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The average FedEx driver salary depends on the specific position of the driver. The salary will obviously be different than what you would expect for a local route delivery driver or a traditional OTR long haul driver.
We’re going to take a look at the different salary ranges for a variety of positions within FedEx to answer the question: how much does FedEx pay compared to other companies?
FedEx Benefits
Before we jump into the pay section, it’s important to have a thorough understanding of the benefits to working for FedEx.
As an employee, you will be able to take advantage of several industry-leading benefit packages, including:
401(k) – At one time, the company did match your contribution, but they suspended the match due to the company facing hardship. This will depend on where you are located within the company, and the contribution may already be active once again. The 401(k) is set up through Vanguard investments, and even part-time employees qualify after working with the company for one year. The company may match contributions up to 6%, and a pension plan is offered by the company itself.
Employee discount – Employees will receive discounts for shipping rates, phone service and many stores.
Life insurance – All drivers will be enrolled in a life insurance plan at the company.
Early benefits – Benefits start to kick in after just three months of employment with FedEx.
Healthcare – You will be able to receive health care, dental and vision benefits through the company.
Stock options – The company offers great stock options to employees, and this is a smart choice as an investment.
Vacation – If you work for the company for one year, you will receive two weeks of vacation time. Anyone that works at the company for five years will receive three weeks of vacation. Working 10 years at the company allows you to receive four weeks of vacation time, and if you’re with the company for 20 years, you will receive five weeks of vacation per year.
Tuition assistance – The company offers tuition assistance up to $2,500 per year.
FedEx Salary Guide
Driving for FedEx requires you to have a CDL license as well as a clean driving record. All drivers for the company will have ample time at home as well as the great benefits discussed above.
Let’s take a look at the salaries for different driving positions in the company.
FedEx Driver Salary (Long Haul)
Long-haul drivers for FedEx will work for the company’s tractor trailer division.
This position is considered a ground position, and drivers are given guaranteed mileage per week.
This position, according to company employees, is meant for only owner-operators, but I cannot verify or deny this claim because the company’s website gives rather sparse information about the careers available. However, this does seem to fit our traditional view of an OTR driver and for our comparisons this is what we use.
The information provided by employees states that FedEx guarantees drivers at least 2,400 miles per week.
We did a lot of digging, and came up with a wide range of pay per mile:
.98 cents
Indeed.com states that these owner/operators earn an hourly rate of $31.95, with a total salary of $66,462.
We have concluded that the low-end figure could not be expected of a long haul driver, especially if the driver owns his or her own vehicle.
FedEx Tractor Trailer Driver Requirements
The eligibility requirements for this position are as follows:
No record of preventable accidents
No records or citations in the last year
In the last three years, you may not have:
More than three moving violations
More than one preventable accident
Reckless, aggressive or careless driving
Driving a vehicle that was found to have drugs or alcohol
Violating out of service order issues
Transporting unauthorized passengers
In the last five years, you may not have:
Any alcohol- or drug-related issues that pertains to driving
Failures to submit drug tests
Failures to stop at the scene of an accident
Failures to yield to school buses
You must have an unrestricted class A CDL license. Experience of six months or more in tractor-trailer commercial driving is required. A criminal background check will be conducted on all drivers, and you may not have had a felony in the previous seven years, a DUI in the last five years, or a misdemeanor in the last three years to be employed with FedEx.
FedEx Delivery Driver Salary (Local Routes)
A typical delivery driver earns approximately $17 per hour.
These local drivers earn an average pay of $36,000 per year.
You’ll also find that there are cash bonuses up to $5,600 a year as well as stock bonuses when working as a delivery driver. City drivers earn about $23.56 an hour, according to Glassdoor.com.
FedEx does not divulge their rates on their website, and you will need to talk to your local FedEx office to determine how much they pay in your city.
Typically, people that work in highly populated cities, such as Knoxville or New York, will earn a much higher salary due to the rigorous driving conditions.
FedEx Freight Jobs
If you’re looking for a FedEx Freight Career, you’ll be surprised to know that these drivers make an average base pay of $24 per hour, and total compensation of between $41,000 and $71,000 a year, with an average pay of $48,000 annually.
Cash bonuses are provided to employees, with the minimum being $200 and the highest being $23,000. Stock bonuses are offered, but the little information provided shows that $10 worth of stock was given.
This information pertains to freight city drivers.
FedEx LTL Driver Pay
How much does FedEx pay LTL drivers?
The average salary, according to Glassdoor.com, indicates that drivers in this division of FedEx earn between $72,000 and $79,000 per year, with a base salary totaling $75,770 per year.
This information is based on one user’s input, so it is very difficult to verify.
If FedEx does pay their LTL drivers this amount, this would indicate that FedEx pays their LTL drivers 4% more than the national average.
Working for FedEx
Many drivers seem to love working for FedEx, and the company does provide more than enough mileage for long-haul drivers. If the company does pay a decent rate of $.97 per mile for an owner-operator, this would be on the low-end, according to other truck drivers.
Prior to 2015, the company did offer matching for 401(k) benefits up to 6%, but recent reports indicate that the company no longer matches these benefits due to company hardships.
This can change at any moment, and it is uncertain if this only affected certain divisions of the company.
FedEx has many great career opportunities for drivers, and you will have more than enough home time available.
Long-haul drivers will need to own their own truck, while drivers in other divisions will utilize trucks within FedEx’s lineup. Medical benefits are very affordable, according to current employees, and the deductible for most plans is just $2,000.
FedEx is one of the leading carriers in the United States, and the company operates in the entire United States.
The company also has 300,000 employees, as estimated in 2012, with total revenues for 2015 reaching $47.45 billion and profits of $4.6 billion.
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THE MYSTERY KINDAICHI BAND: THE ADVENTURES OF KINDAICHI KOSUKE LP
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“Summer Camp Saves Lives!”
Posted in Education, Mission News, Youth on April 24, 2018
For years, Alana has served at-risk families.
As a teacher’s aide in the inner city. A community outreach worker. And now as a case manager helping moms and kids at the Mission’s Naomi Family Residence.
So it might surprise you that she was once at-risk herself as a kid in St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood. For Alana, attending Gospel Hill Camp in the 1970s gave her something to live for.
“Summer camp provided stability…”
“My parents fought a lot,” Alana explains. “Sometimes the fighting made me so upset I’d sneak out of the house. I’ve blocked out a lot of my childhood memories because of these experiences.”
When the Mission’s big purple bus roared down the street to pick up kids for Gospel Hill Camp, “I got so excited to escape my life at home,” Alana says.
At camp, Alana had a safe place to play, even at night, which meant a lot to her because her parents wouldn’t allow her to go out at night. “Summer camp provided stability,” she says. “People there looked out for me. They were like big brothers and sisters to me.”
More than fun and games, summer camp introduced Alana to the love of our John 3:16 God. She developed a personal prayer life that’s carried her through hard times, such as a serious illness and the violent murder of her stepson right behind her house.
“The Mission’s summer program saved me as a youth,” she says. “They provided a way out of the city and the opportunity just to be a kid again.”
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[South East] Conflicted Brewing
Stories taking place in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland.
Forum rules: When starting your thread, please put a location [Tag] at the beginning of it, such as [Scotland] or [Wales]. Use broad locations if possible, though more detailed descriptions are welcome for specific locations such as schools. Once your thread is complete, be sure to mark and report it as complete to be archived.
#33392 by Vivianne Vale
Location: Iver Hall, South East England • Date: Late October 2003???
Vivianne was in a small room that Mrs. Iver had instructed her to use to brew her requested potions. Supposedly no one would bother her there, and Viv surely hoped that would be the case. She wasn't sure who knew of the poison Astrid wanted, and she didn't want to get in trouble if the wrong person stumbled in and found out.
An old potions book was open on the table, its pages yellowed and margins full of scribbled notes. The current page had detailed notes on a particularly unpleasant poison. A notebook full of her own notes sat next to it. Jars and vials of ingredients were organized next to the cauldron, including substances like venomous tentacle juice and moonseeds.
On the opposite end of the table there was a large vial of light orange liquid. This was the antidote she had just finished earlier that day. Astrid may have said that the poison was more important to her, but Viv wanted to make sure that the antidote was brewed and ready first just in case anything went wrong.
Now she just had to finish the poison. Which Astrid would maybe hopefully not actually need to use?? She tried to shake off the uneasy feeling inside her as she flipped through her notes again. Yes, let's go back to pretending that this was all just an academic exercise. This was just a fascinating poison that used venomous tentacular juice - such an interesting plant! The juice alone wasn't necessarily lethal, but it would certainly give an awful burning sensation in the stomach of whoever drank it.
She slowly poured a vial of the juice into the cauldron, the mixture sizzling as she steadily stirred clockwise. Her eyebrows were narrowed, eye focused and her expression serious, as she carefully followed each step.
Vivianne Vale
Played By: Boots
Re: [South East] Conflicted Brewing
#33424 by Viola York
Viola had been curious about Astrid's new-found potioneer ever since she magically turned up out of nowhere. And of course, an envy had spiked within her. She was the only potioneer of Iver Hall, whether Astrid liked it or not; Viola was intelligent, cunning, ruthless, and creative. She was born to be in this role, if not higher, and she wasn't about to let some random plant-obsessed girl mess with her chances!
Although, as she tip-toed into the room, leaning against the door frame of the potions room, she had to admit that it was an impressive set up. She'd been looking for amateur mistakes in the tools and equipment, but apparently Vivianne at least knew some of her stuff...Viola supposed. She looked over the girl carefully, folding her arms, before eventually clearing her throat.
"So, you're Mrs Iver's new toy, are you? What's it like to be in her good graces?" She asked, smirking.
There's nothing scarier
than a woman on a mission
Viola York
Practical Potioneer Magazine
Played By: Vyreia
After a minute Vivianne stopped stirring, glanced at her notes again, and took several moonseeds out of one of the jars. However at the sound of Viola clearing her throat Viv nearly dropped it. She jumped, startled by the sudden appearance of the other woman.
“What - who - uh, hi!” Vivianne stammered while trying to quickly hide her book and notes under some blank parchment. Of course that act probably made her look suspicious but what else was she to do? She wasn’t prepared for random visitors!
“Well, I don’t know if you’d call it good graces. More like neutral graces? I don’t think she’s made her mind up about me yet!” She gave a nervous laugh as she grabbed a mortar and pestle, placing the moonseeds inside, and began grinding them. Vivianne couldn’t exactly stop working on the poison now, or the timing could get screwed up. Hopefully this woman didn’t know anything about plants or potions??? Otherwise she might recognize the moonseeds and how poisonous they were.
Viola raised a brow. "Nobody is neutral with Astrid; she has a set opinion on everyone, and once she has it, it's excruciatingly hard to change it. She will always make sure you fit the narrative she has imagined for you." She stepped in further, scuffing her heels on the floor laxly, arms swinging loosely as though she hadn't a care in the world.
"She probably knows exactly what she wants to do with you, and she will do everything in her power to manipulate you to do it anyway, as though it was all your idea to begin with." She continued, stepping further into the room.
She tilted her head at what Viv was doing, and soon, a sly smile begin to form on her lips.
"I see she's already getting you to act darkly...throwing you right into the deep end, I suppose. So...who's it for? Did she tell you?" She asked, nodding to the moonseeds.
Vivianne gave a slight frown as she listened to Viola. What this woman was saying didn't sound unlikely - Astrid did seem to have a dangerous, manipulative edge to her. She had convinced her to make this poison, after all!
"I guess I'll find out what she thinks once the month is up," though Vivianne wasn't sure if she'd be sticking around even if she was in Mrs. Iver's good graces. Right now she just needed this woman to leave before she got too curious about what Viv was making -- too late!
"Uh- what are you talking about? Oh, this isn't for anyone. Just some studying and practice!" Vivianne focused her gaze on the moonseeds she was grinding, trying not to look at Viola. Trying to look innocent and studious and Not-Suspicious-At-All. She shifted her weight on the stool, clearly uncomfortable.
Viola chuckled darkly, and then began to approach, a sensual edge to her as she stepped closer still.
"Now, what would you need to practice brewing poisons for, though? Got an enemy? Want a method of blackmail? Plotting something? Don't pretend you're better than all of this; you're at Iver Hall, after all. The very centre of cultivating dark arts - death and decay claw at its walls. And you really expect me to believe that this is just all an innocent coincidence that you're brewing such things here? Don't make me laugh."
She sidled up to Vivianne, peering over her shoulder.
"I make poisons too, y'know. Lots. I've made many potions for the Ivers...and seeing you secretly making a poison, hiding it from me, speaking about only being on probation can only give me one conclusion unless you tell me otherwise." She tilted her head. "You want to kill the current potioneer and take her place."
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Freddie Mercury sings 'Time Waits for No One' in unearthed recording
June 20 (UPI) -- An unearthed recording of Freddie Mercury singing "Time Waits for No One" is being released as a new single.
USA Today reported Thursday the late Queen singer performed the stripped-down version of "Time" during a recording session with producer Dave Clark in 1986. Mercury died at age 45 in November 1991.
"Time Waits for No One" features Mercury and a sole piano, versus the dozens of musical and backup vocal tracks on "Time." Clark told Yahoo! Entertainment that listening to Mercury sing the simple version gave him goosebumps.
"Nobody was there. It was just amazing. I can't even explain it," Clark said.
"Time Waits for No One" was lost after recording and Clark said he spent a decade trying to find the track. He found the recording in his tape archive in 2018 but waited to release the song until after the premiere of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.
In addition, Clark created a new video for "Time Waits for No One" from original negatives and unused, unprocessed film footage from the "Time" music video.
"Freddie just wanted to have fun and live in the moment," Clark told USA Today. "We were both aiming to create something special and it certainly was special."
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A Better Way To Deliver The News
Strategy / Branding / Interactive / Custom CMS
Making The Right Pitch
Seattle Met, a SagaCity Media company, is Seattle’s monthly indispensable news, culture, and lifestyle magazine. Favoring bold design, eye-catching photography, and a witty editorial voice, they came to us for help reworking their sales & media kit, in addition to moving their print publication to the web.
After the Sales & Media redesign, Seattle Met Ad Revenue sales increased by 10%. We were off to a great start.
A New Way To Deliver The News
Being the city’s go-to guide for news, culture and lifestyle for almost a decade, moving a print publication to web carried huge responsibilities. We would not only be designing the front-end, but an elaborate rail-based CMS to manage content and supporting mobile app geared towards Seattle restaurants.
We started by organizing the massive amount of content that Seattle Met wanted to feature. Information Architecture for a large scale new site is no joke. Wireframes helped to ensure content of easily navigable – whether you’re looking for a new hiking trail or the hippest boutique shops.
Giving Context To The Content
A visually compelling hierarchy was created using a clean grid structure of content boxes and regions. Typography, color palette and subtle ui elements further assist readability, while establishing a consistent user experience.
After the redesign was launched, time spent on the site shot up a whopping 75%.
Giving Context to Content
Before we started working on seattlemet.com, it took five staffers two full weeks to upload a single issue of the magazine. Our custom Ruby on Rails CMS cut the upload time to a single day. In addition, our SEO work helped them reach page one of Google for several keywords within just three months.
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Nosh Pit is one of the magazine’s most popular sections, featuring restaurant reviews from all over the city. We snagged the restaurants and reviews and consolidated them into a niffty iOS app. Now loyal readers are never more than a few taps away from finding a great place to eat!
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Retail apocalypse: Nearly 9,100 store closings have been announced in 2019
Kelly Tyko
The retail apocalypse isn't showing any signs of slowing down.
Nearly 9,100 store closures have been announced in 2019, 55% higher than total closures in 2018, according to a recent report from global marketing research firm Coresight Research.
On Nov. 25, A.C. Moore's parent company announced its 145 stores will close with up to 40 of them set to become Michaels.
Coresight, which has offices in Manhattan, London and Hong Kong, tracked the 5,864 closings in 2018, which included all Toys R Us stores and hundreds of Kmart and Sears locations.
Bankrupt footwear company Payless ShoeSource, which closed its remaining U.S. stores in late June, accounts for the largest number of closings with more than 2,500.
The "going-out-of-business" sales and liquidation of other brands is expected to continue. Coresight estimates closures could reach 12,000 by the end of the year, the report said.
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The record year for closings was 2017, with 8,139 shuttered stores, Coresight found. This included an earlier round of Payless closings, the entire HHGregg electronics and appliance chain, and hundreds of Sears and Kmart stores.
The pain is expected to continue into future years, according to an April report from UBS Securities. UBS analysts said 75,000 more stores would need to be shuttered by 2026 if e-commerce penetration rises to 25% from its current level of 16%.
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A separate analysis by UBS said tariffs on Chinese imports could put $40 billion of sales and 12,000 stores at risk.
“The market is not realizing how much brick & mortar retail is incrementally struggling and how new 25% tariffs could force widespread store closures,” UBS analyst Jay Sole wrote in the May report. "We think potential 25% tariffs on Chinese imports could accelerate pressure on these company’s profit margins to the point where major store closures become a real possibility.”
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Closing all locations
Thousands of locations have already closed this year with the final Payless stores finishing their liquidation sales in June. All Charlotte Russe stores closed in April but the company's new owner has started to open new stores.
Payless ShoeSource: 2,589 (includes 248 Canada locations and 114 smaller-format stores in Shopko Hometown locations).
Gymboree/Crazy 8: 749
Dressbarn: 649
Fred's: 568; the final approximately 80 stores are now set to close after several rounds of closings this year, the company announced Sept. 9. The last round of closing of 129 stores was announced in July.
Charlotte Russe: 494; but the company's new owner is opening new stores.
Shopko: 371
Charming Charlie: 261
Avenue: 222
LifeWay Christian Resources: 170
Kitchen Collection: 160
A.C. Moore: 145
A'Gaci: 54
Henri Bendel: 23
E.L.F. Beauty: 22
Barneys New York: 22
Topshop: All 11 U.S. stores
More closings
Some of the announced closures may carryover into 2020, which was the case with several closings announced in late 2018 such as Lowe's, Sears and Kmart. Gap Inc. announced Feb. 28 it would close roughly 230 stores over two years. Some retailers also are opening new stores while closing locations including Bath & Body Works and Abercrombie & Fitch.
Family Dollar: As many as 390 stores
Forever 21: The fashion retailer said it would close "most" of its stores in Asia and Europe and up to 178 stores in the U.S. Here's the list of 111 stores that are slated to close.
GNC: 192 stores closed in first six months of year; up to 900 over the next three years.
Kmart: 45 closings were announced for February 2020. This comes after five stores closed in October and 48 stores earlier this year. More stores also will close in December.
Gap: Roughly 230 in next two years
Destination Maternity: More than 200 in addition to other recent closures, includes Motherhood Maternity and A Pea in the Pod stores
Walgreens: 200
Chico's: 74, but 250 over the next three years.
Sears: 51 closings were announced for February 2020. This comes after 21 stores closed in October and 72 stores earlier this year. More stores also will close in December.
GameStop: 180 to 200 globally
Foot Locker: 165, total includes closings outside of the U.S.
Signet Jewelers: The parent company of Kay, Zales and Jared said it would close another 150 stores.
Pier 1 Imports: 57, but up to 145 could close.
Ascena Retail: 120
Bed Bath & Beyond: 60
Party City: 55
Victoria's Secret: 53
Vera Bradley: 50
Office Depot: 50
CVS: 46 in 2019; another 22 store closures planned for 2020.
Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores: 45
The Children's Place: Up to 45
Z Gallerie: 44
DKNY: 41
Stage Stores: 40 to 60
Abercrombie & Fitch: 40
Francesca's: At least 30 stores
Build-A-Bear: Up to 30 over two years
Williams-Sonoma: 30
J.C. Penney: 27
Bath & Body Works: 24
Southeastern Grocers: 22
Saks Off 5th: 20
Lowe's: 20
J. Crew: 20
Macy's: 8
Nordstrom: 7
Target: 6
J.Crew: 5
Kohl's: 4
Whole Foods: 1
Calvin Klein: 1
Pottery Barn: 1
Source: Coresight Research; staff research
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Follow USA TODAY reporter Kelly Tyko on Twitter: @KellyTyko
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Judge blocks Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban from going into effect
Sarah Fowler
Clarion Ledger
JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order to stop Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban, the most restrictive in the nation, from going into effect.
On Monday, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1510 into law, making it immediately illegal for a woman to obtain an abortion after 15 weeks gestation. Mississippi's previous law restricted abortion access within the state to 20 weeks. The state's sole abortion clinic, Women's Health Organization, located in Jackson, does not perform abortions past 16 weeks.
In response to the new law, lawyer Rob McDuff filed a hearing request for a temporary restraining order on behalf of Women's Health Organization.
Appearing via conference call in front of federal District Judge Carlton Reeves, McDuff said the state's ban was unconstitutional, citing case law that included the landmark 1972 case of Roe v. Wade.
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A woman at 15 weeks gestation is scheduled to have an abortion at 2 p.m. CT Tuesday at Women's Health Organization, McDuff said. The new law would make that abortion impossible.
If the 10-day temporary restraining order had not been issued immediately, McDuff said the woman would have been left with limited options. The clinic's next available appointment is in eight days, putting her past 16 weeks gestation and unable to obtain a safe and legal abortion in Mississippi.
Two other women at 15 weeks gestation are scheduled to have abortions at the clinic next week, McDuff said.
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“It is very clear under existing law that women have a right to make their own decision,” McDuff said. The law enacted Monday would inflict irreparable harm, he contended.
The state's ban focuses on what Mississippi officials perceive as a risk to women, said Paul Barnes, special assistant to the attorney general.
“The single greatest factor in determining risk of abortion is gestational age,” Barnes said.
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“Abortions being performed at 12, 13, 14, 15, each of those weeks, the risk goes up,” Barnes said. “That is one of the harms this bill is designed to protect. … Risk increases exponentially from one week to the next.”
Last week, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine published a paper that said abortion using a licensed professional is a safe practice.
"The viability line is constantly moving," Barnes said of the state’s position. “When viability is the issue, then the state’s interest trumps the woman’s interest. It’s always moving in favor of the state’s authority, it’s never moving the other direction.”
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“The more developed the fetus is, the state’s interest is stronger in protecting unborn life,” he said.
In the United States, a fetus can live outside the womb with proper neonatal intensive care at 24 weeks of gestation, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The earliest premature baby that survived was born in San Antonio in 2014 after 21 weeks and 4 days of gestation.
Reeves asked Barnes if viability was included in the state’s bill, noting that at 14 weeks, a fetus as “no chance of survival outside the womb.”
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“If there is no viability, the state has no real interest in telling a woman what to do with her body,” the judge said.
Barnes then said the state’s interest to protect unborn life “trumps the woman’s interest.”
Under Barnes’ argument, McDuff said the state could attempt to gut a woman’s make choices about her body.
“The state could continue to dial back the right to choose until it’s eviscerated,” McDuff said. “They could abolish the right to choose.”
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Course Corrections to Address Gender Harassment in Science
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Dr. Kate Clancy presentation on the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Committee's consensus study report on Sexual Harassment of Women. This recording does not capture the first 10 minutes of the presentation.
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Date Taken: August 2018 (approx.)
Location Taken: Reston, VA, US
Kate Clancy: So I just want to give you some examples of general incivility versus gender
harassment.
They're both sort of general, ambiguous, but there are some interesting differences.
General incivility would be the person who wrote me and said, "Did you really do the
research or are you just pushing an ideology?"
So a really subtle dig at do I have the expertise, have I really done the work, or am I just
an activist when it comes to studying sexual harassment versus the emeritus professor of
biology at the University of Virginia who wrote me and said, "So who did you **** to
get up the ladder?"
That was more gendered.
Part of the reason it was very clearly gendered is that he went on to talk about the fact
that this is what women do, that the only way women achieve is through sleeping their
way up.
That was again, very obviously contempt towards me as a woman.
Whereas that first one was, who knows whether he would have written the same thing to a
woman or to a man.
I suspect he would write that to women more than men.
Again, it was ambiguous in its intent.
Now, I want to get straight to talking about some of the data.
As you may know, I have a couple different data sets that I work from here that I've
collected with my some great collaborators, some work on the field sciences, and on astronomy
and planetary science.
I'm also going to be talking today about some work that's under review that were a number
of focus groups we were in with women of color science faculty.
This study that I'm showing some of the first graphs from is the safe study that you might
be familiar with.
Our first paper was published in 2014.
This surveyed over 600 folks across the field sciences.
We asked them a couple different questions in terms of the extent to which they'd observed
harassment in the work place; the extent to which they had experienced it directly; and
whether or not they had ever been assaulted, or physically harassed in any way.
We found, as you might imagine, a statistically significant difference in who had observed
harassment, where in this case, about 75% of women and 60% of men had observed sort
of these more gender harassment behaviors.
Inappropriate comments at field sites.
We coded this as gender harassment or put-downs.
We also looked at the same thing in our astronomy and planetary science sample and found the
same thing in terms of who had actually observed sexual harassment.
We saw about 80% of women and a little more than 40% of men had observed sexist remarks
in their workplace in the astronomy and planetary science sample.
In terms of who it happens to, in our field sciences sample, we found that female trainees
were targeted the most, and you can see my cursor.
You can see, when looking at overall numbers, you can see 71% of women and 41% of men, but
then when you look at the trainee level you've got 84% of women and 68% of men harassed.
86% of women, 75% of men.
So you can see really that trainee position, when it comes to the field sciences in particular
it's a very vulnerable time.
In astronomy and planetary science, we were curious not just about rank or gender.
We wanted to add in some analyses around race.
We compared the experiences of women of color and white women in particular, we found through
nearly every single conceivable metric in terms of ... we asked for many different types
of identity harassment.
We asked about gender, gender identity, race, physical ability, mental ability/neural diversity,
religion, transphobia, homophobia.
Across all of those different metrics, women of color pretty much always had more harassment.
That was looking across remarks from peers, remarks from supervisors and remarks from
others across the workplace hierarchy.
The next thing I want to show is who is actually perpetrating.
We don't know this for all of our data sets because we don't always ask, but in field
sciences we did ask at least whether or not these folks were inferior to them in the hierarchy,
their peers, superior to them in the hierarchy, or a local community member.
The reason we did that is that one of the things when we first started doing this work
that people swore to us up and down is all the harassment are locals.
They were like, "Everyone who's harassing field workers are always locals."
Really, that's just not the case.
In fact, about 20% of harassment for women comes from locals.
But you can see that about 25% is coming from peers, and almost 50% from those superior
to them in the hierarchy; and kind of similar for assault, where for women the greatest
sources of perpetration were folks superior to them in the hierarchy.
I think that's really interesting to point out, and actually it's a bit unusual in general
in the sexual harassment literature.
I just want to show you, this is a grad school sample from just a couple years ago.
A large R1 institution that showed that generally speaking, sexual harassment of women and men
is more likely to come from fellow students than from faculty or staff.
Again, that faculty and staff number is still pretty high.
For women, it still means that 40% of their harassment is coming from faculty or staff.
For men it's still 20% or more than that.
These are still significant numbers, but the reason the field is different, and I imagine
those who conduct field work who are listening can empathize with or understand this, is
that field sites and field schools are, people treat them a lot differently than they treat
other professional workplaces.
Field schools and field sites and field stations, these are workplaces.
There are staff who come and help with food, or there are staff that are technicians.
There are faculty, students, all sorts of people who are there conducting research.
Yet, even though they are there to do research, there's a certain way in which people seem
to think it's more appropriate to transgress certain boundaries because they don't treat
it like it's a professional workplace.
The question is why they so often think what happens in the field stays in the field.
It's one of the lines that we coded for the most frequently in a lot of our interviews.
Why is it some many people think what happens in the field sites in the field, that we're
allowed to be silent about what happens there?
And that we're allowed to transgress professional boundaries that we know better about when
we're back on campuses.
Again, that's not to say these things aren't happening on campuses, but at field sites
we think we see more vertical forms of harassment and possibly more sexual forms of harassment
than in a lot of other science workplaces.
Which just means different things we have to really think about depending on what particular
context we're trying to deal with.
The question is is it really that bad.
Folks who've been in the sciences for several decades, might be able to notice that there
are ways in which things have gotten better women and female identified folk.
And that maybe to them there's less harassment.
Maybe to them there are more women here than there were before.
Anyway, isn't this just something we all need to handle because there are just sexist, racist
people in the world, and dealing with them is just part of dealing with life?
I would say that that's not an okay perspective to hold.
I just want to walk you through a few more important data points to make this point.
One, this is another analysis that a couple different papers have showed a really interesting
relationship where, I think a lot of us would assume that come ons are worse in terms of
personal and professional outcomes than put downs.
Because, come ons, sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexualized behaviors towards you
feel really demoralizing and awful and scary.
Put downs, come on, just taking your coffee mug, leaving you off an email, sabotaging
some equipment.
Those all feel terrible, but I think people really think that because they're so small
they're not that big a deal.
But it turns out that when you include variables like perpetrator power and frequency, also,
actually I didn't include in the slide, variety, it really moderates the relationship between
the type of harassment and the severity of personal and professional outcomes.
Put downs, if someone does something to you that's a put down, just once, you probably
move on, it's not a big deal.
In fact we probably all put down each other from time to time, and it's often in fact
accidental.
When they happen just once, it's not a big deal.
If the person who's doing it to you has more power than you, and I'm not just talking about
positional power like your boss.
But if they have more power than you because they're a man and you're woman.
If they have more power than you because they are straight and you're gay.
If they have more power because they're cisgender and you're transgender.
Those are other forms of perpetrator power.
If they're frequent.
The thing is, is put downs, the ones that are minor that we all just accidentally do
from time to time, and whatever, we usually try to notice and apologize.
I'm talking about the ones that happen to people all the time.
Five times, 10 times, every single day.
That kind of frequency, that really does change things.
A lot of women in the work place actually do experience highly frequent puts downs by
people with more power than them.
Even if that positional power isn't always there.
In terms of the actual consequences of these kinds of behaviors, there's a couple of different
consequences I want to talk about it.
The first is, in that astronomy and planetary science sample, one of the things that we
asked everybody, all respondents to the sample.
They asked them two key questions.
We asked them first, and this is just over the last five years since they took the survey.
It was administered in 2015.
We are asking from 2011 to 2015, not 1960 to 2015.
Just in the last five years.
Have you ever been made to feel unsafe in your workplace?
Was one of the questions we asked.
Another was, have you ever skipped professional events because you felt unsafe?
40% of the women of color in that sample felt unsafe in their workplace, in their current
position just in the last five years.
I hope that you'll maybe sit with that for just a moment and think about how many women
of color you know.
There's probably a lot.
And think about what it means that almost half of them feel unsafe at work.
I feel fairly safe extending these data to other science workplaces, given some of the
qualitative data that we've done with this group so far.
If anything it might actually be worse in some places.
27% of white women said that they felt unsafe.
And then, 28% of women of color felt unsafe because of race.
These are profound, ginormous effects.
To actually feel unsafe at work.
Again, we're all scientists.
Or we're staff that are supportive of scientists.
We are working in a science environment.
Many, if not most of us, are here because we feel a certain calling.
We're doing this work because we have trouble imagining doing anything else.
We're doing this work because maybe we can imagine doing a lot of other things that we'd
be happier doing, but this is the one that we think is going to make the biggest change
There's some reason that we're doing this work because we feel driven to do it, because
we want to make change, because it makes us happy.
Now imagine what it's like for women of color scientists, for about half of them, basically
have them taken away because they can't even feel safe at work.
Now one of the other things that we found, like I said, there was this other question:
have you ever actually skipped professional events?
And a significant amount of women across both of those samples did.
Women of color and white women skipped professional events.
Close to 20% in fact for women of color and 12% for white women.
It was not significantly different between those two groups.
The percentages were pretty similar.
Again, I want you to think about, if somebody is at work that's supposed to make them happy,
a job that they are there to do because they love it and because they want to make change,
and they want to make the world better, and they want to advance American science and
get their name out there and discover something amazing, yet, their workplace exhausts them
so much that they just go home at the end of the day.
They don't stay for that extra working.
Or they avoid that seminar because of that one person that always makes them feel like
garbage.
Or they don't go to this other event because it means plastering on a smile for another
two hours after plastering on a smile all day and dealing with the daily instabilities
and indignities of being a woman of color in the sciences.
I want you to think through what that means, what that means to miss all of those things
professionally.
Finally I want to share with you just a little bit more data about this, that's to show you
the ways in which, again, what seem like minor things are actually major.
Here are better and worse outcomes.
Actually the Office of Communications slide is covering...there we go, now I can see what
was on the slide.
There's a couple different slides from this particular 2005 paper, but I'm just going
to talk about one.
You can see better and worse outcomes.
The farther down you get on this axis, the worse the outcomes.
This is a job related outcomes with one variable that was looking at an aggregate variable,
looking at a number of different things.
They're looking at absenteeism, job turnover intentions, satisfaction with your job, a
bunch of those types of things.
What's really notable here is that where do you see the largest jump from better outcomes
to worse outcomes?
It's when you go from everything's totally fine to incivilities.
Incivilities, those things that we think of are not that big a deal because they're just
little, they're ambiguous, who knows why people are doing them?
But those kinds of things that create a work environment, that's where you see the largest
jump in terms of job related outcomes.
Then gender harassment, and then only when you add in sexualized harassment do you see
a little bit more of a jump.
Again, notice this is where the hugest decline in outcomes occurs.
Those things that we think of as little, they are not little.
What are some other compounding effects?
I talked about frequency and perpetrator power.
But in particular, like I mentioned, we've run some focused groups with female science
faculty of color and that work is in revisions, but I just want to show you the overall model
that we ended up creating, and a grounded approach after we coded and recoded those
focus groups about a zillion times.
It's that we found that social context is one of the things that affects women of color
scientists experiences of incivility and harassment.
The reason this is notable is I want you to think about your workplace, whatever department
or office or field station you are calling in from.
Think about how many women of color there are in your workplace.
Are there zero?
One?
A handful?
In the sciences these numbers are typically very low.
Now I want to think about whatever your identity happens to be.
If you are a woman of color yourself, or if you've ever been in this situation where you
are the only of your identity in a room.
For instance, in this sample, something that happened to one of our respondents was she
is a woman of color in the sciences, that's who we sampled.
She was in a faculty meeting where someone said, "You know, maybe we really need to start
thinking about this diversity thing, and start trying to hire more diverse people."
First she's thinking to herself, "Oh good, maybe the folks in my department are finally
starting to get it."
Somebody else in the department said, "Yeah, but really can't sacrifice excellence."
She's thinking to herself, "Well, I'm a woman of color and I'm excellent."
It rendered her completely invisible in that moment.
What it said was there's no such thing as a diverse hire who's also excellent.
When you are in that kind of moment where you hear something that's racist or sexist
or rude and there's nobody else in that room that looks like you, who do you look to say
"Wow that was messed up?"
Who do you check your thinking with?
As a white woman in anthropology, I have a lot of other white women I can look to.
When something happens in a faculty meeting that I think is messed up, I immediately can
look around in the room and be like, "oh, there's that person," and you do that thing
where you open your eyes a little bit.
You do that little "whoa that was messed up," and they make that same face back at you,
"whoa that was messed up," and then you get a little information.
I'm not crazy.
That was a messed up thing.
What we found in our sample was there were two ways that women of color ended up going.
The women who were isolated, who did not have anyone to look at.
Something crappy happened to them or happened in their environment and they had no one to
check their thinking with.
They had what we call internalized gas lighting.
They had no way to check their thinking and eventually all those messages that they weren't
good enough, that they don't belong, that they're the affirmative action hire, that
they're crappy at their jobs, it became internalized, and they eventually believed, "Maybe I'm actually
kind of crappy.
Maybe I don't belong."
They ended up having this "is it me?"
thing that we ended up coding quite a bit.
They would say things like, over and multiple times, they'd say, "I don't know.
Why did they do this.
Why would they act this way towards me?
There's no reason to act the way that they're acting."
Those kinds of things they said over, and over, and over again.
The women of color who had people to talk to, there was at least one other woman of
color in their department.
There were some people that they could hop on the phone with.
They had a social network on Facebook that they could talk to.
They were able to check their thinking and develop a meta awareness.
They were able to say, "Wow, this is not that I suck at my job.
It's that you suck and you're a jerk."
So they were able to develop meta awareness and a recognition.
Not "I don't know," but "I know and I understand the deeper structural issues that are leading
to you acting this way.
I can externalize it and understand it's not about me."
Let me give you two brief examples from this.
In terms of the isolation example, one of our respondents said, "They were just so angry
at me for no reason.
At least I couldn't think, just like you said, maybe things you cannot prove.
Maybe they think, 'They can't be treating you like this because you're a woman and an
Asian, and you look there's no bigger guy behind you.'
Even so, I just don't understand it.
There's no need to be rude.
Unless I did something to them, there's no reason."
Now I want to give an example of a woman of color who was teaching, and a white man in
her class got really mad at her about a grade, and he got up in her face and was yelling
at her.
In fact, he followed her.
He yelled at her and followed her all the way back to her office.
But the one good thing is, there were other women of color, her students, who were also
in that class, and they saw it happen, and they followed them to this faculty member's
In fact, they stayed outside the office for the duration of this guy's tirade about his
grade.
They texted her the whole time, "Are you okay?
Do you want us to call campus police?"
And this woman said of this experience: "If I didn't have those other female students
that were there, I don't think I would have - I think I might have left the office saying,
'What did I say or do that caused him to get angry?'"
I just want you to sit for a minute, especially those of you who maybe have more privileged
identities who are listening about how many times you've ever had someone act really rudely
to you, and whether or not you understood why it's happening.
Because for people who have underrepresented identities, we spend most of our time trying
to figure out why people are treating us like crap.
Because we get treated like crap a lot.
Sometimes it's really ambiguous.
Sometimes it's really obvious.
But it's so frequent, that it can't help but get under our skin sometimes.
And so the fact that even in this incredibly obvious example where this white man is yelling
at her face and following her to her office, she still, instead of understanding this guy
is a jerk, she still was questioning it.
The only reason she ended up being able to externalize it is because of those brave students.
Now I just want to briefly go through some course corrections.
Some ways in which institutions tend to address things, and the way I'd rather them do it
frankly.
First, the ways in which institutions get off course is that they are overly focused
on the sexual harassment.
Again, I hope that I have beaten to death the idea that sexual harassment is not about
It's more about gender, and it's about put downs and contempt.
Here's one of my favorite quotes about this from my colleague Lilia Cortina, she says
"Sexual harassment is less about conquest, more about contempt.
It's less about lechery, more about a**holery."
This is a really important concept.
And the words make it funny, which makes it really easy to remember.
Less of a conquest, more of a contempt.
Less about lechery, more about a**holery.
We can focus on promoting compassion in collegial behavior.
We can focus on sanctioning cruelty and discrimination.
And we can consider common practices and whether they actually contribute to an environment
of harassment.
Here's what I mean by that.
What are your practices for seminars?
Is it typical for people to interrupt?
Is it typical for people save their questions for the end?
How kindly do they ask those questions?
Are there ways in which you actually encourage trainees to ask the first questions at a seminar?
Is there one crotchety guy who always asks the same question that's really about him?
To what extent, if you know that your seminar process is kind of broken, have you ever done
anything about it and said, "You know what, instead of making it so that the senior faculty
just interrupt and ask what they want and make everything about them, what if we have
a rule that the first two questions have to be from trainees?
What if we made it so that we encouraged people at the start of seminars and reminded them,
'Hey, we've decided we're going to change our seminar format, and we're not going to
have people interrupt throughout the seminar, but instead ask questions at the end.'"
What happens if you actually just start to change some of those things in really tiny
ways?
What happens if when you see somebody do something wrong, you actually sanction them in some
small way?
And by sanctioning I mean as mild as have a conversation with them.
Just today one of my colleagues at Illinois texted me.
She's pregnant, and she's towards the end of her pregnancy, and is experiencing some
symptoms around the fact that she's a bit high risk.
So she can't teach the last two weeks of class.
She prepared everything for the person who's filling in for her and made it as easy as
She did all the work to make things ready for him.
Then he says to one of her colleagues, who also happens to be her friend, "God, I wish
I could get pregnant, because then I'd get to take a two-week vacation too."
Which, as someone who's been pregnant twice and has two children myself, I found this
to be a pretty appalling statement, not to mention illegal.
Now in this moment, it turns out that this man who heard this sexist and discriminatory,
and technically it's gender harassment, discriminatory remark from the visiting assistant professor,
instead of calling him out on it, he just let it slide and then complained to my pregnant
friend.
What he should have done in that moment was say "Wow, what exactly do you mean by that?
Do you think pregnancy's a vacation?"
Or, "Do you think that's an okay thing to say to me?"
It's a really easy intervention.
Or you could just say, "Wow, I'm surprised that you would make that statement."
There are really mild ways that you can intervene when you hear someone something that is sexist.
With worst of your transgressions there are more serious sanctions.
Next off course: institutions are overly focused on legal solutions.
So I want to give you a quote from an article on the culture of compliance and Title IX.
This is Joanna Grossman, and she says: "The rules of employer liability for harassment
are calculated to ensure that employers adopt basic policies and procedures with respect
to workplace harassment, not, surprisingly, to ensure that they actually prevent it."
You have to ask yourself, are the kinds of policies we have in place at USGS, are they
about adopting policies that ensure that they understand that these things exist?
Are they doing this just to comply with things?
Or are they doing things that are really taking a look at culture and trying to produce real
change and prevent sexual harassment.
We need to take more proactive measures to address culture and climate.
These are two different things.
Climate is kind of like if you're just putting your finger on the pulse of your workplace
today, which can vary.
It's somewhere like USGS.
It can vary with who's in office, what politicians are feeling like picking up science today.
Those kinds of things.
It could also be the weather, it could be an economic downturn, it could be a gain of
funding, it could be someone retiring that you're really going to miss.
Those kinds of smaller things can effect change.
Oh, my webcam got disconnected for some reason.
I'm almost done talking, so as long as you can still hear me, I'm just going to fix the
camera after I'm done giving the talk.
Taking proactive measures to address culture and climate.
There we go.
Focus on sustained and specific analysis of your workplace.
Climate surveys are a great way to do that.
Start addressing systemic problems you know about now.
The thing that I wanted to say that I forgot about to climates, having your finger on the
pulse of things right now.
Culture is the more deep seeded stuff, and historical context, the cultural context,
the slower moving things that you know are systemic and broad.
There are probably some things that you know are problems right now that you feel helpless
to do anything about.
You need to start thinking about what you can do today and not wait for a climate survey
or a task force or a committee.
Just start doing something right now.
The other is, again, to consider sections below the legal threshold for bad actors.
This visiting assistant professor who said the sexist thing today which literally just
happened today.
Part of me wants to report that guy to Title IX.
Because what he did was gender discrimination.
It was a messed up thing to say.
And it made my friend, who is untenured, feel terrible, and feel like, "So that's how this
guy feels.
Who knows how many other people in my department think that I'm just slacking off as a pregnant
person?"
But at the same time that's probably not going to produce real change, immediately reporting
him to Title IX.
What would make more sense would be having a conversation with him.
Not necessarily my friend, the pregnant person.
But considering a larger community response to something like that.
Having people actually confront him and talk to him about, "Hey turns out what you said
is not cool."
Overly deferential to tradition and honoring the past.
Here I want to give you a quote.
This is another project of mine with Kelly Cross and some other folks and women of color
in engineering.
This is actually about a statue that just got erected a couple of years ago at Illinois
of Quinn the quintessential engineer.
And it's the first statue of a woman I think that we have on the entire campus.
And in particular, what's really amazing of course is that it's representing engineering,
because all of the other engineer things are horrible phallic statues.
So this is an actually female statue.
So this undergrad says: "We're going to take pictures on the statue
because we're the quintessential engineer."
So all of a sudden, I saw quite a few of my friends like that became their profile picture,
and there's such a confidence in it and a pride in it.
Here's an image of the quintessential engineer.
Or Quinn as she's being called.
Inspirational, innovative, confident, you can see all these words on the bottom.
This was a real big deal when this was created, and you can see all these folks who, even
on this terrible rainy day, came to see her being unveiled.
This is right in front of our engineering library.
These kinds of images are needed to counteract some of the narratives that we have about
the incredibly macho culture that we have in the sciences.
I use Indiana Jones, because frankly, a lot of the folks that I've interviewed for my
research explicitly invoke him.
They say, "The dudes at my field site all think they're Indiana Jones."
That means aside from maybe not liking snakes, he's a pretty dudely guy.
He's powerful, he's strong, he gets the girl.
He's a colonizer.
He steals stuff that doesn't belong to him.
He does all these things just because he wants to and because he thinks he's always in the
Another way to put this is the way Jennifer Bridal does who also studies workplaces.
She calls this the masculinity contest.
A course correction would be to move from tradition and honoring these past ways of
thinking about field work, past ways of thinking about science, and move towards inclusion.
So replace racist mascots, replace sexist cheers, replace exclusive traditions with
new and inclusive ones.
Are there any things that you do at your field stations, at your offices, at your departments
that you do because of tradition?
And is that tradition dog whistling to the people who are currently in your department
that really what matters is the people who started your department?
Think about the fact that a lot of institutes of higher ed were formed as slave labor.
A lot of early science workplaces did not allow women to work in them.
When you honor tradition, you sometimes honor places that explicitly excluded some of the
people who are in your workplace today.
We need to fix sexist fraternity, field site, and professional society cultures.
So the bro culture that exists at a lot of field stations and field sites, we need to
think about whether or not that's something that's actually inclusive and makes everyone
feel welcome.
That includes the dudes.
Not all men really like being bros.
Then we also need to address sex and race imbalances in leadership.
We need to overall be changing the fact that science is so male dominated and so white
This needs to happen not just at the trainee stage where it's actually been getting increasingly
inclusive for some time, but a lot of those folks are not staying in science because of
the negative experiences that they face, particularly around gender and racial harassment.
That's why we don't have those leaders.
Finally, in terms of being off course, we need to stop trying to root out bad apples
one-by-one.
What I mean by this is one of the things that we often do is hire a reporting system for
HR, for Title IX.
All of them require that a victim decide to come forward to report a single perpetrator.
What we need to ask ourselves is do we really want to build and rely on a structure that
re-traumatizes victims and forces them to bear the responsibility for bringing perpetrators
to justice?
Is that really the right model?
So if we can break out of that framing a little bit.
I want to share a quote from a book that I've really enjoyed and that you really should
read too by Zoe Quinn, called Crash Override.
This is more about online harassment, but trust me, everything she does in that book
is in line with best practices in terms of the science of sexual harassment.
She should be a researcher of the science of sexual harassment, she is amazing.
She says: "Therein lies the most common trap we fall into when trying to make the internet
a safer place: framing it as a war of good people versus bad people instead of looking
at acceptable and unacceptable ways to treat each other.
'Good people' get off the hook for doing bad things, while 'bad people' aren't considered
worth understanding or empathizing with and aren't encouraged to progress, evolve, and
do better.
"The question isn't 'What the hell is wrong with those people?'
It's 'What the hell is wrong with us?'"
If we can move away always from a single perpetrator and a single victim, and instead look for
patterns and systems and become more accountable to them and to the ways in which we perpetuate
them or sometimes cause harm ourselves, we'll actually create a much better culture.
We need to focus on whole barrels, not just bad apples.
We need to eliminate male domination in terms of overall numbers and in terms of those in
leadership.
We need to reduce tolerance for harassment.
We can't just see it and then think it's okay to let it happen.
Bystander training and perspective taking training are really great ways to work on
We can develop trauma informed communication policies if we understand that most women
are sexually harassed.
About 75% in most workplaces.
Then that means that if we create communication strategies that are based entirely on what
general counsel says and not on the right thing to say, then we are causing harm even
with our basic communication to our workers.
Again, we need to use evidence-based training, like I said.
Bystander and perspective training.
I want to end with one last thought.
I was looking up the mission statement for the USGS.
It's: "The USGS serves the Nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe
and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters;
manage water; biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and protect our quality
of life."
That is a beautiful mission.
That is what you are serving by being a member of the U.S. Geological Survey.
That's science for a changing world.
What a lovely tag line.
That kind of mission, I'd be really proud to be part of an institution where that is
their mission.
You need to ask yourself, is that the mission that we live every day if we create a climate
where people do not feel safe to work, where people don't think that they can bring their
best selves, where people don't think that they can be honest with each other, where
they can't manage conflict in a way that's rigorous and productive, and instead they
manage conflict in a way that's avoidance or nasty?
I want to introduce the idea of maybe thinking through what it would look like to live your
mission kind of more like a kindergartner.
I'll give you an example, just this weekend I was over at my sister's house and her son
is now a first grader.
But this peace builder's pledge is something that got introduced in kindergarten last year
to him.
It says, "I am a Peace Builder."
They say this every morning after the Pledge of Allegiance.
"I pledge to praise people, to give up put-downs, to seek wise people, to notice and speak up
about hurts I have caused."
Think about how that's taking responsibility for yourself.
"To right wrongs.
I will build peace at home, at school, and in my community each day."
I think for all of you, you should think what should be my peace builder's pledge as a member
of USGS?
I'm going to unshare my screen so I that I can start to take questions.
Tina Roberts: Thank you very much Dr. Clancy.
That was a wonderful presentation.
If anyone wants to ask questions, please send them through the Q&A section to the host.
Do not send them to Dr. Clancy because she won't see them.
Right now I don't see any in the queue, but we can hold out for a few minutes to see if
any pop in there.
Okay, Dr. Clancy, we have one.
What is the best way to address put downs in the moment?
Kate Clancy: It really depends on the put down.
And it depends on who else is there.
I would really encourage you to look into getting some bystander training for your various,
and I don't mean a webinar that everyone signs onto that they just learn about.
Though that's a good first step.
But some real in person role playing.
I'm not going to remember this but a bunch of B's that you learn when you learn the bystander
But the one thing I will say is one of the better things to do is not necessarily to
address the person who is causing harm in the moment, but instead to check in with the
victim.
Because that still signals to the person causing harm that what you did isn't cool.
If I had been...to give you an example.
The pregnancy example that happened today.
Since it was just two people, and if that person had said that to me, the "Oh, I wish
I could be pregnant so that I could just skip two weeks of work."
I would have said something like, "That's a really interesting thing to say."
And just left it and see what they say about it.
That signals that I'm not okay with it and it signals that this is not something that
is okay in our workplace.
Now if they double down, of course that's a broader conversation.
If I overheard that conversation or someone had said that in front of me to my friend,
I probably wouldn't talk to the perpetrator, I would probably talk directly to the victim.
I would go to my friend and say, "Oh, hey how are you feeling today?"
Then I would completely change the conversation.
I probably wouldn't think of anything particularly clever in the moment.
And I want you to know that being a better bystander and being a peace builder is not
actually about coming up with the cleverest thing.
It's just about intervening in whatever clumsy way you want.
One other example, my daughter was dealing with some stuff at school that was really
bothering her.
This is several years ago now, this is when she was in second grade, my older daughter.
So I talked through and I did some role playing with her.
I said, "Okay, if you want to change the topic, when you don't like people teasing you."
It's actually that she's a very slow eater and her friends at school started teasing
her for how slowly she was eating her lunch.
She told them she didn't like it, it kind of made them double down and tease her more.
Instead I said, "What would it look like to change the topic?"
What could she say to change the topic?
And she paused and she said, "Well what does that have to do with pink, fluffy unicorns
dancing on rainbows?"
And that became her intervention.
That's what she said when her friends would do it.
And it just completely deflected it.
Then, after I think one or two more times of them doing it, they stopped because they
didn't get a reaction out of her.
Figuring out, first how to figure out if the victim's okay.
Second, how to potentially address the behavior, if possible.
But again, deflecting and protecting the victim is the actually the number one concern, and
that in itself indicates that you don't think that what the perpetrator did is okay.
Tina Roberts: Okay, another one.
Do any of your studies evaluate women to women?
Another question was how do you address instabilities in harassment that go on from a woman to another
woman?
Kate Clancy: We don't tend to ask the identity of perpetrators.
So with the exception of that one study where we basically ask, well, we do in both of those
studies, what that person's rank is, we don't ask gender.
But I will say that across the literature, something like 92% of perpetrators are male.
I want to first put it in that context, that the majority of perpetrators are male.
That's something frankly men have to reckon with and think about.
But that 8% that are women, when women or men are subjected to sexual harassment by
women, especially gender harassment, I know it feels like more of a betrayal.
If anything, I know that when these things have been perpetrated against me, it feels
even more acutely hurtful.
It's like, "You're supposed to be on my side.
You're supposed to be helping me, not making things harder."
I do understand that those things are hard.
As someone who's directly experienced them.
But I do want to put it in a broader context that generally speaking, and frankly this
is across even workplaces that are female dominated, like nursing, men are still the
primary perpetrators.
Tina Roberts: Next one.
Could you talk more about communication strategies that could be effective and not re-traumatizing?
How do we discuss the fact that bad things have happened but not violate privacy concerns
or re-traumatize?
Kate Clancy: Sure.
I'll give you an example from my university.
Something that you probably know has happened across a lot of universities immediately after
Trump was elected, and I'm sorry to give a political example, but this is the best one
I have, is that there was a huge increase in hate crimes.
Something that was really upsetting that happened in my own lab is that the morning after the
Trump election one of my students wears a hijab, was on her bus on her way to school,
just like the general transit bus.
She started feeling someone jerking on her.
At first she thought her backpack had just got caught in something.
Then she realized only because another man on the bus started going, "Hey man, that's
That's not cool."
That there was a man yanking on the back of her hijab trying to pull it off her head.
And it was only thankfully because a few other folks on the bus said, "Hey man, that's not
cool, stop," that she was able to get out of the situation safely.
You probably know of other similar examples.
There was a massive increase in hate crimes, and it was a really upsetting thing that happened
to a lot of people, many of them those that we personally know.
The way that my university chose to handle this was by writing an email that looked like
a lawyer had written it that basically said, "We are sorry that these bad things are happening
to some of you, but we protect speech on this campus, and we believe in free speech, so
if you have a problem with some of the bad speech happening, you should address it with
more speech."
Because one of the other things that was happening was chalkenings.
If you're familiar with the fact that some alt-right folks were encouraging folks to
go and write hateful things using chalk.
Around our Latino/Latina studies program people were writing "Build the Wall," "Go Home,"
things like that all over that building.
If you can imagine being someone who's had hate speech perpetrated against you and have
your place of work or your place of study tell you, "Hey that's just part of free speech,
and the way for you to combat it is for you to talk back to them."
When you had your hijab almost ripped off, when you are told to go home when the United
States is your home, that's not a really great answer.
That's the lawyers answer, but it's not a great answer.
Instead showing more compassion, showing more direct support.
Showing more validation and acknowledgment.
I also think that communications that comes from...and you can Google this.
You can look up trauma informed communication.
There are trauma informed communication strategies that people can learn about.
The other things you can just do is if an institution is speaking from their values,
it means sometimes making the call that isn't just about protecting them from a legal perspective.
There are times when your values tell you to do the hard thing not the safe thing.
More universities have to decide, and players of higher ed and institutions of research,
have to make decisions that are more consistent with their values.
Sometimes that means that they're going to be hard.
I just think that, that for me, is also true for the way that they communicate with the
people that live and work in their spaces.
Tina Roberts: Next question.
They start with "very informative talk," and I just want to say, Dr. Clancy, that there
were 670 participants, so a lot of people tuned in, and there are a lot of questions
that I don't think we'll hit them all.
A lot of people want me to express to you how appreciative they are, that it was an
excellent talk, and everyone thanks you.
I wanted to be sure to say that.
Kate Clancy: Thank you so much.
I'm sorry I lost the video at the end.
I've been trying to figure it out as we're talking and I don't know what happened.
Tina Roberts: No worries.
This next question is, what is the most effective first step...we've talked a lot about the
issues and the course corrections.
This person wants to know what the most effective first step you can recommended that a science
center within the USGS can take to reduce put downs?
Kate Clancy: The first thing would be to have a conversation about it.
Hold a town hall meeting.
Or hold a bunch of small group meetings.
It really depends on the culture of your sector.
If it's a really small one, and there's only five of you, and you feel safe, and you think
you'd feel comfortable just sitting down and all five of you talking.
That's really different than if it's a place that has 100 people and is really cliquish.
It depends on the culture of your space.
But you need to figure out how as quickly as possible to start talking about it.
If there are ways in which you want to just create an online survey that just has some
open response places, so that people can anonymously share their thoughts.
That's one way to get them talking about it.
I really would encourage actual direct conversation.
If it's possible, again, depending on the culture, you might need to get people who
are in the room where their bosses are not in the room.
Things like that.
You might have to think creatively.
But until you can start to identify what people feel that is making them uncomfortable and
what they want to do about it, I feel like that's kind of what you have to do.
The other thing is you know your culture better than anybody.
If you see the worst stuff happens at after hours events with drinking, for instance.
Not that alcohol causes these things to happen, but because people believe it makes them permissive,
so then they act more badly around it, which is actually super interesting from a psychological
perspective, stop having those events.
You just have to stop.
If there are certain things you know that lead to bad behavior, stop them.
If there are certain things that you know, just the way they always go feels out of your
control, like whatever your equivalent of a faculty meeting would be always goes terribly,
you have to think with the leadership about how can we start to have a conversation about
how we need to change things?
It's kind of like the extended example I gave around how you can change the culture of how
seminars are given at your workplace.
Tina Roberts: One I'm getting a lot of is can you please say again the name of the book
and the author that you referenced?
Kate Clancy: The book?
Tina Roberts: I think it was, I want to say it was the one you said was about harassment
on the Internet I believe.
Kate Clancy: Oh yeah, gosh yes.
Zoe Quinn, Crash Override.
It's a great book.
How long would you say it takes to truly change the culture in an organization regarding these
issues?
Do you think there are ways to speed it up?
Kate Clancy: The fastest way is to have leadership that is really bought in.
I can't answer the first questions in terms of how long.
Some places can change things really fast, and some it feels insurmountable.
But I can say that the fastest ones are the ones where there's leadership buy-in and where
the leadership is really committed to doing it.
People who have out-there ideas who can go to the leadership and say, I have this really
wacky idea for how we can make things better.
That the leadership says let's go for it.
Those kinds of leaders who are role models, who live the spirit of change, who want to
see bottom up solutions, that's when things move quickly.
Because then people believe that they might actually get listened to.
They believe that their ideas might gain traction and they believe that there's a chance for
real change.
Places where there aren't good leaders or the leaders are just like, "What's the bare
minimum that we can do to appear that we care?"
Frankly, those places don't change.
And that stinks, but that's the reality.
Tina Roberts: We'll ask one last question.
I also want to mention that this recording will be made available later, just to keep
your eyes out for that.
I think many you have my email address.
It was in the announcement that's been going out.
This Tina Roberts-Ashby again.
You can always contact me too later on any questions about the recording and where they
can find it.
The last question, did you in your research discover any data that indicates the number
of women that leave their profession due to harassment?
Kate Clancy: There is a literature on this.
There's this one little three-item scale that gets put into a lot of these studies.
We didn't do them for our current ones because we were looking at people who were still in
But there's been a lot that's been done on the science of sexual harassment on this.
It's called job turnover intentions, and there's a very strong relationship between people
who answer affirmatively in terms of "Are you thinking about leaving your job?"
And folks that actually do leave their job.
This idea of job turnover intentions is a pretty robust one.
In terms of the numbers of folks, we don't have a good sense because frankly we do a
terrible job of tracking these kinds of data.
And it's really hard to capture people who've left, and not a lot of institutions do exist
surveys with, say, grad students who leave grad school before their finished, and they
certainly don't do exit surveys with the folks who have PhDs and then have trouble securing
post docs, or post docs who have trouble securing their next research position.
All of the ways in which fall out of science are places we do not an adequate job tracking.
That said, I would say that there is...if you just look at the numbers of the fact that,
say, in the biological sciences, we've had incredibly high representation of women in
the trainee level for decades.
We've been more than [inaudible] for decades, and yet we have not seen adequate change at
the assistant, associate, or full professor level.
You guys can look at your own institution and see something similar.
So if you're seeing attrition of an underrepresented group as you move up your ranks at your workplace,
I can pretty much guarantee that the reason that you're losing them is because of the
climate and culture of your workplace, not because they just decided one day that they
don't like what they're doing anymore.
Tina Roberts: Again, thank you very much Dr. Clancy for your time and for an excellent
With that, we are going to close the meeting.
Kate Clancy: Great, thank you so much everybody.
Tina Roberts: Thank you, take care.
Kate Clancy: Thanks.
Jo-Ann Dominique
USGS Human Capital
jdominique@usgs.gov
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Brian Lewis: Canons and Music for Four Violins
June 14, 2017, 11:11 AM · Violinist and University of Texas Violin Professor Brian Lewis has some vivid memories from playing community service concerts back when he was a student at Juilliard, participating in the Gluck Community Service Fellowship: playing for amputees; for AIDS patients during the '80s; and playing a concert in a locked mental ward, where he witnessed "a woman who had not spoken in three years, who sang 'Silent Night' with us."
Bringing a group to an outreach concert also means having repertoire on hand that works, even when you don't have the ideal quartet of a cello, viola and two violins. For example, sometimes you just have four violins. What repertoire can you use, that's both fun to play and fun to hear?
To that end, Lewis commissioned several works written for four violins from composer Michael McLean, who is known for his excellent violin arrangements of tangos and other music. "Sometimes it's difficult to find cellos and violas," Lewis said. "This is a way we can play without having those lower instruments."
Brian Lewis. Photo by Violinist.com.
The works by McLean, which are ideal performance material for intermediate to advanced students, are still in the publishing process, but Lewis gave us a sneak peek during one of his pedagogy lectures at the 2017 Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies. (See videos of both works, below.)
The two works we studied are McLean's "Canon" and his "Preludio for Four Violins."
A "canon" uses a single melody, played successively by several voices, and it harmonizes itself. A simple canon that many American children learn early in life is the song "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," typically belted out on buses, by campfires, etc.
Of course, canons occur in advanced violin literature and classical music as well. "I like to work on canons before teaching the (canonic) fourth movement of the Franck Sonata," Lewis said. A number of composers wrote "Canonic Sonatas," including the well-known Six Canonic Sonatas by Telemann and somewhat lesser known Hindemith's Kanonische Sonatine, Op. 31 No. 3 (originally for flute).
What are some of the challenges in playing a canon? Rhythm, for one. All parties must play with rhythmic accuracy for the musical puzzle to fit together properly. Another challenge is voicing. What parts of the melody should be brought out, so that the listener hears music and not just sonic confusion?
One way to help students think about voicing is to go back to that old favorite: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." Lewis used our group of teachers to show how to lead a group of students through some exercises with that tune. First, we played "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" by ear, to make sure all of us had the tune in our minds and fingers. Then we divided into two groups and played the piece in a two-part canon; then into four groups for a four-part canon. Once we'd done that, Lewis asked us to simply bring out the first part of the melody, playing "ROW ROW ROW" forte, and then dropping to piano. That way, that "ROW ROW ROW" entrance would punch out of the texture each time it occurred. To make things even more interesting (and humorous!) he next asked each of the four groups to pick a separate key. Each group then played the melody in that different key, as a canon, trying to punch out "ROW ROW ROW," so just that would emerge from the texture. Mixed results, there, with so much to concentrate on! But changing the key, however odd it sounded, did put the emphasis on bringing out the voices, as it was not going to be harmonious, no matter what! Here is a video of that process:
On to the "Canon" by Michael McLean. Though the sheet music is not available yet, the video below follows the sheet music, so you can see it in real time. Here is the piece, as sight-read by the teachers at the Symposium, led by Lewis:
This piece has a few techniques that students may need to work on, including artificial harmonics (mm. 35-36) and tricky string crossings (mm. 50-62).
"Artificial harmonics -- if your student can't do them, make them learn how," Lewis advised. Here are some ways they can practice artificial harmonics:
Scales in artificial harmonics
Any Suzuki Book 1 piece or beginner piece in artificial harmonics
Slow movement of a concerto, in artificial harmonics
When it comes to string crossings, it can help to identify elbow positions of the bow arm. How many elbow positions are there? The logical answer might be "four": one elbow position for each string: E, A, D and G.
"There are actually 12," Lewis said. Lewis considers three positions for every string: E1 to the right of the E string; E2 on top of the E; E3 to the left of E;...and the list goes on that way, with three elbow positions for each string.
Adding those positions, "you'll find you have more ways to think about weight and weight balance in your arm," Lewis said.
Beyond the notes and techniques, students also should be thinking about the overall shape of the music. "Where is the top of the piece?" Lewis asked. The late Juilliard teacher Dorothy DeLay often asked students to identify different climaxes in a piece:
Rhythmic climax
Harmonic climax
Melodic climax
Harmonic rhythm climax (where harmonies are changing fastest)
Dynamic climax
"Ask your students, where do they think those places are?" Lewis said. Some might coincide, others may not; all are potential spots to highlight in the music.
The other new piece by Michael McLean is called "Preludio," written for four violins. Below is a video of most of the piece; it leaves off the last 20 bars or so. It also follows the music, which is yet to be published. (I will drop links into this story as soon as it is!)
Throughout this piece is a bariolage passage with rapid string crossings over all four strings. Sounds super-impressive to the non-violinist, yet it's not difficult to play if you practice it correctly. As far as the left-hand is concerned, it's a series of mostly slow-changing chords. For the right hand, it's the same string-crossing motion throughout.
To get the left hand in order, practice the passage as blocked chords, toggling between G-D and A-E strings. Here is a little excerpt of what Lewis had us practice:
Something to remember, when playing chords, is to avoid tension in the left hand. One way to minimize that tension is to be aware of how much pressure the left fingers are exerting.
"What happens when you drop your hand on a table?" Lewis asked. "You don't keep pushing it down!"
Similarly, when you place a finger on the fingerboard, concentrate on "having that finger there, without pressing, with only enough weight to keep it down," Lewis said. "Physical tension is the enemy of movement!"
Another thing Lewis recommended for ensemble playing: have the score and use it. "Do not be a one-line player." In looking at the score, ask questions such as: "Who is passing the melody to one another? Where is the motion? Who is playing with you?" Lewis said. Also, try playing other parts, in order to be familiar with them.
Lewis recommended introducing students to the study of full scores when studying Mozart concertos. For the violinist, a good way to practice following a Mozart concerto score would be to listen to the piece while following first the violin solo part, then the first violin part, then the second violin part, then flute, then oboe -- then start getting into other clefs with the cello part.
Teachers need to be aiming not just to create good players, but also intelligent musicians. "Make intelligent musicians who can make decisions," Lewis said. "You are not only their taskmaster, but their guide." Dorothy DeLay provided a good example to teachers: "She was a force of nature," Lewis said. "She really got her students to think about their own artistry."
If you are looking for a (much) more advanced piece for four violins, Lewis recommended Sinfonia Concertante by Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer. "Ms. DeLay loved this piece," he said, "it's like Paganini for four violins!"
Michael McLean Finds His Element
Michael McLean, Bachaholic
Pedagogy Class with Brian Lewis: Information Through Sound
Complete Coverage of Past and Present Starling DeLay Symposiums
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Begin your journey on the east coast with the ancient city of Kition in Larnaka (Larnaca). The site provides the first clear evidence that the Mycenaean Greeks arrived in Larnaka in the 13th century BC, and the Phoenicians in the 9th, and features temples dating back to these times.
Thereafter, head for new heights between Larnaka and Lemesos (Limassol), where the Neolithic settlement of Choirokoitia stands proudly on the hillside, distinctly marked out by cylindrical stone and mud dwellings that lay claim to the earliest permanent human housing on the island. The site is remarkably well-preserved and has been a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998.
Further down the southeast coast, the ancient Greco-Roman Kourion stands as one of the island’s top ancient highlights and was an important city-kingdom in antiquity. Its magnificent theatre was built in the 2nd century BC and extended in the 2nd century AD. Today, the theatre has been completely restored and is used for open-air musical and theatrical performances during the summer months, commanding breathtaking views of the surrounding patchwork land and sea.
As you follow the coastline towards Pafos (Paphos), history further comes to life, with the whole town listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, thanks to its world-famous archaeological sites that stretch out from Palaipafos (Kouklia) to the heart of Kato Pafos. Included are ancient villas of stunning mosaics and numerous sites associated to the cult of the Ancient Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty, Aphrodite, whom legend tells was born of sea foam in the region.
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Police: Missing senior couple from Fairfax found
by: WAVY Web Staff
Posted: Jan 4, 2020 / 09:06 AM EST / Updated: Jan 4, 2020 / 09:18 AM EST
Courtesy – Virginia State Police
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) – The Virginia State Police say a couple missing from Fairfax County early Saturday morning has been found.
A senior alert was issued for the couple just a little after 1 a.m. Saturday.
The Fairfax County Police were looking for 88-year-old Delores S. Pierce and 94-year-old Preston C. Pierce. The couple were reportedly last seen around 7 p.m. Friday on String Fellow Road.
Delores is 5-foot-1 and weighs 170-pounds and Preston is 5-foot-11 and weighs 175-pounds.
The pair were last seen driving a 2011 Blur Ford Fusion with Virginia plates XXFV-9359. It is yet unknown what direction they were going or what type of clothing they were wearing.
The Fairfax County Police say the pair reportedly suffer from a cognitive impairment which posed a credible threat to their safety.
Around 9 a.m. Saturday, Virginia State Police confirmed the pair were located but have not released further details regarding the incident.
Gun-rights activists gear up for show of force in Richmond
by ALAN SUDERMAN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press / Jan 18, 2020
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police are scouring the internet for clues about plans for mayhem, workers are putting up chain-link holding pens around Virginia's picturesque Capitol Square, and one lawmaker even plans to hide in a safe house in advance of what's expected to be an unprecedented show of force by gun-rights activists.
What is provoking their anger in this once reliably conservative state is the new Democratic majority leadership and its plans to enact a slew of gun restrictions. This clash of old and new has made Virginia - determined to prevent a replay of the Charlottesville violence in 2017 - ground zero in the nation's raging debate over gun control.
Congressman McEachin named Honorary Tuskegee Airman
by WAVY Web Staff / Jan 18, 2020
RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) – On Saturday, Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-04), was named an honorary Tuskegee Airman by the Howard Baugh Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.
"I am honored and humbled to receive this red jacket today," said the Congressman.
$25k raised to support the local Girl Scout’s Leadership Experience in Chesapeake
by Madison Pearman / Jan 18, 2020
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) -- More than 500 people gathered on Saturday to support local Girl Scouts at the Cookie Classic Run in Chesapeake.
The run is hosted annually by the troops and aims to raise funds that go towards the 'Girl Scout Leadership Experience'.
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A loss of faith
With graduation of its last six students, U of W closes book on theology program
By: Brenda Suderman | Posted: 06/12/2019 7:00 PM | Comments: | Last Modified: 06/12/2019 8:38 PM | Updates
As six theology students receive their degrees from University of Winnipeg this week, their graduation signifies the end of an era.
The convocation ceremony on Friday will be the last for the theology program that educated Christian ministers, chaplains and church workers for the last 136 years.
"Theology kind of carries the story of the University of Winnipeg," said Widney Pervil, who graduates with a master of divinity, and also carries the dubious honour of being the last student admitted into the program.
"For the university to lose that, they are losing a big part of their history."
Originally from Haiti, the 34-year-old Pervil is one of six students — four graduate, and two undergraduates — who completed their divinity degrees during a concentrated "teach-out" of the program.
The university closed the program due to declining enrolment and a funding cut from the United Church of Canada, senior executive officer Chris Minaker said via email.
Theological education at the University of Winnipeg dates to 1883 with the creation of a department of theology at Manitoba College to train Presbyterian ministers. Manitoba College merged with Methodist-run Wesley College in 1938 to become United College, and then the University of Winnipeg in 1967.
Michael Thibert (clockwise from top left), Widney Pervil, Lilli Williams and Ji-Yung Jennifer Choi are the last students to graduate from the U of W's theology program, which dates back to 1883. (Sasha Sefter / Winnipeg Free Press)
The faculty of theology prepared students for ministry in the United Church until the early 1970s.
For the last five decades, theology courses at U of W attracted students preparing for the ministry for a variety of Christian denominations, as well as training spiritual directors and chaplains, recalled Rev. Mac Watts, dean of theology from 1978 to 1985.
"When I came in 1978, there was already an ecumenical student body," said Watts, who previously taught religious studies at the University of Manitoba.
He said the main difference between the theology and religious studies was theological study assumes a religious commitment instead of being purely academic.
"It’s like you’re in the faculty of law and you’re preparing for a profession," said Watt. "You’re within the (faith) community and you’re preparing for a career in it."
In 2013, the U of W dissolved the faculty and replaced it with the United Centre for Theological Studies, after the United Church cut all funding. Several students are still completing master of arts degrees in theology though the centre, James Currie, vice-president academic, said in an email message.
United Church officials understood theological education would continue at the University of Winnipeg with the transition from the faculty to the centre, said John H. Young, executive minister of theological leadership.
"Certainly, the United Church in 2013 agreed the faculty of theology could end and it would be replaced by the centre and that would be a way for theology to continue," he said in a telephone interview, referring to the University of Winnipeg Act which required the United Church to agree to the dissolution of the faculty.
Michael Thibert (From left), Lilli Williams, Widney Pervil and Ji-Yung Jennifer Choi are four of the six members of the last class of theology students to graduate from the University of Winnipeg. (Sasha Sefter / Winnipeg Free Press)
"It was clear it was passed with certain conditions."
Minaker said in an email message the "university is in compliance with the act."
Whatever the politics around the cutting of theology courses, students mourn the loss of a program that attracted a diverse student body and promoted interaction with many faith traditions, said Michael Thibert, a permanent deacon in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Winnipeg who works as a spiritual and cultural care provider.
"You start seeing God in a wider context," said Thibert, who will graduate with a bachelor of theology and previously obtained a diploma in Indigenous spiritual and pastoral care.
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"The peripheral vision is expanded to take in things you ordinarily wouldn’t look at."
That wider perspective attracted Rev. Ji-Yung Jennifer Choi to transfer from a denominational school to the University of Winnipeg to complete her divinity degree.
"I think I was really stretched out during these courses and discussion with colleagues," said Choi, 47, who fit in her courses between working part-time as assistant minister at the Korean Fellowship at Portage Avenue Church and running her immigration business. She was ordained to the ministry in 2017.
For Pervil, who completed his degree in three years while working full-time as a chaplain, theological studies broadened his understanding of the world.
"It has changed me in terms of being able to find theology in everything around me," said Pervil, who plans to complete a doctorate and return to Haiti to teach. "Theology is not just in the Bible, It’s all around us."
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Brenda Suderman has been a columnist in the Saturday paper since 2000, first writing about family entertainment, and about faith and religion since 2006.
Updated on Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 8:38 PM CDT: Fixes typo.
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These were the 10 most important things at CES 2019
Most innovative products from CES 2019
Popular Mechanics Editors
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is always a bevy of new gadgets, both great and weird. This year is no different. Here are 10 of the gadgets and concepts that caught our eyes this year.
A Gaming Laptop That Fits on Your Desk With Ease
Gaming laptops, with high-powered hot-running guts and giant fans necessary to keep them cool, are always going to be big. The ROG Mothership from ASUS, with its 17-inch screen, Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU, Intel Core i9-8950HK processor and room for 64 GB of DDR RAM weighs in at a hefty 10 pounds. But with its free-standing kickstand-based design (not unlike that of Microsoft's Surface Pro), the Mothership should prove a bit more portable than your typical clamshell design and certainly more desk-friendly since its relatively small footprint means less room to clear. This behemoth's price is yet to be released but you can bet it will cost a pretty penny. If you're a traveling gamer, though, it might be worth it.
A Portable Party Machine, Complete With Cupholders and Karaoke
Karaoke can get a bad rap. Not everyone is into singing in front of a bar full of strangers. Fortunately, Sony's GTK-PG10 can help make it a more personal experience.
Part party speaker, part table, part karaoke machine, the big black box puts your typical Bluetooth speaker to shame. While it's not waterproof, it does have rubber flaps over its most sensitive parts to protect from inevitable spills and a big battery to get it through as many as 13 hours of play, whether or not you decide to plug a microphone in and turn on the karaoke mode. At $250 it's a little bit pricey, but a great party doesn't come cheap.
A Better Way To Put a Pop Socket on Your Phone
Pop Sockets, those expandable discs you can stick on the back of your phone to give you a more secure grip, are fantastic. But they come with a flaw: Because they don't collapse down to be completely flat, your phone will wobble a bit if you set it down on the table.
No more! The "Otter + Pop" case, made in partnership with Otterbox, comes with a little divot that allows your center-mounted Pop Socket to be completely flush with the case when it collapses. The downside is that your phone will be a little thicker, potentially enough to interfere with wireless charging, but that extra girth will also protect your phone in case of a drop. They're coming soon, but just for iPhones to start.
A Future Car With Wheels for Feet
While plenty of tech companies are preoccupied with making cars drive themselves, Hyundai took some time out at this year's CES to imagine how we might redesign vehicles entirely.
The Hyundai Elevate (a concept with no full-scale prototype) imagines a vehicle with independent robotic legs, each one terminating in an independent wheel. This design would theoretically let such a vehicle do things like crouch on a staircase to pick up wheelchair-bound passengers or climb over wreckage after a natural disaster. And while there's no guarantee that this vehicle will ever be made (it probably won't be), Hyundai also can't help but imagine how it might even be useful on Mars.
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A Particle Mask That Knows When the Air Is Bad
Between Beijing and San Francisco, 2018 was a bad year for air quality. If fires continue at the rate they've been going in the United States, that situation is unlikely to change.
R-PUR's Nano Mask is an upgrade from your typical disposable filter, with a comfortable, even stylish outer mask that can light up green or red depending on the air quality while a disposable filter on the inside does the dirty work. Currently available in Europe for 170 euros (roughly $200), with replacement filters that cost roughly $90, it's not a cheap proposition and for now, disposable masks are a far better cost proposition. But if air quality is going to be an increasingly common problem, we might want to get to work on some smarter masks.
A Backpack With a Pocket That Wirelessly Charges Your Phone
Wireless charging is handy enough on your desk or nightstand, but the Targus Mobile VIP+ backpack shows how it could really shine on the go with a special pocket that's designed to wirelessly charge your phone. Of course, that charger needs a battery of its own, and so the pocket's charging cradle has to be attached to a battery in the bag with an old-fashioned cable. The result, however, is that you'll be able to pick up a quick charge without having to fumble for a cable while your rush to catch your flight or train.
A Gaming Laptop You Can Upgrade and Repair
As laptops get smaller and thinner, they also tend to get harder to repair. Dell's Alienware Area-51m laptop bucks the trend. Practically a desktop computer in a laptop's body, the Area-51m sports a desktop-grade GPU and CPU and is designed to be upgradable by the end user, just the way a desktop computer would be. It's no surprise that a gaming laptop is leading this charge, and considering the $2,600 starting price tag, it's a niche product. But repairability is terrific and important, so here's to hoping the trend will trickle down.
A Fitness-Forward Smartwatch With an ECG and No Screen
Withings has been taking an alternate route through smartwatch mania for years by releasing watches that are smart enough to handle things like fitness tracking without going so far as having an actual screen. This year, Withings is taking that premise a step further with its new Move watch that has ECG capabilities just like the Apple Watch. What it doesn't have? Well, the screen, but also the sky-high price. The new Move retails for a mere $130 compared to the the $400 starting price of the Apple Watch Series 4. And for some of us, the lack of a computer screen is not a downside. It's a bonus.
Simple Portable Gadget Screens
Anyone who's plugged a laptop into a desktop monitor knows how terrific it can be to have some extra screen real-estate, but setting up a monitor can be a nightmare of daisy-chained wires and crawling around in search of outlets. At this year's CES, we caught a glimpse of a better possible future with various USB-powered portable screens like the Faytech Lapscreen, and LG Neo Art Portable Monitor Display.
Through the glory of USB Type-C, which can carry both power and video signals, these squares of screen turn into second monitors with just one connecting wire. There are some downsides for the convenience, like a resolution that's limited to 1920 x 1080. Faytech's 12.5-inch Lapscreen is available for order now at a price of $200, and LG's 27-inch offering is just a prototype for now.
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The Voice-Controlled Toilet
Voice commands are coming to everything in your life, from the refrigerator to the toilet. Countless companies announced they were adding Google Assistant and Alexa powers to their gadgets at CES. Kohler is including Alexa in its new Numi toilet, so you can control things like the heated seat, lights and ambient noises it's programmed to play. You'll also find the dueling voice assistants in smart thermometers, door locks, showers, speakers, robot vacuums, ovens and washing machines.
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Issue 50 Housing the New Ireland
Editorial Comment - Second Report of the Morris Tribunal
on Monday, 13 June 2005. Posted in Issue 50 Housing the New Ireland, 2005
Peter McVerry SJ
The Second Report of the Morris Tribunal, published on 1 June 2005, makes even more disturbing reading than the First Report, which was commented on in in November 2004. The Tribunal investigated the corruption that existed among some Gardai in Donegal, the manipulation of facts intended to deceive Garda Management, "gross integligence at senior level" and "appalling management".
Planning for People Observations on NESC Chapter 5
Michael J. Bannon
At the close of the 20th century, a mere five years ago, there was delight and optimism in planning and environmentally informed
circles that Ireland was for the first time ever about to have a hierarchically integrated system of interrelated plans covering the country and operating at every level. Preparation of the National Spatial Strategy was well advanced. The provided a statutory basis for the preparation and implementation of Regional Planning Guidelines. The Act also modernised the\'Development Plan\' process and established procedures for making and implementing Local Area Plans. This new approach to planning was introduced against the continuing national partnership approach, most recently articulated in .
Aspects of Catholic Social Teaching on Housing
Cathy Molloy
What Have You Done to your Homeless Brother?
The United Nations proclaimed 1987 the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless and to coincide with that time Pope John Paul II asked that the Church undertake its own reflection on the problem of housing. The result was What Have You Done to your Homeless Brother? a document of the Pontifical \'Justice and Peace\' Commission, presented on 27 December 1987 by its President, Roger Cardinal Etchegaray.1 This short article will focus mainly on some of the points from that document.
Housing the New Ireland Comment on the NESC Report
Margaret Burns*
In spring 2004, Focus Ireland, the voluntary organisation dealing with homelessness, placed a series of poster advertisements around Dublin city. These were designed to look rather like the plaques which are put on buildings to indicate that a noted artist, political figure or other famous person once lived there. A typical Focus Ireland \'plaque\' read: \'Paul Ryan, Homeless Person, Lived Here, August 2003\'. Posted alongside doorways, bridges and other places that might provide minimal shelter, they were a graphic reminder of the continuing problem of homelessness in the midst of a vibrant and clearly prosperous city. On the evening I first saw one of these posters, I turned on the radio and encountered a very different advertisement: this one announced a Holiday Home Fair for the latest location to become \'the\' destination for Irish people wanting to buy that second home abroad. The two advertisements pointedly illustrated the widening gap in the experience of different groups of people in Ireland with regard to housing (and income and wealth) which has been such a feature of this society over the past decade.
Home: Dream or Possibility? Challenges for the Homeless Services
Peter McVerry, SJ
The evaluation of existing plans and services for homeless people currently being undertaken by the independent review of 1 provides an opportunity to reflect on the progress that has been made in recent years in addressing homelessness in Dublin and to highlight the significant challenges that are still ahead if the aim of eliminating homelessness in the capital by 2010 is to be realised.
In this issue of Working Notes
Working Notes Issue 84 Editorial
Why can't we take economic crime seriously?
Theological Reflection: Remembering the Gap Between Crime and Sin
Understanding Crime in Prison
Carbon Crimes
We tend to think that law defines what crime is. This makes sense because contemporary legal codes are concerned with marking out the territory where conduct is permissible by specifying the conduct that is outlawed. Yet the earliest bodies of law – consider for example, the Torah or Hammurabi’s Code – are at least as committed to articulating the good as proscribing the bad... Read full editorial
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While a preventative treatment cure does not exist, physicians who recognize the severity of the illness focus on symptom mitigation as temporary solutions to alleviate bouts of ongoing physical pain and discomfort. Because stress can aggravate symptoms, some physicians also recommend treatments such as group therapy and other stress relief practices.
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Dallas woman’s first rental scooter ride ends with trip to ER
Lime and Bird encourage riders to wear helmets before they hop on. But, there's nothing that prevents a rider from zipping away without one.
Author: Matt Howerton
Published: 9:23 PM CDT July 10, 2018
Updated: 10:10 PM CDT July 10, 2018
DALLAS—A woman living in Uptown is dealing with some gnarly injuries after she crashed an electric rental scooter over the weekend during her first ride.
The woman, Kelley Mitchum, told WFAA that she was with friends at a restaurant on McKinney Avenue and decided to try out the new mode of transportation that’s taken Dallas by storm.
At the end of June, the City of Dallas passed regulations for bike share companies that many in the city have been asking for.
They also gave the green light to a six-month trial run for electric rental scooters—which travel up to 15 mph after the rider pays a fee.
You can’t ride on sidewalks in the Central Business District (which includes Deep Ellum and Downtown Dallas), and you can’t ride in a street where the speed limit is over 35 mph.
Companies like Lime and Bird both dumped hundreds of scooters almost immediately after everything went through.
But, when Mitchum hopped on her Lime scooter—she said that she flipped over it face first whenever she rode over the trolley tracks on McKinney.
“I did a block, and when I came back around I was going a little fast,” Mitchum said. “I hit where the trolley exchanges, and I just lost control and tumbled.”
Mitchum, who wasn’t wearing a helmet, hit her face on the road and had to be taken to the emergency room. Her injuries aren’t severe, but she does have some pretty bad road rash, a gash on her nose, and two black eyes. “It cost me $1.38 for the ride, and probably a couple thousand dollars for my trip to the emergency room,” Mitchum said.
On Monday, WFAA told you about how personal injury attorneys in Los Angeles are handling dozens of cases involving rental scooters.
One attorney in Beverly Hills, Robin Saghian, said he gets 2 to 5 calls a day from people wanting to lawyer up after they crash a scooter.
He said scooter accidents are becoming a common thing, and his phone won’t stop ringing. He also warned that Dallas would start seeing them soon.
Mitchum said that wasn’t hard to believe considering her circumstances.
She said that it’s easy to overestimate the two-wheeled transportation if you’re not careful. Not to mention, there's a lot of bumps in the road (like those trolley tracks) that could cause you to have a spill if you hit them.
“When you hit the cement at 17 miles per hour, it hurts,” Mitchum said.
Lime and Bird encourage riders to wear helmets before they hop on. But, there’s nothing that prevents a rider from zipping away without one.
Not to mention, the only helmet laws in Dallas center around bikes—and even then, only minors are required to wear one.
Mitchum’s advice? Take it slow, and throw on a helmet—even if it’s not attractive or convenient.
“I could have been run over,” Mitchum said. “I know it’s not convenient to get a helmet, but it could be the difference between life and death. I was lucky.”
“Try the scooter out in a parking lot before getting on a busy road like I did," she said.
Lime investigates all accidents with injuries, but Mitchum said she didn’t report hers.
The company told WFAA that it encourages all riders to wear helmets and to obey local helmet laws.
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Sony brings Moshcam video music channel to Bravia Internet Video
By What Hi-Fi Admin 2011-02-22T14:00:00Z
Library of 800 music gigs available on demand via Sony web TV
Moshcam has a music library containing more than 800 full-length gigs, 10,000 individual tracks and 1000 hours of content. Musical genres include rock, pop, metal, dance, jazz and soul.
Recently added concerts include those from The Pretenders, Gary Numan, Tegan & Sara, Jane's Addiction and The Hives, with more added each week.
"Moshcam has always been ahead of the broadband curve, filming concerts in broadcast quality since its inception," says Paul Hannigan, music director of Moshcam.
"With our Sony IPTV partnership, users can now experience their favourite artists' gigs free and on-demand from the comfort of their own lounge."
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John Atherton, York McDonald’s franchisee
By Laura Knowlson
McDonald's boss John Atherton Picture Frank Dwyer (56898118)
A GRADUATE who became managing director of McDonalds in two countries and chief operating officer of the UK chain is now running the franchise of York’s five restaurants.
John Atherton joined McDonald’s 33 years ago, after finishing university. An eager crew member learning the ins and outs of working at a McDonald’s restaurant, he quickly progressed to restaurant manager.
Thanks to the training opportunities on offer and internal support to progress, Mr Atherton continued to grow within the company very quickly and was soon overseeing the operation of 500 restaurants.
His career at McDonald’s didn’t stop there and after moving to head office, he took up a number of roles, including chief operating officer for the UK business and chief executive of McDonalds Nordics.
Two years ago, Mr Atherton gave up corporate life to move back and settle in his native Yorkshire where he invested his life savings into acquiring the franchise of four restaurants in York. Just before Christmas Mr Atherton expanded to a fifth restaurant at Poppleton, and has recently invested in a digital transformation of the restaurant in Clifton Moor Centre to improve the customer experience. His other restaurants include York's city centre McDonalds in Blake Street, Monks Cross, and the York Designer Outlet branch.
What job would you like to have other than your own and why?
"As a massive foodie, I would absolutely love to be a restaurant critic, especially in York where there is so much choice. Imagine being paid to dine in some of the best restaurants in the world."
Greatest achievement?
"I’ve had such a varied career with McDonald’s, but I think coming back to Yorkshire and being able to operate as a franchisee has been the biggest highlight.
"As a local businessman I am able to get involved in community projects such as supporting grassroots football – just last year we donated a kit to the Poppleton Juniors FC. On a personal level, the thing that has made me most happy is the birth of Fred, my grandson."
What makes you most angry?
"I get frustrated when people do not keep their commitments - businesses like mine are built on the commitment of the staff I employ."
Biggest mistake?
"Not seeing David Bowie in concert when I had the opportunity to."
What do you need to make life complete?
"A granddaughter to keep Fred company."
Why do you make a difference?
"I am passionate about those that I work with meeting their full potential, as we offer fantastic career opportunities to those willing to put in the hard work. You can go so far with McDonald’s - more than 40 per cent of our executive team started their careers working in restaurants!"
"I would hope that people would think simply, ‘what a nice bloke’."
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Mikkel is a second-generation NDT Inspector, succeeding his father at FORCE Technology. He has been with the company for five years, working with YXLON portable products. FORCE Technology is the largest inspection company in Scandinavia. They were founded more than 70 years ago - and operate worldwide from America to Asia.
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In Mikkel’s opinion the SMART EVO 200D has two major advantages. One is the 1 mm focal spot and the other is the low weight. “The EVO makes work easy. I save time on every exposure, which increases the number of exposures I can make”.
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3 Ways to Knock C. diff Rates Down to Zero
One hospital's multimodal approach has successfully lowered infections.
By Jennifer Thew, RN, March 6, 2018 (HealthLeaders)
For Necia Kimber, RN, CIC, MHA, infection control practitioner at Stillwater (Oklahoma) Medical Center, “one infection is too many.” Fortunately, when it comes to C. diff, Kimber has infection rates at the healthcare organization at just the right number: zero.
Thanks to a multifaceted approach, the 177-bed hospital with average daily census of 60 patients, has not seen a hospital-acquired case of C. diff since October 2017.
While the organization’s rates were not above the national average, Kimber still wanted to reduce the bioburden—particularly of C. diff, MRSA, VRE, and CRE—within the hospital.
“We didn’t have a high rate that made me say, ‘Oh, my goodness!’ It was just wanting to do overall good and making sure we were doing the best we could,” she says. “This is the hospital I’m going to bring my family to and I want to provide the best care for anybody who walks through that door.”
Here are three ways Kimber achieved lower infection rates at Stillwater Medical Center:
Kimber spearheaded an antimicrobial stewardship program at the facility in 2017. There was also assessment of and education regarding ordering of C. diff testing.
“[As healthcare professionals], when you have a patient and you can’t find anything with normal testing, we tend to expound our testing,” she says. “Sometimes it would end up hurting us with pay-for-performance—if [the patient] tested positive for [C. diff, it] didn’t mean they were actually infected with it. They can just be colonized with it.”
The infection control team provided education on national standards for ordering C. diff testing, including testing only when patients were symptomatic of the infection. The IC team provided nurses and physicians with education on when to implement C. diff precautions with the intent that earlier intervention would prevent transmission.
2. Hand hygiene and cleanliness
Hand hygiene was a focus area for preventing the spread of infections at Stillwater.
“We do a program that’s a commitment to excellence,” she says. “Last year we did a huge push on hand hygiene.”
Each month, “secret shoppers” do direct observation on the units to assess issues regarding hand hygiene.
“What we check for is hand hygiene upon entering the room and upon leaving the room,” Kimber says.
To increase patients’ sense of safety, Kimber says she has reinforced hand hygiene practices with clinicians so that even if nurses or physicians have just cleaned their hands with alcohol foam or gel after exiting a room, they need to reapply it if they are going directly into a new room, even if they have not touched anything between rooms.
In addition, Stillwater Medical Center is using a bleach-based product to clean all rooms and equipment after a patient is discharged.
“We used to only [use bleach] on positive C. diff rooms,” Kimber explains. “Now we use it on all rooms because there are so many people who are carriers and not showing signs [of infection] until after they’ve been discharged.”
Kimber also educates environmental services staff on the “why” behind cleaning techniques.
“What we honed-in on is the actual cleaning of the area—friction and leaving the products on for the allotted time to disrupt the replication of cells and bacteria,” she says. “We’ve done a ton of education on how to clean, when to clean, and why to clean.”
3. Robots
While the campaign took place over a year, Kimber says it was the addition of pulsed xenon ultra-violet robots that drove C. diffrates down to zero.
“What we saw with our use of the UV robots, which we started in October 2017, was that for the last quarter of the year, our C. diffhospital onset cases have been zero,” she says. “I’ve been an infection control nurse for almost 18 years and I’d never seen a drop as dramatically as I had in C. diff after implementation of the UV robots.”
While the robots are not cheap, Kimber estimates that each machine costs about $100,000. Stillwater purchased six robots.
“You always worry about surgical-site infections, and you always worry about those infections that patients get in the hospital such as C. diff, MRSA, CRE, and VRE,” she says. “By national standards one C. diff infection is about $30,000 when you look at morbidity and length of stay. For surgical-site infection, if it’s a hip or a knee, you’re getting into the hundreds of thousands. So, for example, with surgical-site infections if you could just save one surgical-site infection—say a hip or a knee—you’ve already saved $100,000, so your ROI will be pretty quick in knocking your infection rates down.”
Kimber says she encourages infection control practitioners to talk with their colleagues about effective solutions for decreasing infections—whether it’s using education, technology, or something else.
“I recommend people do their own research and find out what’s best for their facility and what their actual needs are,” she says. “Infection control nurses have a pretty tight network, so talk to your colleagues and see what they’re doing in their hospitals. Talk to the ones that are the same size as you and bigger than you and see how you can glean information from that.”
Kimber says, “There were tons of things that went into [reducing hospital onset infections]. Having that rate down to zero for three months has been a huge accomplishment.”
Jennifer Thew, RNJennifer Thew, RN, is the senior nursing editor at HealthLeaders Media.
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Smeeni Weather Forecast
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Current 3 °c
Smeeni Current weather report
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Local Time: Sun 19th Jan 6:20 pm
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Wind: 7 km/h from N
Rain: 0 %
Cloud: 100%
Max:3°c
Today's weather is turning out to be partly cloudy. The visibility is going to be around 10 km i.e. 6 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1029 mb . The daytime temperature is going to reach 3 °c and the temperature is going to dip to -2 °c at night. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 55% of the sky, the humidity will be around 77%.
3 km/h SSW
5 km/h SSE
Tomorrow weather is forecasted to be partly cloudy. The visibility is going to be around 10 km i.e. 6 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1040 mb. The daytime temperature is going to reach 5 °c and the temperature is going to dip to -4 °c at night. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 24% of the sky, the humidity will be around 72%.
4 km/h WNW
On Tuesday weather will be partly cloudy with daytime temperature reaching 7 °c. Night time temperature are expected to be -1 °c.It will be dry with no precipitation. The visibility is going to be around 10 km i.e. 6 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1040 mb. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 11% of the sky, the humidity will be around 60%.
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10 km/h WSW
9 km/h WSW
Wednesday seems to be partly cloudy. Smeeni, Romania visibility is going to be around 10 km i.e. 6 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1028 mb. The daytime temperature is going to reach 9 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 0 °c at night. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 12% of the sky, the humidity will be around 50%.
10 km/h WNW
Partly cloudy will be the weather pattern for the Thursday. The visibility is going to be around 10 km i.e. 6 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1029 mb. The daytime temperature is going to reach 6 °c and the temperature is going to dip to -1 °c at night. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 16% of the sky, the humidity will be around 53%.
Weekly Weather Report for Smeeni, Romania
Looking at the weather in Smeeni, Romania over the next 7 days, the maximum temperature will be 9℃ (or 48℉) on Wednesday 22nd January at around 2 pm. In the same week the minimum temperature will be -5℃ (or 24℉) on Friday 24th January at around 11 pm.
Looking at the world weather radar, national weather service and satellite images, Smeeni, Romania weather forecaster is reporting little or no rainfall over the next 7 days. So make most of it while you are on vacation in Smeeni, Romania.
The windiest of all days will be Friday 24th January as wind will reach 17mph (or 27kmph) at around 2 pm.
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Deadly Botanica fire still under investigation
Updated: 6:30 PM EDT Oct 24, 2016
Whitney Burbank
WEBVTT WHITNEY: I ACTUALLY GOT MY HANDS ON A VIDEO THAT IS JUST TOO GRAPHICALLY SHOW ON TV, BUT A WOMAN, IT APPEARS ARE CLOTHES BURNED DOWN TO THE SKIN, AND A DEPUTY HELPING HER INTO A CAR IN THIS PARKING LOT. THIS FIRE STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION TONIGHT. INVESTIGATING THE INFERNO THE KILLED TWOW OMEN -- TWO WOMEN SATURDAY. POLICE SAY THE FIRE CONSUMED MUCH OF THIS BOTANICA SHOP WHILE MARIA BONNY AND 31-YEAR-OLD ROSELYNNE LINDOR-SANON WERE INSIDE. MONDAY STILL NO POWER OR UTILITIES FOR NEIGHBORING BUSINESSES IN THE STRIP MALL ON BELVEDERE ROAD IN WEST PALM BEACH. NO POWER, NO NOTHING. IT'S A VERY BAD SITUATION RIGHT NOW. WHITNEY: THE OWNER OF SAM'S PIZZA SAYS HE DOESN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE SHOP OR THE OWNERS. DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS STORE? >> I DON'T KNOW. I JUST HEAR THE NOISES SEE THE FIRE GUYS. WHITNEY: BUT A STYLIST AT THIS SALON NEXT DOOR SAYS SHE'S FAMILIAR WITH THE BOTANICA CONCEPT. >> FOR ALMOST ALL LATINOS, IT IS NORMAL. SHE SAYS THE BOTANICA, IT'S THE PRACTICE OF WHAT THEY CALL VOODOO OR RITUALS. WHITNEY: SHE DIDN'T WANT TO SHOW HER FACE OUT OF FEAR FOR ME IT'S SCARY, SHE SAYS OF THE PRACTICE, BUT IT CAN BE GOOD OR BAD BUT FOR ME IT'S BAD. I LOOKED UP THE FACEBOOK ACCOUNT LISTED ON THE FRONT DOOR OF THE BOTANICA. THE VOODOO TEMPLE ACCOUNT SHOWS VIDEOS OF DANCING, SINGING EVEN AN ALBUM A FEW MONTHS OLD SHOWING GLOWING CANDLES ON TOP OF AN ALTAR DRAPED IN FABRIC, JUST LIKE THIS. BRIGHT BLUE AND FLECKS GOLD STILL SHIMMERING THROUGH ASH-COATED WINDOWS I REACHED OUT TOPNL. THEY SAID IT WAS UP TO THE PROPERTY OWNER TO GET A SINISTER -- A CITY REGISTERED ELECTRICIAN HERE. ONLY THEN CAN THEY SAFELY RESTORE POWER IN UTILITIES.
On Monday, West Palm Beach police said detectives are investigating the inferno that killed two women inside a store on Belvedere Road Saturday. In video obtained by WPBF that is too graphic for broadcast, a woman whose shirt appears to have burned down to the skin is seen hobbling through the parking lot with a Palm Beach County sheriffs deputy nearby. Police said the fire consumed much of the Botanica Shop while 36-year-old Maria Bonny and 31-year-old Roselynne Lindor-Sanon were inside. Neighboring businesses in the strip mall said the blaze knocked out power and utilities to at least six other businesses and had yet to be restored Monday evening. "No power no nothing, lost business, lost food. It’s a very bad situation right now," said Sam Metaj, owner of Sam’s pizza. Metaj said he doesn’t know much about the Botanica or the owners, but a stylist at a salon next door said she’s familiar with the Botanica concept. "To almost all of Latinos, it’s normal," said the stylist, who did not want to be identified out of fear. "The Botanica its the practice of what they call voodoo or rituals ... for me it’s scary. But it can be good or bad, but for me it’s bad." A Facebook profile listed on the front door of the Botanica links to a "Lamerveilleuse Vodoutemple" account. The page shows videos of dancing and singing and pictures of the Botanica. An album a few months old includes a series of photos in which a woman in a white dress is seen sitting before glowing candles on top of an altar draped in fabric. According to a WPPD spokeswoman, the cause of the fire is still under investigation. A Florida Power and Light spokesman said FPL must wait on a city-approved electrical engineer to inspect equipment before power can be restored to the strip mall, and the process must be initiated by the property owner.
On Monday, West Palm Beach police said detectives are investigating the inferno that killed two women inside a store on Belvedere Road Saturday.
In video obtained by WPBF that is too graphic for broadcast, a woman whose shirt appears to have burned down to the skin is seen hobbling through the parking lot with a Palm Beach County sheriffs deputy nearby.
Police said the fire consumed much of the Botanica Shop while 36-year-old Maria Bonny and 31-year-old Roselynne Lindor-Sanon were inside.
Neighboring businesses in the strip mall said the blaze knocked out power and utilities to at least six other businesses and had yet to be restored Monday evening.
"No power no nothing, lost business, lost food. It’s a very bad situation right now," said Sam Metaj, owner of Sam’s pizza. Metaj said he doesn’t know much about the Botanica or the owners, but a stylist at a salon next door said she’s familiar with the Botanica concept.
"To almost all of Latinos, it’s normal," said the stylist, who did not want to be identified out of fear. "The Botanica its the practice of what they call voodoo or rituals ... for me it’s scary. But it can be good or bad, but for me it’s bad."
A Facebook profile listed on the front door of the Botanica links to a "Lamerveilleuse Vodoutemple" account.
The page shows videos of dancing and singing and pictures of the Botanica.
An album a few months old includes a series of photos in which a woman in a white dress is seen sitting before glowing candles on top of an altar draped in fabric.
According to a WPPD spokeswoman, the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
A Florida Power and Light spokesman said FPL must wait on a city-approved electrical engineer to inspect equipment before power can be restored to the strip mall, and the process must be initiated by the property owner.
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Zurich Airport News Flash No. 15 / Zurich Airport Key Figures - August 2011
Traffic Figures
2,321,023 passengers were handled at Zurich Airport during August 2011, a gain of 4.1% versus August 2010. The year to date passenger growth stands at +8.2%.
O&D or local passengers (originating or departing from Zurich) increased by 5.3% to 1,521,052 compared to previous August (YTD +9.3%). Transfer passengers are up by 1.6% to 792,706 in August (YTD +6.1%). The transfer rate which was at 35.0% last August is currently at 34.2% (YTD 34.0%).
The current low cost passenger market share is at 11.9% (YTD 11.2%), showing an increase in passenger figures of 5.9% (YTD +12.6%) versus previous year.
Air Traffic Movements (ATMs) increased by 2.2% to 24,914 in August versus previous year (YTD +5.5%). The increase divides into a gain of 2.9% for airlines (YTD +5.9%) and a loss of 1.9% for general aviation and others (YTD +3.3%).
The average Passenger per Movement figure (airline passengers only) currently is at 108.7 (107.6 previous year) or 101.8 YTD (99.6 previous year). The average seat load factor saw a decrease of 0.4 percentage points to 76.8% (YTD 72.7%).
Total turnover (net sales to consumers) during August was CHF 37.7m (-6.4% versus previous year). Turnover per departing passenger in August was CHF 32.5, which is 10.1 percent lower than last year. Year to date August, total turnover saw a decrease of 0.6% to CHF 314.2m and turnover per departing passenger decreased by 8.1% to CHF 38.7.
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English majors are thinkers. They read, discuss and write about works that represent diverse traditions, genres, and authors. The program exposes you to a multitude of texts and interpretive perspectives, so that by the end of your journey through the works that have impacted hundreds of years of cultures and peoples, you will have:
Analyzed a range of literary issues, figures, texts, themes, techniques and genres;
Discussed contexts of diverse cultures, such as the roles that race, class, gender and sexuality play in shaping cultural perception; and
Argued competently in your writing through a close examination of works from critical and primary sources.
As you discuss, analyze, and argue about challenging issues, including the cultural impacts of race, gender and sexuality, English majors hone their expertise as storytellers, critical thinkers and problem solvers. The extensive experiences with language provide a great foundation for a wide variety of careers.
To earn your bachelor's in English, you'll take a core of courses along with additional courses in the following areas:
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Vero Moda joins Jeans Redesign project
today Jul 17, 2019
One of Bestseller’s key labels, Vero Moda, is the latest big name to embrace more sustainable denim and said on Wednesday that it has joined other leading fashion brands and manufacturers as a participant in the Jeans Redesign project.
Created through the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Make Fashion Circular initiative that launched last year, the project is aiming to push the denim sector into a more eco direction. With consumers more eco-aware and denim known to be one of the most resources-intensive and polluting fabrics around, that makes commercial sense. Given the popularity of jeans these days, and the low prices that they sell for in the mass-market, there’s an urgent need to make them as planet-friendly as possible.
The project’s mission is “to build on existing efforts to improve denim production, reduce waste and pollution, eliminate harmful practices and make jeans more durable, recyclable and traceable,” the company said.
Vero Moda’s parent firm Bestseller has been part of the Jeans Redesign journey since it began and in November, its Sustainable Materials Manager Camilla Skjønning Jørgensen was involved in a workshop with other industry experts to shape the initiative’s guidelines.
New participant Vero Moda will now work to produce jeans in line with the project’s guidelines at scale by 2021. The guidelines include minimum requirements for durability, material health, recyclability and traceability.
“Changes need to be made, so we have decided to join Jeans Redesign as it is important to us that we do our part, protecting and preserving the environment for future generations. Jeans are durable, so let’s design for longevity and make our jeans with a circular mindset,” said Rune Gade, who’s responsible for Concept & Product at the brand’s denim operations.
Other brands taking part include Gap, C&A, H&M, Lee jeans, Tommy Hilfiger, among others.
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Review: Sugar Skull by Charles Burns
We already know Charles Burns from his 12-issue comic series Black Hole (1995-2005), a true graphic novel classic. Well Sugar Skull, his latest work and the last volume of his trilogy (which started with X’ed Out [2010] and The Hive [2012]), has finally arrived!
However impatient I was to know how this internal conflict would be solved, I must say my waiting was rewarded! With Sugar Skull, Burns’ trilogy finds closure in a very moving way!
If Doug, the main character, echoes Hergé’s protagonist Tintin, it’s only by means of opposition. Doug’s a real antihero and solely relates to Tintin in superficial ways. In fact, Doug’s stage name, Nit Nit, also embodies this reversal.
Indeed, whereas Tintin always finds a way to solve the mystery and complete the adventure, Doug is unable to find the missing piece of the puzzle. But why?
Burns tells us that it’s because the mystery is within our immature and ambivalent main character. Since Doug’s internal struggle ties the narrative together, the reader will discover the fascinating universe developed by Burns through the lies the narrator tells himself.
The three books deal with memory, insisting on its plasticity or in other words, its changeable and malleable nature. If Modiano, who was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, has made the art of remembering a central part of his work, it’s right to say that Burns’ Sugar Skull is particularly apropos.
Suffering from a blackout that is visually reminded through an x-shaped bandage on his head, Doug engages himself in a remembering quest where past, present and fantasies intertwine in an intriguing amalgam.
Burns pushes the limit of the temporal confusion by deciding not to include page numbers! Stories interlace with fluidity and a good number of visual motifs throughout the three books create an effect of consistency. As an example, the motif of the (alien, human, or pig) foetus is particularly prominent and we quickly grow aware that it has to do with Doug’s trauma.
The main character, a photography student, evolves in the underground punk scene of the 80’s.
Thanks to some old polaroids he took while dating the gorgeous Sarah, who's also a photography student, Doug is able to remember some traumatic life episodes he had forgotten. Therefore, Burns’ framing is very photographic.
There are also a lot of close-ups, echoing one of the story’s leitmotivs "try[ing] to focus in on the good things." Of course, the narrator fails to focus on the good things and is instead haunted by a troubled past, as "…[his] eyes always drift."
The rapid succession of images that Burns uses frequently reminds me of Doug’s father and his continual TV zapping. In fact, the father is also an ambivalent figure, taking an active role in Doug’s conflictual memory. If the narrator doesn’t seem to identify with him, he nonetheless wears the same bathrobe and slippers and adopts the same regime: cigarettes, denial and isolation.
It’s also important to comment Burns’ usage of colors, which is anything but aleatory. Vivid and beautiful, the colors enhance Burns’s apocalyptic world, but also allow narrative transition, in a non-linear narrative. As an example, Sugar Skull starts with a brick-red monochrome panel, followed a page later by a midnight blue monochrome panel, that signals, as "once upon a time" often does in a fairy tale, the start of a new temporality. We are then projected into the realm of Doug’s fantasies.
Once again, Burns gives the reader the impression that nothing is left to chance. Sugar Skull unfolds itself beautifully, exploring reality as much as a crazy post-apocalyptic universe. Burns’ trilogy finds closure in a deep human way. It ends by revealing the responsibilities that Doug tried to escape from and shows us that past can never be truly erased. Sugar Skull is touching and poignant because of its sincerity and simplicity. Truth is simple, but is in no way less hard to bear, for the reader as for Doug. Thus, the antihero, in Sugar Skull’s final pages, goes back to his fantasy world, which is devastated and foreign, but somehow preferred to reality.
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Articles Posted in the " Rupert Grint " Category
Grint and Moretz join The Drummer
By John Underwood on March 15, 2012 0 comment
Good luck outacting a fifteen-year-old, Rupe.
10 reasons you’re wrong about Daniel Radcliffe
By Natasha Hodgson on October 17, 2011 5 comments
There’s a balmy lethargy that comes over anyone who tries to talk about Daniel Radcliffe. Eyes become dusty, heads shake, the subject is swiftly changed and forgotten, as conversation invariably turns to Emma Watson’s blossoming torso. But why? Over the course of ten years mainly made up of having pictures taken with owls, the Boy Who Lived has somehow developed traits of He Who Must Not Be Named. But you know what? You’re wrong about Daniel Radcliffe. You’re wrong about him, and I’ve got words that prove it.
By John Underwood on July 08, 2011 1 comment
Blimey. It’s all over. Fourteen years after the first book came out, ten years on from the first film and eight months since Deathly Hallows Part 1 rather cheekily claimed that ‘It All Ends Here’, the extraordinary cultural juggernaut that is the Harry Potter book series has finally completed its transition onto the screen. A better swansong than this film could scarcely be imagined.
Harry Potter premiere is unexpectedly sunny!
We were going to come up with an invented weather spell, but life’s too short.
The New Harry Potter trailer made us wee ourselves
By Natasha Hodgson on April 28, 2011 0 comment
Very rarely does a simple, earth-bound trailer makes us want to weep with joy. This is one of those times.
Films to see in March 2011
By John Underwood on February 25, 2011 0 comment
How do you know what you’re going to see at the cinema next month? You’re busy people – Facebook won’t update itself, and you’ve probably got a relationship to neglect or something. Oh, you haven’t? Sorry. Well, there’s no point in trying to meet another human adult now, you may as well just read this blog.
Harry Potter And The Inevitable Future
By Max Feldman on February 25, 2011 0 comment
At the turn of the millennium, while we ordinary folk were struggling with our spelling, the Harry Potter Three; Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint were being pampered and preened, photographed and photoshopped, and showered with riches. It’s enough to give us ordinary folk a severe case of heebie-jeebie jealousy. Most importantly, it’s enough to send the trio abso-Jackson-lutely mental. Here, we provide the frankest, honestest account of the baffling circus that became the lives of the cursed stars from 2011 to the present day (which is 2031, of course).
Why BAFTA is celebrating the Harry Potter films
By b.hart on February 08, 2011 1 comment
Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema at the BAFTA awards to going to everyone’s favourite guilty pleasure- the Harry Potter films. We decided to celebrate this achievement by taking a trip down memory lane and working out what was so good, which bits were so bad and what on earth some of it was all about.
Top 30 Films of the Decade
By Chris van der Watt on December 02, 2010 3 comments
Ten years of film all neatly rolled into one awesomely epic list of greats! Feast your eyes on the Top 30 Films of the Decade.
Harry Potter franchise to get 3D cinema re-release, says Warner Bros.
By Steven Neish on November 22, 2010 1 comment
Warner Bros. domestic distribution president Dan Fellman reports plans to re-release the complete Harry Potter franchise following Deathly Hallows Part 2 in 3D.
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ROR Annual Meeting
Two Year Spill Anniversary
NRDA Funding
Volunteers are needed for a beach sweep collecting trash on Elmer's Island.
The cleanup, on May 12 from 8 a.m. to noon, is hosted by the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program.
Elmer's Island, which includes a public beach near Grand Isle, is known for excellent fishing, swimming and bird watching.
To sign up or for more information, visit volunteer.btnep.org or contact Joseph Dantin at 985-228-0358 or joe@btnep.org.
2012 Louisiana Legislature Regular Session
March 14- June 4
CPRA
La Belle Room, La Salle Building
Department of Natural Resources, Baton Rouge
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Galvez Building, BR
State of the Coast Conference
Morial Convention Center, New Orleans
ROR Hosts Annual Meeting with Congressman Scalise
The annual gathering provides an update on the organization and its daily activities.
Congressman Scalise addresses the audience at ROR's Annual Meeting.
Houma, LA-- Restore or Retreat (ROR) hosted their annual gathering of members and stakeholders this month, and guest speaker Congressman Steve Scalise provided several updates on important federal coastal legislation.
Executive Director Simone Maloz presented an organizational update to the audience of 75, including updates on current priorities, projects, and legislation.
"There is no time or money to waste," said Maloz. "We will continue to work with State and Corps to expedite planned and potential projects for the Barataria and Terrebonne Basins, advocate for already existing and planned projects such as Bayou Lafourche and Davis Pond, continue to be a resources for the State and our community, and participate in local, state, federal planning process."
Congressman Steve Scalise was first elected to Congress in a special election in May of 2008. He was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2008 and again in 2010 to continue serving Louisiana's First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Due to redistricting following the 2010 census, parts of Terrebonne and Lafourche are now included in the First District.
As a champion in Congress for coastal restoration, Scalise has spearheaded a number of legislative initiatives to protect and restore our fragile coast. He continues to lead the effort to pass the "RESTORE Act" in the House, which dedicates BP Clean Water Act fines to the Gulf Coast to fully restore our coastal ecosystems and economies in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. His RESTORE Act amendment passed the House of Representatives earlier this year with overwhelming support and was recently passed as part of the transportation bill extension. He also has numerous other coastal restoration victories, including authoring and passing his amendment to provide funding for the Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) program.
Click here to see link to Courier Article.
Marking the Anniversary of the Oil Spill
Two years ago, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 men and unleashing the worst oil spill in our nation's history.
Senator Mary Landrieu featured Restore or Retreat Executive Director Simone Maloz, Houma-based business owner Lori Davis of Rig Chem, and Greater Lafourche Port Commission Executive Director Chett Chiasson in an op-ed and video released to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the oil spill.
Column: An unbowed Louisiana two years after spill by Senator Mary Landrieu, The Times-Picayune
Video: RESILIENCE: Six stories after the spill & the need to RESTORE the Gulf Coast
Other commemorations of the anniversary:
Vitter Remarks on BP Oil Spill Two Year Anniversary
Landry Statement on Anniversary of BP Spill
Gov. Jindal Statement on Second Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Spill
NRDA Funding Announced
Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Trustees Announce Major Progress in Gulf Restoration Effort
An estimated $60 million in early restoration projects soon will begin along the Gulf Coast following the nation's largest oil spill, the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Trustee Council announced this week.
With finalization of the "Deepwater Horizon Phase I Early Restoration Plan & Environmental Assessment" (ERP/EA), eight restoration projects will be implemented. The projects provide for marsh creation, coastal dune habitat improvements, nearshore artificial reef creation, and oyster cultch restoration, as well as the construction and enhancement of boat ramps to compensate for lost human use of resources.
The ERP/EA is the first early restoration plan under the unprecedented April 2011 agreement with BP to fund $1 billion in early restoration projects. The funding enables the trustees to begin restoration before the completion of damage assessment activities.
The trustees are working to move the next phase of early restoration forward. The selection process for future early restoration projects will proceed along the same lines as the first. After reaching preliminary agreement with BP on proposed projects, the trustees will seek public comments before finalizing any future plan.
The Phase I projects, including two each in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, were the focus of 12 public meetings held throughout the Gulf states and in Washington during the months of January and February 2012.
In addition to speaking at meetings, hundreds of citizens filed comments by mail and online. Following the meetings, more than 500 people and organizations submitted comments, which were gathered and carefully evaluated. The comments, as well as trustee responses to them, are included in the Phase I plan, which can be reviewed at http://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/. The NOAA Gulf Spill Restoration site also provides additional information about restoration planning and a status update on the ongoing damage assessment.
"These projects allow us to begin implementing restoration of Louisiana's natural resources quickly, rather than waiting years for the completion of the full assessment," said Louisiana trustee Garret Graves, chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana. "But we continue to be focused on pursuing additional projects with BP. Nearly two years after the start of the oil spill, we hope that BP moves quickly to approve future restoration for the Gulf Coast."
Another Weapon in Our Arsenal- Courier Opinion
Report Says Nation Should Pay to Fix Coastal Louisiana- Courier
House Back BP Funds for Gulf- Advocate
Mississippi River Creates "Free" Diversion- Fox 8 New Orleans
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TMC Becomes Employee Owned
TMC Transportation, a private, family-owned company for 41 years recently announced that it will transition to an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), becoming an employee-owned company.
TMC's ownership transition to an employee-owned company is the result of CEO and Founder Harrold Annett's desire to establish a succession plan that maintains the culture of TMC, while rewarding its employees for their dedication. Read more.
Josh Woodard Named Driver of the Third Quarter
Josh Woodard has added another milestone award, Driver of the Third Quarter for 2013, to his already sterling reputation. He has been driving with TMC for six years, has driven more than one million safe miles and is consistently one of the top revenue earners in the company. Josh is also a trainer, and has been named "Trainer of the Month" twice. Congratulations Josh! Read more.
TMC Joins the Army PaYS Program
On November 7, 2013, representatives of the U.S. Army and TMC Transportation signed an agreement to provide priority hiring status to qualified Soldiers participating in the Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) Program. PaYS was developed to help the Army attract, train and deploy talented young people who want to serve their country, but also want to help secure their future success once their Army service is complete. Read more about the partnership here.
TMC Named Military Friendly Employer
TMC has earned the Military Friendly Employer designation from G. I. Jobs magazine for the second year in a row.
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Michael Annett Joins Tommy Baldwin Racing for Sprint Cup Series next year.
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Comment: India must lead the G20 Agenda
By Eswar Prasad on April 7, 2009
There are times when a country has the calling to step forward on the world stage and transform its role from that of a passive follower to that of a leader. That time has come for India—it must seize the moment.
The reordering of the global economic power structure, with the G20 now taking a prominent role, has created a leadership void among emerging markets.
There is the risk that the emerging market agenda could be taken over by countries that are seen as advancing just their own narrow interests. This would heighten tensions with advanced economies and work against global cooperation.
India’s innate economic dynamism and a few years of solid growth with low inflation have put it firmly at the centre of the world economic stage. The global crisis has nicked India but so far has not set back its growth greatly.
India’s response to the crisis has been far more mature than that of many developed economies, without reflexive moves towards financial protectionism or a reversal of initiatives towards financial market development. This gives India credibility that should allow it to punch beyond its weight class.
Circumstances and personalities are of course both essential to make things happen. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the de facto leader of his economic team, Montek Ahluwalia, are highly respected around the world as intelligent and pragmatic economists with excellent pedigrees. They can provide an intellectual vision for the emerging markets to coalesce around and for advanced countries to accept as being for the common good.
How can India advance the G20 agenda? Not only has India aligned itself with countries like the US, Japan and China in calling for more macroeconomic stimulus but it has backed up words with concrete actions.
The government’s economic adviser Arvind Virmani notes that India’s actual stimulus measures this year will amount to nearly 5 per cent of gross domestic product. In leading by example, India has gained the moral clout to aggressively push for additional measures by countries that haven’t yet done their bit for coordinated global stimulus, especially if macroeconomic conditions should deteriorate further.
There is clearly a need for a rethink of regulatory principles and frameworks and for global coordination of regulatory efforts. However, the European approach of rushing to regulate may result in an outcome that is not favourable to emerging markets, which have less sophisticated financial markets.
India, which has considerable expertise and intellectual firepower on this matter, should articulate a clear position on how emerging markets can contribute to the development of global regulatory standards.
India should also lead the charge against financial protectionism and promote the free flow of goods, services and labour. This is of particular interest to India as some of its large cash-rich firms seek to invest in companies abroad and its highly-skilled workforce adds to the global talent pool.
Global governance is another priority. The joint communiqué issued by Brazil, China, India and Russia at the time of the G20 finance ministers’ meeting two weeks ago tied together the issue of more resources for the IMF with governance reforms — giving emerging markets their due weight in the fund’s voting structure.
Japan, the EU and the US are pushing for resources to be added to the IMF’s capital pool, with promises of undertaking quota reforms by 2013 or perhaps a year or two earlier. There is no reason for these reforms to take so long. At a time of crisis, many dramatic changes are being made practically overnight.
India should lead the emerging markets’ charge in pushing for quota reform to be done now, with the increase in resources explicitly tied to those reforms.
India’s leaders have a lot on their minds — the economy is fragile, the global crisis may worsen and buffet the economy further, as national elections loom. Still, they have an obligation to step up and provide intellectual leadership to the international community at this critical juncture.
Eswar Prasad is a professor at Cornell University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was previously head of the IMF’s financial studies division and its China division.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009
Originally published in the Financial Times and reproduced here with the author’s permission.
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2 Responses to "Comment: India must lead the G20 Agenda"
Guest April 8, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Why should India lead anything? Look what they did to cricket with their trash low class 20/20 rubbish. They’re worse than the Americans and have no class at all. Nothing in their society is worth emulating or following especially their over population and love of poverty – they are so proud of poverty that they made a movie about exalting themselves about their poverty and over population. Following any Indian model is not an option!
Guest April 14, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Why shouldn’t Brazil be the leader of the emerging markets or be the leader of an agenda/a set of ideas that guide all emerging markets to ensure that they have as much power as possible in the international system. This is the most unconvincing piece about why a country is better positioned than others and thus should be a leader. Are identity issues or some other emotion driving the claims put forward in the piece? India is a regional leader and model country. But a global leader or model country? Is the author serious?
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India's Vulture Void
In Essence | Summer 2011
THE SOURCE: “India’s Vanishing Vultures” by Meera Subramanian, in Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2011.
It’s not easy to muster empathy for eaters of the dead. But in India, a precipitous drop in the native vulture population, from 50 million in the mid-1990s to fewer than 60,000 today, has created an environmental and cultural catastrophe. Gone are the creatures that once “scoured the countryside, clearing fields of dead cows and goats,” writes Meera Subramanian, a widely published journalist who is also an editor of the online literary magazine Killing the Buddha. And while other animals, notably wild dogs, have taken over some of the carrion-eating on land, no scavengers can fill the role vultures once performed for the Parsis, the small, ancient religious sect who give their dead “sky burials” in sacred “Towers of Silence.” The massive vultures, their wingspans sometimes reaching eight feet, used to consume the bodies left on open-air scaffolds in a matter of days, but now it can take months for the Parsi dead to decompose.
American microbiologist Lindsay Oaks finally pinpointed the cause of the vultures’ demise in 2003: diclofenac, a painkiller given to farm animals for discomfort from cracked hooves. Vultures gorging on animals treated with diclofenac suffered massive kidney failure. The government banned the substance in 2005, but Subramanian says the law is toothless.
The three prominent species of indigenous vultures, all from the Gyps genus, were once able to consume cattle infected with tuberculosis, brucellosis, foot-and-mouth disease, and anthrax with no ill effects. But with the birds gone, humans now must dispose of such animals themselves, Subramanian writes. The fear is that “these diseases could spread among both animal and human populations.”
Attempts to rebuild the vulture population, chiefly at the Pinjore Vulture Conservation Breeding Center north of Delhi, have met with limited success. Only 17 vultures have been bred in the past three years.
In the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan, Subramanian visited a carcass dump, a five-acre pile of “dead cows, water buffalo, goats, and camels” brought from nearby Bikaner, a city of half a million. Migrant birds—“mostly Eurasian griffons, bulky steppe eagles, and Egyptian vultures”—come there to feed, but the indigenous Gyps vultures, “hardest hit by diclofenac,” are nowhere to be seen. Wild dogs, though, are everywhere, feeding on the rotting carcasses and, especially when in heat, roaming away from the dumping ground to attack local children. India’s dog population is thought to have increased by nearly a third, to some 30 million. It is no accident that India accounts for 70 percent of human rabies deaths in the world.
And dogs can’t solve the dilemma posed by the Parsi Towers of Silence. The sect has struggled to find an alternative for their burial rituals, from installing solar reflectors to help speed the rate of natural decay, to planning for enormous aviaries stocked with captive vultures. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that the effect of other painkillers in human corpses would not be lethal to vultures, too. “Vultures play such a beautiful, natural role in our death ritual,” one Parsi leader laments. “To replace them is a unique challenge.”
His words are echoed by Asad Rahmani, head of the Bombay Natural History Society, India’s largest and oldest wildlife conservation organization. “There were so many vultures then that you can’t even think they could decline,” Rahmani said. “What have we done with them? Now there are dogs. They eat anything, live or dead. There are dogs on the ground, but the skies are empty.”
Photo credit: Indian vultures by Tarique Sani via flickr
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United Bank announces nearly $90K in tornado relief funding
WEST SPRINGFIELD — With its partnership in the community-wide abc40 and FOX6 Tornado Relief Fund and grants awarded by its foundation, United Bank recently announced a total of $89,500 in donations in support of local tornado relief and recovery efforts. The amount is in addition to the bank’s earlier gift of $25,000 to the Red Cross immediately following the June 1 tornado.
The abc40 / FOX6 Tornado Relief Fund raised $40,000. Individual grants of $10,000 each were awarded to the American Red Cross, Pioneer Valley Chapter; the Salvation Army, Springfield Corps; the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts Tornado Relief Fund; and United Way of Pioneer Valley Tornado Recovery Fund.
“The Red Cross and Salvation Army played a critical role providing relief in the days immediately following the tornado,” Dena M. Hall, senior vice president of marketing and community relations at United Bank and president of the United Bank Foundation, said.
“In addition, as those affected by the tornado move into the recovery phase and our communities begin to rebuild and repair themselves, the funds established at the Community Foundation and United Way will play an equally important role in the months and years ahead. We are pleased to support these organizations in this process, as well,” she added.
In a dedicated funding cycle, the United Bank Foundation has awarded $49,500 to nine local organizations that were directly impacted by the tornado and those providing immediate relief to the community. The recipients included:
Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society — $2,000 to assist with lost revenue and depleted resources at the Union Street shelter in Springfield.
DevelopSpringfield Corporation — $10,000 toward a multi-year effort to rebuild all sections of Springfield affected by the tornado.
Holyoke Chicopee Springfield Head Start — $4,000 toward the repair and restoration of the playground and outdoor areas at its Madison Avenue building.
Pioneer Valley Montessori School — $2,500 to help repair and restore the school’s outdoor play area damaged by the tornado.
Rebuilding Together Springfield — $10,000 in support of a five-day volunteer project to rebuild/repair 25 tornado-damaged Springfield homes.
South End Community Center — $2,500 to support increased service needs, revenue lost, and vehicle maintenance needs as a result of the tornado.
Springfield Rescue Mission — $2,000 to replenish supplies and reserves used to support families displaced by the tornado.
Square One — $12,500 for renovations at the Holyoke childcare center, to accommodate Springfield children displaced as a result of the tornado.
Westfield Public Schools — $4,000 for replacement books and learning materials destroyed at two Munger Hill School kindergarten classrooms during the tornado.
According to Hall, the United Bank Foundation earmarked up to $75,000 for tornado relief/recovery needs.
“The remaining $25,000 dedicated to this purpose will be set aside to ensure that we are able to meet the needs of organizations in our community that are still accessing the scope of their damage, awaiting insurance coverage information, and/or determining long-term recovery needs,” she said.
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Home>New articles>I invite you to the correspondence training "On Charging - Together"
I invite you to the correspondence training "On Charging - Together"
by Addison
If you are reading our blog, then surely alreadyWe realized that we are not indifferent to a healthy lifestyle and with varying success we try to keep ourselves in good physical condition. This is mainly related to active pastime, although it used to go to the gym. Now they are into yoga, so they started running in the mornings. In this regard, I want to invite you to the correspondence training "On Exercise - Together."
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It so happened that nature did not endow usSiberian health, so you can relax and do nothing. I somehow dug my children's card from the clinic, so she was so fat, I used to catch cold 5-10 times a year. And when I stopped smoking and drinking 7 years ago, and then became a vegetarian, it saved the situation, but not completely. Because the older, the less you move, the more you sit at the computer at work, you know, hypodynamia.
I recently wrote an article "Human capabilities are not compatible with the modern world?"Complaining that if the work is inactive, thenyou have to artificially invent yourself loads. Of course, the question still remains open, as it doesn’t suit me to retrain as a loader or a peasant. But since we still have to do something, even artificially, we started running and doing yoga. And at this moment one of our readers, Yevgeny Yekimov, suggested participating with an extramural training session on developing a good habit - charging in the morning, running, hardening, and so on.
And I'll tell you what. When you know that you are doing this not alone, but in a good company of like-minded people, when you realize that it is embarrassing to write “missed” in the report on the last day, then the motivation increases. At the same time, there are a number of people with whom you can consult, who will support your undertaking. And the most important thing is that it is very convenient, because there is a leader who manages the whole process, prompts, gives tasks both for general and for a specific person.
The training lasted 3 weeks, this is quite enoughto develop a habit. But you need to remember a very important point - first of all, you need to learn how to enjoy physical activity, and only then it will be difficult to give up, like ice cream.
If you understand that the time has come and it’s timefinally, to take care of yourself that “I will start from Monday” is only an excuse and it can last for years, then I invite you to take part in a new correspondence training that Yevgeny is conducting. You can sign up on his blog http://summertoys.livejournal.com/. If we do not go anywhere, we will also participate in it. Beginning very soon - June 19th. Who wants to make a company - welcome!
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The Sistine Chapel Restorations, Part II: How to Take a Michelangelo Sibyl Apart, from Top to Toes
“I must confess I harbour a lingering almost subconscious fear that someday someone will come, unexpectedly, with a really intelligent observation that will show all of us to have been blind.” ~ Gianluigi Colalucci, 1990
We were startled when the Vatican authorities admitted that Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes are in greater peril than at any point in their history. Powerful art institutions rarely broadcast their own embarrassments. More often, they see off their critics by sitting tight, quietly briefing journalistic proxies and…continuing to be. Welcome as was the acknowledgement of the problem by Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, casting the Chapel’s paying visitors as the principal cause of the present crisis, masked greater institutional responsibilities.
The Vatican has yet to acknowledge that this environmental crisis arose as a direct consequence – and within just two decades – of permitting the Chapel’s ancient frescoes to be used as a test bed for the then new and highly controversial cleaning agent “Mixture AB 57”. And, despite the brouhaha over toxic visitors, there remains no hint of acknowledgement that the restorations of the 1980s and early 1990s proceeded on an art critical misreading which, in addition to stripping the fresco surfaces bare and leaving a chemical time-bomb within the Chapel, inflicted grave and irreversible artistic injuries on Michelangelo’s paintings – see right.
On the cleaning method’s toxic conservation legacy, we had precisely warned in 1993 that: “even if the Vatican team were to concede that the brilliance of Michelangelo’s new colours is a chemical deceit purchased at the cost of a physical and chemical weakening of the frescoes, the dispute would not be laid to rest. The need to avoid further deterioration would still be there.” (James Beck and Michael Daley, “Art Restoration: The Culture, the Business and the Scandal”, Chapters III and IV.) In similar vein we can now say that today’s promises of dramatic technical “improvements” are simply recycled 1980s assurances that, at best, remain of a palliative nature. Even when promised the first time around, the Vatican authorities had admitted to us (see below) that the measures could not fully solve the then already pressing environmental problems unleashed by the restoration’s experimental method.
The Experimental New Picture Cleaning Method
AB 57 was developed by Professor Paulo Mora and his wife Laura Mora, chief conservators at Rome’s Istituto Centrale del Restauro, for cleaning stone buildings. It comprised: “a mixed gelatinous solvent, consisting of a solution of ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, Desogen (a surf-actant and anti-fungal agent), carboxymethylcellulose (a thixotropic agent), dissolved in distilled water.” Toti Scialoja, a painter and a former professor at Rome’s Academy of Fine Arts, complained that its ingredients were “too powerful – ammonia and soda, the stuff you use to clean your bathtub”. Professor Christoph Frommel, director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, described it as “a sharp and aggressive chemical”.
The Moras presented AB 57 as a means of removing insoluble salts and incrusted materials from wall paintings: “If the original surface of the painting is unaffected by water then this mixture will have no deleterious action on it”. Michelangelo’s frescoes did not suffer greatly from incrusted and insoluble salts but they were extensively covered with water sensitive glue/size painting which artists, conservation experts and scholars held to comprise Michelangelo’s own final painted adjustments. An early sign of the wrongness of the new cleaning method came when the restorers abandoned customary claims of a miraculous “recovery” of original and authentic conditions. The use of AB 57 had produced such a mismatch between the cleaned frescoes and the early copies that had been made of them, that the hype had to be bolder and of a different order. As seen in our previous post, the decision to clean with AB 57 had been taken quickly and in express excitement at the prospect of overturning art history itself. This dramatic technology-led change of conservation philosophy was reported in a 1983 Newsweek account: “As recently as 1976 while cleaning paintings by the other artists on the side walls of the Chapel, workers deliberately kept the colours muted so that Michelangelo’s wouldn’t look too faded by comparison. ‘Even then it entered nobody’s head to start on Michelangelo’, says master restorer Gianluigi Colalucci. But when a new cleaning solvent was developed, Colalucci tested it…”
Selling the Surprising AB 57-induced Changes to Michelangelo’s Painting
Having used it, the resulting rupture between the old Michelangelo and his restored self was trumpeted by Fabrizio Mancinelli, the Vatican Museums’ curator and co-director, with Gianluigi Colalucci, of the restoration. Mancinelli claimed in 1986 that the restoration “had brought to light (and will continue to bring to light) a totally new artist, a colourist quite different in character from the unnaturally sombre character who has in the past fascinated generations of historians, connoisseurs and fellow artists…The cleaning of the frescoes has led to the surprising conclusion that the kind of suggestive painting by shadows for which Michelangelo was admired until a few years ago was essentially the product of candle smoke and still more of glue varnishes applied possibly even before the 18th century.” (“The Sistine Chapel ~ Michelangelo Rediscovered”, p. 218.)
Even though no evidence was ever produced of extensive glue applications having been made by restorers, in the early years, art historians and credulous art critics queued to repudiate what one scholar dubbed the “Darkness Fallacy” and the “Sculptural Fallacy” of traditional Michelangelo studies. The proclaimed “New Michelangelo”, however, was an entirely modern chemically engineered artefact, not a scholarly construct. In fact, it flew in the face of the historical record: Michelangelo had been celebrated at his own funeral not for any colouristic brilliance – let alone for, as one critic recently held, the “sharp and acid palette used by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel” – but for his “fleeting, sombre colours”. The new art historical dispensation rested on a twentieth century purging of aged, sometimes distressed but nonetheless authentic material. Indeed, it was precisely because this was not a historically-informed recovery of an original state that drums had had to be rolled for “The New Michelangelo”.
It was claimed that this revisionist reading of historical and material evidence had been corroborated “scientifically”. But this was a New Science to sanction a New Michelangelo. Scientific examinations of the frescoes in the 1930s by X-ray and ultra-violet imaging techniques had led to altogether contrary conclusions. It was reported in 1938 that Michelangelo’s “overpaintings were lying quite brightly a secco on the fresco layer itself; these overpaintings proved themselves undoubtedly the painting of the Master himself.” (See “Art Restoration”, Chapter III.) It was further claimed that Colalucci and his colleagues had recovered the original fresco surfaces so deftly that they had preserved its “original” patina and even left a thin layer of dirt above them that would protect the new surface from airborne pollution. Well, we all now know from the present panic in the Vatican that that assurance was not worth a used solvent swab and that a couple of years ago “unimaginable amounts” of dirt were scrubbed off the frescoes by conservators working at night so as not to impede the daytime tourism stream.
The Over-Selling of Conservation Science
Conservation science has its uses but it can never analyse or appraise works of art because Art’s essential properties are aesthetic not material; perceptual not mechanical. Insofar as there might be a science of art, it is to be found in art itself and within artists’ own practices. This is because art consists not so much of materials as of values and the relationships between values that artists’ create and orchestrate, albeit, with materials. These values are aesthetically relative, not intrinsic to materials, and they are continuously appraised and adjusted by artists as they work. Self-criticism, self-analysis and continuous aesthetic appraisal are integral to the making of art. With art, critical and analytical faculties can never be replaced by apparatuses or be donned by technicians. Conservation science might sometimes tell us of what something is made but never by whom it was made.
The Mis-Appliance of Conservation Science
In terms of professional art restoration, conservation science can serve a useful diversionary purpose. The restoration-authorising authorities and art lovers alike can be invited to put aside critical responses on an implicit assurance that some inscrutable but infallible force has guaranteed the probity of whichever of the many conflicting restoration methodologies is being used at that moment. We ArtWatchers are not inclined to be so trusting nor so easily led. In the case of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling, having examined evidence of the cleaning method and its consequences for two and a half decades, and being now armed with the officially published accounts, we are confident that not only can it be shown that Michelangelo’s tonal/plastic systems were recently injured, but that even his very designs, his drawing, his vaunted disegno were repeatedly violated and corrupted.
A Catastrophic Loss of Art Citical Nerve
These losses and violations were not so much unfortunate by-products of an inappropriately aggressive cleaning agent as the consequence of prior and catastrophic failures of art critical judgement and powers of aesthetic analysis. This failure was evident not only within the Vatican’s curatorial, scientific and conservation staffs, but throughout much of the wider international art historical establishment. By effectively agreeing to “de-attribute” what were – and had always been recognised to be – the last stages of Michelangelo’s own work, an overly deferential art historical establishment sanctioned their destruction. For all this (initial) pan-national consensus, the judgement was historically rogue. In 1986, when defending his own restoration, the chief restorer, Gianluigi Colalucci admitted that his professional predecessors’ judgements had been contrary to his own and “not encouraging” to the restoration. That was an understatement: restorers who had worked on the previous restoration (1935-36) had officially and flatly reported that Michelangelo had “finished off a secco”, that is, that he had painted on top of his frescoes when they had dried.
The Testimony of Charles Heath Wilson
Restorers who had worked on the restoration of 1904 had abandoned attempts to clean the frescoes for fear of damaging Michelangelo’s vulnerable work on the surface. Colalucci, greatly in thrall to contemporary “scientific” analysis, dismissed such official reports as “subjective impressions”. He also ignored the testimony of the British painter and fresco expert Charles Heath Wilson who had reported his own close-hand examination of the ceiling in an 1876 book “Life and Works of Michelangelo Buonarotti”. Wilson had found the frescoes “extensively retouched with size colour…evidently by the hand of Michelangelo”. He found that this secco painting “readily melted on being touched with a wet finger and consisted of a finely ground black, mixed with a size probably made according to the usage of the time from parchment shavings.” He further noted, “The shadows of the draperies have been boldly and solidly retouched with this size colour, as well as the shadows on the backgrounds…The hair of the heads and the beards of many of the figures are finished in size colour …These retouchings…constituted the finishing process or as Condivi [Michelangelo’s preferred biographer] expresses it, alluding to it in the history of these frescoes, ‘l’ultima mano’.”
For Wilson, there could “be no doubt that nearly all of this work is contemporary, and in only one part was there evidence of a later and incompetent hand.” Aside from its artistic force, certainty about the secco painting’s antiquity lay in an elegant technical proof: “The size colour has cracked as the plaster has cracked”. It is a matter of record that the ceiling cracked before any restorers touched it. If, as has been claimed, later restorers had repeatedly applied glues, those glues would inevitably have been brushed into the pre-existing cracks. Wilson, who tested the depth of the cracks with a penknife, saw that none had been. Artists like Wilson appreciate that it is impossible to paint over a cracked surface without working the material into the cracks. Wilson was left in no doubt: having been applied when the ceiling was new and not-yet-cracked, these surface glue paints could only have been Michelangelo’s own work, his finishing stages, his l’ultima mano. Normally, restorers recognise that when varnishes or paints can be shown to have run into age-cracked materials this can be taken as a proof of their more recent origins. On this occasion, the restorers failed to recognise the implications of the converse.
The Vulnerability of Michelangelo’s Glue Painting
Moreover, this original secco work, Wilson appreciated, was water-sensitive, having been damaged when “washed by labouring men with water in which a caustic has been mixed”. As to when the alleged restorers’ glue-varnishes might plausibly have been applied, no evidence was forthcoming. In 1996 Colalucci said that although “countless attempts at cleaning and restoration seem to have been made”, only “four are actually accounted for”. The four are of 1566, 1824-25, 1904 and 1935-36. As we showed in our post of 1 April 2011, that first restoration itself provided the clearest possible evidence of Michelangelo having painted shadows a secco. That evidence, taken together with the copies of the ceiling discussed opposite should have been an end to the matter. The last two restorations cited by Colalucci coincide with photographic records and these, too, offer no support for the claimed superimpositions of secco painting and glue-varnishes by restorers.
Perplexed by the Vatican’s unwavering but evidently unsupported insistence that the ceiling had repeatedly been coated with glue “varnishes”, I asked in May 1990: “Does any documentary evidence exist to support the claim that hot animal glue was repeatedly applied to the frescoes over the centuries in order to revive the colours?” Colalucci replied that there was none. In 1986 he had reported a note in a manuscript which described how the ceiling had once been cleaned with linen rags and bread “scrubbing hard, and sometimes when the dirt was more tenacious, the bread was moistened a little” but added “That is as much as it says. The note does not mention at all the use of substances to revive colours or of glue varnish.” (See “Art Restoration”, pp. 74-78.) If, as Wilson discovered, the secco painting dissolved at the touch of a wet finger, an earlier hard scrubbing with wet rags or bread would certainly have been sufficient to cause the injuries that Wilson and others had reported to parts of the ceiling.
A Filmed Corroboration of Wilson’s Testimony
Wilson’s appraisal was echoed from another scaffold a century later. In 1967 the art critic and writer Alexander Eliot and his wife Jane Winslow Eliot spent over 500 hours making a close-up documentary film of the ceiling, “The Secret of Michelangelo, Every Man’s Dream”. Alexander Eliot reported in the April 1987 Harvard Review how “with the exception of the previously restored Prophet Zachariah, almost everything we saw on the barrel vault clearly came from Michelangelo’s own inspired hand. There are passages of the finest, most delicately incisive draughtsmanship imaginable. Michelangelo’s loving depiction of fingernails, eyelids and tiny wrinkles stand in contrast to tremendous swirls of colour…” On 20 May 1985 Eliot had pleaded with the Vatican’s Secretary of State for him to view the Vatican’s own copy of the Eliots’ film and to “have it stopped at the images of the Ancestors [on the lunettes]. Compare what it proves was there against what’s left today”. That precious, now historical, record still awaits a re-showing.
Venanzo Crocetti’s Protests Against the Restoration – as a Sculptor and as a Former Restorer in the Sistine Chapel
In 1989 the sculptor Venanzo Crocetti, who had spent “four full years” working during the 1930s as an apprentice restorer on the scaffold, published three photo-comparisons of the cleaned lunettes in an article in the December Oggi e Domani (“Salviamo Almeno il Giudizio Universale”) – see Fig. 28. Crocetti’s account was detailed and technically informed. He began by explaining how he had appealed unavailingly in 1983 to the director general of the Vatican Museums, Prof. Carlo Pietrangeli, to desist from incurring the “rapid biological degradation caused by the cleaning power” of AB 57. Crocetti flatly dismissed claims that the glues had been applied by restorers. He also testified that as early as 1983 applications of AB 57 had been standardised at 3 minutes each, regardless of local conditions (see below). He complained of the folly of cleaning aggressively in small patches, zones that had originally been made with very broad applications. These glue-paint applications, he noted, had been made chiefly in the shaded parts of the figures and to such artistically selective purpose that Michelangelo’s authorship was beyond question. As a (formerly) supreme case in point, see Fig. 1.
The Effects of the Double Applications of AB 57
Crocetti’s testimony on the AB 57 cleaning method then being used on Michelangelo was particularly damning. He noted that while the first 3 minutes long application left the frescoes looking cleaner, the second on the following day, left them with altered and considerably degraded colours. He believed that the first applications effectively “degreased” the surfaces leaving them open to greater penetration by the second applications. He was convinced that the immediately apparent visual effects of these twin applications would not be their final outcome. He argued that their corrosive actions would continue because of the absorption of the solvents to a depth of half a centimetre. Some days after the second applications he noticed (from the scaffold itself) the appearance of “whitish oxidations of variable intensity” over large zones.
He considered the restorers’ claimed discovery of “stratifications of dirt gathered on the frescoes over the centuries” exaggerated and misleading, and he held that the early photographs of the lunettes by Anderson made the extent of this exaggeration clear – see Fig. 28. He believed that the ferocity of AB 57 made any finely tuned cleaning gradated to meet local conditions impossible. He believed that the greatest injury was to the chief feature of the frescoes – their disposition of lights and shades, and not their local colours. He believed that the restorers, in their pursuit of more intense colours, had penetrated the frescoes to their brighter, less modulated preparative layers. He felt confident that he had seen at first-hand how, with “cleaning”, the figures in the lunettes had been remade, becoming “false in form and colour” alike. He saw that many of the shadows from which the figures had formerly emerged had simply disappeared. He saw that corrections which Michelangelo had, with mastery, made invisible, had been exposed (in particular, see Figs. 11-16). Above all, he confirmed that the condition of the frescoes remained “excellent”, and that this was in part due to the absorption over the centuries of greasy substances of chapel smoke which had “strengthened the colour. Leaving upon it a glittering shift of the lightest varnish [thereby counterbalancing] the aridity and fragility” of old fresco. Having worked on the restoration in the 1930s, he found himself near to despair.
The Invasive Ferocity and Likely Legacy of AB 57
The AB 57 water-based paste used to remove Michelangelo’s size painting contained two “caustics”: sodium bicarbonate and ammonium bicarbonate. Professor Frommel had questioned the method of application: “Who knows if they succeed in cleaning this completely away? No one can prove whether or not it will affect the frescoes in the future. No one can say definitely if they get all of it off.” Consider Colalucci’s own account of the method of application:
“The times of application, rigorously measured, were: First application: 3 minutes, followed by removal, washing with water. Left to dry for 24 hours. Second application: 3 minutes, followed by removal, washing and leaving to dry as before. If necessary, and locally only, small applications, followed by plentiful final washing. In the case of salt efflorescences consisting of calcium carbonate, there was added to the solvent mixture a saturated solution of dimethylformamide…”
Chemically Adjusting Michelangelo’s Colours
AB 57, a calcium dissolving solvent, was thus used to remove organic materials with an oven-cleaner like ferocity and speed even though many experts held those very materials to comprise authentic Michelangelo work. Contrary to assurances otherwise, the aesthetic consequences of this stripping extended, as Crocetti had observed at first hand, into the very fabric of the exposed fresco surfaces. This was a serious matter. The Vatican’s research chemist, Nazzareno Gabrielli had explained that AB 57 contained two separate salts because while “Ammonium Carbonate alone tends to tone down colours…sodium carbonate livens them up”. The Moras’ combination, he judged, had “the proper chromatic effect”. So far as we know, it was never explained by what means the “proper” combination for Michelangelo might have been established.
Juggling with dangerous chemicals and processes constitutes professional chic in some restoration quarters. Restorers often claim that a dangerous chemical in “safe hands” is better than a mild one in “untrained hands”. When restorers speak among themselves, the professional conceits are more evident. The IIC Bulletin carried an obituary on Paolo Mora who died on 27 March 1998. He had studied under Mauro Pelliccioli, who restored Leonardo’s Last Supper, and, reportedly, was fond of claiming that he could clean a picture with a broom and drugstore chemicals. When he found himself too busy to clean a large Bellini altarpiece, Pelliccioli enlisted two students and showed them how to dissolve rods of caustic soda in water. He demonstrated his cleaning technique by sweeping a swab of soda over the picture with one hand followed immediately by a “neutralising” swipe with a turpentine swab with the other. Thus enlightened, the students were said to have “cleaned the large painting in a single day”.
The AB 57 Rinse-Water Menace
Aside from exposing the stripped fresco surfaces to the Chapel’s notoriously polluted atmosphere, yet other risks were taken in pursuit of brighter colours. Removing the water-based solvent gel with copious amounts of washing risked, as Frommel feared and Crocetti had observed, depositing corrosive ingredients within the frescoes. The “highly soluble” ingredients were said to have been selected because “they are easy to wash off”. It was certainly desirable that they should be so: carboxymethyl cellulose is known to encourage sodium retention; ‘Desogen’, being a detergent as well as fungicide, is non-volatile and does not evaporate. The Moras had conceded that these ingredients have “the disadvantage of remaining in the painting unless removed after treatment by rinsing with water”.
There are problems with washing, however. First, the rinse water was absorbed deeply into the porous fresco and with it, inevitably, particles of soluble and corrosive ingredients. Twenty four hours were needed for the water to evaporate before a second application of AB 57 could be applied. Second, tap water may contain solutions of sodium, iron, copper, and chloride, and unless it is packed with sufficient calcium bicarbonate, will itself attack the calcium carbonate of fresco. Even distilled water (which is free of impurities) slowly dissolves calcium carbonate and attacks the frescoes’ structure. When challenged in 1991 on having introduced dangerous materials into the frescoes, Colalucci replied: “AB 57…has been greatly tested and is very old. The actual solvent is held within a gel which does not allow the particles of the actual solvent to penetrate the plaster and the colour. However, the gel is removed and only a minimal (if any) percentage might remain which has no influence on the colours.” In 1986 Colalucci disclosed that, at that date “The work was concluded with abundant rinsing, repeated at intervals of up to several months” and that only “The last rinsing was done with distilled water”. Much copious washing was thus carried out with tap water.
Mirella Simonetti on Dangerous Deposits and their Air-Borne Allies
Far from having “no influence”, experts expressly feared that residues deposited within the frescoes by rinsing would react with airborne pollutants and moisture. The restorer Mirella Simonetti held one of AB57’s ingredients, bicarbonate of soda, to be an “extremely damaging” residue because, when combined with the sulphates of calcium and air-borne sulphuric anhydrites, it produces sodium sulphate – a whitish dust which corrodes the fresco and destroys its coloured surface. Simonetti also maintained that the use of EDTA (ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid) within the solvent gel had chemically altered the fresco by causing a “breakdown in the molecular structure [and] bringing about a disintegration [which] in turn causes the division of the components and the discohesion of the lime.” Once weakened in this fashion, the disintegration would continue – and “even water can favour such a process”. Simonetti’s alarm was later vindicated when, tests showed that the compound’s corrosive properties etched the surface of marble into irregular corrugations, scattering light and imparting a deceiving effect of brightness that provided more routes of ingress to airborne pollutants.
Fresco Painting and Its Known Enemies
It had long been recognised that air-borne sulphur attacks fresco. In 1884 the reverend J. A. Rivington explained in a paper delivered at the Society of Arts in London how air contaminated by coal and gas emissions destroys fresco: “The carbonate of lime is converted into the sulphate, breaking up the paint and becoming itself disintegrated in the process of change.” The notoriously contaminated air surrounding and invading the Sistine chapel contains sulphur dioxide from coal-burning, nitrous oxides from car exhausts and hydrogen chloride from incinerated plastics. When combined with rain or condensed water these substances produce sulphuric, nitric and hydrochloric acids respectively, all fiercely corrosive. Water is brought into the Chapel by tourists in the form of perspiration and breathing vapour while breathing itself gives off carbon dioxide.
On 12 December 2012, Corriere della Sera reported: “‘Dust, temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide are the great enemies of paintings’, Museum Director Antonio Paolucci told reporters in the Vatican, ‘so this threat is something we have to address. The five million tourists who visit the Sistine Chapel each year bring massive amounts of grime and humidity with them, and it is seriously damaging Michelangelo’s frescoes. So starting in the middle of 2013, every tourist will be thoroughly vacuumed, dusted, cleaned, and chilled before admission to reduce the amount of environmental pollution they cause. ‘On entering the chapel, each tourist will be required to pass through a hi-tech vacuum system to remove dust, fibres, skin flakes, hair and other tiny particles, before they are allowed to view the frescoes. At the same time, a special carpet will also clean their shoes, while side vacuums will cool their temperature, to reduce the heat and humidity that emanates from their bodies. The dirt and heat generated by the 20,000 bodies each day has caused grime to accumulate on the paintings, and a thick layer of dirt had to be scrubbed off of the Last Judgment two years ago. This cannot be allowed to happen again.’”
What Goes Round, Comes Round
We have been there before. In “Art Restoration” in 1993 we wrote: “A recent report commissioned by the Vatican on the Chapel’s microclimate noted that the very large numbers of tourists produce the following adverse effects: they carry in from the streets polluted dust and organic particles on their clothing and hair; their combined body heat raises the temperature by as much as 5°C; and they greatly increase the relative humidity of the air. The moisture and carbon dioxide given off by tourists combines to produce carbonic acid which dissolves the calcium carbonate of the fresco. Water vapours convert sulphur particles into sulphuric acid which also dissolves fresco. The body heat creates convective air currents which carry polluted particles up to the walls and ceilings. Water vapour can activate the traces of salt and detergent left behind after the cleaning with AB57.”
In 1981 Colalucci had equated the glue/size paints with “extraneous chemical substances” without which “and with the science we have today” he hoped “the frescoes will remain in good condition for a very long time”. As mentioned, he offered an assurance that he had left “a very thin film of dirt touching the paint surface with its varying ‘patina’. This fine layer of dirt acts as a form of protection to the paint.” As also mentioned, we now know that whatever Colalucci might have left behind performed no such service, and that dirt on frescoes is no protection from further accumulations of corrosive dirt.
There have been many unfounded assurances. In 1987 Kathleen Weil Garris Brandt, Professor of Fine Arts, at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, and spokeswoman for the Vatican on the restoration of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes, assured readers in Apollo that, “The substances used for the cleaning…have been used successfully for over twenty years… their chemical action is known and stops once the process is finished…the cleaning chemicals do not actually come into contact with the fresco surface”. Just months before in the Summer 1987 Art News, Summer 1987, the Moras themselves had claimed no more than that placing the solvents in a cellulose gel helped to “reduce penetration into the fresco”. In the summer 1987 Art News, the assurances were becoming more specific. M. Kirby Talley Jr., an independent consultant in fine art, interiors and art conservation, wrote:
“In order to prevent the condensation of moisture on the surface of the fresco, the Vatican has already embarked on an extensive programme to control the micro-climate of the Sistine Chapel. Professor Camuffo of the University of Padua spent a year making detailed measurements of relative humidity, temperature and air movement. A climate-control system based on his findings, which will prevent the movement of air above the windows as well as filter it, is now being developed by Carrier-Delchi. Electrical heating coils, ‘A sort of giant electrical blanket,’ as Persegati called it, will be placed under the roof above the ceiling, and will help to maintain a steady temperature during the winter. A dirt absorbing carpet has already been installed on the stairs down to the chapel and on part of the floor inside. Carrier-Delchi is considering a wind shower to remove dust particles from people’s clothing before they enter the chapel. Low heat lamps that can be adjusted to the amount of natural light entering through the windows will further reduce the temperature.”
Synthetic Resins – On or Off?
Talley Jr. reported that Colalucci had assured him that Michelangelo had used no secco paint on the lunettes, and that while the synthetic resin B 72 had been used to seal the walls of the lunettes it had not been used to that purpose on the ceiling. Even the official apologias for B 72 were more disturbing than reassuring: “Like all restoration materials it has its good and its bad points”, Talley said. Frommel was quoted as saying “According to the critics B 72 is something which may become opaque in the future. Are the critics right when they say we don’t know what it will do? They say tests should have been made and then a long period of time should have been allowed to elapse before proceeding. Paraloid can close the surface to respiration. It can close the pores, and if that were to happen it might change the interior life of the fresco.” To this Talley gave voice to B 72’s champions. According to the Moras “If you don’t use Paraloid, what do you use? Organic resins and inorganic fixatives such as lime water, ethysilicates and barium hydroxide all have serious drawbacks. Of the synthetic resins the acrylics are the best, and of the acrylics Paraloid is the least bad.” Was the least bad, good enough for Michelangelo – and better than his own secco painting which had for centuries protected the fresco surfaces from airborne pollutants?
On this question, the Vatican’s accounts prove unsatisfactory and shifting. All that can be said safely is that B 72 was abandoned and not replaced at some point between 1986 and 1991, at which latter date Colaucci claimed “There was no final application to protect or saturate the painting”. This change of mind was defended in 1991: “Our decision not to apply a protective material derived from the awareness that any new material which is not homogeneous with the original components of the fresco will undergo rapid degradation, causing, in the best of cases, aesthetic damage.” This being so, we must expect some parts of the frescoes to deteriorate more rapidly than others – but how many? In 1991 Colaucci put B 72 applications at “lunettes 50 per cent, ceiling 3 per cent”. In 1993 (“Art Restoration” p. 120) we had noted that while protection of the frescoes was to depend on the thin layer of original dirt that Colalucci claimed to have left in place and on the above described plans to stabilise and purify the chapel’s microclimate: “When Michael Daley asked if the air-conditioning system would eliminate the great fluctuations triggered by tourists, he [Mancinelli] replied ‘No. It will reduce the peaks and the troughs but will not eliminate the problem entirely.’” Of course, at that date, as today, the problems could have been halved by halving the numbers of tourists. Then, as perhaps still is the case, on days when the Chapel was closed to visitors, visitor numbers to the Vatican museums fell by 60 per cent.
The Breach of Methodological Good Practice that Menaced Michelangelo’s Shading
In the execution of the cleaning, certain procedural lapses compounded the risks and dangers. Early in the programme (in 1981 when working on the lunettes), Colalucci had said that AB 57: “was created mainly for marble but the Moras experimented with it on fresco. It is like paste. It can be on for a minute or ten minutes. The effect varies with the amount of time it spends in contact with a surface. The danger is that if you leave it on a minute or two too long it will go beyond the foreign substances and start removing the paint. You can see little areas where I’ve applied AB57 in two or three stages. Each time I take it off well before it’s too late. Then I look at it and gauge how much more time it will need…Here’s a tiny patch where I left it on too long. In this little experimental patch you see completely solid violet paint, but around it you can see the gradations of dark and light, which are the shadings of Michelangelo’s own work.”
Why, then, were the varying thicknesses of the (mis-designated) “foreign and extraneous substances” all given identical applications of two three minutes-long applications set twenty-four hours apart? Such an uniform treatment of so vast and varying a programme of painting seemed to breach conservation’s own ethics and “good practice”. As we had reported in “Art Restoration”:
“Within four years, Colalucci had abandoned this control of the solvent by constant observation and timing. In its place a standardized procedure was adopted, described in the 1986 ‘General Report on the Lunettes’: ‘First application, three minutes followed by removal and washing with water. Left to dry for 24 hours. Second application, three minutes followed by washing and leaving to dry as before’. These three-minute applications were said to have been ‘rigorously measured’. Colalucci explained the reason for the change of procedure: the size of the ceiling required that work be carried out by a team. Individual restorers, responding to the evidence of their own eyes, would draw different conclusions. Therefore, in order to obtain a ‘homogeneity of result’ – a ‘primary objective’ – they must be denied the opportunity to judge for themselves how long the solvent should remain in place. Solvent applications had to be predetermined, Colalucci felt, in order to avoid ‘either emotional involvement or complex mechanical manipulation on the part of the restorers’. When asked in 1985 at the Wethersfield Conference in New York why he did not adjust the timing to what his eyes were witnessing, he replied: ‘Because emotional or subjective conditions must not be permitted to intrude upon science.’ The scaffold, he added, did not permit stepping back to assess effects and the continuous bright lights of the Japanese film-makers ‘fatigued one’s eyes’. The activity of the film crews was itself a distraction as was also his having to entertain up to sixteen VIP visitors a day…” See Figs. 34 and 35.
Conservation Ethics and Showbiz Restorations
The inventors of AB57 held that cleaning should never be considered “entirely a technical matter…confined merely to the choice of solvent”. The restorer’s responsibility for the control of the solvent’s actions is absolute and should never be left to “depend on the natural uncontrolled action of the products” and must always depend on “the precise wish and aim of the restorer guided by his critical interpretation”. By failing to exercise control at all times, the restorer “deprives himself of the principal alarm signal when faced with new situations; he gives up looking ahead and allows the problem to resolve itself mechanically so that subsequently he can impose the result as an accomplished fact.”
By test-driving a new cleaning agent under television studio conditions in a constricted, over-crowded and art-politically febrile space, the Vatican restorers pioneered a new professional genre: conservation as both entertainment and professional swank. The combination of the Nippon Television Corporation sponsored showbiz and a provocatively radical restoration drew many protests. This spawned intensely propagandistic promotional razzmatazz, the unprecedented scale and character of which will be examined in Part III.
“The activity of restoration can be defined in terms of two overlapping headings, procedure and method. Procedure is fixed and invariable, and consists in the scientific planning and execution of the restoration project, regardless of the material involved. Method, however, is the department strictly of the action taken in the course of the restoration, and is therefore variable, subject to factors arising from the material, technique and state of conservation of the monument involved. “The adoption of a procedure which governs the progress of the work is characteristic of modern restoration. Under the impetus of a marked development in technological expertise, modern restoration has extended its established and primary function of conservation for aesthetic ends to include a research capacity, directed towards the work of art considered as an inseparable duality, conceptual and material. “In the past restoration practice aimed at cancelling out the effects of time and events upon the work of art, termed by Brandi comprehensively its historical aspect, absolute priority was given to its aesthetic aspect, conditioned of course by its contingent situation. The restoration of works of art was therefore entrusted to artists, who were free to introduce personal methods, often secret or private, consistent with the aim of returning the work to its pristine material state, but not necessarily to its original intended state. “In the evolution of the ‘art’ of restoration, the laboratory for the Restoration of Pictures in the Vatican Museums has had a not insignificant role. Founded in 1992 by Biagio Biagetti according to the latest ideas, and subsequently provided with a Laboratory for Scientific Research, the institute is today directed by by Carlo Pietrangeli who in 1978 established its guidlines in Rules for the restoration of works of art. “In June 1980 this laboratory, constitutionally responsible for the restoration of the pictorial patrimony of the Holy See, qualified and informed by its enormous experience, which goes back more than 50 years and has been constantly renewed both technically and in terms of personnel, undertook the most important task it had yet undertaken in its history, the restoration of the frescoes of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel…” ~ Gianluigi Colalucci, “Michelangelo’s Colours Rediscovered”, “The Sistine Chapel – Michelangelo Rediscovered”, London, 1986.
“The restoration of Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel was a venture that shook the very foundations of the art world more than any other single event has managed to do in the last quarter of a century. “Promoted and conducted with rigorously conservative objectives, over the course of its execution the restoration program assumed an ever-growing significance in historical and critical terms – an importance that was foretold when the first patches were cleaned and was fully confirmed by the restoration of the Eleazar-Mathan lunette.” ~ Gianluigi Colalucci, “Michelangelo The Vatican Frescoes”, by Pierluigi de Vecchi and Gianluigi Colalucci, 1996.
“…The intuition that the colours must have been quite different from those that could be seen can be found sporadically in the writings of the more perceptive scholars of Michelangelo, from [Charles Heath] Wilson to Biagetti and Wilde. But clear and conclusive evidence of the original colours was established for the first time in recent times by the extraordinary photographs of the Japanese photographer Takashi Okamura, taken just before the restoration and published in a book of 1980, unfortunately in a small limited edition and now not widely seen. The eye of the camera, in itself much more acute than the human eye, and aided by much stronger light than is usually available in the Chapel, revealed beneath the dirt and deteriorated glue-varnish the tangible existence of of what the restoration today is gradually retrieving. “Although the book with Okamura’s photographs and the restoration that is now proceeding came about independently and for different reasons, the two are complementary, and Okamura’s book is today a valuable record of what for centuries had masked the true nature of Michelangelo’s painting; if the cleaning had not gone ahead, it would have been the sole means by which to achieve a proper or effective analysis of his work…” ~ Fabrizio Mancinelli, “Michelangelo at Work”, “The Sistine Chapel Michelangelo rediscovered”, London, 1986.
Above, (top) Fig. 1: Michelangelo’s Libyan Sibyl, detail.
Above, Fig. 2: Michelangelo’s Moses.
Evaluating restorations (or attributions) requires a clear appreciation of an artist’s most secure works and characteristics. Michelangelo’s phenomenally potent carved figures, such as his Moses (above), found parallel realisation in the figures he was compelled to paint on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, such as the Libyan Sibyl shown at Fig. 1 and below. In the reproduction of his Moses at Fig. 2, we see how (natural or artificial) light and shadows are trapped/made by the architectural projections. Within the constraining rectilinear spaces set by the architecture, the figure’s own component parts move and shift against one another so as to produce planar and volumetric dynamism and expressive anatomical torsion.
MICHELANGELO’S USE OF DRAPERY
The not-naturalistic drapery in the Moses complements and enhances the body’s deportment with its own autonomously animated structures and vitalising rhythms. The deeply undercut, shadow-producing drapery over Moses’s left thigh had found direct pictorial anticipations on the ceiling in the Libyan and Erythraean sibyls shown here. Michelangelo had discovered, as Leonardo had taunted, that a painter controls his own lighting and can (like an etcher) submit it to his own singular will, darkening here, highlighting there, shaping and moulding matter with form-describing tonal values and relationships. In Fig. 1, which is a fragment of a coloured painting reproduced in greyscale, we “see” a piece of sculpture – or strictly speaking, a sculpturally conceived figure that happens not have been made but was depicted pictorially with an imagined optimal lighting so as to render its forms with the fullest sculptural lucidity and force. Such was Michelangelo’s genius in these matters that the fragment from his Libyan Sybil might be thought the creative equal of a fragment of the Parthenon’s carved frieze.
SPOT THE ODD ONE OUT:
Above, Figs. 3, 4 and 5.
Fig. 3 (above, top) is a fragment of the Libyan Sibyl’s drapery before restoration. Fig. 4 (above, middle) is the same fragment after restoration. Fig. 5 (above) is a fragment of an engraved copy of the Libyan Sibyl made in 1797 by a fine (Flaxmanesque) engraver, Tommaso Piroli.
Of the three images, the first is by Michelangelo as found before the last restoration. The second is the same fragment of the figure as it emerged after the last restoration. The third is the corresponding fragment of a copy showing the figure as it had survived for nearly three hundred years. We hold that the differences between the first and the second states constitute evidence of injury, and claim support for this reading in the third image here and in the images at Figs. 6, 7 and 8. As further corroboration, we show below how, in the wake of the restorations of the 1980s and 1990s, many similarly injured passages can be found throughout the ceiling. The painting contained in the first image (at Fig. 3) had never been challenged or doubted as part of an entirely autograph work of Michelangelo. Never challenged, that is, until the beginning of the last restoration when the Vatican’s restorers advanced a claim that this figure, and all others on the ceiling, had been so deformed by dirt and successive layers of restorers’ varnishes as to constitute a corrupted and misleading Michelangelo. The true Michelangelo, it was contended, lay unrecognisably different under alien material accretions which, with the help of some very powerful chemicals-in-a-gel, would be dispersed – even though the resulting change of appearance in the paintings would in turn require that everything previously thought about the artist be overturned. Tragically, the Vatican authorities permitted this hubristic, artistically perverse and historically unsupported programme to proceed. That which had survived for nearly five hundred years in Fig. 1, was turned after two three minutes long chemical dousings into Fig. 2.
THE CHANGED CHARACTER OF THE DRAPERY
The pre-restored image showed drapery that was boldy massed, purposefully shaded and satisfyingly sculptural in its volumetric descriptions and compositional fluency. To educated eyes, its then appearance could only have been a product of artistry. It could not have been an accidental by-product of random accumulations of unequally disfigured accretions, as has been claimed in defence of all the restoration changes. The pre-restoration state, as is shown above, bore too close a family relation to Michelangelo’s carved sculptural forms for its authorship ever to have been in question. By comparison, the post-restoration image is weaker; its forms smaller; its tones consistently lighter. The surviving tonal modelling is more local to each piece of material, less broadly unified across incidents. It is thus weakening to the previously strong overall sculptural effects, spatially ambiguous, and more akin to shallow relief than free-standing sculpture. There is no historical corroboration for today’s appearance – it appears in no copies. All of which raises the question: “Why was the very design of Michelangelo’s work changed by this removal of a piece of drapery?”.
THE LOST SECTION OF DRAPERY
The large fold of drapery that hangs from the lower left leg no longer sweeps down gracefully from below the knee, as seen if Figs. 3 and 5, but emerges abruptly and uncomfortably at the shin. On stylistic grounds alone, the removed material cannot be said to have been an addition made by some other person, let alone by accretions. This section of pre-restoration drapery was entirely, seamlessly of a piece, and served a clear compositional purpose.
Above, Fig. 6. The Libyan Sibyl, as copied in 1797 by Tommaso Piroli. As well as giving the clearest account of the not-yet truncated drapery hanging from the left leg, Piroli (an engraver of antiquities) provides an elegant shorthand account of Michelangelo’s three principal zones of dark tone. The first, at the bottom between the legs, differentiates their positions in space vis-a-vis the viewer: the side of the more distant leg misses the strong light source (as indicated by its emphatically cast shadow) and is therefore optically subordinated by darkened tones. The arms and torso are relieved by dark tone over the drapery hanging from the table. The curving sweep of drapery on the right begins brightly at the top, as if caught by the light. This area of brightness relieves the darker shaded side of the arms and torso. It then darkens as it passes close to the Sibyl’s body before lightening again as it moves froward into the light that catches the left leg and foot.
Above, Figs 7 and 8: Two states of an anonymous 16th-century engraving.
Although the author of this copy (published in “La Sistina Riprododotta”, 1991, and here reversed) was not as fluent a draughtsman as Piroli, and took liberties with the architecture, on the two crucial issues of the right foot’s cast shadow and the shape and the extent of the hanging drapery at the raised left leg, the copy is entirely consistent with the later artist’s testimony. Thus, just as with Piroli two centuries later, we see that the drapery emerged below the knee and at an acute angle. It did not, as today, burst into view abruptly at a right angle from behind the shin, as left by the restorers. We can rule out the possibility that a change might have been made to Michelangelo’s drapery by a restorer even before this 16th-century engraving was made. The restorer known to have been called in during the 16th-century – Domenico Carnevale – did so in 1566. He made five repairs in total and all were made in buon fresco, not a secco. He did no work on the Libyan Sibyl. Thus, only Michelangelo could have amended his own buon fresco work on the Libyan Sibyl’s drapery with a secco painting – just as he can be seen to have done on the sybil’s right foot…which can also be seen to have been injured in the last restoration, at Figs. 11, 12 and 13.
Above, Figs. 9 and 10. The legs of the Libyan Sibyl, as published in 1990 (left) and in the post-restoration state in 1992 (right). In Fig. 9 we see how before restoration the former design of the hanging drapery helped create a compositionally mediating, “fanning” movement between the position of the two legs, as had been recorded in the 16th and 18th-century copies shown above. Both copies show that, as before restoration, the wedge-shaped piece of hanging drapery ran into the shadowed zone that served to push back the right leg and give greater prominence the left leg.
THE MANGLED FOOT AND ITS DISAPPEARED SHADOW
Above, Figs. 11, 12 and 13.
This sequence records many alterations made in the Libyan Sybil’s right foot: before cleaning (top); after cleaning (middle); and after repainting (bottom). In fig. 11 we see a mini fanning movement in the three short dark accented folds at the ankle of the sybil’s right foot which have melted away in Fig. 12. We see also in Fig. 11 examples of what Alexander Eliot described as “Michelangelo’s loving depiction of fingernails, eyelids and tiny wrinkles”. Once again, Michelangelo’s habit of placing a dark shadow beind the lit edge of a form and a light ground behind its shaded side was evident here in his treatment of the strategically dramatic arched foot.
UNDOING AND (PARTIAL) REDOING
This sequence also comprises a tacit acknowlegement of error on the part of the restorers. Evidence is here present not just of the loss of the foot’s cast shadow (as also with the Jonah below) but even of its anatomical credibility. Michelangelo had repositioned this foot, scraping away one part and adding another. The cleaning undid this revision, and thereby produced (uniquely in Michelangelo’s oeuvre) a human heel that was not rounded but that came to a point, as in Fig. 12. We questioned this transformation (and that of the Erythraean Sibyl’s right foot, shown below) to Fabrizio Mancinelli, the co-director of the restoration, when he gave a talk on the restoration at the Courtauld Institute, London. Later, on visiting the Chapel we discovered that the heel had become rounded again if not entirely whole, as seen at Fig. 13. Clearly, if the repainted addition is now correct, it should never have been removed in the first place.
Above, Fig. 14: An article in The Independent of 22 November 1991, which first showed the Erythraean Sibyl’s right foot as it emerged after restoration.
Above, Figs. 15 and 16: The Erythraean Sibyl’s right foot before cleaning (left) and after cleaning and restoration (right). Note, in addition to the mangled foot, the changes made to the forms and the colours of the drapery. We assume that no one believes that the foot today is as Michelangelo intended it to be left. We have found deafening the collective silence of art historians and art critics on this grotesque blunder. Perhaps some think that such sacrifices of authentic painting are a price worth paying to get at brighter colours?
Above, Fig. 17: The Libyan Sibyl and the Prophet Daniel, before restoration
Note how effectively Michelangelo had simulated monumental figures set within palpable architecturally bounded spaces. On the left, we see the Libyan Sibyl (discussed further below) and the Prophet Daniel. Note particularly with what force the drapery over Daniel’s right shoulder cascades and twists, and how emphatically it captures a deep dark shadow next to his right side.
Above, Figs. 18 and 19: The Prophet Daniel, before restoration (left) and after restoration (right).
In this pairing, we see one of most massive destructions of a Michelangelo a secco revision. Once again, corroboration of the pre-restoration state – and disqualification of the post-restoration state – is found in early copies of the figure, as shown below.
Above, Figs. 20 and 21. Engraved copies of the Prophet Daniel.
These two copies made in the 1790s by artists working in very different graphic styles (in tones in the case of Giovanni Volpato, left, and with lines with Tommaso Piroli, right) both testify to the then survival of Michelangelo’s unprecedented pictorial chiaroscuro – his emphatic placement of lights against darks which had so struck and thrilled his contemporaries.
When we first reminded the restoration’s supporters of Michelangelo’s original pictorial schema and drew attention to the corroborating copies, Nicholas Penny, for one, rushed to be dismissive, saying of the copies that “none of them support the claim Daley makes”, and added, “I am surprised to hear that the ceiling was ‘praised precisely for its unprecedented chiaroscuro’.” In the 11 February 1993 London Review of Books Dr Penny had recited the then Standard Defence For The Restoration:
“Study of the ceiling now that it has been cleaned tends to distance Michelangelo from the art of recent centuries – and from the work of artists who were inspired by the ceiling – and reveal a far closer connection with the dazzling colours favoured by artists in his immediate following and also evident in some of the better preserved 15th-century panel paintings.”
The operative words were “now that it has been cleaned”. While it is true that Michelangelo’s biographers had suffered the handicap of having to respond to the ceiling when it was freshly painted and not yet “cleaned”, it was remiss of Penny not to have noticed that none of Michelangelo’s contemporaries had spoken of dazzling colours or likened his great fresco cycle to 15th-century panel paintings. The truth is that Michelangelo had shown his figures and his fictive architecture as if placed in a brilliant “cinematographer’s” light – why else, how else, could so many of his feet have originally sported such dramatically cast shadows on the ceiling’s illusionistic mini projected “floors”, and so many of his figures have cast such dramatic shadows onto the walls?
EVEN GOD WAS AT RISK FROM THE CLEANERS
Above, Figs. 22 and 23: God (detail) in Michelangelo’s panel showing the bestowing of life upon Adam, before cleaning (top), after cleaning (above).
If old pictures were simply being cleaned and not injured, their ranges of tonal values would be extended and not diminished, as seen here. For example, in the bottom left-hand corner what was graduated, nuanced, modelled, has become uniform, flatter, more “on the surface”. The ridges of drapery which formerly wrapped round the shoulder, now break off short. The folds themselves have become simpler in drawing, less expressive in shading. Lines of under-drawing emerge more strongly, while crisp tonal demarcations blur. Individual hairs get lost. If Michelangelo really had left his painting as in this “cleaned” state, what might have improved the drawing and modelling to the degree seen in the uncleaned state through all the (alleged) foreign accretions and filth?
Above, Fig. 24. This pre-restoration photograph shows the crucial junction between the Last Judgement and the ceiling. The zone contains some of Michelangelo’s most brilliant figural inventions, of which the commanding central Jonah earned the greatest admiration when the ceiling was unveiled. Note the general dispositions of tonality, the relative lightness of the illusionistic compartmentalising architectural elements, and the then legibility of the shadow cast by Jonah’s left foot – which foot, curiously, touches the same architectural arch as the foot of the Libyan Sibyl, above and to the right of Jonah.
Above, Fig. 25: Jonah’s left foot, before cleaning (left), and after cleaning (right).
While no one enthused over Michelangelo’s colours, everyone marvelled at his unprecedented use of light and shade on the ceiling. Among them, Condivi thought the Jonah the “most admirable of all…because contrary to the curve of the vault and owing to the play of light and shadow, the torso which is foreshortened backward is in the part nearest the eye, and the legs which project forward are in the part which is farthest.” Vasari asked: “Then who is not filled with admiration and amazement at the awesome sight of Jonah…The vaulting naturally springs forward, following the curve of the masonry; but through the force of art it is apparently straightened out by the figure of Jonah, which bends in the opposite direction; and vanquished by the art of design, with its lights and its shades, the ceiling even appears to recede.” [Emphases added.] Note carefully what was being said at the time: by his drawing and his use of lights and darks, Michelangelo had made surfaces which were actually advancing towards the viewer seem to recede. What was not said, pace Mancinelli, was that Michelangelo’s colours had been used “pure” and that, as such, they had played “a primary structural role”. No authority then existed for the restorers’ recent trading of those impeccably accredited lights and darks for today’s heightened colours.
Above, Fig. 26. Four copies of Jonah, as published in “Art Restoration: The Culture, the Business and the Scandal” in 1993.
Most certainly, no authority existed for removing the shadow cast by Jonah’s foot. Countless copies over the centuries had recorded it. Giulio Clovio, in his copy shown here in the top left-hand corner, also recorded (in the bottom corners) parts of two lunettes that Michelangelo had painted before 1512 but destroyed before 1536 to prepare a continuous surface for the Last Judgement.
Above, Fig. 27: A 19th century engraved copy of a now lost drawn record of the two sacrificed lunettes. The copy of a copy of the sacrificed lunettes shows precisely “the kind of suggestive painting by shadows for which Michelangelo was admired until a few years ago”. Its testimony specifically contradicts the restorers’ claim that the suggestive painting was “essentially the product of candle smoke and still more of glue varnishes applied possibly even before the 18th century.” The dramatic shading in this record captures the decisively drawn shadow at Jonah’s left foot, as glimpsed at the top left. Fabrizio Mancinelli’s claim that the lunettes had erroneously “been interpreted for centuries by scholars as chiaroscuri with light and shade distributed so that the figures seem to be emerging from the darkness”, flouted Paolo Giovio’s 1525 testimony that Michelangelo had “used a gradually diminishing light to suggest some figures in the distance, almost hidden…”
Above, Fig. 28: A lunette figure before (left) and after (right) restoration. This was one of three photo-comparisons of the cleaned lunettes published by the sculptor Venanzo Crocetti in the December 1989 Oggi e Domani. That there was much surface disfigurement on the lunettes is not in dispute. Crocetti had seen for himself after years on the scaffolds that the effects of smoke varied by location within the Chapel and that the lunettes had been disproportionately affected because of their position at the junctions between the walls and ceiling. The central question in the restoration generally, as here, is why previously evident artistic features (shadows, folds of drapery and so forth) disappeared along with the dirt through which they had formerly been visible? How, for example, could the left thigh of this figure have been perceived before restoration with a light upper surface and a darker side surface – and why did that tonal distinction disappear?
Above, Fig. 29: An engraved copy of Michelangelo’s Erythraean Sibyl made in the 1570s by Giorgio Ghisi. Here we see that shadows that disappeared in the last cleaning had been recorded within sixty years of the painting and therefore could not have been products of later accretions. It has sometimes been suggested that the testimony of engraved copies is not reliable because engravers exagerated tonal effects. Ghisi produced five other major plates of the prophets and sibyls (and of their surrounding figures). Like his Erythraean Sybil above, all showed a strongly dramatic use of shading that was still to be found in the figures themselves until the restoration. If Ghisi had exaggerated, what had he been exaggerating at a time when soot and restorers’ alleged varnishes had yet to impart their (Mancinelli-attributed) chiaroscuro-esque effects? Had Ghisi and other early copyists like Giulio Clovio collectively anticipated dramatic effects that Time and Accident would bestow centuries later?
Above, Fig. 30: The Erythraean Sibyl before cleaning. Note the many correspondences of lighting and shading between the engraving and the photograph four centuries later. In both, the Sybil’s head casts a shadow onto the architecture. In both, the face’s lit profile is thrown into relief by background shadow. In both, the deeply undercut ‘U’ shaped fold of drapery that runs from the right thigh begins in the light but sinks progressively into a shadow which merges with the shadow that the figure casts onto the architecture.
Above, Figs. 31 and 32. The head of the Erythraean Sibyl before cleaning (left), and after cleaning (right), showing catastrophic losses of modelling and shading. Note here the particulary emphatic and successful use of the tonal convention of relieving light contours against dark grounds, and vice versa, so as to deploy the most sculpturally expressive range of half-tones in between.
Above, Fig. 33: This (rotated) view of the ceiling in which the vertical wall appears in the bottom left corner shows the complicated curved geometries on which Michelangelo’s images were painted and the curious way in which the shadow-casting feet of Jonah and the Libyan Sibyl touch the same piece of curving architectural moulding.
Michelangelo’s task in designing and executing such a complex array of figures in so precise an “architectural” context was immensely difficult. In this respect, it would be less than human not to feel some sympathy for the restorers whose handicaps were compounded by the decision to allow the sponsors (the Nippon Television Corporation) to film the entire operation from the scaffold. In addition to the TV crews, other photography was permitted as part of the restoration’s promotion in the media. In one specialised respect, photographs that catch restorers at work can illuminate restoration proceedures to a degree rarely encountered in offical presentations.
Above, Fig. 34: The Libyan Sibyl during cleaning. This photograph, of a restorer being filmed at close quarters while working on the Libyan Sibyl, was reproduced across two pages of a 1992 book “Michelangelo and the Creation of the Sistine Chapel” by Robin Richmond, a painter who was supportive of the restoration. It shows that the figures were being cleaned first and separately from the backgrounds. A slight overlapping of the cleaning onto the figures’ dark green “relieving” background has introduced a light green halo-effect. The difference between the light green ‘halo’ and the adjacent dark green between the figures indicates the magnitude of the reductions of tonal values that took place in the shaded zones throughout the cleaning. As Crocetti had observed, Michelangelo had used his size or glue painting most of all in these zones. Wilson, testified that he had done so with a finely ground black pigment.
Above, Fig. 35: The Libyan Sibyl during cleaning. Over the years, many excellent photographic records of major restorations have appeared in National Geographic. The December 1989 issue carried an article (“A Renaissance for Michelangelo”) which contained the stunning photograph above by Adam Woolfit (here in greyscale for comparative purposes). This photograph records the cleaning as it approached the draperies over the Libyan Sibyl’s legs. The halo effect seen at Fig. 25 had by then disappeared along with the removal of almost all of the dark green background toning. Only a small rectangle of the former dark paint on the background remained, temporarily attached to the bottom of the Sibyl’s left upper arm. Woolfit eloquently captures the extremely bright artificial television lighting under which the restorers worked, and, most valuably of all, an “in-between” state when the incoherences that emerge in the stripping-down of paintings have yet to receive restorers’ tidying and patching-up with the paint brush (-or, in restoration trade posh, “reintegration”) .
Above, Fig. 36: The Libyan Sibyl as published in 1990.
Above, Fig. 37: The Libyan Sibyl as published in 2010. The transformation during restoration was immense. In 1986 Mancinelli claimed that Michelangelo had used his colours “constantly pure” and that they had served “a primary structural role” enabling him to “abandon almost altogether traditional chiaroscuri modelling”. The following photographs chronicle the swift demise of Michelangelo’s nearly five hundred years old chiaroscuri.
Above (top), Fig. 38, the torso of the Libyan Sibyl, as published in 1904 and, Fig. 39, in 1996. Within the characteristically restoration-compressed range of tones, the boy’s hair, which previously was light and blonde, relieved against a blackish green ground (as seen in Figs. 36 and 38), is now darker than the radically “cleaned” light green background drapery. If we consider the whole figure before cleaning (as at Figs. 17, 33 and 36) we see a consistent and dramatic light falling on it from the left. As well as casting the strong shadow from the right foot, that light illuminated the left side of the sibyl and the right-hand side of the architecture. The sibyl’s head had a lit side and shadowed side and, just like that of the Erythraean Sybil, each side was set off by a tonally contrasted background. Similarly, the brightly lit left arm was strongly relieved by the very dark green drapery, while the shaded right arm was thrown into relief against the light stonework…and so forth. After a cleaning, we would expect Fig. 39 to be like Fig. 38 in its values only more so with lighter lights and darker darks. Instead, while Fig. 39 is now certainly cleaner looking and tidier, by comparison with its former self, it resembles an early state of an etching before the dark tones and blacks have been worked up – rather as may be seen at Figs. 7 and 8.
Above, Fig. 40. The Libyan Sibyl’s head, as published in 1966, before restoration. Note the progressions of tones, and the brilliant highlight at the shoulder.
Above, Fig. 41: The testimony of Woolfit’s 1989 photograph (detail) of the cleaning in progress. We see at this stage of restoration that along with the removal of the glue-based paint on the background green draperies, the formerly clear and precisely established contours of the left upper arm have been disrupted by the emergence of dark patches of sketchy, inconsistent and disconnected outlining. Given that these arbitrary irregularities are not present in either the pre- or the post-cleaning states, we must consider how they arrived and how they were persuaded to depart.
Above, (top) Fig. 42, the Sibyl’s forearm, as seen in 1904. Above, (middle) Fig. 43, the Sibyl’s forearm, as seen during cleaning in 1989. Above, Fig. 44, the Sibyl’s forearm as seen after cleaning and repainting. At Fig. 43, once again, along with the removal of the former dark toning material behind the arm, we see remarkable changes to the tonal modelling of the arm itself and to its previously lucid, now erratic contours. We would claim that such changes cannot be seen as anything other than restoration-induced injuries: 1) It is inconceivable that Michelangelo would ever have been content to leave a limb in such a condition. (Think of the Virgin’s arms in the Doni Tondo.) The massively intrusive overdrawing of the thick bar-like contour of the thumb and forefinger seen after cleaning at Fig. 43 is inexplicable except as preliminary underpainting. (Remember that Crocetti complained of AB 57 having penetrated the frescoes to a depth of half centimetre.) 2) It is inconceivable that Michelangelo would have depicted the left contour of the forearm being ruptured by the intrusion of the edge of the giant book’s cover board that rests on the top of the draped table behind the sibyl, as seen at Fig. 43 (and as such, exclusively by courtesy of Woolfit’s photograph, so far as we know). Such an illogical intersecting relationship might have appealed to Picasso in his analytical cubist phase, but it could hardly have done so to Michelangelo. How, then, did it arise and how did it disappear? Have any accounts been published of the emergence and swift extinguishing of this extraordinary pictorial phenomenon? Has film of the cleaning of this arm been broadcast? 3) Finally, it is of course, inconceivable that had Michelangelo left the forearm drawn and modelled as seen in 1989 at Fig. 43, that subsequent accumulations of soot and glues could have sufficiently remedied his defects of drawing so as to bring the work to the condition seen in 1904 at Fig. 42. Clearly, the restorers themselves did not accept the emerging injuries to the arm to be a fair recovery of some original and authentic condition, because it is apparent from Fig. 44 that steps were taken to paint out some of the more glaringly incongrous defects. But who was the author of the “corrections” to the very defects that the restoration unleashed? Who should be accredited for authorship of the hybrid, revised arm as seen at Fig. 44?
Above, Fig. 45. In December 1989 National Geographic published this beautifully balanced record (here flipped) by Victor R. Boswell, Jr. of the last moments of the Sistine Chapel ceiling as finished by Michelangelo. Springing from the centre top of the not-yet-cleaned Last Judgement we see Jonah around whom congregate, in the last section of the ceiling that Michelangelo painted, some of the artist’s most miraculously inventive figures set in their fictive temple-in-the-sky. For a little longer this section retained the majesty and mystery of the infinite space and dark depths that had survived for nearly half a millennium.
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E-scooter start-ups Bird Rides and Lime looking for more funding
Date: 2018-10-15 Author: Saif Ali Bepari Category: #news
Two renowned Silicon Valley-based e-scooter rental start-ups Lime and Bird Rides are reportedly seeking new funding with more loftier valuations. Reports cite, the two companies, who are just a few months shy of being two-year-old, had already raised over hundreds of millions of dollars in financing previously.
Reportedly, Neutron Holdings, Inc. dba Lime has been conducting meetings with investors regarding a new round of financing. The company has already discussed a valuation of about $3.3 billion or even higher, cite sources privy to the matter.
According to reports, the bike-sharing company also recently met with its investor Uber Technologies Inc., to reportedly hold discussions on a potential acquisition. The taxi services and ride-sharing giant is reportedly also pursuing its own strategy in the e-scooter sector under an effort led by one of its executives, Rachel Holt. Uber has already acquired Jump Bikes earlier in 2018.
Bird Rides Inc. has also reportedly scheduled talks with investors and is seeking an even bigger valuation. Sources familiar with the matter reportedly stated that both the firms are looking for hundreds of millions in new financing.
However, while discussions unveiled the wild ambitions of these two e-scooter companies, some investors are still not convinced of the ability of both the firms to construct and grow businesses that would give a justification for the demand of such valuations.
A spokesperson from Lime reportedly stated that the company does not comment on such industry rumours. However, the spokesperson further added that the company is constantly looking for strategic partnerships and fundraises as it has now constructed a strong brand with such integrity that people willingly want to join the company to be a part of its journey.
SoftBank Group Corp., reportedly met with some major e-scooter companies recently, including Lime and Bird Rides. Sources familiar with the matter cited that the powerful investor is gauging the potential of these companies to help it decide whether to invest in e-scooter companies or to depend on its ride-sharing investments.
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The marine jungles: the meadowlands of Posidonia
by Marc Arenas Camps | May 7, 2016 | 0 comments
Posidonia and other seagrasses are one of the most important marine ecosystems on Earth. Many dare to categorize them as the jungles of the sea, for its high biodiversity. It is what we are going to see in this article, especially focusing on the Posidonia oceanica‘s meadows!
WHAT ARE MARINE PHANEROGAMS?
The seagrasses are plants that colonized coastal marine environments, being present in all oceans and seas, except the Antarctic. There are about 66 species.
All have a similar pattern: a horizontal underground rhizome (a thick buried stalk), from which are born the roots and vertical ramifications from where emerge leaves.
Throughout evolution, they have acquired the necessary adaptations to live in an environment with a high concentration of salts. They have the ability to perform underwater pollination by little flowers, in addition to reproduce asexually.
As we have already mentioned, we will focus on Posidonia oceanica, an endemic species of the Mediterranean Sea. It has the typical structure mentioned above, but among its peculiarities there are leaves of 0.5 cm wide and one meter long, grouped in bundles of 4-8 leaves.
Posidonia oceanica’s meadow (Picture: Manu Sanfélix).
In just one square meter can be 10,000 leaves. As a result, the particles that fall to the bottom are trapped and form what is known as “matte”, a very compacted substrate that rises slowly (10-18 cm/century), which acts as a barrier against the waves, favouring the formation of beaches. Do you want to know why we are losing beaches?
Did you know that on the island of Formentera (Balearic Islands, Spain) there have been found an individual of Posidonia older than 100,000 years?
BIODIVERSITY IN POSIDONIA MEADOWS
Posidonia meadows and other seagrasses are ecosystems with high biodiversity. In addition to the organisms living permanently, others reproduce, put the lay or refuge there. There have been described about 1,000 species in them.
Despite the high associated biodiversity, only few species are able to feed on the plant. Examples include salema progies (Sarpa salpa), the green turtle (Chelonia mydas), some sea urchins such as Paracentrotus lividus … all with symbiotic bacteria in the digestive tract.
Salema porgy (Sarpa Salpa) (Picture: Jordi Regàs, CIB)
There are many algae and animals that live attached to the leaves or rhizomes, called epiphytes. Examples include the hidrozoa Aglaophenia harpago and the bryozoan Lichenopora radiata. But undoubtedly the most characteristic epiphyte animal on Posidonia is Electra posidoniae. This bryozoan form a narrow structure above the plant’s leaves.
Hidrozoa Aglaophenia harpago above Posidonia oceanica (Picture: Peter Jonas).
Briozoa Lichenopora radiata (Picture: Javier Murcia).
Briozoa Electra posidoniae (Picture: Jordi Regàs, CIB).
Logically, there are also animals moving on the leaves. These are small animals that feed on epiphytes, such as crustaceans, gastropods (snails and slugs); polychaete, flatworms, nematodes and echinoderms. Examples are the nudibranch Diaphorodoris papillata and the crustacean Idotea hectica.
Nudibranch Diaphorodoris papillata (Picture: CIB).
Crustacean Idotea hectica (Picture: David Luquet).
One of the most characteristic animals of the Posidonia oceanica is the nobel pen shell (Pinna nobilis), the biggest Mediterranean mollusc, which can grow to a meter and lives with part of the body buried in sand.
Nobel pen shell (Pinna nobilis) (Picture: Maite Vázquez)
Among the echinoderms, it is considered that the starfish Asterina pancerii is the only strictly linked to the meadow, although sea urchins such as Paracentrotus lividus can become very abundant.
Starfish Asterina pancerii (Picture: Jordi Regàs, CIB).
Sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus (Picture: Jordi Regàs, CIB).
Other animals that roam freely in the meadow are fishes. The painted comber (Serranus scriba) is the most common; but the most unique is Opeatogenys gracilis, green in order to camouflage itself in the leaves. Other that camouflage really good are the fishes from the genus Syngnathus, such as S. typhle and S. acus.
Painted comber (Serranus scriba) (Picture: Jordi Regàs, CIB).
Opeatogenys gracilis (Picture: Manuel Campillo).
Syngnathus typhle (Picture: Sea Horse Project).
POSIDONIA HAS A HIGH ECOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE
As we have seen, Posidonia meadows are areas with high biodiversity of animal and plant species. So, it is home to many species at different stages of their life cycle.
But its importance goes further. Due to its growth through underground rhizomes, Posidonia retains the sand and, century after century, forms a natural barrier that provides protection for the coast, allowing the formation and gives stability to beaches, dunes and coastal forests.
Finally, a lot of organic matter is dispersed by currents and waves to other ecosystems.
Ballesteros, E & Llobet, T (2015). Fauna i flora de la mar Mediterrpania. Ed. Brau
Departament de Medi Ambient, Generalitat de Catalunya (2002). Biodiversidad y medio marino. Mediterrània viva. Editorial Anthias SL.
Minguell, J (2008). Flora i fauna del Mediterrani.
Ruiz, JM; Guillén, JE; Ramos Segura, A & Otero MM (Eds) (2015). Altas de las praderas marinas de España. IEO/IEL/UICN. Murcia-Alicante-Málaga. 681 pp.
Triptych: Las praderas de Posidonia en peligro. Parc Natural del Montgrí, les Illes Medes i el Baix Ter.
Cover picture: G. Pergent (INPN).
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Home News GOP congressman Trent Franks: It’s hard to get pregnant from rape (video)
GOP congressman Trent Franks: It’s hard to get pregnant from rape (video)
What is wrong with these people? Pro-life Republican congressman Trent Franks from Arizona is apparently an expert on both rape and conception.
And all the ladies out there will be glad to know that Congressman Franks says you have little to worry about: It’s really hard to get pregnant from getting raped.
Here’s Cong. Franks, the video is below:
“The incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low.”
Why is it low?
Because the magic rape genie will be there to protect you.
Okay, I added that last part. But what an idiotic thing to say. And it’s been said enough times that clearly this is some right-wing talking point that’s shared in the Republican pro-life community.
GOP Rep. Trent Franks, rape expert.
In fact, I did a little Googling, and it definitely is a right-wing talking point. It’s based on a lot of weird back-of-the-envelope math looking at how many women who are raped are fertile (not too young or too old), how many days a year the average woman is able to conceive, but it also looks at weird things like the miscarriage rate. Newsflash: Getting pregnant and having a miscarriage from your rapist is hardly “not getting pregnant.”
Another odd point is the one about women’s bodies having a way of a shutting down these things, the line that lost GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin his election last November. First, here’s what Akin said:
“The female body has ways” of shutting “that whole thing down.”
And in fact, the Pro-Lifers use this argument, wrapped in scientific mumbo-jumbo:
Every woman is aware that stress and emotional factors can alter her menstrual cycle. To get and stay pregnant a woman’s body must produce a very sophisticated mix of hormones. Hormone production is controlled by a part of the brain that is easily influenced by emotions. There’s no greater emotional trauma that can be experienced by a woman than an assault rape. This can radically upset her possibility of ovulation, fertilization, implantation and even nurturing of a pregnancy. So what further percentage reduction in pregnancy will this cause? No one knows, but this factor certainly cuts this last figure by at least 50 percent and probably more.
They end claiming there are maybe 200 to 500 rape pregnancies a year.
See Stephen Colbert’s video on the ongoing GOP rape gaffes at the end of this story.
That’s why the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists – you know, actual doctors – a statement saying that the real number is 10,000 to 15,000 abortions per year due to rape and incest. And we don’t even know how many rape pregnancies are carried to term. Slightly different than 200.
Why are the Republicans so bad on rape? Because it’s the intersection of two issues they’re really bad on – contraception and women. Just to revisit some of the top hits from the GOP on this topic, to remind you what the War on Women is all about:
MN GOP wants to ban abortion after rape as “tampering with evidence”
Top GOP rally for Senate wannabe who said rape-babies are gift from God.
Mike Huckabee, in defense of rape babies (seriously)
GOP Senate candidate discusses “legitimate rape”
Wasilla charged rape victims for their own forensic exams under Mayor Sarah Palin?
Romney-backed Senate candidate: God wants women to have rape-babies
Stephen Colbert on GOP claims God intended women to have rape-babies
Rachel Maddow on “legitimate rape”—What Todd Akin’s statement says about GOP orthodoxy
Harry Reid’s GOP opponent thinks your rape is part of God’s plan
Palin: McCain favors government forcing rape victims to carry their attacker’s baby to term
GOP’s Gingrey: Akin “partly right” about “legitimate rape,” and body shutting down pregnancies
GOP allies aren’t very good on rape either. Like the Catholic church that said that child rape was “understandable.” I’m guessing they don’t get much pregnant much either, so I suppose that’s okay too?
Perhaps the only rational way to end this post is with Stephen Colbert’s take on this entire ongoing GOP rape mess:
Tags: pregnancy, rape, Republican, Trent Franks, Video, war on women, women
25 Responses to “GOP congressman Trent Franks: It’s hard to get pregnant from rape (video)”
Nancy Marquez says:
All I know is that rape is a crime and the person involved should pay for it. It’s hard to leave in fear. that’s why it’s better to take extra precautions to feel our security. Grab this panic button service I got from the internet this may help a lot because it does to my friends I hope this will help with you also. This service can trace u where ever you may be if ever you are in trouble at the same time they can respond easily when ever you ask for help in a single press of a button.
Ferdiad says:
You think, but can’t prove, because you are lazy and cheap. I never said it was or wasn’t consistent. I just asked for some studies. I believe, maybe I am crazy, that when you attack someone you are much more effective if you do it with facts. Here, I did some research for you.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-claim-that-the-incidence-of-rape-resulting-in-pregnancy-is-very-low/2013/06/12/936bc45e-d3ad-11e2-8cbe-1bcbee06f8f8_blog.html
captain america says:
Sounds to me like he was just quoting a statistic.
PeteWa says:
he’s an idiot, as are you.
incidences of pregnancy from rape are consistent with rates of pregnancies across the board.
I think you are lazy and cheap.
You are correct, it is not for everyone. What this idiot Congressman said is “The incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low.” He didn’t say people don’t get pregnant from rape. John’s post, citing the American Congress of OBGYN’s” put the number from rape AND incest at 10 – 15k. What is the break down between rape and incest? Look, once again i would like if you actually read my comment. I’m just wondering if anyone has actual data on whether his statement is true or false? Is the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy low or isn’t it? Answering that question doesn’t mean we go an pass all kinds of crazy abortion laws. I am decidedly pro-choice, but I also like arguing facts and not intentionally misquoting what people say. To me, maybe its just me, that is a lazy and cheap way to win an argument.
BeccaM says:
Just as rape isn’t about sex, but actually power and violence, these constant GOP assertions that rape isn’t so bad, there aren’t that many pregnancies, what’s the big deal about forcing women to be pregnant with their rapists’ babies aren’t about preserving life.
It’s about the ultimate male privilege — the right to impregnate a woman, even if it’s against her will. And this twisted patriarchal notion that if a sperm manages to make it to an egg, it is thereafter entitled to hijack a woman’s body for at least the next nine months. (Preferably longer.)
It’s also behind their position that there’s something morally wrong with taking contraceptive medication — because again, it is a woman deciding she won’t get pregnant.
It’s political and cultural misogyny.
The only research that agrees with him came from Nazi death camp experiments. But Conservatives like Nazis, so it’s understandable he agrees with them.
The Moron religion.
The research has been done and is out for sometime. What he is saying is COMPLETELY FALSE! Get it?
Franks’ head looks like it’s being sucked into a vortex—-maybe that explains it.
“…assault rape…”? What the hell?
reading past the headline: not for everyone.
cambridgemac says:
It’s about patriarachy. Patriarchy depends upon theft, violence, coercion and….rape. Rape is a political act, not a sexual act. Like burning crosses in front of homes and lynching. So, they’re defending rape and opposing acts of resistance like contraception, literacy, critical thinking. “Your bodies are belong to us.”
Kes says:
Did you even read John’s post?
“That’s why the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists – you know, actual doctors – a statement saying that the real number is 10,000 to 15,000 abortions per year due to rape and incest. And we don’t even know how many rape pregnancies are carried to term.”
You’re overlooking WHAT KIND OF WOMAN gets raped. Once you take that into account, the dismissal of a few hundred pregnancies is no big deal.
I don’t like the repugs just like the next guy, but I also like accurate reporting. Rape is bad. Most R’s are idiots. But here is the question i have: is his statement accurate? Seriously, is there any data on whether incidence of pregnancy from rape is rare? I’m just curious if anyone actually cared to investigate the actual statement and disprove it, rather than just blasting this guy. Is his statement accurate or not? Just a question and wondering if anyone has the answer.
One of them from kolob ran for President recently.
Monoceros Forth says:
The right-wingers’ weird insistence on this point doesn’t even quite make sense on their own terms. I guess the logic is: there’s no need to worry about allowing abortion even in the case of pregnancies caused by rape because it doesn’t happen that often, a mere few hundred times a year, which is basically nothing, so no need to worry about it. Right-wingers tend to be fanatically absolutist about other types of crime, especially when it comes to keeping “terror suspects” in jail for the rest of their lives without trial, in which case we’re not supposed to take even the slightest chance that one suspect might wriggle out of a conviction. But in this case? Meh, what’s a few hundred rape babies more or less?
UncleBucky says:
Now which cult are you talking about? ;o)
In his inability to say what he has been scripted to say, he sounds like Porky Pig stuttering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESidBrr2cxk
Actually, the claim that rape rarely causes pregnancy comes from experiments conducted in Nazi concentration camps. So, I guess it’s only logical that the Conservatives would be attracted to it.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/06/12/trent_franks_abortion_myth_and_the_nazis_no_exception_for_pregnancy_from.html
The Nazis also claimed that rapists were infertile because they masturbated so much.
Just ask all those European women during WW2 who were raped repeatedly by either Allies, Nazis or Russians and were lucky their bodies just shut it all down and no one became pregnant.
The mind of a Rethuglican is a hazy and mysterious place full of untruths and fantasies.
Grown men who spend so much time worrying about what women do to with their own bodies and thinking incessantly about gay sex.
Randy Riddle says:
I’m becoming convinced that our government has been taken over by Reptilian Aliens who have the mental capacity and technology to travel from a distant star and disguise themselves as humans but sill lack any knowledge of human anatomy, empathy, or how to balance a checkbook.
But it’s not hard to get a Trent Franks from rape.
unclemike says:
Days Without A Republican Saying Something Anti-Woman: 0
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Yulia Brodskaya, was born in 1983, is a highly regarded paper artist and illustrator. She uses two simple materials – paper and glue, and a simple technique that involves the placement of carefully cut and bent strips of paper – to make lush, vibrant, three-dimensional paper artwork.
“My style is constancy evolving…right now I’m interested in making even more 3D paper art using the some technique, so I keep on experimenting.”
“The curious thing is that I have been studying for years to be one thing and then something just clicked that when what I always perceived as a side hobby can actually become my main.”
Yulia Brodskaya started working as a graphic designer and illustrator in 2006, however quickly abandoned the computer programs in favour of paper art: “paper always held a special fascination techniques of working with it, until I found the way that has turned out to be ‘the one’ for me: now I draw with paper instead of on it.”
Soon after discovering her passion and unique style, Brodskaya has earned an international reputation for her innovative paper illustrations and was named the ‘break-though star’ of the 2009 Creative review magazine. Her modern take on the paper craft practice has helped her build an impressive list of clients in just a few short years, from Hermes to Starbucks to Godiva, Target, Sephora, The New York Times Magazine and many others (more than 100 projects over 5 years). Yulia is frequently invited to speak at design conferences and design schools around the world: the talks include renowned friends of St Bride Library Conference; Guardian’s the art of illustration master class.
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PILOTI BECOMES THE OFFICIAL DRIVING SHOE OF BARRETT-JACKSON
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Scottsdale, Ariz. – Dec. 23, 2014 – Barrett-Jackson Auction Company CEO Craig Jackson announced today that Piloti is the Official Driving Shoe of the Barrett-Jackson Auction Company. Speed Crue LLC, the exclusive Piloti distributor to the United States, in partnering with Barrett-Jackson brings together two automotive lifestyle brands that connect with consumers globally.
The 2015 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction marks the 44th annual Scottsdale event. The auction continues to grow and Speed Crue, the exclusive Piloti USA distributor, will be one of several national partners featured at Westworld in January.
“I’m excited to have Piloti and Speed Crue come on board with us,” said Jackson. “I’ve been wearing Piloti shoes for years and not just when I’m behind the wheel. They have an incredible product and their comfort is truly second to none.”
In addition to partnering with Barrett-Jackson, Speed Crue has been making news as they relaunch the Piloti brand in the United States. Piloti shoes have always been designed for those who need a superior quality, high-performance shoe, for heel-and-toe driving. What makes Piloti footwear truly passion-worthy is the unique styling and everyday comfort, coupled with the high performance design.
“Speed Crue, the exclusive Piloti USA distributor, is pleased to announce our partnership with the true leader in collector car auctions, Barrett-Jackson,” said Charles Hill, Speed Crue LLC CEO. “As a partner, Speed Crue is committed to Barrett-Jackson and all of the collector car enthusiasts which attend the auctions live, or watch them as part of the global television audience. Barrett-Jackson fans are among the most passionate in the collector car world, and they love nothing more than seeing the cars of their dreams at four auctions annually. We are looking forward to being part of the 2015 auction events in such a big way and reintroducing the Piloti brand to the USA.”
The 2015 Scottsdale auction kicks off with an extended event schedule, beginning on January 10, 2015, running throughout the week and concluding on January 18, 2015. With one-of-a-kind vehicles, lifestyle events, concerts, bull riding and over 300,000 attendees, the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction is unlike any other collector car event in the United States.
Barrett-Jackson’s corporate partners include: ADESA, Blackford Financial Group, Bridgestone, Cessna, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, Direct-Lift, Discovery Communications, duPont Registry, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, Ford Motor Company, Galpin Auto Sports, Goodguys Rod & Custom Association, Meguiar’s, Mothers, Piloti, Reliable Carriers, Inc., Sherwin-Williams, Speed Crue, Swisstrax, TFX International, TRAXXAS, and Woodside Credit.
Established in 1971 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Barrett-Jackson, The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions™, is the leader in collector car auctions and automotive lifestyle events. The company produces auctions in Scottsdale, Arizona; Palm Beach, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Reno-Tahoe, Nevada. With broadcast partners Velocity and Discovery Channel, Barrett-Jackson will feature 100 hours of live television coverage in 2015, including broadcasts in over 100 countries internationally. Barrett-Jackson also endorses a one-of-a-kind collector car insurance for collector vehicles and other valued belongings. For more information about Barrett-Jackson, visit , or call 480-421-6694.
About Speed Crue and Piloti
Speed Crue is the exclusive Piloti distributor in the United States. The Piloti brand was founded in 1999 by a sport shoe designer and racing enthusiast. Piloti quickly became a fixture in the automotive world, gearing some of the world’s highest-profile drivers. Car fanatics, celebrities, and drivers swear by them, crediting the biomechanical, patented Roll Control TM technology and extreme comfort with not only preventing the foot pain that comes with endurance racing but also providing exceptional day to day footwear.
Piloti has teamed up with a noted California designer to reinvent Piloti, using the same patented technology, to make it even bigger and better than before. Learn more about Speed Crue and Piloti at www.pilotiusa.com; www.piloti.com
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JUANA LLOP is a specialized firm whose eponymous founder and designer started up the DRAP brand back in 1987. Having already shown a vocation for this sector at a very young age, she has now become a benchmark in the world of evening bags and accessories for social events in Spain and internationally. Her designs have managed to conquer some 47 countries around the world, including Italy, the UK, Germany, Portugal, Russia, Japan and even the Persian Gulf states.
Innovation, measured boldness, curiosity and an interest in finding new alternatives for the world of evening and occasion bags have inspired some unusual and spectacular designs.
DRAP’s creations have proved tremendously popular with women in every different country. The firm’s products appeal to everyone, and this is the key to its success.
Today, as well as offering its most fundamental articles, women’s evening and occasion bags (featuring some 50 new models every season), the firm also designs, manufactures and markets other products along the same lines: shoes that match its handbags, wraps and stoles, tiaras and fashion jewellery. The vital accessories for the modern woman who wants to look chic, groomed and radiant at social events.
JUANA LLOP’s designs are created with the needs of the modern women in mind and their diversity of styles and personality; women who are increasingly demanding bags and accessories that are functional, stylish and innovative.
Her views:
“It really gives me a buzz to think of a woman picking up one of my bags and appreciating its design, and really enjoying the feeling of wearing it and carrying it”
Research is a constant feature in terms of materials and shapes. Every new project is a fresh challenge, full of enthusiasm and endeavour.
Her inspiration is fed constantly on a daily basis, whether by the effect of a colour, an atmosphere, a print or any other object that sparks off new creative ideas, which for JUANA LLOP have no limits:
“I incorporate elements from all kinds of other sectors in my designs for handbags and other accessory ranges; it’s something I find fascinating and the results can be really good”
Quality is an absolute that is applied to every creation. The products are exhaustively studied and analysed, from the lining to the closing mechanism of every bag. The optimum volume, weight and lifespan of a handbag are hallmarks of JUANA LLOP and the DRAP brand.
Every design produced by DRAP is the result of an in-depth analysis of ingenious shapes, harmonious sizes, evocative materials and high quality finishes.
During the course of her career, JUANA LLOP has created more than 7,000 different handbag designs. However, the number of bags manufactured for each design is limited to between 500 and 1,000 to supply all 47 countries.
JUANA LLOP’s creations, ranging from the simplest through to the most sophisticated handbags, feature finely-tuned designs that are characterised by their originality and painstaking attention to detail. Clutches and shoulder bags in a whole range of sizes and unusual finishes seek to provide women with distinction and elegance, harmony and good taste, glamour and fun.
Some of them are benchmarks of timeless, evocative originality and are still highly sought-after today, such as the handbag made from gold mesh with two different fastening versions which, uniquely, managed to surpass sales of 10,000 and 15,000 items.
Minaudieres, also known as “Jewel bags" are beautiful designs in unique styles, some of them containing 6,300 pieces of hand-crafted crystal, involving a laborious manufacturing process of more than ten hours. These bags transcend fashion and can even become heritage items to be treasured and passed down from mother to daughter, like a family memento full of charm and practicality.
Satin, silk, velvet, mother-of-pearl, mink, leather and, very specially, Swarovski crystals, are all widely used in the designs, and the most exclusive ones also feature gold embroidery. Metal mesh in brass, silver, aged silver, gold and lead grey are exclusive features of the firm and one of the strong points of its collections.
Fantasy embroidery in metallic and jewelled colours such as red, fuchsia and green, not forgetting the classic yet always elegant tones of gold, silver, brown and black.
COLLECTION RANGES
JUANA LLOP, SL designs, manufactures and markets her products under the DRAP brand, with an emphasis on evening and occasion bags, though also featuring matching shoes and other accessories such as hand-crafted wraps and stoles. The brand offers a beautifully conceived range of exclusive, original options so every woman can choose the perfect item for any kind of social event in tune with her style and personality.
Ranges in different formats, materials and textures…. very practical draping, ribbing, hidden clasps, and a huge spectrum of evocative, natural, surprising, diverting and ingenious ideas.
Shoes to elegantly enhance your feet on special occasions. Inspired by the handbag designs, the key article, and fashioned to match. Created following artisan processes, they come in different heel heights and comfortable lasts.
Wraps and stoles are hand-woven from top quality materials and feature beautiful finishes, adding a distinctive finishing touch to any outfit.
JUANA LLOP’s fashion jewellery brings a new approach and fresh ideas to this accessory. Large, statement pieces in spectacular designs and tonal combinations, featuring brightly-coloured crystal gemstones.
Flowers are featured in intricate brooches for fastening bridal veils, pinning a wrap or as the perfect finishing touch for a dress, a jacket or a coat.
This range is the latest offering from the brand and gives a stunning and unique finish to outfits for special occasions.
Presentation. Each piece is immaculately presented and all the designs come with slips to protect the product. The labels clearly identify the brand, as well as special labels for designs featuring Swarovski crystals.
In every country, DRAP’s creations and dynamic approach have had a major impact and met with visitors’ undiluted enthusiasm. The company exports 40% of its output to 47 countries on all five continents, with subsidiaries and agents in Italy, Germany, Portugal and Japan. Apart from Spain, the Italian market is the leading buyer of articles by JUANA LLOP, S.L.
The company has showrooms in Barcelona, Düsseldorf, Milano, Messina & Bari where visitors from all over the world can enjoy pre-arranged tours.
The company studies and establishes the best possible commercial agreements and relationships with trade professionals and potential clients, offering a personalized approach with an emphasis on service.
Every season the firm publishes a multilingual catalogue. Adapting to the sectors in each individual country is one of the keys to its successful international expansion.
CUSTOMER CARE AND SERVICE
The basic premise of JUANA LLOP is to provide an attentive, personalized approach and outstanding customer service.
The company offers product lines that achieve the optimum balance between quality and price, this being the objective behind each creation.
Listening to and taking on board the suggestions and requirements of our clients is another important characteristic of JUANA LLOP’s operations.
The methods and procedures we use offer total assurance for our clients and end users.
“Drap – a brilliant creation for women”
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CBC Peter Mansbridge better watch out
Peter Mansbridge better watch his wrinkled ass.
Oregon’s notorious Library Girl, Kendra Sunderland, is in talks with Toronto-based Naked News web network.
She’s a natural TV reporter, producer Lucas Tyler tells me. “Calm, cool and relaxed. There’s a lot of potential there.”
Clearly, Kendra has a lot to learn about TV journalists. They favour lattes at Starbucks.
But, hey, she’s a rookie. Walter Cronkite, Lloyd Robertson, Knowlton Nash, they all had to learn — and they didn’t even had to struggle with buttons.
She’s just not 100% confident in her own skin yet and her posture is a bit off. But she’s hit the ground running.”
Shoot for the moon, Kendra. Bad posture never hurt Peter Mansbridge.
Exposed - Alberta Hardest Hit by Latest CBC Cuts
The latest round of CBC layoffs will eliminate 23 positions in Manitoba, the Canadian Media Guild's local president said Friday.
The public broadcaster announced Thursday that 241 positions were being cut across the country, bringing total job losses at the CBC to 1,400 in the past year.
Among western provinces, Alberta was hardest hit by Thursday's announcement -- the cuts there included the layoffs of eight camera operators in Calgary and another nine videographers in Edmonton.
Last year, CBC president and CEO Hubert Lacroix unveiled a five-year plan that will see the broadcaster trim one-quarter of its workforce by 2020.
CBC creates libel chill for most Canadians
In short, CBC destroyed the life the Leenens had known.
When the case went to trial the evidence overwhelmingly showed that CBC left out key information, distorted the views offered up by Dr. Frans Leenen and had generally worked at making the interviews fit the story they had decided on before the project even began.
The evidence taken together resulted in condemnation from the bench through a strongly worded judgment from Justice Cunningham.
That judgment against CBC, handed down on April 20, 2000, also came with the largest penalty ever imposed on any Canadian media company - $950,000 plus costs.
CBC could have settled for 1% of that penalty and paid substantially lower legal costs if they had only been willing to say they were sorry back in 1996.
"Launching a libel action of this sort against the CBC involves enormous financial risk requiring monetary resources beyond the reach of most Canadians," Leenen said after the Supreme Court denied CBC's attempt to overturn Justice Cunningham's ruling.
"Even as an established professional, I could not have done it without the financial and moral support of my wife Mindy and her family. I risked personal bankruptcy to clear my name. By defending the indefensible all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, the CBC creates libel chill for most Canadians, and not the media."
CBC Ombud Upholds Complaint Against CBC Mideast Bureau Chief
CBC Ombud Upholds HRC Complaint; Israeli PM Did Offer Alternative To Iran Nuclear Deal
CBC Ombudsman Esther Enkin has upheld an HRC complaint finding that CBC Mideast Bureau Chief Derek Stoffel failed to explain that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu did offer alternatives to the emerging nuclear deal with Iran in his speech to the U.S. Congress.
According to Enkin’s April 13 review, the reporting “was not clear in its use of language” and was “too ambiguous”. Enkin said: “There either should have been attribution – that some observers, including the president of the United States, did not consider there had been any alternatives presented – or a clarification that the Israeli prime minister considered his proposals an alternative to any negotiated deal with Iran he could envision. (At the time of the speech no deal had been announced yet.)”
See the complete story, complain and review here.
CBC Mideast Bureau Chief Tweet Must Be Challenged
On Israel Independence Day no less, CBC Mideast Bureau Chief Sasa Petricic issued the following tweet which implicitly drew a moral equivalence between ISIS terrorists and foreign recruits to Israel’s armed forces.
Comparing ISIS’ recruitment from abroad, with a democratic country’s obligation to protect its citizenry from threats by internationally-designated terror groups is beyond the pale.
As well, in March Petricic was accused by Haaretz journalist Anshel Pfeffer of having issued a tweet that he claimed was a “gross misrepresentation” of his analysis of what gave Benjamin Netanyahu his election victory.
Today’s tweet, however, should be viewed as the straw that broke the camel’s back. Petricic’s implicit drawing of a moral equivalence between ISIS terrorists and foreign recruits to Israel’s armed forces must be challenged.
See the tweet and read the full story here.
Exposed - Management Failure at the CBC
Our mission statement at CBC Exposed is to open the eyes of Canadians about the waste and goings on at the CBC. To this end we ask our readers to submit their stories for publication.
Here is one such story from a reader who wishes to remain anonymous. As usual, feedback is welcome at cbcExposed@gmail.com
Management Failure at the CBC
Recently, the CBC conducted a search for a new General Manager of Programming. The newly-minted (2014) CBC English TV Head, Heather Conway, (a very nice industrial relations major with little or no prior experience working with a broadcaster) went out of her way to try to make the hiring process appear fair by hiring a private sector head-hunting firm to assemble a list of potential candidates for the job.
After having searched all across Canada and around the world, surprise! Long-time CBC insider Sally Catto got the job. The fix was in from the start, and putting the job out to public tender, merely a pretence of ‘fairness’ on Conway’s part. At least Stursberg didn`t pretend.
What Conway might have done, before going back to the ‘old CBC’ way of doing things, was to advertise the job in good faith, rather than just for show. She could have dared to hire someone from outside the organization. Sending a message that it’s no longer business as usual at the CBC, no longer CBC insiders hiring CBC insiders. Unfortunately, all those recent CBC firings will use up a lot of her newcomer`s goodwill. So she needs to keep her co-managers onside. She also needs them because what does she know about how to run a broadcaster?
The question is: what will Conway do about internal malfeasance in her department? Will she adopt the CBC habit of turning a blind eye to her colleagues’ transgressions in order to retain a star executive - in order to ingratiate herself with her staff? Will she even try to put an end to the self-serving rule of CBC-insider culture? How will she address the conflict of interest surrounding Catto, Fraser, Platt and Moss? Will she go into damage control and try to cover it up?
Or will she act in the interests of Canadian taxpayers, and begin the unpleasant job of rooting out the bad apples and giving them the heave ho? Can Heather Conway be counted on to bring meaningful reform to the CBC? Or will she keep her head down to give herself a lighter ride?
CBC corporate culture is suffocating our national network under mediocre leadership at a time when innovative, exemplary leadership is needed. Wouldn`t someone (anyone) with demonstrated private sector broadcast industry talent have been a better choice than Catto, Conway or Lacroix? Someone with a background which is actually suited to the job requirements - rather than a proven follower who was never a filmmaker, programmer, or broadcaster to begin with. Someone capable of revitalizing and leading the broadcaster out of the wilderness.
In the private sector, a corrupt, biased, or mediocre manager is eventually shown the door. At the CBC, they get a promotion and a pay raise. But in times of crisis, a true management turn-around artist is required. How will the CBC get rid of the dead wood to make room for superior talent when the union rulebook makes it so difficult to fire non-performing ‘lifers’? The CBC needs fresh talent drawn from outside the CBC ranks, not internal reshuffling of the same marginal lights who led this spectacularly unresponsive network into its current moribund state.
Sadly, the Conway hire and Catto`s promotion tell us it’s `back to business as usual` at the Mothercorp. No more ‘outside hires’ at the Spoke Club. But a great day for Angus Fraser’s company Gangof2 Productions! With Sally Catto in charge of programming, perhaps one of her husband’s series - one of the 5 that her drama department funded - will now get a production order. The optics may be disgusting, but if her predecessor could get away with it, why can`t she?
The whistle may be screaming, but does anyone in Ottawa notice or care? At today’s CBC - where unqualified insiders with union seniority hire unqualified friends of friends, led by a marginally qualified CEO hired by patronage appointment, who hired a new Head of Programming with no programming or producing experience, under a new head of English TV with no prior experience in broadcasting. On top of this add the burden of a rigid union hierarchy preserving the status quo - is it any wonder that, with the exception of The Mercer Report and Hockey Night in Canada, so few Canadians tune in to the CBC?
Wouldn`t the CBC be a better place if CBC insiders loosened their death-grip on the wheel and allowed a new group of people – possibly with a more professional and less partisan philosophy - to run the show for a while?
Before our segment runs out of time, a few final questions for the CBC Ombudsman, The Public Service Integrity Commissioner, The Minister of Heritage, The Privy Council, and the PM’s office: Does everyone agree that the CBC Board of Directors - in order to restore confidence in the Code of Conduct – must mete out consequences to its CBC violators, whatever their status may be?
Will Hubert Lacroix, Heather Conway, and the CBC Board of Directors turn a blind eye, just as CBC management did to the Jian Ghomeshi complaints for so many years? Will they call for an investigation into CBC conflict of interest and code of conduct violations? A Senate Committee perhaps?
How about a clause in the Broadcast Act and Code of Conduct that says spouses of CBC employees cannot be awarded contracts while their CBC-insider partners and spouses are working for the network?
Most important of all:
Who will enforce the CBC Codes of Conduct and Conflict of Interest guidelines?
Surely not Hubert Lacroix, Sally Catto, Kirsten Layfield-Stewart, or Phyllis Platt.
They are CBC family.
But for the rest of us, the CBC’s incompetence, corruption and lack of accountability is just another public sector horror show in desperate need of an ending.
Brian Lilley Challenges CBC President Hubert Lacroix
Every corporate culture takes its cues from the top.
At the top of the CBC sits Hubert Lacroix.
Maybe this situation could have been dealt with sooner if he wasn’t so arrogant.
Back in 2013, based on a tip, I filed a FOI request about sexual harassment at the CBC.
One of the documents quoted a staffer as saying, “There are too many cases. I’m getting them mixed up in my mind.”
At the time, Lacroix waved off my findings and accused me of hunting up “innuendo.”
Is it realistic to think that this same man will finally clean up the CBC’s corrupt culture?
CBC President Hubert Lacroix Apologizes Again
The Janice Rubin report into the Jian Ghomeshi affair released last week confirmed the CBC failed to deal with "behaviour that was disrespectful, including behaviour that is considered to create an intimidating, humiliating, hostile or offensive work environment."
In response, president and chief executive Hubert Lacroix apologized to Canadians for this massive lapse in professional conduct.
Thanks for the peace offering, but we're still on the fence about whether or not to accept the mea culpa. After all, the report suggests broader attitudes at the broadcaster contributed to this atmosphere.
Canadians shell out $1 billion a year for this operation. They deserve better.
We wouldn't accept this culture from a regular government office. The CBC should be treated no differently.
Exposed - CBC management condoned Ghomeshi behaviour
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced it had severed ties with two executives implicated in the Jian Ghomeshi scandal, as it released a damning third-party report into workplace harassment and abuse by the former star radio host.
The public broadcaster told staff Thursday that Chris Boyce, the executive director of radio and audio, and Todd Spencer, the executive director of human resources and industrial relations, who had been on leaves of absence since early January, were “no longer with the corporation.”
The announcement came moments before the release of a report by employment law firm Rubin Thomlinson that painted Mr. Ghomeshi as a co-worker who “consistently breached the behavourial standard” of CBC by yelling at, belittling and humiliating others.
“Management knew or ought to have known of this behaviour and conduct and failed to take steps required of it in accordance with its own policies to ensure that the workplace was free from disrespectful and abusive conduct,” the report says. “It is our conclusion that CBC management condoned this behaviour.”
Exposed - CBC employees warned
The union representing CBC employees is warning members about co-operating with an internal investigation of the Jian Ghomeshi affair, saying the information they provide could be used against them.
In a memo issued to members on Monday, the Canadian Media Guild says that, while it is “strongly supportive of an independent investigation into this issue,” it is concerned employees who choose to participate in the workplace probe led by lawyer Janice Rubin might not be able to protect themselves.
But the Rubin investigation, which is looking into how Mr. Ghomeshi’s alleged workplace harassment and abuse went undetected, has been fraught from the beginning, in part because of concerns that CBC management will be exempted.
Exposed - Mike Duffy and the CBC
MIKE DUFFY AND THE CBC
The April 8, 2014 National Post front page headline screams: “You can’t just steal from your employer… You can’t abuse your position of authority to unjustly enrich yourself.”
Why not? Senior managers at the CBC appear to do it all the time.
In recent years, CBC CEO Hubert Lacroix overcharged the CBC by $30,000, but only went public with his ‘mistake’ after being outed in the press in 2014. Former CBC TV head Kirstine Layfield’s boyfriend[1] was cast in the lead of his own CBC TV series[2], then he was given his own CBC TV show to direct[3], then he was made the Executive Producer of the CBC 75th Birthday Special. With his limited experience, and with his wife in charge, would this seem like nepotism to the average Canadian? Well yes, of course it would.
Not to be outdone, Layfield’s successor, Sally Catto, a lawyer, presided over the CBC development department that granted her husband’s[4] company (Gangof2 Productions) five development deals within four years (2010-2013). And in 2011, long-time CBC executive Phyllis Platt was granted three development deals and three production orders (a six hour mini-series and two movies of the week) for her husband[5] to direct, mere weeks after leaving a position that presided over the granting of funding for – you guessed it – all CBC movies and mini-series.
The ‘old girl’s club’ certainly appears alive and well at the CBC.
But if CBC executives can use their positions of power to unjustly enrich themselves (or their spouses), then why not Duff? Why the double-standard?
The CBC Code of Conduct and CBC Conflict of Interest guidelines strictly forbid all of the above (including the appearance of conflict of interest, as management is meant to be held to a higher standard). But the willful blindness of management and the CBC board of governors allows CBC corruption to continue unchecked. The whistle is screaming, but is anyone in Ottawa listening? Well no, not really. If they were, they would have put a stop to it by now. So why does the government turn a blind eye to questionable practices at the CBC?
Answer: mis-management of the CBC reflects poorly on the Harper government because the PMO’s office appointed CBC CEO Lacroix. And though Lacroix has managed to cut some CBC funding and staff, he has not only failed to clean the CBC house of corrupt practices, he has set a poor example with his own $30k overspend. Trudeau and Mulcair, on the other hand, promised to “restore CBC funding” if elected. So CBC insiders want the Duffy and Wallin scandals to stick to Harper in the hope they will trigger regime change and new funding.
And that is why CBC management is thrilled to have Mike Duffy to kick around: to distract us from their own flawed mandarins while they plea to the left for votes and cash in the run-up to an election.
[1] Zaib Shaikh is now married to Kirstine Layfield, who now calls herself Kirstine Stewart
[2] LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE
[3] OTHELLO
[4] Angus Fraser is married to Sally Catto.
[5] Peter Moss is the husband/partner of Phyllis Platt.
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Exposed - Is CBC News Biased?
At CBC Exposed we encourage viewer submissions and recently we were forwarded this very informative video by one of our followers.
Is CBC News Biased? Should Canadian Taxpayers Fund the CBC with $1 Billion Every Year?
The CBC should be accountable directly to all Canadians. But it is not. Instead, it is accountable to the Prime Minister. He controls CBC funding, and appoints the Board of Directors and President (through the Governor General). No wonder most current CBC Board members are Conservative Party supporters. Also troubling is that every English-language CBC ombudsman to date has been a former CBC employee -- and therefore potentially biased in favor of the CBC. Given that this enormous risk of bias has been allowed, how much confidence can we have in the integrity of CBC management? Has the CBC ever voluntarily admitted to a scandal before being caught? Would CBC management have the strength of character to resist interference by a meddling prime minister?
CBC is over loaded with political appointees
CBC Hamilton has 7 reporters getting out the news. CBC Charlottetown has 37. The same inefficiency is repeated over and over across the country.
The CBC gets a $1.1 billion annual subsidy from the taxpayers of Canada as our national broadcaster. CBC management, the union and a group called Friends of Canadian Broadcasting are lobbying the government for substantial increases in the subsidy.
NDP and Liberal politicians in opposition are promising to increase the CBC subsidy if elected. The real story is CBC could do better with even less if they were more efficient.
The CBC is over loaded with political appointees with little value in the media, union and management feather-bedding, and just plain inefficient operations.
In Charlottetown, PEI with a census agglomeration of 64,000, CBC says it takes 37 journalists to report on the Legislature alone. That does not count other journalists, technical and administrative staff and management. 90 people work at CBC Charlottetown.
At CBC Hamilton, Ontario, the large industrial city west of Toronto, 7 people do the same job of getting the news out. How big is Hamilton to have such a small newsroom? 720,000 people live in the metropolitan area and that does not include adjacent areas like Oakville and Kitchener-Waterloo.
Why does Charlottetown need 5 times as many people to do the same job as Hamilton? Well, CBC Charlottetown has been around for more than 5 decades giving it plenty of time to double and triple fill positions with friends, political hacks and union favourites. CBC Hamilton is only 3 years old and given time they too will become another inefficient CBC branch station.
Cancer at top of CBC
Like many 70-plus Canadians, the CBC has trouble understanding today's youth. It's being left behind by changing technology and struggling to maintain its lifestyle on a fixed income that's been shrinking for the better part of three decades.
While Harper has proven he's no fan of the CBC, to be fair, kicking the corporation in the teeth is a bipartisan tradition that goes back decades to Brian Mulroney, but Jean Chretien did the most damage.
If anything, the fact that parties on both sides of the aisle seem united in their disdain for the CBC proves that the corporation is probably an institution worth saving, says Ian Morrison, spokesperson for the watchdog group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
According to Morrison, one of the big problems with the CBC is that its board of directors and president are government-appointed.
"There's a cancer at the top, and that is the political patronage system of its governance," he says. "It does not ensure that the best and the brightest are there."
Current CBC president Hubert Lacroix was a corporate lawyer with little experience in broadcasting or managing a large enterprise before his appointment, notes Morrison.
Senior CBC Reporter Terry Milewski Critisized by WSO
The World Sikh Organization has written a "letter of concern" to CBC Ombudsman Kirk LaPointe about its senior Ottawa correspondent, Terry Milewski.
Last month, the WSO objected to Milewski allegedly claiming that Sikhs held a rally on Parliament Hill for a "suicide bomber".
"WSO has been very clear that there is no evidence of extremism in the Canadian Sikh community," the organization stated on its website. "Those who claim otherwise have yet to offer any proof."
The WSO also criticized Milewski's alleged "contempt for the idea that Sikhs would defend human rights—to his way of thinking the only possible reason for such an outpouring of support is for terrorism".
CBC Reporters job is to sell ads
CBC’s Milewski says his job as reporter is to “sell ads”.
First, it is bizarre that CBC’s Terry Milewski is doing an interview for a Globe and Mail piece but what’s even more astounding is his admissions of playing it up for the camera:
“People imagine that the CBC is this grand public service funded entirely by taxpayer dollars, but my job is to sell ads. You won’t catch me saying, certainly not on tape, that we at CBC have some grand mission to speak truth to power.”
“Our job as reporters is not to meekly accept whatever answer we’re given, but to challenge and provoke and press.”
Exposed - CBC local services will be smaller overall
CBC News is laying off 144 people across the country, shrinking English-language local services in a bid to shave $15 million from its operating costs.
On the French side, Radio-Canada announced 100 job cuts across the country, including 20 vacancies and retirements.
Jennifer McGuire, Editor-in-Chief of CBC News, announced the English layoffs in a note to staff, which stressed that no stations are being closed and all local radio programming is being maintained.
McGuire admits that "local services will be smaller overall," but says the relative size of each region remains the same.
Exposed - CBC Investigation Not Arms Length
CBC executives who appeared before a Senate committee to discuss the future of the public broadcaster also faced questions about internal investigations underway at the corporation.
Conservative Senator Don Plett raised questions about Lang accepting money for speaking engagements.
Conservative Senator Betty Unger also raised questions to Lacroix and Conway about the ongoing internal investigation into the Jian Ghomeshi case.
"Public perception is you picked the person to investigate ... this matter for the CBC so it is not an arm's length investigation, perhaps the matter should have been handled by a retired judge," Unger said.
Lawyer Janice Rubin has been hired by the CBC to carry out an independent review of how the allegations against Ghomeshi were handled.
Exposed - the Issue of CBC Direction
Where the CBC has run into problems is that in trying to compete with private networks like CTV and Global. In doing so, the conflict between public service and attracting 'eyeballs', between informative, thought-provoking content and popularity, becomes clear. Is it part of the mandate to spend taxpayers' money on buying American game shows like Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy? President Lacroix claims that these highly-rated shows lead more viewers to watch the Canadian programming that follows. What about airing William and Kate: A Love Story on the documentary program Passionate Eye? Does that reflect our national and regional culture?
The issue of CBC's direction, and the issue of whether Canadians care about homegrown content, do not have clear-cut answers. CBC cannot please everyone and be all things to all people, and Canadian viewers can't help but be attracted to American content, which have bigger productions, bigger stars, and bigger promotional budgets. My view? I think the CBC should refocus on its mandate, stop trying to compete with private networks, and drop commercially-minded ventures, such as bidding for the broadcasting rights to the Olympics and selling ad time on radio.
The corporation should realign itself as a public service broadcaster and focus on telling national and regional stories.
CBC looking to sell iconic HQ
In the face of new technology and budget cuts, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is mulling the sale of its downtown Toronto headquarters, a move network officials admit may shake staff morale and its public image.
The public broadcaster has hired a consultant to help decide whether it should sell the one-million square-foot building. Mr. Mattocks says it only needs about a third of that space and is looking for a buyer who might be interested in keeping it on as a tenant.
Over more prosperous decades, the CBC has acquired a huge real estate portfolio, valued at about $1-billion.
The iconic blue and red building on Toronto’s Front Street West was constructed in the 1990s to consolidate the CBC’s once-scattered organization. Previously, its operations were spread among more than two dozen offices across the city, and the corporation was spending a small fortune on cabs and mailrooms.
CBC real estate holdings worth $1 billion
The cash-strapped Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will tap into its rich real-estate portfolio to dull the pain of deep budget cuts, but president and CEO Hubert Lacroix confirmed on Thursday that there are no plans to sell its iconic downtown Toronto headquarters or its newly renovated Vancouver studios.
In a speech to the Economic Club of Canada, Lacroix said the broadcaster intends to reduce its real-estate footprint by 800,000 square feet, part of a multi-pronged effort to make ends meet in the wake of significant federal funding cuts.
According to Lacroix, it’s still too early to estimate how much revenue could be raised through selling and leasing various properties.
But a recent Globe and Mail report offers some insight: the newspaper put the total value of the the CBC’s real-estate holdings at $1 billion, and estimated that the broadcaster is sitting on about $12 million in surplus commercial real estate space in its downtown Toronto office.
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Commentary :: Human Rights
Disaster Capitalism Headed to Haiti
Email: lendmanstephen (nospam) sbcglobal.net 18 Jan 2010
worker exploitation follows disaster
Disaster Capitalism Headed to Haiti - by Stephen Lendman
In her book, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism," Naomi Klein explores the myth of free market democracy, explaining how neoliberalism dominates the world with America its main exponent exploiting security threats, terror attacks, economic meltdowns, competing ideologies, tectonic political or economic shifts, and natural disasters to impose its will everywhere.
As a result, wars are waged, social services cut, public ones privatized, and freedom sacrificed when people are too distracted, cowed or in duress to object. Disaster capitalism is triumphant everywhere from post-Soviet Russia to post-apartheid South Africa, occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, Honduras before and after the US-instigated coup, post-tsunami Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia, New Orleans post-Katrina, and now heading to Haiti full-throttle after its greatest ever catastrophe. The same scheme always repeats, exploiting people for profits, the prevailing neoliberal idea that "there is no alternative" so grab all you can.
On Her web site, Klein headlines a "Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert: Stop Them Before They Shock Again," then quotes the extremist Heritage Foundation saying:
"In addition to providing immediate humanitarian assistance, the US response to the tragic Haiti earthquake offers opportunities to re-shape Haiti's long-dysfunctional government and economy as well as to improve the public image of the United States in the region."
Heritage notes "Things to Remember While Helping Haiti," itemized briefly below:
-- be bold and decisive;
-- mobilize US civilian and military capabilities "for short-term rescue and relief and long-term recovery and reform;"
-- US military forces should play an active role interdicting "cocaine to Haiti and Dominican Republic from the Venezuelan coast and counter ongoing efforts of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to destabilize the island of Hispaniola;"
-- US Coast Guard vessels should stop Haitians from trying "to enter the US illegally;"
-- Congress should authorize "assistance, trade and reconstruction efforts;" and
-- US diplomacy should "counter the negative propaganda certain to emanate from the Castro-Chavez camp (to) demonstrate that the US's involvement in the Caribbean remains a powerful force for good in the Americas and around the globe."
Heritage is an imperial tool advocating predation, exploitation, and Haitian redevelopment for profit, not for desperate people to repair their lives. It disdains democratic freedoms, social justice, and envisions a global economy "where freedom, opportunity, prosperity, and civil society flourish" solely for the privileged, the chosen few, not the disadvantaged or greater majority.
It's for free market plunder, regulatory freedom, tax cuts for the rich, exploiting the majority, corporate handouts, and militarized control for enforcement. It supports the Bilderberg idea of a global classless society - a New World Order with rulers and serfs, no middle class, no unions, no democracy, no equity or justice, just empowered oligarchs, freed to do as they please under a universal legal system benefitting them.
For the moment, their focus is Haiti, ripe for plunder, like the second tsunami that hit coastal Sri Lankans. The December 2004 one took 250,000 lives and left 2.5 million homeless throughout the region. Klein explained the aftermath at Arugam Bay, "a fishing and faded resort village" on Sri Lanka's east coast that was showcased to "build back better." Not for villagers, for developers, hoteliers, and other business interests to exploit. After the disaster, they had a blank slate for what the tourist industry long wanted - "a pristine beach (on prime real estate), scrubbed clean of all the messy signs of people working, a vacation Eden. It was the same up and down the coast once rubble was cleared....paradise" given the profit potential.
New rules forbade coastal homes, so a buffer zone was imposed to insure it. Beaches were off-limits. Displaced Sri Lankans were shoved into grim barracks, and "menacing, machine-gun-wielding soldiers" patrolled to keep them there.
Tourist operators, however, were welcomed and encouraged to build on oceanfront land - to transform the former fishing village into a "high-end boutique tourism destination (with) five-star resorts, luxury chalets, (and even a) floatplane pier and helipad."
It was to be a model for transforming around 30 similar zones into a South Asian Riviera to let Sri Lanka reenter the world economy as one of the last remaining uncolonized places globalization hadn't touched. High-end tourism was the ticket - to provide a luxury destination for the rich once a few changes were made. Government land was opened to private buyers. Labor laws were relaxed or eliminated. Modern infrastructure would be built, and public opposition suppressed to let plans proceed unimpeded.
The same scheme followed Hurricane Mitch in October 1998 when Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua were hardest hit. In Sri Lanka, Washington took the Mitch model to the next level - beyond individuals to corporate control over reconstruction. Business ran everything. Affected people were shut out. Klein called it a new type corporate coup mother nature made possible. Now again in Haiti with an idea of what's coming.
Powerful business interests constructed a blueprint from housing to hotels to highways and other needed infrastructure. Disaster relief went for development. Victims got nothing and were consigned to permanent shantytowns like the kinds in most Global South cities and Global North inner ones. Aceh and other affected areas adopted the same model.
A year after the tsunami, the NGO Action Aid surveyed the results in five Asian countries and found the same pattern - residents barred from rebuilding and living in militarized camps, while developers were given generous incentives. Lost was their way of life forever.
The same scheme played out in New Orleans with unfettered capitalism given free reign. With considerable Bush administration help, mother nature gave corporate predators a golden opportunity for plunder. Prevailing wage rates for federally funded or assisted construction projects were suspended. So were environmental regulations in an already polluted area, enough to be designated a superfund site or toxic waste dump. Instead, redevelopment was planned.
As a previous article explained, New Orleans had ample warning but was unprepared. The city is shaped like a bowl, lies below sea level, and its Gulf coast is vulnerable. As a result, the inevitable happened, affecting the city's least advantaged - the majority black population targeted for removal and needing only an excuse to do it. The storm wiped out public housing and erased communities, letting developers build upscale condos and other high-profit projects on choice city land.
It was right out of the Chicago School's play book, what economist Milton Friedman articulated in his 1962 book, "Capitalism and Freedom." His thesis:
"only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When a crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around...our basic function (is) to develop alternatives to existing policies (and be ready to roll them out when the) impossible becomes the politically inevitable."
Friedman believed that government's sole function is "to protect our freedom from (outside) enemies (and) our fellow-citizens. (It's to) preserve law and order (as well as) enforce private contracts, (safeguard private property and) foster competitive markets."
Everything else in public hands is socialism, an ideology he called blasphemous. He said markets work best unfettered of rules, regulations, onerous taxes, trade barriers, "entrenched interests" and human interference, and the best government is practically none - the wild west because, in his view, anything government does business does better so let it. Ideas about democracy, social justice, and a caring society were verboten because they interfere with free-wheeling capitalism.
He said public wealth should be in private hands, profit accumulation unrestrained, corporate taxes abolished, and social services curtailed or ended. He believed "economic freedom is an end to itself (and) an indispensable means toward (achieving) political freedom." He opposed the minimum wage, unions, market interference, an egalitarian society, and called Social Security "the biggest Ponzi scheme on earth." He supported a flat tax favoring the rich, and believed everyone should have to rely on their own resources to get by.
In a word, Friedmanomics preaches unrestrained market fundamentalism. "Free to choose," he said with no regard for human needs and rights. For him and his followers, economic freedom is the be-all-and-end-all under limited government, the marketplace being the master.
Applied to New Orleans, it meant permanent changes, including removing public housing, developing upscale properties in its place, privatizing schools, and destroying a way of life for thousands of disadvantaged blacks expelled from their communities and not allowed back.
Klein called Friedman's thesis "the shock doctrine." Applied to Russia, Eastern Europe and other developing states, it was shock therapy. For affected people, it was economic and social disaster under Friedman's prescription for mass-privatizations, deregulation, unrestricted free market predation, deep social spending cuts, and harsh crackdowns against resisters. It's disaster capitalism, business is booming, and Haitians will soon feel its full fury under military occupation.
Haiti - Beleaguered, Occupied, and Stricken by a Disaster of Biblical Proportions
Since the 19th century, America dominated Haiti. Before the quake, a proxy paramilitary Blue Helmet force occupied the country, dispatched not for peacekeeping but iron-grip control. Worse still, it was the first time ever that UN forces supported a coup d'etat government, the one Washington installed after US Marines kidnapped President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, forcibly exiled him to Africa, and ended the political, economic and social reforms he instituted - in areas of health, education, justice and human rights. Ever since, conditions for Haitians have been nightmarish, and now the quake and further misery ahead from the Pentagon's iron fist and greater than ever exploitation.
Obama's top priority is control, underway immediately after the Pentagon took over the Port-au-Prince airport, reopened it after its brief closure, and set up a temporary air traffic control center. Military personnel now decide what gets in or out, what's delivered, how fast, and according to unconfirmed reports, they slowed arriving search and rescue equipment, supplies, and personnel, except for what other countries managed to send in types and amounts way short of what's needed. As a result, trapped Haitians perished, whereas a concentrated, sustained airlift, including heavy earthmoving and other equipment, might have saved hundreds or thousands more lives.
The 1948 - 49 Berlin airlift showed how. For nearly 11 months, western allies delivered what rose to a daily average of 5,500 tons, providing vital supplies for the city's two million people. Today, the Pentagon has far greater capabilities. If ordered, massive amounts of virtually everything could be expedited, including heavy earthmoving equipment and teams of experts for every imaginable need. The result would have been vast numbers more lives saved, now perished because little was done to help, except for heroic volunteers providing food, water, and medical care, and Haitians who dug out survivors with small implements and their bare hands.
On January 15, Reuters reported that the Port-au-Prince 9,000-foot runway escaped serious damage and could handle big cargo planes easily. Immediately, food, water, medicine, rescue crews, and other specialists began arriving from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, China, and elsewhere, but very little from America, including vitally needed heavy equipment. Haiti has very little of what's needed.
Instead, the Pentagon sent in thousands of Marines and 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers (a 10,000 force contingent once in place), armed killers, not humanitarian personnel and regular supplies to sustain them. Larger numbers may follow to be supplemented by UN Blue Helmets and Haitian National Police under Pentagon command. A long-term commitment for militarized control is planned, not humanitarian relief, reminiscent of the 20-year 1915 - 1934 period when US Marines occupied and ravaged Haiti.
Throughout the country, the lives of nine million people are at stake. Of immediate concern, are the three million in Port-au-Prince and surroundings, devastated by the quake and unable to sustain themselves without substantial outside help.
Central also is Haiti's government, now crippled, including one report saying the senate building collapsed with most of the lawmakers inside. It's not clear who's alive or dead in either National Assembly chamber, the cabinet, or other government posts. It hardly matters, however, under US military control leaving President Rene Preval and Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive mere figureheads.
Once full control is established, the immediate shock subsides, and the media lose interest, reconstruction will be implemented for profit, not poor Haitians left on their own in communities like Cite Soleil and Bel Air or permanently displaced for what developers have in mind.
Efforts will focus on upscale areas and facilities for the Pentagon, US officials and selected bureaucrats. Before the quake, the Preval government was weak, ineffective, and uncaring about Haiti's vast needs. He effectively ceded power to Washington, the UN, and the large imperial-chosen NGO presence in the country.
In addition, Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party was banned from the scheduled February 2010 parliamentary elections (now cancelled or postponed), and was earlier excluded from the 2009 April and June process to fill 12 open senate seats, resulting in a turnout below 10%, and mocking a true democratic process.
Now, millions of Haitians hang by a thread. As one of them put it, "tout ayiti kraze," the whole country is no more. The government is inoperative. Port-au-Prince is in shambles. People are struggling to survive, 100,000 or more likely dead, a toll sure to rise as disease and depravation claim more. Those in poor communities are on their own. Rescuers are concentrating on high-profile, well-off areas, but without earthmoving equipment can do little to save victims. The problem - Washington obstructionism and indifference to human suffering and need.
On January 15, Al Jazeera reported that aid agencies are struggling under difficult conditions and inadequate supplies, let alone how to distribute them throughout the capital. As a result, frustration is growing with little help, no shelter, decaying bodies still unburied, the threat of disease, and the stench of death everywhere with no power, phones, clean water, food, and everything millions need.
Sebastian Walker, Al Jazeera's Port-au-Prince correspondent said:
"A lot of people have simply grown tired of waiting for those emergency workers to get to them. Thousands of people are streaming out of the city towards the provinces to try to find supplies of food and water, supplies that are running out in the city."
On January 16, Al Jazeera headlined "Haiti: UP to 200,000 feared dead." About 50,000 bodies have been collected, according to Haiti's interior minister, Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, and he anticipates "between 100,000 and 200,000 dead in total, although we will never know the exact number," nor how many more will expire in the weeks and months ahead, unnoticed and unreported.
On January 17, Al Jazeera headlined, "Aid teams struggle to help Haitians....amid difficulties in distributing relief supplies to those who need it most.
Sebastian Walker said delivering supplies stacking up at the airport has been extremely problematic:
"This comes down to the complex issue of who is in charge here. The US military has a great deal of control over the number of flights that are landing here. We heard that a UN flight carrying aid equipment had to be diverted because the US was landing its own aircraft there. The question of just who makes the decision over how to distribute the aid seems to be what is holding up the supplies."
The Pentagon decides, of course, and that's the problem. Obama also urges "patience," saying "many difficult days (are) ahead," without explaining his obstructionist uncaring role.
The result is reports like this:
-- from Canada's CBC As It Happens broadcast interview with an ICRC spokesperson saying he spent the morning of January 15 touring one of the hardest hit areas, and "In three hours, I didn't see a single rescue team;"
-- a same day BBC interview with an American Red Cross spokesperson complained about aid delivery - that arriving planes carried people, not supplies, and amounts at the airpot weren't being delivered;
- the Canada Haiti Action Network calls Port-au-Prince a city largely without aid because areas most in need aren't getting it; further, in nicer neighborhoods, dogs and extraction units arrived, but 90% of them are just sitting around, perhaps because of no earthmoving equipment to reach victims;
-- another report said a French plane carrying a field hospital was turned away, then later allowed in; meanwhile, Israel got carte blanche for its own field hospital, able to handle 500 casualties daily, so it begs the question - why praise Israel for (selectively) helping Haitians when it murders Palestinians daily, keeps the West Bank isolated and locked down, Gaza under siege, and denies critically ill residents exit permission for treatment unavailable from Strip facilities, leaving them to perish; and
-- various reports say US forces are preventing flights from landing; prioritized are landing US troops, repatriating American nationals, and perhaps starving poor Haitians to death; dozens of French citizens and dual Haitian-French nationals couldn't leave when their scheduled flight to Guadeloupe couldn't land; an angry French Secretary of State for Cooperation, Alain Joyandet, told reporters that he "made an official complaint to the Americans through the US embassy."
UN Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Report on Haiti Relief
On January 15, OCHA reported as follows:
"Logistics and the lack of transport remain the key constraints to the delivery of aid. Needs are still being identified as access becomes possible and as assessments begin to take place.
Displaced populations are currently scattered across multiple locations where there is open space. Temporary shelters urgently need to be established.
Fifteen sites have been identified for distribution of relief items. World Food Program reached 13,000 people today with food, jerry cans and water purification tablets."
OCHA continued, saying:
"A total of (only) 180 tons of relief supplies have arrived in-country so far. Operations are heavily constrained due to the lack of fuel, transport, communications and handling capacity at the airport. Some flights are being re-routed through Santo Domingo airport (far from Port-au-Prince in the Dominican Republic) which is also becoming congested."
In its latest January 16 report, OCHA repeated that airport logistics remain a challenge, the result of re-routed flights, congestion, lengthy offloading times, the lack of transport and fuel, no storage facility, and the airport "now packed with goods and teams" not being delivered.
Three million Haitians need help, but the World Food Program distributed high energy biscuits only to 50,000. Around 50,000 are getting hot meals.
Major health concerns include untreated trauma wounds, infections, infectious diseases, diarrhea, lack of safe drinking water and sanitation, and Haitians with pre-existing condition like HIV/AIDS, diabetes and cancer aren't being treated.
Up to a million people need immediate shelter and non-food aid, including clean water, blankets, kitchen and hygiene kits, plastic sheeting and tents.
"As of 16 January it is estimated that fuel for humanitarian operations will only last 2 to 3 more days before operations will be forced to cease."
There have only been 58 live rescues so far among the many thousands trapped beneath or behind rubble. OCHA launched a Flash Appeal for $575 million "to cover 3 million people severely affected for six months."
Sixteen EU nations are providing aid but not enough. America is doing practically nothing.
One nation delivering heroic help is Cuba, but little about it is reported. Despite its own constraints, it's operated in Haiti for years, and now has over 400 doctors and healthcare experts delivering free services. They work every day in 227 of the country's 337 communes. In addition, Cuban medical schools trained over 400 Haitian doctors, now working to save lives during the country's gravest crisis. It's no small achievement that Cuba, blockaded and constrained, is responsible for nearly 1,000 doctors and healthcare providers, all of whom work tirelessly to save lives and rehabilitate the injured.
According to China's Xinhua News Agency:
"Cuban aid workers have taken charge of (Haiti's) De la Paz Hospital, since its doctors have not appeared after the quake," perhaps because many perished, are wounded, or are trapped beneath or behind rubble themselves.
Cubans are working despite a lack of everything needed to provide care except for what its government managed to deliver. Dr. Carlos Alberto Garcia, coordinator of its medical brigade, said Cuban doctors, nurses and other health personnel are working non-stop, day and night. Operating rooms are open 18 hours a day.
Independent reports now say Washington is trying to block Cuban and Venezuelan aid workers by refusing them landing permission in Port-au-Prince. The Caribbean Community's emergency aid mission is also blocked. On January 15, the US State Department confirmed that it signed two Memoranda of Understanding with the remnants of Haiti's government putting Washington in charge of all inbound and outbound flights and aid offloading in the country.
For years, Cuba has sent doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers to countries in need worldwide, winning hearts and minds for its free highly professional services. It provides national healthcare for all its people, and now has about 25,000 doctors in 68 countries. In addition, over 1,800 doctors from 47 developing states graduate annually from Cuban medical schools, return home, and provide quality care for their people.
Major Media Misreporting
Ignoring Haiti's long history as a de facto US colony, the major media report a sanitized version of today's catastrophe. For example on January 14, The New York Times cynically editorialized: "Once again, the world weeps for Haiti." This is the same paper that lied in a March 1, 2004 editorial after US Marines forcibly exiled Aristide, saying:
-- he resigned;
-- sending in Marines "was the right thing to do;" and
-- they only arrived after "Mr. Aristide yielded power."
It also blamed him for "contribut(ing) significantly to his own downfall (because of his) increasingly autocratic and lawless rule," and accused him of manipulating the 2000 legislative elections and not "deliver(ing) the democracy he promised."
In fact, other than a brief period after its liberating revolution (1791 - January 1, 2004), the only time Haiti was democratically governed was under Aristide and during Rene Preval's first term. Aristide, in fact, was so beloved, he was overwhelmingly reelected in 2000 with a 92% majority and would be equally supported today if allowed to run. In fact, when he's most needed and wanted, Washington won't let him return.
In media coverage of Haiti's disaster, the greater story is suppressed, the one that matters, that puts today's tragedy in context:
-- 500 years of repression; slavery under the Spanish, then French, and since the 19th century as a de facto US colony;
-- deep poverty and human misery, the worst in the hemisphere;
-- despotic rule, occupation, exploitation, starvation, disease and low life expectancy; and
-- now now a disaster of biblical proportions getting Times headlines like:
"In Show of Support, Clinton Goes to Haiti"
Omitted was that it was for a brief airport photo op, America's usual show of indifference to human suffering, in this case, the result of US imperialism, not as a benefactor the way The Times and other major media portray.
"Officials Strain to Distribute Aid to Haiti as Violence Rises"
In fact, Haitians have been remarkably calm, no thanks to Washington that's slowing aid delivery, providing very little of its own, and offers little more than militarized occupation, armed killers, including Xe (formerly Blackwater Worldwide) mercenaries, notoriously savage brutes.
"Looting Flares Where Authority Breaks Down"
Looting? People are suffering, starving, dying, desperate because America sends fighters, not food; Marines, not medical aid; combat killers, not compassion, caring, and kindness; and diplomats, not doctors or human decency.
"Government Struggles to Exhume Itself"
Calling it "comparatively stable" ignores that Preval's government is a proxy for US interests and no longer functioning. Pentagon killers are now in charge.
"Bush, Clinton and Obama Unite to Raise Money for Haiti"
After the December 2004 tsunami struck East Asia, the Bush administration spearheaded a similar campaign, raised over $1 billion, and used it for corporate development, not people needs. Obama backs a similar scheme (Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund) in a show of contemptible indifference to human misery and chose two co-conspirators for his plan.
The Bush administration engineered the February 2004 coup ousting Aristide, established police state rule, and immiserated nine million Haitians. For his part, Clinton kept an iron grip throughout his presidency instead of supporting Aristide's political, economic and social reforms.
He's now UN Special Envoy to Haiti heading an Obama administration neoliberal scheme featuring tourism, textile sweatshops, sweeping privatizations and deregulation for greater cheap labor exploitation at the expense of providing essential needs. He orchestrated a plan to turn northern Haiti into a tourist playground and got Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines to invest $55 million for a pier in Labadee where the company operates a private resort and has contributed the largest amount of tourist revenue to the country since 1986.
More still is planned, including a new international airport in the north, an expanded free trade zone, a new one in Port-au-Prince, now delayed, various infrastructure projects, and an alliance with George Soros' Open Society Institute for a $50 million partnership with Haitian shipper Gregory Mevs to build a free-trade zone for clothing sweatshops.
In addition, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) has $258 million in commitments, including the Better Work Haiti and HOPE II projects, taking advantage of duty-free Haitian apparel exports to America to encourage greater sweatshop proliferation.
According to TransAfrica's founder Randall Robinson:
"That isn't the kind of investment that Haiti needs. It needs capital investment. It needs investment so that it can be self-sufficient. It needs investment so that it can feed itself." It also needs debt relief, not another $100 million the IMF just announced adding more to a $1.2 billion burden.
Above all, Haiti needs democratic governance freed from US control, military occupation, and the kind of oppression it's endured for centuries so its people can breathe free.
It doesn't need two past and a current US president allied with Haiti's elites, ignoring economic justice, exploiting Haitian labor, ignoring overwhelming human desperation, militarizing the country, crushing resistance if it arises, and implementing a disaster capitalism agenda at the expense of essential human needs, rights and freedoms.
The only good new is that the Obama administration granted undocumented Haitians Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months. They can now work legally and send remittances to family members. It affects 30,000 ordered deported and all non-US citizens.
During the Bush administration and throughout Obama's first year in office, repeated calls for it were refused. Now after 80 representatives and 18 senators, Republicans and Democrats, and the conference of Roman Catholic bishops sent appeals, Obama relented for Haitians in America as of January 12. New arrivals will be deported unlike Cubans under the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act (as amended), a "wet foot/dry foot" policy under which those interdicted at sea are returned home, but others reaching shore are inspected for entry, then nearly always allowed to stay.
TPS aside, Haiti faces crushing burdens - deep poverty, vast unemployment, overwhelming human needs, severe repression, poor governance, Washington dominance, a burdensome debt, and much more before the January 12 quake. Now the disaster, militarization by the Pentagon, and disaster capitalism soon arriving besides what's already profiteering. It's been Haiti's plight for generations, the poorest hemispheric nation in the area most under Washington's iron grip and paying dearly for the privilege.
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen (at) sbcglobal.net.
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The North American Indian in the Northwestern University McCormick Library of Special Collections – a description
The North American Indian (1907-1930), by Edward S. Curtis, was published in a limited edition and sold by subscription.
The lavishly illustrated volumes were printed on the finest paper (Dutch etching stock or Japanese tissue paper) and bound in expensive leather, making the price prohibitive for all but the most avid collectors and libraries.
Subscriptions started at $3000 on the Van Gelder paper in 1907; by 1924 the base price had risen to $4200. 1
Although the plan was to sell 500 sets, it appears that Curtis secured just over 220 subscriptions over the course of the project, and printed less than 300 sets.
In 1935 the assets of the project were liquidated, and the remaining materials were sold to the Charles Lauriat Company, a rare book dealer in Boston. Lauriat acquired nineteen unsold sets of The North American Indian, thousands of individual prints, sheets of unbound paper, and the handmade copper photogravure plates. The book dealer printed a sales brochure and sold nearly seventy more sets at the reduced price of $1245 each. The sets sold apparently included the nineteen remaining original sets plus additional ones made up from loose sheets and newly printed plates. 2
The set owned by Northwestern consists of twenty volumes containing text and illustrations, plus twenty accompanying portfolios of individual plates.
Each volume measures 12 inches high, 10 inches wide and about 3 2/5 inches thick. Volumes 1-14 were bound by H. Blackwell, while volumes 15-20 were bound by Whitman Bennett, NY, as indicated at the top of the front free flyleaf.
Each original half- leather binding is gold stamped on the spine with simple line decoration, the sets title, author, volume number (roman numerals), volume title (tribe names) and publication date. Each volume is currently housed in a linen-covered drop spine box.
The text block within each volume measures 11 inches high, 9 1/2 inches wide and varies between 2 and 2 1/2 inches thick. The text itself occupies an area 8 1/8 inches high by 5 inches wide on each page.
The deckle edge portfolio sheets measure just over 22 inches high and 18 inches wide. They are enclosed in folded board covers.
Contents of the volumes
Although the twenty volumes of The North American Indian were issued over a period of twenty-three years, the format of the contents remained fairly consistent.
Each volume features one or several related tribes from Indian culture areas, ranging from the Plains to the Southwest, Northwest, and Alaska. Extensive chapters on each tribe include descriptions of customs and folklore. Songs were recorded and transcribed for the project. Appendices or “tribal summaries” and charts present detailed data such as comparative vocabularies, demographics, and social structures.
Apparently, portions of the volumes were assembled and printed in discrete segments. Sometimes project staff would develop content for several volumes simultaneously.
Component text and illustration sections of the volumes and portfolios have independent, parallel methods of organization. In the volumes unnumbered pages with photogravures (“illustrations”) averaging 5 x 7 inches are inserted between every two pages of text regardless of chapter or section breaks. Often the volume illustrations provide additional scenes of sites depicted in the larger portfolio plates. In some cases they show a variant of the same subject (note two portraits of the young woman named Kenowun, a Nunivak, in volume 20 and its accompanying portfolio).
Contents of the portfolios
A portfolio of around thirty large, unbound plates was produced to complement each volume. Each includes a sheet of captions entitled "List of large plates supplementing volume . . .]". Apparently Curtis and his staff selected the most artistic views to be reproduced as the portfolio prints, which averaged 11 x 14 inches on large sheets. Many are portraits. The portfolios are not cited in the volume table of contents or indexes. But occasional volume footnotes cite a portfolio plate, and a few plate captions refer back to the volume narrative, especially for biographical information on portrait subjects. The plates are numbered consecutively, totaling 722.
At the onset of the project Curtis planned to help support field research through sales of individual plates. Many were among the loose sheets acquired by the Lauriat Company in 1935. After the engraving plates were rediscovered in the 1970s, modern prints have been struck.
Click to view pictograms for all twenty volumes
1 Mick Gidley, Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 110.
2 The North American Indian Project. Flury & Company Ltd. 12 December 2003. http://www.fluryco.com/curtis/naip.htm ; Cost of reissued sets noted in sales brochure from Lauriat Company, c. 1935.
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Early Cypherpunk Emails Reveal a Blueprint for Bitcoin
The cypherpunks, a ragtag group of tech tinkerers, cryptographers, and privacy advocates, were obscure in their 1990s heyday. And it would have remained that way in perpetuity were it not for a certain Satoshi Nakamoto launching a digital currency in 2009 encapsulating their core beliefs. We don’t know if Satoshi was a cypherpunk. But what we do know from rediscovered mailing list conversations is that many of the cypherpunks’ early ideas were to be enshrined in Bitcoin more than a decade later.
Also read: Why Nick Szabo Probably Isn’t Satoshi
Hal Finney Described Bitcoin Before It Was Born
Building on David Chaum’s digital cash, a certain Hal Finney proposed several improvements, suggesting to his fellow cypherpunks that “Alice and Bob could be pseudonyms, using anonymous addresses to communicate with each other and with the bank … If these problems can be solved, a big advantage of this approach is that the banker can be anonymous. He would be known only by his anonymous address and his public key(s). This would provide some safety in the event that even a small-scale experiment like this was targeted for a crackdown.”
If you think that sounds a lot like Bitcoin – minus the central bank – you’re not alone. Last month, bitcoiner Nadav Ivgi shared the full trove of cypherpunk emails from the early 90s to the present day, and this particular despatch from Hal Finney immediately stood out. What’s most remarkable is that those words were written in November 1992 – 16 years before Satoshi’s whitepaper was published. Given the perspicacity of Hal Finney’s vision for the form electronic money could take, it’s no wonder that some suspect him of being Satoshi Nakamoto himself.
But the resurfaced cypherpunk mailing list is not a rich mine of clues to Satoshi’s identity – it’s a blueprint for Bitcoin itself. Satoshi – whether he lurked there or not – did more than simply cobble together the ideas of others; he solved the Byzantine Generals Problem for one thing. Yet it’s hard to sift through these early internet conversations without sensing the shape of what was to come in 2009.
Digital cash inventor David Chaum
Cypherpunks Foresaw Blockchain Surveillance
Hal Finney wasn’t the only cypherpunk who foresaw a future in which digital cash was a reality. Others had the prescience to envision the up- and downsides that this would entail. In a November 1992 thread on the topic of a “cypher bank,” one respondent warned:
It is said information should be free… however, if someone was (and someone undoubtedly would) … monitor the bank(s) they would probably see accounts going up and down by various amounts and it should be possible to track transactions between identities … This probably isn’t particularly inviting to the majority to know that your funds could be traced very anonymously and that patterns could be formulated… If you wish to entertain such a testbed financial system be very careful with any decision made and work through each possible consequence. Most people I think would prefer to remain anonymous. I know I would.
In light of the surveillance era the cryptosphere has sleepwalked into, that prediction has been fully vindicated.
The cypherpunk mailing list veered between humor and serious business.
In February 1993, cypherpunk Alan Hetzel proposed another potential drawback to digital cash, writing: “One of the serious deterrents to crimes such as kidnapping is the probability that one will get caught attempting to communicate one’s demands or collect the payment … I could send you an anonymous note threatening to poison your dog, kill your wife, burn down your house, whatever, unless you pay me $$$ in untraceable digital cash. What can you do?”
He added: “I foresee a great way for jerks to “earn extra income in their spare time” threatening hundreds of people in mass anonymous mailings. Some of these folks will be scared enough to pay off.” Bitcoin does not provide true anonymity, but given its ability to facilitate ransomware and blackmail attempts, it would be disingenuous to dismiss this prediction altogether. It can be tempered, however, by this riposte to Hetzel’s post, composed by Perry Metzger. It may have been despatched by email, but if you listen closely, you can almost hear the mic drop at the end:
“To eliminate the capacity to use digital cash means to require monitoring of all speech and ban most international traffic, to prohibit strong cryptography and require key registration. Even then I’m not convinced that it would work because people would still try to avoid these restrictions.
“All technologies are fraught with dangers. All of them. The knife you use to slice your bread can be used to kill your wife. Shall we dispense with knives? Shall we pretend that we can unlearn what we know? A bright 10 year old with a computer can produce a cypher machine. Shall we lobotomize all ten year olds and destroy all the computers? You can’t put some genie back in the bottle after you’ve rubbed the first time. We can’t stop people from knowing things.
“At least the well meaning fools who advocate gun control have the fact that good machine shops aren’t in practically every home on their side — telephones, modems, and computers are becoming ubiquitous, however, and they are all capable of aiding and abetting in the criminal techniques you mention. Welcome to the world.”
Have you read any of the cypherpunks’ emails? Do you think Satoshi was among them? Let us know in the comments section below.
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An actor playing the role of Dr Faustus in the play by Christopher Marlowe told me that he finds lines of Shakespeare easier to memorize than those of Marlowe. The latter, who belonged to a group known as the University Wits, wrote in a more academic way than his contemporary, who allegedly had ‘small Latin and less Greek’, and his words do not stick in the memory as easily. There certainly are some memorable lines in Marlowe’s play, some of them simple: ‘Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.’ But Faustus himself speaks in a weighty style:
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Now thou hast but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually.
Doubtless the heavy nature of such lines fits well with their being uttered by a person of dangerously great learning. But the style is Marlowe’s, and it may be that learning is the enemy of vigorous expression. Against Marlowe can be set the opening sentences of two famous books:
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
I warm immensely to the first sentences of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Their tone is one of ordinary speech rather than declamation. In each case the syntax is simple with little in the way of subordinate clauses. The words used are overwhelmingly Germanic rather than Latin in origin, and tend to be short. Despite being in prose, unlike the lines of Marlowe, when they are said out loud the sentences turn out to be rhythmical, particularly in the second case, in which the surprising last word is integrated into a metre. The former is alliterative, placing itself in an English tradition going as far back as Beowulf. While some of these characteristics also occur in Marlowe, both Bunyan and Orwell give a sense of having used the language of daily speech rather than the study. And perhaps the simplicity of style is linked with each having been a radical in politics.
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United Makes More Money Contracting to Fix Vermont State Exchange
Here’s a tale of one more state insurance exchange and the same old insurance company subsidiary cashing in again. I find it hard to believe that there’s nobody else out there that can handle the data issues. Here’s almost another 6 million to fix the system, not to mention 100 people also working in a call center as well as supervising other contractors in the call center.
The system as it stands is that once you are in, there’s no changing anything and that’s one of the main projects here as now it’s all done manually. The state is not sure if it will be ready by November 15h either and we know how that goes, just depends on how long it takes the coders and programmers to fix what’s there. BD
MONTPELIER -- The head of Vermont's health care reform effort says he does not believe one of the basic functions of the state's online health care exchange will be fixed in time for the open enrollment period for insurance this fall.
Thousands of people are unable to fix mistakes or change their coverage online through Vermont Health Connect, and Lawrence Miller, the head of health care reform, says the state needs to put contingencies in place.
The $5.7 million contract asks the contractor to eliminate the backlog by Aug. 1, a deadline Miller said would likely be missed - in part because new people continue to trickle in to the system with a similar error rate to those who signed up for insurance through the exchange last year and earlier this year.
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Emory hospital in Atlanta is preparing to care for a patient from Western Africa. We don’ t know which patient it will be yet, 2 Americans are infected in Liberia, Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly. Ebola is said to not be that contagious in the video but why do so many people get it? CDC has raised travel alerts.
Travel warnings have been issued. In Brooklyn Park, Minnesota caution is also being taken as this is the largest concentration of people from that region in Africa. There is a global call for doctors globally all over the world to come help.
The wife and two children of the doctor left the area in Africa before he was exposed to the virus. BD
“Emory University Hospital has a specially built isolation unit set up in collaboration with the CDC to treat patients who are exposed to certain serious infectious diseases,” the hospital said. “It is physically separate from other patient areas and has unique equipment and infrastructure that provide an extraordinarily high level of clinical isolation. It is one of only four such facilities in the country."
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Baxter (NYSE:BAX) agreed to offload its commercial vaccines business to pharmaceutical rival Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) for $635 million in cash.
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Congratulations To The US Government - You Have Successfully Created a Complex Healthcare System Built With Little Or No Trust Where Very Few Want Or Know How to Engage With The Current Broken Model..
Well it’s time for a rant and discussion on this topic and to try and take a look at the entire scenario. We read every day about “patient engagement” and sure doctors and patients are still engaging with each other but not using the virtual model that our government seems to believe is what we need. As a matter of fact with the current status quo when it comes to much of the personal apps and devices, due to lack of trust, folks are running for the exits. I have to somewhat laugh or look at some of this with disgust when I see how deluged folks have become with “virtual” values that don’t’ exist in the real world. It’s almost comedy in the fact that when you go to the internet every day there’s several articles that “wearables are exploding” and then take a walk out in the real world and I’m hard pressed to see anyone with a “wearable”. I know that’s marketing and it’s gone on for a long time but now it’s so unbelievable with the news, it’s almost a comedy routine as others see the same thing I do.
The Quiet and Unspoken Consumer Movement to Stay Off the Radar - Contrary To All You Read About Sensors, Apps and Wearables, More Folks Are Running for the Exit Doors…
Basically, I almost have to say we are taking care of out health “in spite” of what the government models put out there and that’s a good thing as we are not giving up, but rather just avoiding the broken model of “virtual values” that the government seems to live in today. We’ve already figured out there’s no experts out there as technology changes things on a daily basis almost so when politicians speak anymore, well it’s only good for a couple of hours maybe at best. I think this is further validated too with the large number of people who work in this environment who are leaving as well, when it gets to the point to where all the processes are to build a fix on virtual values, they can’t do it anymore as it doesn’t work.
Healthcare Policy Experts/Politicians - They Really No Longer Exist and Consumers Are Too Busy Being Chased by Algorithms Anymore to Care About You Anyway…
People don’t work like algorithms and yet we have a government that has a big case of being “Algo Duped” every time you turn around as they just live these “virtual values” and scratch their heads and try to work a new and different virtual value to fix the ones that fail and it just builds on itself. It was interesting to watch the big hospital ratings come out, as not the doctors and people that make hospitals work were tweeting and jiving it up all over the web, but rather the CEOs with a steady precession of 800 pound gorillas beating their chests saying on Twitter and in other social network areas “look at how great we are”. We’re not in that time spot anymore as folks are more concerned about “what hospital is going to be available” for us when we need it, so there you go as well with many hospital executives making a million or more that are out of touch as well.
If you want to look at a really broken model, which may have already read, look at the link below. This hospital is totally lost in virtual values with a model that’s not going to work but rather serves to create more money for the data selling business, it is what it is. It was pretty interesting when I found this post being read by the Senate with a few others as well as seeing Acxiom come of hiding and communicate with me on Twitter and I gave honest responses back to them on flawed data and how it hurts consumers while they make money.
Oh Crap, Now Hospitals Are Now Buying Data From Acxiom - Data Selling Epidemic Continues to Evade on Personal Privacy As “Algo Duped-Stat Rat” People Try to Implement Virtual Models That Won’t Work…
Sure as patients and doctors we get excited with new drugs for treatments or cures, but on the other side when we need them, will they be available to us or will we be “scored” to put some of this out of reach…and the world forum on privacy has addressed this very well with their report on the “Scoring of America” that also talks about the obsessive scoring of consumers that denies access and continue to promote “flawed data” at the same time. Doctors and patients are engaging but in ways the virtual government values can’t or won’t choose to understand as we’re still people helping people. When it comes to privacy issues, and I wrote this a while back, even the most electronically connected doctors if they feel there is a need to help and protect their patients, have the little drawer of paper charts.
Digital Doctors” Little Drawer of Paper Charts” Stands to Grow In Size Due to New HIPAA Laws And Insurer Context, Gov Can’t or Won’t Model?
If you read all the studies that come out, the US spends more money and gets worse care and we keep sliding so is it finally time for a wake up call for the government to see they are working a “broken model”? I hope so as if you keep building on the same model it’s only going to keep getting worse. We now have moved from big data to population health and sure there’s some value there with common sense information such as identifying disabled patients as an example and knowing where they live and if they have access to transportation, and sure that’s a good thing. We don’t stop there though after we find that out, we have have to rummage through their MasterCard records and see if they got a new wheel chair last month, or see how many prescriptions were filled to compare this against what the insurance or Medicare claims were submitted. And too, be sure and put the disabled folks on a mailing list to get them to sign up for more credit cards while we are at it and sell their mailing addresses to other marketing firms.
Again, we don’t know when to stop it appears. The latter of what I just mentioned does nothing to promote better care for such a patient. Furthermore is this a patient who will also get hit with the proprietary FICO scoring algorithms too? Let’s get that done too a we have no idea as to what’s in their formula at all, just a bunch of code the proclaims the ability to predict. We are seeing a lot of the predictive models fail today as people take it too far and expect more than what predictive models can actually do. If they were that great, every investor would be rich and there would be no insider trading to worry about.
FICO Medication Adherence Scoring Should Be Banned As It’s Quantitated Justifications for Profit That Hurts US Consumers Using Proprietary Algorithms That Cannot Be Replicated For Accuracy or Audited
I look even at what the White House puts out today with their “email bot” and yes I call it a bot as it’s as impersonal as it can get and uses “junk science” numbers of late and you just look at it and wonder how far “duped in the toilet” are some of these folks that write to us like we are in 1st or 2nd grade and expect that we just believe this stuff? I don’t know about you but when I see such, again it scares me that we have folks duped at the highest levels of government and we can toss Congress in there as well and their own record of actions substantiates that thought too as again they are stuck in virtual value modes as well.
So again, read all the stuff on the web with “patient engagement” you want and the data methodologies and be assured that patients and doctors are still engaging but we are working with a complex system to where companies that are focused on profits only have created a complex system that nobody likes or can work with and it’s only going to get worse until the model gets fixed and perhaps we get some non Algo Duped leaders in place. The VA as I said is just a screamer with a very sad example of folks stuck in virtual mode as people died. We need balance along the line somewhere folks and the Stat Rat mentality is not the total answer but again the duping process for corporations and banks to make money.
Medicare Penalties for Hospitals To Take Effect Later This Year With Patient Safety - Can We Learn From the VA On Not Being “Stat Rats” And Attain The “Desired Virtual Numbers” In The “Real World”? - Medical Quack
Think of it this way if you would, if patients were excited and wanted to engage, would we need all this propaganda discussing it over and over and over and over? I don’t think so. So again look at the models being pushed upon patients and doctors and go create a “real world” model as that might help and certainly add some virtual values where they help us with decision making but put people first. We are not algorithms and nor are we going to function like them either.
Every week I read about how patients are not educated enough in healthcare and this is partly true but what incentive is there to get educated? We all are coming to conclusion that the web is a dangerous place and you have to keep up your defenses to minimize your data exposure so where’s the incentive? It’s your data they want versus helping with your care anymore that’s taking priority. Again I know the value of data and when it helps with decision making and we need some of it for sure today, but we have no balance with being able to say “I have enough data to make a good decision”…and I think this is the thought process that might be entertained soon I hope.
So again, congratulations HHS, White House, Congress, etc. your virtual world values, which I call “The Grays”, that are just are not working and we would invite you to participate at our levels and experience what’s “really” out there and maybe you could find out “people don’t work that way” and get some balance to your perceptions on how all of this is impacting “the real world”.
In addition the White House Privacy Report was also a big let down with a lot of bliss and the inability to talk about data selling and privacy together, it’s like they are off in some kind of fantasy world again not to correlate the two, but we do as consumers as we suffer the consequences of all the flawed data.
White House Privacy Report , “Privacy Bill of Rights”Vague & Complex Verbiage, No Mention of Creating An Index to Identify All data sellers Or The Fact That It’s an Epidemic Leading To Privacy Violations & Flawed Data, Hurting Many Consumers As It Actively Contributes to Inequality
If you want I have my little campaign going to at least create a law to license data sellers in the name of transparency here and provide a look up list of what kind of data they sell and to who, so any little bit helps as I have been working on it already for 2-3 years with this concept. It’s not a virtual value, but rather a “real world value” that can help consumers navigate the insanity of the virtual worlds out there on the web. We have no way of tracking virtually anything used to score us and deny care, money, you name it.
People Don’t Work That Way” A World of Broken Software Models That Don’t Align To the Human Side,Too Much Push At Times With Only A Proof of Concept That Fails in the Real World..
As consumers we have been left with something similar to the Bloomberg Big Gulp failed model and I think that project was important as it shows no matter how much money, influence, etc. that you may have, if it’s a broken model it’s still not going to work and look how much time and money it wasted, so you could look at the current healthcare model as just one huge “Big Gulp” failed model if you will.
In the meantime, doctors and patients will keep using “people”methodologies to support each other as the virtual values keep failing as it’s all we have left and it’s really what matters the most and so if we need to head to the exit doors from time to time to do this, so it is as link above states “people don’t work that way”. Even Google is doing a study as they don’t’ understand how people work either. BD
Well it’s time for a rant and discussion on this topic and to try and take a look at the entire scenario. We read every day about “patient ...
Insurance , Medically Related , My Commentaries , Technology
CVS Caremark Sends Wrong Prescription Information to the Wrong Consumers
The folks affected here know what someone else has on their prescription lists. The reason for the letters going out was to solicit patients to change to a 90 day prescription fill. It was a programming error this time and of course we just live with that of late as complexities in healthcare continue to mount. In other CVS news, I still believe the company is working to buy a huge drug store chain in Brazil as well.
CVS Working To Acquire Brazilian Drug Store Chain DPSP - $4.5 Billion Offered, Refused, Still Working
In California the chain is still facing a large fine as tracking prescription pain killers was an issue with drugs missing from the stores. This is just one more chapter of the Killer Algorithms we all live with today. BD
CVS Drug Stores Could Face $29 Million in Fines For Losing Track of Prescription Pain Killers At California Stores - Don’t Worry About Tobacco So Much And Go Hunt Down That Missing Vicodin..
CVS pharmacy chain sent prescription information for hundreds of customers to the wrong addresses. Now they are concerned for their privacy.
According to a statement Channel 2’s Amy Napier Viteri got from CVS Caremark, the mistake affected around 350 customers.
One woman in Georgia said she got a mailer with someone else's name and a full list of their prescription medications.
The mailing went out to some CVS Caremark customers offering a switch to a 90-day prescription supply. The problem is that hundreds of the mailings went out to the wrong addresses.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/customers-concerned-after-cvs-prescription-info-mi/ngqnH/
The folks affected here know what someone else has on their prescription lists. The reason for the letters going out was to solicit patien...
NueMD Looks to the Future, Sees “Mobile”
NueMD is a valued advertiser at the Medical Quack and are announcing a new upgrade that will stand to simplify the reimbursement process and who doesn’t want that. Below is a message from the CEO of the company. Nice how they are all using Ipads to show how mobility works with their systems. Visit the NueMD website for more information. As a reminder you can always find the link to the NueMD website to the right on the Medical Quack along with my other values advertisers and sponsors. BD
The folks over a NueMD recently announced a major upgrade to their medical software for small practices. This update, dubbed NueMD 4.0, brings a refreshed look and feel and streamlined ease-of-use to their medical billing and EHR software. NueMD’s CEO, Massoud Alibakhsh, said the following about the implications of the release: “NueMD 4.0's new look and feel reflects all the changes and enhancements that have been going on for the last six years.
These enhancements are mainly focused on simplifying complicated reimbursement processes, but at the same time, it sets the stage for our mobile strategy.”
Upcoming mobile enhancements include a mobile EHR for Android and an app designed to help providers communicate with billers while trying to resolve claim denials.
NueMD is a valued advertiser at the Medical Quack and are announcing a new upgrade that will stand to simplify the reimbursement process and...
New England Quality Care Alliance, Next Up Duped On Consumer Credit Card Data And Web Information..As The Scoring of America Rolls On..
This kind of funny as the chief medical officer says he’s not real sure about it:) We we know what happened with that Master Card Steroid Marketing Plan, here’s one more that was sold and duped. What they are worried about here is the fact that they need to match up those who can use care management services better, in other words predict. Now if this were something people were breaking the doors down to get it might be a little different. As the article states those who did volunteer on their own before this big “dupe” in predictive analytics takes place were retired people. That’s not good enough and they want more from other age groups so here we go to mine that data, look at those MasterCard Charge transactions and try to predict…well good luck as this is a waste of time. The link below talks about “The Scoring of America” and that’s exactly what this process is set up to do along with “scoring” people here so one more living in The Grays.
World Privacy Forum Report - The Scoring of America: How Secret Consumer Scores Threaten Your Privacy and Your Future - One Big Element that Fuels the Continued Attack of Killer Algorithms & Demise of the Middle Class Creating Profiteering And/Or Denial of Access
Same old stuff, send off to a modeler, who by the way according to the article gets to keep his proprietary formulas and just tell the Alliance which are going to end up in the ER, not take their meds, etc. Wonder if they are going to pull out that ridiculous FICO medication adherence scoring, but no mention of that proprietary scoring formula here.
I used to work with data and sure you can find patterns that lead to to predict a lot of things but folks are so over sold on this and besides that it pisses people off as there’s no privacy. In fact you read on the web everybody is jumping in when in fact the quiet and unspoken move of the consumers in the real world is to work to stay off the radar.
Maybe they should pair up with these duped folks at this hospital here too who go t soaked by MasterCard in believing they “just had to have that data” .
I said about 2 years ago that about half of the analytics would a waste of money and you have another one going here so maybe the pilot will give them the answer they are looking for as every proof of concept is NOT a good model. Being the modelers get to keep their formulas, maybe they can peddle it again without having to start from scratch (grin).
“On Being a Data skeptic- Modelers Have A Bigger Responsibility Now Than Ever Before”–A Must Read Essay, Start “Sniffing the Data”…
For more on what goes on with mathematicians, quants, and modelers, check out the Killer Algorithms page to learn when to be a skeptic as sometimes when they are stumped on numbers, they pull one off their head, love to hear Quants say that’s what they do but they do as expectations are so high that they can pull of math miracles too.
Here’s Paul Wilmott, Quant on topic here, we get all kinds of nonsense and it “goes from the sublime to the ridiculous. BD
Michael Cantor, chief medical officer for the New England Quality Care Alliance, has a dilemma. Resources are scarce for care management of patients who the alliance would like to help with their weight, diabetes, or other complex or chronic conditions; and yet it's difficult to predict which patients will be receptive to a care manager.
So he needs to better predict who will use those services, and who will benefit most. That's why the Alliance is piloting a program to marry clinical data with consumer data. The combination, it thinks, might allow for better targeting and prediction.
In the pilot program, the network will send its health data to a modeler, which will pair that information with consumer data, such as credit card and Google usage. The modeler doesn't necessarily have a hypothesis going in, Cantor said.
“They're identifying correlations between the consumer data and healthcare outcomes,” he said.
The modelers won't necessarily give Cantor's group the key predictive attributes; they'll give the network a list. “Here's a list of 100,000 people: who's likely to end up in the ER, who's likely to take their medicines. They're still early on; it's not like there's a definitive model,” he explained.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140729/BLOG/307299996?AllowView=VDl3UXk1TytDUDJCa0IvREE0M3hlMFNyaGtVZEErQT0=&utm_source=link-20140729-BLOG-307299996&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top
This kind of funny as the chief medical officer says he’s not real sure about it:) We we know what happened with that Master Card Steroid M...
Amgen to Lay Off 2900 Employees, Close Two Plants As Profits Are Up 23% 2nd Quarter
This is a restructuring move the article states and it’s not due to lost revenue that’s for sure. The Bothell, Washington operation will be closed impacting 600 jobs in Seattle and 50 at the manufacturing plant and it currently is the largest biotech employer in the area.
Biotech giant Amgen Inc. said it would lay off up to 2,900 employees and close facilities in Washington state and Colorado, as the Thousand Oaks company moved to reign in expenses and focus on new drugs.
Those cuts could amount to nearly 15% of its 20,000 worldwide employees. Amgen said it would use the savings -- as much as $700 million a year -- to support global launches of new products.
Word of the cuts came as the company announced strong second-quarter results that beat Wall Street estimates.
Bradway did not say how many of the job cuts would be at its sprawling Thousand Oaks campus. He said the company intends to focus on "reducing layers of management" as part of the cuts.
Amgen announced the cuts on the same day that it said it posted a 23% increase in second-quarter profit. Revenue was up 11%, the company said.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amgen-will-lay-off-up-to-2900-workers-close-plants-in-two-states-20140729-story.html?track=rss&cid=dlvr.it&dlvrit=52116
This is a restructuring move the article states and it’s not due to lost revenue that’s for sure. The Bothell, Washington operation will be...
Big Clinical Data Registries Next? Why Doesn’t Congress Restore the Office of Technology Assessment? More Proof that It’s Needed As This Is Yet One More Complex IT Project That Will Not Contribute Good Care, Just An IT Expenditure With a Lot of Quantitated Justifications Tossed In
I am not against registries at all as they are very useful and 8 years ago I built on in the EMR I wrote so no argument there at all however, a “Big Frigging Data” registry like this? Heck no. This is a flat out burden and big groups like Kaiser Permanente are doing good things with their registries and you don’t need big data here as smaller data works. Kaiser is pretty big data in itself and is a great resource and they have done some great things there. This massive government project as suggested here is just some more Congressional Algo Duping taking place. Best practices are already being established. This is just more IT money to be spent that’s all.
I agree with the AMA on this one as it would be cumbersome, especially since we are still stupefied on exchanging electronic medical records. Damn I wish those folks in Congress would re-establish the Office of Technology Assessment. That agency would be an invaluable tool and if were in Congress I would want it. I just can’t figure that one out as we live in the most complex times ever and they can’t see the forest for the trees. You get folks that are non data mechanic logics wise and they all think building big data bases solves everything (grin). Seriously, look at Richard Cordray, same thing over there, and what a disappointment he is.
Bill To Restore Office of Technology Assessment Was Defeated Again This Year As Congress Chooses to Remain In the Dark With Technology At A Time When Private Industry Is Doing Just the Opposite - “The Grays” Live On…
Even if this type of monstrosity were created, who’s going to have time? The other day, the ONC was looking for doctors to be fellows, well they don’t have time for that either. Regional or Health System registries do a fine job and we don’t need another monster IT project right now and again at least Congressman Waxman can see the light on this one. Just because you can query data and create the data bases doesn’t mean we need every single one created. BD
Draft legislation in the House Energy and Commerce Committee would require the Department of Health and Human Services to publish recommendations for development of clinical data registries to improve patient care.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Pete Olson (R-Tex.), calls for specific recommendations from the HHS Secretary “for a set of standards that, if adopted, would allow for the bidirectional, interoperable exchange of information between the electronic health records of the reporting clinicians and such registries.” The proposed legislation directs HHS to come up with recommendations on how clinical registries, including outcomes-based registries, may be developed and used to evaluate the impact of care models and methods on the management of chronic diseases based on clinical practice guidelines and best practices--such as A1C, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels in the case of diabetes.
How clinical registries can be used to reduce the risk of chronic diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, is of particular interest, according to the bill. Ostensibly, HHS would recommend how data from such registries may be used to inform physicians and other healthcare professionals regarding clinical practices for the prevention of diseases, as well as the “appropriate methods for the dissemination of clinical practice support tools and other educational resources that may be derived from registry data.”
However, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), ranking member of the committee, noted that the American Medical Association opposes the bill “because they think it’s over-burdensome and may have the opposite effect, making it more difficult to create the registries.” Waxman said he wants to explore AMA opposition in a congressional hearing.
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/Bill-Would-Promote-More-Clinical-Data-Registries-48505-1.html
I am not against registries at all as they are very useful and 8 years ago I built on in the EMR I wrote so no argument there at all however...
AAFP Says We’re Not Going To Take It Anymore With Optimization of Provider Networks - Specifically United Healthcare’s Doctor Dumping That Disrupts Continuity of Care
This is not the first time the AAFP confronted United Healthcare as they did back in 2012 when they were getting complaints from doctors across the US that they were getting paid at rates less than Medicare. I hear it all the time in the OC with doctors telling me by use of complex contracts, their net pay is less than Medicare pays. Below is the link from a couple years ago and nothing on that front has changed.
The AAFP Confronts United Healthcare On Reimbursements, Some Are Below Medicare Rates In Parts of the US–Payment Algorithms/Formulas Calculated Deep Within IT Infrastructures Do the Job
In addition this article goes on to state how the AAFP has now joined in the lawsuit filed in Connecticut and that was made possible by a little publicized ruling from the Supreme Court last year that now allows physicians to group to litigate. For years it has been in the contracts that doctors had to sign to be in network that they agreed to allow it to always be one doctor against the corporation should they have a dispute, so how fair was that? Oxford, fought it tooth and nail for years and spent a lot of money I would guess until it landed at the Supreme Court and of course premium money pays for that. The California Medical Association as well as the Texas Medical Association and a few others are also partnered in on this lawsuit.
US Supreme Court Rules Physicians Can Work As A Group To Fight Unfair Business Practices of Health Insurers–Victory Over United Healthcare (Oxford Subsidiary)–Context Once Again With Contracts
The argument presented here is the disruption of patients and doctors interfering with care and we know that happens. Sometimes changes work and sometime they don’t and as people get older, change is harder to do. What’s almost kind of amusing is the link below as we all know about narrow networks now and the fact that United went out and bid a Medicare Advantage contract, won it and then found out through their own doing, they didn’t have any providers in the area the contract covered, already narrowed it down to zero in that area.
Howard County School Board in Maryland Rescinds United Healthcare Contract As Retirees Didn’t Want the Medicare Advantage Plan, No Providers Available..
It’s all done with those little “Algo Men” at United with numbers only so algorithm says, “MD is fired”.
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage Doctor Firing Moves On Into Ohio, New York, And Maybe More? CMS Has Known For Months About the Changes And Is Monitoring….United’s Cost Algorithm Says…You’re Out the Door
The AAFP letter to Tavenner at CMS they wrote, well who knows as we have Andy Slavitt at the number two job at Medicare and we just all pretty much predict he’ll be leading her around by the nose as she had not data mechanics logic so more duping on the way I think. There’s no appeals process for patients who have to find a new doctor and no doctors are getting any real explanation as to why they were cut loose and we know that was an algorithmic process.
How Hard Did United Have to Lobby To Get Someone In The Deputy Administrator Job at CMS? Sebelius Syndrome Lives On With Burwell, In Good Company With Mary Jo White and Richard Cordray To Name A Couple Others…
Burwell has been nothing to write home about either and just seems like she’s one that will follow probably follow orders from Andy Slavitt as well because she’s over her head. If you remember back Andy Slavitt was the President of the United company, Ingenix, which is now renamed Optum when the lawsuit was settled by the AMA for underpaying doctors for 15 years so is that not a great guy to have as the #2 person at Medicare?
In addition we have this guy, Ezekiel Emanuel that hangs around DC with Andy and what dangerous person he is. Emanuel got a lot of attention for wanting to legalize euthanasia and he basically thinks doctors should be more like robots and is just a sick thinking puppy overall that shows little compassion and he just loves all the analytics that United Healthcare produces and thinks they walk on water as well. Nobody I talk to including a former CMS employee can stand the man. And finally the AAFP wants to know if you have been cut loose by United or any other insurance company. BD
“If you have received a letter from an insurance company notifying you that you or your practice is being dumped -- oh, excuse me, “optimized out of network” -- please notify your AAFP chapter. We are in close contact with the chapters on this issue, and it benefits our efforts to organize actions by states and regions.”
Hundreds of family physicians recently have been informed that they are no longer eligible to provide care to patients covered by certain insurance policies. Sadly, most of these physicians were not notified directly by insurers. Instead, patients told the affected physicians that they received a letter stating that their family physician is no longer covered by their insurance plan. These patients and their family physicians were not given any justification why these actions are being taken. They were only given a date on which their relationship would be terminated. These patients are rightfully upset, their family physicians are mad, and the AAFP is taking aggressive action.
To quote the 1980’s rock band Twisted Sister, “We’re not gonna take it.” Last week, the AAFP wrote letters to America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and United Healthcare notifying them of our concerns and urging them to take a more responsible approach to the formation of their provider networks – especially with respect to primary care physicians.
We also wrote a letter to CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, M.A., expressing concern with actions taken in Tennessee with respect to TennCare, the state’s Medicaid program. TennCare, operated by UnitedHealthcare Community Plan, recently informed hundreds of individuals that they would need to change primary care physicians or face higher out-of-pocket expenses for their health care.
Our recent actions are in addition to the "friend of the court" brief the AAFP joined, along with several other medical societies, in support of two Connecticut medical associations that sued United Healthcare in 2013, challenging its actions to summarily “dump” more than 2,000 physicians from its Medicare Advantage network in the state of Connecticut.
We recognize that insurers have a responsibility to align networks of physicians and hospitals to maintain affordable premiums while ensuring quality and efficiency, but we feel that disruptions to the patient-physician relationship at the primary care level are contrary to both of these goals. Primary care is relatively inexpensive as compared to specialty or hospital care. It also benefits from continuity and trusting relationships. We are baffled by the language used by insurers who say they support patients having a continuous relationship with a primary care physician and then act in a way that make this impossible. In short, we are no longer flattered by insurers’ language that speaks to our policy goals but are demanding action that aligns their public comments with their actions in the health care market place.
http://blogs.aafp.org/cfr/inthetrenches/entry/we_re_not_gonna_take?cmpid=em_21090618_L1
This is not the first time the AAFP confronted United Healthcare as they did back in 2012 when they were getting complaints from doctors acr...
Hospira In Talks With Buying French Company, Danone - Could Be $5 Billion Dollar Tax Inversion
There may be one more on the agenda coming up and nothing is in concrete yet. Hospira is known for being one of the few manufacturers of propofol. BD
Hospira a Midwestern pharmaceutical and medical device maker, is in talks to pay about $5 billion for the medical nutrition business of the French consumer group Danone, a person briefed on the matter said.
The deal, if completed, would allow Hospira to reincorporate overseas in a so-called inversion, lowering its tax rate and freeing its foreign cash.
Hospira, based in Lake Forest, Ill., has a market value of $8.6 billion and makes a range of drugs, pumps and software for the medical industry. The person briefed on the negotiations said they were continuing and could fail. The Financial Times on Sunday reported on the talks.
If completed, Hospira’s deal with Danone could be considered a “spinversion,” in which a foreign company spins off a unit to an American buyer, allowing it to undertake an inversion.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/hospira-and-danone-in-talks-on-5-billion-inversion-deal/?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimesbusiness
There may be one more on the agenda coming up and nothing is in concrete yet. Hospira is known for being one of the few manufacturers of p...
Protandim And Oxidative Stress Relief At the Medical Quack…
I decided to put on the Medical Quack as I have been taking Protandim now for around 45 days and it is making a difference with how I feel, sleep and with my knees. I’m not an easy sell but what did I have to lose so I tried it and I have taken all kinds of vitamins over the years and I do have to say this is different. The only other supplement I have taken and been impressed with is the enzyme CO Q10, which some doctors now recommend to their patients who take statins.
Below the video from ABC Prime Time that was responsible for really launching the product and it was funny when I saw the video I remembered it. I write enough here about drug approvals, issues etc. so I’m not out to push and sell something I don’t think is worth it. I would not say a word of course without being a test person myself. Watch the video and see what you think. There’s no claim to cure any disease here at all but if you search the web you’ll find people who swear it has done some magical things. Hey if it’s working for them, who am I to say anything different. The product was sold over the counter for a number of years until it went to multi-level marketing.
I know people may run away or want to get signed up when they hear this so I decided to put my link up here for those who may like the product and just want to order. I won’t chase you to be a distributor but if you are interested, then you can contact me and it does have a good pay plan. When you go to the site, there’s a place to contact me on this. If you want to order the products, just use the link on the right hand side and you’re off to just order the product.
Protandim has had all kinds of press all over the place from all the major media outlets and you can search YouTube and find more if you like as well. PBS did a nice story on Protandim as well and I’ve embedded it below. Life Advantage even has products for your dog and my dog is not there yet:) I have even ran across some doctors who are selling the product. Here’s another video that you might find interesting about the Protandim Ohio State Heart Study.
Again, I’m not going to say there’s miracle cures here at all, but I can tell you I sleep better, pain in my knees is gone and I have more energy. That’s good enough for me and if there are more benefits to yet show up , that’s also ok with me.
Here’s the link and again it’s always on the right hand side as well. There’s all kinds of additional products for skin care too, but the main product is the the Nrf2 Synergizer, Protandim. The stiffness in my knees seems to be gone and the better sleep is great. BD
I decided to put on the Medical Quack as I have been taking Protandim now for around 45 days and it is making a difference with how I feel, ...
United Healthcare Rolls Out Mobile App For Consumers To Address Transparency With Shopping for Medical Treatments, Fine But What About Transparency With Data Selling Which Is Still Non Existent for Consumers, What’s Being “Mined” With this App for Predictive Behavioral Analytics?
Would I used this, nope. More and more we all know there’s a trade off for apps and services and of course I’m sure this is no different as we all know United is the king at gathering data, data and more data about you, so why would this be any different? So it’s collected data from members already so let’s open it up and get some more data. That’s the way these things work anymore and of course they do not have a lock on this as there are other areas you can to go to explore.
If you are not aware, the company subsidiary Med Quest already runs predictive analytics on your prescription refills so if not at the Optum PBM, formerly known as Prescriptive Solutions, they also supply the software that does the same thing for the likes of other PBMSs, such as Express Scripts too. They get it both ways with the software here. We don’t know what they are doing with this type of behavioral “scoring” but we do know they do sell our prescription records to maybe the likes of IMS, a huge data selling medical company that just went public. That parts been going on for years with the data on prescriptions filled, but again what we don’t know is what type of scoring the Optum (or Milliman, another company that does the same) provides. We expect the basics in maybe reviewing current drugs for any type of reaction and that’s ok but the predictive analytics is the dangerous side. A good read here too “The Scoring of America” from the World Privacy Forum and you’ll understand the insanity we have in the US after reading this and the data selling epidemic.
In addition we have most health insurance companies also buying your Master Card records of late and again we don’t we have no clue what other data tables they query this with either. I started calling it “data flipping” as that’s what it is as your data gets queried over and over and over and then “scored”. When you get a “score” there’s a new type of data for sale. I did warn everyone twice last year that Master Card was on this big new campaign to sell all our data and I used their own announcements to let you know.
Mastercard As Well As Other Financial Institutions Using Big Data To Get Into Your “Online Pants” As Many Consumers Seem To Be Accidentally And Inadvertently Leaving Their “Internet Fly” Open
Mastercard Recruiting Software Engineers For New e-Commerce Technology Lab, Maybe More Slicing and Dicing of Our Data To Sell to Insurance Companies for One? Be Wary of Corporate “Algo Dupers” Out There Feeding on “Non Skeptical Consumers”…
You can see how far it went with MasterCard convincing this hospital, and they bought it and got sucked in with buying transaction records with patients. See how this hospital is also combining other records with the MasterCard transactions they are buying so you know if they are doing it insurers have a whale of a game going on here and again so much of it will be “out of context” as the analytics folks put things into format that will save money and you just might be the bad guy here.
Heck Acxiom and LexisNexis will do anything to make a buck and just make our lives miserable. ..
It is interesting when you watch how subsidiaries of insurers too react and do business together as this example from a few years back where Cigna dropped their claims clearinghouse, Emdeon and went with Optum (then Ingenix) so keep that in mind when you see insurers grouping together as well. Here’s another interesting acquisition from a couple years ago too.
QualityMetric/Ingenix(United HealthCare) Receives Patent for Patient Health Survey Algorithms-Subsidiary Watch
HHS and CMS have had a long term relationship with United as well and here’s a link from a few years ago as it’s kind of an unspoken from a recent source that told me that every time they get stuck, CMS and HHS have just called up United to do modeling for them. At the link below you can see how much HHS just loved those Ingenix algorithms. By the way Andy Slavitt, the #2 person now at CMS used to be the CEO at Ingenix.
"Reach for the Top" Program Combines Prototype from Ingenix (A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of United Healthcare) for Public/Private Community Health Data on HHS.Gov Site
So again with already buying credit card statements and heck who knows if the insurers share the wealth amongst themselves with our data there and recording our voices at a call center, there’s no way I am going even think about using such an app. Let’s say you look up the cost of a hernia for an example, for a friend not even for you. The way all of this works is that the search is on file and can be set to match with any other type of information as it could be matched with your prescription data, or your voice “scoring” files that are made when you speak to the call centers.
Again we don’t know and thus the reason to get Congress to pass a law for all data sellers and distributors to buy a license so we know who they are and what kind of data they sell and to who. I would not touch this app with a 10 foot pole and will other resources for sure. We are tired as consumers of playing the “click algo game” and when we are sick we just want care as I said below “People don’t work that way”.
If you like I’m trying to do something here with getting a law passed to license all data sellers as when we need to fix something, we are screwed after we have been “data flipped” a number of times as it might get fixed once here, but over there when I don’t know that my data was sold, I can’t even begin to know where to go. If you read here often enough then you have read 3 years of posts here and there with what I have been working on with this project and without an index on all the data sellers, might as well just “can” privacy as you can see none of it has worked and we need step one to provide an index..aka a license. BD
Insurer UnitedHealthcare has joined the growing list of companies providing mobile apps to price shop for medical treatments.
The Health4Me app, available to members and non-members, provides average prices for more than 520 medical services, the company announced this week. Prices are based on local averages.
"Giving consumers access to important medical cost information is improving transparency and making it easier for people to navigate the health care system," said Yasmine Winkler, UnitedHealthcare's chief product, marketing and innovation officer, in a press release.
The company said that more than 900,000 of its members are using the service. It is available through both the iPhone and Android app stores.
Medical price "transparency" has become a big issue in the industry, and a growing number of insurers and independent groups have scrambled in recent years to offer that service.
http://www.news-press.com/story/life/wellness/2014/07/25/united-healthcare-offers-free-medical-cost-comparison-app/13154869/
Would I used this, nope. More and more we all know there’s a trade off for apps and services and of course I’m sure this is no different as...
Insurance , Medically Related , My Commentaries
Healthgrades Partners With Athena Health To Provide Easier Access to Book Appointments, Like Maybe Doing Better With Sorting Out Some of the “Dead Doctors” Seeing Patients in the After Life?
Well it looks like there’s a new way to determine if some are really dead doctors on Healthgrades, on staff at the hospital stated, and again a way to separate the click bait for ads that Healthgrades has grown to be, along with Vitals, same thing. The amazing thing here is that AthenaHealth funded Vitals as a start up too, it’s in the same boat with being click bait and full of error and really just better off not being around if they don’t fix things. If they want to do just a simple “yellow page” type listing, then fine, but that’s not what you find there. Even the MD who has Ebola, which is very sad thing, still shows on Healthgrades, open for business in Dallas.
If Healthgrades is the #1 Patient Website, we’re all in trouble for sure with the groves and groves of flawed data. I tell doctors to go look themselves up here and there and the are just appalled at the huge errors in their own data. If I were a doctor, why mess with such a mess I would think.
Doctors pretty much hate those sites as they are so riddled with errors with the fact that some are dead, some are retired, the insurance is never accurate, doctors are show being on staff at hospitals where they have never set foot in. In addition when there are revoked licenses and other very public events, it never makes it to either one of these sites. Here’s a great example of a surgeon who worked at the VA and came under fire and 4 years prior he lost his license in New York, never a sanction mentioned. These are just the bottom feeder MD referral businesses on the internet and have been since I found them 4 years ago and had a nice chat with the AMA and nothing has improved and actually the flaws in their data keeps getting worse. Healthgrades merged with a marketing company and that’s all that got better was the marketing.
Top Doctor For Miami VA Healthcare System Lost Medical License in New York, Had Issues With Florida Board of Medicine, But On the Internet He Still Works and Takes New Patients in New York With Plenty of Insurers…
Athenahealth puts out a nice medical records system and I’m sure with the money they put out to fund Vitals it’s a like a sore thumb that just won’t quit and embarrassment to the the rest of what they do and now this even adds a bit more to the fire seeing some work with Healthgrades here to try and make their site a “tiny” bit better. Again to book an appointment the site will have to reference the AthenaHealth data base to see if they are in fact alive or dead. Here’s a couple more blunders and how bad they are from the Quack archives. I exert no energy hardly to even find them, so obvious
Operation Spinal Cap-Former Owner of Orthopedic Hospital Admits He Bribed California State Senator Calderon-Hospital Closed And Sold But Still Listed on Healthgrades
Jacob Reider To Lead the ONC Until New Leader Is Appointed–Visit His Page on Healthgrades Showing He’s Still Open For Business To See Patients, Along With Links to Dead Doctors, Some On Staff At Hospitals They Have Never Set Foot In And More…
Flawed Data With Physician and Hospital Rating Sites- Want To Go See Michael Jackson’s Former Dermatologist? Vitals and Healthgrades Says He’s Still There - Not…Flawed Data & Algorithms Persist…
Nose Doctor on the Run Found Living in a Tent at the End of a Glacier in Italy, Admitted Fraud Still Listed on Some MD Referral Sites
Healthgrades And Other MD Rating and Referral Sites List “Dead Doctors” on Their MD Information Pages And Even Include the Insurance Plans the “Dead Doctors” Honor
This kind of cracks me up here with Healthgrades being in the the Athena “More Disruption Please” program…as there’s been tons of flawed disruption and no fixes for at least 4 years that I have been blogging about Healthgrades and Vitals. When you look at the More Disruption page there’s good companies with good technologies on there as well though and their own funded “Vitals” in in there too.
What happened here was the business plan was a “fail” in the fact that both thought doctors would just come running to those two sites by the groves and it never happened and thus the “cheap” methodology to keep updated information on doctors failed and became more of a joke than anything. It’s the same thing we get as consumers wanting us to fix all the flawed data out there about us on “our” ticket while data gets sold and banks and corporations make billions so Healthgrades and Vitals might be selling some data too as well as maintaining their “click bait” statuses for ad revenue. Below is some information a MD pulled and wait till you see the results… BD
1 that was not a cardiologist at all, 3 with cancelled licenses, and 1 that retired going on 20 years ago, 61% accuracy, with a check of Cardiology zip code 79109.
The other 39% were:
18% More than 50 miles away (credentials of these doctors were not verified, so could have more problems here)
8% License cancelled (one was cancelled as far back as 2001, two were cancelled by the Texas Medical Board)
2.5% Address Wrong
2.5% Retired (in 1998 !!)
2.5% Never licensed in Texas
2.5% Moved
2.5% Not a Cardiologist. (MD runs a weight loss clinic, no education beyond 1 year internship and not boarded in any ABMS specialty)
Denver, CO (July 25, 2014) – Healthgrades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals, today announced that it has partnered with athenahealth (NASDAQ: ATHN) through athenahealth’s More Disruption Please (MDP) program. The new partnership will enable the nearly one million people a day who come to Healthgrades to look for a physician to easily book an appointment with athenahealth’s network of more than 55,000 health care providers.
The offering will bring added efficiencies to physician practices by helping front office staff save time and improve accuracy, drive new appointment requests, and increase awareness among patients. The offering is fully automated, enabling patients to view appointment availability and book appointments from Healthgrades. The information is then directly added into physicians’ schedules on athenahealth’s network.
http://www.healthgrades.com/about/press/healthgrades-partners-with-athenahealth-to-provide-easier-access-to-online-appointment-scheduling
Well it looks like there’s a new way to determine if some are really dead doctors on Healthgrades, on staff at the hospital stated, and agai...
Texas Doctor Working With Ebola Patients in Africa Now Has the Disease Amidst All Precautions and Safeguards-Of Course Still Listed on HealthGrades As Taking New Appointments in Dallas
Not to take away from the seriousness of this story but again don’t rely on Healthgrades or Vitas for any information and expect even a small degree of accuracy these days. The doctor is only 33 years old and this is sad indeed as he’s giving him time and effort to help people with this deadly disease. His family had been living with him there but are now back in the US and I’m sure they may be subject to all types of medical tests if they have not been already.
The doctor has been in Liberia since October of 2013. Between 60 and 90 percent of patients die so we wish the best for sure and he’s being treated. The bad news too is that there are other healthcare workers coming in who are infected as well.
Dr. Brantly has been admitted to a Samaritan’s Purse isolation center at the Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA) Hospital in Monrovia for treatment. Ebola is spread through bodily fluids and thus healthcare workers are a big risk with being in constant contact. BD
A Texas doctor working with Ebola patients in Liberia has now tragically contracted the disease, adding to the list of health workers who have been infected with the deadly virus as a result of their work.
Dr. Kent Brantly had worked as a family practice physician in Fort Worth, Texas before traveling to Liberia to work with ebola patients, the Associated Press reports. Brantly went to Liberia as part of his work with Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical Christian aid organization founded in 1970. Brantly, 33, is a husband and father of two.
Brantly is one of several health workers in Western Africa who have contracted the ebola virus as a result of their work. Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, Sierra Leone’s chief ebola doctor, contracted the disease last week, after giving an interview to Reuters saying how he feared for his life because of his work. Dr. Samuel Brisbane, one of Liberia’s senior ebola doctors at the country’s largest hospital, died Saturday at a treatment center on the outskirt of Monrovia, according to the Associated Press. Brisbane was the first Liberian doctor to die in the outbreak that has killed 129 people in the country, the World Health Organization said, according to the AP.
http://heavy.com/news/2014/07/dr-kent-brantly-texas-doctor-contracts-deadly-ebola-virus-liberia/
Not to take away from the seriousness of this story but again don’t rely on Healthgrades or Vitas for any information and expect even a sma...
Automatic Renewals With Health Insurance Are Too Risky To Take That Chance - Algorithmic Business Models Have Changed Since Initial Enrollment As Well As Price - Would Not Do It Without Full Research as Killer Algorithms Cycle Through Here As Well..
This is a good article and while renewals are meant to be something to make life easier, you can’t say that anymore as what you think you are renewing may cause some financial surprises and here once again the convenience is there, but consumers have to look at the consequences as we are still looking at “Modeling for Inequality with Segmentation”…good video to watch below and it is how it works.
Automatic renewals used to be a good thing and in some areas it still could be but not with health insurance as the business model created by insurers is really not user friendly and pretty much for the most part the government got soaked here as they didn’t have the talent at the time the law was created to see beyond this. It’s sad and what we got stuck with today and we all suffer now. Sure more people are insured and of course that’s good thing, but what are they insured with and what are the trap doors we have to work with to be insured is more of the question today. Complexities mean profits for insurers and they know it, so don’t look for any relief there as it’s only going to get worse as new algorithmic business models figure out how to keep big corporate profits rolling.
We still have this complex system of subsidies working out there and again it too is an algorithmic formula that changes so big deal on automatic renewals as you may once again get screwed and and not even realize what happened here, thinking that a renewal would be good thing. Again the government I don’t think didn’t anticipate all of this when writing the ACA and of course as I have said so many times we have that “Sebelius Syndrome” that continues to haunt. I did say in 2009 that she would no match at all to work with insurers as she would be duped and duped again. Pretty much anymore when it comes to the US healthcare model too, not much difference between what United Healthcare puts out in their annual reports and what we see rolling out of CMS to include Andy Slavitt from United Healthcare as the #2 person at CMS, so the duping continues with a White House that is lost living in “The Grays” to where they can’t tell the difference anymore between virtual and real world values.
If you want to learn more about the impact and power of algorithmic formulas like this and in the financial world, visit the Killer Algorithm page and take in some videos that explain how math models work and how all of this is planned out and keep inequality going as accelerated speeds today via “The Scoring of America”. Secret scoring and algorithmic formulas keep big corporations in the money while our side keeps dwindling. BD
For the 8 million people who persevered through all the software trapdoors in the new health insurance exchanges and managed to sign up for coverage in 2014, their policies will probably automatically renew come November when open enrollment begins.
Seems like good news after all the headaches consumers endured after the program’s launch last year. Except that renewing the same policy may not be the best choice. Many may end up paying far more than they need to and with policies that don’t best fit their individual circumstances.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2014/July/25/Pitfalls-Emerge-in-Health-Insurance-Renewals.aspx
This is a good article and while renewals are meant to be something to make life easier, you can’t say that anymore as what you think you ...
Johns Hopkins $190 Million Settlement Complex But Will Be Paid By Insurance Created by A Pool of Hospitals In the Northeast Years Ago To Pool Risk
Between the pooled risk insurance company and a second company formed a long time ago in Bermuda, this is where the payment settlements will come from. As many as 10,000 patients may be splitting the money so when you break it down that’s not as large as it seems with the big dollar amount but still a good good chunk of change for sure.
If you need a quick refresher this case was all about a gynecologist secretly taping patients with Dr. Nikita Levy, who committed suicide in February 2013 after being caught with hundreds of pelvis pictures. This was pretty sleazy as the doctor wore a pen camera around his neck to get his pictures.
Women joining the suit must describe how much time they spent with Levy, whether a nurse was present, and any sexual, verbal or physical abuse. The doctor had over ten computer hard drives of pictures. BD
When Johns Hopkins Hospital agreed this week to a $190 million settlement with thousands of patients who were secretly photographed during gynecological exams, it put a number of prominent East Coast medical institutions on the hook.
Hopkins joined with hospitals and schools affiliated with Yale, Cornell and Columbia universities and the University of Rochester years ago to create a pair of insurance companies to save money and pool risk, but they now face one of the largest claim settlements of its kind.
Hopkins has said little about the settlement with patients of Dr. Nikita Levy, who worked in a Hopkins clinic in East Baltimore, and how it will be paid, aside from saying it would be covered by insurance and the hospital's quality of care wouldn't be affected.
The details of the insurance arrangements are complex, and the specifics of the settlement have not been disclosed. But MCIC Vermont and Medical Centre Insurance Company Ltd., based in Bermuda, likely will be responsible for about $25 million, according to documents filed with Vermont regulators. Both companies are owned by the medical centers.
The remainder would be paid by additional coverage the insurance companies purchased from commercial insurers to pay claims in excess of the cap on the medical centers' self-insurance pool, documents show.
The settlement amount is more than all the claims in each of the past five years paid by the two companies, which cover 16 hospitals, 12,000 physicians and 50,000 total employees. The payout comes close to the $200 million cap the commercial insurers agreed to pay for a claim, according to the documents.
When Hopkins and the other institutions formed the insurance company in 1996 in Vermont, where many medical centers have chosen to locate their malpractice insurance companies because of the tax benefits, hospital leadership might have had few domestic options because such coverage was becoming difficult if not impossible to acquire, Provost said.
The Bermuda company was formed years earlier and provided insurance to the members from a country that the insurance industry saw as having fewer regulatory and tax burdens. The offshore company still offers the medical centers most of their basic coverage — the Vermont company is expected to pay about $100,000 of the Levy settlement, while the Bermuda company would pay about $25 million.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-hopkins-settlement-20140726,0,153034.story
Between the pooled risk insurance company and a second company formed a long time ago in Bermuda, this is where the payment settlements will...
Former Hospital Owner in Texas Convicted of Medicare Billing Fraud And Faking Documentation for EMR Stimulus Funds of $18 Million..
At one time he had 6 hospitals, 4 closed and 2 are struggling with financial issues under new ownership. The news stated he was allowed to operate this way for years before it was finally addressed. There were a couple billing coders that were asked and told to change the codes and they refused so they found a way to work around them. One coder was fired 3 weeks after she refused to dummy up the billing codes.
In addition his former administrator also faces charges on falsifying documents to obtain $18 million in stimulus funds for converting to electronic medical records and EMRs were never done.
Dr. Mahmood’s defense was that he “suggested” changing the codes but any smart biller that has done this for years will catch on to what’s happening in a hurry. It would be pretty easy to see the stimulus money fraud as if you walk in and there’s no EMRs in use anywhere, well that would tell the story. BD
According to information presented in court, Mahmood, a general practitioner, owned and operated several hospitals in the state of Texas, including Cozby Germany Hospital in Grand Saline, Renaissance Terrell Hospital in Terrell, Central Texas Hospital in Cameron, Community General Hospital in Dilley, and Lake Whitney Medical Center in Whitney. From January 2010 to April 2013, Mahmood and others carried out a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid through the submission of false and fraudulent claims.
Mahmood and others added, changed, deleted, and incorrectly sequenced diagnostic codes in a way that did not reflect the actual diagnoses and conditions of the patients. They submitted false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid based on the added, changed, deleted, and incorrectly sequenced diagnostic codes. Mahmood and others also unlawfully used Medicare beneficiaries’ names and Medicare numbers in order to commit health care fraud. Mahmood was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 11, 2013.
http://www.ketknbc.com/news/crimewatch/etx-hospital-owner-convicted-of-health-care-fraud
At one time he had 6 hospitals, 4 closed and 2 are struggling with financial issues under new ownership. The news stated he was allowed to ...
Doctor Shoots Armed Patient in Philadelphia Hospital - Saves Lives But Case Worker Shot By Patient Died
A doctor came to the rescue here after the mentally ill patient had already shot his case worker and I don’t see a problem with that as the patient was headed for doctor Silverman next. The doctor didn’t kill the patient but wounded him pretty bad. The case worker died from being shot by the patient. It was a shock that the psychiatrist was armed but after the fact here there’s not a lot to say as there would have been more dead people.
This is not a discussion about pro guns either for goodness sakes as the news will make it appear to be as the police try to figure out why the doctor broke the rules and had the gun. I might guess there had been some event in the past that caused him to have a gun as we are talking the psychiatric area here. I think it would be pretty stupid other than to maybe issue a reprimand to say much more to the doctor being the events we have here. BD
ATLANTA — A mental-health caseworker is dead and a doctor and his patient wounded after a bizarre gunfight at a gun-free-zoned hospital in Yeadon, Pa., near Philadelphia, Thursday. As police prepare murder charges against the wounded patient, focus is shifting to the gun-toting psychiatrist who stopped the mayhem, likely saving other lives.
Prosecutors say Dr. Lee Silverman opened fire on Richard Plotts, after Mr. Plotts shot his caseworker and barged his way toward Dr. Silverman’s office desk after gaining access to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital. Silverman crouched down behind his desk and fetched his gun, which he then fired at Mr. Plotts, wounding him several times before he was subdued.
According to media reports, Plotts had a history of personal problems, including drug abuse, and his arrest records show run-ins with police over weapons violations and suicide attempts. “You could see he needed help,” one neighbor told the Philadelphia Daily News. If Plotts survives his injuries, prosecutors plan to charge him with first-degree murder.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/0725/Doctor-shoots-armed-patient-in-Philly-hospital-A-gun-rights-case-is-born
A doctor came to the rescue here after the mentally ill patient had already shot his case worker and I don’t see a problem with that as the...
Zoeticx Clarity Server - Middleware HIE Will Save Millions Maybe Billions With HIE And Has 3-6 Year ONC Compatible Time Line, Works Using APIs, Web Apps Where Nobody Has to Swap Out Their EHR…
You have may have already read about the big CommonWell project with the consortium of big EMR players and what they are working on I’m sure is right along this line as well with using APIs and a cloud platform to connect any type of electronic medical record system. Again they have more involved of course as far as putting together as they have existing business client out there and do can’t upset their apple cart and rightly so as I would do the same in their positions. Internally as an example too with Kaiser Permanente, they have done some work internally to develop their own Clarity Server configurations that aligns with their Epic Medical Records System, so using a Clarity server as a tool is not brand new out of the box by any means and here with Zoeticx it’s doing a job being “middleware”.
Not too long ago there was some kind of an update on Forbes I think it was with the journalists previewing a little bit of what their efforts were as Commonwell and I remember reading it was something to the effect of “they put something in the software to enable all EHRs to communicate”. Well that may be just the very same direction at what we have here with Zoeticx. Here’s a couple prior posts I created not too long ago when the product was introduced.
Zoeticx Patient Clarity Server -HIE For Next Generation of Healthcare Applications -Agnostic To Current EMR Deployments, Works With Any Electronic Medical Records System From the Cloud With A Common User Interface
Another Answer To Interoperability With Medical Records - Middleware From Zoeticx With Common User Interface, I Knew That Idea Would Not Die:)
For years there’s been discussion on using APIs in healthcare, and time has arrived but again it’s new technology and Zoeticx has been in the works for a couple years now to give you a timeline on development time and for that matter look how long CommonWell has been working at it too. I read this article at Politico and about fell off my chair though. First off it really makes a case for Congress to restore the Office of Technology Assessment as if they had that research available they wouldn’t be having this conversation about EHRs communicating. I have been screaming about this for 3 years when we live in such complex times, you would think Congress would put this in place to help them so they could be productive and understand the fast evolving technologies we have.
From Politico article…
“The Appropriations Committee asked for a “detailed report” on the extent of information blocking, including an estimate on the number of vendors or eligible hospitals or providers who block information, and how to combat it. It also demanded the Health IT Policy Committee submit a report on the barriers to interoperability.
An ONC representative would not comment. The agency is in charge of managing the EHR incentive program that CMS has funded with about $25 billion in incentive payments since 2011.”
It’s kind of what I call a very goofy and political battle going on out there with many EHRs building this perceptual nightmare for the general public to stamp out smaller medical record vendors. I’ve seen a bunch of those articles out there even to the point to where someone blogged and and just really went off the wall about “those bad interoperable EHRs”. There’s very few “bad” EMRs out there if you will as companies work hard at their programming and nobody wants to lose market share by all means. I found it rather humorous actually, but I look at things differently anyway than someone who’s never written code and consumer should listen to folks like as we tell you what’s going on and it might be boring and not as interesting as a news article, I can agree with that. The video below shows an example on how a nurse at the hospital would communicate on an Ipad with a doctor who is not at the hospital, just one example of a consultation demo.
From a recent press release:
“The API resides within Zoeticx’s powerful Patient-Clarity server, utilizing Zoeticx Gateway technology designed specifically to seamlessly read and write to any EMR system. The server drives the collaborative “smart” hub for Zoeticx’s own suite of Care applications--CareIntelligence, CareSynergy, CareHistory and CareCompliance, developed with the Patient-Clarity server.
“We recently introduced a Healthcare Open Architecture to bring long awaited EMR connectivity to medical professionals. Now Zoeticx has opened its API so EMR developers worldwide can build apps once and deploy them anywhere, helping the medical industry bridge the gap between medical data and improved patient care,” said Thanh Tran, Co-Founder and CEO of Zoeticx. “We look forward to working with third-parties and making it easy for world class apps to be launched for the betterment of medical patients across the globe.”
Application developers can develop on any platform and license the PC server from Zoeticx.These products are engineered using the latest mobile, cloud, and SOA technology.”
Of course Zoeticx likes to partner with EMR vendors by all means as everyone wins here. Again I mention that somewhat political battle and the perceptions being painted right now on and EMR witch hunt if you will that seems counter productive to me, but that’s how marketing works out there today in political battles. Again Congress would be ahead of the game at times if they had that Office of Technology Assessment as they could digest and report items like this so they don’t get snowed. We have had enough of that with the “Sebelius Syndrome” at HHS since 2009 and even though she’s gone, there’s a lot of other folks, i.e. even the SEC that has that syndrome.
This next video might be a little boring to the average reader but for those in Health IT it will be interesting for sure. This shows some configurations and some simulated information on how the “alert” system functions with Zoeticx and screenshots of role users here and how it works. The great thing here I forgot to mention is that you have the same “common user interface” at all sides. There’s also noting to stop an app being built to where this information could be shared with a patient.
Security is built in with using the Symantec Sealed Program. A while back Nuance gave Zoeticx an App of the month award as well. SureScripts has an open API as well – so does eClinicalWorks and it might not be too quick to build a solution like Zoeticx because it is not in their interest to solve the problem for their competitors? That’s just a guess on my part and then again we circle back around to the Commonwell Health Alliance as mentioned above who’s working on their solution too as you can can bet it’s using APIs as for the last couple of years there have been endless articles asking “when is healthcare going to begin using APIs”. It has not been that simple in healthcare as other industries as there’s been a lot of work on standards, and I mean a lot not to mention time and money.
The developer/CEO here spent a great deal of his life in the past at Borland (which if you have been around for while in IT you know that name) and BEA software building infrastructure solutions. With Zoeticx Red Hat is a strategic partner as well as other established relationships with tools such as New Relic which is used by companies such as the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft, NBC and more.
Anyway with reading that somewhat “nonsense” article in Politco I thought maybe it was time for another post here. It’s really interesting too as I have sent folks like so far on the other posts I have written to get some feed back and “nobody seems to understand this and then yet the next day I see an article asking “why is healthcare not using APIs”…very interesting and of course tells you that we have a disconnect here with what can be done today and just the fact that Health IT is becoming pretty complex out there. Next up though with news, it’s going to be the consumer that needs more education (sorry had to include this satire as I see that out there all the time and Sebelius was so infamous for those talks herself when she is right up at the top of the list herself:)
I’m not picking on the journalists from Politico, but rather the lack of knowledge and an agency that can help Congress with this battle so they don’t get snowed. We have enough Algo Duping out there today for sure with perceptions that are just flat out wrong and it’s hard to understand this side of the world for the consumer too, so why I create pages like the Killer Algorithms with videos at layman level to shed some light on some of this too. Heck for that matter in addition to restoring the Office of Technology Assessment, Congress and their staff as well as the White House could spend some time over there too, it’s only there to help so why not let it rip and share some wealth of knowledge?
So in closing here, check it out and let’s move interoperability off the war zone here and perhaps look at what an open infrastructure has to offer as this could easily work at the VA and DOD as well with each facility having a Clarity Server from Zoeticx and how long have we been waiting for that one? Sometimes too though in the case of the VA and DOD, they may have spent money and I’m sure they have burial ground of sandbox software they have tested, but in this case waiting for the technology such as Zoeticx might be the best thing that has come along. No matter what the decide to do with bidding and upgrading systems, Zoeticx has no problem with legacy systems and could sit on top of VistA today as well as the DOD ALTHA system. ALTHA and VA systems are not as bad what the news tells you, they work and with any software system, they need updates, so be careful on what you read.
The White House even has a version of the DOD ALTHA as their medical records system. So rather than fighting this battle at the EMR level it makes sense to me to stop wasting time here and move forward by all means. Now we have both Democrats and Republicans on this and this should be music to their ears if you will and again if they had that Office of Technology Assessment to help them too, well we might even be seeing this article in Politico as they would be miles ahead, and be doing the work and support that we want them to as consumers.
There’s nothing but a bunch of wasted time going to come out of a battle on non inter operative medical records systems at this point and time to move forward and quit wasting time. Zoeticx was initially funded with a grant from the NIH. Would it not be nice to start putting affordable solutions in place, and maybe get Congress to reinstate that Office of Technology Assessment at the same time:) BD
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Experimental Datasets from Chemical Thermodynamics
Evgenii B. Rudnyi, 2005, http://Evgenii.Rudnyi.Ru.
Experimental Datasets
Vaporization of KCl
The Ba-Cu System
The Cu-Y System
Thermodynamics of Calcium Aluminates
Thermodynamics of YBa2Cu3O6+z (Y123)
I have been working for quite awhile with the treatment of experimental results in chemical thermodynamics. I have tried to organize my archives and make them available for others. There are several experimental datasets in computer readable format and I hope that they can be used as useful benchmarks for data fitting and nonlinear optimization. Experimental values have been collected from original research papers describing experimental results. All case studies are reasonably well documented in my papers. As such, the goal of the current document is to collect related information together.
The problem is essentially usual data fitting. There are some observations and the goal is to find a set of unknown parameters for some phenomenological model. For example, parameter estimates can be found by minimizing the sum of squared residuals and this leads to a nonlinear optimization problem.
Chemical thermodynamics adds several interesting features. In chemical thermodynamics, parameterization is done at the level of the master function (the Gibbs energy) yet experimentally measured quantities are not related to it directly. Instead there are two different classes of experiments. First one can measure thermodynamics properties, that can be expressed as the first or second derivatives of the Gibbs energy. Second one can measure phase equilibria (phase diagrams) that can be expressed by equating chemical potentials (a system of nonlinear equations). As a result:
A dataset comprises several heterogeneous experiments. This means that an observation may mean completely different physical quantities possessing different physical units in different experiments.
The difference between different experiments is greater than the reproducibility error because, as one could expect, there are inevitable systematic errors.
Sometimes, computation of a residual cannot be done analytically but instead requires a numerical solution of another numerical problem by itself. For example, solution of a nonlinear system of equations for phase equilibria. An additional problem is that for an arbitrary point in the parameter space, this additional numerical problem may not have a solution at all.
TDLIB manual [1]. See Section 2.3 for a data fitting problem in chemical thermodynamics and Sections 2.1 and 2.2 for a thermodynamic problem by itself.
Section Thermodynamic model in [2] as an example of a typical model in chemical thermodynamics.
Ref [3] describes my approach based on variance component analysis to treat systematic errors.
Experimental values are written in a plain ASCII file in the free format. White space is recognized as a delimiter. The file consists from experiments separated by semicolon. Each experiment comprises following fields separated by commas
experiment_ID,
equation_ID,
variables_names,
point1,
experiment_ID is the experiment name and equation_ID is the equation name to treat the experimental points. The reference to the original work as well as the meaning of equation_ID can be found in the corresponding paper. The same equation_ID can be used for several experiments. variables_names are two or more identifiers separated by space. The number of names in variables_names is equal to number of numerical values in the experimental point. Usually the first name means what has been measured and the second name what has been controlled. point1 contain numerical values separated by space. The number of numerical values is equal to the number of words in variables_names.
Information written after the first word in experiment_ID and equation_ID is considered to be a comment. The information in pointN after the number of numerical values equal to that in variables_names is also considered to be a comment.
Not all experiments and experimental points from the file have been taken into consideration. Symbol * before experiment_ID shows that this experiment has been discarded. Symbol * before pointN shows that this experimental point has been discarded.
In the vapors of KCl, there are monomer and dimer molecules. Total vapor pressure, Knudsen effusion and transpiration methods have been used to determine experimentally thermodynamics of the KCl vaporization. The measured values are tied with the enthalpies and entropies of two independent vaporization reactions. The thermodynamic model as well as available experimental results are described in Ref [4] ([5] is an extended version of [4] in English). The discussion of the data treatment is also included in [3].
The dataset kcl.dat (varcomp.tar.gz) includes 460 experimental points measured in 29 different experiments from 25 research papers. The file kcltotal.dat (kcl.tar.gz) (in slightly different format) also includes results from 8 additional works that has been discarded by us at the preliminary stage (see [4] or [5]).
The Ba-Cu phase diagram includes melt and two intermetallic phases. The Gibbs energies of the phases have been parametrized and unknowns have been found by joint processing of heterogenous experimental results: the heat of mixing, the heat of formation and points from the phase diagram. The thermodynamic model and experimental results are described in [2] and [6].
The dataset bacu.dat (varcomp.tar.gz) includes 178 experimental points measured in 18 different experiments from 5 research papers.
The Cu-Y phase diagram includes melt and five intermetallic phases. The Gibbs energies of the phases have been parametrized and unknowns have been found by joint processing of heterogenous experimental results: the heat of mixing, the heat of formation and points from the phase diagram. The thermodynamic model and experimental results are described in [2] and [7].
The dataset cuy.dat (varcomp.tar.gz) includes 185 experimental points measured in 35 different experiments from 12 research papers.
There are four calcium aluminates. Their enthalpy of formation and entropies have been determined during simultaneous processing of the calorimetry and electrochemistry experimental values. The thermodynamic model and experimental results are described in [8].
The dataset emf.dat varcomp.tar.gz includes 165 experimental points measured in 21 different experiments from 8 research papers.
The YBa2Cu3O6+z phase (Y123) is the first high temperature superconductor. Note that the term "high temperature" is always relative. After the discovery of superconductive properties of Y123, there was a lot of research around the world. The model for the Gibbs energy has been suggested by Voronin and Degterov. Note that the Gibbs energy by itself cannot be computed analytically and it is necessary to solve a small numerical problem to compute G(T, p, z) each time. The thermodynamic model and experimental results are described in [9].
The dataset all.dat varcomp.tar.gz includes 2109 experimental points measured in 179 different experiments from 57 research papers.
[1]E. B. Rudnyi.
Computational Thermodynamics Library, TDLIB'00, 2000.
Documentation, Code.
Statistical model of systematic errors: An assessment of the Ba-Cu and Cu-Y phase diagram.
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 1997, v. 36, p. 213-227.
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During 1992-1994 I published a nine-issue electronic magazine named Organized Thoughts. In that era when we had the internet but before the "world wide web" existed in its present form, my 'zine was distributed by email subscriptions, dialup bulletin board services, various document archives such as the the University of Michigan etext archive , and it was reproduced in two printed magazines. deleonism.org has local copies of all nine issues, but, for the benefit of those who are following this thread on World Socialism versus De Leonism, I have copied below just those articles that were part of that particular debate. In what follows, assume that any postal and/or email addresses shown are by now obsolete. I will attach calendar dates to the correspondences below if I can locate the original communications on a floppy. Among the participants were Steve Szalai (the General Secretary of the Socialist Party of Canada), and WSP(US) members Harry Morrison and Ron Elbert. For many years Harry was part of the WSP's National Administrative Committee and the primary writer for the WSP's journal. --- M.L.
1993-1994 Debate on De Leonism versus World Socialism
5.01 Mike Lepore, 02 March 1993
5.02 Steve Szalai, 10 March 1993
5.04 Steve Szalai, 05 April 1993
5.05 Ron Elbert, 19 March 1993
5.06 Mike Lepore, 06 April 1993
6.05 Harry Morrison, ?? April 1993
6.06 Mike Lepore, ?? April 1993
6.07 Harry Morrison, ?? 1993
7.02 Laurens Otter, ?? 1993
7.03 Mike Lepore, ?? 1993
#5.01 M. Lepore, 02 March 1993
From capitalism to socialism:
SHOULD THE WORKERS ORGANIZE POLITICALLY, INDUSTRIALLY, OR BOTH?
Opinion by Mike Lepore
How should workers who agree with the recommendation, "Workers of the
world, unite!", actually set out to unite? Should the organization of
the entire working class take place on the political or on the
industrial field? This paper defends the thesis of the North American
Marxist Daniel De Leon (1852-1914), who argued that a dual
political/industrial program will be necessary for success.
WHY INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION?
The change from class-divided to classless society will require a
workplace-based association encompassing all occupations. Since
approximately the year 1900, this concept has been called industrial
unionism.
This statement is given in response to the Companion Parties of
Socialism (the World Socialist movement). These fellow workers, who
do not see in the industrial union an instrumental role in the
revolutionary transition, are welcome to explain why I'm wrong.
I view the industrial union theory as a switch-over theory. A new
system of industrial planning has to be assembled, at least in it's
basic or foundational structure, while capitalism still exists. Only
then can we smoothly switch the task of industrial management, from
the old class-ruled system, to a new democratic system.
This revolution must be enacted without any interruption in the flow
of food, medicine, education, transportation, and the other
necessities of life. The flow of these necessities requires workplace
units to be in close and daily communication, such as designers
sending specifications to fabricators, tool operators placing orders
for field repair, repair crews obtaining replacement parts, public
services sending requisitions to suppliers, procedures prearranged
between hospitals and laboratories, an unbroken connection from
agriculture to trucking to food stores, etc.
Therefore, our preparation for instituting a new economic system needs
to be workplace-based, linking up the departments of workers from
manufacturing, mining, transportation, health, education, and all
other necessary functions, into a network which is intended to provide
the substratum for cooperative administration in the future. We need
to erect the skeleton of the new system, as the IWW preamble points
out, "within the shell of the old".
The revolution will mean reidentifying, not some, but all of the
workplace connections we have with one another. For example, let's
say the working class decides to abolish capitalism next Tuesday at
9:00 A.M. GMT. (This is to be a coherent action, not a fuzzy
"transition period".) At that time, we are to discontinue making
military weapons, and, in their place, start making useful items such
as school books and medicine. This will require new plant and office
committees to meet, new communication lines installed, machinery
relocated, specifications written, blueprints requested, shipping
instructions changed.
We're talking about a class revolution. In nearly every workplace,
the recently-deposed capitalist managers will be shouting and
insisting that we must obey their "Plan A", yet we must be ready to
laugh at them, ignore them, and if necessary lock them outside, so
that we can perform our new "Plan B". Our preparedness for that will
require that the workers in each facility must have had at least one
prior meeting, and that this meeting must have also resulted in some
communication among different types of work facilities. This minimum
requirement, at least one prior meeting with department level
co-workers, would fulfill the basic requirement of the industrial
organization of workers needed to bring the industries under social
ownership. More likely, however, there would be many prior meetings,
since the working class is expected to attain class consciousness over
some period of time. The revolution itself can be enacted in five
minutes, but learning to advocate a revolution can take years
(decades, centuries).
But elements of instantaneous change are not all. Even in cases where
some aspect of the work does NOT change, for example, if the same
driver intends to drive the same truck, or the same operator intends
to use the same machine, we would still need a completely new
procedure for scheduling everything. We will suddenly have a
non-profit economy, with a workweek that's less than half as long as
what we work today. The coordination of everything must be rearranged
from scratch.
The magnitude of this restructuring is such that it must begin well
before the industries are converted to social ownership, otherwise we
will have a vacuum, and not a new system, to switch over to. This
vacuum would have worse implications than our lights going out, and
our food pantries being empty. It would mean that another force would
fill the vacuum, such as an unpredicted retention of the political
state.
Worse yet: If our food pantries and coal bins are empty for a month,
some workers may start to welcome a fascist dictator to enter --
especially since a political mandate for socialism could occur
with a fragile majority of 51 percent.
I ask the World Socialists to respond to this, my objection:
I don't see how a conquest of the political field by the working class
could logically and quickly handle the redesign of the industrial
interconnections. The geographical lines of the political state
(city, town, county, province) are irrelevant to the linkage of all
the departments within the industries and services. Also irrelevant
to production is the state's basis of regulating human behavior, such
that its major organs are legislatures, courts, police and armies.
The rational plans for moving materials, parts, information, etc.
from one economic department to another are nowhere found in the
anatomy of the state.
If the working class unites politically but not industrially, we would
then have to start remaking the industrial links, from the very first
steps, after announcing that the old management system is ejected.
Only then would we begin the identification of the naturally-occurring
economic functions, subdivision according to minor functions,
committee formation, proposals, feasibility study, and debug by
trial-and-error. Meanwhile we would very soon get cold and hungry
while waiting for production to resume.
* * * * *
Another reason for workplace-based organization is because there are
at least two advantages to permanently retaining a degree of sectional
workers' self-management, e.g., councils of nurses selecting the
best procedures for nursing, committees of electricians deciding on
the electrical codes, educators voting on the best mathematics
syllabus, etc.
(1) The people in the respective fields possess greater technical
understanding of the details than a democratic assembly of the general
public would have.
(2) Our basic right to control our own bodies would seem to imply that
some facets of management should be decentralized (admitting local
preferences for certain tools, methods, shifts, holidays, etc.).
However, the general public (either the direct democracy of referenda,
or the indirect democracy of a public congress) should always have the
ability to overrule the plans of the workplace sub-departments,
if ever the more localized choices are seen to be in conflict with
principles which have been adopted by society as a whole. Therefore,
I conclude that we need both forms of industrial administration - some
general population control of industry (which the World Socialists
usually recommend), and also some localized and occupational forms of
control as well (which the syndicalists usually recommend). The
balance between the two, of course, would need to be written into the
Constitution which the people eventually decide to adopt.
WHY POLITICAL ORGANIZATION?
The preceding section doesn't tell the whole story. I also believe
that the working class must unite POLITICALLY.
Many reasons have been cited by De Leonists for the political
organization of labor, e.g., because an election campaign can be used
as a soapbox by the industrial organization, and because election
results can be used by the union as a gauge of class-consciousness. I
would personally like to see those arguments set aside. I don't
consider any of that to be fundamental. Those purposes may or may not
be possible, depending on fluidic circumstances, and they appear
not to be efficient means for achieving their ends.
In my view, organization on the political field is needed mainly
because the police and military agencies of the state take their
orders only from one place -- political offices. These violent
agencies of the state will not hesitate to massacre millions of
workers if the political offices give them the order to do so. If the
capitalist political parties still control the state on the day that
revolutionaries start taking collective control of the means of
production, the state will certainly order a massacre to take place.
Let me break this reasoning into three parts: (1) present-day law
says the capitalists are the owners of the industries; (2) the
law-enforcers would be the very last segment of the working class to
become revolutionary; and (3) the law-enforcers possess such an
enormous inventory of deadly weapons and other supplies, that even a
general strike could not deprive them of the materials they would need
to conduct a slaughter.
How can we prevent this ruling-class reaction? -- here's how: When
someone is about to hit you with a stick, you're fortunate if you have
the option of grabbing the stick away from them and breaking it into
several pieces. We must have workers' delegates elected to political
offices -- not to "run" these offices, but, rather, to distract and
disassemble the oppressive state mechanism, which is merely the ruling
class's instrument for maintaining its privileged status.
There is also a possibility that the recently-deposed capitalists
will contact bands of thugs (Mafia? Klan? CIA?) and promise them
riches on the condition that they can restore the old ruling class to
power through acts of violence and terrorism. If the working class
has acquired control of the state, then this state force can be used
for riot control. This riot control should take no more than days or
weeks, certainly not the many years imagined by those who advocate a
"dictatorship of the proletariat."
THE SYNTHESIS
I conclude that a synthesis of the industrial and the political
programs shall be required. The optimum point between those who
propose political organization (like the World Socialists) and those
who propose industrial organization (like the Industrial Workers of
the World) would be to combine the strengths of both fields.
#5.02 S. Szalai, 10 March 1993
Steve Szalai < 72607.2404@compuserve.com >
First, and I think foremost, among your errors is the concept that
socialism could be established "with a fragile majority of 51%." I
believe that this is central to our disagreement on the "need" for
industrial unionism.
Second, and also very important, your belief that "at 9:00 A.M. GMT"
everything will suddenly change dramatically in the workplace, is
mistaken.
The Companion Parties of Socialism, hold that a fragile majority
cannot establish socialism. The establishment of socialism will be
the work of the vast majority of the population. By allowing for the
establishment of socialism with a fragile majority, you necessarily
put yourself in league with the Leninists that you elsewhere argue so
eloquently against. With a bare majority, you would have to try to
lead the remaining 49% to socialism against their will. You would
have to force them to follow some grand plan, with which they
disagree. It seems to me that industrial unions could supply much of
the required coercive force in league with the state, which could not
be dissolved. The state would need to remain to provide the
"dictatorship of the proletariat" so cherished by the Leninists.
All of the links between productive organizations that would be needed
on day one, will already be in place. The person in the hospital that
orders syringes, would continue to order them from the same person in
the same company that they ordered them from the day before. The
world will not fall apart by removing the profit motive.
I agree that the state, by and large, does not, and will not, have the
procedures and expertise to run the productive mechanisms of society.
I don't expect it to.
Why do you believe that the coordination of everything must be
rearranged from scratch, immediately? Why must this restructuring
begin well before the industries are converted to social ownership?
Why would there be a vacuum if it did not? How could this
restructuring begin before the industries were converted to social
ownership while the capitalist class retained ownership? Why would
the managers be insisting we obey their "Plan A"?
Let us consider an entirely different approach to a socialist
revolution. An approach that recognizes the impossibility of imposing
socialism upon a huge minority and does not try to do so.
As socialist consciousness grows in the world populace and when
socialists become a majority of the population, the ideas of
socialism, and the ideas of how to organize a socialist world will
become topics of everyday conversation. At work we will discuss what
changes should be made, we will discuss them with our friends, we will
have mass meetings, we will discuss these issues within our
"professional groups". There will be no dearth of discussion, we will
not have to have our union specially schedule last minute workplace
meetings to determine the action to take place at the "moment" of the
You make the very important point that "the revolution itself can be
enacted in five minutes, but learning to advocate a revolution can
take years (decades, centuries)." You seem to ignore it in the rest of
your paper.
In the years during which the revolution of consciousness is taking
place, all of the issues will be discussed and planned for, without
the need for "socialist" unions. I have used the phrase "socialist
unions" as opposed to "industrial unions" very explicitly. An
industrial union that is not socialist is of no more use to
revolutionaries than is nuclear weaponry. I am a member of an
industrial union that is, like most, anti-socialist. I have a strong
preference for industrial over crafts unions, for much the same
reasons as outlined by the IWW, but industrial unionism does not mean
socialism. I digress.
Whether or not the unions will ever divorce themselves from the
capitalist parties they now support openly, I do not know. I do
believe that if workers don't give up totally on the unions that they
may indeed become socialist, but workers may accelerate past the
anti-socialist unions and leave them in the dust of history, while
organizing politically for the conquest of power.
A socialist union today would have a very, very small membership and
could not be overly successful in the day to day struggle against the
employer. It is better for us as workers to cultivate un-socialist,
un-NDP / un-Democratic / un-Republican / un-Liberal / un-Progressive-
Conservative / un-Reform / un-whatever Party unions that can succeed
for us today, in the limited fashion of unions.
In any case the union is not necessary to the establishment of
socialism, or to the planning for a new industrial organization.
Because unions are inherently tied to the current economic system, it
is possible that the most successful unions could not even approach
the creation of a new industrial organization progressively. This is
a bit tentative because none of us know what the future holds in store
for unions.
As the revolution progresses, management, the police and the military
will also be composed of socialists. At the moment of changeover,
with a political state in the hands of a huge socialist majority, the
police and the military will be working for socialism. It is
important to remember the lesson of Tiananmen Square in 1989. When
the police were ordered to suppress the protest, they did not, when
the local military was ordered to crush the protest, they did not.
Military units from the boonies were required, units unaware of what
was going on. That the military, did of course finally crush the
protest, demonstrates the need for both a huge majority of socialists
and political power.
As socialist, conscious cooperation increases, it is inconceivable
that planning on a global, local, and industrial unit basis would not
occur. This is not a function of the industrial union or the
"socialist" union, it is a function of socialist consciousness.
It is my understanding that today there are groups "of nurses
selecting the best procedures for nursing, committees of electricians
deciding on the electrical codes, educators voting on the best
mathematics syllabus, etc." What will change with socialism is that
these groups will not have to consider the profit factor as a part of
their deliberations about "best".
I do not propose that production be controlled by some distant body of
administrators with no knowledge of the industry. Of course the
people in the respective fields possess greater technical
understanding of the field than a group of "lay" people.
Unfortunately that technical knowledge often involves training that
ignores human need and leaves technicians very proficient at very
damaging technological approaches. That is already starting to
change, and the changes will accelerate as the socialist revolution of
thought progresses.
I oppose the idea of a community vs the industrial workers. The
syndicalist workplace-based approach would engender this sort of
antagonism. It seems that rather than some need for a community
override, what is necessary is more open communication with others
outside the immediate organization, an approach inherently fostered by
socialism. If mistakes were made by the technicians, they would be
quickly noted by others, inside or outside the organization, and would
be corrected, not by override, but by the technicians recognizing the
problem. The working class is the community. Workers are not
distinct from that community.
I suppose that if you are going to have some formalized general
population vs industrial worker setup, as you propose, there would be
a need for a constitution to balance the two. In a truly cooperative
world, based upon production for need, I do not see any need for a
constitution. The fine sounding constitutions of the Soviet Union,
the United States, and Canada and other countries exist(ed) within a
society that made (makes) them worth very little to the working class.
Your point about decentralization does not argue for industrial
unions, as far as I can tell. Industrial unions need not be
decentralized or democratic. The Teamsters Union is a good example.
To summarize.
I don't see that you have shown the need for industrial organization
either to overthrow capitalism or to establish socialism (if one can
separate the overthrow of capitalism from socialism).
By allowing that socialism could be declared (by whom?) with a slim
majority, you fall into the Leninist, vanguard approach of leading the
workers to socialism, against their will.
Socialism is not the rebuilding of society from scratch, it is the
rebuilding of society from wherever it happens to be when the time to
rebuild is upon us.
Constitutions are requirements of capitalist societies and some
pre-capitalist societies. They protect only the welfare of the ruling
class. They are not desirable in socialist society.
Replying to S. Szalai's March 10th letter:
> Why do you believe that the coordination of everything must
> be rearranged from scratch
> Why would there be a vacuum if it did not?
Many workers under capitalism are trained according to job
descriptions which put the boss's intervention in the middle of each
transaction. For instance, to get a part on the assembly line from
sector 1 to sector 2, the following sequence may be written: When the
part finishes at sector 1, then the manager of sector 1 signs a
certain form ... When the manager of sector 2 receives the signature
of the manager of sector 1, additional paperwork is generated, bearing
the number of a storage bin ... When the workers at sector 2 receive
that paper, they go to the indicated bin and pick up the part. The
whole system is set up so that nothing can move without the
capitalist's hand-picked supervisor in the loop, placing phone calls
to have doors unlocked at certain moments, distributing computer
passwords, and processing financial documents such as contracts and
bills of sale.
Establishing common ownership of industry will require the prearranged
adoption of alternative rules, otherwise, it seems to me, production
would halt, and have a difficult time resuming in a democratically
coordinated fashion.
> How could this restructuring begin before the industries
> were converted to social ownership while the capitalist
> class retained ownership?
At some point prior to a socialist revolution, the people in a
workplace are likely to gather around a table and say things of the
sort, "After the revolution, we will no longer have a supervisor
chosen for us by Corporate Headquarters, but I do believe we're going
to need one. I'd like to nominate Matilda to be our supervisor. And
we should get rid of those blue log books. And we should slow down
the inspection line a little bit. What do the rest of you think?
Hey, let's hold this meeting every week. Let's ask the other
departments to meet regularly too, and to exchange the meeting minutes
with us."
The association of workers which occurs before the revolution will
begin to foreshadow some pattern-formation in the management process
which will persist immediately after the revolution.
> At work we will discuss what changes should be made, we will
> discuss them with our friends, we will have mass meetings,
> we will discuss these issues within our "professional
> groups"
> all of the issues will be discussed and planned for, without
> the need for "socialist" unions
I wonder if that discussion and planning, which you do allow for,
might take on a certain departmental shape, like the way the IWW is
composed of six definite departments (agriculture and fisheries;
mining and minerals; general construction; manufacture and general
production; transportation and communication; public service). If so,
then that's exactly what I mean by unionism as part of the revolution.
And if such a comprehensive plan is not used, I don't see where we are
to have a "nervous system" to interconnect all of these complex
functions into a harmonious whole.
> I oppose the idea of a community vs the industrial workers.
> The syndicalist workplace-based approach would engender this
> sort of antagonism.
If there is no antagonism between a small group and the human race,
that's fine. I don't think that having a protocol which we can follow
in the event of such an antagonism could itself engender that
antagonism.
If the workers in my office want to run UNIX instead of DOS on our
desktop computers, the general public should not interfere and make
this decision for us, since such interference would be unnecessary.
However, if we set out to do something which has been found to be
harmful to the public safety, a wider constituency of the public
should be able to veto it.
> In a truly cooperative world, based upon production for
> need, I do not see any need for a constitution
We can't even run a very small organization, let alone a whole
society, without some sort of edifice -- an agreed-upon listing of
what tasks are being delegated to what departments, and how the
various committees are related to each other. I don't care if the
composition is amended daily, but we must at least know what
composition we're talking about at any given time.
> that socialism could be declared (by whom?)
I don't understand the part about "by whom". It seems that your own
program, no less than mine, calls for the votes to be counted, the
final results to be announced, and then acted upon. Otherwise there
is no working class conquest of the powers of the state.
> the concept that socialism could be established "with a
> fragile majority of 51%." I believe that this is central to
> our disagreement
Many of the Wobblies and De Leonists disagree with me on this point
also. They too give me the immense majority argument that you're
giving me. So I'm not sure that this is central; in fact, I fear that
I might have gone off on a tangent. But the tangent illuminates a
possible problem that may lie ahead.
Suppose that socialist consciousness grows at a rate of one population
percent per year. Then there will be a significantly long period of
time in which a majority, but not a vast one, advocates socialism.
Are we then to continue the operation of capitalism, a system which
kills and mutilates hundreds of thousands of people per year? With
even a slim majority, socialists may win the control of the
parliament. If so, do we then say that the mandate is not sufficient,
and that the horrors of class rule should continue until the majority
becomes more vast? I can think of no other course but to say that the
majority has won.
> the impossibility of imposing socialism upon a huge minority
I'm not sure that any "imposing" would be taking place. In this
hypothetical case, many of the people who failed to vote for socialism
would be of the opinion that "socialism is a beautiful dream, but it
will never happen"; "I'd support socialism if other people would, but
I don't think other people would, so I won't either." In fact, in my
experience, that's the most common objection to socialism. The next
largest group is likely to be those who say, "I was outvoted on this
proposal, but willing to give the new form of administration a chance
to prove itself."
> By allowing for the establishment of socialism with a
> fragile majority, you necessarily put yourself in league
> with the Leninists
Leninists strive for votes by a failure to concentrate of the
education of the working class regarding a clearly enunciated goal.
Leninist parties seek votes by filling their platforms with lures,
such as demands for a higher minimum wage, local control of ethnic
communities, etc., instead of presenting a direct systemic approach.
I differ in that I consider the unwavering statement of the goal to be
> Why would the managers be insisting we obey their "Plan A"?
The capitalists personally choose the management chain, and are likely
to choose only individuals known to be loyal to them.
> As the revolution progresses, management, the police and the
> military will also be composed of socialists
We don't have any evidence that class consciousness occurs uniformly
among working class people of all backgrounds. The opposite seems to
be indicated. The least class conscious individuals are more likely
to have self-images based on joining management or the police.
(Soldiers are more likely to be "regular" people, because, if they're
not conscripted, they might have volunteered just to get the
guaranteed work with room and board.)
Any segment of the population which has been consistently known to
fire (or fire upon) the workers, shrugging it off with the Nuremberg
war crimes defense, "I'm not the one who gave the order, but it's my
duty to carry it out", cannot be counted upon for a last-minute
display of proletarian solidarity.
#5.04 S. Szalai, 05 April 1993
Re: Job descriptions with the supervisor in the middle.
Re: Managers loyalty.
Re: Small majority.
Re: Production stoppages.
Your argument seems to stand upon two legs:
1) the belief that current supervisory personnel will be loyal
to a deposed, tiny minority,
2) the establishment of "socialism" by a small majority.
It is not necessary that socialist consciousness develop evenly
throughout the populace, although I think that it will probably be a
lot more even than you suggest. If, as proposed by the World
Socialist Movement (WSM), there is a huge majority of socialists in
the worldwide and local populations, the supervisors will most likely
be as socialist as other workers. In my workplace I find that
management is no more and no less progressive than the rest of the
staff. Managers are workers too.
My manager, for example, is reasonably receptive to socialist ideas.
I haven't convinced him, but that is not the point. The point is that
managers are workers too and face the same problems as the rest of us.
In the dying days of capitalism the managers may be forced to "follow
orders" to keep their jobs (just like the rest of us), but when the
time comes, I see no reason to believe that managers and supervisors
will not be supportive of socialism.
I am a member of an industrial union, and when it comes to negotiation
time, there are always managers who wish us well. They know that as a
union we have more power to push our demands for better wages and
working conditions, and that management will be able to tag on to our
improvements. These people understand their position in society as
well as the rest of the workers.
I note that more than one manager has told me that one of the reasons
they became managers was to try to organize their department more
rationally, and to try to get a better deal for their staff. These
are not the motivations of anti-worker, crush the revolution
recidivists.
If a specific supervisor, or other worker for that matter, was getting
in the way they would simply be ignored or ejected. This does not
require a massive rewrite of the rules and procedures of production.
It is a simple, obvious outgrowth of the change to socialist
While workers may be trained to put the supervisor or manager in the
middle of every work sequence, I think most of us, including those who
think capitalism is great, chafe at this kind of approach, recognize
how unnecessary it is and easily see how to eliminate the useless
steps. It is not a big deal. Most workers do not open a book when
they go to work to find out how to do their jobs. Workers know how to
get the job done and often get the job done DESPITE the rules and
procedures that are in place.
When the supervisors are socialists, no matter how chosen, they will
have no incentive to insert themselves unnecessarily into the
production process. If rule changes are required they will be made.
It is not a big issue. If production methods need to be changed,
while it may be a big issue materially, it will not likely be so
intellectually.
The capitalist, at least in large organizations, plays no part in the
day to day running of the organization, and therefore does not
hand-pick the supervisors and managers, they are picked by other
managers. The criteria, in a successful organization is not that the
manager/supervisor to be a slavish devotee of capitalism. The
criteria for choosing a manager (in a successful organization, and
most others) is the belief that the person can get the staff to get
the job done, economically. The two are very different.
I do not see any reason that socially useful production should stop
just because there are no pre-arranged alternative rules to govern the
process. I do maintain that these alternative "rules" would have
developed anyway, without the requirement for union intervention
(which is what superficially distinguishes us).
Re: Restructuring within capitalism.
The restructuring you speak of does not take place in the capitalist
system. We seem agreed on that now. What you are talking about is
PLANNING for restructuring. The WSM has no disagreement with that,
and I did state that it would occur. I do not care how supervisors
are chosen, the point is to get the best one.
Re: Union Departments.
We are not in agreement. The union department is still a
WORKER-oriented as opposed to a WORKING CLASS-oriented approach. More
on this later.
The "nervous system" already exists. It does not have to be invented.
It might need modification or even wholesale change, but it does exist
and can be used.
Re: Community vs Industrial Workers.
The decision of what operating system to run on your computer is, of
course, going to be decided in the workplace. But that does not
require the antagonistic approach that your dual decision making
stream puts in place. Every worker is also a member of the community.
There is no stone wall of isolation (except that I believe your idea
of workplace based organization imposes one) between the "community"
and the "industrial workers". I repeat that without this wall, there
is no need for overrides of one group by the other, because there is
only one group.
Re: A Constitution.
The reason that society today needs a constitution, and "we can't even
run a very small organization ... without some sort of" rules and
constitutions is because we live in a competitive society where, as
workers, we have to be at each others throats to survive. In a
cooperative society this problem goes away. It seems to me that a
constitution could not change every day because the structures you
build around it would then REQUIRE daily modification to follow this
constitution - as opposed to perhaps needing daily modification to
adjust to changing needs of society.
Leave it loose. If something needs changing in a production-for-use
society, it will change. Give the working class some credit for its
ability to be creative and cooperative.
If there is a constitution, changing it is not going to be a daily
thing. In Canada, the capitalist political parties just spent months
arguing about and convincing the working class to worry about every
cross on every "t" and every dot on every "i" for a constitutional
change that amounts to nothing except a public relations ploy and
diversion. By having a written document that everyone is tied to, it
is of utmost importance to ensure that it says what everybody wants.
This is a monumental task that makes the program of the WSM look like
child's play.
Re: Fragile Majority.
My comment "declared (by whom)" is based on my disagreement with your
idea of the ability to establish socialism with a slim majority. I
think the "immense majority" is in fact central to our disagreement on
a whole range of issues.
You ask "are we then to continue the operation of capitalism, a system
which kills and mutilates hundreds of thousands of people per year?"
The WSM answers no, WE are not going to continue capitalism, it is
going to continue itself because a slim majority CANNOT end it.
Even your rather modest proposals will require a significant majority
to implement. If it is just that 51% have voted for it (some of whom
may be a bit shaky) and the rest just think it might not be too bad an
idea so they'll give it a try, it will fail. There will be problems.
If the first serious problem has everybody saying that they should
have stuck with capitalism, then come the next election, they'll vote
out the socialists.
I point to the current situation in the former USSR where workers
disillusioned with their "new" capitalist bosses are even electing the
old "communists" and questioning whether they did the right thing in
supporting Yeltsin and his bunch.
What socialism requires is a huge majority that UNDERSTANDS WHY
CAPITALISM MUST BE REPLACED, without that all we will see is a
temporary disruption (and it will be the sort of disruption that you
worry about) followed by a, probably violent, return to the normal
violence of capitalism. I see the violent return because ownership
would have to be reasserted, and there would be no structures in place
to accommodate that.
Re: Leninism.
My reference to Leninism was not related to its slimy vote-getting
tactics. It was a reference to imposing "socialism" on the working
class (or a large part thereof). This results from the slimy
vote-getting tactics of the Leninists - the vanguard leading the
masses to "socialism."
The initial imposition might not be that great, but when there are
problems, the imposition would necessarily increase unless we fell
back to capitalism (see above).
It seems to me that by the time 51% of the population are ready to
vote for socialism, that people are not going to be saying "I don't
think other people would" support socialism. It is more likely that
those in disagreement would be saying that they don't think socialism
can work. If that is the case, they are likely not to be easily
convinced to stay on a bandwagon when a wheel falls off.
Only if they have recognized the reasons for capitalism's failure to
satisfy our needs, and that there will be problems that are WORTH
overcoming to establish and maintain socialism are they likely to hang
around the wagon and help put the wheel back on.
Re: Uniformity of class consciousness.
I disagree with your thesis that the least class conscious gravitate
to management and the police. Your thesis seems to be called into
question by the existence of police and management "unions".
I have personally be on picket lines where there was a police
presence. It was generally cordial until a SPECIFIC order came down,
or senior officers showed up to get the job done. In fact the police
often showed a sympathetic approach to the picketers. I am not
claiming that there are not many (more) occasions when the police
employed a jackboot approach, but in general that jackboot approach
has had community "sympathy", perhaps through ignorance, so it does
not show a difference between the police and the general populace.
In dog-eat-dog capitalism, the "just following orders" defense is
tried, true and justified. How many of us would tell the boss to
shove his job because we thought that what we were doing might be
deadly. If it was common we would not have the reality of capitalism
In truth the bully-boy approach of the police is partly based on
following orders and partly based upon general societal beliefs. When
unions are hated by the general populace, the police will hate them
Of more significance is the firmly rooted popular support for LAW AND
ORDER. As long as this ruling class idea prevails and comprehension
of the reasons for our problems is low, the knee-jerk law and order
responses to "problems" will continue. And they will continue to have
popular support.
As long as property rights are superior to human rights, in the minds
of the majority, the police will continue to enforce property rights.
The East German revolt for "democracy" was accomplished without the
police slaughtering the populace, precisely because the police are not
a separate entity apart from society. The Tiananmen massacre was
preceded by police and military refusal to fire upon the protesters.
Your thesis is based, I think, on not clearly analyzing societal
norms. This is a major problem that I think extends to most of our
disagreements.
I do not count on the police for a "last-minute display of proletarian
solidarity." I count on them being socialists, just like the rest of
the majority.
#5.05 R. Elbert, 19 March 1993
To: M. Lepore < mlepore@mcimail.com >
From: R. Elbert < ronel2@aol.com >
The "IU concept," you begin, is what you call a "switch over" theory,
"a new system of industrial planning [that] has to be assembled, at
least in its basic or foundation structure, while capitalism still
exists." Implementing this embryonic system under these conditions
will allow us to "smoothly switch the task of industrial management
.... to a new democratic system." You single out some of the salient
characteristics of the new system: (1) "our preparation for
instituting a new economic system needs to be workplace-based"; (2)
"we need to erect the skeleton of the new system, as the IWW preamble
points out, 'within the shell of the old'"; (3) "the revolution will
mean reidentifying, not some, but ALL of the workplace connections we
have with one another."
It would be out of keeping with historical materialism to deny any of
these points as generalities; but what you subsequently do with them
presents certain problems. In the first place, you take a
misleadingly concrete focus on the whole question of expropriation;
you picture the revolution as happening AT THE WORKPLACE. Workers "in
each facility" will, if necessary, "lock them [the managers] outside."
The world outside each workplace is made up of "different types of
work facilities" (which communicate with each other as the revolution
moves along) and an undefined mass of social experiences and
activities. The revolution itself consists of replacing the
capitalist-inspired hierarchical arrangement of work relations ("Plan
A") with a non-authoritarian arrangement based on the satisfaction of
workers' needs ("Plan B"). Of course, as a result of this seizure of
what to the capitalist class appears as capital, the capitalist class
itself ultimately disappears, bringing "the industries under social
ownership." The class consciousness workers have developed up to this
point ceases to be a means to an end: it becomes social
consciousness, an end in itself.
But are things so simple? Capital accumulation, the progressive
appropriation of value (profit) by the capitalist class at the point
of production, is a FUNCTION. Whoever controls the use of capital
becomes an investor and therefore a capitalist; the names investors
give themselves do not matter. Merely seizing capital assets and
re-deploying them for the direct benefit of society does not by itself
abolish the use of capital in production. "Plan B" offers no
guarantee that the "social ownership" aimed at will materialize. This
happens because the ownership of the means of production is also a
function; it is the "soul" of a system of production, and it resides
as a generality throughout the entire community of possessors. (World
socialists insist for this reason that the revolution must be
essentially worldwide in character -- it must happen everywhere.)
The revolution in consciousness that precedes and directs this
replacement, this switchover, has to be functional AT THIS LEVEL.
This makes it not only a takeover of the production and distribution
of goods and services in the economic sense (wealth) but also the
replacement of a system for producing and distributing wealth in the
political sense. This revolution only completes itself when it has
become society's official decision to make access to goods and
services unconditional, as a result of the consciously expressed
desire for it by a clear majority of people -- workers or otherwise.
World socialists stress also that workers generally (not simply in
industry) must UNDERSTAND AND WANT common ownership, and they must
want it because they can control the production and distribution of
wealth democratically. This phrase, "understand and want," is
admittedly a bit of shorthand we have gotten very used to wielding
without much reflection; it signifies precisely what you have been
speaking of as the class-conscious workers formulating their "Plan B"
and following through on the impulse to implement it in place of the
capitalists' "Plan A." Where would workers get a concrete sense of the
implications of common ownership if not from their own experience of
the class struggle? And where else would they get a sense of the
urgency of replacing an anti-social system of production for sale at a
profit on the market with a system of production based on the
satisfaction of human needs? So "understanding and wanting" common
ownership means this process you have rather simplistically described
as the decision to abolish capitalism. Effecting this decision,
however, can only occur OUTSIDE the workplace, and in fact it really
occurs nowhere in particular because, as the implementation phase of a
revolution in consciousness, it occurs everywhere in general. It has
to be on a generally understood, politically defined, signal that the
revolution is enacted -- the explicit, formal abolition of the use of
capital in production and of any prior restriction on gaining access
to needed goods and services. (It might take a little longer than
five minutes.) Terminally, massively and completely decapitalizing
wealth production is the only feasible alternative. Having a "Plan B"
and "taking and holding" is not enough.
It's easy to see why De Leonists would accuse us of concentrating
exclusively on the political aspects of this changeover in the basis
of society. We have all been sold by the propaganda system on the
top-down character of the political parties doing their Byzantine
thing at the pinnacle of the pyramid of privilege. But to this you
have added the oversimplification I mentioned above: picturing the
revolution as a concrete event. "How," you ask, could "the working
class...logically and quickly handle the redesign of the industrial
interconnections" if they simply decided at the polls to replace
profit for use as the motor-force of the production system? You very
consistently maintain the concrete frame of reference in projecting
the working class as "uniting politically but not industrially" and
being then forced to "start remaking the industrial links, from the
very first steps, after announcing that the old management system is
ejected." And you add a dreary finishing touch to the whole picture:
"Meanwhile we would very soon get cold and hungry while waiting for
production to resume." (Also, the unintended implication of this
scenario is that, pending the outcome of this way of proposing a
change of Plans ["B" for "A"] and putting it into effect, the
revolutionary socialist government would meanwhile become involved in
.... er .... governing; i.e., it would at the very instant of
carrying out the revolutionary mandate cease to be socialist.)
The "continuity" of production already operates now against a global
backdrop of ongoing, routine disruption and dysfunction: continuity
seems a rather moot point, on the whole. Also, in this age of Social
Democracy's decline (and Bolshevism's demise), the corrosive question
of where exactly is this working class anyhow? seems to have been
broached. If "workers" must be employed in industry, are unemployed
or non-industrial workers excluded? The trouble with the industrial
union concept is that it pegs itself too narrowly to one specific
phase of capitalism's evolution; well under a majority of wage-slaves
are employed in production these days in the rich, developed centers
of the capitalist world-system. This question of a "majority of 51
percent" you bring up is thus problematic, since industrial workers
have become so productive they no longer even constitute a majority of
their own class. How can an "industrial" union speak for the
majority, if most workers are not industrial?
But the whole problem of counting heads is pernicious. Exploitation
may look a lot fuzzier where you can't pin it down to exact formulas
(as Marx did in CAPITAL), but its functions and effects still bedevil
everyone who works for a living. It may be much more of a "syndrome"
for most people than it was in the classical heyday of theoretical
socialism ("you say you're exploited -- what do you mean?"). The mix
between "workplace" and "community" (as Cde. Szalai points out)
should not depend on such a narrowly defined relationship --
especially one so vulnerable to the pressures of dynamic
transformation -- as the organization of industry.
The only coherent approach is to treat the organization of labor as a
political question: since all workers have a stake in it, no matter
how their experience of exploitation may have affected the way they
conceptualize the system. The majority in the marketplace thus
translates directly into a political majority -- one whose
consciousness is not tied in any case to a number of differential
categories of occupation.
Finally, your mention of "the Constitution" fits in well enough with
seeking merely to replace "Plan A" with "Plan B": whereas the
transmutation of class consciousness into social consciousness IS the
new "constitution." A document analogous to those which litter today's
junkyard of nations is strictly unnecessary. Insisting on the need
for one literally, moreover, creates a trap-door back into the system
of exploitation, because the whole purpose of a political constitution
is to spell out regimes of privilege and pecking orders showing
everyone where their place is. Political constitutions reflect the
class division of society. But your casual reference to one (even
taking it metaphorically) demonstrates exactly why we in the World
Socialist Movement frame the revolution in global, political terms.
We do not propose "pure political organization"; but we do insist that
the crucial phase of the socialist revolution is the political one.
And while DeLeonists, on the other hand, may concede rhetorically that
this phase has some importance, for purposes of carrying out the
replacement of capitalism they really only dwell on the aspect of
industrial organization.
Control of the government certainly includes what you refer to as
"riot control," but a working class that has felt its muscle should
have relatively little to worry about from its "recently-deposed"
employers (who will be more flabbergasted than anything else at the
majority's succumbing to "social madness"). The main reason is rather
that the process of decapitalizing production and decommercializing
consumption (breaking the money-commodity-money cycle) requires an act
of political coordination. Once this act has been definitively
accomplished, the need for controlling the government, and with it the
role of the Socialist Party, becomes superfluous -- to say nothing of
any further need for repression.
#5.06 M. Lepore, 06 April 1993
Your article, Ron, highlights some of the crucial questions facing the
movement. I hope the readers are starting to form a picture of your
party's unique solution.
First I'll reply to some of your specifics, and then I'll make a
general observation about how your philosophy sits with me.
> If "workers" must be employed in industry, are unemployed or
> non-industrial workers excluded?
The word "industrial" in the phrase "industrial union" refers to the
use of a tree structure which defines union membership according to
the output or the function of the work site. For example, if you're a
school nurse, you would be represented in the education workers'
branch. It would be called "craft unionism" for the school nurse to
be part of the medical workers' branch. (This distinction is made for
the transition out of capitalism, and is not necessarily a permanent
feature.)
Any usage of the words "production" and "industry", by any Marxian as
well as any syndicalist source, includes all career activities which
the population finds use for. The IWW has been wise to realize this
fact, and so it has organized subdivisions for everyone from poets to
exotic dancers. Since the word "industry" isn't meant to imply the
popular image which the word invokes, perhaps someone will suggest a
word that isn't so misleading.
Unemployed individuals need to be included in general membership
branches, although usually not in the workplace branches.
> The trouble with the industrial union concept is that it
> pegs itself too narrowly to one specific phase of
> capitalism's evolution
The various types of social boundaries given by capitalism are used as
vehicles for getting beyond them. Your movement does something
similar when it forms national political parties. After the
revolution, there will be no limit to the changes we can make to the
form of democracy. No longer will we have to specialize in one
career, nor act within national borders. We won't have to continue
using any of the transitional forms of organization. But we must
walk before we can throw away our crutches.
> the new "constitution." A document analogous to those which
> litter today's junkyard of nations is strictly unnecessary
> the whole purpose of a political constitution is to spell
> out regimes of privilege and pecking orders showing everyone
> where their place is.
You're speaking of a POLITICAL constitution, where the task at hand is
to do anything necessary to preserve class rule, such as collecting
taxes, regulating commerce, and fighting wars.
An ECONOMIC constitution would be a snapshot of how all economic parts
are arranged within the whole at any given moment. For instance, it
might say that school bus drivers are being represented by two
delegates to a local education council, and three delegates to a local
transportation council. It would also give the formula for
determining whether each administrative decision is to be referred to
central planning, to municipal planning, or to the occupational
associations. Perhaps, because of the huge volume of detail required,
"almanac" is a better word than "constitution". I would call it a
constitution because democratically amending the form of the economic
departments and democratically amending the reference record would be
the same action.
Finally, some general notes --
Your philosophy and mine both advise the working class, not to follow
leaders, not to install leaders, but to attain an understanding of the
better life we could have, and what we must do. Then we will express
that new consciousness by building a classless society. No
disagreement there. However, we seem to disagree on the type of
details which we must learn to hold in our consciousness, and why.
I argue that the manner in which we organize will largely determine
the result we will end up with. The working class needs to focus on
the question of what sort of administrative structure our collective
economic planning should have, and we must organize along the lines
which will implement that goal. Failing to do this, we may acquire
some bureaucratic system which is not what we have intended.
As you pointed out, I do believe that the revolution must occur at the
workplace. I view the revolution as the act of implementing workers'
control of industry, and an end to the extraction of surplus value. I
begin with merely this, because there will be many future
opportunities to do more. There will be plenty of time to change our
whole thinking, to give up our metaphysical superstitions and our
material greed, and to make additional social changes that might now
be beyond our comprehension.
When we make our history, we have to find our way as though a strobe
light were intermittently shining on an obstacle course. I propose
that we take just one leap, and then we can take another look at where
we are. Perhaps the workers' council structure will be a temporary
phase, but it provides a definable way to move from class rule to a
new collectively coordinated system. You're probably right to say
that "the revolution is not completed" until we transcend many
remnants of the past, such as the use of exchange values, the division
of labor inherited from capitalism, and so forth. But my objectives
would also be transmutable into yours, by a majority vote, and I think
that course can be taken more easily than moving directly from the
violent storm of capitalism to a system completely free of all
remnants of capitalism.
It wouldn't be fair of me to attempt to paraphrase you, but I'll tell
you what your message sounds like to me, subjectively: -- There's no
need to experiment early on with workers' councils, because, when the
revolutionary period comes, we will spontaneously deduce, and we will
nearly all agree, how society needs to be arranged. The working class
will attain such a highly evolved collective mind that the new
socialist system won't even need a constitution. We won't need to
prearrange any structural safeguards against bureaucracy because, in
our condition of supercharged awareness, bureaucracy couldn't even
begin to take hold. We won't even need that section of the
constitution which guarantees individual freedoms, because no one will
ever think of infringing on anyone else's freedoms. We won't need to
require people to contribute some work before they can go shopping,
because no one will ever think of being greedy or egotistical. And
exactly how are we going to arrive at this elevated plane? I suppose
that we're going to write our socialist pamphlets in such a convincing
manner, that the whole working class will attain Buddhahood. Then we
will all act in unison and synchrony, making a world in which no one
will show any signs of competitive behavior, forevermore. Again --
I'm not claiming that this is what you said, but that's what your
transitional program sounds like to me.
However, I'm skeptical about this leap to enlightenment that's
supposed to take place in our minds prior to the revolutionary period.
If we were capable of that, I suppose we would have already done it
long ago. While humans are capable of improving our reasoning
capacity in gradual phases, we are not a wholely logical species. I
see that, in a recent poll, between 65 and 80 percent of the U.S.
population (depending on the age group) said they agree with the
statement that "the Bible is the totally accurate word of God". (TIME
Magazine, April 5, 1993, p. 47) Even if we leave alone the matter of
blind faith for the moment, to conclude that any book so filled with
self-contradictions can somehow be "totally accurate" shows our
frequent inability to reason properly. If this is how the human
species is, if we are often unable to recognize a simple logical
fallacy when we trip over one, then I propose that we should set out
to enlighten ourselves by one step at a time. Therefore I don't
begin with a goal that expects people to abandon all false thinking
before historical progress can commence. Instead, I identify the
immediate goal to be the replacement of class rule by workers'
collective self-management. Let our mental unfolding, and much
additional social restructuring, come as it will.
We may guess what habits and values we will live by a hundred years
after the revolution, but we must be concerned now with the first
decade after the revolution. At that time, we will show some tendency
toward greed and chaos and bureaucracy, and we must have structured
our revolutionary goal and program to work around these recurrent
traits. The industrial union idea builds stability into the
instrument of transition, the type of organization itself, so that we
won't have to demand so much of "pure" consciousness. Industrial
unionism is a program that we can enact without every member of the
working class first becoming a Buddha.
#6.05 H. Morrison, correspondence in response to issue #5
I have never dug deeply into the writings of Daniel De Leon.
As a young man, some 60 years or so ago, I read only enough and by him
to realize that his theories were not my cup of tea. But my reasons
for rejecting Industrial Unionism should become a bit more clear in my
statement below.
My statement for publication is not intended as an _official_
position of the WSP, but simply as my own interpretation of what that
position is.
I have heard protests, even from comrades, that "you can't have
complete socialism over-night!" My response has always been that once
a significant majority indicated with emphasis that they want a
socialist system, why would they wait "over-night" to install it? By
that time, the needed "apparatus" (international organization) would
be ready and waiting, and the capitalist class would know that it no
longer enjoys the support of the population -- that their time had
come to disappear -- along with the working _class_, and _class_
I will expatiate on what is wrong with De Leonism -- as I see
In the first place, we World Socialists have enough "gall" in
continuing to insist on the need for a majority of socialist-conscious
working class people, in the industrially developed world, to
understand and approve of the rudiments of a socialist world-society
before such a revolution can be successful. We agree with Marx and
Engels as put by them way back in 1848 (in the Manifesto) that it is
the working _class_ that will eventually become revolutionary-minded.
Now that, in itself, is quite a proposition; but to actually lay out a
"blueprint" of how such a mass of human beings are going to act in
organizing for such a society -- perhaps _another_ century or two from
now, takes a hell of a lot of gall! How in hell do you know what the
world of capitalism will look like even fifty years from now? If Marx
and Engels -- and even De Leon -- were to come alive today, they'd
probably all drop dead in shock at what they see in the factories and
workshops of the industrial world. And here we have De Leonists,
today, knowing full well that the entire numbers of workers throughout
the world of our times who are even interested in listening to or
reading about a socialist discussion are infinitesimal in numbers!
The only task for socialists that makes any sense is to
propagate the ideas of a world without national boundaries, without
buying and selling, without wage-labor and capital. How in hell can
such propaganda be of any interest, or use, to the members of a Labor
Union -- even a De Leonist type Industrial Union? The Number One
reason for its existence is to fight for "immediate concerns," wages
and conditions. Not only that -- the members of such a Union, if it
is to be at all effective, will be representative in their political
preferences, of the various political groupings; not to mention
religious affiliations.
I shall concentrate only upon the two paragraphs in your rough
draft beneath your request for a response from the World Socialists to
your objection. The implication in paragraph #1 is that, following a
socialist revolution, a _state_ in the sense of the historical
political state would continue to exist. I realize that this is in
line with some of the De Leonist material that I have seen over the
years; we will continue to have police and armies, for example. My
question to you is this: Why would a significant majority of
socialists want to continue a system with a traditional, failed, state
apparatus with all of the trapping of capitalism -- army, police, not
to forget secret police?!
In this socialist's opinion, a 51% majority is greatly
insufficient and in such an eventuality, the capitalist parties should
be permitted to continue running their Government until the continuing
chaos would produce that significant majority. The De Leonist concept
of a successful revolution has to be one of a majority -- or near
majority -- of non- and even anti-socialists in the population. How
could it be otherwise when you -- an avowed De Leonist -- raise the
potential threat _after_ the socialist revolution? What you
apparently fail to understand is the fact that the capitalist class
does not back fascist parties before they demonstrate a mass
working-class support. Such certainly was the case in both Italy and
Germany. And in the former USSR the "Communist" (state capitalist)
dictatorships were not able to withstand the rising withdrawal of
support by the working class.
You see, Michael, the main reason that the capitalist class is
able to continue to rule is the fact that it has wide support among
the population -- and the same holds true where there is a ruling
bureaucracy rather than a nominal capitalist class. Governments have
to spend more money in "head-fixing" than they spend even in weaponry.
And with good reason, for how useful are weapons to them when the
heads that direct the wielders of them are not properly fixed? So we
get back to the question of the prime work of socialists today: the
propagation of socialist theory -- the socialist explanation of why
capitalism cannot work in the interest of the working class -- that it
is a historical development of world societies that has long since now
outlived its usefulness.
Finally, I see no suggestion in your message of how the
population after the revolution is to have access to the requirements
of life. Do you suggest the De Leonist plan of labor vouchers? If
so, does that not demonstrate that you just do not grasp the fact of
the matter: that capitalist industry, in its modern development, can
turn out such quantities of all of mankind's needs and wants with such
abundance that it has to be restrained because of its celerity in
flooding markets? We live in the tail end of the 20th century -- not
back in the mid- or last quarter of the 19th!
Can a system of free right of access to all needs and wants be
introduced immediately following a socialist revolution? Let me
answer that one with a sort of parable:
Let us imagine, in a dream, that an Arabian Nights genie rises
out of the sea and issues a guarantee to world capitalism that every
family and every individual would enjoy a healthy bank balance,
enabling them to unload markets, through purchases, as fast as they
become loaded; thus enabling capitalists and bureaucrats to reap their
profits. How long would it take the ruling class to order the needed
rate of production? That is all the time it would take for a world
socialist population to convert to the needed intensity of production.
After all, Michael, a large percentage, if not the majority, of
capitalist production is wasteful and parasitical, and would be
eliminated. And the advance of scientific techniques has long since
knocked any Malthusian ideas out of believability. 'Nuff sed!
Yours for world socialism,
Harry Morrison
#6.06 M. Lepore, reply to H. Morrison
Harry, here are my thoughts about your recent letter:
> but to actually lay out a "blueprint"
I assume that blueprint being referred to is, for example, De Leon's
famous statement -- "Civilized society will know no such ridiculous
thing as geographic constituencies. It will only know industrial
constituencies."
I recall also that, in one of your articles years ago, you used the
word "blueprint" when you criticized the SLP's frequently reproduced
chart which depicts possible examples of a future socialist
administration. (For example, the chart appeared in the SLP's
newspaper, _The People_, Sept. 22, 1990.)
This chart shows "Automobile Plant No. 1, Detroit" containing
departments labelled "engineering", "tool & die", and "assembly".
This plant, along with "Automobile Plant No. 2, Detroit", and also
"Plant No. 3", are interconnected to a larger conference entitled
"local automobile industry council". This Detroit council, in turn,
is interconnected with the "Cleveland council" and the "Los Angeles
council", to form a wider circle which bears the name "national
automobile industry council". That larger organization is connected
to the "All-Industry Congress", which has various sections: "Mining;
Public Service; Food Supply; Manufacture; Construction;
Transportation."
Above the chart appears this explanation: "The chart below is
not a blueprint. Rather, it is intended to illustrate graphically the
principle upon which socialist industrial unionism and the future
socialist industrial democracy rest, using the auto industry as an
example." In fact, the headline appearing above the text is the
phrase: "Not a blueprint."
Another diagram on the side, entitled "Representation", says,
"You will cast your ballot in your shop for:
- Plant Council
- Local Industry Council
- National Industry Council
- All-Industry Congress"
Note: Since I'm not affiliated with the SLP, I'll ask the interested
reader to contact their headquarters for information about their
program: Socialist Labor Party, 914 Industrial Ave., Palo Alto, CA
94303 USA. Subscriptions to _The People_ (two issues per month,
except monthly in January and July) are $4.00 (foreign subscriptions
require payment by International Money Order or U.S. dollars).
Except for the fact that I would say "global" in place of the word
"national", I agree with the basic point being made in the SLP's
chart. The intent is not to define the precise structure of a future
society, but to give a hypothetical example to aid in the
visualization process. Since most people have difficulty imagining
how social ownership of industry can possibly mean something other
than state ownership based on territorial constituencies, I rather
like this sort of this visual aid.
Of course, the exact department designations in the chart are known to
be fictitious. It may be that we no longer use automobiles, or that
we won't make them in Detroit, or that the central conference of
all industries may not include a "manufacture" delegation, but
something else which does the job. Since the diagram is not to be
taken literally, I don't think such expressions should be viewed as
attempts to provide a "blueprint".
The basic points appear to me to be:
-- that all industry sub-functions, whatever they are, must be
interconnected so that production can be administered;
-- that the structure must feature democratic election of all
planning levels (rather than having "top-down" appointment of
intermediate management);
-- that nested geographical units (town, county, province) are not
recommended as the primary basis of structure.
If you disagree with these points, I'd be interested to know why. If
you agree with these points, I wonder why there would be an objection
to expressing them through speculative illustrations. If you have no
opinion about these points, then it seems you are asking people to
support a nebulous goal without knowing what they would be getting.
> a world without national boundaries
I agree with the World Socialists' viewpoint that socialism must be a
worldwide system without national boundaries. I disagree with the
traditional De Leonist view on this matter.
There are severe problems with the SLP's use of national terms, such
as "a socialist United States" (_The People_, Oct. 10, 1987) and "an
international socialist order" (_The People_, Dec. 5, 1987). The SLP
has proposed: "Socialist America will deal with other real socialist
countries as part of a Socialist International...." (_The Weekly
People_, Jan. 9, 1971).
First of all, socialism means organization of society according to the
people's intentional decision about what best suits our needs. There
is no conscious choice involved in the use of national boundaries,
because these boundaries are given from the past. Boundaries are as
meaningless as random cracks in the earth's crust which have formed
bodies of water, or the lines drawn in ancient times by advancing
armies, or monarchs' land grants to their cousins. It is clear that
such arbitrary lines should not be part of the planning of modern
economic production and distribution.
Secondly, "socialist countries" would have to trade materials with
each other, something similar to, "We'll ship you four tons of bauxite
for each ton of chromite that you ship to us." This would be
followed by disagreements based on localized self-interests, e.g.,
"Why should we trade with you, when this other country will give us
five tons of bauxite for each ton of chromite, rather than four?" The
"socialist" countries would then have a material basis for conflict.
The method of historical materialism shows that a material basis
for conflict generally leads to actual conflict. That's not my idea
of a socialist world.
> even a De Leonist type Industrial Union? The Number One
> reason for its existence is to fight for "immediate
> concerns," wages and conditions
De Leon's actual position was that "... the trades union has a
supreme mission ... enabling the working class to assume and conduct
production." This particular purpose was described as "the remoter
utility of the union, in fact, its real revolutionary and historic
mission." (_The Burning Question of Trades Unionism_) According to
this view, struggles over wages and working conditions are secondary,
something that should be pursued only if the union has sufficient
membership in a few sites to press such demands, but not yet enough
membership society-wide for a revolution to occur.
> the members of such a Union, if it is to be at all
> effective, will be representative in their political
> preferences, of the various political groupings
Just for the record -- De Leonists usually advocate "educate first;
organize afterwards", on both the political and industrial fields;
"... wage workers must be educated in socialism before they can be
organized upon industrial lines." (Olive Johnson, report to the 1924
SLP national convention.)
The socialist industrial union can, of course, admit members who agree
with the basic concept of social control of industry but need further
education about the complete sociological theory. In the latter case,
it is the job of the union is to educate them, and to prepare them for
actual self-management. A "pure and simple" trade union, i.e., a
union which formally endorses capitalism (such as the AFL-CIO), must
fail to perform this function.
De Leon said, "...'pure and simpledom' neglects the drilling in
class-consciousness, aye, prevents it.... No revolutionary class is
ever ripe for success before it has itself well in hand.... It is one
of the missions of the trades union to drill its class into the
discipline that civilization demands." (from the editorial "A Mission
of the Trades Union", _The Daily People_ March 4, 1905)
> The implication in paragraph #1 is that, following a
> socialist revolution, a _state_ in the sense of the
> historical political state would continue to exist
I'd like to clarify this point. The De Leonist position is not that
the state shall continue to exist after the revolution, nor should the
De Leonist accuse the World Socialist of advocating continuation of
the state after the revolution. However, the De Leonist, who
believes in defining a crystal clear alternative, a takeover of the
industrial management role by a large workers' association, based on
integrally united industry branches, is usually at a loss to imagine
what the World Socialists could mean by "conscious" but not
"industrial" organization. If the management method is not to be the
political state, nor is it to be an amalgamation of workplace
committees, then it's difficult for me, personally, to imagine what
else it could be.
But let's admit that there has been some misunderstanding on both
sides.
I think that former SLP national secretary Arnold Petersen was wrong
when he said this of the World Socialist program: "The inference, of
course, is clear that the political state will conduct the processes
of production -- an inescapable conclusion in any case, since they
reject the Socialist Industrial Union Government as such an 'agent'".
(Petersen letter dated Oct. 21, 1963, reprinted in _The Western
Socialist_, No. 4 - 1964, p. 15).
On the other hand, I think the SPGB was wrong when it wrote: "If some
unions still have 'socialism' as their object, it is only
nationalisation (state capitalism) that they have in mind." (the
pamphlet _Trade Unions_, 1980, p. 16) This statement is not typically
true of syndicalists.
Neither philosophy aims at state management of industry, and it is
to be hoped that neither side would be firing this inaccurate charge
at the other.
> In this socialist's opinion, a 51% majority is greatly
> insufficient and in such an eventuality, the capitalist
> parties should be permitted to continue running their
> Government
Although I disagree with your strategic preference, I'm gratified to
hear this important question answered directly. I haven't seen this
matter of narrow majority support dealt with in the literature of
your Companion Parties, nor, for that matter, in the De Leonist
> What you apparently fail to understand is the fact that the
> capitalist class does not back fascist parties before they
> demonstrate a mass working-class support
The capitalist class is generally not placed in jeopardy of having all
its property rights declared null and void, so I'm not so sure what
lengths it would go to.
> Do you suggest the De Leonist plan of labor vouchers?
I understand that the World Socialist goal is "free access" to goods
and services by everyone. I can easily picture this as applied to
things that no one can collect in unreasonable quantities, such as
food, transportation, and education. I cannot imagine how we could
have unrestricted access to items capable of being accumulated, such
as hobby equipment, jewelry, and automobiles. Infinite access to such
things, even if automation could put out all the production, would
destroy the planet's ecosystem through deforestation, industrial heat
emissions, and the generation of garbage. Since finite limits to
consumption must exist, either due to machine throughput rates or for
environmental protection, the only question is how these limits should
be set. It seems reasonable to me to have access to such collectible
items in proportion to personal work hours. This approach allows the
individual to choose for oneself the relative importance of leisure
time and material consumption, which I consider a greater of measure
of freedom than simple rationing would be.
#6.07 H. Morrison, reply to M. Lepore
In regard to your thoughts about my recent letter, let me just
concentrate upon one of your objections, which will go far -- I hope
-- in clearing what I consider to be your (and the De Leonist)
confusion of a socialist system in operation, even in its early
stages.
You use as an illustration of the need for an Industrial Union,
the manufacture of automobiles and, I presume, trucks of various
sorts. Really! You must be aware of the fact that, under capitalism,
the prime concern of the car companies is the production of _profits_,
not motor vehicles; that contrived obsolescence is built into them to
keep them from lasting in "health" over too long a time. Do you
really believe that once the capitalist system has been abolished,
once all of the useless and parasitical industries have been abandoned
-- which would have to take place immediately upon declaring the era
of capitalism over and done with -- that as many as one half of the
vehicles being produced in these times would be needed? Why, even
when it comes to the "ownership" of cars for pleasure -- for traveling
purposes -- the object is to get wherever one wants to get to with the
greatest possible degree of comfort and dispatch -- unless one just
wants a leisurely drive. How much easier it would be -- and
pleasurable -- were it possible to call by phone for a car, and even
for a driver, rather than having the nuisance of one's own vehicle in
one's garage or yard. What you are doing, Michael, is carrying over
the methods and the needs of industry under a system, the mode of
production of which is geared to the "manufacture" of profits, into a
system, the mode of production of which is geared to _consumerism_ --
production for _use_.
Furthermore, Michael, you must be aware of the fact that the
"wants" of the population are largely "manufactured" by the
Advertising Industry. And, as noted above, the motivation behind it
has to be _profits_. Would everybody want a yacht, for example, of
his/her own. I, personally, cannot imagine why one would not prefer a
situation could be delivered for one's use at a given time. I,
personally, and as I am certain, millions of others, would not be
interested in yachting. And your inclusion of "jewelry" reminds me of
an observation by that patron saint of capitalists -- the 18th century
economist Adam Smith: "Gold and silver, as they are naturally of the
greatest value among the richest, so they are naturally of the least
value among the poorest nations. Among savages, the poorest of
nations, they are of scarce any value." (_The Wealth of Nations_, Bk.
1, Ch. XI, PT. 111) In fact, as Marx, a century later, would note,
savages had no concept of "value" -- _use value_ yes, but _value_
(socially necessary labor time) NO! And the concept of _value_ will
ultimately disappear once the world has shaken production for profit.
In short, Michael, you should apply your excellent reasoning on
the anachronistic ideal of national boundaries in a socialist world on
De Leon's carrying over of industrial organization of an (improved)
capitalist-oriented nature. The very thought of the existence of a
group of people designated as workers (of various types) is foreign to
the concept of traditional Marxists. It is really, in my opinion, a
case of "the dead hand of the past weighing like an Alp on the minds
of the living." (Marx, in his _18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte_) Of
course there will have to be some sort of organization in production
centers, but why not leave that problem to the imaginations of those
who will live at that time?
#7.02 L. Otter, Reply to the debate in O.T. #5
Laurens Otter
College Farm House
Salop. TF1 1PR
To O.T. and the DISCUSSION BULLETIN:
Except for the matter of abstention
or otherwise from parliamentary elections,
the Lepore/Szalai/Elbert debate hits on the
most basic issues for D.B. readers; ones not
confined to the debate between Spugubs and
De Leonists, since the distinction between an industrial strategy and
a "political" one is mirrored in the debate between syndicalists &
Malatestans.
Anarchists too (both syndicalist and communist) are divided as
to how much support/involvement on the part of the majority is
necessary before revolution can finally be made. (Since we measure
support not just in terms of how many people are prepared to put their
X one way or another on a voting slip, it might be that anarchist
debate would concentrate on other crucial figures than the 51% or 80%
so far instanced, but mutatis mutandis there is similar debate; & I
write this in the knowledge that anarchists too have not answered the
questions satisfactorily.)
So far all of your participants have assumed that the growth of
socialist consciousness will be constant, unilinear & unidimensional.
(This would seem to be a remarkably undialectical assumption for
Marxists to make. May I suggest that growth is more likely to come in
a series of waves, perhaps each flow will go further than the last,
but here will be ebbs in between.) All seem agreed that such growth
will certainly take decades and possible centuries to pass from the
51% to the 80% mark.
Equally none of the participants have touched on the control of
the Capitalist Press, the role played by the capitalist domination of
the educational system, (indeed the libraries, advertising, & an
hundred other ways to shape opinion,) in enlisting workers into
support for capitalist institutions; nor has there been any mention of
the "Secret State", the way that through dirty tricks governmental
bodies can distort information, [c.f. Spycatcher,] & influence
opinions.
There is another problem that those who believe in the vote
must face. I don't know enough about the Canadian Constitution; in
Britain no government has ever polled 51% of all votes, Thatcher with
a 42% of _votes cast_, (something round 30% abstentions,) had a
majority of about 100 seats in Parliament. The U.S. system is such
that only about 70% of those eligible to register do, & so,
Presidential polls as far as I can gather seldom attract 50% of the
real electorate; 26% of the population is therefore enough to win.
So long before the SPGB or SLPUS gets even the 51% discussed
they will have been elected to be the majority (probably overwhelming
majority) in Parliament &/or Presidential office. Those who insist
that 80% is necessary before there is a socialist transition have to
envisage a situation where socialists are (whether constantly or
frequently) so elected, for decades, (possibly centuries,) during
which they will not feel they have a mandate to make a socialist
What will they do? Some De Leonists would say abstain until
such time as they have the overwhelming majority necessary. That
means leaving power in the hands of a minority, _by definition only an
anti-democratic minority would agree to exercise such power_, which
could open up all sorts of dangers. The Spugubs say that its
members will vote on bourgeois issues on their merits, which means
that a government can only be formed by those members of the
parliamentary minority who could expect the SPGB to vote for (or at
least abstain on) their measures - as meritorious capitalist measures,
- [the SPGB would not approve an anarchist abolition of government by
direct action.]
Alright, the SPGB would keep its hands clean, it wouldn't form the de
jure government, but as it would have an absolute veto on all
govenrment actions & decrees, it would be the de facto one. The party
would then have to choose what it did about M.I.5 etc., the Capitalist
Press, the educational system,....
#7.03 M. Lepore, Reply to L. Otter
> your participants have assumed that the growth of socialist
> consciousness will be constant, unilinear & unidimensional
I don't think anyone has made that assertion. I wish to clarify my
own premise.
An increase in socialist consciousness, whether its progress takes on
a exponential or any other wave shape, must obey a theorem of
mathematics which applies to all continuous functions in the universe.
If a function has value A at time t1, and value B at time t2, then,
for any selected value between A and B, there must exist at least one
point in time when the function has that selected value. Socialist
support is approximately zero today; therefore, if it someday turns
into a majority support, then there must be points in time when it
passes through all intermediate values - 19 percent, 37 percent, 51
percent, etc. If the change occurs slowly enough, then the 51 percent
phase is likely to coincide with at least one Election Day. Some
socialists speak of someday attaining vast majority support but do not
consider what should be done at the time of narrow majority support.
They are neglecting an event which the laws of mathematics must
impose.
> All seem agreed that such growth will certainly take decades
> and possible centuries to pass from the 51% to the 80% mark.
I don't make any assertion about how long it might take to get from
51% to 80%, nor do I suppose it matters much, since I consider a
simple majority to be the only prerequisite for ending class rule. My
intention was to refer only to the movement from 0 to 51 percent.
Popular support for industrial democracy in a classless society is
approximately zero. Historical progress has been temporarily
suspended. We cannot determine how long the present Dark Age will
The perpetual Marxian predictions of capitalism's pending collapse are
nonsense. I can easily imagine humanity reaching the 23rd century
with capitalism still in existence, with the workers on the
spaceships, receiving a 0.0001 fraction of their product and robbed of
the rest, rebelling periodically for a bare living wage. I'm
completely serious about this. There is no indication that capitalism
will go away until we effectively illustrate to the working class the
need to end it. Historical materialism itself doesn't disprove my
statement; only some of historical materialism's possible but unproven
corollaries discount it. Any Marxists who deny this possibility
without offering specific reasons are being teleological.
Capitalism has found a way to preserve itself. The method is to grant
the working class a few small concessions, wait a generation, blame
the current social problems on the "liberals" and take back what it
has previously conceded, wait another generation, respond to new
rebellion by granting a few concessions, and begin the cycle again.
The workers, as nearsighted as we seem to be, may respond indefinitely
in the same cyclical way: elect a conservative ... still have the
same social problems ... elect a liberal ... still have the same
social problems ... elect a conservative.... This can go on for
centuries, unless socialists can find a way to present the
revolutionary case convincingly.
> none of the participants have touched on the control of the
> Capitalist Press, the role played by the capitalist
> domination of the educational system
There's little to debate regarding the fact itself. All Marxists
already agree that -
"The ideas of the ruling class are, in every epoch, the ruling
ideas; i.e., the class which is the ruling _material_ force of
society, is, at the same time, its ruling _intellectual_ force.
The class which has the means of material production at its
disposal, has control, at the same time, over the means of mental
production, so that, thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of
those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it."
-- Marx and Engels [1]
If we agree on that much, then we should be brainstorming to find
possible ways to break out of the situation.
> the "Secret State", the way that through dirty tricks
> governmental bodies can distort information
I recognize that problem, and I admit that I don't know what to do
about it. But whatever may be the degree of distortion of the
democratic process through right-wing trickery, my assertion is the
same: If the workers ever attempt to seize possession of the means of
production, while the elected offices of the state (which control the
military and police) are still under the control of capitalist
political parties, then there will occur one of the bloodiest ruling
class reactions in history. This is my message to those who advise
that a workers' economic revolution should "ignore the state". It's
very difficult to "ignore" someone who will be firing a machine gun
into your face.
There is only one way to get rid of the state (as anarchists and
Marxists similarly desire to do) - and that is to first win control of
the state, and then, from that position of control, dissolve it. It
will be difficult, but saying that it will be difficult doesn't make
it any less necessary.
> Presidential polls as far as I can gather seldom attract 50%
> of the real electorate; 26% of the population is therefore
> enough to win
That would tend to shift the numerical value at which a socialist
political victory takes place, but leave us with the same basic
question about what should be done in the event of it. However, it's
a myth that those who refrain from voting refrain due to apathy.
Nonvoters usually cite their reason to be the very small differences
among the politicians who have made it through the nomination process
and therefore have a chance of being elected. This situation would
not dominate if the working class were to unite in a class conscious
manner on the political field.
> Some De Leonists would say abstain until such time as they
> have the overwhelming majority necessary.
De Leon's editorials [2] suggested that that, if the degree of working
class organization is not yet sufficient for social transformation to
occur, any socialists elected to the legislature should primarily use
their office as a rostrum. They should use the podium to the maximum
extent, use the press interviews and the letter-mailing privileges,
for working class education. As a secondary task - yes, I believe it
to be secondary - there would be opportunities to use the voting power
which that political office brings. This parliamentary activity would
be mostly negative - efforts to resist repressive legislation and
defend civil liberties, since genuine socialism can be built only by
an industrial union, and no working class political party can have any
role in it.
It's unclear under what circumstances socialists in the legislature
should vote on reform proposals, because most reforms intended to help
working people backfire on us. Revolutionary change is needed, not
because the reform of capitalism is insufficient, but because
capitalism cannot be significantly and permanently reformed.
> That means leaving power in the hands of a minority, _by
> definition only an anti-democratic minority would agree to
> exercise such power_, which could open up all sorts of
> dangers.
For that reason, workers' delegates elected to political office should
not make it a "principle" to abstain from parliamentary action, but
should accomplish whatever they can in that field, within the narrow
limitations. They should announce loudly what those limitations
are, then, without delay, return to the task of assisting the
organization of the productive class to revolutionize all social
institutions.
[1] Marx and Engels, _The German Ideology_ (1846); International
Publishers, 1972, p. 64
[2] De Leon, _Berger's Hit and Misses_, New York Labor News Co., 1912
(More recently reprinted under the title _A Socialist In
Congress: His Conduct and Responsibilities_)
#7.06 H. Morrison A reply to the previous correspondences
In regard to the objections to the employment of words such as
"hostile," and "wage war," in the Declaration of Principles of the
Companion Parties of Socialism -- and particularly the attitude of so
many that convinced socialists do have a common goal -- the abolition
of capitalism; and therefore should cooperate with one another, rather
than to engage in mutual vituperation:
The problem, insofar as the Companion Parties are concerned, is
in the definition of "socialism" -- the society that we all profess
to be advocating. We of the Companion Parties are apparently the only
ones who define socialism as a system based only upon production for
the needs and wants of the population as a whole, and not at all in
the needs of capital and surplus value. In fact, in our concept,
capital and surplus value will not exist.
In short, capital is capital regardless of the fact that it may
be owned nationally, corporatively, or individually. Capital is
wealth used to create more wealth, through exploitation of labor, with
a view to profit. It takes more than a change of vocabulary to
abolish capital and wage labor! Any organization that regards the
Bolshevik revolution of 1917, the Chinese revolution of 1950, etc., as
socialist has an entirely different concept of socialism than that of
the Companion Parties.
In the _Discussion Bulletin_, Number 21, Jan. 1987, this writer
has a two-and-three-quarter page letter in which he briefly reviewed,
_inter alia_, the attempted unification of the S.L.P. of A. and the
Socialist Party of America. As noted in the letter, the unification
conference took place in N.Y. City on January 6 and 7 of 1917. It
foundered, according to the S.L.P., on the "rock of Industrial
Unionism," which the S.P.A. refused to accept.
In short, to quote myself in that letter: "There can be no
more conclusive evidence than that to prove that the S.L.P.'s concept
of a socialist society was (and still is) not fundamentally different
from that of the parties of social democracy...." Change the name of
"wage labor and capital" to something different and the relationships
vanish into thin air -- or, rather, "hot air!"
The information in the above referred-to letter to the D.B.
was gotten from _The Socialist Standard_ (SPGB) of March, 1917, in an
article written by Adolph Kohn, an SPGB member in the U.S. at the
time, on the lam from the British military, as were many of his
comrades -- and a host of others -- otherwise "loyal" Britishers.
Kohn got his facts from _The Weekly People_ of Jan. 13, 1917.
As further evidence of the embracement of Bolshevik style
exploitation of labor via capital and surplus value, allow me to
present the following Resolution extracted from the Minutes of the SLP
Convention of 1924, found by this writer in a file on the SLP in the
stacks at the Mugar Library (Boston University).
In my opinion, there can be no better evidence of the nature of
the SLP and De Leonist "socialist" capitalism than what existed in the
former Soviet Union! The only real difference was the nature of the
"superstructure" -- the absence of actual soviets in the Government.
Minutes, Reports, Resolutions, Platforms, etc. of the Sixteenth
National Convention, Socialist Labor Party, May 10-13, 1924.
Published 1924 - SLP National Executive Committee
... Committee on Resolution reported the following resolution
on Nicolai Lenin and a motion was passed unanimously that it be
adopted by a rising vote.
Whereas; of Jan. 21, 1924, at 5:30 p.m., Nicolai Lenin, the
Premier of the Russian Soviet Republic, died near Moscow; and
Whereas; Lenin's devotion to principles, his fearlessness, his
ability in scenting fakers and traitors in the organization of
labor; his utter ruthlessness in attacking such; his clearness
and thorough understanding of Marxian principles and the
economic foundation of society, and the political and social
currents that flow therefrom made him a staunch champion of the
workers, loved by them, and dreaded and hated by their
plunderers; and
Whereas; his death at this important moment in the
reconstruction of society in Russia on Socialist lines, or at
this critical moment of the world's revolutionary proletariat
when capitalist society is crumbling, is an irreparable loss to
the world's Revolutionary Movement; and
Whereas; Lenin's creation -- the Soviet idea -- and De Leon's
creation -- the Revolutionary Industrial Union idea -- each in
the respective country serving as scaffolding of the Socialist
Republic, establish an affinity between Lenin and our own
De Leon, the Russian Revolution and the Socialist Labor Party
of America: therefore be it
Resolved; at the 16th National Convention of the Socialist Labor
Party, that to our Russian revolutionary comrades and to the
world's oppressed, we express our heartfelt grief at the loss of
this great proletarian revolutionist; and be it further
Resolved; that the National Secretary be directed to forward a
copy of these resolutions to the Russian Soviet Government; that
a copy be spread of the minutes and that the resolutions be
published in the Weekly People and other Party organs.
Now Really! Had Lenin possessed a "thorough understanding of
Marxian principles and the economic foundation of society, and the
political and social currents that flow therefrom", he would certainly
have understood that --
"One nation can and should learn from the others. And even when a
society has got upon the right track for the discovery of the
natural laws of its movement ... it can neither clear by bold
leaps, nor remove by legal enactments, the obstacles offered by
successive phases of its normal development. But it can lessen
and shorten the birthpangs." (Marx, _Capital_, Vol. I, Kerr, pp.
14-15)
The only lesson possible to have learned from the nations of
Western Europe in 1917 was that the capitalist economy is what
develops naturally out of feudal agrarianism and that dictatorship -
governing - would not alter that development -- although it could
retard it. In any event, Marxist-oriented economists in the former
Soviet Union must have learned that redefining "socialism" to conform
to capitalist relationships does not alter the situation: the
relationships of capital and wage labor dominated the scene in
"socialist" Russia under the "Marxian" Bolsheviks from Lenin to
Gorbachev! And any cursory reading of the history of Soviet Russia
under Lenin should reveal that the recurring periods of unrest,
before, and after, the institution of his capitalist New Economic
Policy (NEP) cast doubt, at least, on the universal love and affection
for that Dictator.
'Nuff sed! Yours for world socialism, and best wishes in our
attempt to stand up under all of this American capitalist
"prosperity!" Harry Morrison ("Harmo")
#7.07 M. Lepore Reply to H. Morrison
I agree with Harry's characterization of Lenin as a "dictator." For
those who have doubts, Internet users can connect to the U.S. Library
of Congress and browse its archive of Soviet historical documents (FTP
seq1.loc.gov, chdir pub/soviet.archive). In particular, see the
letter in which Lenin ordered the kidnapping of 100 randomly-selected
innocent people so that the hostages could be ceremoniously executed.
The SLP initially made the error of viewing the Bolshekik uprising as
an emancipatory one. In doing so, the SLP was repeating an error
which Marx and Engels had earlier made -- the assumption that
overturning a modern ruling class would eventually, but inevitably,
leave the people in democratic control. They didn't visualize the
possibility that there would arise a new style of class rule, with a
state falsely called "Communist" being the new owner of monopoly
capital, the new exploiter of the working class.
"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be
established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust
itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the
present state of things."
-- Marx and Engels, _The German Ideology_ (1846)
"In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary
movement against the existing social and political order of
things."
-- Marx and Engels, _The Communist Manifesto_ (1848)
Fortunately, the SLP very soon came to realize the class-ruled nature
of Soviet society, and it published pamphlets with titles like
_Marxism versus Soviet Despotism_ and _Stalinist Imperialism_. In
view of that important change, I'm inclined to overlook the earlier
mistake. (I'm certain that the SLP has never regarded the Chinese
revolution as a socialist one.)
Harry has been eloquent in showing us how the proposed World Socialism
differs from the industrial union conceptions, either the syndicalist
or the De Leonist variety. However, in my opinion, his assertion that
the industrial unionism approach continues the existence of capital
and wage labor has not been demonstrated.
#8.08 Correspondence from L. Otter, continuation of the debate
from issue #7
1. No one asserted that growth of socialist consciousness would be
unilinear, but all the arguments, as written, [& indeed your latest
reply,] would have been [be] meaningless unless the assertion was [is]
made, that there would never be two consecutive elections of which say
50% voted socialist & in the second only somewhere around 40%.
2. You appear willing to discount those who do not register to vote;
but the many De Leonists & most Spugubs who talk of needing an 80% (or
somesuch) mandate mean 80 % of the electorate; so though you may not
think my point matters, to their argument it does.
3. You assume that the world will survive, with capitalism, into the
23rd century. I think you have failed to take on board the ecological
case. No doubt, as the SLP & SPGB traditionally do, you pooh-pooh the
possibility of the world's leaders embarking on a world-destroying
The fact that you can quote Marx to the effect that there is a
rational _cause_ of war, does not mean that there may not be a chance
and irrational _occasion_. The economic causes of W.W. I had been
around a long time before Sarajevo; it took a chance happening to make
what was caused actually occur.
Actually I think your whole argument here is wrong; it makes the most
unmarxist (& even more un-De Leonist) assumption that capitalism
exists now in exactly the same sense that it existed in the time of
Marx, & can go on doing so; whereas the whole of Marxist theory
depends on the thesis that, as technology develops, economic & social
relations change, and the legal, constitutional & political framework
change in order to embody those new relationships.
Marx was at great pains, from the Economic and Humanist essays,
through the Communist Manifesto & onwards to Capital, to distinguish
socialism, & the economic analysis that underpinned it, from the
Republicanism that had been manifest in the American & French
Revolutions. That Republicanism was a sufficient antithesis to combat
the system of Mercantilism. But the Napoleonic Wars had seen an
exponential rise in the development of new economic technology.
[paradoxically less fast in revolutionary France than in reactionary
Britain,] (the industrial revolution had no doubt begun - as seed sewn
within the Mercantilist system - nearly 100 years before.)
Marx insisted that a new class system had arisen as a result of the
changes in the world that came about as a result of the French
Revolution, & that a new radical contradiction was needed. The French
Revolution had not abolished class privilege; it had merely replaced
an old form with a new, [& not just in France.]
Can you doubt that since Marx's day technology has developed as fast
as it did between 1789 & 1848? Do you think there will be no further
development? Are you so unmarxist as to doubt that the technological
transformation would be reflected in the social & economic sphere?
Even the SLP got round, just before the collapse of stalinism, to
seeing that what existed in the Soviet Union was a new bureaucratic
collectivist form of capitalism. There's plenty of evidence that the
trend within Western Monopoly Capitalism has equally been to
bureaucratic collectivism. Marx, all those years ago, said the world
would go, soon, to either socialism or barbarism. It went to the
latter.
4. Marx stressed that the state exists as the executive committee of
the ruling class, also that states exist to reflect the social
divisions within societies; so when you say "there is only one way to
get rid of the state ... & that is to win control of the state & then
from that position of control, dissolve it;" what you are in fact
saying is that you wish to take control of a class divided society, to
act as the executive committee of a ruling class.
No doubt you will cite Marx's approval of Lassalle's "Qu'est-ce que
c'est qu'une Constitution" as evidence that, if the working class is
fully mobilized, it can for a short time over-ride the natural
political power of the ruling class; & that therefore controlling the
state does not automatically mean running capitalism. (Though I think
that it is clear that De Leon in his later years rejected this belief,
renounced the aim of capturing the state, & insisted on the abolition
of the state ab initio.)
If however you are laying your trust in Lassalle's arguments; then you
are in duty bound to show where in this you differ from Lenin, whose
concept of a "workers" dominated [through the soviets] state
capitalist society in transition to socialism, albeit with profound
bureaucratic deformations," depended upon precisely this argument of
Lassalle's.
Moreover if you bother to think about what you said, you will see it
is self-evidently nonsense. We both agree that workers have to form
organizations of direct workers' control, that we have to replace the
capitalist state by these organs of direct workers' power. Well, if
these organizations achieve such power that they are in a position to
displace the state organization of capitalism, why would they instead
take over control of that state?
If they do, - which by definition means that they put a minority of
their number into power within the state organization, - how will you
guarantee that the rank & file workers' organizations will be able to
control these controllers of the state? It is the most elementary
marxism to say that the controllers of the state, since they are now
running capitalism [in whatever form it has by then reached,] will
inevitably develop an interest in the 'efficient' running of that
class society. The most elementary psychology, to know that they will
have come to believe that what is in their best interests, as the
controllers of capitalism, represents the true interests of those they
rule & to decide that any opposition by workers is due to reactionary
prejudices amongst those workers who cannot understand their own best
interests.
De Leon, despite his frequently absurd prejudices against anarchist
thinkers, nevertheless reached parallel conclusions; and in his later
years insisted that, immediately the SLP had a majority, government
would be adjourned sine die, & the previously organized industrial
union movement would launch a general stay-in strike to "take and
hold" property, & transform society. Obviously since Petersen
abolished the WIIU no subsequent De Leonist has been able to keep
literally to De Leon's perspective of revolution; but that doesn't
excuse your position [as exemplified by your insistence that workers'
delegates would not abstain,] which is a mere rerun of social
> that there would never be two consecutive elections of which
> say 50 % voted socialist & in the second only somewhere
> around 40 %
We already know that the magnitude of revolutionary aspirations does
reverse itself - it oscillates - so there's no need to speculate about
it. Looking at everything from socialist votes to enthusiasm for
union organizing, it seems to me that the peak in working class
consciousness to date occurred around the year 1910, and it is now
near an all-time minimum.
> the most unmarxist (& even more un-De Leonist) assumption
I don't know the usefulness in indicating that some of my opinions
are un-Marxist or un-De Leonist. Argument by authority is invalid.
The scientific method recognizes no articles of faith. We could say
that Einstein was un-Newtonian, and Newton was un-Aristotelian, but
these facts alone would tells us nothing about which propositions are
true or false. All hypotheses must be evaluated individually.
> you have failed to take on board the ecological case
> you pooh-pooh the possibility of the world's leaders
> embarking on a world-destroying war
Our species may go out of existence due to poisoning of the habitat, a
great war, an ice age, or a flare-up of the corona of the sun.
However, assuming that we survive, society will remain under the
control of some sort of ruling class minority until the day that the
people become educated and organized in a way that we have only begun
to show the slightest signs of.
Besides, it's not clear that a global catastrophe would terminate
capitalism. Some radiation-poisoned survivors would probably crawl
out of the rubble. Among them, there would be someone who would
proceed to coin a currency and start a bank; voila - capitalism.
> assumption that capitalism exists now in exactly the same
> sense that it existed in the time of Marx
I make, not this, but the opposite assumption. Of course, the
economic and political forms of capitalism are frequently revised.
Moreover, there is no known limit to such revisions. Structural
malleability is the reason why class rule cannot "collapse", despite
its many internal contradictions. A tripod can collapse, but a blob
of clay cannot.
> Can you doubt that since Marx's day technology has developed
> as fast as it did between 1789 & 1848? Do you think there
> will be no further development?
On the contrary, technological knowledge is exponential. Its rate
of increase is itself increasing.
> Marxist theory depends on the thesis that, as technology
> develops, economic & social relations change, and the legal,
> constitutional & political framework change
No one can place a time limit on how long it takes for a lagging
superstructure to catch up with the material base. As Engels,
rejecting mechanical determinism, reminded others:
"According to the materialist conception of history, the
_ultimately_ determining element in history is the production and
reproduction of real life. More than this neither Marx nor I
have ever asserted. Hence, if somebody twists this into saying
that the economic element is the _only_ determining one, he
transforms that proposition into a meaningless, abstract,
senseless phrase." [1]
If capitalism can become socially obsolete, and then prop itself up
for another hundred years, as we have seen it do, how could we know
that it cannot prop itself up for another three hundred years? This
cannot be resolved by saying that the system "contains the seeds of
its own destruction", or similar truisms which came to Marxism mainly
through Hegelian influence. It is only the development of awareness,
reflected in action, and not some inexorable laws of history, that can
inaugurate a classless society.
The cooperative society can be attained only by the enormous project
of changing the consciousness of our class, until the majority will
have reversed their present opinions, no matter how long this shall
take to accomplish. Then the population as a whole, acting
democratically, can remake our institutions. Any other program is
vanguardism; vanguardism is any other program.
If my approach is wrong, please suggest an alternative. Is it
supposed that something in the organism of history will eventually
complete its gestation period, and we will be surprised by the new
society that will be born? I would only ask Nietzsche's question --
"How could the next ten years teach what the past ten were not able to
teach?" [2]
It is sometimes supposed that capitalism will eventually make people
so miserable that we will put it to an end. However, I agree with
De Leon's reply: "If misery were sufficient to build a social
revolution, surely here were misery enough. But misery lacks the
necessary sufficiency by many a length. Misery is not enough: it
must lead to discontent. Discontent is not enough: it must be
enlightened on the causes of its misery, and the cure. Enlightenment
is not enough: it must be organized, disciplined and drilled to
effect the salutary revolution." [3]
> if these organizations achieve such power that they are in a
> position to displace the state organization of capitalism,
> why would they instead take over control of that state?
If a movement FOR radical change has NOT won control of the state,
then this must mean that the movement AGAINST social change still has
control of it. It's more difficult than I had expected it would be to
convince others of the implications of this fact. In the following
article, I will summarize why I insist that the political ballot will
be indispensable for a successful revolution.
> so when you say "there is only one way to get rid of the
> state ... & that is to win control of the state & then from
> that position of control, dissolve it;" what you are in fact
> saying is that you wish to take control of a class divided
> society, to act as the executive committee of a ruling class
No one can abolish something without first controlling it. A wrecking
ball is hurled toward a structure, not away from it. Water
extinguishes a flame by enveloping it, not by avoiding it. A white
blood cell must engulf the bacterium. To put an end to anything
implies the need to get onto it, into it, around it, to hold it, or to
go through it. Accordingly, it would be more logical for an anarchist
to ADVOCATE use of the political process, not to REJECT it.
Of course, in that period from the moment that the working class takes
political control to the moment that state is disintegrated, the
working class will literally be a ruling class. As Marx and Engels
[4] wrote, our actions must "raise the proletariat to the position of
ruling class, to win the battle of democracy." Then, within hours (if
we have organized properly), all class distinctions will go out of
existence. Either this will be done, or else the revolution, whatever
it was, wasn't socialist.
> that De Leon in his later years rejected this belief,
> renounced the aim of capturing the state, & insisted on the
> abolition of the state ab initio
> in his later years insisted that, immediately the SLP had a
> majority, government would be adjourned sine die
It was not in his later years, but a position held from an early
stage. De Leon first conceived of the Socialist Industrial Union
(SIU) program in 1904. Soon afterward, in 1905, he argued that
socialists who have taken control of political office should "adjourn
themselves, on the spot, sine die." (We should note, for those readers
who don't speak lawyers' Latin, that to end a body or a meeting "sine
die" means to adjourn without making provisions ever to reconvene.)
The goal of an abrupt termination to the state is also my position,
although your letter implies that there is a difference between this
position and my own.
> then you are in duty bound to show where in this you differ
> from Lenin, whose concept of a "workers" dominated [through
> the soviets] state capitalist society in transition to
> socialism
Lenin [5] argued that the "withering" of the political state must be
postponed until the "higher phase" is attained. The "higher phase" is
Marx's term [6] for the ultimate future when production will be so
automated that, it is speculated, everyone can have unrestricted
access to all goods and services, rather than having material
compensation in proportion to personal hours of work.
De Leonists, however, believe that, once we have entered the age of
mechanized mass production, e.g., the year 1900 would not have been
too soon, then the end of the state is waiting only for the owning
class to be deposed. Attainment or nonattainment of the higher phase
has nothing to do with it.
Marx explained that "The class domination of the workers over the
resisting strata of the old world must last until the economic
foundations of the existence of classes are destroyed." [7] These
economic foundations are two: industrialization (which we can cross
off the list at once, because it's already done) and the transfer of
industrial ownership from the capitalists to the workers' association
(the one extant requirement). Therefore, no "transition period" to a
classless and stateless society is necessary, useful, or justifiable.
As for the higher phase, i.e., the abolition of personal incomes
determined by work hours, I believe that it can arrive at any later
time (if it is to arrive at all, which today cannot be ascertained).
Lenin modified Marx by adding the further requirement that, as long
as society is not ready for the higher phase, then neither is it ready
to become stateless.
> how will you guarantee that the rank & file workers'
> organizations will be able to control these controllers of
> the state?
There are no guarantees anywhere in life, particularly in the critical
junctures of history. However, measures can be taken to bring
politics closer to the region of workers' self-reliance and direct
In the U.S. - I don't know about England - an organization isn't even
required to have the word "Party" in its name in order to nominate
political candidates. An industrial union could operate in the
political field directly, as opposed to endorsing a party, a separate
organization. We could elect union delegates to the legislatures,
where they could mandate the transfer of management to the workers'
association.
If the industrial union would choose such a program, then the
already-existing socialist political parties would be absorbed into
it. These parties would, in De Leon's words,"'break up camp' with a
shout of joy - if a body merging into its own ideal can be said to
'break up camp.'" [8]
> the controllers of the state ... will inevitably develop an
> interest in the 'efficient' running of that class society
It's not inevitable, but occasionally some people do the opposite of
what they had said they had intended to do. Just as the union must
not choose a known thief to be its treasurer, a workers' political
movement must not nominate anyone who has ever been heard to utter a
word of compromise of principles. The unbendable axiom is that
capitalism cannot be improved to any extent worth mentioning, and
the first responsibility of any socialist elected to political office
is to facilitate the demolition of class rule and its state.
I met a person of great integrity when I met Walter Steinhilber of the
SLP, which I think was in 1971. Since the party has used all sorts of
political campaigns merely for the educational opportunities which
those campaigns provide, Steinhilber was running for New York City
Comptroller. I asked him, "What would you do if you got elected?" He
replied, "Nothing. I understand that a Comptroller has something to
do with money. I can't even count the change in my pocket." My
second question: "What can we [high school students] do to help the
movement?" His reply - "Study."
[1] Engels, letter to Joseph Bloch, Sept. 22, 1890
[2] Nietzsche, _Thoughts out of Season_, Volume II, excerpt in
Geoffrey Clive, ed., _The Philosophy of Nietzsche_, New York:
New American Library, 1965, p. 223
[3] De Leon, editorial in _The Daily People_, Oct. 25, 1909
[4] Marx and Engels, _The Communist Manifesto_
[5] Lenin, _State and Revolution_, chapter 5
[6] Marx, _Critique of the Gotha Programme_
[7] Marx, _Conspectus on Bakunin_
[8] De Leon, _As To Politics_
#8.10 M. Lepore, addendum to my reply to L. Otter,
Opinion on the necessity of political organization
I begin by assuming that the adoption of socialism requires "the
general lockout of the capitalist class" by the workers (De Leon's
phrase, _Socialist Reconstruction of Society_, 1905). Next, I
consider the probable response by the state to this lockout.
The state always has, and promptly enforces, the rule that the legal
owner of property, when deprived of possession or effective control of
that property, can turn to the state for remedy. The process in the
U.S. goes something like this: The owner goes to court with
documents which prove legal ownership, and the judge issues the
paperwork which dispatches the police.
The next thing to recognize is that the state, when prevented from
implementing legal redress, begins automatically to escalate
the level of violence toward infinity. Even if a person is suspected
of committing the smallest misdemeanor, the state can never give up
until that individual is either placed under arrest or is dead.
Law enforcers generally use weapons like rifles, truncheons,
and noxious gas to return property to its legal owners. If necessary,
they would have no difficulty in obtaining rocket launchers and tanks.
Nor would there be hesitation to use these instruments. The
capitalist class would be willing, even anxious, to damage some of its
own property in an attempt to recover control of the rest of it.
Damage to a part would be looked upon as a form of tax, while a
successful revolution would be a total loss in the viewpoint of any
ruling class facing deposition. Moreover, the use of flame throwers,
tanks, etc., doesn't necessary imply significant damage to industrial
property. Since the workers would have to go home sometime, the
massacres could be carried out in the streets or at the workers'
places of residence.
If we are to have "a general lockout of the capitalist class", and yet
not see million of workers killed in the process, this response by the
state must be prevented. There have been at least four major
proposals about how to prevent it. I will give my personal evaluation
PROPOSAL 1: The workers must recruit the police and soldiers into the
revolutionary cause, so that they will not be willing to fire upon
their fellow workers.
The main problem with this suggestion is in the simple arithmetic of
fractions. Even if 99 percent of the working class were ready for
socialism, the state would probably have no difficulty in deputizing
or conscripting a million agents willing to use violence against the
PROPOSAL 2: A militia of workers must defeat the police and
soldiers in military combat.
This suggestion is impracticable, since the state forces would be the
side with the most advanced weapons and training. This suggestion is
also morally reprehensible, if there exist other means to enable the
transformation of society to occur in a peaceful manner.
PROPOSAL 3: The workers must use economic strength to deprive the
police and soldiers of material things which they require in order to
This is the General Strike recommendation. It relies on the
assumption that the state has very little inventory of ammunition,
vehicle parts, fuel, etc., and that the state's mercenaries would
require a continuous flow of supplies from industry. The correctness
of this assumption is seriously in doubt. It is likely that state
forces have sufficient inventory so that, even in the event of a
General Strike, the state could still massacre millions of workers.
PROPOSAL 4: The working class must win control of the order-giving
centers from which the police and soldiers receive their instructions.
Not all the time, but somewhere between 99 and 100 percent of the
time, the violent agencies of the state look to political offices for
their daily orders. In many countries, these political offices are
publicly elected. For example, typical for the U.S. would be that
the local police chief is an appointee of the mayor, county sheriffs
are elected directly by the county residents, and the army generals
are appointees of the national president.
By winning control of political office, the delegates of the working
class could either send the police and soldiers home, or could
reassign them to nonviolent occupations, such as medical and fire
department assistance. That would be the moment for the workers'
industrial union to take over the responsibility of planning the
industries and services.
This option has a major advantage: If it is already realized that
society cannot achieve socialism until a majority of the people come
to advocate it, then that new consciousness among workers would have
to be correlated with a new consciousness among voters. If we select
the political option, we will get it virtually for free.
There is an additional benefit to the political approach. Suppose
that the movement declares its intent to follow the constitutional
method in abolishing capitalist ownership, similar to the way in which
the 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution cancelled the legal
property rights of the slave-owners without compensation. Even if the
actual amendment process is never carried out, the mere advocacy of it
removes much (not all) of the state's ability to prosecute the workers
while they are organizing openly for revolution. In the state's view,
to call for the lockout of the present owners is to call for
trespassing, grand larceny, and probably treason as well. To "incite"
a crime is itself a crime. But simply propose the constitutional
method, and the state is immediately deprived of much of its basis for
repressive action.
I conclude that the organization of the political field, while it may
be encumbered by strategic problems, will nevertheless be necessary
for a successful and relatively nonviolent transition to social
ownership of the means of production.
#8.11 Correspondence from H. Morrison, continuation of the debate
After perusing O.T. #7 -- particularly the guest editorial by E.
Wizek, and M. Lepore's response to my own responses, I feel the need
to go all-out in an attempt to clear up certain misconceptions by
De Leonists in regard to the very "guts" of the Scientific Socialist
approach to the critique of capitalist production.
There is a tendency on the part of "do-gooders" and "left-wing"
radicals to practice what I view as a form of transubstantiation.
Just as the Catholic priest swears, by all that is holy, that the
wheaten wafers distributed to his faithful have been metamorphosed
into the flesh of Jesus through his (supernatural) incantations, and
that the wine that he himself sips is actually "God's" blood, our
liberal and "left-wing" radicals transubstantiate capital and wage
labor relationships into something other than what they are.
Please bear with me in my analysis of the Wizek examination of the
problems of capitalist employment and how to end them with an
Industrial Union society.
Let me begin, in reverse, with his final paragraph. I.U. society, he
asserts, will provide the jobs and an abundant income for all workers!
Is that not strikingly reminiscent of the campaign promises of all
politicians? "Good jobs at good wages" has been the battle-cry of the
Government office-seekers over the lifetimes of everyone now living
and of their forebears for centuries past. What fellow worker Wizek
apparently does not comprehend -- or does not agree with -- is the
fact that, in a socialist society, there would be no such phenomenon
as "income." Socialism would necessarily imply free right of access to
all needs by all of mankind. There will be no such activity as
production for markets, and that means that products will not be
"exchanged." "Exchange" of the products of labor denote _value_ --
which is "socially necessary labor time" -- and such a concept can
exist only when either direct barter or the need for a universal
equivalent is called for. Such needs have been part of a lengthy
historical process, and would not exist under a society that has
abolished commodity production.
In fact, socialism is incompatable with a world divided into nations.
There is not a single nation -- or group of nations -- that could be
self-sufficient in the minerals, etc., needed in modern production. A
socialist society would necessarily be world-wide in scope -- at least
encompassing all industrialized nations. Yet fellow worker Wizek
exposes his sense of nationalism with a grumble -- to wit -- "They
[employers] are not even necessarily American, for in this system
anyone with sufficient capital, from any country, can become a member
of the employer class." (!) (Comment on that would be superfluous,
indeed!)
In short, socialism implies a world without nations; and a world
without "exchange" and "value"; -- one world with production for use,
and _use value_ alone.
Now, in order to clear up some mis-information on the part of friend
Lepore on the S.L.P. position on Bolshevik Russia, throughout the
seven-odd decades of its existence, I offer the following facts,
culled from S.L.P. literature by various members/writers of the
W.S.P. for its _Western Socialist_ over a number of years of its
publication. In order that this writer will not be accused of tearing
fact from context, let me present the case in the words of the S.L.P.
writers themselves.
In an article entitled "The Russian Situation", appearing in _The
Weekly People_ of November 24, 1917, Mr. Arnold Petersen, National
Secretary of the Party, had the following to say:
Events in Russia furnish one of the most profound lessons
in Socialist teachings and tactics. Up-to-date Socialism
declares:
(1) Socialism is not possible until:
[a] Capitalism has developed to a point where all the
essential forces of production have been developed,
centralized and co-ordinated;
[b] When the exploited proletariat has divested itself
of the notion that the interests of the two main classes
in society are identical, and that this system of
production is God-ordained, and the only possible one.
(2) Socialism is not possible, even in a highly developed
capitalist country, until the working class organizes as a
class into industrial unions ... supplanting the political
State by the industrial representative councils of workers.
Applying this text to Russia, several facts leap into
prominence. In the first place, Russia as a whole is woefully
behind in capitalist development. By far the majority of the
population is composed of peasants, a large number of whom are
illiterate and wholly ignorant as regards the object of the
labor movement and the nature of the social revolution.
Consequently, not only is the material groundwork for Socialism
lacking, but the human element -- a class-conscious proletariat
-- is largely absent.
Last, but not least, the industrial proletariat is not --
so far as we are able to learn -- organized in industrial
unions, the condition sine qua non of the Socialist Republic.
... So long as the Bolsheviki was in opposition it was
doing excellent agitational work. Now that it is in power it
faces failure. The day of its victory was the day of its
defeat.
Now, while the World Socialist Movement would not quarrel with much of
the earlier points of that official S.L.P. assessment -- other than
the need for industrial union organization in the interests of
socialist revolution -- that official rejection of it as socialist
(or, at least, proletarian) in nature was short lived. The reason for
the about-face on the Russian question is made clear in an article in
_The Weekly People_ on February 9, 1918, just a few months following
that original Petersen assessment. The article dealt with a report by
Arno Dosch-Fleuroi, a correspondent of the _New York World_, who
claimed that Lenin was influenced by the ideas of Daniel De Leon. And
that bit of news, strengthened by an address by John Reed (of _Ten
Days That Shook the World_ fame) before the National Executive
Committee of the S.L.P., in which he stated that Lenin foresaw the
Industrial Union form of Government as Russia's future. This
adulation for their leader/hero was too much for the functionary
chiefdom of the S.L.P. Lenin himself a great admirer of De Leon,
according to Dosch-Fleuroi and John Reed! The party went over, bag
and baggage, for some time to come, to hopeful support.
Now, admittedly, there were periods of back-sliding on that issue in
S.L.P. literature, but never in their refusal to label that economy
as State Capitalism. The denunciations were always levelled at the
tyranny of the Dictatorship.
Before the working class can be ready for socialism, a significant
majority must approve of the need to end class society -- and be eager
to effectuate it without delay. In other words, the working _class_
must become history, and that would necessarily mean the end of the
need for labor unions of any sort or description. The interests of
those who perform the work would be societal interests -- not
sectional. And no longer would those who carry on production be
compelled to spend their entire working years as "appendages of the
machines" in capitalist-style Division of Labor.
With the abolition of the parasitical-type industries such as
advertising, banking, the military, etc., the workload needed for a
decent standard of living for all mankind would become a "breeze."
"Utopia"? Nonsense! The know-how and the means for immediate -- if
not sooner -- attainment of such a society are at hand -- thanks to
the historical development of capitalism itself! The last four
centuries have been painful ones for the bulk of the industrialized
world; useful, of course, in a historical sense; but it is long past
time when capitalism has outgrown its usefulness.
How can it be more difficult to propagandize the case for genuine
socialism than "transubstantiating" capitalist relationships into
something different than what they are?
#8.12 M. Lepore, reply to H. Morrison
> transubstantiate capital and wage labor relationships into
> something other than what they are
There's an old gimmick in trial law. Suppose I'm accused of murder.
The prosecutor rises to argue that I'm the guilty party, but instead
uses the opportunity to remind the jury that murder is a bad thing.
Based on this emphasis that murder is a bad thing, the jury is asked
to convict me. Sometimes the jury even falls for it. This fallacy is
called the ignoratio elenchi, or the irrelevant conclusion.
Now, in our case, Harry, you are going to illustrate to us why a
syndicalist or industrial union form of workers' self-management would
amount to a continuation of the capital and wage-labor relationship.
But then what you do, with your transubstantiation example, is to
remind us that it's a bad thing to assume that something is truly
different merely because one has changed the name of it.
> socialism is incompatable with a world divided into nations
I believe that as well. However, national economies must first be
brought under social ownership, and then these economies must be
merged. Whenever any two or more national economies are merged, the
borders between them must be demolished. By this means alone, all
national boundaries can be made eventually to disappear.
The need for global administration doesn't answer our question about
whether an industrial union program is the correct program. Rather,
the need for global administration is important because it shows
socialism to be the means to unite the human race, eliminating such
ugly effects as patriotism (which I consider the worst form of
bigotry) and war.
> Wizek exposes his sense of nationalism with a grumble -- to
> wit -- "They [employers] are not even necessarily American
I don't try to read the mind of a writer when we have the written
words themselves. I see no literal difference between Ed Wizek's
observation and that of Marx and Engels [1]:
"The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases
the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must
nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections
You also note the De Leonists' designations for the Communist Party
economic system. They have variously called it statism, bureaucratic
state despotism, and so forth. You observe -
> their refusal to label that economy as State Capitalism.
> The denunciations were always levelled at the tyranny of the
> Dictatorship
All De Leonists assert that the Soviet-style regime is class-divided,
and features the exploitation of the working class through a wage
system which extracts surplus value. But is it most accurately called
"state capitalism"? I don't know. I think there are good arguments
on both sides.
Most De Leonists refrain from calling that system "capitalism", for
the same reason that a zoologist refrains from calling a porpoise a
dolphin, or an alligator a crocodile. It assists understanding and
communication for things which are empirically different to have
different names. The Stalin/Mao design is noticably different from
the Adam Smith design. The purely state-owned economy has no stock
market to enable individuals to buy shares of ownership in the
industries. Ruling class individuals attain their status, not by
family inheritance and marketplace gambling, as in the U.S., but by
clawing their way up the competitive ladder of a political hierarchy,
and legally suppressing challenges. There are a huge number of
similarities between the two modern forms of class rule, but, not
being identical, they require different names. As a zoologist might
phrase it, the two systems are of the same genus, but different
species.
However, I also see some usefulness in calling the two modern forms of
class rule "private capitalism" and "state capitalism." This is
because capitalism is perhaps best understood, not as a particular
FORM, but as an ACTIVITY. The state-owned form, no less than the
privately-owned form, "practices" capitalism. Let's try on this
definition: Capitalism is the activity of operating the industries
with the expectation that the total wealth consumed by the workers
will be consistently less than the total product of the workers, so
that a hierarchy of bosses may use the difference between the two
amounts to build an empire. When this occurs, the workers, considered
merely a "resource" which has been paid for, are treated as such,
treated as automatons.
Before we expend too much energy debating the best name for the
state-monopoly form of exploitation, let's remember the warning of
Bertrand Russell: "One of the most difficult matters in all
controversy is to distinguish between disputes about words and
disputes about facts: it ought not to be difficult, but in practice
it is." [2]
> in a socialist society, there would be no such phenomenon as
> "income." Socialism would necessarily imply free right of
> access to all needs by all of mankind.
Socialism is a science only if it adheres to the scientific method.
For an investigation to be a science, it is not enough that it
extracts general principles from life. It is further required that a
science shall not call a hypothesis a fact if it cannot be
demonstrated by a combination of empiricism and logic.
Since we do not yet have a neurological model of the mind, we cannot
have an exact science of human behavior. We cannot be certain of the
forms that human behavior will take in a future classless society.
There are some things about socialism which we can demonstrate
directly - I'll even say, things which we can prove. For example, the
common stock form of ownership demonstrates that the capitalist
investors need no technical understanding of the production process,
yet the capitalists today do elect the management. This proves that
it is viable for the management committees to be elected by other
means, say, by the whole population, or by workers' assemblies. To
give an additional example: We can demonstrate that militarism,
marketing, the secrecy and duplication of effort in research, and many
other present uses of labor, are purely waste. Sending dividends to a
class of absentee owners, so that they can live in luxury without ever
having to work, is also a form of waste. This proves that socialism
would bring about a higher standard of living and a shorter workweek.
These are the sorts of things that socialists can say with certainty,
because the arguments need only to incorporate present-day
observations, elementary logic and plain arithmetic. If someone
disagrees with any of these points, I wouldn't hesitate to reply, "If
you disagree with it, then you don't understand it."
However, we are in danger of taking things too far. If we start to
claim that we "know" very specific things about how human beings would
think and act in a future classless society, then we will be engaging
in wishful thinking, which is a practice abhorred by the scientific
Regarding this question of personal income, there are at least two
possibilities.
One possibility is that classless society, combined with technology,
will transform all work from drudgery into self-expression, so that
people will work together, as frequently as necessary, without any
form of compulsion, or any need for artificial incentives. In this
case, there may be no need to stipulate that personal income will be
determined by the work hours of the individual.
The other possibility is that work and leisure will forever remain
distinct: work being any activity performed as a means to a separate
end, and leisure being any activity performed purely for its own sake,
for the pleasure of it. In that case, we may find an inherent
instability in a system which permits everyone free access to
affluence, regardless of the individual's choice of total work hours.
A system of free access might discover that too few people choose
spontaneously to return from vacation as early as it is necessary in
order for production levels to match consumption levels.
After saying that we are limited in how much we can *know*, I will now
state what I personally *believe*.
One the most prevalent criticisms of socialism is based on the "free
rider" problem. This is the principle that some people will
continuously reduce their work time, or other form of social
contribution, if their efforts are rewarded at a group level rather
than on an individual basis. The immediate stimulus is that any
slacking off in my contribution comes back directly as a payoff to
myself, whereas my diligent work only increases the sum of which I
receive less than a billionth part. I'll admit in my own case, I
can't be certain that I'd ever perform industrial work, if my material
living standard for working were virtually the same as my living
standard for vacationing. However, an idea of socialism which will
distribute goods according to work hours, while popularly criticized
in a hundred other ways, is immune to this particular criticism.
I suspect that the Free Access concept of socialism feeds the popular
misconception that "socialism is against human nature." I suggest
that we should not play into the hands of conservatives, by giving
them additional weapons with which to attack us.
[2] Bertrand Russell, _The ABC of Relativity_, 1925; New
York: The New American Library, fifth printing, 1958, p. 114
#9.07 Correspondence from Laurens Otter, rebuttal to M. Lepore
(Continuation of the debate from issue #8)
In ORGANIZED THOUGHTS #8.09, M. Lepore proposed the use of
political organization as follows:
"No one can abolish something without first controlling it. A
wrecking ball is hurled toward a structure, not away from it.
Water extinguishes a flame by enveloping it, not by avoiding
it.... Accordingly, it would be more logical for an anarchist to
ADVOCATE use of the political process, not to REJECT it."
The wrecking ball certainly swings toward the structure; it
doesn't, however, become part of it. Water surrounds the flame &
prevents the supply of oxygen to it; it doesn't become part of that
flame, unless the heat is in the presence of a catalyst & so high that
the water is immediately transposed into its constituent elements, in
which case it burns explosively to recreate steam & fails to
extinguish the fire.
So in both cases your argument fails. No anarchist has ever
suggested that you abolish the state by avoiding contact with it.
What we deny (& incidentally, in his later years, De Leon denied) is
that you can abolish it by becoming part of it.
If your argument were valid it would equally apply to the
economic institutions of capitalism. You would have to say that the
only way to abolish capitalism would be to become the dominant
capitalist.
While no doubt you are right that, faced with a general strike,
the ruling class will probably have sufficient ammunition in hand that
mere denial of supplies will suffice, (unless a substantial section of
the security services have been subverted,) you ignore the peculiar
significance of the fact that a social general strike is a stay-in
strike, not a come-out one. The capitalists in such circumstances can
only win by destroying their own capital; they may restore a class
divided society, but not a highly developed capitalist one.
M. Lepore wrote:
"If we are to have 'a general lockout of the capitalist class',
and yet not see million of workers killed in the process, this
[violent] response by the state must be prevented.... The working
class must win control of the order-giving centers from which the
police and soldiers receive their instructions.... By winning
control of political office, the delegates of the working class
could either send the police and soldiers home, or could reassign
them to nonviolent occupations...."
Your proposal, which is based on the belief that the armed
forces, police & security services obey government, fails to note the
evidence that even with the mildest milk & water bourgeois-reformist
governments, the security services will act treasonably.
In "Spycatcher" Peter Wright from our secret state not just
admits, but boasts, that he & his colleagues acted to destabilize the
Wilson (centre-Labourist) Government; & by implication also shows that
they acted against the Callaghan (right-Labourist) & Heath (Left-Tory)
Governments in order to smooth the way for Thatcher.
And, even on this side of the Atlantic, the rumour has
penetrated that there is more than a little reason to suspect that the
FBI had an hand in the assassination of Jack Kennedy, & that earlier
sections of the power establishment did everything they could to
undermine the Roosevelt New Deal.
#9.08 Correspondence from Harry Morrison, rebuttal to M. Lepore
It came as a bit of a surprise to me to be confronted, in O.T.
#8.06, with the excerpt from Marx's _Critique of the Gotha Programme_.
That tract has been a veritable Bible to defenders of the
cock-and-bull yarn, by champions of the Soviet faith, about the
"overthrow of capitalism" and the institution of "socialism" in Russia
in November of 1917. It has seemed to me that the statement of Arnold
Petersen, appearing in the _Weekly People_ of November 24, 1917 and
quoted by me in O.T. #8, would have been sufficient to show
De Leonists how wrong they have been since they had learned of the
adulation by Lenin of the theories of De Leon. It makes more sense,
friend Lepore seems to have reasoned, to challenge me with that
argument by Marx, written in 1875 and enclosed in a letter to a friend
(Bracke) in Germany, with the request that it be shown by him to some
other friends; posthumously published by Engels. Without going into
other details, here, about it -- other than to note that it violates,
in essence, the scientific reasoning in everything else that Marx and
Engels ever wrote regarding the essentials necessary for socialist
revolution to be successful, let me get down to brass tacks on the
latest equivocations of M. Lepore.
The problem, it seems to me, Michael, is that you have one of
those "double-compartmented" minds in which the sound, scientific
understandings -- in one chamber -- are unable to penetrate and wash
away the poppycock ideologies in the other. Such minds, to be sure,
are common; they explain, for example, why most private universities
can teach Darwinian evolution on the same campuses that their Theology
colleges teach Creationism, and why students of Theology see no
contradiction in their having various immunization shots with
vaccines, etc., that have been first tested on our "lower" animal
relatives. (And I should not be too surprised, in your case, as I
understand that the De Leonist position on religion is that it is a
"private matter" -- not of concern to socialists; that there be no
conflict between religious beliefs -- theoretically speaking -- and
socialism!)
Let me deal, here, with your own contradictions; because of
space limitations I will select only one outstanding illustration. In
O.T. issue #6.06, you definitely agree with us that nations cannot
possibly exist under socialism, contrary to the position of the S.L.P.
-- which you take note of and criticize. After citing instances of
the SLP's unsound view on the subject, you say, _inter alia_:
"... Secondly, 'socialist countries' would have to trade
materials with each other, something similar to, 'We'll ship you
four tons of bauxite for each ton of chromite that you ship to
us.' This would be followed by disagreements based on localized
self-interests, e.g., 'Why should we trade with you, when this
other country will give us five tons of bauxite for each ton of
chromite, rather than four?' The 'socialist' countries would
then have a material basis for conflict. The method of
historical materialism shows that a material basis for conflict
generally leads to actual conflict. That's not my idea of a
socialist world."
It would seem that you definitely did agree with World
Socialists that socialist revolution makes a continuation of nations
obsolete. But by O.T. #8 a different element entered into the debate
-- the question about "lower" and "upper" stages of socialism. It
seems that the working class can only arrive at a desire to get rid of
capitalism in stages.
First, it is not production for exchange on a market that is
the immediate problem, but control by capitalists. "Trading" can
continue after the revolution but it must be done under the control of
Industrial Unions. Allow me, at this point, to quote Marx in his most
important _scientific_ work -- _Capital_. In a number of instances,
scattered throughout the volumes, he tells us that capitalists are but
"personifications of capital;" that it is _capital_ that must be done
away with. For example, in his preface to Volume I, we read:
"To prevent possible misunderstanding, a word. I paint
the capitalist and the landlord in no sense _couleur de rose_.
But here individuals are dealt with only in so far as they are
the personifications of economic categories, embodiments of
particular class relations and class interests. My stand-point,
from which the evolution of the economic formation of society is
viewed as a process of natural history, can less than any other
make the individual responsible for relations whose creature he
socially remains, however much he may subjectively raise himself
above them."
Now, of course, Michael, as you pointed out in O.T. #8.09,
"Argument by authority is invalid. The scientific method recognizes
no articles of faith." But the above work comes from Marx's
_Capital_, a scientific work; and, even if it comes from his preface,
the same observation is made by his on a number of occasions in the
body of the text; and it is self-evident, anyway, to any student of
capitalism -- or should be.
So now, since we know that it is _capital_ and not the
particular political views -- or even the economic status -- of those
who control and direct it, why should we believe that the mere act of
getting rid of capitalists and placing Industrial Union director --
bosses in control of industrial operations -- can make a difference of
worthwhile benefit to the working class in that so-called "lower stage
of socialism"? After all, Michael, according to Marx, writing in
1875, and you in this final decade of the 20th century, workers during
that early phase after the revolution will still be "paid" according
to the value of their input to society's needs. In other words, THE
CONCEPT OF VALUE -- "socially-necessary labor time" -- will still
remain, and, anyway, as you also point out, workers would not know how
to behave in any other way than what they had been used to before the
And where is the evidence that you appear to believe exists
that the tendency of people to goof off from the labor mills in
inherent in human constitutions? In the centuries that the bulk of
populations was made up of serfs and/or free peasants, when a
guaranteed standard of living was afforded them in return for taking
care of the lord's planted areas for part of the week, was 'free
riding" during the days that they worked for themselves an inherent
part of their constitutions?
The reason behind the prevalence of "free riding" under
capitalism is the wages system, and particularly the capitalist style
Division of Labor -- also a vital part of the industry in Soviet
Russia -- Stakhanovism! True enough, they had no legally-designated
capitalists in that "socialist" nation. but they certainly did have a
bureaucracy of surplus-value eaters who were able to live in the
manner of the capitalist class because of their "perks" -- and if you
check you will discover that they could also bequeath accumulated
assets to their heirs -- not to mention their ability to place their
own -- or friends -- in cushy positions.
Given a situation where an Industrial Union society would be
established following a "socialist" revolution", in an era where the
bulk of the population would not know how to "behave" in a society
based on free right of access to needs and wants, would exploitation
of Labor still not be the name of the game -- along with
capitalist-style Division of Labor?
You should check out Adam Smith on that subject, in his
_Wealth of Nations_ (Volume Two, Book V, Chapter I):
"In the progress of the division of labour, the employment
of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is,
the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a very few
simple operations; frequently to one or two. But the
understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed
by their ordinary employment. The man whose whole life is spent
in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too
are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no
occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his
invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties
which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of
such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as
it is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of
his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing
a part of any rational conversation, but of conceiving any
generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of
forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary
duties of private life.... it corrupts even the activity of his
body, and renders him incapable of exerting his strength with
vigour and perseverance, in any other employment than that to
which he has been bred...."
That should go along way in explaining the causes of "free
riding"!
In fact, nothing that Marx and Engels had to say about it, a
century later, was any more derogatory!
It would not be too difficult to imagine Industrial Union
management, in a so-called lower stage of socialism, pushing workers
in an all-out effort to raise production levels -- in a society still
retaining such parasitical industries as Armed Forces, Banking, etc.,
to an even greater extent than today, in order to attain what they
feel to be needed for a society based on right of access.
What you fail to comprehend is the fact that, once the fetters
of market production are removed, the world can literally be inundated
with all of the reasonable needs and wants of all mankind.
Capitalism, in the course of human society-evolution has made that
possible -- providing that we get rid of the fetters to production
inherent in capitalism. Basing one's technique on the idea that
workers are incapable of understanding that potential has gotten
humanity no closer to socialism than has the argument of our World
Socialist Movement. To those of us who have the struggle for a sane
system of society in our bones, so to speak, we must continue to press
for the end of production for a market -- for the "higher forms of
socialism", and the free right of access.
The experience since November of 1917 has proved that there is
no such thing as a "lower" form of socialism. It is all or nothing!
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Three Egyptians join membership of Oscars Academy
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Egyptian star actress Yousra, acclaimed producer and screenwriter Mohamed Hefzy and distinguished director Amr Salama are now members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the prestigious organisation behind the Oscars.
The three Egyptians were invited for membership among 842 new members coming from 59 countries, according to a statement released by the academy. The move comes within efforts by the Academy to include among members more women and people of colour.
Mohamed Hefzy
“Honoured to be invited as a member to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences… now I not only have to watch the Oscars, I actually have to watch the films and vote,” Egyptian producer Hefzy said on Facebook announcing his selection by the academy.
The award winning producer and screenwriter has co-produced around 30 films in Egypt and the world, including in the US and the UK. Egyptian film “Eshtebak” (Clash, 2018) directed by Mohamed Diab, was selected as the opening film of the Un Certain Regard section of the 70th Cannes Film Festival.
He also co-produced “Yomeddine” (2018), which participated in Cannes Film Festival’s last edition, according to IMDb.
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Hefzy won the Best European Film Europa Cinemas Label award at the Berlin International Film Festival for the film “My Brother the Devil” (2012), directed by Sally al-Hosaini.
Amr Salama
“Officially, I’m now a member in the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences (Oscars),” Amr Salama announced on Facebook.
Salama was included in the academy’s member list of the directors alongside renowned directors Jonathan M. Chu, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Nisha Ganatra and Liza Johnson, among others.
The director has received over 20 global awards, including the UNESCO award at the Venice Film Festival for his documentary “Tahrir 2011: The Good, The Bad & The Politician” (2011) which he co-directed.
He’s also known for “Asmaa” (2011) starring legendary Tunisian actress Hend Sabry, the film “Zay al-Naharda” (2008) and more.
More recently, he directed “Sheikh Jackson” (2017) which won the Cairo International Film Festival’s award, and was nominated at the Toronto Film Festival, Gouna Film Festival among others.
Salama also directs the Arabic edition of the comedic TV show Saturday Night Live (SNL).
Superstar Yousra now shares the member list with actors such as Stephen Dillane, Winston Duke and Jennifer Ehle among others.
Yousra is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador featured in Arabian Business’s “World’s 100 Most Powerful Arab Women” as well as their “50 Most Influential Arabs” list.
Among more than 60 global and local awards, the Egyptian icon was granted the Cinema award at the Arab Women of the Year ceremony in London.
She has also participated in numerous dazzling film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival.
Starring in more than 80 films, Yousra is best known for several movies including “Al-Ens wa al-Jen” (The Human and the Djinn, 1985) , “Karakon fe al-Sharea” (A Police Station in the Street, 1986), “Al-Mansy” (The Forgotten, 1996), “Al-Irhab Wal Kabab” (Terrorism and Kebab, 1992), “Toyour al-Zalam” (Birds of Darkness, 1995) and more.
She further solidified her career through collaborations with late prominent Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, such as in “Hadduta Masreya” (Egyptian Story, 1982), “Iskendereya Kaman we Kaman” (Alexandria Again and Forever, 1989) and “Al-Mohager” (The Emigrant, 1994).
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Volume 16 Issue 3 / Oct 2018 pp103‑172
Editor: Ann Brown
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Keywords: mixed methods, pragmatism, paradigm wars, abduction, empirical phenomenon, case studies, Academic development, research, university, significant research, publication, research, design, pragmatism, criticisms, bilingualism, New Caledonia, nickel mining, critical discourse analysis, Appreciative Inquiry, Organisational Change, Lean Management, World café, Story-telling, Participative Action Research.
A Review of Mixed Methods, Pragmatism and Abduction Techniques pp103‑116
Anthony Mitchell
The purpose of this paper is to propose that mixed methods research is complementary to traditional qualitative or quantitative research, also that pragmatism is an attractive philosophical partner for mixed methods. A key feature of mixed methods research is its methodological pluralism that can lead to superior research. The research question is whether ‘pragmatism’ as a philosophical choice to combine positivism and interpretivism can lead to an appreciation of 'what works' in practice? (Tashakkori & Teddlie, 2010). The paper posits that pragmatism supports the use of different research methods and that a continuous cycle of inductive, deductive and when appropriate, abductive reasoning, produces useful knowledge and serves as a rationale for rigorous research. Firstly, the so called “paradigm wars” of quantitative or qualitative analysis are briefly reviewed; and the tenets of pragmatism are explained. A comparison is made of the different approaches and the value of applying abduction techniques to ‘surprising facts or puzzles’. Secondly, the literature regarding the ubiquity of abduction techniques is explored. Third, two recent empirical case studies in the airline and engineering sectors are summarised. Abductive thinking was key to explaining empirical phenomenon relating to competition, and in particular how leading UK and German multinationals developed rather different approaches to outsourcing. Finally, in conclusion, mixed methods were found to combine numerical and cognitive reasoning that led to a ‘best answer’ to data that otherwise could not be adequately explained. Furthermore, the application of different approaches can lead to research and subsequent management decisions that reflect both the interplay of social and scientific aspects of the world today.
Keywords: mixed methods, pragmatism, paradigm wars, abduction, empirical phenomenon, case studies
A Review of Factors and Activities Contributing to Proficient Academic Business Researchers pp117‑127
Adrian France
The role of academic faculty is research, teaching, and service. In an environment that requires research, there appears to be little published discussion of the scholarly activity conducted by proficient researchers. There are few researched and published papers on researcher’s activities and habits to conduct research. The lack of research on the activities of researchers leads to the practice of research viewed as mysticism. An exhaustive search of research into the factors and scholarly activities of academic business researchers is presented in this paper to understand what researchers do to generate and produce research. The review is intended to capture current ‘best research practice’, as guidance for developing researchers who are themselves seeking to become established. A framework of factors and activities impacting on the tertiary institute researcher is developed, and journal papers are reviewed. The review indicates that researchers are influenced by daily activities, personal characteristics, career stages, and institutional environments. A number of environmental factors appear to affect productivity of researchers and personal qualities of researchers are also found to be important. Career, time allocation, and performance assessment impacts are discussed.
Keywords: Academic development, research, university, significant research, publication
Exploring Complementarities of Productive IT use through Methodological Complementarism pp128‑138
Natallia Pashkevich, Darek Haftor
Factors affecting productivity and particularly IT‑enabled productivity increase have been and still remain the major concern for many business sectors. While previously researchers investigated what factors and their complementary relationships affect organizational productivity, organizational economists came to the conclusion that an organization cannot be regarded anymore as a black box since it is not an organization per se that conducts the very work but its resources with the basic elements being a single worker and a single IT system. Currently, it is proposed that we understand organizational internal mechanisms and their functioning for productivity through the lens of complementarity theory and maintain that when factors are synchronized correctly they can bring significant productivity increase. Identification of the complementarity factors and their synchronization bring, however, a major challenge for research methodology. Unlike conventional studies where a few variables independent of each other cause a reaction to dependent variables, in the context of complementarities, the assumption is closer to the real‑world experiences where a set of factors interact with each other to affect one or several dependent variables. The present paper addresses this difficulty of researching complementary factors for an individual knowledge worker and their productivity. The approach taken here is to use multiple and different research methods in a complementary manner, so that the results from each study of the same kind of phenomenon uncover new insights that cannot be derived from any such single study. The results from this multi‑method approach demonstrate new insights into the interplay between the studied factors that condition the productivity of knowledge workers and show the importance of analysing a complex phenomenon with complementary research methods.
Keywords: complementarity systems approach, individual IT-enabled productivity, knowledge worker, methodological complementarism, online experiment, quasi-randomized field experiment
Establishing Typologies for Diverging Career Paths through the Life Course: A Comparison of two Methods pp139‑149
Amelia Román, Dimitri Mortelmans, Leen Heylen
Discussions on policy and management initiatives to facilitate individuals throughout working careers take place without sufficient insight into how career paths are changing, how these changes are related to a modernization of life course biographies, and whether this leads to increased labour market transitions. This paper asks how new, flexible labour market patterns can best be analyzed using an empirical, quantitative approach. The data used are from the career module of the Panel Study of Belgian Households (PSBH). This module, completed by almost 4500 respondents consists of retrospective questions tracing lengthy and even entire working life histories. To establish any changes in career patterns over such extended periods of time, we compare two evolving methodologies: Optimal Matching Analysis (OMA) and Latent Class Regression Analysis (LCA). The analyses demonstrate that both methods show promising potential in discerning working life typologies and analyzing sequence trajectories. However, particularities of the methods demonstrate that not all research questions are suitable for each method. The OMA methodology is appropriate when the analysis concentrates on the labour market statuses and is well equipped to make clear and interpretable differentiations if there is relative stability in career paths during the period of observation but not if careers become less stable. Latent Class has the strength of adopting covariates in the clustering allowing for more historically connected types than the other methodology. The clustering is denser and the technique allows for more detailed model fitting controls than OMA. However, when incorporating covariates in a typology, the possibilities of using the typology in later, causal, analyses is somewhat reduced.
Keywords: careers, life course, optimal matching analysis, sequence analysis, cluster analysis
Researching Organisational Change in Higher Education: A Holistic Tripartite Approach pp150‑161
Dr Lois Farquharson, Dr Tammi Sinha, Susanne Clarke
In the UK context, it is important to acknowledge that there are multiple change drivers in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) that result in a proliferation of foci. Gornitzka (1999) and Allen (2003) suggest that the distinctiveness of governance, professional autonomy and the tradition of academic freedom in HEIs should be reflected in change processes, and therefore traditional frameworks for change could be adapted in an attempt to research and manage change. This paper explores how theoretical and practical tools for managing and researching change can be integrated in order to support change, whilst reflecting on the methods used. The journey of the authors towards the development of a holistic framework for researching and supporting change in Higher Education (HE), with a focus on two HEIs, is explored. The synergies of Lean Management (Wincel and Krull, 2013), Appreciative Inquiry (Cooperrider and Srivastva 1987), and Participatory Action Research (Greenwood et al, 1993) are examined through three stages of practice‑based fieldwork to establish their positioning within a holistic tripartite framework for researching and supporting organizational change. The benefits and challenges of this framework are discussed with attention to the importance of future research to provide more evidence of the impact of this framework.
Keywords: Appreciative Inquiry, Organisational Change, Lean Management, World café, Story-telling, Participative Action Research.
Investigating the Social Beliefs that Attach to Indigenous Mining in New Caledonia pp162‑171
Peter Clutterbuck
Nickel mining commenced in New Caledonia in 1868 and continues to be the major business activity of that region. Traditionally the mining sector has polarized New Caledonian society via a complex mix of economic, cultural and environmental issues. In 1999 the New Caledonian and French governments initiated a future‑focused program of “rééquilibrage” or rebalancing of opportunities for the New Caledonian indigenous Kanak people. “Rééquilibrage” aims to create a new identity for all New Caledonians – an identity that builds upon the multicultural mix of modern New Caledonia. A critical component of this rebalancing is the commencement of a major new world‑class nickel mining venture at Koniambo (in the Kanak Northern Province) in 2014 and this venture is majority Kanak owned and operated. The literature confirms that no published review of how New Caledonians view this venture has been completed since its opening. Such a review is important because New Caledonians must vote on 4/11/2018 on the issue of independence from France. Discourses are ways of representing the world – the processes, relations and structures of the social world, that is, the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of people. This research centres upon the contemporary social beliefs, i.e. the social discourses that circulate in relation to the Koniambo project. The investigation of these discourses must ensure that all stake‑holder voices are represented accurately, that the investigation is not simply a one‑dimensional “cost/benefit analysis”, and that the amplitude of the voice does not dictate its relative importance within the overall discourse ensemble. This research fits within sociology, and within this domain, the research uses the following empirical investigative approaches: actor‑network theory, historiography and critical discourse analysis (for core data analysis). Actor‑network theory facilitates the identification of stakeholder relationships within New Caledonian society, regardless of how subtle or transient the relationships may be. In this sense, actor‑network theory produces a maximised intersection of the Koniambo project across New Caledonian social life. Historiography provides the vital context that describes the social structures and social practices in which social beliefs are formed and constantly evolve. It is not possible to fully describe these beliefs unless we have a comprehensive, longitudinal appreciation of this overall context. Finally, critical discourse analysis is utilised to unpack fully the beliefs that are identified. Discourse analysis utilises the results from the historiography and actor‑network theory research components to unpack the expressed opinions and beliefs and even policies that link stakeholder entities. In this manner the project results will be most representative of the current discourses concerning a flagship project of “rééquilibrage”.
Keywords: New Caledonia, nickel mining, critical discourse analysis
Editorial for EJBRM Volume 16 Issue 3 pp172‑172
Ann Brown
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Endoscopic evaluation of completeness of conventional curettage adenoidectomy: a single-blinded observational study
Milind M Navalakhe1, Dilesh A Mogre2
1 B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, India
2 B.K.L. Walawalkar Rural Medical College and Hospital, Chiplun, India
Date of Web Publication 16-Oct-2019
MBBS, MS ENT, DLO, FCPS Milind M Navalakhe
B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital, 400008, Mumbai
DOI: 10.4103/ejo.ejo_28_19
Background Conventional curettage adenoidectomy is a blind procedure, which performed in a confined postnasal space produces surgical challenges. The aim was to examine the completeness of conventional adenoidectomy and compare it with surgeon satisfaction and to identify the need to objectively assess the residual tissue at the end of procedure.
Aim The primary aim was to objectively assess the residual adenoid mass after curettage adenoidectomy and compare it with surgeon satisfaction using digital palpation.
Settings and design A prospective single-blinded observational study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital between February 2015 and September 2015.
Patients and methods A total of 45 cases that underwent conventional curettage adenoidectomy were included in the study. Intraoperative images of the postnasal space were recorded and compared with surgeon satisfaction score by a single-blinded observer.
Statistical analysis Statistical analysis of interobserver correlation was performed using Cohen’s κ statistics using Graphpad Prism, version-6.07 (trial).
Results The 45 cases had a mean±SD age of 8.45±2.47 years, and female to male ratio was 1.4 : 1. The kappa analysis of surgeon satisfaction in relation to the presence of residual adenoid tissue showed that the strength of agreement was worse than that expected by chance (κ=−0.383, SE=0.129).
Conclusion The study showed that surgeon satisfaction via digital palpation alone fails to assess residual adenoid tissue, and we recommend endoscopic visualization of the nasopharynx to assess completeness of adenoidectomy.
Keywords: adenoid, conventional curettage adenoidectomy, endoscopic evaluation
Navalakhe MM, Mogre DA. Endoscopic evaluation of completeness of conventional curettage adenoidectomy: a single-blinded observational study. Egypt J Otolaryngol 2019;35:357-60
Navalakhe MM, Mogre DA. Endoscopic evaluation of completeness of conventional curettage adenoidectomy: a single-blinded observational study. Egypt J Otolaryngol [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 19];35:357-60. Available from: http://www.ejo.eg.net/text.asp?2019/35/4/357/269291
In our country, adenoidectomy by curettage method is one of the commonly performed surgeries in the pediatric age group. The surgery has its origins in the late 1800s with the pioneering work of Wilhelm Meyer. The conventional adenoidectomy is still being performed using instruments developed around the First World War, and the procedure has remained more or less identical over the years. The curette developed by Sir St Clair Thomson with a unique cage is the prime armamentarium in conventional adenoidectomy [1].
Chronic adenotonsillitis is the most important indication for adenoidectomy which can present as pediatric obstructive sleep apnea, chronic rhinosinusitis, otitis media with effusion, and recurrent otitis media [2]. Conventional curettage adenoidectomy is a blind procedure, which performed in a confined postnasal space produces surgical challenges especially in pediatric population. The purpose of this study was to assess the completeness of conventional adenoidectomy and compare it with surgeon satisfaction, thus, to identify the need to objectively assess the residual tissue at the end of procedure.
The primary aim was to objectively assess the residual adenoid mass after curettage adenoidectomy and compare it with surgeon satisfaction using digital palpation.
Patients and methods
A prospective single-blinded observational study was performed in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in Mumbai between February 2015 and September 2015. A total of 45 cases underwent conventional curettage adenoidectomy as a part of their treatment after taking informed consent from parents or guardians. Those who had a history of prior nasal or oral surgery were excluded to eliminate pre-existing surgical variables. Patients unwilling to give consent or assent were also excluded. This study was approved by the institutional ethics committee and was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
After selection of cases, assessment of postoperative grading of residual adenoid tissue was performed by diagnostic nasal endoscopy with a 4-mm rigid Hopkins endoscope (Karl Storz, Tuttlingen, Germany) ([Figure 1] and [Table 1]).
Figure 1 (a) Preoperative endoscopic image of grade IV adenoid covering torus tubarius and in contact with vomer and soft palate. (b) Shows grade III residual adenoid tissue at the end of the procedure (*torus tubarius, +vomer and #residual adenoid tissue).
Table 1 Adenoid staging system
The endoscopic images were anonymized, blinded, and saved on cloud storage along with the surgeon satisfaction using digital palpation at the end of the procedure.
The surgeon satisfaction at the end of surgery was based on the presence or absence of residual adenoid tissue palpated in the postnasal space after performing curettage as poor or good satisfaction. All of the intraoperative assessments and surgery were performed by the first author. Grading using endoscopic images was performed by the second author blinded to information. Any residual tissue seen at the end of the procedure was resected by the operating surgeon.
The data were analyzed using Graphpad Prism, version-6.07 (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA, USA) (trial). Appropriate statistical analysis of interobserver correlation was performed using Cohen’s κ statistics. The significance level of P value less than 0.05 was chosen to define statistical significance.
The demographic details of the patients undergoing conventional curettage adenoidectomy are tabulated in [Table 2].
Table 2 The demographic details of patients
By comparing the intraoperative endoscopic grading and digital palpation scores, the degree of correlation of the surgeon satisfaction with residual adenoid tissue was noted ([Table 3]).
Table 3 Kappa analysis of endoscopic evaluation of residual adenoid tissue and digital palpation
The surgeon satisfaction score was compared with the presence of residual adenoid tissue using κ analysis, and it showed that the strength of agreement is worse than that expected by chance (κ=−0.383, SE=0.129).
In this study, in 77.78% of cases, the surgeons reported good satisfaction at the end of the procedure, and 60% of the cases had grade 2 or more residual adenoid tissue on endoscopic evaluation.
The Luschka’s tonsil or the adenoid, as it is commonly called, are lymphoid tissue aggregates located in the nasopharynx. The adenoids along with the palatine and lingual tonsils are an integral part of Waldeyer’s ring, forming 3–5% of the entire lymphatic system [4]. Conventional curettage adenoidectomy is the most frequently performed surgery in the pediatric patients [5]. Significant adenoid hypertrophy resulting in airway obstruction warrants surgery. Surgery is also indicated in certain disorders like obstructive sleep apnea, otitis media with effusion, chronic otitis media, and chronic rhinosinusitis [6].
Adenoidectomy was first performed without any form of anesthesia using a ring knife through the nasal cavity by William Meyer in 1867 [7]. Since then the surgical approach to adenoids has evolved very slowly in terms of surgical methods, instruments, and anesthesia techniques. Modern conventional adenoidectomy has been performed using curettage method using St Clair Thompson’s adenoid curette. This method is being performed as a blind procedure with the completeness of the procedure assessed by rubbing a gauze with a finger in the nasopharynx, that is, digital examination. The postsurgical recurrence of adenoids is described in the literature since the very beginning of its surgical excision. Studies evaluating conventional adenoidectomy have proved that the removal of adenoid tissue is often incomplete. Hence, we aimed to study the completeness of conventional adenoidectomy and compare it with surgeon satisfaction score and to highlight the essential need to objectively assess the postoperative residual tissue in the postnasal space.
In this study, 45 patients had an average age of 8.45 years and underwent conventional curettage adenoidectomy at our center. The demographic aspects were unremarkable. This study shows that a significant population (≥60%) has significant residual adenoid tissue at the end of the procedure ([Figure 1] and [Figure 2]). The traditional concept of assessing the postnasal space digitally and rubbing a gauze covered finger to achieve completeness of surgery was shown to be highly inefficient.
Figure 2 (a) Preoperative endoscopic image of grade IV adenoid. (b) Grade III residual adenoid tissue at the end of the procedure.
The kappa analysis of residual adenoid tissue seen on postnasal endoscopy to surgeon satisfaction with digital palpation showed that this association was worse than what was expected to be seen by chance (κ=−0.383). Thus, this study identifies the need to perform postnasal evaluation using either direct or indirect imaging to confirm the complete excision of residual adenoid tissue. Digital palpation is not a reliable indicator of complete clearance of adenoid tissue. In 1900s, Beck advocated that the adenoid recurrence was a result of incomplete, blindly performed adenoidectomy [8]. A study by Ark et al. [9] showed that to achieve a complete adenoid tissue removal, a direct or indirect visual assistance is necessary. The authors studied a group of patients who underwent a conventional adenoidectomy in whom surgical efficacy was confirmed by digital palpation at the end of the procedure; subsequently, the nasopharynx was inspected through an indirect laryngeal mirror visualization. Their finding was that only one-fifth of the patients had no residual adenoid tissue. Instead, in the 81% of the patients, a residual lymphatic tissue was still present on the pharangeal roof near the choanal openings, 11.4% of the patients had a residue along the torus tubarius on either side of the nasopharynx, and in 6.3%, the residual tissue was located at both cited sites.
Traditional surgical teaching emphasizes on wide tissue exposure for identification of surgical landmarks and safe navigation through the surgical field without damage to surrounding tissues. We are of the opinion that this concept applies to even adenoidectomy. The objective evaluation of the postnasal space with an endoscope in the operating theater after curettage should be incorporated as a routine step of the surgery. Any residual tissue should be excised under vision with tools at the disposal of the surgeon. Such endoscopic adenoidectomy was popularized by Canon et al. [10]. It provides better visualization of the surgical field and prevents damage to the surrounding structures.
The study shows that surgeon satisfaction measured by digital palpation fails to assess the presence of residual adenoid tissue, and we recommend that endoscopic visualization of the nasopharynx is essential to confirm the completeness of conventional adenoidectomy. It also showed that conventional curettage adenoidectomy was a safe, well-tolerated procedure with the advantage of being fast and economical.
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Effect of Ethnicity, Dietary Intake and Physical Activity on Plasma Adiponectin Concentrations Among Malaysian Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Koo Hui Chin 1 , Daniel Robert Sathyasurya 1 , Hazizi Abu Saad 2 , Hamid Jan B Jan Mohamed 1 , *
1 Nutrition Program, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia, Malaysia
2 Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
* Corresponding author: Hamid Jan B Jan Mohamed, Nutrition Program, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. Tel.: +60-126456477, Fax: +60-97677515, E-mail: [email protected]
How to Cite: Chin K H, Sathyasurya D R, Abu Saad H, Jan Mohamed H J B. Effect of Ethnicity, Dietary Intake and Physical Activity on Plasma Adiponectin Concentrations Among Malaysian Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Int J Endocrinol Metab. 2013 ; 11(3):167-174. doi: 10.5812/ijem.8298.
International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism: 11 (3); 167-174
Received: November 3, 2012
Revised: February 21, 2013
Accepted: March 4, 2013
DOI : 10.5812/ijem.8298
Background: The Malaysian Health and morbidity Survey (2006) reported the highest prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among the Indian population compared to the Malay and Chinese populations. Many studies have supported the important role of adiponectin in insulin-sensitizing, which is associated with T2DM. These studies have raised a research question whether the variation in prevalence is related to the adiponectin concentrations or the lifestyle factors.
Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine whether the adiponectin concentrations differ between the Malay, Chinese and the Indian populations with T2DM. It is to investigate the association of adiponectin concentrations with ethnicity, dietary intake and physical activity too.
Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a total of 210 T2DM patients with mean (SD) age of 56.73 (10.23) years were recruited from Penang, Malaysia. Data on demographic background, medical history, anthropometry (weight, height, visceral fat, percentage of body fat and waist circumference), dietary intake (3 days 24 hours diet recall) and physical activity (International Physical Activity Questionnaire) were obtained accordingly. Plasma adiponectin and routine laboratory tests (fasting blood sugar, HbA1c, total cholesterol, LDL, HDL and triglyceride) were performed according to standard procedure.
Results: After adjustment for physical activity and dietary intakes, the Indian population had significantly lower adiponectin concentrations (P = 0.003) when compared with the Malay and the Chinese populations, The Indian population also had significantly higher value of HbA1c (P = 0.017) and significantly lower HDL (P = 0.013). Plasma adiponectin concentrations was significantly associated with ethnicity (P = 0.011), dietary carbohydrate (P = 0.003) and physical activity total MET score (P = 0.026), after medical history, age, sex, total cholesterol and visceral fat adjusted. However, dietary carbohydrate and physical activity did not show significantly difference among the various ethnic groups.
Conclusions: In conclusion, lower concentration of adiponectin in the Indian population when compared with the Malay and the Chinese populations is not associated with lifestyle factors. The possibility of adiponectin gene polymorphism should be discussed further.
Adiponectin Chinese Indian Malaysia Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Motor Activity Diet Records
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Diabetes mellitus is a serious cause for premature illness and mortality throughout the world(1). It is estimated that 6.4% of the world’s adult population, equal to 285 million people has been diagnosed withdiabetes. By the year 2030, the number is expected to increase to 438 million, corresponding to 7.8% of the world’s adult population (2). In Malaysia, the Ministry of Health carried out the first National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) in 1986. It was reported 6.3% of adults older than 35 years had been diagnosed as diabetic (3). Ten years later, the National Health and Morbidity Survey II revealed that the prevalence of diabetes mellitus among adults of age ≥ 30 years old had increased to 8.3% (4), and increased again to 11.6% after another ten years, in 2006. The highest prevalence was shown among the Indian population with 19.9%, which was almost double that of other major races, followed by the Malay with 11.9% and the Chinese with 11.4% of their populations (5).
High energy intake, a sedentary lifestyle and age are among the key factors in developing T2DM (6). Lifestyle intervention incorporating diet consultation and education, with emphasis on exercise, had been shown as the most effective method to deal with T2DM (7). It works well, with effective glucose control occurring within days (8), as well as lowering HbA1c significantly (9). Recently, the diabetes research has focused on studying the possible role of genetic mutation and related protein concentrations on development of diabetes. Adiponectin, an adipocyte-specific gene product consists of 244 amino acids and abundantly present in the bloodstream, has been reported to be efficient in lowering blood glucose among T2DM patients and improve insulin sensitivity (10). Numerous studies have shown that concentration of plasma adiponectinis increased, decreased or is unchanged by dietary management (11-13) and physical activity levels (14-16). These contradicting outcomes reflect the fact that previous studies consisted of respondents with diverse physiological and pathological circumstances. In addition, different ethnic groups with their unique lifestyle habits may lead to discordant findings, as concentrations of plasma adiponectin has been shown to be significantly different among ethnic groups, where the Indian population has a significantly lower concentrations of plasma adiponectin and higher insulin resistance, compared to the Chinese and the Malay populations (17). To our knowledge, the association between plasma adiponectin concentrations with dietary intake and physical activity in multiethnic T2DM patients from Malaysia, with different lifestyle habits and genetic background, has not been previously reported.
To investigate the lifestyle and genetic components involved in T2DM, among the multiethnic population of Malaysia with T2DM.
3. Patients and Methods
This is a cross-sectional study with non-probability convenience sampling method. It was carried out at Sungai Bakap Hospital, Penang. The study group comprised of 210 Malaysian adult respondents. Respondents were T2DM adults without insulin treatment. Respondents on thiazolidinediones treatment, type 1 diabetes mellitus and pregnant woman were excluded. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the ethics committee of Universiti Sains Malaysia. Formal permission to conduct the study in the chosen hospital was obtained from the Ministry of Health, Malaysia. A written informed consent was obtained from the respondents before participation. Respondents were also asked to complete a socio demographic questionnaire, included age, sex, educational level, household income per month and occupation. The medical history of patients includes family history, duration of diabetes and smoking habit.
3.1. Anthropometric Measurements
All of the anthropometric measurements were performed according to standard procedures, before breakfast, with the respondents barefooted and minimal clothing. Body weight and height were measured by the same investigator using Fat Analyzer Scale Model HBF-356 (Omron, Japan) and wall-mounted microtoise tape (Seca bodymeter 208, Hamburg, Germany) to the nearest 0.1 kg and 0.1 cm, respectively. Body Mass index classification was based on World Health Organization (WHO) 2004 (18). The waist was measured immediately above the iliac crest while the hip was recorded at the widest part of the hips (19). The cut-off point of the waist-hip ratio (WHR) for males and female were 0.9 and 0.8 respectively, to define as central adiposity (20). Body fat and visceral fat were measured using Body Fat Analyzer Scale Model HBF-356 (Omron, Japan). Subjects stood barefooted on the scale and the arm extended straight out 90° to the body. The Omron body fat analyzer scale estimates the body fat percentage by the bioelectrical impedance (BI) method. Whereas, levels of visceral fat were calculated using Omron’s analysis of CT scans.
3.2. Dietary Intake
Dietary intake was assessed by using three days 24 hours dietary recall, which appears optimal for estimating energy compared to 24 hours diet recall (18).All the respondents were asked to recall all of the food and drink consumed on three nonconsecutive days including 1 weekend and 2 weekdays. It was carried out with extensive probing, preferably with tableware items such as bowls, dishes, spoons and glasses in commonly-used sizes, food models and pictures of common foods were used to assess food intake to enhance the portion sizes and their respective weight estimations (21). Given information were carefully checked in order to avoid forgotten or misreported data. Energy and nutrient intakes for the 3 days were determined with computer software by using Nutritionist Pro software (Axxya Systems, United States). The means of these values were used for analyzing.
3.3. Physical Activity
The last-7-day, short form, self-administered version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), was used to collect self-reported physical activity data. The IPAQ used MET energy expenditure estimation from the compendium of physical activities to code physical activity by intensity. The total physical activity MET-minute/week was then computed by summing the walking, moderate and vigorous MET-minute/week scored. The scores were then categorized into low, moderate and vigorous physical activity level according to the IPAQ categorical score (22).
3.4.Blood Collection
Study respondents fasted for at least 8 hours prior to blood taking. 15 ml blood was collected into two EDTA (ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetate) tube and immediately inverted gently 5 times. About 5 ml of blood was collected for the analysis of plasma adiponectin. The fresh blood was spun in a centrifuge (Hettich, Universal 320, Germany), at 3500 rpm for 15 minutes. Plasma adiponectin was analyzed by using one-step human adiponectin immunoassay kit (Millipore Corporation, USA). The sensitivity of the kits was 1.5 ng/mL, whereas, the inter-assay and intra-assay coefficient were 2.4% - 8.4% and 1.0% - 7.4%, respectively. Analysis of the adiponectin was carried out at the hematology laboratory Universiti Sains Malaysia at room temperature. Whereas, another 10 ml of collected blood was used to measure fasting blood sugar (FBS), HbA1c and lipid profile such as total-cholesterol, triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and high density lipoprotein (HDL). Principle measurements for fasting blood sugar and HbA1c were UV hexokinase and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) respectively, while principle measurement for HDL and LDL was homogenous, in addition, principle measurement for total-cholesterol and triglyceride was enzymatic. Percentage of HbA1c analyzed by Bio-Rad D10 Hemoglobin A1c Analytical, whereas the rest of the tests were analyzed by Chemistry Analyzer Unicel DXC 600.
3.5. Statistical Analyses
All statistical analyses were performed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS version 19 (SPSS Inc., IBM). A 2-tailed value of P < 0.05 was considered significant. Distribution of the data was assessed by descriptive analysis. Each variable was examined for normality of frequency distribution based on the histogram. Normally distributed data were expressed as mean (SD) and skewed data were expressed as medium (Interquartile Range or IqR). Pearson test was conducted to determine association between plasma adiponectin concentration with anthropometric measurements, biochemical results, dietary intake and physical activity MET score. Meanwhile, One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and bonferroni test were applied to compare mean of plasma adiponectin concentration in ethnic groups and levels of physical activity. The stepwise general linear regression analyses were conducted to study association of adiponectin concentration with ethnicity, dietary intake and physical activity of study subjects, with confounders adjusted. The variables with P < 0.25 in simple linear regression analyses were selected as confounders. Before performing general linear regression, dietary intake was energy adjusted (23). The Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was applied to compare the plasma adiponectin concentration between ethnicity with relation to their dietary intake and physical activity. A 2-tailed value of p<0.05 was considered significant.
Demographic characteristics of the study variables for the Malay, Chinese and the Indian populations are shown in Table 1. A total of 210 T2DM patients with the mean (SD) age of 56.73 (10.23) years, were involved in this study, ranging from 31 to 78 years old. The Indian respondents were significantly younger compared to the Chinese respondents. However, there was no significant difference among the sex ratios between the ethnic groups. Majority of the respondents were married women (56.2%) and housewives (50%) and had low educational levels (39.5%).
Table 1. DemographicCharacteristics of the Study Variables (n = 210; 70 Malay, 70 Chinese and 70 Indians)
Age, y, Mean ± SDa 56.70 ± 10.21 59.77 ± 10.01 53.07 ± 8.28 56.37 ± 10.23 < 0.001 b
Sex, No. (%) 0.873 c
Male 29 (13.8) 31 (14.8) 32 (15.2) 92 (43.8)
Female 41 (19.5) 39 (18.6) 38 (18.1) 118 (56.2)
Marital status, No. (%) 0.543 c
Single 3 (1.4) 1 (0.5) 2 (1.0) 6 (2.9)
Married 66 (31.3) 69 (32.9) 66 (31.4) 201 (95.6)
Widow/ widower 1 (0.5) 0 (0.0) 2 (1.0) 3 (1.5)
Job, No. (%) 0.021 c
Housewife 33 (15.7) 38 (18.1) 34 (16.2) 105 (50.0)
Retired 15 (7.1) 17 (8.1) 8 (3.8) 40 (19.0)
Self-employed 2 (1.0) 3 (1.4) 4 (1.9) 9 (4.3)
Civil servant 11 (5.2) 2 (1.0) 4 (1.9) 17 (8.1)
Education Level, No. (%) 0.048 c
Non-educated 11 (5.2) 24 (11.4) 13 (6.2) 48 (22.8)
Primary 29 (13.8) 17 (8.1) 27 (12.9) 73 (34.8)
Secondary 26 (12.4) 28 (13.3) 29 (13.8) 83 (39.5)
Tertiary 4 (1.9) 1 (0.5) 1 (0.5) 6 (2.9)
aSD: Standard deviation
bOne way Analysis of Variance
cBonferroni test; 2 Chi-square test
Descriptive statistics of the study variables is shown in Table 2. A majority of the respondents had overall (63.4%) and central adiposity (83.8%), as well as hyperlipidaemia (66.2%). The Indian respondents showed significantly higher value of HbA1c compared to the Chinese (P = 0.017) respondents. The Indian respondents also showed significantly lower plasma adiponectin concentration (P = 0.010) and HDL (P = 0.013) compared to the Malay respondents. By distributing into percentage, dietary carbohydrate, protein and fat intake of respondents were 60%, 16% and 24% respectively. The Chinese respondents showed significantly higher dietary protein (P = 0.002) and fiber intake (P = 0.001). However, only 3% of total respondents achieved the target of dietary fiber intake recommended by Medical Nutrition Therapy Diabetes Division (2005) ( 24 ). No significant difference in physical activity was observed between the three ethnicities.
Table 2. Descriptive Statistics of the Study Variables (n = 210; 70 Malay, 70 Chinese and 70 Indians)
Total, Mean ± SD a
Malay, Mean ± SD
Chinese, Mean ± SD
Indian, Mean ± SD
F ratio
P value b
BMI a, kg/m 2 27.50 ± 5.03 28.17 ± 5.51 26.54 ± 4.03 27.78 ± 5.34 2.02 0.135
Body fat status, % 32.23 ± 7.10 32.30 ± 7.24 31.17 ± 6.31 33.21 ± 7.64 1.46 0.234
WC a, cm 93.56 ± 11.49 94.17 ± 12.69 91.90 ± 9.01 94.61 ± 12.38 1.13 0.326
Waist hip ratio 0.91 ± 0.07 0.91 ± 0.08 0.90 ± 0.06 0.92 ± 0.06 0.58 0.561
Visceral fat level 13.29 ± 5.92 14.10 ± 6.42 12.06 ± 4.81 13.70 ± 6.27 2.37 0.096
Blood Result
Adiponectin, μg/ml 6.01 ± 3.71 6.85 ± 4.66 a 6.21 ± 3.62 4.98 ± 2.22 b 3.54 0.010
FBS a, mmol/L 10.29 ± 5.81 10.48 ± 3.97 9.25 ± 3.48 11.15 ± 8.51 2.13 0.122
HbA1c, % 8.52 ± 1.73 8.53 ± 1.69 8.10 ± 1.65 c 8.93 ± 1.78 d 4.15 0.017
TC a, mmol/L 5.06 ± 1.15 5.20 ± 1.13 5.06 ± 1.11 4.94 ± 1.20 0.91 0.403
LDL a, mmol/L 3.29 ± 0.90 3.33 ± 0.96 3.25 ± 0.90 3.28 ±0.84 0.14 0.868
HDL a, mmol/L 1.00 ± 0.35 1.05 ± 0.50 e 1.03 ± 0.29 0.91 ± 0.16 f 4.43 0.013
TG a, mmol/L 1.89 ± 1.20 2.06 ± 1.30 1.84 ± 1.09 1.78 ± 1.20 1.10 0.334
Calorie, kcal 1647 ± 564.44 1583 ± 477.40 1714 ± 582.30 1643 ± 623.93 0.95 0.389
Protein, g 67.40 ± 22.93 63.24 ± 18.70 g 75.37 ± 26.37 h 63.58 ± 21.22 j 6.69 0.002
CHO a, g 240.73 ± 92.63 236.97 ± 83.59 238.36 ± 87.21 246.87 ± 106.49 0.43 0.654
Fat, g 46.92 ± 23.41 44.83 ± 20.60 50.56 ± 26.83 45.38 ± 22.28 1.28 0.281
Fiber, g 7.51 ± 0.35 6.40 ± 0.51 k 9.33 ± 0.71 m 6.78 ± 0.51 n 7.46 0.001
MET score 3352.53 ± 4251.35 3609.78 ± 4354.71 2595.67 ± 2801.41 3789.90 ± 5200.00 1.57 0.201
aAbbreviations: SD, Standard deviation; BMI, Body mass index; WC, Waist circumference; FBS, Fasting blood sugar; TC, Total cholesterol; LDL, Low density lipoprotein; HDL, High density lipoprotein; TG, triglyceride; CHO, Carbohydrate
bAnalysis of Variance, Bonferroni test was applied. Test shows: a vs b, P < 0.05; c vs d, P < 0.05; e vs f, P < 0.05. g vs h, P < 0.01; h vs j, P < 0.01; k vs m, P = 0.001; m vs n, P < 0.01
Pearson’s correlation coefficient was applied to determine the relationship between plasma adiponectin concentrations with the anthropometric measurements, biochemical results, dietary intake and the physical activity and it is presented in Table 3. Plasma adiponectin concentrations had a significant inverse relationship with physical activity MET score, whereas it had significant positive correlation with HDL. No statistically significant correlation was observed between plasma adiponectin with anthropometric measurements and dietary intake. The findings from the simple linear regression analyses were further explored using general linear regressions. The outcome is presented in Table 4. An inverse relationship was shown between plasma adiponectin concentrations with physical activity MET score (P = 0.003) and dietary carbohydrate intake (P = 0.026), after medical history, age, sex, total cholesterol and visceral fat adjusted. A One standard deviation increase in total MET score, lead to 0.203 standard deviation decreased in plasma adiponectin concentrations. Whereas, a one standard deviation increase in carbohydrate intake will lead to 0.150 standard deviation decrease in plasma adiponectin concentrations. A higher intake of carbohydrates and higher physical activity levels will lead to a lower concentration of plasma adiponectin. Results from general linear analyses also revealed a significant difference in plasma adiponectin concentrations within the ethnicity (P = 0.011). The Indian respondents had 0.171 µg/mL lower plasma adiponectin concentrations as compared to the Malay respondents.No significant association was shown in plasma adiponectin concentrations between the Chinese and Indian respondents, or the Chinese and Malay respondents. Dietary fat, protein and fiber intake were shown to have no significant association with plasma adiponectin concentrations.
Table 3. Pearson’s Correlation Coefficients Between Plasma Adiponectin Concentrationwith Anthropometric Measurements, Biochemical Results, Dietary Intake and Physical Activity (n = 210)
Adiponectin Concentration
Anthropometric Measurements
Body mass index, kg/m 2 -0.02 0.810
Percentage of fat, % 0.07 0.349
Waist circumference, cm -0.06 0.367
Waist hip ratio -0.08 0.267
Visceral fat, level 0.09 0.217
Biochemical Results
Fasting blood sugar, mmol/L 0.04 0.569
HbA1c, % -0.06 0.427
Total cholesterol, mmol/L 0.08 0.229
Low density lipoprotein, mmol/L -0.003 0.961
High density lipoprotein, mmol/L 0.21 0.002 a
Triglyceride, mmol/L -0.03 0.703
Calorie, mjoule -0.14 0.054
Adjusted dietary carbohydrate, g -0.12 0.056
Adjusted dietary protein, g -0.05 0.458
Adjusted dietary fat, g -0.11 0.102
Adjusted dietary fiber, g -0.03 0.671
MET score -0.18 0.007 b
ais significant at the 0.01 level
bis significant at the 0.05 level
Table 4. Relationship Between Plasma Adiponectin Concentration with Ethnicity, Dietary Intake and Physical Activity for Type 2 Diabetes Patients Among Different Ethnic Groups (n = 210)
General Linear Regression
b a(95%, CI)
b b(95%, CI)
Ethnic, Malay and Indian 0.238 (0.649, 3.077) 0.003 0.171 (0.311, 2.375) 0.011
Total MET Score -0.184 (0.000, 0.000) 0.007 -0.203 (0.000, 0.000) 0.003
Adjusted Dietary Carbohydrate -0.132 (-0.012, 0.000) 0.056 -0.150 (-0.013, -0.001) 0.026
aCrude regression coefficient
bAdjusted regression coefficient for medical history, age, sex, total cholesterol and visceral fat Stepwise multiple linear regression method applied. Model assumptions are fulfilled. There were no interactions among independent variables. No multicollinearity detected. Coefficient of determination (R²) = 0.153
A comparison of adiponectin concentrations between the three ethnicities in relation to theirdietary intake and physical activity by using ANCOVA is shown in Table 5. Plasma adiponectin concentrations showed significant differences when compared between ethnic groups (P = 0.010). Moreover, after adjustment of lifestyle factors such as dietary fat, protein, carbohydrate, fiber intake and physical activity MET score, the mean of plasma adiponectin concentrations was still significantly different among ethnic groups (P = 0.003).
Table 5. Comparison of Adiponectin Concentration between Ethnicity with Relation to Their Dietary Intake and Physical Activity for Type 2 Diabetes Patients (n = 210)
Adiponectin Concentration, μg/mL
Adj. Mean a (95% CI)
F-ratio a
P value a
Ethnicity 9.32 0.003
Malay b 7.202 (6.298, 8.106)
Chinese 6.687 (5.799, 7.575)
Indian b 5.597 (4.651, 6.544)
aTotal MET score, fat, protein, carbohydrate and fiber adjusted;
bTest shows: Malay vs. Indian P < 0.05
In this present study, the Indian respondents showed significantly lower plasma adiponectin concentrations compared to the other ethnic groups. This is consistent with a study done in Singapore (17). The Indian respondents also showed the highest prevalence of central adiposity.This could be one of the reasons the Indian respondents had the lowest plasma adiponectin concentrations as central adiposity reported to have a strong relationship with the plasma adiponectin concentrations (25). Furthermore, the Chinese respondents showed a statistically significant higher intake of dietary protein and fiber. Increasing dietary protein from 15% to 30% of total calorie intake at the expense of carbohydrate increasing the integration of insulin concentration and reducing the 24 hours integration of glucose concentrations (26). This might be one of the reasons the Chinese respondents showed a better control in T2DM with the lowest fasting blood sugar and HbA1c, compared to the Indian and the Malay respondents. A significant inverse correlation between plasma adiponectin concentrations with dietary carbohydrate intake was shown. It is consistent with the studies from Germany (23), California (24) and Boston in T2DM patients (27). A previous study conducted among T2DM patients and non-T2DM patients demonstrated that Interleukin concentrations decreased and plasma adiponectin concentrations increased after consumption of high carbohydrate and high fiber meals, however, contrasting result was shown after consumption of high carbohydrate and low fiber meals (16). In the present study, percentage of total carbohydrate intake was 60%. It is consistent with the guideline from the Ministry of Health Malaysia. However, only 3% of respondents achieved the target of dietary fiber intake recommended by Ministry of Health Malaysia. This may explain the cause of low plasma adiponectin concentrations despite respondent being on target with the guideline recommendation of total carbohydrate intake. The outcome of the study revealed the importance of carbohydrate’s quality, as compared to the overall carbohydrate intake. Carbohydrate with low glycaemic index should be studied further.
Plasma adiponectin concentrations also demonstrated a significant inverse relationship with levels of physical activity, with confounder adjusted. It is in accordance with the studies from United Kingdom (15), Japan (28) and United States (29). Previous studies showed that plasma adiponectin concentrations will be down regulated (15) when physical activity induces the sensitivity of insulin (28). Long-term physical activity intervention shown to increase the receptors of adiponectin and reduce the levels of adiponectin concentrations (30). In addition, physical activity might change the level of adiponectin in isoform, especially the high molecular weight (HMW) isoform, which was not studied in this paper(31). The ratio of adiponectin multimer isoforms may be changed by physical activity, thereby the biological active form of plasma adiponectin may be increased (30). This outcome showed that studies on isoforms of plasma adiponectin would be more accurate as compared to total adiponectin concentrations only. This paper showed that hypoadiponectinemia seen in the Indian respondents was independent of lifestyle factors, as dietary carbohydrates and physical activity did not show any significant differences among the various ethnic groups. The Indian respondents also had a significantly higher percentage of HbA1c and significantly lower HDL concentrations. In conclusion, lower concentration of plasma adiponectin in the Indian respondents compared to the Malay and the Chinese respondents is not associated with lifestyle factors. The possibility of adiponectin gene polymorphism should be studied further.
For this present study, convenience sampling method might introduce selection bias (32), and it is unable be used to ensure approximately unbiased estimators of population quantities or provide associated measures of precision (16). Another limitation is the possibility of misreporting of physical activity data. Study respondents may have over reported their physical activity levels in order not to embarrass themselves in front of a healthcare professional. It is suggested that further studies use an accelerometer to measure physical activity level in order to directly detect frequency of human motion (33). Besides this, a study on HMW and other isoforms of adiponectin associated with T2DM needs to be done, as HMW has potential roles in directly sensitizes the body to insulin (25), glucose (34) and lipid homeostasis secretion from adipose tissue. Studying HMW would be more accurate as compared to using total adiponectin levels.
We heartily thank Universiti Sains Malaysia Human Research Ethnics Committee for granting the study. Thanks to Dr. Fauziah for allowing us to conduct the study in Hospital Sungai Bakap. We are grateful to diabetic clinic’s staffs, study respondents, Ms. Loy See Ling, Dr. Sarjit Singh, Ms. Nur Firdaus Isa and others, for the help and facilities.
Implication for health policy/ practice/ research/ medical education To the best of our knowledge, this is the first representative study on the association between plasma adiponectin concentrations, dietary intake and physical activity level among multiple ethnicities with T2DM consisting Chinese, Malay and Indians in Malaysia. The National Health and Morbidity Survey showed that the Indian population had the highest prevalence of T2DM. Our study showed that the Indian population had the lowest plasma adiponectin concentrations. Hypoadiponectinaemia in this ethnic is independent from lifestyle factors. It may lead to the possibility of biological factors such as gene polymorphism in the occurrence of T2DM.
Please cite this paper as Chin KH, Sathyasurya DR, Abu Saad H,Jan Mohamed HJB. Effect of Ethnicity, Dietary Intake and Physical Activity on Plasma Adiponectin Concentrations Among Malaysian Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Int J Endocrinol Metab. 2013; 11(3): 167-174. DOI: 10.5812/ijem.8298
Financial Disclosure All authors have no financial interest.
Funding/Support This study was supported by the Short Term Research Grant from Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Role of the Sponsor The funding organization is a public university and had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, and analysis of the data; or preparation, review, and approval of the manuscript.
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The Wind in the Pine Tree
The Maiden was brown and tall and slender; in face and form most lovely. Her hair hung down to her knees. She rose at dawn to help her mother; she found sticks for the fire, she drew water at the well. She could spin and weave with the best; and for long, long hours she sat and plied her wheel or her shuttle in the shade of the great Pine Tree, whilst her ears heard the sound of the wind in its branches. Sometimes her eyes looked out over the paths of the sea, as one who waits and watches. She was calm, not restless, more grave than gay, though she smiled not seldom. Her voice was the voice of a Heavenly Being.
Now concerning the Youth from the far province, of him the crane knows something, for the crane is a great traveller. She was flying over the streams and the valleys of the far province, so she says, when she saw the Youth at work in the green rice-fields. The crane lingered, circling slowly in the bright air. The Youth stood up. He looked round upon the valleys and streams; he looked into the sky.
“I hear the call,” he said. “I may tarry no longer. Voice in my heart, I hear and I obey.”
With that he left the rice-field, and bade farewell to his mother and his father and his sisters and his brothers and his friends. All together, they came down to the seashore, weeping and clinging to each other. The Youth took a boat and went away to sea, and the rest of them stood upon the beach.
On sped the boat for many a day over the unknown paths of the sea. And the white crane flew behind the boat. And when the wind failed, she pushed the boat forward with the wind of her strong wings.
At last, one evening about the hour of sunset, the Youth heard the sound of sweet singing. The sound came to him from the land, and it travelled over the paths of the sea. He stood up in his boat, and the crane beat her strong white wings and guided his boat to the shore till its keel touched the yellow sand of the sea-beach of Takasaga.
When the Youth had come ashore he pushed the boat out again with the waves, and watched it drift away.
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Edge computing, generally, is any type of computing that takes place outside a data center. Smartphones, smart TVs, laptops, desktop PCs, small servers and routers, sensors and other similar devices can be considered “edge” devices. Edge computing also entails a growing genre of infrastructure-class computing platforms aimed at hyperscale cloud data centers to the network edge that are playing an increasingly important role in a distributed IT computing environment driven by the rise of the internet of things (IoT).
All of this has to be managed and managed effectively.
The closer proximity to computing resources makes an edge-computing platform much more efficient for workloads that require near-immediate response times. For example, these use cases can range from security networks to video, media delivery to IoT and ad tech to finance.
“The internet has grown bigger and bigger but, from an end user or client perspective, it hasn’t grown closer and closer,” StackPath co-founder and CEO Lance Crosby, generally considered the pioneer of edge computing, said. “The most secure and innovative applications today need to get data back and forth—and processed in between—faster. You don’t want security requests or urgent data hopping around the world. That’s what StackPath Edge Computing is all about. Process it faster, safer. Right at the edge.”
How It Will Affect Us All
How will this movement from centralized systems to smaller, more distributed IT impact enterprises and us as consumers? Will we even notice a difference—outside of a little more speed in getting things done? How will it affect security? The more systems, large or small, that are in production, the more attack surfaces there are for the bad guys looking for information, data and illicit profits.
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Report Draw Refusals Here (2016)
This thread is for reporting any cases of draw refusal that you desire the MT to review in 2016. Remember, if you don't include adequate proof, in the form of screenshots and/or videos, your post may be hidden.
Please note that any cases still in process/pending from 2015 will be addressed by MT here, and questions concerning them can be discussed here also.
The old thread, if you don't see it, has been moved to the 2015 archive. You may view it there, though you will have to reply here.
See our complete draw refusal rules below:
3.0 Cases of Draw Refusal (and Other Unsportsmanlike Behavior):
3.1.1 Fair Decisions and Punishments: The number one goal of the MT in regards to draw refusals is to provide fair decisions to victims and fair punishments to violators. As draw refusals are one of the worst offenses of unsportsmanlike behavior on the site, the punishments listed below will be harsh, though we feel fair. We hope that the tough penalties and all the publicly viewable cases (here: http://forum.strateg...sals-here-2016/) will help to educate the community as to the nature of draw situations, and to contribute in reducing their abuse.
3.1.2 Types of Draw Refusal: There are two types of inappropriate draw refusals. The first is a clear draw and occurs when neither player can win the game. One example of this is a miner-less game with protected flags for both players where, in the absence of a gross mistake, neither player can capture his opponent's highest piece. A player with more pieces may try to confuse his opponent by shuffling his pieces, or he may try to lotto them in an attempt to see if a flag is unprotected, but if he fails in these things it is considered unsportsmanlike to continue this type of game and hope his opponent will eventually quit. Any player who denies two tie requests ten minutes apart in this situation (see Article 3.4.2 on "Ten Minutes") is subject to the penalties listed at Article 3.2 below.
The second type of draw refusal is a no-progress draw and occurs in a game in which one or both sides have the potential to win but no improvement is being made by either side. If one player requests a tie, at any time in the game, and is refused, then it is the responsibility of the player who refused the tie to take the offensive and to try to advance the game toward a resolution. If he does this, then the draw situation is deemed over. If he does not, and also does not accept a second tie request ten minutes after the first one (see Article 3.4.2 on "Ten Minutes"), he will be subject to the penalties listed at Article 3.2 below.
3.1.3 Progress/Advancing the Game: As stated above, the burden to advance the game falls on the player refusing the draw after a tie request is made. An attack will often be evidence of this, but not always. For example, lottoing a low-level piece or two in an endgame situation may not be viewed as advancement. On the other hand, not attacking is usually evidence of non-advancement, but again not always. The player steadily pushing a multiple piece army to his opponent's side of the board may still be seen as advancing the game even without yet attacking. In summary, the MT expects to see the player who refuses a draw request to exhibit solid progress after refusing the tie request.
3.1.4 The Basic Draw Rule: It does not matter if either player has better units or more units (i.e., superior material), no one "deserves to win" if he cannot capture the flag or all of his opponent's pieces.
3.2 Penalty Schedule for Draw Refusals:
Note: Quick Arena (QA) games will be accepted for review as long as the evidence for the draw refusal meets the same criteria as that of a regular game. (see Article 3.4.1 "What you should have in your screenshots" below.)
First Offense – A 100 point rating deduction and a written warning emailed from the admins. QA penalty: one week ban.
Second Offense – An account reset down to 100 ELO and a second written warning emailed from the admins. QA penalty: one month ban.
Third Offense – A permanent ban, a public forum announcement, and an emailed notice from the admins for both regular and QA venues (must comply with 1.8 Permanent Bans).
Optional One-Time Reminder Letter – In a permanent ban case in this section should the Moderator Team not have the votes needed to permanently ban a player, but does have enough for a normal conviction level (see Article 1.7), the MT may choose to issue either a reminder letter to the guilty party, or a repeat of the 2nd offense. If chosen, the optional reminder letter may only be issued one time per player for an offense in this section. On top of this, it may also be issued similarly one time for the same player or forum member for an offense under Articles 2, 4, and 5. No points will be restored to a player bringing a case if this reminder letter is issued to his opponent. (see also Article 3.5)
3.3 Where to report your complaint of a draw refusal: http://forum.strateg...sals-here-2016/
The Moderator Team will acknowledge your case in, and render decisions in, the above topic.
3.4.1 What you should have in your screenshots to make a STRONG case:
The time from your computer visible in all screenshots.
The graveyards of both players visible in all screenshots.
Two screenshots of your opponent rejecting two tie requests 10 minutes apart. These screenshots should ideally show all pieces on the board and no progress in the game during that time.
Any relevant chat dialogue, particularly by your opponent.
Little or no use of your own buffer shown in the screenshots.
The defeat details screen is very important. The MT will not uphold your claim of draw refusal without it or other evidence that you have lost the game.
There should be no progress in the game between final tie refusal and the defeat details screen.
We also recommend:
For any questions on uploading screenshots, see this helpful link: http://forum.strateg...ad-screenshots/
3.4.2 Ten Minutes Is the Gold Standard of Proof: Please note from the above that what will make a strong case for any draw refusal claim is to give us two time-stamped refusal screenshots taken ten minutes apart, showing all pieces on the board, plus a defeat details screen. If no progress is made between any of these three screens, the MT will always view this evidence as solid proof of the guilt of the draw refuser. Anything less and we may concur with a claim, or we may not.
In accepting less than ten minutes of evidence, the factors that we consider will include: the nature of the draw situation, the actions of the draw refuser after a tie refusal, and the experience level of the players involved. But nothing is guaranteed in this area. If you want to be absolutely certain the MT will uphold your case, give us ten minutes of no-progress proof and a defeat screen.
3.4.3 System Tie Requests: The tie refusal screens mentioned to this point are system tie requests. You have three of them to offer by pressing the tie request button on your screen. It is a good habit to always take a screenshot when you have a tie offer refused. To meet the requirement of two system tie refusal screens for a strong case above, you may use any combination of the screenshots of your 1st, 2nd, or 3rd tie refusals by your opponent. Just make sure there is no progress in the game for ten minutes in the screens that you show us. You may, of course, show us all three tie refusals.
Also, please note that a grayed-out tie request button can indeed mean that all three of your system tie requests have been used up, but it does not necessarily mean this when certain message boxes are showing, such as a tie refusal notification box or the defeat/victory details screen. In addition, although clearly of interest, a grayed-out button does not in itself show the time information necessary to prove your case, so don't rely too heavily upon it as evidence.
3.4.4 Tie Requests Made in Chat: Requests for a tie that are made in a game chat can be substituted for a valid system tie request if necessary, but will always be a poorer form of evidence. For one, your opponent may not understand you. For two, unless your opponent definitively replies to your tie request in the chat, a mere request by you is no clear proof of his intent. It is always recommended, therefore, that these types of chat offers contain the opponent's response and that they be used in combination with other evidence.
3.4.5 No Changes in Proof: Keep in mind that any changes in the situation of your game during the evidentiary period, even to the loss of a single piece, may invalidate all of your proof. Further, if you change your mind and try to win the game after beginning the draw process, that is your right, but you will risk the potential draw that you sought. After progress has been made on the board you may no longer go back and claim a draw refusal from earlier in the game.
3.4.6 Defeat is Required: Should the game you are claiming a draw refusal on end in either a tie or a win, the MT will not hear your case.
3.4.7 Buffer Run Outs: If a player seeking a draw captures all the necessary screenshots for proving his case, but then runs out his buffer, the MT may still consider his case for draw refusal if the evidence is submitted to us. Please make a claim to us if this happens to you.
3.4.8 Surrendering the game: After you have collected screenshots of at least two tie refusals ten minutes apart (see Article 3.4.2 on "Ten Minutes" above), you can safely surrender the game. Remember to next take a screenshot of the “defeat details screen". (This is the one that tells how long your game lasted, how many moves were made, etc.) If you provide this evidence of tie refusals, and that you have surrendered, and if we agree your opponent is in violation of our rules, the MT will take away 13 points (which is the difference between a draw and either a loss or win) from your opponent's rating and restore it to yours. Also, your opponent will be subject to a further point deduction penalty or permanent banning. (see Article 3.2 above) Unfortunately, we cannot fix any player's win/loss records at this time.
3.5 Guilt Must Be Proven/No Courtesy ELO Restorations: The Moderator Team will require enough evidence to establish the guilt of the draw refuser in order to uphold a draw refusal case. In the past the MT has given 13 points as a one-time courtesy restoration when the bad sportsmanship of a draw refusing opponent was not concretely proven and no draw refusal penalty points were deducted. However, we now feel that giving points to a victim but not simultaneously punishing a draw refuser ultimately helps no one. The victim is rewarded too easily and the guilty party is not given a fair and just penalty to inform him of his bad behavior. Both will be unenlightened and likely to repeat the same event again. So if the MT agrees with a draw refusal claim, one person will be vindicated and one person will be punished. We will no longer offer a one-time courtesy to players whose proof falls short of convincing us of the guilt of their opponent.
3.6 Other Unsportsmanlike Behavior: For any egregious unsportsmanlike behavior not covered in Articles 2, 3, or 4, or excluded by Article 8, the Moderator Team will look at the claims. Sufficient evidence to establish the guilt of the defendant may require video proof. Actions by the MT may include anything from points restorations/deductions to permanent bannings. All cases will be judged separately.
Remember that all accusations require proof. If you have opened a complaint without the necessary evidence the only action the MT will take is to hide your post.
The MT has voted to permanently ban player davidcupples for his third draw refusal violation for his game against steelers. Pending administrative action, he will receive an official notification and his account will be blocked.
Also, player steelers will receive 13 points back for the unfair loss.
The MT votes to punish player trust me for a draw refusal in a QA game with player Emergency. Pending administrative action player trust me will have 50 points deducted.
#4 Guldin
Guldin
I had a severe case of draw refusal with Greece-General. I would be hard pressed if this was his first offense. I pleaded with him for over an hour. He also used abusive language. I took pictures with my digital camera because my laptop can't do screen shots. What can i do to get some justice?
Post the pics.
it said it was to big or something. i could email them tho.
Email them to customercare@stratego.com
and they will either take care of the matter themselves or forward it to us to look at.
#8 njphillips12
njphillips12
I would like to have a case opened against Flying_Dutchman.
What makes this interesting is that I'm having to prove an unreasonable draw refusal from a game I played on my iPhone. Unfortunately, I am unable to timestamp my screenshots. That fact notwithstanding, I still maintain that there is ample evidence of an unreasonable refusal to accept a draw, and I will annotate each screenshot as best as I'm able. The links below appear in the order that the images were screenshotted.
We both had a general remaining on the board, and he was out of miners. My flag was sealed.
Photo 1: http://imgur.com/XdlK08U
Second draw refusal. I did not screenshot the first.
Photo 2: http://imgur.com/e5qt6Lz
First chat where I informed him of my intent to report if he did not accept a draw. His response was to laugh.
Photo 3: http://imgur.com/jcvbtHu
Second chat where he admits that he thinks he should win because he "has more stones." This evidences his knowledge that he couldn't capture my flag.
Photo 4: http://imgur.com/Mn5TG36
Final draw refusal.
Photo 5: http://imgur.com/ihTH0Jm
This shows the final position of the pieces. The red piece appearing in the space to the right of the red arrow is his general. All he could do was chase me. He never would have been able to affect a capture.
Photo 6: http://imgur.com/VaQ1aSB
Final view of the graveyard. Note that he had no miners.
Photo 7: http://imgur.com/4ZzlvaQ
Final view of chat. I asked him to request a tie, because I was out of requests. He did not do so, and instead, told me I was a sore loser in Dutch. This further evidences his knowledge that we were hopelessly stuck, and that he believed he should win because he had more pieces.
Photo 8: http://imgur.com/V5Fysji
Surrender page.
I'm aware that the rules generally require timestamped screenshots to prove an unreasonable draw refusal. However, notwithstanding that requirement, I would argue that the length of the chat demonstrates ample time on the part of Flying_Dutchman to accept a draw. I've made a strong case, and it would unfair and inequitable to give Flying_Dutchman the benefit of whatever doubt might exist in this case simply because I was playing on my mobile device.
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#9 tobermoryx
The MT has opened a case for you.
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#10 Moriarty
isnt flying dutchman a ship in Pirates of the Caribbean?
I have no idea what that thing under my avatar is. I've always liked stickers
#11 whocaresman
whocaresman
Lionheart1976 wanted to shuffle all night and refuse draws. He has his Marshal (known), I have my general, he is out of miners, and my flag is bombed. Unfortunately, I disconnected from the game in the middle of it so my captured pieces log isn't accurate, but you would think with no pieces on the board other than my general for 10+ minutes he would have won if he had a miner. Note the times on the screen shots. Also, his general is dead as I sacrificed my marshal for it earlier in the game.
First Draw Request- http://pasteboard.co/16arls9A.png
First Refusal- http://pasteboard.co/16asQOzs.png
The death of his last miner- http://pasteboard.co/16auDzQb.png
Intentional movement and sacrifice of my pieces to his colonel knowing the game was a draw and to show him that no progress can be made: http://pasteboard.co/16awrJIu.png
------- http://pasteboard.co/16aAWW4Z.png
Second Draw Request- http://pasteboard.co/16aDbrhj.png
Second Refusal- http://pasteboard.co/16aEmwzD.png
Chat- I tell him I will report if he doesn't accept, he says "Good Luck" http://pasteboard.co/16aGA4oi.png
Third Draw Request- http://pasteboard.co/16aJnpdA.png
Third Refusal- http://pasteboard.co/16aKK6IK.png
Defeat Screen- http://pasteboard.co/16aLPs4L.png
Lionheart1976 wanted to shuffle all night and refuse draws.
A case has been opened by The MT
I have another draw refusal case, this time against the player "sultan61" The screenshots clearly show my flag is bombed, he is out of miners, his marshal, general, and one of his colonels are dead. I know his other colonel, and I have a colonel that he can't capture. We shuffled for almost 20 mins and are clearly in more or less the same position in the game the whole time.
Screenshot of board (10:44) http://pasteboard.co/17C30OUJ.png
First Draw Request- http://pasteboard.co/17C4CC2m.png
First Refusal- http://pasteboard.co/17C6PcsB.png
Sacrifying pieces so he can tell my flag is bombed- http://pasteboard.co/17C8l0kU.png
Second Draw Request- http://pasteboard.co/17CaiMAz.png
Second Refusal- http://pasteboard.co/17CbPxde.png
Third Draw Request- http://pasteboard.co/17CdaSFU.png
Third Refusal- http://pasteboard.co/17Cenu6J.png
Defeat Screen (11:02) - http://pasteboard.co/17CfBaUn.png
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#14 Astros 17
Astros 17
A general question on draw refusal. If my opponent wastes his draw requests early, in a situation where I make real progress between attempts. Am I obligated to offer him a draw at the end of the game in a no win situation.
I am not planning to attempt this but am curious as to how this would be judged.
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If both sides' draw requests run out, and one side has a marshal and the other has a scout or somthing, what will happen? will there be an automatic draw or something...?
@astros
Not sure to understand the question. ... in a no win situation for you then the draw is your best option unless you prefer a loss?
I think he's asking if he's obligated to send the draw request, can he just chase the opponent around since opponent has no draw requests left forever.
Personally, I feel that he has the right to since his opponent cannot offer a draw. He does not need to do so.
If your screenshots proove that you've run out of draw requests and that 10 minutes elapsed without game evolution the case can be sufficient for a draw refusal case. In this case i would recommend any additional screenshot demonstrating your attempts to ask for draw in chat and of course not forget the surrender defeat screen after the 10 minutes.
No ... chasing around for more than 10 minutes in a "no hope of victory" situation is unsportsmanlike (...unless the opponent confirmed he agreed to be chased like that for nothing ...)
i meant if both sides run out of draw offers, do you just surrender and ask for your points back here?
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Board index » Frank Zappa » Legends, Myths and Fantasies
Moron Alert!!!
Post subject: Moron Alert!!!
Location: Over there! (last)
I always root for the bull.
Running of the bulls: Californian among 3 gored in Pamplona
PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) -- Two Americans and a Briton were gored and eight other people were injured Tuesday as thousands of daredevils dashed alongside fighting bulls through the streets of Pamplona on the first bull run of the annual San Fermin festival, organizers said.
Mike Webster, a 38-year-old occupational therapist from Gainesville, Florida, was gored as he ran with the bulls in Pamplona for the 38th time in 11 years.
San Fermin's media office said he was gored in the armpit, and Webster told The Associated Press from his hospital bed that he hasn't decided whether he'll run again because he first needs to discuss the issue with his wife.
Also gored were a 27-year-old Californian identified by the media office only by his initials, D.M.O., and a 30-year-old Briton with the initials A.B.O. Neither was in serious condition.
Three other Americans were among the eight others injured, most with bruises from falls and crowd crushes during the nationally televised run that lasted just over two minutes.
Man Dies After Setting Firework Off From The Top Of His Head
Devon Staples died on the fourth of July after setting a firework tube off on top of his head in Calais, Maine. Staples, 22, was reportedly drinking at the time of the incident. He died instantly.
Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland told WCSH6 Staples placed the fireworks mortar on his head then lit it around 10 p.m. on the holiday. His death is the first for Maine since the state first legalized fireworks in 2012.
"Apparently, he thought that was a great idea," McCausland told the Associated Press. "His friends they thought they dissuaded him from doing it, and the next thing they knew, he ignited the fireworks and he was killed instantly."
Never argue with stupid people; they will drag you
down to their level and then beat you with experience.
lapsed maps
Post subject: Re: Moron Alert!!!
Location: misanthropia
Mr. Nice Guy wrote:
great thread/will contribute later.
that's what happens when you don't read you loose your link to higher thinking
Location: south midlands, UK
"Apparently, he thought that was a great idea,"
Kids, this is why studying physics is important.
and I know, I think
Mr_Green_Genes
Location: City Of Tiny Lites
Poor fellow, a true Darwin's Award candidate:
Man killed by giant 11ft alligator after ignoring warning signs and jumping into Texas bayou TAUNTED the beast before leaping into the water
Tommie Woodward, 28, suffered severe trauma to a limb when he was attacked early Friday morning at a private marina
Said 'blank the alligators' before jumping into the water, according to Orange County Justice of the Peace Rodney Price, likely censoring himself
Woodward's body was found nearby about two hours later
The marina's owner put up signs warning people not to swim after recently spotting a large alligator in the water several times
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3149839/Man-killed-alligator-Texas-mocked-beast-jumped-marina.html
jaypfunk wrote:
{insert pic of Ronny here}
The following alert has been mandated by the
Zappa Forum Moron Alert System, whenever
jaypfunk posts at the level of a 12-year-old.
lapsed maps wrote:
Philostopher
Location: Approaching Death
LMAO! That's fucked up!
"Everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back"
Galoot Co-Log-Nuh
Location: Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
deuce wrote:
LMAO....Truth!!!!
Location: Windsor,Ontario Canada
second USA man dies after firework experiment goes tits up.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... CHEST.html
sleeping in a jar
Location: where the dogs roll by
Mr_Green_Genes wrote:
Taunted the beast? What the hell did he do, hold up a suitcase and point to it and laugh while making eye contact with the alligator??
I can't tell when you're telling the truth.
>I'm not.
How do I know anything you've said to me is...
>You don't.
just plain doug
Location: Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA
sleeping in a jar wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25x_OMYCYSg
(not that it makes a heck of a lot of a difference to ya)
Plook
Moron vs Fireworks. Guess who won?
KAPT.KIIIRK
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I'm getting larger as I walk away.
Had Caitlyn Jenner known, she might have stayed a man!
TqukyQj.jpg
wakawazoo
Am I watching too much Breaking Bad, or the guy looks exactly like Jesse Pinkman?
^ Too much BB Wakawazoo. It's the one who's spotting his body double.
KAPT.KIIIRK wrote:
Oi! There's no such thing as too much BB!
BBP wrote:
Point Taken, I meant in the abstract.
In Ouddorp, near the Hague, a 19-year-old died and an 18-year-old ended injured in hospital. The two had visited friends and went to sleep in the back of a pickup truck - the next morning, another 19-year-old took the truck for a cross-country ride, unaware of the sleeping passengers.
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Looking Through Glass
An amusing and informative introduction to the manufacture of power cables, set to an jaunty musical score.
Merton Park Studios
Jack Saward
Alvar Lidell, Norman Shelley
C. Beaumont
Making a Cable
'The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and covered for insulation and protection with layers of rubber, lead, cloth and paper. The completed cables are then given high-voltage tests before being dispatched from the factory.'
(Films of Britain - British Council Film Department Catalogue - 1946)
Power Lines is unusual in that it has two narrators, both of whom were popular choices for British Council films. BBC announcer and newsreader Alvar Lidell also narrated British Council films Architects of England, Gardens of England, and the medical series Techniques in Plastic Surgery. Actor Norman Shelley, best known for voicing Winnie-the-Pooh in the BBC’s Children’s Hour, also narrated The Little Ships of England and We of the West Riding.
The music for Power Lines was composed by Charles Williams, whose extensive musical output frequently ended up as stock music and thus often went uncredited. Two such pieces are ‘The Young Ballerina’, which accompanied the famous 1950s BBC interlude known as The Potter’s Wheel, and ‘Girls in Grey’, which was the theme to the BBC’s Television Newsreel.
Colour In Clay
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Comeragh Mountains, Waterford 0872632321 info@comeraghclub.ie
Walk Guidelines
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Tribute To Donal
It is with deepest sorrow that we mark the death of Comeragh Mountaineering Club member Mr Donal McGrath, 61, of Knockeen, Butlerstown, Co Waterford who died on Snowdon Mountain, North Wales, on Friday 17th March, 2006.
Donal was part of a group of 25 members of the Comeragh Mountaineering Club, Waterford, on a Club trip to Snowdon, North Wales for the Patrick’s weekend when the accident occurred. The club regularly organises trips to various locations in Ireland and abroad. The death was the first in over 30 years of the clubs existence.
The group had climbed Snowdon and were descending. The weather conditions were poor when he fell. Mr McGrath, an experienced mountaineer, was well equipped for the mountains. Members of the group contacted the police and mountain rescue, who responded immediately.
Mr McGrath, originally from County Tyrone, had recently retired as a FAS instructor. He was a popular and well-liked member of the Club who participated regularly on Club walks. He was a club member for a number of years and had experience on all the major mountain ranges in Ireland. In addition to his club activities he had recently been on several mountaineering trips abroad to Aconcagua (In the Andes, the highest mountain -22,841 ft – in South America), Mont Blanc, Kilimanjaro (the highest mountain in Africa), and Everest base camp.
The Comeragh Mountaineering Club wish to express its sincerest sympathy and condolences to Mr McGrath’s family and friends at this time. The club also sympathises with those who accompanied Donal and who are deeply shocked and traumatised by this event. His companions have cut short their trip and are returning home to Ireland.
The Comeragh Mountaineering Club would like to thank the mountain rescue teams, police, Snowdonia National Park officials, and local residents for their assistance and support.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
Inquest Held
An inquest was held in Wales on Tuesday 10th October 2006 into the death of club member Mr Donal McGrath on Snowdon. The report into the inquest from the BBC’s web page is given below.
Four members of the club travelled to the inquest: F. Tritschler, J. Foley, M. Keenleyside, B. Jacob.
Donal McGrath, 61, of Butlerstown, County Waterford, Ireland, died after falling more than 600ft (183m).
The Caernarfon inquest heard members of his mountaineering club thought he was walking ahead and only raised the alarm when they reached their cars.
Coroner Dewi Pritchard-Jones recorded a verdict of accidental death.
Mr McGrath, who had mountaineering experience on Everest, the Alps and in Argentina, died on 17 March, 2006.
The inquest heard that a group from the Comeragh mountaineering club, in Waterford, was walking on the Pyg track on Wales’ highest mountain.
On the way down, in treacherous conditions, other members of the group believed Mr McGrath was walking ahead.
The inquest heard he had apparently slipped more than 600ft and struck his head on a boulder, killing him instantly.
It was only when the group returned to their cars in the Llanberis Pass they realised that the 61-year-old was not with them.
Coroner Mr Pritchard-Jones said: “He was probably doing what he enjoyed and I would hate to criticise him for doing that.
“He was a very experienced person with the best equipment. “As long as people go walking in snow and ice on mountains they know the risk and that these things can happen.”
After the inquest, Mr McGrath’s daughter, Roisin McGrath, 32, said she blamed no one for the accident but felt her father should have been missed sooner.
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1 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Dotson, Adam Michael, born: 12 April 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 004302333
1 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Dotson, Lara Nicole, born: 5 April 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 004302137
1 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Kelly, Lisa J., born: 31 July 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003900675
1 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Kelly, Martin J., born: 7 July 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003900685
1 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Saha, Animita C., born: 15 November 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003651619
1 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Saha, Dhanonjoy C., born: 5 June 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003693633
2 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Bond, Emily K., born: 5 July 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 002050727
2 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Bond, Jonathan M., born: 29 November 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 003361475
2 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Bond, Rita W., born: 11 October 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002050729
2 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Bond, Steven D., born: 6 September 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002058424
4 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Danello, Angela C., born: 16 May 1978, Republican, Voter ID 004576399
4 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Danello, John Louis, born: 22 January 1971, Republican, Voter ID 004730808
4 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, York, Jennifer A., born: 25 February 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052631
4 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, York, Thomas D., born: 18 April 1970, Republican, Voter ID 002064617
6 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Bonadies, Nicole Marie, born: 17 May 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 002050720
6 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Delgreco, Alexa, born: 20 June 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051813
6 Alcima Drive, Simsbury, Delgreco, Felix M., born: 13 December 1942, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059351
1 Alder Road, Simsbury, Gallagher, Kara M., born: 29 March 1969, Republican, Voter ID 002052598
1 Alder Road, Simsbury, Gallagher, Matthew, born: 18 February 1969, Republican, Voter ID 002060037
9 Alder Road, Simsbury, Orosz, Joseph A., born: 4 September 1932, Democratic, Voter ID 002062510
9 Alder Road, Simsbury, Orosz, Nancy G., born: 27 February 1939, Democratic, Voter ID 002055386
10 Alder Road, Simsbury, Valence, Madelyn, born: 12 March 1929, Democratic, Voter ID 002057296
10 Alder Road, Simsbury, Valence, Richard, born: 5 December 1929, Republican, Voter ID 002064196
12 Alder Road, Simsbury, Park, Kristen M., born: 6 October 1975, Republican, Voter ID 003436398
12 Alder Road, Simsbury, Park, Michael Andrew, born: 24 February 1970, Republican, Voter ID 003434573
13 Alder Road, Simsbury, Rabinowitz, Evan J., born: 3 January 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004928625
13 Alder Road, Simsbury, Rabinowitz, Michael Alexander, born: 30 April 1968, Republican, Voter ID 003521230
13 Alder Road, Simsbury, Rabinowitz, Stacie H., born: 15 January 1969, Republican, Voter ID 003304707
14 Alder Road, Simsbury, Carr, Haley Michelle, born: 22 May 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004930055
14 Alder Road, Simsbury, Carr, Michael P., born: 9 June 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058801
14 Alder Road, Simsbury, Carr, Rita M., born: 24 April 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 002051157
15 Alder Road, Simsbury, Bible, Elizabeth C., born: 12 October 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050629
15 Alder Road, Simsbury, Bible, Victor, born: 18 April 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058346
17 Alder Road, Simsbury, Krajewski, Katarzyna, born: 5 June 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 003728917
17 Alder Road, Simsbury, Krajewski, Matthew S., born: 18 January 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004512640
17 Alder Road, Simsbury, Krajewski, Ola Caroline, born: 4 August 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004802348
17 Alder Road, Simsbury, Krajewski, Tomasz, born: 26 July 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 003720051
18 Alder Road, Simsbury, Catalano, Carol A., born: 28 January 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051210
18 Alder Road, Simsbury, Catalano, Christopher Matthew, born: 28 September 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004108346
18 Alder Road, Simsbury, Catalano, Lauren Maria, born: 19 June 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004542889
18 Alder Road, Simsbury, Catalano, Nicholas Joseph, born: 14 January 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004404612
18 Alder Road, Simsbury, Catalano, Robert A., born: 4 October 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002051211
19 Alder Road, Simsbury, Whiddon, Roger D., born: 10 December 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064437
19 Alder Road, Simsbury, Whiddon, Shirley M., born: 10 November 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002057581
21 Alder Road, Simsbury, Nason, James E., born: 7 February 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002062305
21 Alder Road, Simsbury, Riley, Patricia D., born: 1 May 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049843
22 Alder Road, Simsbury, Hartwell, Christopher M., born: 15 June 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060549
22 Alder Road, Simsbury, Hartwell, David J., born: 12 July 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002060550
22 Alder Road, Simsbury, Hartwell, Sharmane P., born: 16 December 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002053171
24 Alder Road, Simsbury, Bush, Kimberly L., born: 3 April 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051006
24 Alder Road, Simsbury, Crane, Justin, born: 31 December 1983, Republican, Voter ID 004304087
24 Alder Road, Simsbury, Holland, Paul E., born: 16 August 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 002538089
24 Alder Road, Simsbury, Larose, Lauren A., born: 1 September 1984, Republican, Voter ID 004312962
25 Alder Road, Simsbury, Libros, Adam B., born: 10 March 1978, Republican, Voter ID 002061496
25 Alder Road, Simsbury, Libros, Jocelyn Sue, born: 3 October 1977, Republican, Voter ID 003146544
26 Alder Road, Simsbury, Cadwgan, Kathryn, born: 26 February 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 002051035
26 Alder Road, Simsbury, Glissman, Robert David, born: 9 May 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004897163
26 Alder Road, Simsbury, Smith, Meredith C., born: 26 May 1945, Republican, Voter ID 002056721
27 Alder Road, Simsbury, Goldfarb, Christine B., born: 29 November 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052838
27 Alder Road, Simsbury, Goldfarb, Madison, born: 9 October 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004966046
27 Alder Road, Simsbury, Goldfarb, Randy S., born: 20 July 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060247
28 Alder Road, Simsbury, Eales, Gert Daniel, born: 8 April 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 004038331
28 Alder Road, Simsbury, Eales, Nadine, born: 2 January 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 004038335
28 Alder Road, Simsbury, McCarthy, Douglas S., born: 27 December 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049634
28 Alder Road, Simsbury, McCarthy, Lori J., born: 28 October 1972, Republican, Voter ID 002054642
29 Alder Road, Simsbury, Dwyer, Mary E., born: 24 November 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002052087
30 Alder Road, Simsbury, Cosgrove, Frederick R., born: 13 April 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002763144
30 Alder Road, Simsbury, Cosgrove, Lorraine B., born: 9 March 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002763145
31 Alder Road, Simsbury, Mogck, Derek L., born: 29 June 1971, Republican, Voter ID 002062116
31 Alder Road, Simsbury, Mogck, Sara H., born: 18 November 1970, Republican, Voter ID 002054964
31 Alder Road, Simsbury, Trudell, James E., born: 19 May 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003902503
32 Alder Road, Simsbury, Cormier, Aimee J., born: 21 February 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003131427
32 Alder Road, Simsbury, George, Mark C., born: 27 February 1980, Republican, Voter ID 004351805
32 Alder Road, Simsbury, Watson, Brian M., born: 13 October 1972, Republican, Voter ID 003379759
32 Alder Road, Simsbury, Watson, Tricia L., born: 28 August 1974, Republican, Voter ID 003379757
33 Alder Road, Simsbury, Salina, Allison G., born: 11 May 1997, Republican, Voter ID 004481851
33 Alder Road, Simsbury, Salina, Catherine Leigh, born: 6 August 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004159152
33 Alder Road, Simsbury, Salina, James T., born: 7 February 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004897747
33 Alder Road, Simsbury, Salina, Kelly E., born: 14 April 1995, Republican, Voter ID 004403484
33 Alder Road, Simsbury, Salina, Susan B., born: 20 September 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002056292
33 Alder Road, Simsbury, Salina, Thomas J., born: 21 September 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002063295
34 Alder Road, Simsbury, Coppola, Anthony, born: 30 May 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004664584
34 Alder Road, Simsbury, Coppola, Suzanne R., born: 1 December 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004653920
34 Alder Road, Simsbury, Gallegos, Emma Elizabeth, born: 27 July 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 003727325
34 Alder Road, Simsbury, Ricciuti, Louis A., born: 16 April 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063041
35 Alder Road, Simsbury, Cramer, James A., born: 1 April 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003406184
35 Alder Road, Simsbury, Cramer, Sarah K., born: 9 December 1974, Republican, Voter ID 003406178
36 Alder Road, Simsbury, Allman, Daniel J., born: 8 February 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057975
36 Alder Road, Simsbury, Jennings, David B., born: 16 September 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003082896
36 Alder Road, Simsbury, Jennings, Laura M., born: 13 February 1973, Republican, Voter ID 003718932
36 Alder Road, Simsbury, Murphy, Charlotte H., born: 27 August 1940, Republican, Voter ID 002055118
37 Alder Road, Simsbury, Churilla, Juanita L., born: 17 December 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002051328
37 Alder Road, Simsbury, Churilla, Michael P., born: 8 July 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 002058947
37 Alder Road, Simsbury, Jennings, David B., born: 16 September 1965, Republican, Voter ID 003082896
38 Alder Road, Simsbury, Boecklin, Erich V., born: 28 July 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004571883
38 Alder Road, Simsbury, Sheffield, Christopher H., born: 21 December 1960, Republican, Voter ID 003557001
38 Alder Road, Simsbury, Sheffield, Suzanne T., born: 25 November 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002050695
39 Alder Road, Simsbury, Baldwin, Beverly B., born: 1 December 1930, Republican, Voter ID 002050369
40 Alder Road, Simsbury, Hillier, Frederick C., born: 12 July 1944, Republican, Voter ID 002060688
40 Alder Road, Simsbury, Hillier, Patricia H., born: 7 December 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002053327
42 Alder Road, Simsbury, Hack, John R., born: 1 January 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060444
42 Alder Road, Simsbury, Hack, Vicki L., born: 3 May 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053057
44 Alder Road, Simsbury, Picarello, Bradford L., born: 15 June 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 003493525
44 Alder Road, Simsbury, Riordan, Evan Weston, born: 22 June 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 003996270
3 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Buggy, Nancy J., born: 16 May 1935, Republican, Voter ID 002050946
5 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Levine, Chloe, born: 17 August 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004948683
5 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Levine, Gregory O., born: 10 August 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004292090
5 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Levine, Lucia M., born: 25 October 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004280408
5 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Swift, Christina Gustin, born: 31 October 1984, Republican, Voter ID 002057026
5 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Swift, Sefanie G., born: 18 August 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003863813
5 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Van, Pamela C., born: 26 February 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 002057307
5 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Van, Richard A., born: 6 December 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 003905075
6 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Moniz, Julie I., born: 10 August 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 003875977
6 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Moniz, Ryan Robert, born: 19 September 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003870067
6 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Rose, Adam C., born: 18 April 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 002063155
6 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Rose, Thanh-Nha T., born: 21 June 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003616870
7 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Tagliatela, Audrey, born: 13 May 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004948728
7 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Tagliatela, Maureen F., born: 2 April 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002007097
7 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Tagliatela, William P., born: 9 December 1968, Republican, Voter ID 002007098
8 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Lee, Jennifer C., born: 17 October 1970, Republican, Voter ID 003527107
8 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Lee, William A., born: 22 December 1968, Republican, Voter ID 003543579
9 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Wu, Wanli, born: 7 November 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004882861
10 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Bauer, Andrew C., born: 12 May 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004996628
10 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Bauer, Mary Tahan, born: 2 October 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 003971577
11 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Castanza, Stephen E., born: 3 December 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003873424
11 Amy Lane, Simsbury, White, Frank M., born: 2 February 1986, Republican, Voter ID 004434906
11 Amy Lane, Simsbury, White, Gina Lissette, born: 15 February 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003805084
12 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Donagher, Margaret, born: 21 November 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 003426586
12 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Donagher, Michael, born: 17 February 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003467817
12 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Pasquenza, John P., born: 26 July 1943, Democratic, Voter ID 002062630
12 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Pasquenza, Kathryn L., born: 16 January 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002055516
12 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Rutledge, Molly R. A., born: 5 September 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003610055
12 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Rutledge, Tom Patrick, born: 14 October 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002455920
14 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Reilley, Daniel E., born: 2 December 1971, Republican, Voter ID 002049826
14 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Reilley, Kathleen A., born: 22 June 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002055963
14 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Reilley, Lawrence M., born: 8 September 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002062993
15 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Romano, Carol, born: 25 December 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056112
15 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Romano, John, born: 6 February 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063140
15 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Romano, Lyndsay, born: 5 October 1983, Republican, Voter ID 002056113
15 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Romano, Stacy, born: 2 May 1980, Republican, Voter ID 002056114
15 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Romano, Victoria, born: 26 August 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003368766
16 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Dymersky, Joan G., born: 10 June 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002052092
16 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Dymersky, Mark W., born: 3 May 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002059616
16 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Lamonica, Michelle Marie, born: 7 July 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004084288
16 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Leduc, Marcus Gary, born: 11 November 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004531506
16 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Leduc, Michelle Lamonica, born: 7 July 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004084288
17 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Bouchard, John A., born: 23 December 1976, Republican, Voter ID 004793656
17 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Koniar, Joseph Milan, born: 22 April 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003486224
17 Amy Lane, Simsbury, Koniar, Marisol, born: 21 June 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003454938
1 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Roundy, Katherine B., born: 16 August 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003474764
1 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Roundy, Michael J., born: 26 July 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003870083
1 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Roundy, Peter Elliott, born: 16 August 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003471992
1 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Roundy, Sam Elliott, born: 5 September 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002063201
1 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Roundy, Sara, born: 6 February 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002056180
2 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Cantello, Christian B., born: 26 April 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004963091
2 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Cantello, Diane J., born: 28 September 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003661608
2 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Cantello, Olivia, born: 12 October 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004654039
2 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Cantello, Roger, born: 17 December 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003661605
3 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Albergo, Christopher Patrick, born: 16 October 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003504610
3 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Albergo, Diane, born: 23 September 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002050148
3 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Albergo, Nick James, born: 1 May 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004404645
3 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Albergo, Patrick F., born: 22 June 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002057950
4 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Smith, Benjamin, born: 27 May 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004576117
4 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Smith, Dylan A., born: 20 June 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004920570
4 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Smith, Raymond J., born: 30 March 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002063682
4 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Tobin, Rhonda J., born: 1 October 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 002049989
5 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Cassot, Robert W., born: 11 April 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002058839
5 Anja Drive, Simsbury, McHenry, Karen G., born: 6 July 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054717
6 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Gutierrez, Gerardo J., born: 10 December 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 001979627
6 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Haghighat, Diana F., born: 20 February 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 003794848
7 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Bologa, Evan James, born: 29 June 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004951616
7 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Bologa, James A., born: 24 January 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002058417
7 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Bologa, Julianna Marie, born: 4 March 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004404295
7 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Bologa, Madeline J., born: 14 July 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004745614
7 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Bologa, Stephanie A., born: 10 May 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002050714
7 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Bologna, Julianna Marie, born: 4 March 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004404295
8 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Kuzmin, Andrew Frank, born: 8 November 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003872323
8 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Kuzmin, Frank L., born: 2 July 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002061350
8 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Kuzmin, Joan S., born: 6 October 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 002054069
8 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Kuzmin, Kathleen Paige, born: 30 November 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004609861
9 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Orahood, Heidi A., born: 13 June 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055098
9 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Orahood, Kent D., born: 15 October 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002062503
9 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Shiman, Jennifer Amy, born: 22 September 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003549958
9 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Shiman, Joseph F., born: 26 August 1972, Republican, Voter ID 000926851
10 Anja Drive, Simsbury, McConnell, Erin Marion, born: 4 February 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003798159
10 Anja Drive, Simsbury, McConnell, James P., born: 25 June 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 002061848
10 Anja Drive, Simsbury, McConnell, John Anthony, born: 29 September 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004062249
10 Anja Drive, Simsbury, McConnell, Lisa M., born: 10 July 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 002054652
10 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Musser, Amy Marvine, born: 13 June 1973, Republican, Voter ID 004847367
10 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Musser, Christopher, born: 9 August 1969, Republican, Voter ID 004987061
11 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Diviney, Catherine J., born: 3 December 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 004360310
11 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Diviney, David R., born: 8 August 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004360309
11 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Finigan, Agnes S., born: 2 February 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002049001
11 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Finigan, Daniel Paul, born: 16 June 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003983071
11 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Finigan, Maura K., born: 26 August 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 003518916
11 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Finigan, Paul M., born: 22 October 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002049002
6A Anja Drive, Simsbury, Haghighat, Diana F., born: 20 February 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 003794848
90 Anja Drive, Simsbury, Shiman, Joseph F., born: 26 August 1972, Republican, Voter ID 000926851
10 C Anja Drive, Simsbury, McConnell, John Anthony, born: 29 September 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004062249
3 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Carissimi, Kyle N., born: 17 March 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003839550
3 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Carissimi, Linda H., born: 16 December 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051122
3 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Carissimi, Louis J., born: 5 September 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058768
3 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Carissimi, Saara Jean, born: 2 February 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004079449
5 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Fagan, Peter B., born: 7 July 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002059748
5 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Fagan, Tamara R., born: 20 March 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002052257
7 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Hennig, Bonnie L., born: 18 July 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002053276
7 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Hennig, Chandler Ryan, born: 14 May 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004571882
7 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Olson, Denise Ann, born: 30 July 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003682637
7 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Olson, Robert S., born: 22 May 1985, Republican, Voter ID 004361279
7 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Trestman, Robert Lee, born: 4 June 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 003082467
8 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Carew, James E., born: 6 March 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004961069
8 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Carew, John E., born: 27 February 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 002058756
8 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Carew, John W., born: 18 June 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004548106
8 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Carew, Kirsten S., born: 3 March 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002051109
9 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Case, Phyllis Marie, born: 7 May 1965, Republican, Voter ID 004294010
9 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Kalajian, Robert C., born: 13 June 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 003822601
9 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Kalajian, Robert Charles, born: 13 June 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 004440267
9 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, McClain, Lee-Ann E.K., born: 5 June 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003779420
9 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, McClain, William D., born: 21 August 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 003782748
9 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Wahl, Cathleen Elizabeth, born: 3 July 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003563972
9 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Wahl, Christopher Raymond, born: 25 October 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003563759
10 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Iapichino Dorr, Kevin, born: 21 October 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 001982411
10 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Iapichino Dorr, Laura, born: 30 November 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 001982412
11 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, King, Leigh E., born: 17 October 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053897
11 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, King, Rita M., born: 17 November 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053900
11 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, King, Ryan A., born: 1 October 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004624675
12 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Quinn, Kevin T., born: 19 October 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 002062920
12 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Quinn, Kimberly J., born: 3 February 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002055872
12 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Quinn, Ryan L., born: 3 October 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004061739
12 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Quinn, Sean Richard, born: 24 February 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004210296
14 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Bourne, Sarah E., born: 3 September 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 003795529
14 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Perillo, Christopher M., born: 11 October 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 001664327
15 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Helitzer, Jonathan A., born: 7 November 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002060625
15 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Helitzer, Michelle Berry, born: 23 October 1966, Republican, Voter ID 002053252
16 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Atencio, Ashley P., born: 19 June 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 004123114
16 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Atencio, Eliot D., born: 18 August 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002048720
16 Ann Mar Lane, Simsbury, Atencio, Susan A., born: 10 February 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002050289
1 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Marandino, Dominic, born: 18 January 1929, Democratic, Voter ID 002061679
1 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Marandino, Rose M., born: 27 September 1932, Democratic, Voter ID 002054475
2 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Bridges, Rebecca M., born: 16 September 1983, Republican, Voter ID 003416282
2 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Elmer, Daniel, born: 16 March 1964, Republican, Voter ID 004416634
2 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Elmer, Daniel M., born: 13 March 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002059677
2 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Elmer, Patricia M., born: 7 September 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054574
4 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Bosworth, James L., born: 8 September 1972, Republican, Voter ID 003579249
6 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Buda, Joseph G., born: 7 July 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 002058612
6 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Buda, Joseph M., born: 11 September 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003810495
6 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Buda, Linda, born: 15 February 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002050940
6 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Buda, Margaret A., born: 10 November 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004195557
8 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Kevorkian, Christina S., born: 14 April 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053864
8 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Kevorkian, Christopher Simon, born: 26 October 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003892210
8 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Kevorkian, Florence, born: 19 May 1928, Republican, Voter ID 004542876
8 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Kevorkian, Gary R., born: 25 April 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002061172
8 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Kevorkian, Theresa R., born: 24 May 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003844286
10 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Texiera, Lori A., born: 15 February 1963, Republican, Voter ID 004744660
10 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Texiera, Paul N., born: 28 November 1962, Republican, Voter ID 004713224
10 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Whitman, Patricia E., born: 16 July 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002057597
10 Apple Lane, Simsbury, Whitman, Stephen Van Renssaler, born: 20 February 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002064445
8` Apple Lane, Simsbury, Kevorkian, Richard Carl, born: 1 October 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003890128
1 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Districtthree, Sample, born: 1 March 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004839096
1 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Pennell, Christina Kay, born: 11 October 1972, Republican, Voter ID 003035500
1 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Pennell, Lyle H., born: 24 January 1973, Republican, Voter ID 003039972
1 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Radin, Jordan Perry, born: 3 August 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004210157
1 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Radin, Stuart H., born: 21 November 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002062931
1 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Wolfberg, Carrie A., born: 25 February 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000664582
2 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Kwasniak, Janice M., born: 29 July 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 002054070
2 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Stephens, Kyle Ann, born: 14 October 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002056901
3 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Fenton, Carrie L., born: 9 July 1973, Republican, Voter ID 003403766
3 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Fenton, Jonathan R., born: 29 June 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003353334
3 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Herdegen, Megan Michelle, born: 17 May 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004430791
3 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Herdegen, Peggy L., born: 26 August 1962, Republican, Voter ID 004378856
3 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Herdegen, William P., born: 29 October 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004378850
3 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Kremser Stenrud, Paige A., born: 18 September 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 004607495
3 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Stenrud, Christian Jon, born: 11 December 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 004616062
3 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Yung, Helen C., born: 16 October 1972, Republican, Voter ID 003597900
4 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Zambuto, David D., born: 1 March 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004404811
4 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Zambuto, Domenic A., born: 16 April 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002064640
4 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Zambuto, Gracemarie F., born: 16 June 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057852
4 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Zambuto, Samantha G., born: 28 September 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004538857
4 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Zambuto, Zachary Christopher, born: 27 May 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004954971
5 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Kelsey, Anita McIlveen, born: 19 June 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002053820
5 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Kelsey, Michelle Diane, born: 23 August 1989, Republican, Voter ID 003771825
5 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, McIlveen, Margaret T., born: 20 June 1927, Republican, Voter ID 002054721
6 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Antidormi, Christine M., born: 2 January 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004687207
6 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Antidormi, Francesco N., born: 6 July 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004687301
6 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Popowski, Janet R., born: 10 April 1961, Republican, Voter ID 003960995
6 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Popowski, Kristen, born: 19 January 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004404312
8 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Dawe, Emily Ann, born: 30 June 1977, Republican, Voter ID 004784466
8 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Dawe, Shane, born: 13 December 1976, Republican, Voter ID 003358177
8 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Reid, Charles G., born: 18 January 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004107037
8 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Reid, Karen B., born: 17 October 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004107040
8 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Reid, Zachary Armstrong, born: 14 May 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004247085
9 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Berckemeyer, Courtenay Wilson, born: 10 March 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000735547
9 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Berckemeyer, Ricardo M., born: 6 December 1969, Republican, Voter ID 004319784
10 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Starrett, Harrison, born: 8 February 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003420739
10 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Starrett, Harrison C., born: 3 February 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004460730
10 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Starrett, Harrison G., born: 8 February 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003420739
10 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Starrett, Meredith Lynn, born: 24 September 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004576420
11 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Delucia, Alexis Lauren, born: 11 July 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004579536
11 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Delucia, Angela Ann, born: 20 April 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004889806
11 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Delucia, Deborah McNamara, born: 24 September 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 001971193
11 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Delucia, Orlando, born: 9 April 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004020928
12 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Moran, Edward Joseph, born: 27 November 1964, Republican, Voter ID 004239750
12 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Moran, Melissa, born: 5 February 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004701990
12 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Moran, Patricia C., born: 23 May 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002055020
12 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Moran, Sage A., born: 6 September 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004600936
12 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Moran, William P., born: 14 July 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004420087
14 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Dekeyser, Kelly Jim, born: 4 November 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059342
14 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Dekeyser, Stacy C., born: 6 October 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051802
14 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Dekeyser, Steven James, born: 3 May 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004043809
14 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Dekeyser, Thomas Michael, born: 24 August 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003787636
14 Ardsley Way, Simsbury, Ilacqua, Michael Falcone, born: 22 September 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004618988
1 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Macaluso, Sally F., born: 21 July 1938, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003468325
1 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Macaluso, Samuel T., born: 24 June 1938, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000567847
2 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Fehr, Loretta L., born: 15 December 1919, Republican, Voter ID 002052313
3 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, McKay, Linda L., born: 25 January 1940, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054729
3 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, McKay, Paul H., born: 25 March 1934, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061912
4 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Koff, Barbara A., born: 1 January 1940, Democratic, Voter ID 000490419
4 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Koff, Marvin S., born: 29 March 1938, Democratic, Voter ID 000492051
5 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Bornstein, Norman S., born: 12 August 1938, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001964371
5 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Bornstein, Phyllis A., born: 23 June 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001964374
6 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Doran, Anne M., born: 12 July 1930, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003810532
6 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Haberlin, Cornelia E., born: 9 July 1938, Republican, Voter ID 000818445
7 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Holland, Evelyn M., born: 19 December 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002053373
7 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Holland, Paul E., born: 7 October 1942, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060731
8 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Gabriele, Joseph G., born: 29 December 1926, Democratic, Voter ID 002060007
8 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Gabriele, Marilyn M., born: 15 August 1926, Democratic, Voter ID 002052572
8 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Heidt, Catherine Margaret, born: 14 June 1930, Republican, Voter ID 002053245
9 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Haaser, Margaret G., born: 15 September 1928, Republican, Voter ID 002053055
9 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Haaser, Walter B., born: 28 August 1924, Republican, Voter ID 002060440
9 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Polley, Eleanor S., born: 1 March 1930, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004692223
11 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Sanborn, Doris R., born: 30 July 1929, Republican, Voter ID 002056316
13 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Wall, Mary E., born: 2 June 1967, Republican, Voter ID 002057435
14 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Liedtke, Helga L., born: 11 February 1929, Republican, Voter ID 002049457
14 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Liedtke, Klaus A., born: 14 February 1929, Republican, Voter ID 002049458
14 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Ward, Karen Gould, born: 15 June 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002057464
14 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Ward, Timothy Cass, born: 17 March 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 002064324
14 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Wigmore, Kelsea Butler, born: 15 February 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003767625
15 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Ardenski, Alice D., born: 6 May 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 000427285
15 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Ardenski, Theodore E., born: 16 February 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 000427288
15 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Reimer, Elizabeth, born: 9 July 1920, Republican, Voter ID 002055967
15 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Reimer, Richard, born: 23 January 1919, Republican, Voter ID 002062998
16 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Hill, Elizabeth S., born: 28 March 1929, Republican, Voter ID 002053317
16 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Hill, John S., born: 15 May 1929, Republican, Voter ID 002060684
16 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Horton, Max L., born: 21 February 1937, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060782
17 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Epstein, Bernice W., born: 29 May 1936, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052203
17 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Epstein, Jerome A., born: 3 February 1935, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002048977
18 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Parasch, Frances B., born: 22 February 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 001890446
18 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Parasch, Frederic Albert, born: 22 April 1931, Democratic, Voter ID 001890447
18 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Scripol, James N., born: 12 May 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003781831
18 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Skripol, Mary G., born: 20 August 1919, Republican, Voter ID 002056672
19 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Vanderjagt, Lawrence, born: 14 May 1932, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064208
19 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Vanderjagt, Rose, born: 12 March 1933, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057310
20 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Bair, Carol J., born: 22 February 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002050350
20 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Bair, Norman J., born: 22 November 1944, Republican, Voter ID 002058118
20 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Bair, Samantha Elizabeth, born: 5 August 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003810703
20 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Croke, John P., born: 20 July 1935, Republican, Voter ID 002073342
20 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Grob, Arthur O., born: 1 June 1936, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002081672
20 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Grob, Kathleen Mary, born: 3 June 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 002081673
21 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Shuler, Monica A., born: 9 February 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001795885
21 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Shuler, Scott C., born: 23 November 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001795886
21 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Sweeney, John Thomas, born: 6 November 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063948
21 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Sweeney, Susan Meyer, born: 2 April 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057017
22 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Angeli, Ami Diana, born: 23 September 1936, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000132809
22 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Williams, Mary, born: 26 February 1934, Republican, Voter ID 002057652
22 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Williams, William M., born: 3 January 1932, Republican, Voter ID 002064494
28 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Davis, William R., born: 13 July 1925, Democratic, Voter ID 002059308
28 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Mahnensmith, Patricia K., born: 4 February 1951, Republican, Voter ID 001733521
28 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Mahnensmith, Rex L., born: 26 April 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001733522
29 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Gundersen, Barbara A., born: 8 April 1939, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003770060
29 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Gundersen, Peter C., born: 24 December 1938, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003770065
30 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Edwards, Eugene David, born: 16 September 1947, Republican, Voter ID 000124081
30 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Edwards, Patricia, born: 14 February 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000124083
30 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Sirignano, Alan P., born: 29 April 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001151076
31 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Schenker, Jonathan M., born: 22 April 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 002063374
31 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Schenker, Michael S., born: 23 October 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002063375
31 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Schenker, Susan N., born: 23 August 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002056385
32 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Montano, Robert C., born: 1 May 1928, Republican, Voter ID 002062142
32 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Montano, Teresa C., born: 4 April 1931, Republican, Voter ID 002054993
33 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Guiel, Carole A., born: 14 December 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002053024
33 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Guiel, John T., born: 24 June 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060415
33 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Guiel, William L., born: 17 April 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002060416
35 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Fox, Mark B., born: 13 July 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002059955
35 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Fox, Rebecca Kathryn, born: 17 May 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004210340
35 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Fox, Sarah Elizabeth, born: 18 December 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004135071
36 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Shapiro, Howard R., born: 2 January 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 003400296
37 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Payne, Marcia D., born: 29 August 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002052306
37 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Payne, William T., born: 6 September 1949, Republican, Voter ID 001996886
38 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Barrabee, Loretta G., born: 19 July 1937, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001771527
38 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, McCance, Edward L., born: 5 September 1934, Republican, Voter ID 000427375
38 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, McCance, Elaine S., born: 15 October 1937, Republican, Voter ID 003367193
40 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Arciero, Jane B., born: 27 December 1933, Republican, Voter ID 002050251
41 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Dobler, August J., born: 27 October 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002059463
41 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Lapioli, Beverly A., born: 4 August 1944, Republican, Voter ID 002049312
43 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Yaffee, Gail G., born: 14 April 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 000428597
43 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Yaffee, Stuart A., born: 22 August 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 000428599
47 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Bayer, Dorothy, born: 30 July 1932, Republican, Voter ID 003822095
47 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Pilon, Mary Ann, born: 12 June 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002049785
47 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Pilon, Philip E., born: 10 June 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002049786
49 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Brienza, Isabelle V., born: 8 April 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002069213
49 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Krogh, Carol B., born: 16 September 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054030
49 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Krogh, Ronald K., born: 21 September 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049259
60 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Lyons, Catherine, born: 20 October 1930, Republican, Voter ID 002054388
60 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Lyons, Donald E., born: 16 July 1929, Republican, Voter ID 002061583
60 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Lyons, Michael E., born: 22 July 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002049576
62 Ashton Circle, Simsbury, Archer, Maureen R., born: 22 March 1941, Republican, Voter ID 003780811
24 Aspenwood, Simsbury, Pfaff, Morgan R., born: 24 September 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004519241
1 August Road, Simsbury, Norton, Hillary D., born: 5 February 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 004291954
1 August Road, Simsbury, Norton, Michael P., born: 16 November 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 003992719
3 August Road, Simsbury, Demeo, Cynthia B., born: 21 June 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051831
3 August Road, Simsbury, Demeo, Michael, born: 1 July 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059370
7 August Road, Simsbury, Preiser, Nicole, born: 3 October 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003668289
7 August Road, Simsbury, Simpson, Karen M., born: 3 February 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003883541
7 August Road, Simsbury, Simpson, Sean H., born: 5 January 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003883524
8 August Road, Simsbury, Flaherty, Jed M., born: 23 October 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 000763203
8 August Road, Simsbury, Flaherty, Jessica A., born: 18 April 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 003317425
9 August Road, Simsbury, Durbois, Hermance Cousineau, born: 23 March 1917, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001815576
9 August Road, Simsbury, Durbois, Judith B., born: 30 January 1948, Republican, Voter ID 002052074
9 August Road, Simsbury, Durbois, Robert J., born: 1 June 1948, Republican, Voter ID 002059601
11 August Road, Simsbury, Cloud, David F., born: 1 April 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002058993
11 August Road, Simsbury, Cloud, Kelly Anne, born: 5 January 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004673545
11 August Road, Simsbury, Cloud, Kevin, born: 26 October 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004871397
11 August Road, Simsbury, Cloud, Paula M., born: 31 December 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002051389
12 August Road, Simsbury, Joyce, Michael R., born: 6 December 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061023
12 August Road, Simsbury, Parker, Patricia V., born: 7 January 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055505
14 August Road, Simsbury, Vendetti, Charles A., born: 2 April 1935, Democratic, Voter ID 002057913
14 August Road, Simsbury, Vendetti, Sheila Rae, born: 6 August 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002050018
15 August Road, Simsbury, Battos, Christopher W., born: 24 August 1976, Republican, Voter ID 002058220
15 August Road, Simsbury, Battos, Jacqueline S., born: 2 August 1975, Republican, Voter ID 002050484
15 August Road, Simsbury, Battos, John J., born: 11 October 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002058221
15 August Road, Simsbury, Battos, Laura Maria, born: 17 January 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003386554
15 August Road, Simsbury, Battos, Phillip L., born: 13 February 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 003778745
15 August Road, Simsbury, Battos, Suzanne T., born: 8 July 1944, Republican, Voter ID 002050485
16 August Road, Simsbury, Ditucci, Rose Marie, born: 17 October 1940, Republican, Voter ID 002051920
16 August Road, Simsbury, Ege, Arianna Rose, born: 25 July 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004715325
16 August Road, Simsbury, Preiser, Maria, born: 20 December 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003015387
16 August Road, Simsbury, Preiser, Samantha Michelle, born: 23 March 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004548120
16 August Road, Simsbury, Preiser, Timothy, born: 5 August 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002062872
17 August Road, Simsbury, Dudley, Diana B., born: 5 November 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 004414916
17 August Road, Simsbury, Dudley, Ronald J., born: 4 December 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004414913
17 August Road, Simsbury, Lipponen, Jenny M., born: 18 February 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004245763
17 August Road, Simsbury, Lipponen, Jukka, born: 9 February 1960, Republican, Voter ID 003494255
17 August Road, Simsbury, Townsan, Jamin T., born: 4 February 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064115
17 August Road, Simsbury, Townsan, Kimberly A., born: 27 June 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002057200
18 August Road, Simsbury, Rozwadowski, Adam J., born: 20 June 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003745423
18 August Road, Simsbury, Rozwadowski, George, born: 7 October 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063216
18 August Road, Simsbury, Rozwadowski, Justin A., born: 23 February 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004975829
18 August Road, Simsbury, Rozwadowski, Kristen Nicole, born: 20 December 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004711700
18 August Road, Simsbury, Rozwadowski, Nancy A., born: 27 February 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000494823
19 August Road, Simsbury, Anderson, Tyler B., born: 11 May 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004687037
19 August Road, Simsbury, Fetters, Chad Jeremy, born: 28 August 1974, Republican, Voter ID 004612288
19 August Road, Simsbury, Giadone, Roger, born: 13 May 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002453821
19 August Road, Simsbury, Ludko, Alexander Craig, born: 19 March 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004931088
19 August Road, Simsbury, Ludko, Craig James, born: 4 April 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004923035
19 August Road, Simsbury, Ludko, Julie Lynn, born: 20 June 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 004931082
19 August Road, Simsbury, Ludko, Madelyn Elizabeth, born: 11 June 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004931076
19 August Road, Simsbury, Stepka, Melanie, born: 31 January 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 002809482
20 August Road, Simsbury, Melanson, Donald J., born: 29 March 1966, Republican, Voter ID 002061973
20 August Road, Simsbury, Melanson, Michelle N., born: 21 September 1968, Republican, Voter ID 003556830
20 August Road, Simsbury, Melanson, Patrick J., born: 27 June 1995, Republican, Voter ID 004748358
20 August Road, Simsbury, Melanson, Sarah M., born: 30 November 1997, Republican, Voter ID 004658707
21 August Road, Simsbury, Knight, Lauren E., born: 3 July 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053949
21 August Road, Simsbury, Wolfson, Richard G., born: 10 April 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002011310
22 August Road, Simsbury, Blasi, Kristie Ann, born: 10 October 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004370564
22 August Road, Simsbury, Couture, Allison Anne, born: 23 May 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 004561771
22 August Road, Simsbury, Couture, George J., born: 10 August 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 004556722
23 August Road, Simsbury, Lariviere, Douglas J., born: 29 December 1972, Republican, Voter ID 004617238
23 August Road, Simsbury, Lariviere, Merri E., born: 15 March 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000452582
24 August Road, Simsbury, Beaudreau, Alice R., born: 12 January 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000677564
24 August Road, Simsbury, Beaudreau-Hwang, Kelly J., born: 13 November 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003711785
24 August Road, Simsbury, Hwang, Christopher D., born: 31 July 1969, Republican, Voter ID 003711795
25 August Road, Simsbury, Butos, Cynthia L., born: 18 March 1949, Republican, Voter ID 002051021
25 August Road, Simsbury, Butos, William N., born: 6 June 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058687
25 August Road, Simsbury, Butos, William N., born: 6 February 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004103658
26 August Road, Simsbury, Bernstein, Lauren N., born: 16 August 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003840135
26 August Road, Simsbury, Henry, Ruth A., born: 19 June 1925, Republican, Voter ID 002053281
26 August Road, Simsbury, Parker, Lauren N., born: 16 August 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003840135
26 August Road, Simsbury, Parker, Tyler A., born: 11 February 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004447411
27 August Road, Simsbury, Cole, Emily Jo Ann, born: 3 August 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004838866
27 August Road, Simsbury, Cotrufo, Raymond John, born: 8 February 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 003856155
27 August Road, Simsbury, Kleinman, Marian Esther, born: 21 July 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 004508490
27 August Road, Simsbury, Mendes, David, born: 1 September 1971, Republican, Voter ID 002061994
27 August Road, Simsbury, Mendes, Karen B., born: 18 May 1976, Republican, Voter ID 002054823
28 August Road, Simsbury, McKenna, Gia, born: 30 September 1984, Republican, Voter ID 003549263
28 August Road, Simsbury, McKenna, Nancy, born: 1 September 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002054737
28 August Road, Simsbury, McKenna, Neil C., born: 26 November 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002061916
28 August Road, Simsbury, McKenna, Neil Vincent, born: 7 April 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004743310
29 August Road, Simsbury, Hagan, Joseph B., born: 23 August 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060453
29 August Road, Simsbury, Hagan, Maria A., born: 15 August 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049114
30 August Road, Simsbury, Dodge, Donna Lee, born: 22 August 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002051935
30 August Road, Simsbury, Dodge, Gerald Lee, born: 27 August 1955, Republican, Voter ID 004514236
31 August Road, Simsbury, Khan, Annas A., born: 17 August 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003456727
31 August Road, Simsbury, Khan, Samreen H., born: 30 September 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 003452641
31 August Road, Simsbury, Khan, Sharmeen Hameed, born: 24 August 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 003477526
31 August Road, Simsbury, Khan-Gauhar, Hameed A., born: 1 December 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 003477498
31 August Road, Simsbury, Talat, Zaib Un, born: 1 January 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 003477472
32 August Road, Simsbury, Robertson, Gretchen P., born: 6 October 1928, Democratic, Voter ID 002056056
32 August Road, Simsbury, Smith, Carrie C., born: 26 June 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004991792
33 August Road, Simsbury, Marinan, Melissa A., born: 14 December 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054493
33 August Road, Simsbury, Neagle, Brian Patrick, born: 9 August 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004848800
33 August Road, Simsbury, Neagle, Christine A., born: 22 September 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002055187
33 August Road, Simsbury, Neagle, John S., born: 20 October 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002049710
33 August Road, Simsbury, Neagle, Peter B., born: 23 November 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004500037
34 August Road, Simsbury, McNiven, Julia L., born: 25 June 1933, Republican, Voter ID 002054766
34 August Road, Simsbury, McNiven, Kerry J., born: 15 January 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002061939
34 August Road, Simsbury, McNiven, Wooda Howard, born: 3 March 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000437271
34 August Road, Simsbury, Parsons, Paige-Erin, born: 12 May 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055512
35 August Road, Simsbury, Forastiere, Joseph M., born: 13 May 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059919
35 August Road, Simsbury, Forastiere, Kenneth Anthony, born: 1 August 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003764133
35 August Road, Simsbury, Forastiere, Loreen L., born: 28 May 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052459
36 August Road, Simsbury, Davis, Bonnie E., born: 14 March 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002051752
36 August Road, Simsbury, Davis, David P., born: 11 January 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 002059296
36 August Road, Simsbury, Davis, Kimberly A., born: 22 October 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051762
37 August Road, Simsbury, Carroll, Thomas Patrick, born: 20 March 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004819423
37 August Road, Simsbury, Curran, Jennifer M., born: 10 December 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 003204103
37 August Road, Simsbury, Curran, Robert M., born: 13 August 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003443952
37 August Road, Simsbury, Iannucci, Meghan Rose, born: 4 November 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004819418
37 August Road, Simsbury, Russell, Jeffrey L., born: 22 June 1970, Republican, Voter ID 004340020
1 Avery Way, Simsbury, Hedayati, Mahshid, born: 21 September 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004142386
3 Avery Way, Simsbury, Peterson, Christine N., born: 14 August 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001997464
3 Avery Way, Simsbury, Peterson, Randall H., born: 25 September 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001997493
4 Avery Way, Simsbury, Canning, Robb J., born: 3 April 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000564737
4 Avery Way, Simsbury, Morgan, Elizabeth A., born: 26 April 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004141136
4 Avery Way, Simsbury, Veratti, Bridget W., born: 18 January 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004502316
5 Avery Way, Simsbury, Schwitter, Ashley French, born: 15 February 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003898294
5 Avery Way, Simsbury, Schwitter, Glenn Paul, born: 23 April 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 003898307
5 Avery Way, Simsbury, Schwitter, Lily, born: 20 October 1995, Republican, Voter ID 004383372
5 Avery Way, Simsbury, Veratti, Thomas E., born: 14 September 1974, Independent, Voter ID 004563750
6 Avery Way, Simsbury, Kaza, Akash, born: 4 June 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004915724
6 Avery Way, Simsbury, Kaza, Ramarao, born: 14 September 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 003937255
7 Avery Way, Simsbury, Coran, Jeffrey S., born: 13 April 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004599091
7 Avery Way, Simsbury, Coran, Kimberly Dean, born: 17 November 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004600874
7 Avery Way, Simsbury, Hardy, Heidi Lorraine, born: 13 September 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004697009
7 Avery Way, Simsbury, Hardy, Jesse Cleveland, born: 19 May 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004702398
7 Avery Way, Simsbury, Towle, David P., born: 8 February 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002064113
7 Avery Way, Simsbury, Towle, Melissa J., born: 15 November 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 002057198
7 Avery Way, Simsbury, Towle, Sarah, born: 31 July 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 004007399
8 Avery Way, Simsbury, Maher, Bridget, born: 20 April 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004617980
8 Avery Way, Simsbury, Maher, David J., born: 4 November 1964, Republican, Voter ID 000608854
8 Avery Way, Simsbury, Maher, John R., born: 16 January 1995, Independent, Voter ID 004353072
8 Avery Way, Simsbury, Maher, Mary E., born: 27 March 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000608828
9 Avery Way, Simsbury, Cross, Matthew S., born: 25 August 1976, Republican, Voter ID 004620398
9 Avery Way, Simsbury, Cross, Wilma A., born: 26 June 1975, Republican, Voter ID 004620395
9 Avery Way, Simsbury, Holbrook, Devin Michelle, born: 5 March 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004376716
9 Avery Way, Simsbury, Holbrook, Douglas Hans, born: 20 May 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060720
9 Avery Way, Simsbury, Holbrook, Teressa M., born: 26 December 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053364
1 Banks Road, Simsbury, Lavoie, Marylou J., born: 26 November 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054150
4 Banks Road, Simsbury, Crow, Jennifer L., born: 10 May 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003966704
4 Banks Road, Simsbury, Dillard, James R., born: 8 March 1935, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059434
4 Banks Road, Simsbury, Meade, James William, born: 3 March 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002061950
4 Banks Road, Simsbury, Meade, Maryann, born: 27 December 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 002054780
4 Banks Road, Simsbury, Nelson, Andrew, born: 1 August 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004225757
4 Banks Road, Simsbury, Nelson, Katherine, born: 27 July 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004225754
5 Banks Road, Simsbury, Bourke, Robert M., born: 12 April 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002058464
5 Banks Road, Simsbury, Bourke, Sandra E., born: 8 July 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002050775
6 Banks Road, Simsbury, Hucker, Dale, born: 21 June 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002060811
6 Banks Road, Simsbury, Hucker, Wayne L., born: 17 December 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002060813
7 Banks Road, Simsbury, Cirillo, Kevin Michael, born: 1 October 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004756410
7 Banks Road, Simsbury, Cirillo, Kimberly M., born: 15 March 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 000330984
8 Banks Road, Simsbury, Shore, Jason Eric, born: 24 December 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003854606
8 Banks Road, Simsbury, Shore, Jessica, born: 13 January 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003365099
8 Banks Road, Simsbury, Shore, Marcia L., born: 6 April 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002056595
8 Banks Road, Simsbury, Shore, Steven E., born: 17 November 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063564
9 Banks Road, Simsbury, Boggan, Alton M., born: 27 September 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002058410
9 Banks Road, Simsbury, Boggan, Alton M., born: 29 December 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003756208
9 Banks Road, Simsbury, Boggan, Andrew Michael, born: 9 November 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004395732
9 Banks Road, Simsbury, Boggan, Kelly Anne, born: 7 November 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004531628
9 Banks Road, Simsbury, Boggan, Loretta M., born: 21 February 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002050702
10 Banks Road, Simsbury, Yao, Deborah D., born: 22 July 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003513136
10 Banks Road, Simsbury, Yao, Jeffrey B., born: 1 December 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003513126
10 Banks Road, Simsbury, Yoo, Demitrios Dallis, born: 9 May 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004398787
11 Banks Road, Simsbury, Griffing, Kristin Alaine, born: 21 August 1978, Republican, Voter ID 001907166
11 Banks Road, Simsbury, Harper, Jonathan Paul, born: 26 March 1985, Republican, Voter ID 002060528
11 Banks Road, Simsbury, Hashmi, Ali I., born: 18 September 1975, Republican, Voter ID 002060555
11 Banks Road, Simsbury, Hashmi, Mary A., born: 4 July 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053174
11 Banks Road, Simsbury, Hashmi, Sara M., born: 17 October 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053176
12 Banks Road, Simsbury, Peterson, Charles W., born: 25 April 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062735
12 Banks Road, Simsbury, Peterson, Corinne W., born: 9 September 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055635
12 Banks Road, Simsbury, Peterson, Samuel W., born: 23 June 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004420083
14 Banks Road, Simsbury, Noake, Graham P., born: 30 January 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062384
14 Banks Road, Simsbury, Noake, Katy Louise, born: 27 February 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004010754
14 Banks Road, Simsbury, Noake, Mary Ellen, born: 8 October 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055269
14 Banks Road, Simsbury, Noake, Robert A., born: 15 July 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003871736
15 Banks Road, Simsbury, Alimi, Maryann K., born: 7 April 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002050167
15 Banks Road, Simsbury, Alimi, Paul G., born: 17 April 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002048688
15 Banks Road, Simsbury, Alimi, Richard A., born: 31 October 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057964
16 Banks Road, Simsbury, Phillips, Brian T., born: 3 February 1967, Republican, Voter ID 004081986
16 Banks Road, Simsbury, Podhajski, Florence S., born: 17 February 1914, Republican, Voter ID 002055741
16 Banks Road, Simsbury, Sides, Mary S., born: 18 April 1945, Republican, Voter ID 004418123
17 Banks Road, Simsbury, Haldeman, Charles W., born: 23 May 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 004174297
17 Banks Road, Simsbury, Haldeman, Katharine E., born: 28 February 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004354496
17 Banks Road, Simsbury, Haldeman, Margaret T., born: 22 May 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004172777
18 Banks Road, Simsbury, Horenstein, Amy M., born: 14 March 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004222454
18 Banks Road, Simsbury, Horenstein, Arlene, born: 3 July 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002053413
18 Banks Road, Simsbury, Horenstein, Sharon Rose, born: 27 December 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003789216
18 Banks Road, Simsbury, Horenstein, Steven J., born: 13 September 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002060773
19 Banks Road, Simsbury, Andrews, A Ezra, born: 15 April 1924, Democratic, Voter ID 002058016
19 Banks Road, Simsbury, Andrews, Nancy C., born: 14 September 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002050225
21 Banks Road, Simsbury, Ahmed, Anees, born: 24 June 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002048673
21 Banks Road, Simsbury, Ahmed, Batul A., born: 11 April 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002050139
21 Banks Road, Simsbury, Ahmed, Tanveer, born: 3 December 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 002050140
21 Banks Road, Simsbury, Attarwala, Asif, born: 26 July 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 003691233
21 Banks Road, Simsbury, Stoepker, Jeremy I., born: 27 March 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 003829781
23 Banks Road, Simsbury, Order, Daniel Michael, born: 26 May 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004603950
23 Banks Road, Simsbury, Order, Denise C., born: 14 January 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 002055381
23 Banks Road, Simsbury, Order, Jonathan, born: 10 October 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003705922
23 Banks Road, Simsbury, Order, Richard S., born: 14 August 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002062505
24 Banks Road, Simsbury, Devita, Karen H., born: 18 September 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 003862617
24 Banks Road, Simsbury, Knight, Jon R., born: 17 August 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003526823
24 Banks Road, Simsbury, Knight, Stephanie K., born: 21 June 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053950
24 Banks Road, Simsbury, Manion, Patrick W., born: 10 July 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003056303
24 Banks Road, Simsbury, Manion, Sarah R., born: 18 February 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 003651020
24 Banks Road, Simsbury, Welkley, Patrick E., born: 31 July 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 004925247
25 Banks Road, Simsbury, Lifhits, Gregory, born: 27 February 1984, Republican, Voter ID 003275216
25 Banks Road, Simsbury, Lifhits, Lisa Karen, born: 14 February 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 003453690
25 Banks Road, Simsbury, Sacher, Daniel A., born: 18 January 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004132508
25 Banks Road, Simsbury, Sacher, Marc Stephen, born: 18 August 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 002063280
25 Banks Road, Simsbury, Sacher, Rhonda F., born: 21 April 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002056280
26 Banks Road, Simsbury, Donohue, Daniel P., born: 26 May 1943, Republican, Voter ID 002059487
26 Banks Road, Simsbury, Donohue, Joan E., born: 19 July 1945, Republican, Voter ID 002051957
27 Banks Road, Simsbury, Balsewicz, Aleksander G., born: 22 April 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004520359
27 Banks Road, Simsbury, Balsewicz, Anne M., born: 24 June 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003958213
27 Banks Road, Simsbury, Balsewicz, Keith J., born: 18 May 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003958192
29 Banks Road, Simsbury, Rankin, Dionna C., born: 2 January 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004569630
29 Banks Road, Simsbury, Rankin, Zarick B., born: 8 August 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004616054
29 Banks Road, Simsbury, Vandermeer, John R., born: 29 July 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003999765
29 Banks Road, Simsbury, Vandermeer, Valerie T., born: 9 October 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 004011647
29 Banks Road, Simsbury, Williams, Quantina Y., born: 22 August 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 003430134
30 Banks Road, Simsbury, Conrad, Lauren M., born: 21 May 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 002051502
30 Banks Road, Simsbury, Conrad, Marc James, born: 4 July 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004413804
30 Banks Road, Simsbury, Conrad, Matthew S., born: 8 September 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004237927
30 Banks Road, Simsbury, Conrad, Scott R., born: 20 April 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002059088
31 Banks Road, Simsbury, Bitterli, Janice A., born: 23 December 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 002050656
31 Banks Road, Simsbury, Bitterli, William W., born: 27 December 1939, Democratic, Voter ID 002058366
33 Banks Road, Simsbury, Ballard, Brittany Ann, born: 26 February 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004210279
33 Banks Road, Simsbury, Watson, Elizabeth J., born: 21 January 1937, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057493
33 Banks Road, Simsbury, Watson, Philip, born: 28 August 1931, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064357
34 Banks Road, Simsbury, Matthews, Maureen K., born: 27 August 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002054599
34 Banks Road, Simsbury, Matthews, Paul V., born: 7 December 1940, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061794
35 Banks Road, Simsbury, Beliveau, David W., born: 7 July 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058264
35 Banks Road, Simsbury, Beliveau, Judy A., born: 18 June 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 002050535
35 Banks Road, Simsbury, Beliveau, Kayla N., born: 11 February 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003689712
35 Banks Road, Simsbury, Walczak, Stacey A., born: 26 July 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003350831
35 Banks Road, Simsbury, Walczak, Timothy D., born: 4 March 1984, Republican, Voter ID 003279442
36 Banks Road, Simsbury, Attarwala, Haider, born: 29 September 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003879816
36 Banks Road, Simsbury, Attarwala, Nahid, born: 9 June 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 002050294
36 Banks Road, Simsbury, Attarwala, Shabbir, born: 8 October 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 002058073
36 Banks Road, Simsbury, Taj, Husena, born: 17 May 1933, Democratic, Voter ID 003508110
36 Banks Road, Simsbury, Taj, Mansoor Ali, born: 10 May 1927, Democratic, Voter ID 003508122
37 Banks Road, Simsbury, Merrill, David W., born: 9 February 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002062004
37 Banks Road, Simsbury, Merrill, Sandra J., born: 23 January 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002050502
38 Banks Road, Simsbury, Ballard, Beth A., born: 28 August 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050376
38 Banks Road, Simsbury, Ballard, Cameron James, born: 26 September 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004562397
38 Banks Road, Simsbury, Ballard, Daniel J., born: 1 September 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002058135
39 Banks Road, Simsbury, Chaney, Ronald, born: 4 August 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 004468835
39 Banks Road, Simsbury, Powers, Holly Anna, born: 25 May 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004640874
39 Banks Road, Simsbury, Powers, Jason John, born: 9 October 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004640909
39 Banks Road, Simsbury, Ward, Victoria Ashley, born: 25 September 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004126619
41 Banks Road, Simsbury, Borrino, David F., born: 2 June 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002058439
41 Banks Road, Simsbury, Borrino, Hillary, born: 13 September 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004060588
42 Banks Road, Simsbury, Mehta, Sandeep N., born: 31 August 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 002061968
43 Banks Road, Simsbury, Joyce, Marianne S., born: 23 January 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049209
45 Banks Road, Simsbury, Schlee, Jacquelyn M., born: 6 August 1982, Republican, Voter ID 002056392
45 Banks Road, Simsbury, Schlee, Josiah Ml, born: 18 July 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004639550
45 Banks Road, Simsbury, Schlee, Marypat, born: 18 May 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056393
45 Banks Road, Simsbury, Schlee, Ronald O., born: 1 September 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002063387
46 Banks Road, Simsbury, Bergquist, Frederica K., born: 21 January 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002050588
46 Banks Road, Simsbury, Bergquist, Thomas A., born: 23 March 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002058306
46 Banks Road, Simsbury, Meile, Christopher M., born: 25 May 1976, Independent, Voter ID 004020867
46 Banks Road, Simsbury, Meile, Elena Diane, born: 6 March 1979, Independent, Voter ID 003595840
47 Banks Road, Simsbury, Bliss, Brandon Gregory, born: 7 August 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003938618
47 Banks Road, Simsbury, Bliss, Paige E., born: 12 August 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004541703
47 Banks Road, Simsbury, Young, Paulette A., born: 3 August 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003701733
8 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Mendelsohn, Phyllis, born: 6 July 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002054822
10 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Shea, Fay M., born: 27 November 1935, Democratic, Voter ID 002056549
12 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Cylkowski, Bette C., born: 12 February 1933, Republican, Voter ID 000812281
12 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Cylkowski, Sharon Shirley, born: 12 December 1967, Republican, Voter ID 004907021
14 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Meyerhoff, Adele R., born: 1 August 1943, Democratic, Voter ID 004931692
14 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Meyerhuff, Allen J., born: 5 August 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 004221639
15 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Clark, Robert Frederick, born: 4 April 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000565017
15 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Clark, Sandra Ellen, born: 28 September 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000565019
17 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Marceau, David M., born: 25 March 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000567948
17 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Marceau, Marguerite A., born: 12 January 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000567949
19 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Kelleher, Maureen Elizabeth, born: 14 April 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 000426119
20 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Iezzi, Marilyn W., born: 20 May 1942, Republican, Voter ID 003547993
20 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Iezzi, Thomas M., born: 5 September 1941, Republican, Voter ID 003547714
21 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Knierim, Glenn E., born: 19 May 1930, Republican, Voter ID 002061232
21 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Knierim, Gloria K., born: 10 December 1929, Republican, Voter ID 002053943
22 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Potts, Janis L., born: 14 December 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002055793
23 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Whittaker, Christopher T., born: 31 July 1942, Republican, Voter ID 004268617
23 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Whittaker, Joan Gibney, born: 24 July 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004268602
26 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Costello, Frank T., born: 8 April 1934, Republican, Voter ID 000425667
26 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Costello, Rosina J., born: 24 June 1944, Republican, Voter ID 000425669
26 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Costello, Sarah J., born: 12 January 1970, Republican, Voter ID 000425670
28 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Butler, Susan P., born: 1 September 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002051019
28 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Butler, William, born: 16 April 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002058686
29 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Sweat, Elynor, born: 21 March 1936, Democratic, Voter ID 003098799
29 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Sweat, Lynn, born: 27 May 1934, Democratic, Voter ID 003338886
31 Bantry Road, Simsbury, McDonough, Jane, born: 4 November 1929, Democratic, Voter ID 004098283
32 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Johnson, Linda P., born: 1 July 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002053635
32 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Johnson, Stanley P., born: 30 September 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002060979
33 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Pendergast, Margaret G., born: 14 May 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002885583
33 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Pendergast, Margaret Graham, born: 14 May 1938, Republican, Voter ID 004409136
33 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Pendergast, William G., born: 5 February 1935, Republican, Voter ID 002871176
37 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Greenwood, Danielle M., born: 15 July 1967, Republican, Voter ID 003086447
37 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Tingey, Ian C., born: 7 February 1957, Republican, Voter ID 003139306
39 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Gendler, Robert, born: 30 September 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003191196
39 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Gillies, Barbara M., born: 29 August 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002052750
39 Bantry Road, Simsbury, Gillies, John J., born: 7 June 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002060162
3 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Allaire, Louise E., born: 17 August 1917, Republican, Voter ID 002050170
3 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Szlosek, Nicholas J., born: 11 March 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004427296
4 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Saperstein, Alyson Rose, born: 4 December 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004500069
4 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Saperstein, Benjamin Simons, born: 6 October 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004231868
4 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Saperstein, Harrison Kane, born: 20 November 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004838826
4 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Saperstein, Mark D., born: 17 December 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002063328
4 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Saperstein, Tracy L., born: 28 February 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056335
6 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Anderson, Stephen R., born: 21 January 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 003474321
6 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Menteshvili, Ketevan N., born: 9 June 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 003474311
9 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Ashmore, Jared W., born: 16 October 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 003968585
9 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Ashmore, Maureen, born: 5 December 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002048718
9 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Trifiro, James L., born: 8 June 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064141
10 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Paddock, Cheryl Ann, born: 14 October 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003022377
10 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Paddock, John F., born: 23 October 1966, Republican, Voter ID 000099320
10 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Paddock, Katelyn R., born: 10 August 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004559497
11 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Turner, Mary N., born: 5 August 1940, Republican, Voter ID 002057264
11 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Turner, Thomas S., born: 19 August 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002064175
15 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Busam, Brian P., born: 14 February 1981, Republican, Voter ID 004948717
15 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Kenney, Moira S., born: 16 July 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 003823872
15 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Shapiro, Lauren R., born: 21 August 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004271704
16 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Lavigne, Emma Katharine, born: 5 July 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004124968
16 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Lavigne, John Patrick, born: 5 July 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004450602
16 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Lavigne, Lizabeth C., born: 16 August 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049347
16 Barnard Drive, Simsbury, Lavigne, L Kelly, born: 9 September 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049345
56 Barn Door Hills Road, Simsbury, Vacek, Philip, born: 25 February 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050007
60 Barn Door Hills Road, Simsbury, Underwood, Katherine, born: 4 October 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 002057278
60 Barn Door Hills Road, Simsbury, Underwood, Milot, born: 19 September 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002064183
2 Barons Court, Simsbury, Poole, Harmon A., born: 26 December 1924, Republican, Voter ID 002062831
2 Barons Court, Simsbury, Poole, Nancy H., born: 15 September 1929, Democratic, Voter ID 002055764
2 Barons Court, Simsbury, Strickland, Richard A., born: 8 February 1935, Republican, Voter ID 003085858
2 Barons Court, Simsbury, Topper, Darcy A., born: 21 August 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003085861
4 Barons Court, Simsbury, Garbus, Andrea, born: 20 May 1943, Democratic, Voter ID 000428591
6 Barons Court, Simsbury, Grace, Marcella M., born: 15 June 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052909
8 Barons Court, Simsbury, Carullo, Anna Maria, born: 11 February 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051171
8 Barons Court, Simsbury, Carullo, Maria G., born: 20 April 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 002051172
10 Barons Court, Simsbury, Tannen, Carole A., born: 30 December 1937, Democratic, Voter ID 004120961
10 Barons Court, Simsbury, Tannen, Richard H., born: 14 April 1927, Democratic, Voter ID 004120972
12 Barons Court, Simsbury, Locandro, Carol M., born: 30 March 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002054293
12 Barons Court, Simsbury, Locandro, Ronald R., born: 5 December 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002049488
14 Barons Court, Simsbury, Pomarico, Diane C., born: 27 October 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002049796
3 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Cinguegrana, Sandra Lee, born: 30 December 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 003635775
3 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Knapp, Richard A., born: 21 February 1962, Republican, Voter ID 003013675
4 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Rust, Norma A., born: 2 May 1932, Democratic, Voter ID 002056242
7 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Bullard, Barbara T., born: 1 January 1926, Democratic, Voter ID 002050950
8 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Fichtner, Constance C., born: 5 May 1927, Republican, Voter ID 002052361
8 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Fichtner, Eric A., born: 21 June 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 004690885
8 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Fichtner, Honora Yale, born: 14 December 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 004690852
8 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Sima, Mariah Shauna, born: 14 January 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003893894
9 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Bouchard, Donna, born: 24 November 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 003297414
10 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Donahue, Kevin S., born: 5 October 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004576853
10 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Donahue, Laurie Frank, born: 22 August 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 000941533
10 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Morris, John William, born: 22 July 1918, Republican, Voter ID 002062192
10 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Morris, Mary Jane, born: 7 January 1922, Republican, Voter ID 002055053
11 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Bombara, Katherine, born: 29 October 1922, Republican, Voter ID 002050719
11 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Narciso, Kimberly L., born: 9 February 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000670442
12 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Post, Julia P., born: 28 March 1936, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055783
13 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Fillmore, Yvette R., born: 23 November 1923, Democratic, Voter ID 002052376
13 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Nightingale, Mark A., born: 25 May 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003228150
13 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Nightingale, Meghan A., born: 28 August 1984, Republican, Voter ID 004733568
15 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Zalucki, Cheryl L., born: 29 September 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057850
15 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Zalucki, Robert J., born: 13 December 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 002064638
15 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Zalucki, Robert J., born: 15 May 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064639
17 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Abbott, Brenda J., born: 15 July 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002050097
17 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Abbott, Lauren McKema, born: 8 January 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004097430
19 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Benneche, Joyce C., born: 1 August 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050561
19 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Benneche, Thomas G., born: 24 January 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002058280
19 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Benneche, Thomas James, born: 30 July 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004097434
19 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Tillotson, Sarah Kathryn, born: 18 May 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 003790089
21 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Robinson, Paula J., born: 5 May 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002056067
21 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Robinson, Richard L., born: 1 October 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002063094
22 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Kennedy, Diane Elizabeth, born: 15 April 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 004063385
22 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Kennedy, Margaret S., born: 8 January 1920, Democratic, Voter ID 002053833
23 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Layton, Jill L., born: 30 July 1967, Republican, Voter ID 003510647
23 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Olson, John T., born: 18 August 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004234088
23 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Olson, Peter J., born: 11 November 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002062494
25 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Palotti, Karen S., born: 3 June 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055471
26 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Ashchepkov, Timofey L., born: 17 August 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004066910
26 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Ashchepkova, Anastasia Timofeevna, born: 29 November 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004819994
26 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Ashchepkova, Natalya Alexandrovna, born: 8 September 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004066912
27 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Hamlin, Sandra, born: 10 June 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003790659
27 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Martinez, Manuel, born: 19 November 1944, Independent, Voter ID 002061744
27 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Martinez, Maria C., born: 10 May 1948, Republican, Voter ID 002054545
28 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Guglielmetti, Elayne, born: 2 January 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002053021
28 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Guglielmetti, Richard L., born: 25 March 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002060414
29 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Steptoe, Charlotte W., born: 26 March 1940, Democratic, Voter ID 002056905
38 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Mihalich, Brittney P., born: 31 January 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 004555350
38 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Mihalich, Matthew John, born: 30 May 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004560900
38 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Rodgers, Gail A., born: 14 November 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002049851
38 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Rodgers, William E., born: 2 June 1937, Republican, Voter ID 002049852
39 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Masters, David A., born: 11 October 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 002061767
39 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Masters, Julie R., born: 7 July 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054569
40 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Leaver, Patricia B., born: 5 August 1943, Republican, Voter ID 002049371
40 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Rotondo, Mark, born: 31 January 1955, Republican, Voter ID 004234107
41 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Kaczor, Brian D., born: 5 June 1975, Republican, Voter ID 003549753
41 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Kaczor, Ellen G., born: 18 June 1976, Republican, Voter ID 003568538
41 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Kaczor, Tara Sue, born: 31 July 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004534965
42 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Hill, Yvonne W., born: 9 August 1933, Republican, Voter ID 002053323
43 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Fountain, Jillian Marie, born: 9 August 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003983622
43 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Fountain, Robert F., born: 5 May 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003983639
43 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Morgan, David R., born: 28 December 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003449937
43 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Stuchel, James E., born: 25 January 1981, Libertarian, Voter ID 004754655
44 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Yuryan, Joseph B., born: 8 October 1919, Republican, Voter ID 002064623
45 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Hendrickson, Mary B., born: 2 December 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002053270
45 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Poppe, David C., born: 17 November 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003391276
45 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Poppe, Kenneth A., born: 25 June 1940, Democratic, Voter ID 002062838
47 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Mohr, Pamela S., born: 18 August 1953, Republican, Voter ID 004740584
49 Barry Lane, Simsbury, McDonald, Michael Dean, born: 14 December 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061861
49 Barry Lane, Simsbury, McDonald, Milton D., born: 21 January 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002049639
52 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Dube, Judith E., born: 17 May 1939, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052036
53 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Hooper, Virginia R., born: 1 October 1923, Republican, Voter ID 002053405
55 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Fogarty, Daniel K., born: 15 May 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004423355
55 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Fogarty, Josephine Ellen, born: 2 June 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052444
55 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Fogarty, Kathleen Patricia, born: 1 November 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 003409738
55 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Fogarty, Terrence P., born: 17 November 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002059905
55 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Fogarty, Timothy Patrick, born: 29 June 1987, Republican, Voter ID 004263432
57 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Tobio, Cheryl M., born: 27 June 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057166
57 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Tobio, Diane P., born: 16 September 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003646056
57 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Tobio, Robert D., born: 27 May 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064094
57 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Tobio, Robert T., born: 17 December 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064095
59 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Bedell, Sarah, born: 5 December 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002050516
60 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Chapman, Christie M., born: 24 December 1974, Republican, Voter ID 002053563
60 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Tierney, Georgiana C., born: 22 October 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057154
61 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Stecker, Diane Christina, born: 5 July 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003679315
61 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Stecker, George R., born: 2 April 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002063818
61 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Stecker, Louise P., born: 26 September 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002056871
62 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Hayes, Hannah, born: 12 July 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004676484
62 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Hayes, Katherine Elizabeth, born: 3 May 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004874628
62 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Hayes, Robert, born: 3 June 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002060590
62 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Hayes, Sandra B., born: 20 February 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002053211
63 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Budlong, Kelley E., born: 2 October 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003204245
64 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Cunningham, Deanna, born: 12 June 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004529149
64 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Cunningham, James Allan, born: 11 May 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002059217
64 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Cunningham, Karen Drogosek, born: 20 March 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002051657
64 Barry Lane, Simsbury, Cunningham, Melissa C., born: 14 April 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003884191
22 Beaverbrook Road, Simsbury, Sterling, Yvonne S., born: 21 March 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 004648633
4 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Myers, Mary Margaret, born: 13 August 1975, Republican, Voter ID 000852159
4 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Myers, Michael E., born: 3 January 1972, Republican, Voter ID 000918618
7 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Austin, Roxy-Ann R., born: 30 January 1956, Republican, Voter ID 000813871
7 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Austin, William F., born: 11 December 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002058088
20 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Cunningham, Linda Kimberly, born: 14 April 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004771966
24 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Harris, Adam Seth, born: 5 June 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000484112
24 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Harris, Anna Kim, born: 13 December 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 003126243
24 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Seidner, Christine M., born: 25 December 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056488
24 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Seidner, Clifford J., born: 7 April 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063479
24 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Seidner, Evan M., born: 29 August 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004056501
24 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Seidner, Rachel Lynn, born: 5 July 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003764226
26 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Thorne, John W., born: 18 February 1940, Republican, Voter ID 002064075
26 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Thorne, Linda P., born: 10 June 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 002057146
26 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Thorne, Robert Tyler, born: 26 December 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003499089
26 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Thorne, Thomas J., born: 18 February 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 002064077
27 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Hileman, Ashley Fields, born: 1 August 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004216352
27 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Hileman, Derek Michael, born: 8 April 1978, Republican, Voter ID 004216353
27 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Landry, Hillary B., born: 9 April 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004520299
27 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Landry, Paul J., born: 16 June 1983, Republican, Voter ID 004551066
27 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Wagner, Amy S., born: 8 July 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002057415
27 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Wagner, Briana D., born: 27 June 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 002057416
28 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Driscoll, John Richard, born: 5 September 1973, Republican, Voter ID 004948557
28 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Ryan, Casey Elizabeth, born: 22 June 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004294458
28 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Ryan, Christopher James, born: 3 July 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003779997
28 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Ryan, James L., born: 28 March 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002063257
28 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Ryan, Paula T., born: 26 July 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056264
29 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Strong, Barbara B., born: 31 October 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 002056951
29 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Strong, Christopher A., born: 2 June 1949, Republican, Voter ID 002063896
29 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Strong, Frederick A., born: 31 May 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063897
30 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Nicholson, Lisa M., born: 12 February 1958, Republican, Voter ID 003772611
30 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Nicholson, Madeline Jane, born: 17 November 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004430940
30 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Steniger, Charlotte, born: 9 May 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056896
30 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Steniger, John J., born: 15 January 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004701969
31 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Hartz, Abraham, born: 6 September 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 004742909
31 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Hartz, Daniel Jordan, born: 5 September 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004764251
31 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Hartz, Lori A., born: 3 October 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 004742948
31 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Naumov, Vadim V., born: 7 April 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004336193
31 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Shishlcova, Eugenia V., born: 18 December 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003947805
32 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Fitzpatrick, Erin K., born: 29 June 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 004160623
32 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Fitzpatrick, John Michael, born: 26 May 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004145066
32 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Fitzpatrick, John T., born: 30 November 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002059876
32 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Fitzpatrick, Katherine L., born: 19 April 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052418
32 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Fitzpatrick, Kristen Mary, born: 25 May 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004467277
32 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Fitzpatrick, Shannon Noel, born: 27 December 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004324910
33 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Leard, Brenda Carey, born: 20 May 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004591245
33 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Leard, Elaine P., born: 11 August 1956, Republican, Voter ID 003481957
33 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Leard, John Scott, born: 6 July 1955, Republican, Voter ID 003481969
33 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Wohlschlaeger, Cynthia Dawn, born: 18 March 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 003772601
33 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Wohlschlaeger, Michael R., born: 12 November 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 003777070
34 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Hutchins, Dawn B., born: 19 May 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003860269
34 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Ingram, David R., born: 19 March 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003713374
34 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Ingram, Dawn Hutchins, born: 19 May 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003860269
35 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Hull, Kristin S., born: 23 January 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003657350
35 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Hull, Peter W., born: 13 August 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002013102
35 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Kenagy, Karen E., born: 7 March 1933, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003054380
35 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Kenagy, Robert C., born: 10 July 1931, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003062205
36 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Fiske, Diana, born: 25 March 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002052407
36 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Fiske, Hannah Winthrop, born: 26 May 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004146290
36 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Fiske, Sarah Baldwin, born: 12 December 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004042477
36 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Fiske, William J., born: 15 July 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002059869
36 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Luby, Ann B., born: 20 December 1927, Republican, Voter ID 003247462
36 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Walker, Gregg D., born: 15 August 1958, Republican, Voter ID 000680985
36 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Walker, Katherine L., born: 6 October 1960, Republican, Voter ID 000680986
37 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Boswell, Christine E., born: 25 December 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 002050755
37 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Boswell, Janet E., born: 3 May 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 000574521
37 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Koscher, Brendan B., born: 2 August 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004170125
37 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Koscher, Brian E., born: 5 September 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002061289
37 Beldenwood Road, Simsbury, Koscher, Michaela C., born: 17 May 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003839283
1 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Mallozzi, Don, born: 11 July 1983, Republican, Voter ID 004520329
1 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Marella, Erin Marie, born: 11 June 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003462016
1 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Marella, Michael Leonard, born: 11 May 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003410223
3 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Meuser, Christopher J., born: 7 December 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062016
3 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Meuser, Christopher J., born: 23 February 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004903710
3 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Meuser, Kelly A., born: 12 February 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 002054850
3 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Rosenbecker, Howard E., born: 29 March 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063162
4 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, O'Keefe, Kevin P., born: 13 January 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003624370
4 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, O'Keefe, Stephanie, born: 19 April 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003667977
4 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Yount, Philip S., born: 13 January 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003553381
4 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Yount, Susan Marie, born: 14 February 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000923832
5 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Crane, L Paul, born: 29 May 1927, Democratic, Voter ID 002059158
5 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Crane, Shirley M., born: 3 September 1931, Republican, Voter ID 002051595
7 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Cummiskey, Andrea E., born: 19 August 1974, Republican, Voter ID 003594348
7 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Cummiskey, William R., born: 19 September 1967, Republican, Voter ID 002825903
8 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Tang, Candace, born: 18 June 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004928112
8 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Tang, Frankie K., born: 11 September 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049978
8 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Tang, Tan Fai, born: 11 April 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057061
9 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, West, Bryan David, born: 27 May 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004556711
9 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, West, Jonathan P., born: 30 March 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003961060
9 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, West, Joyce Anne, born: 20 April 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002057561
10 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Michel, Amy, born: 13 August 1976, Republican, Voter ID 004645678
10 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Spada, Daniel L., born: 22 October 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063751
10 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Spada, Leslie D., born: 20 June 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056793
11 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sherrell, Andrew John, born: 3 February 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004418150
11 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sherrell, Renee Smith, born: 27 October 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 004418138
11 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Ward, Iris L., born: 14 August 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057463
11 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Ward, Lauren Nicole, born: 8 June 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004271885
11 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Ward, Robert C., born: 27 May 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002064323
12 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Kennard, Elliott Proctor, born: 20 September 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004865872
12 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Kennard, Hilary Proctor, born: 7 February 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 004635100
12 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Kennard, Jeffrey Patrick, born: 18 October 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 004631946
12 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Kennard, Julia Aldrich, born: 27 December 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004621764
12 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Zito, Diane L., born: 6 June 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057893
12 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Zito, Greg Michael, born: 2 November 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004108344
12 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Zito, Richard S., born: 20 August 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002064679
12 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Zito, Steven T., born: 6 May 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003712610
14 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Hudson, Judith K., born: 20 October 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 002053449
14 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Hudson, Laura G., born: 18 July 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053450
14 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Hudson, Paul E., born: 31 December 1936, Democratic, Voter ID 002060817
15 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Greenbaum, Catherine W., born: 1 April 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002052959
15 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Greenbaum, Jeffrey P., born: 20 May 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002060355
16 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Bishop, Gordon W., born: 15 February 1937, Republican, Voter ID 002058359
16 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Bishop, Marie F., born: 4 November 1934, Republican, Voter ID 002050649
17 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Hawkes, Carolyn Ann, born: 7 February 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000930117
17 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Hawkes, Piya, born: 23 October 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000930118
19 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Boorman, Marilyn, born: 19 May 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002050736
19 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Boorman, Richard J., born: 14 April 1944, Republican, Voter ID 002058431
21 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Wry, Dennis O., born: 19 May 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002064585
21 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Wry, Lorraine I., born: 28 July 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002057771
23 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Dowd, Jake, born: 28 June 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004598363
23 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Dowd, Jessica Leigh, born: 24 February 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004946381
23 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Dowd, Julia A., born: 28 June 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004725235
23 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Dowd, Nicole, born: 10 June 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003507294
23 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Dowd, Samantha N., born: 28 August 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004404663
24 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Gilbert, Alia L., born: 12 November 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003838925
24 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Gilbert, Amal I., born: 25 May 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002052734
24 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Gilbert, Charles D., born: 21 November 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002060146
24 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Gilbert, Nadia Irshaid, born: 2 January 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004353291
25 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Pich, Kevin R., born: 12 September 1971, Republican, Voter ID 002062770
25 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Pich, Krista Lou, born: 17 November 1972, Republican, Voter ID 002055686
26 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Aronowitz, Gayle P., born: 21 October 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050267
26 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Cafferata, Elise Kristen, born: 15 January 1982, Republican, Voter ID 004659605
26 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Cafferata, Michael Rinaldo, born: 7 November 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004835196
26 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Skrzyniarz, Elise K., born: 15 January 1982, Republican, Voter ID 004659605
27 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Davis, Diane C., born: 22 July 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002051757
27 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Davis, Robert B., born: 14 January 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002059304
27 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Jorgensen, Bradley, born: 3 June 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049202
28 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Griffiths, Karen A., born: 30 March 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001907174
28 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Griffiths, Lawrence H., born: 1 December 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001907175
28 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Griffiths, Riley John, born: 22 September 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004981765
29 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Mitchell, Amy Victoria, born: 16 October 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003523164
29 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Smith, Emily Marie, born: 7 July 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004605689
29 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Smith, Nancy M., born: 30 October 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002056724
29 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Smith, Timothy L., born: 10 June 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 002063693
30 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Rasmussen, Gabriella M., born: 18 May 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004247421
30 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Rasmussen, Marguerite Therese, born: 18 December 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 004241558
30 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Rasmussen, Travis C., born: 2 August 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004247425
30 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sciortino, Gaetano A., born: 10 February 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 004241553
30 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Tedder, Jennifer L., born: 23 May 1967, Republican, Voter ID 000570314
30 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Tedder, Roy Alton, born: 15 March 1962, Republican, Voter ID 000570315
30 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Walpole, Lawrence A., born: 12 April 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002064299
30 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Walpole, Linda M., born: 25 March 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002057443
31 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Melman, Jeffrey D., born: 21 July 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002061982
31 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Melman, Lynn B., born: 23 August 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002054809
31 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sweezy, Andrea Lynn, born: 21 January 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004948681
31 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sweezy, David Kane, born: 11 October 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004258257
31 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sweezy, Karyn Lynn, born: 6 October 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004258226
31 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sweezy, Logan James, born: 11 October 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004258233
31 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sweezy, Mark A., born: 18 November 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004258263
33 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Kolb, Patricia J., born: 12 April 1963, Republican, Voter ID 004791078
33 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Kolb, Scott Halsey, born: 23 November 1960, Republican, Voter ID 004627697
33 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Mills, Austin William, born: 31 July 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004304061
33 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Mills, Linley Nicole, born: 3 January 1982, Republican, Voter ID 004304048
34 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Cheever, Alisha Rose, born: 24 February 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004997845
34 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Cheever, Joshua Ross, born: 19 January 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004997844
34 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Magaw, Brian F., born: 31 March 1969, Republican, Voter ID 003653786
34 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Magaw, Emily M., born: 20 July 1969, Republican, Voter ID 003653784
34 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Magaw, Zachary Tyler, born: 13 November 1997, Republican, Voter ID 004537848
35 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sarkozy, Brian D., born: 17 January 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063331
35 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sarkozy, Carol Ann, born: 12 January 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056338
35 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sarkozy, Richard A., born: 1 March 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063332
35 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sarkozy, Stacey L., born: 21 September 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056340
38 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Romeyn, Carol J., born: 12 April 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002056115
38 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Romeyn, Dirk D., born: 28 April 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002063142
39 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Marques, Erwin S., born: 11 March 1929, Democratic, Voter ID 002061706
39 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Marques, Kathleen C., born: 24 February 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002054509
40 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Treacy, Dianne E., born: 23 September 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002057222
40 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Treacy, Joseph M., born: 28 July 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064135
40 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Treacy, Kelley H., born: 16 July 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049996
41 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Levine, Judith S., born: 9 December 1943, Republican, Voter ID 002054236
41 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Levine, Richard S., born: 19 December 1943, Democratic, Voter ID 002049443
42 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Angeloff, Jennifer Diane, born: 18 December 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004588811
42 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Angeloff, Steven Eric, born: 12 December 1969, Republican, Voter ID 004536674
42 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Rossini, Francine L., born: 15 September 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003494572
43 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Trainor, Douglas M., born: 19 February 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064124
43 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Trainor, Lorraine E., born: 25 July 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002049995
43 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Trainor, Meredith Leigh, born: 24 April 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003521710
43 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Trainor, William P., born: 6 November 1980, Republican, Voter ID 002064127
43 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Trainor, William Patrick, born: 21 April 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003728959
44 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Dicarlo, Colin V., born: 23 June 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004541681
44 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Dicarlo, Gabrielle Anne, born: 23 June 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004539761
44 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Dicarlo, Ryan J., born: 23 June 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004539931
44 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Shlansky, Lisabeth C., born: 4 April 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056589
45 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sutton, Cara L, born: 19 November 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003640615
45 Berkshire Way, Simsbury, Sutton, Stephen L., born: 29 November 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003698757
7 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Forzono, Emily M., born: 31 May 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004730810
7 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Forzono, James, born: 30 June 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059938
7 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Forzono, Nicholas, born: 5 July 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004678665
7 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Forzono, Susan C., born: 5 February 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052486
7 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Forzono, Tyler J., born: 19 April 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004976908
9 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Drosdeck, Ashley, born: 8 September 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 003704740
10 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Derungs, Jeannette Eloira, born: 23 January 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004044832
10 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Derungs, Selina A., born: 14 June 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 002051859
10 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Derungs, Walter, born: 29 September 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003640943
10 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Rowland, Scherry W., born: 15 June 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002056187
11 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Caldwell, Michael K., born: 1 August 1969, Republican, Voter ID 002058715
12 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Cain, Samuel, born: 18 May 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004259462
12 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Hanecak, Heather M., born: 15 May 1969, Republican, Voter ID 003479391
12 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Zorick, Shelby Elizabeth, born: 11 December 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005008478
14 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Bulmer, Brooke B., born: 9 July 1964, Republican, Voter ID 004011742
16 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Aponte, Camryn, born: 18 August 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004943852
16 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Aponte, Michele Lynn, born: 13 December 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 003200166
16 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Aponte, Patrick Luis, born: 26 May 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 003198240
18 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Huscher, Danielle Marie, born: 15 November 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004204810
18 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Huscher, Wendy D., born: 24 September 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053482
22 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Tracey, Devery J., born: 13 June 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003879794
22 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Tracey, John P., born: 5 March 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002064119
22 Bickford Street, Simsbury, Tracey, Virginia G., born: 7 May 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057205
1 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Cruse, Carol A., born: 12 September 1939, Republican, Voter ID 003753052
1 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Madin, Linda J., born: 8 June 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000449964
1 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Pelletier, Zachary W., born: 30 September 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004738800
1 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Prozinski, Dennis W., born: 15 August 1941, Republican, Voter ID 004232431
2 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Daley, Mary L., born: 5 June 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003636553
2 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Daley, Victor N., born: 9 August 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003636556
3 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Weiss, Meredith L., born: 24 January 1939, Republican, Voter ID 003691325
3 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Weiss, Murray A., born: 2 February 1933, Republican, Voter ID 003691320
4 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Ford, Charles Francis, born: 30 March 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002059922
4 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Ford, Nancy C., born: 24 April 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002052468
4 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Stevenson, William H., born: 6 September 1953, Republican, Voter ID 000165536
5 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Micelotta, Gina, born: 25 May 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004987116
5 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Micelotta, Stephen M., born: 24 May 1956, Republican, Voter ID 003602066
5 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Theriault, Janice Lee, born: 19 April 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002057109
6 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Robinson, Peter M., born: 4 January 1934, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000131530
7 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Chestone, Gary W., born: 30 June 1951, Republican, Voter ID 004010559
7 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Fitzgerald, Christine P., born: 17 August 1960, Republican, Voter ID 003098972
7 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Fitzgerald, Thomas A., born: 21 September 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003126206
8 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Lupia, Colleen A., born: 7 November 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004095788
8 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Lupia, Paul R., born: 11 September 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 004094246
8 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Tummers, Elizabeth J., born: 24 October 1927, Republican, Voter ID 003099433
8 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Tummers, Joseph M., born: 17 November 1923, Republican, Voter ID 003018540
9 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Henry, Carol A., born: 13 October 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004007435
9 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Henry, Joseph C., born: 10 September 1952, Republican, Voter ID 003768800
10 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Holm, Chris F., born: 3 October 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004319766
10 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Holm, Theresa Kelly, born: 26 August 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004781824
11 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Alfeld, Linda Diane, born: 22 May 1944, Republican, Voter ID 003427994
11 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Fox, Robert A., born: 19 March 1925, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000124643
11 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Fox, Shirley Jane, born: 21 June 1928, Republican, Voter ID 000124644
11 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Padelskas, Anthony, born: 14 January 1950, Republican, Voter ID 003505516
11 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Robinson, Barbara G., born: 31 March 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 004605454
12 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Brookman, Gordon T., born: 25 September 1947, Republican, Voter ID 000425642
12 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Brookman, Joanne K., born: 8 April 1947, Republican, Voter ID 000425643
14 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, O' Connell, David L., born: 30 September 1946, Republican, Voter ID 000130077
14 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, O' Connell, Patricia R., born: 11 January 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000130083
15 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Butterfield, Lisa L., born: 19 October 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002051023
15 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Correia, Alex R., born: 19 December 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004079129
15 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Correia, Daniel K., born: 27 December 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002059122
15 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Correia, Jillian Lee, born: 22 September 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004166969
15 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Dahl, Andrew W., born: 19 February 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003157247
15 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Dahl, Janice W., born: 21 February 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003157249
15 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Donnell, Karen W., born: 15 March 1958, Republican, Voter ID 000123729
16 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Hartley, Doris A., born: 3 December 1932, Republican, Voter ID 000483402
19 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Diluigi, Edward D., born: 23 February 1947, Republican, Voter ID 004103582
19 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Diluigi, Joan M., born: 16 June 1947, Republican, Voter ID 004103583
21 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Glew, Charmaine E., born: 22 June 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002052797
21 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Glew, Ian A., born: 17 October 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060204
21 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Glew, Timothy James, born: 27 November 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003473250
21 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Gorkofsky, Judy A., born: 22 April 1964, Republican, Voter ID 000432191
21 Billingsgate Drive, Simsbury, Gorkofsky, Kevin L., born: 12 February 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000432192
1 Bluebell Lane, Simsbury, Parise, Ann W., born: 25 March 1948, Republican, Voter ID 002055501
1 Bluebell Lane, Simsbury, Parise, Dennis F., born: 29 April 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002062615
3 Bluebell Lane, Simsbury, Bridgman, Germaine M., born: 18 June 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002050849
3 Bluebell Lane, Simsbury, Bridgman, William L., born: 16 May 1937, Republican, Voter ID 002058535
4 Bluebell Lane, Simsbury, Culin, Helene F., born: 19 February 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002051641
4 Bluebell Lane, Simsbury, Culin, Taylor W., born: 3 May 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002059199
4 Bluebell Lane, Simsbury, Plakias, Marci A., born: 26 January 1975, Republican, Voter ID 004749802
4 Bluebell Lane, Simsbury, Plakias, Terrence C., born: 1 June 1970, Republican, Voter ID 004754233
4 Bluebell Lane, Simsbury, Trainer, John Newlin, born: 4 April 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 003522828
4 Bluebell Lane, Simsbury, Trainer, Maria Del Carmen, born: 17 April 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 004143787
30 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Thomas, Cheryl A., born: 3 January 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 004256278
30 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Thomas, Glenn Daniel, born: 2 January 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004256301
62 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pineau, Douglas Robert, born: 17 February 2000, Republican, Voter ID 004863717
62 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pineau, Karen, born: 27 September 1963, Republican, Voter ID 003713981
62 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pineau, Matthew W., born: 16 July 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004209947
62 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pineau, Michael A., born: 19 October 1960, Republican, Voter ID 003721366
63 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Dacey, Dennis J., born: 10 June 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003773418
63 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Dacey, Tiffany R., born: 7 October 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003768418
65 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pomerantz, Brian C., born: 9 June 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062826
65 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pomerantz, Elizabeth A., born: 2 April 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055757
65 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pomerantz, Joanne S., born: 22 September 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002049798
65 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pomerantz, Karen M., born: 6 March 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003398035
65 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pomerantz, Roy B., born: 11 July 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002049799
67 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Bajekal, Divya S., born: 8 November 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004282668
67 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Bajekal, Sanjay G., born: 11 June 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003707651
68 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Sullivan, Erin E., born: 24 May 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 003723369
68 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Sullivan, James Manus, born: 7 January 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004889796
68 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Sullivan, John Joseph, born: 7 January 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004889793
68 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Sullivan, Timothy J., born: 1 April 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 003723351
69 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Emrick, Daniel R., born: 25 September 1962, Republican, Voter ID 000734727
69 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Emrick, Jordan Alysz, born: 26 November 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004556129
69 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Emrick, Myra B., born: 6 June 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000734483
69 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, McGowan, Patrick J., born: 2 March 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 003770693
71 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Somers, James Vincent, born: 10 June 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 003039038
71 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Somers, Leslie E., born: 23 March 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 003800137
72 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Ziko, Laura M., born: 24 August 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004129499
72 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Ziko, Mary R., born: 25 July 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057887
73 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Moore, Eric M., born: 17 May 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004135398
73 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Moore, Jennifer A., born: 8 November 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004135397
74 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Page, Christine M., born: 23 October 1986, Republican, Voter ID 003542489
74 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Page, Donna J., born: 6 October 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002049739
74 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Page, R Tracy, born: 17 August 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002049740
75 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Brown, Delena M., born: 3 June 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003422294
75 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Brown, Joseph Patten, born: 3 September 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 003898865
75 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Brown, Mason Porter, born: 29 January 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004195569
75 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Burnham, Delena M., born: 3 June 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003422294
75 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Robinson, Benjamin M., born: 13 May 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002049846
75 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Robinson, Diane L., born: 9 April 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002049847
75 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Robinson, Mallory Mitchell, born: 17 July 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003454135
76 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Ellsworth, Albert L., born: 6 June 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002048970
76 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Ellsworth, Richard Kelly, born: 12 April 1995, Republican, Voter ID 004353075
76 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Guidice, Nicholas A., born: 12 March 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 002049109
76 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Muldoon-Ellsworth, Janet, born: 5 November 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049695
77 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Brady, Deborah L., born: 16 September 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 002050801
77 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Brady, John B., born: 8 June 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 002058503
77 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Brady, Kayla F., born: 29 January 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004488510
77 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Brady, Megan Rose, born: 14 January 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004230377
78 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Rothmann, Janet B., born: 17 March 1931, Republican, Voter ID 002049863
80 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pulley, David Bryant, born: 8 May 1975, Republican, Voter ID 004312489
80 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pulley, Jeanette Joanne, born: 21 November 1977, Republican, Voter ID 004306623
80 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pulley, Jonathan Bryant, born: 8 August 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004556240
80 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Pulley, Thomas, born: 26 October 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004991322
81 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Ward, Charles D., born: 19 July 1969, Republican, Voter ID 002064321
81 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Ward, Marissa Joy, born: 10 September 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004889725
81 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Ward, Michelle, born: 15 September 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057466
83 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Duquette, Daniel F., born: 24 May 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004533712
83 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Duquette, Erin Smith, born: 11 April 1989, Independent, Voter ID 004659081
83 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Litke, Cara M., born: 4 September 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054281
83 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Litke, Jordan Elizabeth, born: 16 September 1986, Republican, Voter ID 003447458
83 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Litke, Marcia G., born: 16 November 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002049479
83 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Litke, Paul S., born: 5 September 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002049480
85 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Day, Arthur P., born: 20 May 1947, Republican, Voter ID 001970821
85 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Day, Mary J., born: 16 February 1942, Republican, Voter ID 001970837
87 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Rosenberg, Alan P., born: 29 July 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002063164
87 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Rosenberg, Barbara J., born: 10 April 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002056134
87 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Rosenberg, Emily Elena, born: 28 March 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004517090
87 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Rosenberg, Molly Sarah, born: 28 July 1999, Republican, Voter ID 004855085
87 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Seese, William Young, born: 7 March 1947, Republican, Voter ID 003514158
88 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Lucker, Connor Richard, born: 31 January 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004079093
88 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Lucker, John R., born: 5 November 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002049544
88 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Lucker, Meghan H., born: 12 February 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002054361
88 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Lucker, Piers Willem, born: 20 November 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004467255
88 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Lucker, Taran K., born: 26 July 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004225672
90 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Garrity, Avery Noelle, born: 25 December 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 005002599
90 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Garrity, Jill Christine, born: 29 March 1967, Republican, Voter ID 002049048
90 Blue Ridge Drive, Simsbury, Garrity, Steven Kenneth, born: 31 October 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002060079
3 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Glatfelter, Anne W., born: 28 June 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002052785
3 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Glatfelter, Elizabeth Anne, born: 28 January 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 002052786
3 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Glatfelter, Philip H., born: 3 February 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002060198
3 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Goodmaster, Ashley, born: 9 December 1985, Republican, Voter ID 004520344
3 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Wuelfing, Robert George, born: 28 April 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004820465
4 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Melanson, Charles J., born: 25 January 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002061972
4 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Melanson, Hannah Rose, born: 8 December 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004915375
4 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Melanson, James Charles, born: 4 April 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004976713
4 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Melanson, Molly, born: 8 July 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004781974
4 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Melanson, Suzanne E., born: 17 July 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054801
5 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Glenn, Rebecca F., born: 13 June 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049071
5 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Glenn, Shannon, born: 9 February 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004564050
6 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Fama, Daniel, born: 17 May 1982, Republican, Voter ID 003524632
6 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Fama, Yuchen, born: 14 January 1982, Republican, Voter ID 004400278
6 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Gilmore, James M., born: 12 April 1931, Republican, Voter ID 003387851
7 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Barcomb, Christopher S., born: 5 February 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003784469
7 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Barcomb, Jessica Rae, born: 31 May 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 003794867
8 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Clement, Carolyn C., born: 18 May 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002051381
8 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Gilmore, Emma, born: 21 August 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004262011
8 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Gilmore, Luke Dean, born: 28 May 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004877918
8 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Gilmore, Olivia Madison, born: 29 June 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004546265
8 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Gilmore, Paul N., born: 25 January 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002060165
9 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Boyle, Sarah M., born: 12 January 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050787
9 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Kasson, Christine A., born: 7 February 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003435505
9 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Kasson, Troy L., born: 14 July 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003435511
10 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Fitzpatrick, Colleen M., born: 2 March 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 001975141
10 Bradley Road, Simsbury, Michelson, Jeffrey G., born: 4 June 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001992633
2 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Zietz, Elizabeth G., born: 23 February 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057885
3 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Horton, Dorothy M., born: 2 June 1937, Republican, Voter ID 002053420
3 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Horton, Max L., born: 21 February 1937, Republican, Voter ID 002060782
3 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Teich, Daniel Seth, born: 6 July 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004997820
3 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Zaretsky, Motti, born: 15 February 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004995930
4 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Forsyth, Brooks T., born: 22 March 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 004450502
4 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Smith, Roxanna W., born: 11 November 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002056729
5 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Askham, Adam K., born: 27 February 1985, Republican, Voter ID 002058063
5 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Askham, Meghan Julie, born: 6 February 1987, Republican, Voter ID 003620967
5 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Askham, Patricia K., born: 9 August 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002050284
5 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Askham, Peter K., born: 7 October 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002058064
7 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Marroni, Ann S., born: 23 April 1930, Democratic, Voter ID 002054512
9 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Belliveau, Jean-Paul, born: 19 February 1970, Republican, Voter ID 003374812
9 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Belliveau, Jennifer Herbert, born: 18 September 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002050554
9 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Belliveau, Nicolas B., born: 20 April 1999, Republican, Voter ID 004930044
9 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Sudduth, Samantha Leigh, born: 20 February 1992, Independent, Voter ID 004197155
11 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Czuchta, Heather M., born: 4 December 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004673497
11 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Czuchta, Nicholas Roman, born: 22 June 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004707111
11 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Richardson, Anne Gowing, born: 18 July 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003461985
11 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Richardson, Mark Williams, born: 6 January 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003663022
11 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Richardson, Patricia G., born: 18 June 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002056010
11 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Richardson, Philip W., born: 25 August 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002063036
12 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Amarante, Cathryn A., born: 30 September 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002050196
12 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Amarante, Ronald, born: 24 September 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057985
13 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Conn, Colleen Margaret, born: 6 March 1975, Republican, Voter ID 003915643
13 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Conn, William J., born: 6 May 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002729583
13 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Filburn, Emily A., born: 6 March 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004392142
13 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Filburn, Thomas Kevin, born: 10 November 1984, Republican, Voter ID 004363655
15 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Rogers, Emily, born: 13 June 1956, Republican, Voter ID 003656690
15 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Rogers, Helen Cunningham, born: 8 January 1990, Republican, Voter ID 004386520
15 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Rogers, Thomas A., born: 24 April 1986, Republican, Voter ID 003656685
15 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Rogers, Thomas Ashby, born: 8 July 1950, Republican, Voter ID 003697203
16 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Bodine, Tracy W., born: 17 September 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 001894603
16 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, White, Holly L., born: 9 December 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 003947536
17 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Bernardo, Ashley Marie, born: 23 April 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004296843
17 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Moses, Nancy L., born: 6 January 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002055070
17 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Singleton, Allison, born: 4 June 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003272337
17 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Singleton, Stephen Mark, born: 31 July 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 004015204
17 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Stern, Andrew Benjamin, born: 21 November 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004136770
17 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Stern, Madeline Amy, born: 22 April 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004353295
19 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Lou, Judith N., born: 8 April 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002049524
19 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Lou, Kristian M., born: 4 July 1937, Republican, Voter ID 002049525
20 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Naidoo, Jovan, born: 12 March 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004498866
20 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Naidoo, Kalin, born: 9 October 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003839423
20 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Naidoo, Shamindren, born: 14 March 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003752433
20 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Naidoo, Shanoo D., born: 12 October 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 003755927
21 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Paterson, Charlotte B., born: 12 July 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002055525
21 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Sheltmire, Lawrence W., born: 5 March 1947, Republican, Voter ID 999948239
21 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Sheltmire, Regina M., born: 20 August 1943, Republican, Voter ID 999952862
22 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Rudolph, Barbara A., born: 27 July 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056214
22 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Rudolph, Otto W., born: 11 December 1917, Republican, Voter ID 002063225
22 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Rudolph, Peggy Ann, born: 8 January 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 002049871
23 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Jones, Clayton B., born: 23 December 1943, Republican, Voter ID 002060996
23 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Jones, Deborah S., born: 14 June 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 002053658
24 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Christian, Bette K., born: 24 April 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 002051314
24 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Christian, Lawrence S., born: 10 June 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 002058933
24 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Christian, Michael A., born: 2 October 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 002058935
25 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Lorenzen, Emma K., born: 8 November 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004604976
25 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Lorenzen, Frederick C., born: 1 December 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002061545
25 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Lorenzen, Patricia A., born: 21 October 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002054333
25 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Lorenzen, William Austin, born: 16 September 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004079017
26 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Pranaitis, Andrea, born: 19 October 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002055811
26 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Pranaitis, Madeline Julia, born: 28 March 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004358147
26 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Pranaitis, Mark A., born: 15 April 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002062868
26 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Pranaitis, Timothy Mark, born: 30 June 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004079038
27 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Morrow, Christine Sullivan, born: 24 September 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055059
27 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Morrow, Craig Douglas, born: 14 November 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002062196
27 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Morrow, Kevin A., born: 3 December 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004141456
29 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Sayadoff, Ashley Eileen, born: 7 April 1989, Republican, Voter ID 003987276
29 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Sayadoff, John J., born: 21 September 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063353
29 Branch Brook Drive, Simsbury, Sayadoff, Sally A., born: 8 July 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056363
3 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Bashkin, Iris, born: 18 November 1937, Democratic, Voter ID 002050457
5 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, McKeon, Dorothy E., born: 26 May 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002054741
5 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, McKeon, Rachel J., born: 3 October 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003910595
7 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Bosco, James J., born: 28 November 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058440
7 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Bosco, Maureen G., born: 6 October 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002050748
9 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Bradley, Susan A., born: 14 September 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004057472
9 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Coco, Margaret, born: 7 June 1923, Democratic, Voter ID 002051405
9 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Coco, Sarah M., born: 3 July 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 002051406
14 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Baldwin, George H., born: 13 October 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002058130
14 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Baldwin, Jill J., born: 24 August 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002050371
16 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Gentile, Camille A., born: 19 January 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002052692
16 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Gentile, Carmine J., born: 10 January 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060109
18 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Schein, Cheryl S., born: 21 July 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 003783614
18 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Schein, Jeffrey P., born: 21 May 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003783611
19 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Lane, Jessica Morgan, born: 18 October 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003962411
19 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Lane, Patricia A., born: 9 July 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003511334
20 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Gleason, Alice B., born: 17 July 1933, Republican, Voter ID 002052788
21 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Juliano, Nancy B., born: 24 October 1936, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000567092
21 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Keefe, Deborah C., born: 15 June 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002053772
21 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Keefe, Paul S., born: 19 April 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 002061095
21 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Keefe, Sarah J., born: 8 July 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003752457
21 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Smith, Brittany, born: 21 March 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 004656740
21 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Smith, Bruce A., born: 3 December 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000569922
24 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Begansky, Ronald John, born: 16 August 1949, Republican, Voter ID 002058251
24 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Begansky, Wendy Hayes, born: 24 October 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002050525
25 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Keene, Gayle S., born: 15 October 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003377485
25 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Keene, Laura A., born: 8 January 1986, Republican, Voter ID 003377487
25 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Keene, Michael Jeffrey, born: 16 May 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004274508
26 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Braly, Maryette C., born: 13 September 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000116800
26 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Clifford, Trevor J., born: 14 January 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 004174988
26 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Krafcik, Michael Paul, born: 20 April 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003886301
27 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Colegrove, Helen M., born: 6 March 1936, Republican, Voter ID 001277911
27 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Lambert, Katherine B., born: 30 October 1927, Democratic, Voter ID 004179762
27 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Lambert, Ward E., born: 15 April 1928, Democratic, Voter ID 004178712
28 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Farley, Ruth C., born: 5 June 1936, Republican, Voter ID 002052277
28 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Farley, William H., born: 17 December 1936, Republican, Voter ID 002059766
28 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Webber, Jon W., born: 19 August 1938, Independent, Voter ID 002064363
28 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Webber, Marilyn R., born: 21 September 1939, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057503
30 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Psarakis, Emanuel, born: 27 December 1932, Democratic, Voter ID 002062894
30 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Psarakis, Margaret L., born: 21 March 1935, Democratic, Voter ID 002055848
32 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Berman, Caroline H., born: 17 April 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050592
32 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Berman, Michael E., born: 31 May 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058311
32 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Rideout, Anne H., born: 13 August 1937, Republican, Voter ID 000569346
32 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Rideout, Kenneth V., born: 12 December 1929, Republican, Voter ID 000569347
33 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Meier, Gloria, born: 1 May 1946, Republican, Voter ID 003050473
33 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Price, Susan M., born: 2 May 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001830656
35 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Keating, Joan M., born: 28 July 1937, Republican, Voter ID 002053767
35 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Keating, Stanley J., born: 11 January 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002061090
35 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Keating, Stanley J., born: 25 December 1936, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061091
37 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Adessa, Denise M., born: 14 November 1957, Independent, Voter ID 000943240
37 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Adessa, Richard F., born: 25 January 1950, Republican, Voter ID 000943239
37 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Barney, Austin D., born: 25 May 1982, Republican, Voter ID 002058172
39 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Behrens, Barbara R., born: 7 August 1922, Democratic, Voter ID 003760439
39 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Behrens, Catherine Jean, born: 3 February 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 000564204
40 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Clark, Alayna J., born: 12 February 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004288699
42 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Thomas, Lorraine, born: 30 July 1928, Democratic, Voter ID 003805199
42 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Thomas, Sharon R., born: 8 November 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 003213564
44 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Sandoval, Job Austria, born: 21 June 1934, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005000432
44 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Sandoval, Sybil L., born: 23 April 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056324
46 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Lobo, Dennis J., born: 30 December 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 003609211
48 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Russo, Esther, born: 25 May 1931, Democratic, Voter ID 002056237
48 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Weldon, Barbara E., born: 10 January 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 000424378
48 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Weldon, Christopher Collins, born: 8 January 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 000424379
48 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Weldon, Kristen S., born: 9 July 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004623627
49 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Dresser, Jane A., born: 20 March 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 003773829
49 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Gostyla, Linda E., born: 9 August 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000813258
49 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Lyon, William M., born: 24 March 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 003773837
50 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Barnett, Sheri L., born: 2 April 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 002050421
50 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Giolito, Richard J., born: 3 May 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000392580
50 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Giolito, Teresa E., born: 21 April 1966, Republican, Voter ID 003018222
51 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Beaulieu, Jamie Lynn, born: 20 August 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004872225
51 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Souza, Dylan Michael Kenneth, born: 1 August 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004701439
51 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Souza, Lisa A., born: 4 August 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004523206
53 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Pardee, George W., born: 24 August 1928, Republican, Voter ID 002062611
53 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Pardee, Mildred A., born: 3 April 1926, Republican, Voter ID 003387467
55 Brettonwood Drive, Simsbury, Giolito, Madison Lee, born: 11 April 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004581730
1 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Holcombe, Joshua Michael, born: 21 September 1984, Republican, Voter ID 003276010
1 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Holcombe, Lisa Marie, born: 6 April 1988, Republican, Voter ID 004098239
1 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Holjes, Paul W., born: 29 October 1975, Republican, Voter ID 002060729
1 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Neriani, Carolyn J., born: 14 September 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055212
1 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Vann, Chansuphota, born: 13 March 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004037250
1 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Wright, Mary Ellen, born: 3 March 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 004581694
1 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Wright, Michael Ace, born: 6 July 1957, Republican, Voter ID 004577152
2 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Shanks, Catherine Elizabeth, born: 7 March 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004855069
2 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Shanks, Margaret C., born: 22 February 1934, Republican, Voter ID 002056525
2 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Shanks, Scott G., born: 13 August 1931, Republican, Voter ID 002063510
3 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Lechak, James Thomas, born: 28 September 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004798360
3 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Lechak, Lorna R., born: 24 February 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004556730
3 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Lechak, Melissa, born: 3 September 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054175
3 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Lechak, Thomas W., born: 23 February 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002049376
4 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Martocchio, James M., born: 31 March 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003804086
4 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Martocchio, Lisa J., born: 6 April 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003163481
4 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Rutherford, Bruce A., born: 25 January 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002063247
4 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Rutherford, Jannine, born: 12 March 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056248
4 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Rutherford, Vanessa, born: 4 May 1978, Republican, Voter ID 002056249
5 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Fossum, Nancy W., born: 2 November 1935, Republican, Voter ID 002052488
6 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Williams, Sarah Leibert, born: 28 March 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 001987518
6 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Woodworth, Nancy B., born: 5 March 1949, Republican, Voter ID 002057744
7 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Lenarz, Andrew Scott, born: 12 June 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003663219
7 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Lenarz, Patrick J., born: 22 July 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002049396
7 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Lenarz, Roberta Roth, born: 4 November 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002054205
8 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Halverstadt, Jay P., born: 1 December 1923, Republican, Voter ID 002060478
8 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Tice, Grace Elinor, born: 14 November 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004984901
9 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Gazzola, Jean, born: 24 July 1928, Republican, Voter ID 002052672
10 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Forader, Ariel Sarah, born: 6 June 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004272779
10 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Gerlach, Heidi Catherine, born: 22 July 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052701
10 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Lazarus, Dawn A., born: 29 November 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004292982
11 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Adomako, Salomey, born: 10 June 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004043240
11 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Calabro, Matthew W., born: 2 May 1972, Republican, Voter ID 003915314
11 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Macinnis, Georgia P., born: 16 May 1940, Republican, Voter ID 002049586
11 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Macinnis, Sheryl L., born: 13 October 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 002049587
12 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Bonarrigo, Andrea M., born: 22 February 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 004558416
12 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Felder, Charles Julius, born: 3 August 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 004558392
12 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Tyszka, Marilyn J., born: 30 March 1934, Democratic, Voter ID 002057271
12 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Tyszka, William J., born: 30 October 1934, Democratic, Voter ID 002064180
14 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Albert, Amy Joy, born: 1 April 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003332522
14 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Hogan, Nicholas James, born: 21 September 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002807355
15 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Mertz, Eric, born: 8 October 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003973985
15 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Mertz, Justin H., born: 9 January 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004365192
15 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Mertz, Michael J., born: 27 May 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062006
15 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Mertz, Steven, born: 22 August 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004701926
15 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Mertz, Susan, born: 9 September 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054836
16 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Carpenter, John D., born: 22 August 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058789
16 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Carpenter, Scott D., born: 9 August 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058795
17 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Goebel, Linda L., born: 9 October 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002052818
18 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Bordett, David E., born: 7 February 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004194323
18 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Bordett, Harvey M., born: 15 August 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002058436
18 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Bordett, Rosalie Anna, born: 7 February 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004187867
18 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Valdez, Elizabeth A., born: 19 November 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 002057295
19 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Sikorski, John F., born: 21 December 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002063588
19 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Sikorski, Kathleen A., born: 21 December 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056624
19 Briarwood Drive, Simsbury, Sikorski, Max H., born: 14 May 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004713247
1 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Waterman, John R., born: 4 April 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064350
1 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Waterman, John Tyler, born: 18 July 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 003775376
1 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Waterman, Molly Kathleen, born: 10 October 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004079117
1 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Waterman, Sarah F., born: 26 March 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 002057489
2 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Demuth, David P., born: 23 December 1945, Republican, Voter ID 002059375
2 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Demuth, Pamela A., born: 19 May 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002051843
3 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Balderston, David M., born: 31 March 1954, Republican, Voter ID 003494694
3 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Balderston, Kristen A., born: 12 September 1958, Republican, Voter ID 003477385
3 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Havighorst, Marilyn K., born: 15 June 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002053190
3 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Havighorst, Richard F., born: 14 June 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002060572
4 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Kaplinski, Dana E., born: 20 December 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003759036
4 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Kaplinski, Thomas J., born: 31 December 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003759035
5 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Darnowski, Jennifer L., born: 3 February 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003488508
5 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Darnowski, Thomas J., born: 30 April 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003488504
6 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Sojkowski, Cheryl A., born: 23 April 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002056758
6 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Sojkowski, Julie Ann, born: 18 July 2000, Republican, Voter ID 004896790
6 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Sojkowski, Nicole Elizabeth, born: 18 May 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004467627
6 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Sojkowski, Richard H., born: 10 September 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002063714
7 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Grogan, Brian J., born: 29 September 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060394
7 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Grogan, Daniel Connor, born: 1 July 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004231964
7 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Grogan, Kim R., born: 11 May 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053002
7 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Grogan, Meghan E., born: 9 October 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004289090
7 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Obi, Chizoba, born: 21 January 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 003620442
7 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Obi, Innocent Ikechukwu, born: 27 May 1963, Independent, Voter ID 003199006
8 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Carlson, Daniel Scott, born: 9 July 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004053535
8 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Carlson, David W., born: 19 February 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002058774
8 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Carlson, Lorean J., born: 11 November 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002051134
8 Brighton Lane, Simsbury, Carlson, Stacy L., born: 19 March 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003679965
3 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Byrd-Lofrese, Mary, born: 26 November 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 004686972
3 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Byrd-Lofrese, Sarah, born: 11 May 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004686194
3 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Shoham, Jonathan C., born: 2 June 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000569826
3 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Shoham, Marcia D., born: 4 June 1975, Republican, Voter ID 003578665
4 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Elliott, Catherine A., born: 4 April 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002052161
4 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Elliott, D Stephen, born: 17 February 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002059667
4 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Elliott, Hayley E., born: 7 June 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 002052163
7 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Donohue, Christopher Brooks, born: 24 August 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004850633
7 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Donohue, Jill Brooks, born: 5 June 1970, Republican, Voter ID 004212092
7 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Donohue, Stephen R., born: 28 September 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002872826
8 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Oseychik, Linda M., born: 24 November 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055398
8 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Oseychik, Robert M., born: 9 February 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 002062520
8 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Oseychik, Scott M., born: 9 February 1973, Republican, Voter ID 002062521
11 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Koczon, Elise K., born: 14 November 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004685266
11 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Koczon, Kara, born: 30 June 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004981964
11 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Koczon, Thomas J., born: 20 June 1954, Republican, Voter ID 000427816
12 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Kelley, Audrey Leigh, born: 23 August 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004209864
12 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Kelley, Bryan P., born: 27 April 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 003601960
12 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Kelley, Charlotte A., born: 8 January 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004299255
12 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Kelley, Michelle M., born: 7 March 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049228
15 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Jackson, Nancy S., born: 14 January 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002053525
15 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Jackson, Robert C., born: 3 June 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002060891
16 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Biggins, Margaret Elizabeth, born: 6 August 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004722576
16 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Biggins, Michael William, born: 13 January 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004761788
16 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Sweet, Madeleine B., born: 6 January 1924, Democratic, Voter ID 002057019
16 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Sweet, Russell, born: 23 December 1922, Republican, Voter ID 002063952
19 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Carley, Michael D., born: 28 December 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 001721242
19 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Carley, Sharon M., born: 27 May 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 004432189
19 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Mathews, Alison Rose, born: 19 June 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003423118
19 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Mathews, Kathleen V., born: 28 January 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054587
19 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Mathews, Kevin V., born: 12 June 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061779
19 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Mathews, Shaun P., born: 21 July 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061780
20 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Conlon, James P., born: 15 May 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002059074
20 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Derick, Ami S., born: 19 March 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051856
20 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Derick, Jeffrey W., born: 8 September 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059388
23 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Golinski, Gregory J., born: 12 February 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060255
23 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Jenks, Michele A., born: 11 November 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053590
24 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Schuyler, John H., born: 3 July 1949, Republican, Voter ID 002063439
24 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Schuyler, Laura A., born: 4 August 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056446
24 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Schuyler, Peggy, born: 16 May 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 002056449
27 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Chapman, Bruce J., born: 13 August 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003171615
27 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Chapman, Lisa Ann, born: 3 December 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000911504
28 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Marsh, James J., born: 7 May 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002061713
28 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Marsh, Rachel Pauline, born: 22 September 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004404628
28 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Marsh, Sherry Lee, born: 20 March 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002054518
31 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Leahy, Mary Elizabeth, born: 5 December 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003954257
31 Brook Drive, Simsbury, McDonough, Kelly Ann, born: 30 September 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054680
31 Brook Drive, Simsbury, McDonough, Mark W., born: 9 November 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061880
32 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Clegg, Jamie L., born: 19 July 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051916
32 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Clegg, William D., born: 10 September 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 000812080
35 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Hayes, Claire D., born: 6 January 1945, Republican, Voter ID 002053202
35 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Hayes, Peter W., born: 19 December 1973, Republican, Voter ID 002049134
36 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Nagy, Beverly S., born: 2 December 1949, Republican, Voter ID 002055164
36 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Nagy, David B., born: 30 May 1948, Republican, Voter ID 002062294
36 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Stillbach, Christopher J., born: 8 August 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002063864
39 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Gill, Christopher M., born: 31 May 1965, Republican, Voter ID 001899108
39 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Gill, Matthew L., born: 22 April 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004589472
39 Brook Drive, Simsbury, Gill, Megan A., born: 1 March 1966, Republican, Voter ID 001899133
11 Brook Ridge, Simsbury, Humphreys, Thomas Edward, born: 4 April 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004673614
2 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Hayes, Sarah Jane, born: 7 April 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003338048
2 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Macdonald, Wendy, born: 31 January 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002054397
2 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Macdonald, William, born: 14 June 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002061592
3 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Campolieta, Joseph L., born: 24 May 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 002058735
3 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Campolieta, Katharine Hope, born: 24 March 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004533792
3 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Grandin, Deborah L., born: 29 May 1935, Democratic, Voter ID 002052931
3 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Grandin, Nancy Katharine, born: 19 October 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 002052932
4 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Kratzer, Catherine A., born: 2 September 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054018
4 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Kratzer, David T., born: 29 August 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004581520
4 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Kratzer, Samuel John, born: 7 June 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004963140
4 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Kratzer, Todd L., born: 24 September 1967, Republican, Voter ID 002061309
6 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Kane, Ja'nene, born: 31 December 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004395748
6 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Kane, Patrick, born: 21 June 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 004395745
6 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Nelson, Andrew Hecker, born: 5 March 1986, Republican, Voter ID 003451611
6 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Nelson, Charlotte A., born: 6 April 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002055201
6 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Nelson, Lee N., born: 22 January 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002062333
6 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Nelson, William Blake, born: 13 October 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003821894
7 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Kershner, Anita J., born: 2 December 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002053855
7 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Luszcz, Frank R., born: 21 November 1943, Republican, Voter ID 002049555
9 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Mason, Jeremy Ross, born: 17 October 1997, Republican, Voter ID 004591320
9 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Mason, Kenneth S., born: 20 December 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002061764
9 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Mason, Mallory Whitney, born: 9 December 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004725227
9 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Mason, Marissa W., born: 9 June 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004263301
9 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Mason, Sandra Wickman, born: 13 November 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054567
10 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Davies, Charlotte H., born: 14 November 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051744
10 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Davies, Christopher P S, born: 3 August 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004942595
10 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Davies, Thomas Henning, born: 9 February 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004713263
10 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Glynn, Gina M., born: 12 June 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052808
10 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Glynn, Jeffrey B., born: 13 September 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002060215
10 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Nelson, Charlotte H., born: 14 November 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002051744
10 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Nelson, Steven M., born: 4 April 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000292917
11 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Okskewicz, Kevin Matthew, born: 13 September 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004435664
11 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Oleskewicz, Catherine Mary, born: 11 July 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004097821
11 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Oleskewicz, James Frederick, born: 11 April 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003678413
11 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Oleskewicz, Kevin M., born: 13 September 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004745982
11 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Oleskewicz, Kristen M., born: 28 September 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004209589
11 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Oleskewicz, Michael Joseph, born: 30 November 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004043446
11 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Oleskewicz, Robert C., born: 12 July 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003578054
12 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Dalton, Amelia K., born: 21 October 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004206098
12 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Dalton, Andrew Wells, born: 6 February 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 003886569
12 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Glenney, Earl Scott, born: 30 January 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003282612
12 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Hunt, Kimberly M., born: 22 March 1970, Republican, Voter ID 003398404
14 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Agnes, Ronald D., born: 29 February 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002048668
14 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Agnes, Susan M., born: 22 September 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002048669
14 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Connaughton, Andrea Craig, born: 4 November 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004490139
15 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Caldwell, Christine Marie, born: 22 September 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004705838
15 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Caldwell, Hugh K., born: 8 March 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002058714
15 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Caldwell, Susan Gombert, born: 18 February 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002051057
16 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Goetz, Christine M., born: 28 June 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002052821
16 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Goetz, Gary, born: 3 April 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002060227
16 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Goetz, Marissa K., born: 23 August 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003693768
18 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Irwin, Rosa H., born: 10 February 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053508
20 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, Derocher, Elizabeth L., born: 5 May 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002048934
20 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, McGee, Gregory C., born: 27 May 1975, Republican, Voter ID 003809196
20 Browngate Lane, Simsbury, McGee, Laurel Candace, born: 31 May 1978, Republican, Voter ID 003809432
14 Brownstone Turn, Simsbury, Lowman, Sharon P., born: 30 May 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054350
230 Bushy Hill Lane, Simsbury, Johnson, Marisa Packard, born: 22 April 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003917523
270 Bushy Hill Lane, Simsbury, Gaffey, Timothy Michael, born: 12 June 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004433204
292 Bushy Hill Lane, Simsbury, Nowlin, Amber M., born: 7 June 1983, Republican, Voter ID 004730819
6 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Mulcahy, John W., born: 12 March 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004141483
6 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Spradlin, Rose M., born: 18 July 1961, Republican, Voter ID 003902564
11 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Wong, Pang Hei, born: 8 March 1966, Republican, Voter ID 004492903
12 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Page, Heather Ann, born: 23 May 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001997601
12 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sastre, Joaquin, born: 14 June 1937, Republican, Voter ID 002063335
13 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Feola, Alyssa Marie, born: 4 August 1986, Republican, Voter ID 003410753
13 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Feola, Anastasia M., born: 20 December 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004150711
13 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Feola, Athena Rose, born: 22 April 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004533771
13 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Feola, Danny W., born: 7 September 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002059818
13 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Feola, Susanne R., born: 20 June 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052338
14 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Jurczak, Jill S., born: 17 January 1969, Republican, Voter ID 002053699
14 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Jurczak, Joseph G., born: 17 February 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002061034
17 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Kissel, Sandra J., born: 12 March 1955, Green, Voter ID 003125012
17 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Porter, Marion R., born: 31 January 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 001862688
20 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Borelli, Celeste Carrie, born: 16 October 1977, Republican, Voter ID 003960427
20 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Borelli, Todd J., born: 21 June 1922, Republican, Voter ID 004254982
20 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Perdue, Terek D., born: 29 January 1971, Republican, Voter ID 001896044
20 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Perdue, Tyrus Jehu, born: 31 August 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004904172
20 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rella, Roberta Anne, born: 5 November 1959, Republican, Voter ID 001895135
22 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gozzo, Allison T., born: 31 May 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 001906154
22 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gozzo, James L., born: 22 February 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 001906157
24 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Asaro, Jason, born: 11 October 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 003357348
24 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Hodnett, Julia Marie, born: 4 July 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004821076
26 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Horniatko, Shelly Marie, born: 19 August 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003964781
37 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Samardge, Christopher Philip, born: 6 November 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004315591
37 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Weckesser, Suanne Rebekah, born: 24 June 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 004578350
37 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Whitney, Shannon Lee, born: 8 July 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 004500839
101 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nicorici, Constanta, born: 15 May 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002055252
101 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nicorici, George, born: 9 February 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002062365
101 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nicorici, Josef, born: 26 January 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 002062366
133 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ridgeway, Charlene A., born: 26 July 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 003124766
133 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ridgeway, Kristoffer Helleren, born: 22 March 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 002063045
137 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Hoffman, Jason J., born: 10 December 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004325350
137 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Hoffman, Jennifer Lynn, born: 4 February 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003724896
137 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, McCully, Thomas J., born: 11 September 1989, Republican, Voter ID 004302990
143 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lockwood, Dennis E., born: 17 December 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 003673147
143 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lockwood, Scott A., born: 16 June 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003675987
143 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Scott, Nancy M., born: 18 September 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002056466
149 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Raymond, Elizabeth Anne, born: 7 December 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003539603
149 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Raymond, Keith, born: 20 October 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003160524
149 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Schmeizl, Houry M., born: 15 May 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004673288
149 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Schmeizl, Mark A., born: 3 April 1968, Republican, Voter ID 004673324
151 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Grandahl, Jeffrey, born: 27 September 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002049092
151 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ripple, Kurt Franklyn, born: 21 November 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063063
155 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Derr, Alexis E., born: 25 March 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003693373
155 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Granger, Kevin M., born: 29 January 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003670396
180 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Paine, Ellen A., born: 20 January 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002055441
185 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Brix, Nicholas E., born: 17 July 1990, Republican, Voter ID 003909627
185 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cody, Rachel E., born: 17 December 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004831468
185 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Fisher, Patricia A., born: 16 March 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 002052404
190 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Crombez, Donna J., born: 17 January 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051624
190 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Crombez, Ian Alexander, born: 17 February 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004803923
190 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Crombez, Nicole, born: 27 December 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004751768
190 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Crombez, Sean D., born: 13 December 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059178
190 Bushy Hill Road Unit A, Simsbury, Paine, Jeffrey A., born: 2 May 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062558
190 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Paine, Mary W., born: 2 November 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002055443
190 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Paine, Russell A., born: 25 November 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002062560
190 Bushy Hill Road Unit A, Simsbury, Williams, Mary, born: 26 February 1934, Republican, Voter ID 002057652
194 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Tracy, Lyn K., born: 19 May 1968, Republican, Voter ID 002057208
194 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Tracy, Robert T., born: 15 June 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003723339
195 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Delcamp, John Ross, born: 2 May 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004785628
195 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pfeuffer, Joseph J., born: 18 November 1944, Republican, Voter ID 003514550
195 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pfeuffer, Josrph, born: 16 November 1944, Republican, Voter ID 004227162
198 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cummings, Emily Elizabeth Li-Xian, born: 8 November 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004606431
198 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cummings, Stephani L., born: 30 October 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002051645
203 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Furey, Evelyn A., born: 11 June 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 004744423
203 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Furey, Michael T., born: 24 September 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003512546
203 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Novak, Norman G., born: 19 February 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002062413
203 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Novak, Susan C., born: 14 July 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002055299
206 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Dollack, Beverly A., born: 25 July 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002051939
207 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nocella, Alfonso, born: 24 December 1950, Republican, Voter ID 003168294
207 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nocella, Darlene Ann, born: 27 November 1960, Republican, Voter ID 003323468
207 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nocella, Nicholas Mark, born: 6 March 1991, Libertarian, Voter ID 004113380
207 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nocella, Nicole G., born: 6 March 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004110831
207 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Thomas, Julia Marie, born: 27 May 1984, Republican, Voter ID 003743709
207 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Wright, David Webb, born: 3 August 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004229893
210 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bonilla, Julio C., born: 4 January 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004760585
210 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bonilla, Rachel Leah, born: 19 November 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004760497
210 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Donahue, James L., born: 4 August 1942, Republican, Voter ID 004110474
210 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Namnoum, Elizabeth, born: 2 October 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002055167
212 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Peters, Joseph F., born: 16 December 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003722996
212 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rowland, Christopher Joseph, born: 27 December 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004438297
212 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rowland, Jamie S., born: 4 September 1971, Republican, Voter ID 003238733
212 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rowland, Richard A., born: 22 January 1969, Republican, Voter ID 003238737
213 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, O'Hara, Elizabeth Joan, born: 14 March 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004473045
213 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ohara, John Redmond, born: 24 May 1989, Republican, Voter ID 003790141
213 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, O'Hara, Kathleen Rose, born: 2 September 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004265997
213 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, O'Hara, Robert J., born: 1 March 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002049728
213 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, O'Hara, Rosanne N., born: 7 March 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002049729
215 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sato, Kumi, born: 7 September 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003007136
215 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Treggor, Josef P., born: 29 December 1943, Democratic, Voter ID 003013108
218 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bragdon, Martha R., born: 10 May 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050805
218 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Mayr, Jennifer A., born: 11 March 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 002049629
218 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Mayr, Rudolf H., born: 23 March 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 002049630
218 Bushy Hill Road Unit C, Simsbury, Mialky, Kevin Scott, born: 27 August 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 002049661
221 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Deeds, Thomas S., born: 30 December 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002059330
221 Bushy Hill Road Unit A, Simsbury, Greenlaw, Thompson T., born: 31 March 1955, Republican, Voter ID 004373471
221 Bushy Hill Road Unit B, Simsbury, Yang, Thomas Qi, born: 11 September 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004598366
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Alexander-Fuller, Tara Star, born: 8 June 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004648021
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Alvarezdelugo, Corina Salas, born: 23 February 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004877560
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Babbidge, Kelly M., born: 18 January 1978, Independent, Voter ID 003448878
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bonz, Margaret H., born: 28 February 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050735
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Carrington, Brendon O., born: 6 October 1981, Republican, Voter ID 002058805
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Carrington, Darrell L., born: 23 February 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058806
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Carrington, Ellyn C., born: 15 November 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 002051160
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Carrington, Seena P., born: 13 April 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 003705648
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cassis, Christopher John, born: 30 December 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 004775622
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cassis, Sarah R., born: 14 July 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003473265
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Coffin, Emily Meffert, born: 23 June 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004618675
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Corbett, Erin Shaunte, born: 5 August 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004055904
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Couch Edwards, Alicia T., born: 28 June 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003797132
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cowan, Catilin Mae, born: 2 October 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004520834
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, D'alessandro, Cristy L., born: 28 July 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003740493
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, D'alessandro, Todd D., born: 26 November 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003741282
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Desmaraus, David Bruce, born: 7 August 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 003454887
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Dunn, Stephen Justin, born: 30 January 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 003905133
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Duvelle, Marianne S., born: 5 July 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003200191
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ellis, Anna M., born: 1 October 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004519273
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Erdmann, Sara M., born: 12 June 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 004567345
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Fuller, Mark P., born: 27 May 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004691873
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gadsen, Samantha Anne, born: 4 July 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 004274795
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Georgis, Mary Hilson, born: 7 July 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 003539522
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Harrington, Jill W., born: 30 November 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 003996172
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Harrington, Matthew B., born: 4 May 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003998677
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Herrington, Jill Alycia, born: 30 November 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 002057417
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Jackson, Priscilla S., born: 4 June 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002053528
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Johnson, Marisa Packard, born: 22 April 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003917523
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Laboy, Marta C., born: 7 January 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 003375407
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Leschhorn, Brigitte D., born: 23 October 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 004994485
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lin, Alice Chia-Chi, born: 31 October 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004282572
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ludwig, Sarah E., born: 4 January 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 003944059
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Maddern, Stacy Warner, born: 22 December 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004120946
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Markey, Katherine Virginia, born: 10 June 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004666646
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, McIntyre, Jill F., born: 17 March 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003454947
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Michael, Elyssa Nicole, born: 2 July 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 004629569
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Mitchell, Emily Hendren, born: 19 May 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 004631972
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Monagan, John S., born: 17 September 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003455089
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Moody, Brett Devries, born: 12 January 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 004240541
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Napper, Gleennia T., born: 1 February 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003762494
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Piela, Suzanne, born: 7 December 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003125255
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pillsbury, Kathleen McNary, born: 23 February 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 004561682
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pillsbury, Mark Lyndon, born: 30 August 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 004573852
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Prager, Alexandra Tremper, born: 24 July 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003792841
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Prager, Richard G., born: 20 November 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 002062867
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Prager, Sarah M., born: 7 August 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 003433237
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Reed, Catherine Ann, born: 6 May 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 004877847
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Reed, Daniel Edward, born: 18 January 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 004874074
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Reny, Timothy Guy, born: 17 February 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 004814183
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rogers, Sarah K., born: 14 July 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003473265
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Schmidt, Sheri Lynn, born: 17 January 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003905154
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sheldon, David Peter, born: 10 September 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004162850
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Smith, Ryan, born: 23 July 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004987785
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Speers, Eleanor S., born: 16 March 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004537718
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Speers, Elizabeth C., born: 12 August 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 003792850
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Speers, Thomas Guthrie, born: 23 June 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 003763480
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Temper-Prager, Beverly T., born: 4 February 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002055810
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Tremper-Prager, Beverly, born: 4 February 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 003841632
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Tremper-Prager, Beverly T., born: 4 February 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002055810
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Vitali, Mark V., born: 24 March 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003512820
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Walker, Donna M., born: 8 February 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 002057428
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Wheeler, Amy Lawrence, born: 12 July 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004678722
230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Young, Chris R., born: 30 January 1961, Republican, Voter ID 000386771
231 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sheldon, Julia M., born: 16 December 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003162380
270 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Angers, Michele T., born: 8 July 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002050233
270 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gaffey, Christopher, born: 25 February 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004226532
270 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gaffey, Thomas E., born: 10 June 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 002060013
270 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gaffey, Timothy Michael, born: 12 June 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004433204
276 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rose, James W., born: 18 April 1966, Republican, Voter ID 003015962
276 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rose, Karen Ann, born: 24 May 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003170974
277 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Dennett, Jade Elizabeth, born: 17 April 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004984767
277 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Schiller, Mindy, born: 12 July 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004841782
288 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cahir, Saird E., born: 18 January 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051042
288 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lewis, Debra J., born: 16 June 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002054242
288 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lewis, Deirdre J., born: 10 May 1972, Republican, Voter ID 002049446
288 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Muller, Carl R., born: 3 February 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062233
291 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Brennan, Douglas George, born: 19 October 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001478859
291 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Brennan, Jeannette Mary, born: 22 May 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000450415
291 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Brennan, Mason Douglas, born: 26 August 1997, Republican, Voter ID 004511192
291 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Granger, Everett R., born: 31 January 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002060331
291 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Granger, Theresa A., born: 6 January 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052934
291 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Silva, Andrew David, born: 22 July 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003466165
292 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Harris, Candace L., born: 22 April 1979, Republican, Voter ID 004166507
292 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Harris, Harold Niles, born: 29 July 1975, Republican, Voter ID 004539441
292 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nowlin, Amber M., born: 7 June 1983, Republican, Voter ID 004730819
295 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Benjamin, Anita S., born: 6 October 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003896535
295 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Benjamin, Daniel, born: 14 May 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003896529
295 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Benjamin, Karina M., born: 23 October 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 004844173
298 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Kuszaj, Mary P., born: 19 November 1920, Republican, Voter ID 002054063
300 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Aslanzadeh, Aryana, born: 27 December 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004517322
300 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Aslanzadeh, Farah Joyce, born: 10 September 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004336317
300 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Aslanzadeh, Jaber, born: 24 October 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002058066
301 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Hussain, Sadia A., born: 28 December 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003715844
301 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Hussain, Syed Amer, born: 8 February 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 001982262
301 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Hussain, Syed Faizan, born: 9 May 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004863745
301 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Khan, Muhammad Shamim, born: 22 November 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004591277
301 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nam, Kijae, born: 31 October 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004036346
301 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nam, Rachel Yeajin, born: 5 August 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004054477
301 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nam, Yeain, born: 1 April 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004036345
301 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nam, Youngme, born: 8 June 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 004036348
304 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ouellette, Barbara Emily, born: 15 February 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055574
304 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ouellette, Ronald` L., born: 11 December 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003728134
304 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pecorino, Barbara E., born: 15 February 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 002055574
304 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pecorino, Julian C., born: 19 April 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062674
305 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Frazer, Andrew W., born: 22 June 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002059971
305 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Frazer, Nancy A., born: 24 March 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002806665
305 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ramos, Joshua Marcelo, born: 6 January 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004212085
305 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ramos, Rachel Ann, born: 20 February 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003799571
306 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lucca-Speiser, Mary, born: 8 April 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002064702
306 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Speiser, William A., born: 17 January 1943, Republican, Voter ID 002063762
311 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Leavey, Mary K., born: 28 February 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 002049372
316 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Kane, Shannon Marie, born: 8 February 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004838870
316 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Kingston, Scott Matthew, born: 13 February 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004862888
316 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rutland, Deborah A., born: 25 June 1970, Republican, Voter ID 002056251
316 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rutland, Glenn R., born: 11 January 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002063251
320 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Johnson, Miriam T., born: 21 June 1949, Republican, Voter ID 000431183
322 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lingenheld, Sarah, born: 12 November 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 000509893
322 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Palazzo, Jeffrey S., born: 12 March 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002789384
322 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Palazzo, Jessica, born: 12 February 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052935
326 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Imse, Andrew E., born: 25 May 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060863
326 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Imse, Jacqueline Aileen, born: 27 July 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003785579
326 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Imse, Jesse A., born: 20 June 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 004094244
326 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Imse, Leslie A., born: 7 April 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053494
331 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gabrielle, Franca, born: 19 August 1939, Republican, Voter ID 002049026
331 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gabrielle, Fred, born: 11 July 1933, Republican, Voter ID 002060008
332 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Oliver, James D., born: 9 June 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062477
332 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Oliver, Laura L., born: 15 January 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055357
336 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bredice, Nicholas Mark, born: 18 January 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004415577
348 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Deeley, Allegra Ann, born: 25 February 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004633165
348 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Deeley, Margaret M., born: 30 November 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002051791
348 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Deeley, Paxton Shawn, born: 26 January 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004235265
348 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Deeley, Shawn R., born: 19 March 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002059331
354 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Dalton, Jill Louise, born: 14 February 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 004821079
354 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Williard, Lester R., born: 13 February 1925, Republican, Voter ID 002064495
355 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Desrochers, Dennis R., born: 21 July 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002059397
355 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Desrochers, Sheryl K., born: 25 November 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 002051870
357 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Tucker, Christina J., born: 6 April 1974, Republican, Voter ID 004959779
357 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Tucker, Gregory G., born: 19 September 1973, Republican, Voter ID 002008359
358 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Esthus, Colby A., born: 6 March 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004043461
358 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Esthus, Gregory W., born: 16 June 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059717
358 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Esthus, Marguerite P., born: 14 January 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052232
359 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Dziedzic, Eric D., born: 22 August 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003572583
359 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Dziedzic, Jacqueline Yvonne, born: 4 March 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002802186
359 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Flaherty, Micael James, born: 24 October 1971, Republican, Voter ID 004228635
359 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Grady, Lorry M., born: 26 December 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002350939
359 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Grady, Michael O., born: 12 September 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002345536
359 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Vaughan, Brittany, born: 1 August 1975, Republican, Voter ID 004225962
361 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Howard, David L., born: 11 September 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002060791
361 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Howard, Geraldine M., born: 12 February 1944, Republican, Voter ID 002053427
364 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Fine, Alan, born: 21 May 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049000
364 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Fine, Erica D., born: 2 July 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004264648
364 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Fine, Jessica Beth, born: 20 June 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004159645
368 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Raufeisen, Doris Q., born: 25 September 1926, Democratic, Voter ID 002055921
372 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Parent, Angela D., born: 30 August 1940, Republican, Voter ID 002055497
372 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Parent, Jeanpierre N., born: 2 February 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 002062613
376 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bredice, Callahan E., born: 4 June 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004691271
376 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bredice, Eileen P., born: 26 June 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002050827
376 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bredice, Mark D., born: 24 March 1967, Republican, Voter ID 002058518
376 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Duclos, Matthew Charles, born: 17 June 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003922465
380 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Darroux-Weyer, Btrina, born: 24 August 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003361031
380 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ferrando, Ashley, born: 26 January 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003684505
380 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ferrando, Robert R., born: 18 February 1987, Republican, Voter ID 004552471
380 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Robles, Leta Smothers, born: 1 June 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004424579
382 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Podrasky, Roseann J., born: 10 January 1935, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055742
382 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Podrasky, William J., born: 23 October 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062811
388 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pereira, Gloria M., born: 23 November 1936, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055600
388 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Perry, Robert, born: 8 April 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002062722
390 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Parr, Cheri A., born: 19 April 1971, Republican, Voter ID 003511159
390 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Parr, Marc A., born: 29 September 1966, Republican, Voter ID 003036095
391 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bacewicz, Brian A., born: 10 July 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002058092
391 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bacewicz, Carrie E., born: 3 November 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003720076
391 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bacewicz, David A., born: 29 August 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004020965
391 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bacewicz, William George, born: 17 May 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004894149
392 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Wong, Douglas H., born: 6 May 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004679005
392 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Wong, Xenia, born: 6 May 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003810597
395 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Epstein, Michael William, born: 16 April 1970, Republican, Voter ID 003080719
395 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Grabinsky, Loren M., born: 19 May 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002052904
395 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Grabinsky, Lori J., born: 30 March 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052905
396 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Salvatore, Kevin C., born: 23 October 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 000432682
397 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Tighe, Colleen T., born: 19 March 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 002057156
397 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Tighe, Kara Elizabeth, born: 29 November 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004605450
397 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Tighe, Megan M., born: 4 May 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004210314
397 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Tighe, Thomas J., born: 26 November 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002064086
398 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cody, Christopher C., born: 3 May 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002059012
398 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cody, Lisa M., born: 5 February 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051412
398 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cody, Nicholas R., born: 14 April 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004984882
399 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Malette, Richard J., born: 25 February 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061645
399 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Malette, Wendy J., born: 21 May 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054447
399 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Shapiro, Adam M., born: 22 January 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003228430
401 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Orletzkiy, Elizabeth A., born: 30 May 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002055385
401 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Orletzkiy, Peter, born: 3 October 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002062509
402 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Raftery, Ann Marie, born: 4 May 1940, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055892
403 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gallant, Kenneth J., born: 17 May 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 002060044
403 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gallant, Matthew K., born: 9 July 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003492473
403 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gallant, Michele A., born: 17 May 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002052606
404 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Graml, Ganiford C., born: 19 December 1932, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060327
404 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Graml, Jane H., born: 7 January 1940, Democratic, Voter ID 002052925
405 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Erling, Pamela J., born: 21 September 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002048980
407 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, McClain, Lydia M., born: 2 October 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 004486269
407 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sorenson, Andrew, born: 13 August 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004062593
407 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Stoltzfus, Jon David, born: 23 September 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004340111
408 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ahmed, Medhat A., born: 12 January 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 004616050
408 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Czerepak, Alice E., born: 25 February 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 003612965
409 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Kaminsky, Svetlana, born: 29 May 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053717
409 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Kaminsky, Vladislav, born: 11 February 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001983716
411 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Dipace, Charles E., born: 11 April 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003602268
411 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Dipace, Patricia, born: 19 February 1935, Democratic, Voter ID 002051915
412 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cianci, Eric J., born: 20 June 1975, Republican, Voter ID 000984283
412 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cianci, Rebecca L., born: 20 July 1982, Republican, Voter ID 004412702
412 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Kennedy, Michele M., born: 8 September 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 002053834
415 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Mari, Claudia C., born: 1 March 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004650056
415 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Schofield, Timothy J., born: 21 March 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004716458
416 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Hodge, Ashley E., born: 30 November 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 003467532
416 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Hodge, Justin Lionel-Shaw, born: 2 March 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003957590
416 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Hodge, Nancy, born: 17 April 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002053350
416 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Hodge, Robert M., born: 22 August 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 002060704
416 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lopez, Carlos, born: 19 August 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004982339
417 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gatmaitan, Jacob Nathan, born: 10 September 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004691775
417 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gatmaitan, Jonathan E., born: 25 September 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004600523
417 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gatmaitan, Regina F., born: 5 March 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004600520
419 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Aldrich, Georgia Ann, born: 24 May 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 004799072
419 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gorecki, Patricia R., born: 26 August 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002052876
420 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sweeney, David Owen, born: 16 July 1977, Republican, Voter ID 000020310
420 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sweeney, Laura K., born: 19 July 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004285460
420 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Wing, Donald Robert, born: 16 February 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004003857
420 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Wing, Susan J., born: 18 June 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057688
421 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Harris, David A., born: 10 October 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002060533
421 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Harris, Mabel C., born: 19 December 1927, Republican, Voter ID 002053155
422 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cushman, Jill H., born: 15 January 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 003191415
422 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cushman, Thomas E., born: 6 March 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 000180504
425 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Myers, Megan K., born: 13 February 1979, Republican, Voter ID 003359281
425 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Myers, Todd M., born: 22 December 1976, Republican, Voter ID 002062289
426 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rosenberg, Brian J., born: 19 September 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003564951
426 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rosenberg, Fiona K., born: 24 September 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056138
428 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Berry, Walter E., born: 22 May 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 002058324
428 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gorden, Matthew R., born: 1 February 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003530781
430 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nolan, Jaclyn M., born: 27 May 1983, Republican, Voter ID 003917336
430 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nolan, Michael P., born: 24 August 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003062434
431 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pepper, David A., born: 9 April 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062694
431 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pepper, Julie A., born: 12 February 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 002055597
431 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Tammaro, Lindsey Jean, born: 1 February 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003838488
434 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Warner, Elinor H., born: 14 October 1927, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057470
437 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Chaterji, Krishna, born: 27 October 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002051274
437 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Chaterji, Ranjana, born: 29 October 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 002051275
437 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Chaterji, Ranjit, born: 10 October 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002058896
437 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Chaterji, Rinku, born: 25 February 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003394838
441 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rucci, Christopher Mark, born: 20 November 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 000798293
441 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rucci, Deborah Arcaina, born: 24 October 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 003608607
441 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sumner, Amy Reeves, born: 3 August 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002056990
441 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sumner, Anthony W., born: 1 December 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063926
441 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sumner, Emily J., born: 4 January 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003782746
444 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Carpino, Cathy Anne, born: 27 December 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 001966814
444 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Christopher, James R., born: 26 August 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001967837
452 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, McDonald, John C., born: 8 April 1940, Republican, Voter ID 002061867
452 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, McDonald, Judith D., born: 29 September 1940, Republican, Voter ID 002054672
456 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gantkin, Jeffrey T., born: 31 May 1970, Republican, Voter ID 004631969
456 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nassau, Ava E., born: 20 April 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004815441
456 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nassau, David S., born: 5 February 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003556940
456 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nassau, Maria E., born: 14 September 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003556896
468 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Biegel, Diane, born: 12 August 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050638
468 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pachter, Eve Sarah, born: 16 May 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 003698766
468 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pachter, Joel S., born: 25 January 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062550
469 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Czarneski, Dawna, born: 30 September 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004738718
469 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Czarneski, William V., born: 12 February 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004004222
471 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Mundt, Abigail Rose, born: 20 September 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004895843
471 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Mundt, John F., born: 1 April 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002062242
471 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Mundt, John Francis, born: 1 September 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004636873
471 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Mundt, Joyce A., born: 26 February 1966, Republican, Voter ID 002055109
473 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lane, Clifford B., born: 5 April 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002049296
473 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lane, Wallace G., born: 13 May 1921, Republican, Voter ID 002049299
475 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sagarino, Clariza R., born: 15 May 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002348246
475 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sagarino, Robert L., born: 17 January 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 004319564
475 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Sagarino, Robert L., born: 17 January 1964, Republican, Voter ID 004516115
477 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Jackson, Christopher M., born: 11 January 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000451973
477 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Jackson, Nicole Suzanne, born: 14 March 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 003584179
480 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rogach, Irina Mikhailovna, born: 10 January 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 003689748
480 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Rogach, Yuriy A., born: 5 September 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 002063121
482 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lawas, Ernest F., born: 21 July 1969, Republican, Voter ID 003602972
482 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Simm, Nancy L., born: 13 September 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049929
484 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bowe, James Peter, born: 2 December 1960, Republican, Voter ID 003973411
484 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Bowe, Sharon M., born: 20 September 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003973511
484 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Marino, Cathy M., born: 22 December 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002054496
484 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Marino, Nicolas F., born: 9 August 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003839400
485 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Moller, Matthew C., born: 14 March 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000421076
487 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pawlik, Christine D., born: 19 August 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002055547
487 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pawlik, Justin J., born: 7 October 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003549242
487 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pawlik, Lisa Elizabeth, born: 10 August 1985, Republican, Voter ID 002055548
488 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Safft, Kenneth B., born: 17 May 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063287
488 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Safft, Lisa A., born: 21 March 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056285
488 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Safft, Matthew Forbes, born: 17 September 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004647551
489 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Schultz, Kathleen M., born: 26 June 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 002056437
489 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Schultz, Kelsey Mary, born: 5 June 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004050357
489 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Schultz, Lindsay F., born: 26 June 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003680124
489 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Schultz, William T., born: 18 November 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063426
491 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Hanrahan-Oxton, Tara A., born: 8 August 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003956940
491 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Nattrass, Robert R., born: 23 June 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062309
491 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Oxton, Dylan William, born: 29 November 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004667032
491 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Oxton, Ryan John, born: 20 October 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004795495
492 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Eustace, Todd William, born: 30 March 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004791690
493 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Hirschthal, Aundra Sue, born: 9 June 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 001981308
493 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Jevnik, Martha S., born: 19 December 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002053604
495 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Middleton, Allison L., born: 25 July 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004079207
499 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Dionne, Heather Lynn, born: 6 January 1984, Republican, Voter ID 003930706
499 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Dionne, Jason Paul, born: 2 August 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003930696
499 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gugliotti, Tonia J., born: 27 August 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053022
501 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Prusaczyk, Arkadiusz, born: 14 July 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004065248
501 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Taricani, Leslie A., born: 27 May 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003602282
501 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Taricani, Thomas Anthony, born: 31 May 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003603680
503 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Enxuto, Tania M., born: 12 April 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004268591
505 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Brignole, Kevin F., born: 2 June 1987, Republican, Voter ID 003649091
505 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Cadarette, Branden, born: 10 September 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004658201
505 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Thomas, Brandy Natasha, born: 11 December 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003568495
507 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Odland, Katherine J., born: 26 June 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003573219
507 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Odland, Shawn Oliver, born: 10 February 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003718994
507 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Odland, Steve, born: 19 April 1949, Republican, Voter ID 002062451
507 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Odland, Thomas P., born: 3 August 1990, Republican, Voter ID 003938669
509 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Khoshneviss, Hannah M., born: 19 August 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004621023
509 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Khoshneviss, Kathleen Turmelle, born: 19 July 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002033204
509 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Khoshneviss, Mosen, born: 30 March 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003940672
509 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Khoshneviss, Ryan Emad, born: 28 July 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004907003
509 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Turmelle, Margaret G., born: 8 June 1931, Democratic, Voter ID 002019300
515 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Davis, Alan S., born: 5 August 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004010608
515 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Davis, Brian W., born: 20 July 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003710726
515 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Davis, Debra R., born: 11 March 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002051756
515 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Davis, Jeremy Raymond, born: 5 August 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 004010657
515 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Davis, William R., born: 22 November 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002059309
515 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Motyl, Todd A., born: 5 July 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 003578368
519 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lindauer, Margaret G., born: 5 May 1927, Republican, Voter ID 002054260
521 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lemay, Gail N., born: 20 May 1942, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003752764
521 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Lemay, Harold T., born: 14 December 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003775961
521 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Schwartz, Devon R., born: 23 March 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004669602
521 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Valenti, James Corwin, born: 24 January 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004778094
523 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ronan, Leslie R., born: 2 November 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002049858
523 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ronan, Russell M., born: 8 September 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004473055
523 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Ronan, Susan Elaine, born: 7 March 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004183861
531 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Albreski, Douglas A., born: 13 March 1963, Republican, Voter ID 000328955
533 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Anderson, Kathryn Colleen, born: 5 February 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003892278
533 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pieterse, Andrew J., born: 24 February 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004666730
533 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Pieterse, Renee Lynn, born: 21 July 1987, Republican, Voter ID 004427319
535 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Gosselin, John D., born: 7 June 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060290
537 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Goldman, Howard E., born: 26 December 1942, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003861624
221 A Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Greenlaw, Thompson T., born: 31 March 1955, Republican, Voter ID 004373471
4 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Morkan, Barbara F., born: 17 February 1932, Republican, Voter ID 002055040
6 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Duford, Kathleen F., born: 3 July 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 003729991
6 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Duford, Leah M., born: 17 March 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004367173
6 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Duford, Michael A., born: 2 November 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 003729992
6 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Reid, Michelle R., born: 25 November 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 002798536
6 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Reid, Richard Nathaniel, born: 30 December 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003734989
7 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Lombard, Melissa Ann, born: 8 September 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004838270
7 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Lombard, Richard Francis, born: 20 December 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004870618
7 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Mitsch, Caryl J., born: 28 December 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002049681
7 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Mitsch, James M., born: 11 November 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002062105
7 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Mitsch, Marybeth Justine, born: 15 July 1988, Republican, Voter ID 004098544
7 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Mitsch, Maureen C., born: 15 January 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004085661
8 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Papa, Christopher P., born: 31 December 1979, Republican, Voter ID 004455386
8 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Papa, Sara E., born: 25 September 1979, Republican, Voter ID 003936060
8 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Pitcher, Christopher William, born: 3 May 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004202115
8 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Pitcher, Kerry S., born: 10 June 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049787
8 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Pitcher, Matthew Ellsworth, born: 22 November 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004209911
8 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Pitcher, Michael L., born: 31 December 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049788
8 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Pitcher, Shannon M., born: 26 October 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003505767
9 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Dreher, Frank A., born: 26 October 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002059546
9 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Dreher, Frank Mann, born: 3 July 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004117869
9 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Dreher, Jennifer M., born: 23 December 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002052015
9 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Dreher, Philip Atwood, born: 22 January 1990, Republican, Voter ID 003838836
10 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Prentiss, Jill Cameron, born: 8 July 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 004003447
11 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Skottegaard, Rodney Nicolas, born: 3 January 1967, Republican, Voter ID 003900622
12 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Edwards, John W., born: 24 March 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002059642
12 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Edwards, Lisa A., born: 26 January 1968, Republican, Voter ID 002052132
15 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Biamonte, Mark Robert, born: 5 November 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003382637
15 Buttonwood Drive, Simsbury, Biamonte, Maureen Ann, born: 9 November 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003899635
3 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Dale, Elaine R., born: 31 March 1931, Democratic, Voter ID 002051697
3 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Dale, Geoffrey H., born: 17 November 1932, Republican, Voter ID 002059255
5 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Miller, Nancy E., born: 28 July 1936, Republican, Voter ID 002054913
5 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Miller, Page D., born: 28 July 1936, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054914
5 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Wagner, Lori A., born: 27 October 1974, Republican, Voter ID 003269735
5 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Wagner, Robert John, born: 12 April 1972, Republican, Voter ID 000432623
6 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Porter, Casey B., born: 16 May 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004182872
6 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Porter, Roxane M., born: 4 August 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055779
6 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Porter, Scott D., born: 3 June 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002062842
7 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Corp, Neil John, born: 27 August 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 004637657
7 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Letson, Katrina N., born: 25 June 1979, Republican, Voter ID 004070276
7 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Letson, Michael J., born: 24 March 1979, Republican, Voter ID 002061483
7 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Sherman, Jessica Ellen, born: 9 May 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 004715400
8 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Conroy, Diane E., born: 11 August 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003514227
8 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Conroy, Michael C., born: 5 July 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003164723
8 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Strolis, Megan Shea, born: 5 October 1976, Republican, Voter ID 004322211
8 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Strolis, Richard J., born: 2 December 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002047482
9 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Bolzan, Deborah D., born: 29 October 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 003423071
9 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Dickins, Oliver B., born: 10 July 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 002059420
9 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Dinello, Philip G., born: 26 April 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004443800
11 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Richardson, James C., born: 21 June 1944, Republican, Voter ID 002063031
11 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Richardson, Molly K., born: 29 December 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002056008
12 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Wittmer, Matthew D., born: 8 June 1970, Republican, Voter ID 002064529
15 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Bartholomew, Adam, born: 22 January 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004673500
15 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Bartholomew, Benjamin C., born: 6 December 1989, Libertarian, Voter ID 003986183
15 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Bartholomew, Kathryn Cleo, born: 29 April 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004222799
15 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Bartholomew, Robin C., born: 5 March 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050445
15 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Bartholomew, Stephen W., born: 10 February 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002058193
16 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Daly, Brian T., born: 27 July 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 002059260
16 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Daly, Kevin P., born: 22 December 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 002059263
16 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Daly, Patrick D., born: 28 February 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 002059266
16 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Daly, Susan L., born: 4 October 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002051710
17 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Dalton, Emily E., born: 15 January 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004970004
17 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Dalton, Laura Tice, born: 20 August 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003871742
17 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Dalton, Randolph A., born: 30 August 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002048918
17 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Dalton, Susan T., born: 2 September 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002048919
18 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Theodoratos, Jennifer, born: 3 April 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003915496
18 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Theodoratos, Paul E., born: 25 February 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004898350
19 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Hedden, Penelope M., born: 20 August 1939, Republican, Voter ID 002053236
19 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Hedden, William W., born: 7 July 1934, Republican, Voter ID 002060612
19 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Richardson, Christopher A., born: 28 August 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004779720
19 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Richardson, Lola N., born: 17 June 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004779869
20 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Gunn, Adam, born: 24 March 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004147782
20 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Gunn, Elizabeth H., born: 18 December 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002049111
20 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Gunn, John R., born: 29 December 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049110
20 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Gunn, Maryanne, born: 31 July 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004521333
20 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Gunn, Paul David, born: 1 August 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004011206
20 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Hudson, Leigh M., born: 3 November 1931, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000842591
20 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Hudson, Rodney H., born: 16 April 1931, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000842592
21 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Demusz, Ashley D., born: 10 July 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003688633
21 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Demusz, Briana Lynn, born: 14 February 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003838480
21 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Demusz, Christine D., born: 29 May 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051842
21 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Demusz, Dariusz, born: 27 October 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002059374
23 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Burch, Allison W., born: 18 March 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004377861
23 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Burch, Allison Wilcox, born: 18 March 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057617
23 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Burch, Scott Michael, born: 9 June 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003225810
23 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Wilcox, Allison Lee, born: 18 March 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057617
24 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Martinelli, Deena A., born: 17 July 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003470523
24 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Martinelli, Lois A., born: 25 July 1935, Republican, Voter ID 002054542
24 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Wassik, Dara D., born: 9 April 1962, Republican, Voter ID 000419230
25 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Fein, Alan, born: 12 February 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002059798
25 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Fein, Marlene L., born: 24 September 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002052315
26 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Coe, Jonathan D., born: 31 July 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 000546053
26 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Coe, Leah B., born: 15 January 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 000543504
26 Canaan Way, Simsbury, Coe, Olivia Anne, born: 14 July 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004611721
1 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Williams, James Kenneth, born: 28 June 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004068246
1 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Williams, Kenneth E., born: 28 July 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002064488
1 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Williams, Stephanie S., born: 22 May 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004209855
1 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Williams, Susan J., born: 24 June 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002057662
2 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Croke, Carolyn A., born: 22 September 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004558401
2 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Croke, Charles E., born: 3 August 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004442335
2 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Croke, David Edward, born: 9 August 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002048902
2 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Croke, Suzanne A., born: 1 December 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002048903
3 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Wagner, Acacia, born: 2 January 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004016466
3 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Wagner, Darryl G., born: 6 November 1962, Republican, Voter ID 003256782
3 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Wagner, Karen L., born: 19 December 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002050035
3 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Wagner, Shaina Louise, born: 14 November 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004205709
4 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Abrams, Amanda Christine, born: 3 January 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004064545
4 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Abrams, Doris B., born: 18 July 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050106
4 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Abrams, Lindsay Alexandra, born: 20 May 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004209862
4 Candlewood Court, Simsbury, Abrams, Richard T., born: 26 August 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057923
1 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, McDonough, Guy M., born: 18 November 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002061877
1 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Raymond, Denise M., born: 27 January 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004422119
1 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Raymond, Mark R., born: 18 June 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003199223
2 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Connolly, Janet P., born: 13 January 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051495
2 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Connolly, John P., born: 27 November 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003700344
2 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Connolly, Mark V., born: 3 January 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002059083
2 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Connolly, Tara E., born: 16 August 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004053832
3 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Butler, Linda A., born: 5 August 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051016
3 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Butler, Mark T., born: 13 July 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003565219
3 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Butler, Thomas M., born: 11 March 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058685
4 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Carboneau, Cheryl A., born: 29 March 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003741901
4 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Carty, Alexandra Ann, born: 27 February 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004848746
4 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Carty, John L., born: 4 October 1966, Republican, Voter ID 002051170
4 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Carty, John Laurence, born: 25 November 1997, Independent, Voter ID 004905324
5 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Murphy, Dennis, born: 5 June 1964, Republican, Voter ID 004235823
5 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Murphy, Susan Frances, born: 20 February 1965, Republican, Voter ID 004235825
7 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Schneider, Barbara B., born: 29 July 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056409
7 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Schneider, Bruce A., born: 17 February 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063401
7 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Schneider, Erik R., born: 11 September 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063402
7 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Schneider, William Bird, born: 30 December 1986, Republican, Voter ID 003858564
8 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Trimble, James E., born: 29 October 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002064142
8 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Trimble, Scott S., born: 4 April 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 003870079
8 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Trimble, Susan K., born: 20 December 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002057232
9 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Sarkis, Emily E., born: 19 June 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 003840551
9 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Sarkis, Paul A., born: 19 April 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003871019
9 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Vo, Daniel Phan, born: 26 October 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 004959812
9 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Vo, Lauren M., born: 20 April 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004422549
10 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Palmbach, David J., born: 14 October 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004744170
10 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Palmbach, Gina D., born: 5 August 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049742
10 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Palmbach, Joshua Mark, born: 26 January 1989, Republican, Voter ID 003883314
10 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Palmbach, Lauren Eugenia, born: 7 May 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004294709
10 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Palmbach, Timothy M., born: 16 August 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049743
11 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Fox, Andrew R., born: 18 August 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059948
11 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Fox, Jane A., born: 31 January 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002052498
11 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Fox, John R., born: 30 September 1948, Republican, Voter ID 002059953
11 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Fox, Lauren Elizabeth, born: 20 November 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003492592
12 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Alesio, Naomi, born: 26 September 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003861665
12 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Alesio, Robert J., born: 5 February 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000205961
14 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Ireland, Sharon P., born: 4 August 1949, Republican, Voter ID 004226944
14 Cardinal Road, Simsbury, Ireland, Thomas Coleman, born: 27 May 1947, Republican, Voter ID 004291912
3 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Indino, Nick M., born: 4 January 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003663227
3 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Rizo, Marnie A., born: 25 January 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004138326
3 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Roche-Moss, Amy E., born: 14 July 1986, Independent, Voter ID 004078320
3 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Tolhurst, George Harry, born: 13 March 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 004002957
4 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Burger, Phyllis V., born: 30 August 1923, Democratic, Voter ID 002050956
5 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Monahan, Susan Marie, born: 16 June 1967, Republican, Voter ID 000454213
6 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Mooar, Rebecca H., born: 16 March 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004567331
6 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Wheeler, Julia T., born: 4 April 1930, Republican, Voter ID 002057575
6 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Wheeler, Lloyd A., born: 23 July 1928, Republican, Voter ID 002064433
7 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Considine, Cassidy Jona, born: 27 May 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004372104
7 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Dagross, David M., born: 8 February 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 004768571
8 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Forster, Margaret M., born: 26 October 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002681936
8 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Hines, Jennifer B., born: 5 August 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 000662528
8 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Hines, Norman C., born: 31 August 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003582656
9 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Leblanc, John W., born: 25 April 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003871897
9 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Paul, Kathryn, born: 28 May 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 000678915
10 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Haas, George P., born: 19 December 1937, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001979675
10 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Sears, Julie Elizabeth, born: 14 February 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003962973
11 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Northrup, Edward J., born: 10 May 1965, Republican, Voter ID 004974283
11 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Victorick, Deborah Ann, born: 10 July 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000411361
12 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Aures, Keane E., born: 17 February 1980, Republican, Voter ID 003380273
12 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Felton-Reid, Hilary, born: 8 July 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 003223434
12 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Obar, Heather A., born: 22 April 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 003684180
12 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Obar, Joshua J., born: 12 March 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 003684196
12 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Wade, Susannah E., born: 14 February 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 003483274
14 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Heuschkel, David G., born: 11 January 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 003021518
14 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Schumacher, Stefanie Ann, born: 27 November 1986, Republican, Voter ID 003900817
15 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Kennedy, Beverly H., born: 3 July 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002053829
16 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Shuster, Albert E., born: 25 November 1937, Republican, Voter ID 002063572
16 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Shuster, Virginia G., born: 22 October 1937, Republican, Voter ID 002056607
17 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Bompastore, Jacob Steven, born: 6 October 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003918015
17 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Casarella, Angela, born: 17 December 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003969930
17 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Lauder, Katherine Lynn, born: 28 March 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004504693
17 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Piccirillo, Rocco Anthony, born: 25 September 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003347628
18 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Vesa, Anca, born: 16 August 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057349
18 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Vesa, Andrea Sanda, born: 19 July 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 004229213
18 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Vesa, Daniel, born: 4 July 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064235
18 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Weisbrich, Lisa Maria, born: 4 April 1988, Republican, Voter ID 004549677
20 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Goulardt, Kenneth J., born: 23 September 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004648271
20 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Perry, Dorothy J., born: 5 November 1914, Democratic, Voter ID 002055621
20 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Perry, Pamela A., born: 13 December 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004648267
22 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Bergman, Robin S., born: 23 May 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 003393769
22 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Brady, Maureen H., born: 9 July 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003871763
22 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Shea, Patrick J., born: 18 August 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002003635
24 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Olson, Danielle M., born: 21 July 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 004536688
24 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Sojka, Elizabeth M., born: 2 May 1925, Republican, Voter ID 002056757
26 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Girard, Kyle R., born: 14 October 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004113869
26 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Healey, Mary T., born: 21 March 1939, Democratic, Voter ID 000631379
26 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Paganini, Mary, born: 13 June 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 003859647
28 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Jaeggi, Stephen, born: 16 July 1964, Republican, Voter ID 004744392
28 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Puttanna, Parvathi Mysore, born: 21 April 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004950698
30 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Douglas, Jean H., born: 12 March 1924, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051986
30 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Guitian, Orlando F., born: 13 August 1977, Republican, Voter ID 004215040
30 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Guitian, Rachelle L., born: 28 April 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003506664
32 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Plourde, Kathleen D., born: 22 December 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055738
34 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Maloney, Sarah L., born: 10 July 1981, Republican, Voter ID 004164781
36 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Edge, Loren V., born: 30 January 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000422723
36 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Edge, S Thomas, born: 20 May 1932, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059641
38 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Boucart, Anne, born: 23 October 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 001986531
38 Carriage Drive, Simsbury, Boueart, Anne, born: 23 October 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 004203280
4 Carson Way, Simsbury, Bloom, Justin R., born: 8 August 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003499532
4 Carson Way, Simsbury, Pappas, Deborah Hope, born: 3 March 1961, Independent, Voter ID 004934253
4 Carson Way, Simsbury, Pappas, George Peter, born: 12 July 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004931073
4 Carson Way, Simsbury, Pappas, Matthew Alexander, born: 12 June 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004931063
6 Carson Way, Simsbury, Konaktchiev, Stoyan Ilinov, born: 20 May 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003846397
9 Carson Way, Simsbury, Helicher, Andrew G., born: 24 April 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004678659
9 Carson Way, Simsbury, Helicher, Brad Adam, born: 28 February 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004833816
9 Carson Way, Simsbury, Helicher, Nancy, born: 21 November 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 004716691
10 Carson Way, Simsbury, Brady, Emily G., born: 8 February 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000677694
11 Carson Way, Simsbury, Bouabid, Jawhar, born: 12 March 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004656830
11 Carson Way, Simsbury, Smida, Ines, born: 28 May 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004658681
12 Carson Way, Simsbury, Radhakrishnan, Mallika, born: 25 February 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 002055888
12 Carson Way, Simsbury, Radhakrishnan, Radha R., born: 15 June 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002062930
13 Carson Way, Simsbury, Rich, Roxanne, born: 31 May 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002055995
13 Carson Way, Simsbury, Vicevich, Thomas, born: 7 April 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002064238
14 Carson Way, Simsbury, Proia, Meghan Donovan, born: 7 November 1984, Republican, Voter ID 004242551
15 Carson Way, Simsbury, Waldo, Christopher A., born: 16 February 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003703638
15 Carson Way, Simsbury, Waldo, Sarah Christine Gerd, born: 26 February 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 004510590
16 Carson Way, Simsbury, Phillips, Eliza Rose, born: 23 December 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004796747
18 Carson Way, Simsbury, Lane, James Timothy, born: 28 April 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061390
18 Carson Way, Simsbury, Lane, Lindsay B., born: 3 May 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004239014
18 Carson Way, Simsbury, Lane, Patricia D., born: 13 October 1954, Independent, Voter ID 000125114
19 Carson Way, Simsbury, Polo, John G., born: 11 November 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000429773
19 Carson Way, Simsbury, Polo, Roselie C., born: 30 September 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000429774
20 Carson Way, Simsbury, Feig, Kevin Paul, born: 10 September 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004599312
20 Carson Way, Simsbury, Feig, Victoria Eugenia, born: 20 October 1970, Independent, Voter ID 004601556
21 Carson Way, Simsbury, Heubner, Marion B., born: 7 November 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002053307
21 Carson Way, Simsbury, Heubner, Philip Arthur, born: 26 June 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060671
21 Carson Way, Simsbury, Mac Kinnon, Gerald F., born: 30 January 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000000728
21 Carson Way, Simsbury, Morrissette, Danielle, born: 11 January 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004613725
22 Carson Way, Simsbury, Chauvin, Dianne Caron, born: 10 February 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 004574731
22 Carson Way, Simsbury, Chauvin, Thomas Noel, born: 27 November 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003681621
23 Carson Way, Simsbury, Thayer, Elizabeth S., born: 23 August 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 000433245
23 Carson Way, Simsbury, Thayer, John O., born: 28 July 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 000433246
23 Carson Way, Simsbury, Thayer, Rachel R., born: 6 April 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003775150
24 Carson Way, Simsbury, Koon, Lisa Suzanne, born: 12 February 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003960507
24 Carson Way, Simsbury, Koon, Robert Lee, born: 17 January 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003937028
26 Carson Way, Simsbury, Steinberg, Gary A., born: 1 March 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 004596981
26 Carson Way, Simsbury, Steinberg, Marilyn F., born: 15 February 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 004596984
28 Carson Way, Simsbury, Francisco, Barbara Ann Covell, born: 3 July 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 004552164
28 Carson Way, Simsbury, Francisco, Carl, born: 3 October 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 000494432
30 Carson Way, Simsbury, Dimartino, Christopher P., born: 11 August 1979, Republican, Voter ID 003382302
30 Carson Way, Simsbury, Dimartino, Pamela Rose, born: 7 September 1978, Republican, Voter ID 003382301
31 Carson Way, Simsbury, Elmazaj, Mistokli, born: 5 April 1983, Republican, Voter ID 004998592
31 Carson Way, Simsbury, Schubert, Amicia Amy, born: 11 May 1975, Republican, Voter ID 002792380
32 Carson Way, Simsbury, Riggins, Peter K., born: 7 May 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000421079
32 Carson Way, Simsbury, Riggins, Susanne N., born: 12 April 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002050604
37 Carson Way, Simsbury, Weissberg, Eliot Mitchel, born: 27 September 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002064391
37 Carson Way, Simsbury, Weissberg, Kathleen A., born: 16 March 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002057531
38 Carson Way, Simsbury, Schultz, Robert D., born: 27 January 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002063425
38 Carson Way, Simsbury, Schultz, Sheryl L., born: 20 December 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002056439
39 Carson Way, Simsbury, Rosenblatt, Laura A., born: 22 August 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 000430914
43 Carson Way, Simsbury, Godfrey, Margaret Gay Mackinnon, born: 15 December 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 004847381
43 Carson Way, Simsbury, Godfrey, Michael Colin, born: 19 May 1940, Democratic, Voter ID 004847377
1 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Gerhan, John T., born: 29 May 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002060117
1 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Markelon, Christopher A., born: 28 June 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003459029
1 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Markelon, Daniel C., born: 17 August 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004603233
1 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Markelon, Joseph John, born: 4 September 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004948738
1 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Markelon, Laura, born: 10 July 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003439756
2 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Smolnik, Marie A., born: 28 July 1935, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056739
2 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Smolnik, Matthew W., born: 16 June 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004545082
4 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Henderson, Curtis P., born: 16 August 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 002060638
4 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Henderson, Lori Ann, born: 29 November 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002053268
4 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Henderson, Sean, born: 12 July 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004921827
6 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Reynolds, Cynthia Victoria, born: 9 January 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004185955
6 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Reynolds, Gregory Stephen, born: 23 February 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 003416456
6 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Taylor, Barbara G., born: 3 July 1932, Democratic, Voter ID 002057078
9 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Flanagan, Nancy W., born: 6 December 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052423
9 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Gemme, Chelsea Thomas, born: 31 March 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004141466
9 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Gemme, Curtis R., born: 24 May 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060101
9 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Gemme, Janet T., born: 29 August 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 002052684
9 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Gemme, Mackenzie M., born: 4 September 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004467271
10 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Hill, Danielle Renee, born: 27 June 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 004535745
10 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Hill, Spencer Albert, born: 30 November 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003773690
10 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Lane, Florence P., born: 7 July 1925, Republican, Voter ID 002049297
11 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Lyons, Mary Donna, born: 19 June 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 002049575
11 Carver Circle, Simsbury, McNulty, Jean M., born: 8 March 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 004644510
12 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Gaines, Elizabeth Ackerman, born: 18 November 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 002049030
12 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Gaines, Margaret P., born: 16 February 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 002052588
12 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Gaines, Sarah L., born: 17 December 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 002700261
12 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Potter, Amy L., born: 30 August 1924, Democratic, Voter ID 002055789
13 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Mesick, Richard, born: 16 July 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003818768
13 Carver Circle, Simsbury, O'Connor, Heather A., born: 22 October 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 002592138
14 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Riley, Donald G., born: 4 February 1925, Republican, Voter ID 002063051
14 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Riley, Joan H., born: 16 May 1931, Republican, Voter ID 002056017
15 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Franco, Deborah J., born: 18 May 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 002052510
17 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Walker, Benjamin J., born: 11 November 1925, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064290
23 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Schwerzmann, Eric R., born: 28 April 1978, Republican, Voter ID 003780421
23 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Schwerzmann, Erin C., born: 16 April 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003742732
25 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Wells, Malorie, born: 5 September 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004778924
25 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Wells, Thomas, born: 18 June 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004691408
27 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Hendryx, Nancy P., born: 24 May 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053272
27 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Mannion, Elizabeth L., born: 25 September 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 003065177
27 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Mannion, Rachael Suzanne, born: 16 January 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004040518
27 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Saroff, Rahel K., born: 11 March 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003596706
27 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Wilson, Bonnie Lee, born: 3 June 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002055790
28 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Doney, Paula J., born: 24 January 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 002051954
28 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Doney, Ricky E., born: 25 December 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059482
29 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Cooney, Mary J., born: 17 January 1919, Republican, Voter ID 002051527
29 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Loveland, Rachael Elizabeth, born: 10 July 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003677024
30 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Broderick, Matthew C., born: 16 August 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 001965150
30 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Churchill, Robert H., born: 28 June 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 002058946
30 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Pardoe, Rebecca J., born: 6 October 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 002055495
31 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Fecso, David Louis, born: 18 November 1969, Republican, Voter ID 000890560
31 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Fecso, Robin Beth, born: 28 December 1977, Libertarian, Voter ID 000613480
33 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Brittell, Diane M., born: 3 January 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002050868
33 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Brittell, Kateri J., born: 11 November 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003962229
33 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Brittell, Trevor R., born: 8 September 1978, Republican, Voter ID 002058549
34 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Gallegos, Elizabeth Van Loon, born: 28 October 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 004238728
34 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Gallegos, Leonardo, born: 18 November 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004844204
34 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Van Loon, Elizabeth C., born: 16 April 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002057318
34 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Van Loon, Elizabeth M., born: 28 October 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 004238728
34 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Van Loon, Jacob M., born: 24 March 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004191184
34 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Van Loon, Peter A., born: 25 April 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002064210
37 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Desmarais, David C., born: 19 January 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002770747
37 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Driscoll, Carol L., born: 28 April 1949, Republican, Voter ID 002052021
37 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Driscoll, Richard F., born: 26 July 1945, Republican, Voter ID 002059551
37 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Gessford, Judith B., born: 20 January 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002052712
38 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Damato, George H., born: 25 February 1929, Republican, Voter ID 002059268
38 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Murphy, Sean P., born: 11 March 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 004124299
39 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Dillman, Harry L., born: 12 January 1928, Republican, Voter ID 002059435
39 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Mc Farland, Caroline, born: 5 September 1948, Republican, Voter ID 002054687
41 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Mac Vicar, Virginia M., born: 16 October 1939, Republican, Voter ID 002049600
42 Carver Circle, Simsbury, La Valla, Adam, born: 29 May 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 004429707
42 Carver Circle, Simsbury, La Valla, Jason J., born: 17 December 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003856233
42 Carver Circle, Simsbury, La Valla, Joseph E., born: 5 March 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002049342
42 Carver Circle, Simsbury, La Valla, Katherine M., born: 11 May 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002054142
43 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Maggiore, Kathryn E., born: 4 August 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003127773
43 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Maggiore, Michael J., born: 20 June 1984, Republican, Voter ID 004021739
45 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Roberts, Ellen K., born: 14 February 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 003543886
45 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Roberts, Scott R., born: 25 April 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 000102681
46 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Colantonio, Christian Ryan, born: 26 April 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003839436
46 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Colantonio, Courtland Wood, born: 7 August 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003459045
46 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Colantonio, Donald F., born: 9 April 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 002059033
46 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Colantonio, Donald Francis, born: 26 October 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003431273
46 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Colantonio, John A., born: 19 September 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003715760
46 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Colantonio, Paige S., born: 22 January 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 002051432
49 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Witzke, Judith Eileen, born: 11 January 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003590486
51 Carver Circle, Simsbury, St Jean, Heidi, born: 12 December 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064703
51 Carver Circle, Simsbury, St Jean, Mark M., born: 19 February 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003966621
52 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Ensle, Robert W., born: 17 February 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002059698
52 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Olarsch, Donna L., born: 8 April 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 004738940
52 Carver Circle, Simsbury, Olarsch, Jason Keith, born: 13 March 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004934255
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 116, Simsbury, Beman, Elizabeth A., born: 22 September 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003028895
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 114, Simsbury, Beman, Leonard M., born: 27 September 1942, Republican, Voter ID 000495861
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 112, Simsbury, Beyer, Carolyn, born: 18 October 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004542885
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 215, Simsbury, Blaney, Michael C., born: 31 August 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 002028324
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 105, Simsbury, Blumenfeld, Mark A., born: 6 February 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001964070
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 304, Simsbury, Canzano, Kathleen E., born: 6 October 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 004520328
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 315, Simsbury, Castro, Dorothy E., born: 31 December 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 004069229
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 109, Simsbury, Ciarcia, Christina, born: 4 March 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004072361
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 306, Simsbury, Cunliffe, Carol Ann, born: 1 December 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002823631
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 311, Simsbury, Cuthbert, Martha Kirkland, born: 29 December 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 003873110
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 304, Simsbury, Duncan, Judith L., born: 17 October 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 004520327
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 107, Simsbury, Edwards, Pauline Gingras, born: 8 February 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002795813
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 108, Simsbury, Faunce, Morgan Whitney, born: 9 June 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004813183
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 206, Simsbury, Grondin, Sarah A., born: 24 January 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003945713
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 308, Simsbury, Heckler, Erwin Mark, born: 10 July 1953, Republican, Voter ID 004522317
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 115, Simsbury, Hewins, Steven T., born: 28 April 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 004516165
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 6, Simsbury, James, Lorraine Carol, born: 21 September 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 001889542
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 312, Simsbury, Keeney, Diane Elizabeth, born: 21 August 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 004418856
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 217, Simsbury, Kehoe, Charles M., born: 16 November 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 003025602
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 212, Simsbury, Lustig, Amanda Ross, born: 1 March 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003495069
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 316, Simsbury, Miceli, Kimberly A., born: 10 May 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 003835021
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 211, Simsbury, Minichino, Cynthia Louise, born: 14 January 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 001137517
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 214, Simsbury, Mostowski, Chester P., born: 13 January 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 000391716
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 103, Simsbury, Pelletier, Thomas E., born: 21 November 1969, Republican, Voter ID 004559483
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 111, Simsbury, Smith, Gracelyn P M, born: 17 October 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004943855
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 103, Simsbury, Springer, Nancy T., born: 11 August 1957, Republican, Voter ID 003765048
100 Casterbridge Crossing Unit 115, Simsbury, Steven, Hewins T., born: 28 April 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 004516165
100 Casterbridge Crossing, Simsbury, Walkley, Marisa, born: 20 February 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004255504
100 Casterbridge Crossing, Simsbury, Williams, Taheisha Lawanda Shirley, born: 19 June 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004784253
14 Castlewood Road, Simsbury, Cross, Timothy Lane, born: 13 March 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004308256
14 Castlewood Road, Simsbury, Mandelker, Stacy R., born: 12 September 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004116133
19 Castlewood Road, Simsbury, Myslau, Dana M., born: 18 July 1958, Republican, Voter ID 004312891
24 Castlewood Road, Simsbury, Cassotto, Saren, born: 24 April 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003882736
24 Castlewood Road, Simsbury, Le, Trung X., born: 31 May 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061441
1 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Winnick, Jeffery S., born: 7 September 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064516
7 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Papale, Amy, born: 16 May 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055481
7 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Papale, William G., born: 19 August 1971, Independent, Voter ID 002062593
8 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Ippolito, Maryann, born: 10 May 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004002690
8 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, McCormick, Marion, born: 12 November 1919, Democratic, Voter ID 002054654
11 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Ebel, Catherine M., born: 13 April 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052108
11 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Ebel, John H., born: 26 August 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002059623
11 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Murphy, Eamonn K., born: 13 April 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004997907
13 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Dannolfo, Carrie A., born: 30 March 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002051720
13 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Dannolfo, Joseph D., born: 6 January 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004115328
13 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, D'annolfo, Nicholas A., born: 31 March 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004673347
13 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Dawson, Gary W., born: 28 April 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004923528
13 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Marinan, Emily B., born: 7 September 1994, Independent, Voter ID 004336198
15 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Everette, Cory John, born: 22 December 1983, Republican, Voter ID 002048986
15 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Everette, Megan R., born: 3 October 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052252
15 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Ogilvie, Rowan, born: 29 May 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004478339
18 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Yoczik, Cynthia D., born: 3 May 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057804
19 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Mengual, Juan S., born: 24 September 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 004976904
19 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Mengual, Rosalie A., born: 13 August 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054824
20 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Matthews, Anna Marie, born: 19 July 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 004302960
20 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Matthews, Erik Paul, born: 7 August 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 003914990
20 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Rodrigues, David J., born: 5 March 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063114
22 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Dion, Richard J., born: 27 January 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 003444356
24 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Audet, Mary A., born: 17 April 1937, Democratic, Voter ID 002050301
24 Centerwood Road, Simsbury, Audet, Roch, born: 30 March 1936, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058079
3 Chestnut Hill Road, Simsbury, Sutton, Rachel Anne, born: 3 February 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004879371
11 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Argosy, Deborah, born: 20 December 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001484862
11 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Reilert, Daniel, born: 27 April 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002062992
14 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Hecht, Andrew Thomas, born: 27 December 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004928660
15 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Sahirad, Mariann B., born: 16 June 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049881
15 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Sahirad, Mohsen, born: 11 April 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002049882
15 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Sahirad, Parisa Christine, born: 24 February 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004117852
16 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Brotman, Lon E., born: 1 January 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 002058570
16 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Brotman, Mary M., born: 15 September 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050888
16 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Brotman, Michaela Elizabeth, born: 15 October 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004862503
18 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Pirro, Michael A., born: 1 April 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002062794
18 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Pirro, Susan F., born: 9 October 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002055713
20 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Forbes, Judith M., born: 26 April 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052462
20 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Forbes-Kearns, Merilee L., born: 25 October 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052463
20 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Girardi, Meredith, born: 29 November 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 004593853
20 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Kearns, Francis S., born: 25 January 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002061087
23 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Denalsky, Joseph C., born: 31 January 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059378
33 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Purcell, Dale Joseph, born: 16 July 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004733364
33 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Purcell, Sandra Joan, born: 8 August 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004733373
34 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Carrier, Caitlin Elizabeth, born: 15 July 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004101118
34 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Carrier, Paul Richard, born: 3 February 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002058804
34 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Carrier, Sheila S., born: 17 November 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051158
37 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Ferandez, Benjamin Harrisen, born: 2 January 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 004454788
37 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Fernandez, Alison H., born: 2 June 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 003683945
37 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Fernandez, Benjamin Harrison, born: 2 January 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 001974552
37 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Shanholtzer, Ashley Jean Powell, born: 27 April 1985, Republican, Voter ID 004678464
37 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Shanholtzer, Patrick, born: 10 February 1985, Republican, Voter ID 004604850
38 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Lemis, Michele M., born: 6 April 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004316579
39 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Ober, Dean A., born: 30 April 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002062426
39 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Ober, Robin L., born: 7 April 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055315
42 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Murray, Edward M., born: 21 July 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 003764145
42 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Murray, Margaret Mary, born: 31 August 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004256925
43 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Tremblay, Alain J., born: 1 September 1966, Republican, Voter ID 002049997
43 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Tremblay, Jessica Marie, born: 9 April 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004948722
43 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Tremblay, Rebecca D., born: 12 August 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 002057224
44 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Campagna, John Nicholas, born: 19 November 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058721
45 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Teff, Adam Sean, born: 5 January 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 003407541
45 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Teff, Andrew L., born: 23 July 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 000428432
45 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Teff, Kathleen A., born: 15 February 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 002057093
45 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Teff, Ryan L., born: 7 February 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 002064022
48 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Girard, Adam J., born: 9 July 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000924372
48 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Girard, Patricia M., born: 14 June 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001526037
51 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Hamilton, Jean M., born: 10 May 1935, Republican, Voter ID 002053102
51 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Hamilton, Wentworth A., born: 27 February 1935, Republican, Voter ID 002060483
54 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Bligh, Carolyn, born: 14 April 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002050676
54 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Bligh, Jeannot, born: 6 June 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002050677
54 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Bligh, Matthew T., born: 13 April 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004393106
56 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Casper, Catherine R., born: 25 March 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051200
56 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Casper, Daniel P., born: 2 July 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058836
56 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Casper, Gerard Daniel, born: 5 January 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004225661
57 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Pattison, Amy Mae, born: 8 June 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055541
57 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Wagner, Brian Philip, born: 14 March 1978, Independent, Voter ID 004636932
57 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Wagner, Kimberly Jean, born: 13 September 1977, Independent, Voter ID 004636936
60 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Garland, Richard D., born: 7 April 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060071
60 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Garland, Theresa C., born: 7 April 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052641
65 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Seger, Edward C., born: 9 July 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063476
65 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Seger, Gladys, born: 17 February 1920, Democratic, Voter ID 002056484
69 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Hanna, Sarah, born: 7 May 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004122250
70 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Belanger, Cody Emile, born: 4 January 2001, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005002585
70 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Belanger, Kimberly L., born: 13 March 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 004003279
70 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Belanger, Robert R., born: 13 August 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003564577
73 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Katz-Schwartz, Dana B., born: 3 October 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 002053751
73 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Schwartz, Alexa J., born: 10 October 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003889265
73 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Schwartz, Barry J., born: 24 March 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063443
73 Chriswell Drive, Simsbury, Schwartz, Ryan Eric, born: 20 May 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004127571
1 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Vincelette, Sandra Elizabeth, born: 26 June 1943, Republican, Voter ID 004415692
1 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Vincelette, William F., born: 14 August 1943, Republican, Voter ID 004415688
2 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Cheffer, Immacolata C., born: 18 August 1940, Republican, Voter ID 002051282
2 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Cheffer, John H., born: 28 December 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002058901
3 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Barrett, John T., born: 28 December 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002058182
3 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Barrett, Karen A., born: 8 March 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050428
3 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Barrett, Kerri S., born: 14 May 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050429
4 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, McCann, Carina M., born: 15 June 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002054637
4 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, McCann, Grace Patricia, born: 30 October 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004364142
4 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, McCann, John, born: 15 February 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004229646
4 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, McCann, John A., born: 24 April 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002061831
4 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, McCann, John A., born: 15 February 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004229646
4 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, McCann, Spencer J., born: 17 July 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004229639
4 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, McCann, Trey D., born: 20 May 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004931252
5 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Eilers, Kenneth J., born: 28 February 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059651
5 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Eilers, Kenneth Joseph, born: 11 April 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004079031
5 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Romanowsky, Anja M., born: 25 September 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004764075
5 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Romanowsky, Edward E., born: 23 December 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 004514234
6 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Barney, Steven R., born: 9 March 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 000494917
6 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Barney, Steven R., born: 9 March 1956, Republican, Voter ID 004413445
6 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Majkowski, Kasimir John, born: 24 April 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004183618
6 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Majkowski, Lynn M., born: 21 March 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002431089
7 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Burke, Ashley Elizabeth, born: 5 June 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004553607
7 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Burke, Sean W., born: 23 January 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002837161
7 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Green, Jordan J., born: 20 August 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 001978922
7 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Green, Mary F., born: 22 February 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 001978936
7 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Lukasiewski, Tracy Ann, born: 23 September 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 003433288
8 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Schulz, Jennifer S., born: 9 May 1972, Republican, Voter ID 003967491
8 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Schulz, Kendall Elizabeth, born: 14 July 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004951537
8 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Schulz, Mark C., born: 26 September 1969, Republican, Voter ID 003771896
9 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Bolognese, Eugene Anthony, born: 29 February 1972, Independent, Voter ID 003450532
9 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Bolognese, Wendy J., born: 18 February 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 003684760
10 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Laubscher, Brady J., born: 4 November 1970, Republican, Voter ID 003033263
10 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Laubscher, Tricia McGuinness, born: 7 September 1971, Republican, Voter ID 003104839
11 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Feeney, John P., born: 22 October 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059792
11 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Feeney, Roxanne L., born: 31 December 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002052311
11 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Mogck, Derek L., born: 29 June 1971, Republican, Voter ID 002062116
11 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Mogck, Sara H., born: 18 November 1970, Republican, Voter ID 002054964
14 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Difatta, Charles A., born: 9 June 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002059429
14 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Difatta, Emilie L., born: 7 May 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002051897
14 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Sullivan, Amy Lynn, born: 25 March 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004773049
14 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Sullivan, Timothy J., born: 30 November 1999, Republican, Voter ID 004890350
14 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Sullivan, Timothy John, born: 1 June 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004769850
15 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Earnhardt, Catherine T., born: 10 October 1961, Republican, Voter ID 003648556
15 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Earnhardt, Hannah Cloud, born: 28 March 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004949222
15 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Earnhardt, John P., born: 29 March 1961, Republican, Voter ID 003728910
15 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Earnhardt, Madison, born: 7 August 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004594833
16 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Schoch, James George, born: 19 August 1955, Republican, Voter ID 003762017
17 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Foster, John K., born: 17 April 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002059945
17 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Foster, Susan, born: 30 January 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002052493
17 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Petras, Kara Louise, born: 6 August 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004658604
18 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Zyskowski, Donna, born: 25 June 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050089
18 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Zyskowski, Grant M., born: 11 January 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004235845
18 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Zyskowski, Mark, born: 6 March 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050090
18 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Zyskowski, Marlee N., born: 17 November 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004409640
19 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Kerrigan, Christopher F., born: 31 October 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002061161
19 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Kerrigan, Janet M., born: 7 July 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 002053852
19 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Kerrigan, Laura J., born: 24 March 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 002053853
19 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Rehm, Angela R., born: 26 February 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 003035656
19 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Schroder, Jason A., born: 11 October 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000183861
20 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Knight, Glenn R., born: 29 July 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 003691345
20 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Rao-Knight, Lei, born: 14 January 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 003696887
21 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Bessette, Kathleen Cowen, born: 1 October 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 002050615
21 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Bessette, Steven J., born: 19 March 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058334
22 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Murphy, Thomas E., born: 31 October 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000740618
22 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, O'Brien, John Larkin, born: 11 July 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004534492
22 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Ross, Danielle Marie, born: 15 November 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 002063185
23 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Colpitts, Janice A., born: 17 April 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002051470
23 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Colpitts, Richard A., born: 13 April 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002059062
23 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Toothaker, Joanna R., born: 30 December 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 004243235
23 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Toothaker, Peter T., born: 16 January 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004248045
24 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Oken, Catherine A., born: 8 February 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001772993
24 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Oken, Jeffrey M., born: 19 September 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001995660
24 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Oken, Joshua Louis, born: 12 November 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005013170
25 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Cirelli, Bridget H., born: 17 April 1975, Republican, Voter ID 003414294
25 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Cirelli, Peter M., born: 21 April 1974, Republican, Voter ID 003414303
25 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Lilley, Bryan P., born: 29 November 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003655683
25 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Lilley, Dorothy M., born: 25 April 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004173453
25 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Tremblay, Jeffrey Alan, born: 20 November 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 004543617
25 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Tremblay, Tracey Lynn, born: 19 June 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 004498913
26 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Cole, Cynthia M., born: 1 July 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 002051437
26 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Cole, Jessica Cara, born: 9 April 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004234094
26 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Cole, Michelle C., born: 22 June 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003842030
26 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Cole, William R., born: 10 January 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002059038
27 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Fazzone, Abby Nicole, born: 8 November 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004676440
27 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Fazzone, Katelyn Claire, born: 29 June 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004815064
27 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Fazzone, Noelle M., born: 14 December 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002052301
27 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Fazzone, Peter R., born: 20 September 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059788
27 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Shane, Eric M., born: 2 December 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063508
27 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Shane, Phyllis L., born: 25 December 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056523
28 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Gwinn, Sarah L., born: 11 September 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004202791
28 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Gwinn, Stephen R., born: 2 September 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004307654
28 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Sobolowski, Stefan, born: 11 June 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063709
30 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Dufresne, Nancy Ellen, born: 27 April 1971, Republican, Voter ID 004816515
30 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Leckie, Sean W., born: 28 April 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004897156
31 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Schmitz, Allison C., born: 11 February 1970, Republican, Voter ID 002056406
31 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Schmitz, Mark G., born: 25 June 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002063399
32 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, McDonnell, Ashley Crinean, born: 17 April 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003467610
32 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, McDonnell, Kathi B., born: 29 August 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002054676
32 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, McDonnell, Stephen R., born: 13 April 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061876
34 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Kelly, Charlotte W., born: 20 March 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002053806
34 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Kelly, Marvin F., born: 12 July 1943, Republican, Voter ID 002061126
36 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Pascavis, Christine Lynn, born: 6 June 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 004201534
36 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Pascavis, Travis Scott, born: 1 October 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004202530
36 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Petitti, Samuel J., born: 3 April 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003436405
37 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Galici, Anthony J., born: 27 June 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060029
37 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Galici, Elizabeth Anne, born: 19 June 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004215029
37 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Galici, Matthew Joseph, born: 12 March 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003847436
37 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Galici, Susan J., born: 20 April 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 002052592
38 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Franklin, Cindy M., born: 14 June 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052517
38 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Franklin, David William John, born: 16 August 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003880686
38 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Franklin, Emily, born: 17 February 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004948585
38 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Franklin, Robert Alexander, born: 18 April 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004434600
39 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Cary, Benjamin Joseph, born: 18 July 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004976632
39 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Cary, Elizabeth Irwin, born: 31 March 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002051176
39 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Cary, Hannah, born: 2 May 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004579691
39 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Cary, Joseph H., born: 14 November 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002058818
39 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Galloway, Ashley A., born: 2 March 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004079002
39 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Galloway, James T., born: 15 November 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003782829
39 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Galloway, Rebecca, born: 6 March 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049034
39 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Galloway, Steven A., born: 2 March 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002049035
40 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Schlicher, Daniel Martin, born: 26 November 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003875769
40 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Schlicher, Jill B., born: 10 October 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002056395
40 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Schlicher, John Richard, born: 17 November 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003416377
40 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Schlicher, Richard S., born: 8 May 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002063389
41 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Mazur, Christopher D., born: 4 December 1974, Republican, Voter ID 004527693
41 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Mazur, Tiffany A., born: 16 December 1981, Republican, Voter ID 004527692
41 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Morrill, Carol B., born: 18 May 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002055047
41 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Morrill, Douglas M., born: 27 August 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002062187
41 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Morrill, Emily K., born: 25 February 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003903486
43 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Caponetti, Francesca Theresa, born: 23 March 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004021002
43 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Caponetti, Garrett Robert, born: 15 June 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003528151
45 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Vanderback, Edmund, born: 4 October 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 002064207
45 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Vanderbeck, Edmund Colby, born: 2 February 1992, Independent, Voter ID 004228562
45 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Vanderbeck, Lauren J., born: 11 March 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002057309
47 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Bain, Megan M., born: 29 September 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 004596401
51 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Caldwell, Megan E., born: 12 November 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003767456
51 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Caldwell, Michael S., born: 17 August 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 003767465
51 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Keaton, Kimberley M., born: 28 March 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004337458
51 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Keaton, Michael Ray, born: 1 July 1964, Republican, Voter ID 004409141
51 Clifdon Drive, Simsbury, Weinstein, Joshua D., born: 15 September 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003470715
11 Climax Road, Simsbury, Lepowsky, Donna L., born: 3 February 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002049414
11 Climax Road, Simsbury, Lepowsky, Eric Scott, born: 26 November 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004488511
11 Climax Road, Simsbury, Lepowsky, Matthew Glenn, born: 7 September 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004182727
11 Climax Road, Simsbury, Lepowsky, Steven M., born: 24 November 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002049415
16 Climax Road, Simsbury, Fernow, Diane L., born: 6 January 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002052345
16 Climax Road, Simsbury, Fernow, Todd D., born: 26 December 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002059825
17 Climax Road, Simsbury, Kuhne, Holly, born: 12 December 1944, Republican, Voter ID 002054047
17 Climax Road, Simsbury, Kuhne, Theodore K., born: 7 August 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002061334
30 Climax Road, Simsbury, Dale, Carly Kristin, born: 10 May 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004210307
30 Climax Road, Simsbury, Dale, Mark C., born: 5 April 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002059256
30 Climax Road, Simsbury, Dale, Melissa A., born: 11 October 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 002051698
33 Climax Road, Simsbury, McGrath, Nancy Banta, born: 9 April 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004591804
33 Climax Road, Simsbury, McGrath, Steven, born: 3 May 1953, Republican, Voter ID 004667300
34 Climax Road, Simsbury, Brennan, Douglas G., born: 19 October 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001478859
34 Climax Road, Simsbury, Brennan, Jeannette Mary, born: 21 May 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004173613
34 Climax Road, Simsbury, Clark, Melissa Alison, born: 7 October 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003502555
34 Climax Road, Simsbury, Dier, Gregory John, born: 26 November 1989, Republican, Voter ID 004522200
34 Climax Road, Simsbury, Madore, Timothy, born: 23 December 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004140511
34 Climax Road, Simsbury, Nelthropp, Jennifer Marie, born: 3 March 1990, Republican, Voter ID 004520529
37 Climax Road, Simsbury, Bedoya-Pedyna, Isabel, born: 15 October 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004982294
37 Climax Road, Simsbury, Urda, Nicholas Biron, born: 12 September 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004686050
38 Climax Road, Simsbury, Palladino, Linda M., born: 6 April 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002041999
39 Climax Road, Simsbury, Donaldson, Chloe, born: 23 December 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003741283
39 Climax Road, Simsbury, Lane, Patrick G., born: 7 January 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003792185
39 Climax Road, Simsbury, Pardue, Judith A., born: 29 July 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 002055496
40 Climax Road, Simsbury, Dumanis, Kathy, born: 6 December 1951, Independent, Voter ID 000425380
40 Climax Road, Simsbury, Novak, Sara B., born: 17 January 1980, Republican, Voter ID 003697153
40 Climax Road, Simsbury, Novak, Scott M., born: 31 August 1980, Republican, Voter ID 003023573
44 Climax Road, Simsbury, Aldighieri, Merrill L., born: 28 January 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 003830823
44 Climax Road, Simsbury, Smith, Brooke Joan, born: 24 May 1989, Republican, Voter ID 003940705
44 Climax Road, Simsbury, Smith, Michael H., born: 10 January 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002063679
52 Climax Road, Simsbury, Jeffes, Jay C., born: 9 January 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002060930
52 Climax Road, Simsbury, Levesque, Jason E., born: 9 May 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 004766970
52 Climax Road, Simsbury, Levesque, Kimberly, born: 12 July 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 004725223
54 Climax Road, Simsbury, Gorowski, Greg Robert, born: 10 May 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004659053
54 Climax Road, Simsbury, Gorowski, Joanna H., born: 19 January 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003597880
54 Climax Road, Simsbury, Gorowski, Nicole Elizabeth, born: 29 June 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004882911
58 Climax Road, Simsbury, Burhoe, Charles Andrew, born: 17 July 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004288916
58 Climax Road, Simsbury, Burhoe, Jodie Lee, born: 22 October 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003771262
60 Climax Road, Simsbury, Bremer, Lucille N., born: 19 January 1936, Republican, Voter ID 002050830
60 Climax Road, Simsbury, Bremer, Randall C., born: 21 June 1934, Republican, Voter ID 002058519
63 Climax Road, Simsbury, Nascimento, Ana, born: 3 January 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003338168
63 Climax Road, Simsbury, Nascimento, Paulo A., born: 12 December 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003541934
64 Climax Road, Simsbury, Motley, Joshua Jonathon, born: 6 July 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004362764
64 Climax Road, Simsbury, Motley, Michael A., born: 7 November 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062208
64 Climax Road, Simsbury, Motley, Michael Anthony, born: 19 November 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004209927
64 Climax Road, Simsbury, Motley, Patricia N., born: 26 June 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055072
68 Climax Road, Simsbury, Goodfriend, Harvey J., born: 9 October 1932, Republican, Voter ID 002060262
68 Climax Road, Simsbury, Goodfriend, Leonie R., born: 12 October 1930, Democratic, Voter ID 002052857
68 Climax Road, Simsbury, Rau, Alison A., born: 17 May 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003116994
68 Climax Road, Simsbury, Villani, Mark J., born: 3 November 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 000363393
72 Climax Road, Simsbury, Brenia, David J., born: 24 November 1973, Republican, Voter ID 003410759
72 Climax Road, Simsbury, Brenia, Rebecca, born: 25 January 1975, Republican, Voter ID 003410761
75 Climax Road, Simsbury, Dyakun, Vasyl, born: 26 February 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004051645
76 Climax Road, Simsbury, Nash, Anthony G., born: 21 May 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004020980
76 Climax Road, Simsbury, Nash, Rosalind D H, born: 18 July 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 002055178
78 Climax Road, Simsbury, Bensonoff, Mark, born: 16 September 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058289
78 Climax Road, Simsbury, Bensonoff, Mila, born: 20 May 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050569
78 Climax Road, Simsbury, Derr, Sharon L., born: 10 August 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003751960
78 Climax Road, Simsbury, Derr, William Dennis, born: 29 September 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003751962
78 Climax Road, Simsbury, Nosevich, Julie Urso, born: 23 August 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003288966
78 Climax Road, Simsbury, Seto, Lan, born: 8 September 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004185203
78 Climax Road, Simsbury, Woodby, Caleb M., born: 11 March 1980, Republican, Voter ID 004257806
78 Climax Road, Simsbury, Woodby, Kristin Renee, born: 15 July 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004257903
80 Climax Road, Simsbury, Palmer, Laura P., born: 30 November 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002055457
80 Climax Road, Simsbury, Palmer, Nathan Royce, born: 6 May 1999, Republican, Voter ID 004865935
80 Climax Road, Simsbury, Palmer, Quinn, born: 3 October 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004990960
80 Climax Road, Simsbury, Palmer, Royce C., born: 4 September 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062577
82 Climax Road, Simsbury, Kulikowski, Alicia B., born: 21 April 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003416531
82 Climax Road, Simsbury, Kulikowski, Bronislawa A., born: 22 August 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054055
82 Climax Road, Simsbury, Kulikowski, Richard J., born: 11 August 1937, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049261
82 Climax Road, Simsbury, Vearil, Jeremy A., born: 17 April 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003555371
4 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Demaio, Barbara G., born: 8 October 1965, Republican, Voter ID 000402356
4 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Demaio, Jacqueline Ann, born: 7 April 2000, Republican, Voter ID 004898131
4 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Demaio, James Leonard, born: 30 July 1997, Republican, Voter ID 004512230
4 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Demaio, Leonard David, born: 24 August 1965, Republican, Voter ID 000402357
5 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Krans, Julieann D., born: 15 May 1969, Republican, Voter ID 004012546
5 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Krans, Michael R., born: 28 May 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003999726
6 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Crouch, Andrew William, born: 12 April 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004814016
6 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Crouch, John Alexander, born: 2 September 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002016195
6 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Innarelli, Albert V., born: 28 January 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060865
6 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Innarelli, Albert Vincent, born: 5 May 1995, Independent, Voter ID 004357106
6 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Innarelli, Arianna Venecia, born: 3 July 1993, Independent, Voter ID 004145067
6 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Innarelli, Cynthia M., born: 14 July 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053500
7 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Demuth, Susan, born: 17 January 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004209630
7 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Dumuth, George S., born: 9 June 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004215068
7 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Marra, Michelle T., born: 22 September 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002054510
7 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Marra, Thomas M., born: 25 June 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002061708
7 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Shaw, Kevin M., born: 21 November 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000753973
7 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Shaw, Suzanna I., born: 28 February 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 003537528
8 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Harrington, Elizabeth A., born: 13 May 1962, Republican, Voter ID 003605473
8 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Harrington, Todd J., born: 8 September 1963, Republican, Voter ID 004286351
9 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Dadlez, Christopher M., born: 16 June 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003906768
9 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Dadlez, Eileen Marie, born: 6 July 1951, Republican, Voter ID 003900827
10 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Herreria, Maria, born: 12 November 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049142
10 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Herreria, Robert E., born: 13 May 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002060656
11 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Roellig, Lisa Leilani, born: 22 June 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003781384
11 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Roellig, Mark D., born: 30 June 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003783439
14 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Palmer, Kevin B., born: 18 July 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002062570
14 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Palmer, Marilynn S., born: 1 July 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002055458
15 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Cohen, Paul Herbert, born: 7 January 1933, Independent, Voter ID 004836326
15 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Cyker, Frederick M., born: 26 January 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 002048914
15 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Cyker, Nancy D., born: 29 March 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051681
16 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Gaucher, Philip E., born: 9 August 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002079861
16 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Steven, Sophie S., born: 9 March 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004004973
16 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Stevens, Sophie S., born: 9 March 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004667099
17 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Stelmach, Robin M., born: 7 January 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004271940
18 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Gollob, David S., born: 1 May 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002060256
18 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Gollob, Rona B., born: 16 September 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002052851
18 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Gollob, Sandra Michelle, born: 24 August 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003357408
19 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Darnis, Audrey Claire, born: 6 June 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004502314
19 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Darnis, Donna L., born: 13 September 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051726
19 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Darnis, Franklyn Georges, born: 29 January 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004165138
19 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Darnis, Geraud M H, born: 26 January 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003431412
19 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Pickard, Joseph, born: 19 March 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004941503
19 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Pickard, Lisa Marie, born: 20 March 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004915381
20 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Basilotto, Kieana Cherie, born: 13 November 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004294977
20 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Basilotto, Stephen C., born: 25 December 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004295018
20 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Dickerson, Golden Eugene, born: 14 February 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004857964
20 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Dickerson, Teresa Jean, born: 15 November 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 004847893
20 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, March, Gail B., born: 28 July 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002054477
21 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Lovallo, Anthony F., born: 8 October 1961, Republican, Voter ID 004020923
21 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Lovallo, Charles I., born: 11 December 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004473038
23 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, McLean, Diane, born: 20 February 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054747
23 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, McLean, Matthew Robert, born: 4 January 1990, Republican, Voter ID 003912459
23 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, McLean, Megan Leigh, born: 26 November 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003519059
23 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Pascal, Amy Elizabeth, born: 2 December 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004794145
23 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Pascal, Joseph, born: 4 April 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004639426
25 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Baran, Barbara Dale, born: 24 June 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 003163372
25 Cobtail Way, Simsbury, Baran, Bradley R., born: 2 August 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003878890
1 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Keppel, Elizabeth A., born: 8 September 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002053841
1 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Keppel, Julia Monique, born: 20 April 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004409175
1 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Keppel, Justin R., born: 14 May 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004170180
1 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Keppel, Robert J., born: 6 August 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002061150
2 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Brewer, Lauren, born: 25 July 1983, Republican, Voter ID 003231572
2 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Brewer, Paul Kyle, born: 3 October 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003751247
2 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Burns, Julie N., born: 17 November 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002050986
2 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Burns, Richard E., born: 27 August 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002058652
3 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Cain, Joshua S., born: 27 May 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003884163
3 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Cain, Katherine P., born: 12 November 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002051043
3 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Cain, Leo C., born: 20 April 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002058702
3 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Cain, Sarah Katherine, born: 31 January 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004214130
4 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Salisbury, Lisa A., born: 1 November 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056293
4 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Salisbury, Ryan P., born: 3 May 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004259995
4 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Salisbury, Scott, born: 1 April 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002063297
4 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Salisbury, Sean E., born: 4 September 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004256256
5 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Demanuel, Edward J., born: 11 March 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002059364
5 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Demanuel, Sheila A., born: 18 July 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002051824
6 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Devine, Amy S., born: 5 November 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004767546
7 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Griffith, Andrew W., born: 7 September 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002060383
7 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Griffith, Meghan Hellens, born: 6 April 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003875745
7 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Griffith, Susan H., born: 16 December 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002052993
8 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Jahne, Catherine A., born: 24 February 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053556
8 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Jahne, John W., born: 17 January 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060910
8 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Jahne, Owen Michael, born: 10 November 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004961363
8 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Jahne, William M., born: 14 August 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004528400
9 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Potter, Christine R., born: 5 March 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055791
9 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Potter, Christopher D., born: 22 December 1966, Republican, Voter ID 002062849
9 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Potter, Lauren Judith, born: 30 January 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004815059
10 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Borawski, Ernest T., born: 9 May 1928, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058433
10 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Borawski, Thelma L., born: 29 December 1929, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050741
10 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Slone, Elizabeth J., born: 8 November 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004258170
10 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Slone, Gregory, born: 1 May 1976, Republican, Voter ID 004438416
10 Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Slone, Gregory Jason, born: 1 May 1976, Republican, Voter ID 004251514
3C Cornfield Road, Simsbury, Cain, Joshua S., born: 27 May 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003884163
10 County Road, Simsbury, Marcktell, Aida, born: 1 March 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004239828
10 County Road, Simsbury, Marcktell, John W., born: 23 February 1940, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004239820
12 County Road, Simsbury, Drever, Daniel, born: 23 December 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004381079
12 County Road, Simsbury, Stevens, Russell Clement, born: 13 February 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002047459
12 County Road, Simsbury, Zannotti, Ryan John, born: 30 October 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004192141
14 County Road, Simsbury, Libby, Kristin Michelle, born: 19 November 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 003440636
14 County Road, Simsbury, Stermer, Charles N., born: 14 August 1934, Democratic, Voter ID 002063843
14 County Road, Simsbury, Stermer, Dorothy T., born: 19 September 1939, Democratic, Voter ID 002056906
16 County Road, Simsbury, Pozzato, April J., born: 7 December 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002055807
16 County Road, Simsbury, Pozzato, Joseph J., born: 5 June 1939, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003767674
16 County Road, Simsbury, Pozzato, Joseph John, born: 18 October 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 003473643
16 County Road, Simsbury, Pozzato, Vincent J., born: 27 September 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003775644
20 County Road, Simsbury, Durkin, Kevin, born: 27 August 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 001909681
20 County Road, Simsbury, Pozzato, John A., born: 11 October 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002062865
26 County Road, Simsbury, Mesa, Carmen E., born: 19 May 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 004929514
26 County Road, Simsbury, Mesa, Daniel R., born: 6 September 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 004817940
26 County Road, Simsbury, Mesa, Jose, born: 3 September 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 004817938
32 County Road, Simsbury, Drapeau, Leanne E., born: 21 March 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 004009938
32 County Road, Simsbury, Drapeau, Martha A., born: 7 April 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002052012
32 County Road, Simsbury, Drapeau, Michelle L., born: 28 October 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003541746
32 County Road, Simsbury, Drapeau, Sarah Marie, born: 14 August 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004805506
34 County Road, Simsbury, Braz, Antonio B., born: 19 December 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002058516
34 County Road, Simsbury, Braz, Tamara B., born: 31 December 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002050824
34 County Road, Simsbury, Braz, Taryn E., born: 26 October 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004416651
36 County Road, Simsbury, Alfieri, James P., born: 19 November 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002048684
36 County Road, Simsbury, Alfieri, Patricia E., born: 30 January 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002048685
36 County Road, Simsbury, Alfieri, Robin C., born: 29 March 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003810592
36 County Road, Simsbury, Alfieri, Samuel James, born: 28 November 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004285922
36 County Road, Simsbury, Berry, Jason L., born: 13 September 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004319756
40 County Road, Simsbury, Harriman, David, born: 11 February 1980, Republican, Voter ID 004462518
40 County Road, Simsbury, Harriman, David W., born: 11 February 1980, Republican, Voter ID 004397711
40 County Road, Simsbury, Harriman, Megan E., born: 30 May 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003280802
40 County Road, Simsbury, McPherson, Kathy J., born: 13 May 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002054771
40 County Road, Simsbury, McPherson, Mark D., born: 20 October 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002061942
40 County Road, Simsbury, Rourke, Megan E., born: 30 May 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003280802
44 County Road, Simsbury, Noble, Carol A., born: 25 December 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055271
44 County Road, Simsbury, Noble, Colin N., born: 20 May 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004640819
44 County Road, Simsbury, Noble, Roger W., born: 24 October 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062388
46 County Road, Simsbury, Jamieson, Matthew P., born: 8 January 1968, Republican, Voter ID 002060916
50 County Road, Simsbury, Mugford, Phillip R., born: 9 February 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002062224
56 County Road, Simsbury, McGrail, Joseph, born: 12 March 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061895
56 County Road, Simsbury, Wilcox, Marcus, born: 17 January 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 003417427
60 County Road, Simsbury, Depratti, Colleen M., born: 22 December 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002048933
60 County Road, Simsbury, Depratti, Patrick M., born: 24 May 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 002059385
60 County Road, Simsbury, Depratti, Sarah R., born: 7 May 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004963121
64 County Road, Simsbury, Ketchabaw, Patricia A I, born: 14 December 1939, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053859
64 County Road, Simsbury, Ketchabaw, William C., born: 5 March 1938, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061168
64 County Road, Simsbury, Weinberg, Jeffrey T., born: 8 November 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004498595
64 County Road, Simsbury, Weinberg, Milissa J., born: 26 April 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 004498598
70 County Road, Simsbury, Chalder, Glenn Russell, born: 6 January 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058875
70 County Road, Simsbury, Chalder, Holly M., born: 20 December 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051248
73 County Road, Simsbury, Bailey, Madison D., born: 3 June 1999, Republican, Voter ID 004964728
73 County Road, Simsbury, Bailey, Stacy A., born: 20 May 1959, Republican, Voter ID 001961834
73 County Road, Simsbury, Shapiro, Scott B., born: 4 October 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002003534
73 County Road, Simsbury, Zajaczkowski, Antonia Marie, born: 10 February 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004721220
74 County Road, Simsbury, Gauthier, David, born: 4 March 1966, Republican, Voter ID 003368735
74 County Road, Simsbury, Gauthier, John D., born: 30 May 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004542877
74 County Road, Simsbury, Gauthier, Kathleen M., born: 26 February 1967, Republican, Voter ID 000015923
74 County Road, Simsbury, Gauthier, Michael J., born: 8 May 2000, Republican, Voter ID 004923916
75 County Road, Simsbury, Cheek, James C., born: 5 June 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001811749
75 County Road, Simsbury, Cheek, Kendyl A., born: 15 April 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003715742
75 County Road, Simsbury, Cheek, Yvonne A., born: 11 November 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 001811750
75 County Road, Simsbury, Dorfman, Kim A., born: 14 September 1959, Independent, Voter ID 002051969
75 County Road, Simsbury, Smith, Melissa F., born: 15 October 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051970
76 County Road, Simsbury, Rybacki, Eric C., born: 25 October 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 002063263
76 County Road, Simsbury, Rybacki, Linda L., born: 29 August 1940, Republican, Voter ID 002056267
77 County Road, Simsbury, Busque, Bradley, born: 17 July 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 001965952
77 County Road, Simsbury, Busque, Sandra E., born: 2 February 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 001965955
78 County Road, Simsbury, Yeisley, Carter Nicholas, born: 24 January 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004894878
78 County Road, Simsbury, Yeisley, Diana Anderson, born: 16 May 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 003361023
78 County Road, Simsbury, Yeisley, Jonathan A., born: 4 June 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 002064611
79 County Road, Simsbury, Dominique-Murray, Guerline, born: 20 November 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004743053
79 County Road, Simsbury, Murray, Damion B., born: 9 October 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004946280
80 County Road, Simsbury, Rowley, Jacob Archer, born: 21 June 2000, Republican, Voter ID 004896792
80 County Road, Simsbury, Rowley, Jennifer L., born: 15 November 1971, Republican, Voter ID 004136767
80 County Road, Simsbury, Rowley, Steven James, born: 18 February 1969, Republican, Voter ID 004139699
81 County Road, Simsbury, Jozef, Frank, born: 13 August 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002061025
81 County Road, Simsbury, Jozef, Katherine, born: 5 June 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002053689
92 County Road, Simsbury, Zenisky, Deana Lynne, born: 26 August 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057876
92 County Road, Simsbury, Zenisky, Joan K., born: 8 October 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002057877
92 County Road, Simsbury, Zenisky, John F., born: 23 March 1943, Republican, Voter ID 002064664
94 County Road, Simsbury, Murdzek, Julia A., born: 15 July 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002055115
94 County Road, Simsbury, Murdzek, Stephen J., born: 25 August 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002062248
96 County Road, Simsbury, Petrenko, Daniel, born: 24 May 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004616143
96 County Road, Simsbury, Petrenko, Vladimir, born: 2 February 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003655686
98 County Road, Simsbury, Singer, David, born: 16 November 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002063613
98 County Road, Simsbury, Singer, Robyn S., born: 17 May 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003819366
98 County Road, Simsbury, Singer, Terri E., born: 2 October 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002056655
100 County Road, Simsbury, Boysen, Richard L., born: 8 December 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002063025
100 County Road, Simsbury, St Jean-Boysen, Karen, born: 16 January 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056841
102 County Road, Simsbury, Birittieri, David A., born: 24 July 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 003848540
102 County Road, Simsbury, Birittieri, Rita, born: 9 June 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 003848542
104 County Road, Simsbury, Gallagher, Norma A., born: 20 May 1939, Republican, Voter ID 002052602
106 County Road, Simsbury, Groom, Sean M., born: 2 August 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 003504946
106 County Road, Simsbury, Kelly, Alicia A., born: 26 September 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053803
106 County Road, Simsbury, Kelly, Kevin Joseph, born: 24 April 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002061125
106 County Road, Simsbury, Meyer, Kimberley A., born: 3 January 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 003504934
111 County Road, Simsbury, Cieslak, Henry, born: 31 December 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002058950
111 County Road, Simsbury, Cieslak, Scott H., born: 10 February 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 002058951
111 County Road, Simsbury, Cieslak, Susan A., born: 27 March 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002051337
115 County Road, Simsbury, Dyer, Diane M., born: 31 July 1959, Independent, Voter ID 000812435
115 County Road, Simsbury, Dyer, Scott V., born: 27 December 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000015624
115 County Road, Simsbury, Pyrzenski, John David, born: 28 April 1976, Republican, Voter ID 003796089
115 County Road, Simsbury, Pyrzenski, Julia K., born: 24 October 1978, Republican, Voter ID 003886290
117 County Road, Simsbury, Mazur, Jill, born: 5 October 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002054620
117 County Road, Simsbury, Mazur, Randy, born: 11 August 1959, Democratic, Voter ID 002061816
117 County Road, Simsbury, Mazur, Zachary Adam, born: 30 November 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004079042
119 County Road, Simsbury, Dennis, Barbara H., born: 1 August 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002051851
119 County Road, Simsbury, Murphy, Dennis F., born: 18 March 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 002062251
119 County Road, Simsbury, Murphy, Dennis Francis, born: 1 January 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002062252
134 County Road, Simsbury, Flynn, James Philip, born: 13 October 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059901
134 County Road, Simsbury, Flynn, Kimberly H., born: 17 April 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002052439
134 County Road, Simsbury, Flynn, Robert T., born: 2 December 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059903
134 County Road, Simsbury, Rohde, Amber Michelle, born: 26 May 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 004996319
134 County Road, Simsbury, Rohde, Gregg Charles, born: 31 May 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004845001
4 Crane Place, Simsbury, Finken, Andrew Charles, born: 7 October 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004434580
4 Crane Place, Simsbury, Finken, Kara, born: 16 December 1967, Republican, Voter ID 002052380
4 Crane Place, Simsbury, Finken, Peter A., born: 31 July 1966, Republican, Voter ID 002059848
4 Crane Place, Simsbury, Olbrych, Sean, born: 1 October 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 002867766
6 Crane Place, Simsbury, Andersen, Douglas S., born: 29 July 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057991
6 Crane Place, Simsbury, Andersen, Linda J., born: 8 February 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050203
7 Crane Place, Simsbury, Whitbeck, Michael James, born: 13 June 1984, Libertarian, Voter ID 003275074
8 Crane Place, Simsbury, McCarthy, Meara A D, born: 4 January 1989, Republican, Voter ID 003877537
8 Crane Place, Simsbury, McCarthy, Timothy S., born: 8 July 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002061836
8 Crane Place, Simsbury, Shea, Margaret A., born: 15 March 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002056551
10 Crane Place, Simsbury, Denges, Mary K., born: 7 May 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 002051848
11 Crane Place, Simsbury, Heintz, Carly Marie, born: 29 September 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004455394
11 Crane Place, Simsbury, Heintz, Christopher Peter, born: 19 June 1995, Republican, Voter ID 004393831
11 Crane Place, Simsbury, Heintz, Clifford P., born: 10 July 1948, Republican, Voter ID 002049139
11 Crane Place, Simsbury, Lecours-Heintz, Yolande, born: 5 October 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049377
12 Crane Place, Simsbury, Creer, Emily, born: 13 May 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002051604
12 Crane Place, Simsbury, Koualaski, Robert, born: 2 December 1928, Democratic, Voter ID 003824469
12 Crane Place, Simsbury, Kruger, Joshua A., born: 7 June 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003844055
12 Crane Place, Simsbury, Stromberg, Sarah R., born: 15 June 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001682063
14 Crane Place, Simsbury, Ostop, Mary Ann L., born: 8 March 1937, Democratic, Voter ID 002055405
14 Crane Place, Simsbury, Ostop, Richard E., born: 6 March 1939, Democratic, Voter ID 002062529
14 Crane Place, Simsbury, Roselli, George C., born: 4 January 1939, Democratic, Voter ID 002063158
1 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Flanagan, Sean T., born: 23 September 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004742678
1 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Perrotta, Julia Christine, born: 25 October 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004282964
1 Crescent Way Unit 2G, Simsbury, Perrotta, Laura Ann, born: 19 September 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003933744
1 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Perrotta, Louis M., born: 3 October 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 003912792
1 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Perrotta, Nancy E., born: 13 April 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 003878210
8 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Button, David P., born: 12 May 1977, Republican, Voter ID 004768104
8 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Button, Samantha Eleanor, born: 17 August 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004634094
8 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Girard, Kyle R., born: 14 October 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004113869
8 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Norton, Judy K., born: 8 March 1954, Republican, Voter ID 004323496
10 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Broadus-Garcia, Cassandra A., born: 10 October 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050871
10 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Garcia, Gabriel Broadus, born: 23 February 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004624652
10 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Garcia, Vicente G., born: 14 January 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060066
15 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Civitillo, Danielle L., born: 24 May 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003229154
15 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Civitillo, Nicholas Arnold, born: 4 January 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003745668
15 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Tomaska, Crisla Barbara, born: 26 November 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002798149
19 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Casey, Jason P., born: 26 January 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003190930
19 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Cormier, Anita, born: 9 November 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002051551
19 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Cormier, Harvey, born: 7 March 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 002059120
20 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Smith, Christopher J., born: 30 June 1964, Republican, Voter ID 000816487
20 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Smith, Denise P., born: 2 May 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 003111374
20 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Spicker, Lorraine, born: 3 May 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 003334125
26 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Soldate, Anne C., born: 14 October 1917, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056762
30 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Osterhout, Ross J., born: 20 July 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002062527
30 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Osterhout, Sarah J., born: 24 March 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003372537
30 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Osterhout, Susan B., born: 15 January 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002055403
85 Crescent Way, Simsbury, Weld, Robert Thomas, born: 4 June 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004404660
3 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Dermo, Danielle A., born: 5 December 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051857
4 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Heintz, Dawn P., born: 16 October 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003571654
4 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Heintz, Frederick C., born: 1 October 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060621
5 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Dermo-Owens, Lindsay, born: 2 May 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003446624
5 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Loxton, David W., born: 25 September 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 003980342
5 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Loxton, Michelle R., born: 2 April 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 003999822
6 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Ascazubi, Lina M., born: 3 July 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003996727
6 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Fair, Dominic A., born: 7 October 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 003477373
6 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Gomez, Nelson D., born: 8 August 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004001363
6 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Patterson, Sarah M., born: 12 October 1976, Republican, Voter ID 003477465
7 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Werner, Amanda Young, born: 9 April 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004229312
7 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Werner, Douglas W., born: 5 February 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002064407
7 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Werner, Jean S., born: 11 April 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002057547
7 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Werner, Timothy W., born: 14 July 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004229319
8 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Cobleigh, Karen, born: 11 August 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002051394
8 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Cobleigh, Max Winston, born: 24 March 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004363512
8 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Cobleigh, Steven Nelson, born: 22 October 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004141674
8 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Cobleigh, Wayne W., born: 12 April 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002048877
8 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Denis, Hubert Chaye, born: 11 November 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004862595
8 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Denis, Zundell Zunrue, born: 12 July 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 004862495
9 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Marsele, Peter G., born: 15 March 1983, Republican, Voter ID 003228814
9 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Marsele, Rebecca Erin, born: 6 December 1983, Republican, Voter ID 003927898
10 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Bailey, Cynthia D., born: 25 May 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050338
10 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Bailey, Stephen C., born: 24 March 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058116
10 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Gurganus, Jeff E., born: 18 March 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004543818
11 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Beland, Amanda Helen, born: 10 December 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004183855
11 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Beland, Christopher John, born: 17 May 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004183852
11 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Beland, John R., born: 27 April 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002058260
11 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Beland, Paula M., born: 14 November 1959, Republican, Voter ID 003918033
12 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Desson, Leonard, born: 22 April 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 003733266
12 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Desson, Louisa H., born: 21 May 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 003253265
14 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Dolch, Erin, born: 24 March 1982, Republican, Voter ID 002001646
14 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Dolch, Scott, born: 5 March 1982, Republican, Voter ID 003580988
14 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Dorio, Agnes, born: 9 March 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003439760
14 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Dorio, Frank John, born: 20 February 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003439812
14 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Dorio, Lauren Marie, born: 3 December 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003002594
14 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Dorio, Matthew Joseph, born: 8 March 1993, Independent, Voter ID 004345964
14 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Forgetta, Michael J., born: 13 January 1921, Republican, Voter ID 001816963
15 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Bjork, Bruce E., born: 22 June 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002058368
15 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Bjork, Susan J., born: 6 October 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002050660
15 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Thibadeau, Kevin D., born: 5 February 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004654081
15 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Thibadeau, Susan Hale, born: 10 May 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003891395
17 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Murphy, Dawn K., born: 30 August 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055119
17 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Murphy, John P., born: 24 May 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002062259
17 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Murphy, Patrick Edward, born: 9 October 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004664503
19 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Caggiano, Andrea R., born: 18 January 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003634250
19 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Caggiano, James P., born: 29 June 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003634252
19 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Caggiano, Regina Marie, born: 12 May 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004865943
20 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Hannon, Harriett Lucinda, born: 7 October 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 002053117
20 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Janus, Tessa P., born: 27 March 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 002053573
20 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Schuck, Elizabeth Gies, born: 5 January 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056432
20 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Schuck, Joel, born: 20 June 1971, Republican, Voter ID 003358588
21 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Budington, Nancy N., born: 30 May 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 002050941
21 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Budington, Robert Allyn, born: 2 October 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002058614
23 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Battaglia, Anna Maria, born: 17 July 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002050474
23 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Battaglia, Matthew A., born: 24 December 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003877417
23 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Battaglia, Robert D., born: 21 October 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058213
23 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Battaglia, William Joseph, born: 20 July 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004218214
25 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Rocha, Ally Christina, born: 16 March 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004085683
25 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Rocha, Amy J., born: 26 January 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002056074
25 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Rocha, Cassie Brianne, born: 22 June 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004195541
25 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Rocha, David A., born: 24 September 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002063098
25 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Rocha, Jeremy Andrew, born: 16 July 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004712937
25 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Rocha, Jessie Reid, born: 22 June 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004195512
26 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Chamberlin, Charles S., born: 2 December 1938, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058882
26 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Chamberlin, Kathleen M., born: 25 May 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051252
27 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Antarsh, Cheryl S., born: 7 January 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 002050239
27 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Antarsh, Norman J., born: 28 September 1937, Democratic, Voter ID 002058031
27 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Parsons, John Winfred, born: 17 January 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 004837868
28 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Kublan, Nina Carol, born: 3 February 1995, Republican, Voter ID 004496296
28 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Rogers, Kwisun L., born: 24 August 1970, Republican, Voter ID 003381375
28 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Rogers, Nicholas Anthony, born: 18 December 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003800694
28 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Rogers, Philip H., born: 11 August 1939, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063127
28 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Rogers, Suellen G., born: 25 June 1942, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056098
29 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Caileen, Christina Graye, born: 16 August 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004085665
29 Crestwood Road, Simsbury, Christina, Whitney E., born: 24 October 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051316
1 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Proctor, Connor Jay, born: 31 May 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004212635
1 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Proctor, Derek Waldron, born: 31 December 1989, Republican, Voter ID 003809490
1 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Proctor, Monica S., born: 11 June 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002055839
1 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Proctor, Robert W., born: 14 December 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002062887
1 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Proctor, Trey W., born: 5 November 1995, Republican, Voter ID 004538868
2 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Campbell, Chelsea Porter, born: 26 November 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004043451
2 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Campbell, William A., born: 11 August 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002058732
3 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Kyzivat, Emma Arielle, born: 4 April 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004858746
3 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Kyzivat, Ethan D., born: 28 June 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004158913
3 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Kyzivat, Laurie B., born: 24 July 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 002054072
3 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Kyzivat, Samuel Alexander, born: 12 February 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004404303
3 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Kyzivat, Thomas A., born: 11 October 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002049269
4 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Dimetres, Jodi L., born: 15 February 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051908
4 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Labella, Corey A., born: 26 October 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003839662
4 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Zajac, Jessica Lorraine, born: 20 April 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 004537204
4 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Zajac, Michael H., born: 16 July 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003862085
5 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Wilson, Allan Francis, born: 26 February 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 003809255
5 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Wilson, Paul R., born: 10 June 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004520366
6 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Casavant, Marianne I., born: 21 January 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051180
6 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Casavant, Raymond E., born: 10 July 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058821
7 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Chi, Anya, born: 14 September 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004077420
7 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Leach, Donna M., born: 31 March 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004247741
7 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Leach, Matthew S., born: 22 April 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004247744
7 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Tu, Huanyu, born: 19 November 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004274851
8 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Doumaux, Michael Patrick, born: 24 February 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004759988
8 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Moyer, Jennifer M., born: 28 January 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004518559
8 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Shebar, Kevin J., born: 12 August 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 004327599
9 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Belanger, John A., born: 1 March 1972, Republican, Voter ID 003171470
9 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Jack, Joseph W., born: 14 February 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002049180
9 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Jack, Max Z., born: 3 June 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003700336
9 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Mathis, Marcus, born: 13 September 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001825510
9 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Mathis, Sharale W., born: 22 July 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 000907894
9 Cricket Lane, Simsbury, Zwinakis-Jack, Karen J., born: 14 August 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002057910
2 Crosswoods Drive, Simsbury, Kyle, Mary P., born: 26 October 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002049268
4 Crosswoods Drive, Simsbury, Robbins, David H., born: 7 December 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002100868
4 Crosswoods Drive, Simsbury, Robbins, Kathryn M., born: 26 May 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002100872
2 Davey Street, Simsbury, Miller, Anne Marie, born: 12 February 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 003648122
2 Davey Street, Simsbury, Miller, James Patrick, born: 15 August 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 003635912
3 Davey Street, Simsbury, Barney, Nina A., born: 18 December 1954, Republican, Voter ID 004420114
3 Davey Street, Simsbury, Castater, Aisha C., born: 29 December 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 003385751
3 Davey Street, Simsbury, Castater, Bryan Joseph, born: 2 December 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 001774566
3 Davey Street, Simsbury, Roye, Christina, born: 28 November 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003809716
4 Davey Street, Simsbury, Sebas, Christopher Robin, born: 8 April 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004004154
4 Davey Street, Simsbury, Sebas, John, born: 1 November 1922, Republican, Voter ID 000740883
5 Davey Street, Simsbury, Ricciuti, Robert A., born: 31 March 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063018
6 Davey Street, Simsbury, Barney, Nina A., born: 18 December 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004420114
6 Davey Street, Simsbury, Ruppar, Priscilla, born: 24 June 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 002056227
7 Davey Street, Simsbury, Hall, Juliana, born: 4 August 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053085
7 Davey Street, Simsbury, Sims, David B., born: 29 December 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063609
8 Davey Street Unit 50, Simsbury, Ficaro, James Salvatore, born: 11 February 1999, Republican, Voter ID 004934362
8 Davey Street, Simsbury, Miller, Janie S., born: 20 July 1967, Republican, Voter ID 004095100
9 Davey Street, Simsbury, Griffin, Caitlin Anne, born: 28 June 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003898979
9 Davey Street, Simsbury, Griffin, Margaret M., born: 15 June 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052989
9 Davey Street, Simsbury, Griffin, Meaghan E., born: 19 September 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003947763
11 Davey Street, Simsbury, Dooley, Joseph A., born: 22 December 1977, Republican, Voter ID 002059497
11 Davey Street, Simsbury, Dooley, Matthew A., born: 26 November 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 002059498
11 Davey Street, Simsbury, Jendrasko, Elijah, born: 16 May 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004134716
1 David Drive, Simsbury, Germano, Kristin B., born: 27 April 1982, Republican, Voter ID 004441493
1 David Drive, Simsbury, Germano, Michael F., born: 31 May 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004441496
1 David Drive, Simsbury, Molnar, Colette M., born: 1 February 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002054978
1 David Drive, Simsbury, Molnar, Ryan M., born: 8 February 1995, Republican, Voter ID 004353074
1 David Drive, Simsbury, Molnar, Steven M., born: 17 April 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002062127
2 David Drive, Simsbury, Brow, Christopher S., born: 7 February 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003973974
3 David Drive, Simsbury, Roach, Katie, born: 15 May 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004299003
3 David Drive, Simsbury, Roach, Philip Michael, born: 4 February 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004298925
3 David Drive, Simsbury, Russo, Katie Marie, born: 15 May 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004299003
3 David Drive, Simsbury, Stranzinger, Claudia, born: 19 March 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003393299
3 David Drive, Simsbury, Tanner, David S., born: 20 August 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002063994
4 David Drive, Simsbury, Mangano, Brie A., born: 12 May 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054466
4 David Drive, Simsbury, Mangano, Louis, born: 24 January 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061666
4 David Drive, Simsbury, Ungemack, Jane A., born: 25 December 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 002057280
5 David Drive, Simsbury, Meuser, Caitlin T., born: 25 April 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004232032
5 David Drive, Simsbury, Meuser, Craig S., born: 27 August 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062017
5 David Drive, Simsbury, Meuser, Ellen, born: 29 April 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002054849
6 David Drive, Simsbury, Denton, Laurie Ann, born: 22 March 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004340091
6 David Drive, Simsbury, English, Lindsay F., born: 11 December 1987, Republican, Voter ID 004280303
6 David Drive, Simsbury, English, Tyler Robert, born: 18 June 1982, Republican, Voter ID 002803281
7 David Drive, Simsbury, Ross, Danielle M., born: 15 November 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063185
7 David Drive, Simsbury, Ross, Elizabeth A., born: 27 March 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003961268
7 David Drive, Simsbury, Ross, Joelle J., born: 16 December 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004210162
7 David Drive, Simsbury, Ross, Lauren E., born: 3 October 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003877124
7 David Drive, Simsbury, Ross, Phyllis D., born: 27 November 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002056159
8 David Drive, Simsbury, McManus, Robert J., born: 19 March 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002061934
8 David Drive, Simsbury, Mitchell, Ann, born: 15 November 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 002054758
8 David Drive, Simsbury, Mitchell, Charles W., born: 2 December 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 004571890
9 David Drive, Simsbury, Sharma, Hari Om, born: 1 April 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 004131332
9 David Drive, Simsbury, Sharma, Manas, born: 2 October 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004232788
9 David Drive, Simsbury, Sharma, Remu, born: 25 June 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 004131335
10 David Drive, Simsbury, Lahens, John Paul, born: 29 May 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004220118
10 David Drive, Simsbury, Lahens, Juan M., born: 26 August 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 003392324
10 David Drive, Simsbury, Lahens, Marcia Anne, born: 6 February 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 003392314
10 David Drive, Simsbury, Lahens, Michael P., born: 16 March 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003630376
10 David Drive, Simsbury, Lahens, Nicholas F., born: 6 July 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 003402569
10 David Drive, Simsbury, Mendenhall, Edward Peterson, born: 19 March 1965, Republican, Voter ID 004813799
10 David Drive, Simsbury, Mendenhall, John Emerson, born: 19 March 1965, Republican, Voter ID 005002081
12 David Drive, Simsbury, Phelan, Daniel P., born: 21 May 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062750
12 David Drive, Simsbury, Phelan, Nancy R., born: 6 October 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055666
12 David Drive, Simsbury, Phelan, Timothy B., born: 2 November 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062754
14 David Drive, Simsbury, Askham, Sean, born: 9 January 1981, Republican, Voter ID 003746942
14 David Drive, Simsbury, Knall, Mark Robert, born: 18 July 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 003361191
14 David Drive, Simsbury, Knall, Shannon L., born: 8 November 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 001985290
14 David Drive, Simsbury, Leopold, Jacquelyn Daniels, born: 19 April 1980, Republican, Voter ID 003398998
15 David Drive, Simsbury, Civitillo, Stephanie D., born: 3 May 1977, Republican, Voter ID 003966650
15 David Drive, Simsbury, Civitillo, Victor Gordon, born: 3 December 1980, Republican, Voter ID 002058996
15 David Drive, Simsbury, Given, Carolyn H., born: 5 February 1927, Republican, Voter ID 002052775
15 David Drive, Simsbury, Given, Gary D., born: 6 November 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 003684792
15 David Drive, Simsbury, Pelligrinelli, Gregg G., born: 11 June 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 001895194
16 David Drive, Simsbury, Hooper, Frank E., born: 28 December 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002060758
16 David Drive, Simsbury, Hooper, Patricia Joanne, born: 19 July 1944, Republican, Voter ID 002049162
16 David Drive, Simsbury, Rice, Michael Benjamin, born: 2 May 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004646038
16 David Drive, Simsbury, Spaulding, Jane L., born: 30 June 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 002615317
17 David Drive, Simsbury, Mroczkowski, Theresa, born: 2 December 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055083
18 David Drive, Simsbury, Geoghan, Sharon A., born: 5 August 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052437
18 David Drive, Simsbury, Rada, Joanne, born: 22 July 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004885360
18 David Drive, Simsbury, Rada, John, born: 7 May 1981, Republican, Voter ID 004678968
20 David Drive, Simsbury, Denis, Daniel Bradley, born: 31 January 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004317304
20 David Drive, Simsbury, Fishberg, Phyllis A., born: 20 April 1943, Democratic, Voter ID 002052399
20 David Drive, Simsbury, Fishberg, Robert B., born: 13 June 1943, Democratic, Voter ID 002059861
20 David Drive, Simsbury, Ieraci, Jaime Marie, born: 5 April 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004720222
22 David Drive, Simsbury, White, Brian J., born: 24 November 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 002723941
22 David Drive, Simsbury, White, Priya Narayanan, born: 21 October 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 002049708
3 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Sopelak, Janet R., born: 15 January 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056772
3 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Sopelak, Kenneth, born: 11 July 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063730
4 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Willett, Louise M., born: 9 January 1924, Democratic, Voter ID 002057639
5 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Simpson, Cory Winston, born: 14 July 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002641578
5 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Simpson, Jodi Lynn Ann, born: 6 March 1970, Republican, Voter ID 002641579
5 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Simpson, John Thomas, born: 29 December 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004346469
5 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Simpson, Katherine Emily, born: 30 April 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004011731
6 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Atkins, Jessica Leigh, born: 22 October 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004274787
6 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Atkins, Matthew A., born: 6 August 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004088077
6 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Light, Alan, born: 25 June 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003757867
6 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Light, Jennifer Eleanor, born: 15 November 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003991974
6 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Light, Maryann, born: 9 July 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003757865
6 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Somero, Jessica Leigh, born: 22 October 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004274787
7 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Meyer, Melissa Hoemke, born: 17 August 1968, Democratic, Voter ID 004222177
7 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Shepard, Anne H., born: 13 April 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056572
8 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, McCarthy, Erin N., born: 17 September 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002054640
8 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, McCarthy, Patrick J., born: 4 January 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002061833
8 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, McCarthy, Sean P., born: 26 September 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004666999
9 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Feeney, Christopher J., born: 18 July 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004702002
9 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Feeney, Dale H., born: 7 October 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002059791
9 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Feeney, Laura, born: 24 August 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002052308
10 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Gilbert, Jason R., born: 27 September 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060149
10 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Granger, Amy M., born: 18 August 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002049094
10 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Granger, Caroline Leigh, born: 21 March 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004225694
10 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Granger, Kevin Mark, born: 29 January 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003670396
10 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Granger, Mark L., born: 28 July 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002049095
11 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Ryan, Jane Mary, born: 25 March 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 003549370
12 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Capobianco, Mia Danielle, born: 12 June 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004353300
12 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Capobianco, Sophie Elizabeth, born: 20 September 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004935749
12 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Longo, Marianne, born: 17 June 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051095
12 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Longo-Capobianco, Samuel J., born: 22 February 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004229659
13 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Chonk, Rohit Raj, born: 28 September 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004984851
14 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Rogers, Richard P., born: 23 July 1940, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004468889
15 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Powers, Holly Anna, born: 25 May 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004640874
15 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Powers, Jason John, born: 9 October 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 004640909
15 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Williams, Christine N., born: 15 February 1954, Republican, Voter ID 003678280
15 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Williams, John N., born: 21 April 1946, Republican, Voter ID 003679204
16 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Baldis, Anne M., born: 21 June 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050367
16 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Baldis, Christina M., born: 10 September 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050368
16 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Baldis, James A., born: 24 April 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002058129
16 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Gilbert, Christina M., born: 10 September 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003998263
16 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, McCully, Thomas Joseph, born: 11 September 1989, Republican, Voter ID 004302990
17 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Deubel, Barbara R., born: 13 December 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051875
17 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Phillips, Lisa Marie, born: 22 January 1968, Republican, Voter ID 004222894
17 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Torpey, Cheri Soule, born: 21 January 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002036719
17 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Torpey, Richard M., born: 1 February 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002024294
19 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Laverde, Jeremy K., born: 19 December 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004754215
19 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Laverde, Kimberly L., born: 25 September 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054145
19 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Laverde, Michael A., born: 12 March 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061426
21 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Gravitch-Smith, Susan Lomotan, born: 24 January 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003518090
21 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Rutherford, Kelly June, born: 3 July 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003372006
21 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Smith, Carmen Daniel, born: 19 May 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004819416
24 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Noonan, Anna Elisabeth, born: 7 April 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003839561
24 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Noonan, Thomas P., born: 6 October 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003664598
24 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Papagna, Lisa, born: 1 May 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002055480
24 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Papagna, Paul A., born: 10 October 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002062592
25 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Bana, Divya, born: 2 August 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004435639
25 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Bana, Kavya S., born: 21 January 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004549636
25 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Bana, Siva T., born: 1 April 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004446362
25 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Bana, Venkata R., born: 1 June 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004446342
26 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Donnelly, Susan C., born: 3 November 1965, Republican, Voter ID 000565544
26 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Starr, Jessica C., born: 19 October 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 002051336
26 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Starr, Jonathan M., born: 20 January 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063807
27 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Brignac, Jacques L., born: 19 August 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 002058543
27 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Brignac, Kathryne R., born: 12 September 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002050858
27 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Brignac, Louis Ray, born: 21 August 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003925794
28 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Downs, Brian Hugh, born: 8 February 1990, Republican, Voter ID 003839603
28 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Downs, Brian Scott, born: 4 May 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002048957
28 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Downs, Mary O'Neill, born: 28 August 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002048958
29 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Jones, Bradford R., born: 27 June 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002049198
29 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Jones, Diane K., born: 28 January 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049199
29 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Jones, Haley Kenna, born: 1 December 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004182291
30 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Aldrich, Burton, born: 24 September 1936, Republican, Voter ID 002057956
30 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Aldrich, Georgia G., born: 24 May 1941, Republican, Voter ID 002050154
30 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Labbe, Carol A., born: 17 February 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003172029
31 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Henry, Christopher Richard, born: 6 May 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004141655
31 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Henry, Jessica Sarah, born: 15 July 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004066902
31 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Henry, Judith T., born: 8 December 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002053280
31 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Henry, Robert J., born: 15 June 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060646
32 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Cellucci, Christina, born: 23 August 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051235
32 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Cellucci, Donna, born: 30 March 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002051236
32 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Cellucci, Peter, born: 12 January 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002058866
32 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Cellucci, Teresa, born: 26 July 1986, Republican, Voter ID 003435382
33 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Yates, Colleen M., born: 6 January 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002057797
33 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Yates, Gerald Eric, born: 30 January 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002064607
33 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Yates, Kelly Marie, born: 7 April 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004430932
34 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Lamanna, Caitlyn R., born: 5 November 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004177289
34 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Lamanna, Gary L., born: 10 May 1954, Republican, Voter ID 003361319
35 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Cohen, Allan M., born: 11 March 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059022
35 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Cohen, Sherry B., born: 5 October 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002051428
35 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Zunino, Mary Elizabeth, born: 9 August 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004865952
35 Deepwood Road, Simsbury, Zunino, Simon L., born: 11 June 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004693887
4 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Acosta, Adrian W., born: 25 August 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 002048651
4 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Acosta, Isabel C., born: 9 October 1940, Democratic, Voter ID 002048652
4 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Acosta, Leon A., born: 1 March 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 002048653
4 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Acosta, Maureen J., born: 11 July 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 002050115
5 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Kiesewetter, Alice B., born: 22 November 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053876
5 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Kiesewetter, Lynne Burdick, born: 4 December 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005005033
5 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Kiesewetter, Warren A., born: 13 February 1942, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061185
6 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Bailey, Alexander Jay, born: 7 May 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004210332
6 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Bailey, Juergen F., born: 11 July 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002058114
6 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Bailey, Tyler James, born: 14 May 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004664597
10 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Sullivan, Ruth P., born: 22 July 1926, Republican, Voter ID 002056984
11 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Bailey, Charles, born: 13 December 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003442571
11 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Bailey, Lisa P., born: 9 June 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003544512
11 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Lovallo, Donna Jean, born: 22 January 1959, Republican, Voter ID 003610100
11 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Lovallo, Kenneth John, born: 22 December 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002582409
12 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Noonburg, Virginia W., born: 17 September 1931, Republican, Voter ID 002055283
15 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Bissonnette, Brieanna B., born: 8 June 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050654
15 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Leonard, Charles A., born: 21 August 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049406
15 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Paydos, Emma T., born: 10 September 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004556178
15 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Paydos, Pamela J., born: 20 December 1969, Republican, Voter ID 002055551
15 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Weltner, Joan E., born: 26 November 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002050051
16 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Nadeau, Christopher Michael, born: 4 June 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003423192
16 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Nadeau, Jonathan M., born: 30 March 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003767631
16 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Nadeau, Michael, born: 13 July 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002062292
16 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Nadeau, Susan B., born: 29 January 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055161
17 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Fuchs, Richard W., born: 7 January 1928, Republican, Voter ID 002059995
18 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Kozieradzki, Alexander, born: 18 April 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004425434
18 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Kozieradzki, Cheryl A., born: 4 May 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054006
18 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Kozieradzki, Ted, born: 7 October 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061301
29 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Groff, Emily M., born: 17 August 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 002053000
29 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Groff, Jeremy B., born: 18 June 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003459250
29 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Groff, John W., born: 6 September 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002060393
29 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Groff, S Kathleen, born: 9 February 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002053001
29 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Thompson, Jennifer Perl, born: 13 July 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 003059420
29 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Thompson, Wesley Allen, born: 25 January 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003061957
30 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Bouchard, Elizabeth D., born: 16 December 1972, Republican, Voter ID 003296720
30 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Bouchard, Marc J., born: 6 April 1970, Republican, Voter ID 000550677
31 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Riley, Allison J., born: 11 June 1958, Republican, Voter ID 003501187
31 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Riley, Brendan Charles, born: 6 May 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003501206
31 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Riley, Connor M., born: 15 March 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004815072
31 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Riley, John A., born: 29 July 1957, Republican, Voter ID 003501166
31 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Riley, Taylor A., born: 1 December 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003712672
33 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Fraher, Chris James, born: 6 June 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003228789
33 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Jobeless, Scott A., born: 3 February 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004338444
33 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Vevrone, Robin Leigh, born: 16 November 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 004338417
34 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Vecchioly, Erica Marie, born: 7 November 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004640757
34 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Vecchioly, Hector A., born: 20 November 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 004059201
36 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Sullivan, Allison Peny, born: 22 March 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003789440
36 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Sullivan, Timothy M., born: 18 September 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003831672
37 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Martin, Jonathan E., born: 21 January 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003893674
37 Deerfield Lane, Simsbury, Stewart, John G., born: 7 November 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049964
6 Deer Park Road, Simsbury, Bailey, Alexander Jay, born: 7 May 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004210332
99 Deer Park Road, Simsbury, Bell, Samantha Hillary, born: 10 June 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 002053929
3 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Costache, Marinela, born: 28 July 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003538821
3 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Costache, Radu Stefan, born: 27 October 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004859958
3 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Costache, Stefan, born: 2 November 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003513291
4 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Deluco, Brenda L., born: 5 October 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051822
4 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Deluco, Rachel E., born: 21 August 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004404309
4 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Deluco, Ralph E., born: 13 July 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002059361
5 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Rapport, Ann K., born: 1 November 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002055914
5 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Rapport, Douglas S., born: 27 March 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002062952
6 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Kelley, Michele, born: 20 April 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002053800
6 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Kelley, Richard C., born: 17 November 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002061112
6 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Kelley, Samantha Lynn, born: 5 December 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003801155
6 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Sheriffs, Elizabeth A., born: 9 May 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 002799612
6 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Sheriffs, William Dunn, born: 28 April 1975, Republican, Voter ID 000665630
6 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Swanson, Ashley Lynn, born: 26 September 1985, Republican, Voter ID 004673423
6 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Swanson, Zachary P., born: 30 November 1984, Republican, Voter ID 004723603
9 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Johnson, Bryce A., born: 31 October 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003768940
9 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Martin, Danielle M., born: 23 November 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003922750
9 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Martin, Mary Kate E., born: 30 July 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003903540
9 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Martin, Reilly A., born: 16 April 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004525800
9 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Martin, Ryan P., born: 15 December 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003918691
9 Dogwood Lane, Simsbury, Martin, Timothy Gerard, born: 26 August 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003719966
1 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Macneil, James, born: 20 March 2000, Democratic, Voter ID 004982235
1 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Mac Neil, Lisa M., born: 15 November 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 001989398
1 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Mac Neil, Mark J., born: 23 November 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001989399
2 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Thomas, Ashley Taylor, born: 15 January 1997, Republican, Voter ID 004521334
2 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Thomas, Cynthia T., born: 25 November 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002057123
2 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Thomas, J Donaldson, born: 22 May 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 003740861
3 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Dumez, Karen B., born: 8 January 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002049841
3 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Rieger, Lauren Beth, born: 14 July 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004289210
3 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Rieger, Rebecca Lynn, born: 26 November 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004079120
4 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Lidestri, Gina, born: 30 May 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003897563
4 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Lidestri, Matthew W., born: 12 March 1983, Republican, Voter ID 004008094
4 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Richardson, James W., born: 20 October 1979, Republican, Voter ID 002063030
4 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Richardson, William J., born: 22 June 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 002063039
5 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Macchesney, Kelly Lee Pilling, born: 24 September 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004946242
5 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Macchesney, Scott Allan, born: 3 March 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004802132
5 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Rikon, Sharon F., born: 8 January 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056456
6 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Gerrol, Courtney L., born: 18 February 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 002052704
6 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Gerrol, Gregory M., born: 25 August 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 002060118
6 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Gerrol, Phyllis J., born: 22 August 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002052705
7 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Accardi, Kenneth Ross, born: 25 February 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 003804265
7 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Accardi, Philip, born: 10 May 1939, Republican, Voter ID 002057925
7 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Accardi, Susan R., born: 4 June 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002050108
8 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Scher, Jeremy Aaron, born: 26 March 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003878209
8 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Scher, Madeleine J., born: 29 July 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002049887
8 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Scher, Michael E., born: 9 January 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002049888
8 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Scher, Sarah Elise, born: 19 December 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004234085
9 Dominique Lane Unit 10A8, Simsbury, Orta, Jason, born: 29 January 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003571852
9 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Parker, Diane, born: 12 February 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055502
9 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Parker, Kristen M., born: 5 July 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004131827
9 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Parker, Lauren B., born: 12 July 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003435396
10 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Cawthon, Carolyn M., born: 31 March 1940, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051222
10 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Cawthon, Robert L., born: 27 November 1935, Republican, Voter ID 002058853
11 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Karsky, Bradford F., born: 3 September 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 000126930
11 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Pickette, Nathan Andrew, born: 1 September 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004252886
11 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Puckette, Ian D., born: 18 March 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004404638
11 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Puckette, Nathan Andrew, born: 1 September 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004252886
11 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Puckette, Phyllis B., born: 14 November 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002055849
15 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Kehoe, Gerald F., born: 10 December 1934, Democratic, Voter ID 002061102
15 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Kehoe, Mary Frances, born: 8 December 1936, Democratic, Voter ID 002053783
17 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Brandt, Rebecca Wahl, born: 2 March 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 004236240
17 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Brandt, Todd M., born: 17 July 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 003566813
17 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Hayden, Diane W., born: 21 January 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002053198
17 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Hayden, Kenneth W., born: 18 July 1945, Republican, Voter ID 002060581
17 Dominique Lane, Simsbury, Hayden, Robert Matthew, born: 31 May 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003519548
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 625, Simsbury, Adams, Katherine M., born: 14 June 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004320919
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 624, Simsbury, Aleksiewicz, Samantha J., born: 17 January 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003974477
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 327, Simsbury, Anatone, Catherine Mary, born: 26 November 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004853634
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 327, Simsbury, Anatone, Veronica L., born: 8 December 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004855040
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 532, Simsbury, Arvan, Stacia Elizabeth, born: 23 December 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004840458
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 505, Simsbury, Arvan, Susan Wray, born: 29 May 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 004616051
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 821, Simsbury, Aschaffenburg, Daniel Jacob, born: 20 April 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 004243384
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 408, Simsbury, Baker, Brian, born: 13 July 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004723186
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 528, Simsbury, Baranik, David Todd, born: 15 June 1958, Republican, Voter ID 004850215
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 528, Simsbury, Baranik, Golnara Ayn, born: 18 October 1995, Republican, Voter ID 004853640
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 622, Simsbury, Barnard, Catherine A., born: 14 May 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002048741
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 622, Simsbury, Barnard, James G., born: 7 June 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058165
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 622, Simsbury, Barnard, Margaret R., born: 28 January 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004346724
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 535, Simsbury, Basner, Diane Erica, born: 30 June 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 004819428
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 533, Simsbury, Beach, Arthur C., born: 13 April 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004795522
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 225, Simsbury, Beal, Aaron R., born: 11 October 1965, Republican, Voter ID 003515612
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 803, Simsbury, Beals, Jocelyn Nicole, born: 28 December 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004788516
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 821, Simsbury, Bergman, Jessica Gayle, born: 26 February 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 004835800
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 838, Simsbury, Bossart, Bernard Roger, born: 15 October 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004503367
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 838, Simsbury, Bossart, Lynne, born: 17 August 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 004503365
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 838, Simsbury, Bossart, Sophie Ginette, born: 25 April 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004923498
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 835, Simsbury, Bratkovics, Nicolle L., born: 15 January 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 003499468
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 724, Simsbury, Bray, Kimberly A., born: 23 February 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003912427
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 322, Simsbury, Bretas-Romano, Emily L., born: 21 December 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 003164908
55 Dorset Crossing Drive, Simsbury, Brown, Shannon E., born: 30 November 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004473230
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 531, Simsbury, Brynga, Patricia M., born: 31 May 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 000763008
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 405, Simsbury, Burgess, Doreen, born: 18 March 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000454810
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 834, Simsbury, Burkhardt, Kate Elizabeth, born: 13 December 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004621030
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 608, Simsbury, Burr, Cynthia H., born: 27 October 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050991
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 608, Simsbury, Burr, David W., born: 7 June 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002058655
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 608, Simsbury, Burr, Mason David, born: 9 July 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004627520
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 502, Simsbury, Bury, Melissa Denise, born: 16 September 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003606473
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 308, Simsbury, Buzzelli, Samantha Rose, born: 27 April 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003668971
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 204, Simsbury, Carballo, Francisco E., born: 19 July 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004649605
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 204, Simsbury, Carballo, Maria C., born: 10 June 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 004673942
55 Dorset Crossing Drive, Simsbury, Carlson, Mark Thomas, born: 11 April 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 004683962
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 807, Simsbury, Carroll, Angela S., born: 23 August 1923, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004596422
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 505, Simsbury, Chessen, David Adam, born: 3 June 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004845942
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 532, Simsbury, Christian, Arabella, born: 4 August 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 004656978
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 338, Simsbury, Cleary, Jill E., born: 17 June 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003145946
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 406, Simsbury, Clevenger, Joey, born: 22 December 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 004531940
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 406, Simsbury, Clevenger, Kathleen, born: 2 September 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 004531946
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 302, Simsbury, Cloonan, Marion, born: 23 February 1951, Republican, Voter ID 000495193
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 205, Simsbury, Cohen, Gary Steven, born: 23 March 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 003545965
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 634, Simsbury, Colby, Kaitlyn Elizabeth, born: 11 April 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004890357
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 308, Simsbury, Cooper, Joy Tyler, born: 21 July 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 000068429
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 731, Simsbury, Cornachio, Christine M., born: 27 November 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 003677104
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 805, Simsbury, Costolnick, Katherine Rose, born: 26 June 1990, Republican, Voter ID 003812731
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 708, Simsbury, Crowley, Daniel W., born: 29 May 1922, Republican, Voter ID 002059189
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 708, Simsbury, Crowley, Kelley Thomen, born: 16 September 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 000816923
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 608, Simsbury, D'amato, Kaylee Nicole, born: 14 November 1999, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004927096
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 608, Simsbury, D'amato, Kimberly Kay, born: 12 March 1960, Republican, Voter ID 001970419
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 603, Simsbury, Davis, Meghan E., born: 28 May 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004330206
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 738, Simsbury, De Conti, Christopher M., born: 8 April 1962, Republican, Voter ID 000080888
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 738, Simsbury, De Conti, Phyllis, born: 11 September 1961, Republican, Voter ID 000080889
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 506, Simsbury, Delisi, Eric Vincent, born: 2 August 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004781452
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 736, Simsbury, Derocker, Benjamin Davis, born: 21 September 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004887364
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 306, Simsbury, Diamond, Matthew, born: 20 August 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 004430589
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 436, Simsbury, Diaz-Munoz, Jose Luis, born: 31 March 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 004781445
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 826, Simsbury, Dimartino, Andrew Joseph, born: 20 November 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 004856172
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 837, Simsbury, Donohue, Amber L., born: 10 November 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004584142
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 503, Simsbury, Dooman, Lauren E., born: 26 October 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004995162
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 326, Simsbury, Dorsey, Kate Susanna, born: 12 May 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 004640747
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 227, Simsbury, Dougherty, Kingsley Stephen, born: 29 September 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004531636
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 406, Simsbury, Dublanica, Kathleen V., born: 6 June 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002052038
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 737, Simsbury, Eberly, Benjamin A., born: 8 November 1986, Republican, Voter ID 003986127
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 322, Simsbury, Farrar, Kate, born: 16 September 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004573098
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 326, Simsbury, Farri, Rebecca D., born: 9 May 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003976093
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 703, Simsbury, Felt, Jeremy D., born: 12 June 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 003197459
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 823, Simsbury, Ferenc, Katarzyna J., born: 22 April 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003749674
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 701, Simsbury, Fiocchi-Marden, Jeanmarie, born: 15 February 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 004775678
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 436, Simsbury, Franco, Karen Johanna, born: 29 February 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 004781440
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 706, Simsbury, Fucini, Michael A., born: 11 January 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003910846
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 725, Simsbury, Fusco, David Gerald, born: 25 August 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004288580
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 323, Simsbury, Gaines, Sarah L., born: 17 December 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 002700261
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 635, Simsbury, Garneau, Nathan, born: 21 March 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 004703657
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 433, Simsbury, Gatewood, Andria Marzina, born: 27 July 1976, Independent, Voter ID 004691396
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 522, Simsbury, Giblin, Claire Michelle, born: 1 July 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004667089
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 722, Simsbury, Goguen, Cynthia Susan, born: 7 July 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 004658742
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 537, Simsbury, Gosavi, Nataraj, born: 5 April 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003895922
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 202, Simsbury, Goyer, Carol R., born: 27 August 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 004998638
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 202, Simsbury, Goyer, Glenn, born: 7 July 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 001906053
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 524, Simsbury, Graham, Matthew Thomas, born: 20 July 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000485196
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 835, Simsbury, Greiten, Patrick J., born: 30 October 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002060372
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 628, Simsbury, Herlands, Karen L., born: 27 April 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002053287
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 628, Simsbury, Herlands, Ross D., born: 17 August 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002060648
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 325, Simsbury, Herman, Kelley Elizabeth, born: 3 April 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003673276
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 224, Simsbury, Hewitt, John Louis, born: 19 January 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004526684
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 408, Simsbury, Hodgkins, Cassandra Lynn, born: 9 March 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004873449
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 408, Simsbury, Hodgkins, Duston Jonathan, born: 30 May 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004873453
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 506, Simsbury, Hoffnagle, Jonathan Earl, born: 27 December 1957, Republican, Voter ID 000433748
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 238, Simsbury, Holmen, Gilbert Eric, born: 22 January 1944, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000720733
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 528, Simsbury, Hunt, Evan Miles, born: 16 May 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004658878
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 731, Simsbury, Jennings, Kimberly Ann, born: 7 December 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 003767779
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 208, Simsbury, Jensen, Christopher Robert, born: 16 May 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004642645
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 502, Simsbury, Kang, Jason Hughes, born: 5 May 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004077263
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 726, Simsbury, Keily, Hanna Marie, born: 21 May 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003753256
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 823, Simsbury, Kinzer, Matthew, born: 19 April 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003335450
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 324, Simsbury, Kramer, Marci A., born: 19 October 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004946352
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 632, Simsbury, Kreisher, Cynthia A., born: 29 May 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054021
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 632, Simsbury, Kreisher, John Stephen, born: 12 June 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061312
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 233, Simsbury, Kuharski, Jillian, born: 30 October 1986, Republican, Voter ID 004278974
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 303, Simsbury, Lacedonia, Jill, born: 12 June 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 002054077
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 403, Simsbury, Lapent, Diane M., born: 20 May 1943, Republican, Voter ID 000567517
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 328, Simsbury, Lapin, Joyce Ellen, born: 21 April 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002054121
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 335, Simsbury, Lee, Kellie M., born: 16 October 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004729152
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 331, Simsbury, Lindsay, Adam, born: 13 March 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 004640844
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 524, Simsbury, Lindstrom, Adrienne Marie, born: 30 April 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004465927
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 805, Simsbury, Maldonado, Hayley, born: 21 November 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 004426326
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 805, Simsbury, Maldonado, Jose Alberto, born: 16 December 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 004129260
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 423, Simsbury, Maloney, Sarah L., born: 10 July 1981, Republican, Voter ID 004164781
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 421, Simsbury, Mansel, Colin Thomas, born: 17 February 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004204595
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 421, Simsbury, Mansel, Donna Lynn, born: 15 March 1958, Republican, Voter ID 003309210
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 208, Simsbury, Marra, Christopher, born: 27 December 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004194723
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 208, Simsbury, Marra, Nicole, born: 23 July 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004194719
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 332, Simsbury, Marteney, Martha E., born: 2 March 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003800538
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 305, Simsbury, Marx, Katherine Anne, born: 24 June 1969, Republican, Voter ID 004110442
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 305, Simsbury, Marx, Steven L., born: 8 August 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002031793
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 201, Simsbury, Maulit, Vijay Padron, born: 1 October 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004850192
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 837, Simsbury, Mazza, Jonathan Alexander, born: 22 November 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004085623
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 327, Simsbury, McDonald, Ryan K., born: 14 August 1979, Republican, Voter ID 004522195
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 501, Simsbury, McGregor, Gregory Scott, born: 9 December 1948, Republican, Voter ID 003247333
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 501, Simsbury, McGregor, Patrice, born: 29 October 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002055282
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 326, Simsbury, Mc Kenna, Christopher John, born: 10 September 1990, Republican, Voter ID 003989440
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 738, Simsbury, McKenna, Pamela Dawn, born: 1 May 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 004940335
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 706, Simsbury, McLaughlin, Kristin Carol, born: 16 September 1990, Republican, Voter ID 004571886
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 521, Simsbury, McNeil, Mark, born: 26 March 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004745179
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 826, Simsbury, Mentus, Kelly L., born: 16 October 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003878260
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 402, Simsbury, Merriam, Alexander Harlan, born: 20 October 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004353322
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 402, Simsbury, Merriam, Susan Standish, born: 9 April 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002054834
55 Dorset Crossing Drive, Simsbury, Miller, Jane C., born: 4 April 1948, Republican, Voter ID 000568339
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 806, Simsbury, Miller, Susan A., born: 18 September 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001971116
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 307, Simsbury, Mitman, Cindy Lynn, born: 7 March 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004894881
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 307, Simsbury, Mitman, Krista L., born: 17 February 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004972470
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 535, Simsbury, Moore, Timothy, born: 30 September 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002689781
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 707, Simsbury, Morad, Clayton Jon, born: 22 April 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004923937
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 306, Simsbury, Murrone, Kristen E., born: 17 February 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003943700
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 304, Simsbury, Neidle, Peter M., born: 9 January 1943, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000397915
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 402, Simsbury, Newman, Lucy Caroline, born: 11 March 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004819426
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 402, Simsbury, Newman, Susan M., born: 9 April 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002054834
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 205, Simsbury, Nickerson, Joshua Ronald, born: 6 September 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004940334
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 431, Simsbury, O'Brien, Katherine E., born: 5 December 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 004690166
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 334, Simsbury, Olney, Elizabeth, born: 18 April 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 004623635
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 226, Simsbury, Orifice, Jennifer M., born: 26 October 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004500372
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 627, Simsbury, Paine, Angela Elena, born: 8 June 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004745357
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 808, Simsbury, Parsons, Mary, born: 17 August 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001996636
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 808, Simsbury, Parsons, William F., born: 10 November 1941, Republican, Voter ID 001996645
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 733, Simsbury, Pedersen, Cheryl S., born: 28 September 1969, Republican, Voter ID 002055575
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 503, Simsbury, Rathnam, Kashmila Rekha, born: 19 November 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004856930
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 302, Simsbury, Raymond, Carol J., born: 27 August 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 001805689
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 822, Simsbury, Reynolds, Nancy L., born: 27 September 1982, Republican, Voter ID 003154379
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 703, Simsbury, Rhea, Emily E., born: 5 May 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004982506
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 506, Simsbury, Rivard, Stephanie Marie, born: 6 October 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004746066
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 228, Simsbury, Rogers, Suzanne M., born: 19 November 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004688136
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 703, Simsbury, Rohrig, Jake, born: 1 June 1988, Republican, Voter ID 004982514
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 727, Simsbury, Routledge, Jeffrey B., born: 9 October 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 003358229
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 238, Simsbury, Russell, Jeffrey L., born: 22 June 1970, Republican, Voter ID 004340020
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 55, Simsbury, Russell, Robert L., born: 7 July 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002001478
55 Dorset Crossing Drive, Simsbury, Russo, James Vincent, born: 17 October 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004197102
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 706, Simsbury, Saenger-Heyl, Kurt Matthew, born: 24 May 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004867993
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 226, Simsbury, Salgado, Vanessa Abigail, born: 26 March 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004480718
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 802, Simsbury, Santiago, Tanja, born: 25 August 1980, Libertarian, Voter ID 004769480
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 206, Simsbury, Schaffer, Mary Elizabeth, born: 6 October 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 004923033
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 206, Simsbury, Schaffer, Wyatt Allen, born: 19 May 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004916551
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 408, Simsbury, Schaller, Margery Lynn, born: 20 March 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 003636751
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 624, Simsbury, Scheirey, Douglas P., born: 29 April 1970, Republican, Voter ID 002015393
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 725, Simsbury, Scherer, Christen Alizabeth, born: 13 January 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004799580
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 728, Simsbury, Schultz, Matthew, born: 2 July 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004644492
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 728, Simsbury, Schultz, Melissa, born: 1 December 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004690426
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 432, Simsbury, Scudieri, Jessica Noelle, born: 29 June 1985, Republican, Voter ID 002455510
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 432, Simsbury, Scudieri, Jonathan Michael, born: 29 September 1982, Republican, Voter ID 003153219
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 637, Simsbury, Searson, Michael M., born: 29 October 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004895881
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 231, Simsbury, Shay, Susan Helene, born: 1 November 1955, Republican, Voter ID 001906403
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 208, Simsbury, Sheehan, Eugene A., born: 16 May 1946, Republican, Voter ID 001795736
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 208, Simsbury, Sheehan, Sandra Ann, born: 23 May 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 001795745
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 331, Simsbury, Shute, Britta Lucretia, born: 20 July 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 004635099
55 Dorset Crossing Drive, Simsbury, Sparks, Erika Denise, born: 14 May 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 004877148
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 426, Simsbury, Spiga, Melissa Anne, born: 13 July 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004648040
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 224, Simsbury, Stadolnik, Kristen Michelle, born: 23 October 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004279951
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 224, Simsbury, Stadolnik, Mark Francis, born: 10 September 1983, Republican, Voter ID 004434207
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 325, Simsbury, Stelly, Evan Michael, born: 24 August 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004480837
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 606, Simsbury, Stuto, Alexa, born: 10 September 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004900046
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 605, Simsbury, Styffe, Tyler James, born: 24 November 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004967168
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 222, Simsbury, Suarez, Alberto, born: 10 March 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 004516117
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 638, Simsbury, Syrett, Jonathan James, born: 16 July 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 005008479
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 325, Simsbury, Theriault, Nichole, born: 12 January 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003737419
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 437, Simsbury, Thompson, Richard B., born: 7 December 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003438100
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 632, Simsbury, Thorney, Carol Yvette, born: 16 April 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 000493802
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 732, Simsbury, Tweed, Melissa Carolyn, born: 27 December 1988, Republican, Voter ID 004658146
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 833, Simsbury, Uzanas, Doris, born: 22 January 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002008670
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 435, Simsbury, Valigorsky, John Michael, born: 17 March 1972, Republican, Voter ID 004538799
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 435, Simsbury, Valigorsky, Sara Kate, born: 13 April 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004538822
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 728, Simsbury, Vandriessche, Timothy Brian, born: 30 January 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 004867470
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 728, Simsbury, Vandriessche, Victoria Ann, born: 27 December 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 004867473
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 702, Simsbury, Vasko, Patricia A., born: 11 January 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000430645
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 522, Simsbury, Venturella, Claire Michelle, born: 1 July 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004667089
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 207, Simsbury, Wadington, Max Taylor, born: 7 August 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004400178
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 207, Simsbury, Wadington, William John, born: 2 October 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003160536
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 508, Simsbury, Wali, Hassib, born: 1 December 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 004716242
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 302, Simsbury, Walker, Karen June, born: 11 July 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 004212448
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 806, Simsbury, Wallman, Carol A., born: 1 December 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002639241
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 734, Simsbury, Weitz, Matthew Edward, born: 17 October 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004442517
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 234, Simsbury, Wentworth, Joan N., born: 5 January 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 004620423
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 501, Simsbury, Wetstone, Barbara A., born: 10 November 1938, Republican, Voter ID 000134408
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 801, Simsbury, Wilcox, John Dugan Anthony, born: 9 September 1944, Independent, Voter ID 004903337
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 507, Simsbury, Willard, Rose Evelyn, born: 19 March 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004799578
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 235, Simsbury, Williams, Julia R., born: 5 February 1959, Republican, Voter ID 004659037
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 604, Simsbury, Wraight, Erin E., born: 25 April 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 003529471
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 824, Simsbury, Yackeren, Ashley, born: 18 February 1991, Republican, Voter ID 004620435
55 Dorset Crossing Drive Unit 638, Simsbury, Ziegler, Keith Thomas, born: 30 January 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002305622
55 Dorset Crossing Drive, Simsbury, Zmarzly, Haley Nicole, born: 19 April 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004990367
1 Drake Hill Road, Simsbury, Robinson, Matthew E., born: 7 May 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004991199
29 Drake Hill Road, Simsbury, Brown, Jesse B., born: 15 February 1977, Republican, Voter ID 002058581
29 Drake Hill Road, Simsbury, Mason, Deborah G., born: 19 April 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054559
29 Drake Hill Road, Simsbury, Mason, John G., born: 12 March 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002061762
29 Drake Hill Road, Simsbury, Mason, Sophie Elizabeth, born: 14 June 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003676858
22 Drumlin Road, Simsbury, Martin, Amy H., born: 5 August 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003893664
1 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Metzger, Frederick B., born: 3 August 1933, Democratic, Voter ID 002062014
1 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Metzger, Shirley R., born: 19 November 1930, Democratic, Voter ID 002054847
2 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Scanlon, Patricia A., born: 10 October 1924, Democratic, Voter ID 002056368
2 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Snyder, Helen A., born: 7 July 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004477396
2 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Snyder, Stanley F., born: 15 June 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004477397
3 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Gridley, David D., born: 17 January 1944, Republican, Voter ID 002060378
3 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Gridley, Mary C., born: 17 July 1945, Independent, Voter ID 002052984
4 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Guglielmino, Alexa, born: 10 July 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004567290
4 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Guglielmino, Irene, born: 21 May 1970, Republican, Voter ID 003696065
4 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Guglielmino, Paul, born: 10 December 1968, Republican, Voter ID 003696056
5 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Golden, Craig, born: 5 February 1945, Republican, Voter ID 002060241
6 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Cosgrove, Edward M., born: 23 October 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 002059131
6 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Cosgrove, Noreen W., born: 13 October 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 002051562
6 Eagle Lane, Simsbury, Llewellyn, Zachary John, born: 6 December 1983, Republican, Voter ID 004759345
5 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Woodward, David A., born: 27 December 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 004260467
5 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Woodward, Ian Paul, born: 6 December 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004889805
5 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Woodward, Susan N., born: 14 October 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 004303654
6 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Dymersky, Regina M., born: 7 October 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002052095
6 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Meale, Gary Michael, born: 6 April 1955, Independent, Voter ID 004875727
6 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Ryan, Kevin S., born: 1 August 1956, Republican, Voter ID 003453846
9 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Curilla, Susan, born: 12 June 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 004215069
9 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Kezerian, Jeffrey M., born: 30 December 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061176
9 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Mooneyham, Jill L., born: 25 January 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 003759730
9 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Sturdevant, Matthew W., born: 6 December 1974, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004215062
10 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Kelly, Brenna Marie, born: 1 May 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004572864
10 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Kelly, Chris M., born: 14 November 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002061114
10 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Kelly, Sharon L., born: 31 December 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002053817
11 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Bordner, Christopher D., born: 31 March 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000785403
11 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Bordner, Ingrid B., born: 7 November 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 000785378
11 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Lydecker, Stephanie Loren, born: 13 November 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003786824
11 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Saunders, Geoffrey Richard, born: 18 March 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003620979
11 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Saunders, Robert C, born: 22 December 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003459244
14 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, McCullough, Amanda Jane, born: 11 March 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003523490
14 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, McCullough, Michael Van, born: 18 August 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003167052
18 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Wilder, Ramah P., born: 23 April 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004705553
9 1/2 East Tomstead Road, Simsbury, Kozlowski, Marge G., born: 15 December 1936, Democratic, Voter ID 002054010
1 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Barrows, Erik A., born: 26 April 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 002014172
1 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Barrows, Meredith W., born: 30 January 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 002014174
2 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Bernkopf, Walter C., born: 27 July 1926, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058319
2 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Suprenant, Danielle Barone, born: 12 August 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004281765
2 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Suprenant, Michael Paul, born: 3 February 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004281815
3 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Conradi, Melinda, born: 15 April 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 003483421
3 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Meyer, Ellen Christina, born: 3 August 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004889789
3 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Meyer, Jacqueline G., born: 10 July 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004499732
3 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Meyer, Julie K., born: 14 December 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002054855
3 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Meyer, Kevin Paul, born: 12 June 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 002062021
3 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Meyer, Theodore J., born: 18 March 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004210266
4 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Davidson, Barbara J., born: 6 February 1940, Republican, Voter ID 002051740
4 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Davidson, Wendy E., born: 6 September 1972, Republican, Voter ID 002051743
4 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Kim, Wanjin, born: 29 August 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004611728
5 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, McCann, Heidi E V, born: 25 March 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003401131
5 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, McCann, Paul Michael, born: 31 March 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003110941
5 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Willy, Marcus Alexander, born: 17 June 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004796243
5 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Willy, Tami Rae, born: 9 August 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004796241
6 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Croft, Edward S., born: 9 March 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003434199
6 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Pohl, Geoffrey A., born: 30 June 1967, Republican, Voter ID 004282640
6 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Pohl, Jacob Wayne, born: 9 October 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004925683
6 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Pohl, Tiffany J., born: 14 August 1968, Republican, Voter ID 003715687
7 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Bernier, Sarah, born: 4 January 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003274281
7 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Bernier, Stephen R., born: 8 January 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003274277
8 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Byrne, Amy L., born: 1 January 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 000421703
8 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Byrne, Bryan F., born: 23 November 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000624121
8 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, McKee, Joan, born: 7 August 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004153554
9 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Mule, Amanda Robin, born: 12 January 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003717452
9 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Mule, Lisa N., born: 19 December 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002055096
9 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Mule, Matthew Philip, born: 18 April 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003951034
9 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Mule, Robert M., born: 15 April 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002062229
10 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Gauthier, Brigid Carey, born: 12 November 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004533732
10 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Gauthier, Christopher J., born: 9 March 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049051
10 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Gauthier, Kathleen C., born: 16 February 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052664
10 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Gauthier, Madeleine Agnes, born: 11 November 1994, Republican, Voter ID 004519244
10 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Gillis, Daniel P., born: 17 October 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 000205605
10 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Gillis, Kristen, born: 13 April 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004837867
12 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Bates, Cameron Douglas, born: 16 May 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004944984
12 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Bates, Douglas Andrew, born: 12 April 1964, Republican, Voter ID 000283554
12 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Bates, Olivia G., born: 13 June 1997, Republican, Voter ID 004648008
12 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Stein, Betty M., born: 22 July 1927, Republican, Voter ID 002056884
12 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Stein, Paul G., born: 1 April 1925, Republican, Voter ID 002063825
12 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Stein, Thomas C., born: 21 October 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002063826
14 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Ceolin, Anthony J., born: 3 December 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004823157
16 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Burk, Noah R., born: 2 January 1982, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003712625
16 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Muldoon-Burk, Joan, born: 27 September 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049694
16 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Williams, Alan D., born: 24 April 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002064480
16 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Williams, Sandra P., born: 2 October 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002057660
16 Eastview Drive, Simsbury, Williams, Scott A., born: 29 January 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 002064493
2 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Caldeira, Donna M., born: 23 October 1943, Democratic, Voter ID 002051055
2 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Caldeira, Kenneth D., born: 7 February 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058711
2 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Ellsworth, Lida Elizabeth, born: 10 November 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003971455
3 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Wade, Abigail M., born: 24 July 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004625761
3 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Wade, Daniel Haran, born: 9 June 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004413735
3 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Wade, Katharine, born: 5 March 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 002057405
3 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Wade, Michael T., born: 10 December 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002064272
9 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Coldwell, Trudy, born: 17 February 1933, Republican, Voter ID 002051435
11 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Willis, Brett M, born: 1 April 1986, Republican, Voter ID 003459085
11 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Willis, Mark G., born: 26 October 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002064500
11 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Willis, Patricia W., born: 3 June 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002057668
19 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Stewart, Edna J., born: 28 March 1927, Republican, Voter ID 002056918
19 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Stewart, Howard R., born: 4 January 1930, Republican, Voter ID 002063858
25 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Epstein, Kate E., born: 22 June 1982, Independence, Voter ID 002052207
26 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Alfeld, Chad S., born: 27 December 1967, Republican, Voter ID 002057960
26 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Alfeld, Denise H., born: 20 November 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002050160
26 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Alfeld, Eleanor Lynne, born: 3 August 2001, Democratic, Voter ID 005002566
26 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Alfeld, Emma Louise, born: 28 September 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004616096
30 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Lanza, Joseph P., born: 3 October 1935, Democratic, Voter ID 002061398
30 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Lanza, Susanne H., born: 10 November 1937, Democratic, Voter ID 002049309
34 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Brown, Jack Wilson, born: 26 November 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004874646
34 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Brown, James Edward, born: 8 September 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002048816
34 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Brown, Nancy W., born: 21 December 1962, Republican, Voter ID 003785266
39 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Keithline, Wilson, born: 21 October 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002061108
41 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Epstein, Amanda J., born: 11 March 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052202
41 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Epstein, Lisa K., born: 9 July 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052209
41 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Epstein, Lynn C., born: 27 November 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052210
41 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Epstein, Marshall B., born: 19 June 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059702
42 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Hyyppa, Johanna Catherine, born: 9 May 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003888652
42 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Hyyppa, Kalervo K., born: 13 May 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004211498
42 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Hyyppa, Kari Taft, born: 13 March 1999, Democratic, Voter ID 004981578
42 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Hyyppa, Patricia F., born: 10 December 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 001804206
42 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Hyyppa, Reino Aleksander, born: 25 January 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004875207
45 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Hill, David J., born: 3 February 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004341524
45 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Hill, Megan M., born: 15 February 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054663
45 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, McCusker, Eric M., born: 5 June 1984, Republican, Voter ID 002061853
45 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, McCusker, Meagen M., born: 4 September 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 002054662
45 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, McCusker, Robert J., born: 25 July 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002061854
49 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Battaglia, Regina, born: 28 February 1954, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050475
49 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Battaglia-Beley, Loren, born: 18 January 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003386579
49 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Battaglia-Beley, Sarah, born: 30 November 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050476
49 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Beley, Paul W., born: 18 March 1953, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058262
51 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Gerdner, Eric Axel, born: 4 January 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004053564
51 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Gerdner, Oscar Axel, born: 4 January 1991, Democratic, Voter ID 004053571
51 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Levin-Gerdner, Christina, born: 3 January 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003926239
52 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Sullivan, Cherith A., born: 7 October 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056972
52 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Sullivan, Mark Francis, born: 5 May 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063914
54 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Sullivan, Dennis P., born: 5 February 1922, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002006639
56 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Baierwick, Timothy J., born: 10 August 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002058108
56 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Johnson, Mark R., born: 31 December 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002060975
56 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Leurent, Beatrice Ignace, born: 6 January 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 003774941
57 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mielert, Anita L., born: 11 October 1946, Democratic, Voter ID 002054878
57 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mielert, Wolfried H., born: 10 July 1937, Democratic, Voter ID 002062041
57 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Trautman, Timothy L., born: 8 May 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004601442
63 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Cranshaw, Emily A., born: 18 September 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003780020
63 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Cranshaw, Melanie B., born: 9 April 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002048897
63 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Cranshaw, Shelby Elizabeth, born: 30 June 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004226953
63 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Cranshaw, William O., born: 22 September 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002048898
64 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Ziplow, Ellyn J., born: 1 December 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 002057892
64 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Ziplow, Samuel A., born: 11 March 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002064678
65 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Stephenson, Charles B., born: 14 December 1940, Democratic, Voter ID 002063841
65 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Stephenson, Linda C., born: 7 July 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002056902
66 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Espeso, Garrett J., born: 28 June 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003998218
66 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Espeso, Stacie E., born: 18 August 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004223436
66 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Fraipont, Carrie F., born: 2 April 1969, Republican, Voter ID 003650268
66 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Fraipont, Paul Anthony, born: 1 October 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003650271
66 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Jones, James T., born: 23 March 1961, Republican, Voter ID 004221648
67 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Fillmore, Kevin S., born: 7 November 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002059842
67 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Fillmore, Loren Marie, born: 24 June 1996, Democratic, Voter ID 004488630
67 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Fillmore, Lucille M., born: 14 January 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 002052375
71 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, August, Ann, born: 5 June 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050303
71 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, August, Gladys T., born: 31 October 1921, Republican, Voter ID 000430058
71 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Baierwick, Philip C., born: 15 February 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058107
71 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Baierwick, Rebecca Ann, born: 20 December 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004409253
71 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Baierwick, Sarah A., born: 10 March 1998, Democratic, Voter ID 004556141
71 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Parmelee, Sarah E., born: 14 April 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004455819
71 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Parmelww, Sarah E., born: 14 April 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004455814
72 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Goetz, Charles G., born: 17 October 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 003844904
72 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Goetz, Heather Joy, born: 7 January 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 003844909
73 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mead, Allison Elizabeth, born: 13 March 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003689640
73 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mead, Bradford M., born: 27 April 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061948
73 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mead, Dianne L., born: 9 February 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002054778
73 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mead, Jeffrey Michael, born: 20 July 1990, Republican, Voter ID 004054434
80 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Wilson, Catherine N., born: 24 November 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003700032
80 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Wilson, Scott A., born: 6 March 1965, Republican, Voter ID 003700030
85 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Graves, Corey F., born: 28 October 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004561750
85 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Graves, Rachel B., born: 14 February 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004649521
86 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Feinsinger, Christopher M., born: 4 September 1967, Republican, Voter ID 002059800
86 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Feinsinger, Heather A., born: 5 January 1967, Republican, Voter ID 002052318
88 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Malone, Katherine E., born: 26 October 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003910618
88 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Malone, Timothy M., born: 25 July 1933, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003830824
88 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Muller, David J., born: 20 October 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002789730
89 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Barry, Robert Michael, born: 2 November 1956, Republican, Voter ID 003083810
89 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Riveros, Mercedes Teresa, born: 8 March 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004577610
89 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Rodriguez, Jose Luis, born: 15 August 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 004513993
90 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Green, Alan S., born: 3 July 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002060347
91 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Avery, Justin W., born: 15 May 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003401170
91 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, McCarty, Aja S., born: 14 November 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004288174
91 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Sjostedt, Nancy E., born: 11 July 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 003880143
92 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Larson, Ellis C., born: 13 February 1950, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049324
93 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Girard, Ethan M., born: 30 October 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004063750
93 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Marx, Sherri L., born: 1 September 1967, Republican, Voter ID 002054555
93 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Selby, Glenn T., born: 6 April 1970, Republican, Voter ID 002063481
93 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Selby, Mary Beth, born: 12 December 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056490
93 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Selby, Stephen F., born: 12 July 1967, Republican, Voter ID 002049902
97 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Kummer, Kyle P., born: 19 February 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003426045
97 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Lilly, Annette C., born: 31 July 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 002054257
97 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Lilly, Matthew D., born: 13 January 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002049464
100 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Lukaszewski, William, born: 10 March 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004664545
100 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Pintoff, Jonathan H., born: 15 July 1981, Republican, Voter ID 003065410
100 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Pintoff, Lisa M., born: 3 March 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 003046486
100 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Zincke, Margaret F., born: 14 December 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003573307
101 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Cordi, Meagan W., born: 26 January 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003387592
101 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Cordi, Michael Christopher, born: 19 July 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004829897
101 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Cunnane, Laurel D., born: 1 April 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002051649
103 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Steer, Richard G., born: 28 March 1945, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063821
104 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Zaremba, Frank J., born: 11 March 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002064649
104 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Zaremba, Joyce A., born: 7 October 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002057862
105 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Girardin, Ross M., born: 4 August 1984, Republican, Voter ID 003550769
105 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, McBride, Kevin, born: 3 April 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 003472049
105 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mickus, Rebecca L., born: 6 October 1977, Republican, Voter ID 004352541
107 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Lubetkin, Lori Toback, born: 22 April 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003281396
107 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Lubetkin, Marc E., born: 29 May 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 003281394
109 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Wolfe, Nancy R., born: 9 May 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002057714
109 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Wolfe, Rebecca E., born: 13 January 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 002057715
109 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Wolfe, Stanton H., born: 17 April 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 002064535
110 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Bush, Heidi Lynn, born: 7 November 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004003426
110 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Delbon, Benny J., born: 23 February 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002059344
110 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Pond, Brittany Holman, born: 13 November 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003959203
110 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Stanley, Ann M., born: 10 October 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 999966144
110 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Stanley, Bradley D., born: 13 March 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 004116932
110 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Walsh, Ryan M., born: 11 September 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 004644505
110 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Walsh, Vanessa Silvia, born: 6 February 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 004644507
111 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Bates, Donald Kenneth, born: 28 November 1977, Republican, Voter ID 002488006
111 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Butler, John, born: 31 December 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058681
111 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mango, Beatrice L., born: 6 October 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003783425
111 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mango, Christopher M., born: 22 March 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003783435
111 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mango, Ellen J., born: 16 January 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004079076
111 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mango, Sarah Jane, born: 3 May 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004587008
111 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Phillips, Stacy Ann, born: 17 September 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000760374
115 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Bibbins, Deborah M., born: 4 April 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050628
115 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Bibbins, Kenneth F., born: 7 September 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058345
116 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, McCormick, Jacquelyn M., born: 30 December 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002056150
119 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Bednarcyk, Leokaida, born: 28 November 1921, Republican, Voter ID 002050517
119 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Bednarcyk, Susan M., born: 7 December 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002050518
120 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Carrion, Mara L., born: 11 December 1961, Republican, Voter ID 004005163
120 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Damato, Michael John, born: 20 November 1964, Republican, Voter ID 004010513
120 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Engers, Rachel M., born: 30 July 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 002052191
120 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Perdikis, Dimitri, born: 4 April 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003368314
120 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Vogiatzi - Perdikis, Theodora, born: 11 May 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003664143
133 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mac Quattie, Donald S., born: 1 June 1966, Republican, Voter ID 003550624
133 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Mac Quattie, Kathleen M., born: 19 August 1969, Republican, Voter ID 003502516
137 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Brown, Danutasn, born: 3 June 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 003968852
137 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, House, Arthur H., born: 21 July 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002060785
137 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, House, Carolyn Jordan, born: 30 March 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004227158
137 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, House, Margaret Stoddard, born: 12 March 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004375762
137 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, House, Sophia Katharine, born: 30 May 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003876247
137 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Jepsen, Rita D., born: 29 November 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 002053599
120R East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Rago, Kelly Haslam J, born: 9 November 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 004247993
120R East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, Rago, Paul B., born: 16 March 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 003423447
1 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Porter, Douglas S., born: 1 March 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002062840
1 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Willcox, Susan, born: 19 February 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 002688881
2 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Yount, Dennis Wayne, born: 17 June 1962, Republican, Voter ID 004324817
2 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Yount, Lori A., born: 5 March 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002057823
3 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Gidman, Cheryl Z., born: 29 September 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004191624
3 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Gidman, John B., born: 24 April 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004200533
4 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Ingram, Darrin A., born: 22 September 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 004438252
4 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Ingram, Susan L., born: 8 June 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 004438395
4 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Robinson, Christine Ann, born: 25 September 1979, Republican, Voter ID 004829227
4 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Robinson, Douglas Michael, born: 11 March 1979, Republican, Voter ID 004836318
4 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Van Der Els, Elizabeth Mary, born: 6 July 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003881088
4 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Vander Els, Jeffrey T., born: 22 January 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003668387
4 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Vanderels, Jeffrey T., born: 29 July 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002050012
4 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Vanderels, Mary Jo, born: 28 January 1956, Democratic, Voter ID 002050013
5 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Pellegrino, Paul G., born: 5 September 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 003726306
5 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Pellegrino, Teo M., born: 16 February 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 003726299
6 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Hunt, Susan E., born: 15 October 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053470
6 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Hunt, William D., born: 20 January 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060838
6 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Hunt, William F., born: 2 October 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 003668305
6 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Knudsen, Michael Robert, born: 30 December 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 003091511
6 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Knudsen, Sarah J., born: 16 November 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 003660812
6 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Schmidt, April, born: 16 February 1980, Republican, Voter ID 004483101
6 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Schmidt, Bradley, born: 11 November 1979, Republican, Voter ID 004571878
7 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Arciero, Alana Marie, born: 20 August 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004244741
7 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Arciero, Alexandria A., born: 8 September 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003708228
7 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Arciero, Arianna Rose, born: 21 October 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004302916
7 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Arciero, Christopher G., born: 8 August 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002058043
7 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Arciero, Lynn C., born: 24 August 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002050252
8 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Bosque, Axel J., born: 11 March 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 002345063
8 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Bosque, Luz A., born: 5 February 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 001859428
8 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Kalajian, Robert C., born: 13 June 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 003822601
8 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Lapointe, Aaron G., born: 2 August 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 000892651
8 Echo Lane, Simsbury, La Pointe, Jennifer M., born: 26 August 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004052624
8 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Totemeier, Ann M., born: 13 January 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 003738940
8 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Totemeier, Terry C., born: 17 April 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 003738939
9 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Piteau, Michael Andrew, born: 24 August 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003464225
9 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Woodruff, Marilyn, born: 1 November 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002057735
10 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Keller, Hanna, born: 28 June 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002053797
11 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Cushman, Deborah H., born: 10 December 1955, Democratic, Voter ID 002051673
11 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Cushman, Robert A., born: 1 February 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002059229
12 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Huang, Ye, born: 31 July 1968, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004339537
14 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Messier, Katherine C., born: 14 June 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002054844
14 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Messier, Kenneth J., born: 30 March 1951, Republican, Voter ID 002049655
14 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Messier, Michael K., born: 7 May 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 004011620
15 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Krilyno, Stephen A., born: 7 March 1943, Democratic, Voter ID 002061316
16 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Krikorian, Alex G., born: 22 September 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002061315
16 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Krikorian, Andrea L., born: 24 February 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002054025
16 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Krikorian, Max, born: 26 January 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004804268
17 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Radecki, Alexander Andrew, born: 8 November 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003773821
17 Echo Lane, Simsbury, Radecki, D Brian, born: 29 January 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002062927
19 Echo Lane, Simsbury, George, William J., born: 27 May 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002060113
19 Echo Lane, Simsbury, George, William J., born: 26 June 1997, Republican, Voter ID 004743966
2 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Bowman, James M., born: 6 May 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 004548235
2 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Bowman, Judith R., born: 26 January 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 004410976
4 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Nelson, Ruth M., born: 24 May 1924, Republican, Voter ID 002055210
4 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Nelson, William H., born: 13 June 1922, Republican, Voter ID 002062334
6 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Flores, Fernando Antonio, born: 15 December 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 004635735
6 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Flores, Kathleen Ann, born: 2 June 1950, Republican, Voter ID 000565936
8 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Eisen, Elizabeth, born: 4 July 1936, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003249248
8 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Eisen, Ronald J., born: 27 February 1932, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003249249
10 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Rubenstein, Elanna Susan, born: 21 April 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004247231
10 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Rubenstein, Kenneth P., born: 30 May 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 003538743
10 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Rubenstein, Malinda Smith, born: 30 July 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004079136
10 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Rubenstein, Susan M., born: 2 April 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002054985
10 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Smith, Elanna Susan, born: 21 April 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003745452
12 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Gertz, Anna P., born: 25 February 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 002052711
12 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Palmer, Kathleen I., born: 4 August 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002055455
14 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Heerlein, Doris G., born: 15 August 1930, Republican, Voter ID 002053238
14 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Heerlein, William J., born: 4 June 1929, Republican, Voter ID 002060614
14 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Smyth, Kathryn A., born: 4 July 1936, Democratic, Voter ID 002056744
14 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Smyth, William A., born: 16 June 1933, Democratic, Voter ID 002063700
16 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Moffatt, Hugh M., born: 11 October 1933, Republican, Voter ID 002062115
16 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Moffatt, Ruth A., born: 1 July 1935, Republican, Voter ID 002054963
18 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Campbell, Katlyn Jeanette, born: 1 December 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003991430
18 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Gallagher, Ann L., born: 20 February 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002052595
18 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Gallagher, Paul, born: 26 September 1990, Republican, Voter ID 004769811
18 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Gallagher, Paul G., born: 4 April 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003655690
18 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Gallagher, Trevor Nicholas, born: 10 December 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004864788
18 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Woodward, Andrew Douglas, born: 14 July 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003903892
18 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Woodward, Lisa A., born: 9 April 1967, Republican, Voter ID 003986349
20 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Armstrong, Cheeneah Maria, born: 8 August 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 003290634
24 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Danzig, Arden A., born: 12 December 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051721
24 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Danzig, Daniel A., born: 16 January 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002059272
28 Edgewood Court, Simsbury, Barry, Ruth J., born: 19 March 1925, Republican, Voter ID 000427964
1 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Gibbons, Joyce W., born: 22 October 1933, Democratic, Voter ID 001977345
1 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Gibbons, Lisa J., born: 30 March 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 002052721
1 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Lappen, Jeffrey D., born: 1 October 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049318
2 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Coombes, Barbara J., born: 5 October 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051522
2 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Coombes, Kevin W., born: 12 September 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002059104
3 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Safino, F Guy, born: 30 March 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063288
3 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Safino, Susan G., born: 20 September 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056286
4 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Kearse, Nakia A., born: 20 December 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 003849315
4 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Martin, Floyd Raheem, born: 9 October 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 003865370
5 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Hamilton, Ann P., born: 17 September 1945, Republican, Voter ID 002053100
5 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Hamilton, William C., born: 12 February 1945, Republican, Voter ID 002060484
6 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Marchand-Massey, Jeanne M., born: 9 September 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002054478
6 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Massey, Caitlin M., born: 24 September 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054568
6 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Massey, Donald, born: 3 January 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002061766
6 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Massey, Erin M., born: 24 June 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 003482228
7 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Ludorf, Edward S., born: 17 August 1928, Democratic, Voter ID 002049545
7 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Ludorf, Susanne D., born: 15 November 1932, Republican, Voter ID 002049546
8 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Hilsdon, Mark Fallon, born: 2 January 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003332781
8 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Hilsdon, Maureen, born: 10 November 1977, Democratic, Voter ID 004877559
9 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Dolman, Audrey L., born: 6 February 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051940
9 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Dolman, Jessica Lauren, born: 5 December 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004209522
9 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Dolman, Kelsey Elizabeth, born: 4 October 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004113342
9 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Dolman, Paul H., born: 4 January 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002059472
10 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Hickey, Melanie Chase, born: 15 December 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 004851729
10 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Hickey, Timothy Brian, born: 12 July 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 004851728
10 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Japenga, Barbara W., born: 14 July 1936, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049190
10 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Japenga, Robert J., born: 5 November 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002049191
11 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Berger, Benjamin J., born: 28 November 1977, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002013246
11 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Berger, Sondra P., born: 25 July 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002014397
12 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Jones, Kristine Roderick, born: 22 January 1973, Republican, Voter ID 003659760
12 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Jones, Timothy A., born: 12 February 1968, Republican, Voter ID 001569743
14 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Hilliard, Colleen Murphy, born: 11 June 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002053326
14 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Hilliard, Robert H., born: 3 May 1942, Republican, Voter ID 002060687
17 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Lukina, Alena, born: 28 March 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004539758
17 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Panko, Aliaksei, born: 6 April 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004992726
17 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Prevo, Sara E., born: 1 May 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002055830
17 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Prevo, Stuart Lynn, born: 10 February 1992, Democratic, Voter ID 004107485
18 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Borovkoff, Jennifer M., born: 5 July 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003712254
18 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Borovkoff, Victor J., born: 12 March 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003721545
18 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Harman, David Stuart, born: 1 October 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002060523
18 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Harman, Mary A., born: 19 September 1958, Republican, Voter ID 002053136
18 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Harman, Paul Matthew, born: 12 April 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003369253
19 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Cross, Vivian A., born: 17 April 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 002051630
19 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Cross, William S., born: 9 March 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002059183
19 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Cross-Ramos, Carla Marie, born: 23 May 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004809069
20 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Macinnis, Allyson Elizabeth, born: 13 June 1993, Democratic, Voter ID 004141664
20 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Macinnis, Cheryl A., born: 5 August 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002054404
20 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Macinnis, Peter T., born: 15 August 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002061598
20 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Macinnis, Ryan P., born: 23 November 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061599
22 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Gilmore, Robert M., born: 29 December 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002049065
22 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Gilmore, Susan B., born: 7 May 1957, Republican, Voter ID 002049066
23 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Shyman, Minna J., born: 11 August 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002056870
23 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Steckenberg, Daniel M., born: 7 March 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 002063816
23 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Steckenberg, Joshua S., born: 11 December 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 002063817
24 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Ahn, Cara Leigh, born: 5 December 1975, Independent, Voter ID 004744739
24 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Ahn, Do Joon, born: 13 September 1974, Republican, Voter ID 004649950
24 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Vaughn, John F., born: 1 December 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002064215
24 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Vaughn, John K., born: 27 September 1987, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003650279
24 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Vaughn, Maureen O., born: 2 June 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002057327
24 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Vaughn, Tanner O Grady, born: 20 September 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004145064
26 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Murray-Bissonnette, Suzanne S., born: 6 October 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 002055138
26 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Vanaria, Austin Robert, born: 22 April 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003791498
26 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Vanaria, Hillary Birch, born: 23 January 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 003687141
26 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Vanaria, Hunter Anthony, born: 22 April 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003791472
27 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Walker, George L., born: 11 June 1934, Democratic, Voter ID 002064294
27 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Walker, Marcia E., born: 3 June 1941, Democratic, Voter ID 002057432
28 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Ehman, Joan, born: 20 June 1935, Democratic, Voter ID 002052143
28 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Ehman, Richard A., born: 30 September 1932, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059650
30 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Cirilli, Michael R., born: 1 May 1961, Republican, Voter ID 002058955
30 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Cirilli, Nancy J., born: 17 May 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051342
30 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Cirilli, Shannon Patricia, born: 25 March 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004694814
31 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Downs, Hannah Bergeron, born: 1 March 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004352429
31 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Downs, Heather F., born: 6 July 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 003682775
31 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Downs, Kevin D., born: 30 April 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003682705
32 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Dreier, Elizabeth Anne, born: 9 March 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 003399595
32 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Dreier, Matthew J., born: 26 February 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 003939355
32 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Macdougall, Jesse T., born: 15 December 1987, Republican, Voter ID 003985913
32 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Macdougall, Laurie C., born: 29 August 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 002054398
32 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Macdougall, Trevor W., born: 7 January 1962, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061593
36 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Marchitto, Nicholas V., born: 18 January 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000426944
36 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Marchitto, Rocio A., born: 11 December 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003824700
37 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Jansen, Dustin A., born: 2 July 1983, Republican, Voter ID 004293727
37 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Jansen, Winton Black, born: 30 January 1985, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004293941
37 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Norton, Dianne M., born: 22 December 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 003067294
37 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Schwark, Fred Willis, born: 14 July 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003697658
37 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Schwark, Kelly Ann, born: 5 March 1979, Republican, Voter ID 003697630
37 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Spock, Alison J., born: 13 July 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 002056821
38 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Breisach, Ingrid L., born: 1 December 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004019735
38 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Danyluk, James M., born: 30 January 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 004849357
38 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Danyluk, Susan Kasprow, born: 9 August 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003240679
38 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Gilmore, Louise J., born: 14 September 1932, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002052754
39 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Kelley, Kerry A., born: 21 January 1971, Republican, Voter ID 004586664
39 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Leblanc, Debra L., born: 9 October 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002054170
40 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Briggs, Linda L., born: 22 September 1955, Republican, Voter ID 002050854
40 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Briggs, Robert A., born: 28 April 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058540
40 Elaine Drive, Simsbury, Briggs, Steven R., born: 19 May 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003567422
4 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Robillard, Joyce E., born: 24 August 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002056060
4 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Robillard, Leslie Jean, born: 25 October 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 003372963
4 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Robillard, Richard D., born: 25 December 1948, Democratic, Voter ID 002063086
4 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Vellore, Satyanarayanan Shroff, born: 11 November 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004701846
5 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Jenkins, Herrika Keyes, born: 17 November 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004690375
5 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Jenkins, Noal Stillwell, born: 22 October 1970, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004243735
6 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Baylis, Carol M., born: 3 January 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004132502
6 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Baylis, William S., born: 10 November 1947, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003892245
6 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Colvin, Laurie L., born: 7 October 1956, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004424550
6 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Colvin, Morgan, born: 26 January 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004514619
6 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Colvin, Sean H., born: 26 January 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004676425
6 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Levenstein, Harry J., born: 5 August 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061489
6 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Levenstein, Jacob Marciano, born: 19 April 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003933763
6 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Levenstein, Janeanne, born: 5 July 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004680528
6 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Olsen, Carol M., born: 3 January 1946, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055362
7 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Moody, Diana B., born: 15 May 1951, Republican, Voter ID 003053832
7 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Moody, James F., born: 26 December 1952, Republican, Voter ID 003053834
10 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Bannon, Amy Lynn, born: 12 January 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 002050390
10 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Bannon, Brittany Lynn, born: 14 December 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 003644998
10 Elcy Way, Simsbury, Bannon, Mark Andrew, born: 17 November 1960, Democratic, Voter ID 002058148
1 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Daniels, Anne W., born: 25 February 1957, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051719
1 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Daniels, Matthew E., born: 9 May 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004450619
1 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Daniels, Scott E., born: 11 December 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059271
3 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Heller, David Garson, born: 19 July 1963, Republican, Voter ID 002060627
3 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Heller, Lisa Jacqueline, born: 16 April 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004694052
3 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Heller, Nicole Elise, born: 30 September 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004687116
3 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Heller, Wendy L., born: 5 November 1966, Republican, Voter ID 002053254
4 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Brush, Richard Robert, born: 15 June 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 003481238
4 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Gordon, Suzanne Marie, born: 9 March 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 003481441
5 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Kinsley, Kimberly Anne, born: 2 October 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004867460
5 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Kinsley, William James, born: 12 November 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004864036
5 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Morrison, Christopher J., born: 8 January 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004616026
5 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Morrison, Janet F., born: 21 May 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002055056
5 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Morrison, Matthew Paradon, born: 4 November 1993, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004291976
5 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Morrison, Peter A., born: 27 December 1960, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002062195
7 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Fair, Dominic A., born: 7 October 1975, Democratic, Voter ID 003477373
7 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Patterson, Sarah M., born: 12 October 1976, Republican, Voter ID 003477465
7 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Putnam, Lisa, born: 12 June 1973, Republican, Voter ID 003656862
7 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Putnam, Roger, born: 16 August 1971, Republican, Voter ID 003656881
8 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Dorman, Alexandra P., born: 20 July 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004097047
8 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Dorman, Lisa Beth, born: 25 May 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002053983
8 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Dorman, Robert Charles, born: 23 January 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002059503
8 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Higham, Eric John, born: 31 January 1983, Republican, Voter ID 002060678
8 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Higham, Heidi Elizabeth, born: 8 February 1980, Republican, Voter ID 004703473
8 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Timberman, William R., born: 4 January 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003556417
9 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Crane, Margaret H., born: 2 May 1949, Republican, Voter ID 004218394
9 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Crane, Raymond R., born: 4 August 1949, Republican, Voter ID 004252987
9 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Lefranc, Karin Sofia, born: 14 November 1966, Democratic, Voter ID 003434205
10 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Murphy, James Edward, born: 13 June 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003926117
10 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Murphy, Jennifer Lynne, born: 19 March 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003398334
10 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Murphy, Patrick T., born: 13 February 1952, Republican, Voter ID 002062264
10 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Murphy, Yvonne M., born: 7 November 1952, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055135
11 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Milner, Benjamin C., born: 3 December 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002062086
11 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Milner, C Taylor, born: 22 September 1975, Republican, Voter ID 002064708
11 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Milner, Haley R., born: 17 July 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054933
11 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Milner, Mary C., born: 25 January 1948, Republican, Voter ID 002054934
11 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Norman, Franklin C., born: 24 April 1963, Republican, Voter ID 003837473
11 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Norman, John Kolien, born: 11 November 1997, Republican, Voter ID 004562504
11 Elliott Drive, Simsbury, Norman, Susan P., born: 22 April 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003790997
3 Ely Lane, Simsbury, Sundstrom, Dale B., born: 22 June 1958, Republican, Voter ID 004061581
4 Ely Lane, Simsbury, Spodick, Peter C., born: 3 August 1946, Republican, Voter ID 001680808
8 Ely Lane, Simsbury, Mattera, Paul A., born: 19 April 1955, Republican, Voter ID 000568045
10 Ely Lane, Simsbury, Dlubac, Paul J., born: 27 December 1933, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059457
10 Ely Lane, Simsbury, Dlubac, Yong Cha, born: 24 October 1937, Democratic, Voter ID 002048946
10 Ely Lane, Simsbury, Provencher, Lauren Elizabeth, born: 24 February 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003132817
19 Ely Lane, Simsbury, Kaur, Bhupinder, born: 18 November 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004995061
19 Ely Lane, Simsbury, Kumar, Ajay, born: 15 December 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004831649
31 Ely Lane, Simsbury, Shepherd, Donald Bryan, born: 14 October 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003945480
32 Ely Lane, Simsbury, Shetler, Ada I., born: 30 October 1988, Democratic, Voter ID 004334947
2 Ely Place, Simsbury, Murphy, Joanne M., born: 31 December 1957, Democratic, Voter ID 002055124
3 Ely Place, Simsbury, Sundstrom, Dale B., born: 22 June 1958, Republican, Voter ID 004061581
4 Ely Place, Simsbury, Biffinger, Celbe J., born: 5 June 1998, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004902214
4 Ely Place, Simsbury, Lyman, Rebecca A., born: 21 September 1978, Democratic, Voter ID 000527737
4 Ely Place, Simsbury, Root, Linda P., born: 14 July 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056124
5 Ely Place, Simsbury, Capuano, Christopher C., born: 13 August 1974, Republican, Voter ID 002048848
5 Ely Place, Simsbury, Newton, Bonnie J., born: 9 March 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055234
5 Ely Place, Simsbury, Newton, Meagan Michele, born: 27 February 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003463186
6 Ely Place, Simsbury, Claffey, Melissa Kris, born: 23 April 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 002030952
6 Ely Place, Simsbury, O' Brien, Patrick W., born: 23 August 1967, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000130057
6 Ely Place, Simsbury, Tirillo, Irene L., born: 21 November 1945, Republican, Voter ID 002057162
8 Ely Place, Simsbury, Mattera, Paul A., born: 19 April 1955, Republican, Voter ID 000568045
9 Ely Place, Simsbury, Eisch, Stephanie, born: 15 December 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004770177
9 Ely Place, Simsbury, Kesaree, Malati, born: 1 June 1934, Democratic, Voter ID 002053857
10 Ely Place, Simsbury, Olson, Kristina Michelle, born: 18 October 1983, Independent, Voter ID 004604002
10 Ely Place, Simsbury, Roth, Daniel James, born: 9 November 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003745466
11 Ely Place, Simsbury, Cyr, Russell C., born: 14 February 1957, Republican, Voter ID 000246674
11 Ely Place, Simsbury, Perone, Gladys K., born: 25 November 1931, Republican, Voter ID 000679483
12 Ely Place, Simsbury, Camacho Acevedo, Carmen Michelle, born: 7 July 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 004935864
14 Ely Place, Simsbury, Jagan, Davy A., born: 31 January 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060909
14 Ely Place, Simsbury, Jagan, Lisa A., born: 14 May 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004115199
14 Ely Place Unit 14, Tariffville, Jagan, Maurice J., born: 11 June 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003361720
15 Ely Place, Simsbury, Yankauskas, Stephen P., born: 21 August 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 003192932
16 Ely Place, Simsbury, Hooker, Richard M., born: 7 December 1931, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002060757
17 Ely Place, Simsbury, Grobard, Brett, born: 9 March 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004987928
17 Ely Place, Simsbury, Hollis, Bonny J., born: 23 August 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004701819
17 Ely Place, Simsbury, Tracey, Betty T., born: 25 August 1932, Republican, Voter ID 002008083
18 Ely Place, Simsbury, Carroll, Bonnie J., born: 3 July 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003885107
18 Ely Place, Simsbury, Carroll, James R., born: 21 November 1949, Democratic, Voter ID 002058810
18 Ely Place, Simsbury, Ortiz-Santiago, Miguel Angel, born: 20 October 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 003874031
19 Ely Place, Simsbury, Ahearn, Kerry Lynn, born: 26 August 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003770963
19 Ely Place, Simsbury, Kumar, Ajay, born: 15 December 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004831649
19 Ely Place, Simsbury, Rhodes, David C., born: 18 May 1953, Democratic, Voter ID 000932553
20 Ely Place, Simsbury, Ingellis, Eric Edward, born: 15 May 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 003420091
20 Ely Place, Simsbury, Ingellis, Kristin F., born: 30 July 1982, Democratic, Voter ID 003395338
20 Ely Place, Simsbury, Murdock, Joni M., born: 2 April 1959, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002049703
21 Ely Place, Simsbury, Alvarez-Calos, Martha O., born: 15 August 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004075360
21 Ely Place, Simsbury, Calos, John J., born: 30 March 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003556243
21 Ely Place, Simsbury, Finnegan, Sean, born: 24 April 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 004456833
23 Ely Place, Simsbury, Bendioukova, Tatiana, born: 29 April 1969, Republican, Voter ID 004492900
23 Ely Place, Simsbury, Pollack, Elliot S., born: 11 February 1942, Republican, Voter ID 000569077
23 Ely Place, Simsbury, Rosadio, Eduardo Alexander, born: 17 August 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004409591
23 Ely Place, Simsbury, Rosadio Valladares, Eduardo A., born: 24 August 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004438293
24 Ely Place, Simsbury, Macdonald, Sean P., born: 14 July 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004567303
24 Ely Place, Simsbury, Rogers, Bruce A., born: 13 November 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 003722517
24 Ely Place, Simsbury, Rogers, Leonard A., born: 19 April 1927, Democratic, Voter ID 003722534
25 Ely Place, Simsbury, Khaitan, Anisha, born: 17 October 1984, Democratic, Voter ID 003491629
27 Ely Place, Simsbury, Durand, Joyanne, born: 4 August 1970, Republican, Voter ID 002052073
27 Ely Place, Simsbury, Rubin, Cara E., born: 24 March 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003839377
27 Ely Place, Simsbury, Rubin, Patricia Jean, born: 21 November 1957, Republican, Voter ID 000679727
28 Ely Place, Simsbury, Egbarin, Goziem K., born: 4 September 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 004286235
28 Ely Place, Simsbury, Egbarin, Ibezimako E., born: 15 January 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004286229
28 Ely Place, Simsbury, Egbarin, Janet Joy, born: 28 November 1958, Democratic, Voter ID 000485753
28 Ely Place, Simsbury, Egbarin, Nitor V., born: 10 October 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002059649
28 Ely Place, Simsbury, Egberin, Goziem K., born: 4 September 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003745462
29 Ely Place, Simsbury, Pace, Corey L., born: 15 March 1971, Democratic, Voter ID 003547443
30 Ely Place, Simsbury, Bridges, Terry L., born: 23 March 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004339417
30 Ely Place, Simsbury, Carlson, Renee E., born: 5 July 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004400019
30 Ely Place, Simsbury, Carlson, Samuel David Hilton, born: 29 November 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004531660
30 Ely Place, Simsbury, Carlson, Terry L., born: 23 March 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002051139
30 Ely Place, Simsbury, Slatbaugh, Carmen A., born: 8 July 1961, Democratic, Voter ID 002056676
31 Ely Place, Simsbury, Blumenfeld, Matthew Joseph, born: 19 November 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003581294
31 Ely Place, Simsbury, Havens, Summer, born: 17 November 1997, Democratic, Voter ID 004686479
31 Ely Place, Simsbury, Shepherd, Donald Bryan, born: 14 October 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003945480
31 Ely Place, Simsbury, Simington, Weylin Douglas, born: 12 March 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004811979
32 Ely Place, Simsbury, Mlthana, Abdo Salen, born: 5 February 1980, Democratic, Voter ID 004413806
32 Ely Place, Simsbury, Mohamed, Wafa Abdulla Alhaja, born: 30 May 1986, Democratic, Voter ID 004476471
33 Ely Place, Simsbury, Clark, Paulette, born: 13 September 1943, Democratic, Voter ID 002051368
34 Ely Place, Simsbury, Guerette, Tommy Allen, born: 7 August 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003863859
34 Ely Place, Simsbury, Wilkie, Lisa M., born: 22 February 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050060
35 Ely Place, Simsbury, Alkatabi, Mohamed A., born: 22 February 1974, Democratic, Voter ID 004968320
35 Ely Place, Simsbury, Alkatabi, Paris M., born: 20 December 1995, Democratic, Voter ID 004968311
35 Ely Place, Simsbury, Frederick, Robert W., born: 18 August 1954, Democratic, Voter ID 003689104
35 Ely Place, Simsbury, Sire, Henry, born: 17 July 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 003682843
35 Ely Place, Simsbury, Sire, Lillian, born: 11 September 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 002056657
36 Ely Place, Simsbury, Brant, Steven Jeffrey, born: 21 September 1989, Democratic, Voter ID 003775444
36 Ely Place, Simsbury, Cale, John N., born: 25 November 1950, Republican, Voter ID 002058716
36 Ely Place, Simsbury, Nelson, Dexter M., born: 15 October 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 004994227
36 Ely Place, Simsbury, Walsh, Alexander George, born: 16 November 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 003735182
36 Ely Place, Simsbury, Walsh, Bryan Rune, born: 3 May 1990, Democratic, Voter ID 003952521
37 Ely Place, Simsbury, Donsky, Wendy S., born: 2 May 1952, Democratic, Voter ID 002051963
37 Ely Place, Simsbury, Fogarty, Gerald, born: 20 October 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004007548
37 Ely Place, Simsbury, Nelson, Cruz Leticia, born: 3 May 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 004769828
39 Ely Place, Simsbury, Beilman, Neil A., born: 23 December 1980, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058255
39 Ely Place, Simsbury, Cormier, Aimee J., born: 21 February 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003131427
39 Ely Place, Simsbury, George, Mark C., born: 27 February 1980, Republican, Voter ID 004351805
39 Ely Place, Simsbury, Lemoine, Laura A., born: 12 October 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004065095
41 Ely Place, Simsbury, Bowyer, Zachary Thomas, born: 3 October 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004838846
9 Eno Place, Simsbury, Schuler, Janice M., born: 3 December 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056435
9 Eno Place, Simsbury, Schuler, Richard Alan, born: 10 May 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 003538862
9 Eno Place, Simsbury, Schuler, Victoria Hope, born: 18 June 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004209948
12 Eno Place, Simsbury, Currier, Robin D., born: 29 August 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002051666
2 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Osborn, Kristina D., born: 3 June 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002055395
2 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Osborn, Stephen A., born: 31 March 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002062517
4 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Richards, Ann S., born: 31 March 1934, Republican, Voter ID 002055998
4 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Richards, George T., born: 3 October 1932, Republican, Voter ID 002063027
6 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Mason, Cornelia G., born: 11 May 1943, Republican, Voter ID 002054558
6 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Mason, Nicholas B., born: 24 December 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 002061765
8 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Long, Ann M., born: 9 October 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 002054313
8 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Long, Michael T., born: 22 February 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002049508
10 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Porterfield, Dean C., born: 24 January 1932, Democratic, Voter ID 000815750
10 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Porterfield, Sally F., born: 18 March 1932, Democratic, Voter ID 000815751
12 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Clark, Anna F., born: 23 February 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002051350
14 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Jessen, Brian D., born: 16 February 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002060943
14 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Jessen, Erica J., born: 18 March 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004079073
14 Erin's Way, Simsbury, Jessen, Maureen F., born: 7 June 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002053602
2 Erins Way, Simsbury, Osborn, Kristina D., born: 3 June 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002055395
2 Erins Way, Simsbury, Osborn, Stephen A., born: 31 March 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002062517
4 Erins Way, Simsbury, Sturgis, Judith V., born: 28 May 1945, Republican, Voter ID 002056961
4 Erins Way, Simsbury, Sturgis, Robert W., born: 17 August 1941, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063907
6 Erins Way, Simsbury, Mason, Cornelia G., born: 11 May 1943, Republican, Voter ID 002054558
6 Erins Way, Simsbury, Mason, Nicholas B., born: 24 December 1944, Democratic, Voter ID 002061765
8 Erins Way, Simsbury, Long, Ann M., born: 9 October 1945, Democratic, Voter ID 002054313
8 Erins Way, Simsbury, Long, Michael T., born: 22 February 1942, Democratic, Voter ID 002049508
10 Erins Way, Simsbury, Porterfield, Dean C., born: 24 January 1932, Democratic, Voter ID 000815750
10 Erins Way, Simsbury, Porterfield, Sally F., born: 18 March 1932, Democratic, Voter ID 000815751
12 Erins Way, Simsbury, Schultz, Kevin W., born: 6 October 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002063424
12 Erins Way, Simsbury, Schultz, Sara Ann D., born: 3 September 1947, Republican, Voter ID 003632093
14 Erins Way, Simsbury, Jessen, Benjamin Michael, born: 31 July 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004311099
14 Erins Way, Simsbury, Jessen, Brian D., born: 16 February 1960, Republican, Voter ID 002060943
14 Erins Way, Simsbury, Jessen, Erica J., born: 18 March 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004079073
14 Erins Way, Simsbury, Jessen, Maureen F., born: 7 June 1962, Republican, Voter ID 002053602
4 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Avedidian, Virginia M., born: 14 March 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004323909
4 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Avedisian, Virginia M., born: 14 March 1981, Republican, Voter ID 003979577
4 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Avedisian, Virginia M., born: 14 March 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004323909
4 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Brys, David G., born: 13 April 1981, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003215524
4 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Matthews, Dawn M., born: 26 April 1984, Independent, Voter ID 004545456
4 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Ziskin, Ashleigh D., born: 6 October 1971, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003377866
5 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Bassyouni, Fathia, born: 14 September 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003492339
5 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Elazazy, Hussein H., born: 3 August 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003400620
5 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Elazazy, Rana H., born: 16 January 1991, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004043456
5 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Elazazy, Reem H., born: 28 April 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004203968
5 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Leite, Britt D., born: 4 May 1937, Republican, Voter ID 002054202
5 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Leite, Olav A., born: 17 April 1933, Republican, Voter ID 002049392
7 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Parmeswar, Rajan, born: 31 October 1961, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004099279
7 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Parmeswar, Revathy Menon, born: 14 August 1965, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004355972
7 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Wellington, Jennifer Erin, born: 18 August 1987, Democratic, Voter ID 003624674
7 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Wellington, Kyle S., born: 14 November 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003533971
9 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Bishop, Jon M., born: 4 July 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004009737
9 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Bishop, Kimberly A., born: 14 July 1979, Republican, Voter ID 004009965
9 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Bourque, Brian P., born: 8 August 1984, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004690901
9 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Bourque, Catherine Miervaldis, born: 8 August 1985, Democratic, Voter ID 004581543
9 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Haiekis, Kelly L., born: 12 January 1981, Republican, Voter ID 004009569
9 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Williams, Jeffrey L., born: 18 April 1944, Republican, Voter ID 002064487
9 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Williams, Victoria L., born: 25 July 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002057663
10 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Fayerweather, Andrew John, born: 30 January 1995, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004353181
10 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Fayerweather, James G., born: 25 March 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002059787
10 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Fayerweather, Sarah E., born: 6 October 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004448296
10 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Fayerweather, Susan P., born: 20 October 1964, Republican, Voter ID 002052299
13 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Golden, Patricia S., born: 29 August 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002052837
13 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Golden, Russell F., born: 29 October 1947, Democratic, Voter ID 002060244
13 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Lewtan, Elizabeth, born: 18 June 1969, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004992756
13 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Lewtan, Jacob Asher, born: 15 January 1996, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004635832
13 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Lewtan, Jane, born: 10 February 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004992797
13 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Lewton, Jacob A., born: 15 January 1996, Republican, Voter ID 004404316
14 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Hatfield, Catherine Littell, born: 19 August 1966, Republican, Voter ID 002056517
14 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Shafer, Reid Pearson, born: 17 May 1995, Republican, Voter ID 004517739
14 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Shafer, Spencer G., born: 8 April 1998, Republican, Voter ID 004559492
15 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Christensen, Jeffrey D., born: 3 February 1970, Democratic, Voter ID 002058928
15 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Christensen, Shannon-Tara, born: 27 November 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 003580166
15 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Parent, Katherine J., born: 15 January 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055498
15 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Parent, Susan J., born: 31 May 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002055500
15 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Parent, William F., born: 3 June 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002062614
16 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Miller, Ashley K., born: 29 August 1988, Republican, Voter ID 003939300
16 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Pike, Joshua S., born: 6 April 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003666807
16 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Sheldrick, Elinor W., born: 27 December 1919, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056563
19 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Gardner, Caitlin Margaret, born: 1 May 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003407543
19 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Matthews, Brian J., born: 5 May 1942, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061791
19 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Matthews, Catherine, born: 3 October 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002054597
20 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Brasel, Kenneth, born: 14 September 1955, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002058511
20 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Brasel, Mary L., born: 11 December 1963, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002050818
21 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Costa, Christina Ann, born: 22 December 1997, Republican, Voter ID 004572817
21 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Kipp, Claudia Cardinali, born: 28 December 1964, Republican, Voter ID 000936000
21 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Kipp, Ward A., born: 17 June 1964, Republican, Voter ID 004176749
25 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Jenks, Maureen, born: 24 July 1964, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004021699
25 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Wishart, Michael R., born: 26 June 1963, Democratic, Voter ID 002805260
26 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Goehning, Enya K., born: 25 March 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004105068
26 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Goehring, Aidan M., born: 6 September 1995, Republican, Voter ID 004728580
26 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Goehring, Enya K., born: 25 March 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004105068
26 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Rothmann, Bonita J., born: 30 January 1959, Republican, Voter ID 002052820
26 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Termini, Louis S., born: 23 April 1948, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003970588
27 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Smith, Peter John, born: 29 June 1970, Republican, Voter ID 003980821
27 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Sullivan, Deborah Jo, born: 1 August 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 003969482
30 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Samuelrich, Irene T., born: 9 January 1932, Republican, Voter ID 002056312
30 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Samuelrich, Robert W., born: 16 January 1934, Republican, Voter ID 002063316
30 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Wilson, Christopher M., born: 23 October 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003464391
30 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Wilson, Danielle L., born: 5 April 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003465257
32 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Lafazanidis, Cherie D., born: 17 February 1973, Republican, Voter ID 003810721
32 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Lafazanidis, Hristos, born: 1 April 1971, Republican, Voter ID 003615481
37 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Braiewa, Katherine D., born: 11 October 1973, Democratic, Voter ID 003448584
37 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Braiewa, Robert J., born: 14 July 1972, Democratic, Voter ID 003454901
37 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Nocera, Amanda E., born: 24 August 1980, Republican, Voter ID 003022242
37 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Nocera, Stephen J., born: 3 July 1983, Republican, Voter ID 003659501
37 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Vigurs, Jonathan, born: 5 September 1978, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004532200
38 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Allen, Kimberly I., born: 10 October 1964, Democratic, Voter ID 003574691
38 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Allen, Richard Steve, born: 5 May 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 003969459
39 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Mathewson, David F., born: 3 April 1954, Republican, Voter ID 002061781
39 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Mathewson, David T., born: 15 June 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004032855
39 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Mathewson, Julie D., born: 26 September 1993, Republican, Voter ID 004268704
39 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Mathewson, Marilyn D., born: 7 November 1924, Republican, Voter ID 002049619
39 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Mathewson, Stephanie A., born: 25 February 1992, Republican, Voter ID 004123359
39 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Mathewson, Susan G., born: 25 May 1965, Republican, Voter ID 002054588
41 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Lachapelle, Arline D., born: 28 August 1938, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002056690
41 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Lachapelle, Richard Ryan, born: 3 October 1935, Democratic, Voter ID 003507189
42 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Godiksen, Erika Lynn, born: 19 April 1988, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003668376
42 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Godiksen, Kristin T., born: 16 August 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002052814
42 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Godiksen, William H., born: 12 October 1953, Republican, Voter ID 002060223
42 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Godiksen, William Howard, born: 19 December 1985, Republican, Voter ID 003386593
46 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Shea, Peter A., born: 18 March 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003394677
46 Evans Drive, Simsbury, Shea, Tiziana C., born: 28 June 1976, Democratic, Voter ID 000454453
1 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Anderson, Kenneth W., born: 24 April 1946, Republican, Voter ID 002058001
1 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Davis, Abbe E., born: 25 April 1981, Democratic, Voter ID 003812642
1 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Davis, Barbara B., born: 10 January 1947, Republican, Voter ID 002051751
2 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Clarisey, Betsy W., born: 18 April 1969, Democratic, Voter ID 003810956
2 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Clarisey, Curtis W., born: 5 July 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 003810944
2 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Kelley, Michael, born: 28 August 1982, Republican, Voter ID 004689974
3 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Chin, Elizabeth Leigh, born: 3 September 1986, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003473176
3 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Chin, John Y., born: 9 November 1956, Republican, Voter ID 002058914
3 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Chin, Patricia O., born: 5 January 1951, Democratic, Voter ID 002051295
5 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Lehman, Alyssa Belle, born: 3 August 2000, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004930935
5 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Lehman, Jennifer D., born: 7 July 1972, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054194
5 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Lehman, Marc L., born: 21 June 1973, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002061458
6 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Koontz, Alison, born: 23 September 1994, Democratic, Voter ID 004209600
6 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Koontz, Erik J., born: 12 October 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004658838
6 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Koontz, James E., born: 2 May 1966, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 001904210
6 Fairfield Lane, Simsbury, Koontz, Suretha, born: 14 July 1983, Democratic, Voter ID 004744501
1 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Williams, Abbey Marie, born: 13 September 1989, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003878720
1 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Williams, Carly Adele, born: 18 August 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004229279
1 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Williams, Gloria G., born: 6 December 1950, Democratic, Voter ID 002057647
1 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Williams, Molly Olivia, born: 2 July 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004432346
1 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Williams, Robert J., born: 10 June 1958, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002064491
3 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Gagnon, Cora C., born: 1 July 1925, Democratic, Voter ID 002052581
4 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Garson, Benjamin H., born: 14 October 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 004527220
4 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Garson, Marissa L., born: 27 August 1983, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003530572
5 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Lawrence, Joyce D., born: 26 November 1932, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002054152
5 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Lawrence, Richard O., born: 8 September 1928, Democratic, Voter ID 002049352
5 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Sullivan, James P., born: 14 October 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 002063912
5 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Sullivan, Juliet L., born: 30 August 1979, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004749621
6 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Driscoll, Dainiel N., born: 23 September 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003496619
6 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Driscoll, Solveig Ruth, born: 14 January 1997, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004754281
7 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Gurtcheff, Christopher W., born: 10 April 1990, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003841969
7 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Gurtcheff, David M., born: 27 April 1994, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004219717
7 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Gurtcheff, Jeffrey David, born: 20 February 1964, Republican, Voter ID 003679005
7 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Gurtcheff, Judith A., born: 16 September 1965, Democratic, Voter ID 003677316
7 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Yablonski, Carol C., born: 4 May 1938, Republican, Voter ID 002057789
8 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Kazlauskas, Jodie Anne, born: 13 February 1979, Democratic, Voter ID 003781838
8 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Zehren, John Christopher, born: 24 June 1975, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003763921
8 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Zehren, Julie Marie, born: 27 August 1976, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 003763918
9 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Carey, Deborah D., born: 7 August 1951, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000122178
9 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Carey, Robert S., born: 12 June 1949, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 000122181
12 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Hayes, Suzanne E., born: 13 June 1978, Republican, Voter ID 004008796
12 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Hill, Carter Evan-Alden, born: 25 February 1992, Unaffiliated, Voter ID 004079022
12 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Hill, Michael S., born: 28 December 1962, Democratic, Voter ID 003539254
12 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Hill, Wendy J., born: 24 June 1967, Democratic, Voter ID 002053322
14 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Cestone, Catherine M., born: 11 August 1969, Republican, Voter ID 002051246
14 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Cestone, Robert A., born: 23 March 1970, Republican, Voter ID 002058873
15 Fairview Street, Simsbury, Conn, Una D., born: 25 March 1934, Republican, Voter ID 002048881
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Europe’s Not So Shiny ‘Recovery’
March 17, 2014 • 7 Comments
Exclusive: The mainstream U.S. press explains the overwhelming Crimean vote to leave Ukraine as vote-rigging or coercion, but the reality is that “European aspirations” are not so attractive to people aware of the painful life for many in the EU’s “periphery,” from Spain to Greece, as Andrés Cala reports.
By Andrés Cala
As the West tries to lure crisis-stricken Ukraine into the European Union’s fold, a major selling point is the promise of a brighter economic future. But the reality for many Europeans especially in countries pummeled the hardest by the Great Recession isn’t all that appealing, even as some EU bureaucrats are touting a recovery.
It’s true that raw numbers show that the recession appears to have bottomed out, even in some of those hard-hit nations on Europe’s “periphery,” from Ireland in the west through Portugal, Spain and Italy in the south to Greece in the east. For instance, Spain’s economy contracted 1.2 percent in 2013, but most of that was in the first half of the year, and the EU projects 1 percent growth for Spain in 2014 and 1.7 percent in 2015. Plus, for the first time in years, Spain had positive net job creation in February.
Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. (Photo from Wikipedia)
But that will translate into little relief for the nearly 27 percent of Spain’s population which is unemployed, or for the nearly 1.5 million who fell into extreme poverty during the crisis, according to a bellwether report in Spain. During the crisis — to meet EU “austerity” demands — pensions were frozen, the welfare state was slashed, and taxes ate away purchasing power. There’s little hope, too, for the millions more who lost their middle-class status.
At the street level, the “recovery” is nowhere to be seen, at least not for nine of every ten Spaniards who say this tepid economic growth has not trickled down to them. Almost three-quarters of Spaniards expect that conditions will remain the same or get worse in 2015, according to several recent polls.
When you walk around Spanish cities, what you see is a very noticeable increase in visible poverty, including people who until recently might have been considered middle class. You see middle-aged men in suits begging in the streets or waiting in charity lines. You see evicted families seeking refuge, immigrants on the move, and I’ll-work-for-food offers online.
Thus, while the Spanish government and the EU can tout the signs of a recovery, a sense of hopelessness still hovers over the many unemployed and real panic grips even people with jobs because they fear what may lie ahead.
One reason for the discrepancy between improving economic numbers and most people’s perceptions of their own situations is the spread of income inequality during the crisis. The wealthy few experienced significant improvements thus bumping up the GDP numbers while most everyone else either barely held steady or declined, sometimes sharply.
During the crisis, salaries rose for the biggest earners, but decreased 16 percent for the bottom brackets, according to official statistics. All that has left Spain with the EU’s second worst wealth distribution, according to the Gini coefficient, the most widely accepted barometer in the field.
Two Narratives
In Spain’s political world, the two conflicting narratives one buoyant and one depressing coexist with most of officialdom pushing the positive, but other political leaders noting the negative or what they would call the reality.
Antonio Argandoña, emeritus of economic and business ethics in IESE Business School, explained to me the logic of these diametrically opposed narratives: “If you eat a chicken and I don’t eat any, we have each eaten half. That’s the Spanish economy.”
So, when Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of the conservative People’s Party talked recovery in February’s parliamentary state of the union debate, opposition Socialist leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba angrily asked, “What country do you live in?” He called the government’s policies the “apotheosis of inequality.”
But Rajoy answered with fury of his own. “Your apocalyptic speech does not correspond with reality,” Rajoy said. “We have reversed course, from declines to recovery, from peril to hope.”
Most agree that Spain did what it was ordered to do by the EU and what it was given little choice to do by financial markets. As a result, Spain’s fragile economic recovery has drawn support from the European Central Bank, and investor appetite for investing in Spain and other countries on Europe’s “periphery” has improved as broader European risk perceptions have subsided.
Many Spaniards agree that some painful reforms were unavoidable because the economic model that had generated a boom in the previous two decades was artificial, much as it was in many other parts of the Western world. Cheap credit fueled rising home prices and a construction-driven economy, but the underlying economic pillars were weak.
A false sense of prosperity continued only as long as the bubble kept expanding. Millions of Spaniards enjoyed the good times, with wasteful spending on extravagant public projects, a swelling civil servant population and an inflated real-estate market.
Blue-collar workers bought homes, cars and vacation spots on cheap credit. Consumers spent and spent. People lived beyond their means as the cash kept flowing and the economy expanded. When the bubble burst amid the Wall Street crash of 2008 the illusion of prosperity disappeared quickly. Money and credit evaporated, but costs didn’t. Debt levels starting rising, along with defaults.
The EU’s central bankers responded with harsh demands for austerity to bring public spending in line with the reduced capacity of these suddenly shrunken economies, especially in the “periphery” nations, such as Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. Spending was cut drastically and millions were thrown out of work.
Spain’s record high public deficit, which in essence shut out Spain from credit markets, has gradually shrunk and now stands at 7.2 percent of the gross domestic product, but that’s still more than twice the 3 percent ceiling mandated by the EU. Meanwhile, the total public debt as measured against the reduced GDP has soared to 100 percent, a record.
According to projections, the deficit will continue decreasing in coming years, but not as fast as the EU is demanding and the EU has warned Spain not to scale back on austerity because its raw numbers remain in the red zone, even if things are improving.
Beyond austerity, Spain needs to cheapen its economy to make it more competitive, but devaluing its currency by printing more money, as most countries have done, including the U.S. and Japan, is not an option because Spain uses the euro which is controlled by the EU’s central bank.
Economists agreed that the only option left to both spur private investment and access cheap credit was to force an internal devaluation, which translated into lowering labor costs by allowing companies to dismiss more workers and cut salaries of those who remained.
Thus, labor statistics show average wages falling hitting lower earners especially hard and Spaniards working more, as expressed through increased labor hours. For 2014, the trend is expected to continue since this internal devaluation process is not complete.
Economic Remedies
With the worst part of the economic crisis now presumed to be over not just in Spain but more broadly in Europe the debate is now focused on how to distribute the benefits of the recovery so the growth can be more sustainable.
Last month, the International Monetary Fund published a paper that suggested that too much austerity is bad for long-term growth and stability, contradicting decades of dominant economic theories that policies designed to distribute wealth can hamper economic growth. The study challenged that “free-market” conventional wisdom:
“On average across countries and over time, the things that governments have typically done to redistribute do not seem to have led to bad growth outcomes. And quite apart from ethical, political, or broader social considerations, the resulting equality seems to have helped support faster and more durable growth.”
Along those lines, the Spanish government has promised tax cuts and other measures that it claims will ease austerity and create jobs. But the EU is keeping Spain on a tight leash, meaning that there may not be much relief for most Spaniards. Much will depend on the resilience of larger European economies.
Politically, Prime Minister Rajoy’s government has until 2015 before it faces regional and national elections. How painful the austerity still is could determine whether Rajoy and his party will gain another term.
But Spain’s unemployment rate is simply too high and the economic growth too slow to expect things to bounce back to where they were any time soon. In fact, they won’t. The most likely future for the average Spaniard, like other Europeans in the hardest-hit economies, is a painful and difficult one.
If Ukraine does decide to move toward integrating into the EU’s economy, Ukrainians, too, can expect a painful adjustment.
Andrés Cala is an award-winning Colombian journalist, columnist and analyst specializing in geopolitics and energy. He is the lead author of America’s Blind Spot: Chávez, Energy, and US Security.
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7 comments for “Europe’s Not So Shiny ‘Recovery’”
Book about how working conditions stagnated or got worse after enlargement…
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2913&context=ilrreview
Social Failures of EU Enlargement: A Case of
Workers Voting with Their Feet.
“The oligarchic system,i.e. a system based on links between the newly formed big business and the political class, emerged several years after Ukraine re-gained independence in 1991. Although a similar phenomenon has also de-veloped in other former Soviet republics, first of all in Russia, big business at present does not have such a strong influence on politics in any other Eastern European country as it does in Ukraine.â€
http://www.osw.waw.pl/sites/default/files/prace_42_en.pdf
THE OLIGARCHIC DEMOCRACY
THE INFLUENCE OF BUSINESS GROUPS
ON UKRAINIAN POLITICS
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/wolf-richter-aid-ukraine-will-stolen-former-ukrainian-minister-economy.html
Wolf Richter: Aid For The Ukraine “Will Be Stolen†– Former Ukrainian Minister Of Economy
pessimist
The US is but the tool of the corporatist oligarchy, to be used to enslave the entire world for their personal aggrandizement. What larger ego boost can there be than to rule the world as a global Caesaar?
bobzz
Now, now. There you guys go. Just look at all the jobs those tax cuts created for us. Still looking? Me too. Friedman’s economics have been a bust for the middle and lower classes wherever they have been executed…implemented.
>>> “On average across countries and over time, the things that governments have typically done to redistribute do not seem to have led to bad growth outcomes. And quite apart from ethical, political, or broader social considerations, the resulting equality seems to have helped support faster and more durable growth.â€
Along those lines, the Spanish government has promised tax cuts… <<<
Is it just me or is Andrés's comment there not a non sequitur?
Unfair taxation is a form of ongoing austerity that people everywhere where neoliberal capitalism operates are subjected to. The rich benefit, since they have more that can be saved. It's part of the neoliberal agenda of privatization and deregulation. You engineer a revenue problem (tax cuts mainly) that you then shamelessly label a social spending problem. And then you point to that as the need for austerity. Governments whine about deficits (they create, without prodding from the people) and plead poverty so that their friends in the private sector can more easily make the case for privatizing whatever publicly funded programs and services are now falling apart due to withheld spending by governments pleading poverty.
And privatization translates into poverty wages, insecurity and slavery for workers. Not to mention a lack of democracy and the destruction of the environment, once free trade deals help to shift all political power over to corporations and cut the people out. Then corporations can continue to do planet-destroying, community-destroying business as usual. The costs are externalized, to an extreme, while the profits and the good life that they can ensure are privatized and benefit the iconic 1% only.
F. G. Sanford
That’s the big joke. The line always was, “Only workers pay taxes”. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, notaries and entrepreneurs simply don’t declare. Swiss banks helped them stash money, of course, but that’s getting more difficult. Buy twenty Euros of merchandise in a small establishment, and don’t be surprised if the receipt says eight Euros. The hidden economy is immense. The wealth is staggering, but invisible. Poverty is much worse in America, but American oligarchs insist on pointing at Europe’s defects to defend themselves. In Southern Europe, the Macedonians, Romanians, Ukrainians, Tunisians, Moroccans and Libyans just keep coming. Of course, they find the most miserable work, but employers avoid all those annoying taxes. Let’s be honest. If the European economy was as bad as they say it is, trucks would be making the rounds every day to pick up the emaciated dead bodies of all the refugees that starved to death. That just ain’t the case.
bobzzz
I wonder. The trillions the fat cats have in off shore hoarding: is that to pay for private armies when the fat hits the fan? They have to know it will. Just wait until a critical mass of gun owners feel the pinch.
Mr. Cala raises an interesting point: reality is the factor modern economists seem unable to grasp. Perhaps it’s too simple. They prefer to resort to convoluted analysis, verbally complex abstractions, esoteric calculations based on randomly selected indicators and abstruse theoretical interpretations intended to enhance not understanding but instead, their own academic status.
Meanwhile, back in reality, a popular piece of Southern European internet humor is a picture of three blond, scantily clad, heavily made up young women walking along a city street. The caption reads, “You too can sponsor a Ukrainian refugee”. These prostitutes have become the bane of middle aged women in the south whose elderly husbands have safe European pensions or stable government jobs. It’s an economy unto itself.
Meanwhile, in Spain and Italy, where leather working and tailoring were once noble professions, open air markets sell Chinese shoes for five euros a pair and Vietnamese shirts for seven. Ah, the benefits of “free” trade.
In the United States, production is down, the trade deficit increases, but the stock market is up. How can that be? Simple: it’s internal devaluation, American style. Corporations have learned that with union busting and layoffs, they can afford to cut production, but the profit margin remains the same. Cheap money from “Quantitative Easing” allows them to use credit-free money to buy back their own stocks thereby artificially inflating market value.
In all honesty, poverty in Europe doesn’t look anywhere near as bad as in America. It’s just that America has managed to segregate its poor so successfully that reality is deceptive. Compared to America, mortgages in Europe are actually rare. They are not saddled with a financial “house of cards” based on a phony real-estate market as are we.
As the financial Ponzi scheme proliferates and wealth inequity escalates, economists seem oblivious to the most frightening trend which accompanies the disparity: rising neo-fascism. There seems to be much nostalgia for Franco and Mussolini of late. Nobody seems worried. In America, still waters run even deeper, and I am personally afraid of the brewing underclass awareness these pompous economic charlatans choose to ignore.
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Home GI Press Collection p. 27
New left notes (1966-1967)
AUGUST 24, 1966 NEW LEFT NOTES 27
(continued from page 26)
difficult organizing there, SNCC turned more
extensively to the strategy for building a
base among poor Black Belt Negroes. In
imitation of this emphasis on organizing
the poor, the Northern Student Movement
turned from tutorial projects to ghetto organizing in the North, and SDS formed its
Economic Research and Action Project to
launch organizing efforts in 1964. Young
radicals in search of "radical vocation" saw
community organizing as a long-term effort.
The Mississippi Summer Project expressed
the desire for commitment of middle-class
northern students; commitment was most
beautifully expressed in the death of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman.
■ The Berkeley student revolt of the fall of
1964, and the antiwar campus movement
that emerged after the February, 1965
bombings in North Vietnam, expressed for
the first time the extensiveness of thecanv
pus alienation. To thousands of students, "the
movement" meant a community of students
rejecting the sell-outs of middle-class America, seeing its rottenness in the war in Vietnam and its emptiness in mass higher education. This student movement, organized
primarily in SDS chapters, committees
against the war in Vietnam, and ad hoc
university reform movements in emulation
of Berkeley, adopted the militant style and
tactics of the Negro struggle, but had no experience through which it might develop
political strategy, or and ideological understanding of questions of social change.
Independent of campus upheaval, the
Negro struggle was having a deep impact
on the nation. Its mass following in the South,
expressed particularly in the Birmingham
demonstrations of 1963, forced the nation to
confront the question of racism. During
1963, for the first time in years the President and the New York Times paid more
attention to domestic matters than to the
Cold War.
The civil rights movement forced open and
elicited sympathetic responses from unions
and churches. Wthin labor and the clergy,
rank-and-file discontents had been developing in the Sixties. In the industrial unions,
the pressure of automation played a role
in local-level demand for new attention to
job control and working conditions; there
were wildcat strikes in auto in 1964 over
these grievances, and in other industries as
well. In the clergy the demands were for
freedom to relate to social problems of the
day. In Catholicism these demands meant
an elementary fight for independent expression; in all faiths there was widespread
adherence to the civil rights cause. The labor and church leaderships in a "coalition of
conscience" backed lobbying efforts to pass
the Civil Rights bill of 1964 and the 1965
Voting Rights Bill.
Atthe middle of the decade the movement
was beginning to confront questions of political power. At the outset the intention and
greatest hope of organizers has been to
establish some insurgency in the society;
some of the insurgency, in Mississippi, Alabama, in the Fram Workers movement in
California, in ghetto organizations and in
movements of poor whites, had developed
enough strength to face political choices.
Some peace activists faced similar questions
as the result of 1966 peace candidacies.
Although the movement's response has
been to work for independent bases of power (one expression of this is SNCC's slogan "Black Power"), there are a number of
weaknesses in that answer. In the first place,
the scattered and spotty forces suggest that
perhaps there is no prospect of attaining
any measure of political decision-making
power in the near future, but more likely
the outcome of winning an election would
be to move insurgency to a higher level.
This has been the case where movements
have won control of war on poverty boards;
they have had to fight at higher levels for
control they should have already won. And
it is likely to be the result of winning local
elections, especially in Black Belt counties;
the prerogative of exercising power will undoubtedly have to be won at the state or
federal level.
Another problem in the assertion of the
strategy of independent bases of power is
that there is little clarity as to the content
of the radical program in behalf of which
the organization is carried out. If we are only
building insurgency and commotion, then
program can be improvised, developed according to conditions. But in actual contests
for political control, program must be clarified in order that strategic considerations
flow from the goals. A mature consideration of the question of "coalition" would revolve around the extent to which an alliance might be expected to forward the program, and the extent to which it caused the
program to be sacrificed.
Once the civil rights movement had pried
■ provide for rank-and-file education and to
promote the elaboration of our ideology,
analysis, etc.
In the winter and spring, we havefollowed
through quite successfully. «
* SDS had dealt with its internal problems
in a political way. It has put aside the notion
that poor performance could be remedied
by abolishing the office and somehow decentralizing the abolished responsibility, and
instead has allocated responsibility, staff,
money, etc., in a planned way. The draft
program was thoroughly decentralized.
* We have developed out of the grape
strike support, a broad student-labor pro-"
gram, in which five dozen chapters and the
San Francisco regional office have worked
in behalf of Delano, San Francisco and
Chicago have published important documents, a network of SDS people involved
in labor activity has been established, other
chapters have aided local organizing drives
and strikes, and summer organizing activity
is in the works.
* We continue to be the backbone of the
anti-war effort on campus. Even though SDS
is not involved in coordinating the days of
protest, our chapters contribute mightily to
thei r success. Our Vietnam exam was handed
J out at 800 campuses--50t,000 copies. We
; sparked anti-draft activity that stunned the
NATIONAL SECRETARY'S REPORT - BOOTH
most important of those mistakes would be
■ * We publish a weekly newspaper which
■ not only keeps the membership well inform-
* ed, it has also begun to be a medium of
I important controversy and expression. Its
I arrival (post office willing) underlines the
reality of SDS as a functioning outfit.
■ * The community projects in which we work
I have developed a much more political per-
I spective on their goals. They
| have established firm bases in their com-
| munities for insurgency, and in several
| cases have achieved considerable impor-
■ tance in placing their issues on the agenda
■ of city or state politics. JOIN has brought
■ a slumlord to sign a collective bargaining
. contract with his tenants; Cleveland has ini-
' tiated a statewide welfare rights movement,
Newark rias forced their long-time antagonist
the incumbent city councilman into a runoff
' * We have embarked on an ambitious pro-
■ gram of radical intellectual activity. The REP
I prospectus is generally acknowledged on
I the Left as the definitive statement of the
| intellectual tasks before us.
| Although that is very simple, it is true at
| its base. But, the number of mistaken conclusions that can be drawn from that observation is practically limitless. Perhaps the
the society open to the possibility of change,
there was room for the movementto operate
in building insurgency on many levels. The
possibilities for continued experimentation
have grown, but have begun to be jeopardized by the course of the war in Vietnam.
One sign of growth was the war on poverty,
around which hundreds of insurgent movements fought for the principle of poor peoples' control. The Vietnam war is necessitating, the cutback of the war on poverty,
felt first in the most experimental sections
of that "war". This is an old story; foreign
wars have been an important device for defeating radicalism in American history. But
in a short time the war may necessitate the
development of defensive strategy. In a
sense, the anti-war movement had served
as a defense for other movement in the
society because it has made less credible
the official explanation of the war, and therefore more difficult the effort of the government to use the slogan of national unity in
turning aside the movement, ending strikes,
The social base of the student movement
is a determining factor in its style of alienation and protest. In many ways, student
political activity has been one expression of
a deeper disturbance that has also been
expressed in the drug culture, the musical
tastes, and other phenomena. Insofar as
politics is seen merely as an arena for protest, and no possibility of change is imagined or dealt with, the student movement is
open to the charge levelled by an overly
harsh cirtic of the British New Left: "all the
disadvantages of threatening the dominant
ideology of its society, without any of the
compensating advantages of offering an alternative ideology itself."
The present tasks, therefore, are the articulation of program, broadening of the social
base of the movement, and development of
political strategy.
Paul Booth
puritanism. The second would be that our
style should be modeled after the style of
youth alienation, and that we should build
politics into that- making it sophisticated in
its understanding of the enemy it rejects.
The third mistaken approach would be thatan
SDS chapter should be the combination of
a personal outlet in LSD, or u political outlet
for the same disaffections in SDS. The same
formulation is made by various scholars like
Keniston and Friedenberg.
In some chapters on state university campuses, SDS has a truly schizophrenic nature;
one segment of the membership is older,
experienced "veterans", and the other is
young and eager to learn. But because the
educational function of SDS is poorly understood, the full benefits of our community are
not imparted.
We need to come to grips with our historic
function; to create a new generation of radicals means to be the arena in which they,
as individuals, can grow to become that new
generation. It means our field secretaries
have to have a grasp of what the internal
life of a chapter could be. He should be able
to impart to a chapter leader how a regular
social event is an integrative function, and
how a seminar can be structured so that
people get a lot out of it. He should know
the good books to assign to an introductory
discussion group, what's wrong with the five
books on the New Left both as histories and
as analyses, how action programs on campus can be made educational-(thedifference
between a good leaflet and a bad one and
how to explain that difference). He should
know how a chapter can be structured internally so as to elicit participation and
These skills still haven't passed out of the
folklore stage, or slowly but surely at best.
But they should not be regarded merely as
techniques; they should be understood in the
context of the important cultural trends on
the campus from which SDS draws.
There has begun to be a great deal of
writing on the "alienated youth culture." On
the left, the phenomenon is generally seen
as a conflict between pot and politics. We
say with some haughtiness that the deeply
disaffected young person can choose either
Throughout SDS' action programs there
has been a political emphasis on organizing, aiming at opening new possibilities for
politics in a wide range of social milieus. For
Vietnam we have leafletted plant gates,
spoken at churches, covered the boondocks
with Vietnam exams, organized activity in
the suburbs. On campus we have tried to
get our message into the hands of more and
more students. For the grape strike we have
molded coalition committees of ministers,
facult, unionists. In peace campaigns we
have gone into middle and working-class
neighborhoods in door-to-door work on the
model of ERAP projects. In our old rhetoric,
we used to call all this proof of our "relevance", and we used the couplet "radical
and relevant" to describe the twin poles of
our strategy.
The office of national secretary deserves
some extended comment. I have been the
most political national secretary in recent
years, both as concerns the internal functioning of the organization and the left and
the public. SDS runs, to a great extent, on
the prestige of its leadership. This is inevitably the case, as Martin Oppenheimer
demonstrates in the current issue of Our
Generation, in a large organization in which
debate is not structured by factions or wings.
So, in providing organizational coherence,
the prestige of the leadership is called into
play, especially insofar as they involve
themselves in issues atthe local and regional
levels. Because Carl Oglesby was elected
President at a moment when the organization didn't want an activist President using
his position in the internal decision-making,
it chose Carl, who has been much more adept
and suited for speaking to the wide public.
My ability to work successfully in the internal
strengthening of SDS increased markedly
after January, when certain political assumptions became generally accepted. However,
the combination of internal administrative
responsibility and internal political responsibility is a heavy one. A lot of that would be
relieved if SDS brought into the national
office, for the first time, a number of full-time
experienced people responsible for various
sections of the organization's political program; and, for the outside world, especially
for our allies, if the President became a
full-time officer,
the political and apolitical alienated cultures.
None of those formulas gives the answer.
Part of theanswercomesoutofwhatwe have
always known to be true: that SDS is a radical
arena for learning, and a center for insurgent
politics. But time after time, people who have
taken that lesson too literally have run internal educational seminars that lasted two
weeks before they died out, have put out
newsletters that nobody read; in short, have
been trapped in the Dull Politics syndrome.
So mechanical proposals like a constitutional
amendment requiring each chapter to have
an educational chairman are partial solutions
at best. We all need to learn how to relate
to the genuine impulses of our generation.
In light of the fact that SDS has been the
most creative and relevant factor on the Left,
it should be within our reach to carry out our
educational job. We can move immediately
to do the large number of mechanical jobs:
1. create a network of chapter people re
sponsible for internal education, serviced
by national and regional staff with that express job.
2. make the Vice-President responsible for
educational program.
3. put REP on the road, staffing it and financing it.
4. turn outtheprogramguidesthatchapters
a-film and visual arts guide
b-internal seminar syllabi
c-annotated reading lists of radical authors
d-radical guides to the introductory
5. turn out the literature written by SDS
people in handsome printed form.
This report has focused entirely on organizational problems; and could have an
equally long treatment of political possibilities and priorities, in which I would make
the argument that we are entering into a
period of rapidly widening possibilities for
radical organizing due to the failure of the
Johnson administration in making the war a
credible excuse for preserving national consensus. That argument would draw the conclusions that the kind of activity in which we
have already been engaged: student-labor
projects, community organizing, electoral
work, civil rights activity, anti-draft activity,
and war protest of a political character,
should be continued, and stepped up. This
argument can be made at great length; suffice it to say, for present purposes, that there
seems to be no reason to expect any abatement of SDS activism.
This creates problems of support. Principally, these are manpower problems and financial problems. To puruse any of these political
programs on an expanding level will require
the personal commitment of growing numbers of SDS people. At a campus where the
educational job (broadly defined) has been
done well - even if there is not an ongoing
action program - we find that SDS members
as they graduate are extremely eager to be
involved in radical politics on a full-time
basis. (At Swarthmore the chapter has died
out but the former members are as eager as
ever.) But we have not acted systematically
to find places for our members; one of the
functions of a national office must be to do
that. This can only be done if there are experienced political staff in the offices with
responsibility for program; jobs in labor
unions could then be connected to graduating
members, ERAP projects could be expanded
and some new ones started, regional programs could develop, young adult chapters
could be organized.
Secondly, each chapter must begin to
shoulder its share of the fundraising burden.
Jeff Shero has estimated that SDS could
employ $600,000 wisely in a year - five
times our present level. The chapters can't
do all of that, or even most of that, but they
can do some, perhaps enough to free other
energies to do other kinds of fundraising
that would push us even higher.
********** ************
A final question to take up is that of "adult
organizing", which we must finally confront
now that the numberof young adult and even
adult chapters is increasing, andnowthatwe
have been mandated to create (more expensive) adult categories of membership.
The model has been to sign everyone,
student or not, up as SDS members if they
were participants in SDS program. One
adjustment that would facilitate merely continuing on that course would be to change
our name to Movement for a Democratic
Society. More important than changing the
home to fitreality wouldbetobegin to relate
on a more selective basis to different constituencies.
It means taking care to have staff developing high school program, perhaps having
high school conferences nationally and
regionally, and doing the same for other
coherent constituencies. At any rate, we
must become much more conscious of our
variety.
Title New left notes (1966-1967)
Editor Russell, James; Weissman, Aerlin; Speck; Calvert, Greg; Croston, Thane; Kleiman, Mark; Wilkerson, Cathy
Place of publication Chicago, Illinois
Publisher Students for a Democratic Society
Owner The International Institute of Social History Library Collections; Brünn, Harris Watts Collection - Serials and Press Release Soldiers Movements, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Digital identifier giNewsletter943a000
Title p. 27
Full text AUGUST 24, 1966 NEW LEFT NOTES 27 (continued from page 26) difficult organizing there, SNCC turned more extensively to the strategy for building a base among poor Black Belt Negroes. In imitation of this emphasis on organizing the poor, the Northern Student Movement turned from tutorial projects to ghetto organizing in the North, and SDS formed its Economic Research and Action Project to launch organizing efforts in 1964. Young radicals in search of "radical vocation" saw community organizing as a long-term effort. The Mississippi Summer Project expressed the desire for commitment of middle-class northern students; commitment was most beautifully expressed in the death of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman. ■ The Berkeley student revolt of the fall of 1964, and the antiwar campus movement that emerged after the February, 1965 bombings in North Vietnam, expressed for the first time the extensiveness of thecanv pus alienation. To thousands of students, "the movement" meant a community of students rejecting the sell-outs of middle-class America, seeing its rottenness in the war in Vietnam and its emptiness in mass higher education. This student movement, organized primarily in SDS chapters, committees against the war in Vietnam, and ad hoc university reform movements in emulation of Berkeley, adopted the militant style and tactics of the Negro struggle, but had no experience through which it might develop political strategy, or and ideological understanding of questions of social change. Independent of campus upheaval, the Negro struggle was having a deep impact on the nation. Its mass following in the South, expressed particularly in the Birmingham demonstrations of 1963, forced the nation to confront the question of racism. During 1963, for the first time in years the President and the New York Times paid more attention to domestic matters than to the Cold War. The civil rights movement forced open and elicited sympathetic responses from unions and churches. Wthin labor and the clergy, rank-and-file discontents had been developing in the Sixties. In the industrial unions, the pressure of automation played a role in local-level demand for new attention to job control and working conditions; there were wildcat strikes in auto in 1964 over these grievances, and in other industries as well. In the clergy the demands were for freedom to relate to social problems of the day. In Catholicism these demands meant an elementary fight for independent expression; in all faiths there was widespread adherence to the civil rights cause. The labor and church leaderships in a "coalition of conscience" backed lobbying efforts to pass the Civil Rights bill of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Bill. Atthe middle of the decade the movement was beginning to confront questions of political power. At the outset the intention and greatest hope of organizers has been to establish some insurgency in the society; some of the insurgency, in Mississippi, Alabama, in the Fram Workers movement in California, in ghetto organizations and in movements of poor whites, had developed enough strength to face political choices. Some peace activists faced similar questions as the result of 1966 peace candidacies. Although the movement's response has been to work for independent bases of power (one expression of this is SNCC's slogan "Black Power"), there are a number of weaknesses in that answer. In the first place, the scattered and spotty forces suggest that perhaps there is no prospect of attaining any measure of political decision-making power in the near future, but more likely the outcome of winning an election would be to move insurgency to a higher level. This has been the case where movements have won control of war on poverty boards; they have had to fight at higher levels for control they should have already won. And it is likely to be the result of winning local elections, especially in Black Belt counties; the prerogative of exercising power will undoubtedly have to be won at the state or federal level. Another problem in the assertion of the strategy of independent bases of power is that there is little clarity as to the content of the radical program in behalf of which the organization is carried out. If we are only building insurgency and commotion, then program can be improvised, developed according to conditions. But in actual contests for political control, program must be clarified in order that strategic considerations flow from the goals. A mature consideration of the question of "coalition" would revolve around the extent to which an alliance might be expected to forward the program, and the extent to which it caused the program to be sacrificed. Once the civil rights movement had pried I (continued from page 7) ■ provide for rank-and-file education and to promote the elaboration of our ideology, analysis, etc. In the winter and spring, we havefollowed through quite successfully. « * SDS had dealt with its internal problems in a political way. It has put aside the notion that poor performance could be remedied by abolishing the office and somehow decentralizing the abolished responsibility, and instead has allocated responsibility, staff, money, etc., in a planned way. The draft program was thoroughly decentralized. * We have developed out of the grape strike support, a broad student-labor pro-" gram, in which five dozen chapters and the San Francisco regional office have worked in behalf of Delano, San Francisco and Chicago have published important documents, a network of SDS people involved in labor activity has been established, other chapters have aided local organizing drives and strikes, and summer organizing activity is in the works. * We continue to be the backbone of the anti-war effort on campus. Even though SDS is not involved in coordinating the days of protest, our chapters contribute mightily to thei r success. Our Vietnam exam was handed J out at 800 campuses--50t,000 copies. We ; sparked anti-draft activity that stunned the NATIONAL SECRETARY'S REPORT - BOOTH most important of those mistakes would be country. ■ * We publish a weekly newspaper which ■ not only keeps the membership well inform- * ed, it has also begun to be a medium of I important controversy and expression. Its I arrival (post office willing) underlines the reality of SDS as a functioning outfit. ■ * The community projects in which we work I have developed a much more political per- I spective on their goals. They | have established firm bases in their com- | munities for insurgency, and in several | cases have achieved considerable impor- ■ tance in placing their issues on the agenda ■ of city or state politics. JOIN has brought ■ a slumlord to sign a collective bargaining . contract with his tenants; Cleveland has ini- ' tiated a statewide welfare rights movement, Newark rias forced their long-time antagonist the incumbent city councilman into a runoff election. I ■ ' * We have embarked on an ambitious pro- ■ gram of radical intellectual activity. The REP I prospectus is generally acknowledged on I the Left as the definitive statement of the | intellectual tasks before us. | Although that is very simple, it is true at | its base. But, the number of mistaken conclusions that can be drawn from that observation is practically limitless. Perhaps the the society open to the possibility of change, there was room for the movementto operate in building insurgency on many levels. The possibilities for continued experimentation have grown, but have begun to be jeopardized by the course of the war in Vietnam. One sign of growth was the war on poverty, around which hundreds of insurgent movements fought for the principle of poor peoples' control. The Vietnam war is necessitating, the cutback of the war on poverty, felt first in the most experimental sections of that "war". This is an old story; foreign wars have been an important device for defeating radicalism in American history. But in a short time the war may necessitate the development of defensive strategy. In a sense, the anti-war movement had served as a defense for other movement in the society because it has made less credible the official explanation of the war, and therefore more difficult the effort of the government to use the slogan of national unity in turning aside the movement, ending strikes, etc. The social base of the student movement is a determining factor in its style of alienation and protest. In many ways, student political activity has been one expression of a deeper disturbance that has also been expressed in the drug culture, the musical tastes, and other phenomena. Insofar as politics is seen merely as an arena for protest, and no possibility of change is imagined or dealt with, the student movement is open to the charge levelled by an overly harsh cirtic of the British New Left: "all the disadvantages of threatening the dominant ideology of its society, without any of the compensating advantages of offering an alternative ideology itself." The present tasks, therefore, are the articulation of program, broadening of the social base of the movement, and development of political strategy. Paul Booth puritanism. The second would be that our style should be modeled after the style of youth alienation, and that we should build politics into that- making it sophisticated in its understanding of the enemy it rejects. The third mistaken approach would be thatan SDS chapter should be the combination of a personal outlet in LSD, or u political outlet for the same disaffections in SDS. The same formulation is made by various scholars like Keniston and Friedenberg. In some chapters on state university campuses, SDS has a truly schizophrenic nature; one segment of the membership is older, experienced "veterans", and the other is young and eager to learn. But because the educational function of SDS is poorly understood, the full benefits of our community are not imparted. We need to come to grips with our historic function; to create a new generation of radicals means to be the arena in which they, as individuals, can grow to become that new generation. It means our field secretaries have to have a grasp of what the internal life of a chapter could be. He should be able to impart to a chapter leader how a regular social event is an integrative function, and how a seminar can be structured so that people get a lot out of it. He should know the good books to assign to an introductory discussion group, what's wrong with the five books on the New Left both as histories and as analyses, how action programs on campus can be made educational-(thedifference between a good leaflet and a bad one and how to explain that difference). He should know how a chapter can be structured internally so as to elicit participation and growth. These skills still haven't passed out of the folklore stage, or slowly but surely at best. But they should not be regarded merely as techniques; they should be understood in the context of the important cultural trends on the campus from which SDS draws. There has begun to be a great deal of writing on the "alienated youth culture." On the left, the phenomenon is generally seen as a conflict between pot and politics. We say with some haughtiness that the deeply disaffected young person can choose either Throughout SDS' action programs there has been a political emphasis on organizing, aiming at opening new possibilities for politics in a wide range of social milieus. For Vietnam we have leafletted plant gates, spoken at churches, covered the boondocks with Vietnam exams, organized activity in the suburbs. On campus we have tried to get our message into the hands of more and more students. For the grape strike we have molded coalition committees of ministers, facult, unionists. In peace campaigns we have gone into middle and working-class neighborhoods in door-to-door work on the model of ERAP projects. In our old rhetoric, we used to call all this proof of our "relevance", and we used the couplet "radical and relevant" to describe the twin poles of our strategy. The office of national secretary deserves some extended comment. I have been the most political national secretary in recent years, both as concerns the internal functioning of the organization and the left and the public. SDS runs, to a great extent, on the prestige of its leadership. This is inevitably the case, as Martin Oppenheimer demonstrates in the current issue of Our Generation, in a large organization in which debate is not structured by factions or wings. So, in providing organizational coherence, the prestige of the leadership is called into play, especially insofar as they involve themselves in issues atthe local and regional levels. Because Carl Oglesby was elected President at a moment when the organization didn't want an activist President using his position in the internal decision-making, it chose Carl, who has been much more adept and suited for speaking to the wide public. My ability to work successfully in the internal strengthening of SDS increased markedly after January, when certain political assumptions became generally accepted. However, the combination of internal administrative responsibility and internal political responsibility is a heavy one. A lot of that would be relieved if SDS brought into the national office, for the first time, a number of full-time experienced people responsible for various sections of the organization's political program; and, for the outside world, especially for our allies, if the President became a full-time officer, the political and apolitical alienated cultures. None of those formulas gives the answer. Part of theanswercomesoutofwhatwe have always known to be true: that SDS is a radical arena for learning, and a center for insurgent politics. But time after time, people who have taken that lesson too literally have run internal educational seminars that lasted two weeks before they died out, have put out newsletters that nobody read; in short, have been trapped in the Dull Politics syndrome. So mechanical proposals like a constitutional amendment requiring each chapter to have an educational chairman are partial solutions at best. We all need to learn how to relate to the genuine impulses of our generation. In light of the fact that SDS has been the most creative and relevant factor on the Left, it should be within our reach to carry out our educational job. We can move immediately to do the large number of mechanical jobs: 1. create a network of chapter people re sponsible for internal education, serviced by national and regional staff with that express job. 2. make the Vice-President responsible for educational program. 3. put REP on the road, staffing it and financing it. 4. turn outtheprogramguidesthatchapters need: a-film and visual arts guide b-internal seminar syllabi c-annotated reading lists of radical authors d-radical guides to the introductory courses 5. turn out the literature written by SDS people in handsome printed form. This report has focused entirely on organizational problems; and could have an equally long treatment of political possibilities and priorities, in which I would make the argument that we are entering into a period of rapidly widening possibilities for radical organizing due to the failure of the Johnson administration in making the war a credible excuse for preserving national consensus. That argument would draw the conclusions that the kind of activity in which we have already been engaged: student-labor projects, community organizing, electoral work, civil rights activity, anti-draft activity, and war protest of a political character, should be continued, and stepped up. This argument can be made at great length; suffice it to say, for present purposes, that there seems to be no reason to expect any abatement of SDS activism. This creates problems of support. Principally, these are manpower problems and financial problems. To puruse any of these political programs on an expanding level will require the personal commitment of growing numbers of SDS people. At a campus where the educational job (broadly defined) has been done well - even if there is not an ongoing action program - we find that SDS members as they graduate are extremely eager to be involved in radical politics on a full-time basis. (At Swarthmore the chapter has died out but the former members are as eager as ever.) But we have not acted systematically to find places for our members; one of the functions of a national office must be to do that. This can only be done if there are experienced political staff in the offices with responsibility for program; jobs in labor unions could then be connected to graduating members, ERAP projects could be expanded and some new ones started, regional programs could develop, young adult chapters could be organized. Secondly, each chapter must begin to shoulder its share of the fundraising burden. Jeff Shero has estimated that SDS could employ $600,000 wisely in a year - five times our present level. The chapters can't do all of that, or even most of that, but they can do some, perhaps enough to free other energies to do other kinds of fundraising that would push us even higher. ********** ************ A final question to take up is that of "adult organizing", which we must finally confront now that the numberof young adult and even adult chapters is increasing, andnowthatwe have been mandated to create (more expensive) adult categories of membership. The model has been to sign everyone, student or not, up as SDS members if they were participants in SDS program. One adjustment that would facilitate merely continuing on that course would be to change our name to Movement for a Democratic Society. More important than changing the home to fitreality wouldbetobegin to relate on a more selective basis to different constituencies. It means taking care to have staff developing high school program, perhaps having high school conferences nationally and regionally, and doing the same for other coherent constituencies. At any rate, we must become much more conscious of our variety.
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Peace & freedom news (Madison, Wisconsin)
Peace Newsletters...
Here is a representative sampling of peace
newsletters from all over the country, so
that P&F NEWS readers can know where to
obtain information of local peace activities
in these areas. Trom time to time, we will
publish lists of additional newsletters.
REGIONAL NEWSLETTER
Dayton Area Coordinating Committee
234 Xenia Avenue
^Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
NEW JERSEY CORRESPONDENT
New Brunswick, N.J. 08903
)C NEWSLETTER
Southern Coordinating Committee
OPPOSITION WEST
(Serves Bay Area Peace Org. Comm.)
Stanford, Cal.
ROCHESTER PEACE NEWSLETTER
™E
Rochester, N.Y. 14610
Louisville Peace & Freedom Center
221 W. Brandeis Ave.
Louisville, Ky. 40208
NEWSLETTER of the Independent Comm.
on Vietnam of Columbia University
P.O. Box 428, Cathedral Pk. Sta.
LABOR NEWS & VIEWS
Trade Unionists for Peace
Pm. 408, 857 Broadway
New York, N.Y, 10003
PITTSBURGH PEACE & FREEDOM NEWS
Pittsburgh Comm. to End the War in VN
4524 Winthrop St.
COMMUNIQUE FOR NEW POLITICS
Community for Hew Politics
2214 Grove St.
Berkeley, Cal. 94703
CONNECTICUT PEACE NEWSLETTER
Conn. Coordinating Committee
West Hartford, Conn.
Committee For Peace
The Teachers Ccmmittee for Peace in
Vietnam developed out of ar» Open Letter to
the President which appeared in the New
York Times on May 30, 1965. It was one of
a number of ads sponsored during the first
"few months after the escalation of the
Vietnam war. However, the Open Letter was
the first time teachers in a major metropolitan area publicly opposed administration policy on Vietnam.
The ad was initiated by two New York
City teachers who were concerned about developments in Vietnam and who felt that
teachers had a unique responsibility and
role to play in helping stop the war. They
wrote the Open Letter, obtained 10 sponsors and then circulated the text among
New York City teachers. The goal set for
the ad had been only 300 signatures, but
1200 names poured inl The fact that so
many teachers were willing to protest publicly shows the discontent and opposition
that already existed in April and May 19^5 •
COMMITTEE SET UP
The Open Letter generated an enthusiastic response. Three weeks later, 80 teachers from the metropolitan New York area
met and decided to constitute a permanent
Teachers Committee for Peace in Vietnam.
The Committee has sponsored a demonstration of more than 200 teachers in front
of the United Nations, distributed leaflets
at the NEA convention in 19^5, and picketed
the White House Conference on Education. It
has also held public meetings, and distributed leaflets at a number of teachers'
meetings in New York.
In March I965 the Committee prepared a
full-page article condemning the Vietnam
war for the United Teacher, organ of N.Y.C.'e
United Federation of Teachers. This year,
the Teachers Committee ran a full-page ad
in the New York Times and in other papers
signed by over 2,300 teachers.
ROLE OF TEACHERS COMMITTEE
Committee members agree that their primary community consists of their colleagues
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Title Peace & freedom news (Madison, Wisconsin)
Editor Allen, Duane; Tabb, Bill; Kruenen, Steve; Rago, Laurie; Levenson, Joan; Klare, Mike
Place of publication Madison, Wisconsin
Publisher The National Co-ordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
Owner The International Institute of Social History Library Collections; Wisconsin Historical Society
Digital identifier giNewsletter945000
Owner Wisconsin Historical Society; The International Institute of Social History Library Collections
Full text Peace Newsletters... Here is a representative sampling of peace newsletters from all over the country, so that P&F NEWS readers can know where to obtain information of local peace activities in these areas. Trom time to time, we will publish lists of additional newsletters. REGIONAL NEWSLETTER Dayton Area Coordinating Committee 234 Xenia Avenue ^Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 NEW JERSEY CORRESPONDENT P.O. Box 1331 New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 )C NEWSLETTER Southern Coordinating Committee P.O. Box 9085 Atlanta, Ga. 30314 OPPOSITION WEST (Serves Bay Area Peace Org. Comm.) P.O. Box 4210 Stanford, Cal. ROCHESTER PEACE NEWSLETTER ™E P.O. Box 3912 Rochester, N.Y. 14610 CATALYST Louisville Peace & Freedom Center 221 W. Brandeis Ave. Louisville, Ky. 40208 NEWSLETTER of the Independent Comm. on Vietnam of Columbia University P.O. Box 428, Cathedral Pk. Sta. New York, N.Y. 10025 LABOR NEWS & VIEWS Trade Unionists for Peace Pm. 408, 857 Broadway New York, N.Y, 10003 PITTSBURGH PEACE & FREEDOM NEWS Pittsburgh Comm. to End the War in VN 4524 Winthrop St. Pittsburgh, Pa. COMMUNIQUE FOR NEW POLITICS Community for Hew Politics 2214 Grove St. Berkeley, Cal. 94703 CONNECTICUT PEACE NEWSLETTER Conn. Coordinating Committee P.O. Box 2251 West Hartford, Conn. TEACHERS Committee For Peace In Vietnam by Paul Becker The Teachers Ccmmittee for Peace in Vietnam developed out of ar» Open Letter to the President which appeared in the New York Times on May 30, 1965. It was one of a number of ads sponsored during the first "few months after the escalation of the Vietnam war. However, the Open Letter was the first time teachers in a major metropolitan area publicly opposed administration policy on Vietnam. The ad was initiated by two New York City teachers who were concerned about developments in Vietnam and who felt that teachers had a unique responsibility and role to play in helping stop the war. They wrote the Open Letter, obtained 10 sponsors and then circulated the text among New York City teachers. The goal set for the ad had been only 300 signatures, but 1200 names poured inl The fact that so many teachers were willing to protest publicly shows the discontent and opposition that already existed in April and May 19^5 • COMMITTEE SET UP The Open Letter generated an enthusiastic response. Three weeks later, 80 teachers from the metropolitan New York area met and decided to constitute a permanent Teachers Committee for Peace in Vietnam. The Committee has sponsored a demonstration of more than 200 teachers in front of the United Nations, distributed leaflets at the NEA convention in 19^5, and picketed the White House Conference on Education. It has also held public meetings, and distributed leaflets at a number of teachers' meetings in New York. In March I965 the Committee prepared a full-page article condemning the Vietnam war for the United Teacher, organ of N.Y.C.'e United Federation of Teachers. This year, the Teachers Committee ran a full-page ad in the New York Times and in other papers signed by over 2,300 teachers. ROLE OF TEACHERS COMMITTEE Committee members agree that their primary community consists of their colleagues con'd next page PEACE AND FREEDOM NEWS 5
#2 (August 30, 1965)
- A call for nationwide protests...
#3 (September 6, 1965)
#4 (September 13, 1965)
#6 (Monday, October 1, 1965)
#7 (Monday, October 11, 1965)
- p. 7+
#9 (Tuesday, November 2, 1965)
#10 (Friday, November 12, 1965)
#12 (December 13, 1965)
#14 (January 21, 1966)
- p. 3a
#16 (February 12, 1966)
- Will this happen again?
- International Days of ProtestAgainst the War in Vietnam
- Veterans for Peace in Vietnam
#18 (March 7, 1966)
#19 (March 14, 1966)
- p. 11a
- p. b
#22 (April 12, 1966)
23 (April 25, 1966)
#24 (May 1, 1966)
- Sample draft of the SDS examination
- Open letter to President Johnson
- The issue is China
Legal issues of U.S. position in Vietnam : speech of Hon. Wayne Morse
#26 (May 16, 1966)
27 (May 19, 1966)
#28 (June 30, 1966)
No. 29 (July 15, 1966)
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Range extension of the deep-sea polychaete worm Neopolynoe acanellae in Canada
Jean-François Hamel, Emaline M. Montgomery, Ruth Barnich, Annie Mercier
Journal: Marine Biodiversity Records / Volume 8 / 2015
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2015, e9
Specimens of the deep-sea scale worm Neopolynoe acanellae (Verrill, 1881) (Polychaeta, Polynoidae) were collected at depths between 466 and 1405 m in Canadian waters while still attached to their host, the pennatulacean coral (sea pen) Pennatula grandis Ehrenberg, 1834. The present records extend the northern latitude of occurrence of N. acanellae in North America by 17o (~2000 km) to include the northern continental shelf of Newfoundland and Labrador and the lower Arctic, off the southern coast of Baffin Island (Canada). Analysis of the worm's intestinal content confirmed the presence of sea pen soft tissues and sclerites, suggesting that this species feeds on its host and is therefore parasitic.
New records of brisingidan asteroids (Asteroidea: Brisingida) in eastern Canada
Katie S.P. Gale, Christopher Mah, Jean-François Hamel, Annie Mercier
We report new geographical and bathymetric occurrence information for several species of brisingidan asteroids (Asteroidea: Brisingida) in eastern Canada. We recorded Brisinga costata, Freyella microspina and Novodinia americana in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), extending the geographical ranges of these species northward. Brisinga costata and F. microspina occur up to 350 m shallower in NL than elsewhere in their published ranges, while N. americana occurs 567 m deeper. We also confirm the presence of Freyella elegans, a possibly cosmopolitan species found throughout the North Atlantic but not previously reported in Canadian waters.
First records of Thyone inermis and Labidoplax buskii (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) in Canadian waters
Claude Massin, Ashley Robar-Matheson, Jean-François Hamel, Annie Mercier
This work presents records of two endobenthic species of sea cucumber (Holothuroidea: Echinodermata) not previously reported in Canadian waters. Thyone inermis (Dendrochirotida) and Labidoplax buskii (Apodida) were collected south-west of Nova Scotia (eastern Canada) in 2009 in Georges and Crowell Basins in the upper 2 cm of muddy seafloor at upper bathyal depths (240–370 m). Both species are of small size, 3.7–8 mm and 5–8 mm long, respectively.
Perception of needs and responses in food security: divergence between households and stakeholders
Anne-Marie Hamelin, Céline Mercier, Annie Bédard
Journal: Public Health Nutrition / Volume 11 / Issue 12 / December 2008
The aim of the study was (i) to describe the needs of food-insecure households and their assessment of community programmes, as expressed by households and perceived by stakeholders; and (ii) to examine the similarities and differences between households’ and stakeholders’ perceptions in Quebec City area.
Design/setting/subjects
A semi-structured interview and sociodemographic questionnaire with fifty-five households and fifty-nine stakeholders (community workers, managers, donor agencies). The transcriptions were subjected to content analysis and inter-coder reliability measurement.
The respondents’ perceptions converge towards three main categories of needs: needs specific to food security, conditions necessary for achieving food security and related needs. There was agreement on the necessity of better financial resources, although the impact of financial resources alone may be uncertain in the opinion of some stakeholders. Different perceptions of needs and of their fulfilment by community programmes emerge between both groups. Despite households found positive aspects, they complained that quality of food and access were major needs neglected. Their account suggests overall a partial fit between the programmes and food security needs; even a combination of programmes (e.g. collective kitchens, purchasing groups, community gardens) was insufficient to adequately meet these needs. In contrast, most stakeholders perceived that the household’s primary need was a basic amount of food and that the households were satisfied with programmes.
It is urgent to evaluate the overall effect of community programmes on specific aspects of household food insecurity. The results emphasise that community programmes alone cannot bring about social change needed to prevent food insecurity.
Diet, reproduction, settlement and growth of Palio dubia (Nudibranchia: Polyceridae) in the north-west Atlantic
Jean-François Hamel, Philip Sargent, Annie Mercier
Journal: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom / Volume 88 / Issue 2 / March 2008
Egg masses, juveniles and adults of the gastropod Palio dubia were found in shallow rocky habitats of eastern Canada dominated by the bryozoan Eucratea loricata. Multiple-choice experiments and direct field observations revealed that P. dubia prefers to feed on E. loricata. Courtship, copulation and egg-laying as well as hatching of P. dubia were closely related to the lunar cycle. Reproduction was preceded by increased pairing and aggregative behaviour. The duration of embryonic development in the capsules was 10–15 d. After hatching, most veligers were retained within the bryozoan branches during their pelagic phase (1–3 d). In multiple-choice experiments, settlement occurred preferentially on the bryozoan E. loricata. In the absence of the preferred substratum, the larvae continued to swim and died after a period that never exceeded 8 d. Juveniles remained associated with the bryozoans on which they settled and reached the adult size in ~3 months.
Progressive dilation of the diameter of the aortic root in adults with a bicuspid aortic valve
Annie Dore, Marie-Claude Brochu, Jean-François Baril, Marie-Claude Guertin, Lise-Andrée Mercier
Journal: Cardiology in the Young / Volume 13 / Issue 6 / December 2003
Background: To determine the rate of progression of dilation of the aortic root in adults with a bicuspid aortic valve. Methods: We reviewed retrospectively the transthoracic echocardiograms of 50 adults with a bicuspid aortic valve. Each patient had had at least two examinations made 12 months apart. Measurements were taken at four levels: at the basal attachment of the leaflets of the valve within the left ventricular outflow tract, at the widest point of the sinuses of Valsalva, at the sinutubular junction, and in the ascending aorta 1 cm beyond the sinutubular junction. Results: Progressive dilation occurred at all levels, ranging from 0.3 mm/yr at the basal attachment within the left ventricular outflow tract to 1.0 mm/yr, 1 cm beyond sinutubular junction. These rates of dilation were greater than the reported rate of 0.8 mm per decade in the normal population. The rate of dilation found in the ascending aorta 1 cm beyond the sinutubular junction was significantly greater than at the other sites (p = 0.005). The 21 patients with baseline measurements greater than 34 mm had a significantly higher rate of progression (p = 0.007). Sex, age, and the degree of valvar obstruction or regurgitation did not significantly influence the rate of progression of dilation. Conclusion: There is a significantly higher rate of dilation of the aortic root in adults with a bicuspid aortic valve when compared to the normal population. Periodic evaluation of the ascending aorta is essential in these patients, even after replacement of the aortic valve. Other imaging modalities should be considered if the region beyond the sinutubular junction is not well visualized by transthoracic echocardiography.
Mucus as a mediator of gametogenic synchrony in the sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa (Holothuroidea: Echinodermata)
Jean-François Hamel, Annie Mercier
Journal: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom / Volume 79 / Issue 1 / February 1999
The data presented here demonstrate that the sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa secretes a biologically active mucus that helps maintain gametogenic synchrony among conspecifics. Either a whole mature individual or a sample of its freshly collected mucus was able to initiate gametogenesis in conspecifics that were in the gametogenic recovery stage when other environmental conditions, including daylength, were maintained constant. Similar results were obtained when the mucus was kept in seawater for less than 3 h prior to its use, whereas after 6 h in seawater, the mucus had lost its inducing properties. Laboratory experiments showed that the mucus was produced in lesser amount during late summer and autumn; the production rapidly increased in early January to reach a peak a few months before the June spawning, in 1992 and 1993. The increment of mucus production was concurrent with the initiation of gametogenesis. Synthesis of mucus was maximal in individuals having attained gametogenic maturity and minimum in individuals with less developed gonads. At first relatively stable in seawater, the mucus gradually lost its integrity within a period of 3–5 h, suggesting that the mucus may be carried over long distances by currents, thus allowing a transfer of information before its complete degradation. This phenomenon was observed in the field where streams of mucus could be followed by SCUBA divers as far as 20–30 m away from the secreting animal. The data presented here are the first evidence of the important role played by mucus secretion during the gametogenic processes of an echinoderm.
New distribution and host record for the starfish parasite Dendrogaster (Crustacea: Ascothoracida)
Journal: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom / Volume 74 / Issue 2 / May 1994
This work presents the description of an intracoelomic parasite of the genus Dendrogaster (Crustacea: Ascothoracida), the largest ever reported, collected for the first time from the starfish Hippasteria phrygiana in the deep waters of the St Lawrence Estuary (eastern Canada). The parasite bears a close resemblance to only one previously described species, D. arbusculus from the west American coast, suggesting a bicoastal and possibly circumpolar distribution. Female growth is concurrent with embryo development and the parasite may have a negative impact on host starfish densities through gonad atrophy. This research also demystifies the old and persistent description of a supposed parasite in H. phrygiana 70 years ago, Laocoön paradoxus, and finally concludes that this parasite never existed and in fact represents the water vascular system found in all starfish.
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Review: The unique Almost Always Muddy experience
Coming up trumps as a venue again, Hull Central Library allowed Heads Up Festival to stage a take over of its Children’s Library, with Likely Story and Kirsty Harris transforming this usual den of books into The Story Yard, a place where, for young participants, there are no rules and no limits on imagination.
Families from Hull were the latest audience members to enter The Story Yard for Almost Always Muddy, an interactive, improvised world where seemingly everything and anything is possible.
Welcomed by The Story Yard Keepers, audiences are introduced to the Yard as a place of play, and young story builders are handed mallets and pegs and instructed to build a place where stories can happen. As they build, shifting around pallets, ropes, nets and all manner of ‘junk’, the first elements of the story that will unfold start to take shape – future towns, extravagant dens, spooky cities, magical kingdoms. As an entire world is created, young people give suggestions about where this might be and what could take place here.
Meanwhile, grown ups get their own task – and are whisked to a hidden location to fulfill their secret story mission, which will all come as a surprise to the youngsters later.
Midway through this brilliant fun, with it clear that everyone present is prepared to take risks with building and their imaginations, the building stops and the Story Yard Keepers take what the audience have suggested and created and improvise an adventure, with live music, live making and special effects, the result being a very unique experience for the group of people in Hull who were willing to take a giant leap into the unknown.
Almost Always Muddy allows children to explore their own limitations and reminds parents not only of the need to play but of the importance of allowing young people to (safely) explore risks, and that life, not just shows as important as Almost Always Muddy, is full of potential, possibility, story and adventure.
Special thanks to Michelle Alford and her team at Hull Central Library for making this event possible and allowing us to disrupt another weekend in the Children’s Library.
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Georgian Ombudsman: No Signs of Money Laundering in TBC Bank Case
Temperature to Drop in Eastern Georgia
MIA: Georgian Citizen Takes Georgian Border Guard Hostage
Hassan Rouhani: Shooting Down of Ukrainian Plane Unforgivable Error
Occupation Forces Erect Barriers at Village of Chorchana
Iran Admits to Downing Ukrainian Flight
Weekly Entrepreneurial News by Entrepreneur Georgia
Georgian Tourism Administration Head Sums up 2019
American Media: Iran Accidentally Shot Down Ukraine Plane
New Year Contemplations
If pursuit of happiness means anything at all as one of the most appreciated human freedoms, then Georgians are definitely among the peoples of the world who feel liberated enough to eagerly pursue and enjoy it. We are happy people by nature! This is why the ‘Happy New Year’ wish sounds very sincerely and absolutely naturally in this beautiful, although a little downsized, land. There are so many little unpleasant things in life that could curb the process of the pursuit, but we take it easy, elevating the New Year fancies and aspirations to the level of joyful excitements and anticipations.
The regular New Year model of behavior of the average Georgian gives the impression of affluence and magnificence. As an instance of this, I would throw in the holiday-time Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, illuminated more lavishly than Las Vegas itself. The entire country wants to sojourn here, or at least drive through the overcrowded avenue to get a glimpse of the totally outlandish lights dancing all over the place and reflecting in the eyes of kids and grownups in the same delightfully sparkling way, like an earthly paradise of heavenly colors and celestial symbols. Only a few other streets in Tbilisi look as festive; others are as dark and trivial as they have always been – undecorated, gloomy and lonely. Well, to have all the streets of the capital lit as lavishly as the main thoroughfare of the country, the thirteen-billion national budget recently approved by Parliament would not suffice.
On the other hand, the holiday bliss and luster is good but it is a real hell for those whose abodes happen to be in the area. The heavy traffic in the center of the city is like a fly in the ointment: if you are at home, you can’t get out, and if you’re out, you can’t get in. I have always wondered why all those celebrations, holiday bazaars, demonstrations, protests, processions, manifestations and the disgruntled folks’ tents have to be organized here in the heart of the town. There can’t be a bigger pain in the neck than bumper-to-bumper traffic 24/7 in the center of Tbilisi year in, year out, although the gas stations must be doubling their revenues as a result of it (and the air pollution will be tripled as a consequence).
The overly abundant use of pyrotechnic facilities is another concomitant passion of the New Year celebrations in our style. Moreover, the ubiquitous gun-shooting, atavistically sounding all over the country, is deafening, and who knows how safe it is.
But even more deafening is the news about the so called black lists in the New Year. I couldn’t believe my years, on hearing the news about the multi-party oppositional political force craving to blacklist certain judges, prosecutors and police officers who have allegedly violated the human rights of their fellow citizens, having brashly exceeded their official authority. It seems like black is the favorite color of the country’s political wannabes as, in addition to the black lists, the blackout right in the middle of colorful New Year lights would have been for them the best finale of the nationwide celebrations, but it did not happen to their greatest chagrin.
Black PR, blackish mood, blackened future, black prognosis, blackmail and black-mindedness would also be part of those numerous blackly imagined and darkly presented vignettes of our life by those who think that they can make a much better government of the country than the one who is ruling the nation today.
Meanwhile, life goes on, and we the people carry on, based on the dogs-bark-but-the-caravan-moves-on model of existence, which is perfectly all right in terms of continuing our pursuit of happiness. Nothing matters more than happiness after all – regular, deserved, recognized, ongoing and firm. Down with those perennial confrontations! Down with endless misunderstandings! Down with mutually incriminating and unremittingly cantankerous politics! Down with anger, bile and ire! No more fears and confusions! Time to know who we are, where we are and why we are!
By Nugzar B. Ruhadze
Image source: Tbilisi City Hall
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PM Gakharia Congratulates Kelly Degnan on Her Swearing-in
Former Head of Armenian National Security (2016-2018) Found Shot in His House
US Ambassador: Parliamentary Elections Important Opportunity for Georgians
Kelly Degnan: Georgia's Independence Remains under Threat from Russia
Anatoly Bibilov: "Border" With Georgia Will Not Be Opened
Tskhinvali Concerned about Statements Made By Abkhaz Opposition Leader
Senate Initiates Impeachment Trial of President Trump
Macron's Collaborationist Approach to Russia Perplexes 'Audience
Ukraine PM Submits Resignation Letter
New US Ambassador to Georgia Takes Oath
Georgian PM, President of Ukraine Hold Telephone Conversation
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia talked to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky over the phone this weekend.
During the conversation, the Georgian Prime Minister said he shared the pain over the loss of Ukrainian citizens in the UIA plane crash in the Iranian city of Tehran, and expressed condolences to the relatives of the victims of the tragedy.
Giorgi Gakharia assured the President that Georgia was ready to provide all the necessary assistance to Ukraine.
Zelensky in turn stressed that the key thing was to conduct a full and objective investigation into the causes of the tragedy, and Ukrainian experts were already involved in this process.
"We feel your support," he said. "Ukraine and Georgia have always been side-by-side in the troubled periods of history. We have experts working, we have already sent a plane with our best specialists to Iran and we are working to ensure the transparency of the investigation,” the Head of State said.
The Ukrainian International airliner bound for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, crashed minutes after takeoff from the Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran on January 8 amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran.
The plane carried mostly Iranians and Iranian Canadians.
On the evening of January 10, Iran’s military announced that they had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, blaming human error because the plane took ‘an unexpected turn’ toward a military base.
Related Story: Iran: We Unintentionally Shot Down the Ukrainian Plane
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Jailer Mike Lewis, a born and raised Hopkins County resident, began working for the Hopkins County Jail in early 2004. During his more than 13 years of service, Lewis has held many positions as he continued to learn all aspects of jail operations. Starting as a floor deputy, he learned and became proficient at basic inmate supervision and inmate rights. Lewis later was promoted to facility maintenance, where he was able to learn the inner workings of the facility’s skeletal, grounds, CCTV and IT systems. During this time Lewis supervised an expansion project that added over 100 beds to the facility. In 2006 Lewis was promoted to Lieutenant where he supervised support staff members while serving as the facilities Human Resource and personnel director. In 2007 Lewis was promoted to Captain and served as second in command until his appointment as Jailer on July 1st, 2017. During Jailer Lewis’s time at Hopkins County Jail, he has been able to incorporate financial and management concepts acquired from having previously been a certified supervisor at Dana Corporation. Of those concepts, Financial Planning for Business Success and the 9, 9 Style of Managing has proven to be most rewarding. In 2010, Lewis applied to the National Institute of Corrections and was accepted to complete the Jail Administration Course. With more than 1000hrs of jail specific training, Lewis’s expertise in the Correctional Industry is distinguished. Jailer Lewis’s dedication to public service extends beyond the Hopkins County Jail as he enjoys being actively involved in the community and is a member of several organizations. Lewis is a member of the Madisonville Rotary Club and Hanson Lions Club serving on both club boards. He also serves on the board for the Hopkins County Humane Society as the county representative, Leadership Hopkins County, Salvation Army and United Way of the Coalfield.
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Josh writes for Wired, GQ, Rolling Stone, and founded Epic, a magazine for narrative non-fiction. His weightlifting snowman story in episode 323 was made into a t-shirt, and his Santa story in 371 might be made into a film.
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Act Three: How Do You Slow This Thing Down
Joshuah Bearman tells a story that’s a sequel to his memorable episode about his mother and half-brother David. It’s done onstage as a play that’s structured like a radio documentary, with Josh Hamilton playing Joshuah, and James Ransone playing his brother.
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Pussy Riot To Appeal Convictions To Russian Supreme Court
July 5, 2013 Aidan Keefer billboard, convictions, hbo, hbo documentary, infamous members, infectious magazine, maria alyokhina, music, music fans, nadezhda tolokonnikova, punk, punk band, punk prayer, pussy riot, pussy riot - a punk prayer, religious hatred, riot, russia, russian supreme court, supreme court, vladimir putin0 comment
The now infamous members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, whose only real crime was having a disgusting band name, are going to appeal their charges to the Russian Supreme Court according to the latest news from Billboard. Two members of the band, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, were sentenced to two years in prison for breach of public order motivated by religious hatred for their “punk prayer” protest of everyone’s favorite power hungry world leader Vladdy Putin. As of now the appeal has no set date. The band’s story has generated…
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Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art
23 January 2020 － 29 February 2020
Motoi Yamamoto, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Inge Pries Kantor, Ibe Kyoko, Francisco Vidal, Neta Harari, Ali Silverstein, Angela Klein, Netta Lieber Sheffer
5 December 2019 － 18 January 2020
Detail from Tomoko Kawao's performance at the gallery
Tomoko Kawao's performance
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Haji, Light Box, Digital pigment print, 100x140 cm, 2013/2018
Francisco Vidal, If I'm free, it's because I'm always running No.3, Recycled paper, 255x255 cm, 2015
Inga Pries-Kantor, Untitled, water colors on paper, 42x30, 2018
Opening event: Thursday, December 5th
Closing event: Saturday, January 18th
Force Majeure is a contractual term, used most commonly in the domains of law and insurance to describe enforceable events imposed on people without their control or initiative, thus preventing them from fulfilling a contract. Natural events like tsunamis strike villages, cities, and power plants, paralyzing entire regions. Man-made events like guerilla and civil wars devastate societies, turning the lives of citizens upside-down.
Ripped from their possessions and loved ones, the path for rehabilitation for many of the victims of such events involves migration; a search for a new source of life in unfamiliar territory.
The artwork in this exhibition investigate different catastrophes, natural or man-made, that were imposed on their subjects.
The exhibition kicks off with Angela Klein’s Red Button, portraying a missile lunching button that can lead, with one press, to the widespread destruction of humans and nature.
Next, Hajj by Gaston Zvi Ickowicz depicts a wall in the Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City. An Innocent looking wall where pilgrims returning from the holy site of Mecca mark and commemorate their journey, could be interpreted as a benign celebration of the completion of a religious duty, but also as the public display of religious zealousness.
Fed up with war, Angola based artist Francisco Vidal returned to the turmoil and conflict of his homeland, where he appropriated the machete as an unusual platform for his artwork. The machete was used by rebels during the civil war that took place in Angola from 1975 to 2002. In Vidal’s work the machete is covered with layers of neon colors (representing motifs from the war), over which the word “free” emerges.
In a large drawing spread over a series of paper squares, the cotton flower appears. A recurring motif in Vidal’s work, the cotton flower carries deep symbolical meaning in Angola. It symbolized the early anticolonial resistance in Angola (1961), which was sparked by cotton field workers protesting the conditions imposed on them under a regime of slavery. This resistance led to a long and bloody war of independence from the Portuguese control over the country (1975).
Francisco Vidal’s work draws on the history of Angola in the past decades, the fight for independence and the civil war that followed. At the age of 30, Vidal moved to the capital Luanda, where the restricted access to material and workspace shaped the nature of his art. Vidal is inspired by the legacy of the Bauhaus school (“the artist, the craftsman, and the technician, combined in one”) which sought to promote social and political reforms in art, design, and everyday life. Vidal developed a modular machine that allows him to produce squares from recycled paper. This machine functions, in a sense, as his portable studio.
Inge Price Kantor observes Africa from her vantage point in Germany. She documents African men and women making their way: some fleeing, some voyaging; perhaps aiming to resettle in Europe, perhaps just resettling their thoughts in a western mindset, as they shed their color, clothes and convictions.
As is always the case in Price Kantor’s work, her characters are not monosemic, nor do they lend themselves to political exploitation. Marked by tragic-comic scenarios, Price Kantor’s work renders a modern version of the Ship of Fools, sending her characters on an absurd odyssey of mistakes and misgivings.
Neta Harari Navon deconstructs social and personal orders. Employing a multidirectional gaze, she introspects her crumbling life and inspects a fissured, combative, society. The destruction of the private home begins with the destruction of the homeland, national chaos penetrates the private sphere, her warrior charges with his sword drawn and ready for battle. An image for this work was taken from a series of photographs by Ziv Koren who documented the evacuation of the Amona settlement in 2006 .
Ibe Kayoko created a paper partition following the tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011. Ibe’s family lives in the Fukushima region, which was hit by the storm. The paper partitions capture the raging ocean, its unforgiving depths, and the emotional turbulence that remained in the hearts of residents in the storm’s aftermath.
Motoi Yamamoto explores death in his art. His pencil drawing was created in preparation for a special installation of salt whirlpools that he created for museums and galleries around the world. The whirlpool, swirling black and white tones, symbolizes beginning and end, birth and death. An endless life cycle is absorbed into the wood to which Yamamoto glued the drawing, wrapping both with a thick layer of Japanese varnish, giving the drawing the semblance of marble. Perhaps a tombstone?...
Natural and man-mane whirlpools also appear in the works of Gaston Zvi Ickowicz .
Zvi Ickowicz photographed wind whirlpools ascending above the ruins of abandoned villages in the Gaza Envelope. As in the work of Yamamoto, the combination of black and white forms an ephemeral mass hovering above areas of destruction, replacing the hollowed presence of humans. Zvi Ickowicz studied the torched land created by explosive kites and balloons launched from Gaza towards the Jewish communities of the Gaze Envelope. This torched land exposed and highlighted the ruins of abandoned Palestinian villages Simsim, Najd, and al-Mansura. These ruins mark an eternal reminder of the lives of the village dwellers who fled and exiled from their land.
Netta Lieber Sheffer created a house trailer, providing a cramped, yet portable living space – perhaps as a way to prepare for catastrophe, perhaps as evidence that it already took place. A trio of riders tied to one another, like Inge Price Kantor‘s self-designated abductors, ride towards an unclear partnership.
Ali Silverstein concludes the exhibition with the forces of nature – an imaginary mountain towering above us, with precipitation or lava dripping above it.
As part of the exhibition’s opening event, the Japanese calligraphy artist Tumoko Kuwan will perform a live drawing which will remain in display on the room’s floor. The calligraphic design centers on the word SUSUMU. The word, consisting of the word “journey”, means progression, moving on, promoting others and helping them reach better places.
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June 2009 - Imagine a Vision and Make it Real
They have a vision!
Steps to translate the vision
Implications when raising customer expectations
Resources (links, books, articles, the lighter side)
Imagine a Vision and Make it Real
By Baldwin Tom
When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created their first Apple computers, they imagined that there would be an Apple computer in every home. That was an audacious picture of a future vision! Their mission, thereafter, was to make that vision a reality.
Bill Gates envisioned Microsoft dominating the world market. Microsoft continues to make that vision real.
A compelling vision is a powerful focal point to inspire efforts within an organization. A vision depicts a desired future for the organization. It becomes the super goal toward which the organization works as it carries out its mission. It is about what one wants to become, a lofty destination.
Successful leaders have a picture of a desired future – a vision – that they share with their employees. They use it to engage and to add meaning to daily work.
While having a vision can be a powerful tool to inspire extraordinary effort, it can also be a hollow statement if it is not shared with employees and, especially, if not acted on.
The balance of this article describes how to convert a vision to tangible actions for the organization’s personnel that becomes meaningful for the organization.
Imagine a customer reading the following vision tagline from a Website: "to be the first called when a business needs help."
The first thing that may come to the customer’s mind might be that this company (First Call) is a capable one, has good people and knows much about their areas. They must have breadth of knowledge and experiences, they must be smart and intelligent, and they are a confident firm. Being the first called also suggests that they may be a leader in their field with best practice capabilities.
What might the customer expect in a visit to First Call? The expectation might be that the personnel will be friendly, confident, informative, and responsive. The activity in the office will exude energy and imply a successful, quality oriented, customer centric business. The impression might be that this business has well defined processes, clear methods, and customer tested approaches.
What might the customer expect of First Call’s products and services? One might not be surprised to find that they are the best of class and of fair value. What about the governance and structure of such a stellar organization? There would be little doubt a visitor might expect the structure to support performance excellence, that there is recognition and rewards for a job well done.
The questions inherent in the above example are presented here together with commentary on this unique approach to make a vision real for everyone in an organization.
Impression?
Before ever setting foot into First Call’s offices, one develops impressions about the organization by what it presents in written or visual form. Imagine oneself as the customer and see what impression derives from the same vision. Depending on one’s point of view, the impression will differ. Nevertheless, this impression sets the stage for what else to expect.
Expectations?
With the impression formed — good or bad — one will set up expectations as to what will be found when visiting the business. In our customer example above, one might expect to sense energy in the firm. People would seem to move about with purpose. This First Call company better meet those high expectations or the customer will wonder about the credibility and product/service offerings from First Call.
Processes and Procedures?
The logical train of thought after ‘high expectations’ will be that the way things are done at First Call are undoubtedly efficient and effective. This includes the communications between the customer and the company. Are the contacts reflective of a ‘first to be called’ firm? The customer will expect exemplary interactions with the personnel of First Call.
Products and Services?
By the time the customer in our example comes face to face with the products and services, the best is now expected. One would expect seeing framed letters of commendation and recognition for their customer service focus.
If one has a public vision statement and is unaware what the customer "sees" in their mind, then there will be a disconnect between what the customer expects and what First Call delivers. In order to be fully competitive in the marketplace, what is said and what is done needs to be coherent and fully aligned.
Processes may need to be improved or changed.
Products and services may need to be enhanced, changed, or repackaged in order to meet expectations.
Everyone at First Call needs to know what the customer expects.
When one compares what the customer expects and what is currently being provided, will there be gaps in delivering on the expectations?
Note that this exercise provides a way to consider what might be perceived as the ideal against what is the current state.
This process touches on every aspect of an organization and every member of the business. Such comparisons will help identify key gaps in product/service delivery at all stages of the creation process.
What is needed to close gaps between the desired state and the current one?
In order to make a vision real, it requires the participation and input from most — if not all — members of the company.
When this is done, every member of the company will fully appreciate the power of the vision made real. More important, each member will know better their contribution to the success of the organization.
About the author, Baldwin H. Tom, CMC® Former instructor in Strategic Thinking and Planning for the United Way of America; Past National Chair of the Institute of Management Consultants USA, 2004-2006. Get free management downloads from www.tbgroupconsultants.com (under Publications).
©1999-2009. The Baldwin Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission of the author.
Strategic Visioning Process http://www.makemark.com/graphic_facilitation/services/strategicvisioning.asp
The Spirit of the Visioning Process http://www.ninaspencer.com/index.cfm?Fuseaction=ArticleDisplay&ArticleID=160&SectionID=59
Incorporating Visioning into Comprehensive Planning http://learningstore.uwex.edu/pdf/G3752.pdf
Strategic Visioning Process Innovation Team Tool Kit http://studentaffairs.ucsc.edu/staff/visioning/docs/InnovationTeamToolkit.pdf
Creating A Vision http://www.theconsultingteam.com/Articles/creatingavision.htm
Women and the Vision Thing http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/01/women-and-the-vision-thing/ib
How to Overcome Anxiety Using Future Visioning http://www.wikihow.com/Overcome-Anxiety-Using-Future-Visioning
Grounded vision: Bring your team together
Visioning http://www.e-lead.org/resources/resources.asp?ResourceID=19
Organizational Visioning Pathways and Pitfalls http://www.managerwise.com/article.phtml?id=201
Plan Out Your 3-Year Vision for Attracting Clients (and The Life You Really Want) http://www.zeromillion.com/business/Attracting_Clients_and_The_Life_You_Really_Want.html
Visioning http://www.myarticlearchive.com/articles/5/032.htm
How to make a vision board http://christinekane.com/blog/how-to-make-a-vision-board/
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. Barack Obama. Vintage, July 2008. ISBN-10: 0307455874 ISBN-13: 978-0307455871
How to Re-imagine the World: A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries. Anthony Weston. New Society Publishers, October 2007. ISBN-10: 0865715947 ISBN-13: 978-0865715943
Cultivating the Strategic Mind: Growing From Leader to Visionary, Creator, and Architect of Strategy. Dr. Blake Leath. Allagi Publishing, 2007. ISBN-10: 0979883016 ISBN-13: 978-0979883019
Radicals & Visionaries: Entrepreneurs Who Revolutionized the 20th Century. Thaddeus Wawro. Entrepreneur Press, May2000. ISBN-10: 1891984136 ISBN-13: 978-1891984136
Visionaries: The 20th Century's 100 Most Inspirational Leaders. Satish Kumar (Editor), Freddie Whitefield (Editor). Chelsea Green Publishing, November 2008. ISBN-10: 1933392533 ISBN-13: 978-1933392530
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras. Collins Business, November 2004. ISBN-10: 0060566108 ISBN-13: 978-0060566104
The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to Global Warming. Brian Dumaine. Three Rivers Press, April 2009. ISBN-10: 0307406229 ISBN-13: 978-0307406224
The Power Path: The Shaman's Way to Success in Business and Life. Jose Stevens. New World Library, June 2002) ISBN: 1577312171 ISBN-13: 978-1577312178
Jesus, CEO: Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership. Laurie Beth Jones. Hyperion, April 1996. ISBN-10: 0786881267 ISBN-13: 978-0786881260
Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success. Marc Allen. New World Library, April 2009. ISBN-10: 1577316622 ISBN-13: 978-1577316626
You'll See It When You Believe It: The Way to Your Personal Transformation. Wayne W. Dyer. Harper Paperbacks, August 2001. ISBN-10: 0060937335 ISBN-13: 978-0060937331
Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao. Wayne W. Dyer. Hay House, January 2009. ISBN-10: 140191750X ISBN-13: 978-1401917500
The Celestine Vision: Living the New Spiritual Awareness. James Redfield. Grand Central Publishing, November 1999. ISBN-10: 0446675237 ISBN-13: 978-0446675239
Related newsletter articles:
February 2007 - Visioning for the Future
April 1998 - Vision: Expanding Your Thinking
August 2006 - Leadership Vision
November 2001 - The Essence of Leadership
February 1999 - Managers and Leaders
April 2001 - Consulting Skills for Managers
July 1998 - Developing and Using Intuition
November 2007 - True Community
Tunnel vision http://www.humorgazette.com/hg/2006/07/tunnel_vision.html
Ergonomics humor http://www.humanics-es.com/ergojokes.htm
Humor http://www.connexin.net/humor.html
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What the Critics Said
James-Powell.com
I hope I'm the Jim Powell you are looking for, the Canadian who writes short stories of the mysterious and humorous sort. I thought it might be useful for those who know my writing to have a list of published stories, where they first appeared and where they have been reprinted.
For those of you who don't know my writing perhaps I can best explain what I do by describing my series stories which account for about half my work.
THE AMBROSE GANELON STORIES chronicle the adventures of the Ganelon family, four generations of private detectives named Ambrose Ganelon who live in the small Riviera principality of San Sebastiano.
As soon as I can I'll try to have a map of the principality and a short history of its founding by the captain and crew of a Tarshishman carrying a load of apes, peacocks and ivory.
These stories will give you the answers to questions such as:
Who wrote the music for the ballet The Man in the Iron Boot?
What kind of doctor was Ambrose Ganelon's Eurasian archenemy Dr. Ludwig Fong?
Whatever happened to Beaumont-Zoltan, the Clown Prince of San Sebastiano?
What is Fong Shoe?
What (or who) was The Saracen Dog?
Here are the answers to these questions
THE ACTING SERGEANT MAYNARD BULLOCK OF THE RCMP STORIES record the exploits of Maynard Bullock of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his recent sidekick and Mountie mascot Winnie-the-Peg, a bear with a wooden leg. Bullock guards the flowerbeds on Parliament Hill in Ottawa when he isn't saving Canada from a tribe of Central American headhunters of Scots ancestry, or investigates a multiple murder in the Finnish Embassy sauna or the disappearance of one of The Thousand Islands.
Soon I hope to have something here on young Bullock growing up in Dawson City in the Yukon.
Some Bullock questions:
What is a "teapot" Mountie?
Who were the Clothes-Horse Cavalry?
Who are the Stout-Hearted Men?
What is a "Hat-rack" Inspector in the RCMP?
How did the flowerbed on Parliament Hill called The Leap get its name?
What is the Scarlet Totem?
CHRISTMAS STORIES. I might call a collection of these stories CLAUS!: Just When the Noel Cowards Thought It Was Safe to Get Back into the Christmas Spirit. They tell of the break-out of homicidal Santas from a North Pole asylum, a philandering Santa shot up the chimney, A Christmas Carol as Dasheill Hammett might have sung it, two strange Santas meeting on a sleigh, Tiny Tim's revenge, murder in the trenches of WWI, and others.
More of the quiz:
What is kriskringlite? (No, it's not an icicle on Santa's beard.)
What are Santa's Own Whippet Lancers?
Why do Santa's elves like to go to Scotland? (Hint: it has to do with kneecaps.)
What is the secret of the space-time capacitor which allows Santa to come down ever chimney in the world in a single night?
FANTASY AND FABLE is a wide net to catch some strange fish: Inspector Bozo of Clowntown Homicide investigates the murder of a clown hit in the face with a poisoned custard pie; the Thief of Baghdad attempts to recover a flask in which a magician has imprisoned the Caliph's hiccups; a modern-day order of monks form a professional football team to finance their home for derelicts.
Some of the fable stories have magic in them. I know that may sound strange for a mystery story but I wrote them when I was young and foolish and thought you might, if you obeyed the rules of elf economics, use magic. In one story all magic devices had to be registered with the police. In another magic wands could only be used to turn an object into something of a lesser economic value.
Here are the answers to these questions.
WHITE SWAN and CAPTAIN SUNSET stories. These are two short series I hope to get back to. The former describes the adventures of two small town amateur detectives, Polly and Wally MacDougal, she a writer of detective stories for children, he a retired college teacher and antiques shop owner. Captain Sunset, the champion of the elderly, is a hero designed by a committee (of senior citizens) to fight crime.
Still more of the quiz:
What are The Mysterious Hornbook, Hardboiled Humpty and Godfather Goose?
What was the favorite drink of Hippity H. Hopp, the rabbit p. i.? What did his middle initial stand for? Name his loyal sidekick?
What do Mrs Bumbleby, Mr. Loomis Webster and Mr. Humbert Bugg, B.A. have in common?
A Pocketful of Noses: Stories of One Ganelon or Another
Join four generations of private detectives as they struggle against crime in their colorful principality on the French Riviera. The first Ambrose Ganelon was an armchair detective, the second preferred scientific reasoning, the third belonged to the two-fisted breed, leaving the fourth –-his predecessors having all but eliminated crime from their homeland-— a detective of the penniless sort. These stories include, among other matters, the Ganelons' battles with the Eurasian evil genius Dr. Ludwig Fong and his descendants. The publisher describes the book "as a wondrous combination of Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, Fu-Manchu and The Prisoner of Zenda."
This collection of stories edited by my friend Peter Sellers and published in 1990 includes "The Friends of Hector Jouvet," San Sebastiano's first appearance on the map of fictional places, Acting Sergeant Maynard Bullock in a cameo part in "The Beddoes Scheme" and Ambrose Ganelon IV solving the case of the disappearing "Coins in the Frascati Fountain." I admire the cover very much.
A Japanese collection of twelve of my stories with the title in translation: A DIRGE FOR CLOWNTOWN AND OTHER STORIES By JAMES POWELL (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2008). Nine of these stories have not been reprinted before. The title story tells of the adventures of Inspector Bozo of the Clowntown police as he investigates the murder of a clown hit in the face with a poisoned custard pie. I like this cover, too.
IN THE FUTURE:
Look for these stories in coming issues of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine:
THE BLACK WHATEVER
THE PIPER’S DOOR
THE TEAPOT MOUNTIE BALL
Reprints:
“A Bigfoot Christmas,” in Blood on the Holly, edited by Caro Soles (Baskerville Books, November 2007)
“The Algonquin Rose,” in Mystery Ink, edited by: Jake Doherty and Therese Greenwood (The Ginger Press, 2007)
Here I am trudging through the snow to a grizzly discovery on the cover of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Mid-December 1986 issue) back in the days when they sometimes used photos of their writers. Photo copyright (C) 1986 Davis Publications, Inc., used with permission of Dell Magazines.
Crime Writers of Canada (www.crimewriterscanada.com)
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (www.themysteryplace.com)
A Guide to Classic Mysteries and Detection Home Page (http://members.aol.com/MG4273/kkbeck.htm)
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THE DESERT ISLAND MYSTERY
TO KILL A ROCKINGHORSE
THE FRIENDS OF HECTOR JOUVET
CHEKHOV'S SNOW SHOVEL
The Secret of Wolfe Island
A Dirge For Clowntown [Kindle]
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Health care in Taiwan remains one of the best in the world for your money, according to Bloomberg’s annual ranking of health care efficiency. At ninth place, Taiwan’s ranking is part of analysis released on Sept. 19, which indexes medical costs and value for 56 global economies.
Up from 12th place last year, Taiwan’s position at ninth appears just below Australia which moved up two places to eighth, and Japan which moved down two places to seventh. Hong Kong and Singapore retain the top two spots. The United States dropped four positions to 54th and is the most expensive country for health care treatment.
The index ranks countries with average lifespans of at least 70 years, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per-capita over US$5,000, and a population of at least 5 million. The analysis used 2015 data from the World Health Organization, which was the latest available, except for Taiwan and Hong Kong, where 2014 data was used.
Key metrics in the ranking include life expectancy, the relative costs of health care (total health costs as a percentage of GDP), and the absolute costs (per capita health costs). The Bloomberg analysis notes that total health costs “generally include preventive and curative health services, family planning, nutrition activities, and emergency aid.”
Quality and accessibility of health care are not mentioned as analysis criteria.
Comparing Taiwan with Hong Kong, life expectancy is 79.7 years for Taiwan vs. 84.3 years for Hong Kong, relative cost is 6.2 percent vs. 5.7 percent, and absolute cost is US$1,402 vs. US$2,222.
The analysis acknowledges year-to-year fluctuations in rankings are affected by economies, legislation such as Obamacare, and political actions such as Brexit.
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Iredale Architecture worked with the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority to restore the Steamship Terminal Building to its former grandeur and to ensure its long-term structural integrity. We provided architectural, structural and building envelope services for the new foundations; seismic bracing and enlargement of interior columns; repair of the exterior façade; and extensive refurbishments to the interior. We also designed the tenant improvement for the new Robert Bateman Centre and the concrete and steel patio extending from the building’s waterside for a new restaurant. The restored heritage building also comprises commercial office space.
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Title: "A Time To Unmask!"
Writer: Stan Lee
Penciler: Bob Powell
Inker: Wally Wood
Cover: Wally Wood
Colours: Unknown
Letters: Sam Rosen
Editor: Stan Lee
Assistant Editor: None
Date: Dec. 1965
Cover Price: 0.12
Abner Jonas
Ape Man
Bernard Harris
Cat Man
Frog Man
Milton Monroe
Bob Powell Stan Lee Wally Wood
Bob Powell
Volume 1 - 9 10 11
Volume 2 - None
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Summary/Review by Michael Deeley
Daredevil has found the hideout of the Organization. He barely escapes Bird Man to "rescue" Debbie Harris, a willing participant in the Organization's plans. Matt warns Foggy that the organizer is a high-ranking member of the Reform Party. Foggy doesn't believe it, but agrees to help set a trap. They tell party leaders Bernard Harris, Abner Jonas, and Milton Monroe that they have evidence of the Organizer's identity locked in their office safe. As Matt expected, someone rifles through their office files. Foggy concedes he's been played for a dupe.
Unable to talk further with the party leaders, Murdock returns to Debbie's apartment to overhear her rebuff the Organizer's latest plan: Kill the mayor of New York. Daredevil promises to protect her in exchange for her help.
DD finds Frog Man setting a bomb at the mayor's mansion. He quickly subdues the villain, switches costumes with him, and goes to the Organizer's headquarters. He's told the police to listen in on the radio frequency the Organizer uses on Frog Man's two-way video harness. Organizer's attempt to blow up the mayor's mansion is broadcast across the city. DD is quickly overwhelmed by the rest of the gang who escape with their leader.
At Reform Party headquarters, Nelson announces he's dropping out of the race. Suddenly, the Organizer broadcasts a vow of revenge over television. Jonas accuses Monroe of being the Organizer, since he's the only party member not present. Foggy says that speech could have been pre-recorded to frame Monroe. Suddenly, Bird Man and Ape Man show up to kidnap Jonas. DD fights the villains, but tells Foggy to stop Jonas from running away. After the fight, Daredevil proves Jonas was the Organizer by the ring he wore in both identities. Debbie Harris' testimony puts him away.
Back at the home front, all is not well. Foggy feels like a chump after being played by the Organizer and Debbie. Rent on their office is overdue, since they haven't had a client in weeks. And Matt and Foggy both wonder who Karen really loves. Murdock announces he's leaving the firm to take a vacation. He thinks it will give Nelson the chance to move into a smaller, cheaper office. Foggy thinks about how this could improve his chances with Karen. And Karen decides to accept Foggy's next marriage proposal.
Some of the best Daredevil stories would follow a plot similar to this one. A villain working behind the scenes manipulates the public and/or the law to achieve his ends. Daredevil can't just fight the guy; he has to expose him or connect him to his crimes. And his friendship with Foggy and his latest romance take another hit.
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No Echidna Is an Island
by K. M. Hollar
Copyright notice: Sonic, Knuckles, the Chaotix and related characters are copyrighted by Sega and
Archie comics. Slasher, Talon, Zephyer, and all other minor characters are copyrighted by K. M.
Hollar. This story copyrighted 2004 by K. M. Hollar. Do not copy without permission.
Author's note: Aside from Slave and the Darkness, this story has the most mundane premise of any
story I've ever written. I defy other fic writers to take a custody battle and make it interesting. Heck,
_I_ doubt I made it interesting. But stick with it and see if it comes out being fun by the end.
A lot of stories end with a wedding, implying that marriage is the Happily Ever After of life.
However, I'm of the opinion that marriage is only the beginning of the adventure, which is the reason
this story starts the way it does. I never intended for this story to grow beyond the wedding itself, but
it somehow did, and this fic is the result.
Do I dare even wear what I was thinking of
My true colors bleeding on my sleeve
Do I chance the romance that I've been dreaming of
Instead of wishing for it quietly
Always at a distance I wish you'd safely stay
Despite my resistance you sought me anyway
Gone are the days of all that I was afraid of
I've left behind the traces of who I've been
I'm no longer able to wrestle with this angel
And the closer you can get I can let you love me
--Gone are the Days, Nicole Nordeman
Chapter 1: The wedding
"Zephyer, are you okay?" Sally called through the bathroom door.
"Fine," came the echidna's voice, although she sounded awful.
Sally looked at her watch. "We have an hour until the wedding starts. You need to get dressed pretty
soon."
"I know!" Zephyer wailed, opening the door. She was as white as a sheet, and had the shaky look of
one who has been throwing up. She walked out and sat down on the nearest chair. They were in
Sally's hut, which had been turned into an impromptu dressing room. Knuckles and Zephyer were
getting married, and Zephyer was terrified.
The door opened and Serena Hedgehog walked in. She was carrying two dresses folded over her
arms, and deposited them on Sally's bed. "There! I was lucky to find them, the village is topsy-turvy
right now. Hi Zephyer, why aren't you dressed?"
"I've been working on it," said Zephyer, indicating her slip. "But I--I keep--" She jumped to her feet,
ran into the bathroom and slammed the door.
Sally looked at Serena. "Nerves."
Serena nodded. "I never realized she had such a weak stomach." She sat down and took off her
shoes. "We might as well get dressed--I wish I was a boy sometimes."
"Why?" said Sally, pulling her own dress over her head.
"They're having a great time over there," said Serena, lifting her own dress and inspecting it.
"Laughing and carrying on. Sonic teased me all the way over here about wearing a dress."
"Thwack him one next time," said Sally, checking herself in the mirror.
"My hands were full or I would have," said Serena, pulling her dress on. "Hey Zephyer, get out here,
I want to see how the wedding dress looks on you."
The door opened and Zephyer emerged whiter than ever. "Can't we call it off?" she begged, as Sally
took the wedding dress off its hanger.
"Too late to do that," said Sally. "Besides, there's no reason to inconvenience everybody like that.
We had to fly in a priest special just for today."
Sally and Serena pulled the dress over Zephyer's head and adjusted it. Zephyer looked at herself in
the mirror and smiled at the echidna looking back at her. The dress made her look taller and older,
and accented her jawline. She tossed back her dreadlocks and wished she felt as brave as she looked.
"Man, you are whiter than that dress," said Serena, who had been studying her. "And you look like a
queen or something."
"She really does," said Princess Sally. "Mother used to dress like this on formal occasions. Zephyer,
there's no way Knuckles deserves you."
"He derobotized me," said Zephyer through her teeth. "I'd say I owe him something. Oh no, look!"
She twisted around and looked at her back in the mirror. The dress had a low back, and it revealed a
long, hideous scar across her red fur.
Sally said, "Look, if you let your hair fall back like this, it hides it." Zephyer shook back her
dreadlocks. Ever since she had been derobotized her health had returned with a vengeance, and her
dreadlocks were thick and healthy.
Sally and Serena made Zephyer sit down and began fixing her dreadlocks. Each lock ended in a stiff
spine, and the ones in back were the stiffest. The ones closer to her face were softer and more pliable,
and these Serena brushed out and braided with ribbons while Sally fastened clips around the ones in
Midway through there came a knock, and a female voice called, "Can I come in?"
"Sure," Sally called, and Amy Rose bounded in. She was dressed in red, but this dress was a
trifle longer than usual.
"Ooo Zephyer!" she squealed. "You look adorable!"
"Thanks," said Zephyer, holding still under Serena and Sally's grooming. "What'd you do to your
hair? It looks great."
"Mom curled it," said Amy, looking in the mirror. "Oh, this is all so romantic! Do you think Sonic
will let me hold his hand?"
Serena flashed a grin at Sally. "Oh, I'm sure he'd like that. He gets very sentimental at weddings."
Zephyer's eyebrows shot up, and Sally went into a coughing fit to hide her laughter.
Amy was oblivious. "Oh goody! I'll make sure to stand by him when we go up in front. Can I help
do your hair, Zephyer?"
Zephyer opened her mouth, but Sally interrupted her. "We need someone to do Zephyer's makeup."
"Makeup!" squealed Amy. "I can do that!"
Zephyer glared in the mirror at Sally, who sat back and surrendered to a giggling fit.
Meanwhile, across the village, Sonic and Knuckles were dressed, groomed and tossing a ball back
and forth across Sonic's hut. "Gee, I hate waiting," said Sonic, catching the ball and spinning it on
one finger. "What are you guys going to do for your honeymoon?"
Sonic threw the ball to Knuckles, who tossed it back. "She wants an exclusive tour of the whole
island, so we're going to do some hiking."
"Hiking," said Sonic. "No trips to exotic locations?"
"The Floating Island IS an exotic location," said Knuckles, and grinned. "I know what you mean,
though. I was wracking my brains for a place to go until she suggested exploring."
They tossed the ball a couple times, then Knuckles got up and paced. Sonic watched him, reading
his friend's nervousness. "Want to play a computer game?"
"No," said Knuckles, looking out the window. "Looks like the whole village is out there."
"Any sign of the girls?"
Knuckles craned his neck. "Nope." The curtains were drawn in Sally's hut, but he had seen Amy go
inside. "I wish this was over with."
"I plan to enjoy the whole shebang," said Sonic, leaning back in his chair. "The rehearsal was so
much fun, I'm expecting today to be even better."
"Don't mention the rehearsal," said Knuckles, resuming pacing.
Sonic grinned. "At least there wasn't an audience when you knocked over the altar."
"I said don't mention it," growled Knuckles.
Sonic's grin widened. "Well, whatever happens, Tails is getting it all on tape."
"Thanks for reminding me," said Knuckles, walking to the wall, spinning around, and walking back.
He was interrupted as the door opened and a young brown and white anteater looked in. "Hello sir,
hello Sonic."
"Hi Talon," Sonic and Knuckles said in unison.
Talon stepped in and looked at Knuckles's suit. "Wow."
"Looks good, doesn't he?" said Sonic. "I keep telling him that, but he doesn't believe me."
Talon nodded. "Yes. Um, Knuckles sir, do you have a ring?"
"Yeah," said Knuckles. "Why?"
"I'm the ringbearer," said Talon, "and I wondered where the rings were."
Sonic and Knuckles looked at each other. "I gave it to you," said Knuckles. "Last night."
"I handed it back, remember?" said Sonic. "You put it in that coat you were wearing."
Knuckles made a dive for the closet, found a coat and frisked the pockets. "Here it is," he said,
pulling out a small box. He opened it and looked at the gold ring set with a glowing red stone. He
handed it to Talon. "Keep it safe."
Talon looked at the ring, then looked up at Knuckles. "Where's YOUR ring, sir?"
Knuckles went white and looked at Sonic. Sonic burst out laughing. "You made seven rings for her,
and forgot about one for you?"
"I can't believe this," said Knuckles, looking at his hands. "Where am I going to find a ring to fit me
in--in one hour?"
Sonic slapped his thighs. "This is classic! What are you going to do when the priest asks for the
rings?"
"If you'd stop laughing for half a second, maybe I could think," said Knuckles.
Talon stepped forward. "What size do you need?"
Knuckles held up one finger, and Talon measured it with his fingers. "I'll see if I can find anything
that might work."
"Good luck," said Sonic as Talon left. "Knux has fingers like cucumbers."
"And a brain like a head of lettuce," said Knuckles. "I can't believe I forgot my ring!"
"Could you take one and stretch it to fit?"
"No time." Knuckles looked miserable.
Sonic fought back another attack of laughter. "Maybe Talon will think of something."
The center of Knothole had been turned into a wedding pavilion, with the streets roped off and chairs
of all shapes and sizes arranged in rows facing the altar. The altar was a packing crate upended and
disguised with flowers and vines. There were three cameras set up at discreet angles, each one poised
to film a different element of the proceedings. Tails was hooking up the third one to a laptop
computer when Talon ran up, panting.
"Tails, got a minute?"
"Not really," said Tails, looking up. "What's wrong?"
"Knuckles forgot to get a ring," said Talon, grinning. "You got any ideas for something else to use?"
Tails's jaw dropped. "He doesn't have a ring? Where has he BEEN? We've only been planning this
wedding for a month!"
"Yeah," said Talon. "So, any ideas?"
Tails sat for a moment, thinking hard. "How big are his fingers?"
Talon made a circle with both hands.
"What we need is more like a bracelet," said Tails. "Jewelry ... jewelry ... who around here has
something like that?"
"Nobody," said Talon. "That's why I asked you."
"Let me finish this, then we'll look around my workshop," said Tails, typing on the keyboard. "If
Zephyer finds out about this, she's going to kill him."
With forty minutes left until the start of the ceremony, Tails and Talon ran to Tails's workshop and
looked at the piles of machine parts. "Gold," muttered Tails to himself. "I don't use gold, it's too
soft."
"What if it was brass instead?" said Talon, picking up a piece of wire. "It looks gold."
Tails bit his lip. "Getting married with a brass ring sounds like some kind of joke." He took the wire
and bent it into a circle. He grabbed a pair of pliers and looped the wire again, then twisted the two
together and held up the result.
"That looks pretty neat," said Talon.
"Let's try it on," said Tails, and ducked out of his workshop.
Knuckles was tossing the ball up and down when the fox and anteater entered. He and Sonic jumped
up. "Try this on," said Tails, holding out the loop of wire. "Better get a real one as soon as possible,
because Zephyer will kill you for this."
"Brass?" said Knuckles, staring at the wire. "I might kill you myself."
"It's better than nothing at all," said Tails.
"True." Knuckles slid on the ring, and Tails cut off the extra wire.
"It does look pretty good," said Sonic as Knuckles held up his hand and examined it. "How it's
twisted together. It looks gold."
"It looks brass to me," said Knuckles, who saw a lot of ore every day in the tunnels of the Floating
Island. "But I guess it'll work."
Zephyer lifted the shade and peeked out at the square, where people were taking their seats. She
dropped the shade. "I can't do it," she said, turning to Sally, Serena and Amy. "Let's just say I'm sick
and postpone it until tomorrow."
Sally and Serena exchanged glances and said nothing--Zephyer's protests were beginning to sound
the same. But Amy looked horrified. "Zephyer, you can't cancel it now! We've been waiting for you
and Knuckles to get married since we moved here!"
"So I've heard," said Zephyer, examining herself in the mirror for the thousandth time. "Whatever
you did to my hair, it looks great." Her face was framed in multicolored ribbons that were braided
around her bangs and foremost dreadlocks.
"It'll look good in the pictures," said Serena. She checked her watch. "Ten minutes."
Zephyer had to sit down.
Sally stepped out of the hut to watch for the start of the ceremony, and saw Slasher the winged
velociraptor striding toward her. Slasher was wearing a golden necklace with a large glass stone in
it, and it gave her reptilian face a certain grace. "How's Zephyer?" the raptor asked.
"Nervous," said Sally. "I think a lot of it's for show--she doesn't know how to cope with happiness. Is
everything ready?"
"We're getting there," said Slasher. "The priest wasn't wild about me giving away the bride, since I'm
not even Zephyer's species, but I talked about how we're like a family in Knothole and how it was
suitable and so on. He finally gave in. Oh, thanks for this necklace. I feel aristocratic."
"It looks good on you," said Sally with a smile.
The two watched the villagers choose their seats, and Tails run around, double-checking his
cameras. Amy emerged from the hut and looked at all the people. "Wow, it's almost time, isn't it?"
"Yes, better take your place," said Sally, and Amy ran to stand at the end of the aisle with a basket
of flower petals.
Serena stepped outside and sighed. "A real wedding, right here in Knothole! Sally, when you marry
Sonic, can I be your maid of honor?"
Sally's face grew hot. "What did you say?"
Serena looked at her, then covered her mouth. "Oh gosh, I shouldn't have said that."
Slasher coughed and kept a straight face.
Sally regained her composure. "I doubt I'll marry Sonic for a long time, but if I do, you can be my
maid of honor."
Serena stared at the ground, mortified.
The clock struck two, and across the village, Sonic and Knuckles emerged from Sonic's hut. Sonic
was giddy with excitement and thought Knuckles was walking too slowly. Knuckles had stopped
talking half an hour ago, which was a sign he was terrified. He followed Sonic with his teeth
clenched, dreading the stares of the crowd.
They parted ways at the aisle. Sonic winked and took off around the side of the chairs to meet
Knuckles up by the alter with Talon. Knuckles was down at the foot of the aisle with Amy, who
looked at him and giggled.
Tails had set up the sound system, and pressed play on the audio player. Rock music blasted the
pavilion for two seconds before Tails could find the stop button. Sweating and embarrassed, Tails
switched disks to the appropriate one and put it on. A titter of laughter swept the crowd. Ignoring
them, Tails activated his cameras and gazed at their screens on his laptop.
Amy walked down the aisle, sprinkling flower petals as she went. She waved to various people,
grinning like a celebrity, until she reached the alter and moved off to stand beside it.
Then it was Knuckles's turn, and he strode up the aisle as if it was a passage leading to a death pit.
All he could think of was how he wanted to punch Tails for playing the wrong music. Then he
reached the alter and had a breathing space. All eyes were at the foot of the aisle again, where
Zephyer was approaching, escorted by Slasher.
As the bride began her way up the aisle, murmurs rose from the crowd--Zephyer had never looked so
beautiful. Sally and Serena must be first-class beauticians, for Zephyer was ordinarily rather plain.
Zephyer tried to ignore them all. She had met Knuckles's eyes across the pavilion, and gazed at him
as she walked up the aisle. If she looked away even once, she would chicken out. But she made it to
the altar.
"And who gives this female?" said the priest.
"I do," said Slasher, "as a member of her adoptive family."
Zephyer stepped away from her and stood beside Knuckles, gazing at him. He stared back,
breathtaken by the way she looked in her white dress. He had never seen her in a dress before.
They faced the priest, who gave a little sermon about marriage and all that it entailed. Then he read
the age-old words from a worn book. "Do you, Knuckles Echidna, hereby take this female to be
your lawfully wedded wife?"
"Yes!" Knuckles thundered.
A chuckle ran through the crowd.
The priest turned to Zephyer. "And do you, Zephyer Winstrom, hereby take this male to be your
lawfully wedded husband?"
"I do," said Zephyer.
Then they made their vows, swearing to be faithful for better for worse, for richer or poorer, in
sickness and in health, as long as they both should live. Zephyer was glad they had decided not to
memorize their vows and recite them, for her brain was scattered and she couldn't have repeated
anything from memory.
The priest called for the rings, and Talon stepped forward, grinning his lopsided grin, and held them
out. Sonic was grinning, too. Zephyer took Knuckles's ring and put it on his finger, noticing only
how large it was. Then he put her own ring on her finger. They had had to remake the band to fit her
derobotized finger, and the red gem glowed in the sun with a steady fire.
"You may now kiss the bride," said the priest. Knuckles pecked Zephyer on the lips, then they
turned and faced the crowd. Zephyer's mind was blank--despite the rehearsal, she couldn't remember
what to do next. Fortunately Knuckles was beside her, and he guided her forward, down the aisle.
She looked at him and smiled at the expression of determination on his face, as if this was an
unpleasant task he was trying to finish.
Everyone clapped as they exited the pavilion to an additional burst of music, and the bride and
groom led the way across the village to the community hut, where the reception was being held.
"Are you okay?" Knuckles whispered as they stepped into the big room.
"Fine," said Zephyer. "Now that it's all over. Do we have to stay for the reception?"
"Well, they're giving it for us," said Knuckles. "Here, have some punch. You'll feel better." He
ladled her a cup of red punch from a bowl, and made her sit and drink it. The rest of the crowd
trooped in at this point, talking and laughing. "Look, Knux is already the doting husband!" someone
shouted, and there was a guffaw of laughter.
"Was that Sonic?" said Knuckles.
"Yes," said Zephyer without looking up.
"I'll pound him for that," said Knuckles, smiling as the crowd swarmed around them.
Even Zephyer had to admit that the reception was fun. They cut the wedding cake, which had a
custard filling. There was a dance, and Zephyer and Knuckles danced as close as they liked. There
was the bridal bouquet toss, which Amy caught. Starry-eyed, she turned to look at Sonic, who edged
out the door. Amy screamed his name and ran after him, and Knuckles laughed and decided not to
pound Sonic after all.
Knuckles brought in two papers and read them aloud to Knothole. They certified that Zephyer was
legally his wife, disregarding all echidna social custom and rank. He and Zephyer signed it, along
with five witnesses. This was done to alleviate Zephyer's worry that her social rank was too low to
allow her to marry the Guardian.
The reception ended at dusk, and Zephyer fled to Sally's hut to change. Sally and Serena followed
"I am so glad to get this thing off," said Zephyer, pulling off the wedding dress. "I never want to
wear one of these again as long as I live!"
"Hopefully you won't have to," said Sally, retrieving the dress and hanging it from the back of the
closet door. "What're you going to wear? You got enough clothes as wedding presents to open your
own store."
"Did you see anything like a toga?" asked Zephyer, untying a ribbon from her hair.
"A toga?" said Serena, who was rummaging through the boxes of clothes. "Why in the world would
you want to wear that?"
"They're like what we wore back home," said Zephyer. "I didn't think I'd get one--I'll have to make
one later. Find me a dress, that'll work."
Serena produced a green cotton dress, and Zephyer pulled it on and looked in the mirror. "It works."
"It goes with your fur," said Sally. "Why don't you take what you need for tonight? We can bring the
rest of this to the island tomorrow."
"Okay," said Zephyer. She picked out two more dresses, then sat while Sally and Serena took the
clips and ribbons out of her hair.
Zephyer was collecting her things when there came a light knock on the door. Serena opened it and
Knuckles looked in. "Is Zephyer in here?"
"Right here," said Zephyer. She walked outside, then turned back and hugged Sally and Serena.
"Thank you guys so much! I would have wimped out if not for you."
"Oh, it was our pleasure!" said Sally. She and Serena waved as the echidnas departed.
Zephyer and Knuckles strolled through Knothole toward the teleporter. Without their fine clothes
they were anonymous in the gathering dusk. "Tired?" said Knuckles.
"A little," said Zephyer. "What do we do now?"
"You move in with me, duh," said Knuckles.
"No," said Zephyer. "I mean, what about the Master Emerald?"
"Shh," said Knuckles. "Wait until we get home."
Get home. Zephyer felt a thrill at the thought. The Floating Island was no longer a place to visit--it
was her home. And she never had to be seperated from Knuckles again.
The teleporter whisked them away and set them down on the receiver plate on the island. Crickets
chirped all around, and Zephyer could hear frogs croaking in the banana palm grove to the left. She
took a deep breath of the warm tropical air.
"It's different from Knothole, isn't it?" said Knuckles.
She nodded, eyes suddenly moist. "Every time I visited, I wanted to stay so bad that leaving was like
dying."
"Here now, don't cry," said Knuckles. "Let's run up to the house before we go to Hidden Palace."
Hand in hand they walked up the path to Chaotix Central, where Knuckles's house was. It had
started out as a one-room shack, but over the years Knuckles had expanded it, so now it was a
sprawling cottage that threw out unexpected wings. "What if the Chaotix are waiting in ambush?"
Zephyer asked, looking at the darkened windows.
"I told them we weren't coming home until tomorrow," said Knuckles. "Besides, they were all
helping with the reception, didn't you notice?"
"I noticed Vector provided the sound equipment Tails used," said Zephyer, grinning. "Poor Tails."
They laughed.
They went inside long enough for Zephyer to hang up her clothes, then they went outside again in
the warm June night. They were halfway back to the teleporter when Knuckles stopped. "Zephyer."
"Hmm?"
"Our kiss at the altar ... I didn't do a very good job."
She put her arms around him. "All right--let's try it again."
He kissed her and she kissed him back, each one taking longer and longer. Finally he reluctantly
drew away. "We're going to be late."
"For what?" she whispered.
He kissed her forehead. "The Master Emerald ceremony. See, the Knothole wedding didn't really
count. The real wedding is still coming."
Zephyer turned pale. "Oh no ... you mean we have to do all that again?"
"Not quite," said Knuckles. "Come on." They walked to the teleporter. Knuckles changed its setting,
and it whisked them to a tall, dark cave underground.
"Zephyer, there's someone I want you to meet," said Knuckles as they walked down the passage
toward the blue glow of Hidden Palace.
She gripped his hand in sudden panic. "Who?"
With a proud smile, Knuckles stepped across the threshold and said, "Locke Echidna--my father."
Locke rose from his seat beside the Master Emerald and walked forward. He was the same height as
Knuckles, and a shade heavier. The fur around his eyebrows and muzzle had a sprinkling of white,
and he had Knuckles's eyes.
"Dad, this is Zephyer Winstom," said Knuckles, placing her hand in his.
Locke bowed. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Zephyer. It's nice to be able to put a name to a face."
"It's an honor to meet you, sir," said Zephyer, liking him at once. "I see where Knuckles gets his
good looks."
Locke smiled. "And I'm glad my son has good taste in women. Won't the two of you step this way?"
The three walked to the Master Emerald's pedestal. "What do we do?" asked Zephyer, unobtrusively
taking Knuckles's hand again. He could feel her trembling.
"It's a simple ceremony," said Locke. "Place your hands on the emerald, you will swear two
oaths--one, your vows of marriage, and two, and Guardian's oath."
"But we already said our vows," said Zephyer, bewildered.
Locke looked at her with amusement. "Knuckles has neglected your training, hasn't he? All oaths
sworn on the Master Emerald are unbreakable. That's why Knuckles can't leave the island for long
periods."
Zephyer looked at her husband, who nodded sheepishly.
Zephyer placed her hands on the Master Emerald's smooth top, and Knuckles did the same. The light
within the gem brightened. "Now repeat after me," said Locke, and began speaking in Old Mobian.
It was a shock to Zephyer, who had only been studying the language for six months, but she
understood enough of it to perform the ceremony. The echidna wedding vows were long and
involved, and in much fancier language than the ordinary vows. She and Knuckles repeated the
ancient words, and the Master Emerald slowly brightened, as if they were feeding it.
When they finished, Locke switched back to New Mobian. "I pronounce you man and wife, and may
this power hold you true and bind you as the Guardian is bound to the island."
A jolt of power flowed up Zephyer's arms, and for a second the cave swam in neon colors--then it
drained away, leaving Zephyer shaking and fatigued. Beside her, Knuckles was also shaken.
"Now, Zephyer Echidna," said Locke, turning to her, "you must swear the Guardian's Oath, because
you are now co-Guardian."
Zephyer nodded, planning to see this through. Again the words were in Old Mobian, and this time
only Zephyer repeated them. She noticed, however, that Knuckles's lips moved, as if he knew them
by heart and found it amusing to hear someone else say them.
This time, at the conclusion of the oath, the Master Emerald blasted its power into her body and
mind. She was flooded with images of the island as if the memories of all echidnas were being given
to her. They were so fast and vivid that she dreamed about them for weeks afterward, and the red
stone on her finger glowed in response.
Then it was over, and for a moment Zephyer was unsure if she could stand. But she willed herself to
stay strong. "Is that all?"
"That's all," said Locke. "And now I must be going."
"But Dad, didn't you want to look around the island?" asked Knuckles.
Locke shook his head. "I can't, son. The longer I'm here, the stronger its hold on me. You have my
blessing." He hugged Knuckles and Zephyer, then strode for the teleporter.
As it lit up and carried Locke away, Zephyer saw the desolate look on Knuckles's face, and she
wondered how many years Knuckles had been alone. She laid a hand on his shoulder. He ducked his
head and turned to her. "Well, that's done. You're stuck with me, now."
"When did he leave the island?" she asked.
"When I was six," said Knuckles.
Zephyer had a sudden vision of a small echidna child standing alone beside the Master Emerald, and
threw her arms around Knuckles. "You poor thing!"
"Poor thing?" said Knuckles. "I liked it. Now, do you want to stay here or go up to the house?"
"Whatever you want to do," said Zephyer. She took two steps and knelt, holding her head.
"What's wrong?" asked Knuckles, kneeling beside her.
"That last oath really took it out of me," she whispered.
"I knew you weren't strong enough yet," said Knuckles, glaring at the Master Emerald. "Come on,
let's get you home."
Zephyer tried to get up, but her equilibrium was off. In the end Knuckles picked her up and carried
her to the teleporter.
As they landed on the receiver plate near the house, Zephyer said, "It's traditional to carry the bride
across the threshold, isn't it?"
"I guess it is," said Knuckles. "I don't think most brides were still recovering from derobotization,
though."
"Ugh, don't remind me," said Zephyer.
"You don't weigh anything," said Knuckles. "It's only been two months."
He stepped up on the porch and opened the door with one hand. "Welcome home," he said as she
stepped through the door.
He set her down on the couch in the living room, and sat beside her. She rested her head back on the
cushions and sighed. He smoothed her hair back from her face and kissed her temple.
"Knux," she whispered.
"This couch has got to go."
Knuckles straightened. "What? What's wrong with it?"
"Its springs are hanging out," said Zephyer, pointing to one beside her head. "And it's this hideous
green."
"Hey, this couch and I have been through a lot together," said Knuckles.
Zephyer closed her eyes. "We'll get a new one."
Knuckles plucked at some exposed stuffing. "I suppose it could use a few patches, and the cushions
are shredded underneath from the time Kardot went after Talon with a sword .. but I think it has a
lot of use left in it. Maybe we could get it reupholstered." He looked at Zephyer again to see her
head had drooped sideways. He sighed and picked her up again.
He carried her to his bedroom--their bedroom, he reminded himself--and laid her down. She stirred a
little, then sank back into sleep like a child. He pulled off her shoes and covered her with the
blanket. He stood looking at her, feeling an immense shyness about the sleeping arrangements. He
removed his own shoes and eased under the blanket, trying not to wake her up. As soon as his head
hit the pillow, he realized how much of his strength the Master Emerald had taken.
He was asleep in three minutes.
25. No Echidna is an Island: Chapter 2: A period of adjustment
Chapter 2: A period of adjustment
When Knuckles awoke the next morning, Zephyer's side of the bed was empty, but there was a pink hibiscus flower beside his head. He looked at it for a moment, then sprang out of bed to find his wife.
Zephyer was in the kitchen, washing an assortment of fresh fruit in the sink. "Hello, sleepyhead," she said. "It's a gorgeous morning, and you've missed most of it."
He kissed her and said, "What's all this?"
"Breakfast," said Zephyer. "Remember when you had to worry about feeding me? Now I get to feed you."
Knuckles grinned. "If I had known that marrying you would be this convenient, I'd have done it years ago."
They ate breakfast and breathed the morning breeze that blew in through the open windows. "When do you want to start hiking?" asked Knuckles.
Zephyer examined a star-shaped fruit. "Well, there's all that stuff we need to haul in from Knothole, and what should we do about Talon? Should we leave him there, or bring him here and leave him to the mercy of the Chaotix?"
Knuckles chewed and swallowed before answering. "Let's bring him home. He hates leaving the island, you know."
Zephyer nodded. "I thought it was only an echidna thing."
Knuckles shrugged. "The island has that effect on everybody."
There was a moment of silence, and a flock of parrots flew by outside the window, chattering. "Could we adopt him?" asked Zephyer.
Knuckles looked at her. "I've thought about it. I couldn't do it before, being single and all."
"Well, if he's going to live with us, we might as well adopt him," said Zephyer. "Do you realize we could be charged with kidnapping?"
"Yeah, and what if we had to take him to a hospital or something?" said Knuckles. He sighed. "What worries me is that we'd have to find his uncle."
"Yeah." Zephyer made a face. "Anybody who builds himself a daughter and doesn't tell her about it has got to be loony." She licked her fingers. "I think we could leave this afternoon."
Knuckles nodded and carried his plate of rinds and seeds to the garbage. "It's great to see you eating again."
"It's amazing how much better I feel without the metal on me," she replied. "But you know, I kind of miss it."
Knuckles gave her an odd look.
"I had it so long," said Zephyer, "and I treated it like armor. It did protect me from the biotics."
"What did Zinc do when he saw you'd been derobotized?"
"He started crying. That reminds me--I need to pick up the chao, too."
"I'll come with you," said Knuckles. "We'll get all the work out of the way, first."
"The tiger develops a taste for blood, and begins hunting in secret," said the video, showing footage of a Mobian tiger undergoing a werewolf-transformation.
"She doesn't know how to tell her friends, and retreats from society. Her instincts take over and she becomes active at night." Shots of the crazy-eyed tigress stalking through the woods.
"This is known as Mobian Regression. The final step along this path is when she begins walking on all fours." An image of the tigress crouching, now indistinguishable from a non-sentient animal.
"That is such bunk," said Tails. "Turn that off, will you?"
Talon switched off the television. "That doesn't happen?"
"No way," said the fox. He had an electronics kit spread out on the floor of his hut, and was building a second television. Talon had been watching the one already built. His eyes were wide. "Are you sure?"
"That was broadcast from the human colonies," said Tails. "They study us and think they know everything. They're a different species! How can they know what a Mobian's feeling?"
"It does happen, though," said a voice. The pair looked up and saw Zephyer looking in through the screen door. "I met a relapsed wolf once, and it was scary as heck."
"You did?" Tails gave her his full attention. "What happened?"
"He tried to eat me and Spike," she said. "Several times. I think he went after Slasher, too."
"Whoa!" Tails and Talon looked at each other. "So if I tasted blood, I'd, like, turn crazy too?" Tails asked.
Zephyer shrugged. "I don't know what causes it. Talon, do you want to come home, or stay here with Tails for a week?"
"Go home," said Talon, jumping up. He grabbed his backpack and was out the door, calling goodbye to Tails.
Tails waved, then reached over and turned the TV back on.
Amy Rose was babysitting the chao. When Zephyer knocked, she discovered Zinc and Chimera were dressed up in doll clothes, and Amy was having a tea party with them. Zinc had a patient, angelic look on his silver face that Zephyer recognized as the way he looked just before he shredded something.
Chimera, the dark red dragon chao, had no such reservations and was shredding his napkin. There was a pile of shreds beside him, and Amy looked exasperated.
"Hi Zephyer," she said as the echidna stepped in. "Could you tell Chimera to behave? He's been a brat all morning."
"I'm going to take them off your hands," said Zephyer. "Thanks for babysitting them."
"You're welcome," said Amy, undressing Zinc, who stared straight ahead. Zephyer knew the look--Zinc was fighting the urge to rip Amy's face off. Fortunately for Amy, Zinc was too well-mannered to do such a thing.
Chimera, on the other hand, tore off his doll clothes, threw them on the floor and stamped on them, then ran outside. "Brat!" Amy yelled after him.
Zephyer picked up Zinc, trying to keep from laughing. "Sorry about that."
"I don't want to see him ever again!" fumed Amy. "But you can bring back Zinc any time."
"Yeah right," said Zinc, once they were out of Amy's hut. "Zephyer, if I have to spend one more hour in that hedgehog's presence, I'll kill someone."
"She was a bad choice as a babysitter," said Zephyer, striding through Knothole with Talon at her heels. Talon was laughing.
"What?" she asked.
He shook his head. "Chimera ripping apart that dress." He snorted. Zephyer had only heard him laugh twice in her life, and she liked the sound. Talon was too solemn for a pup his age.
She arrived at the fenced area by the teleporter, and found a stack of boxes beside the gate. Sonic was running from the village to the teleporter and back, bringing more, and Knuckles was loading them on the lens and beaming them out as fast as he could go. Chimera was perched on a box, giving Knuckles a scornful account of Amy's babysitting style.
"Can we go through?" Zephyer asked.
"Sure," said Knuckles, stepping back and wiping his forehead. He picked up Chimera in one hand and handed him to Zephyer. "Go with her, and don't you dare bite her."
"I can, you know," said the dragon-chao to Zephyer. "You aren't made of metal anymore. But I won't bite you, because I'm nice."
"And if you do, I'll thrash you," said Zinc from Zephyer's other arm.
Zephyer and Talon stepped onto the lens and beamed out to the island. There was a pile of boxes beside the receiver plate, and the chaotix were busy carrying them up to the house. "Hi Zephyer," said Espio, who was stacking boxes. The chameleon studied her. "Being married hasn't made you look any different."
"Did you expect me to sprout a third eye?" said Zephyer, stepping off the plate and setting down the chao. Talon jumped off the plate and ran up toward the house, the chao pursuing. "Hey, get back down here and carry stuff!" Zephyer yelled after them.
Espio handed her a box. "I figured Knux would have beat the snot out of you by now. You're the only person with the nerve to make him that mad."
"We'll see how the honeymoon goes," said Zephyer. "If he hits me, I'll hit back, that's all."
"If he hits you, he'll kill you," said Espio, lifting a box and picking up another in his prehensile tail. "You aren't robotized anymore."
"I know." Zephyer looked up the path. "Hey, what's Slasher doing here?"
The velociraptor was trotting toward them, her head bobbing like a bird's. "Hello," she said as she reached them. "I got recruited to help move you in." She picked up two boxes in her forearms and strode up toward the house. Zephyer and Espio followed.
With all of them working, the boxes were moved in half an hour. They stacked them in the living room, and Zephyer said, "I'll unpack them when we get back. Thanks, everybody."
"Welcome!" chorused the Chaotix, and stampeded outside, shouting something about the swimming hole. Slasher followed them out the door, leaving Zephyer and Talon alone.
Talon was staring after the raptor. "Slasher scares me."
Zephyer patted his shoulder. "I don't like her much, either." She raised her voice. "Where have those bratty chao gone?"
"In here!" came Chimera's voice from the kitchen. "We're eating lunch."
Talon ran to the kitchen. "What're you having?"
Zephyer left the house and stood on the porch, looking across the lawn and trees to the sea. "I'm here," she thought. "I'm finally home." She felt that roots were growing from her into the island's soil, binding her there like a tree to the earth. Body and soul, she belonged on the Floating Island.
She heard footsteps and saw Knuckles and Slasher walking up the path toward the house. Knuckles was talking, and Slasher was nodding. Her angular, reptilian face was strange to Zephyer, and she could not read the raptor's expression. Knuckles looked serious, and Zephyer wondered what he was saying. Watching him, Zephyer remembered that she was married to him now, and the shock stunned her a little. At first she was afraid, then she felt shy, then she was gloriously happy.
Zephyer watched him as he approached, and met his eyes when he looked up. Something like an electric charge passed between them, then it was gone and Knuckles was stepping up on the porch. "Zeff, I asked Slasher to stay with Talon and Zinc and Chimera while we're gone. Is that okay?"
"Fine with me," said Zephyer, wondering what had just happened. "Slasher, do you think you can manage? I hardly know what to tell you."
"Talon will show me around," said Slasher, her teeth flashing in the sunlight. "And there's the Chaotix if all else fails. Don't worry about a thing."
Zephyer was looking at Slasher's claws and trying not to think, "Predator!" "Come in, I'll tell them what's going on." She looked at Knuckles, who was watching her with amusement. He recognized her uneasiness.
Talon was none too happy with the new arrangements, but tried not to show it. Zinc and Chimera were familiar with Slasher because of her chao Chalcon, and they laughed and promised to give Slasher a hard time.
"Better not act up or I'll eat you both," she threatened with a wink. She waved a three-fingered hand at Knuckles and Zephyer. "Get lost, you two. Everything will be standing when you get back."
"It'd better be," said Knuckles, shaking a fist. "I lost a fight to you once, Slasher. I wouldn't do it again."
"Hear that, guys?" said Slasher to the chao and Talon. "He just said he wouldn't fight me again!"
"You beat Knuckles once?" said Chimera, round-eyed. "How?"
"Well, let me tell you," said Slasher, crouching down to the eyelevel of the chao, "it was a dark and stormy night ..."
Knuckles and Zephyer each had a backpack and a sleeping bag. "What about a tent?" said Zephyer. "You know, if it rains?"
Knuckles gave her a condescending look. "This is the Floating Island, home of the echidna clan for generations. Don't worry about shelter."
They put on their packs and slipped out the back door. "Which way?" asked Zephyer, inhaling the breeze from the ocean.
"Southwest," said Knuckles, leading the way into the trees. "There's plenty to see, and the country's not so rough as in the interior." He motioned to the mountain range in the island's center.
Zephyer gazed at the slopes until the trees hid them from view. "What's up there?"
He flashed her a smile. "Secrets." He took her hand and they walked for a while without speaking, enjoying the woods.
"You don't like Slasher, do you?" said Knuckles suddenly.
"I don't mind her," said Zephyer, disentangling her hair from a twig, "but she kind of scares me. She's so ... animal."
Knuckles laughed. "And we're not? I know what you mean, though."
"I hope Talon's okay with her," said Zephyer. "He's scared of her, too."
"He'll get over it," said Knuckles. "She's a big teddy bear once you get to know her. And she kind of ... I don't know ... she has this ingrown mothering instinct that she lavishes on anybody who will let her."
"Might be good for Talon," muttered Zephyer, trying to picture Slasher with an ingrown mothering instinct. "I hope you know what you're talking about."
They skirted a fallen tree bigger than a semi-truck. They were descending into a marshy valley, and the trees were fewer and larger. "Mushroom Hill," said Zephyer, recognizing it.
"Yep," said Knuckles. "I learned to glide down here."
"Could you teach me?"
He looked at her dreadlocks and stroked them appraisingly. "Maybe. A bit of chaos field is involved, but hey, you're a Guardian now."
"You gave me some of yours, remember?" said Zephyer. "And how hard can gliding be, anyway?"
"That was life I gave you, not chaos," said Knuckles, continuing to stroke her hair. "It's like punching through rock--you can't do it cold turkey."
"So why'd you do your training down here?"
Knuckles kicked at a nearby mushroom. "There's a spot around here where these cover the ground. It's like falling on a mattress."
She looked up to reply, and again that pulse of electricity darted between them. This time Knuckles felt it, and they froze. "What was that?"
"I don't know," said Zephyer. "That's the second time now."
"That was weird!" said Knuckles. "Let's do it again." They looked away and looked at each other several times, but nothing happened. Knuckles rubbed his temples. "One more thing I wish I had asked Dad."
"I never knew any echidnas who had that happen," said Zephyer. "I thought it was love."
Knuckles threw back his head and laughed. "Love! What a concept! Maybe it is. Or maybe it's because we're Guardians. Or maybe we're just nuts." He pulled her into a rough embrace and kissed her on the lips, then they walked on.
"Show me how to glide," said Zephyer.
"Not now," said Knuckles. He ran a finger along her arm, which was scored with fresh scars. "I don't want you to get hurt again."
"I wouldn't get hurt!" said Zephyer. "I feel fine! And I'd be falling on soft mushrooms, so what's the problem?"
"You were on your deathbed less than two months ago," said Knuckles. "I'm not going to let you kill yourself."
"You're too protective, Knuckles Echidna," said Zephyer, glaring.
"And you're too foolhardy," said Knuckles, glaring back. "Fine, try gliding. You won't be able to do it."
"Show me where the mushrooms are, and I will," said Zephyer.
Knuckles turned right and led her downhill, into the marsh. Crickets sang all around, and gnats rose to meet them in clouds. "This is why I don't come down here much," he said, waving a hand in front of his face. "Here's the spot."
The ground dropped, and reddish-brown mushrooms covered the ground in a twenty-foot circle. Zephyer slipped off her backpack and handed it to Knuckles. "Hold this. I won't be a minute."
Knuckles bit his lips to keep from grinning.
Zephyer strode to the edge of the hollow, shaking her dreadlocks to fan them out. Then she leaped out over the hollow in what she thought was a glide position. But instead of floating on the air, she fell flat on the mushroom bed, which was floating on the surface of a muddy pond. She splashed down in the water and came up gasping for breath.
Knuckles doubled up laughing.
"You!" Zephyer choked, for she had knocked the wind out of herself. "You knew this was a pond!"
Knuckles was laughing too hard to answer.
Zephyer waded ashore, covered in mud and kicking mushrooms out of her way.
"You should have listened to me," said Knuckles, enjoying the look on her face. "Gliding is harder than it looks." Then he turned and ran for his life as she charged at him.
Knuckles and Zephyer had been gone ten minutes when Talon slipped out of the house and ran north, toward the hills. He gained the cover of the trees, struck a thin trail, and followed it up a hillside. He crested the hill and bounded down its side toward the outskirts of a bamboo forest. Every few years Knuckles attacked it with various weed killers, but the bamboo persisted in spreading across the island.
When Talon had first come to the Floating Island, he had discovered a sofa-sized boulder on the border of the bamboo. In the three years he had lived there, the bamboo had encircled the boulder for ten feet in all directions, and only Talon knew it was there.
The anteater pushed through the stiff green stems of the bamboo, knowing it was time to borrow a machete to hack a clear path again. It took all of his strength to force himself to the boulder. He climbed up on it, panting. The bamboo formed a deep green hollow all around the stone, the tops meeting overhead. It was like a secret cave, and while Talon sat there, no one on Mobius knew where he was. It was a pleasant thought.
He drew his knees to his chin and gazed at the bamboo curtain around him. Everything had changed suddenly, and he wasn't sure he liked it. Knuckles had married Zephyer, and she had come to live on the island. It seemed the very atmosphere of the island had changed. Talon liked Zephyer and wanted Knuckles to marry her, but he had not realized how it would affect his own life. Now there were strangers in the house.
Slasher was the strangest of all. Talon was acquainted with her from his time in Knothole, but he disliked her claws, and her leathery skin, and her green eyes with their slit pupils. He felt he had to watch her all the time, because if he turned his back she would eat him. But he despised himself to feeling such things. The chao trusted the raptor (and they were much more fragile than he was), then why couldn't he?
He just couldn't, that was all. Talon slid off the rock and reached into a hollow under the boulder. Inside were a collection of action figures that he had bought in the human colonies. He began to play with them, making them venture out into the bamboo where harrowing adventures awaited them. In this way he escaped from the discomforts of his own world for a while.
After an hour he tired of his solitary play, and decided to spy on the house to see what was going on. He pushed his way out of the bamboo and retraced his steps up the hill and down the path toward home. As the house came into view, Talon left the path and crept through the trees so as to avoid being seen. The yard was empty. Talon stood and watched, wondering where everyone was.
A shadow fell over the grass, and Talon looked up, shrinking back into the trees. Slasher was circling overhead, her golden wings open in a glide. Talon watched as she circled lower and lower, finally landing on the lawn. As she folded her wings, he saw Zinc and Chimera in her arms. Their shrill voices reached him, begging for another ride. "Not now," Slasher laughed, which was a harsh croaking in her throat. She set them down and trotted around the corner of the house, the chao racing after her. Talon watched them go. He had forgotten that Slasher could fly; was nowhere safe from her?
"Boo!"
Talon jumped a foot in the air and spun around. Espio's outline appeared against the brush, and he shaded into sight, grinning. "Gotcha."
"Don't do that," gasped Talon.
"What's the matter?" said the chameleon. "Watching ferocious predators make you nervous?"
"What are you doing here?" asked Talon, avoiding the question.
"Sneaking," said Espio. "Keeping an eye on things, you might say. I didn't think you got along with Slasher very well."
"No." Talon looked toward the house. "Can I stay with the Chaotix until Knuckles and Zephyer get back?"
"Sorry kiddo," said Espio, slapping him on the back. "Knux didn't want us torturing you when he wasn't around to supervise." Talon gave him a skeptical look, and Espio grinned. "Really, those were his exact words. 'You guys better not pick on Talon or I'll bust your heads.'"
Talon nodded. "I wish he'd get back soon."
"Separation anxiety alert!" said Espio, waving his arms. "Doctor, doctor, we have a patient over here!"
Talon only looked at him.
Espio sobered. "Sorry, Talon. It was just a joke. You know. I do that."
Talon turned away, and Espio kicked himself. The oddest things made Talon shut down, and Knuckles had warned all of them in private that if any of them pushed Talon to that point, then Knuckles would think of a harmless yet awful punishment for them. Espio hated to think of what that might be.
Talon dashed toward the house, reached it unmarked by Slasher, and slipped inside. Espio watched him go, wondering whether he felt sorry for Talon or wanted to string him up by his ears. Probably the latter.
Slasher did not see Talon until sundown, when he emerged from hiding to eat dinner. Slasher tried to speak to him, but he avoided her gaze and fled from the house as soon as the meal was over.
It hurt her to see him act that way, but she pretended to ignore it. The chao constantly wanted to play, and thus she had no time to chase after Talon and talk to him. He would have to warm up to her on his own.
That night the chao begged her to sleep in their room, but Slasher refused. "I'm going to sleep in the living room. I can stretch out." She bade them goodnight and closed their door, and padded to Talon's room. A single sniff informed her the room was empty. She sighed and returned to the living room, flopping on the rug. Her wings needed preening after all the flying she had done that day, and she extended one and began straightening the feathers with her teeth. The house was quiet, and she could hear the voices of the chao in their room.
A long primary feather pulled loose, and Slasher laid it on the floor and looked at it. She was due to moult her winter plumage, a process she dreaded. She was a month overdue, and her old feathers were thin and ragged around the edges. The new feathers would smart and itch as they grew.
She continued preening, making a pile of feathers that fell out. The chao would enjoy playing with the big ones--after all, it wasn't every day you received a raptor feather.
The front door eased open. Slasher ignored it and went on with her preening. Talon's brown and black face peered in, and he watched her for several minutes. When the velociraptor gave no sign she saw him, he slipped inside and sprinted for his room. "Goodnight, Talon," said Slasher before the door closed. She heaved a sigh and set to work on her other wing.
Knuckles and Zephyer were up before dawn the next morning. They hiked to the outer edge of the island and watched the sun rise over the mainland, and faced the cool breeze. "Fair weather," said Zephyer, inhaling. "For today and tomorrow, at least."
"There'll be some wind," said Knuckles, also breathing the air. "Looks like you'll get some lessons in using the Master Emerald."
Zephyer's eyes lit up. "Really? All right!" She looked at her hands out of habit, and laughed to see they were not metal. "I still haven't got used to this," she said, taking Knuckles's hand. She looked out at the horizon, and Knuckles studied her face. There was a thinness about the hollows of her face that showed she had not recovered from the traumatic derobotization. Zephyer had to heal in her own way, and it might take several years for her to bounce back.
She looked at him. "What're you looking so sober for?"
"Sober?" said Knuckles brushing away his worries. "I was just wondering where to go today."
"Wherever's closest," said Zephyer. "Hopefully somewhere with a teleporter, so we can visit Hidden Palace."
"Emerald addict."
Zephyer bowed. "So I am. And I married a bigger one."
Knuckles grinned. "I can't deny it. Let's see ... the nearest teleporter is in Marble Gardens, about two day's walk from here."
"Then let's get moving," said Zephyer, hoisting her pack.
They were deep in the Mushroom Hills, and giant silver trees rose above them like pillars, sheltering the mushrooms beneath them. The previous day Zephyer and Knuckles had had a raging mudfight until they were coated in it. Then they found a stream that wound down into the marsh and washed. They camped beside the stream that evening, because there were fewer flies and the air was more wholesome.
Now the Guardians hiked on, Knuckles pointing out things that only a Guardian would care about. Which trees had survived the terbium blight. Which mushrooms were rare, and which ones were edible. The tree where he had carved his initials when he was seven.
They hiked the rest of the day, resting whenever Zephyer began to tire. The trees shrank and thinned out, and the mushrooms vanished. Before them stretched the green, rolling country of Marble Gardens, once a major echidna city, but now only a ruin falling to dust.
"Why did they abandon it?" Zephyer asked as they made camp that night. She stood at the top of a hill, watching the setting sun outline the distant ruins in gold.
Knuckles was lighting their campfire. "It dates back to Pachachamac's time. He was chief of the mainland tribe, and he led a rebellion against the Guardian tribe on the island. Except he tried to take the Master Emerald and ticked off Chaos." He blew on the smouldering tinder and watched the flames grow. "Chaos killed everyone in Marble Gardens and all the lowland cities."
"How sad." Zephyer stood looking at the ancient city until the sun sank from view, then descended the hill to their camp. "Nobody ever tried to rebuild it?"
"No." Knuckles sat back and looked at her. "The Guardians thought it should be left as a warning to all the tribes. That was when they moved the Master Emerald to Hidden Palace."
"I'm surprised there's any ruins left," said Zephyer, opening her pack and rummaging around for food. "How many thousands of years has it been?"
"Only one thousand," said Knuckles, gazing into the fire. "When all that stuff happened with Tikal and Perfect Chaos ... she let me see into the past. The echidna glory days. We're the last of a species, Zephyer. Those glory days are long gone."
Zephyer looked at Knuckles in surprise--she had never heard him talk like this. "No need to get all melancholy," she said. "I never realized you knew so much history."
"It's something to do," said Knuckles.
She handed him a toasting fork and a slice of bread. "Here, toast this. What you need is food."
He gave her a quick smile. "Thanks, Zeff."
Slasher lay in the brush, hidden from all eyes. She was up the hill from Chaotix Central, where the Chaotix were having a barbecue. She could smell the roasting steaks, and her mouth watered. But for the moment she needed a break from babysitting the chao, and Talon needed a break from her. She watched him running around down below as Vector warned him away from the barbecue.
Supposedly the Chaotix were having a party to celebrate Knuckles being gone, but she knew they all missed him. Charmy had marked a calender with a red X on the day the newlyweds would return. Slasher had noticed each of the Chaotix sneaking up to the calender to count the remaining days, and she felt sorry for them.
Earlier that day, she had entered the house for a snack, and heard voices in Talon's room. She looked in and saw Talon and Mighty the armadillo seated in opposite chairs, books and papers strewn all over the bed beside them. Talon was bent over a mathbook, and Mighty was explaining how to work a pre-algebra problem. Slasher slipped away, impressed. It seemed that Talon's schooling had not been neglected.
Slasher watched the crocodile inspect the steaks, and licked her chops. The Floating Island's inhabitants rarely ate meat, but Vector always had some frozen steaks somewhere in case of an emergency. Slasher was glad he had brought them out--plant food was all right, but she needed protein to sustain her carnivorous body.
Vector slapped the slabs of juicy meat on a plate and bellowed, "Hey Slasher! Dinner!"
The raptor sprang out of hiding and ran down the hill, teeth shining in a grin. Espio, Charmy and Mighty scattered with mock screams, and Vector pretended to ward her off with the tongs. "Back! Back, monster!"
"Maybe you shouldn't have called the monster's name," said Slasher. "Can I have one now?"
"Sure," said Vector, lifting a steak in his tongs.
Slasher grabbed the steak in her claws, ripped off a chunk in her teeth, swallowed it whole, and finished the rest of the steak in three bites.
"Still hungry?" said Vector, watching in admiration.
"Sure," said Slasher, devouring a second steak. She licked the juice off her claws and sighed with satisfaction. "Ahh, that was good." She gave Vector a slanted look. "Bet you can't eat two steaks that fast."
"Bet I can!" Vector grabbed a steak and ripped it in half with his jaws, but had to chew a few times before swallowing. "Gosh Slash," he said, licking his teeth, "how do you do that?"
"Habit," said Slasher. "I've got to go wash now. I'll come back for dessert." She trotted away across the lawn in the direction of the river.
"We have dessert?" said Charmy.
"Yeah, you," said Espio. "Come on, let's eat. Where's Talon and Zinc and Chimera?"
"Cowering indoors," said Vector, carrying the remaining two steaks into the house.
Talon had watched all this through a window, but pretended he hadn't. He and the chao were taking turns cranking an old-fashioned ice cream maker, and it was wearing them out. Then Mighty entered and took over. "You wimps!" he said, turning the crank easily.
"It's almost done," shot back Chimera. "I can smell it. You're just too strong."
"There's no such thing as too strong," said Mighty. He pulled the crank handle out of its socket and held it up. "Oh no, I broke it! Must mean the ice cream's done."
"See, I told you it's done!" crowed Chimera as Vector entered with the steaks.
Dinner was a noisy affair. The Chaotix were extra-outgoing to make up for Knuckles's absence. Talon tried to enjoy it, but was listening for the click of claws on the front porch, and the squeak of the opening door. He kept thinking of the television program he had watched with Tails about a Mobian going feral. Slasher ate like an animal, and spent a lot of time by herself ... what if she started hunting them? What if she attacked one of the chao like she had the steak and--
Talon nearly jumped out of his seat as Slasher entered the kitchen through the back door. "You guys ready for dessert?"
"Yeah!" chorused everyone except Talon. Charmy and Mighty got up to serve the ice cream, and Talon slid down in his seat to avoid the velociraptor's gaze.
Slasher laughed and joked with the rest of them over dessert, sometimes speaking to Talon. He cringed whenever she glanced at him, and was relieved when the meal was over. Slasher took Chimera outside, and Talon, Zinc and Charmy washed the dishes.
"She won't eat you, you know," said Charmy Bee.
Talon's ears flattened. "I know. But she still scares me."
"You have to get to know her," said the silver chao, polishing a plate as tall as he was. "And if she still scares you, look at her chao Chalcon. Only a kind heart could have pulled him out of himself like she did."
Talon thought of the silent undersea base where Chalcon had been mortally wounded, and where Talon himself had nearly perished. The period after that was a blur, and he couldn't remember seeing Slasher at all. But somehow Chalcon had rehatched as a snow-white chao, bigger and stronger than all the rest.
Talon put away the last dish and sidled toward his room, but Charmy darted after him. "Come outside with us, Talon! It's a beautiful evening."
"You're not my dad," murmured Talon, but he allowed the bee to lead him out of the house. As he stepped onto the grass, he missed his mother and father so bad it was like being twisted in half. "I don't belong here," he thought, looking at the Chaotix with stranger's eyes. "I want to go home." But he didn't have a home anymore--his parents were dead and their house burned. And he didn't want to go back, not to his old horrid life, not really.
He blinked back tears and drifted toward the edges of the lawn. Escaping the Chaotix was easy, if he remained inconspicuous. He circled the base of a tree, then keeping it between him and the others, slipped into the evening shadows of the wood.
The days passed. Slasher tried and failed to befriend Talon, and the Chaotix helped the raptor look after things.
Knuckles and Zephyer hiked all the way to Sandopolis. Along the way Knuckles showed Zephyer the old broken emerald shrine, how to use one of the hovertops, and the inlet for water from Hydrocity. They entered the desert and explored the ruins there. Knuckles introduced Zephyer to the secret library, and they spent a day pouring through the old manuscripts and the pile of notebooks containing Knuckles's translations.
Zephyer drank it in like a sponge. Every day was like living in a dream; she was with Knuckles, on the Floating Island ... and she was a Guardian now! Sometimes it worried her, especially as she was falling asleep at night. Happiness like this had to have a catch. Reality would rear its ugly head, and she would find out that she wasn't allowed to marry him, or the island would crash, or someone would die.
As they were leaving Sandopolis, Zephyer voiced this fear. Knuckles laughed out loud. "Why should anything have to happen? People get married every day, Zeff. There's no penalty for being happy."
"There is for me," said Zephyer. "Every time I'm really happy, the world blows up. Just watch."
"You're just paranoid," said Knuckles, grinning.
That evening a storm blew in out of the west, and it began to rain so hard it was like standing under a waterfall. They saw it coming, however, and ran to the nearest teleporter. They reached it as the rain began, but in the few seconds it took for the machine to warm up, the echidnas were soaked through.
They beamed down in a dark cave lit by a single yellow crystal, and stood panting and dripping in the sudden silence.
"Well," said Zephyer, "now I know to pack a raincoat, no matter what you say."
"I didn't advise against a raincoat," said Knuckles, kneeling to adjust the teleporter's setting. "Just a tent. Looks like we'll be camping underground tonight."
The teleporter lit up again and transported them to the high teleporter hall outside of Hidden Palace. As they stepped off the receiver plate, Zephyer asked, "What was that other place we were in?"
"Storage cavern," said Knuckles, wringing out his dreadlocks one by one. "Let's walk down to Lava Reef, it's warmer there."
The damp pair strolled through the crystal gardens and grottos, toward the heat radiating from the molten core of the Floating Island. They reached an antechamber with a small lava pool in one end, which was so hot their fur began to steam at once. They lingered only a few minutes, then bolted for the coolness of the higher passages.
"Can we camp in Hidden Palace?" Zephyer asked, eyes dancing.
"Sure," said Knuckles leading the way. "I'll show you some more Master Emerald commands, too."
Staying in Hidden Palace was luxurious after camping out in the wild. The rock around the emerald chamber was riddled with tunnels and caves. Some had caved in over the years, but some Knuckles had cleaned out and reinforced. Knuckles showed Zephyer two rooms he used for storage, but he became oddly quiet when she asked about a third room.
She walked in for a look, and found it was stacked to the ceiling with crates marked 'weapons'.
"Weapons?" exclaimed Zephyer, turning and staring at her husband. "What do you need weapons for?"
"Stockpiled them after the ARK incident," said Knuckles. "If a thief gets to the emerald chamber again, I'm not messing around."
Zephyer looked at him with new respect. "You make me wish I still had that pistol in my hand. Where'd you get all these?"
Knuckles avoided her eyes. "The island floats over a lot of territory."
"Ahh," said Zephyer with a knowing nod. "I pity the fool who tries to break in here now."
Knuckles led her back to the emerald chamber, uncomfortable with talk of weapons and semi-shady dealings. "I'll show you how to stabilize the Floating Island," he said. "Watch." He placed one hand on the green gem and said, "Master Emerald, stabilization anchor." The emerald lit with yellowish light.
"No skill involved," he explained. "It wears off after a few days, so if you want to keep the island stationary for longer than that, you have to come back and repeat the command." He touched the Master Emerald again and said, "Free." The emerald dimmed.
"Let me try it," said Zephyer, stepping up to the pedestal. She mimicked Knuckles's actions, and the emerald's response was the same.
"There's also an island defense command," said Knuckles. "I just found out about it. Apparently the Master funnels all its power into the Guardians so they can wipe out any enemies that might be threatening the island."
Zephyer looked at him. "Have you ever tried it?"
He smiled sheepishly. "I don't have the nerve."
"Is there a users' manual somewhere, where I could learn all these commands?"
"Nope," said Knuckles. "One of the Guardian laws is that no Master Emerald commands may be written down in one place. Imagine if they fell into the wrong hands!"
"I didn't think of that."
Knuckles stepped down from the pedestal and opened their backpacks. "Where do you want to sleep?"
"Right here," said Zephyer. "As close to the heart of the island as we can get."
Knuckles gave her an odd look. "Heart of the island?"
"Sure," said Zephyer, as if it was something everyone knew. "The Master Emerald is what makes the Floating Island what it is." She rubbed its smooth top as Knuckles unrolled their sleeping bags. She looked down at the seed crystal bed around its base, and wondered how much of the Master's power they had absorbed. She touched one, and its green glow flickered. She teased its pointed tip without paying attention to what she was doing. The shock of a wetting, then being suddenly warm and dry, had made her drowsy.
"Zephyer!"
She jumped and looked around. "Huh?"
Knuckles rose from their packs, staring. "How are you doing that?"
Zephyer looked down and saw the crystal she had been teasing was six inches longer than before. "Whoa. Did I do that?"
"Yeah." Knuckles touched the crystal, but nothing happened. "Do it again."
She touched the tip again, and the crystal resumed growing like a time-lapsed video of grass.
"I think you've rediscovered a trick of the ancients," said Knuckles in awe.
Zephyer watched the crystal grow, fascinated. "I'll bet this is how they made the Emerald Sword." She released the crystal. "Think I can do it to other crystal colors?"
They two snatched some snacks and ate while they wandered through the lower caverns. All the crystals responded to Zephyer's touch, even ordinary quartz. Knuckles remembered something he had read a long time ago--the abilities of female echidnas were different from the males. Females were not warriors, but craftsmen and artisans.
At last they returned to Hidden Palace and crawled into their sleeping bags. "That's a nice thing to do," said Zephyer, yawning. "But I'd rather glide, like you."
Knuckles gazed at the ceiling. "I'm glad you can force-grow crystals. It's a lost art."
They were silent a moment, each busy with their thoughts.
"What day is it?" asked Zephyer.
"Friday, I think," said Knuckles. "Gosh, time flies."
"Friday?" said Zephyer. "As in, the honeymoon's over tomorrow?" Knuckles shrugged, and she heaved a sigh. "Oh well, at least we had fun. Tomorrow, real life starts. Do you want to try to adopt Talon?"
Knuckles hesitated a second, shifting his brain to this sudden new subject. "Uh. Yes. I don't know anything about adoption, though."
"I think we have to work with the laws of the country he's from," said Zephyer. "Do we know where he's from?"
Knuckles wracked his brain. Talon's explanations of his previous home had been vague and elusive. "I have an idea he's from somewhere in the Ausif ocean. He was flying northwest when he got here."
"There's a jillion islands down there," said Zephyer, frowning. "We'll have to ask him which one."
"Easier said than done," said Knuckles, placing both hands behind his head. "The kid doesn't talk about his past. All I know is that his parents died in an arson fire."
"I know," said Zephyer. "He needs a stable home, and I think we can give that to him."
They talked about the pros and cons of adopting Talon, and of what things an adoption agency might ask. Zephyer finally dozed off, but Knuckles lay awake for a long time, listening to her breathe and thinking about the future.
25. No Echidna is an Island: Chapter 3: Blackguard Island
Chapter 3: Blackguard Island
"You want to adopt me?" Talon sat up straight.
It was two days later. Knuckles and Zephyer had arrived home, and in the flurry of unpacking and settling in, it was their first chance to talk to the anteater alone.
"Like, you want me to be your kid?" Talon's eyes were wide with wild hope, his usual reserve abandoned.
"That's what we're saying," said Knuckles. "I know living on a floating island is kind of lonesome, but we'll make sure to feed you every few days."
Talon burst out laughing, jumped up and hugged them both. "I'd love to be adopted! I thought maybe you wouldn't want me here now and you'd send me to Knothole and--" His voice broke on a sob. He sat between the echidnas on the couch, eyes closed, trying to hold back the flood of emotions that had caught him off guard.
Zephyer hugged him. "We really want you, Tal." She glanced at Knuckles, who met her gaze and a flicker of electricity raced between them.
Ignoring it, Knuckles put an arm around Talon. "We need to ask you some questions, so we can figure out this adoption stuff."
Talon sniffed. "Okay. What?"
Zephyer picked up a notebook and pencil she had brought with her. "Where are you from?"
"Three-twenty-nine East Boulder Lane," said Talon at once. "Marshill, Blackguard, north island."
"Whoa, whoa, slow down," said Zephyer, scribbling furiously. "East what?"
Talon repeated the address. "That's where I lived with my uncle."
Zephyer copied it down. "What's your uncle's name?"
"Pendel Mori." Talon laced his fingers together and studied them. "He's my Dad's brother. Do you think he'll sign the papers or whatever?"
"If he won't, I'll make him," said Knuckles. "Can you show us Blackguard Island on a map?" He pulled a map out from under the couch and spread it on the coffee table.
Talon studied it for a moment. "Here." He tapped a collection of islands in the southern corner of the map. The north-most island was the largest.
"Oh," said Knuckles. "So that's Blackguard." He had such an odd tone in his voice that Zephyer and Talon looked at him.
"Have you been there?" asked Talon.
"Heard the stories," said Knuckles. He traced a four-sided shape among the islands. "That's the Blackguard Quadrangle. Ships and aircraft travelling through there have weird blackouts. Some vanish completely."
"Really?" said Zephyer, wide-eyed. "Is that true?"
Talon was nodding. "I've heard of that, too, sir. Dad said it's the place where a chaos emerald touched Mobius, and the chaos fields are all messed up."
"I think we'll approach it from the north," said Knuckles. "I'm not taking the island in there."
"How long will it take to get there?" asked Talon.
Knuckles walked his fingers across the map, measuring. "About two weeks. We'll have time to do some research on adoption."
"Can I do it?" asked Talon, standing up, eyes bright with enthusiasm. "If I could borrow your computer, sir ..."
"Ah, a ploy to grab my palmtop," said Knuckles, smiling. "Fine, go ahead."
Talon dashed from the room.
Zephyer looked at the map again. "Is this quadrangle stuff for real?"
"Let me put it this way," said Knuckles. "Even humans are afraid to go through there. They route all their shipping lanes around it."
"But humans are immune to chaos," said Zephyer as Talon came back in with Knuckles's computer. The anteater curled up in an armchair opposite the couch and sat there, eyes fixed on the screen.
"I know they are," said Knuckles. "But their instruments aren't. If you're in an airplane and your instruments break, you're toast."
"Not the ideal vacation spot," said Zephyer. "Do you think Slasher would mind going with us?"
Talon's head jerked up.
"Why Slasher?" said Knuckles. "I thought she scared you."
"She does," said Zephyer, "but she's done a lot of political work, and face it, she's scary-looking."
"True." Knuckles looked at Talon. "Find anything?"
"Not yet, sir." Talon's voice dropped. "I'm afraid of Slasher, too."
"You guys and your predator-phobia," said Knuckles, shaking his head. "She's harmless. Really."
"Famous last words," said Zephyer.
Knuckles stood up. "I'm going to talk to her. You guys see what you can dig up on adoption." He strode for the door, muttering about species supremists.
He found Slasher outside, sunning herself on the grass with both wings open. He was startled to see that patches of feathers were missing from her wings. "Slash, are you sick?"
"Hmm?" She lifted her head and blinked at him. "Oh no, just moulting. You want something?"
"We're going to adopt Talon," said Knuckles. "I wondered if you'd come along and help out."
"I'll call Knothole and see if they mind," said the raptor, eyes half-closed. "It shouldn't be a problem. Oh ... could you talk to Talon for me? He thinks I'm planning to eat him."
"I've tried," said Knuckles with a sigh. "He doesn't believe me."
Slasher shook her head. "Looks like I'll have another chance to make friends if I stay. I'll see if Sally has time to collect some adoption info." She extended a forearm, which had a communicator strapped to it. Slasher turned it on and waited for a pickup click. After a moment it did, and Sonic's voice said, "Yeah, what?"
"I need to talk to Sally," said Slasher. "What's with you?"
"I'm helping Sal with this paperwork junk," came Sonic's voice, "and I'm about to go nuts! Sal's getting lunch. I can take a message."
"Tell Sally to scrape up some information about adoption procedures," said Slasher. She covered the microphone and whispered to Knuckles, "Where are we going?"
"Blackguard Islands," said the echidna.
Slasher uncovered the mic. "Particularly relating to the Blackguard Islands."
"You guys are going to the Blackguard Quadrangle?" Sonic yelped. "Man, lucky!"
"We're not going to explore," said Slasher. "Just a boring piece of red tape to work out. I'll send you a postcard."
"I'm gonna get you, Slasher."
"Neener neener. I'll leave my com on. Bye." The raptor closed the connection and yawned. "Nope, not a problem. It's nice and tropical down there, right?"
"Blackguard is right on the equator," said Knuckles. "You don't mind hot weather, do you?"
"It's better than snow," said Slasher. "I'll tell you when Sally calls me back."
"Okay." Knuckles stepped up on the porch and stuck his head in the door. "I'm going to run to Hidden Palace and get my Master Emerald miniature."
"I want to come!" said Zephyer, jumping up. "Be back in a few minutes, Talon." She darted to Knuckles and the pair made for the teleporter.
Talon stayed in his chair, clicking through online searches and documents. Adoption was an easy topic to find out about. There were several agencies for adopting babies, and he glanced over the procedures. The family had to be approved, fill out piles of paperwork, have someone do a home study, and finally wait for the adoption agency to negotiate with a neighboring country for a youngster of the right species.
Right species? He dug deeper. A note on one document informed him that this agency did not support inter-species adoption because the parents would not treat the child as their own, or the child would grow up with an identity complex. Talon looked for other agencies with a growing knot in his stomach. Each one had a similar disclaimer. One, however, admitted that adoption within the same genus sometimes worked.
Talon clung to this thread of hope. Anteaters and echidnas were sort of similar ... he wasn't sure if they were in the same genus or not. He had no doubt that Zephyer and Knuckles would take care of him, but convincing people in authority would be different.
As he sat there, chewing a claw, the door opened and Slasher entered. "Oh, hi Talon," she said. "Is Zephyer here?"
"She went with Knuckles," said Talon, watching her warily.
Slasher gestured to her communicator. "Sally called me back. She had Nicole compile a spider-search and she's sending it to Knuckles's email."
Talon looked at the palmtop and opened the message program. A message from Sally appeared. "Got it." Now go away, he thought.
Slasher walked up and leaned her forearms on the back of the couch. "Are you okay with all this?"
"Do they let people adopt outside their species?"
Talon stared at the floor. "They say it doesn't work, and they discourage it. But one place says that sometimes adoptions within genus are allowed."
Slasher nodded. "We might be able to swing that. I don't know what genus echidnas are in, but you've always got along with them, right?"
Talon nodded. He opened Sally's letter and scrolled through pages and pages of information. Most of it related to Blackguard's laws and regulations pertaining to emigration, passports and visas. He ignored Slasher, willing her to leave. After a moment she sighed, and he heard her pad to the door and go outside.
Talon was still in the chair when Knuckles and Zephyer returned, passing the Master Emerald miniature back and forth and chattering. "Any word?" said Knuckles to Talon, tossing the gem up and down.
"Sally emailed you," said Talon, handing him the palmtop.
Knuckles looked at the text and whistled. "She's thorough, isn't she? Zeff, look at all this."
"Good grief," said Zephyer. "I can guide the island while you read it, if you want."
"You're just after my emerald," said Knuckles with a mock glare.
"Our emerald," Zephyer shot back. "Hand it over."
Knuckles made a big show of giving it to her, bowing and kissing her hand before placing the emerald in it.
Zephyer laughed and held the emerald southward. Talon felt nothing, but Knuckles had to grab the couch for support. "Crazy female driver."
"Going to harp on my driving skills, now?" said Zephyer.
"Heaven forbid," said Knuckles, flopping on the couch and holding up the computer.
Talon watched them with a warm feeling. He had never seen either of them so relaxed, and he liked it.
The weather warmed up as they travelled south. Knuckles guided the island into the north-south jetstream, and for four days the island was buffeted by roaring winds that drove it south at a constant speed of twenty knots.
They dropped out of the jetstream at the equator and moved southeast. Knuckles took to navigating from the top of the island's highest peak, where he could see the horizon in all directions. He taught Zephyer to use a sextant, and every night she took measurements from the stars, and marked their location on a map. Travelling with the Floating Island was like sailing a giant ship--the winds effected their progress, and the stars were their compass.
Talon was pensive and quiet. As every day carried them closer to Blackguard, his fears began to grow. What if he had to go back? What if the government wouldn't let the echidnas adopt him? What if Kit was there? Talon had lived in terror of his older cousins, who had set the fire that killed his parents. Kardot had perished a few years earlier, but Kit was still out there and probably crazier than ever. Talon was ashamed to admit these fears to anyone, and so spoke less and less as the weather grew hot and the constellations changed.
One day about noon Knuckles returned to the house. "Land ho," he said as he walked in.
Zephyer was sitting at the kitchen table with a pile of books and papers, teaching Talon the basics of Old Mobian. "We're there?" said Zephyer. "Great. Now what?"
"We'll need to get some passports made up," said Knuckles. "I don't know about you, Talon. You're a citizen with no papers."
Talon said nothing, but his ears flattened.
Vector the crocodile poked his head in from the living room. "Hey boss, I could do all that for you."
Knuckles turned in surprise. "You could?"
"Sure!" said Vector. "It's not big deal with these island places, anyway. Lots of people come and go. Can I borrow one of the portable teleporters?"
Knuckles dug one out of a cabinet. Portable teleporters were the size of a dinner plate with four spider-like arms that planted into the ground for support. They had two lenses--one inside, and one outside. Once a person teleported, the unit beamed after them ten seconds later. They were a quick, convenient way to travel from the island and back.
Vector called Espio, Charmy and Mighty to the house. "I'm going ashore to get passports and stuff. Want to go?"
"I do!" Charmy said. "I already have a passport."
"Me too," said Espio, holding up a grimy paper with twelve stamps in it.
"I didn't know you travelled, Espio," said Zephyer.
The chameleon's eyes half-closed. "Knuckles made us all register to get them when we came to live here. So we can go ashore anywhere without trouble." He gave Knuckles a sidelong glance, and Zephyer wondered if the Chaotix had helped Knuckles collect those weapons in Hidden Palace.
"Well, what're we waiting for?" said Charmy. "Let's go!" The bee raced out of the house, and the Chaotix trooped after him, Vector carrying the teleporter under one arm. Knuckles watched them go, hands on his hips. "They need a little shore-leave. Have either of you guys seen Slasher today?"
"Not since this morning," said Zephyer. "She told me that this hot weather has made her nocturnal. She sleeps all day."
Talon felt the fur on his back stand up.
Knuckles shrugged. "Good idea. It's cooler at night. I'm going to fine-tune the island's position." He strode out into the sunlight.
"This makes my thirteenth stamp," said Espio, examining his passport.
Mighty, Charmy and Espio were sitting on a bench in a walled courtyard in the dappled shade of a magnolia. Vector was inside the building to their backs, collecting paperwork to take back to the Floating Island.
"My thirteenth, too," said Mighty.
Charmy glanced at his passport. "This is only my ninth. How come you guys have so many?"
"The point is, we're going to have bad luck," said Espio, his skin shading a dark purple. "I mean, we're just north of the Blackguard Quadrangle, and do you know what Blackguard means?"
"It was named Blacksand until the Siguards came," said Mighty, looking bored.
"It's another word for villain!" exclaimed Espio.
"Really?" said Charmy, swinging his feet. "Do villains come here on vacation?"
"Probably." Espio looked suspiciously at the people walking past the courtyard gate. There were many reptiles, birds and marsupials, and although they were exotic-looking, they looked no more shady than the Chaotix did.
Vector emerged from the adobe building with two manila envelopes. "Got 'em," he said. "Let's cruise around before we go back."
The four trotted out of the courtyard and into the hot street. It was paved with gravel, and low adobe houses lined the sidewalks. Jungle growth was everywhere--palm trees, vines, creepers, flowers, all growing wherever the inhabitants would allow them to take root.
The Chaotix walked until the sun's heat began to overwhelm them, then they stopped in the shade of an awning. "Hey," said Vector, "do you guys want to try to find Talon's uncle's house?"
"Sure," said Mighty. "Do we know the address?"
As one, they looked at Espio. The chameleon looked shifty. "What makes you think I know it?"
"You know everything you're not supposed to," said Vector. "Come on, Espie. I know you know it."
"Three twenty-nine East Boulder Lane, Marshill, Blackguard," recited Espio. "We're in Marshill, aren't we?"
"Yup!" chorused the others.
"Charmy," said Vector, "mind finding a map for us?"
"Aye aye sir," said the bee, and buzzed away into the street. He returned five minutes later, looking triumphant. "Just act like a tourist and everybody helps you!" He opened the map, and everyone gathered around.
"There," said Mighty after a second. "East Boulder Lane. It's all the way across town, though!"
"Big deal," said Espio. "We'll get a good look at Marshill on the way. Let's go before it gets any hotter."
The Chaotix set out across the town, growing thirsty and uncomfortable as the sun beat down on them. They saw fewer and fewer people, as the inhabitants retired indoors to sleep through the hottest hours of the day. "That sounds like a good idea," said Mighty, wiping perspiration from his face.
"You wimpy mammal," said Espio. "We reptiles don't mind the heat, do we, Vector?"
"It's not too bad," said the crocodile. "I'm just worried it's making you hyper."
"Hyper? Me?" said the chameleon. "Perish the thought! Can we walk faster? I'm bored."
"How can you be bored when there's so many flowers around?" said Charmy. "It's like walking through a fancy restaurant!" His antennae waved as they passed a riot of yellow and red flowers.
East Boulder Lane was on the island's east side, running along the top of a bluff overlooking the ocean. "Behold the Blackguard Quadrangle!" said Vector, gesturing to it. "Imagine ... that's the direction Talon went when he ran away."
"The kid must have been desperate," said Espio, gazing out at the tranquil blue sea. It looked no different from any other stretch of water they had seen, and they walked on, keeping to the sides of the road where overhanging trees cast shade.
"Three twenty-nine," said Charmy, pointing. "There it is."
A steep driveway ran up the hill above them, and set back into the hillside was a sprawling white house with a red tile roof. Trees shaded most of the house, and the lawn was smooth and green.
"Doesn't look like such a bad place," said Mighty.
"Yes, but who knows what lurks in there?" said Espio, eyes narrowed. "I'm going to sneak up there and look around."
"Isn't that trespassing?" said Mighty.
"Only if you get caught," said Espio, his skin changing to blend with the gravel driveway. He darted up the driveway, keeping to patches of shade where his shadow wouldn't give him away. The others watched him, uncomfortable and nervous.
They lost sight of Espio as he reached the trees near the house, and for a while there was no sign of him. Then they heard his footsteps on the gravel, and the chameleon shaded into view again, panting. "This place is huge," he said. "It's built into the hill and there's at least one story underground. The rear of the property goes way up the hill into the jungle, and there's some sheds and stuff back there. I want to see inside the house. Any ideas?"
The Chaotix looked at each other. They all wanted to see the mysterious place that Talon had fled from and still wouldn't talk about.
"Well," said Vector, opening one of his manila envelopes, "we need Mr. Mori's signature that he's Talon's legal guardian so Talon can re-enter the country as a citizen."
"Perfect!" said Espio, grabbing the envelope. He would have darted off, but Mighty grabbed his tail.
"Hold it, buster. Better let me do it. I'm a mammal, and I look more respectable than a chameleon."
Espio grudgingly turned over the envelope, and Mighty led the way up the driveway to the house.
They reached the porch, and Mighty rang the doorbell. They heard a chime far back in the house. It was echoed by a deep rumbling like the growl of an enormous lion, and the porch vibrated underfoot. There was a distant slam of a door and the sound stopped. The Chaotix exchanged a look, wide-eyed.
After a few minutes the front door was opened by an anteater wearing glasses and a grimy labcoat. "What can I do for you?" he said, blinking in the sunlight.
Mighty had to swallow before he could speak. "Uh. Yes. We're here on behalf of your nephew, Tal--uh, Konya Mori. The government needs your signature on these documents before they'll let him back into the country."
The anteater took the papers and thumbed through them. "I thought Konya was living with echidnas."
"Well, he is," said Mighty. "They sent us here to collect the papers so they could bring Tal--uh, Konya themselves."
Mr. Mori read the papers, ignoring the growing restlessness of the Chaotix. He kept the door open, and Espio peered inside. The room behind Mori looked disappointingly ordinary; an armchair, some pictures on the walls, gold-flowered wallpaper. There was no sign of anything that made loud, angry growling noises.
"Just a moment," said Mori, retreating into the house.
"What was that sound?" whispered Charmy as soon as they were alone.
"There's more to this place than meets the eye," said Vector. "Shh!"
The anteater returned with a pen. "There, I've signed them. Tell little Konya that he is welcome home whenever he chooses to return." Mori's smile was more like a grimace.
"Um, actually," said Mighty, "the echidnas want to adopt Talon."
"Oh?" said Mori, tilting his head to one side. "How interesting. Perhaps you should have the echidnas talk to me themselves."
Mighty flushed. "Yes sir."
"Thank you for coming," said Mori, closing the door.
"Well, that was exciting," said Espio as they walked back to the road. "Do we really want to hand Talon over to that weirdo?"
"No," chorused the others.
"And what made that noise?" said Vector. "Is the dude breeding monsters in the basement?"
"I'd love to get inside," said Espio, a glint of mischief in his eyes.
"Espio, look at me," said Vector. "Read my lips. N. O. No!"
The group found a wide spot beside the road and set up the portable teleporter. Vector set it to fire four times, and one by one they jumped back to the Floating Island.
Zephyer was waiting for them at the receiver dish. "Well?" she said as they arrived. "Why were you guys gone so long?"
"We hunted down Talon's uncle," said Espio. "Talk about weird! We can't give Talon back to him."
"He signed the guardianship papers," said Vector, showing them to Zephyer. "Talon can get into the country now. But, uh, if you try to bring him back here afterwards, it'll be considered kidnapping."
Zephyer looked at the papers and bit her lip. "We'll have to contact an adoption agency right away."
A shadow fell over them, and they looked up. Knuckles was gliding in a circle overhead. He dropped, landed with a thud and walked up. "Well?" he said, looking at the papers in Zephyer's hands.
Mighty recapped their adventure, including the mysterious growl. He concluded, "The guy doesn't care about kids. He was only being polite. If I was Talon, I'd escape into the Blackguard Quadrangle, too."
Zephyer looked at Knuckles, who drew a deep breath. "Tough or not, we need to do this. There's some ghosts that will haunt a kid his whole life, and I don't want the problem of family hanging over Talon. Did you get the phonebook I asked for?"
Vector hefted the remaining manila envelope, which was two inches thick. "Yep."
"Great. Let's go up to the house, I need to make some calls."
Over the next two days, the situation went downhill so fast that Zephyer felt like she was riding a rollercoaster down its first drop.
The adoption agency Knuckles called informed him that because the Floating Island was technically a foreign country, and because Talon was living there as a minor without papers of any kind, he was considered a hostage. Please return him to his rightful guardian or we will be forced to take drastic measures against you.
"Talon," said Knuckles, gazing at the phone in his hand, "we have to send you back or they're going to arrest me."
"The adoption agency said that, sir?" said Talon, turning white under his fur.
Zephyer hugged him protectively. "Once you're on Blackguard, they'll work with us. You'll just have to stay with your uncle until we can get this worked out."
"Yeah," said Talon hollowly. "I guess ... I guess I'll go pack." He pulled away from her and went to his room.
Zephyer's mouth worked, and tears stung her eyes. She turned to Knuckles, who looked as if he had been suckerpunched in a fight. "Knux, we're going to fight for him, aren't we?"
He looked up at her, and his face hardened. "Darn right we will."
That afternoon Knuckles, Zephyer and the Chaotix escorted Talon through customs and back to his old home. Zephyer held his hand as they walked up the driveway, and his hand was icy cold. She whispered, "It'll be all right, Talon."
Talon's eyes were dark with pain and fear as he looked up at her. "I'm losing my family again," he whispered. "Each time I wind up with my uncle. It's horrible."
"I put something in your bag," murmured Zephyer. "So did Knuckles."
Talon looked up at Knuckles, who had not spoken a word for the last hour. As they stepped onto the front porch and rang the doorbell, Talon felt Knuckles's heavy hand on his shoulder.
The door opened, and Talon's uncle stood looking at them. "Hello," said Mori, blinking at the crowd as if the light hurt his eyes. "You must be the echidnas who abducted Talon."
A muscle jumped in Knuckles's jaw. He said through his teeth, "We cared for him, not abducted him. We would like to adopt him."
Mori stood aside for Talon to enter. Talon released Zephyer's hand, but Knuckles gave his shoulder a hard squeeze before letting go. Talon stepped across the threshold into the darkened entry room that he remembered so well, and turned and looked back at the islanders. The same look of anger and grief was reflected in every eye. Knuckles's fists were clenched, and Zephyer's eyes were full of tears. If Talon looked at them one more second he would cry, too, so he turned and carried his suitcase down the hall toward his old room.
As soon as he was gone, Mori's manner changed. "You, Knuckles Echidna, are the vilest of slime for harboring that child for so long without contacting the proper authorities. I will never approve of any adoption, and I have the law on my side. Go back to your floating rock and take your motley horde with you." He slammed the door.
Knuckles looked at Zephyer and the Chaotix, the fury radiating off him like radioactivity. If he had chosen to tear down the door and pummel Mori, none of them would have stopped him.
"What do we do, boss?" growled Vector.
Knuckles's hands opened and closed a few times, as if imagining Mori's neck between them. "I'm going to find the meanest lawyer in town."
25. No Echidna is an Island: Chapter 4: Rough going
Chapter 4: Rough going
Talon's old room was the same as he had left it--dark, dingy, with climbing vines covering the window. The walls were painted blue, and as Talon stepped in he felt the old melancholy return. He set his suitcase on the bed and gazed at his shoes--the one link he had with his parents, and his link with the Floating Island. The shoes belonged with a set of emerald armor, and the soles were made of red and green super emerald vein. Talon knew the password to activate the shoes and let him fly, for his father had taught him to use the shoes when he was little. Back during acting school.
He looked up and saw his uncle in the doorway. "Welcome home, Konya," said Mori with an insincere smile.
"Thanks, Uncle Pendel," said Talon. "And my name is Talon."
"I see you've retained that ridiculous nickname," said Mori, his smile vanishing. "No doubt encouraged by those ignorant echidnas. Don't worry, I won't let them take you away."
"You're not going to let them adopt me?" cried Talon, jumping to his feet. "Why not?"
"Because echidnas are violent by nature," said Mori. "I see their impulsiveness has rubbed off on you." Talon opened his mouth to retort, but Mori held up a hand. "Quiet. I do not allow backtalk. You know the rules to living here. In your room by eight o'clock, up by six. You will be resuming school at Happy Mobian Academy. The barn out back is off-limits at all times, and so is the basement."
Talon nodded. "Yes, Uncle Pendel."
Mori nodded and left, closing the door behind him.
Talon stood in the middle of the room as his world collapsed. He might never see Knuckles or Zephyer or the Floating Island again. He was doomed to live with his uncle until ... until he was eighteen and could live wherever he wanted. It was only five more years and ...
Talon sat down in the darkest corner, drew his knees to his chest and stared into the gloom, too empty to cry.
He sat there a long time, listening to the creak of the house, the sound of a dog barking, a distant lawnmower. Sounds he had not heard while on the Floating Island. He knew everyone there and was accepted. Here he was an outcast. He burrowed deep into the shell that Knuckles had worked for three years to break.
He remembered Knuckles's hand on his shoulder, reluctant to let go, and Zephyer's voice in his ear. "I put something in your bag."
How had he forgotten that? He jumped to his feet, ran to his suitcase and opened it. On top of his belongings were a communicator and an envelope. Talon picked up the com and recognized it as one of Knuckles's modified long-range units. He opened the envelope next, and a silver tube slid out. He looked at it for a second before he recognized it as a whistle with a long, odd cut in the top. There was a letter with it, which he pulled out and opened.
"Talon,
Slasher made this whistle for Zephyer and I as a wedding present. I want you to have it. If you need anything, blow it and Slasher will come. If you need her fast, blow it 3 times. If you're desperate, blow it 5 times. Take care of it, because I'm going to want it back when we bring you home. The communicator is one of mine. Call home once or twice a day to let us know how you're doing. If your uncle is mean to you, make a note of it and I'll smack him around to teach him a lesson.
Knux."
The tears came easily after that.
Knuckles asked a few people who they considered the toughest, meanest lawyers in town, and everyone recommended the firm Dewey, Cheetum and Howe. Knuckles located the firm, had the Chaotix and Zephyer wait in the reception area, and approached the secretary.
"I want to talk to the nastiest of your lawyers," he said, glaring.
The secretary took one look at him and pressed a button on her intercom. "Ms. Howe, there's a client here for you." She pointed to a hallway. "Third door on the right."
Knuckles nodded and strode off.
He entered a large office with dozens of framed awards on the walls, and a wide window with a view of the ocean. Sitting behind the desk was a sleek red ferret with shrewd, beady eyes. She sized up Knuckles, then motioned to a chair. "Sit down, mister ...?"
"Echidna, Knuckles Echidna," said Knuckles, taking a seat. "You don't look like a nasty lawyer."
"Some would disagree," said Howe. "Your case had better be interesting."
"Sticky adoption case," said Knuckles, and explained about Talon coming to the Floating Island to hide from his awful relatives. At first Howe looked disinterested, but as Knuckles mentioned Pendel Mori, her ears pricked up. Knuckles concluded with a terse account of what had happened when they had relinquished Talon, then looked at the ferret. "Well? Interesting enough?"
"We'll see," said Howe. "How much can you pay?"
"Five power crystals, fifty carat, at current market value," said Knuckles. "You could get a better price for them if you sold to collectors, or maybe the human military."
"Will you make a down payment?"
"Will you take my case?"
The ferret and echidna regarded each other.
"Yes," said Howe. "Between you and me, I'd love to put Pendel Mori in prison. Of course, losing this case means YOU might be the one in prison."
"If there's a chance of getting Talon back, I'll risk it," said Knuckles.
Howe pulled a sheaf of papers out of her briefcase. "I need to get these customized. Who will I be representing, besides you and the boy?"
"Oh, my wife," said Knuckles, remembering with a shock that he was married now.
"She'll need to cosign," said the lawyer. "Fetch her in while I create a profile." She left the office in a gliding, snaky motion.
Knuckles walked out to the waiting area and beckoned to Zephyer. As she rose, he said to the Chaotix, "This might take a while. You guys might as well go do something."
"It's a hundred and ten degrees out there," said Espio. "What do you expect us to do besides melt?"
"That's your problem," said Knuckles, in no mood to be crossed. "We'll meet back home this evening." He led Zephyer to Howe's office.
The office was empty, so the two sat down to wait in opposite chairs. Zephyer looked around the office, reading the award plaques and examining the photos of little ferrets on the desk. "Is she nasty?"
"I think so," Knuckles muttered. "She didn't mess around much. She's also expensive."
"Can we afford it?"
"That's why I pay these people in jewels. The price is indefinite and large."
The pair lapsed into silence, intimidated by their own voices in the unfamiliar room.
When Howe didn't come back for another ten minutes, Zephyer fell to brooding. "This is your fault," she hissed at Knuckles. "We didn't have to mess with any of this legal junk--Talon was fine living with us illegally."
"Oh, so it's my fault now," snarled Knuckles. "You agreed to this, remember?"
"Yes, and it doesn't make it any better," retorted Zephyer. "I read that stuff Sally emailed you--it can take up to a year for an adoption to go through, and that's one without legal entanglements. Who knows what could happen to Talon in a year?"
"You don't suppose I read that too?" snapped Knuckles, leaning forward. "I know! It makes me sick! What do you want me to do, kidnap him for real?"
"Yes, if that's what it takes!" Zephyer was ready to take the argument to blows, but they were interrupted as Howe slipped in the door.
The ferret snaked behind the desk and sat down, ignoring the flushed faces of her clients. "I'm ready to open this case, Mr. and Mrs. Echidna. I'm going to ask you some questions and I need your identification."
Knuckles gave Zephyer a look that said their fight was not over, and directed his attention to the papers on the desk.
It took an hour to read and sign all the papers, and Howe explained everything as they went along. She asked questions carefully calculated to learn about her clients. How long had they been married? Had Talon ever told them about his prior home? Had they interacted with Talon's relatives before?
When they told her about meeting Kit and Kardot, Howe made a triumphant bark in her throat.
"Why, do you know them?" Knuckles asked.
Howe got up and closed the door, then beckoned for the echidnas to move close. They did until her whiskers brushed their faces, and she said in a low voice, "Pendel Mori has had multiple charges of illegal experimentation brought against him, but there was never enough evidence to convict. There was nothing wrong with Kit and Kardot. At first."
"Kardot was an android," said Zephyer. "Why should they care how he treated her?"
"Kardot wasn't always an android," whispered Howe. "She was the second-oldest of Mori's five children. Three of them died of natural causes, or so we think. Kardot started life as a flesh and blood anteater. How he made her into an android we'll never know. He somehow had her birth records erased, so it would appear she had always been that way, but me and my firm know better. I saw the certificate before it vanished."
"What about Kit?" said Knuckles, eyes wide.
"I don't know," said Howe. "He's not right in the head, but whether that's due to experimentation or seeing his father's cruelty, who can say?"
Zephyer and Knuckles looked at each other in horror. "We have to get Talon out of there," said Zephyer.
"Yes," said Howe, eyes gleaming. "And put Mori behind bars for good. If I can use this case to do that, I will." She stepped back and returned her voice to normal. "Thank you for your business. I'll give you a call in a day or two." She escorted them out of the office with a smile, revealing her long white fangs. As soon as they were gone, Howe whisked down the hall to Cheetum's office.
Cheetum was a black rat. He was filling out a form with one pink hand and eating a cheese sandwich with the other, and glanced up when Howe slithered in.
"Sup, Ann?"
"Call in Dewey."
Cheetum picked up his phone and pressed a button. "Dewey, Howe's got something to talk to us about." The rat hung up the phone, and a moment later a weasel entered the office. He was even snakier than Howe, and was smaller with a shorter muzzle.
"What's the trouble?" he asked.
"I may have found a way to convict Pendel Mori," said Howe.
Cheetum and Dewey straightened.
"Seems that since his kids are gone, he's starting on his nephew," said Howe. "But his nephew's been living with these echidnas who want to adopt him. If we can prove that these echidnas will provide a better home environment, we might have a case."
"How will that convict Mori?" asked Dewey.
"That's the good part," said Howe. "I'm going to request studies by social services, and have them comb his little lab from top to bottom. I'm sure he's got something illegal we can nail him with. But I'm going to need your help."
"You got it," said Cheetum. "My other clients can wait another few days."
"I'll get the research team on it," said Dewey. "Better hire a detective to watch the kid, too. Never know what Mori will do to him."
"Good idea."
And the lawyers parted ways.
The next morning before school, Talon stole around the house, trying to see if Kit was living there. Kit's room was clean and vacant, but Talon checked the other four bedrooms, just in case. None of them looked inhabited, and there was only enough food for one person in the refrigerator.
He saw no sign of his uncle from the time he got up to when the school bus came. This didn't worry Talon much, for the less he saw of his uncle, the better. But there was no sign of him on the first or second floors, and the basement was locked. Talon remembered it was off-limits, but thought it unusual ... the basement had been Kit and Kardot's hangout. Mori must have turned it into something else.
Talon had no books to take to school with him, but it didn't matter. As soon as he climbed on the bus, the racket of unruly youngsters smote his ears, and a few yelled, "Check it out, Konya finally came back! Where you been, Konya? Juvenile hall?" There was a roar of laughter. Talon slipped to a vacant seat, trying to ignore the shouts.
Happy Mobian Academy was on the other side of the island, in a lush, green park-like area. To the casual observer it was the perfect school: the grounds were beautiful, the buildings were ultra-modern, clean and newly painted. But the students knew otherwise. This was a private school with an unusual charter, and Talon's parents had talked about it with horror and started a petition to close it down. Perhaps that was one reason they had been killed in the fire. Talon's uncle, upon receiving custody, had enrolled Talon there at once.
Talon went to the office first, his stomach cold and hard under his ribs. The assistant principal was a female dachshund, and she gave Talon a long look when he entered. "Well well. Konya Mori. I never expected to see you again."
"Yes ma'am." Talon stared at the floor. He heard her rustling papers, and for a wild second thought about blowing the whistle for Slasher. But no, he had survived this place before. He could do it again.
"You were in Rabbit group, weren't you?" said the assistant principal. "You're too old now .. thirteen, aren't you?"
Talon nodded.
"We'll put you in Antelope, then," she said. She handed him a maroon armband. "Your group is in Jungle environment this week. The Jungle instructor will show you where to go."
Talon nodded as he put on the armband and left the office.
The school grounds covered twenty acres of uninhabited island, backing up to the ocean on the south. There were large clumps of jungle, piles of rocks, ponds, and a wide grassy meadow. No desert, though, thought Talon with a touch of smugness. The Floating Island's environments are better.
He followed one of the trails marked 'Jungle', trying to remain unnoticed by the other students around him. Everyone wore maroon or yellow armbands, and Talon guessed that Leopard was having their classes with Antelope today. His stomach knotted even tighter. The predator groups were the worst.
At the edge of the trees, Talon found a group of kids with maroon and blended with them, hoping no one would recognize him. Nearby was a wiry civet cat in a maroon vest, signifying that he was their instructor. A few stragglers trotted up, and the teacher faced the group.
"All right, animals, listen up! Today we're pitted against Leopard! You will have to exhibit all the qualities of the antelope to pass this lesson--speed, endurance, and sharp senses. Stay in small groups--there is safety in numbers. Leopards hunt alone, and a lone Antelope is a dead Antelope. Class ends at noon. Go!"
The kids turned and ran into the woods.
Talon had grown since the last time he was here. Not only were his legs longer and his endurance greater, he had learned a few things. Now, as he ran with the chattering, laughing group, he understood these idiotic lessons. The school was making young Mobians into animals. He thought of the TV show he had watched with Tails about Mobian regression. This school encouraged it! But Talon was too meek to rebel against the system. He simply told himself that he would not go feral, and concentrated on surviving.
What had developed out in the jungles was a kind of gang warfare. Each team attacked the other, and if some kids reached the end of the day with bloody noses or broken bones, it meant they were learning. A pecking order was established within each team, and timid ones like Talon were at the bottom.
All day long he ran, hid, watched his back, and jumped at shadows. His reflexes were slower because of living civilized, and twice he was jumped and beaten up. By the end of the day he was bruised, dirty, and curled up inside into a tight knot.
When he arrived home at three o'clock, he again found the house deserted. Talon tried to like it, but he was lonesome and homesick, and couldn't help thinking of what Knuckles would have done if let inside that school. He went to his room, barricaded the door, and pulled the communicator out from under his pillow.
He clicked it on and waited for the responding click. After a moment it came, and Knuckles's voice said, "Hey."
"Hello sir."
"Talon! Hey! How're you doing?"
"Okay," said Talon, feeling safe now that Knuckles was on the line. "I just got home from school."
"School?" Knuckles sounded astonished. "He made you go to school your first day back?"
"Yes sir." Talon didn't want to think about it. "Any chance of my coming home soon?"
"We've hired a lawyer to work this out," said Knuckles. "She has a grudge against your uncle and was delighted to take the case."
"Oh good." Talon didn't know what else to say. "Thanks for giving me this com."
"You're welcome. You get the whistle?"
"Yes sir."
"Have you used it?"
"No sir."
"Huh." Knuckles sounded puzzled. "We haven't seen Slasher since we got here. I thought you whistled for her."
"No sir." Talon looked at the window, his old fear returning.
"Strange. Well, has your uncle been treating you all right?"
"Yes sir." If not seeing him all day was right treatment.
"Hey Tal, listen," said Knuckles, lowering his voice. "If you find out your uncle's doing ... well, anything illegal, call me right away."
"Illegal?" Talon perked up, thinking of the locked basement. "Like what, sir?"
"I don't know. But if you see something weird, let me know. And be careful."
"Yes sir!"
There was a long pause, Talon knew he should hang up, but he couldn't bear to turn off the comfort of Knuckles's voice.
"Well, if you need anything, call," said Knuckles. "And don't be afraid to use the whistle. Slasher likes you, you know."
"Oh." Talon could only think of the way she had eaten the steaks. "Thanks."
"Bye Tal."
"Bye sir." Talon turned off the com and sat looking at it. He wished he dared strap it to his wrist, but his uncle might take it away, and at school it would get broken. He shoved it back under his pillow, glanced at his window again, and met Espio's eyes.
A second later the window was open and Talon was leaning out. Espio was colored the same as the vines that covered the window, and Talon kept losing the chameleon among the leaves. "Espio, what are you doing here?"
"Checking on you, kid," said Espio. "Us Chaotix have been watching the house. Is your uncle here? Can I come in?"
"I haven't seen him today," said Talon, glad of Espio's presence. "Come on in, but be quiet. He might be in the basement."
Espio climbed through the window, his skin changing colors to blend with the walls and floor. Talon led him through the house, conducting a tour in a whisper. Espio grunted now and then, memorizing the layout. When they came to the basement door, Talon said, "I'm not allowed to go down there. It's always kept locked. I can't go in the barn, either. Want to see that?"
"You bet!"
Talon took Espio into the backyard, led him across the lawn and into the forest, where the barn was located. As they walked up to it, they became aware of an unpleasant odor, like rotting meat. The barn's door was chained shut, and there were bars in the windows.
Espio climbed up to look in the windows, but it was so dark that all he could see were vague, indistinct shapes like machinery under tarps.
Espio climbed back down, looking curious. "A locked barn and a locked basement. Did we tell you about what we heard?"
Espio related the story of ringing the doorbell and hearing a wild beast growl before Mori answered the door. Talon blanched. "What could it have been?"
"No idea," said Espio. "Maybe he has a really big dog or something. Be careful."
Be careful. Everyone kept telling him to be careful. Careful of what?
They snuck back through the house, and Espio left through Talon's window. "Thanks for the tour, kid," he said. "If you need anything, sneak out front and wave at the bushes. We're taking turns watching you."
"Okay," Talon grinned as Espio slunk away. If the Chaotix were close by, then he didn't mind being alone.
Knuckles had received Talon's call as he was getting ready to meet with the lawyer again. He and Zephyer dropped what they were doing and huddled around the communicator. When Knuckles hung up, he looked at Zephyer. "How did he sound to you?"
"Depressed," said Zephyer, looking at the com as if she could see Talon thought it.
"At least he's all right," said Knuckles, strapping the com to his wrist. "And the Chaotix are keeping an eye on him."
"I wish he was home again," said Zephyer, looking downcast. "I know he doesn't make much noise, but it's been too quiet without him."
Knuckles grunted and walked out the door, Zephyer following.
They took a portable teleporter with them as they warped back to the mainland. Zephyer hated to leave the Floating Island so much; she understood the part of the Guardian's oath about being bound to the island. Leaving it seemed a form of betrayal, and she wondered how Knuckles had managed to do it so often. She did not know that Knuckles's loneliness had become so intense that even the island's call could not keep him there, and it was not until the Chaotix came that Knuckles was able to stay at home. Her own presence was also a comfort to him, although he would never tell her such a thing. All Zephyer knew was that they were still mad at each other, although they had a temporary truce while dealing with Talon and Howe.
They walked through Marshill to the big white building where Dewey, Cheetum and Howe was located, and found Howe in her office with five stacks of paper on her desk. She greeted them, and as soon as they sat down, she got down to business.
"According to Blackguard law, a child may be removed from his home when it is proved that his current environment is unsafe, or his parents or guardians are unsuitable. He will be placed in foster care until suitable guardians are found for him. You two will need to go through the adoption approval process immediately so that will be out of the way. That way when we have the child removed from his current home, we can place him with you at once."
Knuckles nodded. "What agency would you recommend?"
Howe handed him one of the stacks of paper. "This is the Orphan Aid foundation. They're small but very efficient. I've worked with them before."
Knuckles sideyed Zephyer as they both wondered if this agency was somehow dishonest. Electricity darted between them. Knuckles's eyes widened, then he bent over the papers. Zephyer looked at them with him, wondering why the electricity had surprised him.
"This case cannot proceed until you are approved for adoption," said Howe. "I'd advise you to go to the Orphan Aid office immediately. My hands are tied until then."
"Okay, we'll do that," said Knuckles, glancing at Zephyer. "Call us if anything happens."
"And keep me informed on the approval process," said Howe.
As they left the office, Zephyer said, "Well, that was a short visit."
"She knows what she's doing," said Knuckles. "We have to be approved so she can go in and shred Pendel Mori. I could see the bloodlust in her eyes."
"Carnivores," said Zephyer. "Oh yeah, the electric thing happened again."
"It happened right as she gave us the adoption papers." He looked at Zephyer. "What were you thinking?"
"I wondered if they were dishonest," said Zephyer, and gasped as the electricity zinged between them.
Knuckles grinned. "That's it. When we think the same thing, there's an electric arc. Or is it chaos energy?"
"I don't like it," said Zephyer."
"Maybe we can control it," said Knuckles. "Try it. Think about Talon."
Zephyer did and looked Knuckles in the eye, and the power struck like lightning. They both flinched. "This is stupid," said Zephyer. "It hurts us to think alike! Is it a Master Emerald thing?"
"No idea," said Knuckles, walking on. "Is this my fault, too?"
"No," said Zephyer, reddening. She knew she ought to apologize, but pride was a hard thing to swallow. It took her until the end of the block to spit it out. "I'm sorry, none of this is your fault. I shouldn't have said that."
He looked at her fiercely for a second, then his expression softened. "I shouldn't have got so mad. I miss Talon, too." He squeezed her hand as they walked along.
Vector lay in the shrubbery, polishing his binoculars. Mighty sat nearby, slurping a milkshake. Espio and Charmy were hidden across the yard somewhere, watching Talon's house from every angle. The house appeared deserted, and it was boring, hot work, for the afternoon was stifling.
"What time does Talon get home from school?" asked Mighty.
"Three o'clock," said Vector, checking his watch. "Ten minutes."
"We ought to stake out his school, too," said the armadillo.
"Naw," said Vector. "It's just school. He'd be indoors all day except recess, and we'd miss anything his uncle did."
"Is Mori even there?" said Mighty, peering out of the bushes at the house. "We haven't seen him since he insulted us the night he took Talon."
"Apparently Talon hasn't seen him, either," said Vector. "Talk about a deadbeat parent."
"I hope that lawyer eats him alive," said Mighty, stirring his milkshake. "Hey, I think the school bus is coming." He dropped on his stomach beside Vector as the bus rumbled to a halt at the foot of the driveway. Talon stepped off, looking dusty and tired. He walked up the driveway with his head down and entered the house as the bus drove away.
"Poor kid," muttered Vector, watching the windows with binoculars. "Espio's moving up to spy on him. Maybe Talon'll catch Espio again."
"If I was him, I'd try to," said Mighty. "He's got to be lonely." The armadillo froze and grabbed Vector's arm. "Hey, who's that?"
Vector followed his gaze and saw a mouse standing at the driveway entrance, looking up at the house. He set off around the perimeter of the property, withdrawing a tiny camera from his pants pocket. Vector trained the binoculars on him, frowning. "That isn't one of Knuckles's lawyers, is it?"
"No, his lawyer is a ferret," said Mighty. "Shh, he's coming this way."
The two flattened themselves as the mouse walked by, snapping pictures of the yard and house.
Vector watched the mouse with a dark glare. "What's that guy think he's doing? We were here first!"
"Maybe Mori hired him," whispered Mighty. "Maybe Mori's noticed us watching the house, and this mouse is trying to figure out our positions."
"If he wanted to do that, he could just beat the bushes and yell," replied Vector, worming his way forward to see into the yard. "No, he's up to something. Maybe he's a burgler."
"Then we ought to stop him, shouldn't we?"
Vector had been sitting in the bushes all day, and any excuse to get out and move around was welcome. "All right, let's jump him!"
The mouse was near the house, counting windows, when he noticed something that didn't look right. There was a shadow against the wall that was cast by nothing. He moved closer and snapped a picture. The shadow moved, and a pair of reptilian eyes met his.
The mouse was tackled from behind and crushed to the ground by Vector, who was three times his size. "Got 'im!" exclaimed Vector. "Let's get him out of sight, quick!" The crocodile got up, holding the mouse in a headlock, and Mighty caught the mouse's flailing arms. They hustled him into the shelter of three potted palms that formed a screen, Espio following them.
"Okay," said Vector, "talk fast. What are you doing here?"
"Who are you people?" exclaimed the mouse, panting. "Mori has bodyguards now?"
"No, but Talon does," said Espio. "Who are you working for, huh?"
The mouse looked at them incredulously, then began to laugh.
"What's so funny?" growled Mighty. "You're awful small to pound, but I could talk myself into it."
"Back pocket," gasped the mouse. "My wallet. Look at my ID."
Espio retrieved the wallet and opened it. Inside was a business card that read, "Ralph Martin, private detective." Espio read it aloud. "Private detective, eh? We're doing a bit of that, ourselves."
"Ann Howe hired me to keep an eye on this kid and his uncle," said Ralph. "Will you let me go, please?"
Vector released him from the headlock and the mouse straightened, rubbing his neck. "Thanks. You wouldn't happen to be friends of Knuckles Echidna, would you?"
Vector nodded.
"Thought so," said Ralph, dusting himself off and checking his camera for damage. "You boys could do with a bit of training. First though, have you seen anything noteworthy since you staked out this place?"
Vector sideyed his companions. "Maybe. What's the camera for?"
"Reference," said Ralph. "Now will you--"
He was interrupted as Charmy exploded into their hiding place, quivering with fury. "What are you guys doing?" he screamed in a whisper. "Mori just came out, injected Talon with something and left again!"
"What?" everyone yelped. They started to run for the house, but Espio stopped them. "Wait! Let me go! Mori might come back!" The chameleon slipped out of hiding, his scales mimicking his surroundings, and raced to Talon's window. The others sneaked through the shrubbery, casting dark looks at each other.
Espio reached the window, inched his fingers under the sill and opened it. Talon was standing in the middle of the room, staring at the closed door. He turned as Espio opened the window. "Hello Espio." He looked dazed.
"Are you okay?" asked Espio, slipping inside. "What did he do? Charmy said he injected you?"
"No," said Talon, holding out one arm where a few drops of blood stained the fur. "He took a blood sample." He sucked the place until it stopped bleeding, and Espio cursed himself for abandoning his post.
"The five minutes we weren't watching you ... Where'd he go?"
"Out," said Talon, pointing at the door.
Espio whisked to the door and out in the hall, determined to find Mori and see what he was doing.
The chameleon's memorization skills served him well, and he went straight to the basement stairs. The door at the bottom was closed. Espio descended the stairs and tried the knob. It was unlocked! He turned it and opened the door a crack.
Beyond it was a whitewashed room with several tables. Espio glimpsed a few glass tubes and bottles, and guessed it was laboratory equipment. He eased the door open another fraction, and spotted Pendel Mori. He had a small vial of Talon's blood and was pouring a few drops of something into it.
Espio took mental snapshots of what he saw, to memorize it. Back behind the tables was a wooden partition, and a stout chain ran behind it. As Espio watched, something reached up and grabbed the top of the partition.
Espio shut the door and ran for his life, forgetting about camouflage and even where he was. He took a wrong turn and wound up in the living room, doubled back and found Talon's room by sheer luck. Talon was sitting on the bed, waiting for him. "Espio?" he said, straightening. "You're white! What happened?"
The chameleon grabbed the anteater by the shoulders. "Don't you ever go down in that basement, you hear me? If he tries to take you down there, fight and scream, we'll come. But don't ever go down there!"
Talon's eyes were wide with unasked questions, but all he said was, "Okay, Espio."
Espio vaulted out the window and dove into the bushes where the rest of the Chaotix and Ralph awaited him. He was starting to shake.
"Espio!" said Vector. "What happened to you?"
"I saw Mori in the basement," whispered the chameleon. "He didn't inject Talon, he took a blood sample. I looked in and there was something chained up, it was trying to get out." He trailed off, seeing again that thing reaching up and grabbing the top of the partition. It was smooth and brown, like a tail--no, not a tail. He struggled to identify it. Like a giant spider's leg. But that wasn't it, not a spider. More like a feeler. The most horrible thing was that he knew only two things about it: that leg or whatever, and the thickness of the chain holding it.
"What was it?" asked Ralph, staring at Espio with the rest.
The chameleon was turning from white to sickly green, and he was staring straight ahead. "I don't know," said Espio. "Some kind of bug." Then he curled up the fetal position, coiling his tail around his head.
The Chaotix looked at each other. They had never seen Espio act like this before.
"Is Talon all right?" asked Charmy.
"Yes," whispered Espio. "Call Knuckles. Tell him we have to get out of here."
"And leave Talon?" said Vector.
Espio rocked back and forth and didn't answer.
Vector looked at Mighty. "Take Espio back to the island. Tell Knuckles what happened. Charmy and I will stay with Ralph."
"You got it," said the armadillo. He pulled Espio to his feet and led him out of the yard, toward where they had left the portable teleporter.
Vector gazed toward the house, brow furrowed. Ralph watched him. "Care to work with me now? Whatever your friend saw, we can use it to build a case against Pendel Mori."
"You can?" said Charmy. "What kind of case?"
"Illegal experimentation," said Ralph. "We could put him behind bars for a very long time."
Vector looked at Charmy, then Ralph. "What do you need to know?"
25. No Echidna is an Island: Chapter 5: Raising defenses
Chapter 5: Raising defenses
Knuckles and Zephyer were sitting on the front porch in the shade, reading through a sheaf of papers from Orphan Aid. Zephyer read without moving, twirling a dreadlock in her fingers, but Knuckles kept setting down his papers and looking out at the horizon. He rose and without a word marched off across the yard and into the trees.
Zephyer watched him go and sighed. She knew that Knuckles was still adjusting to sharing his home and island, and sometimes he needed solitude like food and water. She kept reading.
After a while Knuckles returned and thumped down in his chair. He looked at Zephyer, curled like a cat in her chair. "How can you sit still for so long?"
She looked at him. "I don't suffer from Sonic-syndrome, that's why."
Knuckles muttered and looked at his document again. For a while neither of them spoke. Then Knuckles said, "Do you understand all this?"
"I guess," said Zephyer. "It's not hard to understand, it's just that there's so much of it."
"That's the problem," muttered Knuckles. "I had no idea families were so much work."
Zephyer stifled a laugh. "If you can call it a family. Two echidnas, two chao, and an anteater. And the Chaotix."
"You don't have to be the same species to be a family," said Knuckles. "Look at Knothole."
"Yeah," said Zephyer, looking thoughtful. "Everybody looks out for everybody there."
"That's one reason I let them coax me from the Floating Island," said Knuckles, gazing at the treetops. "I never had a family."
Zephyer looked at him and saw his eyes were fixed and distant. She remembered the look on his face when Locke had left, and rested a hand on his arm. "You have a family now."
"Right." He looked at her. "And it's worth fighting for. Talon belongs with us as much as the chao do."
"You're not alone, you know," said Zephyer. "I'm here now, and I'm going to fight this battle with you." She picked up his paper. "If you like, I'll read all this and summarize it for you."
Knuckles looked at his wife a moment, then grinned. "It'd be a load off my mind."
"No problem." Zephyer kissed his cheek. "I've seen Sonic go stir-crazy, and I know the signs. Go smash some rocks or something."
Knuckles stood up and opened his mouth to reply, but was distracted as the incoming teleporter dish flashed. Two figures appeared, one of them doubled up in distress. "Uh oh," said Knuckles, and bolted off the porch. Zephyer threw aside the papers and tore after him.
Espio was pea-green and clinging to Mighty with hands, feet and tail. His eyes were wide, breath coming fast and shallow.
"What happened?" asked Knuckles as he reached them.
"Espio saw something," said Mighty, grunting as he half-dragged the chameleon along. "He's choking me, grab his arm."
Knuckles pried Espio's arm off the anteater's throat as Zephyer reached them. It took all three of them to get Espio to the house, and they deposited him on the couch. He curled up at once and closed his eyes. The echidnas and armadillo stood looking down at him. "What did he see?" asked Knuckles.
"I don't know," said Mighty. "He said it looked like a bug."
"But he's not afraid of bugs," said Zephyer, watching the chameleon as he wound his tail around himself.
Mighty shook his head and explained about Mori taking a blood sample from Talon. Knuckles and Zephyer exchanged glances--Mori kept getting weirder.
"I should have packed Talon a gun," muttered Knuckles.
"You packed him a whistle," said Zephyer. "That's just as good."
Knuckles gazed at Espio. "I hope so."
Talon couldn't get Espio out of his mind.
He lay in bed that night, the chameleon's voice echoing through his mind. "Don't you dare go down in that basement, you hear me?"
He had never seen Espio turned white--it was a color Espio hated. What had he seen? And why had Uncle Pendel needed a blood sample?
Talon curled up in a ball, his imagination running wild, filling the basement with half-imagined shapes and monsters. He wished he was in his own bed on the Floating Island, where Knuckles and Zephyer were only a shout away. Then he wished for Max, his chao. While gentle-natured, Max would fight to the death to protect his young master. He thought of the whistle for Slasher, and wondered what he was more afraid of--something in the basement, or Slasher.
As he lay there, he heard footsteps in the hall outside his door. He recognized his uncle's shuffling gait, and tensed. Then he heard a rustling, tapping sound, and the house creaked. Then his uncle and the tapping sounds moved off down the hall. Talon lay perfectly still, his heart beating so hard he couldn't breathe. He heard the back door open and shut, and without even thinking about it, reached under his pillow, pulled out the whistle and blew it.
It made no sound, and Talon hoped it was not broken. He thrust it back under his pillow and watched the window, wondering what would happen if instead of Slasher, something came that made a tapping when it moved. Then he wondered if he should have blown the whistle, because what if Slasher tried to eat him?
A shadow fell across the windowpane, and a voice outside said, "Talon?"
For a second he thought about faking sleep, but he had called her, so he might as well let her in. He got up and opened the window. Slasher looked down at him, her green eyes reflecting the porchlight. "You have Knuckles's whistle?" she asked in surprise.
"He loaned it to me," said Talon, looking up at her with his instincts panicking. "For if I ... I got scared."
Slasher thrust her head through the window, sniffing. "Scared of what?"
"I don't know." Talon knew it would sound silly if he told her he had heard a tapping sound in the hall.
"Can I come in?"
"Uh, sure." Talon backed away from the window and Slasher squeezed her wings to her sides and climbed through. She turned around once to pull her long tail through the window, then moved to the door and sniffed the crack under it. "Hmm," she said after a moment. "Your uncle was here a few minutes ago."
"Yes," said Talon, dying to ask her if she smelled anything else. "I heard ... something."
Slasher lay down in front of the door with a grunt. "Nothing will bother you while I'm here."
Somehow the sight of her bulk against the door reassured him. Talon climbed into bed and lay with the blankets pulled up to his chin. He watched Slasher's head turn this way and that as she looked around his room. "Is this where you lived before?"
"How long?"
Talon thought. "Almost a year."
"Do you like Marshill?"
"Um ... I guess."
"I've been exploring it," said Slasher. "I like the weather, and the people, and the food. But I've noticed nobody lives on the south side adjoining the Quadrangle."
Talon had heard the stories of the Quadrangle all his life. "They're afraid of it."
"Why, I wonder?" asked Slasher, fixing an eye on him. "I'm tempted to fly out there and see if something happens."
"It only hurts machines," said Talon.
"Maybe I could take some instruments," said Slasher. "But not now."
Slasher extended one wing across the room, and motioned to the gaps in her primary feathers. "Moulting." She sounded dismal. She refolded her wing and muttered, "It's worse this year."
"Why?" Talon wanted her to keep talking. As long as she talked, he could hold at bay the nagging terror of having a predator in his room.
Slasher rested her head on her forepaws. "Growing feathers is painful. My wings are implants, and maybe the feather hormone is leaving my body or something ... but every year it hurts more and takes longer." She sat up and chewed a spot on one wing before laying down again. "What are you afraid of?"
Talon thought of Espio's warning and the tapping in the hall. "Espio says there's something in the basement. And I ... I heard something."
"Really now." She fixed both eyes on him and sat up. "What did you hear?"
"Kind of a clicking ..."
"Have you told anyone else?"
"It was only a minute ago."
The pair watched each other. Then Slasher got up and padded to the window. "I'm going to investigate. Close and lock the window--I'll guard the house for the rest of the night."
"Okay." Talon waited until she had left, then closed the window and turned the lock. He jumped back in bed and burrowed under the covers, glad that she was gone, and feeling a little safer with her patrolling.
At dawn Zephyer was awakened by Knuckles moaning and thrashing in his sleep. She sat up and shook him. "Knuckles, wake up." His fur was damp with sweat. Suddenly his eyes opened, and he grabbed her and kicked her off the bed.
Zephyer landed on all fours, stunned, and sat there looking at her husband. He sat up and blinked down at her. "Zephyer? What's the matter?"
"You just kicked me down here," she said. "I take it you were having a nightmare."
"Oh Zeff, I'm sorry," he said, helping her up. "It's this dream I keep having!"
Zephyer was wide awake now, and sat on the side of the bed, watching Knuckles warily. "Care to share it with the class?"
"It's nothing big," grumbled Knuckles, looking embarrassed. "I dreamed I came home to the island after two months, and I found everybody dead."
"That's your oath haunting you," said Zephyer. "I wondered how long you could keep up this furlough stuff. I know I can't."
"I don't know," said Knuckles, getting up. "This latest thing with Espio must have set it off."
"Oh, I forgot about him," said Zephyer, picking up her shoes from a chair. "I hope he's okay, the wimp."
"Nothing scares Espio like that," said Knuckles. "Not to the point of losing his self control."
"I'm going to check on him," said Zephyer.
Knuckles followed her into the living room, where Espio had spent the night on the couch. He was still there, snoring and the same color as the cushions. Zephyer smiled at Knuckles, who shrugged and headed for the door. They could talk outside.
Knuckles opened the door and jumped. Slasher was lying on the porch, and as the door opened her head jerked up and she snarled, baring her teeth to the roots.
"Uh, Slasher?" said Knuckles, wondering if slamming the door was wise. Her eyes were bright yellow, and her jaws were caked with black blood. Her teeth were stained with it.
"Knuckles!" whispered Zephyer, grabbing his arm.
Slasher snarled and growled at both of them, then jumped to her feet and loped into the trees, still snarling and looking over her shoulder.
Knuckles shut the door and stood staring at it.
"What in the world happened to her?" whispered Zephyer. "Her eyes changed colors! That was Slasher, right?"
"Yes," said Knuckles, horror growing inside him. "Something must have happened to her." Black blood on her jaws and teeth. She had been killing.
Espio sat up and looked at them. "Morning, guys. What's with you?"
"Slasher was on the porch," said Zephyer. "She snarled at us and ran off."
"Snarled at you?" said Espio, folding the blanket they had loaned him. "Was she hurt?"
"She'd killed something," said Knuckles. "Her eyes changed colors because raptors do that. The fiercer the raptor, the hotter their eyes." He glanced at Zephyer, and a twinge of electricity danced between them as they thought of the velociraptor tribe on the island where they had first met. Even there Slasher had retained her reason. The thing on the porch was an animal.
Espio's color had returned to purple, but now it lightened several shades. "She saw it," he said. "The thing in the basement. I saw its leg and flipped. I'll bet she saw it all and lost her mind."
"You don't know that," snapped Knuckles. "We don't even know if she was on the mainland." He wanted to defend Slasher somehow, since Zephyer was wearing her I Told You So look and Espio was ready to believe anything. "We woke her up suddenly, that's all."
Zephyer and Espio said nothing, and Knuckles remembered his dream of finding them dead. Suddenly he wondered who Slasher had killed, and why of all places she had come to the porch to sleep? He opened the front door and strode out. "Stay here," he told Zephyer. "I won't be gone long."
Slasher's memory was a blur. She paced around and around a boulder in the woods, fretting. She barely remembered visiting Talon, because when she left the house, she had encountered something that sent her into pure survival mode. She had escaped to the skies and the Floating Island with its blood polluting her teeth. She spent the night on the porch as her mind and body cooled, but when Knuckles opened the door, her frayed nerves nearly induced her to attack the echidnas.
As soon as she entered the trees she calmed down, and was now pacing, burning with shame and fear. She had never lost control like that before, never! What had she done in that blur the previous night? By concentrating she could remember hearing the whistle and responding to Talon by staying with him for a while. Then he told her about hearing strange sounds, and she went to investigate, and she woke up on the porch, snarling at Knuckles.
Around and around the boulder she went, head bobbing in agitation. What should she do? Go home? But what if Talon blew the whistle again? She almost regretted making it, because the whistles were connected to her subconscious in such a way that she had to respond to them, and could hear them no matter where they were blown. It was a great tool to give a friend, but it left Slasher vulnerable. She hoped they had told Talon that.
But what should she do? What if she lost control again and hurt someone she cared about? She knew her eyes must be yellow, and she could still taste the blood in her mouth. She turned aside and rubbed her muzzle in the grass, trying to wipe off the taste and scent. It clung to her, heavy and musky. She tried to remember fighting, and felt a terrible urge to kill welling up inside her. Perhaps some things were best forgotten. She resumed pacing, willing the fury within her to calm.
She scented Knuckles and whirled to find him watching her from among the trees. There was a large box beside him, and he was wearing his steel shovelclaws, which doubled as both tools and weapons.
"Hello Knuckles," she said in a low voice. "It seems I've broken everyone's trust."
"What else can I do?" said Knuckles. "Zephyer's half-afraid of you to begin with, and Espio's convinced you saw whatever he saw. And then you snarl at me! What do you expect me to do?"
"Pitch me off the island," said Slasher, lowering her head. "Something happened last night, and I lost control."
Knuckles walked forward, but he did not remove his shovelclaws. "Like what?"
The big raptor told him the little she remembered, aware of the contrast in their sizes--his head only reached to her shoulder, but Slasher felt low enough to crawl under a snake's belly with a hat on.
When she finished, Knuckles stood gazing off through the woods, thinking. "You probably did see whatever Espio saw," he said. "I hate to tell him he's right, he'd gloat forever."
"We have to get Talon out of there," said Slasher. "But I don't dare go back. I don't know what'll happen if I snap again."
"Talon has your whistle," said Knuckles, giving her a sidelong look. "If he calls you, you'll go."
"I know!" Slasher whirled and began circling the rock again. "Why did you give it to him? Don't you realize what could happen if someone used it against me?"
"It looks broken," said Knuckles. "Talon won't let anything happen to it. I told him I want it back."
Slasher muttered under her breath and kept pacing. "What's in the box?"
Knuckles gave her a hard look. "The Emerald Sword."
Slasher stopped and stared at him. Slowly she turned her back, closing her eyes. So even Knuckles didn't trust her anymore. Not if he brought out the Emerald Sword and risked using it. She felt his hand on her neck.
"Slasher, I have no choice. Part of the Guardian's oath is that I must defend my island, and that includes its inhabitants." He chuckled. "You'd probably kill me in a fight, anyway."
She looked at him. "Not if you had the Emerald Sword. Nothing survives against it. I've seen Sonic use it."
They looked at each other, the echidna and the yellow-eyed velociraptor, and understood that silent battlelines had been drawn. For the time being Knuckles couldn't trust Slasher, and Slasher couldn't trust herself.
She was the first to turn away. "Do what you have to do." She kept her eyes on the ground as Knuckles picked up his box and walked away. She resumed pacing, but this time walking slowly with head down and tail dragging.
Knuckles returned to the house looking grim. Zephyer was sitting on the porch waiting for him, and jumped up when she saw him coming. He set the box on the bottom step and embraced her. "What happened?" she whispered.
He withdrew and looked into her eyes. "She said she met Espio's monster and snapped. She thinks it'll happen again."
Zephyer looked at Knuckles's shovelclaws and knew that he had taken steps to protect everyone from the velociraptor.
Knuckles turned and opened the box, which resembled a small coffin. Inside was a suit of armor, plated with green crystal. "Wasn't that Kardot's?" said Zephyer, eyes widening.
"She used it, yes," said Knuckles, "but she stole it from Talon's parents." He handed Zephyer the breastplate, and she grinned and put it on. The armor was simple, and each piece fastened to the next with a hinge. There was also a girdle, shinguards and a belt to support the sword sheath.
In the box under the armor were two swords, each wrapped in burlap. Knuckles removed the first and handed it to Zephyer. "This goes with the armor," he said as Zephyer unsheathed it. "It was Kardot's."
Zephyer held up the yellow crystal blade and watched the sun shine through it. "Does it glow?"
"Yeah." Knuckles removed the other sword from the box without touching the hilt. "This is the Emerald Sword. If you pick it up and it glows for you, it'll make you into a killing machine." He unsheathed it four inches. A thread of green light was concentrated in the center of the crystal. Knuckles resheathed the sword and hurriedly laid it aside. "Yep."
Zephyer swung the yellow sword a few times and jogged in a circle, the armor clanking around her. "This stuff weighs a ton."
"It's not as heavy as the thirty pounds of biometal you were packing around," said Knuckles.
"That was different," said Zephyer. "The machinery did part of the work for me." She twirled the sword from hand to hand and dropped it. "How come there's no helmet?"
"There never was," said Knuckles, but he looked at Zephyer doubtfully. It did seem odd that there was no protection for the head.
She looked at him. "No point in wearing all this into battle if your head's gonna get chopped." She spun the blade a few more times, criss-crossing with both hands. After a moment she stopped to rest, panting. "This sword does everything for me," she said. "It's kind of neat."
"But you can control it?"
"Sure. I'll bet I could get really good if I practiced."
Knuckles looked at her for a long moment, then picked up the Emerald Sword and unsheathed it. He swung it a few times, the glowing blade feather-light. He felt its thirst for blood and battle, but it was dim. It did dictate how to swing it, however, and he went through the same exercises that Zephyer had. He turned and faced her. "Care to duel?"
"Knux, these are sharp!" she exclaimed. "And you're not wearing any armor!"
"Hold on," he said, retreating into the house. He reappeared a moment later with two pieces of wood. He stuck one on the end of his sword, and Zephyer did the same with hers. "There, all safe," he said. "If I get too aggressive, yell 'stop', and if I don't, run for it."
Zephyer's eyes widened, but she nodded.
They faced each other, swords held before them, watching each other's eyes. Knuckles swung, Zephyer blocked. She danced forward and counter-attacked, and Knuckles dodged and circled, grinning. "You hit like a girl."
"Sue me." She sprang at him and he countered, their blades clashing.
Espio walked out on the porch and watched. The two echidnas, one in armor and the other without it, circling and battling all over the front lawn, was quite a sight. "Oh man, the others don't know what they're missing!" he thought. "This is better than cobra wrestling!" He leaned on the railing and watched.
It looked like they were trying to kill each other, and both their faces were grim and unblinking. But after a few more minutes Zephyer said, "Stop!" and they lowered their swords. She doubled over, panting, and Knuckles realized sweat was running into his eyes. "You're pretty good," he told her. "For a girl."
"It was the sword," she puffed. "It told me what to do."
"Mine too," said Knuckles, wiping his forehead. "That's the first time the Emerald Sword didn't try to eat me alive."
Zephyer noticed Espio. "Well, how was it?"
"Awesome," he called. "I didn't know you could fence, Zephyer."
"Me neither," said Zephyer. "But I want a helmet. Having a blade flying at your face is unnerving."
"I'll call Talon this afternoon and ask if there was one," said Knuckles, sheathing the Emerald Sword. "Hey Zeff, our appointment with Orphan Aid is in an hour."
"Heck." Zephyer sheathed her sword and began shedding armor.
"Zeff," Knuckles murmured to her, "keep the sword with you. I'm keeping mine."
They exchanged an electric glance--they were to be armed at all times. She nodded, and Knuckles went inside in search of a belt.
"Test today!" said one of the teachers, waving to attract the attention of the students. Everyone looked up and grew quiet. Talon felt a sick wave of fear wash over him. "You know what happens during tests!" bellowed the teacher. "Each class will be hunted in turn by the various group teachers. You will have to display the qualities you have learned in previous classes to pass. If you lose your armband, you fail. Tests are over when the horn sounds. Go!"
Simple rules, but so horrible in practice. Talon followed his group into the trees, knowing he would flunk. He always failed his tests--the only reason he had progressed at all was because he had somehow lived to thirteen.
The Antelope group was quiet and jumpy. Even the bold ones hated tests, for the teachers were experts at guerrilla warfare and sometimes flunked whole classes by taking their armbands.
They stayed on a path for a while, then the group headed into the shelter of the brush, watching and listening for danger. Talon thought of using his shoes to hide in the treetops, but then the avian groups would spot him and his shoes would be confiscated. Better to take his chances on the ground.
Someone raised their hand--the signal for danger. As one the group turned to run, but the class ringleaders knew how to pass tests. A lanky kangaroo aimed a kick at Talon's legs that knocked him down. The rest of the class escaped, and the 'predator' pounced on the fallen victim.
Talon felt claws in his back and lay still as the dingo unsnapped the maroon armband. "Failed," grunted the dingo, and ran after the herd. Talon picked himself up, brushing sand off his fur. At least the teachers weren't as violent as the students. And since he had failed, all he had to do was go back to the entry area and wait. Flunking tests was a relief, really. It meant he could sit still without fear of being hunted.
The young anteater returned to the trail and walked back. Once another teacher found him, but he saw Talon had no armband and passed him by.
Suddenly the bushes parted and three wolves jumped out and surrounded him. Their armbands were gray--Wolf group. They were all bigger and taller than Talon, and he looked at them with despair.
"Well well, it's a little flunky," snickered the leader of the group, a burly wolf with yellow eyes. "Bet the teacher didn't hurt you much, did he?"
Talon didn't answer.
"Do you know what happens to little anteaters who get caught by predators?" grinned another wolf. "They get eaten! I think we need to educate you in the ways of the wild." The wolf shoved him, and Talon covered his face. "Aww, not going to fight back?" laughed the ringleader. "We got us a coward here, guys! A little--yellow--coward--" With every word they shoved Talon around until they knocked him down. Then they gathered around, kicking him savagely, yelling for him to get up and fight.
They were interrupted as one of them hissed, "Teacher. Run!" They fled, leaving Talon lying on the path with the wind beaten from his lungs and blood in his mouth. The teacher jogged up the path, jumped over him and was gone.
Talon sat up, tears running down his face, and slowly climbed to his feet. It hurt to move or breathe--they had kicked him in the arms and sides, and he wondered if his ribs were cracked. He hurried up the path, hoping he met no one else.
There had been a time when had tried to fight back, but the pounding he received was just as bad. When bullies caught him now, Talon gave up. There was no way he could win. All he could do was take it and go on. Hey, everyone was bullied, right? It made them stronger, right?
He reached the entry area and sat down, aching all over and breathing shallowly. "I just want to go home," he thought, thinking of what Knuckles would have done if he had caught someone kicking Talon in the ribs. He wiped his tears and sat there, waiting for the horn to blow.
One by one other flunked students trickled out of the woods and joined Talon. All of them looked angry, and they didn't speak to one another. All of them waited for the test to end.
Finally the airhorn sounded, and the groups and teachers filed out of the jungle. The flunkees were written up, given back their armbands, and sent out for another lesson with their group.
By three o'clock Talon was in real pain. His bruised muscles had stiffened, and he could hardly move his arms. He rode the school bus in a daze, and got off at his uncle's house with the single goal of taking some aspirin and going to sleep. He walked up the driveway, which seemed steeper than ever, and glanced at the shrubbery, thinking of the Chaotix. "Hey guys," he said in a low voice, "call Knuckles and tell him I'll call at seven."
A hand emerged from a bush in the thumbs-up sign, and Talon went inside. He located some aspirin, took two, and entered his room. He painfully dragged his dresser in front of his door, made sure his window was locked, then stretched out on his bed.
When he awoke hours later, it was pitch black in his room, and he was freezing. He lifted his head and pain rippled over his torso. The aspirin must have worn off. He sat up and heard his communicator clicking. He pulled it out and realized it was after nine o'clock, when he had meant to call in at seven. He pressed the receive button and rasped, "Hello?"
"Talon?" Zephyer's voice sounded relieved. "Where were you? I've been calling and calling!"
"I was asleep," said Talon, realizing he was hungry, and remembering he would have to move his dresser to leave his room. "When can I come home?"
Zephyer sighed. "Not for a few weeks, at least. Did you sleep all afternoon?"
"No ..." Talon was reluctant to admit he was hurt.
"Why, then?"
"I got hurt at school."
"Hurt? How?"
"Bullies."
There was a pause, and Talon heard Zephyer's muffled voice in the background as she talked with her hand over the microphone. "How long has this been going on?" She sounded angry.
"Not long," Talon lied. "I wandered off and they found me." He didn't want to admit that he had let them pound him--not to an echidna, who never dreamed of walking away from a fight.
"Well, if it happens again, call me," said Zephyer. "I won't stand by and see you hurt so bad that you sleep for--for six hours!"
"Okay." Talon wondered what Zephyer could do, but didn't say anything.
There was a mutter in the background, and Zephyer said, "Oh yeah. Talon, you know that emerald armor your dad collected? Do you know if it had a helmet?"
"A helmet? I think so. He kept it locked up somewhere."
"Did Kit and Kardot get it?"
"No." Talon tried to remember. The shock of losing both his parents had turned that period of his life into a nightmarish jumble, and he hadn't cared what happened to the armor. He remembered something about his uncle receiving whatever belongings of his father's that had survived the fire. "Uncle Pendel might have it."
"Could you look around the house for it? Knuckles let me try on the armor, then he assaulted me with the Emerald Sword, and I started thinking about helmets."
Talon nearly laughed, but it hurt his stomach. "I'll look for it."
"I guess that's all. Be careful, Talon. If anything happened to you, I'd ... I'd ..." She trailed off.
"Thanks," he said softly.
"Bye Talon."
"Bye Zephyer." He turned off his com and looked at it, a rush of homesickness wrenching his heart. Then he moved his dresser back and ventured out into the dark house to get something to eat.
25. No Echidna is an Island: Chapter 6: Treasure Hunt
Chapter 6: Treasure hunt
Vector was sitting in the bushes at 10 PM, yawning and thinking about bed when his communicator buzzed. He flicked it on. "Yo."
"Hey you." It was Espio. "I'm back and ready for trouble. Where are you?"
"At Mori's," said the crocodile. "About ready to knock off for the evening and let Ralph take over. Want to come out here?"
"No," said Espio. "I've got other stuff to do. How's Talon doing?"
"Knux just called, said bullies have been pushing him around." Vector ground his teeth. "If I knew who they were ..."
"Ditto, man. I just turned red. I'm going to make a night of it, so see you in the morning."
Espio signed off, and Vector rose and located Ralph. The detective was sitting in the crotch of a fig tree, surveying the area through an infra red scope. "I'm shoving off," said Vector. "Espio might come by."
"Check," said Ralph. "Will that velociraptor come back?"
"I don't think so." They had seen Slasher the previous evening, but lost track of her when she took off and flew around overhead.
Vector found Charmy and Mighty, and they walked down to the portable teleporter.
Meanwhile, on the other side of Marshill, Espio entered a library and asked to see their newspaper archives. The newspapers were kept on disk, and the librarian showed him to a row of computers. Espio sat down and began searching.
Talon had been on the Floating Island three years, so his parents must have died around then. Espio searched for the name "Mori", and found a listing from four years previous. Wow, Talon had lasted a year with his uncle. No wonder the kid was so messed up. Espio opened the file. It was an article about an arson fire and the tragic deaths of Philip and Andrea Mori. Police were conducting an investigation and trying to find the arsonist. Espio found a few more articles, each one shorter and shorter. The investigation turned up suspects but no evidence, and the case was closed.
There was an obituary describing Philip as warmhearted and full of energy, with a passion for archeology. Andrea was listed as a loving wife and mother who contributed much to the community and participated actively in her son's acting career. They were survived by their only son Konya, and Philip's brother Pendel.
Well, now he knew Talon's parents' names. Espio sat back and thought. Had Philip Mori had a will? That would tell who had received the armor, wouldn't it? He would have to look up whoever Philip's lawyer had been. His thoughts jumped to Howe with sudden suspicion. What if that was the reason she hated Pendel?
The chameleon rose, left the library and hotfooted it across town. At night Marshill came to life with lights and lots of people who had slept half the say, and were out to enjoy the warm night. Espio enjoyed the night life, but he was too busy to sightsee.
Howe was working late when she heard a knock on the office door. "Come in," she said, and looked up as a purple chameleon stepped in. The ferret rose. "What can I do for you?"
"Call me Espio," he said, shaking her hand. "I'm a friend of Knuckles Echidna's, and I'm doing some research for him."
How studied him. "Really. What kind of research?"
"I'm interested in Philip Mori's will. Any idea where I could find a copy?"
She narrowed her eyes. "Possibly. Why?"
"I'm interested in the whereabouts of some of Philip's collections," said Espio, looking Howe in the eye. "I wanted to know if they wound up in Pendel's clutches."
Howe smiled. "Ah, I understand you now. One moment." She left, and returned several minutes later with a sheet of paper in her hands. She handed it to Espio and watched him as he read it.
It was straightforward. Everything went to Philip's wife, and if she died, then everything went to Talon. There was no mention of anything specific. Espio looked at Howe. "If I told you what I'm after, could you help me?"
"Maybe."
"Okay," said Espio. "Philip collected an entire suit of really rare armor. It was stolen by Kit and Kardot and is currently in Knuckles's possession, because Talon didn't want it. But the helmet is missing and I'm trying to find it."
Howe looked thoughtfully at the will. "I happen to know that the helmet was the jewel of Phil's collection. It might also explain that letter that was with the will." She left and returned with another sheet of paper.
"So were you Philip's lawyer?" Espio asked as she handed him the paper.
"No. Philip's lawyer retired shortly before the fire. I inherited some of his clients, and knew Phil about six months."
Espio smiled. "You liked him."
She shrugged and gestured to the letter. "Go on, read it."
Espio looked read it.
"To whom it may concern,
"The crown of my collection has today been hidden in a secret place where only a member of my family can find it. There are three clues they must find. Here is the first one.
The name of an island before the island fell
Remember the chime of the blue and white bell
Find the remains of a modern well
And open the door beneath the dell."
"A treasure hunt?" Knuckles stared at Espio. "You're kidding me."
It was near noon the following day. Knuckles and Zephyer had emerged from the Orphan Aid office where a caseworker was helping them through the approval process, and met the Chaotix on the sidewalk. Espio told them about Philip Mori's letter, and recited the rhyme from memory.
Zephyer looked at Knuckles. "Any of that make sense to you?"
"Nope," he replied. "I assume it has something to do with Blackguard, and I don't know anything about this island."
"Talon would," said Vector. "This was his dad, you know. Could we call and ask him?"
"I'd rather take him with us," said Knuckles, looking fierce. "Tomorrow's Saturday. Is there any law that keeps a kid from hanging out with friends on the weekend?"
"No," chorused the Chaotix.
"Good," said Knuckles. "Tomorrow we'll invite him to spend the day with us. Or maybe this afternoon when he gets off school."
"I want to make sure he's all right," muttered Zephyer. "This talk of bullies has me worried. You know Talon doesn't stand up for himself."
"That's for sure," said Mighty. "All those times we teased him and he just faded away ..." The group looked at each other, sharing a protective jealousy for the youngest member of their clan.
"Let's get lunch," said Knuckles. "Then let's go find Talon's school. I want to know more about this place. You know he hasn't mentioned it at all?"
They trooped off down the sidewalk under the blistering sun, and found a restaurant with air-conditioning. After eating lunch, they hit the hot streets to find Happy Mobian Academy.
It was nearly three o'clock by the time they located it, but at last they they stood on the corner across from it, looking up at the white building with its wide manicured lawn and trees. It was quiet and dignified, and the group gazed up at it, imagining Talon in a classroom somewhere.
They had stood there three minutes when a school bus pulled to the curb, and the school's doors burst open and students flooded out. More school buses pulled up and kids ran to them, yelling and shouting. Knuckles motioned for everyone to stay put, then crossed the street to enter the schoolyard. He watched the door for Talon, and after a while the anteater emerged, walking slowly and deliberately. Knuckles had never seen Talon move like that, and watched him descend the steps. Talon kept his eyes on the ground, and would have walked past him if Knuckles had not said, "Talon!"
Talon's head snapped up, and the look of joy that flooded his face was so strong he seemed to grow two inches. He ran up and went to hug Knuckles, but checked himself and looked at the other kids. He extended a hand instead, and Knuckles shook it, grinning. Knuckles led him away from the school, across the street.
"What are you doing here, sir?" Talon asked.
"We came to get you," said Knuckles. "Spend the afternoon with us, and we'll take you to your uncle's, then pick you up tomorrow for the day."
Talon glowed. "Yes sir!"
They reached Zephyer and the Chaotix, and Zephyer grabbed Talon and hugged him. He whimpered, and she released him. "Sore," he said, touching his sides.
Knuckles and Zephyer exchanged glances of identical fury and indignation. Knuckles said, "From bullies?"
"Yes sir." Talon looked down. "They knocked me down and kicked me."
"They could have broken your ribs!"
"When we get home, I'll teach you some self-defense moves," said Knuckles. "Come on, let's get out of the sun."
Talon looked up with a smile. Home meant the Floating Island, which meant Knuckles and Zephyer had not given up.
They entered the shade of a huge eucalyptus, and Knuckles said, "You know how we're looking for your dad's helmet?"
"Yes sir. I looked for it last night, but I didn't see it anywhere."
"We found out your dad hid it and left a trail of clues to follow. It was with his will."
Talon looked surprised, then grinned. "Dad loved treasure hunting."
"We need your help figuring out the clues," said Espio, pushing forward. "Can we start now?"
"Um, okay," said Talon.
"Okay, what does this mean?" said Espio. "The name of an island before it fell, remember the chime of the blue and white bell, find the remains of a modern well and open the door beneath the dell."
They all watched Talon for a reaction. For a moment he looked blank, then he smiled. "The blue and white bell hung above the door in Dad's shop, so he knew when people came in. It was from a ship."
"What about the first part?"
"Oh, that's easy," said Talon. "Blackguard was called Blacksand until the Siguards took it over a hundred years ago. The beach on the west side is made of black sand."
"We have a location!" whooped Vector, and the Chaotix exchanged high fives.
"It's only a couple miles from here," said Knuckles. "Can you walk that far, Talon?"
"Yes sir." Talon would have walked all the way to West Mobius if it meant being with them.
The black sand beaches were popular among sunbathers, because the sand absorbed heat and toasted anything that touched it. The beach backed up against basalt cliffs, which had worn away to create the black beach.
The islanders walked along the beach, wetting their feet in the Ausif ocean to keep them cool. They kept their eyes peeled for a blue and white bell, or the remains of a well. "What's a modern well, anyway?" asked Zephyer.
"Oh," said Knuckles, "it's a big tank with pipes that go down to the water table."
"So we're looking for a broken one," said Zephyer with a nod. "I wish there weren't so many people!" The beach was crawling with them.
"You're just used to our own private beaches," said Knuckles in her ear.
The Chaotix spread out, exploring and checking out the females. Knuckles watched them. "They're enjoying this detective thing."
"They have me under surveillance," said Talon. "Espio especially."
"You need it, kiddo," said Zephyer. "You haven't seen anything like what Espio saw, have you?"
"No ma'am," said Talon. "I haven't been near the basement." He looked down as something bumped his leg, and saw Knuckles and Zephyer were wearing swords. "Why are you carrying those, sir?"
"Protection," said Knuckles. Talon looked questioning, but neither echidna pursued the subject. Warning him about Slasher was a touchy business, because they had given him her whistle for protection.
Half a mile further on, the cliffs jutted out in a rocky point, and a lighthouse stood at the end. The three climbed a winding path over the rocks, and the Chaotix straggled after them. Vector tapped Knuckles on the shoulder. "Hey boss, I asked about a busted well, and this guy said there's one at the north point."
"How far is the north point?" said Knuckles.
"Thirty miles," said Talon quietly. When they had stopped, he sat down on a rock and rubbed his ribs.
Zephyer watched him with fire in her eyes.
"Oh," said Knuckles, looking at Talon with the same heated look. "We'll try there tomorrow. How much further do you want to go?"
"Until dark!" said Vector.
"Get lost, then," said Knuckles. "We're going to rest here a minute."
Vector opened his mouth to make a snide comment, but caught Knuckles's slight gesture at Talon. "I'm heading this way, see ya!" The crocodile jogged off, flipping on his headphones.
Knuckles and Zephyer sat on either side of Talon and gazed out at the ocean, which was a brilliant mass of gold under the sinking sun. The lighthouse was silhouetted against it with a flock of seagulls perched on its roof. They sat there without speaking, content to be together in the short time they had.
"Are you in pain?" Zephyer asked.
"It's not bad," said Talon without looking at her.
"Talon..."
"It's not."
Zephyer looked at Knuckles as a flicker of electric indignation raced between them. Talon jumped. "Ow!"
Knuckles and Zephyer stared at him. "What?"
"Something shocked me," said Talon, inspecting the rock he was sitting on.
"You felt that?" said Knuckles, rising to his feet.
"Yeah, what was it, sir?"
Knuckles gave Zephyer a puzzled look. A new twist to this electric thing. "Nevermind. Let's go on."
The had descended the trail to the shore again when Zephyer paused, looking back. "Hey ... did you notice the lighthouse is blue and white?"
Knuckles and Talon squinted against the glare off the ocean. The lighthouse had two broad blue bands painted on it.
"Let's go look at it," said Zephyer, setting off across the sand.
Knuckles looked at Talon as they followed her. "What do you think?"
Talon shrugged. "It said 'remember the chime of the blue and white bell'. It didn't say find the bell itself."
A wooden boardwalk was built over the rocks to the lighthouse, and Zephyer trotted along it until she reached the rocky hill the lighthouse was built on. The lighthouse was as big around as a regular house, and its top looked small and distant as she stood at its foot. Out here at the end of the land, the ocean surrounded her, and Zephyer was conscious of how vast and deep it was. She gazed out at the horizon until Knuckles and Talon caught up with her.
Talon paced around the lighthouse, looking down at the rocks and the water lapping them. He was at the far side of the tower when he came upon a pile of metal scraps and a long tank, overgrown with weeds. He looked at it for a moment before he wondered if this was the remains of a modern well. "Knuckles sir!" he called. "Look at this!"
Knuckles and Zephyer hurried up and looked at the junk. "That was a well, all right," said Knuckles. He drew his sword and poked around in the weeds with it. "Now what?"
Talon was staring at the wall of the lighthouse just above the scraps. Scraped into the plaster was the outline of a footprint. He pulled off his right shoe and fit it into the footprint--it matched exactly. He looked toward the lighthouse's roof, the echidnas following his gaze. "Dad wrote these clues for me. So I could use my shoes." He backed up and spoke two words in Old Mobian. The soles of his shoes lit up, and he floated to the top of the lighthouse.
"'Chaos activated'," Zephyer translated. "That's all the password is?"
"Old Mobian passwords are very logical," said Knuckles, sheathing his sword. "I'm glad Talon's with us. I never would have noticed that footprint."
They watched as Talon landed on the roof. He was out of sight for a moment, then he jumped off the roof and descended to them. He held out a metal cannister with a screw protruding from the bottom, which had held it to the roof. "I found this up there with another footprint by it. It's rusted shut."
Knuckles took the cannister, twisted the top and opened it. Inside was a key.
Talon took it and tried the lighthouse door, which opened. Knuckles and Zephyer followed him inside.
Inside was a round room with a circular staircase winding up into the ceiling. "The door beneath the dell," muttered Talon, walking to a trapdoor in the floor. Knuckles helped him lift it, and they looked down into the musty darkness within.
"I'll go down there," said Knuckles. "My sword glows." He climbed down in the hole and vanished. Zephyer and Talon stood at the top and looked in.
"What's down there?" called Zephyer.
"Looks like a basement," came Knuckles's voice. "It's empty."
"Empty?" said Talon. "You're sure, sir?"
There was a moment of silence, then Knuckles said, "No, I guess not. Ha, typical! I'm coming up." He climbed up out of the basement. Stuck through his belt was a bottle with a cork in it. Talon grinned when he saw it. "Believed in doing things properly, didn't he?" said Knuckles, pulling out the cork. "The message in a bottle." He looked at his thick fingers, then handed the bottle to Talon.
Talon slipped a finger through the bottle's mouth and pulled out a roll of paper. He unrolled it, and the three read it together.
"Through the hole and past the Three
Climb the hill and view the sea
Then down beyond the twisted tree
View the Quadrangle from the lee
Of the final standing Key."
Slasher lay on the roof in the shadows of an overhanging tree that evening, watching as the islanders dropped off Talon. He left them on the porch, and she heard the click of the front door as it opened and closed. The islanders trooped back down the driveway, unaware of Slasher's presence.
The velociraptor had spent the day thinking over the situation. She was a danger to herself and those around her, and Knuckles didn't want her on the Floating Island. But he expected her to provide silent protection for Talon, because Talon still had the whistle. So Slasher would protect Talon.
There was no sound from inside the house. The remains of the sunset faded from the sky, and crickets and frogs sang in the jungle growth all around. After an hour, Slasher guessed Talon had gone to bed, and rose from her hiding place. She padded down the roof and jumped into the yard. She sniffed, but there was no wind and she couldn't tell if any watchers remained in the yard. Deciding it didn't matter, she paced to the mass of ivy growing over Talon's window and peered in.
Her darkness-attuned eyes made out the anteater's shape curled up under the blankets. Slasher was tempted to roam around and figure out what had frightened her before, but instead she lay down in the flowerbed under Talon's window. Hunting the creature was shooting herself in the foot and she knew it.
The neighborhood was quiet. Slasher could hear the murmur of the sea at the foot of the bluffs, and looked out at the ocean, darker blue than the sky and mirroring the stars. The Blackguard Quadrangle ... what might she discover by flying out there? Probably nothing--she had watched seagulls flying all afternoon, and none of them had any problems.
A sound. Slasher's head jerked up and she looked in the window. The bedroom door was open, and Talon's uncle was standing there. Slasher watched as he crossed the room and shook Talon. "Why did you get back from school so late?"
"Huh?" Talon sat up. "I was with some friends."
"Those echidnas?" Slasher couldn't see Pendel's face, but he sounded angry.
"Lie, Talon!" she thought.
"Yes," said Talon.
She shook her head as Mori said, "You are not to interact with that species, do you understand? Echidnas are vile and dangerous!"
"Why?" Talon was half-asleep and not functioning properly.
"Because I said so!" Mori moved toward the door. "Don't fall asleep, I'll be back." He left, closing the door.
Slasher tapped a claw on the window, and Talon turned and looked at her, then jumped up and unlocked the window. "Get in bed," said Slasher. "I'll get under your bed and give him a scare if he tries anything."
Talon nodded and pulled the blanket over himself as Slasher lay flat and squeezed under his bed.
Pendel Mori returned, carrying something that gleamed in the light from the hall. Talon shrank back. "You're giving me a shot?"
"This is the blood I took from you earlier," said Mori. "I'm putting it back in you, that's all. Give me your arm." He stepped up to the bed, and Slasher reached out and grabbed his ankle.
Mori screamed and leaped backward, nearly falling over. "What was that??"
"What?" asked Talon innocently.
Mori edged sideways toward the door, and for effect, Slasher reached out her arm again and swiped at his legs. Mori bolted, slamming the door behind him.
"I'd better get out of here before he comes back with a gun," said Slasher, crawling out.
Talon was grinning. "That was great. Look, he dropped the hypodermic needle." He picked it up off his sheets and handed it to Slasher.
"I think I'll get this analyzed," she said. "Don't let him stick any needles in you, okay?"
"Okay, Slasher."
She whisked out the window and he closed it behind her.
Mori didn't return for the rest of the night.
Espio's communicator clicked and he lifted it. "Yeah?"
"Espio? This is Slasher."
"Yo Slash."
"Would you happen to know where to find a lab in this city?"
"A lab? What for?" Espio motioned that he would be back, and left the Orphan Aid office for a moment. It was warm outside after the air conditioned interior, and Espio felt feeling return to his extremities.
"Mori tried to inject Talon with something and I got the hypodermic. I want to get it tested."
"No kidding." Espio blended with the wall as some people walked by. "I saw a lab downtown on Oleander road. Want me to have Howe meet you down there? She might be able to use it as evidence."
"Good idea! It'll probably take me an hour to get there. Does Howe mind running around at one AM?"
"Everybody on this island is nocturnal, Slash. I haven't seen one business closed at night since we got here."
"Really. May I ask how you know this?"
"No you may not." Espio grinned to himself. "We found the second clue, did you hear?"
"You did? That was quick."
"Because we're brilliant, that's why. We're going to hunt down the next one tomorrow, if Talon survives."
"He will. He barricaded the door. Make sure you warn the lawyer that she's meeting with a velociraptor."
"Will do. Espio out."
Howe and Slasher met as Slasher was depositing the hypodermic into an envelope at the lab counter. "Hello," said the ferret. "You must be Slasher."
"And you must be Ms. Howe," said Slasher, handing the envelope to the chemist. The raptor and ferret shook hands. "Is there somewhere we can talk?"
Howe eyed Slasher's claws and long tail. "We'll have as much privacy here as anywhere."
The two withdrew into a corner, and Slasher recounted in a low voice what had happened earlier than evening. Howe stared. "Why would he draw blood, then re-inject it?"
"I don't know," said Slasher. "I'm thinking he added something to it, and if he did, it won't look good in court. I'm a witness."
Howe scribbled this down on a notepad. "Finally, the armor has a chink! I've been looking for something like this for years. I can get social services on him if those lab results show anything."
"He also has some kind of creature in the basement," said Slasher in a near-whisper.
Howe gave her a sharp look. "How do you know?"
"Espio and I have seen it. Or Espio saw one of its legs. And I ... I think I attacked it. I don't really remember."
"You don't remember?"
"I snapped. I woke up twenty miles away with its blood all over my face."
Howe stared at her for a long time. "This happens often?"
"No." Slasher looked down. "I'm afraid to look for it for fear of what might happen. But the basement is always locked."
"Forget social services, we'll get a search warrant," said the ferret with a sudden grin. "When do those results come back?"
"Next Friday," said Slasher. "Next Friday, let the games begin."
Saturday dawned hot and clear over Blackguard and the Floating Island alike. Zephyer awoke to a metallic jingling, and lifted her head. Knuckles was seated on the floor, inspecting the contents of an old, dented coffee can. "Knux?" she said, sitting up. "What are you doing?"
He looked so guilty that Zephyer was sure she had caught him laundering stolen money. "Oh, I, uh." He cleared his throat and tilted the can so she could see the chunks of yellow metal inside. "I was looking at my gold ore."
Zephyer climbed out of bed. "Gold ore? Where'd it come from?"
"The island, of course," said Knuckles. "There's not much gold here, but it turns up once in a while."
She took the can and examined a few pieces. "Why'd you look so guilty?"
He looked down at the floor for a moment. "If I tell you, promise not to get mad?"
Zephyer's eyes widened. "Oh no. What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything." Knuckles glanced at her sideways, then held up one hand to show her his wedding ring. "This is brass."
Zephyer stared at the ring for a few seconds, then dissolved into laughter. She sank to the floor beside him and doubled over, and Knuckles watched her with a half smile. When her laughter had subsided, he said, "At least you think it's funny. I was afraid you'd bite my head off."
"Why is it brass?" she asked, wiping her streaming eyes.
Knuckles explained about forgetting to have a ring made before the wedding, then added that he hadn't had a chance to have a gold one made. "That's why I was looking at my ore. If I provide my own gold and pattern, it won't be so expensive." He took off his ring and held it up. It fit easily over Zephyer's whole hand. "That's a lot of gold."
"But this is unrefined gold," said Zephyer, lifting the can. "Will there be enough?"
"That's what I was wondering," said Knuckles with a wry smile. "I'll have it made when we go to town today. Hopefully it won't take more than a couple of days."
"You married me with a brass ring," said Zephyer, and broke into laughter again. "Sounds like some kind of joke!"
At dawn, Talon awoke and was afraid his uncle would keep him home if he ventured out of his room. As the sun rose, he escaped through his window, activated his shoes and flew from tree to tree, watching the road for the Chaotix or echidnas.
Around eight o'clock he saw Knuckles walking up the roadside by himself, looking up at the house with a worried expression. Talon dove out of the tree. "Knuckles sir!"
Knuckles turned with a grin. "I should have figured you'd be out already. I was wondering how to break a door down quietly."
"A window would be easier," said Talon, still grinning. He and Knuckles set off back down the road.
"How're your ribs?" Knuckles asked.
"Better today, sir," Talon replied, rubbing them. "My breathing's easier."
"Good," said Knuckles. "Zephyer wants you to see a doctor."
"I'm fine, really, sir."
"I know you are. How about breakfast?"
They met up with the Chaotix and Zephyer at an outdoor diner. They had a cheerful breakfast, tossing around ideas about the meaning of the second clue. Talon understood the first line. "Through the hole and past the three--that's in the island preserve outside of Marshill. There's a hole in the fence that Dad found, then there's three rocks that look like tombstones up the hill."
"Looks like some hiking is in order," said Mighty. "Think you're up to it, Zephyer?"
"I am if you are," she said. "This is fun."
They took a bus to the island preserve, which was in the island's interior--a fifty mile patch of jungle crisscrossed by dirt trails. The trails were fenced to keep people from wandering off, but Talon's father had discovered a loose post that could be lifted aside like a gate. He and Talon had used it several times, and as Talon watched Knuckles move the post, he wondered if his Dad had been the last one to touch it. He felt the backs of his eyes grow hot.
The group climbed up to the three tombstone-rocks. "The next line's easy," said Espio. "Climb the hill and view the sea."
This took a bit more effort, for the hill was steep and rocky, and the trees and undergrowth blocked their view of the landscape. But after half an hour the ground levelled out, and the trees opened up in a clearing. The ocean was visible behind them to the south, east and west. To the north it was blocked by more hills.
"Down beyond the twisted tree," read Knuckles from the piece of paper. "Spread out, everybody. Look for a twisted tree."
After a quick search, Zephyer found it--an ancient pine, bent and twisted by the wind and weather. It was the only pine on the hilltop.
"Now we go down beyond the twisted tree," said Knuckles, "and view the Quadrangle from the lee of the final standing key. What's a standing key?"
"The Quadrangle is to the east," said Zephyer, pointing, "so that's the direction we go. Any ideas, Talon?"
The anteater shook his head.
"A key could be anything," said Vector. "For some reason I have an idea it's a rock."
"Then let's look for rocks," said Knuckles, leading the way back down the hill.
As they walked, Zephyer slipped her hand into his. "This is the life."
"You like adventuring, eh?" said Knuckles with a smile. "Even when Talon's future is in doubt?"
"In spite of it," said Zephyer, swatting a mosquito. "For now we're all together, and I like it."
"My life usually isn't this interesting," said Knuckles. "Usually I just work around the Floating Island instead of treasure-hunting."
"I'm not complaining," said Zephyer, returning his smile.
"You're not sorry you married me?"
"Even though you'll be chained to a Floating Island the rest of your life?"
"I don't mind that, I love the Floating Island almost as much as I love you."
Knuckles chuckled. "At least you didn't marry me for my real estate."
"Oh no," said Zephyer, dodging around a stickery yucca. "I got a guy who is strong, fun, mysterious, and handsome to boot."
"Handsome?" said Knuckles, throwing out his chest. "You think I'm handsome?"
"Yeah," said Zephyer. "Before I came here, my mom was trying to set me up with every cute guy she saw. You're the best-looking of the lot." When Knuckles looked smug, Zephyer added, "Don't get your ego in a knot. I could start naming your bad qualities, too."
"How about you don't," said Knuckles, and kissed her.
They were distracted by a shout from down the hill. "Hey, look at this!"
Knuckles and Zephyer broke into a run.
25. No Echidna is an Island: Chapter 7: Another sighting
Chapter 7: Another sighting
Slasher had watched Talon sneak out of the house from her perch on the roof. She had returned from
her meeting with Howe, and had snatched a few minutes of sleep. But now Talon was with Knuckles
and needed no further protection. Slasher laid her head on her forepaws and slept.
She awoke later in the day as something struck her in the nose. Her head jerked up and she saw
Ralph the mouse sitting on a branch opposite her with a handful of gravel. He waved, and she rose
and walked to the corner of the roof. "What do you want?"
"I need your help for a few minutes," said Ralph. "I need some photos of the inside of the barn out
back, and I can't reach the windows."
Slasher had a vague recollection that the barn was bad news, and said so. Ralph waved a hand. "You
don't have to go inside! Just jump on the roof and take some pictures. You don't even have to look in
if you don't want to."
Slasher studied him. "Why should I help you?"
"I'm looking for evidence to convict Mori," said Ralph, laying his ears back. "I thought you might
help me."
Slasher considered. The only sightings of the monster had been at night, and right now it was 11 AM
and over a hundred degrees. The daylight seemed safe and ordinary. "All right," she said. "But if I
start acting funny, climb a tree and stay there."
Knuckles and Zephyer arrived on a wide shelf jutting out of the hillside. The end of the shelf
dropped in a cliff twenty feet high into more forest. The shelf was empty of trees, and was scattered
with huge square stones, as if some ancient structure had fallen to pieces over countless years. Only
one stone stood upright, and it had a hole boared through the center.
Talon and the Chaotix were already there and discussing the last two lines of the clue. "View the
quadrangle from the lee of the final standing key," said Vector, walking around the block of stone.
"This has got to be the key, it looks too weird to be anything else. Hey Knuckles, which way is the
lee?"
Knuckles strode around the stone, observing the lichen that grew on its surface. Then he pulled off a
glove, licked his finger and held it up to test the breeze. "This side," he said, stepping into the
sheltered side of the stone. "View the quadrangle ..." The hole through the stone faced east. Knuckles
stooped and looked through it. The hole looked over the treetops to the ocean.
"See anything, sir?" asked Talon.
Knuckles studied the view. "Nothing special. You guys see anything?"
One by one they all gathered around and peered through the hole. Nothing stood out to any of them.
They tried lining up the stone's top with the horizon, or standing back and seeing if they could see
something through the hole.
Talon stood at a distance by himself, thinking. He could imagine his father watching their efforts
with arms folded, laughing. It had to be something simple and brilliant. Something that gave Talon a
reason to use his shoes, because Philip had always encouraged Talon to practice flying.
Talon walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down. "I wonder..."
Slasher and Ralph strode through the wood in the back yard toward the barn. As soon as they
entered the trees, Slasher's sensitive nose caught the smell of carrion. It was not offensive to her--she
viewed overripe meat as a delicacy--but it put her on her guard. There was a carcass somewhere
around here, and a smell this strong would attract scavengers. She eyed Ralph and saw he looked ill.
"Why don't you hang back?" she asked. "Give me your camera. I don't mind the smell."
"Thanks," said the mouse, handing her a flat camera that was smaller than her hand. "Press this
button to take a picture."
Slasher nodded and bounded down the path toward the barn.
The smell was coming from the barn with enough potency to kill the surrounding foliage. Slasher
paused in the clearing and looked around. Something was wrong. She knew she had seen this
clearing before, and wracked her brain to figure out what had changed. She circled the barn, looking
and listening, head low and tail stiff.
The raptor made a complete circuit before she realized what it was. The clearing was bigger. Trees
and bushes on the borders were missing in a ring around the barn, leaving holes in the earth where
they had been torn up by the roots. Slasher investigated one such hole and found white splinters of
wood around it, as if the tree had been cut down. But the tree itself was gone--no dragmarks or tire
tracks showed where it had gone.
There were probably dozens of explanations, but it made Slasher uneasy all the same. She checked
the barn door, found it chained, and gazed at the high windows for several minutes, wondering if she
dared jump to the roof and look inside.
When the clearing remained quiet, Slasher opened her wings and used them to leap up on the barn
roof. She landed with a thud on the hot shingles and crouched there for a moment, listening for
sounds from within. Nothing happened. She hung over the edge of the roof and peered in a window.
Inside was dark and indistinct. Like Espio, Slasher guessed it was machinery covered by tarps. She
lifted the camera, stuck the lens between the bars and snapped a picture. It was so dark in there she
doubted it would turn out, so she flipped on the flash and took another snapshot.
For an instant the inside of the barn was illuminated in white light, and Slasher saw what the barn
actually contained. She screamed and leaped straight up off the roof.
Her initial leap carried her almost to the house with the aid of her wings, and her next leap carried
her to the road in front of the house. She crouched there in the shade, shaking and snarling, clutching
the camera.
Talon activated his shoes and took imaginary steps over the treetops eastward. He looked back at the
keystone to make sure he was in line with it, then looked down at the trees below him. To his
surprise, he saw a tree with three trunks was just below him. The first verse sprang to mind--through
the hole and past the three. Did the rhyme have a twofold meaning? Talon dropped to investigate,
and saw the bottle wedged in the fork of a branch.
Talon worked it loose, grinning as his father's brilliance, and flew back to the others, who were still
puzzling about the stone. "Lookiee here!" said Vector. "The kid's found it! Where was it, Talon?"
"A tree with three trunks," said Talon, struggling to remove the cork. He handed it to Knuckles, who
removed the cork and handed it back. Talon reached in, pulled out the slip of paper, unrolled it and
read it aloud.
"Well done! Now direct your steps to the north end
Down the river to the final bend
Half a mile toward the day's end
Beyond the gate that dogs defend
Past the cows and another bend of the stream
Find the volcano's root and steam
Ten spaces south, twenty paces west and then
Tal, do your thing."
Talon's voice broke on the last line, and he quickly gave the paper to Knuckles and drew back from
the group. The Chaotix pretended not to notice.
"A rhyming road map, how nice," said Espio. "Can't say much for his poetry. And I don't like this
stuff about 'the gate that dogs defend'."
"Do we want to try to solve it today?" said Knuckles. "The north end's quite a ways from here."
"You think Talon is up to it?" murmured Charmy, as Zephyer went to Talon and put an arm around
"I don't know," said Knuckles. "Maybe we should--" He was interrupted as his communicator
buzzed. He clicked it on. "Hello?"
"Knuckles?" said a breathless voice. "This is Ralph Martin, the private detective. We've had a
breakthrough if I ever get my camera back."
"Really? What happened?"
"Slasher saw something and she's cracked up. She won't give my camera back and I'm dying to get the
film developed. Could you come down here? Maybe you could talk some sense into her."
"Where are you?"
"Up a tree on Mori's property. Slasher's down on the road, and she's menacing everyone who walks
by."
Knuckles's eyes widened a fraction, and he looked over his shoulder to make sure Talon had not
heard this. "I'll be there as soon as I can. Knux out."
"I've got to go down there," he said to the Chaotix. "You guys go with Talon and Zeff and find the
helmet. You have your coms?"
They nodded.
"I'll call you later." Knuckles walked up to Zephyer and Talon, and took Zephyer aside. "Emergency
call," he said. "I have to go meet with the detective right away, he's uncovered something big." He
tried to tell Zephyer the real reason with his eyes.
She gazed at him, trying to guess. "Okay ..."
"Go hunt the clue without me. I'll call later." He mouthed, "Slasher," said Zephyer's eyes widened.
She looked down at his sword, and he nodded.
Talon watched them. "Is it serious, sir?"
"I think so." Knuckles patted his shoulder. "I expect you to find that helmet, all right?"
Knuckles ran to the cliff, jumped off and glided away over the trees.
"I wish I could do that," murmured Zephyer, watching. She looked at the Chaotix. "What are we
waiting for? Let's head out!"
It took an hour for Knuckles to reach East Boulder Lane, and he was hot and sweaty by the time
he turned onto the shady road. He dreaded what he would find, and drew his sword as he turned the
last corner.
Slasher was lying in the weeds on the roadside, and Knuckles wouldn't have noticed her if he hadn't
been looking for her. As he approached, she lifted her head cobra-like, and glared at him.
"Hi Slasher," he called. "Are you sane?"
She only looked at him. Knuckles moved toward her cautiously. "I only want the camera." He could
see it in the grass between her forepaws. When he was ten feet away she bared her teeth and rose to
her feet. Knuckles was aware of how big she was. "Snap out of it, Slasher. I'd rather not use this
sword on you."
She stood her ground, but made no move to attack. Knuckles began speaking softly, as if to an upset
horse, hoping the sound of his voice would calm her. She watched him with her lemon-yellow eyes,
and her snarling subsided. He kept talking, but did not lower his sword. She might decide to maul
him and he didn't plan to let her get close enough.
Slasher's face began to relax, and the feral look faded. "Knuckles?" she said at last. "Oh gosh, I did it
"Camera, please," said Knuckles, sheathing his sword as a cold sweat of relief broke out on his back.
"What? Oh." She picked it up and handed it to him. "I must have got a picture of it. I turned the
flash on and ..." She gave a savage snarl. "I saw the abomination. It's in the barn, causing the smell.
Pendel Mori is a fiend--I can't see how he's related to Talon."
Ralph ventured into sight, peering at Slasher. Knuckles gave him a thumbs up, and the mouse
hurried out to them. "Thank goodness! Slasher said to climb a tree and stay there, and that's what I
did."
"Good move," said Slasher. "I could eat you in ..." She sized him up. "Six bites."
Ralph stared at her as Knuckles handed him the camera. "There. Get it developed."
"Will do," said Ralph, and jogged off toward town, casting worried looks over his shoulder at the
velociraptor.
"So what is this abomination?" asked Knuckles.
Slasher gazed up at Mori's house. "I can't describe it. The sight of it sends me out of my mind. What
scares me even more is the question of where it came from." She looked at Knuckles. "Mori belongs
behind bars."
"When did that occur to you?" said Knuckles. "Howe said you'd dug up some evidence against
him."
"A hypodermic," said Slasher. "The lab results come back Friday, then we'll see."
"Friday," said Knuckles. "I wish this adoption approval stuff went faster. Sunday we're having a
caseworker come out and inspect the house to make sure we won't be locking Talon in the shed or
something."
"Yeah, they need to know that," said Slasher. "Where's the group and Talon?"
"Treasure-hunting." Knuckles glanced at his communicator's clock. "They'll be up at the north end
by now. Maybe they've solved the puzzle already."
"Let's go, then," said Slasher, dropping a wing. "We'll fly up there."
Knuckles hesitated. He had never enjoyed riding Slasher, because he was afraid he'd fall off and his
legs went to sleep. But he hated even worse for Slasher to think he was a coward. He climbed on her
back and held on as she jumped off the bluff and soared out over the sea.
There were several streams on the north side of the island, but a mile from the shore they flowed
together and wound down to the ocean. Zephyer, Talon and the Chaotix followed it, trying to decide
which bend was the final one.
Espio stopped and looked back. He had been checking his watch for the last hour, and now he said,
"Sorry guys, but I have to go."
The Chaotix stopped as Zephyer and Talon walked on ahead. "Go?" exclaimed Charmy. "Why?
We're halfway there!"
"I have an appointment I can't miss," said the chameleon.
"Bet he's got a girlfriend," said Vector with a grin.
"No," said Espio, "although I wouldn't mind that. You guys will find out my scheme in due time.
Call me when you find the treasure." He turned and jogged up the path.
The Chaotix looked at each other and shrugged. "He's not happy unless he's up to something," said
Mighty.
"But to quit when we're so close!" exclaimed Vector. "I hope he has a really good reason."
The Chaotix hurried to catch up with Zephyer and Talon.
The stream bent a final time, then poured down a rocky channel to the sea. "This is it," said Zephyer.
She consulted the clue. "Half a mile toward the day's end. That's west, right?"
"No, Zephyer," said Vector. "Everybody knows the sun sets in the east."
She stuck out her tongue at him and stepped over the stream westward. They followed her.
Zephyer led the way along the top of a rough, broken lava flow that sliced the soles of their shoes
and creaked as they walked. For a while scrubby grass grew here and there, but it gave way to
nothing but hot bare rock under the sun.
Half a mile further on they came to a rusty barbed wire fence, and they gathered around it. "The gate
that dogs defend," said Talon, peering around. "Maybe I should investigate." He ignited his shoes
and took to the sky, peering in all directions. Zephyer and the Chaotix watched him fly high over the
rocky plain. After a while he returned. "There's a junkyard way south of here, and I saw some dogs,
but they're chained. Over there, west, is another stream."
Zephyer checked the directions. "Past the cows and another bend of the stream. See any cows?"
"Nope," said Talon, landing on the far side of the fence. One by one they crawled through, and hiked
across the fenced plain. It enclosed five acres, and beyond it the land dipped and vegetation appeared
again. A small stream ran over the rocks, and on the far side, under the trees, several cows lay in the
grass, chewing their cud. The group ignored them and plunged into the shade for a rest.
"Past another bend of the stream," said Mighty, reading the clue. "The stream bends off over there."
"Now we look for an active volcano," said Vector, rubbing his hands together. "I'm betting it looks
way different from Lava Reef."
"Why should it?" said Charmy. "Lava's lava no matter where it is."
Vector shrugged. "I want to see some, okay?"
"Then let's go," said Zephyer. "Better than listening to you guys bicker."
They followed the stream to its next bend, and hiked along the shore. The beach was made of broken
rock and some sand. They began to notice a smell of rotten eggs as they walked, and the sand gave
way to a crumbly, porous rock. "Look, steam!" said Mighty, pointing. The group hurried toward it.
A finger of black rock was thrust out into the ocean, and steam poured from a vast fissure in its
surface. Vector climbed up on it and looked in.
"Well?" Charmy called.
Vector climbed down. "I can't see anything, there's too much smoke. But boy is it hot!"
Zephyer checked the clue. "Ten paces south, twenty west. Let's count them off." They all walked
away from the beach, up the cooled lava floes ten paces. Then they walked across them twenty
paces. It bought them to a ten-foot wall created by cooled lava. Zephyer looked at Talon. "Do your
thing, Tal."
Talon's throat constricted, and he had to whisper the activation phrase for his shoes. He flew up on
top of the lava flow and looked around. There was nothing there. He inspected the rock at his feet,
and smiled. The outline of a shoe was scraped into the rock. He set his foot in it and saw up the hill a
tree with an arrow carved in its trunk pointing down. He looked down at the others. "Over there! A
tree with an arrow on it!"
The group ran around the rocky wall and arrived panting at the marked tree. They looked at the
ground, and realized they had nothing to dig with.
"That's no problem," said Mighty. "We're natural diggers, aren't we?"
Talon looked at his claws, shrugged, dropped to all fours and began digging. After a moment, so did
the rest of them.
It was buried under a foot of sandy soil. Before long their hands struck something that sounded
hollow, and they yelped and dug faster. It was a plastic box and surprisingly large--two feet to a side.
They located the corners, gripped it and heaved the box from its resting place.
Zephyer and Talon tried to open the airtight lid and failed. "Here, let me," said Mighty with a smug
look. He pried open the lid without trying.
They stared down at a golden disk two feet across, studded with sky-blue stones. It was intricately
carved with snakes and geometric patterns, and the Island Seal was etched in the center.
"The shield," said Talon, picking it up. "I remember this." He fit his arm through the straps on the
inside, and held it up with a grunt.
The group turned their attention back to the box. It was full of sawdust, and Zephyer plunged her
hands into it. "Here it is!" she exclaimed, brushing the shavings aside. She held up an odd-looking
helmet. The top was studded with three rows of thick triangular spikes, and the lower edges had
what looked like droplets of melted metal protruding from it.
Zephyer put it on her head, and the droplet-shapes fit down between her dreadlocks to clasp her
skull. The noseguard was a triangle that protected the top of her muzzle, and a red stone was set in
the forehead. Suddenly Zephyer looked like a warrior from the past with the ferocious aspect of her
personality enhanced. Then she laughed and took it off, and the vision passed. "I'll bet I look like an
idiot."
"You look scary," said Vector. "I'd hate to see Knux in it."
"And why is that?" asked Knuckles, striding toward them from the beach. Slasher was picking her
way over the rocks behind him. Zephyer gave the raptor a sharp look.
"It had this shield with it, sir," said Talon, hefting the gold disk. "Look at the jewels in it!"
Knuckles took it, hooked his arm through the straps, and blocked imaginary blows with it. Unlike
Talon, the weight didn't trouble him. "Now this could come in handy," he said. "Let's see that
helmet."
When Knuckles put it on, it looked like the crown of a warrior king, and the Chaotix all took a step
backwards. Even Slasher kept her distance.
"What?" said Knuckles, watching them. "Does it really make me look scary?"
"It sure does," said Zephyer, looking at Knuckles as if his fur had suddenly turned blue. "No wonder
Island Warriors were so feared! It changes the whole way you look."
Knuckles pulled it off and handed it to Zephyer. "Put it on, I want to see." She did, and he gazed at
her in slow shock. "Dang, Zeff."
She pulled it off. "I see why your dad kept this locked up, Talon."
Knuckles checked his com-watch. "Not bad. It's only one o'clock. Let's hike back and you guys show
me all the landmarks."
"And I need to call Espio," said Vector, turning on his com. "He split a while ago, said he had stuff
to do."
Knuckles frowned. "Stuff to do, huh? I hope it's legal."
They took their time hiking back, pausing often to rest in the shade as the day reached its hottest
hours. They arrived back in town at three o'clock, hot and thirsty. They mobbed a restaurant for cold
drinks, then remembered they hadn't had lunch, and ordered food. They were aware that Talon had
to return to his uncle's house, and none of them wanted that time to come. They made lunch last as
long as possible, nibbling snacks until five, when they had a light dinner and caught an evening bus
for Marshill.
Talon was quiet during the trip back. He kept thinking of the previous night when his uncle had
been so angry at him. He wondered what would happen when he came home from spending the day
with the echidnas. He told himself that he would whistle for Slasher as soon as he reached his room,
and keep her by him all night.
His opinion of her had changed since she had saved him from a potentially lethal injection. Anything
was better than Uncle Pendel's irrational fury, and even with her feral looks, she was associated with
home, and on those grounds he welcomed her.
The echidnas, Chaotix and velociraptor escorted Talon to the porch as quietly as possible. Talon
whispered goodbye and slipped in the front door, closing it softly behind him. Then he tiptoed down
the hall to his room, and twisted the door knob. The door didn't move.
He pushed harder, then realized that he had left his dresser in front of the door when he left that
morning. He would have to get into his room through the window.
Talon turned to retrace his steps, and froze with a gasp. Mori was standing at the end of the hall,
watching Talon's efforts to enter his room. "Hello, Konya. Did you have a nice day?" The mocking
tone in his voice told Talon that he knew everything. Talon didn't answer.
Mori walked toward him. "You have developed a deplorable amount of stubbornness lately. I told
you those echidnas were a bad influence on you. Hasn't school taught you anything?"
Talon kept quiet.
Mori gazed at him for a long moment. "It seems you are defiant to the last. Perhaps your bull-headed
streak might be curbed if I showed you what I found in your room today."
Talon's stomach knotted. The communicator! He called on his stage training to keep his face blank.
Mori was watching him. "Come with me." He grabbed Talon's wrist and led him down the hall,
through the living room, and around a corner to the basement stairs.
Talon had a vivid memory of Espio's instructions to scream and yell if he was taken to the basement,
and tried to twist out of his uncle's grasp. Mori grabbed him with surprising strength, dragged him
down the stairs and through the basement door.
Talon looked at the rear of the basement, but the partition was folded back. There was no monster. He
kicked and fought anyway as Mori wrestled him past the tables to the far corner of the basement.
Here was the chain--the thick, heavy kind used to fasten large logs to flatbed trucks. Mori grabbed
one end, looped it around Talon's neck and fastened it to itself so tightly that it nearly shut off
Talon's breath. Mori shoved him to the floor, and Talon sat there, breathing hard and groping at the
Mori straightened his shirt, watching Talon. "Maybe that'll teach you to listen to me, you brat. Now
pay attention." He walked to a nearby table and held up Slasher's whistle. "What is this?"
"It's a whistle," said Talon hoarsely. He hoped his uncle would blow it. The links of the chain were
digging into his throat, and he was panicking.
"It's a broken whistle," said Mori, ignoring Talon's discomfort and indicating the cut in the top. "Or
is it tuned to an ultra-high frequency?"
Talon pretended not to hear this and felt along the chain for the clasp.
Mori laid the whistle aside and held up the communicator. "And this is how you kept in contact with
the echidnas. I must say, the idea of modifying one of these units for long-range is impressive. He
must have paid a high price for it."
"He made it," said Talon in a burst of loyalty to Knuckles.
"No echidna has the brains for this," said Mori, waving a hand. "And to insure you don't go
wandering the island with them tomorrow, you will stay down here until Monday morning, when
you will go to school as usual. Understand?"
Talon's fingers located the clasp and opened it. The chain fell off his neck, and he bolted for the
door. Mori caught him by the tail, dragged him back to the corner and chained Talon again, this
time closing the clasp with a padlock. The chain was loose enough to allow Talon to breathe, and he
sat there panting, slumped forward under the chain's weight.
His mind raced. The chain was about ten feet long, which might let him reach the nearest table. It
was empty, however. Talon watched his uncle to see what he planned to do with the communicator,
and drooped in disappointment as Mori clamped it in a vice and began taking it apart.
The minutes passed, and neither spoke. Mori paid no attention to Talon, who was glad. He crawled
into the corner and leaned into it to ease the weight of the chain. It was so heavy he could hardly
move. He thought wistfully of the islanders, who were probably still in the driveway when he was
dragged down here. He should have yelled. How had Mori got the whistle and com when the door
was barricaded shut? He must have used the window.
Now there was nothing to do but wonder what awful things Uncle Pendel might to do him. Talon
thought of their encounter in the hall, and the mention of his education. Suddenly he had an idea. If
that school trained kids to behave like animals, then Uncle Pendel must expect him to act like one.
Talon's five years of film acting returned in a flash, and suddenly he had a character to play. A beaten,
hateful kid, half-wild and probably dangerous.
Talon slipped to all fours and lay on his belly, breathing through his teeth. As he detailed this
alternate version of himself, his face became hard and distant. If he worked hard enough, maybe he
could convince his uncle he was semi-feral. His mind slipped into a long-disused track, where Talon
stepped aside and became someone else. He was secretly pleased at the chance to perform, and if it
didn't work, then at least if gave him something to do.
He would be here for another thirty-six hours.
25. No Echidna is an Island: Chapter 8: Waiting
Chapter 8: Waiting
The Chaotix left to find Ralph, who had offered to loan them some books on detective work. Slasher
wanted to stick around Mori's house in case Talon needed her, so Knuckles and Zephyer took the
teleporter home by themselves.
The Floating Island seemed silent and empty after the bustle of Blackguard, and Knuckles and
Zephyer missed Talon. They said nothing about it to each other. Zephyer went hunting for the chao,
who had left a note saying they had gone on a safari. Knuckles went off by himself to unwind and
watch the sun set.
He returned to the house after dark. He found Zephyer in the living room with his old electricity
meter on the floor. She looked up as he entered. "Oh good, you're back."
"Find the chao?" he asked, walking up and looking at the batteries, wires and light bulbs Zephyer
had collected.
"Yeah," said Zephyer. "They were mad at us for being gone all day. I fed them dinner and they're in
their room."
"What are you doing?" Knuckles asked, gesturing to the electrical apparatus.
She smiled. "I wanted to try to measure our eye-charge thing."
Knuckles sat down across from her and picked up one of the wires connected to the meter. "These
are positive and negative. If we hold either end, won't we fry each other?"
"We do anyway," said Zephyer. "I'll hold the negative end, it suits me."
Knuckles nodded and tried not to smile. "Okay, but if this blows up my meter, you're buying me a
new one."
"Sounds fair," said Zephyer. "Think about ... uh ..."
"Blowing up the meter," said Knuckles, grinning. They locked eyes and the electric pulse jumped
between them. The meter's needle bounced to 20 volts.
"Hah!" said Zephyer. "It worked!"
"We've had stronger jolts than that," said Knuckles. "Think about Talon."
The needle indicated 70 volts. Knuckles gazed at it. "It must be chaos energy manifesting as
electricity."
"We could use it as a weapon!" said Zephyer. "Imagine if we had our swords, and the armor, and
this electric thing, too!"
"We have to control it, first," said Knuckles. "Think about the Master Emerald."
The meter sprang to 500 volts, and Knuckles and Zephyer yelled and dropped the wires. "Dang!"
said Zephyer, shaking her hand. "Try to kill me, why don't you!"
Knuckles rubbed his fingers. "This was your idea, bright girl."
"Oh, so it's my fault?"
"Yeah it is." Their eyes met, electricity flashed between them, and the meter indicated 130 volts.
"Look!" said Knuckles. "It picked up without us touching the wires!"
"Just don't think about the Master Emerald," said Zephyer. "That's too dangerous."
"It must be when our thoughts are in tune," said Knuckles. "When we think close to the same thing,
there's a low charge. When we think exactly the same thing, it's a strong charge."
"What are you guys doing?" said Chimera, peeking over the back of the couch.
"Electrocuting each other," said Knuckles. "Want to watch?"
"Yeah!" Chimera slid down onto the couch cushions, followed by Zinc, and the chao looked on
expectantly.
Knuckles picked up the wires Zephyer had collected, wound them around a lightbulb, and he and
Zephyer tried to light it. The chao watched in glee as the lightbulb flickered on and off, and the
echidnas flinched over and over. Out of curiosity they tried thinking about the Master Emerald
again, and the lightbulb exploded.
"Well," said Knuckles, sweeping up the glass with his hands, "we can conclusively say that the
Master Emerald is dangerous."
"I've burned my hand twice now," said Zephyer. "Maybe we should quit."
"No, don't!" said Zinc. "This is fun to watch!"
"But painful to do," said Zephyer. She glanced at the clock. "Good grief, it's after nine! You two had
better go to bed."
"Aw man!" said Chimera. "Are you guys gonna be gone all day tomorrow?"
"No," said Knuckles. "A social worker is coming tomorrow to inspect our living quarters."
Zephyer looked at him in horror. "Oh my gosh, I forgot about that! Do you know how dirty this
house is?"
Knuckles glanced around the living room. "Looks okay to me."
"It's filthy! First thing in the morning I'm gonna do some serious cleaning." She pointed at the chao.
"You. Bed. Now."
"We'd better turn in, too," said Knuckles, collecting the apparatus. "I have to pick up the inspector at
eleven."
"Eleven!" Zephyer exclaimed. "I knew I should have cleaned house today!"
The next morning Knuckles awoke before sunrise, and Zephyer was already up. He smelled
detergent and heard her banging around the house, and pulled his pillow over his head with a groan.
But it was too noisy now that he was awake, and he climbed out of bed and ventured out of his
Zephyer was on her hands and knees, mopping the kitchen floor, her dreadlocks tied back in a rag.
She looked up when her husband looked in. "Hi Knux! Don't come in, the floor's wet."
"When did you get up?" Knuckles asked. The kitchen was spotless.
"Four," said Zephyer, scrubbing. "Could you sweep the hall so I can mop it?"
"Uh, sure." Knuckles went in search of a broom, bewildered at how easily Zephyer could turn his
life upside down.
At seven Knuckles balked and demanded breakfast, and Zephyer took a break. They ate on the
porch, sitting on the railing. Zephyer was enjoying her cleaning streak, and chattered to Knuckles
while he nodded and grunted now and then. Then she dove back indoors, leaving Knuckles alone on
the porch, looking out over the island. He sat there for a while, enjoying the silence and aware of the
clatters and bangs coming from inside the house.
He ventured back inside to find Zephyer having a showdown with Chimera. The dragon chao was
standing in the middle of the living room, a scowl on his face. "I won't clean my room!" he
exclaimed. "Zinc made the mess, tell him to do it!"
"I told you both to clean it," said Zephyer, hands on her hips. "You live in there, too."
"But he's the one who built the fort!"
Knuckles stepped into the room and looked at his chao. "Do you need a spanking?"
"No," said Chimera, frowning.
"Then do as she says. Now." When Chimera didn't move, Knuckles began counting. "One, two,
three ..."
Chimera broke on 'two' and bolted for his room. As he entered, they heard Zinc say, "See? You have
to help clean up, ha ha!"
"Zinc!" Zephyer called, and his mocking subsided. "I'm going to come in and check your work!" she
added. She looked at Knuckles. "Will we get in trouble for spanking chao?"
"I don't know," said Knuckles. "Probably not something to discuss in mixed company."
"Yeah. Hey, want to help me in here?"
"Actually, I was going to ... uh ... mow the lawn," said Knuckles.
Zephyer shrugged. "Okay." She grabbed her floor cleaner and rag, and Knuckles made a quick exit
out the back door.
He hadn't planned on mowing the lawn, but he had two hours until he had to pick up the inspector,
and it was better than letting Zephyer boss him around. He opened the little toolshed that adjoined
the house and pulled out his lawnmower. It was one of his early robotics experiments when he first
became interested in mechanical engineering. Once it had been pushed about twenty feet, the gears
and springs had stored enough energy that the mower drove itself. He had tinkered with another
model that was fueled by a lesser power crystal, but it wasn't working yet.
Knuckles mowed the front and back yards, dumped the clippings on a compost pile, and went
indoors to clean up. The house smelled fresh, and the floors sparkled. The windows were open, and
he found Zephyer in the chao's room, cleaning out from under their crib. Knuckles hardly ever
ventured in there, for the converted closet was a disaster area, but Zephyer had returned a semblance
of order to it. Zinc and Chimera were playing with toys unearthed from the geologic layers on the
floor, and looked up as he stepped in.
"Zephyer needs to clean our room more often!" said Chimera.
"After this, you two will clean your own room," said Zephyer, sitting up with her face flushed. "Hi
"You're brave," he told her.
She grinned. "And going to be exhausted."
"It's ten thirty," he said. "I'm going to wash up and pick up the inspector."
"Good grief, already?" said Zephyer. "I'm almost done in here, go ahead."
When Knuckles left, Zephyer finished the chao's room like a whirlwind, and ran for her room to
change clothes. She selected a blue dress, combed out her dreadlocks, and fastened ornamental clips
around them. By the time her grooming was finished it was almost eleven, and she caught Zinc and
Chimera and washed their faces and hands. She warned them to be on their best behavior, then took
up watching by the front windows, looking toward the teleporter receiver plate.
"This book says you have to take classes and stuff to get a private detective license," said Vector.
He and the Chaotix were sprawled in the back room of Ralph's office, each of them reading a
different book on being a detective.
Mighty looked up. "You mean we'd have to go back to school?"
"That's what this says," said Vector, waving Becoming a Private Detective for Morons.
"Mine, too," said Espio, who was a fast reader and halfway through So You Want To Be A
Detective. "This says you need to work with the local police force, too."
"Makes sense," said Mighty. "That's where you'd get your clients."
"How about you, Charmy?" asked Vector. "What are you learning?"
The bee was sitting in the windowsill, engrossed in his book. "Oh, this is great!" he said, not hearing
a word they had said. "There's these three guys who are detectives, and their secret base is inside a
trailer in a junkyard, and they're solving a mystery with this haunted castle ..."
"A novel?" said Vector in disgust. "You're supposed to be doing research!"
Charmy turned a page and didn't answer.
"When do you think Ralph will be done?" said Espio, checking his watch. "He's been in there an
hour now."
"Developing pictures takes a while," said Mighty. "Especially when you have as much film as he
does. He had fifty-six exposures on that roll."
"Fifty-six?" spluttered Vector. "I didn't know they went that high!"
"He's using a Hidepalm," said Mighty, who knew the ins and outs of cameras. "The rolls of film for
those things are huge. Maybe if we get into this detective business, I can afford one."
Espio checked his watch again. "I hope he hurries up."
"Got another date?" grinned Vector.
"Yep," said the chameleon smugly. "And wouldn't you like to know the particulars."
"Don't make me go detective on you," said Vector.
"Oh, you'll find out eventually," said Espio, waving a hand. "I just have a ... a parallel agenda right
now. You'll thank me when you find out."
The Chaotix exchanged glances. Espio rarely did anything praiseworthy.
Suddenly Ralph screamed a swearword from the next room.
The Chaotix jumped up and ran to the darkroom door. "What? What's the matter?"
"Must be a good picture," muttered Espio.
"Are you okay?" Vector called.
"Fine," came the irritated reply. "It startled me is all. Stand back, I'll show you." The door opened
and Ralph emerged, carrying a paper still damp with chemicals. He handed it to Vector and the
Chaotix looked at it.
At first they couldn't tell what it was. Then they realized the camera was looking through a window
high up, angled down toward the floor. Highlighted by the flash was a face, peering upwards. It
looked cat-like, with a feline nose and mouth, but there were too many eyes and no ears.
"That's it!" said Espio. "The thing I saw! And boy, isn't it WRONG?"
Looking at it, Vector saw it as a cat, then an insect--then he tried to reconcile the two, and his brain
twisted. That thing was not possible. The others muttered in disbelief and squinted, trying to believe
their eyes. The longer Vector looked at it, the more he noticed. The eyes were multi-faceted like a
fly's. Mandibles protruded from the sides of the jaws. The horns might be antennae. A black shadow
outlined it from the flash, hiding the rest of its body.
Vector tore his eyes away and handed the picture to Mighty. "That's what made Slasher snap?"
"Yes, and I see why," said Ralph. "It gave me quite a turn, myself, when it came through on the
print. I've got to rush this to Howe. Genetic experimentation and mutation are forbidden by
Blackguard law."
The Chaotix grinned and punched their fists in the air. "Talon is as good as free!"
"Not quite," said Ralph, "but this helps the case a lot. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to make half a
dozen prints of this picture." He returned to the darkroom.
Vector checked his watch. "Knux said not to call until after two. He'll be vastly interested in this
picture."
"And so will a lot of other people," said Charmy. "Like the police."
The social worker who inspected the echidnas' house was an electric blue bird with a long beak. He
carried a clipboard in his prehensile wingtips and wandered around the house, taking notes. Zephyer
and Knuckles awaited him nervously in the living room. The bird had asked to show himself around
the house, and Zephyer was thankful she had cleaned it.
At last he returned to them. "You have a lovely home," he told them. "It checks out nicely. A mark
in your favor is the ownership of chao, and big, healthy chao at that. How long have you had them?"
"About six months," said Knuckles. "We raised them from eggs and had them two years, then the
Chao Company reclaimed them. We recently adopted them for good."
The bird nodded. "This study is not conducted to approve your house--it's really to confirm the
environment in which a child will be raised."
"How long will the approval process take, Mr. Honeycreeper?" Zephyer asked.
The bird cocked an eye at her. "Please, call me Bill."
Zephyer looked at his two-foot long beak and sideyed Knuckles. Electricity tingled between them,
and they tried to keep from laughing. Bill appeared not to notice. "There is a small problem you may
have in the process, and that is locating a child of the appropriate species. Echidnas are very rare."
"We know," said Knuckles. "We're prepared to adopt outside our species."
Bill looked at his clipboard. "Well, you see," he said, "we at Orphan Aid try to discourage
extra-species adoption. Sometimes an improper match can result in disaster. We had a sad case
several years ago when two parrots took in a civet kitten. When the kitten was three she mauled her
adoptive mother."
"We don't want a kid THAT far from our species," said Knuckles. "Anteaters and echidnas are
distant relatives, aren't they?"
"Only by the greatest stretch of the imagination," said Bill. "Echidnas are unlike any other
mammal."
"The anteater we're trying to adopt has a lot in common with us," said Zephyer, bristling.
"It doesn't matter," said Knuckles, glaring at Zephyer to shut her up. They didn't need a fight with
the social worker. "The point is, we're trying to adopt an anteater. He ran away from his home and
has lived with us for three years. We get along with him very well."
"We'll look into the matter," said Bill, writing something down. "As it is doubtful that there are any
echidna children available for adoption, we will consider your request."
The rest of the interview was uneventful, and afterwards Knuckles escorted Bill back to the
teleporter. When he returned, he found Zephyer sprawled on the couch, eyes closed.
"Are you asleep?" he asked, leaning on the back of the couch.
"No," she said, opening her eyes. "Just exhausted. Do you think that went well?"
"Bill was friendly," said Knuckles. "I don't think he'll blacklist us, if that's what you mean."
Zephyer sat up and began taking the clips out of her dreadlocks. "I hadn't thought about education
when he asked about it. How'd you think of a tutor?"
"Talon's been tutored off and on by the Chaotix," said Knuckles. "And I've drilled so much stuff into
the poor kid's head that he's worthy to be any guardian's kid."
"That comment about echidnas being rare," said Zephyer. "I doubt they've even heard of echidnas
before us, let alone seen any."
Knuckles opened his mouth to reply, but froze as they heard a distant buzzing sound.
"Your com," said Zephyer.
Knuckles ran to their room, snatched the com off the dresser and flicked it on. "Hello?"
"Heya boss," Vector drawled. "Ralph got his Slasher-photos developed, and boy oh boy."
"Are they good?"
"You have to see 'em to believe 'em. You should have heard Ralph swear when he saw it."
"Slasher called it an abomination."
"Oh yeah, Knux, it's abominable, that's for sure. It's like--it has too many eyes. I'll have to show you
the picture."
"Have you called Howe?"
"Yeah, Ralph took the photo to her himself. It's not exactly concrete evidence, but it gives us
something to go on."
"Can you bring us a picture right now?"
"Sure. But if Slasher's around, don't let her see it."
"Gotcha."
"Vector out."
Knuckles clicked off the com and returned to Zephyer. "They got a picture of the thing."
Zephyer's eyes widened. "What is it?"
"Vector's bringing up a picture now," said Knuckles. "They've already given it to Howe. Now all we
need are the results of that hypodermic."
Vector appeared fifteen minutes later with an envelope in one hand. He found Knuckles and Zephyer
waiting for him, and watched their faces as they pulled out the picture. For a second they looked
blank. Then Knuckles frowned and looked closer, and Zephyer squinted. "What IS that?"
An expression of disbelief crossed Knuckles's face, then revulsion. Vector grinned, recognizing the
progression: first uncertainty, then disbelief, then horror.
"We've got to get Talon out of there," said Zephyer. "Does he know about this thing?"
"Espio warned him," said Vector. "If the kid wasn't so tight-lipped we'd know if he's seen it."
Knuckles checked his watch. "I'm going to call Howe."
Talon opened his eyes. He had been asleep, and dreamed a python was squeezing him to death. He
lifted his head and saw the chain was resting across his back. He slid out from under it and looked
around the basement. Mori was gone and the basement door was open. From the look of the light,
Talon guessed it was late Sunday afternoon. The air in the basement was cool, but the concrete
under him was warm, conducting heat from the scorching day outside.
Talon was thirsty, for his uncle had fed him four hours earlier, but the pride of the character he was
playing kept him from asking for a drink. This was a battle of wills between himself and Uncle
Pendel, and the alter-Talon intended to win. The normal Talon was shocked at this, but decided it
didn't hurt. One more night down here and it would be Monday, and he would be freed. Even the
torture of school was better than sitting in a corner with a chain around his neck.
The anteater stood up and inched forward so the chain would not clank. He had not had a chance to
stretch the chain, and he wanted to see how far he could go. He looked at the pile of parts that had
been his communicator--Mori had reduced it to bare components. The whistle was lying on the table,
far out of reach.
Talon reached the first table and was almost to the second when the chain halted him. He began a
circle, exploring everything in his range of motion. One of the tables within his reach was stacked
with notebooks and binders, each labeled with a number and a letter. Talon looked at the open
basement door and wondered if his uncle could hear him. Who cares, said the character he was
playing. He grabbed a binder marked 54B and flipped it open.
The first hundred pages were nothing but text and computations. Beyond that were diagrams of
DNA strands and molecules. In the very back Talon found a detailed sketch of a spider's leg with its
parts labeled.
He replaced the binder with a quick glance at the doorway, and opened another binder, 56B. More
text and equations. The diagrams this time were of insect body parts; legs, thoraxes, heads,
abdomens, stingers, antennae. Talon shut that binder and replaced it, too. He picked up 57A, opened
it, and stared into the face of the monster in the barn.
It was drawn in pencil from the front and side, and on later pages its body was illustrated in detail.
Talon shut the binder after two pages, the fur on his back standing up. So that was what Espio had
seen. A monster to end all monsters. He was chained with its chain ... so where was it now?
He darted back to his corner and curled up, his role-playing forgotten. He had to tell somebody. But
how could he call Knuckles without a communicator? Maybe the Chaotix were still outside and he
could tell them. But what if they needed that binder for evidence? He imagined his uncle's face if he
was caught stealing the binder, and Talon felt a chill. Instant death.
Mori returned to the basement and looked sharply at Talon. Talon stared at the wall. He hoped Mori
didn't notice the binders had been moved. He kept thinking of the monster on the page--like some
fantastic thing from a movie. But this was real. He glanced at his uncle and remembered the night
something had walked tapping through the house. A wave of sick fear hit him, and he willed himself
to show no emotion.
Slowly he pulled himself back into the role of angry half-wild pre-teen and wore the character like a
shield. There was nothing to fear right now. If he could last this out, then he would have a chance to
escape later.
Howe was sitting in her office, looking at Ralph's photo and chewing a manicured claw when her
phone-light flashed. She picked it up. "Hello, Ann Howe of Dewey, Cheetum and Howe."
"This is Knuckles Echidna," said Knuckles. "Have you seen that picture?"
"Looking at it," said the ferret. "I can nail him on ten different charges, and that's without
concentrating. Has the boy had any contact with it?"
"Not that we know of, but Slasher--the raptor--she's seen it twice now. She won't talk about it, it
makes her crazy."
Howe gazed at the picture. "We need more to go on. Mori has covered his tracks far too well up to
this point. Do you have any grounds for a complaint to child protective services?"
"No, other than Talon hates living there," said Knuckles. "He got beat up at school by bullies."
"I can't use that." Howe opened the binder on her desk. "Once those lab results come back, we'll be
able to move. Friday?"
"Friday. And if we can't get Talon out of there legally, I'm going to kidnap him."
"I wouldn't advise that."
"I know." Knuckles sighed. "I'll call back later."
"Goodbye." Howe hung up and placed the photo in the file. Then she left her office and snaked
down the hall to Cheetum's office.
The rat was studying a legal brief when she entered. "Howe goes? Ha ha."
"Funny," said the ferret. "The Mori case is stalled. I need more information."
"Say no more," said Cheetum. He pulled a slim folder from a desk drawer and handed it to her.
"Dewey's research team compiled this and delivered it this morning. Mori's financial records."
Howe opened the file and her eyes widened. Inside were pages and pages of receipts from off-island
suppliers; chemicals, biotoxins, genetic material, and highly illegal harvested body parts. In addition
were hundreds of laboratory equipment items. Everything was paid from a stock exchange account
and was listed as liquid assets. It was purchased under the name John Otter, but was shipped to
Mori's residence. Howe didn't ask how the research team had found these records--they were not
known as dishonest lawyers for nothing.
Cheetum was watching her. "Does that help?"
"Yes," said Howe. "Conviction will be easy. But we need a catalyst, a reason to go after him in the
first place." She checked her watch and sighed. "Friday."
Monday morning, Talon awoke to find his uncle unlocking the chain. He didn't speak, and neither
did Talon. Talon's plan was to flag down whoever was watching the house and beg them to take him
away before the school bus came. But Mori counteracted this by escorting Talon to the bus himself,
and watching Talon get on. Then Talon was on his own with no hope of escape--to escape he had to
use his shoes, and flying anywhere near school made him a target for the bird and bat classes.
He arrived at Happy Mobian Academy and shuffled inside with the others. He received his maroon
armband and followed the rest of his class outdoors.
A teacher met them and pointed them toward Mountain Environment. As the class ran off down the
path, Talon's spirits rose a little. Mountain was better than Jungle because there was less cover, and
you could see the predators coming.
Their instructor this week was a badger with thickly-muscled forearms. "Listen up!" he bellowed.
"You Antelopes are in Mountain this week, and to survive in the mountains, you need flexibility,
cunning, and balance! You're teamed against Eagle and Wolf, so you'll need to watch the sky as well
as your back. Travel in small groups--predators pick off the loners. Go!" The kids ran for the rocks.
Mountain was formed by a volcanic outcropping about thirty feet high, on the edge of the forest.
Additional rocks and gravel had been piled around its base, creating a dangerous playground for
predators and prey alike. Talon ran for the boulders, looking for the Eagle class.
A group of avian Mobians were perched on the 'mountain' top, watching the other classes come in.
He counted two macaws, a tern, four gulls and a trogon. They weren't predators, but were expected
to behave like it and attack other kids on the ground. What usually happened were broken wings and
injured legs, and hence the Eagle group received low grades and seldom attacked anyone.
Talon was more concerned about the Wolf class. They were made up of real predators--dogs,
wolves, jackals, hyenas, and they took hunting seriously. The best way to escape them was to climb
the mountain, so Talon began picking his way through the rocks in that direction, alert to every
He glanced over his shoulder just as a wolf's gray face peered around a boulder. It was the same
wolf who had helped beat him up on the day of the test, and Talon broke into a run, ducking
between the rocks. "A loner!" he heard one of them yell. He glanced back and saw the same three
wolves were after him, their eyes gleaming and animal.
Adrenaline gave Talon extra speed, and he leaped up the steep hill at the mountain's foot. He heard
them scrabbling after him, and jumped for a ledge he knew about. He caught it, pulled himself
up--and found himself nose to nose with the three ringleaders of Antelope. The kangaroo was
nearest, and with a smile he reached out and shoved Talon backwards off the ledge.
Talon twisted in midair to land on his feet, only to be tackled by the wolves, who gnawed him as
they all toppled down the rocky hill.
They abandoned Talon at the bottom with yells of "Sissy!" and worse words. He lay on the ground
with blood oozing from their bites and tears running from his eyes. He didn't want to do this. He
couldn't win. It was madness.
Slowly he picked himself up and limped off in each of a better hiding place.
Mori was waiting for him when he got off the bus. By this time Talon's fur was matted with dried
blood, and he limped from a deep slash on his left thigh. Mori grunted and escorted him indoors.
On the roof, Slasher spoke into her communicator. "Talon had a rough day! He's all chewed up and
bloody."
"Bloody!" exploded Zephyer on the other end of the line. "What do you mean, 'bloody'?"
"He looked like some animal's been chewing on him," said Slasher. "What kind of school does he go
to, anyway?"
"I think it's time we found out," snarled Zephyer. "Those lab results better be good, because I'm
going to start chopping heads."
"Only a few more days," said the raptor. "Then we can all pitch in."
Tuesday was just as bad. Again Mori escorted Talon outside, looking suspiciously around the yard.
Again Talon rode the bus without hope of escape, and again faced Mountain, this time sore and
unable to run as fast.
The same three wolves hunted him all day long. It seemed the tall, yellow-eyed leader wanted to kill
Talon slowly, one wound at a time, and he didn't consider his day complete until he had drawn fresh
Wednesday was the same. Talon arrived home that afternoon in tears, but trying to hold them back
so his uncle wouldn't see. The islanders could only watch helplessly--Mori kept close watch on
Talon so they couldn't make contact with him. He didn't use his communicator, and Slasher was
puzzled that Talon didn't use the whistle. Maybe it wasn't safe to venture inside the house.
Thursday, the wolf went for Talon's throat, and his sidekicks had to pull him off, scared and looking
over their shoulders for teachers. All kinds of violence was allowed in school, but not deliberate
attempts to kill. Talon arrived home later silent and trembling, still feeling the wolf's hot jaws
closing around his neck.
But on Friday, things changed.
25. No Echidna is an Island: Chapter 9: Avenged!
Chapter 9: Avenged!
Been beat up
Been broken down
Nowhere but up when you're face-down
I'm in last place
If I place at all
But there's hope for this underdog.
Underdog, Audio Adrenaline
At eight o'clock Friday morning, a large group of people crowded into the front room of the lab as
Slasher picked up the results on the hypodermic. Howe was there, along with Knuckles and
Zephyer, and the Chaotix. Ralph hovered on the sidelines, afraid to stand near Slasher.
The raptor received a white envelope, opened it and pulled out the paper inside. There was a
moment of tense silence as she skimmed over it. She bared her teeth. "This is it. Listen. 'Contents of
vial: blood type O, anteater. Secondary substance: aggressive central nervous system mutagen,
nanotech-based.'"
A collective breath was drawn, and Slasher looked up. "Well Ms. Howe, does this give you
something to go on?"
"Yes," said the ferret, her eyes tinted with bloodlust. "Give me those results. I'm going to call social
services and the police."
"And I'm going to pick up Talon from school," said Knuckles. "If he's been chewed up as bad as
Slasher says, we can sue them for negligence and abuse."
Howe grinned at him. "I love lawsuits."
Knuckles gave Zephyer a quick hug, and saw his own smouldering rage reflected in her eyes. It was
Friday, and the game had begun.
Knuckles took a bus and arrived at Happy Mobian Academy at 11 AM. The grounds were quiet as
he walked up the steps and entered the administrative building. He entered the principal's office
without knocking, and found a fat panda reclining behind his desk. He gave Knuckles a withering
look. "Can I help you?"
"I need to pick up a student," said Knuckles. "Could you tell me what class he's in?"
The panda stared at him insolently. "Are you a parent? There's no echidnas enrolled here."
"I've come to pick up Konya Mori," said Knuckles through his teeth. "An anteater."
"Sorry," said the principal. "I can't help you."
Knuckles barreled out of the office, slamming the door behind him. He walked down the hall, but
there were no classrooms. He arrived at the door at the end of the hall and looked out the window.
He could see kids running all over the place. Was it recess? He opened the door and stepped outside.
Three adult civet cats with 'instructor' on their vests were standing at an intersection of five paths,
smoking and talking. They fell silent as Knuckles approached. "Hey, I'm looking for an anteater
named Konya Mori."
Two of the cats looked at the third, who jerked his head at a path marked 'Mountain'. "He's in
Mountain. But I don't advise you to go out there."
"Class is in session. Your presence will be distracting."
Knuckles looked in disbelief at the paths marked with different environments. "This is a classroom?"
He started down the trail, but one of the cats caught his arm. "Mister, you don't want to go out there.
Wait until class ends--it's over at noon."
Knuckles was suspicious. "Why? What goes on?" He wrenched away from the cat and jogged down
the trail, ignoring the cries of the teachers for him to come back.
Everywhere were young Mobians, all with different-colored armbands. Knuckles saw them roaming
in packs with frightened expressions. What kind of demented place was this? And why didn't Talon
complain? In growing horror and anger, Knuckles jogged faster.
Where the path opened out into the rocky Mountain environment, Knuckles met a badger who was
standing guard. He stared at Knuckles. "You're not on staff. What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to pick up a student." Knuckles looked the badger up and down--Knuckles could whip him
in a fight if he had to.
"Parents aren't allowed inside the environments," said the badger. "You'll have to wait."
"Who's gonna stop me?" said Knuckles, walking past the badger and into the rocks. The badger
didn't follow him, but pulled a two-way radio out of his back pocket and began speaking into it.
Knuckles didn't care. He jogged among the boulders, calling, "Talon! Where are you, Talon?" He
looked up at the mock mountain scornfully--he had boulders at home bigger than that--and yelled,
"Talon! Come here already!"
He heard footsteps and turned to see Talon running toward him, eyes wild with fear. "Knuckles!" he
gasped. "Get me out of here, the wolves are hunting me!"
Knuckles saw a pair of clawmarks had torn across Talon's face, ripping his left eyelid, and blood
was running down his face and shoulder. Talon reached up to wipe his eye, and revealed a hideous
bite on the inside of his arm.
"I think I'll wait for these wolves," said Knuckles through his teeth. "Get up on that rock." Talon
obeyed, shaking and gasping for breath.
They heard shouts and running feet. In a moment the three wolves who had tormented Talon all
week dashed in among the rocks, their tongues hanging out, following Talon's trail. They skidded to
a halt when they saw Knuckles. "Look, a parent!" gasped one of the sidekicks.
The leader looked at Knuckles, his yellow eyes glinting. "We can take him," he said to his
companions. "We beat teachers--and we need to show this guy why parents aren't allowed into
class."
Knuckles raised his fists. "I'm sorry to hear that, boys."
The pack sprang at Knuckles, and Knuckles ducked forward and landed a punch to the lead wolf's
snout. As the wolf yelped and staggered backwards, Knuckles twisted around, knocked one of them
sprawling with a left hook and the other with the follow-up right hook. When one of them jumped
up and sprang at him with jaws open, Knuckles knocked him ten feet with an uppercut perfected by
splitting stone.
He turned as the leader wolf recovered and charged at him, intending to overwhelm Knuckles by
sheer weight. Knuckles sidestepped and kicked the wolf's feet out from under him. Growling, he
jumped to his feet and ran at Knuckles again. Again Knuckles danced sideways and hit the wolf with
two lightning punches as he went by. "This school hasn't taught you must about fighting," said
Knuckles as the wolf landed on all fours. "Just how to be a bully. Let me tell you something--I'm
going to bring a lawsuit against this place, and you'll have to see how you do in a real school."
The wolf glared up at him. "I'm gonna kill you."
Knuckles motioned to Talon. "Try it. I'll make you match every mark on him."
The wolf looked at Talon, backed away, then turned and ran. The other wolves followed him, and
Knuckles and Talon were alone.
Knuckles helped Talon off the rock. "Let's get you cleaned up."
"What are you doing here, sir?" asked Talon, wiping blood out of his eye.
"Test results came back," said Knuckles. "Mori tried to inject you with some kind of mutagen to
mess up your brain. Howe was ecstatic. You're not going back to Mori's if I can help it."
Talon smiled in relief. "I'm really glad, sir." He shrank close to Knuckles as they passed the badger,
who glared at them, but said nothing.
They walked up the path toward the school buildings, Talon limping and wiping his eye over and
over. The sight of him sent Knuckles into a towering fury at this school and these people. "Do you
actually learn anything here?" he asked.
"Yes sir," said Talon. "How to run fast and avoid big kids. And what makes good hiding places."
Knuckles made an angry sound in his throat. "Survival of the fittest. Whoever invented this school
was sick. Why didn't you say anything to us?"
Talon gave him a sad look. "What could you do, sir?"
"Well, I'm doing something now. Hey, check out the Gestapo."
Awaiting them at the doors were the three instructors, the principal, and two six-foot gorillas with
clubs.
"Who are they?" gasped Talon. "I've never seen them before!"
"Let me handle this," said Knuckles. "Fly out front, hide and wait for me. I won't be long."
Talon nodded, activated his shoes and fled. The group stared after him with their mouths open, then
eyed Knuckles. He read their superstitious fear and thought of the Blackguard Quadrangle with an
inner grin. Maybe he wouldn't have to fight them.
"I'm sorry, but we can't allow you to leave," said the fat panda. "You have to sign a nondisclosure
agreement first."
"Can't have me talking, eh?" said Knuckles, watching the gorillas. They could do him some damage
if they landed a blow. "What if I don't want to sign anything?"
"Then I can't be answerable for the consequences," said the panda, and the gorillas beat their clubs
into the palms of their hands.
Knuckles looked at the sky. "Do you feel that?" When nobody answered, Knuckles held up both
arms and said in a flat voice, "The Quadrangle, it calls to me. The power ... I feel the power!" He
checked their faces--their uneasiness was growing.
He lowered his arms, cupped his hands together and began to chant in Old Mobian. The civets and
panda took a few steps backward, and the gorillas stopped brandishing their clubs. Only scholars
knew Old Mobian any more, and to hear it fluently from this echidna, who was obviously not a
scholar, did not bode well.
In Old Mobian Knuckles was saying, "You nitwits have abused enough kids and I'm gonna get
Howe to sue your butts into the next millennium! I feel the power, all right! You're lucky I left my
shovelclaws at home or I'd do more than pound you, I'd slash your faces until you look worse than
Talon!"
The civet cats turned and ran. Knuckles began walking forward, moving his hands in a circle as if he
held invisible energy between them. The panda backed away, and so did the gorillas. As the panda
laid his hand on the door, Knuckles switched back to New Mobian and roared, "The power within
me, the power that is ME!" He sprang forward, and the panda and gorillas fell over themselves
getting through the door and locking it behind them.
Knuckles jogged for the perimeter fence, laughing. Acting the part of a sorcerer was fun when the
audience believed every word. He climbed over the wall, dropped to the other side and strode across
the street, looking for Talon. The anteater peered down from a roof, then descended to the sidewalk.
"What happened, sir?"
"Nothing," said Knuckles. "I let them know who they were dealing with, and they decided to let me
go. We'd better get you cleaned up before Zephyer sees you. She'll have a stroke."
Knuckles took Talon to a first-aid station in a hospital, and spent half an hour washing the blood out
of Talon's fur, and bandaging his cuts. Talon's wounds of the previous week had been washed but
not bandaged, and Knuckles cared for them as well. Then he gave Talon two aspirin, and while
Talon was taking them, Knuckles stepped outside of the room and called Zephyer.
"Is he okay?" she asked at once.
"Yeah," said Knuckles. "You won't believe this school--they train kids to act like animals. Talon got
a little scratched, but I've patched him up and he's better now. I think he should lie down for a while.
Is it still illegal to take him home?"
"Yeah." Zephyer sounded disgusted. "Just a second." There was a moment's pause, then she said,
"Howe says that Talon can take a nap on the couch in her office. She's going down to child
protective services."
"Anything happen since I've been gone?"
"Yeah, CPS went to Mori's. He was really evasive and wouldn't let them in the house. Howe means
to have him in court by tomorrow."
"Great." Knuckles grinned. "Any word on the barn?"
"No, that's next." Zephyer lowered her voice. "They need Slasher to identify the monster for them. I
think it's a bad idea, but she's the only witness."
"It's a really bad idea," said Knuckles. "Maybe if I went with her ..."
"Knuckles, don't you dare."
"I'm the only person who can snap her out of her trance," said Knuckles.
"Then let me come with you. We'll wear our armor and everything."
"It's not necessary--"
"The monster is probably more dangerous than Chaos! Like duh we'll need weapons!"
"Fine, you bring weapons, and if we need them, I'll ask."
"Good. I'll meet you at Howe's."
"See you there." Knuckles turned to find Talon standing in the doorway, listening.
"Will they kill the monster?" he asked.
Knuckles shrugged. "If it's dangerous, they will."
"I saw pictures of it in Uncle Pendel's notebooks," said Talon. "He called it a manticore."
"A manticore? That's a mythical creature, isn't it?" said Knuckles, trying in vain to remember
anything about the name.
Talon nodded. "I think so."
"Well, Howe said you could hang out in her office if you'd like to rest. Come on."
They hopped a bus back to the other end of Marshill, and met Zephyer and the Chaotix in the front
room of the lawyer firm. They escorted Talon to Howe's office, gave him instructions to lie down for
half an hour, then returned to the front room.
Zephyer and the Chaotix were furious about the amount of bandages Talon was wearing, and
Knuckles gave them an account of Happy Mobian Academy in a low voice. By the time he was
done, his audience was ready to march off and firebomb the school.
Vector jumped up. "I know what I'm going to do. I'm going down to the police station and help them
raid Mori's house."
Mighty, Espio and Charmy rose, too. "Count us in!" They stormed out of the office, and from the
look on Zephyer's face, she had more than half a mind to follow them.
Knuckles and Zephyer sat in the office for half an hour, and precisely thirty minutes later Talon
emerged. "I feel better," he told them. "Could I go out to the Floating Island for a few minutes?
Please?"
Knuckles and Zephyer exchanged a glance. "He could help me collect the armor and stuff," said
Zephyer.
"All right," said Knuckles. "But just for a few minutes. Bring a portable teleporter with you, and I'll
meet you at Mori's."
Talon was quiet as he and Zephyer walked up the path from the receiver plate to the house on the
Floating Island. As they reached the house, Talon said, "I wish I didn't have to leave."
"If all goes well, you won't have to," said Zephyer, retrieving the armor from a crate in her room.
She put it on, much to Talon's amusement, and handed him Knuckles's sword and shield. Talon
examined the green blade. "Does Knuckles still go crazy when he uses this?"
"He says it's not so bad anymore," said Zephyer, fastening her own sword to her belt. "He thinks it's
because he's older."
Talon shrugged. "Or because he's married."
Zephyer gave him a sharp look, but Talon was examining the gems in the sword's hilt.
Zephyer put on the helmet and led the way back out of the house. Talon trailed behind, reluctant to
leave. "I hope I can come back, Zephyer."
"You will, Talon, you will!" Zephyer waited for him and put an arm around his shoulders. "We're so
close now! There's this little bit left to do, and you'll be placed in our custody."
Talon nodded. "I'm afraid something else will go wrong. Everything else has."
"Expect it and you won't be surprised," said Zephyer, the helmet adding a vicious element to her
words. "Nobody will blame you if you run for it and somehow wind up here." They reached the
receiver plate. Zephyer picked up a portable teleporter from the stack there, and they beamed out.
"Pendel Mori," said the police dog, "we have reason to believe you are harboring an illegal mutant
on your property."
The anteater blinked at the two officers in surprise. "An illegal mutant? Whatever gave you that
idea?"
The police dog held up a copy of Ralph's photo. "We received this, and have the testimony of an
eyewitness. We have to investigate."
"This is the doing of those echidnas, isn't it?" growled Mori, craning his neck to see into the yard.
"It's not my place to say," said the officer. "We must identify the creature in this photo and determine
if it's a threat to Blackguard."
Mori gazed at them, and a crooked smile spread across his face. "Yes. Come with me, please."
There were police and animal control personnel all over the front yard, and everyone carried
weapons, lethal and non-lethal. If the thing wasn't dangerous, they would capture it. If it was, they
would kill it.
Knuckles, Zephyer, Talon, Slasher and the Chaotix were standing at a distance, out of Mori's range
of vision. As he led the way into the backyard, they followed him with an escort of policemen.
Zephyer was in full armor, but Knuckles would only carry his sword, and that only to stop Zephyer
from nagging him.
Slasher was twitchy and jumpy, breathing in rapid snorts. "I'm going to crack," she whispered.
"They should muzzle me, I'm going to crack and do something I'll regret."
"No you won't," hissed Knuckles. "It's broad daylight and it'll be on a leash or something."
"It was on a leash before," Slasher whispered, adjusting her wings. "And it still wanted to eat me!"
She whimpered in her throat, and the group stared at her. This display of terror was unlike the
Slasher they knew.
The police took up stations in the trees around the barn's clearing, everyone making faces at the reek
of carrion. Talon hung back and stood behind a tree, and Knuckles and Zephyer walked on ahead
beside Slasher and three cops. Zephyer nudged Knuckles and thrust the golden shield at him.
Knuckles shook his head, but took the shield and fit his arm through the straps. "I'm going to laugh
at you for this later."
"Go right ahead," said Zephyer.
Mori removed a key from his pocket and began unlocking the barn door. Slasher half-crouched,
nostrils dilated, eyes wide. She knew what would step through that door. A hush fell over the
clearing.
Mori slid back the final latch and grinned at the assembled crowd. "This creature is not a mutant. He
is a continuation of a research project I participated in fifty years ago." He swung the door open, and
the stench rushed out like a cloud of poison. He stepped out of sight for a second, and they heard the
tapping of claws ... then Mori returned, leading the manticore.
Slasher's scream was echoed by every throat in the place. The beast was twelve feet tall at the
shoulder and twenty feet long. It marched out of the barn into daylight, its multiple eyes unblinking
as it looked at all of them at once. It had a head like a lion, complete with shaggy mane, and its body
had perhaps once been a lion's. But each leg was now a creaking segmented spike with a clawed
insect foot. Sprouting from its sides were six hairy spider legs, curled under its belly for now. Along
its back were folded a pair of wings, and it had a scorpion tail curled over its back with the stinger a
translucent yellow in the sunlight.
Every gun was instantly trained on the monstrosity. Slasher barely restrained herself, and now
crouched low, trembling and staring, growling deep in her throat. Knuckles and Zephyer found they
had drawn their swords. The manticore watched them all, and they saw it was wearing a bridle with
a bit in its mouth, the attached rope in Mori's hand. That explained the beast's obedience. It stood
stock-still as Mori addressed his audience.
"On the space colony ARK, a collection of scientists began a quest for the ultimate lifeform. One
that could survive in all environments, eat anything, drink anything, breathe anything. Our project
was the biolizard, a creature that could live in any aquatic environment. It would have lived had not
the military shut us down."
He glared at them, as if this was their fault.
"When the project was discontinued, I returned here and continued the project in secret. What you
see here is the land version of the Shadow project: a creature that is invincible on land."
"All of this can and will be used against you," said one officer, recovering his wits.
"Let them try," said Mori, suddenly breaking into hysterical laughter. "There are places where my
work is not illegal--and I shall move to one of them!" He swarmed up the manticore's mane and sat
astride its shoulders, still holding the lead rope. He held something above his head in one hand. "See
this, echidnas? This is a sample of Konya's blood. One day I will feed it to the manticore, and it will
hunt him across the world until it finds him and devours him. Think about that next time you try to
adopt outside your species!"
He kicked the manticore's sides, and it opened its wings suddenly, making everyone duck. Then the
beast leaped straight up, cleared the trees, and flew away into the sky.
They fired after it, but they either missed or their bullets had no effect. The group ran out into the
open, staring after that hideous winged shape in the sky. It was headed due north, away from the
Quadrangle and the islands.
"Slasher, go after it!" Knuckles yelled, pointing.
She gave him a wild look. "Are you insane? I'm not going anywhere near it! It's another of those
stinking ultimate lifeforms!"
As they watched, the dwindling speck in the sky wheeled around. It dropped and grew larger, flying
back toward Blackguard. "What happened?" muttered Zephyer, squinting.
"Maybe he forgot something," said Knuckles.
The speck grew larger and larger, and now they saw something was dangling from it--the lead rope?
The beast glided down toward them, its legs dangling like a wasp's, and screams broke out among
the onlookers. A few fired at it, but someone yelled, "Don't shoot! It's got Mori!"
As it passed over the yard it dropped something that landed with a thud on the grass. Several
policemen ran to it, and Knuckles did, too. It was Mori, and his left arm had been chewed off at the
shoulder. He was unconscious, and as one of the men pulled off his belt to apply a tourniquet, the
manticore flew by again.
Everywhere people threw themselves flat, but Zephyer watched it and yelled, "Come down and fight,
creep!"
It circled around and landed on the roof of the house, folded its wings and crouched there, its
scorpion tail arched.
"Zeff!" Knuckles appeared at her side. "That vial of blood is gone! Where's Talon?"
"I don't know!" She looked around wildly. "Talon!"
He darted out of the trees and ran to them, unable to keep his eyes off the manticore on the roof.
"Sir, what do we do? It tore his arm off! And--and look at it!"
They looked at the monster and saw its jaws were chewing. "I think I'm gonna be sick," said
Suddenly the manticore leaped off the roof, landed on the lawn and sprang toward them over the
heads of the police. "Talon, get down!" Knuckles yelled, and held up his shield as the stinger slashed
down. It glanced off the shield, and at the same time the forelegs pawed and kicked at the echidnas.
Knuckles blocked the blows, then slashed at the nearest leg with the Emerald Sword.
Razor-sharp crystal met rock-hard exoskeleton and sheared it almost in two. At the same time
Zephyer swung at the other leg. Her blow was not as powerful, but her blade bit deep into the other
foreleg. The manticore made a growling, snarling sound, and its jaws and mandibles gnashed
together. It sprang over them on its long legs and pivoted about, trying to reach Talon. "Oh no you
don't!" Knuckles yelled, leaping and swinging at its chest. He fell short, but the manticore dodged
Now the police and animal control people were firing tranquilizer darts at the beast, but it ignored
them. Knuckles kept after it, hoping for another swipe at its injured forelegs. Behind him, Zephyer
grabbed Talon and dragged him behind a line of police, who had formed up in front of Mori in case
the monster decided to finish its meal.
As they stood there panting, Mori's eyes opened and he looked at Zephyer and Talon. "Hello," he
whispered, smiling. "It's going to eat you, Konya."
"What?" snarled Zephyer. "Shut up, you sicko!"
"Really," said Mori to Talon. "It ate the vial along with my arm and the bridle. Manticores are
known for their appetites. Once it has tasted you, it won't rest until it has eaten you. It may also
come after me, but I don't mind. It will eventually taste the echidnas, and eat them as well."
Zephyer looked at Talon, then at the manticore. "Knuckles!" she yelled.
He retreated from battle, and his spot was taken up by four animal control people with cattleprods.
"What?" he panted.
Zephyer relayed what Mori had said, keeping a hand on Talon's arm. Knuckles looked at Talon,
then the manticore. "Right. Round up the Chaotix and get everybody to the Floating Island. Go to
Hidden Palace. There's defenses there."
Zephyer thought of the weapons cache and nodded. "What about you?"
"I'll come soon," he said. "If we can't neutralize it with conventional weapons, then--"
The manticore roared, a lion's roar with hissing and clicking in it. Knuckles waved at Zephyer.
"Go!"
Zephyer pulled off her helmet and thrust it at Knuckles. "Here!" Then she grabbed Talon and darted
away to find the Chaotix.
The Chaotix were up by the house where they had been helping raid Mori's basement, but were now
watching everything in fascinated horror. Zephyer relayed Knuckles's instructions and shepherded
them all out to the portable teleporter. They warped to the Floating Island, and from there to Hidden
Palace, where they set about barricading the entry passages.
Knuckles clamped the helmet on his head and watched the others battle the manticore. They were
firing everything they had at it--bullets lasers, stun guns, and nothing worked. Bullets bounced off,
and lasers left scorch marks but couldn't penetrate the hide. The only thing the manticore disliked
were the cattle prods, and when it sprang after Zephyer and Talon, it was the cattle prods that beat it
No sooner had they teleported than the manticore leaped into the sky and flew in a circle, its
mandibles clicking as it sniffed. Then it turned and flew northwest, toward the Floating Island.
"No!" Knuckles yelled.
He sprinted down to where the teleporter was, only to see it beam itself out in a flash of light. "No!"
Knuckles roared, watching the manticore fly.
He heard running footsteps and turned to see Slasher as she jogged to a halt. "Climb on," she panted.
"We'll race him."
Knuckles had no qualms about riding Slasher this time. He leaped onto her back, and she launched
herself into the sky. He could feel her trembling as he clung to her, and her powerful wings surged
beneath him. He glanced out at her wings and saw the feathers were only half grown. That had to
slow her down.
He turned on his communicator. "Zephyer!"
Her reply came in a burst of static. "Knuckles? What's happening?"
"It's flying to the island. I'm pursuing it on Slasher."
Zephyer exclaimed in a staticy buzz. "We're in Hidden Palace. Can it get down here?"
"It must have a supernatural sense of smell. Get everybody under cover." Knuckles paused, then
said, "Zephyer, move the island into the middle of the Quadrangle and secure the stationary hover
command."
"Okay Knuckles." The good thing about Zephyer was that she was dependable when the chips were
down. He watched as his island began to move in the distance. "Slasher, fly west!" he called against
the wind in his face.
"Right." The raptor turned and flew toward the sinking sun. The manticore was flying toward the
island by sight alone, and would follow a curved path that was longer than it expected.
"Well, I've meant to fly into the Quadrangle this whole visit," called Slasher over her shoulder.
"What are you putting the island in it for?"
"A theory," said Knuckles. "Sonic and Shadow beat the biolizard by going super, right? Zephyer
can't go super! So I'm boosting our chances."
"I don't follow your logic," said Slasher, "but I'll help you fight it.
Onward they flew as the Floating Island moved to intercept the sun ahead of them. The manticore
was far to their left now, and Knuckles hoped it was tiring. Living in a barn all its life couldn't have
toughened its muscles.
They reached the island and flew over it, watching to see where the manticore would land. It headed
for Sandopolis, and Knuckles had a sudden superstitious fear that it knew there was an entrance to
Lava Reef there. But how could it know?
He and Slasher pursued it, saw it land near the ruins, and dropped to the sand, themselves. The
manticore folded its wings and stood still, its body pulsing as it panted. It was facing away from
them, but the eyes in the back of its head could see them. Beside him, Slasher tensed.
"Distract it," he whispered, drawing his sword.
But before either of them could move, the manticore sprang away across the sand, leaping walls and
pillars, toward the pyramid. Slasher and Knuckles looked at each other and sprinted after it.
The manticore's legs were so long that it outdistanced them and was inside the pyramid by the time
they reached it. Knuckles cursed and dove into the entrance, Slasher following him. "Where's the
Lava Reef entrance?" she asked him.
"It's a ventilation shaft," said Knuckles. "It's on a lower level. Come on!"
He led Slasher down narrow stairs and sloping shafts, wading through soft sand and pelting through
wide halls, lit by the glow from Knuckles's sword. He knew all the shortcuts through the upper levels
of the pyramid, and made use of them. The manticore had only its sense of smell.
Knuckles and Slasher arrived in the wide hallway with a ten foot wide ventilation shaft in the stone
floor, and paused for a moment to catch their breaths and listen for the manticore. "It hasn't been
here," said Slasher, inhaling. "We beat it."
"Not for long," said Knuckles, hearing the tapping of its legs as it galloped up the passage toward
"Get back," said Slasher, stepping into the middle of the passage. As the manticore rounded the last
corner and its mismatched body filled the corridor, Slasher sprang at it with an attack roar. At the
same time Knuckles ran forward and swung the Emerald Sword with all his strength, the blade
shearing off the spiky insect leg at the knee. The leg curled up, but there was no blood.
The manticore knocked Slasher aside with a sweep of its head, then pounced on Knuckles, jaws
slavering and insect-eyes unblinking. It knocked him down with a hooked forefoot and bit at him,
but Knuckles protected himself with his shield. Its breath was hot and reeked of carrion.
But it didn't want him. As soon as he was down, it stepped over him, pulled in its limbs and crawled
down the ventilation shaft. "Slasher!" Knuckles yelled.
She picked herself up, panting, and ran to the shaft. "It's already gone," she announced. "I can't get
down there."
"Just jump in," said Knuckles. "It turns into a slide."
Slasher gave him a dark look, but there was no time to lose. She turned around backwards and slid
into the shaft. After a moment Knuckles followed her.
The shaft was long and dark, leading straight down to Lava Reef and filled with a hot roaring
updraft. The stink of the manticore filled the shaft, and its venom and saliva had dripped onto the
stone. Knuckles cursed it and hoped Hidden Palace was blocked off. He mentally ran through all the
weapons in the stockpile, and knew that none of them were stronger than what the police had used.
He reached the bottom and found Slasher already bounding down the passage, snarling to herself.
He ran after her and the manticore.
Slasher caught up with the monster first, and Knuckles arrived just in time to see her leap up its side,
grab the base of its wing in her jaws and bite down. The bone cracked and the manticore wailed and
turned, trying to bite her or sting her with its tail. Knuckles ran up and sliced off its other foreleg.
That leg curled up, and the manticore fell to its knees, snarling.
Slasher was hanging from the underside of the monster's bat wing, and she began to claw at the
leathery membrane with her sickle-claws, shredding it like silk. The lethal tail struck at her over and
over, but it only stung its own wing and back.
The spider-legs that were curled under the manticore's belly unfolded and planted their feet on the
ground. The manticore stood up on them, curling its two remaining lion-feet under its body. It was
not as tall, now, but creepier with its leg-joints high above its back. One of these new legs reached
up and brushed Slasher off its wing.
She hit the ground, bounced to her feet and bit the offending leg. Her powerful jaws crunched it in
half, and black blood oozed out and spattered the cave floor. Knuckles saw that the foot was missing
from a leg on the other side, and suddenly knew what had happened the night Slasher appeared on
his porch, half-mad and bloody.
She gagged and retreated, shaking her head and spitting out the foul blood. She began coughing and
ran into a neighboring tunnel, and the manticore ran on, ignoring its wounds.
Knuckles chased it through the tunnels and caverns, shocked at how it was choosing the most direct
route to Hidden Palace. He turned on his communicator. "Zephyer! It's in Lava Reef and it's coming
straight for you!"
"We have the entries blocked," she replied, "but you're going to have to kill it out there. I'm not
letting it near Talon."
"It's so fast! I may not be able to stop it. Slasher's run off, and Zeff--"
His communicator clicked as she disconnected. "Zephyer!" he exclaimed. She had hung up on him!
He furiously tried to reconnect, but there was no reply. He continued running, ducking into low
passages and swerving around crystal clusters, feeling the heat of Lava Reef growing. The Hidden
Palace entrance was in the main cavern where the lava pools were, and the manticore was headed
straight for it.
"Knuckles!"
He looked back and saw Zephyer running toward him through a side passage. "What are you doing
here?" he snarled as she ran after him and the manticore.
"I'm not going to let you fight this thing alone!"
"What about Hidden Palace?"
"I've done all I can there. I got out by teleporter. Is that stuff on the floor blood?"
"Yeah, Slasher bit a leg and it's bleeding this black stuff. Are you sure it can't get in to Hidden
Palace?"
"I don't know!" she wailed. "I used the barricades and the Chaotix are in there, and I pulled some
crystals to help! Knux, don't let it bite you! It'll eat you alive!"
"Yeah, I heard."
The two ran for another mile and were gasping for breath when they arrived in the vast cavern in the
middle of Lava Reef. The manticore was already on the other side and pacing back and forth, back
and forth at the Hidden Palace entrance.
"Can it get in?" gasped Knuckles as they slowed to a walk.
"I grew crystals over it," panted Zephyer. "It can probably smash them if it figures out how, I didn't
have time to force-grow the big ones."
Knuckles stared at her, but there was no time to marvel. The manticore's movements were becoming
faster and more excited, as if it could smell its prey beyond the blocked entrance. The echidnas
hurried toward it, swords drawn.
As they approached, the manticore spun to face them, stumped and angry. It sprang at Knuckles,
who blocked its blow with his shield. Its mandibles closed on his shield and yanked him into the air,
nearly dislocating his shoulder. It tossed its head and threw him across the cave. He landed in a roll
and struck the wall so hard it stunned him. He lay there a few minutes, unable to breathe or think,
watching as Zephyer swung her sword at its face, trying to reach its eyes.
Knuckles's lungs began working again, and he struggled to his feet. He was going to be sore in the
morning. "Zephyer, get away from it!" he croaked, hurrying forward. She didn't hear him, and one of
her wild swings pierced one of the multifaceted eyes.
The manticore screamed and leaped backwards twenty feet, kicking up gravel from the cave floor
with its flailing legs. Black blood ran down its face.
"Score!" Zephyer yelled, holding her sword in the air. As Knuckles hurried to her, she held out a
hand to show him she was carrying a miniature of the Master Emerald. He took it from her and put
it in his shield hand.
"What do you expect the Master Emerald to do?" he asked her.
"I don't know," she said. "You're the one who wanted to fly into the Blackguard Quadrangle."
Knuckles's scattered wits returned, and he looked at the emerald in his hand. "Right." He clenched
his fist over it and said, "Master Emerald, island protection initiate."
The Emerald Sword lit like a floodlight, Zephyer's sword blazed gold, and power rippled over her
armor and Knuckles's helmet.
"Isn't this the command you were afraid to use?" asked Zephyer.
"It's worth a try," said Knuckles. "Let's dice up that bug." They charged at the manticore.
The beast was waiting for them, jaws open. Knuckles felt a twinge of doubt in the back of his mind,
even as he and Zephyer swung their weapons and a wave of destructive chaos energy blasted off
them like a whirlwind and struck the monster. "Wait!" he commanded, holding back Zephyer from
attacking again. "Dang, I forgot, it's a stinking ultimate lifeform!"
Instead of being killed instantly, the manticore absorbed the chaos energy and used it to heal its
injured legs and eye.
"Oh, fantastic idea, genius!" Zephyer snapped, glaring at him. "You just HEALED it!" A bolt of
electricity jumped between them, and the manticore squealed and retreated.
"Electricity!" Knuckles exclaimed. "Of course! That's why only the cattle prods hurt it!"
"What?" Zephyer looked blank.
"Look, get on the other side of it and think alike!" hollered Knuckles, running toward the manticore.
Zephyer ran to its other side, and they looked at each other through its legs. "The Master Emerald!"
Knuckles shouted.
Five hundred volts snapped between them, knocking them both down. The manticore leaped straight
up in the air and tried to fly, but its broken wing flailed and it landed back on its feet. It ran for the
Hidden Palace entrance, which was covered by a fan of white crystal spikes. It began clawing at
them, chipping some of them loose with its hard insect legs.
"Same thing again!" yelled Knuckles, and they shocked it again. The manticore only redoubled its
efforts, bending to bite the crystal. It tore one loose, chewed and swallowed it as the echidnas
watched in horror. "It's gonna get through!" cried Zephyer. She ran in among the monster's legs and
slashed at the side of its face. At once it turned and grabbed Zephyer around the waist in its
mandibles.
Knuckles ran forward, but the manticore sidestepped and knocked him down with three legs at once.
Before he could rise it stood on him, crushing him against the stone with its entire thousand pounds.
As the breath was forced from his lungs, he looked up and saw that the only thing keeping Zephyer
from being sheared in half by the mandibles was her armor. She was stabbing at its face over and
over, and its jaws were biting at her breastplate, trying to tear it off.
The manticore shook Zephyer viciously, then dashed her against the ground, and suddenly she
wasn't fighting anymore. The sword fell from her limp hand and clattered on the ground. It dropped
her among the broken crystal shards, planted a foot on her stomach and tore off her breastplate with
its mandibles, throwing it aside. Now it would eat her alive.
Hopelessly she looked at Knuckles, the wind knocked out of her. She was going to die in the next
five minutes and there was nothing either of them could do about it.
Knuckles gripped the Master Emerald and tried to throw the monster's foot off his back, but it was
too strong, too heavy. He watched Zephyer as the manticore's jaws came down the final time, and
mouthed, "I love you."
Their eyes met for a fraction of a second, and the Master Emerald's power blazed between them in a
spectacular lightning bolt that made their swords sing. It arced through the manticore's head in a
blaze of blue light, knocking Zephyer out of its jaws. The manticore did a sideways flip, landed on
its back and lay still.
For a long moment it was silent, the only sound coming from their swords, which were resonating a
high A note in response to the Master Emerald. Knuckles lifted his head, dropped his sword and
shield, and dragged himself the fifteen feet that separated him from Zephyer. Her eyes were closed,
and blood was soaking her shirt where the straps holding the breastplate had broken. "Zeff," he said,
kneeling over her. "Look at me. Please be alive."
"You won't fry me again like that, will you?" she said through her teeth.
"It works both ways, Zeff," he said. "We killed it. Look."
She opened her eyes and looked toward the manticore, which was lying motionless with its head
charred black, and one leg twitching.
She dared look at him again, then sat up with a groan. "Are you all right?"
"Just some bruises," said Knuckles. "You're bleeding."
She looked down. "It's just a scratch." She looked at him and said, "Okay, NOW we know the
monster dangerous combined thought of all."
"Really," said Knuckles. He pulled her to him and kissed her in relief.
They were thus engaged when they heard a snarl, and Slasher jumped on the manticore's exposed
belly and began slashing and clawing it.
"Hey Slasher!" Knuckles yelled. "It's dead already!"
"I'm making sure!" she roared. "Ultimate lifeforms are very tough, you know!" She continued
mutilating the carcass as Knuckles helped Zephyer to her feet. They were both weak and shaky from
the electrical shock. They picked up their discarded weapons and walked through the shattered
entrance toward Hidden Palace, leaving Slasher to maul her enemy, furious that she had not been
there for the final blow.
25. No Echidna is an Island: Chapter 10: One final problem
Chapter 10: One final problem
Talon was sick with worry when Knuckles smashed the crystals covering the Hidden Palace
entrance. He and Zephyer walked in, and Talon ran to them and hugged them both. "It's dead," said
Knuckles. "It's safe now."
"Yes sir." Talon looked at Zephyer's broken breastplate and Knuckles's grimed shield, and marveled
that they weren't hurt worse.
"Zeff," said Knuckles, "take Talon up to the house. The Chaotix and I have to warp the carcass back
to the mainland for evidence. I'll be home after that."
"Okay," said Zephyer, reluctant to leave him looking so tired. She looked at the Chaotix, who were
bursting with curiosity, but biting back the questions. "Look after him, you guys."
Vector saluted. "Aye aye, Zephyer!"
She took Talon's hand and led him out to the teleporter antechamber as Knuckles took off his
helmet. "Get some ropes," he told the Chaotix. "There's a lot of manticore hamburger out there."
Zephyer put Talon to bed in his old room, then went to her room, took off her armor and shoes, and
crawled under the blankets without changing clothes. She didn't even care about the scrapes on her
sides--she just wanted to sleep. She was asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow, and didn't even
wake up when Talon came in and snuggled up to her, too traumatized to sleep alone.
It was after eleven o'clock when Knuckles got home. He dragged himself to the couch, flopped on it
and snored. He was still in the same position hours later when Zephyer awoke and went hunting for
him. She draped a blanket over him with a smile, and went back to bed.
When the echidnas called Howe the next day at noon, the ferret was purring with glee. "The whole
Blackguard Island chain is talking about this trial. This morning they brought in Mori and his
lawyer--I can clean that wimp's clock any day--and at first the jury felt sorry for him. I mean, he's
missing an arm and everything. And then we pulled back the curtain and showed them the
manticore! All sympathy went out the window. Especially after we told him what he'd done to his
kids. I'm expecting a verdict of a life sentence from them."
"How was Slasher's testimony?" asked Knuckles. He and Zephyer were sitting on the porch sipping
fruit drinks. Talon was slouched in a lawn chair, playing a game on Knuckles's handheld computer.
"Her testimony was brilliant," said Howe. "She was very calm and lucid about everything, and going
feral is something the Blackguard citizens understand, what with that horrible school being here."
"How's my lawsuit coming?"
"Wonderful." Howe savored the news. "There have been other lawsuits, but the school has its own
panel of defense lawyers who always got them settled out of court. Not this time! This case has
blown that school wide open. They'll go belly up a dozen times over once I'm through with them."
Her voice took on a more serious note. "Talon is without a proper guardian now, and your adoption
approval process still isn't finished."
Knuckles glanced at Zephyer, who had been listening, and they both looked at Talon. "So what'll
happen?"
Howe sighed. "They'll place him in foster care temporarily."
"Argh!" Knuckles slapped his forehead. "So we're back where we started! When do they place him?"
"Two o'clock this afternoon," said Howe. "I'll meet you at Orphan Aid."
Knuckles shut off his com and looked at Zephyer. "Ever get the feeling that everything we do is
jinxed?"
"Yes." Zephyer looked at him. "Hey, no electricity."
"You're right. Think about Talon." They did, and nothing happened.
"Maybe we blew out the charge with that last one," said Zephyer.
"Good," said Knuckles. "I was getting to the point where I was afraid to look at you."
"Likewise." They both looked at Talon, and the bad news hung over them like a storm cloud.
"Tal," said Knuckles. The anteater looked up. "I just talked to Howe. She said you have to placed in
temporary foster care until our approval process is finished."
Talon stared at him blankly for a moment, then dissolved into tears and put his head in his hands.
Zephyer rose and went to him. No one spoke--there was nothing to say. It seemed the past two weeks
had all been in vain.
Howe met them at the Orphan Air office, and didn't comment on the desolate expressions of the
echidnas and anteater. She explained the foster-child process to Talon and had him sign a few
papers, and watch a video. He didn't speak and performed mechanically, as if he was incapable of
feeling any more pain.
Finally the ferret said, "Would you like to meet the foster parent? He's in the next room."
"Yeah!" Knuckles jumped up. "And if he's not a nice guy, I'm gonna pound his head!"
Howe raised a hand. "No violence, please." She opened an adjoining door and ushered them
A long figure rose to his feet, and everyone but Howe stared at him. "Espio?" said Knuckles. "What
are you doing in here?"
The chameleon's grin was big enough to wrap around his head. "While you guys were treasure
hunting, I got myself approved for foster care. So now Talon goes to live with me for a while. And
hey, if I happen to live on the Floating Island, it doesn't matter, does it?"
"Of all the diabolical--" Zephyer began, then started to smile. "--cunning angelic lizards!" She ran up
and hugged Espio until he choked. "Now, now," he said, pulling away, "no attacking other clients,
now! Come on, Talon, you go with me."
Talon was grinning as he walked up to him. This change of fortune had left him stunned, but it was
obviously no joke. Knuckles was just staring with his mouth open. Espio laid one finger alongside
his snout-horn and winked, then strode out with Talon.
They all met up at the same teleporter afterwards. "After you," said Knuckles to Espio and Talon.
Espio stuck his nose in the air and said, "Come along, slave--I mean son." He grinned as he and
Talon stepped on the teleporter and vanished.
"I ought to pound him for that," said Knuckles.
"The point is, you can," said Zephyer. They joined hands and stepped on the teleporter, and warped
A few days later, Knuckles entered the house and shed his dripping raincoat. Outdoors was a solid wall of rain, and the air was heavy and warm. "Let it rain," thought Knuckles, hanging his raincoat on a nail by the door. "It'll wash away the manticore's stink."
Talon was lying on the couch with a book, and looked up as Knuckles entered. "Hello, sir."
"Heya Talon. Where's Zephyer?"
"In your room, I guess," said Talon, sitting up. "Can I see it?"
Knuckles walked over, slid off his ring and handed it to Talon. It was a copy of his brass one, but this time in gold--two thick bands wrapped around each other in a loop.
"It's better than the one Tails made," said Talon, grinning. His grin was even more lopsided than usual because of the bandage over his eye and cheek.
Knuckles was glad to see him resting, and even more glad to have him in the house. "You bet it is," he said, putting the ring on again. "Take it easy, Tal."
"Yes sir." Talon returned to his book, and Knuckles went in search of Zephyer.
She was sitting at their bedroom window, watching the rain with the window open, and the room was full of the clean, fresh scent. Knuckles walked up beside her and looked out at the trees bowing in the distance. "Quite a storm."
"Yes." She looked up at him. "Did you get it?" He pulled off his ring and handed it to her. She fingered it and tapped it against her teeth. "Real gold this time, I see."
"Yep." Knuckles slid it back on and sat down beside his wife. They watched the rain, and Knuckles was struck by a rare mood of self-doubt as he thought of the significance of their rings. Gold to symbolize true love ... but his ring had been brass. He looked at his wife and wondered if he loved her enough. Or if she really loved him. He thought of the electric surge that had killed the manticore--she had to love him now. But ... he had forced her to. He had derobotized her, so what if she had only married him out of obligation? "Zeff ..."
She looked at him. "Hmm?"
He looked down. "Do you really love me?"
"Of course." She peered at him. "You're not having second thoughts about marrying me, are you? I know I was kind of pushy about you carrying a weapon ..."
"No, no, nothing like that. Why did you marry me in the first place?"
It was a plainitive question, and Zephyer frowned. She had never thought of Knuckles as insecure. "Because I love you, dummy."
He fingered his ring. "I kind of ... forced you. After I derobotized you, you didn't have a choice."
"Hello, island to Knuckles," said Zephyer. "You'd been courting me a long time before that, and in case you forget, we had a deal. I'd marry you if you could derobotize me."
"But you wanted to back out, and I wouldn't let you ..."
He looked up to see Zephyer lean close and study his face. "All right, what have you done with Knuckles?" She shook her head. "Knux, the reason I threw such a fit was because I was robotized! You know that whole sordid mess I was in. Quit the pity party already. I knew what I was getting myself into."
He smiled. "You never cut me any slack, do you?"
"Somebody's got to whip you into shape sometimes," said Zephyer, putting an arm around him. He pulled her close and kissed her slowly, stroking her hair. Then he kissed her forehead and held her to his chest as he had done when she was recovering from derobotization.
She lifted her head and stroked his face. "If you're mad at me, just tell me."
"I'm not mad at you. I was just thinking."
"You think too much, mister Guardian."
"One of us has to."
She glared. "What did you say?"
He grinned. "I'm kidding."
They were in the middle of another kiss when they heard the front door blow open, and the footsteps and voices of the Chaotix. "Uh oh," said Zephyer, pulling away. "What are they doing back so soon?"
"Maybe the test wasn't as long as they thought," said Knuckles, getting up.
"Look at this, Talon!" Vector was whooping as the echidnas walked in. He pulled an envelope out from under his raincoat and waved it around. "This is my private detective license!"
"So you got it, eh?" said Knuckles.
"So did I!" said Espio, and Charmy produced his own.
"How about you, Mighty?" asked Zephyer as the armadillo entered last.
He held up his envelope with a grin. "Check it out! A license to snoop!"
Zephyer looked at the floor and yelped. "You guys are dripping all over my clean floor! Ditch the raincoats, pronto!"
The Chaotix sheepishly pulled off their coats and hung them beside the door. As they moved toward the living room, talking about the test, the door opened yet again and Slasher blew in, half-open wings streaming rainwater.
"Slasher!" Zephyer cried, slapping a hand to her forehead.
The raptor looked at the wet floor. "It's already soaked."
Zephyer threw a towel at her and left the room.
As Knuckles followed the Chaotix into the living room, Talon sidled past him and walked to Slasher. Knuckles watched from around the corner as Talon shyly took the towel and helped Slasher dry her wings. Then they both dried the floor with furtive looks at Knuckles.
He grinned and left.
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EELA
E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America
Tipo de proyecto: Proyecto europeo
Fuente Financiadora: European Commision
Programa: UE 6º Programa Marco
Periodo: Enero 2006 - Diciembre 2007
Estado: Terminado
Web: EELA
See the follow-on EELA-2 Project
The EELA (E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America) project aims at establishing a bridge between the existing e-Infrastructures in Europe and those emerging in Latin America, through the creation of an interoperable Grid Infrastructure - based on the RedCLARA and GÉANT2 networks - for the development and deployment of advanced applications in Biomedicine, High Energy Physics, e-Learning and Climate. EELA is expected to help reducing the digital divide in Latin-America, making available to researchers a high performance e-Infrastructure for advanced investigations, later extendable to a larger community of users. The EELA project has three main objectives:
Establish a collaboration network between European institutions where Grid expertise exists (e.g. EGEE Project), and Latin American institutions where Grid activities are emerging.
Set up a pilot e-Infrastructure in LA, interoperable with the EGEE one in Europe allowing to run enhanced applications thus enabling dissemination of knowledge and experience on Grid technology.
Set up a steady framework for e-Science collaboration between Europe and Latin America.
The EELA consortium involves 21 leading institutions around Europe and Latin America (the Spanish partners are CIEMAT (Coordinator), CSIC-IFCA, Red.ES, UC and UPV.
The EELA project is organized in four Work Packages (WP):
WP1: Project Administration and Technical Management.
WP2: Pilot Test-bed Operation and Support. It implements all necessary services to access the LA-EU e-Infrastructure, provides a framework for the end user and makes available resources to run applications.
WP3: Identification and Support of Grid Enhanced Applications.
WP4: Dissemination Activities. It imparts the Grid knowledgeadvertises EELA activities and provides training on Grid technology.
Contribution of the Santander Meteorology Group:
Our group contributed in the following workpackages:
Modern climate science deals with different sources of global climate simulations and geographically distributed observational data
(surface, atmosphere, ocean, etc.) stored in different platforms and formats. These sources of data can jointly help to solve many important problems, such as the effects of climate change on different regions of
interest. To this aim, efficient problem-driven statistical analysis tools are required for discovering knowledge, or useful information, within the huge amount of information. Data mining and machine learning techniques have been developed in the last decades to deal with this task, and different alternatives have been studied to make easier the process in a distributed environment such as the Grid.
Climate Application is composed of three sub-applications working together for forecast climate:
CAM Model (Community Atmospheric Model): The Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) is the latest in a series of global atmosphere
models developed at NCAR for the weather and climate research communities.
WRF Model (Weather Research & Forecasting Model): Is a limited-area model designed to simulate or predict regional atmospheric circulation. This model can work with nested domains with different
resolutions and require as input the boundary conditions from a global model (e.g., the CAM model).
SOM (Self Organizing Maps) for climate data: Due to the high-dimensional character of the data involved in the climate simulations, it is necessary to first analyze and simplify the data in
order to extract some useful knowledge. Some data mining techniques are appropriate for this context. Unsupervised clustering techniques allow partitioning the simulation databases, producing realistic weather or
climate models of great variability governing the global dynamics. Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) are amongst the most popular clustering algorithms, which are especially suitable for high dimensional data visualization and modelling.
Other Applications: Volcano Sonification
Current knowledge of volcanic eruptions does not yet allow scientists to predict future eruptions. The EGEE and EELA Projects are trying to put the scientific community one step nearer to the prediction asset by means of the sonification of volcano seismograms. Thus, the translation of the patterns of Mount Etna (Italy) and Mount Tungurahua’s (Ecuador) volcanic behaviour into sound waves has been carried out within the context of these Projects.
Data sonification is currently used in several fields and for different purposes: science and engineering, education and training. It acts mainly as data analysis and interpretation tool.
Several tutorials and workshops are frequently organised by the project. The former aims to ensures that all users fully understand the characteristics of the offered grid services and that they have enough
technical knowledge to properly use the EELA infrastructure. All training material produced and used in EELA training events has been published in an open repository at http://documents.eu-eela.org/
The main goal of the workshops is to present EELA project to the local authorities, decision makers and scientific community, besides assessing the interest of local institutions to collaborate with EELA.
EELA proposes innovative technologies and strategies.
Technologically, the challenge is to efficiently share large amount of data across a wide network area through a global file system. This integrated platform shall enhance the computing capability in Europe
and even more in Latin America, thanks to the possibility of redistributing the global computational workload by migrating jobs across national borders, in a way that is totally transparent to end users.
From the strategic point of view, the EELA project will deploy a computing and storage infrastructure through a deep integration of existing national high-end platforms, tightly coupled to a dedicated
network by means of advanced Grid software. Strategies of coordinated operation have been identified and agreed. The result will be an integrated infrastructure whose capabilities shall be more efficient
than the sum of its constituent parts.
The benefits of the Grid enhanced applications running on the EELA infrastructure are twofold: besides their obvious scientific importance, several of these applications will have a noticeable social impact. New inhibitors for Malaria, Influenza and other neglected diseases (responsible for the daily death of thousands of people), access to Education for isolated people and powerful climate prediction
are some good examples.
Gutiérrez, J.M., Cofiño, A.S., Fernández-Quiruelas, V., Fernández, J., García-Torre, F.
Instituciones: UC
Tags: CAM model, GRID workflow, GRID computing, eScience
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It takes a village [to complete this blog]
Published by The Muse on December 25, 2014
In Africa we have a saying “it takes a village to raise a child”.
In Asia I have a saying, “it takes a village to raise a photographer.”
We found that village, this morning – Anegundi. It’s but a small hamlet about 5km outside of Hampi – a riverside town in Karnataka that draws as many climbers to its bouldering landscape as it does travellers to its laid back atmosphere.
Garth and I were on our usual morning-light mission. We had been failing badly the past few days and really needed a reward for our early morning efforts. Cloud cover had become enemy number one. Our own ineptitude silently slid into second place. But, to be fair, it was probably a close tie. We were feeling despondent and a bit down. We really needed this morning to work for us, not against us. So you can imagine our speed and delight when we saw pink wispy tails cutting through the pre-dawn sky. This was it. The Gods (and there are many in these parts) were smiling down on us travellers.
Or maybe not. Our motorbike wouldn’t start. No amount of kick-starting, petrol tank shaking or hair pulling seemed to do the trick. After 10 minutes, our sense of humour was failing us, but not our stubbornness. We only had the bike for another 2 hours and we still had petrol in the tank. We weren’t about to give up. We’re thrifty like that.
But as we watched the red sun switch on the electric green rice paddies, we started to question whether the Gods had been smiling down on the early morning climbers instead.
But Garth wasn’t giving up. He was putting his back into it, but I could see he wanted to put his fist through it. As it happens in India, his persistence paid off and we were suddenly off, chasing the sun and pushing our petrol gauge and to its limits.
But when we got to the Monkey Temple, we realised that the sun wasn’t where it should be, or at least where we wanted it to be. So we pushed on, in the hope of capturing some early morning routines on the road and in the passing villages.
And then on a whim, we decided to take a short right and go into a bigger village for a chai (tea).
We found a great spot in the centre of the village, where a beautiful woman made us delicious ginger chai while her 3-year-old daughter “my name is Krishna Kamari” disappeared and reappeared from beneath her sari skirt.
The stage was set for Anegundi to come alive with morning routines in front of our lens and under the gentle gaze of the golden morning sun. As it turns out the people were as gentle and generous as the sun. They waved, smiled and returned as many greetings as they offered them.
We couldn’t believe our good fortune. In this beautiful setting, where bold colours, rough textures and proud villagers were working together like a good curry and rice, we were welcomed and treated like the official village photographers. The generosity of this small, humble village was raising our spirits and photography to a higher level. What they gave us was more than just their time, better than just strong poses into our humble lenses. They gave us access into their lives and routines, albeit briefly or in a small way. It was generous and we were grateful. We left with a lighter heart and a camera, heavy with stories we caught but a small glimpse of.
Our thanks to the people of Anegundi…
Merry Christmas one and all….
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Utility of an “Allosteric Site-Impaired” M2 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor as a Novel Construct for Validating Mechanisms of Action of Synthetic and Putative Endogenous Allosteric Modulators
Ee Von Moo, Patrick M. Sexton, Arthur Christopoulos and Celine Valant
Molecular Pharmacology November 2018, 94 (5) 1298-1309; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.118.112490
Ee Von Moo
Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Patrick M. Sexton
Arthur Christopoulos
Celine Valant
Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) are exemplar models for understanding G protein–coupled receptor (GPCR) allostery, possessing a “common” allosteric site in an extracellular vestibule (ECV) for synthetic modulators including gallamine, strychnine, and brucine. In addition, there is intriguing evidence of endogenous peptides/proteins that may target this region at the M2 mAChR. A common feature of synthetic and endogenous M2 mAChR negative allosteric modulators (NAMs) is their cationic nature. Using a structure-based approach, we previously designed a mutant M2 mAChR (N410K+T423K) to specifically abrogate binding of ECV cationic modulators (Dror et al., 2013). Herein, we used this “allosteric site-impaired” receptor to investigate allosteric interactions of synthetic modulators as well as basic peptides (poly-l-arginine, endogenously produced protamine, and major basic protein). Using [3H]N-methylscopolamine equilibrium and kinetic binding and functional assays of guanosine 5′-O-[γ-thio]triphosphate [35S] binding and extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 phosphorylation, we found modest effects of the mutations on potencies of orthosteric antagonists and an increase in the affinity of the cognate agonist, acetylcholine, likely reflecting the effect of the mutations on the access/egress of these ligands into the orthosteric pocket. More importantly, we noted a significant abrogation in affinity for all synthetic or peptidic modulators at the mutant mAChR, validating their allosteric nature. Collectively, these findings provide evidence for a hitherto-unappreciated role of endogenous cationic peptides interacting allosterically at the M2 mAChR and identify the allosteric site-impaired GPCR as a tool for validating NAM activity as well as a potential candidate for future chemogenetic strategies to understand the physiology of endogenous allosteric substances.
G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) participate in all aspects of physiology and are the largest class of drug targets (Santos et al., 2017). However, in many instances, it can be extremely difficult to specifically target one GPCR subtype over another. One such example is the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) family (Caulfield and Birdsall, 1998). Dysfunction of mAChRs is involved in numerous disorders (Abrams et al., 2006; Langmead et al., 2008), and consequently, several Food and Drug Administration−approved mAChR-targeting drugs have been developed. Unfortunately, all of these medicines interact with the orthosteric site, which is completely conserved between the five mAChRs (Thal et al., 2016) and can thus underlie unacceptable adverse effects (Wess et al., 2007). As a consequence, discovery efforts have shifted toward targeting fewer conserved allosteric sites on the mAChRs to overcome such selectivity challenges (Christopoulos, 2002).
Historically, the M2 mAChR has been one of the best-studied GPCRs in terms of allosteric targeting and remains an exemplar model for understanding mechanisms of allostery, particularly with regards to small-molecule negative allosteric modulators (NAMs) and, more recently, positive allosteric modulators (Christopoulos et al., 1998; Gregory et al., 2010; Valant et al., 2012; Dror et al., 2013; Kruse et al., 2013, 2014). One common feature of numerous classes of M2 mAChR–preferring NAMs is that they are cationic molecules (Gregory et al., 2007), and recent structural biology breakthroughs have provided mechanistic insights into why this is the case. Specifically, the mAChRs possess an extracellular vestibule (ECV) that constitutes the location of a topographically “common” allosteric site defined by a combination of both conserved and nonconserved amino acids as well as differences in charge distribution; the M2 mAChR shows the highest degree of electronegativity, of all mAChRs, in this region (Haga et al., 2012; Kruse et al., 2012; Thal et al., 2016).
Interestingly, GPCR allosteric sites have traditionally been regarded as domains assisting receptor folding, trafficking, and structural integrity, with the serendipitous advantage of possessing residues that can also be targeted by exogenous synthetic molecules (van der Westhuizen et al., 2015). Although this is most likely to be the case in the majority of instances, the widespread presence of GPCR allosteric sites suggests that there may also be a role for some of these sites in the actions of hitherto-unappreciated endogenous allosteric ligands (van der Westhuizen et al., 2015; Changeux and Christopoulos, 2016 [retracted]). That is, some allosteric sites may act as “orphan” binding sites for endogenous ligands. It is thus noteworthy that the polycationic human eosinophil major basic protein (MBP), a peptide that constitutes ∼50% of the inflammatory peptides released following infiltration and degranulation of eosinophils (Ackerman et al., 1983), can bind to the M2 mAChR in a potentially allosteric fashion (Jacoby et al., 1993). In addition to MBP, other basic peptides, such as protamine, dynorphin A (1-13), and myelin basic protein (Hu et al., 1992; Hu and el-Fakahany, 1993), have been suggested to negatively modulate the binding of the orthosteric antagonist radioligand N-[3H]methylscopolamine ([3H]NMS) at the M2 mAChR. However, the degree of inhibition exhibited by the latter peptides is substantial and thus indicative of either high negative cooperativity or a competitive mode of interaction.
Recently, using a combination of molecular dynamic simulations and structure-function analyses, we identified two key residues in the ECV of the M2 mAChR, Asn4106.58 and Thr4237.36 (superscripts refer to Ballesteros-Weinstein residue numbering), as playing a vital role in the binding of synthetic cationic NAMs, with mutation of both of these residues to lysine (N410K+T423K) significantly decreasing the binding affinity of the prototypical NAMs, gallamine and heptane-1,7-bis(dimethyl-3′phthalimodipropylammonium), via charge-charge repulsion (Dror et al., 2013). Based on this finding, it is possible that this mutant receptor may prove useful for studying and validating the mode of action of other classes of cationic modulators, either exogenous or endogenous, at the M2 mAChR. Thus, the aim of the current study was to perform a rigorous pharmacological characterization of the binding and functional properties of this “allosteric site-impaired” mutant receptor using a range of orthosteric and allosteric ligands, including small molecules and basic cationic peptides. We found that the mutant, although having modest effects on the actions of orthosteric ligands, has a greater impact on the binding and function of allosteric modulators, highlighting its potential as a useful construct not only for validating the allosteric ligand mode of action but also as a potential candidate for future utility in chemogenetic strategies for unmasking a role of putative endogenous allosteric substances of the M2 mAChR.
Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) and fetal bovine serum (FBS) were from Invitrogen (Carlsbad, CA) and JRH Biosciences (Lenexa, KS), respectively. Hygromycin was purchased from Roche Applied Science (Manheim, Germany). The AlphaScreen SureFire phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) assay kits were obtained from TGR Biosciences (Adelaide, SA, Australia). The AlphaScreen streptavidin donor beads and anti-IgG (protein A) acceptor beads used for phosphorylated ERK1/2 detection, AlphaScreen reagents, 384-well ProxiPlates, [3H]NMS (specific activity, 70.0 Ci/mmol), and guanosine 5′-O-[γ-thio]triphosphate [35S] ([35S]GTPγS; specific activity, 1250 Ci/mmol) were purchased from PerkinElmer Life Sciences (Waltham, MA). Myelin basic protein and poly-l-arginine were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO), protamine was purchased from Sapphire Bioscience (Redfern, NSW, Australia), and major basic protein was purchased from Cusabio (College Park, MD). All other chemicals were from Sigma-Aldrich and were of analytical grade.
FlpIn–Chinese hamster ovary (FlpIn-CHO) cells, stably transfected with the human wild-type (WT) or N410K+T423K M2 mAChRs, were generated as previously described (Dror et al., 2013). The cells were grown and maintained in DMEM supplemented with 5% (v/v) FBS and 100 μg/ml hygromycin-B. Cells were kept in a humidified incubator at 37°C containing 5% CO2, 95% O2.
Whole-Cell [3H]NMS Equilibrium Binding Assay.
FlpIn-CHO cells stably expressing human muscarinic M2 receptors (WT or N410K+T423K) were seeded into white opaque IsoPlates (Perkin Elmer Life Sciences, Waltham, MA) at 2.5 × 105 cells per well and then grown at 37°C for 20−24 hours. Cells were washed once with phosphate-buffered solution, 100 μl per well, followed by the addition of 80 μl per well of binding buffer (20 μM HEPES, 10 μM MgCl2, and 100 μM NaCl, pH 7.4) supplemented with 0.1% bovine serum albumin. All ligands were diluted in binding buffer at 10× their required final concentrations, and 10 μl per well was added. Nonspecific binding was determined using 100 μM atropine. For both the wild-type and the N410K+T423K M2 receptors, cells were equilibrated at 21°C for 4 hours with orthosteric ligand [acetylcholine (ACh) and atropine] or allosteric ligand (gallamine, strychnine, brucine, protamine, poly-l-arginine, or MBP) in the presence of a KD concentration of [3H]NMS (∼0.1 nM) in a total volume of 100 μl per well. Assays were terminated by removal of the drug-containing buffer, followed by 2× 50-μl washes per well with ice-cold 0.9% NaCl solution and addition of 100 μl per well of Optiphase Supermix scintillation liquid (Perkin Elmer Life Sciences). The levels of remaining bound radioligand and, therefore, the degree of specific radioligand inhibition were measured in disintegrations per minute on the Microbeta2 LumiJET 2460 microplate counter (PerkinElmer).
Whole-Cell [3H]NMS Dissociation Kinetic Binding Assay.
Cells expressing either the human WT or N410K+T423K M2 receptors were plated and washed as described earlier. Cells were then equilibrated with [3H]NMS (∼0.1 nM) for 2 hours at 21°C. Atropine (100 μM) alone or in the presence of a single (high) concentration of allosteric ligands (see Results) was then added at various time points to prevent the reassociation of [3H]NMS with the receptor. Termination of the assay and determination of radioactivity were performed as described earlier.
Whole-Cell [3H]NMS Association Kinetic Binding Assay.
To determine the association rate constant (kon) of the radioligand, four different concentrations of [3H]NMS (∼0.1, 0.3, 0.6, and 1 nM) were used. Cells expressing either the human WT or N410K+T423K M2 receptors were plated and washed as described earlier. Association was initiated by the addition of [3H]NMS at various time points. Termination of the assay and determination of radioactivity were performed as described earlier.
Membrane-Based [3H]NMS Equilibrium Binding Assay.
Cell membranes were prepared and stored as described previously (Valant et al., 2012). Membrane homogenates (20 μg) were incubated in a 1-ml total volume of binding buffer containing [3H]NMS (0.5 nM) and a range of concentrations of ACh at 37°C for 60 minutes. These experiments were performed in both the absence and presence of guanine nucleotides with 100 μM Gpp(NH)p (Guanosine 5′-[β,γ-imido]triphosphate). Nonspecific binding was defined using 10 μM atropine. The assay was terminated by rapid filtration through Whatman GF/B filters using a cell harvester (Brandel Inc., Gaithersburg, MD). Filters were washed three times with 3-ml aliquots of ice-cold 0.9% NaCl solution and dried before being transferred to polypropylene vials with 4 ml of scintillation mixture (Ultima Gold; PerkinElmer). Vials were then left to stand until the filters became uniformly translucent before radioactivity was determined using scintillation counting on a liquid scintillation analyzer (Tri-Carb 290 TR; PerkinElmer).
[35S]GTPγS Binding Assay.
Membrane homogenates (20 μg) were equilibrated in a 500-μl total volume of binding buffer containing 10 μM GDP, in the presence of either increasing concentrations of ACh or an EC70 concentration of ACh and increasing concentrations of allosteric ligands, at 30°C for 90 minutes. After this time, 50 μl of [35S]GTPγS (300 pM) was added, and incubation continued for another 30 minutes at 30°C. The assay was terminated as described earlier.
ERK1/2 Phosphorylation Assay.
FlpIn-CHO cells, either nontransfected or stably expressing human WT or N410K+T423K M2 receptors, were seeded into transparent 96-well plates at 2 × 105 cells per well and grown for 6 hours. Cells were then washed once with phosphate-buffered solution and incubated with 80 μl of serum-free DMEM at 37°C overnight (16−18 hours) to allow FBS-stimulated phosphorylated ERK1/2 levels to subside. All ligands were diluted in FBS-free media at 10× their required final concentrations, and 10 μl of drugs was added to induce stimulation. Initial ERK1/2 phosphorylation time-course experiments were performed to determine the time at which ERK1/2 phosphorylation was maximal after stimulation by ligands. For ACh-stimulated concentration-response experiments, cells were incubated at 37°C with ACh for the 5 minutes required to achieve peak response. For interaction experiments, cells were incubated at 37°C with 10 μl per well of antagonists or allosteric modulators for 20 minutes prior to agonist stimulation with an EC70 concentration of ACh for 5 minutes. In all experiments, 10% FBS was used as a positive control. Agonist-stimulated ERK1/2 phosphorylation was terminated by the removal of drugs and the addition of 100 μl per well of SureFire lysis buffer. The cell lysates were agitated for 5 minutes. Following agitation, 10 μl of cell lysates was transferred into a 384-well white opaque OptiPlate (Perkin Elmer Life Sciences), followed by addition of 8.5 μl of a solution of reaction buffer/activation buffer/acceptor beads/donor beads at a ratio of 6/1/0.03/0.03 (v/v/v/v) under low-light conditions. The plates were then incubated at 37°C in the dark for 1 hour, and fluorescence was measured on a Fusion-AlphaScreen plate reader (PerkinElmer) using standard AlphaScreen settings.
Lactate Dehydrogenase Cytotoxic Assay.
FlpIn-CHO cells stably expressing human WT M2 receptors were seeded at 10,000–15,000 cells/well in transparent 96-well plates and grown overnight at 37°C, 5% CO2. The next day, the cells were incubated with 10 μl of drug treatment, including spontaneous (10 μl of ultra-pure sterile water) and maximum (10 μl of lysis buffer) lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) controls, for 60 minutes at 37°C. Fifty microliters of medium from each well, including medium controls of serum-free DMEM and 5% FBS DMEM, was then transferred to a fresh transparent 96 well tissue culture plate. Fifty microliters of reaction mixture was then added into each well. Upon gentle agitation, the plate was incubated at room temperature for 30 minutes in low-light conditions. Fifty microliters of stop solution was then added into the plate and mixed by gently tapping to prevent bubbles from forming. Absorbance was measured using FLEXstation 3B (490 and 680 nm; Molecular Devices, San Jose, CA). LDH activity was determined by subtracting the 680-nm absorbance value from the 490-nm absorbance value (LDH at 490 nm − LDH at 680 nm). Percentage of cytotoxicity (%cytotoxicity) was calculated using the following equation:
Computerized nonlinear regression was performed using Prism 7 (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA). Total and nonspecific [3H]NMS binding data were globally fitted to a one-site saturation binding model to derive estimates of the radioligand equilibrium dissociation constant (KD) and the maximal density of binding sites (Bmax) for the human WT and the N410K+T423K M2 mAChRs. Dissociation kinetic data were fitted to a one-phase exponential decay function to derive the apparent rate constant of dissociation (koff) in the absence or presence of each compound. [3H]NMS association data were globally fitted to the following equation to determine a single best-fit estimate for kon:
(2)where L is the concentration of [3H]NMS in nanomolars, and Kob is the observed rate constant.
Radioligand inhibition binding data with atropine and ACh were empirically fitted to either a one-site or two-site/state inhibition mass action curve to determine inhibitor potency (IC50) estimates, which were then converted to KI values (Cheng and Prusoff, 1973) as appropriate. Radioligand equilibrium binding curves for interaction with allosteric ligands were fitted to an allosteric ternary complex model (eq. 3) to derive estimates of allosteric modulator affinity (KB) and cooperativity between the compound and radioligand (α), where α > 1 denotes positive cooperativity, 0 < α < 1 denotes negative cooperativity, and α = 1 denotes neutral cooperativity (Christopoulos and Kenakin, 2002):
(3)where KA and KB represent the equilibrium dissociation constant of the radioligand and competing ligand, respectively, and [A] and [B] denote their concentrations. Bmax is the relative receptor expression.
Concentration-response curves to the agonist, ACh, were fitted to the following three-parameter dose-response curve equation:
(4)where Em is the maximal possible response of the system, basal is the basal level of response in the absence of agonist, [A] is the concentration of the orthosteric agonist, and EC50 is the concentration of the agonist required to generate 50% of response in the absence of allosteric ligand. Functional interaction between orthosteric agonist and orthosteric antagonist was fitted to a logistic equation of competitive agonist-antagonist interaction (Draper-Joyce et al., 2018):
(5)where Em is the maximal possible response of the system; basal is the basal level of response in the absence of agonist; [A] and [B] are the concentrations of the orthosteric agonist and allosteric modulator, respectively; EC50 is the concentration of the agonist required to generate 50% of response in the absence of allosteric ligand; s represents the Schild slope for the antagonist; pA2 represents the negative logarithm of the molar concentration of antagonist that makes it necessary to double the concentration of agonist needed to elicit the original submaximal response obtained in the absence of antagonist; and nH denotes the Hill slope factor, which was held constant at 1. For this analysis, [A] was fixed as a constant at the molar agonist concentration (EC70) present in the assay.
Functional studies for the interaction of orthosteric agonist and allosteric modulator were fitted to an allosteric ternary complex model (May et al., 2007):
(6)where Em is the maximum possible response for the system; [A] and [B] are the concentrations of the orthosteric agonist and allosteric modulator, respectively; EC50 is the concentration of the agonist required to generate 50% of response in the absence of allosteric ligand; α is the cooperativity factor (as described earlier); and KB is the equilibrium dissociation constant of the allosteric modulator. For this analysis, [A] was fixed as a constant at the molar agonist concentration (EC70) present in the assay. This equation assumes that ACh remains a full agonist in the presence of all concentrations of allosteric modulator.
All affinities, potencies, efficacies, and cooperativity parameters were estimated as logarithms (Christopoulos, 1998). Results are expressed as means ± S.E.M. unless otherwise stated. Statistical analyses were by Student’s t test or one-way analysis of variance using Dunnett’s multiple post-test, as appropriate. A value of P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Characterization of the Binding and Kinetic Properties of Orthosteric Antagonist, [3H]NMS, at the WT and N410K+T423K M2 mAChR.
Initial equilibrium saturation binding experiments using the hydrophilic orthosteric antagonist, [3H]NMS, were performed to determine radioligand affinity (pKD) and cell-surface expression (Bmax) of the human WT or N410K+T423K mutant M2 mAChRs, each stably expressed in FlpIn-CHO cells. In agreement with our initial study (Dror et al., 2013), the estimated radioligand pKD values obtained for the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR were not significantly different (P > 0.05) from the WT values (Fig. 1A; Table 1). In contrast, the Bmax value of the N410K+T423K mutant M2 mAChR (86,180 ± 12,230 sites per cell; n = 6) was significantly (P < 0.05) lower than for the WT receptor (191,631 ± 25,000 sites per cell; n = 6) by ∼50% (Fig. 1B).
Binding properties of [3H]NMS at the wild-type and N410K+T423K M2 mAChR. (A) Affinity estimates for [3H]NMS (as negative logarithms of the dissociation constant, KD). (B) Receptor expression (Bmax; sites per cell) of N410K+T423K M2 mAChR compared with the wild-type receptor. (C) [3H]NMS dissociation from the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR compared with the wild-type receptor. Association of increasing concentrations of [3H]NMS (○, 0.1 nM, □, 0.3 nM, △, 0.6 nM, ▽, 1 nM) at the wild type (D) or N410K+T423K (E) M2 mAChR. Data points represent the mean ± S.E. obtained from three to five experiments conducted in duplicate. *Statistically significant when compared with the corresponding value in the wild-type M2 mAChR, Student’s t test (P < 0.05).
Equilibrium and kinetic parameter estimates for [3H]NMS at the WT and N410K+T423K M2 mAChRs
Values represent the mean ± S.E. from at least three experiments performed in duplicate.
Subsequent experiments determined the kinetic rate constants for radioligand binding at the M2 mAChR constructs, initially focusing on the radioligand dissociation rate constant, koff. In comparison with the WT receptor, the dissociation rate of [3H]NMS was significantly slower (P < 0.05) at the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR by approximately 6-fold (Fig. 1C; Table 1), suggesting that the mutation of the two residues in the ECV, which are located along the path used by [3H]NMS to reach and exit the orthosteric binding pocket, affected the process of dissociation of the antagonist. Since the equilibrium dissociation constant (KD) of a ligand is the ratio of its dissociation to association rate constants (KD = koff/kon), we anticipated that the association rate of [3H]NMS would thus also be significantly different between the two receptor constructs. To experimentally determine this value, we performed radioligand association experiments in the presence of increasing concentrations of [3H]NMS, ranging from 0.1 to 1 nM (Fig. 1, D and E), and globally fitted the entire family of curves to eq. 2, with the value of koff fixed to that determined in the dissociation kinetic experiments. As shown in Table 1, the results of this analysis confirmed that the estimated [3H]NMS kon for the WT receptor was significantly higher than at the double-mutant receptor by approximately 3-fold, thus accounting for the minimal effect (∼2-fold) on affinity of the radioligand at both constructs at equilibrium. Indeed, the calculated affinity value of the radioligand using the rate constants was only ∼3-fold different from the value estimated directly from equilibrium saturation binding experiments (Table 1).
Characterization of Binding and Signaling Properties of Prototypical Orthosteric Ligands at the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR.
To further characterize the pharmacological properties of the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR, we next investigated the binding and functional properties of two classic mAChR ligands: ACh, the endogenous ligand for the receptor, and atropine, a classic mAChR orthosteric antagonist. As expected, both ligands completely inhibited the specific binding of [3H]NMS at the WT or the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR, with both sets of inhibition binding isotherms preferentially fitted (F-test) to a one-site competition binding model (Fig. 2A; Table 2). Although the determined affinity values for both agonist and antagonist at the WT M2 mAChR were similar to those determined previously by us and others (Valant et al., 2012; Schrage et al., 2014), it was interesting to note that the affinity (pKI) of each ligand was significantly higher (P < 0.05) at the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR, particularly for the agonist, ACh (Table 2). To determine whether this finding reflected differences in assay conditions between studies (whole cells vs. membranes) and/or properties intrinsic to the mutant receptor, we performed additional membrane-based [3H]NMS binding assays to assess the affinity of ACh in the absence and presence of the nonhydrolyzable guanine nucleotide GppNHp (100 μM; Supplemental Fig. 1). In the absence of nucleotide, ACh displayed a dispersion of high- and low-affinity states at both the wild-type (pKHI = 6.66 ± 0.21; fractionHI = 60%; n = 3; pKLO = 5.06 ± 0.30; n = 3) and the N410K+T423K M2 mAChRs (pKHI = 7.26 ± 0.16; fractionHI = 57%; n = 3; pKLO = 5.69 ± 0.25; n = 3). In contrast, in the presence of GppNHp, ACh exhibited a single affinity for both wild-type (pKi = 5.61 ± 0.04; n = 3) and N410K+T423K M2 mAChRs (pKi = 6.76 ± 0.09; n = 3) that was, except for the mutant receptor, ∼10-fold lower compared with that estimated in intact cells (Table 2). Collectively, these findings suggest that the mutant receptor intrinsically displays a higher affinity for ACh relative to the WT receptor. However, the higher overall affinity observed in whole-cell binding relative to membrane-based assays at this same construct also suggests that an additional mechanism, such as enhanced internalization, is operative in whole-cell assays to yield the higher apparent affinity.
Binding and functional characterization of orthosteric ligands at the at the wild-type and N410K+T423K M2 mAChR. (A) [3H]NMS competition binding using atropine or ACh. Functional effects of ACh in [35S]GTPγS binding to activated G proteins (B) or ERK1/2 phosphorylation (pERK1/2) (C). Functional effects of atropine on ACh-mediated [35S]GTPγS binding (D) or pERK1/2 (E). Data points represent the mean ± S.E. obtained from three to five experiments conducted in duplicate.
Pharmacological parameters of affinity (pKi or pKB) and potency (pEC50) of orthosteric ligands at the WT and N410K+T423K M2 mAChRs
To assess and compare orthosteric ligand functional activity at the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR, ACh concentration-response curves were constructed to measure both receptor-mediated [35S]GTPγS binding and ERK1/2 phosphorylation. These two pathways were chosen because [35S]GTPγS binding evaluates receptor activation proximally at the level of G protein activation, whereas ERK1/2 phosphorylation is a more downstream response, convergent from multiple pathways with some of them potentially G protein independent. At both the WT and N410K+T423K receptors, the endogenous agonist, ACh, showed robust stimulation of [35S]GTPγS binding and ERK1/2 phosphorylation (Fig. 2, B and C). For both assays, the potencies of ACh at the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR were significantly higher (P < 0.05) than the values obtained using the WT receptor (Table 2). We also evaluated the inhibitory effect of atropine on a fixed (EC70) concentration of ACh in the functional assays at both M2 mAChR constructs. In contrast to ACh, the estimated functional affinity of atropine for inhibiting agonist signaling in [35S]GTPγS binding and ERK1/2 phosphorylation assay was similar between the WT and the N410K+T423K M2 mAChRs (Fig. 2, D and E; Table 2).
Effect of the M2 N410K+T423K Mutation on the Binding Properties of Synthetic Allosteric Modulators.
To investigate the effects of mutation of the two key ECV residues on synthetic NAMs of the M2 mAChR, we performed [3H]NMS equilibrium binding studies using gallamine, arguably the best-characterized NAM of the M2 mAChR (Clark and Mitchelson, 1976; Dror et al., 2013), as well as two other synthetic M2 mAChR modulators, strychnine and brucine (Lazareno and Birdsall, 1995; Birdsall et al., 1997; Fig. 3, A and B). Gallamine displayed a near-complete, yet still saturable, inhibition of radioligand binding, indicative of strong negative cooperativity, whereas its effect on [3H]NMS binding at the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR was virtually abolished compared with the WT receptor. Strychnine and brucine showed a weak enhancement of [3H]NMS binding at the WT receptor, only minimally altering the specific binding of the radioligand at the double-mutant receptor. Application of an allosteric ternary complex model (eq. 3) to the WT M2 mAChR data provided estimates of the affinity (pKB) of gallamine, strychnine, and brucine for the unoccupied M2 mAChR as well as estimates of the cooperativity (α) between the modulators and the radioligand (Table 3). All affinity estimates for the WT receptor were in good agreement with the literature (Lazareno et al., 1998; Dror et al., 2013). Of note, the small effects of synthetic modulators on radioligand binding at the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR were also quantified, albeit with large degrees of error due to the minimal effect exerted. Although the data could be interpreted as either a lack of binding of these synthetic modulators to the “common” allosteric site or a close to neutral cooperativity with the radioligand, the findings nonetheless indicate that the N410K+T423K mutation significantly reduces the allosteric activity of all three synthetic NAMs.
Binding properties of synthetic small-molecule allosteric modulators at the wild-type and N410K+T423K M2 mAChR. [3H]NMS equilibrium binding in the presence of increasing concentrations of gallamine, strychnine, or brucine at the wild-type (A) or the N410K+T423K (B) M2 mAChR. [3H]NMS dissociation in the presence of 100 μM gallamine, 300 μM strychnine, or 300 μM brucine at the wild-type (C) or N410K+T423K (D) M2 mAChR. Data points represent the mean ± S.E. obtained from three experiments conducted in duplicate.
Allosteric parameter estimates for gallamine, strychnine, and brucine at the WT and N410K+T423K M2 mAChRs
To investigate the effects of the M2 mAChR mutations on the ability of synthetic modulators to affect [3H]NMS dissociation, we then determined the radioligand koff in the absence or presence of a high concentration of each modulator and compared these effects to the WT M2 mAChR. As shown in Fig. 3C, the synthetic allosteric compounds caused a significant retardation in [3H]NMS dissociation compared with the control dissociation rate, consistent with their ability to bind the ECV region and thus prevent egress of the radioligand out of the orthosteric site. In contrast, when these experiments were repeated at the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR, the ability of the modulators to retard radioligand dissociation was significantly reduced, an effect that was most pronounced for gallamine (Fig. 3D; Table 3).
Effect of the M2 N410K+T423K Mutation on the Functional Properties of Synthetic Allosteric Modulators.
Using a similar protocol as described earlier (Fig. 2D) for the [35S]GTPγS binding assay, we determined the pharmacological properties of the three prototypical modulators against ACh responses at both the WT and the N410K+T423K M2 mAChRs. In contrast to their effects on [3H]NMS binding, all three allosteric ligands exhibited NAM activity against ACh-mediated signaling at the WT receptor (Fig. 4, A, C, and E). Strikingly, gallamine, strychnine, and brucine displayed significantly reduced effects on ACh-mediated responses at the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR (Fig. 4, B, D, and F). Application of an allosteric ternary complex model (eq. 6) to the data allowed us to derive estimates of both the functional affinity of each modulator and its cooperativity with ACh (Table 4). Collectively, these findings indicate that the two rationally designed mutations (N410K+T423K) at the top of transmembrane 6 (TM6) and TM7 in the M2 mAChR play a major role in prototypical NAM activity, both at the level of binding and function, thus validating the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR as an allosteric site-impaired receptor, at least with respect to modulators that interact with the “common” allosteric site located in the ECV.
Functional effects of synthetic small-molecule allosteric modulators at the wild-type and N410K+T423K M2 mAChR. Effect of gallamine on EC70 concentration of ACh at the wild-type (A) or N410K+T423K (B) M2 mAChR. Effect of strychnine on EC70 concentration of ACh at the wild-type (C) or N410K+T423K (D) M2 mAChR. Effect of brucine on EC70 concentration of ACh at the wild-type (E) or N410K+T423K (F) M2 mAChR. Data points represent the mean ± S.E. obtained from three experiments conducted in duplicate.
Affinity (pKB) and functional cooperativity with ACh (logαβACh) estimates of the prototypical NAMs in [35S]GTPγS binding accumulation assay at the wild-type and N410K+T423K M2 mAChRs
Use of the Allosteric Site-Impaired M2 mAChR to Validate an Allosteric Mode of Action of Positively Charged Basic Proteins.
A number of highly basic, arginine-rich proteins, including MBP, have been suggested to interact allosterically with [3H]NMS at the M2 mAChR (Hu et al., 1992; Hu and el-Fakahany, 1993; Fryer and Jacoby, 1998). MBP is toxic for parasites and pathogens, such that its cytotoxicity is key to its mechanism of defense in asthma attacks (Jacoby et al., 1993). In an attempt to assess its toxicity, we measured the spontaneous release of LDH in the presence of MBP on intact CHO cells (Supplemental Fig. 1). MBP did not affect cell integrity at 1 μM but did indeed induce spontaneous LDH release at 3 μM. Avoiding concentrations that induced MBP-driven cytotoxicity, we then assessed the pharmacological properties of three peptides [MBP, protamine, and poly-l-arginine (PLA)] on M2 mAChR CHO cells. As shown in Fig. 5A, increasing concentrations of the PLA and protamine resulted in a near-complete inhibition of radioligand binding to the M2 mAChR, whereas MBP did not appear to alter the specific binding of the radioligand at concentrations up to 1 μM. Application of an allosteric ternary complex model (eq. 3) to these data allowed us to derive affinity estimates for PLA and protamine for the unoccupied receptor (pKB) and their cooperativity with the radioligand (logαNMS) (Table 5). Of note, the near-complete inhibition of radioligand binding by protamine and PLA could suggest either a competitive interaction or a negative allosteric effect characterized by very high negative cooperativity. Irrespective, under this latter condition, the affinity estimate derived from an allosteric model with high negative cooperativity (Table 5) would be indistinguishable from that estimated using a simple competitive model (Keov et al., 2014), thus the pKB estimates for the ligands remain valid. In an effort to more-directly confirm an allosteric mode of binding for peptide modulators, we also performed dissociation kinetic experiments using [3H]NMS and the highest concentrations of two of our selected basic peptides that could be used experimentally based on physicochemical properties and compound availability, which were 10 μM for PLA and 30 μM for protamine (Fig. 5C). For protamine and PLA, these concentrations were ∼10× higher than their KB concentrations and caused a small but significant effect on radioligand dissociation (Fig. 5C; Table 5). Because the interaction of each substance with [3H]NMS is characterized by negative cooperativity, it is not surprising that substantial effects on radioligand dissociation were not observed since the receptor is pre-equilibrated with [3H]NMS and thus would require much higher concentrations of the peptides than can be attained experimentally to ensure substantial allosteric site occupancy to overcome the negative cooperativity (Lane et al., 2017). MBP was not tested, as the experimental protocol required a too-large amount of protein.
Validation of allosteric interaction between [3H]NMS and cationic peptide modulators at the wild-type and N410K+T423K M2 mAChR. [3H]NMS interaction with PLA, protamine, and MBP at the wild-type (A) or the N410K+T423K (B) M2 mAChR. [3H]NMS dissociation in the presence of a single high concentration of PLA, protamine, or MBP at the wild-type (C) or N410K+T423K (D) M2 mAChR. Data points represent the mean ± S.E. obtained from three experiments conducted in duplicate.
Allosteric parameters of affinity (pKB), binding cooperativity (logαNMS) of basic peptides, and [3H]NMS dissociation rate (koff) at the wild type
Such results from equilibrium binding and dissociation kinetic experiments highlight an inherent difficulty in differentiating allosteric modulators that exhibit high negative cooperativity from orthosteric (competitive) antagonists. In this context, our novel allosteric site-impaired M2 mAChR can prove a useful alternative. Thus, we determined the pharmacological properties of PLA, MBP, and protamine at this construct. In [3H]NMS equilibrium binding assays using the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR, the effect of each peptide on [3H]NMS was substantially blunted compared with the WT (Fig. 5B; Table 5). Specifically, and in accordance with the structure-based design of the mutant receptor, the affinity of each cationic peptide for the allosteric site was significantly reduced compared with the WT (P < 0.05), with MBP remaining neutral (Table 5). In addition, a dramatic loss of cooperativity with the radioligand was observed for PLA. Moreover, in [3H]NMS dissociation kinetic assays at the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR, neither PLA nor protamine had any effect on [3H]NMS dissociation (Fig. 5D; Table 5) due to a lack of sufficient allosteric site occupancy at the maximal concentrations attainable in this assay.
Excitingly, when we investigated the allosteric properties of the basic, arginine-rich peptides in assays of M2 mAChR function, we found the allosteric effects of all peptides substantially altered ACh-mediated responses in the [35S]GTPγS assay, including MBP (Fig. 6). At the WT M2 mAChR, all three peptides inhibited the response produce by a fixed concentration of ACh in a concentration-dependent manner (Fig. 6, A, C, and E). These findings validate our previous observation in radioligand binding for PLA and protamine but also suggest that MBP can bind the M2 mAChR with an NAM effect on the endogenous ligand, albeit with an neutral allosteric ligand effect on the antagonist radioligand. At the allosteric site-impaired M2 mAChR, these effects were significantly reduced (Fig. 6, B, D, and F), consistent with the hypothesis that mutation of N410 and T423 to lysine blunts the pharmacological effects of cationic NAMs (Table 6). Taken together, our data at the N410K+T423K M2 mAChR suggest that these two point mutations abrogate the activity of cationic NAMs at the M2 mAChR and validate structure-based approaches for understanding GPCR allosteric binding sites with regard to both synthetic and putative endogenous modulators.
Functional effects of cationic peptide modulators at the wild-type and N410K+T423K M2 mAChR. Effect of poly-l-arginine on EC70 concentration of ACh at the wild-type (A) or N410K+T423K (B) M2 mAChR. Effect of protamine on EC70 concentration of ACh at the wild-type (C) or N410K+T423K (D) M2 mAChR. Effect of MBP on EC70 concentration of ACh at the wild-type (E) or N410K+T423K (F) M2 mAChR. Data points represent the mean ± S.E. obtained from three experiments conducted in duplicate.
Affinity (pKB) and functional cooperativity with ACh (logαβACh) estimates of the basic peptides, PLA, protamine, and MBP
Recently, we used a structure-based approach to design a mutant M2 mAChR (N410K+T423K) that, in preliminary studies, substantially reduced the binding of two synthetic cationic NAMs of the M2 mAChR, gallamine and heptane-1,7-bis(dimethyl-3′phthalimodipropylammonium) (Dror et al., 2013). Given the location of the mutations in the key ECV that contains a well characterized common allosteric site in the mAChR family and the abundance of structurally diverse cationic modulators for these receptors, the current study investigated and characterized the pharmacological properties of this putative allosteric site-impaired receptor. Based on our results, we propose that this mutant M2 mAChR can be used as a novel construct to validate the allosteric mode of action of subtype-selective cationic NAMs displaying high degrees of negative cooperativity with orthosteric ligands. Moreover, we used this mutant receptor to provide further evidence in support of a potential allosteric mode of action of positively charged peptides, including the endogenously produced protamine and MBP.
A hallmark of allosteric drugs that modulate orthosteric ligand affinity is their ability to change orthosteric ligand association and/or dissociation rates to achieve such affinity modulation (Lane et al., 2017). Traditionally, dissociation kinetic studies are the preferred means for validating such allosteric effects, since the observed association of a labeled orthosteric ligand can still be reduced in the presence of a second orthosteric (competitive) ligand due to simple mass action as the system approaches equilibrium. In contrast, the only way that dissociation of a prelabeled receptor-ligand complex can be modified is through a conformational change via the binding of a second ligand at a spatially distinct site (Lane et al., 2017). Unfortunately, due to the reciprocal nature of allosteric interactions, NAMs exhibiting high negative cooperativity with orthosteric ligands will themselves have a markedly reduced affinity for the radioligand-occupied receptor, necessitating extremely high concentrations (∼100 × KB) to ensure sufficient allosteric site occupancy to observe a significant effect on radioligand koff. Similar considerations apply to the study of NAMs in equilibrium binding assays, where high negative cooperativity may be indistinguishable from a competitive interaction. In all such instances, high concentrations of interacting ligands are invariably required to differentiate allosteric from orthosteric mechanisms, which is not feasible for compounds that possess low affinity for the receptor and/or unfavorable physicochemical properties. This question is particularly relevant for previously identified basic, arginine-rich, endogenous peptides that have been suggested to potentially target the M2 mAChR in an allosteric fashion (Hu et al., 1992; Hu and el-Fakahany, 1993; Fryer and Jacoby, 1998), such that an unambiguous validation of an allosteric mode of binding using traditional approaches is difficult. In that situation, the use of a rationally designed allosteric site-impaired receptor may overcome the limitations associated with classic approaches.
Another interesting observation at the allosteric site-impaired receptor was that it exhibited a small, albeit significant, increased affinity for the endogenous orthosteric agonist, ACh. Ligand affinity is dependent on the ratio of dissociation (koff) and association (kon) rate constants, and it is likely that the increased affinity of ACh at the allosteric site-impaired receptor reflects a change in either (or both) of these parameters compared with the WT. This is consistent with the suggestion that the two mutated residues are involved in orthosteric ligand access to and egress from its pocket, which sits below the ECV within the TM bundle. In fact, by comparing the change of [3H]NMS association and dissociation rates in the WT and N410K+T423K M2 mAChRs, we observed a significant reduction in both the kon and koff rates, albeit to similar extents such that equilibrium affinity was largely unaffected. In contrast, it is possible that the increased affinity observed for ACh indicates a change to a different extent between the kon and/or the koff of the endogenous ligand, and that agonists are perhaps more susceptible to changes in these ECV residues than antagonists such as NMS or atropine. It is known that mutations within a GPCR, even outside the orthosteric binding site, can dramatically change the kinetic parameters of orthosteric ligands (Matsui et al., 1995; Dror et al., 2013). In fact, it has been demonstrated previously that orthosteric ligands of some class A GPCRs adopt a transient metastable pose in the extracellular regions of the receptor prior to transit to the orthosteric site (Redka et al., 2008; Dror et al., 2011, 2013; Nguyen et al., 2016). Thus, it is not surprising that mutations within an allosteric ECV may indirectly alter orthosteric ligand affinity through changes in kinetic properties. Indeed, some mAChR orthosteric antagonists that have yielded positive clinical results in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease specifically exploit differences in kinetic rates between mAChR family members as part of their proposed mechanism of action (Sykes et al., 2012; Tautermann et al., 2013). For example, while exhibiting fast dissociation from the M2 mAChR, glycopyrrolate remains bound approximately 10 times longer at the M3 mAChR orthosteric site due to a slower koff, exhibiting what has been termed “kinetic selectivity” (Tautermann et al., 2013). This difference in kinetic rates between the two mAChR subtypes is likely a consequence of the presence of nonconserved amino acid residues in the ECV. Moreover, comparison of the ECV of the M2 with the M3 mAChR shows clear differences in electrostatic surface potentials (Thal et al., 2016), which can also contribute to differences in kinetic rate constants of both orthosteric and allosteric ligands that interact with these receptors.
Arguably, however, the most important findings through the use of the ECV mutant M2 mAChR relate to the effects noted on both small-molecule and peptide/protein allosteric modulators, whereby the introduction of positively charged residues in the ECV of the M2 mAChR significantly altered the affinity of all allosteric modulators, suggesting that this charge effect is a common mechanism. In addition, the mutation also affected the cooperativity between some of the modulators and orthosteric ligands, suggesting additional dynamic mechanisms that may be ligand-specific. Given the rational design of the mutant to promote electrostatic charge-charge repulsion between cationic substances and the two key allosteric site residues, it is not surprising that the most marked effect was noted with gallamine, which is a small synthetic molecule that possesses three positive charges, when interacting with the M2 mAChR; electrostatic repulsion between gallamine and the positively charged [3H]NMS at the wild-type M2 mAChR has even been proposed as the major mechanism underlying the observed negative cooperativity between the two ligands (Dror et al., 2013). In addition, the significant effects noted on the binding of the additional synthetic modulators, strychnine and brucine, which have both been previously proposed to interact via the common ECV allosteric site (Jakubík et al., 2005), also highlight the key role of the mutated residues in the binding of prototypical modulators regardless of their scaffold. In contrast, the reduction in affinities and/or cooperativities for the cationic peptides was relatively more modest but nonetheless significant. On the one hand, the abrogation in the effects of protamine and MBP, which are both produced endogenously, provides further support for a relatively unappreciated role of these substances as putative endogenous allosteric ligands and thus warrants further study. On the other hand, the stronger effects on the synthetic small molecules relative to the larger peptides/proteins suggest that electronegativity in the ECV, although important, is unlikely to be the sole required feature for basic peptidic modulators to bind allosterically at the M2 mAChR. PLA, MBP, and protamine are very large entities and, therefore, can anchor themselves via multiple points of interaction, rendering them perhaps less sensitive to the change in electronegativity from only two residues.
Nonetheless, this study validated a novel molecular construct for assessing and validating allosteric binding modes for both synthetic and putative endogenous modulators that exhibit high negative cooperativity through interaction with the ECV of the M2 mAChR. In addition to affecting modulator binding, this allosteric site-impaired M2 mAChR also has additional effects on the cooperativity of some of the synthetic and basic arginine-rich peptides, suggesting some commonalities in their mode of interaction with the receptor. Structure-based design of such mutant receptors thus represents a valuable new strategy for assisting drug discovery and chemical biology studies of GPCR allostery. Although speculative, the allosteric site-impaired M2 mAChR may also prove a new candidate for future chemogenetic strategies, such as through the generation of transgenic models that can be used to understand the potential physiologic relevance of endogenous cationic modulators of this GPCR.
Authorship Contributions
Participated in research design: Moo, Christopoulos, Valant.
Conducted experiments: Moo, Valant.
Performed data analysis: Moo, Valant.
Wrote or contributed to the writing of the manuscript: Moo, Sexton, Christopoulos, Valant.
Accepted September 10, 2018.
This work was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) [Program Grant APP1050083; Project Grant APP1082318] and by the Australian Research Council [Grant FT140100114]. A.C. is a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the NHMRC, P.M.S. is a Principal Research Fellow of the NHMRC, C.V. is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and E.V.M. is a recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award.
https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.118.112490.
This article has supplemental material available at molpharm.aspetjournals.org.
acetylcholine
Chinese hamster ovary
Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium
extracellular vestibule
ERK1/2
extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2
G protein–coupled receptor
Gpp(NH)p
Guanosine 5′-[β,γ-imido]triphosphate
[3H]NMS
N-[3H]methylscopolamine
lactate dehydrogenase
mAChR
muscarinic acetylcholine receptor
major basic protein
negative allosteric modulator
poly-l-arginine
[35S]GTPγS
guanosine 5′-O-[γ-thio]triphosphate [35S]
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Uganda: Parliament must reject bill imposing death penalty for gay sex
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LONDON, United Kingdom, October 11, 2019/ — Responding to Ugandan Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo’s announcement that the government is planning to introduce the death penalty for consensual same-sex sexual acts, Amnesty International’s Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, Joan Nyanyuki said:
“It is outrageous that instead of the Ugandan government taking urgent steps to decriminalize gay sex, they want gay people executed. This is going to fire-up more hatred in an already homophobic environment.
“This is an example of how Uganda’s politicians are stoking dangerous intolerance and bias against LGBTI people. Uganda’s MPs must resoundingly reject any plan to legalize this kind of bigotry and witch hunting of anyone who is perceived as being different.”
On 5 October, Brian Wassa, a gay paralegal succumbed to brain hemorrhage after been hacked in the head by unknown persons the previous day at his home in Kampala.
According to Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), an LGBTI organization, he is the fourth LGBTI person to have been killed in the past three months in the wake of heightened anti-LGBTI sentiments from political leaders. Others were a transwoman from Gomba district, a gay man in Kayunga district, one from Kampala and another in Jinja
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Update (5/8/2017): President Donald Trump signed a spending bill that will extend the non-minister special immigrant program for certain religious workers through September 30, 2017. The legislation also expands the EB5 regional center program and the Conrad 30 Waiver program through September 30. We will post a more detailed update on the spending legislation shortly.
Update (5/1/2017): On Friday, April 28, 2017, Congress agreed to a one-week extension of government funding. Over the weekend, Congress agreed on legislation to extend government funding for the rest of fiscal year 2017. Provided that this legislation is signed into law as expected,it will extend the authorization non-minister special immigrant program for certain religious workers and the EB5 program through September 2017. We will update the site once the legislation is signed into law.
Original Article (4/28/2017): The non-minister special immigrant program for certain religious workers was allowed to temporarily expire. Accordingly, subsequent to midnight on April 27, 2017, no final action can be taken on adjustment of status cases in this category until the program is reauthorized. Furthermore, no individuals seeking initial admission as a non-minister special immigrant may be admitted.
Congress is expected to reauthorize the program as part of a larger piece of legislation to fund the government through the end of fiscal year 2017. Congress is working to pass the spending legislation as of the writing of this article (April 28, 2017). We will update the site when more information is known. The employment-based fifth preference category is in a similar situation with its authorization slated to expire at the end of the business day on April 28, 2017.
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Raise the retirement age to 70?
Yesterday news broke that John Boehner, the Republican Leader in the House of Representatives, believes that Congress should raise the retirement age to 70 and cut Social Security so that we can finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That's right: Boehner told a reporter that he thinks we should cut Social Security to pay for war.1 And later in the day, several other Republicans came out and agreed with him.2
The scary thing is: The way things are looking, Republicans could actually win enough seats this fall to put them in charge and make that vision a reality.
So we have to send a clear message to representatives in both parties and the media: If they plan on raising the retirement age to 70 next year, we're going to make sure they're out of work come November.
And we have a powerful way to do it—using photos. Can you take a moment to print out a sign making clear that you're against raising the retirement age to 70 and snap a quick photo of yourself with it? We'll deliver them to Congress and use them in online ads.
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We've done photo campaigns like this before and they are incredibly moving. The faces of everyday Americans who want to protect Social Security can make a really big impact on Congress and the media.
After you add your photo to the collection, pass this on to family and friends who want to be able to retire before they're 70 so they can do the same. Together, we can make it clear that Americans don't want to cut Social Security to finance wars.
–Nita, Daniel, Duncan, Amy, and the rest of the team
1. "Obama's good for GOP, Boehner says," Pittsburgh Tribune Review, June 29, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89245&id=21483-10220574-dC6VYax&t=4
2. "GOP shrugs over Boehner comment," Politico, June 29, 2010
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Visit Rep. McCarthy's office in Garden City
MoveOn members are dropping by local congressional offices to deliver copies of our Fight Washington Corruption pledge. Can you help out by visiting Rep. McCarthy's office in Garden City?
The thoughts of millions of MoveOn members go out to the family of Sen. Robert Byrd, who passed away last night. Sen. Byrd spoke out passionately against the Iraq War when many others were afraid to do so: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89228&id=21429-10220574-RZEAE_x&t=4
Last week over 130,000 members endorsed the "Fight Washington Corruption" Pledge—our people-powered blueprint for reducing the influence of corporations and lobbyists.
The pledge contains 3 big ideas that would transform our democracy. We're launching a major campaign to make them a reality—and starting by getting members of Congress to sign on. But that'll only happen if they know this matters to lots of their constituents.
So MoveOn members are dropping by local congressional offices across the country to deliver copies of our Fight Washington Corruption pledge and ask every single member of Congress to sign on.
Can you help make it happen by delivering a copy of the pledge to Carolyn McCarthy's office in Garden City? It's easy to do, and we'll give you all the materials you need.
Yes, I'll stop by Rep. McCarthy's office in Garden City.
Sorry, I can't do that.
It's really simple to visit your local congressional office. You don't even need an appointment—just stop by and ask to speak with someone about corporate influence in our democracy.
We'll give you a copy of the pledge to print out and a few suggested talking points to help guide your conversation. And don't worry, there's no need to be an expert on the specifics—you can let our people-powered pledge do all the talking. As a reminder, here's what it calls for:
Overturn Citizens United: Amend the Constitution to protect America from unlimited corporate spending on our elections by overturning the Supreme Court's decision giving corporations the same First Amendment rights as people.
Fair elections now: Pass the Fair Elections Now Act, providing public financing to candidates who are supported by small donors so they can compete with corporate-backed and self-funded candidates.
Lobbyist Reform Act: Pass legislation to end the overwhelming influence of corporate lobbyists by: prohibiting individuals from switching from corporate lobbying to government service, or vice-versa, within a 5-year period; stopping corporate lobbyists from giving gifts and providing free travel to government officials; and posting online the attendees and content of all meetings between lobbyists and government officials.
Members of Congress will be home later this week for the Fourth of July recess so it's critical that we act right now and make sure the Fight Washington Corruption pledge is the first thing they hear about when they get home. Can you help by visiting Rep. McCarthy's office?
–Ilyse, Duncan, Amy, Jeff, and the rest of the team
Elmhurst vs. Corporate Lobbyists -- It starts Sunday
Elmhurst: Big Meeting on Sunday to take on Corporate Lobbyists
We've kicked off a massive effort to make democracy work for the 98% of us who don't have corporate lobbyists in Washington, D.C. We're launching a campaign in the Elmhurst area to make sure all candidates for Congress support concrete changes to fix our democracy. The details:
Host: Janine M. and your local MoveOn Council
Where: Terraza 7 Train Cafe (in Elmhurst)
When: Sunday, Jun. 27, 2010, at 6:00 PM
What: Big Insurance, Wall Street, and Big Oil have expensive lobbyists working everyday to kill progressive reforms. We've had enough. We're going to meet up to plan how we will put a stop to corporate corruption and elect leaders who will work for us here in New York.
Can you make it to this community meeting?
For more info and to find other events in your area, click here.
Results are in!!
Member Vote Results:
96% Agree
to endorse the Pledge
To Fight Corruption in Washington.
Running a massive people-powered campaign to beat back corporate corruption in Washington will cost $90,000 per month. Can you contribute $15 per month build this campaign?
A whopping 96% of MoveOn members voting decided to launch a major campaign to counter corporate corruption—centered on the following 3 point agenda we're calling the Fight Washington Corruption Pledge:
1. Overturning Citizens United
2. Public Financing for Fair Elections Now
3. Passing the Lobbyist Reform Act
Those three points together would give us a great start in making Washington work again for ordinary Americans and not just lobbyists and CEOs.
But getting politicians to stand up to the pervasive influence of corporations like BP and Goldman Sachs won't be easy. If we're going to rewrite the rules to end corporate influence in Washington, we'll need a bigger, smarter people-powered campaign than we've ever run before—and that means all of us need to chip in.
The first step is to challenge congressional candidates to support these ideas. That will take skilled organizers supporting teams of volunteers in every congressional district, TV and radio ads to call out reps who oppose reform, and serious muscle to help elect those candidates who support our agenda.
All that will cost about $90,000 per month. There's no corporate cash, here. No big donors. Just you. And we'll need about 3 people donating in Inwood to get this campaign off the ground.
Can you chip in $15 per month to build this campaign?
Sorry, I can't make a monthly donation right now.
Right now, the rules are rigged in favor of big corporations. But we can change that.
Want clean energy? Funding to improve our schools? A public health insurance option? Protection from banks that are "too big to fail"? On every issue, the path to progress runs smack into an army of corporate lobbyists.
Tens of thousands of us took the first step, when we came together online to sift through hundreds of proposals for reducing corporate influence in Washington. The result—three big ideas that together we're calling the Pledge to Fight Washington Corruption—would dramatically transform our democracy.
Now comes the tough part—getting Congress to adopt these reforms. So, as soon as we have the funds, we're ready to enact our biggest grassroots organizing effort yet. We'll have volunteer teams across the country that will bring this pledge directly to every candidate and member of congress—and won't let up 'til they sign. They'll be backed up by skilled organizers and trainers.
All of this will rely primarily on volunteer power. But it'll also take money. And the faster we can raise it, the sooner we can start taking on the big corporations that have been blocking progress on so many issues. Can you give $15 per month and help us put the People back in charge in Washington?
Yes, I'll chip in monthly: https://pol.moveon.org/donate/98_ratified_monthly.html?bg_id=hpc0&id=21310-10220574-padYqMx&t=5
Sorry, I can't make a monthly donation right now:https://pol.moveon.org/donate/98_ratified_nonmonth.html?bg_id=hpc0&id=21310-10220574-padYqMx&t=6
–Justin, Ilyse, Milan, Robin and the rest of the team
Join us Saturday at Long Beach in Long Beach
On Saturday, tens of thousands of people will join hands at beaches across the country to draw a literal line in the sand to say "yes" to clean energy and "no" to more offshore drilling. There's an event Saturday at 11 am at Long Beach in Long Beach. Can you make it?
RSVP for your local event
There's a huge event happening this weekend at a beach near you.
In the wake of the giant BP oil spill in the Gulf, tens of thousands of people are getting together on beaches around the world for a massive event called "Hands Across The Sand." And you can take part at an event right in Long Beach.
We'll join hands on Long Beach in Long Beach, making a literal line in the sand to say "no" to new offshore drilling and "yes" to clean energy. If enough of us join in, we can create a powerful visual display and send a strong message to Washington, DC.
Can you join us at Long Beach in Long Beach on Saturday at 11 am? Here's the link to RSVP:
http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=104888&id=21286-10220574-02QXoyx&t=3
This event is happening at a crucial time. With oil still gushing into the Gulf, wildlife devastated, and people's livelihoods torn apart, we need to stand up for clean energy NOW. And after President Obama's speech last week calling for an end to our addiction to oil, Congress is getting ready to push forward on a new energy bill.
But Big Oil lobbyists are trying to hijack this legislation to include—of all things—new offshore drilling and taxpayer handouts to Big Oil.1 We can't let that happen. And given how angry people are at BP right now, we can really push Congress to stand up to the Big Oil lobbyists—if enough of us get involved.
Hands Across the Sand was started by Dave Rauschkolb, a Florida small business owner, in October of 2009 and has grown into a huge, literally global movement. With the help of dozens of great organizations, there will be events in over 400 cities and 12 countries, including the U.S., Japan, India, and New Zealand.
As Dave says, "The image is powerful, the message simple. No to offshore oil drilling, yes to clean energy. We are drawing a line in the sand against offshore oil drilling along America's beaches and in solidarity events across America and around the world."
Hands Across The Sand could be the largest protest against offshore drilling in U.S. history. But to achieve that goal, we need you there. Can you join us at Long Beach in Long Beach at 11 a.m. this Saturday? Here's the link to RSVP:
Hope you can join us, and thanks again for all you do.
–Steven, Adam, Kat, Marika, and the rest of the team
1. "Enviros cringe as Senate committee approves energy bill," Grist, June 17, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=88994&id=21286-10220574-02QXoyx&t=5
The results, after 1,650,000 votes
***OFFICIAL BALLOT***
We've got a big decision to make together.
Over the last several days, thousands of us have been sifting through ideas for how to end corporate corruption of our democracy. The top ideas are combined into the slate below.
Now we have to decide whether MoveOn should endorse this slate—and run a major grassroots campaign demanding that Congress pass this anti-corporate-corruption agenda into law.
If 2/3 of MoveOn members vote yes, we'll spend the next several months challenging candidates for Congress to pledge their support—and work to elect those who promise to go to DC and fight for this agenda. And of course we'll keep pushing after the election to make sure they keep their promise. If we don't reach the 66% mark, we'll focus on other projects.
Here's the winning slate:
So, should MoveOn endorse this anti-corruption agenda, and work to get candidates and elected officials to support it?
Yes, I vote to endorse the slate and take on corporate corruption
No, we shouldn't endorse the slate
Voting closes tomorrow at 9 pm EST.
This slate was put together by tens of thousands of MoveOn members and other progressive Americans. Working with The Other 98%—a new online movement to make democracy work for the 98% of us who DON'T have corporate lobbyists representing us in DC—we feel we've been able to capture the combined spirit and frustration in the final ideas above. (These three planks actually combine the top 6 ideas, after more than 1.5 million votes were cast. For example, the Lobbyist Reform Act combines three top-ranking ideas.)
If you vote yes, we'll add your personal endorsement to thousands of others, and make sure your representatives in Congress know you back these solutions.
So please vote now.
This is an important choice. Reining in the influence of companies like BP and Goldman Sachs to put the people back in charge of our government is probably the most ambitious goal MoveOn has ever tackled. It'll take a major effort—electing true progressives and pushing legislation—over years—to win these solutions. But unless we start right away, we might never get there.
Please take a moment now to vote. Voting ends at 9 pm EST on Wednesday.
Thanks for all you do,
–Ilyse, Eli, Milan, Lenore, and the rest of the team
P.S. If you'd like to vote "yes" on the slate without having your support passed on to your members of Congress, you can click here. And again, here's the link to vote "no."
Will Elmhurst stand with The Other 98%?
We're kicking off a massive effort to call on our elected officials to put our government back in the hands of the 98% of us who aren't represented by corporate lobbyists. MoveOn members are gathering in Elmhurst on Sunday, Jun. 27 at 6:00 PM. Can you make it?
This is what democracy looks like.
Last week, we launched an ambitious project in partnership with The Other 98%—a new online movement to make democracy work for the 98% of us who don't have corporate lobbyists in Washington.
Over the last several days, tens of thousands of folks around the country have participated in our "Stand for Democracy" process. Together, we've come up with a blueprint for fixing our democracy: a set of key steps we'll ask candidates to support to end corporate corruption in DC.
This week, the rubber hits the road: we'll launch campaigns in every community to spread the word about the democracy pledge and get our members of Congress and candidates on board for reform. In Elmhurst folks are gathering on Sunday, Jun. 27 at 6:00 PM to get the ball rolling. It's going to take all of us pushing to make this a success—can you come?
Yes, I'll be there on Sunday, Jun. 27 at 6:00 PM
No, I can't make it
Together, we're going to work to make our government accountable to the People, not BP and Goldman Sachs. Here's what we'll do at these events:
Kick off an effort to build local public support for our progressive reform agenda.
Meet neighbors who are passionate about kicking corporate influence out of politics.
Discuss the reform agenda that comes out of our online, member-driven process.
To get the summer campaign off to a good start, we need strong turnout of MoveOn members in the Elmhurst area who're ready to pitch in. Click here to RSVP:
Yes, I'll be there
Sorry, I can't make it
–Ilyse, Wes, Anna, Amy, and the rest of the team
The co-chair of the deficit commission was just caught on tape calling Social Security recipients "lesser people." He needs to resign immediately. Check out the video, then add your name to the call for his resignation.
I'll bet you know a lot of good people who depend on their Social Security check. Hard-working folks who have contributed their whole lives and now need those checks. Like my grandparents. Or your grandparents. Or your parents. Or you.
Well, former Republican Senator Alan Simpson was just caught on camera calling them "lesser people."
That kind of condescending disrespect would be infuriating coming from anyone, but Senator Simpson isn't just anyone. He's a co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility, which is charged with finding ways to cut the deficit.
And Simpson is joining with the other right-wing ideologues on the "deficit commission" to find a way to cut Social Security for those "lesser people"—even though Social Security hasn't caused the deficit.1
Someone with Senator Simpson's disdainful attitude and ideological commitment to cutting Social Security has no business serving in this powerful position. This video shows it's time for him to resign.
Can you check out the video, join our call for Simpson to resign, and then pass on the video to your friends?
http://pol.moveon.org/deficitcommission/simpson.html?id=21242-10220574-R0KuHAx&t=5
Not only does the video show Simpson's contempt for retired Americans who rely on Social Security, it also shows his contempt for the facts. Paul Krugman detailed some of Simpson's lies on his blog today.2 And even the Fiscal Times—a newspaper funded by Pete Peterson, a billionaire hedge fund manager who's been trying to cut Social Security for years—admitted that Simpson's "facts" are just plain wrong.3
But that hasn't stopped right-wing blogs from taking Simpson's side. They're pushing the idea that Simpson "remained reasonable throughout," despite his profanity and condescending speech.4 They know that if Simpson is forced to resign over his comments, it could stop plans to cut Social Security in their tracks.
The outrageous video of Simpson has already been seen almost 50,000 times. It's our best opportunity yet to pull back the curtain on the closed-door meetings the deficit commission has been holding to let the public know who's deciding the fate of Social Security.
Can you join our call for Simpson to resign, and then pass on the video to your friends at the link below?
–Daniel, Duncan, Matt, Nita, Joan, and the rest of the team
1. "Zombies Have Already Killed The Deficit Commission," The New York Times, June 21, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89114&id=21242-10220574-R0KuHAx&t=7
3. "Simpson's Comments Undermine Commission Efforts," The Fiscal Times, June 20, 2010
4. "Watch Alan Simpson School A Lefty," Breitbart.TV, June 18, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89116&id=21242-10220574-R0KuHAx&t=10
"Alan Simpson," The Daily Mail, June 19, 2010
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/16245
***Official Vote: Choose your favorite planks***
Over a million votes already have helped us identify the best ideas for how to rescue our democracy from corporations and lobbyists. Now it's up to YOU to choose the finalists. Will you help to build the best pledge to combat corporate corruption? Vote by Monday night at midnight.
It's now or never. In the wake of the BP spill and the Wall Street meltdown, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rescue our democracy from the corporate corruption that led to these disasters.
It's time for elected officials in Washington to choose sides: Will they do the bidding of corporations and their lobbyists or stand with the Other 98% of us to make government work again? Together we're creating a tool to put them on the record on this critical question—but we need your help.
The "Stand for Democracy" project has already generated hundreds of ideas that have been rated over 1.3 million times. Now, we've got the top tier of ideas, and we a really tough decision to make together. Which ideas should make it into our final platform?
Click here to help choose the winning ideas so we can construct our pledge against corporate corruption in our democracy. Voting ends Monday night at midnight PST.
http://pol.moveon.org/sfd/slate/signup.html?id=21220-10220574-F2z49Ox&t=5
Once the pledge is formed, we'll ask candidates to endorse it and work with us to take our country back from giant corporations and their lobbyists.
In the face of the ongoing economic crisis and the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, we simply can't sit back and wait for change. We need to be clear on what we're asking, fight for candidates who are with us, and oppose those who would rather do the corporations' bidding. That's just what we're doing with the Stand for Democracy project.
We're figuring out how to re-wire American politics to work for regular people again, instead of the 11,000 corporate lobbyists who have taken over Washington, D.C. This grassroots project has absolutely taken off in the last week, with hundreds of ideas receiving over a million votes.
Now, we need your vote so we can package the winning ideas into this high-profile pledge. It needs to reflect your vision for how to take back our country from the forces that have worked to block real reform at every step. Please take a moment to vote on the final slate of ideas for our pledge to combat corporate corruption:
–Ilyse, Milan, Anna, Tim, and the rest of the team
MoveOn member, it's your choice
Hundreds of people have submitted ideas for how to rescue our democracy from corporations and lobbyists. Now it's up to YOU to choose the best ones. Will you take 5 minutes to rate some ideas?
Can you spend 5 minutes right now helping us find the best ideas for taking on the influence of lobbyists and corporations in Washington, DC?
Evidence that our democracy is broken is all around us, from the foreclosure signs in our neighborhoods to the oil washing up on our beaches.
That's why we're joining with the Other 98%—a new online movement to make democracy work for the 98% of us who DON'T have corporate lobbyists—to create a new blueprint, written by all of us together, for putting the People back in charge of our government.
We're calling the effort Stand for Democracy. Hundreds of folks have submitted ideas for how to curb corporate influence: Will you take 5 minutes right now to rate some of these ideas—or even add your own? It's really simple. Just click here:
www.standfordemocracy.org/?id=21175-10220574-Y4vxIZx&t=104
Later this week, after thousands of us have rated the initial proposals, we'll announce the top 20 finalist ideas, and ask everyone to choose the 5 ideas that, together, would do the best job of making our democracy work for regular people. Then we'll ask candidates to support the winning ideas.
The overwhelming clout of lobbyists and corporations is, of course, a huge problem, and not one we can fix in a month or a year. But it's a problem we have to tackle. As we saw again and again this year—from the insurance companies killing the public option, to the oil and coal companies blocking clean energy legislation—until we take this on, transformative change will be impossible.
And this year, when there's so much frustration with Washington across the political spectrum, is the right time to push for reform.
But it'll only work if we all get involved. And the first step is to agree on what we want. Will you take 5 minutes to rate some ideas for the pledge?
Right now, our democracy is working great for CEOs and lobbyists. It's time to make it work for the other 98% of us.
–Ilyse, Milan, Justin, Kat, and the rest of the team
Obama's big speech tonight
Clicking here will add your name:
"President Obama: We need a real plan reduce our dependence on oil, not more offshore drilling and taxpayer handouts to oil companies."
Tonight, President Obama will address the nation in prime time about the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. According to White House aides, he'll call for clean energy legislation to end America's addiction to oil.1
The problem is, the proposals currently in Congress are packed with more offshore drilling and taxpayer handouts to Big Oil—exactly the opposite of what we need.2
This speech is President Obama's best chance to demand a real plan to cut our dependence on oil.
That's why we're launching this petition now—which we'll deliver tonight before the speech—to call on President Obama to clearly reject any legislation that expands offshore drilling or gives taxpayer handouts to oil companies. You can add your name by clicking the link below:
http://pol.moveon.org/obamaoilspeech/o.pl?id=21126-10220574-DjJ1tsx&t=5
The petition says: "President Obama: We need a real plan reduce our dependence on oil, not more offshore drilling and taxpayer handouts to oil companies."
President Obama is expected to talk about his plan to hold BP accountable, help the Gulf Coast recover, and end our addiction to oil. Those are the right goals. But we've learned that Congress won't stand up to Big Oil unless President Obama leads the way.
For instance, one of the most prominent energy proposals would roll back the Clean Air Act and give incentives for new offshore drilling, essentially bribing states to allow new drilling in areas that are currently protected.3 The bill would also give valuable pollution permits for free to the biggest polluters.4
This moment is a major test of Obama's presidency—and for America. We can't let the Big Oil lobbyists turn the oil spill legislation into another DC insider giveaway.
Can you sign our petition calling on President Obama to demand a real plan to reduce our dependence on oil and reject any legislation larded up with taxpayer handouts to Big Oil or offshore drilling? Add your name by clicking the link below:
–Steven, Kat, Adam, Joan, and the rest of the team
1. "Obama to Lay Out Broader Energy Plan in Speech," The New York Times, June 15, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=88995&id=21126-10220574-DjJ1tsx&t=7
Expanded Offshore Drilling Will Be Part of Senate Climate Bill, Says Lieberman," The New York Times, May 11, 2010
3. "Statement of Charles D. Connor, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Lung Association On the Kerry-Lieberman Bill, The American Power Act," American Lung Association, May 12, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=89001&id=21126-10220574-DjJ1tsx&t=10
"Proposed Kerry, Lieberman Bill Charts Wrong Course on Climate, Energy and Oceans," Oceana, May 12, 2010
4."APA Cap and Allocation Summary," Environment Northeast, accessed June 15, 2010
http://www.env-ne.org/resources/open/p/id/1059
40,000 barrels a day
The BP oil disaster is in the headlines every day. But almost no one is talking about a real plan to get America off of oil—so we're flooding newspapers with letters demanding Congress and the White House take action. Can you write a letter to the editor of The Daily News about the need for a real plan to end America's addiction to oil?
40,000 barrels a day.
That's the latest estimate of how much oil is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico daily, according to a new report—nearly twice as much as the last estimate.1
And yet even now Washington and the mainstream media barely mention the only true solution: ending America's addiction to oil.
By organizing nearly 200 oil spill vigils last week that were covered by dozens of newspapers, CNN, MSNBC, and more, MoveOn members have started to force a real public debate about ending our oil addiction. But we need to keep speaking out.
One great way to do that is by writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. Can you write a letter to the editor of The Daily News—or another local paper—about the urgent need for a real plan to get America off of oil once and for all?
http://pol.moveon.org/lte?campaign_id=124&id=21103-10220574-8pxWNHx&t=3
Our tool makes writing a letter really simple. You can send the letter right from our website—it only takes a few minutes.
The letters page is one of the most widely read in local newspapers. Members of Congress and their staffs read it to understand how their constituents are feeling. And with the BP oil disaster in the headlines right now, members of Congress are paying close attention to what voters are saying about it.
Here are some key points you can use in your letter:
Experts have been saying for years that a true investment in clean energy could move our economy away from oil over 20 years. It's just a question of starting down that path.2
Anywhere from 42 million to over 100 million gallons of oil are already devastating the waters in the Gulf Coast. In comparison, the Exxon Valdez spill—the previous worst in U.S. history—spilled 11 million gallons into waters around Alaska in 1989.3
How much oil is that? Just 63 million one-gallon milk jugs would line up for 5,500 miles—the distance from the spill to BP's London headquarters, and then to Rome.4
The choice is clear, and so are the consequences. If we don't transition off of oil, the next disaster is just a matter of time.
Can you send a letter to the editor of The Daily News, or another local newspaper? Just click here to get started:
–Steven, Jodeen, Eli, Kat, and the rest of the team
1. "Gulf of Mexico spill 'releasing twice as much oil as thought,'" The Daily Telegraph, June 11, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=88916&id=21103-10220574-8pxWNHx&t=6
2. "Winning the Oil Endgame," Rocky Mountain Institute, September, 2007
http://www.oilendgame.com/
4. "New oil numbers may do more harm to fish, wildlife," The Associated Press, June 11, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill
Need your ideas
It's time to take our democracy back from corporations and lobbyists.
Can you submit an idea for how to start making democracy work for the rest of us?
http://pol.moveon.org/agenda/ideas/?id=20999-10220574-ikfOOEx&t=1
The daily, devastating images of the disaster in the Gulf are a vivid reminder of the consequences of corporations running roughshod over our democracy. For decades, companies like BP and Goldman Sachs have invested heavily in influencing elected leaders and legislation, so our system no longer works for most Americans.
This isn't news, but the urgency to fix it is growing—we need an economy, an energy plan, and a country that work for middle-class Americans—not just corporate elites.
So how can we fix our democracy?
We think you have the answer.
That's why we're joining with our friends at "The Other 98%"—a new web-based movement to reclaim our democracy—to draw up a bold agenda for returning control of our government to the people who elect it. We're particularly looking for ideas that are new, creative, catchy, and easily understood, so we can challenge candidates to back them this fall.
Can you submit an idea (or two!) for how to "change the rules" to make our democracy work for the other 98% of us?
Thousands of us will help suggest, rate, and vote on ideas, and then refine them into a comprehensive blueprint. But to get the ball rolling, we need some great ideas from you.
Here are some ideas we've received so far:
Close the revolving door between K Street and the capitol by making it illegal to lobby for 5 years after leaving office
Enact a Constitutional amendment to remove virtual personhood of corporations
Increase transparency by requiring all appointment books of all elected officials to be posted on line
In the next two days, we'll collect as many ideas as we can about how we can root out corporate influence on our democracy and of our elected officials. Then, later this week, we're going to ask the entire MoveOn membership to rate the ideas we collect and help refine them into a blueprint that we'll ask politicians and candidates to commit to in the upcoming election season.
We're looking for any kind of changes we could enact that would make elections more fair, reduce influence peddling in Washington, or force politicians to listen to their constituents.
Too many of the ideas for reclaiming our democracy are so technical and hard to understand that they're very difficult to build public support around. So this is an attempt to tap our collective wisdom to come up with some new ideas that will make a big difference, and are the kind of thing you could explain to your neighbors while standing in line at the market.
Reclaiming our democracy can seem like a daunting task. But we have one important thing on our side—we're the majority. Something is wrong when our government mostly works for the 2% of the population who benefit from corporate lobbying. The Other 98% campaign lets the rest of us join together to fight back. And that starts by collecting ideas from as many people in this movement as possible.
Submit your ideas today so we can start building our agenda this week.
–Ilyse, Milan, Jodeen, Matt, and the rest of the team.
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Come to a vigil in Brooklyn for the Gulf Coast
On Tuesday, June 8, we're organizing candlelight vigils around the country to mark the 50th day since the beginning of the BP oil spill. There's a vigil in Brooklyn. Can you make it?
For so many of us, the worst part of the BP oil spill has been this feeling of total helplessness. No one seems to be able to stop the spill, not even President Obama. And the oil just keeps coming.
But we're not helpless. In fact, we have the power to seize this moment and demand that we get off oil once and for all.
There are also great organizations working to respond to the immediate crisis, and we can help them as well.
That's why we're organizing emergency Oil Spill Vigils across the country this Tuesday—the 50th day since the spill began. There's a vigil in Brooklyn on Tuesday at Tuesday, Jun. 8, 2010, at 7:00 PM—can you come?
The oil companies are hoping that once this spill is stopped, people will move on, and we'll go right back to our dependence on oil. We can't let that happen.
As a MoveOn member from New Orleans said to me the other day, "As sad as I am, I think the thing that would put me over the edge is if I felt like the Gulf was dying in vain." But if enough of us speak out, we can make this tragedy a turning point and finally start to do what's necessary to get off oil for good.
At the Oil Spill Vigils, we will:
Demand real solutions from Washington, including a plan to end our addiction to oil by transitioning to clean energy.
Show the people of the Gulf region that we're behind them in this terrible time.
Help raise money to meet the needs of the immediate crisis.
There's a vigil in Brooklyn on Tuesday—can you make it? Here are the details:
Host: Linda S—fellow MoveOn member
Where: Lincoln Road & Flatbush Ave. (in Brooklyn)
When: Tuesday, Jun. 8, 2010, at 7:00 PM
–Steven, Matt, Joan, Stephen, and the rest of the team
Oil Spill Vigil in Inwood
The BP oil spill is the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. But Congress isn't even talking about the bold action we need. So this Tuesday, June 8, we're organizing emergency Oil Spill Vigils to demand an end to America's addiction to oil. Can you host a vigil in your area?
Host a vigil
It's just unbelievable.
By Tuesday, the oil spill in the Gulf will have been gushing out for 50 days straight. It might already be five times larger than the Exxon Valdez, and now BP says that the spill probably won't be stopped until August.1
Meanwhile, our political leaders in Washington aren't even talking about the real solution—getting off oil once and for all, and fully powering our economy with clean energy. It's clear we need a major public outcry to make this horrible tragedy a turning point.
So on Tuesday—day 50 since the spill—we're organizing emergency Oil Spill Vigils to demand an end to our dependence on oil, call for stepped-up efforts to end the spill, and stand in solidarity with all those affected in the Gulf.
Can you host an emergency Oil Spill Vigil next Tuesday? Click here to get started:
http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/create.html?action_id=213&id=20923-10220574-QkOVkGx&t=5
Hosting a vigil is easy. We'll gather together, read stories from Gulf residents affected by the spill, and observe a moment of silence. All you need to do is find a nearby public location for people to gather, invite friends, and tell the local media about it. We'll help you recruit people and give you all the guidance you need.
By standing together at events coast-to-coast, we can make sure lawmakers understand that the American people are demanding bold action to prevent disasters like this from happening again.
But we have to act now. The people in the Gulf of Mexico are facing the destruction of an entire way of life. Fishermen say they've lost 75% or more of their business, and it's getting worse. Federal officials have closed over one-third of the Gulf of Mexico to fishing. And the oil is poised to reach the beaches of Florida soon.2
As Charlotte Randolph, president of one of the coastal parishes affected by the spill, said, "You see it in people's eyes. You see it. We need to stop the flow. Tourism is dead. Fishing is dead. We're dying a slow death."3
Until we end our dependence on oil, disasters like the BP spill will keep happening. We can't get off oil in a day, but the energy experts say that if we had gotten started 20 years ago after Exxon Valdez we could be most of the way there already.4 But because Big Oil still calls the shots in Washington, such bold action isn't even being discussed. We need to turn this moment of crisis into a rallying cry to finally get America off oil.
We need as many Oil Spill Vigils as possible around the country so that tens of thousands of MoveOn members have the chance to speak out right in their neighborhoods. Can you host a vigil in your area? Click here:
–Steven, Wes, Lenore, Kat, and the rest of the team
1. "BP oil spill worse than Exxon Valdez, according to government estimates," Christian Science Monitor, May 27, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=88572&id=20923-10220574-QkOVkGx&t=7
"BP officials on Gulf oil spill: We can't stop leak until August at the earliest," New York Daily News, May 30, 2010
2. "BP puts containment dome on gushing oil geyser," The Washington Post, June 4, 2010
"Almost one-third of Gulf fishing grounds closed," Associated Press, June 2, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=88578&id=20923-10220574-QkOVkGx&t=10
"Oysters: From The Gulf To The Table, " NPR, June 3, 2010
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Pacific Northwest Solar, LLC v. Northwestern Corp.
United States District Court, D. Montana, Helena Division
PACIFIC NORTHWEST SOLAR, LLC, Plaintiff,
NORTHWESTERN CORPORATION, A DELAWARE CORPORATION DBA NORTHWESTERN ENERGY, Defendant.
SAM E. HADDON, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Upon review of the record, the Joint Proposed Final Pretrial Order[1]submitted by the parties on March 29, 2019, is hereby amended as to form and content and is adopted as amended by the Court as the Court's Final Pretrial Order.
1. The rulings of the Court made in the Court's Orders, including:
a. Doc. 200 at 2 (dismissed with prejudice the Second Count, Third Count, Fourth Count, and Fifth Count of Pacific Northwest Solar, LLC's First Amended Complaint).
b. Doc. 203 at 1-2 (granted Defendant Northwestern Corporation leave to modify and file its First Amended "Will Offer and "May Offer" Exhibits).
c. Doc. 220 at 2:
i. denied Plaintiffs Motion to Strike and Exclude NWE's Undisclosed Documents and Untimelty [sic] Discovery;[2]
ii. denied Plaintiffs Motion in Limine Re: NWE's State of Mind;[3] and
iii. denied Defendant Northwestern Corporation's Motion in Limine to Exclude Trial Testimony from Ryan N. Meyer.[4]
d. Doc. 227 at 6 (admitted into evidence Plaintiffs Exhibits 10, 11, 12, and 13, and admitted into evidence Defendant's Exhibits 504, 617, 623, and 650).
e. Doc. 245 at 8-9:
i. denied admission into evidence NWE's Answer to PNS Interrogatory No. 9;
ii. denied in part admission into evidence NWE's Answer to PNS Interrogatory No. 10;
iii. denied in part admission into evidence NWE's Answer to PNS Interrogatory No. 11;
iv. denied admission into evidence NWE's Answer to PNS Interrogatory No. 12;
v. denied in part admission into evidence NWE's Answer and Supplemental Answer to PNS Interrogatory No. 13;
vi. denied admission into evidence Plaintiffs Responses to Defendant's First Revised Requests for Production of Documents Nos. 1-12 and 14-16; and
vii. denied admission into evidence Plaintiffs Responses to Defendant's First Revised Requests for Production of Documents Nos. 13 and 17-19.
f. Doc. 252:
i. granted Defendant's unopposed Motion in Limine to Preclude Plaintiff from Characterizing Northwestern Corporation's Conduct as Being Fraudulent or in Bath Faith;[5]and
ii. granted Defendant Northwestern Corporation's unopposed Second Motion in Limine to Exclude Trial Testimony from Ryan N. Meyer.[6]
g. Doc. 257 at 2-5:
i. denied Plaintiffs Motion for Reconsideration of the Court's Preliminary Ruling on the Admissibility of Discovery;[7]
ii. granted NWE's Motion in Limine to Exclude Evidence of Northwestern Corporation's Contractual and Business Relationships with Other Solar Developers;[8] and
iii. held and confirmed that Plaintiffs Motion in Limine Re: NWE's Undisclosed Documents and Untimely ...
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Hakam Yaseen
University Hospital Sharjah, UAE
Professor Hakam Yaseen joined University Hospital Sharjah (UHS) in March 2010, prior to which he has held senior positions in Caen University Hospital (France), King Fand University Hospital (University of King Faisal, Saudi Arabia) and worked in many UK prestigious hospitals including University College of London Hospital (UCLH), Aberdeen, Birmingham and Exeter. Not only does Professor Yaseen spend his days (and long nights) providing critical care to babies as a neonatologist.
Jane Angelina Darakjian
Blue Tree Clinics, UAE
Jane Angelina Darakjian is a multi-lingual (Armenian, Arabic, English, French; Graduated pre- medicine BS degree from LAU (Lebanese American University which is affiliated with The States University of New-York. Obtained her (PhD) in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from medical University. Further she advanced in Functional nutrition and exercise therapist. Over 16 years she practiced the Head of the Clinical dietician Department covering: oncology, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, chronic conditions, diabetes and much more.
Naomi Esthernita Fauzia Dewanto
Rumah Sakit Siloam Kebon Jeruk, Indonesia
Dr. Naomi Esthernita Fauzia Dewanto is a Pediatrician. Currently Practices at Rumah Sakit Siloam Kebon Jeruk in Kebon Jeruk, Jakarta Barat, and Rumah Sakit Siloam Lippo Cikarang in Cikarang Selatan, Kabupaten Bekasi. She received her education in Universitas Indonesia. She is a member of Ikatan Dokter Indonesia. Services provided by the doctor are: Children And Adults Health, Health Check-up, Health Consultation, Physical Examination, and Childhood Immunizations.
Naresh Shanmugam
Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre, India
Dr. Naresh Shanmugam underwent undergraduate training at Stanley Medical College and Postgraduate Training in Paediatrics at Institute of Child Health, Chennai.With a view to enhance his skills, He underwent training at Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH,UK) accredited structured training program in Paediatrics and Neonates (Certificate of completion of training, C.C.T ) and then took sub-speciality training in Paediatric Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Nutrition.
Husam Salama
Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar
Husam Salama currently works at the Department of Pediatrics Women's Wellness and research center), Hamad Medical Corporation. Husam does research in Pediatrics. Their current project is 'Nebulized inhaled surfactant as an alternative method to bolus surfactant in intubated premature infants suffering from surfactant deficiency syndrome. a randomized pilot comparative controlled study.
Tadeusz Hryniewicz
Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Tadeusz Hryniewicz has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years Koszalin University of Technology (KUT), PL, and postdoctoral studies from University of California, Berkeley CA, and Wrocław University of Technology, PL (DSc). For over two decades he was a head of TEMPUS, and Socrates/Erasmus European programmes (KUT). His papers have been published in 57 international+15 Polish journals; has been serving as a reviewer to 68 intl. Journal titles. He has been an editorial board member of 12 journals, guest editor to 3 reputed intl. Journals, plus Editorin-Chief of two intl. journals. Membership activity to 13 intl. organizations, e.g. American Nano Society member since 2011
Lukasz Matuszewski
Medical University in Lubin, Poland
Karim Henikish Hassan is Professor of physical chemistry of University of Diyala, College of Science, Department of chemistry. He graduated with honors B.Sc and M.Sc in Industrial chemistry at the University of Baghdad, College of science in 1976 and 1983 respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Reading, UK in 1990. Field of interest are composite and nanomaterials, catalysts, petroleum chemistry and polymer in addition of spectroscopy and laser.
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Washington ‘piece rate’ workers must receive minimum wage
On questions certified to the Washington Supreme Court from a federal district court, the state high court held that pay for rest breaks, separate from piece rate, followed the plain language of WAC 296-131-020(2), and is consistent with Washington case law interpreting rest break regulations. Moreover, the court determined that the regulation requires that rest breaks for pieceworkers be paid at least at the applicable minimum wage or the employee’s regular rate, whichever is greater.
In 2013, two farmworkers instituted a class action suit against the employer asserting that its piece rate wage system deprived them of paid rest breaks as required by Washington regulation, WAC 296-131-020(2), which provides that “[e]very employee shall be allowed a rest period of at least ten minutes, on the employer’s time, in each four-hour period of employment.” The employer paid a “piece rate” wage based on the workers’ productivity. The piece rate was the only compensation received by the employees. According to the employees, “on the employer’s time” means that the employer must pay a wage separate from the piece rate for the 10-minute period they are on break, since no piece rate wages accumulate during that time.
Certified questions. While the case was pending in federal district court, the employer agreed to settle the workers’ retroactive claims, but it denied liability and expressly preserved its challenge to the employees’ prospective claim that it must pay for the time piece-rate workers spent on rest breaks. The federal court granted the employees’ motion to certify two questions related to that claim to the Washington Supreme Court: (1) Does a Washington agricultural employer have an obligation under WAC 296-131-020(2) and/or the Washington Minimum Wage Act [(MWA), ch. 49.46 RCW,] to separately pay piece-rate workers for the rest breaks to which they are entitled? (2) If the answer is “yes,” how must employers calculate the rate of pay for the rest break time to which piece-rate workers are entitled?
First certified question. The court first examined whether pay separate from the piece rate is owed to pieceworkers for rest breaks. The parties agreed that employers must provide rest breaks to agricultural employees, that agricultural employees are entitled to some form of payment for those breaks, and that to answer the question, the court must interpret WAC 296-131-020. Although the Department of Labor and Industries adopted that regulation in 1990, in 25 years no Washington court has defined its scope or applied it to workers paid by piece rate.
“On the employer’s time.” As an initial matter, the state high court examined the plain language of the regulation. The plain and ordinary meaning of the phrase “on the employer’s time” clearly indicated that employers must pay agricultural employees during their 10-minute breaks. And when applied to pieceworkers, the only reasonable interpretation is that “on the employer’s time” requires pay separate from the piece rate. Since the piece rate is earned only while the employee is working, the workers’ rest breaks cannot reasonably be said to be “on the employer’s time” if paid by the piece. The only way to give meaning to the phrase in this context is to require compensation separate from the piece rate for rest breaks.
The Department expressly patterned WAC 296-131-020(2)’s rest break provision for agricultural employees on WAC 296-126-092(4). The Washington high court first interpreted WAC 296-126-092(4) and “on the employer’s time” in Wingert v. Yellow Freight Systems, Inc., which applied the regulation to a collective bargaining agreement that provided a 15-minute break after two hours of overtime work.
The court held that WAC 296-126-092 prohibited employees from working three hours uninterrupted without a break, even if the employee was receiving overtime pay and notwithstanding a conflicting break provision in the employees’ collective bargaining agreement. The employer’s alternate accommodation – overtime pay and a different break schedule – was not a substitute for the policy advanced by the rest break regulation, namely that “employees [are] afforded healthy working conditions and adequate wages.” Any practice that “decrease[s] the frequency of worker’s rest periods … thwart[s] that fundamental purpose.” Although Wingert and subsequent cases applied to rest breaks paid “on the employer’s time” to hourly workers, they guided the analysis here.
Observing that rest breaks are critical to the health and effectiveness of employees, that agriculture is one of the most dangerous industries, that rest breaks mitigate those dangers by allowing employees to cool down and rehydrate, and that payment schemes that encourage missed rest breaks at the expense of employee health have been rejected, the high court concluded that those principles support interpreting “on the employer’s time” in WAC 296-131-020(2) to require rest break pay separate from the piece rate. Thus, the court answered the first certified question yes.
Second certified question. The Washington high court next turned to the federal district court’s second question concerning how “Washington agricultural employers calculate the rate of pay for the rest break time” for pieceworkers. While the employees argued for the employee’s average piece-rate earnings, the employer argued Washington law requires only the minimum wage per hour for pieceworkers. WAC 296-131-020(2) is silent about the rate of pay required for employee rest breaks, whether paid by the piece or otherwise.
Here, the court noted that the MWA “sets the floor below which the agreed rate cannot fall without violating the statute.” However, a pieceworker’s right to separate pay for rest breaks springs not from the MWA, but rather from WAC 296-131-020(2)’s mandate that rest breaks be paid “on the employer’s time.” Under WAC 296-126-092(4), all hours worked contribute equally to the employee’s right to a rest break, and there is no basis to treat the rate paid for rest breaks “on the employer’s time” differently from the rate paid for other hours worked.
Nothing in WAC 296-131-020(2) suggests “on the employer’s time” means something different to agricultural workers generally or to pieceworkers specifically. Time spent on rest breaks and time spent in active work are both hours worked for the employer and, under the second sentence of WAC 296-131-020(2), are paid at the same rate (the minimum wage). Here, the high court found no reason to depart from this interpretation when a pieceworker’s average earnings are more than the minimum wage.
Because all hours worked “on the employer’s time” are treated equally, the state court held that WAC 296-131-020(2) entitles pieceworkers to their regular rate of pay for rest break time. To calculate a pieceworker’s regular rate, employers tally the total piece-rate earnings and divide those earnings by the hours the pieceworker worked, but here the divisor excludes time spent resting. Missed breaks also must be compensated at the pieceworker’s regular rate. Thus, the Washington high court answered the second certified question: WAC 296-131-020(2) requires that rest break time be compensated at the pieceworker’s regular rate of pay. (Demetrio v. Sakuma Brothers Farms, Inc., July 16, 2015, Yu, M.)
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