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Miami brokerage ISG opens New York office
From the South Florida website: Miami-based brokerage International Sales Group has opened an office in New York City, the firm announced today. The company, whose portfolio includes downtown Miami's MyBrickell, Vizcayne and the Apogee Beach in Hollywood, has taken a space at 436 East 58th Street in Turtle Bay. Northeast native Ken Golden has been tapped to head the new office. The company said it made the move to focus on New Yorkers interested in buying property in Florida.
Although foreign buyers have been seen as the saviors of South Florida's residential market, domestic buyers – especially in the New York-area — have begun investing in the popular vacation destination once again. In fact, ISG is not the first marketing team to descend upon Manhattan to pitch high-end Miami properties. As The Real Deal reported, a Florida-based Elliman team hosted a party last month to showcase a $9.85 million penthouse to New Yorkers interested in buying property in Florida, a growing trend now that Miami's high-end market has begun booming. – Alexander Britell and Christopher Cameron
Murder, bribery and contempt charges: Just another week in real estate
Regal Cinemas to close 39 U.S. theaters following bankruptcy
Billionaire Ken Griffin seeks to move historic Miami villa
Scamsters paradise: The most audacious real estate cons of the past decade
Jonathan Landau leaves Fortis to launch firm
Inside Adam Neumann's WeWork-ification of residential real estate
Some 40 million US homes at risk from extreme 2022 weather
Key Biscayne estate featured in "Miami Vice" rents for $100K a month

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After a record setting winter of snow over the past several months, the signs of spring, and change, are on the way! And while we have some exciting changes to announce at Chanticlear Frozen Pizza, we also have some of the same traditions that we are looking forward to, similar to the excitement and anticipation of the regular change of season!
You will start to notice that our labels on our pizzas have been updated, and we are thrilled with the results and how they turned out! And we are happy to say that while the label has a new look, inside the wrapper the pizzas still have the same great taste, which of course starts with an authentic recipe featuring a thin-flaking crispy crust!
The Chanticlear red sauce made from vine-ripended tomatoes is a definite definer in the flavor of our pizza. And as you know, we don't add sugar! Next, the 100% Wisconsin mozzarella cheese that is grated off the block daily is simply mouthwatering and a big reason why people buy our pizzas by the cases! So while the labels have changed, you will still find the same great flavor that has made Chanticlear a household favorite for generations!
As the snow continues to melt and temperatures warm up this spring, stay tuned for an another announcement that will absolutely win over every fan of Chanticlear Pizza! We are working on expanding our product line and offering the fantastic taste of Chanticlear Pizza in ways like never before!
In the meantime, stop out at one of our demo events being held frequently at grocery stores across the area. We are constantly working on expanding our coverage so that regardless of where you live, the opportunity is there to buy one of our famous frozen fresh pizzas!
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My personal guess is by the end of the year, bitcoin will be around 5k a piece.
It took bitcoin more than 4 years to reach $1k Wondering what will pump bitcoin to 5K from $500 in a year.
It's just a guess. Here's what I think will happen though. We've got this round of bad news now that will pass. More folks will jump aboard as they realize bitcoin is still here. Hopefully we'll get some good news with a real American exchange this year and just general stability with bitcoin and instability with some foreign currencies.
Going from 1 dollar to 1000 dollars is a 1000 fold increase. Going from 500 to 5000 is only a 10 fold increase.
Certainly there would be good news coming in few weeks/ months which will push Bitcoin's price higher but I think 5K would still be a bit difficult. I will be happy to see its price about 1.5K or 2K. It should grow slow and steady.


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Sallyanne Atkinson
12th Lord Mayor of Brisbane
Roy Harvey
Jim Soorley
Sallyanne Kerr
(1942-07-23) 23 July 1942 (age 80)
Other political
Liberal National Party
Leigh Atkinson
(m. 1964–1995)
Politician, journalist, businessperson, lobbyist
www.sallyanneatkinson.com.au
Sallyanne Atkinson AO (born 23 July 1942) was Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1985 to 1991 in Queensland, Australia. She is the only woman to have held the position. As of 2017, she was Chairman of the Museum of Brisbane,[1] President of the Council of The Women's College at the University of Queensland[2] and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland.[3]
Atkinson was born in Sydney.[4] She attended Bishop's College and the Royal Naval School in Colombo, Sri Lanka and completed her secondary education at St Hilda's School on Queensland's Gold Coast.[5] In 1960 she began an Arts degree at the University of Queensland, before becoming a journalist on the Brisbane Telegraph from 1960 to 1962, the Sydney Telegraph from 1962 to 1963, and the Courier Mail from 1963 to 1964. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in History and Political Science, in 1967.[6]
After joining the Liberal Party in the early 1970s Atkinson worked as a research assistant to the Hon Jim Killen, Minister for Defence,from 1975 to 1978,[7] before being elected as Alderman for Indooroopilly in the Brisbane City Council in 1979.
She also wrote a number of books, including Sallyanne Atkinson's Brisbane Guide which was released in 1985.[6]
Lord Mayor of Brisbane
Sallyanne Atkinson was elected Lord Mayor in 1985, after defeating the Labor incumbent Roy Harvey. She became the first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane, as well as the first from the Liberal Party.
She was eventually defeated in 1991 in a narrow upset election win by the virtually unknown Jim Soorley, who received preferences from the Greens candidate Drew Hutton.
Subsequent career
After leaving the position as Lord Mayor of Brisbane, she became the first woman on the boards of several major companies, including Caltex,[8] She unsuccessfully ran as the Liberal candidate for the federal seat of Rankin at the 1993 election.[9]
Atkinson was then Australia's Senior Trade Commissioner to France from 1994–1997. Her role was to promote Australian exports and encourage investment in Australia. She was also Australia's representative to the International Chamber of Commerce. While a representative of the Australian Olympic Committee, she supported the Olympic bids of many cities around Australia, including the Brisbane bid for the 1992 Summer Olympics and the successful Sydney 2000 Olympics Bid. In France she was the European Representative for the Sydney Olympic Committee.[10] She was subsequently made the Deputy Mayor of the athletes' village.
Atkinson was awarded Australian Catholic University's (ACU National) highest honour, Doctor of the University (honoris causa), at the Brisbane Campus graduation ceremony held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on 2 April 2004. ACU National Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Sheehan AO, said the award recognises Ms Atkinson's extraordinary contribution to Australia's international reputation as a location for sporting events, and her contribution to government and the community. "Through her many years of generous service, in particular her work on the Olympic bids for Brisbane and Sydney and as Deputy Mayor of the Olympic Village at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Ms Atkinson has contributed to Australia's eminent status in world sport. In 1993 Ms Atkinson was created an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to local government and the community, and in 2003 she was awarded a Centenary Medal for service to local government and to business. Professor Peter Sheehan AO stated during an ACU Graduation Address in 2004, "Sallyanne Atkinson is a most distinguished Australian, an eminent Queenslander, and has brought great credit to the city of Brisbane."[11] She was also awarded Honorary Doctorates from Griffith University and the University of Queensland.[12]
In the early 2000's Sallyanne served as a Board member and then Chairperson of Binna Burra Lodge, inside the Lamington National Park, Queensland.<www.binnaburralodge.com.au>
Sallyanne Atkinson was chairman in Queensland for Barton Deakin Government Relations, providing strategic advice to businesses and not-for-profits on working with government from 2012 to 2015.[13]
1993 – Officer of the Order of Australia[14]
2001 – Australian Sports Medal[15]
2001 – Centenary Medal[16]
Atkinson has been honoured by Rotary International, is an Honorary Fellow for the Australian Institute of Management, and is an honorary Life Member of the National Trust. The French Government made her a Chevalier of the Ordre National du Merite.[12]
She served as founding member of the board of the United Nations' International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, a role in which she chaired the first meeting at the UN in New York, and was the founding co-president with Sir Gustav Nossal of Sustainable Development Australia.[17]
In 2014, Atkinson was a recipient of the Queensland Greats Awards.[18]
Atkinson, Sallyanne (1977), Around Brisbane : including Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Toowoomba, University of Queensland Press (published 1978), ISBN 978-0-7022-1166-9
Atkinson, Sallyanne (2016), No job for a woman, St Lucia, Queensland University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-5411-6 (autobiography)
^ "About-Museum of Brisbane". Museum of Brisbane. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
^ "Governance". The Women's College at The University of Queensland. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
^ "Advisory Board". Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
^ Sallyanne Atkinson, Our House, ninemsn.com.au
^ Atkinson, Sallyanne (2016). No Job For a Woman. University of Queensland Press. p. 28.
^ a b UQ Alumni, Sallyanne Atkinson AO, former Brisbane Lord Mayor
^ Atkinson, Sallyanne (2016). No Job for a Woman. UQ Press. pp. 101–104.
^ Atkinson, Sallyanne (2016). No Job for a Woman. UQ Press. p. 206.
^ Tucker, Doug; Neylan, Mark (1 January 1994), Lord Mayor Superstar: Sallyanne Atkinson and the media, retrieved 4 April 2017
^ "Sallyanne Atkinson, AO - Celebrity Speakers".
^ ACU Graduation Address, Professor Peter Sheehan AO, 2 April 2004.
^ a b Atkinson, Sallyanne (2016). No Job for a Woman. UQPress. p. 261.
^ "Sallyanne Atkinson AO | Barton Deakin". Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
^ "Sallyanne Atkinson AO". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
^ "Sallyanne Atkinson". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
^ Atkinson, Sallyanne (2016). No Job for a Woman. UQPress. p. 203.
^ "2014 Queensland Greats recipients". Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 31 May 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
Civic offices Preceded byRoy Harvey Lord Mayor of Brisbane 1985–1991 Succeeded byJim Soorley
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The Maryland Department of Aging is the agency charged with administering the continuing care laws. The primary continuing care laws are located at Title 10, Subtitle 4, of the Human Services Article ("HSA"), Annotated Code of Maryland, and Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR) 32.02.01, which can be accessed below under the "General Information" section.
The shelter and services are offered under a contract that lasts for a period of more than one year, usually for life.
The contract that is entered into between a CCRC provider and a resident is known as a continuing care agreement. Continuing care agreements are legally binding contracts between the provider and the resident that outline the responsibilities between the provider and the resident. Only a portion of the content of continuing care agreements is regulated by the continuing care laws. Much of the content of the continuing care agreements will vary from community to community, as does the scope of the continuing care offered at these communities. For example, some CCRCs may provide full coverage nursing care in an on-site health center at no additional charge to the resident, while other CCRCs may provide priority admission to a nursing facility on a fee-for-service basis.
Entrance fees and monthly fees also vary widely. Generally, these fees are based on the level of care (independent living, assisted living, or nursing care), size of the unit, number of residents living in the unit, and type of contract entered into. Depending on the provider, these fees may or may not cover a wide range of services.
There is financial risk involved in choosing a CCRC, as large sums of money are paid in advance for future services. Also, some continuing care agreements provide for a refundable entrance fee, which may require that the unit be reoccupied (and, possibly, that a new entrance fee be paid by the new occupant) before a refund is paid. There is a risk that these units may not be reoccupied (or a new entrance fee may not be paid) in a timely manner.
financial advisor familiar with these types of agreements before signing any documents.
For additional information, please see the tabs below.
The Maryland Department of Aging provides a comprehensive consumer information packet for persons interested in learning more about Continuing Care Retirement Communities. You can download information below or request a packet be mailed to you by calling 410-767-1100.
Providers of Continuing Care in Maryland must complete the CCRC Development Process as specified in Human Services Article, Sections 10-401 through 10-499 of the Annotated Code of Maryland. As the regulatory authority for Continuing Care, the Maryland Department of Aging provides an information packet for a potential provider that describes the Development and Application Process. Forms may be downloaded below or you can request a packet be mailed to you by calling 410-767-1100.


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Creighton baseball cancels home opening series
Posted: 3:59 PM, Feb 25, 2019
By: Adam Krueger
OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Courtesy: CU Media Relations - Due to extreme cold which has left the field of TD Ameritrade Park Omaha both covered in snow and frozen, Creighton Baseball has announced the cancellation of its home opening midweek series with Northern Colorado. The two-game set scheduled for March 5-6 will not be made up.
The weather may also impact additional games scheduled in Omaha, but as of yet no official decision has been made beyond the two opening contests.
Tickets for this cancelled games can be exchanged for any remaining regular season home games by logging on to your MyCreighton account. Tickets can also be redeemed at the Creighton Ticket Office located inside the Ryan Athletic Center (open 9:00 am to 4:30 pm on weekdays) or at the TD Ameritrade Park Omaha Box Office on game days only starting one hour prior to first pitch.


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With its decision to issue an opinion and seek revision, the Government exceeded its competences and acted contrary to the recommendations contained in the reports of the European Commission on the RNM's progress and to the Council of Europe's recommendations to guarantee independence to the regulatory bodies in the media sphere. Namely, the Council of Europe's key recommendation regarding regulatory bodies' independence and functioning, underlines clearly and unambiguously that the public authorities must not influence media regulators' independence. The basic goal of these recommendations is to prevent precisely this kind of intrusions on the part of the executive authorities into the regulators' work.
The Regulatory Strategy was submitted to the Government, the Parliament and the Ministry of Information Society and Administration not for the purpose of being adopted on their part, but to inform them about the current state of affairs in the media sphere, as well as the activities that the Agency intends to take up in the following five years with the aim of improving certain aspects of the media sphere.
The strategy has not been harmonized, as the Government states, "with the other strategic documents for the development of this sphere", simply because such documents do not exist. In order to prepare a sound and high-quality strategy, the Agency had included in its preparation the broader expert public, the journalist associations and the civil society organizations in the media sphere, through their participation in the many meetings and public debates it had organized.


Economists are at this moment called upon to say how to extricate the…world from…a serious threat…which, it must be admitted, has been brought on by policies which the majority of economists recommended and even urged governments to pursue. We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
The reason I was so intrigued by that statement is because it was made in 1974 by Frederich August von Hayek, in his acceptance speech as the recipient of the very first Nobel Prize in economics. The title of his speech was, "The Pretence of Knowledge." The tone of his speech sounds very familiar to comments made much more recently by former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan in an exchange with a congressman in 2008.
Greenspan: "I have found a flaw. I don't know how significant or permanent it is. But I have been very distressed by the fact."
The congressman questioning him asked: "In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right. It was not working?"
Greenspan: "Absolutely. Precisely. That's the reason I was shocked. Because I have been going for forty years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well."
I want to pose a question and offer a warning. Here's the question, "How could people with this level of experience and expertise be so wrong about something so important?" The warning is that if you are trying to interpret the changes happening around us in the world of mission through your old maps based on evidence of past success you are in for just as big of a surprise as Alan Greenspan.
I want to posit an answer to my question, "How can really smart people be so wrong about something so important?" by borrowing an idea from Malcolm Gladwell. I heard him give a lecture in which he said for leaders, especially in higher level organizational leadership, overconfidence is a bigger problem than incompetence. What Gladwell meant is there are Darwinian forces at work in organizations weeding out chronic incompetence before it reaches high enough levels of organizational leadership to pose a big problem. The danger is those very same forces feed overconfidence. Gladwell went on to say, incompetence is frustrating; overconfidence is scary.
So let me repeat the question, "How can people so smart be so wrong about something so important?" My answer: Overconfidence. And in the words of Gladwell, overconfidence is a bigger problem than incompetence. Incompetence is frustrating; overconfidence is scary.
There are a number of factors that converge to create a perfect storm for overconfidence. I want to mention two: the abundance of information, and the development of well-crafted plans. These two factors actually make leaders vulnerable to a paradox where with great confidence we put forth right answers to the wrong questions.
Let's return to the financial meltdown for a moment. In the summer of 2007, Bill Browder, head of the $2 billion Hermitage Fund, was riding a thirty percent increase over a period of a few months. He saw a news item in the paper saying an auction in New York of debt from leveraged buyout deals had failed to draw enough bidders and was shut down. Given the momentum he was experiencing, we would expect Browder to be brimming with confidence. To most of the investing world, including people like Alan Greenspan, this looked like a small hiccup in an otherwise well-functioning financial system. But Browder recognized it for what it was: a sign that the world had run out of the ability to absorb new debt. It was the end of a Ponzi-like scheme and in his mind was the start of an avalanche that might reach historic, tragic scale.
Almost immediately, he began stockpiling cash, reducing his exposure to stocks as much as he could, and moving his investors' money into any safe haven he could find. He began to pioneer what he called an "off the grid" investing style. He wrote to investors saying, "The analogy is an electrical black out." So if you are working in a high rise at night you get paralyzed, but if you are living in a cabin in the mountains you hardly notice. Browder wanted to achieve the financial market's equivalent of living in a cabin in the mountains.
How did investor Bill Browder see this coming, tipped off only by a few lines in the financial section of a newspaper that others ignored? Was he more competent than the tens of thousands of other financial experts who read that same news story? No, the reason he saw what was coming is not because he was more competent it's because he was not overconfident. Having seen the potential for extreme market volatility from his work in Russia he was asking another set of questions altogether. He wasn't working off Alan Greenspan's map.
Interesting, you say, but what does this have to do with mission leadership?
We have more information and more well-crafted plans than ever and in turn we are incredibly vulnerable to overconfidence. I believe one of the most important lessons God is trying to teach us in the midst of this season of economic uncertainty is the danger of overconfidence and the importance of total dependence. The antidote for overconfidence is humility and here's why, humility is the root system of faith.
On two occasions in the gospels Jesus highlighted "great faith." Andrew Murray pointed out that in both instances the people who were commended for their great faith were demonstrating great humility. In Matthew 8, as Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him concerned about a servant who was paralyzed and suffering greatly. But the centurion demonstrated great humility before Jesus, saying, "Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof."12 Matthew says Jesus "was astonished" and said, "I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith."13 Great humility produces great faith. Great faith releases great power.
A similar story is told in Matthew 15 as Jesus interacted with a Canaanite woman14; I'll let you dig that one out for yourself. It reinforces a simple truth: great humility produces great faith which releases great power to do what only God can do. The antidote for the hubris of overconfidence is humility.
As a missions community we are where the world of physics was in the early 20th century when the maps (or in this case formulas) that Newton provided could not answer the important questions of the day. We are in a critical transition window in global mission; metaphorically speaking we are in between Newton and Einstein, between the laws of motion and the theory of relativity.
And because of our overconfidence we are in danger of getting the right answers to the wrong questions and vulnerable to dismissing the twenty-something patent clerks (the Einsteins of our day who operate completely outside the elite halls of organizational power) who are operating from a different set of maps and understand that often the questions actually are the answers.
Very smart people can be very wrong about something very important. Overconfidence is a bigger problem than incompetence. I believe God is calling us back to a posture of great humility that produces great faith that releases great power.
Here are a few questions worth considering. To what extent has your training and experience, the fact you are very smart, made you more vulnerable to being very wrong? How might overconfidence bias you to use "outdated maps" when seeking to interpret new information? Review the biblical passages that connect great humility and great faith. What are the implications for you and your organization?


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Who is the new Boss of the Buffalo Mob?
January 09, 2013 Dapper_Don
Bobby Panaro, who denies he has any involvement with the Mafia, has been widely rumored to be the new boss of the Buffalo mob.
With the ground covering Joe Todaro and Sonny Nicoletti still fresh, both law enforcement and the legion of mafia buffs who make their home in Western New York have busied themselves trying to figure out who might next head up the tattered remains of the once formidable Magaddino crime family.
I've been covering organized crime in Buffalo for the better part of 15 years. There are some great stories, lots of colorful characters and some genuinely decent people who have been negatively affected by this kind of speculation.
Personally, I don't get it. Because what nobody has been asking is "why anyone would want to be the head of the Buffalo mob?"
Even the most optimistic observers say the old Magaddino outfit has but 20 made guys left at most, and the majority of them have long since qualified for Social Security.
The formerly subservient Utica and Hamilton, Ont., crews have their own problems, with alleged Utica crime lord Russ Carcone still reeling from a 2000 shoplifting bust and the Canadian crew as dead as charity since the assassination of John "Johnny Pops" Papaglia in 1997.
Given all the agita that goes along with being a mob boss in a third-rate American city, is it really worth becoming a target both for law enforcement and any two-bit wannabe punk looking to make a name for himself?
Just ask the highly respected Papaglia, whose storied career ended when he got shot in the back of the head by a bumbling Irish alcoholic named Ken Murdoch who took the contract for just $2,000 and 40 grams of cocaine.
Even Todaro, who the FBI claims was the last official don of the Buffalo family, reportedly gave up his position in 2006 in order to spend more time with his family and enjoy the fruits of the lucrative La Nova pizza business he founded decades earlier.
The leading contender for the top spot, Frank "Butchie Bifocals" BiFulco, was alleged to have been a feared enforcer and a capo in the Magaddino organization going back to the 1960s. But he's currently indisposed, serving a 10-year, 10-month stretch in Club Fed for the 2001 torching of a leased Nissan in the parking lot of Walden Galleria.
According to the FBI, Leonard "The Calzone" Falzone took over as acting boss of the family when Todaro stepped down in 2006, after years of serving as an enforcer, hit man and finally a capo in the organization. Falzone has of course denied this.
Still, the feds say Falzone was ultimately named consigliere to the Buffalo family in 1987.
Aside from a misdemeanor conviction for possession of stolen property in 1971, Falzone had never been in trouble with the law until the mid-1990s, when a federal investigation of Laborers Local 210 in Buffalo put him in the spotlight. Falzone was then an administrator of the local's $80 million pension fund, and he became a huge target for the investigators.
At the time, Buffalo crime circles were lousy with paid informants, stool pigeons and squealers of every stripe. And it didn't take the feds long to put together a case based on the allegations of these disreputable individuals.
The RICO and RICO conspiracy charges set forth in Falzone's indictment covered a period of time from approximately September, 1985 through August, 1989, during which Falzone was alleged to have engaged in the business of loansharking - charging extremely high interest rates on loaned money.
In 1995, Salvatore "Sammy" Spano told a federal jury he needed Falzone's protection and approval to establish a loansharking operation in Las Vegas. His testimony was the latest piece in the case federal prosecutors were trying to build against Falzone, who stood accused of being a renowned mob enforcer who escaped numerous investigations without a conviction.
"I asked him (Falzone) if I could move to Vegas and if I could use his name while out in Vegas," Spano said on the witness stand. Also testifying against Falzone were the contemptible Ron Fino and Ronald "Ronnie" Raccuia, a degenerate gambler and onetime Buffalo Common Council Chief of Staff.
Falzone was tried in the local media as well. Following his conviction, the Buffalo News editorialists felt vindicated. "Over the years, Falzone had developed a reputation among some as untouchable," an unsigned editorial read. "No more. This felony conviction cracks his slick reputation for invincibility."
The other name currently being batted about as a possible successor to Todaro is that of successful businessman Bobby Panaro, a Las Vegas area resident for the past four decades who spends some time in Buffalo.
Like Falzone, Panaro was also ousted from Laborers Local 210 for allegedly associating with organized crime figures. At age 57, he was sentenced in 1999 by U.S. District Judge Philip Pro to 7-1/2 years in prison for conspiring to extort longtime mob associate Herbert "Fat Herbie" Blitzstein, who was slain in January 1997.
At the time, Panaro was running an auto dealership known as Good Fellows. "They're giving me 7 1/2 years," he told reporters following his conviction. "For what? What did I do?"
A jury acquitted Panaro of all charges related to the Blitzstein slaying, but the four-week trial left him branded a "mafia soldier." "I'm no mob soldier," he said. "I never have been. I never would be."
Federal prosecutors had accused Panaro and Steve "The Whale" Cino of authorizing the Blitzstein killing as part of a plot to take over the victim's business activities in Las Vegas.
At the trial, prosecutors described Panaro as a member of the Buffalo family and Cino as a member of the Los Angeles mob. "Because I'm Italian?" Panaro asked. "Get out of here."
There are people in law enforcement, perhaps, whose jobs depend on whether or not there is a mafia, a "Cosa Nostra," organized crime, or whatever you want to call it, in the city of Buffalo, New York.
And there are other people, lots of them, who study mob politics and machinations in the same way that Civil War buffs examine Sherman's March to the Sea.
But if you ask me, I think Leonard Falzone and Bobby Panaro need to be head of the Buffalo crew like they need another hole in the head.
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Giovanni Battista Contini (1641–1723) was an Italian architect of the Baroque period.

He trained in Rome under Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, but imbibed the influence of Francesco Borromini. He designed churches both in Lazio and the Marche. He designed two churches for the Oratorian order in Macerata and Cingoli.

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