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On Thursday city inspectors issued a stop-work order at one of the buildings after they discovered that Faisal had started construction without a permit. The spokeswoman said inspectors found that a contractor hired by Faisal had demolished an interior wall without permission. He must now apply for a permit and pay triple the usual fee.

A dozen residents who spoke with the Globe said Alpha managers quoted them significantly higher rents to renew their apartment leases; in several cases, tenants said Alpha proposed adding bedrooms to their units by walling off common areas such as living rooms and charging more.

When her lease for up for renewal, Taylor said, an Alpha manager told her the dining room and a second smaller room would be made into bedrooms, and the new rent would be $4,200, up from $2,200. After she protested, the manager lowered the new rent to $3,200, Taylor said, still far higher than what Faisal had said in the February interview with the Journal.

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Other residents said Alpha told them they would have to pay anywhere from $150 to nearly $600 more a month to renew their leases. Some would end up paying close to the neighborhood average — $2,500 for a two-bedroom apartment, according to a recent city housing study. But a number of proposed rents cited by the tenants would far exceed the average. And some residents said the company calculated higher rents by counting common areas of their apartments as bedrooms.

‘I love this building, but the horror stories from other people who have dealt with him in the past make me want to move.’ Abigail Taylor, discussing the new owner of her building, Anwar Faisal

Some tenants said they successfully negotiated smaller increases; others, such as Taylor, have yet to decide whether to renew.

“Everyone has the same story,” Taylor said. “They just throw arbitrary numbers out until you agree.”

Dina Rudick/Globe Staff A group of tenants upset over proposed rent increases from their landlord, Anwar Faisal of Alpha Management, met in Somerville last week.

City inspectors in March found no evidence of rodents or that living rooms were being converted into bedrooms, the mayor’s spokeswoman said. Residents disputed that, saying construction is ongoing throughout the buildings and that Alpha has stockpiled drywall and other materials at one site.

With little recourse, the Summer Street residents have enlisted help from the nonprofit advocacy group Somerville Community Corporation, hoping they can pressure Faisal into tempering the rent increases and being more responsive. Karen Narefsky, an organizer for the community group, said Faisal’s notoriety could help bring greater attention to how rising rents are squeezing longtime residents out of Somerville.

“A lot of displacement is happening because of transactions like the one on Summer Street,” said Narefsky, “We thought this was a good opportunity, because he’s such a high-profile landlord and a lot of the tenants already knew who this guy was.”

A similar story unfolded in Medford and Malden when Faisal bought apartment buildings in those cities in 2011. He immediately sought rent increases of up to $350 from the tenants there, telling a local online news publication, “the honeymoon’s over.” Eviction notices followed.

Residents fought back, forming a union and challenging their evictions in court while they sought new housing. They told the Globe at the time that Faisal had changed their locks, allowed rental agents to enter their apartments without notice, and used a parking sticker requirement to pressure residents into signing paperwork.

A judge in one of the resulting cases found that Faisal had improperly refused to refund the tenants $25,000 worth of security deposits, and admonished him for adopting a “fight-everything-at-any-cost” approach to avoid paying $60,000 in legal fees to attorneys for the tenants.

In Boston, though, city officials said Faisal properties have been much improved since the Globe stories prompted public hearings and vows to step up enforcement. William Christopher, head of the city’s Inspectional Services Department, or ISD, said Faisal now receives fewer violations, attends meetings the agency holds with landlords, and has registered his apartments in a city database of student housing.

“Quite honestly, he’s no longer in my book of people I watch intently,” Christopher said. “He’s been on the straight and narrow.”

However, a spokeswoman said ISD cannot easily track how many violations it has issued to a landlord, thanks to an antiquated record-keeping system.

Chris Wand, a 31-year-old resident of the Somerville apartments, said he will have to pay an additional $250 a month to renew his lease, about 15 percent higher. While he said that wasn’t exorbitant given the local housing market, he is upset by how Alpha has treated him and his neighbors so far.

“It’s hard not see everything as part of a pattern, given what we know about the company,” Wand said. “I feel like if we don’t draw a line in the sand, things are just going to get worse.”

Dan Adams can be reached at [email protected] . Follow him on Twitter @DanielAdams86<\|endoftext\|>Colorado is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

South Carolina is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

California is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

Delaware is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands of records missing from even the top-performing states.

Michigan is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

New York is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

New Jersey is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

Pennsylvania is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

Texas is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

Following the Virginia Tech tragedy, Virginia became the national leader in submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

Washington is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

Dear Governor, Hundreds of thousands of records of prohibited purchasers are missing from the background check system, putting American lives at risk. I commend our state for recently passing a law that requires prohibiting mental health records to be sent to the background check system. Now our leaders must act to make sure that all records get submitted, because every missing record is another tragedy waiting to happen. Sincerely, [Name]

Dear Governor, Hundreds of thousands of records of prohibited purchasers are missing from the background check system, putting American lives at risk. I urge you to make it a top priority to pass common sense gun legislation to ensure that guns are kept out of dangerous hands. I’m concerned that our state has failed to submit the records of seriously mentally ill people who are prohibited from buying guns to the national do-not-buy database. Our leaders should act immediately to pass a law that requires these records be sent to the background check system, because every missing record is another tragedy waiting to happen. Sincerely, Sincerely, [Name]

Dear Governor, Hundreds of thousands of records of prohibited purchasers are missing from the background check system, putting American lives at risk. I commend our state for submitting so many prohibiting mental health records to the background check system, but we need a law to ensure these records keep flowing in the future. Our leaders should act immediately to pass a law that requires all prohibiting mental health records be sent to the background check system. Sincerely, [Name]

Dear Governor, Hundreds of thousands of records of prohibited purchasers are missing from the background check system—putting American lives at risk. I'm proud to live in a state has acted to get prohibiting mental health records into the background check system. Please keep working to improve our laws—and to ensure we submit all relevant records to the system. Sincerely, Sincerely, [Name]<\|endoftext\|>Forgive me for the convoluted headline. I struggled with a way to describe what SnappyApp does and keep it within headlines space.

SnappyApp is not just another screen capture tool. It works a bit like the Grab tool in Applications > Utilities on your Mac. That means SnappyApp can grab a section of your Mac’s screen and save it. On the screen.

For example, if you want to write something and need a visual reference then SnappyApp captures an image of whatever you want from the Mac’s screen, but holds it on top of everything else so you can refer to it.

That’s much better than grabbing an image or section of a web page, then trying to find an app to store it, then opening the app again to view the image.

Now, once you’ve snapped an image from the Mac’s screen, large or small, it’s pinned to the screen. Right click on the snapped image and you can share it via email, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.

Plus, there’s a built-in Snaps from the Past screenshot organizer so you can keep track of all the screenshot snippets.

Keyboard shortcuts in SnappyApp make it easy to take screenshots of portions on the Mac’s screen. Other keyboard shortcuts can hide the screenshot organizer.

If you take screenshots at all on your Mac you’ll wonder why Apple doesn’t just build this into OS X in the first place. It’s that good. It’s free.<\|endoftext\|>By Heather Wilhelm - December 4, 2014

Over the past two weeks, a horrific story, originally published in Rolling Stone, has rocked the University of Virginia. According to the article, a bubbly U-Va. freshman named Jackie attended a fraternity date party two years ago. There, she was lured into a dark room, pushed to the floor, beaten atop a shattered glass coffee table, and brutally gang-raped as part of a twisted pledge initiation ritual.

The details, if you choose to read them, will make you sick. They’ve also set the U-Va. campus on fire, sparking student protests, a police investigation, a temporary suspension of fraternity life, and mild administrative panic.

If you think the story has details that stretch credulity, you’re not alone. Media critics from across the ideological spectrum are focusing on various inexplicable-sounding assertions in the article. Jackie’s friends refusing to take her to the hospital because they desperately want to secure invites to future gang-rape fraternity parties strikes me as particularly odd. But the fact that the accused rapists were never contacted by Rolling Stone, which is a basic journalistic requirement, is even more problematic.

With national media scrutiny and a new police investigation—Jackie never reported her rape to the police, and refused to file an official complaint with the school—the plot will continue to thicken. But let’s assume, for a moment, that Jackie’s story is true. If you look at it through the prism of assumed truth, the reaction to it becomes increasingly bizarre.

Jackie’s rape account was violent and deeply disturbing. As skeptical Worth editor Richard Bradley has pointed out, sections of it (one frat brother allegedly calls Jackie “it” while ordering another pledge to grab her leg) are reminiscent of “The Silence of the Lambs.” This is not some drunken misunderstanding at a party. It is the equivalent of a war crime. The perpetrators, if guilty, were monsters.

So it was odd to see how University of Virginia students, long trained in the feminist doctrine of “rape culture,” responded to this show of unadulterated evil. They organized—wait for it—a “Slut Walk.” In the face of Jackie’s story, students, as a freshman organizer named Maria Dehart told the U-Va. student paper, need to “fight against this victim-blaming, slut-shaming culture we have that sexualizes women, yet shames them for being sexual.”

Wait, what? Ms. Dehart has apparently not yet attended the freshman sociology seminar that will inform her that rape is usually about power and violence, not sex. We’ll leave that aside for now, however, because things get weirder. A later protest rally, organized by university faculty—and inspired, it must be remembered, by a supposed serious crime with a group of violent assailants apparently still on the loose, free to hurt other women—was officially titled (and again, please gird your loins) “Take Back the Party.”

“Take Back the Party”? What on earth does this even mean? Weren’t we talking about a reported gang rape? Rest assured, kids, the U-Va. faculty is no bunch of old, killjoy fuddy-duddies: “We are not here to shut down the party,” their public statement eagerly assures students. “We are here to support a SAFE social environment for women as well as men. This is a FACULTY action demanding an end to sexual assault at UVA."

On Thursday city inspectors issued a stop-work order at one of the buildings after they discovered that Faisal had started construction without a permit. The spokeswoman said inspectors found that a contractor hired by Faisal had demolished an interior wall without permission. He must now apply for a permit and pay triple the usual fee.

A dozen residents who spoke with the Globe said Alpha managers quoted them significantly higher rents to renew their apartment leases; in several cases, tenants said Alpha proposed adding bedrooms to their units by walling off common areas such as living rooms and charging more.

When her lease for up for renewal, Taylor said, an Alpha manager told her the dining room and a second smaller room would be made into bedrooms, and the new rent would be $4,200, up from $2,200. After she protested, the manager lowered the new rent to $3,200, Taylor said, still far higher than what Faisal had said in the February interview with the Journal.

Other residents said Alpha told them they would have to pay anywhere from $150 to nearly $600 more a month to renew their leases. Some would end up paying close to the neighborhood average — $2,500 for a two-bedroom apartment, according to a recent city housing study. But a number of proposed rents cited by the tenants would far exceed the average. And some residents said the company calculated higher rents by counting common areas of their apartments as bedrooms.

‘I love this building, but the horror stories from other people who have dealt with him in the past make me want to move.’ Abigail Taylor, discussing the new owner of her building, Anwar Faisal

Some tenants said they successfully negotiated smaller increases; others, such as Taylor, have yet to decide whether to renew.

“Everyone has the same story,” Taylor said. “They just throw arbitrary numbers out until you agree.”

Dina Rudick/Globe Staff A group of tenants upset over proposed rent increases from their landlord, Anwar Faisal of Alpha Management, met in Somerville last week.

City inspectors in March found no evidence of rodents or that living rooms were being converted into bedrooms, the mayor’s spokeswoman said. Residents disputed that, saying construction is ongoing throughout the buildings and that Alpha has stockpiled drywall and other materials at one site.

With little recourse, the Summer Street residents have enlisted help from the nonprofit advocacy group Somerville Community Corporation, hoping they can pressure Faisal into tempering the rent increases and being more responsive. Karen Narefsky, an organizer for the community group, said Faisal’s notoriety could help bring greater attention to how rising rents are squeezing longtime residents out of Somerville.

“A lot of displacement is happening because of transactions like the one on Summer Street,” said Narefsky, “We thought this was a good opportunity, because he’s such a high-profile landlord and a lot of the tenants already knew who this guy was.”

A similar story unfolded in Medford and Malden when Faisal bought apartment buildings in those cities in 2011. He immediately sought rent increases of up to $350 from the tenants there, telling a local online news publication, “the honeymoon’s over.” Eviction notices followed.

Residents fought back, forming a union and challenging their evictions in court while they sought new housing. They told the Globe at the time that Faisal had changed their locks, allowed rental agents to enter their apartments without notice, and used a parking sticker requirement to pressure residents into signing paperwork.

A judge in one of the resulting cases found that Faisal had improperly refused to refund the tenants $25,000 worth of security deposits, and admonished him for adopting a “fight-everything-at-any-cost” approach to avoid paying $60,000 in legal fees to attorneys for the tenants.

In Boston, though, city officials said Faisal properties have been much improved since the Globe stories prompted public hearings and vows to step up enforcement. William Christopher, head of the city’s Inspectional Services Department, or ISD, said Faisal now receives fewer violations, attends meetings the agency holds with landlords, and has registered his apartments in a city database of student housing.

“Quite honestly, he’s no longer in my book of people I watch intently,” Christopher said. “He’s been on the straight and narrow.”

However, a spokeswoman said ISD cannot easily track how many violations it has issued to a landlord, thanks to an antiquated record-keeping system.

Chris Wand, a 31-year-old resident of the Somerville apartments, said he will have to pay an additional $250 a month to renew his lease, about 15 percent higher. While he said that wasn’t exorbitant given the local housing market, he is upset by how Alpha has treated him and his neighbors so far.

“It’s hard not see everything as part of a pattern, given what we know about the company,” Wand said. “I feel like if we don’t draw a line in the sand, things are just going to get worse.”

Dan Adams can be reached at [email protected] . Follow him on Twitter @DanielAdams86<|endoftext|>Colorado is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

South Carolina is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

California is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

Delaware is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands of records missing from even the top-performing states.

Michigan is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

New York is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

New Jersey is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

Pennsylvania is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

Texas is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

Following the Virginia Tech tragedy, Virginia became the national leader in submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

Washington is one of the top ten highest-performing states for submitting mental health records. However, there are still tens of thousands records missing from even the top-performing states.

Dear Governor, Hundreds of thousands of records of prohibited purchasers are missing from the background check system, putting American lives at risk. I commend our state for recently passing a law that requires prohibiting mental health records to be sent to the background check system. Now our leaders must act to make sure that all records get submitted, because every missing record is another tragedy waiting to happen. Sincerely, [Name]

Dear Governor, Hundreds of thousands of records of prohibited purchasers are missing from the background check system, putting American lives at risk. I urge you to make it a top priority to pass common sense gun legislation to ensure that guns are kept out of dangerous hands. I’m concerned that our state has failed to submit the records of seriously mentally ill people who are prohibited from buying guns to the national do-not-buy database. Our leaders should act immediately to pass a law that requires these records be sent to the background check system, because every missing record is another tragedy waiting to happen. Sincerely, Sincerely, [Name]

Dear Governor, Hundreds of thousands of records of prohibited purchasers are missing from the background check system, putting American lives at risk. I commend our state for submitting so many prohibiting mental health records to the background check system, but we need a law to ensure these records keep flowing in the future. Our leaders should act immediately to pass a law that requires all prohibiting mental health records be sent to the background check system. Sincerely, [Name]

Dear Governor, Hundreds of thousands of records of prohibited purchasers are missing from the background check system—putting American lives at risk. I'm proud to live in a state has acted to get prohibiting mental health records into the background check system. Please keep working to improve our laws—and to ensure we submit all relevant records to the system. Sincerely, Sincerely, [Name]<|endoftext|>Forgive me for the convoluted headline. I struggled with a way to describe what SnappyApp does and keep it within headlines space.

SnappyApp is not just another screen capture tool. It works a bit like the Grab tool in Applications > Utilities on your Mac. That means SnappyApp can grab a section of your Mac’s screen and save it. On the screen.

For example, if you want to write something and need a visual reference then SnappyApp captures an image of whatever you want from the Mac’s screen, but holds it on top of everything else so you can refer to it.

That’s much better than grabbing an image or section of a web page, then trying to find an app to store it, then opening the app again to view the image.

Now, once you’ve snapped an image from the Mac’s screen, large or small, it’s pinned to the screen. Right click on the snapped image and you can share it via email, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.

Plus, there’s a built-in Snaps from the Past screenshot organizer so you can keep track of all the screenshot snippets.

Keyboard shortcuts in SnappyApp make it easy to take screenshots of portions on the Mac’s screen. Other keyboard shortcuts can hide the screenshot organizer.

If you take screenshots at all on your Mac you’ll wonder why Apple doesn’t just build this into OS X in the first place. It’s that good. It’s free.<|endoftext|>By Heather Wilhelm - December 4, 2014

Over the past two weeks, a horrific story, originally published in Rolling Stone, has rocked the University of Virginia. According to the article, a bubbly U-Va. freshman named Jackie attended a fraternity date party two years ago. There, she was lured into a dark room, pushed to the floor, beaten atop a shattered glass coffee table, and brutally gang-raped as part of a twisted pledge initiation ritual.

The details, if you choose to read them, will make you sick. They’ve also set the U-Va. campus on fire, sparking student protests, a police investigation, a temporary suspension of fraternity life, and mild administrative panic.

If you think the story has details that stretch credulity, you’re not alone. Media critics from across the ideological spectrum are focusing on various inexplicable-sounding assertions in the article. Jackie’s friends refusing to take her to the hospital because they desperately want to secure invites to future gang-rape fraternity parties strikes me as particularly odd. But the fact that the accused rapists were never contacted by Rolling Stone, which is a basic journalistic requirement, is even more problematic.

With national media scrutiny and a new police investigation—Jackie never reported her rape to the police, and refused to file an official complaint with the school—the plot will continue to thicken. But let’s assume, for a moment, that Jackie’s story is true. If you look at it through the prism of assumed truth, the reaction to it becomes increasingly bizarre.

Jackie’s rape account was violent and deeply disturbing. As skeptical Worth editor Richard Bradley has pointed out, sections of it (one frat brother allegedly calls Jackie “it” while ordering another pledge to grab her leg) are reminiscent of “The Silence of the Lambs.” This is not some drunken misunderstanding at a party. It is the equivalent of a war crime. The perpetrators, if guilty, were monsters.

So it was odd to see how University of Virginia students, long trained in the feminist doctrine of “rape culture,” responded to this show of unadulterated evil. They organized—wait for it—a “Slut Walk.” In the face of Jackie’s story, students, as a freshman organizer named Maria Dehart told the U-Va. student paper, need to “fight against this victim-blaming, slut-shaming culture we have that sexualizes women, yet shames them for being sexual.”

Wait, what? Ms. Dehart has apparently not yet attended the freshman sociology seminar that will inform her that rape is usually about power and violence, not sex. We’ll leave that aside for now, however, because things get weirder. A later protest rally, organized by university faculty—and inspired, it must be remembered, by a supposed serious crime with a group of violent assailants apparently still on the loose, free to hurt other women—was officially titled (and again, please gird your loins) “Take Back the Party.”

“Take Back the Party”? What on earth does this even mean? Weren’t we talking about a reported gang rape? Rest assured, kids, the U-Va. faculty is no bunch of old, killjoy fuddy-duddies: “We are not here to shut down the party,” their public statement eagerly assures students. “We are here to support a SAFE social environment for women as well as men. This is a FACULTY action demanding an end to sexual assault at UVA."