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Suffolk County police said that once there were multiple victims, it was determined it was an ongoing criminal scheme.
Lequisha Caccavale also said she needed to quickly find a place to live. Caccavale said she was going through a divorce in April of last year when she saw Wimmer's ad on Craigslist for an apartment. The Calverton resident said she gave Wimmer $1,300 in cash but the landlady came up with numerous excuses to avoid signin...
Caccavale said Wimmer then tried to put her on the defensive, saying she was too aggressive and wouldn't make a good tenant.
"I said 'give me my money back.' I sent two registered letters," said Caccavale, 36. "She never responded to me."
After filing a police report, Caccavale said she saw Oscarsson's Facebook post.
Suffolk County police said Wimmer accepted payments of between $600 and $1,200 each from prospective renters after advertising the Gillette Avenue room on Craigslist between September 2017 and June 2018.
Her next court date is Friday.
Detectives asked anyone else who may be a victim to call them at 631-854-8552.
Vancouver, British Columbia, is located on the English Bay on Canada's west coast. With a variety of off-shore islands, a large bay and the Strait of Georgia, Vancouver and surrounding communities are an ideal place to launch a sailing vacation. Several sailing companies offer adventures in the waters around Vancouver,...
Bewley Sailing, located in Vancouver, offers a variety of sailing instruction and adventure vacation packages. Students and vacationers can choose a half-day or full-day sail from Granville Island, Vancouver, through the bay under Burrand and Lions Gate bridges. Three-day sailing vacations include a trip around Howe So...
OCSC Sailing offers a flotilla tour of British Columbia, including the Vancouver coast. OCSC offers this trip via a charter with Nanaimo Yachts. The tour starts in Nanaimo, located just across the bay from Vancouver, and sails around the Gulf Islands, San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington, Vancouver, Princess Lo...
For a sailing vacation that speaks to days gone by, Crosswinds Charter offers Vancouver sailing adventures aboard its tall ships. Crosswinds offers one- to three-day trips, which can be combined with scuba diving and whale watching adventures. The company encourages family vacations, and the ship's captain helps educat...
In addition to charters through OCSC, Nanaimo Yacht Charters offers its own tours of the Vancouver region. One trip in particular highlights the Vancouver coast on a 14-day exploration of Desolation Sound. Ports of call along the way include Secret Cove, Princess Louisa National Park, Hardy Island, Lund, Vancouver Isla...
Maurer, Erin. "Sailing Vacations in Vancouver." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/sailing-vacations-vancouver-35744.html. Accessed 25 April 2019.
A milder night with winds turning more south-westerly. Some cloud and clear spells, with the chance of mist or fog patches in sheltered areas.
Another dry and fine day, but cloud will increase from the west during the afternoon. Warm with light winds.
Any early mist on Sunday will give way to a fine and dry afternoon with above average temperatures, becoming warm again for many. Heading into Monday, things will likely stay dry and warm, although gradually less warm by Tuesday with highs trending a bit closer to average and with the increased risk of some showers pus...
As gung-ho "experts" press President Obama to do this, that or the other in the Middle East, keep a simple rule in mind: Whatever the avid interventionists suggest probably won't work -- and surely will have unintended consequences.
Obama's overall policy toward the region has been modest, cautious, incremental and situational. His boldest move has been to try negotiations, rather than airstrikes or stronger sanctions, as a way to constrain Iran's nuclear ambitions. He has been reluctant to commit U.S. military forces and hesitant to enforce red l...
Critics look at the bloody instability throughout the region and charge that Obama has been passive. But history suggests that more active U.S. involvement would likely make things bloodier.
A case in point is the conflict in Yemen, where a coalition led by Saudi Arabia has launched extensive airstrikes to bolster the recognized government against Houthi rebels who threaten to take over the country.
On one level, the fighting amounts to a proxy war between two would-be regional superpowers -- Saudi Arabia vs. Iran, which supports the Houthis. On another level, Yemen is but one battlefield in a wider religious war, Sunni against Shiite, that is playing out across the region. On yet another level, the fight is perso...
Saleh, who is Shiite, violently repressed the Houthis while he was in power. He was seen as a crucial U.S. ally in the fight against al-Qaeda, which has a more active and menacing presence in Yemen than perhaps anywhere else in the world. So, to all those who complain that Obama has kept the United States on the sideli...
Should Obama intervene forcefully on behalf of Saleh's successor, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who had to flee the country by ship as Houthis threatened to capture the port city of Aden? If so, we would be fighting against the Yemeni faction that most implacably opposes al-Qaeda, which remains determined to stage attacks i...
In the Middle East, it has been said, "the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy." This seems to be the case in Yemen, where the U.S. goal, surely, is to strengthen neither the Iranian-backed Houthis nor al-Qaeda. It is difficult to see how decisive intervention on either side would serve our national interest or make us ...
After all, we've consistently done just that. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was intended to implant a multiethnic, multicultural democracy at the very heart of the Muslim world. Instead, by destroying every vestige of the secular Iraqi state -- unspeakably brutal though it was -- the United States ended up allowing long-sm...
Small wonder, then, that Obama has turned a deaf ear to those advocating some kind of robust intervention in Syria. When aides pressed him to arm the "moderate" Syrian rebels, he demanded convincing evidence that U.S.-supplied weapons would not soon end up in the hands of unambiguous enemies. The battlefield success of...
Current U.S. military action against the Islamic State -- lots of airstrikes in Iraq, much less focus on Syria -- has the effect of strengthening the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. This is the same Assad who crossed Obama's "red line" by using chemical weapons against his people. It's the same Assad wh...
Is it inconsistent, then, to pursue policies that help keep him in power? Yes, but it is probably also wise, at least for now. If the Assad government were to disappear tomorrow, it would likely be replaced by something more volatile and more threatening to U.S. interests.
The upheaval taking place across the Middle East is unprecedented. I don't know if U.S. intervention can make things better. But I know it can definitely make things worse.
A healthy, refreshing cold soup to energize and cleanse your system. Green cucumber shots is an interesting concoction of cucumbers with spices and herbs like basil, cilantro, garlic and a tangy bit of lime, for a nutritious, detox drink!
1.Blend cucumbers, garlic with 50 ml water until smooth puree.
2.Add romaine lettuce, parsley, basil to the puree.
3.Taste and season with sea salt and lemon juice as desired.
4.Serve with toasted bread slivers.
A two-day retreat for the Fort Smith Board of Directors in July will cost an estimated $12,000, the majority of which will come from the board's own budget.
A two-day retreat for the Fort Smith Board of Directors in July will cost an estimated $12,000, the majority of which will come from the board�s own budget.
The overnight retreat, designed for discussion of priorities and planning for the future, is scheduled for July 19 and 20 at Mount Magazine State Park.
The facilitator is Ron Holifield, CEO of Texas-based Strategic Government Resources, whose base retreat cost is $6,000, according to Fort Smith City Administrator Ray Gosack.
Other fees include $275 for individual interviews with directors, the mayor and Gosack prior to the retreat, and $150 for individual team assessments, of which there will be three or four, Gosack said.
Room costs at Mount Magazine State Park are $170, Gosack said. A dozen rooms are reserved for the seven directors, Mayor Sandy Sanders, Gosack, Deputy Administrator Jeff Dingman, City Clerk Sherri Gard and Holifield.
The majority of the retreat costs come from the Board of Directors� own budget, which is $133,560 this year, Gosack said. Rooms for the mayor and city clerk will be paid for out of their individual budgets, Gosack added.
City directors, paid $1,000 a year, also receive a $400 per month car allowance for a combined total of $40,600 annually.
The board�s budget also pays for various governmental dues, like the Western Arkansas Planning & Development District and the Arkansas Municipal League, in addition to televised meetings, which run around $1,000 per meeting.
Holifield was facilitator at the last board retreat two years ago.
At the time, the board pinpointed six strategic priorities that included fire service upgrades, Ben Geren Regional Park improvements, Interstate 49, an updated Comprehensive Plan, wet-weather sanitary sewer upgrades and riverfront development.
Because Mount Magazine is about 60 miles from Fort Smith, the July retreat has been questioned by a resident and directors.
On Thursday, At-Large Director Philip Merry Jr. requested that at Tuesday�s regular meeting, the board consider a local retreat. The late request to add the agenda item garnered support from only three of the required four directors.
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Tuesday is Groundhog Day, the one time of year we believe a drowsy, hungry rodent will somehow give us an accurate long-range weather forecast.
Can a rodent really predict the weather? And why a groundhog, anyway? We have the answers to these and other fascinating Groundhog Day riddles below.
Does the groundhog really predict the weather? No. You're much better off flipping a coin. We found no correlation between Punxsutawney Phil's predictions and whether Central New York had six more weeks of winter. (Besides, what does "six more weeks of winter" really mean?) Relying on a rodent for a long-term weather f...
Why do we call it Groundhog Day? It started as badger day in European folklore. Legend had it that if a badger emerging in the spring was scared by its shadow, winter would last longer and farmers should postpone planting. Germans immigrants arriving in central Pennsylvania found no badgers, so they settled on the next...
Why Feb. 2? Credit that to the Germans and the fluke of geography. At the latitude of Central Pennsylvania, the average temperature on Feb. 2 is about 28 degrees: warm enough, apparently, for groundhogs to wake from hibernation. If Groundhog Day had originated in Central New York, it would have been more like Feb. 25. ...
What's the difference between a groundhog and a woodchuck? None. It's the same animal with different names, like cougar and mountain lion. If you want to impress your friends, tell them the groundhog's scientific name is Marmota monax, and it's one of the largest members of the squirrel family.
So when will spring start? At the spring equinox, like it always does. (This year it's 12:30 a.m. on March 20.) Meteorologists using computers and satellites say February and March should be warmer than normal. That's a better predictor of springlike weather than, say, rodent shadows.
Groundhog Day: How well does Punxsutawney Phil's shadow predict spring in CNY?
Phil's ability to predict early springs aren't much better in Central New York than they are nationwide.
Game developers have always had a hard time getting their games funded by investors. Today a brand new convention launches that seeks to bridge that gap, Siegecon. Andrew Greenberg is the mastermind behind Siegecon which stands for Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo. Greenberg is a game designer of both pen...
Siege is a NON-Profit Trade Association and was set up with the purpose of introducing the capital advisors and new gaming developers. Before the conference starts, many new gaming developers submit a proposal stating why they should have continued support for the game they wish to develop.
What is really exciting about this year’s conference is this college fair will have over 1000 registered high school attendees. These attendees will obtain contact with some major hitters in the video game world. EA COO Richard Hilleman, Serious Games Initiative co-founder Ben Sawyer, EA Senior Vice President Richard T...
The conference starts today: October 7, 2011. If you can’t make this convention, the GDC conference in San Francisco (March), or PAX in Seattle (Aug) are great opportunities for game creators to get their name out there.
Google agreed to forfeit $500 million for helping online Canadian pharmacies to reach American consumers by letting the drug companies place advertisements through its AdWords programs, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
It is unlawful, in the majority of cases, to import prescription drugs from pharmacies outside the U.S. because it’s likely to violate the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and or the Controlled Substances Act.
"The Department of Justice will continue to hold accountable companies who in their bid for profits violate federal law and put at risk the health and safety of American consumers," Deputy Attorney General James Cole said in a statement. "This settlement ensures that Google will reform its improper advertising practice...
Google said it has already dealt with the problem.
This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 12:56 p.m. on August 24, 2011.
The web can be a lot of fun, but it’s also a pretty dangerous place to venture out into—with phishing sites, drive-by downloads and other nasties lurking around every corner. If you’re browsing on Firefox or Chrome you should give your browser some extra muscle for keeping you safe online by installing one or more of t...
Both browsers currently do a commendable job of protecting you online—just make sure you’re running the latest version of whatever application you prefer, and a lot of the worst that the internet has to offer will automatically be rebuffed anyway.
Let’s start with one of our traditional favorites, the password manager: LastPass isn’t the only option here, but it’s one of the best, and apps like this make your passwords that little bit more secure and easy to manage. The LastPass extension is able to handle all your logins for you and can securely save other sens...
One of the most popular and simplest tracking blockers out there, uBlock Origin’s mission in life is to stop websites (and the companies that run them) from gathering too much information about you, blocking code that can monitor your online activities, or worse. Just be sure to keep (unobtrusive) adverts enabled on th...
Installing a VPN is one of the best ways of staying safe online—particularly on public Wi-Fi—and you have a broad choice of apps and associated browser extensions to pick from, so take your time and do some research. We’ve chosen TunnelBear here, because it’s free to get started and well-established, and you can get up...
Another extension with a focus on privacy, offered up by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) no less. The add-on stops companies from tracking you across multiple websites, blocking hidden tracking codes and the surreptitious collection of marketing data, and you get full control over what’s blocked through a simp...
Unwelcome website code can cause all kinds of problems, security-related or otherwise, but ScriptBlock hands control back to you without being overly technical or difficult to use, and includes granular controls and whitelisting options. Other similar tools we’d recommend include ScriptSafe for Chrome and the excellent...
uMatrix is a powerful firewall for your browser with a whole host of options to can dive into to bolster your browser’s security and protect your privacy. It enables you to, for example, block scripts, iframes and ads, and see exactly what websites are getting up to. You get plenty of control too, for managing those si...
Another perennial favorite of ours that gives you a better idea of what websites are doing behind the scenes while blocking various bits of code that could do damage to your computer or your privacy. As with the other extensions here, you can customize the control for different sites, and, as an added bonus, you might ...
HTTPS is the extra-secure connection protocol you’ll see used by default on a bunch of sites, from your online banking portal to Gmail. What this extension does is make sure HTTPS is being used wherever webmasters make it available, even if it’s not usually switched on or fully implemented. It’s a simple but effective ...
Revelations that the People’s Republic of China was developing a next-generation, long- range strategic bomber and a so-called sixth- generation fighter aircraft should have come as no surprise to Western defense leaders.
The news has, however, been met with skepticism and incredulity. And confusion as to how to respond.
There is little doubt that U.S. President Barack Obama and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threw down the gauntlet to the PRC when, in 2009, they declared the U.S. “pivot to Asia”. It turned out to be an empty gesture, which only highlighted the lack of strategy from the Obama Administration.
Given that the administration had abandoned U.S. global strategic credibility and prestige, and had begun even then to hollow out the coherent ethos of the U.S. military capability, the PRC had but one option: to take a deep breath and seize the only option open to it.
That situation now prevails, and, as the Obama Administration has spent almost a decade hollowing out U.S. strategic and military thinking — and neutering its military leadership thinking and strategic innovation — and instead giving great wealth and priority to the State Department.
Yes, the role of non-military strategic options was important and had to some degree been overlooked by successive U.S. administrations, but it was not, for Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, that they saw the need to re-build a balanced, whole-of-nation, strategic capability. It was about diminishing and blaming wh...
Gone, as I said in 2008, are the days of Teddy Roosevelt’s Presidency (1901-1909) and his call to “speak softly and carry a big stick”. Instead, the Obama doctrine of “speak loudly and carry no stick” has seen the U.S. fall into increasing impotence.
It is not that the PRC and Russia do not have troubles of their own. China’s challenges are worse than Russia’s, given the PRC’s extreme vulnerability to a global logistical chain which it cannot yet dominate, its massively damaged water infrastructure and resources, and its dependence on a global market which withers ...
But what both Russia and the PRC leaders know that they must do is to weather the economic chaos of the coming decades, and emerge, essentially, as viable powers.
Part of this process inevitably entails “doing what the U.S. once did to achieve global supremacy”: building the great tools of prestige and power projection. Significantly, the U.S. took the development of its global logistics capability, its aircraft carrier battle groups, long-range strategic bombers, fighter aircra...
When the USSR disappeared, the victory seemed complete for the U.S. and its allies, until Presidetn Obama and Sec. of State Clinton thought that they could find unilateral surcease in the traditional competition which had served so well for a century.
Now, the PRC, in particular, and Russia in a different way, are calling Washington to account. For them, it is a response to an existential threat not posed by the US, but by the transforming nature of the global social and strategic architecture. This is a threat which could destroy their cohesion as classical nation-...
More importantly, these capabilities and prestigious systems create a framework around which their own peoples’ sense of nationalism can rally.
But this has a corollary for the West. This is the first time in decades that the U.S. and West have been placed on the defensive, globally. The West has not, over the past decade, responded well to this situation. Even now, its military thinkers — with some notable exceptions — insist that Russia and the PRC are not c...
How reminiscent is this of the contemptuous disregard with which U.S. military thinkers contemplated Japan in the 1930s and until 1942?
The PRC is not building its new “conventional” or “traditional” forces (to include nuclear) to fight wars, although their warfighting capability is key to their credibility. No: the PRC is building them to dominate a world not engaged in hot war.
“Grand strategy” weapons to dominate the peace are in some ways different from weapons which are decisive in actual theater combat. And, as the U.S. involvement in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars demonstrated, the use of “grand strategy weapons” in tactical engagements is expensive, both in monetary terms and in the loss...
Strategic weapons are most effective in the prestige (in other words, in the psychological) spectrum; that is where they earn their keep. Look at the 1923-24 global Empire tour of Britain’s beautiful battle cruiser, HMS Hood, and the ships of the Special Service Squadron; this flag-showing revived the United Kingdom’s ...
Meanwhile, North Korea (DPRK) has now demonstrated its ability to launch its solid-fuel KN-11 medium-range ballistic missile underwater from a Sinpo-class submarine (December 2014 and August 24, 2016); it has also undertaken its fifth demonstration detonation of a nuclear weapon, this time (Sept. 9, 2016) more advanced...
The actions of the PRC, Russia, the DPRK, and Iran in creating advanced weapons and in projecting power can no longer be wished away by the U.S. There can be no pretense that these forays are unimportant, or are bound to failure. The reality is that the U.S. now lacks the prestige and creative strategic thinking to ave...
Moreover, it is not an election which should decide whether the U.S. could or should confront the PRC, Russia, et al, because reaction is not a viable response at a strategic level. Already, reaction implies that the reactive state is not in control of the agenda. For the past eight years, the US has been forced increa...
Breaking the cycle of hubris and stagnation — which began before the Obama Administration; indeed, after the retirement of U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1989 — does not mean that the goal of the U.S. should be to confront the PRC and Russia. The first goal for the U.S. should be to confront itself, and to look at how...
For the U.S., the Western states, the PRC, Russia, the DPRK, Iran — and all states — the challenge will be how to hold together their sovereign entities in the face of trends which threaten to damage currencies, borders, self-sustainment, and identity. That the PRC and Russia are undertaking nation-building through the...
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