Monsey, NY – Jewish Neighbor Rescues Boy, 4, Home

Monsey, NY -  The house that went up in flames when a 4-year-old was left home alone for 15 minutes Friday had no working smoke detectors, a fire official said Saturday.

Adam Gordon, the Monsey fire chief who led dozens of firefighters from six departments in fighting a Friday afternoon blaze at 485 West Central Ave., said the house had no working smoke detectors

The fire destroyed the home but injured no one. Only a 4-year-old boy, Alexander Lliguichusca, was inside at the time.

Two good Samaritans who happened to be nearby rushed in and led him to safety.

“We found the child by the door sitting by the bed,” said neighbor Saul Friedman, who was heading toward his car on Herrick Avenue when he saw flames and smoke coming from the house, then called 911 and dashed inside at the direction of the dispatcher. “He was shaking. He couldn’t talk.”

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The boy’s father, Manuel Lliguichusca, who lived at the house with his wife Buy Windows 7 Product Key, three kids and a few other people Windows 7 64 bit key, said he didn’t know how the fire may have started.

He said he left Alexander home alone for about 15 minutes while he walked to his brother’s house on West Street to pick up a piece of mail sent from his mother in Ecuador.

Lliguichusca said his wife was at work at the time, and the boy didn’t want to come on the errand with him.

Walking back to the house, he heard an ambulance and returned to find his son standing near a fire truck as smoke poured out of the house.

“I don’t know what happened,” Lliguichusca said.

Shortly after the fire broke out Windows Vista Key, Ramapo Detective Sgt. John Lynch said an initial report indicated the boy might have started the fire while playing with matches, though other police and fire officials wouldn’t confirm that report.

Jeunes Européens au chômage des garanties pour l

Cette tribune est cosignée par Rudolf Hundstorfer, Nicolas Schmit replica watches, Pervenche Berès et Philip Cordery. Retrouvez les fonctions des quatre signataires au bas de cette page.

L’Europe continue de subir les effets de la pire crise de son histoire; une crise financière et économique, mais aussi sociale, qui frappe de plein fouet les jeunes Européens à travers le continent. 5,5 millions de jeunes sont actuellement sans emploi dans l’Union européenne. En France, le chômage touche 23,2 % des jeunes. Ces taux sont plus élevés encore en Grèce et en Espagne où un jeune sur deux de moins de 25 ans est au chômage.

Le chômage des jeunes a un impact personnel considérable mais également des répercussions durables sur nos sociétés. Sans un revenu fixe et décent, les jeunes sont vulnérables. De plus, le chômage limite leurs perspectives de carrière, réduit leurs salaires et leurs retraites, créant un cercle vicieux d’aggravation de dépendance et d’exclusion de la société. La crise du chômage chez les jeunes favorise le désengagement et creuse le fossé entre les jeunes Européens et nos sociétés à un moment où nous avons tant besoin de leurs capacités d’innovation.

Nous ne pouvons pas rester les bras croisés. Nous devons, sans attendre, promouvoir des solutions concrètes pour lutter contre ce fléau. Tous les citoyens doivent savoir qu’ils ont un “rôle à jouer” dans leur société et dans leur communauté. Offrir un travail décent est un objectif fondamental pour les socialistes: c’est pourquoi nous lançons une campagne en faveur d’une garantie européenne pour les jeunes.

Si nous ne voulons pas perdre une génération entière, nous devons offrir aux jeunes des perspectives d’avenir et leur faire une place sur le marché du travail. Nous devons montrer que l’Union européenne peut apporter des changements positifs à leur vie. Pour cela, nous proposons qu’en France et partout en Europe soit créée une garantie pour les jeunes qui assurerait à chaque jeune Européen un nouvel emploi, un enseignement postscolaire ou une formation professionnelle dans les quatre mois qui suivent sa sortie de l’école ou son inscription au chômage.

Garantir aux jeunes Européens un tel droit ne relève pas de l’utopie: une telle garantie existe déjà en Autriche et en Finlande et sa mise en place au Luxembourg est prévue avant la fin de l’année.

C’est pourquoi nous apportons notre soutien à la campagne : “Ton avenir-mon avenir: une garantie européenne pour les jeunes”.

La garantie pour les jeunes, tout en créant plus d’emplois, doit aussi être étayée par des systèmes d’éducation et de formation plus performants. Nous devons nous inspirer du système d’éducation dual existant dans les pays qui affichent de faibles taux de chômage des jeunes: il permet aux jeunes d’acquérir une expérience professionnelle en entreprise tout en recevant une formation professionnelle à l’école.

La lutte contre le chômage des jeunes aura un coût. Mais ne rien faire nous coûterait bien plus cher encore. L’inactivité de 5,5 millions de jeunes coûte 100 milliards d’euros par an, 100 milliards que les contribuables européens ne veulent pas gaspiller. L’obsession de l’austérité de madame Merkel, de Monsieur Sarkozy et des autres conservateurs européens nous a non seulement plongés dans la crise économique mais elle est aussi directement responsable des niveaux alarmants du chômage des jeunes, c’est pourquoi nous estimons que nous avons besoin du contraire: plus d’investissements publics et privés, dans l’éducation et l’innovation. À cette fin, nos partenaires au sein du Parti socialiste européen (PSE) et nous-mêmes proposons d’utiliser 10 milliards d’euros sur les 22 milliards non utilisés du Fonds social européen pour financer la création d’emplois pour les jeunes, en particulier dans les pays en grande difficulté. Ces fonds pourraient aider à sortir du chômage quelque 2 millions de jeunes.

Il est urgent d’instaurer une garantie pour les jeunes à travers l’Europe et de redoubler d’efforts pour offrir aux jeunes des emplois décents et des perspectives d’avenir. C’est là la seule façon de leur montrer que l’Union européenne est de leur côté, qu’elle considère leurs aspirations comme une priorité et qu’elle peut leur prêter main forte en période de crise.

Accédez au site de la campagne en faveur de l’emploi des jeunes initiée par le Parti Socialiste européen. En savoir plus sur les signataires de cette tribune:

Rudolf Hundstorfer est un homme politique autrichien (lien en anglais), ministre du Travail, des Affaires sociales et de la Protection des consommateurs depuis le 2 décembre 2008.

Nicolas Schmit est un homme politique luxembourgeois cheap replica watches, ministre depuis 2004 et ministre du travail replica watches, de l’emploi et de l’immigration depuis 2009.

Pervenche Berès est une femme politique française, Présidente de la commission de l’emploi et des affaires sociales au Parlement européen. Son site est disponible ici.

Philip Cordery est secrétaire général du Parti Socialiste européen. Pour lire son blog, cliquez ici.

Alexa Chung and Body Snarking Why Our Addiction t

It is hard to believe that a single photograph can cause such a commotion but when ‘It Girl’ Alexa Chung posted an innocent looking Instagram picture of herself and her mum, internet warriors suddenly rose up, foaming at the mouth with indignation, decrying what they saw as Chung’s excessive thinness and questioning her suitability as a role model.

Chung subsequently made her account private but this did little to quell the rising storm that quickly spilled over into traditional media. What has been almost completely overlooked amidst the furore are two key issues: is it ever right to publicly speculate about an individual’s health? And just how complicit are we, the public, when it comes to the despicable art of body snarking whereby we brutally critique the female form?

Firstly: health. Online commentators slammed Chung, threw around accusations of eating disorders and suggested she was using the photo to promote extreme skinniness or thinspiration, an assertion that made her understandably upset. Thinspiration is a disturbing trend where young women spur each other on to achieve extreme thinness. Anyone in their right mind would be horrified to be connected to such carry on, especially someone like Chung Top Tattoo Machine, whose popularity is dependent on young women who are fascinated by her style.

The fact of the matter is this: there is one place and one place only to discuss someone’s health and that is in private, within the sanctuary offered by family Eyebrow tattoo supply, friends and medical professionals, not on a social media site or on the front of a magazine. Despite what the cult of celebrity may tell us or the manner in which women’s bodies are offered up as fresh meat by the media, there are things that should be beyond the realm of public discussion and health is one of them.

Unless an individual chooses to make such information known or the information has a significant direct effect on the public – which is unlikely, unless the person in question is a high ranking politician – then we must remember that health is not a matter for the public sphere and speculating about it is not only misguided but cruel.

While some of the comments in relation to Chung’s photograph were reasonable, the vast majority were spiteful Tattoo Machine Equipment, accusatory and invasive, as if someone being in the public eye gives the public carte blanche to make all kinds of obnoxious remarks directly to them. Just how many of those commenting were trained medical professionals with the ability to diagnose someone from behind a screen has yet to be established.

Very thin models are nothing new. Girls who look this way are often richly rewarded and become darlings of the fashion industry that spawned them. There are regular laments about the size of these models and the impact they have on women in general and yet, the skinny staple never seems to change. Why is that?

Fashion is first and foremost a business. If hyper-thin models put consumers off, if we refused to pay for what their bodies help flog, then the industry would be looking for elsewhere for faces quicker than you can say, “pass me that cheeseburger.” Despite the public horror at the likes of heroin chic, we still buy into those images by the billion and take our wrath out on the women whose visibility makes them vulnerable: the models and not the people in the boardrooms, pulling the strings.

High profile women and their bodies are fair game for public debate. They are subjected to a level of scrutiny that would render even the most solid individual paranoid. This scrutiny is a magnified version of the type all women face. Our bodies are not truly ours, they things to be observed, picked over and dissected. Can you remember the last time a marauding internet mob demanded a male star with a steroid-induced six pack, “sort himself out”?

We assume it is our right to cast judgement, to make vicious remarks and have an opinion on matters relating to individual women who we know nothing about and yet, are encouraged to tear apart. In the process we hurt other women and we hurt ourselves but here’s the thing: it never hurts to be kind and it never hurts to keep your cash for products and companies that celebrate women. As a wise person said many moons ago, “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”

Good advice, that.

Protesting Students, Striking Faculty

As the student loan debt in the United States surpasses $1 trillion for the first time in the nation’s history, thirteen courageous students from six California State University campuses will be engaging in civil disobedience in the form of a hunger strike until university leaders agree to freeze tuition, roll back excessive executive salaries, and make a genuine effort to ensure the quality of education. Students for Quality Education (SQE) Tattoo Grips, the student activist organization, will begin the fast at midnight (May 3) with student supporters from across the state including those from the Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, Northridge, Sacramento, and San Bernardino campuses. The students demanded to meet with representatives of the Board of Trustees but were rebuffed.

The CSU faculty union, after nearly two years of bargaining in good faith to reach a labor agreement with the university’s management Cheap Tattoo Machines, has voted overwhelmingly to authorize the California Faculty Association (CFA) to call for rolling strikes. A whopping 95 percent of the faculty on all 23 campuses voted to approve rolling two-day strikes if CSU Chancellor Charles Reed refuses a fair contract and stands by his “take-backs,” which would undermine shared governance with the faculty and weaken a host of faculty rights. Like the hunger striking students, the faculty strike actions will be aimed at bringing public awareness to a CSU administration that has shown itself to be wholly out of touch with the needs of its students and its faculty (as well as the public interest).

The strike vote could produce a shut down in the fall of the nation’s largest public university system, which would be the largest strike in the history of American higher education. The CFA president, Lillian Taiz, who is a Cal State Los Angeles history professor, noted: “The faculty of the California State University have had enough of executives putting themselves above the needs of the students, and of the public university. Enough of managers using budget cuts as an excuse to destroy the quality of students’ education.” “We do not want to strike,” she added, “but we will if that is what is necessary.” The faculty has simply “run out of patience.”

The hunger strike by students is a desperate measure that illustrates a desperate situation. Young people are being told that the only way to make it in today’s job market is to get a good education. Yet the same elders who lecture them on the necessity of a college degree are making it more difficult for them to attain one. Chancellor Reed and the Board of Trustees Chair Bob Lisncheid have so far ignored SQE’s “Open Letter” of April 27th formally requesting a meeting with them. Meanwhile, the dire conditions facing tens of thousands of CSU students continue with wave after wave of budget cuts, tuition and fee hikes, as well as an enrollment freeze that will deny 16,000 students access to public higher education in California.

Students have “tried just about everything to prevent the dismantling of our public university system,” Donnie Besson, a graduate student at CSU Long Beach points out: “We’ve lobbied our state legislators, we’ve mobilized thousands to our state capitol, and we’ve presented new strategies to our Board of Trustees.”

Both the student hunger strike and the threatened faculty walkout raise the question: Is the CSU a public educational institution or a multinational corporation? Chancellor Reed (and apparently the majority of the trustees) have telegraphed their philosophy of management. Through contracting out to exorbitantly-paid consultants (who receive about $4,000 per day while bargaining is going on) and pursuing aggressive “take-backs” from articles that have been hammered out in earlier contracts, the chancellor and the trustees’ stance toward the CFA looks more like that of a 19th century steel baron than people who have been entrusted with supervising a vital public good.

If a hunger strike by CSU students and a landslide strike vote by the faculty cannot get the attention of the administration in Long Beach then it’s hard to imagine what will. A student activist from CSU, Sacramento, Yeimi Lopez, described the fast this way: “Our classes have been cut and our programs slashed. We are thus taking the torch and are escalating our direct actions. We are taking a stand as students of California, for our sisters and brothers at the community colleges and K through 12.”

American college students used to undertake fasts to bring attention to off-campus issues like the dangers of nuclear weapons or apartheid in South Africa; today they’re doing it for basic fairness in a society that appears to be eating its young. With or without a college degree, young people are confronting a dismal job market that will affect their life-long earning potential and their ability to pay future taxes. Is anybody listening to them?

For years the CFA has been fighting alongside students to maintain the quality of education at an affordable cost, especially for working-class families enduring our current economic malaise. Andy Merrifield Tattoo Transfer Paper, chair of CFA’s bargaining team, told the news conference announcing the strike vote: “A fair contract will allow us to support our families, do a good job as educators, and help our students succeed.”

Another battle that involves both students and faculty aims to counter the effects of the CSU administration’s incessant moves toward the failed “for-profit” model of higher education. As faculty salaries have stagnated and the number of temporary professors with little job security has exploded, the administration has taken advantage of the crisis in California’s economy to aggressively pursue “take-backs” from earlier labor contracts that have little to do with teacher pay and more to do with administrative control. Chancellor Reed and the trustees have shown that they’d be perfectly happy running the CSU system in a fashion similar to the for-profit “colleges” where faculty have zero rights, no shared governance, and no job security.

And what are the teaching conditions like in the for-profit “college” sector with which the CSU management seem to be so enthralled and want to emulate? Here is just one paragraph from an email from a former graduate student of mine who is now an “instructor” at one of the local for-profits:

“After just a few months this school began writing my syllabus for me and forbidding me from showing films to the class. They threw out my own homework assignments and put in place standard ones based off our standard textbook which a computer could automatically grade, and fed them into a central grading database which determines the students’ entire grade; I have virtually no say in this anymore. Worst of all, they recently took freedom of research paper grading away from me and instead put in place a strict criteria for all teachers to follow which we are not allowed to deviate from. As a result I have been forced to fail perfectly good students for not meeting this criteria, forcing them to take the class over again.”

These are the kind of working conditions that exist in the for-profit higher ed sector and it’s this model that the CSU faculty is determined to stop the administration from imposing on us and our students. This slide toward “for-profitization” at the CSU makes the sumptuous salaries for CSU executives all the more galling. The managers reap the financial rewards while students, staff and faculty endure eroding quality, stagnating wages and the proletarianization of the academic workforce.

The CFA strike has as much to do with non-economic power grabs that the central administration in Long Beach is demanding than it does with addressing any given salary issue. Stripping the core curriculum from the academic departments at some CSUs and placing it in the hands of people hand-picked by administrators has become so extreme that even bedrock American History courses have been targeted. The for-profit model still reigns supreme among administrators throughout the CSU system despite the avalanche of evidence showing that it exploits students (saddling them with ever more student loan debt), micro-manages faculty through standardized curriculum and serves primarily the financial interests of a tiny number of privileged executives who reap the benefits. The for-profits also have graduation rates and student-debt ratios that are abysmal when compared with the CSU.

Both the hunger striking students and the striking faculty are engaged in an epic long-term struggle to save the CSU from the privatizers and profiteers who want to turn it into a business. We need Californians to join us in the struggle to protect this precious institution’s integrity as a public good and reestablish the idealistic goals on which it was founded.

What’s behind Maine’s business boomlet

PORTLAND, Maine — A surge of viable economic activity in Maine may help push the state’s business climate in a more positive direction.

Although some business analysts say this mirrors the national trend, others are more cautious. Deals of late that have caught notice involve millions of dollars and the potential for expanding jobs.

Oklahoma’s NGL Energy Partners LP announced on April 23 it was acquiring Brunswick-based Downeast Energy Corp., a 104-year-old home-heating company. The deal closed on May 2 for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock.

That same day, Beam Inc. said it was buying the Pinnacle Vodka and Calico Jack brands from White Rock Distilleries in Lewiston in a $605 million deal that includes the bottling facility and 180-person work force in Maine.

And the next day, Camden National Bank announced its acquisition of 15 Bank of America branches throughout Maine in a $20 million deal that boosted its market share, making it the largest bank based in the state — third in size only to TD Bank and KeyBank. The next week, on May 1, a smaller bank deal was announced. Bar Harbor Bank & Trust said it would acquire Border Trust’s three branches and its assets in a $1.16 million deal.

While Maine businesses produce their fair share of news, this was a vigorous spate of merger and acquisition activity. So what does it mean?

“I think you have to look at each one individually, not necessarily all as a trend,” said Joseph McDonnell, dean of the College of Management and Human Service at the University of Southern Maine.

That said, McDonnell added, “Typically, when companies are doing better, they have more cash, they have easier access to credit, and their stock is more valuable — which allows them to purchase with the stock, if that’s what they choose to do.”

Matthew L. Caras, founder and principal at Leaders LLC, a Portland-based firm that advises on mergers and acquisitions, said his company’s activity over the past five months or so has been “phenomenal.”

From buyers and sellers making inquiries of Leaders, to companies actually engaging the firm to represent them in sales or acquisitions, to shareholder and management buyouts, business has been busy, said Caras. The activity, he said, mirrors trends nationwide.

And the increase in business, starting in November and December of last year, was abrupt and significant, he said.

But, said Caras, he doesn’t see any real reason behind the increase. It may be from pent-up demand, he said, because deal activity has been low. Company valuations have increased, Caras noted, as business is picking up. So some companies may be thinking about using that increased business revenue to fund acquisitions. Other companies may eye their increased valuations as an opportunity to sell, like when homeowners wait for the market to come back before putting their house up for sale.

But the general business activity — and the White Rock, Camden National and Downeast Energy deals, in particular — aren’t indicative of any common theme or trend, Caras asserted.

“There’s no question there’s an increase in activity, but there’s no common reason. [The recent deals] don’t say anything about the Maine economy; you can’t reach any conclusions because of those transactions,” said Caras. “We have good assets in Maine. If you’re a good business in Maine, you’re constantly being called by strategic buyers.”

McDonnell noted that Maine’s business demographics also lead toward acquisitions.

“The fact that Maine is a state with many small or middle-sized businesses would tend to lend itself toward this,” said McDonnell. “As businesses seek to get larger, they would seek to acquire smaller companies as one way to grow, rather than trying to grow internally. We should not be surprised about this kind of activity.”

Caras noted there are other Maine companies that have made acquisitions beyond state borders. His firm was retained by Hussey Seating in North Berwick to run an acquisition program. Hussey acquired two different firms, the latest an Illinois company last November, said Caras. That deal led to Hussey hiring about 50 more people to work in North Berwick, he added.

More recently, on Friday, South Portland-based Wright Express Corp. announced it was acquiring a United Kingdom company in an all-cash, $27.5 million deal.

Merger and acquisition activity tends to be high in the fourth quarter, noted Ronald A. Nykiel, dean of the College of Business at Husson University. This recent surge in Maine may be because companies had extra cash that didn’t get invested in the fourth quarter, he said.

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Camden National was in a Maine banking battle of local brands. Most have been growing organically, with slower expansions a branch at a time.

“They pulled off a coup, flipped the deck and said, ‘We’ll do it all at once Herve Leger v neck sale,’” said Nykiel. “They basically took themselves from local to statewide in one move.”

In the case of NGL’s acquisition of Downeast, Nykiel said there’s a lot of cash available in the energy sector but expansion takes a long time and represents a high capital investment.

But a quick way for a company to expand its market — in this case, geographically — is through an acquisition, which can bring a much quicker return on investment if the acquired business is generating cash.

Looking at the White Rock-Beam deal, the larger company may have seen an acquisition that could add to its earnings without adding much to overhead, said McDonnell. Beam already has offices for sales, human resources, accounting, logistics, marketing and other business basics. he said. In acquiring a popular brand such as Pinnacle, Beam possibly saw a chance to take the product to a higher level in terms of marketing and distribution, increasing sales but not overhead.

“It becomes a good strategic fit,” said McDonnell.

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We’re not sure what marketing genius came up with the moniker for Hyundai’s new ix-onic crossover concept, but it’s something of a shame because the labored name sounds more like an air purifier than the attractive vehicle it’s atttached to. Questionable marketing decisions aside, the ix-onic, which previews the next Tucson crossover, is a winner. Aesthetically Tattoo Supplies, it has some mildly derivative elements (the face has a certain Mazda quality about it), but it’s a good-looking vehicle that comes off bigger and more muscular than its 173-inch length suggests. In other words, it’s got presence.

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Interestingly, with the ix-onic, Hyundai designers are now going on record saying they are working toward defining a “hexagonal” front graphic as the company’s new universal corporate face (check out the video). How the latter proclamation fits in with new offerings like the Genesis Sedan and Coupe or the Equus is something of an open question (perhaps this is just on designs for the European market), but as aesthetic signatures go, we can see this idea working to Hyundai’s advantage, as the company’s offerings currently don’t really have a familial design element to tie them together.

The ix-onic – pronounced “ik-sonnik” – makes use of Hyundai’s brand-new 1.6-liter GDi turbo four-cylinder, which routes its 168 horsepower through a six-speed double-clutch transmission (a bit of tech we don’t recall seeing from Hyundai before), and the drivetrain has stop-start tech to help it yield a commendably low 149 grams-per-kilometer of C02. With Hyundai’s previous admission that the company will move toward all direct-injection engines, we can expect to see this powerplant coming to America in the next Tucson, although perhaps not immediately. Click on the high-res galleries below and make sure to check out Hyundai’s video and press release after the jump.

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Audi is going to great lengths to steal territory away from arch-rival BMW and its Mini marque. But as you’d expect from any German automaker Buy Herve Leger v neck, the initial A1 three-door premium hatchback appears to be just the beginning. Since its launch, the A1 has bred the five-door A1 Sportback Cheap Christian Audigier Clothing, there’s a Q1 crossover based on the same platform reportedly in the works Replica Herve Leger v neck, and the A1 Quattro demonstrates the extent of the architecture’s performance capabilities. But Ingolstadt is not about to stop there as reports come in of a convertible version as well.

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Mini working up new John Cooper Works GP edition

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Now, word on the street is that Mini is preparing a new GP version. Few details are available at this point Herve Leger v neck sale, but considering that the current JCW packs 208 hp from its 1.6-liter turbo four, we ought to be looking at 220 horses or more in the new GP. To make things simpler, in fact Buy DKNY Dresses, Mini could be preparing to shoe-horn in the engine being developed for the JCW Countryman Discount Missoni Dresses, which is expected to pack more power than the JCW hatchback in order to get its heftier curb weight moving.

Given that the previous GP edition was a two-seat affair Buy Marc Jacobs Dresses, we can’t help but wonder if Mini will turn to the new Coupe for this GP. But for now, we’ll just have to sit tight and see what the Anglo-German automaker has in store for its most hard-core fanatics.

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