Holistic Industries has performed a purchase-and-sale agreement for the property, which is owned by Easthampton resident Peter Boruchowsky. The $900,000 sale will go through if the marijuana business owners line up their state and local permits.

When you are a real estate investor, keep your real objectives in mind. Decide if you have short term objectives or long term goals to be fulfilled. If the financial investment is a mismatch to those goals, then offer it a pass. Usually, owners neglect their own needs in favor of an expected bargain, and lose on much better opportunities at the same time.

The primary officers of Holistic Industries are Josh Genderson, Richard Genderson, and Jonathan Genderson of Washington, D.C., inning accordance with Massachusetts corporate records. Other directors of the corporation are noted as Michael Don and Beni Golan of Maryland.

If you have an interest in a rental residential or commercial property, investigate concerning who is responsible for the gardening before you sign the lease. Some rentals require the renter to carry out yard responsibilities. Other times, the cost of this is covered by the landlord.

Genderson said that seven years earlier, when the District of Columbia approved medical marijuana, his household prevailed over hundreds of candidates to acquire among 7 readily available licenses. The business "made its mark" establishing non-psychoactive items to help clients, including children with epilepsy, he stated.

It is important to remain patient and be reasonable when looking for a home to buy. It can take some time to find the ideal home that will assist you meet your objectives and work with your business method.

Genderson is likewise president of Schneider's Capitol Hill Wine and Spirits-- a service begun by his grandfather. He stated the experience working in a heavily-regulated industry was valuable in moving into the cannabis service.

If you are buying a home that has actually been through the foreclosure process, you may benefit from the suggestions of a lawyer who concentrates on real estate. An attorney can protect your best interests ought to any problems happen throughout the foreclosure or pre-foreclosure process, which is typically the case. An excellent legal eye can find issues and solve them, conserving you cash overall.

Holistic Industries wants to get its Easthampton Planning Board approval by September.

Before moving and settling into your new home, the very first thing you must do is purchase insurance. If you put this off, you may not be covered for any losses that may happen, and you never know what Mother Nature has in shop.

Easthampton is also the home of INSA, a medical dispensary that prepares to go into the leisure market. Green Life Dispensary on Wemelco Method has actually gotten local approval, but has actually not yet opened. A fourth cannabis entity has signified interest in opening at the former Cook's Building Supply.

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Entire re-opening, close to mask mandate moved up to May 29

In no way brain Aug. 1. The Saturday of Memorial Working day weekend — May 29 — is the new goal date for the finish of almost all remaining Covid-19 limits in Massachusetts.

By that date, which is far more than two months in advance of the timetable declared much less than 3 months ago, Massachusetts intends to lift its pandemic limitations, though masks will nevertheless be needed in specific configurations like transportation, in universities, and at overall health care amenities.

Moreover, the state of emergency that has been in location considering that March 10, 2020 will be lifted on June 15, Gov. Baker announced late Monday early morning. At a afterwards press meeting, Boston Mayor Kim Janey— mentioned that Boston would stick to fit and line up with the statewide timetable considering the fact that Boston’s COVID-19 traits “continue to shift in the correct way.”

“Because of this development, I am generating the determination to align with the commonwealth of Massachusetts and raise the COVID constraints on Could 29,” Janey said. “But permit me be very clear: our fight from COVID is not around. Reopening our town will only operate if we all proceed to do our portion to struggle the pandemic.”

At former junctures in the year-long gradual reopening procedure, Boston opted to move slower and hold constraints in spot for a longer time than the condition. Janey stated on April 27 that the state’s premier city would lag about 3 months at the rear of Gov. Charlie Baker’s reopening timetable, but she explained Monday that “we have extra than a thirty day period of data exhibiting that circumstances are very low and continue to be lower in excess of time.”

Boston Chief of Health and fitness and Human Solutions Marty Martinez claimed Boston recorded an average of 63 new scenarios for every day as of Could 11, whilst the city’s positivity rate dropped to 2.1 p.c and was no greater than 4.3 percent in any single neighborhood.

Previous 7 days, he stated, there ended up much less than 65 COVID-good sufferers in town hospitals. “We have not observed these reduced numbers in over a calendar year,” Martinez explained. “It is distinct that vaccines are doing the job to continue to keep individuals from developing serious cases of COVID and decreasing unfold of the virus.”

The announcements signify a sizeable milestone in the state’s fight from the coronavirus that has fueled a global pandemic and upended practically all areas of human lifetime since the begin of 2020. But the governor built apparent that the finish of govt-mandated limitations does not always indicate the conclusion of the general public health threat.

“Covid is a minimal bit like, you know, Michael Myers,” Baker claimed, referring to the horror movie franchise character with a knack for surviving to make it into but a different sequel. “We have created incredible development and which is why we are able to do what we’re accomplishing below and what we’re proposing below nowadays … the individuals of Massachusetts have established the commonwealth up to be effective likely ahead from right here, but certainly this is anything we’re all likely to have to continue on to pay back consideration to and we will.”

Speaking at the Point out House, Baker explained the new reopening timeline — May well 29 was at first likely to be the following, but not closing, step toward a extra entire reopening — has been produced doable by an hard work that has the condition in line to meet its goal of vaccinating 4.1 million citizens by the 1st week of June.

“Massachusetts is effectively battling back in its marketing campaign in opposition to the virus,” Baker stated. “Nearly each and every university student in the point out is back again in the classroom and we have reopened virtually each individual industry. We’re safer, smarter, and superior outfitted in this struggle than at any time considering the fact that it commenced.”

New conditions are down 89 p.c because Jan. 8 and hospitalizations are down 88 p.c considering that Jan. 1, Baker’s business mentioned. The state’s optimistic exam level has fallen from 8.7 % on Jan. 1 to an even 1 percent as of Sunday.

Given that Baker very last laid out a reopening timeline on April 27, the ordinary of daily new situations is down 65 per cent, the typical hospitalization stage has declined 39 percent, and the typical everyday selection of deaths has fallen by about 45 percent.

Principles started off to alter on Tuesday in the Bay Point out. Productive May 18, steerage for youth and novice sporting activities was up to date to allow young ones less than the age of 18 to enjoy outdoor sports without obtaining to wear a mask and to allow young ones at university or kid care to go mask-totally free when outdoor for things to do like recess. Schoolkids will also be authorized to share classroom merchandise once again.

On Could 29, all industries will be permitted to open up to 100 percent potential, accumulating limits will be rescinded and, with the exception of confront-covering prerequisites for certain configurations, all condition-mandated Covid-19 restrictions will be lifted. Non-vaccinated people today will be encouraged to continue on donning encounter masks and to keep on distancing in most settings, but a new advisory will recommend that vaccinated people no lengthier will need to put on a facial area masking or social length indoors or outdoor apart from for in specific circumstances.

“After far more than a year of constraints, protocols, and tips, a entire Massachusetts reopening is magnificent news for smaller firms,” Nationwide Federation of Independent Corporations Point out Director Christopher Carlozzi claimed just after Baker’s announcement. “Now the real get the job done starts to mend a battered smaller company economic system and convey residents of the commonwealth back again into the place of work.”

Merchants Affiliation of Massachusetts President Jon Hurst said Baker’s announcement “sends a crystal clear message about the significance of financial expenditure and restoration now that we have accomplished what we required to do to be secure. With our vaccinations, we are all now evidently safe and sound to store, dine, entertain, vacation, and return to operate.”

But he also asked that buyers, quite a few of whom are as eager to get back to their regular procuring and dining styles as the companies are to welcome them back, be “patient and considerate as federal government mandates turn into person possibilities.”

“In the times to arrive, companies will have selections to make on masks and occupancy concentrations, and as perfectly as enhanced staffing desires for their institutions,” he explained.

Alluding to the chance that some metropolitan areas and towns could not go alongside with Baker’s new timeline, Hurst additional, “We also strongly urge municipal officials to fully grasp the need for regularity in coverage and community messaging, and to steer clear of perplexing our shoppers and modest enterprises with conflicting local plan.”

As with each individual other move in the state’s reopening work, municipalities are free of charge to go slower than the point out. Boston and Somerville, in certain, have commonly adopted modified variations of the state’s reopening techniques and have been much more cautious in their have returns to usual.

Baker reiterated Monday that “communities that don’t want to go as aggressively or as considerably as we’re proposing to go” can make whatsoever choices they experience are proper “and we will assistance that.”

Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy, who led the administration’s economic reopening advisory group with Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, stated the 12 times until eventually May possibly 29 are intended to give organization owners and communities that are ready to reopen “time to approach for a return to regular, and to make changes to their actual physical spaces, and to modify their staffing ranges.”

“Kindness, knowing, and regard will go a extended way in these coming weeks,” Kennealy said.

Carlozzi, the point out director of NFIB, said corporations also face “major staffing challenges” as they put together for consumers to return in greater figures this summer season.

“A real indicator of a return to normalcy will be the many ‘help wanted’ signals currently being eradicated from storefront windows,” he stated.

Even though most Massachusetts people will likely circle May well 29 as the milestone date on their calendars, the June 15 expiration of Baker’s state of crisis declaration is just as major to those people who closely stick to point out federal government. Baker declared a point out of crisis on March 10, 2020 to offer with the coronavirus that was just beginning to surge across the planet and his administration’s restrictions, recommendations, and executive orders have shaded approximately all elements of daily life in the Bay Point out considering the fact that then.

“The lifting of the governor’s orders underneath the Chilly War period Civil Protection Act could not come a working day faster. For just about 421 times, plenty of corporations and people have experienced their rights and freedoms totally ignored,” Paul Craney, spokesperson for MassFiscal, reported, although Monday was the 434th day less than Baker’s condition of emergency.

MassFiscal has supported the New Civil Liberties Alliance as it pursued legal avenues to overturn many of Baker’s executive orders, arguing that the Republican governor overstepped his authority.

“A performing democracy are not able to survive below a temporary point out of emergency that is extended like we endured … Massachusetts really should never at any time go as a result of this again,” Craney explained.

For the duration of Monday’s push convention to announce the previous reopening phase, the lieutenant governor pointed out that it was literally a 12 months in the producing.

“May 18 of 2020 was the day that we arrived to this area and introduced the to start with stage of our reopening approach. And in this article we are, virtually to the day, a year later on with a full reopening,” Polito claimed Monday. “It would not have transpired with out all of you functioning so tough alongside this training course and alongside this journey.”

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India Receding

[I started crafting this blog on 14 April 2021.]

As our state of Maharashtra enters into a COVID curfew (which is essentially a lockdown — I just think politicians are afraid of using that word again), our hopes of moving back to India this summer are slipping more and more through our fingers.

The situation in India is dire. After a COVID lull during the winter, the COVID cases are again sky rocketing. Some health clinics previously doing vaccinations have stopped due to vaccine shortages. The central government is punting to the states to fund vaccines, which means prices will likely go up and be out of reach for people who are financially strapped. COVID variants are troubling and poorly understood. Schools, many of which just reopened, are shut again. Everyone is locked up again (unless, of course, they are attending massive rallies of un-masked, crammed-together crowds in support of BJP politicians). I worry deeply about the impact of these long lock-ups on children. My in-laws, who have been shut-ins for more than a year now, amaze me. How they have managed to keep their emotional and mental equilibrium is beyond me. As always, Ambhu Uncle is our family’s savior. My in-laws recently got their first dose of the vaccine, and are waiting eagerly for the second dose. But we still don’t know how effective the vaccine will be against the new vexing variants.

When we left India last September, we left thinking we’d be back in, oh, a half year or so. We assumed at the very least we’d be back for Anamika to start kindergarten at the school where she had been, American School of Bombay, at the beginning of August (when the school year starts in Mumbai). How naive we were. We left toys, books and clothes. Our bedrooms were frozen in time. Anamika’s artwork that I hung up all over her bedroom walls during our Lockdown days is still hanging (and there was a lot of it given how long we were locked up). Books and toys are collecting dust and mold (thanks to the relentless humidity there) waiting to be read and played with again. We had not left for good. And now…

Of course India will always be there. (Although in a few decades, there will literally be much less of India to go back to due to climate change related disasters. Many parts of Mumbai will be reclaimed by the Arabian Sea…I will refrain from going down that rabbit hole right now.) Of course we will go back for extended vacations once this COVID nightmare is over. But it is very hard for us to think about the possibility of uprooting our family once Anamika has started elementary school and I have started a job post-PhD (unless that job happens to be in India). We know families do move very far distances, and we may too again if the time is right. Mumbai is our second home, after all, so it would not be a leap into a complete unknown. But for now, living in India anytime soon is a distant dream.

It’s a loss. A real loss. So many people have lost so much this year, so I know we are not unique. So many people have lost way way way more than we have this year, so I should not complain. But I do mourn what could have been.

Somerville is a very good place to live, but there are aspects of Mumbai that are absolutely irreplaceable. We do not have Anamika’s adoring grandparents and Ambhu Uncle and Riaz Uncle right in our immediate orbit. We do not have our beloved Hemanta (better known as Haathi Baby) and Tutuji just an easy, inexpensive domestic flight away. We do not have the veg wallah’s cart stacked high with eggplants, okra, spinach, ginger, and other delectable fresh produce right outside our apartment building door. I cannot simply slip on my chappals (sandals) and skip down the steps, tote bag ready to be stuffed with his goodies. I can’t go down and ask for all those things in Hindi. (Sometimes when I go to our bland grocery store here, I name foods in Hindi in my head. Baingan. Bindhi. Palak. It’s just not the same as speaking the words — as laughably bad as my Hindi is.) We do not have — right in our apartment compound — the coconut wallah yelling, “Coconut panee (water)!” or the kela (banana) wallah carrying a huge basket of bananas on his head or the dudh (milk) wallah knocking on our door every morning to deliver our fresh milk packets along with his winning smile. We do not have jackfruit and mango and coconut trees towering over our parking lot. We do not have the ability to plan regular vacations with our family. Goa for a week all together? Kodaikanal? Temple towns or mountain towns? Not a possibility now.

While we are very lucky to be here where it is much safer in terms of COVID, India is still always on our minds. A few weeks ago, Anamika and I were playing on an outdoor basketball court at a local public school. There was an enormous map of the USA painted on the court. Anamika looked at it and asked, “Where’s India on this map?” I had to walk her over to the much smaller world map painted on another portion of the court to show her where it is in relation to where we currently are. If home is where the heart is (as the old saying goes), then our hearts are split into two.

(Permit me to vent for a quick moment about how Amero-centric even progressive Somerville is: the map of the USA at this public school should not be enormous compared to the rest of the world. It just goes to show how arrogant and self-centered we Americans are. I know people of other countries can be nationalistic too, but as one who has her feet in two different parts of the world, it particularly irks me. We should all know better — especially in a city like Somerville where so many families have recent roots in other countries.)

As in all things in life, this too shall pass (“this” being COVID and “this” also being mourning our current loss of India). As in all things in life, our life in Somerville and our life in Mumbai is a both/and — not an either/or. Both have plusses and minuses. Neither is perfect. We love both.

But for now, as Mumbai recedes away from our immediate grasp, I’ll just sit with the missing it. Our hearts will mend, I know. We will continue to get joy and solace from our community of Boston area friends, and the mountains, beaches and green spaces of New England. And when we do get to go back to India, I will eagerly welcome the wall of heat and humidity that hits us the instant we walk out of the stunning Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai. I will drink in the overwhelming bustle, noise and smells of our city. Dazed and tired from our 24 hour journey to get there, I will still have the presence of mind to be grateful to be…home.

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Essential Guide to Securing Somerville Moving Permits for a Smooth Relocation

If you’re moving to or from Somerville, Ma, it’s often necessary to get Somerville moving permits in order to ensure your moving truck has a place to park on moving day.

Somerville moving permits aren’t too expensive. In fact, You can get a one-day permit for as little as $50, depending on the location.

For example, if you want to pull and post Somerville parking permits for one address (and it’s a non-metered space), you’re looking at about $50, which is the cost of one permit ($40) plus the cost two signs ($10). You can get Somerville Moving Permits either in person or via the mail.

Getting your Somerville Moving Permits in Person Since you need city hall to approve the permits at least four (4) days before your moving day, getting them in person is the quickest and easiest way to do it. So make your way to Somerville’s Department of Traffic and Parking, located in Davis Square at 113 Holland Street.

To save time, you can print out the application for permits on the city’s website. Fill it out with the information it asks for, especially the type of container or truck you’ll be using. A standard moving truck is fine, as is a stand-alone container with no wheels. But a detached, wheeled trailer is not allowed under any circumstances. (Unattached trailers violate something called the “unattached trailer ordinance,” which is to make sure that anything with wheels taking up space on the city streets can be moved at a moment’s notice in case of an emergency.

Getting your Somerville Moving Permits in the mail If you’re moving from far away or you’re going to be out of town during the time before your big move, you can also get your permits through the mail. Just print out the permit application, fill out the required information, and then send it along with a check or money order made out to “City of Somerville,” for the amount due to 133 Holland Street, Somerville, MA 02144.

If you get permits in person, the city processes them immediately. You can leave City Hall with permits in hand. But mailed applications take a little longer. The City of Somerville processes them within ten days of receipt. So if you decide to get permits via mail, it is extremely important that you mail your application at least two weeks before you move date. If you do so, you should then receive your permits in plenty of time to post them legally.

Posting the Moving Permits Once you have your Somerville parking permits, post them at least 48 hours before your moving date. The permits will be valid from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Place the permits and tow signs (the big red “No Parking” signs and the smaller permit detailing their validity) on trees, meters, or any visible spot to warn others not to park there.

Permits should be about 40 feet apart. This allows safe parking for the truck and ensures enough space for you or movers to carry items in and out of the truck.

Additionally, make sure you use enough tape to securely post the permits. This way, the wind or rain can’t knock them down.

You’ll also need to report that you posted them, and where you posted them to “311,” Somerville’s non-emergency information hot-line. You can either dial 3-1-1 from any Somerville telephone, or call 617-666-3311 from outside of Somerville. You’ll need to call again when you remove the signs.

Permits are $40, and signs are $5 each, plus $35 for any meter. You can only reserve legal parking spots. If there’s a hydrant or handicapped spot where you want to park, you’ll need to find another solution.

Somerville Moving Permits – Notify your Neighbors Leave notes on nearby cars or in neighbors’ mailboxes to inform them about upcoming parking restrictions. This can help keep your reserved spot clear.

Beware of weather! The City of Somerville reserves the right to revoke any permit due to public safety and inclement weather. So if we get hit with a blizzard that necessitates plowing the roads, your permits will no longer be valid.

Removing Cars from Somerville Moving Permits If you’ve hired movers, get up early on moving day. Check your reserved parking spots for any parked cars. Movers charge by the hour, so you don’t want to pay for their waiting time. Call Somerville police at 3-1-1 as soon as you see any cars in your spots. This way, you avoid paying movers to wait for a tow truck.

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No Copyright or Defamation Liability for Bulk Move of Social Network Community to New Site – Reason.com

No Copyright or Defamation Liability for Bulk Move of Social Network Community to New Site – Reason.com

In Monsarrat v. Newman, decided yesterday by Judge Richard G. Stearns (D. Mass.), plaintiff alleged: On April 4, 2017, the social networking site LiveJournal revised its terms and conditions of service to comply with Russian law. Because Russian law permitted censorship of certain content, Newman, the moderator of a Davis Square (Somerville, MA)-specific LiveJournal community, decided to move…

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The 2019 Boston Restaurant Patio Tracker

Outdoor dining updates for spring, summer, and fall 2019

Spring is officially here, and while patio weather hasn’t quite arrived yet, some Boston-area restaurants are hoping to open their patios as early as April 1. Bookmark this page: It will serve as home base for all outdoor dining and drinking updates for 2019, updated frequently between now and the end of patio season. Got patio intel to share? Hit up boston@eater.com.

March 21, 2019

Details are already rolling in for a number of restaurants that plan to open their patios right on April 1 (although the current forecast shows a high of 50 degrees, so stay tuned for confirmation closer to the date):

Alibi (Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St., Beacon Hill, Boston): The Alibi patio can fit 130 (65 seated) and, once the season begins, it is open until 2 a.m. nightly, when weather permits. The full Alibi menu is available on the patio.

Boston Chops (1375 Washington St., South End, Boston): The steakhouse’s original South End location features a 40-seat sidewalk patio right out front. Open for dinner daily and brunch on Sunday.

Buttermilk & Bourbon (160 Commonwealth Ave., Back Bay, Boston): Jason Santos’ New Orleans-inspired restaurant has a colorful 85-seat patio that includes umbrella-bedecked picnic tables, lounge seating, and a small bar. Open for dinner daily, plus Sunday brunch.

Deuxave (371 Commonwealth Ave., Back Bay, Boston): Fine French on a 40-seat patio at the bustling intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue.

Mare (3 Mechanic St., North End, Boston): Part of Frank DePasquale’s North End empire, seafood restaurant Mare — formerly located on Richmond Street — has a patio full of couches and fire pits. Open for dinner seven days a week.

Nebo Cucina & Enoteca (520 Atlantic Ave., Waterfront, Boston): Located next to the Greenway, Nebo has a 75-seat patio with umbrellas and heat lamps. The Italian restaurant’s full menu is available on the patio, and patio hours match the restaurant’s hours (open for weekday lunch and dinner every day except for Sunday).

Scampo (Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St., Beacon Hill, Boston): Along with Alibi, the Liberty Hotel’s Scampo has patio space. It can seat 68 and is open for brunch, lunch, and dinner, weather-permitting, once the season begins. It’s also available for appetizer receptions and full buyouts.

Tico (222 Berkeley St., Back Bay, Boston): This Back Bay patio seats 80 and features an outdoor fireplace and bar. The restaurant is open Monday through Saturday for lunch and dinner and serves a menu inspired by South American and Spanish cuisine.

Plus, some patios are already (or always) open; bundle up and check these out right now:

Bow Market (1 Bow Market Wy., Union Square, Somerville): Brave the Union Square construction nightmare to get to Bow Market, which features over 30 food, beverage, and retail vendors in a two-story structure centered around a courtyard that’s always open. Bonus: It’s very dog-friendly and child-friendly. Note: For now, alcohol must be kept in designated areas near its specific vendor, except on certain event days, but customers can move freely around the complex with food from any vendor.

KO Pies at the Shipyard (Boston Harbor Shipyard, 256 Marginal St., East Boston): This popular Australian meat pie purveyor plans to close at some point this year, so get your fill now. The patio — which has a cover — has made its 2019 debut and is open when weather permits. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner Wednesday through Sunday.

Publico Street Bistro & Garden (11 Dorchester St., South Boston): Publico’s attractive courtyard, which is fully surrounded by the building, is open year-round (although covered with a retractable roof in colder months) and features heated floors, fire pits, a bar, covered lounge areas, and more.

Sullivan’s (2080 Day Blvd., South Boston): The Castle Island standby has been serving inexpensive hot dogs, fried seafood, and more for decades. Its seasonal reopening is always one of the first signs of spring. There’s no inside seating; grab a spot at a picnic table outside or explore Castle Island with hot dog in hand. Note: Many other seasonal seafood joints also have outdoor seating. Keep an eye on the seasonal reopening schedule here.

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How America’s Obsession with Early Success Is Hurting Late Bloomers

Wealthy Karlgaard was, as he put it, a late bloomer. He instructed Healthline he spent a lot of his 20s "incapable of holding a job greater than dishwasher or security guard." Nevertheless, issues started to alter for him after he took a job with an organization as a brief typist. It was there he started exercising after work with a number of of his colleagues, a bunch of engineers and venture managers who would go on early night runs collectively. Whereas on one in every of their group runs, an engineer requested Karlgaard if he aspired to do something greater than being in a temp typing pool. "I said I did, but I had no clue what. I felt like I'd never figured out the whole job thing," he stated. Although Karlgaard could not give his co-worker a lot of a solution on the time, the engineer noticed potential in Karlgaard and provided him some work doing technical typing. That is when one thing modified for Karlgaard. "It was like a lifeline from heaven, working with engineers and project managers, that opened my brain up to a world I'd never been exposed to," he stated. Right now, Karlgaard is the writer of Forbes journal, a famous writer, tv commentator, non-public investor, and board director. He believes he would not have completed any of this stuff if the chance he was given by that engineer had been provided to him when he was "21 or 22." "I wouldn't have made any use of it," he stated. "I was lucky in a sense." Karlgaard is aware of his story is not as distinctive as some might imagine. Many individuals bloom later in life after they're given the room they should develop. That is why he is made it his mission to assist folks perceive that late bloomers merely have totally different paths of discovery. In truth, a brand new guide titled "Late Bloomers," written by Karlgaard, is because of be launched by Penguin Random Home on April 16, 2019. It chronicles Karlgaard's personal late-blooming trajectory and compiles years of analysis to debate the psychology of late blooming.

How early blooming turned the gold commonplace

"The conveyor belt we've created that drives kids and teens to get great test scores rewards a different set of skills. There are so many more different kinds of human gifts that will flower in their own time. I want to start a national conversation around that," Karlgaard stated. As Karlgaard sees it, the issue is that our present society nonetheless views early achievement as a marker of success. "I have a theory about why that is," he defined. "If you look at the two most lucrative fields, they have been software and financing -- the Googles and Goldman Sachs of the world." Whereas he acknowledges there are clearly different paths to success, he sees these fields as essentially the most profitable and steady -- the fields which have minted essentially the most millionaires and billionaires. "These two industries are really quite ruthless about who they screen for and the kinds of employees they want. They want people coming out of elite colleges with STEM backgrounds. The kid who may have had latent brilliance doesn't get discovered," Karlgaard stated. As these industries have taken over, so has the stress youngsters face to realize as a lot as attainable, as early as attainable, to have one of the best choices for the longer term. Most of that stress comes from their dad and mom, deliberately or not, as they're additionally feeling the stress to see their youngsters succeed. This could typically be as a result of they both see that success as a illustration of how they carried out as dad and mom or just wish to know their kids are going to be able to taking good care of themselves later in life. Simply how far are some dad and mom prepared to go? The latest faculty admissions scandal, through which celebrities like Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin have been charged for paying massive quantities of cash to bribe their youngsters into elite colleges, proves some dad and mom will go to nice (and unlawful) lengths. Tales like these spotlight simply how immense the stress to be an early bloomer is right this moment.

The downsides of early achievement

John Mopper is an adolescent therapist with Blueprint Psychological Well being in Somerville, New Jersey. He additionally occurs to think about himself a late bloomer. After bouncing round between jobs in his 20s, he instructed Healthline it wasn't till he was 30 that he determined to pursue turning into a therapist. Mopper referred to as that call a recreation changer and stated, "Every day I'm having these conversations with my clients about what it means to be successful, and how society's version of success right now really boils down to a career path and money. But there are a lot of people who are 'successful' who aren't actually happy with their lives." He desires dad and mom to acknowledge that almost all youngsters aren't able to make long-term profession selections. "I think a very small percentage of 18-year-olds actually know what they want to do with their lives. Then there are some who think they know, but who will change their minds several times. And the majority don't have a clue," he stated. Mopper stated he was just lately having a dialog about this matter with a shopper who occurs to be a highschool pupil. His recommendation to that shopper, and to all excessive schoolers who could also be battling with uncertainty about their subsequent steps, is to go to neighborhood faculty and simply take 4 or 5 lessons they're actually eager about earlier than committing to a level. "I think a lot of people get stuck in the failure," he stated. "They go to college too soon, before they're really ready, and it doesn't work out. They've tried, and going to school now comes with a negative consequence. They feel like they've failed, and that really becomes a part of their identity. They don't want to experience those feelings again, so they can't bring themselves to try again." By permitting teenagers the time to actually uncover what it's they're eager about, what it's they wish to do, his hope is that extra can discover the sort of success that extends far past a paycheck.

Escaping the stress cooker

Dr. Margaret Stager is director of the Division of Adolescent Drugs at MetroHealth Medical Heart in Cleveland. She's additionally a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. She instructed Healthline, "The pressure is great for teens to not only succeed but also super-succeed. That pressure has moved down from college to high school and now even a little into middle school." She stated that youngsters are being anticipated to realize at youthful and youthful ages. "I'm seeing kids taking AP classes their sophomore year. That used to be something that didn't happen until senior year. It's really taken the fun out of high school for these teenagers who are having to accept that it's just a lot of hard work." She stated she typically tries to speak to oldsters about pulling again from these AP lessons and rounding out the lecturers with one thing the scholar loves, whether or not that be sports activities or music or one thing to do with their church or favourite nonprofit. "That's just as important to their development as AP chemistry," she stated.

Redefining success and failure

For his half, Karlgaard merely desires dad and mom to know that it isn't the tip of the world if a baby does not know what they wish to be at 18 years outdated. In truth, he'd like to see our society begin to acknowledge the advantages of other paths for younger adults, to incorporate neighborhood schools, expert commerce colleges, hole years, and even perhaps the adoption of nationwide service packages and necessities. "I really feel fortunate that it was easier to be a late bloomer when I grew up," he stated. "Today we are typecasting kids earlier and earlier and putting extraordinary pressure on them to get great grades and make great test scores, and when you look at the price we're paying for that -- the rise in student debt, depression, and suicide rates -- we've created this early-bloomer pressure cooker that I think has gotten really out of hand." Although it could appear that society's definition of success is shrinking, there are numerous examples of profitable adults who, like Karlgaard and Mopper, discovered success later in life. By telling their tales, maybe we are able to start to shift perspective and understand that what many in society see right this moment as a failure to launch might merely be a late bloomer who wants extra time to develop into the success they're meant to be. Read the full article

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The State of Housing: Experts Discuss Global Influence, Trends, Coronavirus and Other Challenges, and Potential Solutions

The real estate markets are in a constant state of flux. On a national level, there are continuous shifts between buyers’ and sellers’ markets, housing inventory, affordability, and more. Zooming in, the challenges and opportunities of each housing market become even more diverse and nuanced. And with each individual environment comes the need for action—whether through government policy, industry action or consumer response—that solves challenges, lessens burdens and embraces opportunity as they relate to housing.

Here’s a look at today’s real estate market, both on a national- and micro-level, from the perspective of several industry practitioners.

Global Events Impacting Real Estate

The state of the economy and global occurrences can have a substantial influence on real estate, both nationally and locally. Experts are currently keeping a close watch on a global event that’s having a sweeping impact on the economy and, therefore, real estate: the COVID-19 coronavirus.

“Without a doubt, two weeks ago I would have said the biggest hurdle is a general housing shortage. But that’s changed,” says Lawrence Yun, chief economist and senior vice president of Research for the National Association of REALTORS®. “The coronavirus is an unprecedented event, and even though we don’t know how everything will play out, it’s currently a big uncertainty that’s hitting the stock market.”

Yun says it could be good or bad. For some people, the money they have been saving for a down payment may have evaporated, but for others, low rates may provide an exceptionally enticing opportunity. According to a recent NAR survey, nearly one in four home sellers changed how their home is viewed on the market due to the outbreak, including stopping open houses, requiring that prospective buyers wash or sanitize their hands, asking buyers to remove their shoes or wear footies, and more.

The Economic Flash Survey, which was conducted March 9 and 10, found that 37 percent of respondents said homebuyers were more excited by lower mortgage rates than the stock market correction. Surprisingly, 78 percent said there’s been no change in buyer interest due to the coronavirus, and 87 percent said it had not affected the number of homes on the market. In specific areas like California and Washington State, however, 21 percent and 19 percent, respectively, cited larger decreases in buyer interest.

A recent public statement from Yun following the survey release stated:

“The coronavirus is leading to fewer homebuyers searching in the marketplace, as well as some listings being delayed. In the latest flash survey, 11 percent of REALTORS® indicated a reduction in buyer traffic and 7 percent are reporting lower seller traffic when asked directly about the coronavirus impact on the market,” said Yun. “Given that a home transaction is a major commitment, the uncertainties on how the economy will play out and the spread of the virus itself are barriers to homebuying and selling. The stock market crash is no doubt raising economic anxieties, while the coronavirus brings fear of contact with strangers. At the same time, the dramatic fall in interest rates may induce some potential buyers to take advantage of the better affordability conditions. It is too early to assess the likely impact as to whether lower interest rates can overcome the economic and health anxieties. But the survey is implying, in the short-term at least, that home sales will be chopped by around 10 percent, compared to what would have been the case, due to the spread of the coronavirus.”

A Shortage of Housing Supply, Rising Home Prices

Both on a national scale and in certain local markets, aside from the coronavirus, a shortage of housing supply is the predominant challenge.

“There’s a lack of housing,” says Yun. “Fast price appreciation and increasing rents is causing major housing affordability challenges for both renters and first-time buyers.”

In the Atlanta Metro area, for example, Fortune 500 companies and other jobs and people have flooded the markets in the last decade due to mild weather and a lower cost of living, says Collette McDonald, president of Collette McDonald & Associates at RE/MAX Around Atlanta. Because of that, housing supply is low, particularly in hubs with easy access to transportation, causing prices to spike and new construction to slow.

“The ATL Metro Area struggles with transportation infrastructure and people are sick of commuting and are seeking easier living closer to the employment and entertainment centers,” says McDonald. “Properties closer in continue to appreciate at a conservative rate of 6 percent per year, which also makes it difficult for builders to develop affordable low-cost housing.”

John Barmon, a REALTOR® with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, has experienced similar challenges in his own market, both in residential sales and rentals. He says many things attract people to Boston—an excellent economy, low unemployment, a wealth of biotech and hi-tech companies, and several major nearby universities like Harvard, MIT, Tufts, BU and Northeastern.

“There is always a demand for housing that increases every year as demand outpaces supply,” says Barmon. “The ongoing lack of inventory in the core Boston area has made the adjacent towns like Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline and Medford very desirable as well, and prices have risen accordingly. Those towns that have a stop on the MBTA subway lines are especially desirable, forcing lower-income buyers further and further away with longer commutes.”

California is another such market that struggles with these same housing burdens.

“The biggest housing-related issue facing California is the state’s worsening affordability and availability crisis,” says California Association of REALTORS® President Jeanne Radsick.

Orlando is also managing a lack of affordable supply, in both its rental and residential markets.

“Orlando’s popularity as a place to live and its strong economy amplify the housing shortage. Currently, more than 1,500 people are moving to the Central Florida area weekly and contribute to a demand for housing that outstrips and causes prices to rise,” says Orlando Regional Association of REALTORS® President Reese Steward.

Inverted Markets Exist

Not all regional markets experience the same obstacles, however—even if affordability and inventory are the overarching problems on a national level. For example, Nimesh Patel, broker/owner of RE/MAX Fine Properties, has experienced the reverse in his own markets, covering the Sugar Land, Fort Bend County and Houston areas.

“The biggest challenge we face is helping homeowners sell their homes for higher dollar values as we are inundated with lots of land and new construction,” says Patel. “With the amount of master planned communities popping up all over the Houston area, and the numerous amounts of new home starts slated by the builders, sellers are having a harder time competing with their re-sales.”

Determining What Policies Should Address

On a national level, Yun says the reform of Fannie and Freddie will be important, and less stringent, over-the-top regulation about building activity would help “so more homes and apartments can be built.” In addition, Opportunity Zones tax incentives to do more development in economically displaced areas because “that could be impetus for more building activity in what was once considered a less desirable area, but now with tax incentives becomes more viable,” says Yun.

What about at the state and local levels?

According to C.A.R., policy that addresses zoning, permitting and fee certainty would make it easier to build new homes and reverse soaring home prices in California.

“California must tackle the burdensome permitting process that stifles new housing development and increases costs,” says Radsick. “This begins with reducing high-impact fees that can range between 6 percent to 18 percent of a home’s sales price.”

ORRA, meanwhile, strongly advocates full funding of Florida’s Affordable Housing Trust Funds.

“These funds, generated through fees paid during private property transfers, are intended to support programs that increase the availability and affordability of housing for our workforce,” says Steward. “However, the Florida Legislature routinely siphons very significant revenues from the funds toward non-housing related items. REALTORS® statewide work to insist that the legislature fully fund Florida’s Affordable Housing Trust for the intended purposes.”

Patel says understanding master planned living, multi-generational living and multi-family living is key for Texas, as builders are currently profiting from the strategy while re-sales are falling behind.

“Builders are catering to those needs which make lots of the re-sales obsolete,” says Patel. “For example, the biggest search right now is a home with two bedrooms and two bathrooms downstairs, whereas the re-sales don’t have that from a decade or more ago.”

In Atlanta, McDonald says the Atlanta Housing Authority has already made an effort to construct more vertical units for condos and rentals in major employment districts, but that may not be enough.

“Rents are now in line with mortgage payments; however, the lack of supply limits what a buyer can do and where to live within a reasonable commute,” says McDonald, adding that not all reform that benefits housing is housing-related. “ATL needs better mass transit and to focus on revitalizing and expanding our rail system, MARTA.”

In the Greater Boston Area, Barmon says each town should have its own strategy for addressing housing reform.

“In my opinion, Boston and Cambridge have both been very successful in addressing the affordable housing issue by actively purchasing new properties to be eventually sold to lower-income buyers who meet the income guidelines,” says Barmon. “Zoning regulations in my towns now include development guidelines which create new affordable units by requiring developers to allocate a certain percentage (usually under 20 percent) of new units in a condominium conversion project be sold to buyers who meet the affordable housing guidelines in that particular town.”

“I think that Cambridge’s strategy of acquiring individual housing units (condos, single-family, and multi-family properties) and offering it to qualified individuals is one of the better ways to address the lack of affordable housing,” adds Barmon.

Where Should Change Come From?

At the forefront of the housing policy discussion stands the question, “Is governmental influence more effective at the local, state or federal level?”

It’s a tricky question, says Patel, who believes housing policy at the local level is the most effective, but that it should not be linked to social policy, though he “can see where it can be linked in the sense of lending rules and affordability in areas.”

“At the local level, there is an understanding from a community aspect, a demographics aspect and a socio-economic aspect,” says Patel.

McDonald is also pro-local policy, as long as it does not discriminate on any social policies and is based on economic factors.

“The Atlanta Housing Authority has always been one of the best run systems in the region because they run it like a business with federal guidance,” says McDonald.

Barmon believes that any successful, long-term housing reform should be addressed on a local level by each individual city and town. “Each town has its own individual wants and needs depending on the wants and needs of its individual citizens.”

Radsick, however, doesn’t agree that local policy is always the best solution.

“We need accountability,” says Radsick. “One of the primary drivers of the housing crisis is local governments that refuse to build the housing we need. We must do everything we can to stop unreasonable ‘not in my backyard’ laws that only exacerbate the crisis we’re in. California Gov. Havin Newsom has already taken a lead role by taking cities to court when they fail to approve reasonable and responsible housing developments.”

“C.A.R. has long supported state legislation that increases housing availability for those at all income levels, from affordable to market-rate and everything in between,” adds Radsick.

Brokerage-Inspired Action Can Help

Brokers agree that change can start at even more foundational levels, from within their organizations.

“I am proud to say that on a local level my colleagues at Coldwell Banker have, on their own, both created and participated in supporting local charities and organizations that assist individuals who are either homeless or in danger of becoming homeless,” says McDonald, who adds that these efforts include working with the Community Housing Assistance Fund—an organization run and founded by REALTORS®.

“Also, Realogy, my parent company, fully supports the expansion of FHA legal protections as a general, ongoing business practice, and focuses on creating a diverse marketplace by forming partnerships with professional real estate associations whose ongoing missions are to improve the homeownership rates of various diverse groups, including the LGBT community,” she adds.

Is your market experiencing unique challenges? Let us know in the comments how you believe they should be addressed.

Liz Dominguez is RISMedia’s senior editor. Email her your real estate news ideas at ldominguez@rismedia.com.

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An Coursework I Turned In: Health Resources and the Developed Environment

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An Coursework I Turned In: Health Resources and the Developed Environment

I love the area close to Tufts and that i don’t simply just mean the immediate surroundings. Davis Square is usually nice and many, but there are some other awesome areas in which deserve query. For one connected with my tutorials titled ‘Health Equity along with the Built Atmosphere, ‘ Thought about to explore the subject of Union Rectangular, a lesser identified, but more than awesome portion of Somerville. If/when you arrive at Tufts, be sure to check out Institute Square aid the dining places are to expire for!

Should you’re interested in looking at a real college essay|about a college essay|why you should|our company that I include actually turned in for training, here’s the very essay that I wrote in regards to the challenges going through Union Block that city planners and developers will have to overcome yearly few years so that you can remain a thriving along with diverse place.

Executive Synopsis of Institute Square in Somerville, MOTHER

Health and fitness Equity and the Built Setting

Union Pillow is a diverse neighborhood throughout Somerville, Boston. Settled from the western section of Somerville, Partnership Square operates six harmful lines by way of its centre and is trafficked by about 10, 000 vehicles everyday. Union Sq has a population of 15.6, 537 from a half-mile radius and a normal income of $29, 996 per capita. The extension of the Environment friendly Line MBTA stop is scheduled being completed in Union Square by simply 2020 and will bring seven new halts to the location to increase every day ridership by just more than 45, 000 people. Union Place is endorsing its image of a successful up-and-coming community through the installing new yoga exercise studios, high end coffee merchants and local farmer’s markets. The changing experience of Partnership Square raises the popularity of the area and with that, economic improvement. However , the particular increasing ease of access and modernity of Union Square brings unique challenges that threaten the budget of real estate and have the potential to gentrify a nearby.

The city connected with Somerville can be defined by means of its migration residents who also account for more than 27 percent of the society. This assortment brings a blend of traditions and a tough sense involving community towards area. Many companies in the area usually are run by way of and serve the the various ethnic groups that reside in and around Organization Square. Partnership Square fronts the problem with gentrification because more affluent families and individuals move to the area and even shift the expansion the community. The challenge of gentrification is important to examine because it can get negative effects in businesses, health and wellness outcomes and even emotional basic safety as cultural groups are pushed in the area. Author Alex Resiman says, ‘Change in Marriage Square is inevitable. Grow older work together with building this neighborhood, really helpful to think of how all us will be affected, a lot more we might be ready to embrace chances for favourable impacts whereas limiting damaging consequences. ‘

As a group, we must deal with how we can easily best build opportunities intended for residents to improve their financial, social and political problem in Unification Square by means of increased economical housing endeavours. Affordable lodging options offer you resources for low-income individuals along with families who sadly are having hard part meeting their valuable basic desires. The effects for a different affordable casing unit provides equity during the built setting, as suitable housing can be a predictor regarding lower death rate rates. Selling a environmentally friendly, strategic plus safe built environment can easily improve the lifestyle and maintain the current number of inhabitants in Partnership Square even though also taking advantage of the economic growth of new businesses and occupants.

Access to good housing for all those U. T. households, no matter income, possesses proven tough achieve. Don’t mind the occasional growth of buying, housing disorders for thirty million of the lowest-income U. S. citizens have just improved within the last few thirty years. Not simply does not enough affordable homes affect low-income populations, collectively affects the newest members who seem to move into the region because it can easily increase evictions and homelessness which load the entire group. A strong sensation of online community promotes homework market log in social cohesion, which can also reduce quality of life for its residents together with encourage nutritious behaviors. At the same time, strategic type of the constructed environment can certainly positively influence the emotional health of an individual. Land utilize planning as well as the creation involving affordable property units tend to be critical to the health on the city and can bring favourable structural plus individual health benefits to Nation Square. We must provide a cause of immigrants, low-income residents and business owners in which to stay the area and ensure they are given proper bonuses, like raised customers, business earnings and interpersonal cohesion.

Keeping affordability can really help long-term occupants in Nation Square maintain their dwellings and lose colour the fear of displacement although simultaneously permitting affluent residents to move into the location and improve prosperity. This allows the built all-natural environment to grow vigorously while maintaining feeling of culture, area cohesion together with social investment capital. This can materialize by ensuring conversation among coordinators, decision-makers, web developers, residents plus business owners. The spot of Partnership Square should really continue to improve, without intentionally removing long-time residents on the area caused by a lack of low cost.

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5 Components of Physical Fitness

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5 Components of Physical Fitness

Physical fitness is the ability to function effectively throughout your workday, perform your usual other activities and still have enough energy left over to handle any extra stresses or emergencies which may arise.

The components of physical fitness are:

* Cardiorespiratory (CR) endurance – the efficiency with which the body delivers oxygen and nutrients needed for muscular activity and transports waste products from the cells.

* Muscular strength – the greatest amount of force a muscle or muscle group can exert in a single effort.

* Muscular endurance – the ability of a muscle or muscle group to perform repeated movements with a sub-maximal force for extended periods of times.

* Flexibility – the ability to move the joints or any group of joints through an entire, normal range of motion.

* Body composition – the percentage of body fat a person has in comparison to his or her total body mass.

Improving the first three components of fitness listed above will have a positive impact on body composition and will result in less fat. Excessive body fat detracts from the other fitness components, reduces performance, detracts from appearance, and negatively affects your health.

Factors such as speed, agility, muscle power, eye-hand coordination, and eye-foot coordination are classified as components of “motor” fitness. These factors most affect your athletic ability. Appropriate training can improve these factors within the limits of your potential. A sensible weight loss and fitness program seeks to improve or maintain all the components of physical and motor fitness through sound, progressive, mission specific physical training.

Principles of Exercise

Adherence to certain basic exercise principles is important for developing an effective program. The same principles of exercise apply to everyone at all levels of physical training, from the Olympic-caliber athlete to the weekend jogger.

These basic principles of exercise must be followed.

Regularity

To achieve a training effect, you must exercise often. You should exercise each of the first four fitness components at least three times a week. Infrequent exercise can do more harm than good. Regularity is also important in resting, sleeping, and following a sensible diet.

Progression

The intensity (how hard) and/or duration (how long) of exercise must gradually increase to improve the level of fitness.

Balance

To be effective, a program should include activities that address all the fitness components, since overemphasizing any one of them may hurt the others.

Variety

Providing a variety of activities reduces boredom and increases motivation and progress.

Specificity

Training must be geared toward specific goals. For example, people become better runners if their training emphasizes running. Although swimming is great exercise, it does not improve a 2-mile-run time as much as a running program does.

Recovery

A hard day of training for a given component of fitness should be followed by an easier training day or rest day for that component and/or muscle group(s) to help permit recovery. Another way to allow recovery is to alternate the muscle groups exercised every other day, especially when training for strength and/or muscle endurance.

Overload

The work load of each exercise session must exceed the normal demands placed on the body in order to bring about a training effect.

Source by Peter Somerville

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Banned Stimulants Remain in Supplements, Despite FDA Efforts to Remove Them

MedicalResearch.com Interview with:

Dr. Cohen Pieter Cohen, M.D Associate Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine Cambridge Health Alliance Somerville MA 02143 MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Since ephedra was banned from supplements in 2004, a variety of experimental stimulants have been introduced into sports and weight loss supplements as ephedra replacements.  The FDA has made some efforts to remove these emerging stimulants from supplements, but whether FDA action to remove these stimulants has it’s intended effect is not known. We studied the effect of FDA action to remove four experimental stimulants from supplements. We found that the FDA public notices did not work.  The stimulants remained in supplements even years after the FDA moved to remove them. MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report? Response: Given the regulatory paradigm under which supplements are sold, consumers cannot trust that they will be effective or safe.  Clinicians should understand that supplements might contain hidden ingredients that have potent drug-like effects and consider the effects of supplements when patients experience unexplained symptoms. MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this work?  Response: One of the most concerning findings was that one stimulant appeared in the supplements analyzed only after the FDA warned that it was not permitted to be sold in supplements. Future studies should investigate whether FDA announcements regarding new experimental stimulants might have the unintended consequence of firms learning about the stimulant and then adding it to their supplements. Disclosures: Dr Cohen was subject of a civil suit brought by Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, a supplement company, regarding β-methylphenylethylamine;  The jury found in Dr Cohen’s favor. Dr Cohen has collaborated in research with NSF International and received research support from Consumers Union. No other disclosures were reported. Citation: Cohen PA, Wen A, Gerona R. Prohibited Stimulants in Dietary Supplements After Enforcement Action by the US Food and Drug Administration. JAMA Intern Med. Published online October 22, 2018. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.4846   The information on MedicalResearch.com is provided for educational purposes only, and is in no way intended to diagnose, cure, or treat any medical or other condition. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health and ask your doctor any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. In addition to all other limitations and disclaimers in this agreement, service provider and its third party providers disclaim any liability or loss in connection with the content provided on this website.   Read the full article

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Uber shuts Arizona self-driving program two months after fatal crash

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Uber shuts Arizona self-driving program two months after fatal crash

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Uber has shut down its self-driving car operation in Arizona two months after a fatal crash involving one of its vehicles, the company said on Wednesday.

Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] is not shuttering its entire autonomous vehicle program and will focus on limited testing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and two cities in California, a spokeswoman said.

The ride-hailing company aims to resume self-driving operations this summer, likely with smaller routes and fewer cars, she said.

“We’re committed to self-driving technology, and we look forward to returning to public roads in the near future,” the spokeswoman said.

Arizona’s wide, flat roads, good weather and corporation-friendly regulations are considered ideal to test autonomous vehicles. Uber now faces the challenge of testing in congested, urban cities with rain, fog, snow and ice.

It must also repair its relationship with regulators in California, where it lacks a testing permit, and in Pittsburgh.

Uber has said it considers self-driving technology important to the future of its ride services, although it is not clear how it fits into the plans of new Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi. He has revamped the company structure and cut certain expenses as Uber prepares for an initial public offering next year.

Uber suspended its program in Arizona and elsewhere immediately after one of its SUVs operating in autonomous mode hit and killed a woman crossing the street on a March night in Tempe, marking the first fatality involving a self-driving vehicle.

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey suspended Uber’s self-driving testing – a little more than a year after giving the company a warm reception and poking fun at California’s stricter regulations.

“The governor’s focus has always been on what’s best for Arizonans and for public safety, not for any one company,” Daniel Scarpinato, a spokesman for Ducey, said on Wednesday.

FILE PHOTO: A self driving Volvo vehicle, purchased by Uber, sits in a parking lot in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., December 1, 2017. REUTERS/Natalie Behring/File Photo

Elaine Herzberg, 49, was walking her bicycle outside the crosswalk on a four-lane road when she was struck by the Uber vehicle traveling at about 40 miles (64 km) per hour. A safety operator behind the wheel appeared to be looking down, and not at the road, moments before the crash, according to video from inside the car released by police.

The crash is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. Uber will wait until the agency issues its preliminary report on the crash, expected within the next couple of weeks, before it puts its self-driving cars back on the road. The company is also undergoing a review of its autonomous car program and has hired former NTSB Chair Christopher Hart to advise on safety.

Uber’s self-driving Volvo SUVs in Arizona will be moved to other cities and employees will be offered assistance in finding another job, the company spokeswoman said.

Pittsburgh was Uber’s first city for autonomous car testing, starting in 2016. However, Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto said in a statement Wednesday that Uber had not told him its plans to resume testing.

“I made it clear to Uber officials after the Arizona crash that a full federal investigation had to be completed, with strong rules for keeping streets safe, before I would agree with the company to begin testing on Pittsburgh streets again,” Peduto said.

The Uber spokeswoman said the company was in discussions with California regulators, the governor and city officials to operate in San Francisco and Sacramento, although it does not have a timeline.

“Sacramento stands as a willing partner,” said Louis Stewart, the city’s chief innovation officer.

Sacramento has held conversations with many autonomous vehicle developers, and is not deterred by Uber’s crash in Arizona. The city wants to work with Uber to make sure its technology is safe, but sees no need “to jump right in and regulate even more how these cars operate,” Stewart said.

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Uber briefly had an autonomous car program in California in late 2016, but the state Department of Motor Vehicles shut it down after about a week because Uber had failed to obtain the necessary permits. The company had argued that state laws did not apply to its self-driving program, but its defiance was met with threats of legal action from the DMV and the state attorney general. Uber moved its cars to Arizona.

Reporting by Heather Somerville; additional reporting by David Schwartz in Phoenix and Jim Finkle in Toronto; Editing by Tom Brown and Grant McCool