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HP-Compaq merger: sorting out your server strategy
The planned merger between HP and Compaq will result in a diverse range of servers, leaving both users and resellers with serious...
Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
The planned merger between HP and Compaq will result in a diverse range of servers, leaving both users and resellers with serious questions about what products to bet their business on.
Despite the confusion analysts say that anyone planning a major server deployment should press ahead but should first get assurances from HP or Compaq of their full support, including the supply of components of any line that may be discontinued.
If and when the merger is completed the new HP will be responsible for five server operating systems and four server hardware platforms.
The good news for the merged company, said Martin Hingley, the vice-president of the European Systems Group at IDC, was that, "In both HP and Compaq, the strategy is to converge server families onto the forthcoming IA64 [64-bit] Intel platform."
Compaq recently announced a fast track movement of its OpenVMS, Tru64 and Non Stop Kernel (NSK) operating systems to the third-generation (3G) IA64 chip. An IDC paper on the merger observed that this essentially mirrored HP's decision to move its HP-UX and its proprietary MPE-iX operating systems to the second-generation (2G) IA64 chip.
Hingley said that HP would be migrating users from the proprietary PA-Risc architecture on its HP9000 servers onto McKinley, the second-generation 64-bit hardware from Intel due out later in 2001. Compaq has said it will move AlphaServer customers from the Alpha processor on current machines to Madison, the third generation of IA64 expected in 2002.
The wildcard for the combined company will be the AlphaServer family from Compaq.
Unlike Sun and HP, the AlphaServers are not considered mainstream Unix data-centre servers. "In the UK the AlphaServer has carved a niche in telecommunications," said Hingley. Valued for their powerful processor technology, AlphaServers are used in applications where raw processing power is the main criteria.
Uncertainty is the main problem for users of the AlphaServer, Hingley added. Compaq has only recently announced plans to migrate the technology to IA64. HP, for its part, is likely to build both AlphaSevers and HP9000 on the same basic architecture.
This would mirror the way IBM manufactures its AS/400 and RS/6000 families, although it took IBM four years to consolidate its two server product lines.
IDC believes it will be years before the combined HP-Compaq organisation will be able to leave behind PA and Alpha chips. An IDC paper on the merger said: "It will certainly be a few more years before it will be able to use a combined underlining architecture to support its five proprietary operating systems [if ever]."
IDC believes that the support and continued development costs for the PA-Risc and AlphaServer platforms are likely to be high, especially through 2002 and 2003.
So what should users do? Martha Bennett, vice-president at Giga Information Group, warned that holding off purchases would not be advisable. She told CW360 that users should continue to buy servers from both manufacturers and not delay buying-decisions until the merger has gone through.
Where users need to be careful, she explained, was "in making sure that hardware and components will be available in the future," to support any product purchased now that could end up being dropped by HP at a later date.
Contracts need to be scrutinised, said Bennett. "Users need to sure the products will be available for the next two to three years, giving them enough time to put in place migration strategies," she explained.
For high-value contracts she advised users to get assurances from HP and Compaq that spare parts for proprietary server hardware would be available in the event of server families being phased out.
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Asheville hosts Ikebana show, confab
Ikebana floral creations will be on display in Asheville Tuesday and Wednesday.
Asheville hosts Ikebana show, confab Ikebana floral creations will be on display in Asheville Tuesday and Wednesday. Check out this story on citizen-times.com: http://avlne.ws/1gFlTjK
Paul Clark, ASH Published 9:41 p.m. ET May 18, 2014
Carol Stangler and Sue Grier work on an Ikebana design. The Ichiyo chapter of Ikebana Asheville is hosting the 17th North American Regional Conference of Ikebana International this week. (Photo: Erin Brethauer , ebrethau@citizen-times.com )
What: The Ikebana Flower Exhibition is 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. May 20-21.
Where: Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St., Asheville.
Admission: $10 at the door (free to members). Learn more at www.ikebanaasheville.org.
The North American Regional Conference of Ikebana International, in Asheville thorugh Thursday.
The words “simplicity” and “floral arrangements” aren’t often used in the same sentence, but they’re big in Japan and big in the U.S. among practitioners of Ikebana.
Western North Carolina will have the opportunity Tuesday and Wednesday to see why less is more when it comes to Japanese flower arranging.
The Ikebana Flower Exhibition will feature the work of more than 100 accomplished designers from across the U.S, and is held in conjunction with the North American Regional Conference of Ikebana International, in Asheville through Thursday.
The conference is held only every five years; at the last meeting in 2008, Asheville was selected as host city over Dallas, Texas and Naples, Florida, which have much larger chapters. The city was chosen because of its crafts culture, passionate Ikebana designers and container artists, and native plant life similar to that of Japan.
Conference workshops and demonstrations held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel and Asheville Community Theatre are expected to draw up to 400 designers, students and members from the U.S. and other countries.
Only registered members may attend the workshops, but the exhibition and demonstrations are open to the public for the price of admission.
Ikebana has its origins in medieval Japan in the mixing of Buddhism and Shintoism, the later being a nature-based religion. Developed from the Buddhist practice of offering flowers to the spirits of the dead, Ikebana became a stylized art form practiced by priests and royalty before being embraced by a wider population, according to Ikebana International.
In its most simple form, Ikebana arrangements incorporate three elements that represent heaven, man and earth.
“Originally, the arrangements were minimalist,” said Terri Ellis Todd, a Barnardsville resident and master of the Ichiyo Ikebana style. “It has evolved.
There are modern schools of Ikebana in the past 100 years that have applied the abundance of Western flowers. But (the arrangements) still use the principals of line, surface and negative space, elements that are in all art, really.”
The profusion of Western flowers in Ikebana began in the mid-1800s with the opening of Japan led by Commodore Matthew Perry. Suddenly Ikebana practitioners had Dutch tulips and flowers from South America to use.
Arrangements that previously were built around branches and evergreens incorporated new and wild colors. New schools of Ikebana appeared, including Ichiyo.
Akihiro Kasuya is headmaster of Ichiyo School of Ikebana. In one demonstration open to the public during the conference (tickets are $50), he will assemble a bamboo structure on the stage of Asheville Community Theatre that incorporates the principles of the school his father and aunt founded in 1937.
Working with 60 thick poles of bamboo, he will work in rhododendron, mountain laurel and other materials that grow in Western North Carolina to create something spontaneously, so that audience members can see how it was done.
“No one knows what he will do,” Todd said. “He won’t know what he is going to do until he sees the stage and the bamboo. He’ll do it in the moment.”
“In the moment” describes an underlying element of all schools of Ikebana. Kasuya and other Ikebana experts use only flowers and plants in season and display them only as long as they continue to tell their moment’s story.
“There’s an emotional connection between the beauty of the material and the person,” Todd said. “It has to do with relationship – how you feel about that material. The art of Ikebana in general appeals to me because it’s ephemeral. We show the work for a short period of time because it changes quickly. It’s an ‘in the moment’ kind of thing.”
Beauty and death, Ikebana is kind of a metaphor for life, Todd said. “It’s cutting things and leaving them to die, because that’s the natural course of life,” she said.
What: Ikebana
Flower Exhibition.
When: 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday-
Tickets: $10 at the door (free to
members).
Learn more: www.
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Danger in urine of infected rodents
AT the University Malaya Medical Centre UMMC doctors see about one or two cases of severe leptospirosis a month and it mainly involves young adults w
AT the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), doctors see about one or two cases of severe leptospirosis a month and it mainly involves young adults who have been to waterfalls, gone fishing or indulged in other nature-based recreational activities, says Professor Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman, head of the the centre's infectious disease unit.
There were also suspected cases during the Johor floods a few years ago.
In fact, leptospirosis-causing bacteria is said to be common worldwide, especially in tropical countries with heavy rainfall.
Flooding after rainfall spreads the bacteria.
Dr Adeeba explains that the symptoms of leptospirosis are similar to dengue and other viral infections, so it may be difficult to detect or it may be initially mistaken for dengue. It's important for doctors to properly investigate and rule it out should people come in complaining of severe headache, muscle pain and vomiting, especially if these people have been active outdoors. "The patient's history and recent activities should alert the doctor to the possibility of an infection and a test done to confirm it," she says. Dr Adeeba says what's lacking is a good diagnostic test for the condition.
Although there is a test used presently to determine leptospirosis, the results are not as accurate as one would like it to be and it takes time to obtain results. Furthermore, since leptospirosis is not a reportable disease like dengue, there could be many undetected cases. Infection usually occurs when people come into contact with water that is contaminated with the urine of infected rodents through activities like swimming and wading in contaminated lakes, rivers and streams.
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By Ciara
‘Emmerdale’ star Isabel Hodgins won’t go on Tinder after her split from Mike Parr because she’s an “old romantic”.
The ‘Emmerdale’ actress – who plays Victoria Sugden – split from boyfriend and former co-star Mike Parr (Ross Barton) earlier this year when he quit the show and moved to America for work, and while she’s enjoying single life she doesn’t want to turn to online dating in her search for love.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror newspaper, she said:
“I personally wouldn’t go on Tinder – but I know there are people here who are. It is harder to meet someone when you are in the public eye.
Someone could meet you and then find out later you are on the telly and that might change things.
If I was to meet someone I wouldn’t even know where to start. It is all too modern for me – I want courtship, love letters. I am an old romantic.”
The 25-year-old soap star explained she isn’t putting much pressure on herself to find a new partner, and she’s more focused on her work and family life.
She added:
“I’m enjoying being by myself. But to be fair I haven’t got time for a relationship with work, my dog, going back to Manchester to see my family. I am so busy.
I feel like being on my own and being single, I am just working out who I am. I am really enjoying it. I am just finding me again because I was a half of a couple and now I am just me and I am liking it.
If someone did the whole romance thing I might be swayed, but I certainly won’t be swiping!”
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Ayr News
Ayr's fireworks display will send 8000 explosives into sky as BUY MSH promise one of the biggest displays seen in South Ayrshire
A carnival including fire-eaters, music and facepainters will be part of the bumper show at Ayr Racecourse next month.
Stuart Wilson
BUY MSH fireworks display at Ayr Racecourse (Image: Alister Firth/Ayrshire Post)
A Guy Fawkes fireworks display will send more than 8000 explosives into Ayr’s night sky.
Organisers say next month month’s event, being staged in aid of the BUY MSH charity, will be one of the biggest ever seen in South Ayrshire.
A carnival including fire-eaters, music and facepainters will be part of the show at Ayr Racecourse.
Charity CEO Maxine Allan said: “The event has now become an established success and we’re excited about its growth.
“Virgin Media have come on board as official backers and it will be a proper show with the carnival feel.
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“Gates will open from 6pm so people will be able to come along for the whole night and enjoy themselves.”
The pyrotechnic display on Friday, November 3, will begin from 8pm and the night is hosted by DJ Colin McArdle.
It comes as the charity continues its drive towards building a new home for children with life limiting conditions.
More than £200,000 has been raised by the group since the closure of Malcolm Sargent House in Prestwick.
TONIGHT: Fireworks spectacular returns to Ayr Racecourse
They now plan to build a replacement on land at plush Cunning Park in Alloway.
Maxine added: “Hopefully we’ll get a good night for the display and a big crowd will come along to support it.
“There’s going to be plenty to keep people entertained so it promises to be a great night.”
A total of 7000 tickets, priced at £5, have been made available for the fireworks night and are available to pre-purchase online.
To buy, visit www.buymsh.digitickets.co.uk.
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Arab Spring crackdown damages Kurdistan's image as regional model
The US has long championed semi-autonomous Kurdistan as a democratic model for the rest of Iraq and the Middle East. But Kurdish leaders have violently shut down dissenters.
Zmnako Esmail Khalis
Kurdish pro-democracy protesters battled Kurdish security forces in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, in April during the 62-day 'Kurdish Spring.' Some 5,000 to 6,000 people took to the streets to protest corruption and undemocratic rule. The government’s crackdown left 10 dead.
By Scott Peterson Staff writer
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Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
Tucked away in an often-overlooked arc of northern Iraq, Kurds launched their "Kurdish Spring" simply enough in mid-February, in solidarity with Tunisians and Egyptians who had toppled dictatorial rulers.
But the result here was very different, and hardly looked like an unfolding of freedom. Washington’s close Kurdish allies cracked down hard. After 62 days of street protests, 10 people were dead. The carefully crafted image of Kurdistan as a democratic island in an ocean of regional dictatorship was in tatters.
All that visibly remains of the uprising are a few faded posters of its first victim – a 16-year-old – and scorch marks where security forces burned the tents of protesters. But it has deepened the political crisis in this semiautonomous region of northern Iraq.
Beneath the veneer of restored calm, activists say, is a surging mistrust of Iraqi Kurdish leadership. That could complicate the enclave’s relations with the rest of Iraq, especially regarding control of the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
It could also undermine aspirations among disenfranchised ethnic Kurds outside Iraq – in Syria, Turkey, and Iran – who have long viewed the limited self-rule exercised by their Iraqi brethren as an example of what they could achieve.
“What humiliated us was the killing of Kurdish citizens by the militia of Kurdish political parties,” says Nasik Kadir, a health ministry worker and political sociologist who vows to fight what she calls “abuse of power.”
“We have suffered for years corruption and lack of rule of law, but when it comes to the blood of our youth, it is unbearable,” says Ms. Kadir, who says she witnessed casualties firsthand in the hospital. “These authorities have lost legitimacy.... For many people [Kurdish leaders] have betrayed our national cause.”
The lions of Kurdish politics
Few here expect real reform from a feudal and tribal system that has enabled two parties, mired in corruption allegations, to dominate Iraqi Kurdish life for decades.
The Kurdish spring demonstrations, which only attracted 5,000 or 6,000 on the streets of Sulaymaniyah, were dismissed by some Kurdish leaders as the work of "saboteurs" and "anarchists" working for "outside interests."
The gap between the democratic rhetoric and the party-first reality has widened under the long-serving lions of Kurdish politics: the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), whose leader Massoud Barzani is president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG); and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), who leader Jalal Talabani is now president of Iraq.
"The PUK and KDP until recent years had a very romantic relationship with the people; they were the tools of the people against Saddam Hussein and people loved that," says one Kurdish analyst who could not be named for fear of reprisals. "But that image has been shattered – it doesn't exist anymore."
There are indeed some progressive laws on the books, and in fact internal divisions in both parties over the use of force and content of reform. But recent steps point to an authoritarian tendency especially in KDP areas, where yet more Barzani family have recently been given top posts. PUK influence has declined since the breakaway Goran [Change] movement took up the opposition role.
"There are a few trappings of democracy, around the same faces. The faces that I know are the same ones that my father knew, and that my kids will probably know," says the analyst. "One thing they [KDP and PUK] know very well is how to survive, which can't be until the end of time. Protests have been fruitful because they made clear to leaders that a good part of society does not want them."
Kurdish soul-searching
The violence has certainly prompted some soul-searching, and promises of change. KRG Prime Minister Barham Salih, a PUK leader with a progressive reputation, says failure to act on demands "will take the Kurdistan experiment into a dark tunnel."
"We admit without any hesitation that there have been some shortcomings in the corruption files, bad management, and parties have been in control [which] led to protests and legitimate demands for reform," Mr. Salih told the Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat this week. "The solution lies in root reform."
The need for such contrition after so many years of Kurdish self-rule is for some a betrayal of decades of suffering and sacrifice. Episodes include Saddam Hussein’s Anfal campaign that culminated in 1988 with as many as 100,000 dead, and his forces’ crushing of a 1991 Kurdish uprising that pushed 1 million Kurds into Turkey and Iran.
On their lips as they marched across the mountains back then, this reporter heard Kurds praying for an end to tyrannical rule and for freedom. After that, the UN created a safe haven in northern Iraq, marred by a KDP-PUK civil war that took thousands of Kurdish lives in the 1990s.
Kurdistan has since witnessed an economic boom. But that wealth has only touched a few – stoking more anger – as past events are used to excuse the lack of political progress.
"We are still like a baby in the way that we deal with democracy...we have still to learn how to deal with that," says Ari Harsin, a KDP representative.
Lessons have been learned, he says. But the elevated position of Barzani is sacrosanct, and reflected by a 70 percent victory in a 2009 vote.
"Some people in society have a very special role," says Mr. Harsin. "I agree categorically that is not democratic if you see the same faces. But some people are ‘Leader,’ they can bring a peace and a sphere of negotiation. I see Mr. Massoud Barzani as one of those people."
That picture fits the official narrative of Washington, which portrayed the relatively quiet Kurdish north as a regional model. In the eyes of independent newspaper editor Asos Hardi, the Bush administration “needed ... to give the American people the impression there is some hope in Iraq, and we have to keep on until we make all of Iraq like Iraqi Kurdistan.”
Long-cherished freedom proves elusive
But the freedom envisioned by Kurds and trumpeted by the US is proving elusive. One of Hardi’s newspaper staffers left jail recently with broken wrists. Last year, freelance journalist Sardasht Osman received death threats immediately after writing a critical article about Barzani. He was kidnapped in the KDP stronghold of Erbil and later killed.
"You have to remember the ideological root of our parties is totalitarian, because PUK and KDP were Marxist/Leninist [and] are trying to control all the parts of society," says Hardi. "It's true they have changed after 1991 their slogans, they all talk about democracy, human rights. But the mentality is still the same.”
Evidence of that is easy to find. In April toward the end of the protests, according to numerous sources, buses carrying several hundred students and instructors riding to a courthouse protest were diverted by Kurdish security, forced to a remote location, off-loaded and the would-be protesters were beaten.
Hardi's brother Rebin – a prominent Kurdish writer – showed up separately to attend the same courthouse protest, was immediately arrested and severely beaten with electric cables throughout the drive to a local prison.
Photographs show bruises on his head and arm, his thigh bloody and disfigured. Rebin Hardi said it reminded him of the beating he got from Saddam-era Baathists in 1982.
The message was clear: "They are willing to do anything to stay in power," says Rebin Hardi. "The first thing is we should no lose hope. But if things continue like this, we will end up like Libya.”
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This woman with an incurable disorder wants to end her life, but can't get assisted death
Avis Favaro Medical Correspondent, CTV National News
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TORONTO -- An Ontario woman is sharing her story of living with an incurable disorder to help explain why she and others want the federal government to make medically assisted death easier to access.
The government has been given until the end of March to amend the medically assisted death law to include people who do not have terminal illnesses, matching a new law in Quebec.
Justine Noel wants to see the law changed so she can legally end her life. Fibromyalgia has left her bedridden for most of the day, as something as simple as standing up can cause her significant pain. It is not fatal, but it is resistant to treatment. It's also "unbearable," she told CTV News.
"Every single doctor you go to, you're told there is no cure, there's barely a treatment, you're not going to get any better, you just have to learn to live with it – and some people can't learn to live with it," the 27-year-old woman said in an interview at her townhouse in Niagara Falls, Ont.
Noel has applied for assisted death twice, but was turned down both times. Ontario's laws require not only intolerable suffering, but also a foreseeable death in order for assisted death to be granted.
"I have tried everything. I can only wait for them to invent a treatment – and that takes years," she said.
"There is nothing remotely promising out there."
If she lived one province over, though, she would be able to seek the medically assisted death that she wants. Quebec's Superior Court ruled in September that it is unconstitutional to only offer assisted death to those whose deaths are foreseeable.
The federal government has said it will not appeal the court's ruling, instead amending the law so that any patient whose suffering cannot be relieved will be eligible for assisted death regardless of which province or territory they are in.
Noel is worried she might not survive the nearly four months between now and when the amended law must come into force. She says her biggest fear is dying by her own hand – an option some other patients are choosing as they wait for the law to change.
"That just should not happen, but it is a sort of horrific choice that folks like her have to make until the legislation is amended," Jim Cowan, the former senator who now chairs Dying With Dignity Canada's board of directors, told CTV News.
Others are concerned that allowing fibromyalgia patients the right to die will make the medical community feel less urgency when it comes to researching potential cures. There are already a few treatments that are effective at improving the lives of some patients.
"We have treatments that help reduce pain or manage your pain levels," Jacqueline Fraser, founder of the Fibromyalgia London Group advocacy organization, said in an interview.
"That is the hope, that is what we advocate for – that our three levels of government take fibromyalgia more seriously, pay more attention to it by allocating funds to support research."
Noel doesn't expect to live long enough to see any current research bear fruit. She says nothing currently used in Canada can help her.
"I have tried every treatment that's available to me in Canada," she said.
"None of them have really done anything. There's a whole box of medications that just did nothing."
Her partner, Jason Le Blanc, has kept track of the more than 30 drugs Noel has been prescribed. Over the past four years, she's gone from being able to work nearly full-time hours to spending almost all her time lying on her back – and he's watched on with frustration at his inability to get her any help.
"I have come to understand that [dying] is something that she wants to do, and I believe she has the right to make that decision for herself," he said.
Justine Noel has incurable fibromyalgia and says she would opt for assisted death if she was legally allowed to.
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by Kathleen Squires
Though the onboard kitchen of Windstar’s Star Legend is notable for its international cuisine, circumnavigating Iceland allows for access to remote restaurants with local specialties hard to find anywhere else. Where else might you try minke whale? Or puffin heart? Here, a guide to the best local restaurants in each of the ports on Windstar’s Around Iceland itinerary.
Heimaey Island
Puffins outnumber people on this island, just off the coast of southwest Iceland.
Fishing drives the economy here, and that is certainly reflected on the menu of the Slippurinn, one of the finest restaurants in all of Iceland. Housed in a former machine shop for ships, it overlooks the water, and the fish market is conveniently adjacent. This is the spot to try minke whale, an un-endangered breed of whale, which despite its habitat, tastes more like a tender, gamy beef than fish. Here, Chef Gisli Matthias serves it prepared with lovage and potato salad, chervil and jus. In addition to his expertise at preparing fish, Chef Matthias is an avid forager, combing the island for herbs, greens, and seaweeds to incorporate in the menu.
Poised along the fjords of eastern Iceland, scenic Seydisfjordur is ringed with mountains full of cascading waterfalls.
Just past the town’s iconic blue church, Kaffi Lara (Nordurgata 3) is where locals gather to watch futbol matches. Between cheering on the home team with a “Viking clap,” try delicacies such as Icelandic horse fillet with pepper sauce, and wash it down with one of two dozen local beers, such as the hoppy Ulfur IPA. Directly across the way lies two more notable spots: Nordic Restaurant, housed in one of Iceland’s oldest buildings, is a great place to stop for a coffee and pastry in the morning, and even better to settle in for a long lunch or dinner over dishes such as wild goose prosciutto with fennel and orange salad, dill oil and cranberries. In the house behind Nordic, on the second floor, enjoy fresh-caught sushi at Nord Austur Sushi + Bar. The arctic char, salmon and sweet shrimp all come from the surrounding waters. http://hotelaldan.is/nord-austur-sushi-bar
Tucked in the north of Iceland, Akureyri is the country’s second largest urban center after Reykjavik. Also an important fishing center, one of the finest lobster soups in town can be found in, ironically, a steakhouse, T-Bone http://www.tbone.is/. Closer to the port, overlooking the fjord, lies 1862 Nordic Bistro (http://www.1862.is/), right in the city’s glassy Cultural Center. If it’s Sunday, take advantage of the plentiful brunch buffet, with a generous selection of herring, salmon, shellfish, and traditional Icelandic lamb goulash.
Tip: if you borrow one of the ship’s bicycles, Netto Supermarket (http://www.netto.is/) in the Glerartorg Mall is a short pedal away. There, load up on local cheese, cured meats and chocolate, just as we spotted Star Legend Head Chef Rohit Dimri doing.
Set in the northwest of Iceland, Isafjordur is known for its music festivals and lovely, tranquil fjords. After working up an appetite kayaking the peaceful waters, enjoy a simple lunch, or the luxurious all-you-can-eat fish buffet at dinner, featuring the fresh catch of the day, whether cod, halibut or monkfish at Tjoruhusid Restaurant, on the fjord just near the Maritime Museum. If you’re lucky, you’ll catch some live music, too.
Further into town, Edinborg Bistro Bar is the spot to try puffin heart carpaccio. If you can’t bring yourself to eat something quite so cute, then go for the shrimp and lobster salad. As it is located in the same building as the tourist information center, pick up a few brochures to browse over a meal.
In the west of Iceland, nestled between the mountains and the sea, this tiny town is flanked by vast fields of lava. It also happens to be the home to what locals hail as the best hot dog in Iceland. That’s saying a lot, as Icelanders have somewhat of an obsession with franks, so much so that some would even say that hot dogs are the country’s national dish (not the notorious fermented shark). The hot dog stand Meistarrin earned legendary status by serving a deep-fried dog made with Icelandic lamb—which is grass-fed, free-range, organic and hormone free. The go-to order is topped with onions and cheese.
There is no shortage of interesting eats in Iceland’s capital city. Put Dill on the list as one of the most intriguing. Tradition and modernity meet in the quaint, wood-and-stone cottage right in the center of town. Its chef, Gunnar Gislason, has recently made headlines for leading the kitchen at Claus Meyer’s Agern in New York City (and earning three stars from the New York Times). But Dill is where chef Gislason made his name. A visit here not only shows the true essence of New Nordic cuisine to diners, it also celebrates the natural heritage and resources of Iceland. Diners can choose from 5- or 7-course menus, which may include spectacular seasonal creations such as tusk fish with kale and black garlic; potato, smoked cod roe and skyr, (the thick Icelandic version of yogurt); and beef cheek with rutabaga and angelica (a Nordic green). Be sure to make a reservation: the restaurant only seats 23, the best of which are the 3 at the bar overlooking the chefs at work.
Kathleen Squires is a food and travel writer whose work has spanned book, blog, newsprint and glossy, appearing in The Wall Street Journal, Details, Saveur, Every Day with Rachael Ray, National Geographic Traveler, Real Simple, Conde Nast Traveler and many other publications. She is the co-author of the cookbooks The Coolhaus Ice Cream Book with Natasha Case and Freya Estreller (Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin); The Quick Six Fix with Stuart O’ Keeffe (Morrow); the IACP award-winning The Journey (Alta editions); and The Book of Greens with Jenn Louis (Ten Speed Press). Kathleen was also a 2015 nominee for the IACP Bert Greene Award for Excellence in Food Journalism. In 2016, Kathleen was awarded first prize of Les Dames d’Escoffier International’s M. F. K. Fisher Award for Excellence in Culinary Writing. Kathleen is currently co-producing the documentary James Beard: America’s First Foodie, to air on PBS’s “American Masters” on May 19, 2017. She lives in New York City.
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Therapeutic Activity of Probiotics
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Probiotics are living microorganisms. Consumers eat them in dairy products and value them for their health benefits. A companion article (see The Probiotic Nature of Normal Microflora on Page 41) discusses the role of probiotics and normal microflora in maintaining homeostasis in human intestines and on human skin and mucosa. This column discusses mechanisms by which probiotics provide therapeutic activity in the intestines, where most of the research has been done, and on the skin, where more research is needed.
One goal of this column is to point out that many of the identified actions of probiotics are already being performed by the normal microflora of skin and mucous membranes. A second goal is to suggest that formulators recognize opportunities for making products that modulate the normal microflora. This will help maintain the health and/or improve the appearance of skin and mucous membranes.
Figure 1a illustrates schematically how bacteria or toxins may interact with a cell. By attaching to a cell membrane receptor, they initiate a sequence of intracellular reactions that result in the release of nuclear factor kappa-beta (NF-κß) from its inactive form with its inhibitor (NF-κß-I) to produce the active molecule that migrates to the nucleus and directs synthesis of inflammatory cytokines (IL-1, TNFα, IL-8) and initiates apoptosis.
Figure 1b shows probiotic bacteria interacting with the cell to prevent the release of inflammatory cytokines and to down-regulate the inflammatory process by directing the cell to produce cytokines that decrease inflammation.
Probiotics in the Intestines
It must be realized that the mechanisms described here require a large number of probiotic microorganisms to be effective.
Blocking attachment sites and competing for food: The first step in infection is the attachment of a microorganism to a target cell. It has been believed for several decades that probiotics protect intestinal epithelial cells by competing with pathogens for mucosal adherence sites. Adherence by probiotics blocks pathogens from attaching to their target cells so they are stopped before they can initiate an infection.
Also, probiotic microorganisms are believed to compete with other microorganisms for nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract. This competition limits the ability of pathogens to grow.
Producing antimicrobial peptides: Probiotics may also stimulate epithelial cells to produce antimicrobial peptides such as defensins. The defensins are cationic peptides that are effective against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Wehkamp et al.1 found that probiotic bacteria strongly induce the expression of human β-defensin-2 (hBD-2) in Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner. They found that treatment with a NF-κß inhibitor blocked hBD-2 induction.
Such stimulation of innate defenses through up-regulation of inducible antimicrobial peptides enhances the mucosal barrier to potentially harmful bacteria in the GI tract.
Cathelicidins are small cationic peptides that have broad specificity against bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses. They are thought to kill bacteria by disruption of cell membrane integrity and/or block protein synthesis.
Nizet and Gallo2 reviewed cathelicidin antimicrobial peptides and their role in defense against invasive bacterial infection. Humans have a single human cathelicidin; it is known as LL-37 because it begins with two leucines and has 37 amino acid residues. Nizet and Gallo indicated that disregulated cathelicidin expression may contribute to chronic inflammatory disorders. Short-chain fatty acids have been reported to up-regulate colonocyte production of cathelicidin LL-37,3 so it is possible that lactic acid production by probiotic bacteria in the intestine may up-regulate production of cathelicidins by intestinal epithelial cells.
Modulating cellular physiology: Interaction of bacteria with epithelial cells can modulate cellular physiology. Drakes et al.4 studied probiotic modulation of dendritic cells and found that there was substantial enhancement of interleukin-10 (IL-10) release after three days of stimulation with bacterial probiotic cocktail VSL#3. IL-10 is a cytokine that down-regulates inflammatory responses, so this report helps to explain how probiotics work in situ to promote immunological quiescence.
Probiotics may inhibit phosphorylation of I-κß, the enzyme that releases NF-κß. Phosphorylation is needed to convert I-κß to the active form of the enzyme so it can cleave NF-κß-I and release NF-κß. Inhibition of the activation of this enzyme by probiotics prevents the production and release of inflammatory cytokines (IL-1, TNFα, IL-8), and it may induce the formation and release of non-inflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-10) and heat shock proteins (hsps) that down-regulate cellular responses and reduce apoptosis.
Cross talk: Interactions between bacteria and cells with which they are associated are believed to be mediated by signal transduction within the host cell. Organisms designated as harmful or pathogenic cause inflammatory responses and infections (as illustrated in Figure 1a); probiotics decrease inflammatory reactions and stimulate host cells to produce antimicrobial peptides that help protect them from harmful microorganisms
(see Figure 1b).
This “cross talk” between bacteria and mammalian cells has been studied in detail for many different probiotic microorganisms because researchers are trying to understand the mechanisms by which they direct cellular activities.
Probiotics on the Skin
New developments in the field of intestinal microbiology are providing insights into the relationship of man and the microorganisms that comprise the normal microflora of the human intestinal tract.5 The normal microflora of the gut is a silent partner whose influence on the immune response is beginning to be appreciated. Similarities between the actions of probiotics and some members of the normal microflora of skin and mucous membranes suggests that both probiotics and the normal microflora are able to decrease inflammatory responses of the immune system (see companion article The Probiotic Nature of Normal Microflora). The following examples illustrate the use of probiotics to protect the skin and reduce inflammation.
Oral probiotics to protect skin after UV exposure: Guéniche et al.6 investigated whether oral probiotics were able to modulate the skin immune system (SIS) of hairless mice exposed to UV radiation (UVR). They found that feeding the animals Lactobacillus johnsonii at 108 cfu/day for 10 days was able to protect against UVR-induced suppression of contact hypersensitivity, decreased epidermal Langerhans cell density, and increased IL-10 serum levels. The probiotic bacteria had no detectable effect on the SIS without UV exposure, so their data support re-establishment of skin homeostasis following damage by UVR. These findings demonstrated that ingested probiotic bacteria work to maintain cutaneous immune capacity after UVR exposure.
Topical probiotics to reduce skin inflammation: Chapat et al.7 examined whether Lactobacillus casei affected antigen-specific T-cell-mediated skin inflammation. They found that daily administration of fermented milk containing L. casei, L. casei alone, or L. casei cell walls decreased skin inflammation because it inhibited the priming/expansion of hapten-specific IFN-Y-producing CD8+ effector T-cells. The down-regulatory effect of the probiotics required the presence of CD4+ T-cells, which control the size of the CD8+ T-cell pool primed by 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene. These findings suggested that live L. casei and L. casei cell walls could reduce skin inflammation.
Topical probiotics to inhibit growth of microorganisms on the skin:
A Ganeden Biotech patent8 disclosed that topical compositions derived from an isolated Bacillus spp., spores, or an extracellular product (culture supernatant or filtrate) of Bacillus coagulans were used to inhibit the growth of bacteria, yeast, fungi, viruses and combinations thereof. In addition, their patent disclosed compositions of a supernatant or filtrate of a culture of Pseudomonas lindbergii for inhibiting the growth of bacteria, yeast, fungi, viruses, and combinations thereof. Findings such as these illustrate that microorganisms that are not lactic acid bacteria may have probiotic activity and be able to modulate growth of microorganisms on skin and mucous membranes.
There is exciting research in the field of intestinal microbiology that may provide insights into the relationship of man and the microorganisms that comprise the normal microflora of the intestinal tract. Research is showing that both probiotics and normal microflora appear to down-regulate the immune system in the intestinal tract and at other sites in the body. Recent articles and patents illustrate that the therapeutic benefits of probiotics are providing a model for future product development.
1. J Wehkamp et al, NF-kb- and AP-1-mediated induction of human beta defensin-2 in intestinal epithelial cells by Escherichia coli Nissle 19717: A novel effect of a probiotic bacterium, Infect Immun 10 5750–5758 (2004)
2. V Nizet and RL Gallo, Cathelicidins and innate defense against invasive bacterial infection, Scand J Infect Dis 35 670–676 (2003)
3. J Schauber et al, Expression of the cathelicidin LL-37 is modulated by short chain fatty acid in colonocytes: relevance of signaling pathways, Gut 52 735–741 (2003)
4. M Drakes, T Blanchard and S Czinn, Bacterial probiotic modulation of dendritic cells, Infect Immun 72 3299–3309 (2004)
5. DS Orth, New developments and opportunities in cosmetic microbiology, In Cosmetic and Drug Microbiology, DS Orth et al, eds, New York: Informa Healthcare 354–357 (2006)
6. A Guéniche, J Benyacoub, TM Buetler, H Smola and S Blum, Supplementation with oral probiotic bacteria maintains cutaneous immune homeostasis after UV exposure, European J Dermatol 16(5) 511–517 (2006)
7. L Chapat, K Chemin, B Dubois, R Bourdet-Sicard and D Kaiserlian, Lactobacillus casei reduces CD8+ T cell-mediated skin inflammation, Eur J Immunol 34 2520–2528 (2004)
8. US Pat 6905692, Topical compositions containing probiotic bacillus bacteria, spores, and extracellular products and uses thereof, S Farmer, assigned to Ganeden Biotech, USA (Jun 14, 2005)
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Meghan Markle just released an emotional statement about her dad
"I have always cared for my father and hope he can be given the space he needs to focus on his health."
Following days of speculation as to whether Meghan Markle's father, Thomas Markle, will attend the royal wedding on Saturday or not, the bride-to-be has issued an official statement.
Released via Kensington Palace on Thursday morning, the emotional announcement confirms her father will not be attending the Windsor Castle wedding, despite the fact Markle was supposed to walk his daughter down the aisle.
A statement from Ms. Meghan Markle: pic.twitter.com/TjBNarmuBU
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) May 17, 2018
"Sadly, my father will not be attending our wedding," the short statement read. Referencing Thomas Markle's rumoured ill health (he is thought to have had a heart attack recently) as well as the media circus surrounding him, Meghan continued: "I have always cared for my father and hope he can be given the space he needs to focus on his health."
Turning her attention to the public, Meghan said: "I would like to thank everyone who has offered generous messages of support. Please know how much Harry and I look forward to sharing our special day with you on Saturday.
It now remains to be seen who will walk Meghan down the aisle. Bets suggest it's most likely to be Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, who arrived in the UK last week ahead of the celebrations.
Meghan and her mum, Doria Ragland
The speculation as to whether Thomas Markle would be attending the wedding or not started over the weekend, when a newspaper revealed paparazzi shots of the apparently reclusive man - featuring him reading up on British history as well as the royal family in internet cafes - were reportedly staged. It was claimed Mr Markle had received a large sum of money in exchange for doing a deal with a photographer, however his daughter Samantha - Meghan's half sister - later took the blame for this, claiming she had advised her dad to do some "positive" shots to counter the negative press he had received.
Thomas Markle reportedly told journalists in the aftermath of the paparazzi scandal that he was no longer attending the wedding because he didn't want to cause his daughter any "embarrassment", and Meghan confirmed he won't be coming in her statement today. Although she references her dad's "health" in her official announcement, she doesn't specifically mention the rumoured heart surgery her dad may be undergoing.
While the last few days have no doubt been stressful ones for Meghan, at least now hopefully speculation will calm down and she can focus on enjoying her wedding day.
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West Virginia LB commits to Cardinals
Dorian Etheridge is third pledge in the past two days for Louisville
West Virginia LB commits to Cardinals Dorian Etheridge is third pledge in the past two days for Louisville Check out this story on courier-journal.com: http://cjky.it/29K9mJ5
Steve Jones, @stevejones_cj Published 10:40 a.m. ET July 16, 2016 | Updated 10:50 a.m. ET July 16, 2016
Sep 26, 2015; Louisville, KY, USA; The Louisville Cardinals mascot leads the team before the first quarter against the Samford Bulldogs at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jamie Rhodes-USA TODAY Sports(Photo: Jamie Rhodes-USA TODAY Sports)
The University of Louisville football team picked up its third recruiting commitment in the past two days on Saturday morning from three-star Charleston, W.Va., outside linebacker Dorian Etheridge, who was one of the dozens of players to participate in a U of L camp Friday night.
Etheridge, a 6-foot-3, 210-pound player for Capital High School, announced his decision in a video he posted on Twitter. He is rated the nation's No. 34 outside linebacker by Scout.com and the top player at his position in West Virginia, which hasn't typically generated many U of L targets.
West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh, Maryland, Purdue and Marshall are some of the other schools that have offered him scholarships.
Etheridge is Louisville's 13th pledge in the 2017 class, and his decision follows those of Florida defensive backs Anthony Johnson and Lyn Strange. All three attended U of L's invite-only Light Up The Ville camp at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium on Friday night.
Louisville's class is No. 43 nationally and No. 8 in the Atlantic Coast Conference in the early 247Sports.com composite team rankings.
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Kitten emerges alive, singed from flames of Mendham bonfire
A kitten, now named Firecat, escaped from the flames of a raging bonfire in Mendham.
Kitten emerges alive, singed from flames of Mendham bonfire A kitten, now named Firecat, escaped from the flames of a raging bonfire in Mendham. Check out this story on courierpostonline.com: https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/local/morris-county/2019/01/09/kitten-emerges-alive-singed-flames-mendham-nj-bonfire/2522972002/
Rodrigo Torrejon, Morristown Daily Record Published 5:20 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2019 | Updated 10:12 a.m. ET Jan. 10, 2019
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Like the phoenix of lore, a kitten emerged from the flames of a bonfire, not quite unscathed but alive.
On Sunday, the 13-week-old kitten was buried beneath a pile of Christmas trees being set aflame, an innocent bystander of Mendham's Twelfth Night bonfire. Every year, to close out the holiday season, the Mendham Fire Department lights a huge bonfire of discarded trees.
The kitten quickly realized it was surrounded by fire and traded in one of its lives for a quick exit.
"As you may be aware, after lighting the trees a cat emerged from the pile," said Mendham Fire Department, in a Facebook post.
The kitten, which has been named Firecat, escaped and was caught by two firefighters, who quickly gave it oxygen and took it to the Alliance Emergency Veterinary Clinic, said the Mendham Fire Department.
"He is resting comfortably with the help of pain meds," said the Randolph Animal Shelter, in a Facebook post on Monday. "He's lucky to be alive, poor thing."
As of Monday, the cat was on IV fluids, oxygen and receiving eye drops, the post said.
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We underway! Thank you Mendham Borough for your support! #twelfthnight
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Failed bills in Legislature to frame Dems' election strategy
Queens state Sen. Michael Gianaris heads the Senate Democrats' campaign arm.
With the legislative session in Albany winding down, it's the bills that don't pass that will have the greatest impact on the crucial fall elections in the closely divided state Senate.
The defeat of liberal legislation by the unusual Senate governing coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats will be used as fodder for attack ads. Out-of-power Democrats will also portray the coalition itself as a betrayal: Their party won a majority of seats in the 2012 elections, yet Republican leader Dean Skelos retains de facto veto power over bills.
In primaries against members of the Independent Democratic Conference, and in general-election contests against Republicans, mainline Senate Democrats plan to harp on two waylaid priorities: a minimum-wage hike and a "women's equality agenda" that includes a law codifying abortion protections.
"There is a big list of issues New Yorkers voted to see enacted two years ago, and this strange arrangement in the state Senate has held up priorities such as the minimum wage, women's issues, fixing state government and a long list of others," said Queens state Sen. Michael Gianaris, who heads the Senate Democrats' campaign arm.
Those issues are likely to be in play, for instance, in the primary campaign that former Bronx Councilman Oliver Koppell is waging against Bronx state Sen. Jeffrey Klein, who co-leads the Senate as head of the IDC. In the affluent Riverdale portion of Mr. Klein's district, voters could be swayed by the bottling up of "reform" issues such as publicly funded elections.
The district is also 35% Hispanic, according to census data, and the Dream Act issue could be potent. Although Mr. Klein got that bill to the Senate floor this year, some immigrants' rights advocates blame him for its falling two votes short of passage.
One challenge for Democrats running against IDC members is that the breakaway Democrats also support a progressive agenda. That makes the case against them more complex. "If both candidates support those issues, then you have to make the sort of macro-argument about the IDC," said Doug Forand, a co-founder of Red Horse Strategies, who is consulting for a number of Senate Democrats' campaigns. "That's a two-stage argument."
Adding to the intrigue, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last week that if a publicly funded elections bill does not pass this year, he would tell voters that the Klein-Skelos coalition "failed to deliver important progressive items." Mr. Cuomo previously has expressed tepid support for Senate Democrats, and has found Senate Republicans a useful foil on social issues and a partner on economic ones. Regardless, the popular Mr. Cuomo's presence at the top of the ticket will help Democrats.
Although rumors have circulated that Mr. Klein and the IDC could rejoin the main Democratic conference, Senate Democrats say they won't hold back on primary challenges. A reconciliation by Mr. Klein is also viewed as unlikely by insiders because years of enmity have built up between the warring sides.
Mr. Klein is a strong favorite to win re-election. The most likely Senate-seat pickup for regular Democrats is in northeast Queens, where IDC state Sen. Tony Avella is opposed by former city Comptroller John Liu. The district is 32% Asian-American, which will provide a boost to Mr. Liu, the first Asian-American elected to citywide office.
In the general election, Senate Democrats are targeting three districts where Republican incumbents retired: two on Long Island and one in the mid-Hudson Valley. They are also looking to take out Western New York state Sen. Mark Grisanti and Nassau County state Sen. Jack Martins—who barely won in 2012 against a no-name opponent and now faces an affluent, self-funded challenger.
Still, Senate Democrats not only face their own primaries, but also several tough general-election races for seats won in 2012, when President Barack Obama's re-election bid raised Democratic turnout. Republicans will make the case that inflated spending, taxes and dysfunction reigned when Democrats last held the majority, in 2010. And after years of paying off campaign debt, Senate Democrats had almost no money as of January, while Senate Republicans had $2.2 million.
Senate Democrats will likely need outside groups—such as the state teachers' union, which threw millions toward their 2012 campaigns—to pitch in. "The independent expenditures will be huge this cycle," said Mr. Forand, whose firm was the main consultant for New York State United Teachers in 2012.
Asked if the teachers would again pour millions behind Senate Democrats, Mr. Forand said, "I wouldn't rule it out."
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/ Our School / Our Campus / Merriman Music School
Joseph Merriman. Headmaster: 1865 – 1892.
Named after the first Cranleigh Headmaster, Joseph Merriman, and situated in historic buildings located directly opposite the Gothic Chapel, the Merriman Music School underwent a full renovation in 2000.
At its heart is the Clive Stevens Recital Hall with tiered seating for 100, a Steinway model B grand Piano and a fully computerised lighting, sound and projection system.
Add to this a professionally equipped recording studio, a fully insulated Rock Room in which bands can rehearse, and extensive facilities and rooms for instrumental teaching and practice, and it is fair to say that Cranleigh music facilities rank among the finest for any school in the Country.
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Stories are an important part of how we understand our place in history and the world. The Dandelion King is a graphic novel which serves as an exhbition and distribution space for a series of short films. These shorts expand on the historical context of the author's personal story, while presenting narrative vignettes from her life. Personal narratives which fit into such histories as that of the California mental health system, immigration or divorce can contribute to the local/national dialogues about how state institutions (from marriage to mental hospitals to the World Bank) contribute to families and communities. Representations of how the state intersects with family or community can contribute to a contemporary debate around these issues at the diner table and in the legislature. These discussions are accomplished with online distribution campaigns and local organizing—a reading at the Bridge Over Troubled Waters Homeless Shelter, collaborations, and exhibition through the Boston’s Comic Roundtable.
The Dandelion King tells the story of a generation reshaped by enormous divorce rates, women in the workplace and a changing economic policy. This historic paradigm shift is important to contemporary debates spanning from the family to economic policy.
Short Films;
Archival & Documentary Films
"Perry Mason is so handsome...Just like Gregory Peck. Y'know, I married your Grandfather because he looked like Gregory Peck." As a little girl I would fold into my small, very round soft grandma. Her homemade polyester outfits were scratchy and together we would watch Perry Mason or PBS when Grandpa wanted to be educated. Church going folks were accustomed to a confessional mode, and the folks seemed comfortable with their daughter's pursuit of healing through the talking cure.
Durer's Melencolia shows an angel surrounded by objects which represent her, "Melancholy has wings and from her belt hang keys and a money bag, symbolizing power and wealth...At her feet are the tools that can fashion the material world. Yet she does nothing: lost in thought, she turns away from the light." My mother, divorced from the important world that marriage afforded, turned away from the light and sunk into Melencolia.
The 'Thorazine Shuffle is a phrase popular among psychiatric clinicians; It refers to the shuffling gate which is produced by Thorazine medication. When we moved across LA county from Whittier to Santa Monica in 1977 my mom changed her job from working at Metropolitan State Hospital to working as a psychiatric social worker with out-patient schizophrenics. Around the corner from where we lived was a half-way house and their residents were a benign, though puzzling part of the neighborhood--us kids did not understand their atypical behavior. Most noticable was a man who walked up and down 23rd street everyday. Some time called 'the smoking guy' I imagined him a spy, his constant vigilant walking fueled pre-adolescent imaginations. When I finally asked my mother, she was clear: "Honey; that's the Thorazine Shuffle." My mother was both a dancer and a psychiatric social worker-- so it took me a while to understand what she meant.
The Dandelion King, a trans-media graphic novel; including short films, archival media & interactive book APP, all of which contribute to a divorce biography chronicling a social history of the 1970's.
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Bottjen wrongful death lawsuit settled
CCMH, medical clinic among those named
by Gordon Wolf
Jeffrey Bottjen had been plant manager
for Smithfield Foods in Denison
Two years and just more than eight months after it was filed, the Jeffrey Scott Bottjen wrongful death lawsuit was settled out of court on January 2 for a total of $3.5 million.
Named in the suit were Crawford County Memorial Hospital (CCMH), CCMH Medical Clinic, Dr. Michael Thorstenson (a physician at the medical clinic), certified registered nurse anesthetist Blaine Rider and Nurse Anesthesia of North Carolina, PLLC.
The case was dismissed with prejudice, which prohibits it from being brought back to court. A release and indemnity agreement obtained from CCMH lists $1.5 million as the sum against CCMH, CCMH Medical Clinic, Thorstenson and ProAssurance Casualty Company.
Brad Bonner, CCMH executive director of human resources and general counsel, said all of that amount would come from the insurance company.
The document adds that the payment of the $1.5 million does not constitute an admission of liability on the part of any person or entity.
All parties agreed to pay their own costs.
A footnote in the agreement says that Rider and Nurse Anesthesia of North Carolina had reached a separate settlement in the amount of $2 million.
Bottjen, of Ida Grove, was the manager of the Smithfield Foods plant in Denison.
On October 16, 2016, he went to CCMH with a particle of food lodged in his esophagus. He was pronounced dead 78 minutes after a procedure was started to remove the particle. He was 50 years old.
In her petition, Bottjen’s wife, Colleen, claimed that Thorstenson decided to perform an immediate endoscopic procedure to remove the food particle in spite of the known risks apparent from Bottjen’s medical history and in spite of being warned by Rider on multiple occasions of the difficulty and potential risks of performing an esophagogastroduodenoscopy because of his obesity, neck and jaw structure, limited movement and overall medical condition and history.
In a court order dated September 11, 2019, summary judgement was granted regarding the following: any and all negligence claims against the hospital other than a vicarious liability, any and all claims for vicarious liability against Thorstenson based on the alleged negligence of Rider and any claim for punitive damages against the hospital. A punitive damage claim against Thorstenson was taken under advisement according to that order.
The September 11 court order also said summary judgement was granted regarding claims for negligence on behalf of Nurse Anesthesia of North Carolina and the court took under advisement the punitive damage claim against Rider and whether the hospital was vicariously liable for Rider.
The case had been settled for some time, according to a court document filed November 21. The document added that a probate hearing scheduled for December should result in the consummation and conclusion of the case, and a deadline of January 3 was given to dismiss or otherwise resolve the case.
Statement from Bottjen family
Following is a statement from the family of Jeff Bottjen, obtained through the family’s attorney, Gene Collins, of Le Mars.
“The family of Jeff Bottjen has reached a financial settlement with Crawford County Memorial Hospital, Dr. Michael Thorstenson, Blaine Rider CRNA & Nurse Anesthesia of North Carolina PLLC in the wrongful death case of our beloved husband, father and son, following almost three years of litigation. We continue to feel his absence every day and pray this brings some measure of peace and comfort to our family.
“Our desire is that the outcome of this case will bring about changes that will help prevent another death. We truly hope & pray no other family will lose a loved one under similar circumstances and experience the deep sense of loss we now live with.”
Statement from CCMH
This statement is issued by Crawford County Memorial Hospital regarding the resolution of a legal action brought by the family of Jeffrey Bottjen.
CCMH extends its deepest sympathy to the Bottjen family on their loss.
Accordingly, this resolution provides closure for the family and for CCMH. As per the agreement, no parties were found liable for negligence. Ultimately it was the decision of our insurance company to resolve the matter outside of court and we respect their decision to avoid drawn out litigation.
Erin Muck, CEO
Crawford County Memorial Hospital
Blaine Rider
Michael Thorstenson
Jeffrey Bottjen
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Delaware Achievers, Nov. 13
Individuals recognized for business achievements
Delaware Achievers, Nov. 13 Individuals recognized for business achievements Check out this story on delawareonline.com: http://delonline.us/2fKjF4S
Jordan L. McBride, The News Journal Published 3:22 p.m. ET Nov. 11, 2016 | Updated 4:57 p.m. ET Nov. 11, 2016
Stanley W. Mastil Gavin/Solmonese
Billy Russo DE TURF SPORTS COMPLEX
Dr. Phyllis Colombaro LA RED HEALTH CENTER
Dr. Gardenia A. Searcy LA RED HEALTH CENTER
Basha Silverman and Dory Zatuchni JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
From left, in front row, are Lucille Candalisa and Carol Phillips. In back row are Gus Lebois Jr., Robert Miller and Chairman Jim Perdue. Perdue Farms
Tracy Watson Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach Realtors
Mike Dickinson SODEL CONCEPTS
From left, in front row, are Lucille Candalisa and Carol Phillips. In back row are Gus Lebois Jr., Robert Miller and Chairman Jim Perdue.(Photo: Perdue Farms)
Stanley W. Mastil recently was promoted to senior director of bankruptcy and fiduciary services at Gavin/Solmonese in Wilmington. Mastil has more than 20 years of experience advising clients on bankruptcy matters, including Chapter 11 reorganizations, Chapters 7 and 11 liquidations, unsecured creditors’ committees and equity committees. The Deal Pipeline, a transaction information service, ranked him as one of the top crisis management professionals in the country in both 2015 and 2016.
DE Turf Sports Complex recently hired Billy Russo as its director of operations. He previously spent eight years with the Smith River Sports Complex in Martinsville, Virginia, where he held positions as director of operations and executive director. Russo’s career also has included a two-year stint in event management, facilities and operations at Wake Forest University, where he assisted with events for six different athletic teams. While at Wake Forest, he also served on the operations staff for several ACC and NCAA postseason events, including the 2007 NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Tournament. He is a graduate of High Point University.
La Red Health Center in Georgetown recently hired dentists Gardenia A. Searcy and Phyllis Colombaro. Searcy has nearly 20 years of dental experience, including serving as a commissioned captain of the U.S. Army Dental Corps and as a staff dentist at the Henrietta Johnson Medical Center in Wilmington. She earned her doctor of dental surgery degree from Howard University. Prior to opening her own private practice in 1994, Colombaro worked as an associate in several different private practices. She earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the Medical College of Virginia.
Jewish Family Services of Delaware recently named Basha Silverman as the agency’s new chief executive officer. She will succeed Dory Zatuchni, who will retire at the end of the year. Silverman previously served as vice president of strategic expansion at Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Philadelphia. She is the founder of Delaware's first coalition aimed at designing a gender-specific, health-focused response to victims of trauma, and spent 12 years at Brandywine Counseling and Community Services. Silverman sits on the Institutional Review Board of the University of Delaware, is a member of the Philadelphia Alliance, and was named 2013 Power Woman of the Year by Main Line Magazine. She is a native Delawarean and a graduate of both the University of Delaware and Bryn Mawr College.
Ninety-three associates at Perdue Farms recently were honored for their years of service with the company. The recognition included associates who retired during the past year and those with at least 20 years of service. Associates who retired from Perdue included Thomas Apostolos, Mitchell Boswell, Robert Boyd Jr., Lucille Candalisa, George Davis, Earnest Hopkins, Gary Howell, Gus Lebois Jr., Howard Long, Keith Meredith, Robert Miller, Scot Palmateer, Carol Phillips, David Tabinowski and Donna Wright. One associate, Elaine Barnes, was recognized for 50 years of service. Six associates were recognized for 40 years of service, including Roger Brown, John Deepree, Howard Harrell, Michael Hudson, David Patterson and Robert Rawls. Eleven associates were recognized for 35 years of service, 22 were recognized for 30 years of service, 12 were recognized for 25 years of service, and 26 were recognized for 20 years of service. Each retired associate was presented a watch. Each active associate achieving a service milestone was presented an engraved pewter plate.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach Realtors recently hired Tracy Watson as a sales associate at its Bear office. An active volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, she lives in Middletown and will serve the New Castle County area.
Mike Dickinson, a longtime SoDel Concepts employee, recently was promoted to vice president of operations of the hospitality company. Prior to his promotion, Dickinson spent four years as director of operations, overseeing four of the nine restaurants owned by SoDel. Dickinson first started with the company as a manager of BlueCoast Seafood Grill in Bethany Beach in 2004. Since then, he has worked as general manager of several other SoDel restaurants.
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Bills announce signing of RB Mike Tolbert
The Bills have signed running back Mike Tolbert and are reportedly signing fullback Patrick DiMarco.
Bills announce signing of RB Mike Tolbert The Bills have signed running back Mike Tolbert and are reportedly signing fullback Patrick DiMarco. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://on.rocne.ws/2mHE8wZ
Sal Maiorana, @salmaiorana Published 6:13 p.m. ET March 8, 2017 | Updated 8:37 p.m. ET March 8, 2017
The Bills have signed veteran running back Mike Tolbert to a one-year deal.(Photo: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports)
Mike Tolbert has scored 45 touchdowns in his NFL career.
The Bills seem ready to move on from FB Jerome Felton and will sign Patrick DiMarco.
Marquise Goodwin is headed to the 49ers, Marcus Easley is cut, and Colton Schmidt is back.
The Tyrod Taylor announcement wasn’t the only news emanating from a busy day at One Bills Drive.
With the legal tampering period of pre-free agency in full swing, there were several players coming and going for the Buffalo Bills on Wednesday.
The team officially announced they had reached an agreement to bring running back Mike Tolbert to Buffalo, reportedly on a one-year contract worth $1 million. Tolbert had been with Carolina since 2012, the previous employer of new Bills head coach Sean McDermott. Tolbert, who was cut by the Panthers and thus could be signed prior to the start of the new league year, has rushed for 2,402 yards and 33 touchdowns and has added 203 receptions for 1,783 yards and 12 TDs during his career.
They also have reportedly reached an agreement on a four-year, $8.5 million deal with fullback Patrick DiMarco of the Falcons. DiMarco would replace Jerome Felton, and is considered in some circles as the best blocking fullback in the league.
The Bills are reportedly on the verge of signing fullback Patrick DiMarco. (Photo: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports)
This makes you wonder what the plan is for running back Mike Gillislee. Gillislee, who has been a nice backup to LeSean McCoy the last two years, was offered an original round tender as a restricted free agent Tuesday at a cost of about $1.8 million this season. Gillislee is free to negotiate with other teams, but the Bills would have right of first refusal and could match any offer to retain him. If they opt not to, they would receive a fifth-round draft choice from the signing team.
With Tolbert aboard, Gillislee’s services may no longer be needed.
Tyrod Taylor will be back in Buffalo
This is now Taylor's team
“We’re looking at every option, we really are, in terms of trying to improve our football team and that’s really what we’re doing,” said McDermott. “We’re building a team and we’re going to do what’s best not only in this situation, but every situation going forward for this team, both in the short and long-term. We’ve got to continue to work. There’s no ‘relaxation syndrome’ at this point in time. We can’t do that. We’ve got to continue to work and explore every opportunity to improve this football team.”
This knee injury in 2015 effectively ended Marcus Easley's career with the Bills. He was cut Wednesday. (Photo: Timothy T. Ludwig-USA TODAY Sports)
One day after not tendering an offer to restricted free agent punter Colton Schmidt, the Bills brought him back, so the special teams won’t get the complete overhaul that seemed to be happening Tuesday when kicker Dan Carpenter and long snapper Garrison Sanborn were cut in salary moves. Sanborn would also seem to be a candidate to be re-signed to a lower deal.
Also on special teams, Marcus Easley was released, saving the team $1 million in cap space. Easley missed the last year and a half due to a knee injury and never figured in the team’s future plans.
Wide receiver Marquise Goodwin apparently won’t be back. He has reportedly agreed to a deal to join the 49ers. And linebacker Zach Brown tweeted to fellow linebacker Preston Brown that he’ll miss playing with him, so apparently Zach Brown could be on the way out as an unrestricted free agent.
MAIORANA@Gannett.com
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Seven things Hillary Clinton accomplished with her Iowa comeback
Seven things Hillary Clinton accomplished with her Iowa comeback Seven things Hillary Clinton accomplished with her Iowa comeback Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: http://dmreg.co/1s2z0AI
Jennifer Jacobs, jejacobs@dmreg.com Published 7:18 p.m. CT Sept. 14, 2014 | Updated 7:16 a.m. CT Sept. 15, 2014
Iowans listen to U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's speech today at the Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola.(Photo: Jennifer Jacobs)
Today's 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry was a momentous occasion for Iowa Democrats, who came together to celebrate U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's 40 years of achievements as a federal lawmaker, and to welcome Hillary Clinton back to Iowa after a long, tension-tinged absence.
Here's what Clinton, who became U.S. secretary of state after she lost her 2008 presidential bid, accomplished with her first Iowa visit in nearly seven years:
1. She planted a flag for 2016.
Her mere appearance in the first-in-the-nation voting state sent a strong signal that she's wants to keep her name at the top of the contention for a Democratic presidential bid.
"I'm sure she wasn't coming to lay on the beach at Okoboji to get a tan," said Jim Ross Lightfoot, a GOP political consultant and former Iowa congressman. "People with ambitions like hers come to Iowa as the first phase of a run for president. It is a requirement of national politics 101."
And she got the reaction she likely hoped for, Democrats said.
"There is a palpable enthusiasm for Hillary to throw her hat in the ring," said Jeani Murray, a Democratic strategist and former Iowa Democratic Party executive director.
Photos: The 2014 Harkin Steak Fry
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Hillary Clinton and Tom Harkin hug at the 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 in Indianola. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
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Hillary Clinton, Tom Harkin, Bill Clinton and Ruth Harkin at the 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 in Indianola. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
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Jack Hatch at the 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 in Indianola. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Bill Clinton hugs Tom Harkin at the 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 in Indianola. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Hillary Clinton speaks at the 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 in Indianola. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Hillary Clinton and Tom Harkin hug each other at the 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 in Indianola. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Tom Harkin talks to the crowd at the 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 in Indianola. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Volunteers help set up the American flag background at the 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 in Indianola. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Sen. Tom Harkin shows members of the media a steak fresh off the grill during the annual Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, in Indianola, Iowa. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
Tom and Ruth Harkin enter the steak fry with Bill and Hillary Clinton at the 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 in Indianola. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Hillary Clinton fields questions of whether or not she'll run for president during the annual Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, in Indianola, Iowa. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
Bill Clinton greets the crowd after the Harkin Steak Fry Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Mary Willie/The Register
Attendees enjoy a good view from a distant hill at the Harkin Steak Fry. Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Mary Willie/The Register
Rochelle Oakly of Des Moines supports Hillary at the Harkin Steak Fry. Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Mary Willie/The Register
A stack of Hillary Clinton's books wait to be signed at the Harkin Steak Fry. Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Mary Willie/The Register
Hillary and Bill Clinton flip steaks with Tom Harkin and crew in Indianola at the Harkin Steak Fry. Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Mary Willie/The Register
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Jim Mowrer at the 37th and final Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 in Indianola. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Bill Clinton speaks at the Harkin Steak Fry Sept. 14, 2014. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
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Former president Bill Clinton takes the stage at the Harkin Steak Fry Sept. 14, 2014. Linh Ta/The Register
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Missy Maher of Des Moines holds a sign for Staci Appel during the annual Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, in Indianola, Iowa. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
A long line winds throughout the parking lot during the annual Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, in Indianola, Iowa. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
Sen. Tom Harkin welcomes Hillary and Bill Clinton to the stage with his wife, Ruth, during the Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 in Indianola. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
Buttons for Hillary Clinton were hot items during the annual Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, in Indianola, Iowa. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
Campaign signs and satellite trucks from major news networks line an Iowa gravel road during the annual Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, in Indianola, Iowa. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
The Clintons speak with some of the grillers at the Harkin Steak Fry, Sept. 14, 2014. Carol Hunter/The Register
Spectators gather at the Harkin Steak Fry to watch as Iowa governor candidate Jack Hatch takes the stage. Carol Hunter/The Register
Bill and Hillary Clinton and Sen. Tom Harkin wave to the crowd at the Harkin Steak Fry. Linh Ta/The Register
The Clintons and Harkins pose for photos on stage at the Harkin Steak Fry. Amalie Nash/The Register
Politicians, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, pause to pay their respects during while the National Anthem is played at the Harkin Steak Fry, Sept. 14, 2014. Linh Ta/The Register
Ruth Harkin speaks during the Harkin Steak Fry Sept. 14, 2014. Linh Ta/The Register
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Senate candidate Bruce Braley waves to a large crowd of Democratic supporters following his speech during the annual Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, in Indianola, Iowa. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
The Harkin Steak Fry kicks off on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Kathie Obradovich/The Register
Bill and Hillary Clinton arrive at the Harkin Steak Fry on Sept. 14, 2014. Jason Noble/The Register
Attendees begin to fill the seating area in front of the stage at the Harkin Steak Fry Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Jason Noble/The Register
The press gets a good view of some of the first steaks on the grill at the Harkin Steak Fry. Jason Noble/The Register
A large American flag is setup behind the stage at the Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Hillary Clinton speaks at the Harkin Steak Fry. Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Mary Willie/The Register
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Evelyn West and Della Mull share bench seating at the Harkin Steak Fry on September 14, 2014. Mull drove five benches from Vinton so she could provide seating for other attendees. Sharyn Jackson/The Register
Simpson College students Natasha Shehade, right, of Slater, Iowa, and Mary Galanis of Winnetka, Ill., pose with cutout photos of Hillary and Bill Clinton at the Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. William Petroski/The Register
Cars wait to turn into the Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Linh Ta/The Register
Iowans listen to U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's speech today at the Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola. Jennifer Jacobs
A look at what the attendees at the Harkin Steak Fry are served. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
The pressroom at the Harkin Steak Fry is filled. More than 100 journalists from around the nation were expected to be on site. Carol Hunter/The Register
An early morning view of setup at the 37th Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
President Bill Clinton speaks during the annual Harkin Steak Fry on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, in Indianola, Iowa. Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the Harkin Steak Fry. Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Mary Willie/The Register
Hillary Clinton gets a hug from Tom Harkin before speaking at the Harkin Steak Fry. Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Mary Willie/The Register
But Clinton made it a quick in-and-out visit. She granted no interviews with reporters here – likely because it might have made her seem too hungry if she milked the press coverage, political strategists said.
2. She remedied a long Iowa absence. It had been 2,446 days since her stinging loss to underdog Democratic competitor Barack Obama – and she had ignored Iowa since.
"I'd say she accomplished getting the 'hasn't been back in the state since caucus night 2008' monkey off her back," said Iowa political analyst Jeff Stein. "Now people will stop counting they days, provided she returns fairly soon."
3. She didn't just wave from the balcony.
After the speeches, both Hillary and Bill Clinton waded into the audience to mingle with the Iowans who will likely be some of the key voters in the next Iowa caucuses. Several political strategists said that sent the message that she's interested in who Iowans are as people and wants to engage with them in a personal way.
4. She highlighted issues Iowa Democrats care about.
Her two biggest applause-getting lines were on abortion and jobs. She talked about how "women should be able to make our own health care decisions." She said "equal pay means you should get equal pay for equal work." She said Iowa needs good-paying jobs – and needled Republicans opposed to a federal minimum wage.
5. She praised Tom Harkin on a day when emotions for the retiring U.S. senator were running high.
"I thought it was smart of Hillary to keep the spotlight on Senator Harkin. This was his day," Murray said.
6. She spotlighted a critical race.
Harkin's seat is in jeopardy. His designated protege, Democratic U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley of Waterloo, is in an awkwardly close race against state Sen. Joni Ernst, a little-known Republican who unexpectedly caught fire in Iowa. It's a seat that national Democrats likely need to win to maintain control of the U.S. Senate.
Clinton made references to farming and the military when he related how Braley's mother went back to school to get a teaching degree after his father was badly injured in a grain elevator, and how Braley "went to bat for Iowa's National Guard members and won them the pay they deserved."
7. She fired up activists.
Clinton's presence revved up the "Ready for Hillary" organizers and supporters of various other down-ballot Iowa candidates. For example, there's a legitimate opportunity to flip a Republican-held U.S. House seat in the Staci Appel vs. David Young race in the Des Moines area.
"Look, I get excited about presidential campaigns, too," she said to laughs. "But those campaigns only happen every four years."
Members of congress and staff officials will have a big say in the quality of health care, schools and other issues, she said.
"Use the enthusiasm Iowa is so well known for in a presidential year and channel that into these elections."
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Haluska, Stinson, Brunner share their NCAA Tournament memories
Adam Haluska, Curtis Stinson and Greg Brunner played in NCAA Tournament games in 2005, the last time the state’s two ...
Haluska, Stinson, Brunner share their NCAA Tournament memories Adam Haluska, Curtis Stinson and Greg Brunner played in NCAA Tournament games in 2005, the last time the state’s two ... Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/college/2014/03/15/haluska-stinson-brunner-share-their-ncaa-tournament-memories/6462681/
Bryce Miller, DES Published 3:46 p.m. CT March 15, 2014
Former Iowa players Adam Haluska and Greg Brunner. (Photo: Register file photo )Buy Photo
Adam Haluska, Curtis Stinson and Greg Brunner played in NCAA Tournament games in 2005, the last time the state’s two biggest programs qualified in the same season.
HALUSKA: LOSSES LINGER
Haluska, a multisport high school star from Carroll, began his career at Iowa State before finishing at Iowa. He played in two NCAA Tournament games, the last being an upset loss to unheralded Northwestern State.
“People still come up to me and say, ‘You screwed my bracket up. I lost so much money,’ ” said Haluska, 30, a financial advisor in Solon. “It’s ridiculous. It still happens so much that it’s funny.”
STINSON: MOM RULES MEMENTOS
Iowa State star guard Curtis Stinson said his mother, Rosezine, kept the souvenir watch he received at the NCAA Tournament and now safeguards it.
“My mom was like, ‘You’re not going to mess this up’ and put it in a case,” Stinson said of his mother, who moved to central Iowa from New York two years ago to be closer to her son and grandson, Curtis Jr. “I’ve got my all-access pass and things like that. Lots of memories.”
Life can be more rugged — and the memories more cringe-worthy — once a college player advances to professional leagues.
Stinson played in Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, the Philippines, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
“Croatia was the worst,” he said. “It was pretty bad — no English, the team wasn’t paying, the fans were crazy. People were throwing batteries on the court, spitting on you. Crazy.”
BRUNNER: A SPECIAL BRACKET
Trading in the role of NCAA Tournament player for that of a tournament fan can create a different element of excitement.
For Brunner, of Charles City, he made an NCAA run of another kind.
“We fill one out with all the players, trainers, everyone on the team,” Brunner, 30, said of his professional team in Italy. “Last year, up until Elite Eight, I was 168th in the world in the ESPN bracket. Then it just bombed on me.”
Brunner is rehabbing from a pair of torn tendons in his hands and a torn calf muscle.
“Other than Iowa games, I’ve probably only watched four college basketball games in the last eight years — and three of them were probably title games,” he said. “I’m just too busy. But I try to catch a game or two now with Iowa State or UNI on my Slingbox, and I loved to watch Doug McDermott at Creighton. His game is amazing.”
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4703 Vine Street, Naples, NY, USA
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Grimes Glen is in the Village of Naples, NY and is part of Ontario County's park system. The Glen is known for its waterfalls and as the source of the oldest fossilized tree in New York State. Grimes Creek originates at Cleveland Hill, one of the highest points in the Naples region. Be prepared to get your feet wet – there are incomplete trails along the Glen floor and parts of the hike involve walking in the creek bed. Wear shoes with a good tread to handle the slippery rocks. There are a few small cascades after crossing a footbridge, but the better-known waterfalls are referred to as just the "first" and "second" falls. The first falls is a steep cascade pouring over layers of mossy shale. The second falls is smaller but carries more water and "roars" in comparison to the first falls. The gorge opens at the bottom of the falls to a shallow swimming hole. There are ropes to the left of this waterfall to climb to the top, but this is only recommended for more advanced hikers. Vine Street runs off Main Street in downtown Naples. Drive to the end of Vine Street to the parking area for Grimes Glen.
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Florida attorney general confronted at Mr. Rogers movie
Protesters confronted Pam Bondi at a showing of a documentary about children’s TV host Fred Rogers
Florida attorney general confronted at Mr. Rogers movie Protesters confronted Pam Bondi at a showing of a documentary about children’s TV host Fred Rogers Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://detne.ws/2yEkbhC
AP Published 5:33 p.m. ET June 23, 2018 | Updated 6:23 p.m. ET June 23, 2018
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi(Photo: Pool, Getty Images)
Tampa, Fla. – Protesters confronted Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi at a showing of a documentary about children’s TV host Fred Rogers, and they questioned the Republican’s stands on immigration and health care.
The Tampa Bay Times reports Bondi received a police escort Friday when several members of Organize Florida confronted her as she left a Tampa theater after seeing “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” about Mr. Rogers. The demonstrators questioned Florida joining a lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act and Bondi’s general support of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
This is at least the third time a Republican official has been confronted at a public place in recent days over the president’s immigration policy that separated parents entering the country illegally at the Mexican border from their children. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders left restaurants in the Washington, D.C., area after facing friction there.
Bondi protester Maria Jose Chapa said was an impromptu demonstration after someone spotted the attorney general, who has a national following as a contributor on Fox News and as a friend of Trump. Video shows that as Bondi and her companion left the theater surrounded by officers, Chapa followed her yelling.
“What would Mr. Rogers think about you and your legacy in Florida? Taking away health insurance from people with pre-existing conditions, Pam Bondi!” Chapa hollered. Another person shouted at Bondi, “You’re a horrible person!” Onlookers stared agape as the procession moved past.
Bondi told the paper in a phone interview Saturday that the demonstrators’ actions didn’t comport with the lessons taught by Mr. Rogers.
“We were in a movie about anti-bullying and practicing peace and love and tolerance and accepting of people for their differences,” Bondi said in interview. “That’s what Mr. Rogers is all about. We all believe in free speech, but there’s a big difference there.”
When the Times asked Chapa if the documentary’s star would have handled the situation the same, she replied, “I’m not Mr. Rogers. I don’t have the poise or temperament of Mr. Rogers.”
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Final sale: Unfinished Grosse Ile mansion listed for $29M goes to buyer for $3M
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Fishtown shanties flee rising waters in Leland
Teen missing from Toledo area home found dead in chimney
Roseville woman found slain at home; relative held
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Instagram Will Soon Let You Shop Celebrities’ Looks Without Leaving The App
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Instagram, with around 1 billion active users monthly, has been working from a year to introduce e-commerce features onto the platform.
Seeing the possible potential and the interest of users, last month Instagram allowed users to shop from selected brands without leaving the app.
Following this, the platform will be making this feature available for influencers, celebrities, content creators and athletes. From next week, Instagram will be allowing them to tag product in their post, making it easier for followers to buy directly.
Whenever a certain product will be tagged in a post by a creator, a user would be able to tap and buy it from within the Instagram app.
Also read: Instagram Accounts Revealed to Sell Luxury Counterfeits
Currently, many influencers tag brands for their accessories and other products, and then have to write its details in captions, and often have to respond to a number of comments and direct messages about their look or the products used, which makes the process a bit hectic.
To make the process easier, this feature has been introduced letting users shop inside the app, and improve the experience of users.
Instagram said they are aiming at making shopping easier, reliable and more secure. They are still working on their shopping feature and would pay attention to the feedback received from the community to make this shopping experience even better.
In a week or so, this feature will be tested with some of the selected creators, including Kim Kardashian West, Kylie Jenner, Kris Jenner, Gigi Hadid, and Chiara Ferragni.
Some of the publishers, Elle, GQ, Refinery29 and HypeBeast will also be given access to these new tools.
Products to be tagged have to be from the brands listed in Instagram Checkout beta. The prominent bands include Prada, Nike, Adidas, Burberry, Mac, Michael Kors, Zara, Kylie Cosmetics, H&M. Soon other brands will also be joining the list.
Read next: New Tools to Limit Bullying and Spread Kindness on Instagram
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Meet the Filmmakers: Kurt Kuenne--'Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father'
Over the next few weeks, we at IDA
will be introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work will be
represented in the DocuWeekTM Theatrical Documentary Showcase, August 8-14 in New York City and August 22-28 in Los Angeles. We asked the filmmakers to share
the stories behind their films-the inspirations, the challenges and obstacles,
the goals and objectives, the reactions to their films so far.
So, to kick off this series of conversations, here is Kurt Kuenne,
director/producer of Dear Zachary:
a letter to a son about his father.
Synopsis: On Nov. 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby was
murdered in Pennsylvania; the prime
suspect, his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, fled the US for Newfoundland,
where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. She named the
little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew's childhood friend,
originally began this film as a way for Zachary to learn about his father. But
when Turner was allowed to walk free on bail in Canada and given custody of Zachary
while awaiting extradition to the States, the film's focus shifted to Zachary's
grandparents, and their desperate efforts to win custody of the boy.
IDA: How did you get started in documentary
filmmaking?
Kurt Kuenne: I'm
principally a fiction filmmaker, and that is still where my main interests lie.
Back in 2000, shortly after completing my first fiction feature, I was
approached about the possibility of making a documentary about the history of
drive-in movie theaters. At that point in my life, I'd never even thought about
making a documentary, and it sounded like a nice change of pace, so I said,
"Why not?" And I had a blast. The resulting movie, Drive-In Movie Memories (2001), opened
the Telluride Film Festival that year and went on to have a very successful
festival life before going into rotation on PBS, where it still pops up
occasionally. Making the film really opened my eyes to new ways of storytelling-both
in fiction and documentary filmmaking. I had just completed Drive-In Movie Memories when the
horrific events that led to Dear Zachary
entered my life. Since documentaries were very much on my mind at the time,
making a documentary film therefore became a natural part of my response to the
IDA:
What inspired you to make Dear Zachary: a letter to
a son about his father?
KK: On the afternoon
of November 7, 2001, I got a phone call from my sister, who told me to sit
down; my best friend since the age of 7, Dr. Andrew Bagby, had been murdered. He
had just turned 28 years old, as had I. (We
were born one month apart.) He had been found brutally shot to death in the
parking lot of a state park in Derry Township, Penn., about 15 miles from the hospital in Latrobe, Penn.,
where he was working. I pretty much fell apart upon receiving the news and
couldn't imagine who on earth could have done such a thing. Andrew had more
friends than anyone I knew and was loved by everyone; he was the only person
I've ever met who was asked by seven different people to be best man at their
Growing up, I was one of those
kids who was making movies on VHS from the time I could pick up a camera, and
Andrew had appeared in all of my early movies, for which I still had the
original raw footage tapes, so I had his whole life documented on tape. I
decided immediately that it was my responsibility to put together some kind of
a tribute film for family and friends, as I was the only one in the world who
could. And then it occurred to me: I was never going to get to visit him at his
hospital to see what he was like as a doctor; I'd never be meeting the rest of
his family and friends at his wedding. So I expanded my tribute film into a
quest, to visit the places that were sacred to him, to meet and interview
everyone who knew and loved him. Since his friends were scattered far and wide,
it would be a road trip of epic proportions. It was my grieving process.
But then news about his murder
started to come out. He had been murdered by a seriously disturbed woman he had
been seeing, who set him up and killed him after he broke up with her. She fled
to Canada before the US authorities
could get their hands on her. And then she revealed in February 2002 that she
was pregnant with Andrew's child. I suddenly realized that my responsibility
here was now much bigger: Andrew was going to have a son born after his death
who would never know him, and I might have the only means of introducing him to
his father at my fingertips. So I redoubled my efforts and set out, as I say in
the movie, "to bring a man back to life."
IDA: What were some of the challenges and obstacles in making this film, and
how did you overcome them?
KK: I didn't have much
money when I first conceived this massive road-trip/journey, so I wasn't sure
how I was going to leave my job for months at a time and go on the road. But I
had the good fortune to win a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting from the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences just at the right time, and that
$30,000 fellowship became my resource from which I began shooting. The original
shooting of it was pure enjoyment; I was seeing the country, meeting wonderful
people, hearing stories of Andrew. That part was great. The horrifying part was
that back in Canada,
the woman who had murdered my friend was being allowed to walk free on bail and
have custody of the baby-whom she had named Zachary-while the excruciatingly
slow extradition process dragged on for months and months. Andrew's parents had
moved up there to fight for custody of Zachary, and were forced to interact
with this monster on a civil basis in order to see their grandchild. When I
arrived in St. John's, Newfoundland, where all this was transpiring, we had to
be very careful to make sure that this woman did not (a) know that I was in
town or (b) know that I was making this movie. It was a scary and horrifying
time, with a murderer on the loose who could show up at the apartment at any
time, but you just had to buckle down and get through it. It was an important
and necessary thing to do.
IDA: How did your vision for the film change over the course of the
pre-production, production and post-production processes?
KK: The biggest change
is that this movie was never supposed to be released to the public. I was
creating it solely as a personal project for Zachary, friends, family and the
recipients of the scholarship funds that have been created in Andrew's memory.
But at a certain point, the enormous injustice of what was being allowed to
happen here-an accused murderer walking free with a baby; my friend's grieving
parents being tortured emotionally on a daily basis by the government of Canada,
which allowed this situation to exist; multiple lives being recklessly
endangered-it all came to a breaking point one day when both I and Andrew's
parents decided there was no other choice but to take the gloves off and go
At that point, the movie's
intention changed significantly because I was now crafting a story to involve a
general audience. For that reason, the most difficult balance to find in
editing became the question of, "How much information about Andrew is too
much?" I wanted the audience to feel like they knew him and his parents,
but not give them so much information that they got bored and tuned out. I also
didn't possess the financial resources to finish the film on my own-and I
wanted all proceeds from the film to go to scholarship funds in Andrew's
memory, so I didn't want a production entity getting involved either creatively
or financially. So I cut a 10-minute promo trailer, put it on the Web and
raised all my completion funds purely through donations from hundreds of
wonderful people around the world, both friends and strangers. The entire movie
was funded by donations, and the producer's (i.e. my) share of proceeds after
expenses will all be going to Andrew's scholarship funds. I must give an enormous
thanks to the IDA here, which was my fiscal sponsor through that process.
As you've screened Dear Zachary: a letter to
a son about his father-whether
on the festival circuit, or in screening rooms, or in living rooms-how have audiences
reacted to the film? What has been most surprising or unexpected about their
reactions?
KK: The reaction to
the movie at festivals and in reviews has been staggering. I doubt I'll ever
see reviews and responses like this again in my career (and I would throw them
all away in an instant to have my friend back, so I dearly hope I never have
the opportunity to make a film like this again). Just about every festival
screening of the film has received a two-minute standing ovation; it goes on
longer if Andrew's parents are present, and I feel the ovation is really for
them, for their strength. I've been getting e-mails almost daily from people
telling me the film has changed their lives in some way, made them appreciate
their loved ones even more, or made them so mad they're putting pen to paper
this instant to write Canada's
government in support of bail reform. My hope is that this film will influence
reform in Canada's
bail system-specifically we would like to see the Canadian government pass a
law denying bail to people accused of murder, so that the appalling situation
that occurred here won't happen again. When we held the Canadian premiere at
Hot Docs in Toronto, the citizens of Toronto literally hissed
the government officials on screen when they either refused to speak to me or
backpedaled with bureaucratic doublespeak. Many Canadians have written us
saying that they're ashamed something like this was allowed to happen in their
country, and have copied us on letters they've sent to Parliament. I'm planning
to hold a screening for Canadian Parliament later on this year; the timing
still needs to be worked out.
But my favorite response to the
movie was when I overheard a woman describing the film to a friend, and I
realized she was talking about Andrew as if she had known him. Many people have
told me afterward, "Whatever happens with this film, thanks for letting me
meet that guy. I feel like he's my friend now too." And that was the
film's original intent back when I first started-to introduce Andrew to those
who never got to meet him. Given the type of person Andrew was, it's just like
him to be making thousands of new friends almost seven years after his death.
What docs or docmakers have served as
inspirations for you?
KK: For me, in the
documentary world, Alan Berliner is in a class by himself. His filmmaking and
cutting style taught me so much and opened my eyes to new possibilities in both
fiction and documentary filmmaking that had been previously hidden to me. When
I first saw his film Nobody's Business
(1996), it was like someone had opened a curtain on a new stage I didn't know
was hiding in plain sight. I had the good fortune to meet him many years ago
while I was first shooting Dear Zachary,
right after he saw Drive-In Movie
Memories, and our conversations gave me a lot to think about that became
relevant in the completion of this film. I hope to share it with him soon; he's
in the film's "Thank You's."
Last but certainly not least, I'd
like to thank the good people at MSNBC Films, who have picked the film up for
broadcast later this year, and who have made our inclusion in DocuWeek possible-and
Josh Braun at Submarine Entertainment for bringing us together in the first
Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father will be screening at the IFC
Center in New
York and the Arclight Theater in Hollywood.
the DocuWeek schedule in New York City,
http://www.documentary.org/content/docuweek-new-york.
purchase tickets to DocuWeek at the IFC
Center, visit
www.ifccenter.com.
the DocuWeek schedule in Los Angeles,
http://www.documentary.org/content/docuweek-los-angeles.
purchase tickets to DocuWeek at the ArcLight Hollywood, visit www.arclightcinemas.com.
Screen Time: Week of January 6, 2020
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EuroChem appoints new CEO
Published by Nicholas Woodroof, Assistant Editor
Dry Bulk, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 08:45
EuroChem Group AG has appointed Petter Ostbo as its CEO, effective 1 June 2019.
Ostbo will take over from EuroChem Financial Officer Kuzma Marchuk, who has been serving as Acting CEO since September 2018.
“The Board is delighted that Petter Ostbo is joining the team,” EuroChem Group Chairman Alexander Landia said. “He is highly regarded in our industry and brings broad experience to the position. Petter’s appointment demonstrates EuroChem’s commitment to bringing in the best talent to take the company into the next chapter of its growth story. I would like to thank Kuzma for his continuing service as Acting CEO of EuroChem until Petter takes over.”
“I am happy to be able to join EuroChem at this exciting time in the company’s development,” Ostbo said. “The new potash and ammonia production present great opportunities for EuroChem, and I look forward to working with the Board and the management team to accelerate the next phase of growth.”
Ostbo’s most recent role was as EVP and Chief Financial Officer of Yara International, before which he held the position of EVP Production at the same company, with responsibility for 28 production sites and four mines in 16 countries. Ostbo previously worked at McKinsey & Co from 2003-2010. He holds a Masters in Economics and Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).
Image credit: Ingar Sorensen
Read the article online at: https://www.drybulkmagazine.com/dry-bulk/13022019/eurochem-appoints-new-ceo/
UK Shipping Minister highlights importance of ports and shipping during decarbonisation conference
Friday 17 January 2020 12:47
Nus Ghani talked of the importance of the industry in achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Welcome to Del Negro & Senft Eye Associates
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Your Office Visit Experience
Home 2017 February
Congratulations Sharon!
Congratulations are in order to eye technician, Sharon, for passing her exam. She is now officially a Certified Ophthalmic Assistant (COA). This certification is a testament to her skill, competence, and knowledge of the subject matter which, among other content, spanned from history taking to ocular motility to visual assessment. Her countless hours of studying and determination truly paid off!
Sharon has been with the practice for 8 years. Her work ethic and dedication to patient care has made her an integral part of the Del Negro & Senft team. We are so proud of her accomplishment.
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Del Negro & Senft Receives “People Love Us on Yelp” Status
Del Negro & Senft Eye Associates sends a sincere thank you out to all of our current and former patients who have taken the time to review their experiences with us on Yelp.
In January, we received some exciting news from Yelp. Because of the overwhelmingly positive ratings we’ve received over the past year, Yelp has recognized us with the coveted “People Love Us on Yelp” sticker. Only the best of the best receive this honor, and it’s one that we take seriously.
A huge thanks to Yelp for acknowledging us, and thank you again to our patients for your commitment to Del Negro & Senft Eye Associates.
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Global Stocks Lower Amid Uncertainties
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Global stock benchmarks were mostly lower on Wednesday as investors watched for the latest developments in the standoff between U.S. President Donald Trump and his former FBI director.
KEEPING SCORE: European markets drifted lower though Britain's FTSE 100 was steady at 7,525.55. France' CAC 40 dropped 0.4 percent to 5,385.63 and Germany's DAX fell 0.2 percent to 12,774.65. Futures augured a weak day on Wall Street. Dow and S&P 500 futures both lost 0.5 percent.
U.S. POLITICS: Analysts said investors were concerned over the outlook for the Trump administration following revelations that FBI Director James Comey wrote in a memo that the president had asked him to shut down an FBI investigation into ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn. That allegation was preceded by news that the president had disclosed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and the country's ambassador to the United States. Trump tweeted Tuesday that he had "an absolute right" as president to share "facts pertaining to terrorism" and airline safety with Russia.
ANALYST'S VIEWPOINT: "As reporting intensifies on Trump's potential mishandling of classified information, and renewed speculations on the rationale of his dismissal of Comey, markets are becoming concerned whether key legislation on tax reforms could be deferred or derailed," Mizuho Bank said in a daily commentary.
ASIA'S DAY: Asian markets mostly fell. Japan's Nikkei 225 dropped 0.5 percent to 19,814.88 as the yen gained against the U.S. dollar. South Korea's Kospi dipped 0.1 percent to 2,293.08. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index slipped 0.2 percent to 25,293.63. The Shanghai Composite Index edged 0.2 percent lower to 3,104.44. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 sank 1.1 percent to 5,786.00. Taiwan's benchmark index fell but markets in Southeast Asia were mixed.
OIL: Benchmark U.S. crude fell 18 cents to $48.48 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract slipped 19 cents to close at $48.66 a barrel on Tuesday. Brent crude, used to price international oils, dropped 7 cents to $51.58 per barrel in London. It lost 17 cents to settle at $51.65 a barrel in London.
CURRENCIES: In currency trading, the dollar fell to 112.44 yen from 113.11 yen. The euro gained to $1.1092 from $1.1085.
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Clarke shows he's Andy with bat
Paul Gravatt (blue helmet) and Terry Charrington on the move for Aythorpe on Saturday. Picture: MICHAEL BOYTON
FIELDING most of the side that won the T Rippon Premier League, Aythorpe Roding put in an impressive performance to defeat Hockerill by 180 runs on Saturday in a friendly clash. Aythorpe, batting first, reached 337-8 in 45 overs. Opening batsman Paul Gra
FIELDING most of the side that won the T Rippon Premier League, Aythorpe Roding put in an impressive performance to defeat Hockerill by 180 runs on Saturday in a friendly clash.
Aythorpe, batting first, reached 337-8 in 45 overs. Opening batsman Paul Gravatt (68) and Terry Charrington (33), put on 82 runs for the first wicket in 13 overs.
Decent totals also came from Joe Grant (17), Graham Milbank (34), and Neil Culleton (27 no).
However, highlight of Aythorpe's innings was Andy Clarke who hit a fine century.
The Hockerill batsman put in a useful batting performance, but needing nearly eight runs an over. the total proved too much to chase.
M Hudson (27), B Francis (18), T Brady (23), A Challis (19), P Francis (20 no), O Foster (12) and S layer (12) all scored well, but Hockerill were skittled out for 157.
Aythorpe's wickets were shared around with Liam Rosewell, Andy Clarke and Joe Grant taking
two each, while Matt Reeve, Graham Milbank, Terry Charrington and Dave Bardell all took a wicket apiece.
Roding visit Dunmow on Saturday and Stebbing on Sunday, 1pm starts.
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Takeley back at the top
PUBLISHED: 13:51 10 October 2007 | UPDATED: 21:49 29 May 2010
Action from Takeley's (blue) victory over Bishop's Stortford Swifts on Saturday - Pic: Michael Boyton
Takeley 2 Bishop Stortford Swifts 0 Takeley got back to winning ways against Bishop s Stortford Swifts on Saturday. It was a good display from the hosts and the result takes them back to the top of the Essex Olympian League Premier Division. The week
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Takeley got back to winning ways against Bishop's Stortford Swifts on Saturday.
It was a good display from the hosts and the result takes them back to the top of the Essex Olympian League Premier Division.
"The week before we let ourselves down so it was nice to bounce back," said manager Don Watters. "It was an open game and nice to watch for the independent person but nerve racking for me.
"Our whole defence was superb, and all their shots were from far out which James May dealt with comfortably.
"Our midfield played well and up front we looked like we would score all the time, it was an excellent all round performance.
"We moved back to the top of the league as well and that's where we have got to stay."
Takeley started the brighter and Kayembe should have put them ahead after 10 minutes when he shot wide from eight yards. The hosts' midfield were running the game and Colson broke clear and found Goldblatt, but he shot wide.
Takeley did take the lead after 22 minutes when from Steve Robins free-kick Mark Watters rose to head home.
Takeley doubled the lead after 28 minutes when Watters beat two defenders and chipped the ball over the advancing keeper.
The second half started with Swifts having a lot of the ball but they could not threaten, their best chance of the game falling to Mularak who blazed a shot over the bar from 30 yards.
- Takeley have strengthened their squad by signing ex Norwich City defender Richard Goodchild and Sawbridgeworth Town youngster Harry Forsyth.
Goodchild has just returned from the USA and has previously played under Watters for Sawbridgeworth and was reserve team captain at Norwich City.
"He had a few clubs chasing him including Harlow and Bishop's Stortford, but he stayed loyal to me," said Watters.
"He can play anywhere across the back and in midfield or up front. Goalkeeper is the only position I haven't seen him play and he will be a good asset.
"Harry played for Sawbridgeworth Reserves last year and he is developing into a good player. He can play up front of right midfield and will also be an asset to us."
Takeley start their defence of the Essex Premier Cup on Saturday away at St Osyth.
"The club won it last year and we want to do well again," said Watters.
"We should be back to full strength and we are going there to win it and enjoy it."
Takeley Res 2 Hutton Res 0
Second half goals from Ben Simpson and a cracker from Stuart Nock from 20 yards gave Takeley Reserves the victory on Saturday.
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Gov. Doug Ducey addresses the Legislature on Monday.
Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer
Gov. Ducey delivers State of State speech
By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services
PHOENIX -- Gov. Doug Ducey is proposing to eliminate state income taxes -- but only for retired military.
In his sixth State of the State speech Monday, the governor also said he wants to:
- Close the state prison at Florence and move inmates elsewhere, including sending some to county jails willing to accept them;
- Finally restore the last $138 million of more than $317 million cut from the K-12 education "district additional assistance'' account that funds everything from computers and books to buses;
- Provide additional dollars to families willing to adopt sibling groups "to keep families together'';
- Pay the entire cost of advance placement exams for needy students, allowing them to earn college credits while still in high school;
- Fund body cameras for every state trooper;
- Fund a new bridge over the Gila River on Interstate 10.
Ducey also asked lawmakers to put a measure on the November ballot to enact a constitutional provision to forever preclude local governments and voters from creating "sanctuary cities.''
Existing state laws already block communities from barring police and officials from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And the lone proposal to create such a designation, which the governor called "troubling,'' was soundly defeated last fall by Tucson voters.
But Ducey wants something more.
"Now it's time for all Arizonans to make their voices heard, and enshrine it in our Constitution,'' he said, saying Rep. T.J. Shope, R-Coolidge, will carry the measure. "This November, let's give all Arizona voters the opportunity to say 'yes' to the rule of law and 'no' to sanctuary cities.''
Arizona took a public relations hit after lawmakers approved a 2010 law aimed at giving police more power to detain those suspected of being in the country illegally. That included lost conventions and visitors.
Shope, however, said he doubts having the issue on the November ballot will harm the state's reputation.
"I think we've got too many good things going on here right now to have that kind of bad publicity,'' he said. "It will do very well as the polls.''
But Rep. Daniel Hernandez, D-Tucson, who voted against the Tucson proposal, suggested there was something more sinister -- and political -- behind the proposal.
"It's designed to create 'wedge' issues,'' he said, allowing Republicans to attack Democrats who may not have the same hard-line stance on immigration issues.
Ducey's actual budget -- his plans for revenue and expenditures -- won't be released until the end of the week. But the governor provided lawmakers with a roadmap of what he wants done.
It starts with that tax cut.
When Ducey was inaugurated in 2015 he promised to annually propose reducing income taxes to "as close to zero as possible.''
The governor, however, has never proposed an actual reduction in overall tax rates. In fact, the only change was pushed through last year by some GOP lawmakers.
Instead, Ducey has relied on targeted tax cuts. The new proposal fits that pattern.
"Our vets have already earned their benefits, put their lives on the line,'' the governor said. "The government shouldn't be taxing their service to country. It should be honoring their service to country.''
But there is bound to be kickback from lawmakers who question not just the $45 million price tag but also whether all 600,000 Arizona veterans, at whatever retirement level, should not be required to pay state income taxes.
Current law exempts the first $3,500.
Last year Rep. Gail Griffin, R-Hereford, sought to boost that in three steps to $10,000. When that proved politically unacceptable, she agreed to a $1,500 boost.
Even with that change, however, a majority of legislators questioned the wisdom of the move.
"I support veterans,'' said Rep. John Allen, R-Scottsdale. But he said the plan did not target its relief to "those who need our help.''
"We all respect and want to honor our veterans,'' House Minority Leader Charlene Fernandez said following the speech.
"But I just keep thinking about how we could invest that in our public schools,'' the Yuma Democrat said. "I think our veterans would want us to invest in the next generation.''
Another provision of Ducey's plan would eliminate fees to get state licenses to both veterans and the spouses of active duty military.
Ducey also announced that he is renaming the state prison system to the Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, saying it "more clearly reflects the agency's mission.'' The governor also promised new pay raises for correctional officers and money to fix broken locks at several facilities.
But the big change is shuttering the state prison at Florence where close to 4,000 of the state's 42,500 inmates are now housed.
The issue, according to Ducey, is one of economics. He said it would take about $275 million in repairs to fix.
Aides to the governor said some inmates will end up in private prisons where the state pays a per-day rate. But they also said some could be transferred to other facilities, including the adjacent Eyeman Prison.
And then there's a plan to ask counties if they would take some -- for a fee.
Ducey's plan to finally restore the "district additional assistance'' funding is only part of what the governor is seeking for schools.
He also is proposing additional dollars for career and technical education.
There also is a request for more cash to provide counselors and police officers for schools that want them. And his budget will contain the dollars for the last step of the plan approved in 2018 to raise teacher salaries by 20 percent by the 2020-2021 school year.
But some of the proposals have no dollar cost.
He wants to designate Sept. 25 every year as Sandra Day O'Connor day. On that day, every public school would devote all efforts to teaching about civics.
And Ducey also wants to let students take the civics exam -- required for high school graduation -- at any point starting in middle school: One a student passes there would be no additional bar to graduation.
The governor also said he wants more done about suicide, beyond the veteran community, saying it is the eighth leading cause of death in Arizona.
Part of that would be a mandate in state law on private insurance companies to cover mental health "just like they cover an annual physical.'' Aides to Ducey said that's already required by federal law but is largely unenforced.
The proposal to finance the Gila River bridge along Interstate 10 is a down payment of sorts on proposals to eventually widen the last stretch that is now two lanes in each direction to three lanes. Ducey said 62,000 people drive over than 56-year-old bridge every day.
"The Phoenix-Tucson corridor is an economic artery for our state and needs expanding,'' the governor said.
There was no cash, though, for the request by Gila County officials for $20 million for a bridge over Tonto Creek where three children recently died. Instead, Ducey has so far has only asked for federal dollars.
Ducey also promised more focus on economic development in rural areas, including additional dollars for tourism promotion and for job training.
Some of what the governor announced does not require legislative approval. For example, he is directing state agencies that for any new rule or regulation they want to propose they must eliminate three.
"The result: New regulations will naturally mean less regulations,'' Ducey said.
But the governor would need changes in state law to scrap the current system in which members of professions have the majority of members on regulatory boards. He threw his support behind a proposal by Rep. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scottsdale, to require that a majority of each board be composed of public members.
Along the same lines, Ducey wants to forbid fee hikes by any regulatory board that has been "stockpiling cash and sitting on bank accounts of millions in reserves, all while continuing to burden real people with real fees.''
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Fusion of cell-penetrating peptides to thermally responsive biopolymer improves tumor accumulation of p21 peptide in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer
Authors Walker L, Ryu JS, Perkins E, McNally L, Raucher D
Received 10 January 2014
Accepted for publication 30 May 2014
Published 7 October 2014 Volume 2014:8 Pages 1649—1658
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/DDDT.S60451
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Leslie R Walker,1 Jung Su Ryu,1 Eddie Perkins,2 Lacey R McNally,3 Drazen Raucher1
1Department of Biochemistry, 2Department of Neurosurgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA; 3Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
Abstract: Current therapies for the treatment of pancreatic cancer are limited. The limitations of this type of treatment are abundant. The majority of chemotherapeutic agents used in clinics are highly toxic to both tumor cells and normal tissues due to the lack of specificity. Resistance can develop due to overexposure of these agents. To address these issues, these agents must be made more exclusive toward the tumor site. We have developed a macromolecular carrier based on the sequence of the biopolymer elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) that is able to aggregate upon reaching the externally heated tumor environment. This carrier is specific to the tumor as it only aggregates at the heated tumor site. ELP is soluble below its transition temperature but will aggregate when the temperature is raised above its transition temperature. ELP was modified by p21, a cell cycle inhibitory peptide, and the addition of Bac, a cell-penetrating peptide with nuclear localization capabilities. In this study, p21-ELP-Bac and its control, ELP-p21, were used in cell proliferation studies using the pancreatic cancer cell lines Panc-1, MiaPaca-2, and S2013. ELP-p21 had little effect on proliferation, while the half maximal inhibitory concentration of p21-ELP-Bac was ~30 µM. As translocation across the plasma membrane is a limiting step for delivery of macromolecules, these polypeptides were utilized in a pancreatic xenograft model to study the plasma clearance, biodistribution, tumor accumulation, and tumor reduction capabilities of the polypeptide with and without a cell-penetrating peptide.
Keywords: elastin-like polypeptide, peptide, targeted drug delivery, macromolecule
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most fatal cancers, with a five-year survival rate of only 6%.1 Studies aimed at improving treatment and thereby enhancing the quality of life for cancer patients are continuously underway. The timing and dosage for most existing therapies are hampered by narrow treatment windows, and individual variations in the growth and metastasis of primary tumors are considerable. The targeted delivery of drugs to solid tumors is a multipart problem because of the limitations caused by tumor heterogeneity and its blood vessel architecture. Macromolecules are gaining interest in drug delivery because they preferentially accumulate due to their ability to extravasate into the tumor much more readily compared to a normal cell well. Additionally, because of a tumor’s poor lymphatic drainage, the macromolecule will be retained longer than a smaller molecule.2 This phenomenon is known as the enhanced permeability and retention effect. Elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) is a macromolecular biopolymer that can be used as a drug delivery targeting system. ELP is made up of pentapeptide repeats in the motif Val-Pro-Gly-Xaa-Gly, where Xaa is a guest residue and can be any amino acid other than proline. In this study, the guest residue position consists of Val, Gly, and Ala in a 5:3:2 ratio, and the ELP molecule weighs ~60 kDa.3 At physiological temperature, ELP is soluble; but when the temperature is raised just a few degrees, ELP will aggregate. This causes ELP to not only accumulate in tumors due to the enhanced permeability and retention effect, but ELP also has the advantage of having an active targeting system through the use of hyperthermia.3–8 Therapeutic peptides target a process involved in the replication of cells in order to slow or stop the rapid proliferation of cells that leads to growing tumors and metastasis. The effectiveness of peptides in cancer therapy is limited by poor pharmacokinetics and their inability to accumulate in effective doses at the tumor site because of rapid degradation. Additionally, small molecules frequently accumulate in other organs, such as the liver and kidneys, and produce toxic metabolic products.9,10 This can be overcome by attaching the peptide to a macromolecular carrier, such as ELP. The p21 peptide, originally described in Mutoh et al, used here is derived from amino acids 139–164 of the C-terminus of the full length p21 protein and interferes with proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) function and inhibits cyclin-dependent kinase complex activity.11 This peptide was added to the N-terminus of ELP. The cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) Bac was added to the C-terminus of ELP to facilitate uptake into the cell. This CPP is important because, as p21 is a cell cycle inhibitory peptide, it must reach the nucleus in order to exert its inhibitory effect. When conjugated to ELP, Bac has been shown to localize to the nucleus in confocal microscopy experiments.12 As a control, a version without the CPP was also used. Previously, Bac-ELP-p21 was tested in vitro. These results showed that Bac was facilitating entry into the nucleus, as well as cytotoxic effects of Bac-ELP-p21 in combination with hyperthermia in several different cell lines.13
In this study, p21-ELP-Bac was shown to inhibit proliferation of three different pancreatic cancer cell lines. Additionally, the addition of the CPP enhances the uptake of ELP in the cell, as seen by fluorescence uptake experiments comparing p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21 in S2013 cells. This uptake was further increased in cells treated with hyperthermia. In animal studies, the polypeptide was shown to preferentially accumulate in the heated tumors and persisted in the heated tumors longer than in non-heated tumors.
Synthesis and purification of ELP-based polypeptides
A pUC19 vector containing ELP was synthesized by recursive directional ligation as described previously in the sequence (VPGXG)n.14 To mediate intracellular uptake of ELP, the C-terminus was modified by the addition of the CPP Bac (RRIRPRPPRLPRPRPRPLPFPRP), and the therapeutic peptide p21 (GRKRRQTSMTDFYHSKRRLIFSKRKP) was added to the N-terminus. A control lacking the Bac CPP was also synthesized. Detailed descriptions of all peptides used in this study are included in Table 1.
Table 1 Sequence of polypeptides used
Notes: ELP is a thermally sensitive biopolymer consisting of the pentapeptide sequence VPGXG, repeated 150 times, where X is any amino acid other than proline. Bac is a CPP derived from the bactenecin family of antimicrobial peptides. The peptide p21 is a cell cycle inhibitory peptide mimetic. CPP sequence is underlined.
Abbreviations: CPP, cell-penetrating peptide; ELP, elastin-like polypeptide.
pET25b+ expression vectors containing the desired constructs were transformed into Escherichia coli BLR(DE3) competent cells (EMD Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA) for hyperexpression of the protein.14 The expression strains were used to inoculate TB Dry plus ampicillin (100 μg/mL) and grown at 37°C, 220 rpm agitation for 18–24 hours. Cells were harvested by centrifugation (3,000 × g, 10 minutes), resuspended in phosphate-buffered solution (PBS), lysed by sonication (Fisher Scientific 550 Sonic Dismembrator; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA), and centrifuged to remove cell debris (13,000× g, 45 minutes). Polyethyleneimine (0.5% w/v) was added to the lysate to precipitate nucleic acids, which were then removed by centrifugation at 10°C for 30 minutes. The phase transition of the polypeptide was induced by heating the lysate to 44°C and increasing NaCl concentration to 2 M. The polypeptide was collected by centrifugation (11,000× g, 10 minutes) and resuspended in PBS. Purification of ELP was achieved by inverse transition cycling which was repeated three to five times.15,16
Labeling with fluorescent probes
Quantitatively tracking fluorescence of a molecule can easily be done by various instruments. In the case of measuring uptake of ELP into the cell, a fluorescent probe was conjugated to ELP through a cysteine using a maleimide linker. In a typical fluorescent labeling procedure, protein was diluted to 100–200 μM in 50 mM Na2HPO4 buffer, pH 7.0, and incubated with ten-fold molar excess of tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine for 20 minutes at room temperature. Then, the fluorescent probe (tetramethylrhodamine-5-maleimide [Thermo Fisher Scientific], fluorescein-5-maleimide [Thermo Fisher Scientific], or AlexaFluor750 C5-maleimide [Thermo Fisher Scientific]) was dissolved in 10–20 μL dimethyl sulfoxide and added to the protein and incubated with continuous stirring overnight at 4°C. Free label was separated by inverse thermal cycling. The labeling efficiency was assessed by ultraviolet–visible spectrophotometry (UV-1600 Shimadzu; Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan) at 540 nm for rhodamine, 768 nm for Alexa, 492 nm for fluorescein, and 280 nm for protein. The protein concentration was estimated by subtracting the percentage of absorbance by the dye. A typical molar ratio for label to protein was 0.15–0.30.
Characterization of the transition temperature
Both p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21 were heated at 1°C/minute at increasing concentrations in a multicell holder in an ultraviolet–visible spectrophotometer (Cary 100; Varian Instruments, Palo Alto, CA, USA). For comparison of the two constructs, the transition temperature (Tt) was determined at 20 μM in cell media containing 10% serum. Aggregation, induced by increasing temperature, was characterized by the turbidity measured at 350 nm.3 The Tt was defined as the temperature at which 50% of the solution was turbid.
Mia-Paca2 and Panc-1 (American Type Culture Collection [ATCC], Manassas, VA, USA) pancreatic carcinoma cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, 100 units/mL penicillin, and 100 μg/mL streptomycin. Luciferase-transfected S2013 pancreatic cells were cultured in Roswell Park Memorial Institute medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum and 100 units/mL penicillin, and 100 μg/mL streptomycin. Cultures were maintained at 37°C in a humidified atmosphere (5% CO2). For experiments, cells were removed from tissue culture flasks by treatment with 0.05% v/v trypsin-ethylenediaminetetraacetic-acid (Thermo Fisher Scientific) and counted using a Beckman Coulter counter Z series (Beckman Coulter, Inc., Brea, CA, USA).
For comparison of the potency of p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21, the three pancreatic cancer cell lines were plated in 96-well plates and allowed to grow for 24 hours. The cells were treated with varying concentrations of each polypeptide conjugate for 1 hour at 37°C or 42°C. After treatment, cells were washed and returned to the incubator with fresh media. 72 hours later, cell proliferation was measured using 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium (MTT) (Promega Corporation, Fitchburg, WI, USA).
Uptake analysis
For determining levels of p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21 taken up into the cell, S2013 cells were treated with 20 μM of each polypeptide for 1 hour at either 37°C or 42°C. Twenty-four hours after treatment, cells were washed with PBS, harvested with nonenzymatic cell dissociation buffer, centrifuged, and resuspended in 0.5 mL PBS. Intracellular uptake was measured by Beckman Coulter Gallios Flow Cytometer (Beckman Coulter, Inc.). Data were corrected for mean labeling efficiencies and analyzed by Kaluza Flow Cytometry Analysis Software (v 1.1) (Beckman Coulter, Inc.).
Tumor xenografts and measurements
Female athymic nu/nu mice (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA) with an average body weight of 25 g were housed in appropriate caging in a barrier room with a 12-hour light–dark rhythm under standard temperature and humidity conditions. Each mouse was implanted with 2×106 S2013 pancreatic carcinoma cells in the left flank and measured once palpable by caliper measurement using the formula: Volume = (Length * Width2)/2. Each group consisted of at least five mice. Mice were carefully monitored for weight, tumor size, and general welfare every day. During all treatments, animals were anesthetized using 1.5%–2.5% isoflurane. All animal experiments were performed in accordance with the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.
In order to actively target ELP to the tumor site, the tumor must be heated to ~41°C while the rest of the body stays at normal physiological temperature (37°C). To accomplish this, a Me 540L Laser Sys*Tim (Mettler Electronics Corp., Anaheim, CA, USA) was placed 2–3 mm above the skin over the tumor while the surrounding area was shielded. Heating was carried out in cycles of 20 minutes heating, 10 minutes cooling for a total of 2 hours, during which the animals were kept under isoflurane anesthetic.17
Mice bearing 250 mm3 S2013 subcutaneous tumors were anesthesized with isoflurane, and a cannula was placed in the femoral artery. Rhodamine-labeled p21-ELP-Bac or ELP-p21 was administered by intravenous injection in the femoral vein at a dose of 100 mg/kg. In the heated group, tumors were immediately heated by thermal cycling. At specific time points (5, 15, 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, 210, 240 minutes), 30 μL of blood was collected via the arterial catheter in heparinized hematocrit tubes and centrifuged (13,000× g, 5 minutes) to separate cells and plasma. Five microliters of plasma was added to 95 μL of PBS in a black 96-well plate. Polypeptide fluorescence in the plasma was measured by fluorescence plate reader (BioTek FLx800; BioTek, Winooski, VT, USA). Rhodamine fluorescence was measured at 485 nm excitation and 590 nm emission. A standard curve was generated using known quantities of the labeled polypeptide. Fluorescence data were fit to the standard curve to calculate plasma levels in μg/mL at each time point. This data was then fit to a two-compartment pharmacokinetic model using Microcal Origin (OriginLab Corporation, Northampton, MA, USA). Plasma concentration with time were fit to the relationship described previously.5
Biodistribution and tumor accumulation
Levels of polypeptide fluorescence in the organs of the mice were quantified using the IVIS Spectrum (PerkinElmer Inc., Waltham, MA, USA). Once tumors reached 250 mm3, mice were administered 100 mg/kg of AlexaFluor750-labeled p21-ELP-Bac or ELP-p21 by intravenous injection in the femoral vein. Animals in the heated group began heating cycles immediately after injection. Four hours after injection, the mice were euthanized, and their organs (heart, lungs, liver, kidney, spleen) and tumors were harvested and placed in the IVIS for fluorescence measurement using the Living Image software (PerkinElmer Inc.). Fluorescence intensity for saline-treated animals was subtracted to correct for background fluorescence.
In order to determine the amount of polypeptide in the tumor over time, AlexaFluor750-labeled polypeptides were injected in the tail vein. Animals were imaged starting at 2 hours after injection and continued at 3, 4, 6, 24, and 48 hours after injection. Animals were placed under anesthesia during image capture then allowed to wake up until the next time point. Tumor fluorescence was measured using the Living Image software.
Design and synthesis of p21 bound to ELP
The polypeptides used in this study were based upon ELP, a drug delivery vector comprised of the pentapeptide repeat VPGXG. Under the conditions listed previously, the temperature at which ELP changes from soluble to insoluble aggregates is ~40°C (Figure 1). During this change, ELP undergoes a structural rearrangement to expose the hydrophobic residues. This property was exploited to thermally target ELP carrying a therapeutic peptide to the tumor site. The thermally responsive p21 cell cycle inhibitory peptide was designed as described in Methods. The p21WAF1/CIP1-derived peptide that interferes with PCNA function and inhibits cyclin-dependent kinase complex activity was conjugated to Bac-ELP. This peptide is from the C-terminus of the full-length p21 protein and encompasses amino acids 139–164. Massodi et al originally designed the Bac-ELP-p21 polypeptide with the Bac CPP at the N-terminus and p21 at the C-terminus.13 However, this peptide was difficult to purify and provided low yields. By reversing the order, we increased the efficiency and yield in E. coli. The sequences of p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21 are shown in Table 1. The mechanism was confirmed by Mikecin et al.18 ELP-p21 without a CPP was designed to compare tumor uptake and biodistribution with and without a CPP.
Figure 1 Thermal profiles.
Notes: Turbidity profiles (OD350nm) of 20 μM p21-ELP-Bac (O) and ELP-p21 (Δ) were obtained at a heating rate of 1°C/minute. The Tt was defined as the temperature at 50% of the maximum turbidity. Dotted lines indicate 37°C and 42°C.
Abbreviations: ELP, elastin-like polypeptide; OD350nm, optical density at 350 nm.
Cytotoxic effects on pancreatic cancer cells by p21-ELP-Bac
Cytotoxicity in three pancreatic cell lines by Bac-ELP-p21 was determined by comparison of p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21. Additionally, the similar mechanism of Bac-ELP-p21 and p21-ELP-Bac was compared in S2013 cells. To evaluate these effects, S2013 cells were plated in 96-well plates. Cells were treated with 5–40 μM of Bac-ELP-p21, p21-ELP-Bac, ELP-p21, and p21-ELP for 1 hour at either 37°C or 42°C. After treatment, fresh media replaced polypeptides, and cells were incubated at 37°C for 72 hours. Cell viability was measured by MTT assay. The differences in cell survival between Bac-ELP-p21 and p21-ELP-Bac were minimal, with each half maximal inhibitory concentration being ~30 μM in cells treated in combination with hyperthermia (Table 2). ELP-p21 and p21-ELP had little effect on S2013 cells (Figure 2). Additionally, these effects were duplicated in both Panc-1 and Mia-Paca2 pancreatic cancer cells (Figure 3).
Table 2 Comparison of IC50values
Notes: p21-ELP-Bac proliferation was measured in three pancreatic cancer cell lines. * indicates an IC50 outside of the concentration range tested.
Abbreviation: IC50, half maximal inhibitory concentration.
Figure 2 Proliferation inhibition in S2013 cells.
Notes: (A) Comparison of the forward construct Bac-ELP-p21 with the reverse construct p21-ELP-p21 at both temperatures; (B) Comparison of the forward and reverse construct without the cell-penetrating peptide. S2013 cells were treated with increasing concentrations of Bac-ELP-p21, p21-ELP-Bac, ELP-p21, and p21-ELP. Each construct was overlaid with its directionally opposing construct to show similarities between each. Error bars represent SEM of three experiments.
Abbreviations: ELP, elastin-like polypeptide; SEM, standard error of the mean.
Figure 3 Proliferation inhibition in Panc-1 and Mia-Paca2 cells.
Notes: Each cell line was treated with increasing concentrations of p21-ELP-Bac or ELP-p21. (A) Panc-1 cells; (B) Mia-Paca2 cells. Error bars represent SEM of three experiments.
Uptake of p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21
S2013 cells were plated in six-well plates and treated with fluorescein-labeled p21-ELP-Bac or ELP-p21 at 37°C or 42°C for 1 hour. Immediately after treatment, cells were harvested using non-enzymatic cell dissociation buffer. The amount of fluorescence associated with the cell was almost triple for p21-ELP-Bac compared to ELP-p21, and hyperthermia further increased the amount of intracellular ELP. These results are shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4 Uptake of p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21 in S2013 cells.
Notes: S2013 cells were incubated with 10 μM p21-ELP-Bac or ELP-p21 labeled with fluorescein for 1 hour at either 37°C or 42°C. Fluorescein intensity was determined using flow cytometry immediately after the 1-hour treatment and is expressed in RFU. * indicates statistical significance. The data represent the mean of three experiments (error bars, SEM).
Abbreviations: ELP, elastin-like polypeptide; RFU, relative fluorescence units; SEM, standard error of the mean.
Pharmacokinetics of ELP-p21 with and without CPP
To determine the plasma kinetics of each polypeptide in this study, 2×106 S2013 cells were implanted in the flanks of mice. Catheters were placed in the femoral artery for drawing blood. ELP-p21 and p21-ELP-Bac (100 mg/kg) labeled with rhodamine were injected into the femoral vein. Next, 30 μL of blood was drawn at 5, 15, and 30 minutes, and continuing every 30 minutes up to 4 hours after injection. Plasma was separated from blood cells by centrifugation. Samples were read in a fluorescent plate reader (BioTek) and the numbers were fit to a standard curve generated from known quantities of peptide to calculate plasma levels (μg/mL) at each sampling point. As shown in Figure 5, the polypeptides displayed an initially rapid clearance from the blood, followed by a slower clearance. The construct without CPP had double the amount of peptide in the blood starting at 5 minutes and continuing for the first 2 hours. The terminal half-life for p21-ELP-Bac in combination with hyperthermia was ~195 minutes, which is considerably shorter than the half-life previously reported for unmodified ELP1,19 but this is sufficient time to apply hyperthermia to the tumor while the polypeptide is still in circulation. The pharmacokinetic parameters are shown in Table 3. The area under the curve was largest for p21-ELP-Bac-Rho plus heat (9,002.9±2,454.8 μg · min · mL−1) and smallest for ELP-p21 without heat (5,781.7±1,940.7 μg · min · mL−1). The terminal half-lives of each polypeptide were between 115.9 minutes and 194.8 minutes.
Figure 5 Plasma clearance of p21 polypeptides.
Notes: Plasma levels at time points indicated following intravenous injection of rhodamine-labeled p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21, with or without heat. Data represent the mean ± SEM of six animals per group.
Table 3 Plasma pharmacokinetics of ELP conjugated with p21 with or without a CPP
Note: Plasma clearance following intravenous injection of fluorescently labeled polypeptide was fit to a two-compartmental pharmacokinetic model.
Abbreviations: AUC, area under the curve; CPP, cell-penetrating peptide; ELP, elastin-like polypeptide; min, minute(s).
Tumor accumulation of p21 polypeptides
While the pharmacokinetic data were helpful in determining the amount of polypeptide in the blood and clearance rates, it was not useful in determining the amount of ELP in the tumor. Mice bearing 250 mm3 S2013 tumors in the flank were injected with AlexaFluor750-labeled p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21 at 100 mg/kg. Those in the heated groups began the heat cycling protocol immediately. Imaging in the IVIS began at 2 hours and continued at 3, 4, 6, 24, and 48 hours after injection. Mild hyperthermia triggers a phase transition in ELP to form aggregates which adhere to the tumor vasculature.20 Therefore, those mice with tumors that were heated by mild localized hyperthermia should have more ELP accumulation than those without heat. The IVIS allows for fluorescent monitoring over time in a live animal, making this system advantageous for these experiments. Quantification of levels of polypeptide in the tumors revealed a 1.6-fold increase in the level of p21-ELP-Bac in combination with hyperthermia compared to p21-ELP-Bac without heat and ELP-p21 with or without heat at 2 hours (Figure 6). This increase in fluorescent levels continued throughout the timecourse of the experiment. At 48 hours, there was still 1.3× more p21-ELP-Bac in the heated tumors than the non-heated tumors; this increased to 2.2× more when compared to ELP-p21 tumors with or without heat.
Figure 6 Tumor accumulation.
Notes: Tumor accumulation in S2013 tumors following tail vein injection of AlexaFluor750-labeled polypeptides. Error bars show SEM of at least four animals per group. Statistical significance was measured by one-way ANOVA between p21-ELP-Bac and other groups at 2 hours and 6 hours, *P<0.01.
Abbreviations: ANOVA, analysis of variance; ELP, elastin-like polypeptide; SEM, standard error of the mean.
Ex vivo biodistribution
Finally, organs were examined by ex vivo fluorescence analysis. Mice bearing S2013 pancreatic cells were injected with AlexaFluor750-labeled p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21 via the femoral vein. Those in the heated groups immediately began the thermal cycling protocol. Four hours after injection, mice were euthanized, and tumors and major organs were harvested. These were placed in the IVIS to measure levels of fluorescence in the tumor, heart, kidney, lung, spleen, and liver. In the liver, kidney, spleen, heart, and lung, the levels of ELP were similar between both polypeptides, with or without heat (Figure 7A). Accumulation was highest in the kidney, which is likely due to the clearance of the polypeptide, which has been documented previously.4,5 Hyperthermia did not affect accumulation in the major organs. However, as shown in Figure 7B, fluorescence levels were highest in tumors treated with p21-ELP-Bac in combination with hyperthermia (1.7× more than p21-ELP-Bac, 1.3× more than ELP-p21 plus heat, and 1.7× more than ELP-p21).
Figure 7 Ex vivo biodistribution.
Notes: Biodistribution of p21 polypeptides following intravenous injection. (A) Organ distribution 4 hours after injection with and without heating. (B) Distribution of p21 polypeptides in the tumors after 4 hours. Bars represent SEM of at least five animals per group.
In this study, the thermal properties of ELP were exploited in order to enhance the abilities of the cell cycle inhibitory peptide p21. Rationally designed peptides that modulate aberrant protein function in cancer cells can make a significant contribution to the field of cancer therapy. As the knowledge of a protein’s structure, sequence, and interactions with other proteins is continually growing, a peptide library can be designed with exact specifications to either inhibit or stimulate a protein’s process in cancer cells. However, the use of peptides is riddled with difficulties. Accumulation of effective doses of peptides at a tumor site is limited by rapid degradation and poor tumor cell penetration by the peptides.21 Although there are ways to circumvent these problems, such as using non-natural amino acids, the use of macromolecules and CPPs alleviates issues both with stability and penetration and can be further developed into rational treatments for cancer.
Previous studies with the thermally responsive biopolymer ELP have shown that when conjugated to therapeutic peptides (TP), CPP-ELP-TP has potent activity against cancer cells. These studies included peptides that inhibited the Myc–Max interaction,22 a p21 mimetic inhibitory peptide,23 and a peptide that inhibits the interaction of Sm core proteins with SMN (survival of motor neuron) protein,24 and a proapoptotic peptide.25 Additionally, when hyperthermia was applied in these studies, the inhibitory effects were markedly enhanced. This study sought to extend the work of Massodi et al13 with p21 to a comparison of with and without a CPP as well as animal studies to examine the biodistribution and tumor accumulation capabilities. These results demonstrate that the p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21 proteins undergo a phase transition with the ideal targeting range of 39°C–42°C, which is the range required for an elevation in temperature but without the incidence of edema and necrosis in the healthy tissues surrounding the tumor site.19 Previous work with the Bac CPP illustrated that Bac crosses the cell membrane and is localized in the nucleus of murine monocytes.26 This localization is important because p21 exerts its cell cycle inhibitory effects in the nucleus. In conjugation with ELP, Bac has been used to inhibit tumor growth in both breast and glioma rodent models of cancer.4,5 When further modified by the addition of p21, Bac-ELP can inhibit proliferation of ovarian, breast, and pancreatic cancer cells in vitro. The delivery of Bac-ELP-p21 into the nucleus was seen under confocal microscopy, and it arrested cells in the S and G2/M phases.23
In this study, the configuration of the polypeptide was reversed, putting the p21 peptide on the N-terminus of ELP and Bac on the C-terminus. This allowed for better yields during protein purification. This reversal, however, did not affect the mechanism. In results by Mikecin et al,18 p21-ELP-Bac also inhibited the cell cycle at S phase, as well as increasing levels of caspases and binding with PCNA to promote apoptosis. Bac-ELP-p21 and p21-ELP-Bac had similar cytotoxic effects on the proliferation of S2013 pancreatic cells, while ELP-p21 showed modest toxicity to the cells. In an uptake experiment, Bac increased the uptake of fluorescein-labeled p21-ELP-Bac three-fold more than ELP-p21. Hyperthermia slightly increased this uptake.
Cell culture experiments showed that ELP-p21 had little cytotoxicity effect on Panc-1, Mia-Paca2, and S2013 pancreatic cancer cells. In contrast, the addition of a CPP allowed the peptide to be internalized and thereby reduced the proliferation of all three cell lines, especially in the presence of hyperthermia. To determine the plasma kinetics of each polypeptide in this study, S2013 cells were implanted in the flanks of mice. Plasma samples from time points starting with 5 minutes after injection and continuing until 4 hours after injection were taken and analyzed for fluorescence of the polypeptides labeled with rhodamine. From these studies, the plasma half-life of p21-ELP-Bac in the heated tumors was approximately 3.25 hours, which was vastly different than that of unmodified ELP (8.7 hours).27 This difference was most likely due to the addition of the positively-charged CPP as well as the addition of the p21 peptide. Of note, the difference in the level of fluorescence in the plasma differed significantly between p21-ELP-Bac and ELP-p21. The amount of circulating ELP labeled with rhodamine in the blood between 5 minutes and 180 minutes indicated that twice the amount of ELP-p21 was present in the plasma compared to p21-ELP-Bac. This is most likely due to the CPP’s ability to bind to the cell membrane and internalize the polypeptide and thereby remove it from circulation.
Because of the thermal properties of ELP, mild hyperthermia triggers ELP to undergo a phase transition to form aggregates which adhere to the tumor vasculature.20 Therefore, in a tumor with applied local hyperthermia, ELP will accumulate. Mice bearing subcutaneous pancreatic tumors were injected via tail vein with Alexa750-labeled p21-ELP-Bac or ELP-p21, and tumors were immediately heated using the thermal cycling protocol. Quantification of levels of polypeptide in the tumors revealed double the amount of p21-ELP-Bac when combined with hyperthermia than p21-ELP-Bac without hyperthermia and ELP-p21, with or without heat. This became a trend starting at 2 hours after injection and continuing until 48 hours after. Therefore, the CPP is most likely facilitating entry into the tumor cells and causing an increase in tumor uptake, and the application of hyperthermia induces protein aggregation, and this aggregation leads to increased tumor deposition. In the previous uptake experiment, hyperthermia accounted for only a modest increase in the amount of fluorescein-labeled polypeptide associated with the cell. However, the differences between an in vitro system and in vivo are vast. In cell culture, there is a limited amount of exposure to polypeptide as well as the homogeneity of the cells present. Therefore, results are expected to differ somewhat between the two models.
Finally, organs were examined by ex vivo fluorescence analysis. To determine biodistribution throughout the major organs, 4 hours after polypeptide injection, tumors and organs were removed and analyzed in IVIS. These results in tumors agreed with the previous tumor accumulation data versus time. Fluorescence levels were highest in tumors treated with p21-ELP-Bac and heat. In other organs, levels were similar between the two polypeptides. Polypeptide accumulation was highest in the kidney, which is likely due to clearance of the polypeptide. Hyperthermia did not affect accumulation in the other organs.
The work described here demonstrates the ongoing work for the use of ELP for thermally targeting both small-molecule drugs and therapeutic peptides. When aided by hyperthermia, ELP increases the therapeutic efficacy of conventional drugs, such as doxorubicin and methotrexate.7,8,28 Furthermore, the ability of a CPP to facilitate entry into the cell has been established in multiple studies in this work, such as the uptake by flow cytometry and tumor accumulation by IVIS. The results seen here, coupled with previous work,10,12,22,29 are promising in the development of the CPP-ELP moiety for producing more successful outcomes, leading to improved cancer therapy and reduced side effects. And, as is the goal of any cancer therapy, this technique will lead to a better quality of life for patients undergoing treatment.
The lead author and the corresponding author of this publication (Leslie R Walker and Drazen Raucher) have research support from Thermally Targeted Therapeutics, Inc., and the corresponding author Drazen Raucher also has equity ownership in Thermally Targeted Therapeutics, Inc., which is developing technology related to the research being reported. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work.
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“A staggering mess”: Met Police gaffe leaves wrong crime figures for the whole of London online for six months
by Maya Oppenheim/ December 6, 2013/ Lead Stories/ No Comments/
Police officer: David Holt
Incorrect crime statistics for all of London, including the four EastLondonLines boroughs, were displayed on the Metropolitan Police website for six months without anyone noticing, ELL can reveal.
The mistake only came to light after the Met police were alerted when Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets and Councillor Sirajul Islam, leader of Tower Hamlets Labour group criticised the error as “a staggering mess.”
The Met have apologised for the error, which was only spotted at the end of last month after Tower Hamlets Labour group highlighted what it believed to be a nine per cent rise in local crime figures.
The force said the incorrect figures for all London boroughs were corrected within 24 hours of the police being notified of the mistake.
All the same they confirmed that: “The incorrect crime stats were displayed on the website from mid May 2013 – November 2013 and was caused by an automated procedure, which failed to recognise the change from last reporting year to this one.”
This was due to an error in the design of the automated publishing process that meant the current year’s figures were shown under the previous year’s heading for all the London boroughs.
“Unfortunately this error was not picked up by our regular quality checks,” added the Met.
As a result of the technical failure, the crime figures for Tower Hamlets were published with the last three years in the wrong order. Before the figures were corrected, the police website documented 29,510 crimes in Tower Hamlets between 2012-2013 but the newly corrected figures demonstrate that there were only 29,080 crimes. Therefore there has been a rise of 1.4 per cent since 2010/11 rather than the 9 per cent, which Labour initially claimed.
The met police added: “We are now reviewing the system design and have strengthened the validation process to ensure that this error is not repeated. We work hard to improve the quality and accuracy of the information we provide and are grateful for any errors and omissions being brought to our attention.”
Islam said: “It is pretty worrying that the Met have made such a staggering mess of the most simple crime statistics. People need to be confident that figures on important issues such as this are accurate.”
Although Tower Hamlets council knew of the statistical error, Hackney, Lewisham and Croydon council remained unaware of the issue.
The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime said they had nothing further to add to the Met’s comments.
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In Suffern, salaries for nursing professionals have increased. Suffern nursing professionals made $82,000 per year, on average, in 2010. Four years earlier in 2006, the average salary for nursing professionals in Suffern was $74,830 per year. This growth is slower than the salary trend for all careers in Suffern.
Salary percentiles for Nursing professionals in Suffern
Nursing professionals in Suffern earn a median salary of $80,980 per year. The difference in pay between the nursing professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 77%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $61,240 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $108,350 per year.
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BSN $82,000
RN to BSN $82,000
Forensic Nursing $106,190
Suffern nursing professionals have earnings that are lower than the salaries earned by others in related fields, on average.
BSN schools in Suffern
There is only one accredited bsn school in the city. Many of Suffern's nursing professionals are graduates of this school.
BSN Programs Offered In Suffern
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Student Completed BSN Degrees In Suffern
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In 2010 approximately 100 students completed bsn courses.
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Fulham's Scott Parker lands 'The Real McCoy of Football Trophy'
Forget the Ballon D’or. Move over PFA player of the year. Scott Parker’s just added the most prestigious award in world football to his trophy cabinet, 'The Real McCoy of Football Trophy'.
Launched by McCoys, the official crisp partner of the Football League, the award aims to recognise and reward the true role models of modern football. So it’s only fitting that the inaugural award has gone to Fulham’s captain, for his services to sartorial elegance on the field of play.
You’ve only got to look at Scott after a tough 90 minutes to see why. Shirt perfectly tucked in, socks perfectly pulled up and every hair still perfectly placed.
And in honor of his incredible achievement, McCoys are offering all fans a free immaculate Scotty Parker haircut before the Fulham vs Rotherham game on Wednesday 15th April, at their pop up barbershop, ‘Scut Parker’s’ on the Fulham Palace Road.
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The New J.W. Anderson x Uniqlo Collection Will Make You Long for Summer
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Uniqlo and J.W. Anderson make the world of fashion collaborations a great one. Ever since the first drop in fall 2017, fans of both brands have been clamoring for a second iteration. It makes sense, considering the labels' complementary nature: The heavy British influence of J.W. Anderson brings the right amount of newness to Uniqlo's perfected simplicity. And their influence is about to get bigger: The second collection officially drops online April 19 at 9 p.m. EST and in stores April 20.
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The spring/summer collection uses Britain's Brighton beach in the 1950s for inspiration, making use of light, versatile fabrics and nautical prints in unisex shapes. Jonathan Anderson, the man behind the brand, opted for airy linens and cottons—stuff that would fare well on any beach. It's accessible, it's layerable, and it's fit for every style.
"In the second collection of the collaboration, I’m looking for this idea of ‘British Summer,' the idea of being on Brighton beach,” says Anderson. “As a Uniqlo customer, I know exactly the quality that the brand gives to its products. I am very proud of the level of execution and the attention to details that we delivered on this new spring/summer collection.”
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Hotel Investment Partners has announced its first acquisition in Portugal.
The Spanish company has reached an agreement with Oxy Capital to acquire the 5-star The Lake Spa Resort – a hotel which has 192 rooms in Vilamoura, in the Algarve.
With direct beach access, the hotel is run by operator Blue & Green which is owned by Oxy Capital.
“Portugal has always been one of our target markets due to its climate, gastronomy, infrastructure, culture and landscapes. These factors make Portugal one of the best holiday destinations in Europe,” says Alejandro Hernández Puértolas, CEO of HIP.
In line with its business model, HIP will invest in refurbishing the hotel, which has an artificial lake, three restaurants and two bars as well as changing its brand and hotel operator, decisions that still have to be defined by the companies’ partners.
The operation comes just a few months after the beginning of an international expansion drive with HIP purchasing five hotels in Greece in September 2019.
“We are very pleased with our first acquisition in Portugal, and specifically in the Algarve, a privileged environment because of its networks and its long summer season which can mean 12 months of the year.
“It is also the perfect destination with a middle-high class positioning to introduce prestigious international brands. It is a very special destination for us and we are sure that our business model will work as well as it does in Spain,” added Hernándes Puértolas.
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This is also the third Eurocell branch in the Tyne-Tees region, complementing branches in Newcastle and Gateshead. It offers greater convenience to installers and DIY decorators working in the area, who no longer have to travel so far to source materials and tools.
"There is a huge amount of work in Sunderland and surrounding areas so opening the branch gives customers much better access to our entire product range," said Phil Christie, Eurocell Regional Manager – North East. “It’s all in line with our philosophy of providing the best customer service available by establishing a strong branch network.”
The branch is close to associated suppliers and is conveniently located, about two miles miles south of Sunderland city centre and less than a mile from the new Southern Radial Route which provides direct access to the A19 and the city centre.
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“It’s important to recognise that our customers want to deal with people who know what they want but also that this is a very mobile industry and so a customer can be working in Sunderland one week and Gateshead the next,” said Phil Christie, whose region includes 11 branches through the North East and Cumbria.
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Sarajevo unveils terminal expansion plans
Sarajevo Airport has announced a twenty million euro expansion of its terminal building, which will boost capacity and increase passenger comfort. The facility will stretch over 9.000 square metres, boast two levels and will also feature an underground floor. "Keeping in mind the continued passenger growth, it has become evident that the existing infrastructure will be unable to support this amount of traffic. The expanded area will be combined with the existing terminal to form a single architectural and technological unit", Sarajevo Airport's spokeswoman, Sanja Bagarić Arnaut, said. She added, "This is a very complex and challenging project, especially since construction work must be carried out so as not to affect other traffic or cause delays and disruptions".
Work on the terminal expansion is expected to begin later this year and should be completed by the end of 2018. It comes five years after the airport's former management cancelled expansion plans drafted in 2010, despite securing a 25 million euro loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to do so. According to then-General Manager, Ivica Veličan, the expansion was unjustified as the existing terminal was yet to reach its maximum operating capacity of one million passengers per year. At the time, the project involved the construction of an additional 7.000 square metres of space, a new apron and the overhaul of existing jetways. The final price tag of the project was estimated at 32 million euros.
Sarajevo Airport is currently in the process of overhauling part of its apron ahead of planned work on its runway. The reconstruction of 3.500 square metres of the apron will ensure its durability over the next twenty years. The first phase of the overhaul was completed in 2014, when work was undertaken on an area of 1.600 square metres. The investment is valued at almost 409.200 euros and is scheduled for completion later this month. The upcoming runway reconstruction, expected in October, has been described as an "extremely challenging project", valued at 10.2 million euros, which is likely to result in the airport's temporary closure.
Sarajevo Airport handled a record 838.966 passengers in 2016. Numbers have continued to grow this year with a total of 221.476 travellers welcomed over the past four months, representing an increase of 8% compared to the same period in 2016. In April alone, the airport handled 79.796 passengers, up an impressive 17.6%, while aircraft movement stood at 1.084, an increase of 12.6%. Initially, the airport forecast it would handle a million passengers by year's end but has now adjusted its estimate to 900.000. So far this year, new arrivals into Sarajevo have included Wizz Air from Budapest and TUIfly Belgium from Charleroi, while Atlasglobal will launch services from Istanbul Ataturk on June 19. It will be followed by Nesma Airlines' new Saudi Arabian unit, which will commence seasonal flights from Riyadh on June 24. Qatar Airways, which has announced plans to introduce operations to Sarajevo this year, is yet to schedule its service.
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wow nice. Congrats Sarajevo!
Predizborno spinovanje, nema ništa od ovoga
Great to see so much airport development going on in ex-Yu.
It was about time...
How come the expansion is smaller than the one in Ljubljana but is more expensive?
Maybe they are using more expensive material.
Mozda se Bookir i co. ugradjuju :)
Don't be surprised f the Ljubljana project runs over budget.
Looks better than the original plan from 2010.
So in total when the runway and apron work is included the investment is around EUR 30.6 million. Not bad.
"According to then-General Manager, Ivica Veličan, the expansion was unjustified as the existing terminal was yet to reach its maximum operating capacity of one million passengers per year."
I hate it how people in this region are so short sighted. You deal with things ahead of time so you are ready, you don't start dealing with it when it's already too late.
How big is the current terminal?
7000sqm I think, they plan to expand it by 2500-3000sqm to total of 10 000sqm and 2 million pax capacity.
I always thought the current terminal had a capacity of 800,000. At least it used to be.
Hope they actually build it.
For now they are sticking to all the plans they announced last year so I think it will happen.
I hope so because first they announced they would build a new terminal, then terminal expansion, then they announced they would renovate the old terminal for LCCs, now this. So you understand my skepticism.
Somehow, this looks too much a "what we could do" list, I just can't see it will all be done this year. However, I wish them the best of luck and hopefully they complete everything on time!
So much negativity. Plans sound good. All the best to Sarajevo.
I think it's caused by the fact that we have heard so many plans from them and they have changed them so many times.
Present management is doing a much better job and is keeping its promises for now.
Looks nice :)
Good news for Sarajevo.
Also good to see they had a strong April.
Great but how do they expect to reach even 900k passengers if they plan to close the airport for runway reconstruction?
I assume Mostar would then get part of the traffic?
Well since they can't be bothered to open the airport over night, loosing potential customers in the process, perhaps they can do construction work during that time. Closing the airport completely would be absolutely ludicrous.
If they are doing extensive reconstruction as they seem to, closing the runway is completely normal and a safety prerequisite. It happened a few years ago in Ljubljana too.
How long is the runway work supposed to last for?
2-4 weeks.
Finally things moving in the right direction at SJJ.
What's happening with Qatar Airways?! Will they ever start their SJJ flights?
They are waiting on late plane deliveries. SJJ should start this year.
I am really hoping Qatar Airways doesn't opt out in the end. They have been delaying Sarajevo three times already and at one point were actually selling tickets for these flights.
They won't. They have confirmed it over and over again. Fleet shortage is the only problem.
PAX shortage is the biggest problem. Sarajevo is too small for 3X daily IST, daily DXB and DOH.
^ do you have any more info? They plan to start 4x per week. I hope they don't cancel the flights.
It is not a good sign that they started selling tickets to Sarajevo and then suspended sales.
A bit pricey for its size but I'm very glad that Sarajevo will be developing.
Nice project.
So what will be the final capacity with this new wing of the terminal?
...And will the new part of the terminal have air bridges?
I think they are still working out the technical details of the project.
Capacity on new terminal will be 2 million passengers per year, and yes terminal will have total of 4 air bridges. New building will stretch over 3 levels, top level will be for airport offices.
Do you know when construction will start exactly?
Very nice. Go Sarajevo!
2017 will be a very good year for Sarajevo.
I agree that 900,000 seems to be a bit more of a realistic figure for this year if they do close the airport for runway work.
If they were to by any chance to reach 1 million we would actually have all top 10 airports in the former Yugoslavia with 1 million+ passengers. Podgorica and Tivat should also handle 1 mill+ this year.
What's interesting is that SJJ has managed quite strong passenger numbers without any airline having a base here or even using Sarajevo as a focus city.
Numbers would boom overnight if Wizz Air or another low cost airline launched a couple of routes.
Or even better a well managed, small national airline based in Sarajevo.
Yeah because B&H Airlines worked out so well... and Air Bosna before it ;)
Both airlines had a lot of potential but were mismanaged and used by politicians. I said it would be nice to set up an airline like that if it was free of political influence and well managed by people who know what they are doing.
Speaking of national airlines, what's up with this?
www.airbosna.eu
New airline?
It looks like the same guys that created that virtual airline Air Croatia. It has the same logo an everything.
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What's interesting is that they, with such huge diaspora, doesn't have far bigger passenger numbers.
Good for Sarajevo airport. I hope some new European carriers will coma with this expansion. Wizz Air should open some new routes.
FSXNOOB 4 May 2017 at 10:32
Looks more like a gas-station...
That's bit harsh. I wouldn't say it's that bad. The only solution of building something state of the art would be to construct a completely new building which would not be linked to the current box terminal.
And where exactly do gas stations look like this (airports)? The only gas alike airport in this region is Banjaluka...
I'm glad for the expansion but there were two options in play. Either expand the terminal based on plans from 2007 or build a completely new terminal. They chose the first unfortunately. If they built a new terminal they could have used the current terminal for LCCs, while the third building which is currently not used for anything could have been turned into office space, a VIP terminal or something useful. Anyway I assume this was the cheaper option and finances are generally limited.
But is there space to build a third building?
Good work SJJ. Any other new routes planned except for the ones listed in the article?
Apparently there might be some new flights from Scandinavia.
Didn't Brussels Airlines also say it was interested in flying Brussels-Sarajevo-Banja Luka?
If those launch (and it's a big if) I doubt it will be this year.
What about Croatia Airlines' plans to open a base in Sarajevo? :P
Any plans for Athens flights? I think those would do well. I can't believe there is no air connection to Greece.
Da li mislis da oni idu u Grcku na more kao Srbi ili u Antaliju, Marmaris i Stambol?
Mercedes obavezno pred terminalom :)
OT: Monarch will leave flights from MAN (3pw) and LGW (3pw) to ZAG throughout the year, they will announce one more route to ZAG in 2018!
Any numbers for ZAG and other Croatian airports in April?
Not at the moment, hopefully tomorrow, only Dubrovnik revealed pax numbers for April.
Isn't MAN 2pw? And too early to announce a new route in 2018?
Damien von Lerner 4 May 2017 at 19:10
They are increasing their capacity from A320 to A321.
And Dubrovnik published their numbers:
April 2016: 94.632
April 2017: 143.912
Increase: 52%
^ that was published yesterday
http://www.exyuaviation.com/2017/05/dubrovnik-airport-numbers-soar-in-april.html
Yeah, MAN is 2pw, my bad, sorry.
Great news for Sarajevo. Hopefully traffic growth follows capacity expansion.
BNX look, listen and learn.
BNX should listen and learn from pretty much every single airport in ex-Yu.
Great news, I'm really happy for Sarajevo!
The airport management should be doing much more to attract European airlines to start flights. Riyhad flights which were not even negotiated by the airport serve no purpose for ordinary citizens.
Sarajevo is booming with tourist from Gulf countries. Unfortunately Balkan mentality is so shortsighted and would prefer backpackers from anywhere in Europe, who are on 10 Euros daily budget, over people from UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, who are coming to Bosnia with money and are drive for tourism in the whole country. With airport expansion we could see Emirates starting flights to Sarajevo very soon. Lat year over 100.000 passengers used Flydubai and Air Arabia on flights from UAE to Sarajevo.
Number of seats offered in 2017:
Air Arabia 42.000
Flydubai 102.000
Nesma Airlines 18.000
Total 162.000 seats offered
Rich tourists usually love to spend their money. What exactly BiH offers them? Where can they spend their money on luxury? Same thing as in Croatia, everybody spit over "normal" tourists wishing to get the rich guys. Again, where are the top brand shops for instance?
Why would someone from Dubai (luxury capital of the world) come to Bosnia to look for top brands??? Arabs come to Bosnia for its nature! Have you ever visited Bosnia and Herzegovina? There is way much more to Bosnia and Herzegovina then top brands. People from Gulf countries stay in BiH on average 7-10 days.In today's world when Islamophobia is on the rise almost everywhere Bosnia and Herzegovina is voted No. 1. Muslim-friendly country for visitors (https://www.tripzilla.com/muslim-friendly-travel-destinations-2017/50952)
Would be nice if they released more details like how they are going to finance it, when exactly work will start and when will it finish.
They will take out a loan.
If you look at SJJ financial performance, they are making profit every year. They have 20 million Euros in the bank on savings account. They will finance this project without taking any loans.
http://www.saifbih.ba/javni-izvj/j-pred/pdf/default.aspx?id=1944&langTag=bs-BA
Ok, thanks :) did not knoe that.
They should give SJJ up for concession. Only then will it be able to thrive.
Sarajevo Airport is very profitable company, and is very unlikely for the government to give it up for concession.
Ljubljana, Zagreb and Belgrade all had profit but were given up for concession so future development could be funded.
Vrlo zanimljivo izgledace novi Terminal samo da privuce jos nekoliko novih Aviokompanija .
Zabrinuo sam se bio za tebe
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The basic assumption were:
1. All behavior is learned from the environment. Behaviorism emphasizes environmental factors playing a role in influencing behavior. It almost excludes innate or inherited factors. This focuses on learning. It states that we learn new behavior through classical (a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeated and paired. A response which at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventual elicited by the first stimulus alone. An example is clicker training) or operant (method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for a behavior) conditioning. Both of the conditioning methods are know collectively as learning theory. It says that we are born as a blank slate.
2. Psychology should be seen as a science. Theories do have to be supported by empirical data gathered through careful and controlled observation through measurement of behavior. In 1913 Watson said,"Psychology as a behaviorist views it as purely objectivity experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is . . . prediction and control." The parts of a theory should be as simple as possible. Behaviorist propose the use of operation definitions. These are defining variable sin terms of observable, measurable events.
3. Behaviorism is primarily concerned with observable behavior, as opposed to internal events like thinking and emotion. Behaviorist accept the existence of cognitions and emotions. They prefer not to study them as only observable behavior can be scientifically measured without emotion blurring the findings. The eternal events should be explained through behavior.
3. There is little difference between the learning that takes place in humans and that in other animals. There is no distinction between human and animal behavior. Research can be executed on animals and humans. Rats and pigeons have become the primary source for data in behaviorism. This is because their environments can be easily controlled.
4. Behavior is the result of stimulus-response. All behavior can be reduced to a simple stimulus - response association. Watson described the use of psychology,"To predict, given the stimulus, what reaction will take place;or, given the reaction, state what the situation or stimulus is that has caused the reaction."
The most significant distinction between Watson's original "methodological behaviorism" and other forms of behaviorism that were developed later were inspired by Watson. Watson is the father of behaviorism. The other forms of behaviorism are known as neobehaviorism which means new behaviorism.
1. Methodological Behaviorism. Watson's article "Psychology as the behaviorist views it" is often called the "behaviorist manifesto." It outlines the principles of behaviorism.
"Psychology as the behaviorist views it as a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods, nor is the scientific value of its data dependent upon readiness with which they lend themselves to interpretation in terms of consciousness.
The behaviorist, in his efforts to get a unitary scheme of animal response, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute. The behavior of man, with all its refinement and complexity, forms only a part of the behaviorist's total scheme of investigation."
2. Radical behaviorism. Radical behaviorism was developed by B. F. Skinner. He agreed with the assumption of methodological behaviorism that the goal should be to predict and control behavior.
Just like Watson, Skinner also recognized the role of internal mental events. He agreed they could not be used to explain behavior. He said they should be explained in the analysis of behavior.
An important difference between methodological and radical behaviorism is the extent which the environmental factors influence behavior. Watson's methodological behaviorism emphasizes that the mind is a blank slate at birth. Radical behaviorism accepts the view that organisms are born with innate behaviors. It recognizes the role of genes and biological components in behavior.
History of Behaviorism
In 1897, Ivan Pavolov published the results of an experiment on conditioning after originally studying digestion in dogs. Pavlovian (Classical) conditioning was discovered by accident. During the 1890's Pavolov, a Russian physiologist as researching salivation in dogs in response to being fed. He inserted a test tube into the dog's cheek to measure the saliva when the dogs were being fed. He p
He predicted that the dogs would salivate in response to the food place in front of them. He noticed that they began whenever they heard footsteps of his assistant who was feeding them. When Pavlov discovered that any object or event the dogs learned to associate with food would trigger the same response. He made a discovery. He devoted the rest of his career to studying this type of learning.
In 1905, Edward Thorndike formalized the "Law of Effect." It suggested that "responses that produce a satisfying effect in a particular situation become more likely to occur again in that situation and responses that produce a discomforting effect become less likely to occur again in that situation." Thordike was a famous psychologist for his work in learning theory. This lead to to development in operant conditioning in behaviorism. Operant conditioning involves learning from the consequences of behavior. Skinner's thoery of operant conditioning was built upon the ideas of Thorndike.
He studies learning in animals. He devised a classic experiment in which he used a puzzle box to empirically test the laws of learning. He placed a cat in a puzzle box. He enouraged the cat to escape with a piece of fish placed on the outside of the box. The cats experimented with different ways to escape to get to the fish. They would eventually find the lever that opend the cage. When the cat escaped and was put in it again. Thorndike would record the time it took to escape. The cat learned that pressing the lever would have good consequences and they would adopt the behavior. It took less and less time to press the lever.
His "Law of Effect" stated that any behavior that is followed by pleasant consequences is likely to be repeated, any behavior followed by unpleasant consequences is likely to be stopped.
In 1913, Watson starts his behavioral school of psychology, publishing the article "Psychology as the behaviorist views it (described above)." During this phase, the unconditioned stimulus has to be associated with the conditioned stimulus on many occasions or trials in order for learning to happen. One trial learning can happen over certain occasions when it is not necessary to be strengthened. One example is being sick after food poisoning or drinking too much alcohol.
In 1920, Watson and Rayner conditions an orphan called Albert B (also called Little Albert) to fear a white rat. Pavlov showed that classical conditioning applied to animals. Watson and Rayner showed that it also applied to humans.
Little Albert was a nine month old infant that was experimented on. They wanted to see his reaction to different stimuli. He as shown a white rat, a rabbit, a money and various masks. Albert showed to near to any of these stimuli. He was startled when a hammer was striking a steel bar behind his head. When he heard the sudden loud noise, he would cry.
When Albert was eleven months old, the white rat was presented then a few seconds later the hammer hit the steel bar. This was repeated seven times. Every time Albert cried. He tried to crawl away. This caused Albert to be afraid of the rat. Watson and Rayner noticed that Albert was also afraid of objects that shared characteristics with the rat. Some examples were the family dog, a fur coat, cotton wool and a father Christmas mask. This is called generalization.
Watson and Rayner showed classical conditioning could incite fear. It was a phobia because it was an irrational fear. The next few weeks and months, Albert was observed and 10 days after conditioning his fear was less marked. This dying out of a conditioned response is called extinction. After a month, he was still afraid but the response wasn't as severe.
In 1936, Skinner wrote 'The Behavior of organisms and introduced the conceptions of operant conditioning and shaping. This was Skinner's first book. It was published in May of 1938. It was a volume of the Century Psychology Series. It set out parameters of the for the discipline that was called the Experimental Analysis of behavior. Skinner looks at science behavior and how analysis of behavior produces data which can be studied, rather than acquiring data through neural process. In the book, behavior is classified either as a respondent or operant behavior. The respondent behavior is caused by an observable stimulus and operant behavior is where there is no observable stimulus for a behavior. It is studied with rats and the feeding responses they show.
In 1943, Clark Hull (May 24, 1884- May 10, 1952) published "Principals of Behavior." Clark Hull was from Akron, N.Y. He is experimental studies on learning and for his attempt
to give mathematical expression to psychological theory. He applied the deductive method of reasoning that is similar to geometry. He proposed that a series of postulates about psychology could be developed to have logical conclusions and could be tested. If a test failed, then a postulate could be revised and retested. This is how he developed ideas for his book "Principles of Behavior." It suggested that stimulus response connection depends on both the kind and the anount of reinforcement.
In 1948, Skinner published "Walden Two." In this he describes a utopian society based on behaviorist principles. This novel could have been considered science fiction. It uses science based methods for altering behavior that did not exist yet. This describes ABA. It is a controversial because its characters speak about the rejection of free will. It includes a rejection of the proposition that human behavior is controlled by a non corporeal entity. This can be a spirit or a soul. This book embraces that the behavior of organisms, including humans, is determined by the environment. Altering the environment can generate a socioculture system that resembles a utopia.
In 1958, the Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior starts. This is a peer reviewed publication for behaviorism studies.
In 1959, Noam Chomsky published his criticism of Skinner's behaviorism. He calls it "Review of Verbal Behavior. " He said that complex cognitive system such as language in high organisms cannot be explained though behaviorist principles as proposed by Skinner. His review was a broader critique of behaviorism. He chose Skinner's verbal Behavior book because it was thorough and detailed. He challenged Skinner and his model on the basis of lack of support from empirical data and persuasive reasoning. He believed that Verbal Behavior was historical. it has deep roots in Rationalist Psychology and Linguistics of the 17th and 18th century. Chomsky's review marked the 20th century paradigm shift from behaviorism to cognitivism in linguistics and psychology. It was literally the assassination of behaviorism.
In 1963, Albert Bandura publishes a book called "Social Learning Theory and Personality Development." This combines both cognitive and behavioral frameworks. In social learning theory, Bandura agrees with the behaviorist learning theories of classical and operant conditioning. He adds two important ideas.
1. Mediating processes between stimuli and responses
2. Behavior is learned from the environment though process of observational learning
In 1971, Skinner publishes 'Beyond Freedom and Dignity." This is where he argues that free will is an illusion. Skinner argues that entrenched belief in free will and the moral autonomy of the individual hinders the prospect of using scientific methods to modify behavior for the purpose of building a happier and better organized society. It is summarized as an attempt to promote Skinner's philosophy of science, the technology of human behavior, his conception of determinism and what Skinner called "cultural engineering."
https://www.simplypsychology.org/behaviorism.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Behavior_of_Organisms
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clark-L-Hull#ref245331
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Two
http://languagelinguistics.com/2014/06/25/summary-of-a-review-of-bf-skinners-verbal-behavior-by-noam-chomsky/
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Kazakhstan: UN Review Should Press for Reforms
Kazakhstan Remains Nazarbayev’s State
On His Watch: The Dark Events Of Nazarbaev's Long Reign
Written by Pete Baumgartner
The major economic strides made by energy-rich Kazakhstan during President Nursultan Nazarbaev's nearly 30-year reign often overshadow reports chronicling an undemocratic, repressive tenure punctuated by jailings and the suspicious deaths of opposition leaders, activists, and journalists.
Lawsuit: Sater seemed to launder money by means of Trump initiatives
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NEW YORK (AP) – A Soviet-born convicted felon who labored on actual property offers with President Donald Trump was accused in a lawsuit Monday of plotting to make use of Trump-branded skyscrapers to launder cash allegedly stolen from a Kazakhstan financial institution.
Trump Pal Felix Sater Aimed To Launder Funds In Trump Tower Moscow, Bank Lawsuit Charges
Written by Mary Papenfuss
Sater helped hide millions in stolen funds in the U.S., including as down payments in Trump Soho, the Kazakhstan bank’s suit claims.
Kremlin Wonders If Putin Will Follow in Kazakh Leader’s Footsteps
Written by Henry Meyer , Ilya Arkhipov , and Stepan Kravchenko
An aging leader steps down as president but keeps a firm grip on the reins of power. For many in the Kremlin, the choreographed events unfolding in neighboring Kazakhstan are a model for Russian President Vladimir Putin to consider.
Dariga Nazarbayeva: Kazakhstan’s understudy president
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The Moscow-educated opera singer is primed to be the country’s first female leader
This week, his prophecy began to take shape. Mr Nazarbayev, 78, unexpectedly announced he would resign from office after almost three decades in charge, and appointed his eldest daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva as Speaker of the country’s Senate, a role that occupies second place in the line of succession.
Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev to step down after nearly 30 years in power
Written by Anton Troianovski is The Washington Post's Moscow bureau chief.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Tuesday that he was stepping down, touching off a potentially perilous period of transition in one of the world’s most geopolitically fragile regions.
Nazarbayev has ruled Kazakhstan, Central Asia’s largest country, since it became an independent state with the collapse of the Soviet Union. On Tuesday, he said in a nationally televised address that after nearly 30 years in power, it was time to leave the presidency.
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Kazakhstan Draws Closer to Presidential Succession
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Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev will turn 79 in July, and talk of an impending succession has significantly intensified since the end of last year. Numerous local experts noted the harsh criticism that the president leveled at domestic utilities companies during a November 2018 session of the Security Council.
In succession clue, Kazakh leader's daughter elevated after his resignation
Written by Reporting by Tamara Vaal; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Peter Graff, Tom Balmforth and Catherine Evans
ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakhstan took a step closer to a carefully choreographed dynastic succession on Wednesday as the daughter of its long-serving ruler was named to a post that put her in line for the presidency a day after her father stepped down.
Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev hikes benefits as demonstrators are detained
Authorities hope greater social spending helps defuse creeping mood of discontent.
Dozens of people have been detained while attempting to demonstrate in Kazakhstan’s capital as the ruling party held its congress in the wake of a major government reshuffle triggered by the country’s weak economic performance.
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Karunanidhi passes away: Here are some rare photos of the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
By: FE Online August 8 , 2018 1:47 pm
Late former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, who passed away on Tuesday, August 7, at the age of 94, took a keen interest in Tamil literature, poetry and drama. We have all seen his ageing photos but here are a few rare pictures of the late leader from his younger days.
M Karunanidhi with former Congress President Sonia Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Mehbooba Mufti and other leaders.
Old picture of Karunanidhi with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, tweeted by the PM on Tuesday.
Karunanidhi is seen with former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Karunanidhi's picture with ex-PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Aril 1998.
M Karunanidhi is seen with cricketer and IPL team Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
In this rare pic, M Karunanidhi is seen with Microsoft founder Bill Gates. (PTI)
Karunanidhi with both Atal Bihari Vajpayee and BJP veteran LK Advani.
Karunanidhi and former President the late APJ Abdul Kalam seen talking.
Karunanidhi with Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.
In this picture from November 2017, Karunanidhi is seen with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Chennai.
Karunanidhi is seen with the then Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Chennai.
Karunanidhi with his son MK Stalin on his 63rd birthday in Chennai on March 1, 2015.
Picture of M Karunanidhi using an electronic gadget.
Karunanidhi with film stars Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth.
An old picture of Karunanidhi with his wife, Dayalu Ammal.
Picture of Karunanidhi with the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dated January 31, 2011, in New Delhi.
Another picture of M Karunanidhi with Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.
On his sad demise, PM Narendra Modi tweeted this old picture of the late leader expressing his grief and condolence.
M Karunanidhi began penning scripts as a 20-year old for plays which became a vehicle for propagating principles of the Dravidian movement.
In this picture, the late Dravidian movement leader is seen with a child.
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When Parma ruled Europe
Parma may be going through a tough time today, but in the 1990s they had a highly successful team packed with bona fide stars, recalls Dave Taylor.
Once upon a time there was successful cartel of Serie A clubs in the 90s called the Sette Sorelle. Those seven clubs Juventus, Milan, Inter, Lazio, Roma, Fiorentina and Parma consistently contested the Scudetto and won several of Europe’s top prizes.
Sadly in 2015 one of those siblings is a long way from being in a top-level cartel and Parma could drop several divisions next season because of perilous finances. Yet in the 90s they were flying high in Serie A and Europe and their unthinkable situation today was literally unthinkable then.
After winning promotion and starting their first ever Serie A season in 1990-91, Coach Nevio Scala’s Gialloblu showed their potential when they finished in an impressive sixth spot. That team was the start of something special and financed by Parmalat CEO Calisto Tanzi they began to bring in several stars to add to players like Tomas Brolin, Claudio Taffarel and Luigi Apolloni.
Soon enough their first trophy arrived in 1992, when a sublime Brolin led Parma to beat the mighty Juve in the Coppa Italia Final. Add a notable sixth position in the league and it was another impressive season for the Emiliani.
Winning the Italian Cup meant they had an entry into their first major European trophy, the UEFA Cup Winners Cup, which they eventually won in 93 beating Antwerp 3-1 while finishing a magnificent third in Serie A.
Scala signed the bewitching Gianfranco Zola from Napoli for the 1993-94 campaign and, added to Brolin and Faustino Asprilla, Parma had one of the most fluid and highly watchable attacks in Serie A. Once again they reached the Final of the UEFA Cup, but lost to Arsenal, while the earlier UEFA Super Cup win over mighty Milan was another new trophy as they finished the season in fifth place.
By 94-95 thanks to Channel Four’s coverage in the UK they became many peoples’ second team, as they really pushed for the title, finishing third as Zola and Asprilla scored 19 and six respectively. They also won another UEFA Cup, beating Juve 2-1 on aggregate in the Final with Dino Baggio scoring one in each leg.
In November 1995 we also witnessed the birth of a legend when Gianluigi Buffon made his league debut against a top-class Milan side at 17 years of age, pulling off saves from superstars like Roberto Baggio, George Weah and Marco Simone.
However, new Coach Carlo Ancelotti, in for the 1996-97 season, changed the system with Hristo Stoichkov preferred to Zola, who was shunted out on the wing and out of sheer frustration moved to Chelsea in November.
Ancelotti’s 4-4-2 system saw him play new arrivals including Argentinean record goal scorer Hernan Crespo and Sampdoria’s hotshot striker Enrico Chiesa as a competitive Crociati ran Juve a close race to finish second that season.
That campaign also saw a young Buffon win a regular place alongside Massimo Crippa, Nestor Sensini and Fabio Cannavaro in a team which was shaping up to become the most dynamic of all.
Following sixth spot in 1997-98 everything fell into place the next campaign with Crespo firing on all cylinders (29 in all competitions) including six in the UEFA Cup, which they went onto win beating Marseilles. They also triumphed in the Italian Cup, while once again finishing in a European spot as they reached fourth.
The next season they ended fifth spot and won the Italian Super Cup, while the following term they finished fourth. In 2001-02 they won the Coppa Italia for the third time, making the club one of the most successful cup contenders of the decade.
In all they averaged at least one final every year, winning three out of the five Italian Cup finals they reached. They also contested three Italian Super Cups, winning one. In Europe they won the UEFA Cup twice, the European Super Cup and the Cup Winners Cup.
In a place more famous for its cheese and ham than football, the club punched well above its weight and at the time received the praise they thoroughly deserved. A club winning eight trophies in 10 years will perhaps never be seen again and if it ever is, it certainly won’t be Parma.
Certainly their unorthodox funding later proved to be illegal, as patrons Parmalat were caught in one of the biggest financial scandals in Italian history, but focusing on pure football Parma produced some of the most exciting and fluid football in Europe at the time.
To witness the splendour of players like Crespo, Zola, Lilian Thuram, Buffon, Cannavaro, Asprilla and Sensini at their best under the auspices of Coaches like Ancelotti, Alberto Malesani and especially Scala was a real treat and unlikely to repeated.
It also explains why so many all over the world are sad to see Parma in their current predicament.
Nikephoras Phokas
Just for the record: When Ancelotti took over from Scala, Stoichkov was well on his way of returning to Barcelona, so it cannot have been HIM who preferred the Bulgarian over Zola.
on the 26th July, 2016 at 3:14pm
blame UEFA and their extension of the champions league which has crippled teams that would feature in the UEFA cup robbing it of any prestige or public interest. they essentially have crippled football, teams in every division from 3rd place to midtable struggle because of those greedy capitalist pigs. Champions League should be just that 'champions'. 2nd to 7th should be in the UEFA cup. tell me that wouldn't generate interest in both comps?
on the 12th March, 2015 at 12:57am
FIGC should be ashamed of itself. Allowing a club like Parma to falter in the way it has is a reminder of how cruel the business of football can be! It was heart-breaking to hear that the liquidators were selling club desks, mini buses and even the coach's chair to recover some of the investor's money. Its a sad day for Serie A - not just Parma.
on the 11th March, 2015 at 2:10pm
The Duke of Juve
Yes a sad state of affairs for sure, I believe the city should step in and keep the team running until they can get proper ownership again this can be combined by help from other teams and getting the players to accept the bare min pay as not playing just brings your stock down to nothing anyway, do I believe this will happen.....NO!
And thats sad for Seria A sad for the city sad for the world's faithful
on the 7th March, 2015 at 3:27am
eric star fury
feels like a long time along serie a was the league to watch with the likes of padova and perugia punching well above their weight. parma were mighty just purely thing of the players they had at their disposal. shame to see what happened to them i just hope they can bounce back from this survive and return to serie a.
on the 6th March, 2015 at 8:26pm
Robbiejuve
I remember those early cup finals well. Back in those days, 3 European competitions and Italian teams usually went very far in all 3. We wont see those days ever again sadly.
Maldini's Heir
Ah memories. They were good times. Very sad to see the demise of Parma. Credit to Donadoni. He has kept his dignity throughout.
on the 5th March, 2015 at 11:35pm
muhamet_juve_for_ever
I love calcio... so all other teams should help parma ,JUVE especially,cus juve had parma's best player,still one remaining Buffon,who is the all-time the best gp,and thuram,cannavaro,so sad i really feel it.help parma...
Yeah, it's really sad to see Parma on this situation. I also enjoyed watching them play in the late 90's. Ennio Tardini stadium was called "The Elephant's Cementery" (at least in the ESPN transmission for Latin America), because every single big club that went to play there, came along with a heavy defeat. Those were great times to calcio and Serie A either, i wonder if we'll ever see something similar in the near future. I hope so. Cheers from Mexico.
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Originally published Mar 16/16 The Reminder. Flin Flon, Mb. Sponsored by North of 53 Consumers Coop.
Last week someone told us they thought we made a lot of money from cardboard. Unfortunately, selling cardboard barely covers shipping.
Where does the money come from to cover the costs of the community recycling program?
The Flin Flon & District Environment Council, Inc. is a non-profit organization. It runs the Recycling Centre to conserve resources, reduce environmental damage and keep waste out of the landfill.
As a non-profit, all the money it receives is used to cover the costs of recycling. It must have enough revenue to cover costs.
Funding comes from seven different places. Here is a summary of who contributed how much in 2015.*
The City of Flin Flon, Town of Creighton and residents of Denare Beach and the lakes areas contributed 27% of the revenue.
Fees for business pickups and red bags brought in 17% of the funding.
Multi-Material Stewardship of Manitoba or MMSM contributed 16.5% in a recycling subsidy.
Sixteen percent of revenue came from the tenant in our building.
The City of Flin Flon pays the Recycling Centre to provide staff at their landfill. The surplus from that contract provided 11% of the revenue.
Selling recyclable materials which includes corrugated cardboard, beer returns and subsidy for e-waste brought in 8.5% of the funding.
Donations and the net income from fundraising was just 1%. Another 3% came from miscellaneous sources like the summer student grant and memberships.
The fundraising/miscellaneous, tenant and landfill surplus categories were down 2% each from the year before, while pickup fees increase by 1% and sale of recyclables and MMSM were up by 2.5% each.
Thirty- three semi loads of recyclables were kept out of local landfills in 2015.
*Note: This was updated when I realized the numbers didn't make 100%. After crunching the numbers again, selling materials was changed from 8% and fundraising from .6% and miscellaneous from 2.4%.
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Billions on Showtime, Episode 7: The Punch
The Punch opens with a bang and throws a number of punches, literal and metaphorical, at us all.
We find Axe doing laps in his Hamptons pool and listening to Replacements’ The Ledge that goes “I’m the boy they couldn’t ignore, for the first time in my life, I’m sure” on his waterproof headphones. We cannot ignore the boy does not look okay today. We have never seen him like this before. The pressure is taking its toll on Axe. He is at the end of his rope.
Kids come back from an afternoon outing with Mr. Layner, a Hamptons neighbor, and his kids. As they declare their afternoon was awesome, Lara gets a call from her friend Lilly asking if the kids arrived home safely. She saw Mr. Layner drinking before he drove them home. This gives Axe what he’s been looking for: A punch bag! He gets out of the pool, literally runs to his car, drives to Layner’s house and turns “Margy time!” into “Punch time!” 🙂
Well, I did not take it literally when Chuck said in The Pilot that Axe “is Mike Tyson in his prime.” It seems I should have! Axe punches Layner as if he is the world’s heavyweight champion finishing the job on the boxing ring!
Emergency meeting at Axelrod residence: Orrin Bach says if the word of the punch gets out, it may knock out Axe’s business. Sheryl, who runs communications at Axe Capital, knows some gossip writers are already on the story and Lara’s friend Lilly should come forward to confirm Layner’s drinking. Bach, prepared as ever, has a retired police officer with him. Chief Mueller has been retired for 7 years but is still respected in the Southampton Police Department. He has intel that the police has a video of Axe punching Layner and there is pressure for an arrest but Mueller is arranging a backdoor arrival meeting for Axe and Bach at the police station. Still, Team Axe should get confirmation of drinking asap.
Oh yes they should! We know via Chuck Sr’s grapevine that Garth Sykes’ Flagship already jumped ship. Axe cannot tolerate another institution to leave the company. And he now has one of his strongest backers Raul Gomez come all the way to Westport to tell him he needs to settle his trouble asap. Withdrawing his money is the last thing Gomez wants to do but he WILL do it if there is any misdemeanor. This is serious shit.
Lara sees Lilly just to find out oh she is so sorry but her husband says press would fuck his business badly. What the fuck? But we all know the type, don’t we? She starts a thing, gets you in trouble and then watches from the sidelines. I know Lara despises Lilly is not coming forward but what Lilly says about her maid is probably not helping, either: “I have to go. The maid is leaving at 3 today. Some bullshit about taking her kids to the doctor.” I imagine Lara as a modern day Madame Defarge that records the names of the people to be revenged 🙂
Guess what lands in Mike Dimonda’s mailbox? THE Video. He asks for a comment for his piece. We now find out Axe has photographic memory that creates wonders! He singles out the person who should have made the movie: The girlfriend of Layner’s son. Sheryl is on it! She’d better be on it, because Axe looks like a time bomb: it’s not a matter of if but a matter of when that he will explode. Look at those crazy eyes: “Find that original video, pay what we need, get it.”
Once he hears from Lara about Lilly, Axe is on his way to Hamptons police station: The police do not like the fact that they need to, in addition to college kids and regular dirtbags, to deal with billionaires punching multi millionaires. They will take a statement of Axe’s versions of the events but it is ultimately the DA’s call to proceed or not. And, yes, they have the video.
Axe needs to move fast now. He takes Dimonda to dinner and kindly asks for a short hold, just a day, on the punch piece. And when Dimonda says he would not spike it despite how good the veal chops are at the restaurant, Axe brings out the big guns: Dimonda could use THAT DAY for a meeting with a certain network chairman in Aspen about his own show: “Charlie Rose has got to move on at some point, right?” Done.
Damianista’s side note: if you want to eat where Axe eats, this is Artie’s Steak and Seafood on City Island, the Bronx. The owner, Spiros Chageres, in a Bronx Times news report, says Damian Lewis enjoyed their “shrimp and scallops over glazed tomatoes.” So, go for it!
In the meantime, Lara is not comfortable with their kids having no street smarts. She does not want them to be the rich kids Axe always told her he had an edge over thanks to his desperation. Axe thinks desperation was also responsible for him still being an animal when they first got together but Lara wants the kids toughen up a little so they can stand up on their own feet. She drags them to the beach for clamming so they learn about earning your own living and finds the ultimate solution in a summer camp that would teach them a thing or two about life.
Sheryl delivers the video within her “budget for this kind of thing” with Layner admitting to his DUI. Axe turns into an instant hero on You Tube with 400K views in less than 2 hours… so much so that he even gets a text from Lawrence Boyd who pissed on his face in The Deal: “Bobby, share my chopper out to the Hamptons for Clean Water Gala.” Axe is now saying hello to the healing waters of Lourdes. Fist bumps indeed!
The day ends on a fun note for Axe as he gets a text from his boys who are desperate to come home from screen-free camp. Dad to the rescue! Axe believes one day at the camp might be enough for the kids to appreciate what they have at home. I wonder what mom will say in the morning but Axelrod boys will make sure they will have great milkshakes tonight! But what is the life lesson for the boys in this? Calling dad works! Axe may have second thoughts when they are 17.
The problem is Axe has been dealing with the the punch he has thrown that he seems to be in the dark about the ones being thrown from within his inner circle! Trouble looms large over Axe Capital and Axe may be in deep shit.
It turns out “loyal soldier” Donnie Caan has been “turned” by Bryan and his team. Well, having seen the guy’s hesitation about starting with 200,000 shares of Rubinex, when his stack was tripled, I knew he would not be Axe Capital’s Brian Doyle. But, honestly, I was not expecting him to be a mole, either. Donnie loads up on Rubinex, sells at a monster profit the moment Rubinex has FDA approval for some organic pesticide and is flagged big time. He could neither provide research on the product nor any sign off from the compliance. And when they pull out meta-data showing he had been in contact with insiders, he breaks, in Bryan’s words, “like a Mexican condom.” Yikes. All wired up, Donnie tries to have Axe talk about the Kemlot trade but after his “bit of a weekend” Axe is just in the mood for drinks and a conversation about Pavlov’s study.
Chuck is “out of the game” as much as Axe was in The Good Life. He has recused himself so there is no “conflict of interest” but he is on it 24/7 and determined to pull the strings behind the scenes.
He first gets rid of Spyros who is pushing hard to be “the commandant” on the case. Chuck finds Marina Slovis, the woman he asks Dale to find the contact information for earlier. It turns out Ari raped her in the past and he is simply frozen when he sees Marina talking to Kate in an office. Glad to say bye to Spyros and his cologne.
Then he extracts information from Bryan regarding his informant at Axe Capital and encourages him to have a little motivational session with Donnie to speed up the process. Chuck arranges a secure place and watches behind the closed doors as Bryan tells Donnie not to “bojangle” him and Donnie tells Bryan it makes him sick to sell out the man who gave him everything. Bryan explodes — “Are you fucking kidding me?” — when Chuck surprises him at the end of the meeting to sing his praises for his excellent work on Donnie Caan. No Chuck is not kidding. He is dead serious.
Chuck preaches to Bryan the following day about how the ends justify the means. He is “willing to look into the abyss beyond conventional morality” and do what needs to be done to save the retirees, the hourly workers, time-card punching factory employees from the likes of Bobby Axelrod.
Ha! Now… I don’t know about Bryan, but I really have a hard time believing Chuck since I heard his own wife putting him in his place when he claims he works for the public good in The Pilot: “No. You work for the good of Chuck Rhoades and maybe sometimes they intersect.”
This is a brilliant observation on Wendy’s part that I believe applies to almost anyone and in particular to people with aspirations for high office. Chuck is no exception. Man, he even makes Bryan to sit in his chair to FEEL it. He asks Bryan only to think about whether he could do a better job with Chuck in his corner or without him.
Well, what does Bryan feel? This is what I am curious about.
I don’t buy Chuck’s argument about the public good but I completely buy my Bookworm’s argument that it is likely Bryan will see Axe and Chuck are not that different from each other. Wouldn’t it be hysterical should Bryan leave the public service by the end of the season to start with a 1.4 million dollar salary at a private law firm? We have found out about Kate’s aspirations, but we don’t know much about Bryan’s. We just know he cannot get a decent NYC rental without a guarantor. And, hey, defense pays much better! 🙂
Bryan gets a stick from Donnie late at night with a note that he will be happy to see it. I hope we do not get a punch in the stomach when we see the contents of the stick. But I just can’t help imagine… what if this is all part of Axe’s plan? If I can see Donnie not being the next Brian Doyle, Axe is more than able to see that. What if? What if he gives 200,000 shares of Rubinex to Donnie knowing he will get busted and US attorney’s office will be all over him as Axe and other PMs at Axe Capital move on with their business under the radar? Could it be yet another layer of protection for Axe? I know it’s a stretch but I just want to throw this out there.
In other news that has not reached Axe yet, Wendy may jump ship any moment now. And she is the only person that has felt the change with Donnie: “You used to be one of the most open people here. But you’ve withdrawn from me. Even now I’m sensing you’re withholding.” And what would Dr. Mojo do if Donnie opened up to her in a session?
We find Wendy at a meeting with Chase, the headhunter who her best friend Billie had a fling with at some point. She does not want a job at a hedge fund because it would not feel right to work at a competitor. Chase, who seems to be a natural flirt, tells Wendy it is hard to find the kind of love and money she wants in a job outside the hedge fund world. Wendy wants to keep discreet and does not share this meeting with her husband.
And she is still working at Axe Capital so she needs to make sure Axe knows all signs (read “the deal” and “the punch”) point to him starting to fit a certain type that enjoys self-sabotage. Axe admits he should not have thrown the punch but the deal is another story: “Just think about who had what to lose. And know that I went into that room ready to make a deal.” Wendy is not smiling as Axe leaves the room. She probably now has all the details.
When she asks Chuck about what happened during the deal, his answer is these meetings are often unpredictable and “big gamefish often has one final thrash in it as he gets close to the boat.” Wendy already knows what happened and she could probably tell someone who tells a story with almost no eye contact is lying.
I find it surprising Wendy does not confront Chuck. She may be forgiving because he has recused himself from the case. If only she knew 🙂 Wendy is sick and tired of the pissing contest between the two men and she knows a new job could be the best for her family. She just lets Chuck know that they are meeting Gilberts tomorrow for dinner and, no, they cannot reschedule!
Chuck finds Gilberts creepy since they are a bit too loved up! But, hey, my husband and I know each other’s passwords, too; does this make us creepy? 😀 And I believe the dinner with “Siamese Twins” (which Wendy corrects as “Conjoined Twins” and I love it that Chuck always says “Sure!” when someone corrects his political incorrectness) is all worth it because (a) they are eating at Babbo, a New York staple and one of my most favorite restaurants in New York City and (b) as much as they are creepy, Gilberts sort of turn on Wendy that she starts it with a slap as soon as they are back home.
I have no idea about the BDSM gear Wendy collects from the floor the following morning. But it seems they had a good night and there is a note from Chuck with his password on it 🙂 Wendy seems to be okay with staying in and letting Axe solve his problems on his own that day. Besides, Chase has a great idea and wants to meet for drinks at Chefs Club. He knows she likes Negronis, too.
It turns out a blue-chip consulting firm that do turnarounds from inside out could be exactly what Wendy is looking for: clients vary from innovators, thought leaders to crazy geniuses and people on Fortune 500 that would require her up her game and the comp is platinum, too. Wendy is intrigued by the opportunity. I just wonder if she is also intrigued by Chase. Is this some harmless flirting or more than that? Only time will tell, I guess.
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Author DamianistaPosted on March 7, 2016 July 23, 2016 Categories BillionsTags Billions, Billions Recaps, Bobby Axelrod, Chuck Rhoades, Damian Lewis, Lara Axelrod, Maggie Siff, Malin Akerman, Paul Giamatti, Wendy Rhoades
19 thoughts on “Billions on Showtime, Episode 7: The Punch”
NYC fan says:
Well done, D-Lady! Dayum, Axe has the crazy eyes. A mean right hook and who knew, peripheral photographic memory?
Ha, ha, when you wrote billionaires punching multi-millionaires I laughed out loud.
Nice to know the locations like the restaurant.
I like Wendy’s body language when she faces people with her hands on her hips. She plants herself and postures.
So Bobby taught his kids you can always wriggle your way out of an unpleasant situation like he did? As long as you have connections. And a cell phone.
Maybe Wendy wants what that mushy couple has and Chuck can’t give. And the recruiter is cute and doting on her. The grass is always greener.
I feel the whole Wall Street system is set up for people to cross the line. Why allow hedge funds then? They have morphed into something that sets the stage for failure with flawed humans running amuck.
Thanks for the great recap and insights.
damianista says:
Thank you! I just have so much fun thinking and writing about the show.
I think Axe is one of these gifted kids who was great at math (and on the card table) and his photographic memory should help him a lot in keeping all he has in his head, be it the cards or the stocks!
Axe seems to be the good cop and Lara seems to be the bad cop with the kids. Their parenting is quite different. They are now adorable but spoiled brats that whine about their omelettes today may easily turn out to be whining adults that cannot stand on their own feet. So I appreciate Lara’s efforts to raise them as individuals that can take care of themselves.
Your observation about Wall Street also applies to the US attorney’s office (at least in the show), doesn’t it? Power corrupts and it does not understand enough. It’s fascinating to see Axe and Chuck are not that different after all. It’s about justifying means for the ends. And they are both willing to go beyond “conventional morality” to reach their goals.
JaniaJania says:
Re the whole system being rigged. So TRUE!
I keep thinking what are these guys really doing wrong?..they’re just getting information before anyone else gets it. Isn’t that what competition in any field is about? Isn’t that THE job, every where you go: getting something before the competitor gets it? It’s the crux of capitalism. How can it be illegal? And, furthermore, if it is illegal, how do you get humans set up to compete (from birth!) to accept limits in competition? It’s not like anyone is blowing out anyone kneecaps here. What the hedgies are doing is not a crime in any obvious way. And, yet, of course it is. But who does it serve to lock them away? Fascinating things to think about!
It’s as gray an area as it gets, isn’t it? I understand the playing field is not leveled in the world of finance, but someone please tell me where it is really leveled? If it’s about access to information, well, it’s always the highly educated and relatively high income people that have that access and know how to use it better in ANY context. From Health to Education to Money matters. But then yeah it makes sense that it’s a crime to use money to bribe and get information and get ahead and make more money. And Repeat. Insider information feels like doping to me. But I agree that the grayness of it makes it even more fascinating.
Yes, doping is a great analogy. But, what if, just what if, laws change and doping becomes okay? Laws adjust all the time to what humans are willing to tolerate from each other. And as long as basic morality is adhered to, which it will be, as long as we stay human (to be human IS to be moral, IMO) there’s no limit to what we can attain. That’s evolution, right? Survival of the fittest. Seems like sometimes (as our dear Bobby Axelrod is showing us) laws are put there to deter the fittest. To slow down our evolution. Evolution does happen more slowly than anyone can even see it…it NEEDS to happen slowly. But progress DOES need to happen, it’s up to us as humans to determine the limits to that progress, I guess. And, believe it or not, these are some of the questions science fiction provides windows to understanding… the good science fiction, anyway. 😀
And we’re talking about this in the wake of the most recent Sharapova doping scandal! Everyone knows everyone is doing it and it’s banned so it’s okay as long as you are not caught and it’s not ok when you are. Exactly like insider trading isn’t it? 🙂 Yeah, of course law changes over time, and it may change for this one, too. But I doubt it. The question is: what is fundamentally wrong with insider trading? I think the fundamental flaw is that you BRIBE to get to the information. It is not that the information is available and you have better access and ability to analyze. You pay to get info and make money and then use that money to pay for more info and make even more money. So, it makes sense that it’s a crime even though I can see the gray area.
Great recap of an episode that was difficult to keep up with! So funny you saw the googly eyes the recruiter guy was making at Wendy (and she back at him!). I wondered about that actor…I know I’ve seen him before somewhere. He was good!
Bobby is losing his mind, slowly but surely. And, goes without saying, Damian is showing us the disintegration perfectly.
Thank you! I think this was the episode that I had the most difficult time keeping up with. I needed to watch it two times and some scenes three times before I start writing. I saw some googly eyes between Chase and Wendy and I thought it could be me but it seems there is something there. It could be totally harmless flirting but the guy seems to be very interested in Wendy! And it makes you think if Wendy misses the kind of love he cannot really find in Chuck. He is a different animal. Well, so is she! Hey, is it creepy to know you better half’s password? 😀
We have never seen Bobby like this. He is losing it. And yeah Damian OWNS it completely there. As you have brilliantly shown us in the half-time report, he is not playing Bobby. He is Bobby.
I think that actor playing the recruiter is playing Mark Forman on the FX mini-series “The People vs. OJ Simpson”. Which in my opinion is a great series. Very good. It’s on tonight at 10pm and On Demand on cable. This actor looks like Clint Eastwood’s son who is an actor and Oliver Hudson who is Kate Hudson’s actor brother. But he seems to be getting roles right now.
Does the recruiter have an ulterior motive? Is he just trying to hook up or does he want to have an affair? Doesn’t he know who she’s married to? Is she giving him signals despite herself? Or someone of her calibre means a huge commission?
I feel as if Bobby and Chuck are two sides of the same coin. They are in parallel universes. They both seem to be self-destructing and disintegrating. They need to clock some meditation time for sure.
Maybe the hedgies are breaking laws but I don’t get how Chuck talks about them like evil incarnate. Although this show makes Bobby and some of his people kind of likeable and charming. If they weren’t they would be less sympathetic. The hedge fund people prosecuted don’t get time like Bernie Madoff. HE was evil incarnate.
It’s like a casino. You can’t cheat in the casino and steal from the house. So Chuck catches them counting cards or using tricks. But I guess this isn’t as straightforward and he wants to have an airtight case before he charges them. Bobby is as slippery as a greased pig. Just when you think you have him, he relaxes and slips through your arms.
Brian Koppelman, one of the show creators, says in a Billions promo they met people both from the US attorney’s office and the hedge funds and it turns out both sides despise each other so much. Lady Trader once told me they have a saying in finance that “those who can trade, trade, and who can’t, prosecute.” :))) That’s the perspective of the hedgies looking at prosecutors! I understand the hedgies see US attorney’s office as a bunch of “crooked cops” and the US attorney’s office see the hedgies as “the mob.” So yeah I agree with you that Axe and Chuck are like twins separated at birth at so many levels. Of course they have different reflexes and intuitions coming from their completely different backgrounds; however, they are operating in parallel universes with similar rules — they are both willing to go the extra distance – beyond “conventional morality” in Chuck’s words — to get to their goals. I am fascinated by the portrayal of these two worlds in this show and by these two very fine actors.
That actor is Steven Pasquale (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1018679/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t77). I remembered him playing sort of a “dumb blond” character on Rescue Me, a pretty good drama series about a team of firefighters post-9/11. He has a really interesting look to him. But, checking imdb, he’s only in this season for one episode. Hey, writers, if you’re reading this: bring back Chase for next season! We like him!!!
As for his role here…I think he’s meant as a vehicle to show Wendy looking at her options, both in work and in personal matters. I’m still holding on to the idea of her eventually losing her mind over Bobby. But that’s just me I know. I LOVE stories of otherwise intelligent confident reasonably sane women losing their minds over some guy that’s not good for them. My all-time favorite vicarious thrill from good drama!
Haha you want to see some Carrie in Wendy! 🙂 As someone that really wanted Brody to be happy with Jen — at least for a while, until I knew that it would not happen — I root for domestic happiness for all in Billions, let’s say at least for a while 😀
Wanda Akin Brown says:
That actor is none other that Steven Pasquale who played Robert in Bridges of Madison County on Broadway and is now the lead in The Robber Bridegroom. He has a WONDERFUL voice (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVEkCujOHkg), even better than his acting. He recently played Furman in the FX OJ drama and was Elfman on The Good Wife. I went to Chicago’s Lyric Opera last year to see him Carousel where he sang “Soliloquy” with passion. I’m a fan. He is now engaged to Phillipa Soo, Eliza Hamilton, in Hamilton on Broadway. A talented duo indeed.
I just LOVE that Billions is filmed in NY. The show creators have the most wonderful inventory so that you have these remarkable stage actors cast for even small parts, very MEMORABLE small parts thanks to them, in the show. Brilliant!
Does anyone think hedge funds have “jumped the shark”? I read the perception is that they are not as cool as before. More workers are going into tech firms now. With the improved oversight by government and going after them, some say it’s too cumbersome now to do what they do and many just have family offices. And with recent films and documentaries after the 2008 crash, the public is more wary of Wall Street and the opaque hedge funds. We’re looking and learning now. And this show is a mainstream way of educating the public even if it’s entertainment.
We did have Occupy Wall Street after the crash. And now we’ve had Edward Snowden and the exposure of how government spies on us. These firms do things that the regular person knows nothing of but it winds up affecting all of us when it goes bad. And we also are angry at the 1% who have most of the wealth. Our middle class is being destroyed. I don’t know what we are going to do in NYC. These predatory landlords are deregulating the apartment stock and rents are soaring. The government does nothing about it except lip service. The middle class is being pushed out of Manhattan. Something has to give. The range of people and historic buildings and businesses is what makes Manhattan what it is. Great cities have real neighborhoods where people know and care for each other as Jane Jacobs said in “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”. We need our stoop culture of watching out for each other. Not these modern glass behemoths for only the rich.
Of course the tech companies are destroying San Francisco. Look at the documentary on HBO “San Francisco 2.0”. The tech companies have moved back into the city from Silicon Valley and they are taking over housing and tearing down to build new apartment buildings. Middle and lower middle class and being pushed out. It’s always been expensive but now it’s on a whole new level.
I’m babbling. I just wonder if there ever will be an overhaul on Wall Street and stop the unending greed and corruption. And the corruption in government. Citizens of NYC are not being served and protected and that is the job of the government. I wish the Chucks would go after the criminal landlords. My landlord is one of the worst and he is buying all over the city from low end to high end buildings. Even famous tenants have fought him. We have a right to affordable housing. There are a lot of basics in America that need attention. Our infrastructure is crumbling. Things in NYC are ancient underground. Punish these white collar criminals by making them use their smarts to help the lives of average citizens.
I had a friend who thought her landlord illegally deregulated her apartment by claiming he did more than he really did to fix it up and it went all the way to the Appeals Court. She lost because it would have set a precedent and all hell would break loose. A local politician even knew the outcome before it was announced. Backroom stuff. Money talks. People are paid to look the other way.
Agggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back to fun.
Yes, corruption runs deep and regulation is one way to stem the spread of corruption, true. But what a series like Billions is showing is that there can be corruption on both sides. It’s all in flux, the law and the lawless. In my mind, the greatest “cure” if there is one, is visibility into all of it, total transparency, and making art out of what we see. Shows like Billions, and books and films like The Big Short and Too Big to Fail do that so well! But, yeah, not easy to make art when you have a family to take care of and the balance of the world seems to be skewed against your success. If we want to do away with Wall Street shenanigans, we have to do away with capitalism all together. And that’s never going to happen. To the victor shall go the spoils. (but the meek shall inherit the earth…what there is left of it….maybe 🙂
I can see you are pretty pissed off with NYC housing market and you are absolutely right. I think NYC still has neighborhoods, maybe more in Brooklyn nowadays than in Manhattan, but we have that feeling in the Upper West Side. I can imagine Tribeca may not feel like that 🙂 But yeah New York is also changing like everything else and the whole city seems to go in the direction of becoming a huge shopping mall with same chain stores everywhere. Yes. Money talks indeed. And Chucks do go and will go after criminal lords but finance, politics and law go hand in hand in this country and there is a lot of constraint against what you can do and what you cannot do. We have seen in Billions that the AG is not happy with what Chuck is doing with Axe mostly since it’s election year and she needs Wall Street money. It’s not just the administration though, the city itself, and the people of the city need that money, too. Big money supports the arts and they give us most of the free stuff (say Shakespeare in the Park or NY Philharmonic in the Park) during summer, etc. They make a lot of tickets more affordable than they would have been otherwise. So it’s pretty complicated. But I feel you!
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I like the fact you mention that the title isn’t just related to the physical punch that Bobby lands. I agree of course we shoukdn’t be swallowing Chuck’s speech to Bryan.
I think Anne is right about Wendy wanting the mushy stuff the couple have and her realisation Chuck may not be capable.
There was certainly a lot going on in this episode. Most interesting is Wendy’s apparent U-turn from ‘the Deal’.
Axe needs to get the arms up in defence before he risks taking another punch from blindside.
One thing I just cannot figure out – maybe I will later – is WHY Wendy has not shared with Chuck that she was looking for a job. Maybe she did not want him to have an expectation that she is leaving Axe tomorrow? Or because she’s not committed to changing jobs yet and she might not find something that would intrigue her in which case she would stay at Axe Capital? Once she knows Chuck is lying to her then there is not much point in sharing the job search info with him anyway and she may even have decided on changing jobs but met with Chase just for the FUN of it 😀
Chuck’s speech to Bryan, I am sure there will be follow up on that, can certainly create in Bryan the incentives that you have been talking about for some time now. That story is VERY intriguing!
Re Axe: I am afraid he may be losing it. He looks like a time bomb. It’s not a matter of it. But a matter of when. BOOM.
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Propagandocracy and the Buhari Media Center
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter:@farooqkperogi
The Buhari government is an absolute propagandocracy, that is, a government conducted by intentionally false and manipulative information. And this is so because the very foundation of the government is fraud.
When you defraud people into electing you and you have no substance to justify the trust they invested in you, you either apologize and be penitent (if you are honorable) or you perpetually churn out lie after lie to cover up earlier lies since you have no truth to tell. That’s the profile of this government in a nutshell.
Most members of the Buhari Media Center propagandists-in-residence are in this photo. They transitioned from APC presidential media campaigners to BMC propagandists. Can you identify anyone from this photo?
The fraud started when, shortly after being sworn in as president, President Buhari went to Chatham House in London (where else?) to repudiate the “One Hundred Things Buhari Will Do in 100 Days” and the “My Covenant With Nigerians” campaign documents, two of the signature documents that helped propel APC to an unlikely electoral triumph, and that caused many of us hitherto nonpartisan commentators to identify with and support Buhari in 2015.
Buhari called the documents a “fraud.” He was right. But what was an even bigger fraud was that he knew these documents to be fraudulent but conveniently chose not to repudiate them during the campaigns. His strategic silence caused people to elect him on the basis of fraud.
New York mayor Mario Cuomo once famously said that politicians campaign in poetry but govern in prose. APC “changed” this: they campaigned with fraud and now govern with unimaginative lies and mindless propaganda to cover up the fraud that got them into power. It’s the biggest, most audacious con game in Nigeria’s entire political history.
After renouncing the documents that got him elected, everything went downhill from there. He renounced all the campaign promises he made, including his promise to publicly and fully declare his assets and make public declaration of assets a precondition for appointment into his government. So APC basically became a party of fraud with no programs—just like the PDP it upstaged.
In the absence of anything to show for its existence, since fraud is its very foundation, the Buhari government has elevated sterile propaganda, mindless mind-management, and thoughtless, unintelligent mendacity to an art.
For starters, as I pointed out in my Facebook status update, which went viral and shaped national discourse on the Buhari government, the president has 9 media aides. Yes, 9, not 6 as previously thought!
They are Femi Adesina (Special Adviser, Media & Publicity); Garba Shehu (Senior Special Assistant, Media & Publicity); Tolu Ogunlesi (Special Assistant, Digital & New Media); Lauretta Onochie (Personal Assistant, Social Media); Bashir Ahmad (Personal Assistant, New media); Sha’aban Sharada (Personal Assistant, Broadcast Media); Naziru Muhammed (Personal Assistant, TV Documentary); Sunday Aghaeze (Personal Assistant, Photography); and Bayo Omoboriowo (Personal Assistant/ President’s Photographer).
All of these aides also have a retinue of other aides. For instance, the president’s PA on Broadcast Media recently appointed a “Media Assistant 1 on Social Media.” The numeral “1” indicates that there are other personal aides to the president’s PA that we don’t know about yet. This absurdity used to exist only in the realm of implausible humor.
But it gets worse: the president also has a clandestine hate and propaganda factory called the Buhari Media Center (BMC), which has nearly 40 paid propagandists whose mandate is to smear, demonize, and troll government critics with thousands of fake, foul social media handles. They also flood the comment sections of news websites with false handles and calculatedly duplicitous information, in addition to producing propagandistic social media memes (often with southern Nigerian-sounding names) that appear to come from everyday Buhari fans. The 40 odd propagandists-in-residence at the BMC are paid N250,000 per month.
Modeled after the Atiku Media Center (a reason its head calls it the Buhari Media Center, although it goes by other names), it is located on Okonjo-Iweala Drive (close to CBN quarters) in Jabi, Abuja.
When I first exposed this shadowy, sinister propaganda outfit that operates outside the orbit of the formal structures of government, its existence was denied. Now some character by the name of Muhammad Labbo who describes himself as “Chairman/ Co-ordinator [sic]” of the “Buhari Media Support Group” admitted to the existence of the propaganda center, but says it isn’t called the Buhari Media Center, and that it is funded by a private individual.
But who is this private individual who is funding a viciously malicious presidential propaganda outfit? What is his interest? Is this a pay-to-play scam? Is it a payback for a favor from the Buhari government? Or is it a favor in anticipation of a reward? Why should a shadowy individual fund a pro-government, extralegal propaganda and mind-management unit?
And what about the N100 million Lai Mohammed’s Ministry of Information has allocated for “interaction with bloggers” in the 2017 budget? Who are these bloggers government will be “interacting” with for N100 million in a time of recession?
Most importantly, though, the minions that make up the Buhari Media Center propagandists aren’t even the brightest bulbs in the box. Most of them should sue their brains for non-support. First, they can’t string together a sentence in English that isn’t a riotous travesty of the language. Nor do they seem to have any basic familiarity with elementary logic. Their stock-in-trade is unrestrained verbal primitivism, vulgar abuse, smears, innuendoes, and outright libel.
They, for instance, have been on full attack mode against my person since I exposed them. One Muhammad Labbo, who would do well to take elementary lessons in grammar and logic, said I too belonged to a BMC-like unit during Obasanjo’s administration. Lie. The unit I was recruited to be a part of, about which I wrote several times in my column, was called the Presidential Research and Communications Unit (later renamed Public Communications Unit) and projected Nigeria to the international community. The unit’s website was indicatively www.nigeriafirst.org, and it never got involved in domestic media interventions.
Unlike the PRCU, BMC is Buhari first (and Nigeria last), as the name of the group suggests. It operates outside the structures of government and even claims to be funded by a sinister outsider to slander critics of the president. Only a mind held hostage by illogic and defective intellect will make a false equivalence between working for a unit of government that disseminated information about Nigeria to a global audience and a baleful, extralegal propaganda unit that defames and attacks an incompetent president’s critics using fake handles.
As I pointed out in a 2015 article, Nigeria’s brand of political public relations, for the most part, does no more than appeal to the base, attract enemies, scare away potential converts, and ossify negative opinions about the people that are putatively being defended. It consists in barbarous, impulsive, sophomoric insults against real and imagined political opponents—and cloying, hagiographic defense of principals. It lacks nuance, is childish, and seems unconcerned with logic and persuasion.
The BMC is a full realization of this peculiar primitive propaganda that defines Nigeria’s public communication. It gets worse when the government it defends is founded and subsists on fraud and lies.
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Tracking the Hackers
I’ve ducked in quickly to the Where 2.0 Conference in San Francisco today, to see a couple sessions.
By Scott Kirsner 1 minute Read
Tim O’Reilly, founder of the publishing and event company O’Reilly, which organized the conference, is making the case for observing what hackers, technophiles, and hobbyists are working on, if you care about where the next opportunities lie in high-tech. (He’s using the positive definition of the term “hacker,” meaning someone who plays with new technologies to explore the possibilities, much like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak did in creating the first personal computer.)
“Hacker activity is teaching the industry, teaching entrepreneurs which way they should be going,” O’Reilly says. “Companies are getting hip to this, and they’re engaging with these early adopters.” Some companies and industries, however, still “look at hacker activity and say, ‘We dont like this. We’ve got to shut this down.'”
Since the theme of the conference is information and applications related to location, O’Reilly mentions a few cool examples of what hackers have done with maps:
A marriage of Google maps and traffic cameras in London
A micro-autobiography, “My Childhood, Seen On Google Maps”
Fundrace, a map of political contributions
An integration of Google Maps and apartment rental ads from Craigslist
A blend of Google maps and SalesForce.com data, which can place sales leads on a map
O’Reilly says its a good thing when sites open up, and give people access to their content (using APIs, feeds, or other tools that open up sites to smart programmers), without requiring them to sign a contract or do a complex business deal. It’s scary, but the outcome can be beneficial, O’Reilly says.
Tim O’Reilly’s business is tracking trends. But his talk got me thinking about how important it is to play around on the Web, and with other rapidly-evolving technologies, to really internalize what the possibilities are — how they can best be used.
O’Reilly (the company, not the person) also maintains a great group blog about emerging technologies that I recently stumbled across, called O’Reilly Radar. (Youll notice the URL makes a really clever reference to the TV show M*A*S*H.)
Microsoft is going carbon negative, will reduce more carbon than it has emitted in its history as a company
NBCUniversal’s Netflix-killer Peacock features ads, Spotify-like playlists—and a lot of ‘Law & Order’
Can a shoe make you run too fast? Nike may find out the hard way
How to reinvent your email as a productivity tool
Happiness doesn’t always mean what we think it means
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Court-Appointed Expert Will Likely Have The Final Word On Damages In Oracle vs. Google
Home|Commercial Damages|Intellectual Property|Court-Appointed Expert Will Likely Have The Final Word On Damages In Oracle vs. Google
The District Court appointed an independent expert on the issue of damages pursuant to Rule 706 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. The public may learn about the Court-appointed damage expert’s conclusion as early as this week, since the independent expert’s report is due on November 14, 2011.
No doubt, the District Court is frustrated by the wide range of damage claims that the parties are offering, and is attempting to reign in the large damage discrepancies. According to Judge Alsup, the starting point for damages should be the $100 million licensing offer Sun Microsystems made to Google in 2006 before it was acquired by Oracle. Instead, Google’s expert has damages as low as zero. Oracle’s damages expert reports that Google owes Oracle between $1.4 billion and $6.1 billion.
Oracle’s case against Google involves the Java technology, which became Oracle’s property when it acquired Sun Microsystems in early 2010. Instead of licensing Java technology, Google claims that it created its own mobile technology from scratch by reverse engineering the behavior of Java without using any of Sun’s copyrighted or patented technology. In opposition, Oracle claims that, instead of being a wholly independent implementation, Google directly infringed on both Java copyrights and patents. Oracle’s claim is buttressed with significant Java expertise having moved from Sun to Google, including Google’s (now former) Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who previously was Sun’s chief technology officer through 1997. Google also hired several other Sun technology personnel.
Sun executives expressed public displeasure when Google refused to license Java technology. Google announced Android in 2007 and released the Android project source code in 2008. But, after years of disappointing financial results, Sun did not have the financial strength or will to take on Google through litigation. This all changed when Oracle acquired Sun. Oracle is both stronger financially, and has a more aggressive view of protecting its intellectual property.
The Court’s ruling gave the independent expert rather sweeping power and authority, as follows:
[The independent damages expert] will prepare and submit a separate expert report which will independently a) critique the damages expert reports submitted by each side, b) provide his assessment of any or all issues raised or presented in the damages expert reports of the parties, and c) address each additional issue he believes should be evaluated in order to provide the jury with a complete and independent view of damages in this case. …
The parties will have the right to conduct discovery of [the independent damages expert] to the same extent as any other expert witness. … Oracle and Google, collectively, will have no fewer than 7 hours to question [the independent damages expert], … Oracle and Google will divide the allotted time equally. …
While [the independent damages expert] is not to function as a mediator, the Court is interested in full disclosure and understanding by [the independent damages expert] of all issues relating to damages in this action. In serving that interest, the parties are directed to agree to a procedure by which [the independent damages expert] can communicate with each of the parties’ expert witnesses in an informal off-the-record manner to address any ambiguities he may wish to have clarified. Such informal communications will not be subject to discovery or admissible in court, and shall be solely between the experts.
[The independent damages expert] will testify at trial subject to the provisions of Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. …. Each party will be permitted to cross examine Dr. Kearl as though he were an adverse expert witness. The Court will direct questions to Dr. Kearl as it deems appropriate.
Neither [the independent damages expert] nor any of his assistants will incur any liability to the parties as a result of their work on this matter.”
Rule 706 has been around since 1975, but judges have generally been reluctant to bring in their own technical experts, preferring to let juries hear only from the parties’ experts. The meat of Rule 706 follows:
“Rule 706. Court Appointed Experts
(a) Appointment – The court may on its own motion or on the motion of any party enter an order to show cause why expert witnesses should not be appointed, and may request the parties to submit nominations. The court may appoint any expert witnesses agreed upon by the parties, and may appoint expert witnesses of its own selection. … A witness so appointed shall advise the parties of the witness’ findings, if any; the witness’ deposition may be taken by any party; and the witness may be called to testify by the court or any party. The witness shall be subject to cross-examination by each party, including a party calling the witness.”
I have been appointed as an independent damages witness on several occasions. One of the following results all ways occurred:
Once my conclusion was known and explained, the parties either settled the case, or they stipulated to a damage amount. With a damages stipulation, the parties still litigated liability issues, but damages were predetermined if liability was found.
The damages were tried, and I testified. I was aggressively cross-examined by the party who did not like my answer. The other party and/or the Court lobbed me soft ball questions. In each case, the jury accepted my conclusion.
Fulcrum Inquiry frequently prepares damages calculations in litigation.
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ATKINSON, FELICIA - Hand In Hand
2018 repress. "Félicia Atkinson's new full-length album, Hand In Hand follows the highly-acclaimed A Readymade Ceremony (SHELTER 055CD/LP, 2015), and her collaboration with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Comme Un Seul Narcisse (SHELTER 070LP, 2016). Composed over 2016 at EMS and at home in Brittany, Hand In Handcould be considered as the most ambitious body of work recorded by the French musician and artist. Strident modular sounds tear apart minimal beats and drones; Fictional stories told by a voice slowly become reality. Hand In Hand is meant to be a moment of common thinking and listening, in its diversity and abstraction. In the same way a sci-fi novel by Philip K. Dick or a sculpture by Guy Mees can be perceived: trivial, sensitive, and mysterious at the same time. "I'm Following You" is a bleached romantic ballad for Fender Rhodes that could be the ending title of a martian love story, whereas "Visnaga" praises the resources of a desert plant through asmr voices, field recordings, and evasive chords. "A House A Dance A Poem" is a feminist hymn composed as a pyramidal structure, referring, at the same time, to the A-frame houses, the yoga position of the triangle, the first letter of the Roman alphabet, and the feminine sex. In the closing song, "No Fear But Anticipation", Atkinson offers an open-hearted plea about the existentialist necessity of finding desire even when the times seem too dark to think about it. A telepathic and non-scholastic anthem for Don Delillo, Joan Didion, and Jean Paul Sartre. The final Buchla sounds that close the record seem to deliver an unspeakable message that only birds and aliens could transcript. The echo of the '80s sci-fi anxious aethetics resonates with today's transparency of digital sounds in the whole record. The cohabitation of simple midi textures and historical Serge and Buchla signals are convoked and confronted together by a voice. The human instrument appears here as the epicenter of the recordings, giving the other instruments a gravitational point. Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley, or Delia Derbyshire are the main influences of Atkinson in their own way of inviting fiction and abstraction as the essential materials of composition. For Hand In Hand, Félicia Atkinson used different sources for the lyrics and scores of her tracks: house plant instruction books, old issues of Desert Magazine, architecture manuals, JG Ballard and K. Dick's books, as well as her own poetry." - Shelter Press.
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The Hitcher Review
Classification: 18 Director: Dave Meyers Rating: 2/5
Michael Bay continues his obsession with producing remakes of classic horror movies with the dubious decision of turning his attention to The Hitcher. Originally a vehicle for Rutger Hauer to terrorise a pair of teens on a road trip in 1986, Sean Bean unwisely agreed to reprise the role as the sadistic Jack Ryder who spends his days killing innocent people on America’s deserted highways. Lacking the cinematic legacy of Bay’s previous re-imaginings, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Amityville Horror, it hardly offers the same level of intrigue for movie buffs so piles on the car crashes and gore in an attempt to keep interest levels up.
When college students Grace (Bush) and Jim (Knighton) set off on spring break to New Mexico, their spirits are high. They are off to meet up with friends and party the holiday away. One night while driving in heavy rain, they narrowly miss a hitchhiker standing in the middle of the road next to his broken down car. After swerving and stopping, they argue over whether to pick up the mysterious stranger. Grace pleads with Jim to carry on so they speed off without talking to him. Later, at a service station, they bump into the same man, who says his name is Jack Ryder. Jim attempts to do a good deed and offer him a lift, but finds when Ryder is in the car he quickly turns into a psychotic killer hell bent on making their ride a road trip to their deaths.
In the opening sequence, a rabbit is hit by a car when it runs into its path: The Hitcher is similarly blunt in its approach. Until Ryder gets in Jim and Grace’s car there is an unsettling atmosphere. However, once Ryder reveals his intentions to kill the pair, The Hitcher hits fast forward and skips past logic. Jim and Grace force Ryder out the car, then he overtakes them in a car with a family. Trying to warn them, they crash and walk down the road to find Ryder has massacred the family. He then manages to frame the couple, slaughter all the officers in a police station when they do get caught and disappear without laying a finger on them before appearing from nowhere to murder them on the highway again. And that’s just for starters.
Later, Ryder takes out an armed police pursuit of the teenagers comprising three police cars and a helicopter with only a handgun, but there is no follow up from the authorities until the over the top finale: the gaping plot holes in-between make for plenty of eye-rolling moments. As producer, Bay doesn’t have a hand in directing his remakes – on this occasion the honour falls to music video director Dave Meyers. He serves up plenty of high speed crashes and gory killings to a backdrop of nomadic New Mexico scenery in typically glossy Bay fashion, yet there is nothing below this disposable surface not seen in numerous other horror films.
The performances serve their purpose and the one man who could have saved this film, a typically villainous Bean, is underused. He must be getting tired of these unrewarding Hollywood roles with Flightplan, Silent Hill and The Island all similarly forgettable entries on his CV. The Hitcher is a dull comparison to the original that will annoy fans as much as those of Bay’s previous retreads. At least his involvement is probably key to most of the enjoyment here: without him the spectacular highway pile-ups probably wouldn’t be half as satisfyingly destructive.
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Play These Shooters to Prepare for Far Cry 5
Another Far Cry game is on the horizon, and although it has a new and interesting setting, almost everybody knows what they are getting into with the Far Cry games. However, if you are one of the players who never played a Far Cry game in their lives, we've selected 7 shooters that will let you taste the awesome Far Cry experience and get you ready for the newest installment of Far Cry 5.
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Price: From $19.99-$29.99
Buy it on: Amazon & Steam
Available on: PC, PS4, Xbox ONE
Just Cause 3 is an open-world third-person shooter that lets you do whatever you want. The game throws you on an island with a wide arsenal of deadly tools to unleash total mayhem and chaos. Just Cause 3 also lets you decide whether you want to help the civilians or the bad guys -- it's completely up to you.
Though Far Cry 5 isn't set on an island like most other Far Cry games and Just Cause games are, they both sure let you bring total chaos to all your surroundings. Both game series usually are about two groups who are at war with one another and you find yourself in the middle of their battles.
Even though Far Cry doesn't let you choose a side to fight on, you'll still get to help one side beat the other. Both games definitely allow you to rain down chaos upon your enemies with a wide variety of explosives, weapons, and vehicles all made to obliterate everything in front of you.
Definitely play Just Cause 3 to prepare yourself for all the explosive action and awesome moments Far Cry 5 is going to bring.
Sniper Elite 4 is an open-world, third-person shooter set in World War 2. As the title reveals, the game is all about sniping, but on the higher difficulty settings, this is no easy task. You'll have to take many things into consideration, like bullet drop and wind-directions. This game definitely is for the real "sniper elites" among gamers.
From the description, Sniper Elite is nothing like Far Cry 5 ,but with a closer look, the games do share some interesting similarities. Both games are open-world games that use stealth elements, and they both let you approach your mission from many directions.
This gives you the opportunity to find a path to your objective that suits your play-style best but also requires you to adapt whenever things don't turn out the way you intended. This gives both games a lot of replay value and gives the player an opportunity to explore different ways of playing the game.
If you like making up plans on the fly and approaching things from new and interesting ways, be sure to check out Sniper Elite 4.
Available on: PC, PS4, Xbox ONE, PS3, Xbox 360
Tomb Raider is a semi-open-world, third-person shooter that has a heavy focus on exploration, story, and action-packed gameplay. In Tomb Raider, you'll have to fight through many enemies using everything you have at your disposal, distract enemies with a thrown bottle for a sneaky stealth kill, shoot an explosive barrel to take out a group, and set traps for other incoming enemies.
Tomb Raider might not have the awesome villains Far Cry has, but apart from that, both games are really similar. They both are story driven and encourage exploration while also having awesome action-packed combat that lets you interact with the environment to create some unforgettable moments.
Story progression is also quite similar. The games both have a clear objective from the start. but achieving the objective is a long way and has several twists and turns to excite and surprise players. If you've never played a Far Cry game before but you do like Tomb Raider, you'll definitely want to play Far Cry 5.
The Borderlands games are first-person shooters that focus on co-op, action-packed gameplay and tons of loot. The Borderlands games are known for their massive amounts of unique guns and their unmatched co-op gameplay that provides countless hours of fun for you and up to three friends.
Far Cry and Borderlands don't seem to have much in common apart from their first-person perspectives, and frankly, they don't share all that many things with each other. However, both games are even better when played in co-op. Playing with friends is usually much more fun than playing alone, and this is definitely true for both Far Cry and Borderlands.
Both games are awesome co-op experiences that emphasize teamwork and the reward of having lots of fun with your friends. If you can't wait to shoot your way through Far Cry 5 with friends, try the Borderlands series to have just as much, if not more, crazy fun!
Metal Gear Solid V is a third-person shooter that emphasizes stealth. The game drops you in a large area to complete your mission, and it's up to you what route you take, which guards you'll silently pass by, and which ones you'll take down. This freedom, combined with a set of awesome mechanics, makes Metal Gear Solid V an awesome stealth experience.
The feeling of freedom in Far Cry when it comes to completing your missions is amazing -- you can approach each mission in countless ways. The same goes for Metal Gear Solid V. It might not be open-world, but the freedom and countless possibilities in achieving your objectives are just as good.
Both games implement stealth flawlessly and give you a multitude of mechanics to work with to stay unnoticed by your enemies. If you want to practice being an unseeable ghost and passing by tough guards like they don't even exist, make sure to try Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
Price: From $9.99-$19.99
Buy it on: Amazon & Origin
Available on: PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Crysis 3 is a first-person shooter that lets you play the game in two ways: either use stealth to take out enemies one by one, or run in guns blazing and cause total mayhem. Most people will know the Crysis games for their graphical capabilities, but don't be fooled -- they are much more than just tech demos.
Crysis 3 is much more contained and linear than Far Cry 5, but both games understand the awesomeness of blending stealth gameplay with awesome firefights. Both games let you decide when you want to try and kill enemies with stealth or when you just want pull out a rocket launcher and start blowing up everything around you.
The two games allow the player to run into a firefight like a maniac by giving them large health pools and abilities that negate damage. Far Cry has quick, on-the-fly healing while Crysis has active armor. On the other side, both games also give the player many options to use stealth, so it's completely up to you how you play the game.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a semi-open-world, first-person shooter that focuses on stealth gameplay and the use of a skill tree with all sorts of unique abilities that completely change the way you play the game. Deus Ex is also very story driven and has a wide variety of dialogue options and multiple endings.
The Far Cry series has been as successful as it is due to many reasons. One of them is allowing the player to get creative with the way they play the game and create their own play style through a skill tree that lets players unlock unique skills that change the way they play. Deus Ex is no different from that. Both games implement such a skill tree very well and give the player tons of options to make each playthrough entirely different.
These games also allow the player to complete the missions with their chosen set of skills. Your skills decide how you will have to complete that mission and decide the way you have to play the game overall. Almost like a Metroidvania. If you want to see what play style suits you best, be sure to check out Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
That wraps up our picks for 7 shooters to get you ready for Far Cry 5. If you've got a pick to add to this list, be sure to let us know in the comments. I hope you are all as excited for Far Cry 5 as we are and are able to bear the long wait. In the meantime, don't forget to stay tuned to Gameskinny for more lists and other gaming content.
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Jayhawks Move into Role of March Madness Betting Favorite
The Michigan State Spartans were the favorites to win the 2016 NCAA Tournament just a couple of weeks ago, and while their odds to win have improved it's the Kansas Jayhawks (+500) who are now set as the front runners.
Comfortable wins at No. 19 Baylor, home to Texas Tech, and at No. 23 Texas have edged Kansas ahead of Michigan State on the latest odds.
The Spartans (+600) hasn't exactly fallen off as they've won four straight and eight of their last nine games. Their only loss in that span was a one-point overtime defeat at No. 18 Purdue. Most bracketologists still view them as a No. 2 seed, but they're No. 2 in the overall odds to win it all.
While Michigan State and Kansas have moved up, Oklahoma has dropped a little bit going from +900 to +1200. At 23-6, they're still viewed as one of the four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament but a decisive loss at Texas on February 27 has hurt their standing.
Coming in third and fourth on the odds are North Carolina (+800) and Kentucky (+800).
What's interesting to note is that in both ESPN's and USA Today's latest projections the four No. 1 seeds are Kansas, Oklahoma (+1200), Virginia (+1400) and Villanova (+1400). However, only one of those schools is in the top four according to the odds; there's a discrepancy between what the media and oddsmakers think heading into March.
What's peculiar is that Xavier, which is second in the Big East and is deemed a No. 2 seed in most projections, is at +1200 versus Villanova, which is tops in the Big East and projected as a No. 1 with slightly worse odds at +1400.
The biggest mover at the top has to be the Maryland Terrapins, who opened the season as one of the three main favorites but now currently sits at +2000. That's because they've lost three of their last four games and have seen their star player Melo Trimble endure a slump. They're just 8-5 over their last 13 games after starting 15-1.
Although it's been mostly a mediocre year for the Pac-12, they have a couple of teams that many people feel are sleeper-caliber. Utah (+6600) has now won seven in a row - including an impressive win over Arizona. They have a dominant big man in Jakob Poeltl and we've seen how far teams can go on the back of a strong center.
California (+3300) has also won seven straight and is tied with Oregon (+3300) for the best odds of any team in the Pac-12.
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Gambia’s deranged and delusional dictator Yahya Jammeh has declared that henceforth the Holly Koran, is going to rule The Gambia and not the present constitution. “I am not afraid to pronounce myself as a Muslim; in anywhere; in any part of the world; in front of any person; I am only afraid of the Almighty Allah. And the Islamic Republic of The Gambia, is going to be truly an Islamic country. The Constitution shall be the Koran. The Constitution shall be the Koran because that’s what we are going to be judged. All our actions in contravention for what Allah has prescribed for us; we would be doomed to fail and tomorrow (hereafter) we will pay a high price,” Jammeh said in the presence of foreign Arab guests including the radical Indian preacher Dr. Zakair Naik.
The Gambian autocratic despot had organized an Islamic recitation competition as part of his ongoing efforts to transform The Gambia an Islamic State. Several thousands of dollars were given to the winners of the Islamic recitation competitors.
“When I declared the Islamic State; some people were asking me, what is wrong with me. I said why? What’s wrong with me what? Today, we have the Islamic State; the ISIL; everybody is condemning that and you called your country an Islamic State.. I said so what? We are an Islamic State based on the Holly Koran. One of the reasons I invited him is for people to be clear what Islamic is all about; the most noble religion; that will last whether people like it or not. And I will not compromise my religion because Islam is the religion of Allah. It will prevail no matter how powerful you think you are,” Jammeh remarked.
Responding to Jammeh’s delusional claim that The Gambia would be ruled by the Holly Koran, the leader of the newly formed political party Mama Kandeh said: “ That’s a joke. Jammeh’s statement makes no sense. How can the Holly Koran rule The Gambia? That will never happen. This is a secular nation, in which Muslims and Christians have been living side by side in peace and harmony. Jammeh cannot just wake up one morning said the Koran will rule The Gambia. That’s absurd and totally ridiculous.”
Mr. Mama Kandeh, who used to be an elected National Assembly Member of the ruling APRC party, said Jammeh’s statements lacks coherence.
“Dr. Zakir Naik came from India. The Koran doesn’t rule India. How can Jammeh make such a misleading statement and expects us to believe him. The entire Islamic State propaganda is all nonsense. It is a distraction from the main core issues that concern us as Gambians. In my view, it is wrong for this regime to be using letterheads bearing the title “The Islamic State Of The Gambia.” There is no legislation passed declaring The Gambia as an Islamic State. That’s my point. The Gambia cannot be an Islamic State, in view of the reasons I articulated above,” Mama Kandeh remarked.
Meanwhile, Jammeh said one of the reasons why he invited Dr. Zakir Naik, was to educate Gambians about the Holly Koran. Jammeh maintained that The Gambia will remain as an Islamic State no matter what.
For his part Dr. Zakir Naik said: “But I would like to confess to you; that there are very few who have the passion; the courage like the President of the Islamic Republic of The Gambia.”
Dr. Zakir Naik has been banned from entering into the United Kingdom. He has been accused of inciting terrorism. Naik has maintained that he is not sympathetic to terrorism organizations such as ISIS. Naik is dictator Yahya Jammeh’s spiritual Godfather.
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My Town: Craig T. Nelson's Kauai
Hawaii has more than just lovely views. You can find a good golf game too
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When he's not working in Hollywood, Craig T. Nelson unwinds on the North Shore of Kauai, where he and his wife own a vacation home. Star of the current NBC television drama "Parenthood," the 66-year-old actor has been coming to the Hawaiian
island for more than two decades and loves its remote beauty. A 7-handicap, Nelson plays golf frequently with locals, whom he admires for their swift play, fierce competitiveness and love of the game.
"There's no waiting; it's just bombs away," Nelson says. "And there are no handicaps involved...it's however good you are, you've gotta beat 'em. It's fun to play that way."
Most of the golf on Kauai is public, and visitors usually have no problem picking up a friendly game, Nelson says. Meanwhile, travelers who enjoy putting a little cash on the line often can partake in weekly skins games held at several Kauai courses.
Even though there are some great resorts on Kauai, I'd recommend staying in a vacation home instead of a hotel. There are so many available all over the island, and you can get them on the beach or inland. I've stayed in two- to six-bedroom places that were comfortable, well-maintained and reasonably priced.
I play primarily at Makai GC at Princeville Resort. It's a Robert Trent Jones Jr. design, and Jones recently renovated it. There are ocean views on both nines, and the beautiful par-3, seventh hole plays about 210 yards across the ocean. The trade winds blow at about 25 miles per hour predominantly, so you have to adjust your shots and learn to hit knockdowns. You can play it every day and still feel you've got something to prove, which I love.
I also enjoy Wailua GC, a municipal course just north of the airport in Lihue. The rates there for visitors are reasonable -- $48 weekdays, $60 weekends/holidays -- and it's an easy course to walk. Puakea GC, another municipal course in Lihue, is more wide open than many layouts, but the trade winds make it tough. And in Poipu, along the South Shore, I'd recommend Kiahuna GC, an inland course that's laid out wonderfully.
There are a couple of places in Hanalei that I enjoy. Bar Acuda is a tapas restaurant that has great variety, from short ribs to these incredible scallops and lamb. Postcards Café is a seafood restaurant that's in a little Hawaiian plantation house.
Paradise Bar & Grill in Princeville has a fantastic buffalo burger. And the Grille at Puakea GC has a lamb burger I'd hop on a plane for. Make sure to try the island's mango, papaya and guava, because you'll never get any better. And I'm a big fan of Hawaiian chicken, called Huli-Huli, which can be done in a variety of ways.
The North Shore beaches have great views and water temperatures in the high 70s to low 80s. My favorite one is right out my front door, but I'd suggest visitors check out Ke'e Beach in Ha'ena State Park a few miles west of Hanalei.
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Posted on 07 Mar in Coworking Spaces, Industry news, Singapore, Trending by Gabrielle Ibasco 0 Comments
Collision 8 and Found. were two homegrown brands that have each made a name for themselves for their focus on community and innovation. As of February 11, 2019, these two established coworking space operators have become one — a landmark merger known as Found8.
Both parties have been in talks since September of 2018, where they began to see how the brands have clear synergies with one another. Collectively, the Found8 merger brings together a whopping USD$20 million worth of funding. With more funds at their disposal, Found8 aims to expand to other markets, beginning with Kuala Lumpur in July this year.
“Our hope is to continue from KL into other parts of the region as well, start building up this innovation ecosystem, the network that we already have, into the rest of the region. So that’s in the pipeline and we’ll be launching more spaces next year and the years to come,” said Michelle Yong, the co-CEO of Found8.
Yong is the co-founder of the pre-merger Collision 8, which launched its first location at the High Street Centre in 2016. The brand’s mission was to foster learning, innovation, and collaborative opportunities among its members, creating a space where ideas could “collide.”
Meanwhile, Grace Sai is the founder of what was previously known as Found. Found. similarly prioritised its members’ growth through community initiatives and tailored innovation solutions. One such solution was an innovation fund started to support early-stage startups.
As the co-CEOs of Found8, Yong will focus on spearheading the brand’s regional expansion and growth, while Sai plans to work more closely on the corporate innovation side. While the two original brands were primarily known for a membership profile of startups, Found8 also aims to provide solutions for family businesses and corporate clients.
Combined, Found8 currently has 5 locations in Singapore. Three were previously under the Found. brand, including locations on Prinsep Street, Cuppage Road, and the newly-opened flagship space on Amoy Street. The two spaces operated by Collision 8 are located on High Street and Anson Road. Altogether, there are now over 1000 members part of Found8’s combined network, including notable startups like Antler, General Assembly, Miles Life — and of course, GorillaSpace!
Beyond expanding their reach, Found8 plans to invest in improvements to their existing portfolio of spaces. “We have plans to improve Prinsep and Cuppage, while we launch Amoy and Anson, and also High Street Centre,” said Sai.
Of course, the advantage of this merger is not limited to the operators. Members of either one of the original brands now have access to a wider range of spaces, networks, and resources. For example, Found.’s partnership with Google for Startups has carried over to Found8, enabling even more opportunities for mentorship and innovation.
“Our philosophy has always been that collaboration is better than competition. As we regionalise, Found8 is set to create meaningful innovation ecosystems everywhere we go. We are creating a new benchmark for the future of co-working in Asia,” Sai explains.
In our blog, we previously discussed how consolidation is an emerging trend in the world of coworking. Check out our previous article on Capitaland’s investment in flexible office space, joining hands with The Work Project to acquire Collective Works. With so many coworking spaces coming up in the market offering similar benefits, it comes as no surprise that operators would consider joining hands to leverage their combined resources.
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Oregon's Seaside Aquarium rescued a Pacific snake-eel found buried in the sand in Long Beach, Washington. The Aquarium said the Pacific snake-eel has never been seen on the Washington coast. (Photo Credit: Seaside Aquarium/Facebook)
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Marine experts rescued a bizarre sea creature found buried in the sand at a beach on the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington, and they’re calling the animal an “incredibly rare” find.
Personnel from the Seaside Aquarium in Oregon received a call about a strange animal found in the sand last week, far inland from the water’s edge. When they responded to the scene in Long Beach, they were surprised to find that it was a Pacific snake-eel (Ophichthus triserialis), which has never been seen before on the Washington coast.
Although Pacific snake-eels are known to burrow in sand or mud, they are usually found at depths between 25 feet and 500 feet, the Aquarium said in a Facebook post on Friday.
The Aquarium found that the 4-feet long eel was too lethargic to be returned to the sea, so personnel brought it to the facility and isolated it in a slowly warming tank to make the eel more comfortable.
“When we arrived, we uncovered the fish, which was remarkably still alive and got it into sea water,” the Aquarium said. “There is some damage on its pectoral fins that we are hoping will heal.”
Pacific snake-eels ordinarily range from Peru to northern California. According to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, they have only been found twice on the Oregon coast, and both had already died before being spotted.
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Up until 2002, GWCT advice on mink trapping was sound but conventional. It aimed to maximise success, but was based on accumulated experience not on any kind of systematic approach.
The GWCT Mink Raft was conceived in 2001 and first tested in 2002. It quickly became clear that the raft had immediate value in guiding mink trapping, and that ultimately it would help to generate sound advice on wider trapping strategy.
The mink raft actively solicits field signs by providing a structure that is highly likely to be visited by mink, as well as a substrate that reliably accumulates evidence of those visits between checks, which can be one to two weeks apart. The use of these rafts is the most effective means available to detect the presence of mink. Once a mink is detected, the raft(s) on which it left its tracks also becomes the best place to set a trap. The commonest result is that the mink is caught next day. Operating rules were developed empirically and tested through a succession of three mink removal projects of increasing difficulty. The last in this series was the River Monnow Project in Herefordshire, in which we demonstrated that we can turn back the clock by eliminating mink and re-introducing water voles, creating a tenable situation that can be maintained with modest resources.
Today mink rafts are used in many mink control projects around Britain and Europe, and even in South America. Although technologically very simple, they made a breakthrough in effective control of an unwanted invasive predator.
Because of financial constraints, these projects have all been development or demonstration projects rather than (expensive) experimental science. Their purpose is to show how successful mink control can be, given a small professional workforce, and also its limitations. Since 2003 we have offered workshops on mink control using the GWCT Mink Raft. Besides teaching the methods we have developed, a key purpose of such workshops is to guide expectations as to the cost and likely success of mink control. We take the opportunity to give advice on humane dispatch, and to discuss ethics.
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Boris Johnson has won the culture war… for now
By George Chesterton 13 January 2020
With almost unassailable political power, conservatism looks set to dominate culture as well. As the media shifts further to right following the end of the Brexit impasse, progressive ideas and voices will find it harder and harder to be heard
If there is one phrase that sums up the British culture war it is “legitimate concerns”. For the right and Conservatives generally, “legitimate concerns” expressed an unease caused by waves of economic migrants from the EU and Asia. For self-loathing liberals they meant the same thing, except it was a shameful secret and not to be admitted in public. For the progressive left the words were a right-wing code and an excuse for racism. The idea of “legitimate concerns”, and what they really signified subconsciously, were emblematic of the struggle to define Britain’s national identity and direction.
Whatever position you took during the three-year rumble since the EU referendum in 2016, Boris Johnson’s general election victory means that now one view prevails. For the foreseeable future, the culture war is over.
What Johnson’s hegemony has done to politics will be echoed in culture, with repercussions for what will and won’t be said in old media, social media and from the mouths of politicians themselves. The way we think and speak about patriotism, the diversity in our cities and regions and any number of identity politics tropes is now up for grabs. The retreat of the left, and the impotence that will surely follow, will have a profound effect on the cultural life of the nation. This is being played out in real time over Meghan Markle and the debate about the extent to which racism is to blame for her and Prince Harry’s decision to quit as working royals. Britain is being told it is a racist nation. The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Express are not going to take that lying down. How the rest of the country reacts will be instructive.
The left may come to regret its conspiracy theories about the BBC. Since Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, the cranks and malcontents that followed in his wake have targeted the BBC as one of the main causes of their ill-fortune. The BBC has been bolted on to Murdoch, Lord Rothermere and the rest of the Tory media as a scourge of the left – joining Tony Blair, Zionists and anyone who wouldn’t let Jeremy finish a sentence as the cause of Labour’s humiliation. Ironically, thanks to the BBC’s quaint obsession with balance, figures of the far left who would never normally have been given the time of day became (almost) household names, with rent-a-Trots cropping up on every politics and current affairs programme in an effort to show “both sides”. Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar complained about the left being unrepresented on national TV and radio almost every day. (Similarly, the ubiquitous Nigel Farage has made a career pretending he and his fellow right-wing populists can’t get access to mainstream media on the mainstream media.) Owen Jones’ role as the left’s pre-eminent journalist/activist is now very shaky, damaged by his decision to follow Corbyn into oblivion, while his ludicrous apocalyptic rhetoric (“Prepare for a total firestorm”, “Fascism will vanquish us all”, “Tories declare all out war”) looks flat and obsolete after 12 December.
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By attacking the BBC with such gusto, the left has cleared the way for Johnson’s radical government to pick at its wounds. Although threats to abolish the licence fee are ten a penny after a general election, the BBC no longer commands the faith of those who either do not recognise its value in the age of streaming or see paying for it as an unjustified tax. An anti-BBC culture undermines the one place left-wing voices could guarantee a decent hearing and as the BBC’s output becomes ever more infantile and wishy-washy, its own reason to exist becomes less vital. This week, assistant politics editor Norman Smith’s undignified mockery of Rebecca Long-Bailey that ended in him signing “Oh, Jerermy Corbyn” was enough to make anyone a conspiracy theorist. The BBC has found itself promoting Tory political journalists, which infuriates the left, and pursuing virtue signalling in its documentaries and dramas, which infuriates the right. Friendless, insecure and timid, the BBC is contributing to its own demise, making it easier and easier to help Britain forget what makes it such a unique, valuable and frequently brilliant organisation.
Meanwhile, Johnson’s knack of avoiding media scrutiny has paid off handsomely. His invisibility – see his decision to avoid commenting on the Iran crisis until he absolutely had to – allows him to circumvent the traditional relationship between British politicians and the press, especially the BBC. Where the left appears tied to the past (take your pick from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s), the Conservatives are busy adapting to the present with an eye on the future. New decade, new rules. This plays out culturally too, with progressives doubling down on issues that can appear obsessively obscure to the mainstream (even when they’re clearly not, such as trans rights). If the culture war is to be revived, opposition ideas should aspire to be the consensual, dominant narrative and not romanticise the margins of insurgency.
Johnson is virtually incapable of being satirised: the more thousands of likes a comedian gets for an amusing anti-Boris tweet, the more futile the joke appears
Just as the political opposition desperately needs a long-term strategy that conveys a simple, coherent and broad message about its values and aspirations, so its cultural counterpart needs to accept the scale of the challenge it faces. Corbyn’s call for the left to be “the resistance” is typically boneheaded (is it possible to have less than zero credibility?) in that for him resistance for its own sake was always his alpha and omega. To effectively fight the forces of reaction – such as an emboldened xenophobia, racism or homophobia – requires a steely, canny pragmatism that matches those in power, not a petty or whiny knee-jerk response to every deliberate provocation. Inevitably, some cynics on the right will stir a cultural backlash, pushing against everything they can label as “woke” regardless of merit.
Johnson’s majority will make the media less inhibited about poking at the margins of identity politics, less afraid to offend or dog whistle on immigration, race, sexuality and gender. Over the next few years, the extremes of cancel culture will be marginalised to universities and social media, which is not necessarily a bad thing. But the problem the progressive left have is that with no political power and no prospect of it in the near future, the mainstream has no obligation to pay it any heed and will, rather, continue to scoff at its more laughable fringes to discredit its genuine grievances. Or legitimate concerns, if you will.
The election result has already justified (in their view) the right-wing contention that Twitter is a self-indulgent echo chamber. The defection of Labour voters to the Tories has enormous cultural implications as well as its immediate political ones. The new government was brought to power by, and therefore must serve, socially conservative working-class communities in the North, Midlands and Wales, pulling the rug from under not just the Labour Party, but radical progressive culture as a whole. Politically and culturally (though not economically) these communities are now in the ascendant. It’s the famous metropolitan liberal elite’s turn to be ignored. In a sense, this does represent a kind of power to the people, it’s just it has arrived on a very circuitous route via Eton.
Inevitably, some cynics on the right will stir a cultural backlash, pushing against everything they can label as ‘woke’ regardless of merit
Johnson himself is virtually incapable of being satirised: the more thousands of likes a comedian gets for an amusing anti-Boris tweet, the more futile the joke appears. For the next few years we must face the reality that only Johnson can bring down Johnson. Mockery may be a release valve, but it often reinforces dominance, as it did to Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Where once Stormzy and Harry Styles shouting “Fuck Boris” would have made Conservatives jittery, it now seems like harmless grandstanding. The appearance of futility can be as damaging to a cause as the ineffectuality of the message itself. Meaningful opposition needs substance and to be built from the bottom up.
The agenda is moving on with dizzying speed. Much has been made of Labour leadership hopeful Long-Bailey’s reference to “progressive patriotism”, a phrase which wants to have its cake and eat it, but ends up satisfying nobody. The fact that she felt compelled to mention at all it suggests a cultural jolt is underway. In this context, “progressive” is being used to soothe her suspicious supporters, to help them hold their noses when discussing something as demeaning as patriotism. For the millions of voters Labour has lost, patriotism is not and has never been a problem, so dressing it up in the frills of progressive politics not only neuters the idea, but insults their intelligence.
This rebuilding will take years. The extreme factionalism of the Corbynite rump over the Labour leadership mirrors the cultural factionalism – a kind of cul de sac of instinctive misery – that plagues progressive attitudes to culture and identity. Whatever the “wrong people” like must be bad. Liking the wrong thing makes you a “bad person”. This myopia won’t steer votes or the zeitgeist. When the culture war is resumed it’s more likely that the natural ripples of social evolution will bring about more meaningful change than any outdated notions of an embattled left. In the end, demographics, generational shifts and the slow cook of a true diversity will achieve something no-platforming, Twitter pile-ons, cancel culture never could. Let’s be realistic. It’s going to be a long decade.
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February 3rd, 2011 by Karen Marie Shelton
CBS RENEWS “NCIS” FOR THE 2011-2012 SEASON
Television’s #1 Drama/Scripted Series to Return for Its Ninth Season
Tuesday, February 02, 2011 Broadcast Delivered Series’ Record Audience of 22.85 Million Viewers
NCIS, television’s #1 drama/scripted series for the second consecutive year, has been renewed by the CBS Television Network for the 2011-2012 season, it was announced today by Nina Tassler, President, CBS Entertainment.
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“It’s simply amazing that a show in its eighth season continues to perform at such an elite level,” said Nina Tassler, President, CBS Entertainment. “This is a tribute to the hard work of its talented writers, producers and cast for bringing to life such compelling stories and characters with intrigue and humor. The quality of the storytelling is also evident by the series’ incredibly devoted fan base who we thank for their passion and commitment to NCIS on CBS, in online communities and around the world.”Network Phenomenon
“NCIS has become a network phenomenon and a global sensation. The show continues to hit audience peaks on CBS and is a top performer in territories around the world,” said David Stapf, President, CBS Television Studios.
“We thank an amazing cast, led by Mark Harmon, which has undeniable chemistry, for bringing to life characters with such amazing universal appeal. And, we credit Shane (Brennan) and Gary (Glasberg) for the storytelling and production vision that delivers compelling episodes every week and a fresh creative vision every year.”
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NCIS premiered on CBS in 2003-2004 as a spin-off of the long-running action/legal drama, “JAG.” Since its debut, NCIS’s ratings have steadily climbed, becoming a top 10 program in 2007-2008, the series’ fifth season.
NCIS’s ratings continued building the following season, finishing 2008-2009 ranked fifth among all prime time programs. Last season, NCIS ranked fourth among all programs and became the #1 drama/scripted program on television, with an average audience of 18.89 million viewers.
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Currently in its eighth season, NCIS’s ratings are still rising and the series continues to be the #1 drama/scripted series. This season, NCIS is averaging 19.60
NCIS star Mark Harmon has just agreed to a new two-year contract to stay with the show which guarantees the beloved series will continue with him at the helm for at least the next two years.
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In autumn 2019, Paper Machine 3 in Dunaújváros raises its production capacity by 5% due to the project aimed at the increasing of production capacity. The modernization to be implemented in several phases will result in the production of extra 11,500 tons of paper annually, that is, the 40-year-old but still modern paper machine will have the capacity to produce 221,500 tons of paper in total.
In the first phase of the project implemented in August 2019, the vacuum-park was extended: besides the two vacuum pumps installed in 2016, one more unit was installed, which was the basic condition of the increase in production capacity. The energy consumption of the new pumps is 35% less compared to their 40-year-old predecessors, which signifies a great step toward a more environmentally aware operation.
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(Jess + Moss is now available on DVD through Strand Releasing. It world premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and opened theatrically at the reRun Gastropub in New York City on Friday, February 17, 2012. If you are not in NYC, don’t worry, as it is now available on VOD at the following outlets: YouTube, iTunes, Sundance Now, and Amazon. Visit the film’s official website to learn more. NOTE: This review was first posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012, as a “Hammer to Nail Pick of the Week” at the Filmmaker Magazine blog.)
While there are many pressing existential questions, to my mind, this is one of the most significant: can one make a truly effective film about aimlessness and boredom without that film becoming excruciatingly aimless and boring in its own right? At first glance, Clay Jeter’s Jess + Moss might seem to confront that issue head on, and if you aren’t in the right frame of mood, your opinion might be a less than favorable one. But if you go into it understanding that this is sensory-based—as opposed to plot-driven—cinema, you’ll immediately recognize that Jess + Moss is about something completely different. It’s about the memory of aimlessness and boredom. In a larger way, it concerns the ineffable, mysterious power of memory itself, how it can cause us to feel so deeply when we aren’t even able to pinpoint what it is that’s making us feel so lonely and sad.
Jess + Moss is most certainly not from the Super 8 school of nostalgia cinema (if anything, we’re in George Washington country here, though even that feels like an unnecessary stretch of a comparison). Shot in and around Murray, Kentucky, where Jeter himself was raised—most of the film takes place on his family’s actual land—this is actually an experimental tone poem of a feature, which moves to the dreamy, meandering rhythm of summertime itself. Which isn’t to say that there isn’t a compelling or dramatic incident that propels the story forward. Jess (Sarah Hagan) and Moss (Austin Vickers), seemingly the only inhabitants on this old, forgotten land, no longer have parents. As the 18-year-old Jess tells Moss repeatedly, her story soothing his 12-year-old soul, their parents were best friends who used to play pitch together, until one night a car accident took them away forever.
The recurring appearance of this story not only gives a the film a musical structure and grounding (it has been wonderfully assembled by editor/producer Isaac Hagy), but it affords Jeter the opportunity to not be beholden to narrative and to instead focus on presenting a bountiful amount of nostalgic childhood artifacts and scenarios: a boombox strapped to a bicycle; cassette tapes; an old cassette recorder; a record player; riding in the back of a pickup truck, staring at the clouds in the sky; fireworks at dusk; bouncing and lounging on a trampoline; swaying on a front porch swing; playing an old piano in an abandoned church; shooting BB guns; summer thunderstorms; microscopes; bonfires; and the list goes on. There is an ending to all of this aimless reverie, though, and it delivers some bittersweet finality to Jess and Moss’s current situation. Yes, the time has come for them to grow up and leave these lazy days behind.
Without getting too curmudgeonly about things, a film about 20th century childhood cannot and should not be shot on a Canon 5D. Not only did Jeter shoot his film on celluloid, he and his head cinematographer Will Basanta incorporated a wide variety of film stocks. And while it would be silly not to acknowledge that this was likely a practical production decision—short ends are dramatically cheaper than fresh new rolls of film—it is also quite clear that Jeter has chosen each stock for a very specific purpose (for instance, the grainiest and foggiest ones are used during dream sequences and/or flashbacks). A cinematographer by trade, Jeter realizes that the texture of a film’s image can do more than simply provide stylistic flair. It can become an unexpectedly powerful tool for eliciting emotion.
Jess + Moss addresses a particularly acute type of nostalgia. Yet even if you don’t come from a rural backdrop like this one, Jeter and his collaborators nonetheless create a mood in which you have the time and space to reflect upon your own childhood, wherever and whenever that may have been. Like an unearthed lunchbox stuffed with trinkets and photographs, Jess + Moss is a tiny backyard treasure.
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Becoming a Professional Shooter
Brian McCombie - May 02, 2011
How to turn a passion into an occupation.
By Brian McCombie
Champion shooter Rob Leatham translated his skills into a full-time job shooting for and representing Springfield Armory.
It's no surprise to rob leatham that he loves shooting handguns. He was born into a family of "professional plinkers," says this native of Mesa, Arizona, and they spent their free time reloading and shooting. So the young Leatham became a reloader, shot every chance he got and entered his first handgun competition at the ripe old age of 17.
More surprising for Leatham is that his passion for shooting became his day job. Probably the best known competitor on the action shooting circuit, Leatham, 50, is a 24-time U.S. Practical Shooting Association national champion. In 1989--as his wins were multiplying and action shooting was gaining in popularity--Springfield Armory signed him to a full-time contract, with benefits. His job, then and now?
"It really hasn't changed a lot over the last 20-plus years," says Leatham. "To go shooting. How good is that?"
Actually, there's a little more to it all--for Leatham and other pro shooters. Yet, the bulk of his job with Springfield really is to shoot handguns competitively, to win matches frequently, and in the process promote the Springfield Armory line of handguns.
There's a relatively small cadre of people who, like Leatham, shoot for a living. But it's growing. Today, nearly every large handgun and ammunition manufacturer--and numerous accessory makers--sponsors at least several individual shooters.
Remuneration varies from actual paychecks and benefits packages to providing equipment and some expenses. Team Smith & Wesson, for example, currently has 20 members. Only three of these slots are held by "Team Champions," meaning they are paid positions. Champions enter a good number of shooting competitions annually, represent the company at trade shows, help with product testing and are available for media interviews.
The other 17 team members? "They're really good shooters," says team captain Julie Golob, "well-versed in the product line." They represent Smith & Wesson at regional and national competitions. Support comes in the way of handguns, equipment and some expense monies.
"It's not their day job, essentially," notes Golob, 33, who came to Smith & Wesson after eight years with the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit. She's also won 80-plus titles in regional, national and international handgun competitions.
For the last three years, Team Smith & Wesson has run an open selection process, with an on-line application and interviews for top applicants. Obviously, good shooting skills rank very high, and competitive wins "help a lot" in being recruited, says Golob.
At ammunition maker Hornady, Neal Emery oversees the 20-plus members of Team Hornady Pro Staff, which includes the likes of top handgun competitors Doug Koenig and Max Michel.
"Typically, our pro staffer is someone who either wins consistently or is in the top percentile," says Emery. In the past, word of mouth within the shooting industry brought in most team members. Now, though, Hornady is implementing a more formalized process to better evaluate credentials and qualifications.
Beyond top marksmanship skill, today's pro team shooters also need people skills.
"We find that the Team Smith & Wesson blue shirt attracts a lot of people," says Golob. "So our team members have to be very approachable," especially at competitions where onlookers like to chat up team members for shooting and product advice.
"I've seen people come in to this who just can't talk to other people," says Leatham. "That's difficult. What a company is looking for is promotion. Winning is good for promotion. But you have to be able to connect with people, too."
Pro shooters often do in-store promotions. They may man a company booth at an outdoor show or give a shooting workshop. Familiarity with their sponsor company's entire product line, and the ability to share that information with the public, is a must.
It doesn't end there. At Hornady, for example, "Social media's going to a big thing we're getting into more and more," notes Emery. "We're expecting our shooters will have a big presence on Facebook and other such venues."
Leatham's advice to a budding handgun shooter with pro team aspirations?
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Sigma Level Calculator
Use this sigma calculator to easily calculate process sigma level, defects per million opportunities (DPMO, PPM), yield, rolled throughput yield (RTY), percent defects, percent defect units, as well as defects per million units (DPM). Various entry combinations are possible, but for full output enter defects, units, and defect opportunities per unit. The calculator can also solve for the number of samples required to control process quality to a given standard.
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Using the Sigma Level Calculator
What is Six Sigma in process control?
Yield vs. RTY, DPMO vs DPM
Sigma shift, long-term vs. short-term sigma?
Sample size for process control
This sigma calculator can be used to estimate the sigma level of a process (of producing units or delivering a service) based on the ratio of defects it results in. Depending on the input, the output consists of:
sigma level of the process (shows how well it is controlled relative to acceptance standard)
yield in terms of opportunities which did not result in a defect (standard yield)
yield in terms of acceptable products or services delivered (rolled throughput yield, RTY)
percentage of defects from total opportunities of the process to produce a defect
defects per million opportunities (DPMO, a.k.a. PPM)
percentage of defect units from the total production
defects per million units (DPM)
The minimum required input is DPMO in which case the six sigma calculator outputs the corresponding sigma level, standard yield and percent defects. Entering number of defects and total opportunities for a defect to occur outputs the control level (sigma), yield, percent defects and DPMO. Entering defects, number of units and number of opportunities per unit (the number of specifications that need to be controlled for quality for each unit, defect opportunities per unit) results in the full output of the calculator, including DPM, percentage of defect units, and rolled throughput yield on top of the outputs covered so far.
In industrial control of production quality and in project management in general where a process of any kind needs to be controlled for quality, the quality is assured by taking measurements on samples from the output of the process and comparing them to a specification. A process is usually controlled for several specifications. For example, a production line for steel sheets coated with Polyvinyl chloride may control the width, length, and thickness of the sheets, as well as the thickness, color, and uniformity of the PVC coating. A service desk may monitor performance of servicing customers by checking the length of interactions, the number of interactions required to resolve an issue, and customer feedback.
All processes exhibit variability over time and all measurements taken on samples of the process output are subject to additional variability simply due to the fact of sampling. A process controlled at a level of six sigma (6σ) is a process whose variability is controlled in such a manner that it produces an out-of-specification output (defect) twice in 1 billion opportunities[1]. A process which produces more defects per million opportunities will have a lower sigma level, signifying that it results either in more waste, if defects are captured before they reach the consumer, or in more poorly serviced customers, making it more expensive to produce a given number of outputs which are up to specification. This can be visualized by comparing the specifications to the process variability as shown on the six-sigma chart below.
As you can see, the probability that a process having control at the six sigma level will result in defects is miniscule, even with a large amount of produce. However, not all processes are designed with this level of quality assurance. A minimum standard for industrial production is three sigma.
Six sigma is also the name of a set of techniques and tools for process improvement introduced by engineer Bill Smith while working at Motorola and later made famous by General Electric claiming to save up to 1 trillion dollars by using Six-Sigma under Jack Welch in the final decade of the 20-th century. According to Smith[1], a process can achieve a particular sigma level by either reducing its variability or by changing the specifications so they allow larger variability in the output.
There is a direct relationship between the sigma level of a process and the number of defects it results in, which are usually expressed either as defects per million opportunities or as percent defects, as shown on the table below:
Rolling throughput yield (unit yield) by sigma level
Sigma level
Percent defects
3 2700.0000 99.73% 0.27%
4 63.3700 99.9937% 0.0073%
4.645 3.4000 99.99965% 0.00045%
5 0.5742 99.99994258% 0.00006852%
6 0.0020 99.9999998% 0.0000002%
4.64 is given since it is what was equated to six sigma in Smith's original work.
The sigma level calculator outputs both standard yield: percentage of opportunities which did not produce a defect from the total opportunities present, and its complimentary value - defects percent, as well as defects per million opportunities. These values are important for understanding the overall rate of success of the process. However, when a unit of produce has multiple opportunities to result in a defect, either because a product is produced from multiple parts, a service or process consists of several separate tasks or steps, and/or is measured by multiple measurements, measurements like defects per million units (DPM) and rolled throughput yield (unit yield) become more important.
Let us examine how these are related and why both are important in process control. If there is just one parameter to control for each unit produced, then DMPO and DPM are the same, and so is yield and RTY. However, with an increasing number of parts of the product or process, the difference between them increases geometrically. In examples provided by Smith[1] we can see how a manufacturing process in which each part is produced according to a six sigma standard, the yield in terms of units without any defects is virtually 100% for units consisting of 1-10 parts, however it drops to 99.9% if the parts are 30 and can go down to 90.3% if the number of steps in the process are 30,000, each with 3.4 defects per million opportunities. If the control level is more relaxed, for example 3-sigma, then producing even a unit with 10 parts would result in nearly 50% scrap.
Process Complexity (parts/unit)
Yield with 3σ*
Yield with 4.645σ*
1 99.73% 99.99% 100.00% 100.00%
10 97.33% 99.94% 100.00% 100.00%
100 76.31% 99.37% 99.97% 100.00%
1,000 6.70% 93.860% 99.66% 100.00%
10,000 0.00% 53.06% 96.66% 100.00%
50,000 0.00% 4.21% 84.37% 99.99%
100,000 0.00% 0.18% 71.18% 99.98%
* the specified sigma level is for the production process of each individual part. Note that 4.64σ corresponds to what is labeled as 6σ in Smith's original work where he uses offsets for mean shift. 3σ = 2700.00 DPMO; 4σ = 63.37 DPRMO; 4.64σ = 3.40 DPMO; 6σ = 0.002 DPMO.
The above table lists the relationship between the sigma level for the process of each individual part and the resulting rolled throughput yields for manufacturing of units consisting of a different number of parts. The same logic applies to multi-step processes of any kind. Calculations for any number of parts and any level of sigma can be performed using this sigma level calculator, as long as the sigma level is the same for each part. If different levels apply to different parts, use the RTY formula specified below to perform the calculations.
Below we present some of the key formulas used in the calculator, with short explanations.
DPMO formula
The equation for calculating defects per million opportunities is fairly straightforward: we take the number of defects, multiply by 1 million, then divide by the total opportunities which in itself is the product of the number of units and the number of defect opportunities per unit. Note that DPMO is often also written as PPM (parts per million), as was in the original Bill Smith paper.
As discussed above, DPMO is more useful when looking at a single process in isolation. When it is part of a multi-step or multi-part process, the defects per million units measure and its complimentary - the rolled throughput yield, become relevant.
RTY formula
The equation for rolled throughput yield is given below:
Following the Law of propagation of error, noted in the process control literature at least as early as Shewhart's key work in 1930 "Economic Control Of Quality Of Manufactured Product"[2], the combined error of a series of processes, each with a particular yield, is the product of the individual yield rates. Consequently, the rate of defect units is 1 minus the RTY.
The so-called sigma shift was originally employed[1] to account for batch-to-batch variability of the true mean of the manufactured product characteristic (width, length, thickness, diameter, etc.). Smith reported that a shift in the mean by as much as 1.5σ was observed in Motorola's manufacturing processes. From there, he resorts to adjusting of reported sigma levels by shifting them by exactly 1.5 sigma and effectively reporting a 4.645σ process as having a sigma level of six. However, it seems that Smith confused the observed changes in the mean (subject to natural variation) with the actual changes in the mean (unknown). He did not report any confidence intervals or other uncertainty measures which would help us ascertain the uncertainty of his estimated mean shifts, suggesting that this might indeed be the source of the confusion.
From this initial confusion seemingly stem the notions of short-term versus long-term sigma: one could have a short-term process exhibiting the characteristics of a 4.64σ process, but it would be classified as a long-term 6σ process, on the grounds that one is allowing for short-term misconfiguration of the machinery of exactly 1.5σ. This, however, has no basis in reality. Observed changes in the mean are not true changes in the mean and there is also no reason to take 1.5 sigma as standard shift since any process will exhibit shifts in the mean from batch to batch, and, equally importantly, from sample to sample. These effects cancel out after measuring a certain number of batches and this is all accounted for in the calculation of the standard deviation of the process, and from there - its sigma level. Practically, this can be done by taking samples from more than one batch and weighing them equally, or using a time-decay function if deterioration of manufacturing equipment is to be taken into account.
If in doing so one discovers that the measurements of the mean and standard deviation of the process during batch #1 estimate sigma at 4.64, if six sigma is required, then one cannot simply wave their hand and proclaim six sigma to be achieved, even though the available data suggests a much lower number (resulting 1,700 times more defects!). One either has to find the reason for the observed mean shift, if any, or find a way to reduce variability until the target sigma is achieved. Similarly, if the first 10 batches of a product had an estimated sigma level of six, then suddenly batch #11 results in a sigma estimate of 4.645 (if taken alone), it may well be a sign that the machinery needs to be inspected and the production line fixed, and not that everything is going as expected. If there is natural expected drift in the mean, one way or another, this has to be included in the sigma calculation. Ideally it will be detected before it has a significant adverse effect on quality, a fix will be applied and the process will be brought back under control. Using sigma shift instead simply misrepresents the actual imperfection of the process.
In short, using 1.5 sigma shift is completely arbitrary as the number has no basis in reality. Furthermore, applying any sigma shift to calculations regarding the yield and defect rate of a process will result in underreporting of the expected defect rate and of overreporting of its expected yield. Therefore, the concept of a "Sigma Score" detached from the statistical sigma, standard deviation, makes no sense at all.
Further discussion into the origins of the 1.5 sigma shift and the applicability of any shift whatsoever for process control or for estimation of long or short-term sigma can be found in this article on sigma shift as well as in reference 3.
Oftentimes in process control one needs to estimate the number of samples needed in order to ensure that a process is performing up to specification. Upholding of standards usually happens by computing a confidence interval around the observed sample mean or, equivalently, through comparison with control charts. Since taking measures or estimating compliance with specification can be time consuming, material consuming, and even destructive, it is of utmost importance that quality control is assured with the minimum possible sample size.
In order to compute the sample size, one needs to have estimated the standard deviation σ of the characteristic of interest from past samples, needs to set a probability for the estimation procedure to contain the true value of the characteristic (customary values are 90%, 95%, 99%, but the exact value chosen depends on a trade-off between accuracy and cost of estimation), and needs to determine the maximum width of the interval which would satisfy the estimation task.
The latter is half the standard error E, also known as margin of error and is dubbed "maximum error" in the six sigma calculator interface.
The maximum error should certainly be less than the difference between the upper specification limit (UCL) and the lower specification limit (LCL) to be of any practical use. For example, if the upper specification limit for the diameter of a rod is 10.2mm and the lower specification limit is 10.0mm, the maximum error of the estimation procedure canno be more than 10.2 - 10.0 = 0.2. Usually it is set significantly lower in order to ensure adherence to production standards. If the standard deviation is estimated from previous measurements to be 0.05 (making this a 4σ process), the maximum error can be set to 0.025 (margin of error of 0.0125), meaning that 62 randomly selected samples will need to be measured to ensure compliance with specification with a difference of no more than 0.025 with 95% confidence.
Of course, the above is just an example. You should follow the procedures for setting maximum error (or margin of error = 2 · maximum error) applicable to your particular case.
[1] Smith, B. (1993) "Making War on Defects", IEEE Spectrum 30(9):43-50; DOI: 10.1109/6.275174
[2] Shewhart, W.A. (1930) "Economic Control Of Quality Of Manufactured Product", Bell Labs Technical Journal 9(2):364-389; DOI: 10.1002/j.1538-7305.1930.tb00373.x
[3] Akerman, T. (2018) "Where is the evidence for sigma shift?" [online] https://www.tamarindtreeconsulting.com/where-is-the-evidence-for-sigma-shift/ , accessed Jul 18, 2019
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Plans to make Colesbrook a conservation area
Rachel Loos / 27th February 2017 / 0
Rachel Loos 2017-02-27
The ford at Colesbrook
It is a village of charm whose quiet appeal was immortalised by the painter John Constable. Now there are plans to make Colesbrook on the northern edge of Gillingham an official conservation area.
In mid-February Gillingham Town Council hosted two drop-in events to give local residents a chance to examine the plans and to discuss the implications of the move with officers from North Dorset District Council, the authority that grants conservation area status. The events were based on a detailed report drawn up by the Town Council’s Conservation Area Working Party about Colesbrook. The report refers to the ‘village feel’ of Colesbrook and highlights some of the important features of the area, including Colesbrook Ford and its Victorian bridge, the former pub the Fir Tree, Northmoor House and Purns Mill. This old mill, then known, as Parham’s Mill, was pained by John Constable in the 1820s.
The report’s authors conclude: ‘Colesbrook is a rural hamlet within a sweep of countryside and to remain as a separate and distinct hamlet will conserve its tranquil rural character, especially that of Colesbrook Lane and the ancient ford.
‘It is clearly apparent that this fragile environment of real quality would significantly benefit from being further protected by Conservation Area status.’
Councillor Su Hunt, who thanked council staff for their work on the project, told the planning committee meeting at which the report was officially considered that the drop-in events had gone well and had been ‘very enjoyable’. She added: ‘Even though numbers were small, when you take into account how many dwellings there are in Colesbrook in retrospect we had very good turnout.’
Gillingham councillor David Walsh, who is North Dorset District Council Portfolio Holder for Planning, said: ‘It is important that residents of North Dorset can enjoy the unique characteristics that our district offers. We therefore would like to invite residents, especially those in the Gillingham and surrounding areas, to have their say on the draft report for the Colesbrook Conservation Area.’
North Dorset currently has 47 conservation areas. They are defined as ‘an area of special architectural or historic interest, the character and appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance’ and restrict rather than prevent development. Typically homes in conservation areas appreciate more in value than other areas.
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Interesting facts about Clown Fish
Clownfish are fishes which are native to warmer waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans, including the Great Barrier Reef and the Red Sea. Thirty species of these species are recognized. In the wild they all form symbiotic mutualisms with sea anemones. Here are some interesting facts about Clownfish :-
1. All clownfish are born males. But when a female dies, the most dominant clownfish changes itself into a female!
2. One species of the clownfish, called the percula clownfish, dances when it comes into contact with the anemones for the first time!
3. Clownfish live in small groups among sea anemones. Anemones are flesh-eating animals that look like plants.
4. They can lie around thousand eggs at one time, and unlike other fish, out of the thousand eggs, all can survive !
5. Clownfish get their name because of their stripes and their bouncing movements, which make them look like clowns!
6. The relationship between the clownfish and sea anemone is a symbiotic relationship. Clownfish benefit the anemones by eating the leftovers and dead tentacles of the anemones. Clownfish help the sea anemones by circulating the water around them. In return the anemones protect the Clownfish from the attack of other fish by their venomous tentacles.
7. Though clownfish are shown as calm and modest in the movie, 'Finding Nemo', they are actually known to be aggressive fish! But there are exceptions, like the skunk clownfish.
8. In the wild, clownfish are said to live for six-eight years, and they grow up to only three to five inches!
9. Clownfish are not pure vegetarians, they are omnivores. They eat algae, and the food left by the anemones. Clownfish care is easy as they can survive without anemones also.
10. Wondering how clownfish protect themselves from the poisonous tentacles of the anemones? Well, they are protected from the venomous tentacles of the anemones by a layer of mucus which is present on their bodies.
11. Clownfish have different names in different languages! In Japanese they are called kakure-kumanomi , in Russian they are called obyknovennaya rybka-kloun and they are also called klovnfisk in Danish.
12. They lay only during the full moon and they hatch only after dusk! The male Clownfish guards the eggs.
13. Clownfish are poor swimmers. Imagine that, a fish who is a poor swimmer!
14. Out of more than a 1000 different types of anemones, only 10 can host clownfish.
15. In a group of clownfish, there is a strict dominance hierarchy. The largest and most aggressive female is found at the to
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Revellers' fury at Truck banning items 'at the last minute'
Truck Festival bans gas canisters due to extreme heat
By James Roberts Reporter
Truck 2019 Day One Picture: Ric Mellis
TRUCK Festival organisers have been slammed for a 'last minute' decision to ban gas canisters over health and safety fears.
Several revellers arriving at the event at Hill Farm, Steventon, have had gas canisters and camping stoves confiscated after the decision was taken yesterday due to the extreme heat.
Organisers posted an update on the festival's website and social media channels, but this came after hundreds of revellers had already arrived at the site carrying the banned items.
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Louise Gough's 16-year-old daughter, Rachel, queued for two hours to get into her first festival, but her stove and canisters were taken away on arrival.
Ms Gough said: "These kids have paid a fortune to save up for a festival ticket and being treated like that is criminal.
"I understand it was for health and safety but they could have sent around some sort of email.
"She first found out when it was taken off her."
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The teenager was planning to cook her meals on the stove, meaning Rachel's parents have since sent her 'at least £70' to cover food for the weekend.
Her mother added: "We shouldn't have to be sending extra money."
The website was updated yesterday evening to mention the ban on aerosol-style gas canisters for BBQ’s 'as they are prone to malfunction in high temperatures', along with barbecues or gas camping stoves.
We have taken the decision to ban aerosol-style gas canisters for BBQ's, as they are prone to malfunction in high temperatures.
Safety is always our number one concern. We're sorry we didn't communicate this sooner. pic.twitter.com/SPj8Rb4RE3
— Truck Festival Info (@TruckFestInfo) July 25, 2019
Revellers have vented their frustrations on the Truck Festival Facebook page, with one person writing overnight: "For the love of God, please tell us with some semblance of authority what we're allowed to bring on site, or there is going to be an almighty smell of burning from the car parks where everyone will be using their illegal gas stove to make breakfast!"
Another added: "No consistency with website and security checks!! Website says gas canisters allowed security say otherwise!!
"I note that the website has now been changed.... and the temperature has now dropped?!?!
"Can I ask how I’m supposed to sterilise my babies bottles with out boiling water? Given the previous website post we relied on the camping stove!!!"
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Meanwhile, one reveller posted similar concerns to Ms Gough this morning.
She said: "Appalled at the attitude of some of the security about not being able to bring in gas stoves even though it states you are allowed on the site.
"I understand safety regulations however I would have atleast notified people coming before getting to the gate."
A statement from the festival organisers said: “Due to the heat yesterday we made the decision to ban gas canisters from the festival, we didn’t want to risk chance of an incident with these pressurised canisters in these hot conditions.
"This decision was made for the welfare of everyone on site yesterday evening, when we realised the temperatures were still very extreme and messaging went out on all our socials and we updated on the website. Safety is our number one concern.”
We're currently experiencing some issues with the Water pressure in the General Campsite. This is currently being sorted and will back up and running shortly
— Truck Festival (@TruckFestival) July 26, 2019
The festival confirmed revellers can pick up any confiscated gas stoves and canisters from the main box office on Monday morning.
Music fans have also raised concerns that water points on site appear to be 'dry', with the festival tweeting that it was experiencing issues with water pressure in the general campsite.
The official Twitter account wrote shortly before 12.30pm: "This is currently being sorted and will back up and running shortly."
The vast majority of people are arriving at the popular festival today, ahead of performances from a host of talented local acts and headliners Wolf Alice, Foals and Two Door Cinema Club.
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Heritage Hotels in Darjeeling
Darjeeling is the most popular hill station in West Bengal and the highest in the entire country. It was first brought to notice by the British who, mesmerized by the beauty of the place decided to turn it into their summer capital. The Brits also introduced tea cultivation in the slopes of the ‘Queen of Hills’ which eventually became one of the main industries in the region. This wonderland now is the highest exporter of tea and the only place in India that fathers leafy flavored tea.
Heritage hotels in Darjeeling are mostly converted colonial summer houses, villas and residences. Darjeeling can be reached by road from Siliguri, the foothill city to the Himalayas in West Bengal. But the most rewarding way to reach Darjeeling is by toy train from New Jalpaiguri. This train service is over100 years old and has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The train, drawn by the century-old locomotive engine meanders through lush tea plantations, waterfalls and undulating paths. The railway track passes through Ghum, the highest railway station in the world.
Heritage hotels in Darjeeling offer utmost comfort in exotic settings. Hotel New Elgin Darjeeling located in Lama Road Darjeeling is a heritage hotel replete with the combo of an old world charm and oriental hospitality. On your entrance to the hotel, a silken Khada is wrapped around your neck to welcome you. The hotel offers luxurious accommodation, dining and other facilities. Hotel Silver Oaks Kalimpong is a heritage hotel housed in a colonial building set in a sylvan setting with a mind-blowing view of the Himalayas and surrounded by landscaped gardens.
The list doesn’t end here! There are many other Heritage Hotels in Darjeeling that can cater to the needs of any kind of traveler. So wait no more and start browsing by clicking below.
List of Heritage Hotels in Darjeeling
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Windamere Hotel
Observatory Hill, Darjeeling - 734101, West Bengal, India
Glenburn Tea Estate
Dist. and Post Office Darjeeling, West Bengal - 734101
Dekeling Resort
2, A.J.C. Bose Road, 734101 Darjeeling
MayFair Darjeeling
MayFair Darjeeling, the Mall, Opposite Governor House, Darjeeling-734 101, India
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The HSBT is designed for health system managers and administrators, policy makers, and monitoring and evaluation experts. It can highlight a health system’s strengths and weaknesses, especially when compared against other countries with similar socio-economic, demographic, or gender empowerment characteristics. It focuses on the three Bureau of Global Health priority initiatives by including relevant indicators on Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths (EPCMD), AIDS Free Generation, and Protecting Communities from Infectious Disease. The tool provides an option to specifically benchmark EPCMD countries using health system outcomes and impact indicators.
A unique feature of the tool is its clustering function. Users can match countries’ socio-economic characteristics to control for their effects before comparing health system indicators. The Excel-based tool can be downloaded to be accessed offline.
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Donors and country health planners need to compare health system performance of countries and administrative units to identify performance, the best and to make investments, planning and management decisions. However, there previously were no global tools available for benchmarking health system functions, outcomes and impact. The Health System Benchmarking Tool fulfills that need.
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Imbrinchaw History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The name Imbrinchaw reached England in the great wave of migration following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Imbrinchaw family lived in Norfolk. The name, however, derives from the family's place of residence prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Herpingham, Normandy.
Early Origins of the Imbrinchaw family
The surname Imbrinchaw was first found in Norfolk where they were conjecturally descended from Roger Bigod, one of the most distinguished of all Norman nobles, who was granted the lands by King William, Duke of Normandy after the Norman Conquest in 1066 A.D, and was a junior branch of the Bigots. The village of Erpingham or anciently Herpincham consisted largely of a church and cottages, and was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086. "The church, which is in the decorated and later English styles, with a lofty embattled tower, was repaired in 1841; in the south aisle is a brass effigy of a knight in armour, to the memory of Sir John de Erpingham, a great contributor towards the erection of the church." [1]
Important Dates for the Imbrinchaw family
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Imbrinchaw Spelling Variations
Before English spelling was standardized a few hundred years ago, spelling variations of names were a common occurrence. Elements of Latin, Norman French and other languages became incorporated into English throughout the Middle Ages, and name spellings changed even among the literate. The variations of the surname Imbrinchaw include Erpingham, Erpincham, Herpingham, Herpincham, Empringham and many more.
Early Notables of the Imbrinchaw family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Imbrinchaw family
In England at this time, the uncertainty of the political and religious environment of the time caused many families to board ships for distant British colonies in the hopes of finding land and opportunity, and escaping persecution. The voyages were expensive, crowded, and difficult, though, and many arrived in North America sick, starved, and destitute. Those who did make it, however, were greeted with greater opportunities and freedoms that they could have experienced at home. Many of those families went on to make important contributions to the young nations in which they settled. Early immigration records have shown some of the first Imbrinchaws to arrive on North American shores: Thomas Erpingham settled in Barbados in 1685.
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National Poetry Month: “The Pilgrim Within” By Chris Wise
The Houston poet reads a poem set in a trailer park in Lake Dallas, Texas.
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In this sound portrait, Chris Wise shares a personal story about one of the first poems he ever wrote, and he reads his poem, “The Pilgrim Within.”
Poet, novelist and television host, Chris Wise has published writing in various poetry anthologies and literary magazines, such as Nerve Cowboy, Blue Collar Review and The Road Not Taken. He was a featured poet in The Huffington Post’s Video Reading Series. Wise currently serves on the committees of several Houston-area poetry organizations, and he writes for and hosts the internet show, The Crawl, on KH-TV.com, which features Texas wineries, distilleries and breweries. His poetry collection, Thirsty Earth, will be released by Weasel Press in the spring of 2017. A veteran of the US Army, Wise earned an English degree from Texas A&M University and lives in Houston.
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The Stuff of Nightmares: Christians Forced from Homes in Syria's Kassab
Lela Gilbert
An Armenian friend on Facebook alerted me to the tragic story of Kassab, Syria: On March 21, Sunni rebels violently expelled around 2,500 Armenian Christians from their picturesque and historic town.
Early that Friday morning, Kassab was violently attacked, its churches desecrated, its families driven out. Since then, Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists have occupied the town’s abandoned homes and businesses.
A large number of the terrified residents fled – mostly on foot – about 35 miles to Latakia, a Syrian Army stronghold. With a sizable Christian population, Latakia has struggled to provide them with shelter and sustenance.
The image of frightened families running for their lives with their children, their elderly and their disabled is the stuff of nightmares.
Although much of Syria’s Christian population is comprised of Syriac, Maronite and Eastern Orthodox believers, some 70,000 Armenians have long been part of the faith’s colorful tapestry. And though they have received little attention during the country’s civil war, thousands have had to flee, some 10,000 to Armenia itself.
As Kassab’s story became more widespread, eyewitness reports started to appear:
“Before sunrise, we woke up to the horror of a shower of missiles and rockets falling on our town. Thousands of extremists crossed the borders towards our town. Missiles were fired from Turkey to destroy beautiful Kassab and to celebrate the approach of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Kassabtsi heroes defended the town with their simple hunting weapons…”
“Two men, Minas Soghomonian and Joseph Kilaghbian, who called their own homes were greeted by militants who said, ‘We are enjoying your food’…. Another displaced Kassab resident, Paren Hovsepian … was told by the intruders, in Turkish, that he had nice furniture.”
“We had to flee only with our clothes. We couldn’t take anything, not even the most precious thing – a handful of soil from Kassab. We couldn’t take our memories…”
Particularly infuriating to Kassab’s displaced families was the report that Turkish soldiers, who were supposedly guarding the nearby border, did nothing to stop the invading rebels.
The Turkish government adamantly denies complicity in the attack on Kassab, but Armenians have not forgotten historic massacres at the hands of Turks, who decimated their communities in the early 20th century.
Kassab’s residents were not only expelled from their homes in 1909. They were driven out again in 1915, during the infamous genocide, when as many as 1.5 million Armenians were killed.
The image of frightened families running for their lives with their children, their elderly and their disabled is the stuff of nightmares. And for me, that scenario was particularly disturbing, because I was already focused on an eerily similar story, but from another time and place.
As the Kassab reports began to emerge, I was reading the oral histories of two young Polish Jews, each of them fleeing, on foot, from the Germans in the early 1940s.
My interest in these Jewish teenagers was personal. One of them became a physician in America. Only recently had I learned that, as a youth, Dr. Joseph Rebhun jumped off a train to Auschwitz, was shot in the head and somehow survived.
His story mattered to me because, years later, this same Dr. Rebhun saved my life in a California hospital.
The other young refugee whose story I was reading would become his wife, Maria.
In their separate accounts, each of these young Jewish survivors described the terror that gripped them while running from German bombs and hiding from live gunfire. They spoke of summoning all their strength to help weakened siblings and elderly parents to a safe haven. They related the desperation of mothers carrying infants while struggling to protect toddlers.
As I read, I breathed in the grateful thought, Thank God those terrible days are over.
Then I heard about Kassab.
Clearly, such terrible days aren’t over at all. Not for Syria’s war-ravaged population. Not for Kassab’s Armenian Christians. Not as long as there are bloodthirsty killers inflicting devastation anywhere in this troubled world.
As these stories interwove in my thinking, I recalled a famous quote from Adolf Hitler.
In 1939, when he announced his plan to liquidate Poland’s Jews, he cynically remarked – as if to establish a prototype for his “final solution” – “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
On April 24, millions of Armenians worldwide will, indeed, speak of that annihilation. Genocide Memorial Day takes place every year on that date, in remembrance of the million and a half victims who died between 1915 and 1923.
In Yerevan, Armenia’s capital, hundreds of thousands will carry flowers to be placed around the genocide memorial’s eternal flame.
This year in particular, as April 24 approaches, maybe we should make a point of remembering the Armenians. And the Jews. And Kassab.
Along with lighting a candle in the window, as we offer up a prayer for a better world, perhaps we should also quietly repeat that simple vow: never again.
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Union claims on Entura rejected
Hydro Tasmania has rejected claims made by Professionals Australia regarding the operation of a proposed joint venture involving its consulting business Entura.
In a media statement issued today, Professionals Australia has misunderstood information provided to employees as part of ongoing consultation sessions about progress on the joint venture.
The union has claimed that Entura’s technical employees may be required to act more in a sales role under a joint venture, and that there is uncertainty over the continuation of work undertaken by Entura for Hydro Tasmania.
In a formal response to the union today, these claims were rejected.
Hydro Tasmania is this week hosting representatives from PowerChina Huadong and HydroChina as part of ongoing discussions about the proposed joint venture.
“As part of their presentation, the parties outlined their vision for the proposed joint venture, and the wide range of opportunities they saw for current Entura employees,” said Steve Davy, Hydro Tasmania Chief Executive Officer.
“Certainly Entura’s sales and marketing capability will be an important part of the joint venture. However, this is in addition to retaining and further developing Entura’s existing power and water technical consulting capabilities.”
PowerChina Huadong and HydroChina also restated Hydro Tasmania’s previous commitment that employees of the new joint venture would be guaranteed terms and conditions at least as favourable as they currently have.
“The vision of the joint venture parties is a business that combines the complementary capabilities of the three parties, and a business that offers growth opportunity to its employees in both the range of projects and the markets serviced,” Mr Davy said.
“While there are a number of issues that are still the subject of negotiation, the parties in the proposed joint venture have made it clear that employees are front and centre in these deliberations.”
The union’s claim that Entura would not have continued access to work for Hydro Tasmania was also rejected.
“This concern is misplaced. It is expected that all shareholders in the proposed joint venture will procure services from the new Entura business,” Mr Davy said.
“We expect that Hydro Tasmania will continue to source similar levels of service from the new Entura as those currently in effect, if the proposed joint venture goes ahead.”
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North East Panels make the switch to Avocet ATK locks
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Avocet ATK locks receive Endurance Endorsement
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NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS GAPING HOME SECURITY HOLE- 08/10/2015
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by mtraphagen | Dec 21, 2012 | Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, Social Media
When Google+ enthusiasts brag about their favorite social network, one of their top talking points is “no ads!” This has been fueled by a persistent belief among G+ users that Google+ leadership has promised to never have ads on the social network. But has there ever been such a promise? The belief that there is seems to have been fueled by isolated statements by Google+ top brass at conferences and in interviews.
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For example, in a late-November 2012 interview at the IGNITION Conference, Google+ Vice President Bradley Horowitz, when asked if there would be ads on Google+ similarly to Facebook, quipped, “We don’t need ads to make next week’s payroll.” He went on to say:
It’s much more useful (and less annoying) to users to show social recommendations instead of ads. For example, he said, if you search for a product in Google – say a microwave – you can see which one your Google+ contacts recommend.
Elsewhere Horowitz compared Facebook’s style of advertising to someone walking through your conversation wearing a sandwich board.
“Jamming ads and agendas into user streams is pissing off users and frustrating brands too,” he said. “That’s not the way the world works.” [Tweet this quote!]
That certainly sounds like an intention not to show ads in Google+. Horowitz is saying they don’t need to, so why should they? So where does Google+ advertise? Via the personalized search results Google+ users get when they use Google Search. In other words, the Google+ “ads” are the ads you already see: AdWords in Google Search.
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This seems to be reinforced by Google+ head Vic Gundotra’s remarks at a SXSW live chat with Guy Kawasaki this past summer. Vic talked about his conviction that when people come to a social site, they come there to be social, not with commercial intent. So social sites, he said, are probably not the best place to serve up ads. He compared it to being at a baseball game with billboards on the outfield fence. People are there to watch the game, not read ads. It’s less effective.
Then Guy said, “Are you saying that for the foreseeable future there will be no ads in the Google+ album?” (I’m not clear why Guy asked only about photo albums.) Vic responded, “That’s correct. In the photo album, we have no plans to inject ads.”
“We think we know and believe that it’s a better user experience when your friend sees a recommendation of a restaurant in Napoli when its in a search for a restaurant in Napoli.”
Next Vic went on to provide a hypothetical example. He said suppose you were interested in a new Canon camera, so you go on Google Search to find out about it. In the past you would have been served up with links to articles on various web pages. But now you also get personalized results showing content and recommendations from your friends and from experts you follow. So say you follow popular photographer Thomas Hawke on Google+. If he’s written a G+ post reviewing that new Canon camera, Google will surface that for you when you are searching about the camera.
Google Search Is Google+’s Ad Stream
How does that help contribute to Google’s ad revenue though? Why is it that when asked about advertising in Google+, Horowitz and Gundotra immediately jump to talking about Google Search?
Because they believe those recommendations so improve your search when you are in the “moment of intent” of making a purchase, that Google search becomes more useful to you, and thus their ad revenue goes up.
Understand this: Google’s Search ads are the ad network of Google+. [Tweet this!]
This is why they don’t need to put ads on the Google+ interface. When you really wrap your brain around this, you see how absolutely brilliant the construction of Google+ is. This is what Google missed with every previous attempt they had made at a social network.
Google+ is different because of its intimate integration with all thing Google. It is, as Vic Gundotra is often fond of saying, the social layer of Google. And because of that, they don’t need to show ads on it.
As Vic pointed out in his SXSW chat, not only do they not need to annoy users with ads on their social platform, they realize that such ads are less effective for the advertisers. Interrupting users with ads when they aren’t in the moment of intent to buy something is old school advertising. It’s why Facebook ads on the average have about a 0.05% CTR while Google AdWords ads average around 2% (source).
So advertisers, wondering when you’ll be able to advertise on Google+? The answer: you already can. It’s called AdWords, and it works on Google search, where people who use Google+ are getting more and more value through personalization of their search results.
So, Will There Never Ever Never Be Ads on Google+?
I don’t think anyone at Google+ would be foolish enough to take that pledge. CNET quoted Brad Horowitz from the Business Insider conference as follows:
When asked if Google+ will ever incorporate ads, Horowitz said it would do so if there’s an effective way to add them without upsetting users. “We aren’t struggling with how to monetize,” he said. “We have real plans.” [Tweet this quote!]
So what’s clear to me is that, for the foreseeable future, Google+’s priority is with making its user base happy, and that user base has strongly indicated that it doesn’t like Facebook-style ads. Recently several very heated discussion threads popped up when some users spotted in their sidebar what they felt was an ad: a link to a free download of Guy Kawasaki’s ebook What the Plus (a guide to using Google+). Both Vic Gundotra and Guy Kawasaki confirmed to me that this was just a “promotion,” not a paid ad, but the incident indicated how entitled established G+ users feel to an ad free environment.
One of the things that regular Google+ users are pleasantly surprised by is how much the “owners’ interact with regular users about the platform. Several hundred Google employees can be found who regularly post comments and answer questions on users threads, and not a few users have been shocked and surprised to find a +1 or even a comment from Vic Gundotra himself. That doesn’t happen on any other major social network I’m aware of. It indicates to me that the leadership of Google+ is sincere in their concern that users have a good experience on the platform. When I put all these things together, it allows me to make with confidence the statement that I think it will be a long, long time (if ever) before we see real ads on Google+. And even if they come, they will be in some creative and well-integrated form that ads to the user’s experience, rather than interrupting it.
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Al Remetch on December 21, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Great article, Mark. Why do I find it so hard to really believe that Google will not show ads in G+? I know a lot of people are happy to hear this. But as I think about promoting pages, it’s going to be tougher, if we have to rely on traditional Google Search alone.
VideoLeadsOnline on December 21, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Sounds right… and I heard Vic tell me to my face that there is no need for ads in our social space… hope he can stick to that!
Ray Hiltz (@newraycom) on December 21, 2012 at 7:07 pm
This makes perfect sense, Mark. G+ is the personal data mind which makes Google Search so attractive to advertisers.
They continue to spend a lot of resources to make Google+ both a pleasant social experience for users and a better option for businesses to reach out to clients.
As Horowitz says, we don’t need a guy with a sandwich board walking between us while we’re having a conversation.
Google provides many ways for businesses to lead clients to their G+ Page; +1’s, badges, Authorship and now, Adwords Express.
Neil Ferree on December 21, 2012 at 8:33 pm
If it ain’t broke ♠ don’t fix it ♠ Plus is doing its part to ensure social signals + shares become the currency of choice
J.C. Kendall on December 21, 2012 at 10:21 pm
I’m a bit shocked by the reaction on both sides of the issue. I saw the book down there the day it came out, and I thought, “This is a good thing”. I think it is primarily due to the growth we are all seeing these days. Frankly, Google+ is exploding with new users, they are hard not to spot if you manage a Community. I think the reaction by some is frankly jealousy, but Guy wrote a book that deserves, if any, to get the exposure. More power to him, and I think Google handled it in a balanced way.
Mark Traphagen on December 21, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Since I didn’t mention this in the post, I’ll clarify for anyone reading this not familiar with what J.C. is referring to. Today some Google+ users noticed a little promo Google+ had in the sidebar of users’ streams that invited users to download a free copy of Guy Kawasaki’s ebook about Google+. Some of these users reacted strongly against this, proclaiming it as evidence that Google+ was going to begin to put ads in their streams.
coreycreed on December 22, 2012 at 10:26 am
Great points. Good information. I agree.
We won’t see ads on Google+… for now.
Right now the big benefit to Google is that Google+ is providing great personalization data that makes their search (and even more importantly their display advertising) more relevant. They want more people putting their demographic data into Google+. It is working. Keeping ads off the platform increase the chances of that moving forward.
Once they are the true “white pages” of the Internet (as Facebook already is), they will put ads on it.
I would almost stake my life on it. I’m so certain of it.
Mark Traphagen on December 22, 2012 at 10:39 am
You could be right, of course. I’ve been sharing this post some of the time with the headline “Why I’m Sure Google+ Will Never Have Ads,” but I’ll admit that was intentional hyperbole 😉 Of course “never” is a long, long time, and I’d be foolish to think Google+ would take such a pledge (they haven’t).
That being said, I do think it will be a long time before we would see any, and even then, I don’t expect them to be as blatant as Facebook ads. In a recent cNET interview VP Brad Horowitz said that if they ever did have ads, they would come up with a way for them not to be intrusive on the user’s social experience.
I’m going to update my post with the Horowitz quote, as it brings some perspective. Here it is:
When asked if Google+ will ever incorporate ads, Horowitz said it would do so if there’s an effective way to add them without upsetting users.
“We aren’t struggling with how to monetize,” he said. “We have real plans.”
Durant Imboden on June 15, 2013 at 12:47 pm
Makes sense to me. As Google says in its ads for AdWords, “Who wants a guitar? People who are searching for guitars.”
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Kazın Ayağı: (Actually, that's not the case)
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Excerpt from Kazın Ayağı (2012), 4 mins 56 secs
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Produced by Tansa Mermerci Ekşioğlu and Mario Rizzi
Courtesy Mario Rizzi
The film is based on the homonymous original play, written by Mario Rizzi in 2011, and is about the making of the play. The screenplay is structured around a new Karagöz Turkish shadow theatre script and is inspired by histories and memories of displaced people living in Istanbul neighbourhoods – namely Ayvansaray, Balat, Fener and Tarlabaşı – going through top-down urban transformations.
In the first phase of the project, these personal narratives were recorded with the aim of voicing less noticed situations of social distress, with the language and the idioms used by the protagonists. This process allowed a deeper insight into the population dynamics of these neighbourhoods and the ways in which displacement affects the lives of single individuals, the urban texture and the interrelationship between gender, ethnicity, and class.
Karagöz theatre – through the conflictual dynamics and the equilibrated coexistence between the two main characters, Karagöz and Hacivat, two different ways of common sense – was chosen because it allowed for elaboration on the notions of power, authority and submission, based on the humorous possibilities of rudimentary situations, characters, and costumes.
Turkish shadow theatre was explored as a popular form of culture and as a platform that has historically enacted the political potentiality of performativity. It was adapted with a series of visual and textual registers including film, the classical text of Plato and the allegory of the cave, Kurdish dance, and original rap music.
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1 Friday, 25 July 2008
2 [Open session]
3 [The accused entered court]
4 [The witness entered court]
5 --- Upon commencing at 9.04 a.m.
6 JUDGE ORIE: Good morning to everyone.
7 Mr. Registrar would you please call the cases.
8 THE REGISTRAR: Good morning, Your Honours. Good morning to
9 everyone in the courtroom. This is case number IT-06-90-T, The
10 Prosecutor versus Ante Gotovina et al.
11 JUDGE ORIE: Thank you, Mr. Registrar.
12 Before we continue, Mr. Dangerfield, I'd like to remind you that
13 you are still bound by the solemn declaration that you gave at the
14 beginning of your testimony. And I would also urge you to try to answer
15 the questions as precisely and as focussed as possible.
16 And Mr. Kehoe.
17 MR. KEHOE: Yes, Your Honour.
18 JUDGE ORIE: You may continue. You received the message that
19 you're expected to finish your cross-examination by the first break.
20 MR. KEHOE: Yes, Your Honour, I received the message.
21 WITNESS: ROLAND CHARLES DAVID DANGERFIELD [Resumed]
22 Cross-examination by Mr. Kehoe: [Continued]
23 Q. Good morning, Mr. Dangerfield.
24 A. Good morning.
25 Q. Mr. Dangerfield, I just want to cover a few things just briefly
1 on this attack, the artillery attack on the 4th of August.
2 Now, in an interview to the Daily Mail on the 6th of August 1995,
3 you told the Daily Mail that you had heard that that 1800 shells went
4 into Knin by 6.30 a.m. on the 4th of August. Did you not?
5 A. Yes, I did.
6 Q. And that was an exaggeration was it?
7 A. No, it was not.
8 Q. Well, who told you that?
9 A. Colonel Leslie.
10 Q. And your experience was that you had 300 shells going in, in the
11 first half-hour. Is that right?
12 A. From my recollection, I believe that is the case.
13 Q. So --
14 A. I'll just have a look. Yes. It is also in one of my reports --
15 my statements. Sorry, the report.
16 Q. So, in your report, which is?
17 A. The brief overview for Sector South on the 4th.
18 MR. KEHOE: If we can just direct the --
19 Q. Paragraph?
20 A. Paragraph 1, general situation.
21 Q. Now, so that's 300 shell in the first half-hour. So it's your
22 testimony that 1500 shells fell between 5.30 and 6.30. Is that right?
23 A. I think shells and rockets would be fair to say.
24 Q. 1500?
25 A. Yes.
1 Q. And did you count them?
2 A. No.
3 Q. So the information that you gave to the Daily Mail you got from
4 Leslie that?
5 A. Would be correct.
6 Q. So if Leslie was wrong, of course, the information you passed on
7 was wrong.
8 A. If Leslie was wrong, yes; but I don't believe he was.
9 Q. Well, let's stay with this article. Leslie also told you that
10 the hospital had been hit, didn't he?
11 A. That is correct.
12 Q. Now, when you were driving around Knin, after the -- well, when
13 you first got out on the 7th, after the 7th of August, you saw that the
14 hospital had not been hit. Isn't that right?
15 A. I only saw one side of the hospital.
16 Q. Didn't you --
17 A. So I couldn't see whether the other three sides had been hit
18 or not.
19 Q. So you're telling us that you didn't drive around to verify
20 whether or not the hospital had been hit. Is that accurate?
21 A. That is correct, because the special -- the UN special envoy was
22 there. I didn't think it was my position to be driving around him.
23 Q. Well, when did you go out with your guide in your Land Rover and
24 when did you travel all around Sector South? When did that start?
25 A. Two weeks -- well, as soon as I arrived in Sector South.
1 Q. No. I'm talking about after the 5th of August, when did you and
2 your driver and your Land Rover tool around, as you told us yesterday,
3 when you saw everything that was going on in Knin and Sector South? When
4 was that?
5 A. I saw Knin specifically on the 7th, and then Sector South from
6 the 9th onward, once freedom of movement was re-established.
7 Q. Okay. So you're telling us, while you were driving around all
8 that time, you never drove around the hospital to verify whether or not
9 it had been hit?
10 A. I didn't go back to the hospital, no.
11 Q. Now, Leslie -- just staying with that for your second, Leslie
12 also told you - this is your first statement in 1995 in paragraph 17 -
13 that: "Colonel Leslie told me that -- about 400 body-bags in the
14 mortuary." Do you see that, the last sentence?
15 A. Yes, I do.
16 Q. Did he say he had actually seen that?
17 A. Yes. And I take it to clarify that 400 body-bags means bags with
18 bodies in as opposed to a pile of bags in the corner.
19 Q. So Leslie said he had seen 400 -- the information he conveyed to
20 you was that he seen 400 body-bags with bodies in them?
21 A. That was my interpretation of it, yes.
22 Q. Okay. Did he ever tell you that: "In my previous
23 statements ..." -- and I'm referring to Leslie's statement to the Office
24 of the Prosecutor dated March 28th 2008. Did he ever tell that you that:
25 "The number of bodies ..." -- in paragraph 7: "The number of bodies that
1 I personally observed, and also indicated that the casualties from
2 shelling were estimated to be in the hundreds, this latter estimation
3 does not reflect my personal observation of bodies."
4 Did he ever tell you that?
5 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Kehoe. Mr. Kehoe, you're going at such a speed
6 that, at a certain moment, I'm afraid that the interpreters have to
7 translate from the transcript because their four or five lines behind,
8 and that makes their task really far too difficulty. So you have to slow
9 down and take a breath now and then, so that the interpreters can do the
10 same.
11 Please proceed.
12 MR. KEHOE: My apologies to the Court, the witness, and the
13 interpreters.
14 Q. Did he ever tell you, sir, that this body count of 400 body-bags
15 did not reflect his personal observations?
16 A. No, he didn't.
17 Q. Now, staying with that, in your statement on -- not in your
18 statement, in your article, you note - and this is on page 4 of your
19 article, the fall of Krajina - at page 4: "Throughout the day, people
20 went out to pick up bodies and take them into the mortuary in Knin."
21 Now, who told that you, sir?
22 A. The Canadian soldiers who went out in the APCs to do it.
23 Q. Which Canadian soldiers told you that they were picking up bodies
24 to take them to the mortuary?
25 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Kehoe.
1 MR. KEHOE: I apologise, Judge. I apologise. I'm sorry. My
2 apologies, again.
3 THE WITNESS: I think specifically Colonel Steve Ferrari, but I
4 remember other Canadians being there. I would not hazard a guess as to
5 exactly which ones.
6 MR. KEHOE:
7 Q. Other than Corporal Ferrari, can you give us any other name?
8 A. I can't give you other names that were there, but I could give
9 you names of the other Canadians I had worked with in my time there, and
10 there is an possibility that they could have been amongst those who had
11 gone out.
12 Q. So other than Corporal Ferrari, you don't have another name of a
13 Canadian military member who told you that he had gone out to pick up
14 bodies and take them to the mortuary?
15 A. Well, I would be fairly certain that if others were there, it
16 would have been Geoff Hill, Phil Berikoff, Dan Hatchi [phoen], Steve
17 Ellis. Those -- that was the group of Canadians that I had worked with.
18 Q. So -- so, if we went back and talked to those individuals, they
19 would verify that they told you that they took bodies to the mortuary?
20 A. No. What I'm say is that I believe that they were the likely
21 ones who would have been there.
22 Q. Did they tell you how many bodies they had taken to the mortuary?
23 A. I don't recall a specific answer.
24 Q. Well, let me read you something from an exhibit that is in
25 evidence, a video D329, and this is a statement by Colonel Leslie from
1 July the 21st, 2003, talking about the shelling the Knin. "It killed a
2 lot of civilians, and we'll never know the exact number, but estimates,"
3 estimates, "range from ten to 25.000 dead."
4 During your entire time in the theatre, did you ever hear any
5 estimates remotely coming close to ten to 25.000 dead, as Colonel Leslie
6 told the folks in Canada?
7 A. No, I didn't.
8 Q. Now, you would agree with me -- do you believe that number is an
9 exaggeration?
10 A. I would accept that the higher end of 25.000 may be an
11 exaggeration.
12 Q. Tell me about Leslie. Was Leslie, when he was in UN Sector South
13 and thereafter, was he known as a person who exaggerated?
14 A. I don't believe so.
15 Q. Let me go back, if we may, briefly, and we're going back to
16 talking about the shelling of Knin.
17 MR. KEHOE: We're going 1D42001.
18 Q. And I direct you back to your statement of -- that's P695, your
19 1995 statement, at paragraph 26.
20 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Kehoe, no, that's -- you gave a seven-digit
21 number, where I would expect always to be the numbers eight digits. But
22 I now do understand it is P695.
24 MR. KEHOE: Yes, Your Honour. What is on the screen is
25 1D42-0001, and I was directing the witness back to his statement, which
1 is P695, paragraph 26 for reference purposes.
2 Q. Now, just going through this, you gave six military targets in
3 Knin, and if we can just take these on subsequently on the list, you
4 noted, in your paragraph (c), it was the general supply depot and you
5 gave a six-digit grid reference.
6 Do you see that, sir?
7 A. That's correct, yes, I can.
8 Q. Were you surprised to learn that that six-digit grid reference,
9 which is 100 metres by 100 metres, was incorrect?
10 A. I'm not surprised by a disagreement, and may I explain why?
11 Q. Certainly.
12 A. Could I ask you which grid reference system you've overlayed on
13 there Google picture, please.
14 Q. Well, sir, let me ask you this: Does it make a difference?
15 A. Yes it does.
16 Q. And explain?
17 A. Okay. On your most basic GPS, most basic that a civilian has an
18 access to, there are 17 different grid reference systems. These grid
19 references can run to hundreds. I don't know whether the grid reference
20 system you are using is British, American, Dutch, Swedish, Maidenhead, or
21 anything else. So it is key for me to know what grid reference system
22 you're using.
23 May I quote -- I made some notes last night whilst I was in my
24 hotel. May I take a piece out of my pocket and quote, please?
25 JUDGE ORIE: Yes, if these are the words you wrote down yesterday
1 by yourself, then you can consult them.
2 THE WITNESS: I'm preferred to give the reference where they can
3 be found as well.
4 The first is from -- the world headquarters for the GPS system,
5 global positioning system, which is in Colorado in the United States, and
6 this is from www.colorado.edu. I quote: "Referencing geodetic
7 coordinates to the wrong data can result in position errors of hundreds
8 of metres. Different nations and agencies use different datums as the
9 basis for coordinate systems used to identify positions in geographic
10 information systems, positioning systems, and navigation systems."
11 I will also give you one shorter from Britain, the ordnance
12 survey web site: "Standard conventions ensure only that different
13 systems tend to agree within half a kilometre, that is 500 metres or so."
14 So it is important that we use the right grid system on the right
15 paper. And further to that, this is a photograph --
16 JUDGE ORIE: Could I ask you what grid system you used when you
17 gave the grid references.
18 THE WITNESS: We used the WGS 84 which is the World Geodetic
19 System 84; and Google Earth uses MGRS, which is the military grid
20 reference system for America.
21 JUDGE ORIE: Is there any way, Mr. Kehoe, that we verify whether
22 there are such differences? I make take it that it should not be too
23 difficult to verify.
24 MR. KEHOE: It would be very easy that the grid reference system
25 used hear is the grid reference system that was used on the mapping in
1 UN Sector South headquarters.
2 JUDGE ORIE: Could I ask you whether this the system you used was
3 the grid references in the maps you used in Sector South.
4 THE WITNESS: I'm not sure because I was using British maps, sir.
5 JUDGE ORIE: You were using British maps.
7 Q. The British maps were the maps that were used in UN Sector South.
8 All UN Sector South mapping was produced by MOD in Britain?
9 JUDGE ORIE: Well, it appears that you're giving evidence at this
10 moment, Mr. Kehoe.
11 If the parties could agree on that or if the parties could look
12 at those maps in order to ensure that not by any technical differences in
13 similars we are misled. I'm not saying intentionally misled, but
14 confused.
15 MR. KEHOE: I understand.
16 JUDGE ORIE: Then please proceed, Mr. Kehoe.
17 May I take it that it will be possible to make just a comparison.
18 The witness has said what grid references he used. I think that can be
19 verified. We can look at whether on the map we are seeing now in front
20 of us the same are used. If not, Mr. Kehoe, I take it you could produce
21 another map and then we will find out whether the witness was accurate or
22 not when he gave the grid references at the time.
25 Q. Looking through these one by one with the grid reference, and if
1 this is the grid reference used from the mapping system used in UN Sector
2 South, the British mapping system, the grid reference is clearly the one
3 you gave in "C" does not reflect that of the Senjak barracks.
4 Now, in the Senjak barracks, you said that this -- it usually had
5 few lightly armed soldiers wandering about. Do you see that in your
6 statement?
7 A. I do.
8 Q. Do you know that this was a -- sorry.
9 Did you know that this was a rear command post from which troops
10 were being deployed on the afternoon of the 4th of August?
11 A. No, I didn't.
12 Q. Now, the next item is a grid reference that you gave which
13 was 960755. And if that grid reference is the same -- comes from the
14 same mapping system you used in the UN, you put that grid in the middle
15 of the UN camp. Did you intend to talk about the camp next to the UN?
16 A. I believe that the grid I've given there would have been taken
17 off the map that I used at the time. So, no, I didn't mean to talk about
18 the UN, because I would have been talking about the barracks next door.
19 Q. Let us go to the next map, which is the northern barracks. That
20 would be grid 961177. It wasn't off by much. And let us continue on
21 with grid reference 9534758, which is your "D," and you call it an
22 ammo dump. Now, you call this an ammo dump, and why did you call it an
23 ammo dump, sir?
24 A. Sorry. Can you just tie it into the --
25 Q. It's in paragraph 26, D. You say --
1 A. As I said, as I continue to say there, I never saw ammunition or
2 equipment enter or leave the storage area. And I couldn't independently
3 verify that site because the restriction on the freedom of movement meant
4 that I couldn't physically drive up there and identify it.
5 Q. Well, you call it an ammo dump. Now, did you mean that was an
6 ARSK ammunition dump?
7 A. I would believe that's what I meant when I wrote it.
8 Q. Why did you describe it as an ammunition dump?
9 A. I think that's probably what we in the headquarters believed it
10 to be.
11 Q. And when you came to that conclusion, did you have any idea what
12 the ARSK was storing in there?
13 A. I couldn't have, because I hadn't physically identified it
14 myself.
15 Q. Well, what was it about that location that indicated to you that
16 it was an ammunition dump if you never saw ammunition or equipment enter
17 or leave the storage area?
18 A. Well, that's the information I gained from the headquarters.
19 Q. Okay. Let us turn to the next item.
20 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Kehoe, just for my information, you're putting
21 to the witness, more or less, that his grid references are inaccurate in
22 relation to the description.
23 Now, you put on the map where the ARSK air defence battery is.
24 Is it in evidence that it was exactly there?
25 MR. KEHOE: Yes. It's in -- those are taken from D131 in
1 evidence, those locations.
2 JUDGE ORIE: D131. I have a look at it.
3 MR. KEHOE: That is a --
4 MR. RUSSO: Your Honour, pardon me. D131 does indicate that
5 there is an air defence battery there. I don't know that it's in
6 evidence that it actually was there; however, I do think that General
7 Leslie did generally agree with the locations of the these air defence
8 batteries in and around Knin.
9 JUDGE ORIE: With this type of precision? That means that --
10 MR. RUSSO: I don't know that General Leslie was put to --
11 JUDGE ORIE: [Overlapping speakers] ... check on D131.
13 MR. KEHOE: If I may just briefly go into private session for
14 another frame of reference.
15 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. We go into private session.
16 [Private session]
17 (redacted)
1 (redacted)
3 THE REGISTRAR: Your Honours, we're back in open session.
4 JUDGE ORIE: Thank you.
5 Please proceed, Mr. Kehoe.
6 MR. KEHOE: Your Honour, this is, again, the air defence battery,
7 which is at grid reference 953758.
8 If we could move to the next one, the next slide, which is
9 referred to in 26A.
10 Q. That's again a reference point with this grid reference that you
11 have, sir.
12 MR. KEHOE: And the last slide -- excuse me, last two slides. If
13 we can go to the next slide.
14 Q. That is it just the location of the police station which -- for
15 which you gave no grid references.
16 MR. KEHOE: And if we go to the last slide. Your Honour, I think
17 this will be more instructive, this last slide, vis-a-vis a comparison
18 with 131.
19 Those are the numbers I believe that we had in 131 limited to
20 that, and the yellow shade is the grid references given by the witness in
21 his report.
22 Your Honour, at this time, I will offer into evidence 1D42-0001.
23 MR. RUSSO: No objection.
24 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Registrar.
25 THE REGISTRAR: As Exhibit number D716, Your Honours.
1 JUDGE ORIE: D716 is admitted into evidence.
3 Q. Now, sir, I think you indicated to us yesterday that you didn't
4 know where the headquarters were for the army of the Republika Srpska
5 Krajina. Were you familiar with buildings in -- in Knin that were used
6 -- otherwise civilian buildings that you were used for military purposes?
7 A. Excuse me. I'm not just getting the verbatim -- that's better.
8 Thank you.
9 No, I was not familiar.
10 Q. Were you -- did you know about -- or you did know about troops
11 moving through Knin on the 4th, did you not?
13 Q. And those are moveable targets, are they not?
14 A. They are targets that are moving, yes.
15 Q. And, of course, during the course of a military operation, those
16 movable targets, those troops going through Knin, are legitimate targets
17 for -- in a military operation, aren't they?
18 A. Providing the risk of collateral damage is to a minimum.
19 Q. Are they military -- is it a legitimate purpose in a military
20 operation to attack the troops on the other side?
21 MR. RUSSO: Your Honour, first, I would like to point out the
22 fact that he is certainly asking the witness for a legal conclusion,
23 which I believe was the subject of a filing by the Defence that they did
24 not want fact witnesses making such conclusions. Of course, if he wants
25 that conclusion from the witness, that's fine; but I think the witness
1 gave his answer, that it's not a yes-or-no question and that there are
2 other considerations to be taken into account.
3 JUDGE ORIE: Yes, I see that. At the same time, is it a
4 legitimate purpose in a military operation to attack the troops on the
5 other side?
6 Mr. Kehoe, that's the question.
7 MR. KEHOE: As a soldier, is it a legitimate purpose in a
8 military operation to attack soldiers on the other side?
9 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. First of all, it is it, of course, a legal
10 question, but it is a totally unnecessary question. It is the same as:
11 Is the purpose of being a milkman to deliver milk?
13 MR. KEHOE: I take that as a yes, Your Honour, and move on.
14 JUDGE ORIE: Yes.
15 MR. KEHOE:
16 Q. Now you say in your statement, at paragraph 32, that you never
17 saw any other RSK military targets being hit. When you say that, it's
18 because that you didn't actually observe individual military targets
19 being hit, not that they weren't hit. Isn't that right.
20 Let me help you out, sir.
21 A. I saw military targets. Sorry. Do you just want to rewind and
22 rephrase the question again, please.
23 Q. Sir, you say, in paragraph 32, that -- in the middle of
24 paragraph 32: "Apart from the police station, I never saw any other ARSK
25 military targets being hit."
1 You're not saying that they weren't hit; you just didn't see
2 them. Right?
3 A. I think that may be the case.
4 Q. Now, you said that you took a ride around Knin on the 7th and
5 thereafter. And I -- I take it you were in communications with various
6 individuals who were likewise riding around Knin and examining damage
7 from the shelling. Is that right?
8 A. That's not right.
9 Q. So you didn't talk to anyone else?
10 A. No.
11 Q. So, if the senior -- by the way, did you yourself do any crater
12 analysis on any of the shelling that you saw?
13 A. Not whilst I was there.
14 Q. Did you do it afterwards?
16 Q. So you never did?
17 A. That's correct.
18 Q. So did you ever have a conversation with -- and let me go through
19 this. This is it from P64, where the Senior Military Observer concluded
20 that, in general, the shelling was concentrated against military targets.
21 That was in his provisional report, and that was in P64. And that there
22 was, likewise, a final assessment, and this comes from the statement of
23 Mr. Roberts on the 23rd of July, 2008. This is page - I'm looking for
24 the page - 7022, from line 19, where he says: "I am aware that a final
25 assessment was sent.
1 "Question: Are you aware that the final assessment was sent by
2 UNMO.
3 "Answer: I think, at the time, a final assessment report was
4 being sent to Zagreb headquarters. I think we had several conversations
5 in the UNMO office about the further assessment to be the one I was shown
6 now in terms of August 18th."
7 And in those -- this is moving on to 7022, line 1: "And in those
8 conversations with UNMOs, at the time, they told you that the further
9 assessment was consistent with the initial assessment. Isn't that
10 correct?"
11 "I think I recall seeing the final document ..." -- this was the
12 answer: "I think I recall seeing the final document that went up and
13 that it concurred with their final assessment."
14 Were you aware of that assessment being done by the UNMOs?
15 A. No, I wasn't.
16 Q. And you would agree with me that it was their job to do such an
17 assessment, wasn't it?
18 A. I'm not sure what the individual UNMOs -- or, rather, the UNMOs
19 mandate was because I was not an UNMO.
20 Q. Well, were you aware that the UN CIVPOL did a similar assessment
21 with a similar result?
22 A. No, I'm not.
23 MR. KEHOE: If I might have one second here, Judge.
24 [Defence counsel confer]
25 MR. KEHOE: We will come back to this issue in a moment when we
1 find a another exhibit, but let me just move ahead.
2 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Kehoe, perhaps, meanwhile, you referred me
3 to D131, where, in a map prepared by the Defence, C3 is indicated on that
4 map. You said, well, that's the evidence of Mr. Leslie.
5 I read on page 2134, line 8 and 9, as one of the answers of the
6 then-witness: "Yes, sir. The only reason why I asked for a little bit,"
7 let me just read it, "more specificity. I can't recall if that is the
8 exact location of C3. I was pointing at differences, apparent
9 inaccuracies."
10 Now you further referred me to another witness, and we don't have
11 to go into precise session, but it must be the evidence given on the
12 23rd, 26th, or 27th of May, and I'd like to have the page and line
13 reference for where that witness gave the exact location for C3.
14 MR. KEHOE: Your Honour, I'm going have to get that. But I will
15 say to Your Honour, at this point, that the reference in these grid
16 references that we've been looking at here in -- I will provide that to
17 you.
18 JUDGE ORIE: I'm not talking about grid references. I'm talking
19 about what we exactly have in evidence as to the exact location of the
20 installations this witness referred to. He gave grid reference whether
21 they are accurate or not. Of course, on a map, if you compare that, it
22 should be beyond any doubt that the location indicated on the map where
23 they really were found is correct.
24 I asked: Is this in evidence? You referred me to the testimony
25 of Mr. Leslie. And upon checking this, I primarily find that on the
1 basis of a map the Defence has produced, Mr. Leslie says, "I'm not sure
2 whether this is the exact location yes or no."
3 So, therefore, the second source you gave me, which is three full
4 days of transcript, I'd like to receive a bit more guidance on where we
5 find that. And I take it that are you not a position to immediately do
6 that, and we'd like to receive that, for example, after the break.
7 MR. KEHOE: Yes, sir, after the break.
8 JUDGE ORIE: Yes.
9 Please proceed.
11 Q. Now, by the way, sir, when you were in Sector South --
12 MR. KEHOE: Let me pull up a photograph, and that would be D83.
13 Q. Now, sir, that's you to the right in that photograph, is it not?
15 Q. It is not?
17 Q. Okay. So, if someone identified you to that regard, they would
18 be mistaken?
19 A. I would say almost certainly.
20 Q. Okay. Now, let us -- when you were driving around, sir, in --
21 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Kehoe, could the witness perhaps tell us, if it
22 is not him, whether he knows who it is.
23 THE WITNESS: I have no idea. In fact, I have never seen them
24 before in my life.
1 Q. Now, when you were driving around, sir, in looking at the damage
2 in Knin -- well, let me backtrack. You said, during the course of your
3 testimony on direct, that there was no fighting withdrawal. Do you
4 recall that?
5 A. Yes, I do.
6 Q. And when you were driving around, you noted for us that you saw
7 damage, shelling damage. How much of that shelling damage was caused by
8 the ARSK firing toward Knin?
9 A. To my knowledge, the ARSK didn't fire towards Knin, nor did they
10 fire out of Knin.
11 MR. KEHOE: Let us take a look at D89, a sitrep of 5 August 1995.
12 And if we could -- after the cover page, if we could go four pages in.
13 Can we blow up that -- at 5th of August at 1500. It's the third
14 paragraph down.
15 Scroll that up gist a little bit.
16 Q. "1500 ARSK soldiers of unknown strength seen occupying defence
17 positions in the general area of Strmica. Tanks and mortars were in the
18 same positions. On the 5th at 1815, they fired 12 rounds of artillery
19 from Strmica towards Knin."
20 Now, by that time, sir, by 1815, the HV was in Knin, weren't
21 they?
22 A. I'm just going to read the paragraph again. By 1815, on the 5th,
23 yes, I would agree, the HV were in Knin.
24 Q. So, based on this UNMO -- excuse me, on this Sector South report,
25 reporting this shelling, you just didn't know about it?
1 A. Who made this report?
2 Q. If can I go to the front page, sir, of this.
3 MR. KEHOE: Can we go to the front page, Mr. Registrar?
4 THE WITNESS: I mean which nation reported it, not who drafted
5 the assessment.
7 Q. If we can just page through this, page 1, page 2, and this is
8 begins --
9 MR. KEHOE: Please go to the next page.
10 Q. It starts with the Kenyan battalion. Going on to the next page,
11 it is a continuation of the Kenyan battalion before it gets to the
12 Canadian battalion.
13 A. So it has come from the Kenyan, the information?
14 Q. Correct.
15 A. I can't comment on that, because I didn't see it. I didn't see
16 the artillery firing from the Strmica area, so I can't comment on that.
17 Q. So if -- you also -- if there is shelling coming into Knin from
18 the RSK on the 5th, you don't know as you drive through Knin which damage
19 is caused by HV shelling and which damage is caused by ARSK shelling, do
20 you?
21 A. I think you could have a good guess if you did the crater
22 analysis.
23 Q. But you didn't do that --
24 A. That's correct, that's correct.
25 Q. So you -- I'm sorry.
1 You didn't do that, so you don't know, do you?
2 A. I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. That is correct.
3 Q. Let me ask you one final issue before we end, and I want to ask
4 you a general question. It emanates -- and I would like to read this to
5 you. It emanates from a London Times article of 19 December 1988. --
6 excuse me, 1998. I apologise. Thank you.
7 And it talks about an investigation done by the Times, and reads
8 as follows: "A Times investigation has revealed that a man's real name,"
9 this man Lawson, "appears nowhere in UN records -- UN records
10 headquarters. He was never an official employee, was not recruited
11 locally, and was not an officer in any UN peacekeeping force."
12 By the way, this article discusses generally that MI6 agents
13 representing themselves as UN peacekeepers planted articles in the
14 British press in an effort to counter widespread sympathy for Bosnian
15 Muslims ..." --
16 MR. KEHOE: Is it up there? That's fine. We can put it over on
17 Sanction, so that the witness can read it. We can just have the witness
18 read this on Sanction. We are not going to cover it, Judge, but it just
19 may be easier for the witness to read.
20 If we can scroll down that little bit. That's fine.
21 Q. What I just read for you is that matter beginning: "The Times
22 investigation ..."
23 Continuing with the next paragraph : "Balkans experts have
24 observed that the articles sought to counter widespread sympathy for the
25 Bosnian Muslims by pointing out that atrocities occurred on all sides, a
1 point of view consistent with that expressed by many in the British
2 military and the Foreign Office."
3 Tell me, Mr. Dangerfield, during the course of your time in
4 either Gornji Vakuf, Split, or Knin, were you ever instructed by any
5 superior to play up, if you will, evidence of crimes committed by Croats
6 or Bosnian Muslims in an effort to counter widespread sympathy for
7 either?
9 MR. KEHOE: If I might have just one moment, Your Honour.
11 MR. KEHOE: Your Honour, I have no further questions.
12 Thank you Mr. Dangerfield.
13 THE WITNESS: Can I clarify one point on the grid reference
14 system? I think it is important to note, sir.
15 JUDGE ORIE: If you think it would assist the Chamber, please
16 proceed.
17 THE WITNESS: I do, sir.
18 Irrespective of whether the grid reference systems are the same,
19 the application of that grid reference system is used for a topographical
20 map, i.e., one that you and I would use to map read along a road. It
21 doesn't matter what scale it is. That grid reference system has been
22 applied to a photograph that doesn't take topographical inaccuracies into
23 account. So the grid reference system, whether it is the same or not, is
24 being used incorrectly in this case, and that would account for any
25 inaccuracies in my grids, sir.
1 JUDGE ORIE: You say you have a kind of a general explanation for
2 all inaccuracies. Are there inaccuracies?
3 THE WITNESS: Yes, there are.
4 JUDGE ORIE: There are inaccuracies. And you say it's the way in
5 which, where you earlier said that the grid systems were not the same,
6 that you say apparently now that they may be the same but are applied in
7 a different way.
8 THE WITNESS: There are all sort of inaccuracies that can be
9 accounted for, sir, so --
10 JUDGE ORIE: So how are they applied in a different way?
11 THE WITNESS: Well, it's all based around what type of map used.
12 If you look in an atlas, sir, there are a lot of different pictures of
13 the world and the countries, particularly at the beginning. And they're
14 different projections of maps, and they're called Mercator,
15 Stereographic, Cylindrical, Conical. The correct grid system has to be
16 applied to the correct map; otherwise, Rome could indeed be in New York,
17 and New York could indeed be in Rome.
18 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. Now, of course, I said that yesterday in
19 relation to scales. By the way, I think I made a mistake because Rome
20 would then be in the same grid reference as New York. If we're talking
21 about scales, Rome would still be different from New York. But the more
22 precise the maps are, isn't it, the less the influence of technical
23 aspects of how the grid references are applied. And we are talking here
24 about quite detailed maps.
25 So, if you say I have got a general explanation for all of the
1 inaccuracies, then one of the things that strikes me first is that the
2 inaccuracies seem to be of a different dimension, one time far away on
3 the same map, relatively nearby. So I would expect inaccuracies then to
4 have a systematic effect on what we see, and not one time two, three, or
5 four wrong grid references in the system we're using with six -- six
6 digits and another time relatively nearby.
7 Do you have an explanation for the differences in the
8 inaccuracies you say are explained by a general explanation?
9 THE WITNESS: I think you make a very fair point, sir. I think
10 another point to note is that when using my map, I would have been
11 working off kilometre grid squares and perhaps might not have used the
12 compass to tie it down to exact hundred metre positioning.
13 JUDGE ORIE: Now you have given three explanations.
14 THE WITNESS: Absolutely.
15 JUDGE ORIE: You started saying that we had different grid
16 systems. The second explanation was that the grid systems may be the
17 same, when I asked the Defence to verify, but that they are applied in a
18 different way. And now I asked you, whether this general explanation,
19 how that could apply where the inaccuracies are of a different dimension.
20 And now you say you might have made mistakes yourself. So we have at
21 least now three different explanations for the inaccuracies.
22 The further explanation, does that need any further questions to
23 the witness, Mr. Kehoe.
24 MR. KEHOE: No, Your Honour, not at this time.
25 JUDGE ORIE: Thank you.
1 So we're moving the furniture to whom Mr. Cayley brought his own
2 furniture.
3 Mr. Cayley, will you be the next one?
4 MR. CAYLEY: Yes, Your Honour. Thank you.
5 JUDGE ORIE: You will you now be cross-examined by Mr. Cayley,
6 who is counsel for Mr. Cermak.
7 Please proceed, Mr. Cayley.
8 MR. CAYLEY: Thank you, Your Honour.
9 Cross-examination by Mr. Cayley:
10 Q. Mr. Dangerfield, I have now much to ask you, probably about half
11 an hours worth.
12 I'm right in saying that you were tasked by Brigadier-General
13 Alain Forand to gather intelligence or information in Sector South, is
14 that right, in pursuance of the mission of UNCRO in Sector South?
15 A. That's correct. He described me as his one-man reconnaissance
16 regiment.
17 Q. And that headquarters, the UNCRO Sector South headquarters, would
18 also provide you with information of what was taking place in
19 Sector South. Yes?
20 A. Yes, it was a two-way process.
21 Q. And that kind of information that they provided to you and you
22 provided to them would have been information concerning movement of
23 military personnel. Yes?
25 Q. And subject matter such as freedom of movement within
1 Sector South. Yes?
2 A. Correct.
3 Q. Now, what I wanted to you do now is actually direct your mind
4 specifically to the issue of freedom of movement; and if could you,
5 please, turn to page 3 of your statement.
6 MR. CAYLEY: This is P695. It is actually number 2 at the
7 bottom, but it is page 3 of the purposes of the document actually
8 uploaded in e-court.
9 Q. It is paragraph 9. Do you see that?
11 Q. Now, you note, in your statement, that: "Restriction of movement
12 between the 7th and 8th of August of 1995 remains fierce with many
13 UN personnel confined to camp."
14 A. I see that.
15 Q. Now, by all means, read the rest of that paragraph, if you want
16 to. I don't want to ask you more questions about it, but I do actually
17 want to now show you a document.
18 MR. CAYLEY: If, please, P29 could be brought up on the screen.
19 Q. Do you recall the human rights action team, HRAT, do you remember
20 their activities in Sector South during your time there; Mr. Flynn?
21 A. No. I have never heard the name Flynn before.
22 Q. Now you can see a report there from the Human Rights Action Team.
23 This is a daily report dated 8th of August, 1995.
24 MR. CAYLEY: And if, please, we could go to the next page.
25 Q. Now I'm not so much interested that you didn't know the existence
1 of HRAT, but the paragraph in this report that I would like you to look
2 at is the paragraph that beginnings: "Freedom of movement."
3 A. I do, indeed.
4 Q. Could you read that, and I'm actually interested in the last
5 sentence after that paragraph.
6 A. "Movement today has been restricted ..." --
7 Q. You don't read to read it. Just read it to yourself. I'm sorry.
8 A. Okay. I have read that.
9 Q. Now the last sentence will you see is stating that General Cermak
10 delivered a written statement to General Forand this morning that
11 movement tomorrow to Drnis would be possible and HRAT intends to test
12 this assurance.
13 Do you recall if around that time, the 8th of August, UNCRO and
14 another international organisations were authorised to travel between
15 Knin and Drnis?
16 A. I don't remember that exactly. I do remember at some stage a
17 written document. I believe, from memory, it was signed by General
18 Cermak, and I -- referring to freedom of movement. The actual detail of
19 that, I cannot remember.
20 Q. Well, let's have a look at P513.
21 Can you look at that document? Does that refresh your memory?
22 MR. CAYLEY: Could we have the English version, please, next to
23 the Croatian version.
24 THE WITNESS: Yeah.
25 This specific one, I don't recall. I think it's too specific. I
1 remember one, I think, of a more general nature throughout the sector.
2 So I don't recall this particular document.
3 MR. CAYLEY:
4 Q. Just for clarity sake, do you recall around the 8th of
5 August that the restrictions on movement were lifted on the road between
6 Knin and Drnis?
7 A. No, I don't.
8 Q. Okay.
9 MR. CAYLEY: If, please, the witness could be shown map 21. This
10 is the bundle, Your Honours, which is the Prosecution bundle of maps. I
11 don't think it has been uploaded into e-court.
12 Q. Just to clarify this issue, matters of freedom of movement like
13 this - I know you can't recall now - this was the kind of information
14 that you would have received from Sector South headquarters and General
15 Forand, if, indeed, he had been informed?
17 Q. Now, I'm right in saying that on the 9th of August, you travelled
18 to Kistanje. Yeah?
19 A. Correct.
20 Q. Now, can you orient yourself on this map. Do you see Knin?
21 A. I do, indeed.
22 Q. And do you see Drnis? It is south. It's a blue dot to the
23 south, and we'll put it on the ELMO so the Judges can see once you've --
24 A. Is that the blue dot to the right of Rivnik [phoen].
25 Q. Are you looking at map 21?
1 A. Yes.
2 Q. To the south of Knin, you'll see Drnis. It is just above the
3 scale at the bottom.
4 A. Yes, I've got it.
5 Q. There's no grid references, thank goodness, on this map, so we
6 don't need to go into that.
7 MR. CAYLEY: If could you put it on the ELMO.
8 Q. And can you just indicate to the Judges the road between Knin and
9 Drnis.
10 A. [Indicates]
11 Q. Now, the previous document that we just looked at, but which you
12 were not aware of, appeared to give or at least lift restriction of
13 movement on the road between Knin and Drnis. Yes?
14 A. Yeah.
15 Q. Can you point out to the judges the town of Kistanje which you
16 visited on the 9th of August. It is, in fact, west.
18 Q. Keep going. Down. There.
19 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Cayley, you ask the witness to show Kistanje to
20 the Judges. The Judges have seen this map many, many times. Then you
21 guide the witness to where Kistanje is, which is, of course, a bit of an
22 old exercise.
24 MR. CAYLEY: I don't think there is a dispute as to where
25 Kistanje is, Your Honour.
1 Q. Now you would accept that Kistanje is not actually on the road
2 between Knin and Drnis, is it?
3 A. No, it's not.
4 Q. So, in fact, even though freedom of movement had not been granted
5 in that area, it appears that you were unaffected by the restriction of
6 movement that still existed in the Kistanje area. Correct?
7 A. On the 9th, yes.
8 Q. Thank you. Now, if we could please turn back to your statement,
9 P695, page 4, paragraph 12. And these are just some clarifications where
10 I want you to refer to your supplementary statement that you made to
11 Mr. Russo. Do you recall?
13 Q. You made some additions. I just wanted to get that on the
14 record. That's all.
15 A. Okay.
16 Q. You'll see it says there on the 10th of August: "UN personnel
17 met with General Cermak requesting complete freedom of movement
18 throughout Sector South. He says he cannot authorise this. It must come
19 from his higher commander."
20 Now, in your supplementary statement, you identify who you
21 believe actually passed that information to you. Do you have a copy of
22 your supplementary information sheet? I can give that to you.
23 A. I've got it, I think.
24 Q. It's on the second page of the supplementary information sheet.
25 A. No. I know the supplementary sheet, that is the one submitted
1 two days ago?
2 Q. Well, it is actually not in evidence. It is simply information
3 passed to the Prosecution.
4 A. I don't believe that in my position.
5 MR. RUSSO: I'm sorry. I didn't include that in the documents I
6 gave to him.
8 Q. I can read it to you so we don't waste any time. You say in that
9 that supplementary information sheet that that piece of information on
10 General Cermak being unable to authorise freedom of movement came from
11 either Lieutenant-Colonel Tymchuk, Colonel Leslie, or General Forand. Is
12 that right?
13 A. Yes. I would point more towards Colonel Tymchuk --
14 Q. Who gave that you pieces of information?
15 A. I would believe so, yes.
16 Q. Now, in terms of the letter granting freedom of movement
17 throughout the Sector South area that was signed by General Cermak, you
18 said, in your supplementary information sheet, it was not worth the paper
19 that it was printed on. Is that right?
20 A. Yes. Would you like me to clarify that?
21 Q. Well, let me ask you some questions.
22 Is that because you were unable to pass through check-points with
23 a copy of that letter?
24 A. In some cases, yes.
25 Q. And by which type of personnel were those check-points manned by?
1 Were they military personnel?
2 A. I think a combination of military and police.
3 Q. Yes. Is there anything else --
4 A. Military police, as well. Sorry.
5 Q. So the check-points that you couldn't get through with that
6 letter were manned by HV military, HV military police, and civilian
7 police. Yes?
9 Q. Is there anything else you would like to add to that, or is that
10 clear?
11 A. No. I mean, some check-point would say let you through, some
12 check-points wouldn't. And, therefore, that, to me, indicated that
13 actually, I think, the message hadn't got out to everywhere, and that's
14 quite understandable when not everyone has a radio. When not everyone
15 has a telephone, it is difficult getting that information out.
16 Q. Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Dangerfield.
17 MR. CAYLEY: Thank you. I don't have any questions, Your Honour.
18 JUDGE ORIE: Thank you, Mr. Cayley.
19 Before we continue, I have one question for you, Mr. Kehoe. Let
20 me just find the ...
21 On page 19, line 15, we're talking about photograph D83, you
22 said: "So if someone identified you to that regard, that would be
23 mistaken."
24 That puzzled me, because it raised on my mind a question whether
25 anyone had identified Mr. Dangerfield as the person on the right of the
1 photograph.
2 MR. KEHOE: Yes, sir.
3 JUDGE ORIE: Who did that and when?
4 MR. KEHOE: My recollection, and I would have to look back
5 specifically, but it was in talking to Mr. Munkelien and Mr. Anttila. We
6 asked who it was, and they said it was the British officer that was in
7 the headquarters.
8 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. What we have is we have the testimony of
9 Mr. Munkelien, who said: "It was the British officer, but I don't know
10 his name." So "the British officer" is not for me the exactly the same
11 as "Mr. Dangerfield." Now Mr. Hill testified that it was a Czech
12 captain. So, therefore, it puzzled me what made you so positive to
13 already mention an identification. Mr. Hill said it was a Czech captain
14 or it was a major pilot.
15 MR. KEHOE: If I may, Judge, the issue is we have not been able
16 to identify this person, and this is the British officer --
17 JUDGE ORIE: No, no. My issue at this moment is that you suggest
18 that there was an identification on rather loose grounds.
19 Please proceed, but, of course, not you, at this moment.
20 Mr. Mikulicic.
21 Mr. Mikulicic, Mr. Dangerfield, is counsel for Mr. Markac, and he
22 will now cross-examine you.
23 Cross-examination by Mr. Mikulicic:
24 Q. [Interpretation] Good morning, Mr. Dangerfield.
1 MR. MIKULICIC: I'm looking for my pen. Yes.
2 Q. [Interpretation] Good morning, again. I would like to ask you a
3 few questions on the topic that was indicated at the beginning and that
4 remained, at least in my view, not completely clarified.
5 Originally, you came to the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina
6 in the end of April 1995. Correct?
7 A. That's correct.
8 Q. In your statement, P695 - that's the first statement from 1995 -
9 you stated that you had worked in section G2 with the British forces in
10 Gornji Vakuf. Correct?
11 A. I didn't work in the G2 section, no.
12 Q. [In English] I will show you your statement on page 1,
13 paragraph 1, where it says: "I was the British Army SLO based in Knin
14 working in the British G2 cell."
15 A. Okay, I've got it. Yeah. I mean, I was sector liaison officer.
16 That was my prime role. And as a by-product, the information I was
17 providing would have gone to the G2 cell to help build up the picture.
18 So, whilst not directly employed by the G2, I provided information to
19 them.
20 Q. [Interpretation] I understand. You now referring to the time
21 between the 4th and the 10th of August, 1995, when you were in Knin.
22 However, I'm asking after your arrival to the territory of the former
23 Yugoslavia, in end April 1995, to the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina
24 that is, within which force did you act, which organisation, what was its
25 complement, and what was your position within it? Could you please
1 describe.
2 A. I was within the sector liaison organisation. From recollection,
3 there was probably a dozen of us from across -- mainly the army and
4 mainly the Royal Marines. In fact, I think all the drivers were from the
5 Royal Marines. And we were deployed initially as liaison officers. I
6 think we were more working directly for the brigadier, Brigadier Pringle,
7 in Gornji Vakuf, and we went to the various battalions in Sector
8 South West.
9 So, initially, I worked in Tomislavgrad and I worked in Vitez and
10 the surrounding areas as a liaison officer, and my job was to try to set
11 up meetings between the senior military commanders and Brigadier Pringle.
12 So we had the credibility of having the brigadiers' ear, and the
13 important think was to try to cut through the bureaucracy, which we all
14 experience, to go straight to the senior military commanders and set up
15 those meetings.
16 So that was, initially, what I did until I was moved to Knin.
17 Q. I understand. Were you then working within the UNPROFOR in the
18 territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina at that time?
20 Q. Would you agree with me that the mandate of the UNPROFOR at the
21 time was relatively vague in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and
22 was, in fact, to try to moderate between the warring sides to achieve a
23 cease-fire and a cessation of hostilities?
24 A. I don't remember the exact mandate. What I do remember was I was
25 a 25-year-old captain doing what his superior officers had asked him to
1 do.
2 Q. You said that your superior officer was Brigadier Pringle. Was
3 he the one who sent you to Knin, to the commander of Sector South?
4 A. Yes, he was.
5 Q. Did that mean that, after your arrival at Knin, you transferred
6 to the subordination of General Forand or did you remain subordinated to
7 Brigadier Pringle?
8 A. I don't think that was a specific transfer of my subordination.
9 I don't think you would -- I don't -- I am fairly certain there was no
10 documentation to support that, but I think it was -- I think in British
11 terms you would call it a gentleman's agreement between the two
12 Brigadiers, that I would work for General Forand, yet effectively still
13 be under the command of Brigadier Pringle.
14 Q. Would I be mistaken if I said that your position within
15 Sector South at the UNCRO base in Knin was, in a certain way,
16 exceptionally? And I am referring to the fact that you had your own
17 vehicle and a driver at your disposal.
18 A. You wouldn't be mistaken. I thought I was unbelievably lucky to
19 have such responsibility at that age.
20 Q. You have told us that the vehicle you used to tour the terrain
21 was a Land Rover. Could you tell us how it was marked. What colour was
22 it and what were the licence plates?
23 A. The licence -- wrong. The colour of the Land Rover was white,
24 UN white. I can't -- I'm fairly certain we probably had some shabby
25 looking UN stickers, blue ones on it. And I simply can't remember what
1 the registration of the vehicle was. I can't remember whether it was
2 British or, indeed, it had UN on.
3 Q. Apart from you, and, of course, General Forand, commander of the
4 Sector South, was there any other person in the command who had a vehicle
5 and a driver at their service?
6 A. I'm fairly certain people like Colonel Leslie and Colonel Tymchuk
7 had those sort of assets. I mean, there's nothing unusual about me
8 having a vehicle and a driver.
9 Q. I'll refer back to your statement, P695, where, at the beginning,
10 you said that before coming to the territory of the former Yugoslavia,
11 you had undergone certain preparations; namely, you completed a one-week
12 UNMO course and a one-week sector liaison officer course. That's a total
13 of two weeks of familiarizing yourself with the terrain you were going to
14 cover. Was that all the education you received for that assignment or
15 was there anything else?
16 A. No, that was it. And I was fairly unique in having done both
17 those courses, and that's because they couldn't make up their minds as to
18 how they were going to deploy me. Initially, they thought I would deploy
19 as an UNMO, because earlier on in the year, I think there were many
20 potential agreements between the warring factions. And the British were
21 lining up to deploy ten or 15 UNMOs at short notice, and so I went on
22 that course. Then the potential agreement fell apart, so I think I did
23 nothing for three months, until the brigade that I was with in Germany
24 deployed, and the Brigadier said, "I'll take Dangerfield as a sector
25 liaison officer."
1 Q. That course, among other things, included, as we can see in point
2 "A," FRY vehicle/aircraft/weapon systems recognition. At the time, it
3 was the Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia, indeed.
4 Did that course include recognition of the same, in the system of
5 the Republic of Croatia, military vehicles, police vehicles, et cetera?
6 A. From recollection, yes. I mean, I think the aim was it was to
7 give an overview and identify the detail across all of former warring
8 factions, and I think licence plates -- from memory, I think the Croatia
9 plates were yellow with -- the Croatian military with yellow with black
10 numbers and letters. I think they all had different ones, and I think it
11 pretty critical to be able to tell the deference between the two -- oh,
12 sorry, difference between the three different sides.
13 Q. Within that course, were you made aware of the structure of the
14 Croatian army, the civilian police, military police, the special police,
15 the system of civil protection? Did you familiarize yourself with the
16 structure and the composition of the organisations that I mentioned?
17 A. I'm fairly certain I did. I wouldn't be able to do for you now.
18 I think that is a standard procedure for the British Army whenever it
19 deploys, as it would do for Iraq, as it would do for Afghanistan. It is
20 part of our general education and preparation to make sure that we are
21 equipped mentally and physically to deal with whatever is thrown at you.
22 Q. Were you able at the time to distinguish among members of
23 different agencies according to uniform or vehicle they were driving?
24 A. Could I clarify agencies as battalions and brigades?
25 Q. When I mentioned agencies I meant, on the one hand, Croatian
1 army, on the other hand, military police, as opposed to special police
2 and regular police. Were you able to distinguish between members of
3 these various agencies, according to their appearance?
5 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Mikulicic, I'm looking at the clock.
6 MR. MIKULICIC: Your Honour, I think it is it a good moment to
7 make a pause.
8 JUDGE ORIE: Then we will have a break, and we resume at five
9 minutes to 11.00.
10 --- Recess taken at 10.30 a.m.
11 --- On resuming at 11.01 a.m.
12 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Mikulicic, you may proceed.
13 MR. MIKULICIC: Thank you, Your Honour.
14 Q. [Interpretation] Mr. Dangerfield, I will now refer to paragraph 2
15 of your statement from 1995 - that's P695 - where you described your
16 duties from the 4th to the 10th of August, 1995. You say that you were
17 supposed to report on every incident, an action by both HV and ARSK
18 troops; that you were working with both UK and SS G2 cells; that you were
19 trying to build up a certain picture of HV intentions, ARSK reactions and
20 future operations by both sides. And this would help the British G2 in
21 Gornji Vakuf to work out what effect this would have on western Bosnia.
22 Do you agree with this description of your assignments in your
23 statement? Would you still say the same today?
24 A. On the whole, I would agree with it. I would say, perhaps, that
25 the last sentence, "This would help the British G2 in Sector South West
1 work out what effect this would have on western Bosnia," is a little bit
2 grand perhaps, and perhaps not accurate.
3 Q. Could you elaborate on that? Why do you think so today?
4 A. I suppose one would like to think I have matured over 13 years,
5 and when I read that again, I was looking at gathering information, to be
6 honest wherever I was and wherever I went. And to suspect that the
7 G2 cell could work out what strategic effect this would have on western
8 Bosnia is perhaps a little bit grand.
9 Q. As you arrived in Knin - that is, before Operation Storm - I
10 suppose you were made aware of the UNCRO mandate, and that was to
11 demilitarise the area of the so-called Serbian Republic of Krajina,
12 putting it under control, and monitoring military movements along the
13 border of that area. Were you made aware that mandate of the UNCRO in
14 the Republic of Croatia?
15 A. I think I was probably made aware of it by the Sector South
16 headquarters. I think, specifically, I would have been interested in the
17 aspect of monitoring military movements along the border area, I think
18 known as the Zone of Separation.
19 MR. MIKULICIC: [Interpretation] May I ask the registrar to pull
20 up D28.
21 Q. We will now see, Mr. Dangerfield, one document that has been
22 exhibited already, and that's the agreement between the government of the
23 Republic of Croatia and the peace forces of the United Nations. The
24 UNCRO concluded on the 6th of August, 1995; that is to say, after
25 Operation Storm had been launched on the 4th of August.
1 Were you familiar with this document? Have you had the
2 opportunity to see it or read it before?
3 A. I'm not familiar with it, and I don't believe I've seen it
4 before.
5 Q. I would like us to focus on paragraph 2 of this document - that's
6 page 2 in Croatian - describing the mandate.
7 Please look at it, Mr. Dangerfield. In this paragraph, the
8 definition of the UNCRO mandate at the level between the Republic of
9 Croatia and the peace forces of the UN was signed by Mr. Saranic on
10 behalf of the Croatian government and by Mr. Yasushi Akashi on behalf of
11 the UN. You mentioned that the latter had visited Knin.
12 This agreement actually changes the mandate of the UNCRO, and
13 reorients it towards humanitarian affairs and human rights -- the human
14 rights situation.
15 Were you informed by anyone in Sector South of this change of
16 mandate of the UNCRO, beginning with the 6th of August, 1995?
17 A. I think I probably had been made aware of it, yes.
18 Q. However, despite that, you continue to perform duties such as
19 monitoring military movements of the HV and the RSK army, trying to
20 deduce their intentions in various military interventions and how that
21 would reflect on the situation in western Bosnia.
22 That does not seem to be in conformity with this changed mandate
23 of the UNCRO as specified in this agreement. Do you agree with that?
24 A. In part. I conformed with my superior officers.
25 Q. Thank you for this answer.
1 Para 11 of your statement of 1995, you say that from the European
2 Monitors you received certain information about various personalities in
3 the Croatian army, and you mention General Gotovina, General Cermak. And
4 in paragraph -- in item C, that is, you refer to officer Ivan Juric,
5 Major Ivan Juric. You say that he drove a black Mercedes with a certain
6 registration plate, that he was working at the barracks in Zagreb, and
7 you mention his phone number.
8 Mr. Dangerfield, have you ever met personally with Major Ivan
9 Juric?
10 A. No, I haven't.
11 Q. Could you explain what you intended when you said he was chief of
12 police? What does that mean? Which police do you mean?
13 A. I don't know. That's the information I got from the
14 European Community monitors. So I don't know which police, special
15 police, military police, civilian police. I don't know.
16 Q. Paragraph 22, in your statement, says that on the 27th of July,
17 Radio Knin announced a full mobilisation of the army of the RSK, and you
18 go on to say what it included in points A through D.
19 Did you hear this announcement yourself?
20 A. No. It would have been in the B/C/S, and, therefore, it would
21 have been a translation that was handed to me.
22 Q. Can you remember who gave you information about this
23 announcement?
25 Q. In paragraph 23, you say, at that time, Knin was almost empty as
1 far as men of military age are concerned, and that you had very good
2 freedom of movement in view of the panic that occurred, and you say that
3 on the 27th, all the fire engines seemed to be filling up at the petrol
4 observation. Was that your personal observation or was it taken from a
5 sitrep or another report?
6 A. No. I believe if it is written like that. I would have seen
7 that personally.
8 Q. What is your explanation for this behaviour by the firemen on the
9 27th?
10 A. It would be my assessment, and opinion only, that the fire
11 brigade were preparing for some kind of attack. It is unusual for fire
12 engines all to be filling up at the same time, and so I assess that they
13 were expecting something. And there was a shortage of fuel, I believe,
14 in Knin, so I would assume they were filling up whilst they still had
15 fuel available.
16 Q. Very well. There's just one thing that I won't say bothers me,
17 but makes me curious.
18 In paragraph 29, you say that there was a restriction of movement
19 and UN personnel was confined to camp. What do you mean by "confined "?
20 A. None of us were allowed out.
21 Q. When you say that you were not "allowed out," who was it that did
22 not allow you to leave the UN base?
23 A. As this was on the 4th of August, it would have been the ARSK
24 soldiers who were at the front gate.
25 Q. However, in paragraph 9, reference is made to the period of the
1 7th and 8th of August; in other words, at the time when the Croatian army
2 troops enter the Knin.
3 Would you like me to reiterate my question, Mr. Dangerfield?
4 We've placed this statement of yours in a time-frame, and my
5 question was: When you said that you were not allowed to leave the camp,
6 who was it that did not allow to you leave the UN base?
7 A. On the 4th, and I suppose up to the early hours or the early
8 morning of the 5th of August, it would have been the ARSK soldiers, and
9 then it was either the soldiers who were killed or the soldiers which you
10 will have read in my statement, or it would have been soldiers who had
11 left shortly prior to the Croatian soldiers' arrival.
12 So, whilst there was probably no overlap between the two by
13 minutes, I suspect the time-frame between the two was not that long. So,
14 for the 1st, I suppose, up until the middle of the 5th, it would have
15 been ARSK soldiers preventing us from getting out; and when the Croatian
16 soldiers arrived on the 5th, it was they who prevented us from getting
17 out. Indeed, they tried to get into the camp.
18 MR. MIKULICIC: [Interpretation] Could we now see document
19 3D00-1760.
20 Q. We will see, in a moment, Mr. Dangerfield, an article published
21 on the 6th of August, 1995 in the Sunday Mail or Mail on Sunday. And in
22 this article, reference is made to your statements.
23 And if we now turn to page 2 of this document, the
24 paragraph before last, we can see that it states the following. Your
25 statement is quoted here, and it reads as follows: [Previous translation
1 continues] ... [In English] "... agreed no one would leave the compound,
2 and the Croats promised not to enter the camp."
3 [Interpretation] Am I wrong if I conclude based on this that the
4 issue of UN personnel and their confinement to the UN base in Knin was
5 agreed in a mutual agreement between the Croatian army and the command of
6 Sector South?
7 A. I remember this incident very well because the Croatian soldiers
8 tried to force their way into the camp. And it was the first time in my
9 military career that I had been told to cock my weapon and be required to
10 use it if necessary, and the reason for why is that the British Army
11 rules of engagement were more robust than the Canadian army rules of
12 engagement. So, if necessary, I would have used the force required of me
13 by the superior officer to prevent that happening.
14 Once it was understood by the Croatian soldiers the enormity of
15 the situation, my superior officers and whoever the senior Croatian
16 soldier or officer who was at the front gate, I believe this agreement
17 came into force.
18 Q. I understand.
19 How, then, am I to interpret in this context the quotes in the
20 paragraph before this one where you state, speaking of Croatian soldiers:
21 "They were friendly [Previous translation continues] ...
22 [In English] ... and that sort of thing."
23 A. I think the appearance of the soldiers overall was that they were
24 happy with their achievements, and, therefore, their demeanour was
25 friendly, they were firing their rifles into the air, and that's how they
1 behave. But it's different --
2 Q. Thank you for your answer.
3 I would now like to refer you to your second statement --
4 JUDGE ORIE: The witness had not finished his answer where you
5 said: "But it's different ..."
6 Could you please complete your answer.
7 THE WITNESS: Yes, sir.
8 But it is different to when you have a UN compound with a whole
9 load of civilians in who are not under the UN badge, and that, I believe,
10 was the issue which caused the standoff at the front gate to the camp.
11 JUDGE ORIE: Please proceed, Mr. Mikulicic.
13 Q. [Interpretation] Be that as it may, however, is it correct that
14 when you said that agreement was reached between the Croatian army and
15 the UN, according to which the Croatian army would not enter the base and
16 the UN personnel would not leave the base, so was this agreement reached
17 or not? Yes or no.
19 Q. Mr. Dangerfield, would you please take a look at paragraph 8 of
20 your 2008 statement, the statement of January of this year.
21 In paragraph 8, you say that you personally observed HV soldiers
22 standing around in towns and villages where houses and crops or stables
23 were burning, and also that you saw members of the Croatian special
24 police preventing access to areas that were burning.
25 I would now like to us to talk about this part of your statement.
1 First of all, could you tell us when was it that you observed
2 this situation? What time-period was this in?
3 A. This would have been the two weeks after August the 9th, from
4 August the 9th onwards.
5 Q. Can you tell us what area you're referring to when you say
6 "around in towns and villages."
7 Which areas do you have in mind? Which town precisely or which
8 village?
9 A. All of them in the area that was known as Sector South. I mean,
10 it was throughout Sector South; and as I said in the previous paragraph,
11 80 to 90 per cent.
12 Q. I apologise if I wasn't quite clear, so I will reiterate my
13 question.
14 Are you referring here to -- are you saying that the special
15 police prevented entry into or access to villages and towns in the entire
16 area?
17 A. I think they probably dealt with one -- well, I mean, I don't
18 know how many special police there were, but I think they probably dealt
19 with each village or town when they could; and, therefore, I couldn't be
20 in the whole area at the same time. But they certainly seemed to be
21 present in quite a few areas that I visited.
22 Q. So you're unable to tell us how many members of the special
23 police there were. You cannot tell us where these things happen. You
24 say probably throughout the area. And, of course, you're also saying
25 that you could not be present in all these places that you have -- that
1 you visited. Is my understanding correct?
2 A. You are correct when you say how many -- I can't tell you how
3 many members of the special police there were. And, in fact, I haven't
4 given specific grid references in this statement to everywhere that I saw
5 on fire because they were too numerous to list.
6 And if I could give an analogy, after the Iraq war, the oil wells
7 were set on fire and I think we probably all saw those on television. If
8 you were to replace those oil wills with a village, a town, a settlement,
9 that is what the area looked like. It was all on fire.
10 Q. So, in your 2008 statement, when, in paragraph 8, you speak of
11 these events, you were, in fact, in a way, motivated by what you
12 experienced in Iraq a few years later. Is my understanding correct?
13 A. No, because I wasn't in Iraq at that time of the war.
14 Q. When were you in Iraq, Mr. Dangerfield?
15 A. Let me just work it out. I have to think back where I've been.
16 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Mikulicic, the witness compared what he saw with
17 what he now says he apparently saw on the television as oil wills
18 burning.
19 Now, is there any specific reason why we -- because that has got
20 nothing to do, I understand, with his presence in Iraq.
21 Is there any specific reason why we have to explore his presence
22 in Iraq. If there is, please proceed; if there's not, let's move on.
23 MR. MIKULICIC: From my point of view, a very strange experience
24 that someone experience, which took place after the events that he is
25 talking about in his statement, could be relevant for the references in
1 the statement of the events that happened long before the period that he
2 has talk about his experience.
3 So this is kind of odd for me, but I will pass on.
4 JUDGE ORIE: But the witness only today explained to us that it
5 had a similar look as what he once saw, apparently after the events. It
6 could be before as a matter of fact. Because while the Iraq war, I take
7 it that Mr. Dangerfield is referring to the war where Iraq was attacking
8 one of its neighbouring countries, and not the war in which Iraq was
9 attacked later.
10 But apart that from that, he is just referring to what it looked
11 like, and I think there's -- I was already a bit surprised that you said,
12 Did it inspire you? He just made a comparison. Nothing more, nothing
13 less, as far as I'm concerned.
15 MR. MIKULICIC: I will go on, Your Honour. Yes. Thank you.
16 Q. [Interpretation] In your supplement statement to the Prosecutor a
17 few days ago, you also referred to this paragraph of your 2008
18 January statement, and you said there that members of the special police
19 personally prevented you from getting out.
20 Was this -- does this mean that this is your own personal
21 experience and not something that you have learned about second-hand?
22 A. Yes. And I think I explained it at the end of the Prosecution's
23 questioning, and that was specifically in the area of Cetina.
24 Q. [In English] Of?
25 A. Cetina.
1 Q. [Interpretation] Could you tell us when this was?
2 A. Now, I think I refer to it in - I think - in the article I wrote,
3 The Fall of The Republic Of Serbian Krajina. I think I probably refer to
4 it in there, and I think I call it on one occasion.
5 Q. Maybe can you help us with this, because I can't recall seeing
6 anything, any mention of this topic in your article?
7 A. Page 6, paragraph 2, that begins: "Other patrols saw us ..."
8 Q. [In English] Okay. [Interpretation] But I can't see here that
9 you make mention of the special police.
10 A. That's true.
11 Q. As you said, then, you had personal contact with them. Could you
12 tell us, then, whether you spoke with any of these members of the special
13 police who prevented you from accessing this area?
14 A. My -- I only had a limited grasp of B/C/S, as did my driver. I
15 had no interpreter. It's amazing what you can understand through sign
16 language and gestures with the hands and the small amount of B/C/S that I
17 spoke.
18 Q. That is, of course, quite clear.
19 How was this person that you say was a special police member, how
20 was he dressed?
21 A. I think I said earlier on under cross-examination that whilst
22 during the deployment or prior to the deployment, we had been briefed and
23 taught what people wore; and, of course, I knew that throughout my tour.
24 Thirteen years on, I can't -- I can't remember.
25 Q. Can you at least remember whether he was wearing civilian
1 clothing or a uniform?
2 A. It almost certainly was a uniform.
3 Q. Can you remember, just in general terms, what the pattern on the
4 uniform was?
5 A. No. And I'm not going to guess.
6 Q. Was this person of whom you say was a special police officer
7 armed?
8 A. I think you always respect someone who has -- is equipped with a
9 weapon; and, therefore, if I was escorted out of the sector, if I was
10 prevented from going somewhere, it normally meant they were armed.
11 Q. What kind of weapon did this person have?
12 A. Again, I was briefed prior to deployment on all sorts of various
13 different weapons; and, of course, there are weapons that are prolific
14 throughout the world, and so it was likely to have been weapons of small
15 calibre.
16 Q. Do you mean a short barrel or long barrel?
17 A. I think everyone was equipped with pistols and rifles. When I
18 say "everyone," I mean generically throughout the Balkans. I cannot tie
19 to special police different units whether they had a pistol or a rifle.
20 My memory simply isn't that good.
21 Q. Of course, a lot of time has passed. Do you recall this event
22 that you say was in Cetina, an event where you were stopped and prevented
23 to enter this area by a unit that you say were special police? Was this
24 a check-point where you were stopped, or were you stopped by some other
25 means?
1 A. I think somewhere I refer to not being noticed for a while, which
2 may have meant that I hadn't got as far as a check-point, I was short of
3 a check-point. Just because I wasn't at a check-point, it doesn't mean
4 there was no check-point. I had got myself into a position where I could
5 view what was going on.
6 Q. Mr. Dangerfield, do you remember whether, during your stay and
7 mandate in Sector South, you had contacts with any official officers of
8 the special police?
10 Q. Do you know what the role of the special police was in
11 Operation Storm and following Operation Storm?
12 A. No, I don't.
13 Q. Mr. Dangerfield, of course, it's been a long time, and it's quite
14 understandable when you say that you cannot remember today all the things
15 that you knew at that time; in other words, in August 1995.
16 However, could you please explain why it is that you mentioned
17 this event, where you were prevented by the special police to enter
18 certain areas; whereas, in your statement of January of this year and
19 your supplemental statement of July of this year, no mention, not a
20 single word, is said about these events in 1995 in your statement of
21 1995, where, of course, your memories would have been much fresher.
22 Could you please explain there?
23 A. Yes. The reason why I mentioned it initially is because it was,
24 to me and my driver, an event that was potentially life threatening, at
25 the time. But it was an event, and over the years one just moves on from
1 these things. It is no longer an event, it's an event in my past. One
2 moves on. It's history . It's as simple as that.
3 Q. I understand that, Mr. Dangerfield, but you still haven't
4 answered how come you don't mention it in 1995, when it was fresh in your
5 mind and when you would have been able to describe that person, both in
6 terms of appearance, uniform, the weapon he was carrying, and other
7 details. But 13 years later you do mention it in your statement to the
8 Prosecution; and in doing so, you referred to the member -- to a member
9 of the special police, although you can't any longer remember what the
10 attributes of the special police were.
11 A. I think we're getting muddled here. I mentioned this event in
12 Cetina. Yes, I don't mention the special police specifically. But this
13 article which was written no less than ten days afterwards was a general
14 account of my experiences. It was, as can you read, written by a young
15 man who was very impressionable and keen to partake of his experiences
16 with other people.
17 Q. I understand. Let's move on to a different subject.
18 That's precisely the article you were talking about, P699. You
19 authored this article which was written, as you said, some ten days after
20 the event in Knin for a -- the British Army Review. What kind of
21 publication is that, just to give us a picture? What is the readership
22 of this review?
23 A. It's a magazine that is printed, I believe, a couple of times a
24 year, and it's where officers and soldiers of the British Army can write
25 about military affairs, whether past, present, or future. It's a medium
1 for discussion. And, at the time, some people described me as the most
2 shelled officer, i.e., the man who had been under the most incoming
3 rocket and artillery fire since the Second World War. So it was of
4 interest to people. And whilst I wrote this account for myself, I
5 decided to send it in to the editor of the magazine to share that
6 experience.
7 Q. You've just answered a question I haven't yet asked.
8 So it was on your own initiative that you sent the article to
9 that magazine. Nobody asked you to do so, right?
11 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Mikulicic, however, the witness has not answered
12 the question that you did put to him; that is, what is the readership.
13 Who are the readers of this magazine?
14 THE WITNESS: Members of the armed forces and the wider defence
15 community.
18 MR. MIKULICIC: Thank you, Your Honour. I appreciate that
19 intervention.
20 Q. [Interpretation] Let's go through this article.
21 In the introduction, you say that starting with May of that year,
22 1995, your job was to monitor the build-up of Croatian forces in the
23 south and south-east of Sector South, and in the west as well of
24 Sector South. And you had also been monitoring the response to this by
25 the army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina.
1 However, what I am interested in is your reference to the fact
2 that negotiations had begun between Croats, led by Franjo Tudjman, and
3 the Serbs, led by Milan Martic.
4 Mr. Dangerfield, do you know, at least the basic features of
5 plan Z-4?
7 Q. If I told you that plan Z-4 was an attempt, a joint attempt at
8 the time by the European Community, Russia, and the US, to reintegrate
9 peacefully the territory of the so-called RSK into the Republic of
10 Croatia, would that jog your memory a bit?
11 A. You're asking me strategic and political question, which I can't
12 possibly answer.
13 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Dangerfield, Mr. Mikulicic is asking you whether
14 you knew what plan Z-4 was.
15 THE WITNESS: I didn't --
16 JUDGE ORIE: Please. Mr. Mikulicic, then gave a little sketch of
17 what Z-4 was in his view, and asked whether that refreshed your
18 recollection. That's not a political question. That is not a strategic
19 question. That is a question about whether this refreshes your memory,
20 whether you have any knowledge yes or no. If have you, please tell us;
21 if it doesn't refresh your memory, please tell us as well.
22 THE WITNESS: I think I refer in the article somewhere that I
23 talk about the peaceful reintegration of the Republica Serb Krajina. I
24 didn't know it was specifically Z-4.
1 MR. MIKULICIC: [Interpretation]
2 Q. Nevertheless, even if you didn't know it was plan Z-4, you were
3 aware that some sort of negotiations were -- peace negotiations were
4 going on between Zagreb and Knin, and I'm referring to paragraph 2 on
5 page 2 of your article.
6 A. I was aware.
7 Q. Do you know, Mr. Dangerfield, who Mr. Leonid Kerestedzijanc was
8 at the time?
10 Q. Mr. Kerestedzijanc was the first Russian Ambassador to the
11 Republic of Croatia; and along with Mr. Peter Galbraith, he played a
12 major role in the attempt to realise the Z-4 plan.
13 MR. MIKULICIC: [Interpretation] Can I have 3D00-0777 called up,
14 please.
15 Q. I will now show you an article published in the Croatian press,
16 in February last year, an interview with Mr. Kerestedzijanc where he
17 mentions the plan Z-4 and the reaction of Milan Martic to the
18 negotiations about this plan.
19 I'll refer you just to one portion of that article that is
20 relevant for our purposes, where it is said that upon his arrival to
21 Knin, Mr. Kerestedzijanc, who had previously talked to Mr. Tudjman as
22 well, had wanted to hand over the plan for reintegration without any
23 conflict to Mr. Martic; whereas, the latter answered briefly, "We just
24 won't take that into our hands," and that put[paid to any peaceful
25 negotiations.
1 Do you know from any other source about the response of
2 then-authorities in Knin to the peace negotiations?
3 A. No, I don't know.
4 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Mikulicic, I think I earlier expressed that this
5 courtroom is not a place where we inform witnesses about events, but that
6 this is a place where witnesses still the Court what they've observed so
7 that the Court can make the determinations. I must say the quantity of
8 rather long questions, including documents, including plans, et cetera,
9 which ones asked to the witness if he knows anything about and the answer
10 is "no" and then the next series, is not something that the Chamber
11 considers to be of great assistance.
13 MR. MIKULICIC: [Interpretation] I will go on, Your Honour. I
14 will tender this as a document, please, as evidence.
15 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Russo.
16 MR. RUSSO: Your Honour, I think, under the standard the Court
17 applied with respect to the Fisk article, I don't know that this article
18 really has any foundation to come in. The witness doesn't know anything
19 about it, doesn't indicate that he is quoting anything, a party of the
20 case.
21 So, on that basis, I would --
22 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Mikulicic, in what respect is this different
23 from the Fisk.
24 MR. MIKULICIC: Your Honour, I would say that on his article, in
25 page 2, the witness is referring to the peace negotiations between
1 Krajina officials and representative of the Croatian government, and he
2 is also referring to the visit Mr. Akashi to Knin, and he is also
3 referring to the Geneva peace talk negotiations, which are all very, very
4 close connected to the Z-4 plan.
6 MR. MIKULICIC: Although the witness is not ware specifically of
7 what the Z-4 plan means, but the subject of this negotiation is, in fact,
8 the framework is Z-4.
9 JUDGE ORIE: Do I understand that whatever press publication
10 there has been, written by whomever, published wherever, which deals with
11 these matters is for that reason where the witness could not add anything
12 to that admissible evidence.
13 MR. MIKULICIC: No necessary, Your Honour, of course. But I
14 would also refer to the witness testimony of Ambassador Galbraith on that
15 portion as well, when he also said about the -- how Milan Martic was
16 refusing the Z-4 plan.
17 JUDGE ORIE: The Chamber will consider whether or not to admit
18 this in evidence.
19 Mr. Registrar, the number?
20 THE REGISTRAR: Your Honours, this becomes Exhibit number D717,
21 marked for identification.
22 JUDGE ORIE: D717 keeps that status for the time being.
25 Q. [Interpretation] Mr. Dangerfield, more than once in the course of
1 your evidence, you emphasised that at the time of these events you were
2 only 25, and that you experienced and viewed certain things differently
3 from the way you do today.
4 In that context, I would like to refer you to your own article,
5 paragraph 3 on page 2, where you refer to the peace negotiations in
6 Geneva, and you say: [In English] "My personal feelings were that I
7 would actually like to be in war." Then you said: "I had missed out on
8 the Gulf War; and if you do nothing else in the armed forces, it is
9 undoubtedly the pinnacle of your career."
10 [Interpretation] How are we to understand that you were actually
11 wishing for a war and the breakdown of peace negotiations, in view of the
12 duties you were performing for the forces of the United Nations which, by
13 their nature, are peace forces?
14 A. That is why I joined the army. I didn't join the UN.
15 Q. Further on, in paragraph 4, you said: "I sat listening to the
16 BBC World service news bulletin [Previous translation continues] ... [In
17 English] "... watching the BBC World news programme on Sky television,
18 almost hoping that the talk would fail and break up. That way, I would
19 almost certainly get the war that I hoped for."
20 [Interpretation} Would you give us the same explanation for this
21 statement?
22 A. Yes. I would give the same explanation and I wouldn't change my
23 mind today. After 16 years in the army, I left and I still didn't
24 experience war. It is a regret that I never experienced it. I spent 16
25 years training, to do what?
1 Q. And when the bombing of Knin began, so that was the war that you
2 were wishing for and hoping for, then it must have been fun to you. At
3 least on page 3, in the penultimate paragraph, you said: "It was,
4 however, amusing eating my breakfast with helmet and a flak jacket on.
5 Can we ascribe this statement to your youth, or was it really
6 amusing to have a helmet and a flak jacket on during breakfast, during
7 bombing?
8 A. I think the word "fun" would be wrong. I thought it was
9 fantastic, and I thought it was quite an odd experience eating my
10 breakfast wearing a helmet and flak jacket. I suppose the amusing part
11 was when the initial bombardment came, I ran for the bunker clad only in
12 a towel. That is the amusing bit.
13 Q. Well, then, Mr. Dangerfield, you have raised this story yourself,
14 this story with the towel, that is mentioned throughout different
15 articles. But the fact is you had a jacket on. In fact, you had a
16 jacket and your shoes that were carrying and that you had taken off
17 before taking a shower, right?
18 A. We'll get the order right. I got up, I had a shower, I was
19 getting dry in my bedroom when the bombardment started. To save my
20 dignity, I put a towel round myself, and I grabbed my helmet and my flak
21 jacket and my webbing and my rifle and my pistol and my boots and my
22 uniform, and I ran for the bunker.
23 Q. All right. This topic is not so important as to waste precious
24 court time on it.
25 Let us move to another subject, which is important, and that's
1 Grubori village.
2 Mr. Dangerfield, page 6, paragraph 3 of your article from 1995,
3 you say that: "In the morning on Saturday, 26 August, Andy ..." -- that
4 was your driver. Correct?
6 Q. You went to the Serb village Grubori in Plavno valley to the
7 north-east of Knin. My first question about this would be: Why did you
8 go to Grubori village, you and Andy, your driver?
9 A. I'm fairly certain that we weren't the first members of the UN
10 forces to go there, but I think there were either rumours or someone knew
11 of it, and, therefore, I went up there for independent verification.
12 Q. Did you go to Grubori because it was your only decision or you
13 received an order from your superior officers?
14 A. I don't remember, to be honest.
15 Q. You go on to say that you were accompanying Mr. Richard Bremford,
16 who was working for UN Television. Was anyone else, apart from you, your
17 driver Andy, and Mr. Richard Bremford, among the persons who arrived at
18 the Grubori on the morning of the 26th of August?
19 A. Yes. I'm fairly certain I had a Canadian with me. It would
20 almost certainly have been Phil Berikoff.
21 Q. [In English] "As we draw into the village, you could smell the
22 rancid fumes of houses that had been burned not 12 hours earlier. We
23 were greeted by the most distressing site that I have ever witnessed.
24 All women crying and wailing accompanied by three old men."
25 [Interpretation] Do you recall how many they were, those elderly
1 women you saw at Grubori?
3 Q. [In English] "We knew at once that something was dreadfully
4 wrong. We discovered that night before the Croats had come, they had
5 burned the village and slaughtered the men and livestock."
6 [Interpretation] How did you discover that, that Croats had been
7 in the village the night before?
8 A. Because Richard Bremford spoke fluent Serbo-Croat and Russian, I
9 believe, and he had spoken to the villagers and that was the answer that
10 he had got.
11 Q. Had you received a report or did you observe personally how many
12 men had been killed?
13 A. Two men had been killed, and I describe that in the next
14 paragraph.
15 Q. In the last paragraph, you say that when you entered a house, a
16 woman showed you her husband lying face down on the floor in a pool of
17 blood and that you saw two 7.62-millimetre casings.
18 Then you go on to say: "The corpse was still fresh," and I will
19 quote you: [Previous translation continues] ... [In English] "... seeped
20 slowly across the floor."
21 [Interpretation] Is this a good description of what you have
22 seen, Mr. Dangerfield?
23 A. I think so.
24 Q. Mr. Dangerfield, in the course of your training, were given any
25 lectures on the basic of forensics and crime investigation?
2 Q. You say towards the end of this paragraph, the man lying on the
3 floor, [Previous translation continues] ... [In English] ... had had his
4 throat slit."
5 [Interpretation] How did you infer that the wound you describe
6 occurred as a result of slitting the throat, not something else?
7 A. The man was on the floor, there was a huge line across his
8 throat, the flesh was parted, there was blood coming out of it, and that
9 was a natural assumption for me to take.
10 Q. Have you ever in your military service - and that includes later
11 events; I mean later than 1995 - have occasion to see a wound caused by a
12 bullet when it grazes the skin?
13 A. Yes. We are given fairly regular medical training within the
14 British Army, particularly prior to deploying on operations. We're shown
15 all sorts of various different potential injuries, and we're all taught
16 how to deal with them. Some of our young soldiers go on to do some
17 fairly specialist training to deal with all sorts of different injuries
18 that not everyone is capable of - not necessarily capable of - but
19 particularly wants to do.
20 So the standard of training has improved over the years and is
21 very high; so, yes, I have.
22 Q. When you observed this scene, were you aware that you were
23 actually on a scene that needs to be investigated by the police and their
24 forensic teams?
25 A. No, I wasn't, and that's where I refer to the improvements in our
1 standard of train. The experiences learned by the British Army in
2 Northern Ireland have been transferred over to the training that we have
3 for all other theatres of operations; and. Therefore, in this day and
4 age, yes, with the experience I have now, I most certainly would not have
5 gone in there. I would have sealed the scene off for specialists to
6 come in.
7 Q. Who else entered the room where this man was lying on the floor?
8 A. I think Richard Bremford with the television cameras was first in
9 there; but I don't know who had been in before us in the morning, the day
10 before, or, indeed, who went in there after us. I cannot account for
11 those individuals.
12 Q. [In English] Fair enough. [Interpretation] I apologise if my
13 question was not understood; that means I did not put it very well.
14 My question was and in fact, it should have been: At the moment,
15 how many people were in the room where the corpse was lying on the floor?
16 A. Well, there was the dead man. I think there was the two women.
17 They were there for certain. I think standing at the doorway was the
18 camera team, so I don't believe they were actually in the room at the
19 time. And I would have been there with my driver, at the doorway
20 possibly. And there would have been the other people who had met us as
21 we arrived Grubori. But I'm fairly certain this Court would have seen
22 the UN TV footage of the scene anyway.
23 Q. How long did you stay in Grubori?
24 A. I think it would have been approximately an hour but I cannot be
25 certain. I didn't spend all that there, that was for sure.
1 Q. Do you remember where you went after Grubori?
3 Q. Did you inform anyone, any of your superiors or civilian
4 authorities in Knin, about this?
5 A. If I hadn't been asked to go there by any of my superiors in
6 Knin, and I had discovered this place myself, I would have almost
7 certainly informed them. But I had no liaison with the authorities in
8 Knin. That was not for me; that was for the Canadian headquarters to
9 establish.
10 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Mikulicic, before we continue with the aftermath
11 of the visit, I would like it ask a few clarify questions.
12 Mr. Dangerfield, you went to Grubori because there were rumours
13 or you said there was something was happening there. How much time did
14 it take to you get there, approximately?
15 THE WITNESS: To be honest, sir, I can't remember whether it took
16 an hour or two hours. I just don't know which route I took there, and I
17 can't actually remember where it is in relation to Knin on a map.
18 JUDGE ORIE: So you say anything between one and two hours.
19 THE WITNESS: Well, I can't remember the road I went along and
20 the tracks because, obviously, a good road could be very quick, a very
21 poor track can take some time. I just simply can't give you an accurate
22 answer on that, sir.
23 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. Then my next question is: Did you learn from
24 the people, Mr. Bremford was able to speak with, about when this had
25 happened, this killing of the man that was found in his bedroom.
1 THE WITNESS: Yes, sir. I think we established that happened on
2 the evening of the night before when we went there.
3 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. Now you described the corpse. May I take it
4 that approximately what time did you leave; do you remember. You said in
5 the morning, but it can be --
6 THE WITNESS: Yes. I mean, I think we got there at 8.00 or 9.00
7 in the morning, something like that; and we would have been there an
8 hour, so leaving --
9 JUDGE ORIE: So you were looking at a corpse which as you
10 describe was still fresh; but from what you tell me now, it must have --
11 the person must have been killed at least four to five hours, if not more
12 before that.
14 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. Now you're describing that the blood seeped
15 slowly across the floor. Is that what you actually saw, that the blood
16 was still -- I'm not a native speaking, but "seeping" means going taking
17 a very slow course. After five six hours of a person had died, you saw
18 the blood still slowly moving?
19 THE WITNESS: Yeah, there was very thick pool of blood, and I'm
20 fairly certain that it was moving slowly across the wooden floor.
21 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. We might have to verify that with data on
22 coagulation of blood, which I just shared this with the parties. From
23 what I learned about this in the past, in order to accept this, that
24 would certainly need expert opinion.
25 Please proceed, Mr. Mikulicic.
1 MR. MIKULICIC: Thank you, Your Honour.
2 JUDGE ORIE: By the way I'm looking at the clock. How long --
3 MR. MIKULICIC: I will be finished within five minutes.
4 JUDGE ORIE: Five minutes, that's accepted.
5 THE INTERPRETER: Microphone, please.
7 Q. Mr. Dangerfield, while you were on the territory of the former
8 Yugoslavia, let me ask you, first of all, how long -- how much time did
9 you spend in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
10 A. Two to three months.
11 Q. In those two or three months, did you get to know some people
12 that you had contact with, the locals as it were? I don't mean here
13 members of the peacekeeping forces or some other agency which was not
14 local on the territory of --
15 THE INTERPRETER: The interpreter is not sure whether it was
16 Croatia or Bosnia.
17 MR. MIKULICIC: Both. Croatia and Bosnia.
18 A. Within the British Army, we have always had a policy of getting
19 to know the people whose country you're in, so it was important for me to
20 establish relations within the community with anyone really. So, in the
21 cafes, I would go in and have some particularly strong coffee.
22 Occasionally, I was offered some slivovitz, just one. So, yes, it was
23 very good to meet people, and, actually, you get a much better
24 understanding of the situation. And I was fairly unique because I had
25 had the experience with the Bosnians, I had had the experience in the
1 Serb Krajina, and I had the experience with the Croatians. So I got to
2 met everyone, and I felt very privileged to have had that opportunity.
3 Q. I will quote your words, Mr. Dangerfield. This is on page 7 of
4 your article, Exhibit P699, second paragraph.
5 You say the following: [Previous translation continues] ... [In
6 English] "... have behaved like animals. I do not side with the Serbs.
7 The people from the Balkans are all bad as each other. Everything is
8 about revenge."
9 [Interpretation] Mr. Dangerfield, you wrote this when you were 25
10 years old. Now, from this perspective, have you been able to put a
11 distance between your words then, that the Croats behaved like animals
12 and that everybody was as bad as each other in the Balkans, meaning the
13 people there?
14 A. When I wrote this, I didn't expect it to be picked over 13 years
15 ago -- 13 years later, rather. Some of the language is, indeed, strong;
16 but, as I said, I was 25 and impressionable. So 13 years on, would I
17 change what I had written, do I have a softer view?
18 Q. [In English] okay. [Interpretation] All right. Now -
19 JUDGE ORIE: I was waiting for an answer to the question whether
20 the witness had a softer view. He started thinking about it, and I think
21 he wanted to share with us the outcome.
22 MR. MIKULICIC: I was impressed with the clock hands.
23 JUDGE ORIE: Yes, I do understand.
24 Could you tell us whether you developed a softer view?
25 THE WITNESS: This is my personal opinion only: I think you
1 meddle in other people's business at your own peril. I have an
2 understanding as to why people do things, but it's not for me to get
3 hooked up in those views in this forum.
4 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. So you are not answering the question.
5 Mr. Mikulicic, you have one minute extra.
6 MR. MIKULICIC: I only one question, Your Honour.
7 JUDGE ORIE: Please.
9 Q. In this paragraph, you also quote Lord Clarendon, and you say the
10 following [Previous translation continues] ... [In English] " ... a half
11 ago, Lord Clarendon wrote: 'We are willing to do anything for the
12 maintenance of peace, except committing ourselves to a policy of
13 action.'"
14 [Interpretation] And this is where your quote ends; however, Lord
15 Clarendon's quote continues, and it reads [Previous translation
16 continues] ... [In English] "... after the policy of action," the
17 quotation goes like this: "... that we could not justify and which would
18 not be sanctioned by public opinion at home."
19 [Interpretation] Is there any particular reason, Mr. Dangerfield,
20 that you omitted the last portion of this quotation in your article?
21 A. No, there isn't.
22 MR. MIKULICIC: I have no further questions, Your Honour.
23 JUDGE ORIE: Thank you, Mr. Mikulicic.
24 Mr. Russo, could you give us an impression of how many time you
25 would need.
1 MR. RUSSO: Probably not more than five minutes, Your Honour.
2 JUDGE ORIE: Yes. Other parties, no. That means we will have
3 some time left. And since today is the last day before the recess and
4 since there is still quite a lot of MFIs to be dealt with, we will see
5 how much time remains. So if every could be as prepared as good as
6 possible, because we have not by received the final list by
7 Mr. Registrar, to se what we can do. If we can't do it, perhaps we do it
8 after the recess.
9 We have a break until five minutes to 1.00.
10 --- Recess taken at 12.30 p.m.
11 --- On resuming at 12.58 p.m.
12 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Russo, are you ready to re-examination the
13 witness.
14 MR. RUSSO: I am, Mr. President. Thank you.
15 Mr. Registrar, if we could please have Exhibit D89.
16 Re-examination by Mr. Russo:
17 JUDGE ORIE: While we are waiting for it, Mr. Kehoe, I think you
18 still owed me a page and line reference.
19 MR. KEHOE: I do. The page and line reference was, in fact,
20 the -- well, first of all, with regard to the witness --
21 JUDGE ORIE: I'm talking about C3, and then the protected
23 MR. KEHOE: Yes, Your Honour, and I checked. The Witness 56, he
24 did not talk about C3, but C2 and C4. And with regard to Colonel
25 Leslie's, the reference point, it was started off from his statement
1 where he laid that out as this air defence battery being 300 metres
2 south-west of the UN compound which led to the designation.
3 Your Honour, you're 100 percent correct that he says with regard
4 to that, on page 2130, at line 8 to 10: "The only reason I ask for a
5 little bit of more specificity is I can't recall if that's the exact
6 location of C3, the rebel anti-aircraft facility, but, yes."
7 That is the high ground, Judge, and --
8 JUDGE ORIE: I'm not seeking argument at this moment. It's just
9 where I could find the first point of reference you gave and where I
10 informed you about what I found there.
11 MR. KEHOE: Yes, sir.
12 JUDGE ORIE: I had difficulties in going through three days of
13 transcript to find the other reference, but now it's there, or it is not
14 there, but that's clear.
16 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Russo, we have now the document on the screen.
17 Apologies, Mr. Dangerfield, but --
18 MR. RUSSO: Thank you, Mr. President.
19 Mr. Registrar, if we could take this to the fourth page of the
20 exhibit.
21 Q. Mr. Dangerfield, if you recall, you were shown this exhibit by
22 Mr. Kehoe and specifically directed to the second paragraph there, where
23 it indicates ARSK soldiers of unknown strength were seen occupying
24 defensive positions in general, area of Strmica, with the grid reference.
25 Tanks and mortgages were seen in the same positions. And then at 05,
1 1815, they fired 12 rounds of arty from Strmica towards Knin.
2 Mr. Dangerfield, you were a regimental tank commander. Is that
3 right?
5 Q. And you had been to Strmica prior to Operation Storm. Correct?
6 A. On numerous occasions.
7 Q. Are you able to tell the Court whether or not a tank firing from
8 Strmica could reach Knin?
9 A. In the direct fire roll, no; in the indirect fire roll, extremely
10 unlikely.
11 Q. Can you explain the distinction, please?
12 A. In the direct fire role, that would have been the tank commander
13 being able to visually see his target, so he has to have line of sight.
14 And, certainly, from my experience, that maximum range is about two
15 kilometres in the direct fire role.
16 In the indirect fire role, you would elevate the gun to an angle
17 of evaluation similar to how an artillery fire piece fires up in the air.
18 This is a technique certainly in the British Army we don't practice
19 anymore; but I know that if we were to fire out that range, the maximum
20 range we could achieve is ten kilometres, and I believe the distance from
21 Strmica to Knin is considerably more.
22 Q. Are you able to tell the Court whether mortars could reach from
23 Strmica to Knin?
24 A. I know an 80-millimetre mortar probably has a range of
25 about 5.650 metres; 120-millimetre mortar might go out to about ten or 12
1 kilometres. But, again, a mortar, I don't believe, could reach Knin from
2 Strmica.
3 Q. And did you have occasion to speak with any of the Kenyan
4 Battalion officers who had manned the Strmica point any time after
5 Operation Storm?
7 Q. Thank you. Mr. Dangerfield.
8 MR. RUSSO: Mr. President, Your Honours, I have no further yeses.
9 JUDGE ORIE: Any need for further questions.
10 Mr. Kehoe.
11 MR. KEHOE: Just briefly.
12 Further cross-examination by Mr. Kehoe:
13 Q. Mr. Dangerfield, you don't even know what weapons systems when it
14 comes to mortars they were using because this report doesn't have it,
15 does it?
16 A. That report that I have just seen says "mortars."
17 Q. You don't know what type of mortar -- what -- what level of
18 mortar they had, do you?
19 A. The maximum size mortar they could have had was 120-millimetre,
20 and that was --
21 Q. Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. The question is --
22 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Kehoe, could you please allow the witness to
23 finish his answer.
24 You said the maximum size of mortar they could have had was.
25 THE WITNESS: Was 120-millimetre, sir, so that couldn't have
1 reached Knin.
3 Q. The maximum mortar size was 120, and who had 120? Is it your
4 testimony that the ARSK had a 120 -- the maximum range of an ARSK mortar
5 was with 120-millimetre. Is that your testimony?
6 A. Could you say that, again, please.
7 Q. You said to us, in direct examination, that the maximum range on
8 a mortar was ten to 12 kilometres, didn't you?
9 A. I said approximately, yes.
10 Q. And do you know -- do you know, as you sit here, if those mortars
11 were being fired into Knin from a range of ten to 12 kilometres? As you
12 sit here, do you know that?
13 A. I don't know whether they were. I was questioned on the report
14 that you put up.
15 Q. And based on the report, you have no idea what the ARSK was
16 actually firing, do you?
17 A. I'm saying that at the range, they couldn't have reached Knin.
18 I'm not saying I knew what they were firing; I'm just saying the range
19 was too great for them to reach Knin.
20 Q. My question to you, sir, is: Based on the report, you have no
21 idea what of ARSK was actually firing?
22 JUDGE ORIE: Mr. Kehoe. Mr. Kehoe, that's what the witness said
23 several times.
24 MR. KEHOE: I understand, Judge.
25 JUDGE ORIE: Then the apparent issue was whether the projectiles
1 that were fired at that moment could have possibly reached Knin.
2 Now we have two categories. One was dealt with, that's the tank
3 direct fire, indirect fire; then we have mortars. Now, the witness, for
4 one reason or another, tells us that the maximum range for a mortar -
5 that means whatever mortar you fire, it could never reach any further -
6 would be ten to 12 kilometres, and he referred to 120-millimetre mortars.
7 Mr. Dangerfield, are you aware of any higher calibre mortars than
8 120-millimetre.
9 THE WITNESS: I'm not, sir.
10 JUDGE ORIE: Is that on which you base your answer that with the
11 heaviest charge of 120-millimetre, that the range would be at a maximum
12 ten to 12 kilometres, and that, therefore, considering tanks and/or
13 mortars, that neither of them could have fired and have reached Knin from
14 the position where they were observed to have been seen firing? Is that
15 right?
16 THE WITNESS: [Interpretation] That is my answer, sir.
17 JUDGE ORIE: Okay. Now we have a clear answer.
18 Mr. Kehoe, any further questions about this matter to the
21 Q. Just one last question: Mr. Dangerfield, you do not know what
22 the ARSK was actually firing at, do you?
23 A. No, apart from the report that says towards Knin.
24 Q. Thank you.
25 MR. KEHOE: Nothing further.
2 [Trial Chamber confers]
3 JUDGE ORIE: The Bench has no further questions to you,
4 Mr. Dangerfield. You may have noticed that they came already in between.
5 Since the party have no questions either, this conclude your
6 testimony in this Court. I would like to thank you for coming to
7 The Hague and for answering the questions put to you by the parties and
8 the Bench, and I wish you a safe trip home again.
9 Madam Usher, could you please escort Mr. Dangerfield out of the
10 courtroom.
11 THE WITNESS: Thank you, sir.
12 [The witness stands down]
13 JUDGE ORIE: I said, before the break, that I would like to try
14 and deal with some MFIs. Having reviewed this during the break, the
15 lists that were provided to the parties were provided to them only very
16 recently. I did not find time to go through the lists and having all the
17 details ready to further discuss them with you. Therefore, I think, as a
18 matter of fact, that if we would deal with the MFI at this moment, that
19 we would waste more time in being confused than that we would get quickly
20 to a result.
21 If the parties consider that there's any specific document that
22 we should deal with before the recess, then I'd like to hear. Otherwise,
23 I'd like to invite the parties to well prepare for any moment shortly
24 after the recess to deal with that and get the list again as short as the
25 list once was.
1 Is there any other procedural matter which needs attention at
2 this moment, and I remind you of the fact that we'll not see each other
3 for four weeks.
4 Nothing. Mr. Russo, Mr. Waespi. Mr. Tieger is not there to
5 spoil the quiet atmosphere.
6 This means that we will take an early break. We then will
7 adjourn and we'll resume in four weeks from now. That will be, if I'm
8 not mistaken, Mr. Registrar, the 25th of August. Yes, it is Monday, the
9 25th of August and we'll be in at quarter past 2.00 in the afternoon in
10 Courtroom II.
11 I wish you at least some relaxation during the recess. Of
12 course, I'm aware that, for the accused, that that is not the situation
13 which you wish to be in during the summer holidays. The Chamber is fully
14 aware of that.
15 I hope to see you all back in good health on the 25th of August.
16 --- Whereupon the hearing adjourned at 1.13 p.m.,
17 to be reconvened on Monday, the 25th of August,
18 2008, at 2.15 p.m.
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Ant Man 3: Michael Douglas hints at third installment of the film
Is Ant-Man 3 going to happen? Micheal Douglas sheds light upon it.
Abhishek Singh February 09 2019, 7.22 pm
Its good news for all the Ant-Man fans as legendary actor Michael Douglas, in a recent interview, has hinted that there is a possibility of the third instalment of the Ant-Man franchise. The actor who was seen reprising his role of Hank Pym in 2018 release superhero film Ant-Man and the Wasp also said that there’s no official confirmation to it yet. Apart from Michael, Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly are also seen in pivotal roles in the film.
In a recent interview, the five-time Golden Globe Awards winning veteran Hollywood star confirmed that there has been talk and possibility of another Ant-Man movie. “There’s been talk (about another ‘Ant-Man’) … there’s been nothing formal right now that I know of. They always kind of spring it on me. The first time you hear about it, it’s already in its third rewrite.” He said giving us tiniest of hopes. “Just the same as last time. We didn't have any idea there would be a second Ant-Man until maybe a month or so after the first one came out," he further added.
My first official @instagram post! No better way to start off the new year by winning a Golden Globe tonight for The Kominsky Method. Thank you to the HFPA, Chuck Lorre, our incredible cast and crew, my wife @catherinezetajones, to my family, friends and fans for your amazing support! #GoldenGlobes
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When probed further about his appearance in Avengers: End Game which is all set to hit the box-office in April this year, the 74-year old actor dodged the question. “You know I can’t say a word about that. They have one of those machines that, as soon as you say the word Avengers, a blowgun comes to the side of my neck.”
Rumores afirman que marvel Studios ya está pensando en Ant Man 3 #marvel#marvelstudios#ant#antmanan#antmanandthewasp #disney
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Well, we are hoping that the makers speed up the process and we soon get to see the film.
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The Jake MONDAY Chronicles
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Assassins have no fun...at least that is how Jake Monday feels. Sure, it pays well and has tons of great benefits like beautiful women, fast cars and expensive clothes. But, when you hate your job, how can you enjoy its perks?
Jake finds that although he excels at killing, he finds no joy in it. His employer continues to push him to his limits, forcing Jake to re-evaluate his career choice.
A chance meeting with a woman aboard a flight to Los Angeles leaves Jake questioning more than his occupation. She leaves him with a strange gift and a feeling that they are somehow connected.
Before Jake can unravel the mysterious woman, he takes an assignment that changes his life forever. The stakes are legendary, the danger acute, and the world may never be the same.
A MONTH OF MONDAYS
Jake Monday hates Mondays more than any other day of the week. This Monday may just be the beginning of his new life. He is haunted by his loss of memory. He is targeted by the company he betrayed. Most men would run. Jake goes straight into the maw of the dragon.
A Month of Mondays opens a new chapter in the life of Jake Monday, the vaunted assassin of the Galbraith Association. Jake meets friends he forgot he had and enemies he thought were friends. When Jake finally confronts his past, he learns that perhaps he was not the man he thought he was.
Jake questions his own motives. Why was he on that lawn prepared to kill the most powerful man on earth? And, who would have benefited most if he had succeeded?
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With his family and career at risk, Jake Monday careens blindly toward unknown dangers that threaten to devastate America and tip the scales of power across the globe. On the run from a government that suspects him for treason, he and Hallie fight for their family and their country.
The odds are stacked against them as an unseen player begins to exert its influence. Armed with faith in each other and a vague idea that their lives are not the only ones in the balance, Jake and Hallie resolve to end the threats.
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THE MONDAY COLLECTION
A global conspiracy threatens to overthrow governments, to topple nations, and to create a new order. Caught in the middle of their machinations, Jake Monday, vaunted assassin for the Galbriath Alliance, stands between global tyranny and personal purgatory. Follow Jake through three novellas, Manic Monday, A Month of Mondays, and Thank God it's Monday and track the chronicles of his struggle to discover the man he was, the killer he has become and the man he wants to be. Now, the first three installments of The Jake Monday Chronicles are all in one book. Save money and get The Monday Collection today.
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With the President dead, the world faces the threat of not just one organization bent on global dominance, but two. Torn between doing his duty and protecting his family, Jake is faced with new dangers and the ever-present realization that he is playing a role written by someone else.
Meanwhile, Andronicus must make amends for his errors against the Consortium by coordinating efforts to bring their enemy to its knees. Lars continues to play a freelance role, and discovers the depth of his son's treachery. On top of all this, Giselle may just be the key to world peace. Rainy Days and Monday begins a new cycle of fast-paced action and intrigue set in a world threatened by centuries-old regimes vying for preeminence, government corruption, and corporate greed.
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Frank McKinley, the US Marshal tasked with protecting Hallie and Macy Monday, struggles to keep his feelings in check as he falls deeper for Hallie. His wits and strength are all that stand between the Mondays and death.
Meanwhile, Lars and Violet continue to play advocates and enemies to both sides, their true intentions and affiliations still a mystery. Calvin consorts with commanding individuals, anxious to remove Viveri from their powerful perch of world domination. Secrets and powers long hidden now come to light as this new installment of Jake Monday's tale reveals the origins of these global players and their leaders.
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A global conspiracy threatens to overthrow governments, to topple nations, and to create a new order. Caught in the middle of their machinations, Jake Monday, vaunted assassin for the Galbriath Alliance, stands between global tyranny and personal purgatory. Follow Jake through the final four novellas, Rainy Days and Mondays, Can't Wait for Monday, Mad Mad Monday, and Monday Bloody Monday and track the chronicles of his struggle to discover the man he was, the killer he has become and the man he wants to be. Now, the final four installments of The Jake Monday Chronicles are all in one book. Save money and get The Monday Collection today.
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2018 Hawaii Division Captain of the Year Winner: Captain Rob Ellyn
Captain Rob Ellyn
Lightspeed, 47-foot Cabo
Homeport: Honokohau Harbor, Kona
1,250 points include: Kona Throw Down, 1st Place; Firecracker Open, Heaviest Marlin, 667.5-pounds; Hawaiian Tournament Series, 1st Place.
Congratulations to Captain Rob Ellyn for winning the 2018 Hawaiian Division Captain of the Year award. Ellyn, running the 47-foot Cabo Lightspeed out of Honokohau Harbor in Kona, is no stranger to the Captain of the Year (COTY) award or the winner’s circle. In the five-year history of the COTY in Hawaii, the captain has won the award twice, winning it in 2014 and 2108. The two-time COTY champion fished against a field of renowned Hawaiian captains. Winning the accolade twice, when fishing against notable captains such as Kerwin Masunaga, Marlin Parker, McGrew Rice, Stymie Epstein, Kevin Nakamaru, Carlton Taniyama, Gene Vanderhoek, Shane O’Brien, Teddy Hoogs and Jeff Kahl just to name a few, is quite an accomplishment.
In 2018, InTheBite sanctioned 11 major tournaments in the calm, marlin-rich waters of Kona, Hawaii. Using the COTY scoring system, Ellyn won the honor by earning 1,250 total points. He racked up 500-points with the heaviest blue marlin, a 667.5-pounder, in the two-day Firecracker Open. He then won 500 first-place points by winning the Kona Throw Down, a three-day event that coincides with the World and Kona Cups, when his angler Rick Shedore tagged and released eight blue marlin.
The day the tournament season ended, Ellyn had 1,000 COTY points and was tied with two other excellent Kona captains. Veteran Capt. Carlton Taniyama, on the Five Star, who won first-place in the Rock and Reel and the Lure Maker Challenge. Shane O’Brien on the Strong Persuader, a young captain who has been on fire in both Kona and Cabo the past couple of years. O’Brien won first-place points in Hawaii by winning the Skins Marlin Derby and the Big Island Marlin Tournament.
When the points were tallied for Jody Bright’s Hawaiian Tournament Series, a total of seven major tournaments, Ellyn won the Series top boat award, and Lightspeed angler Rick Shedore won the Series top angler. The 250-points for winning a tournament series put Ellyn over the top to win the COTY with 1,250 points. It is worth noting that Rick Shedore was the defending 2017 Series Champion angler as well.
Congratulations to both Capt. Carlton Taniyama, on the Five Star and Shane O’Brien on the Strong Persuader. I would consider them in a second-place tie. Capt. Teddy Hoogs on the Bwana takes the third-place position with 900-points.
The Lightspeed is armed with two great anglers, owner/angler Rob McCarthy and Rick Shedore. McCarthy and Shedore have only been fishing in Kona together for the past two years, but they have great chemistry. Ellyn has known Shedore for a long time. The two were good friends when Ellyn used to fish in Mexico. Ellyn says, “Communication is the key,” for the good juju onboard the Lightspeed. Congratulations also goes to the 2018 Lightspeed crew members, Travis Ota, Scott “Scooter” Fuller, and Chris Storrs.
I asked the humble, salty captain – who immediately went elk hunting in Idaho after the tournament season was over – about his thoughts on winning the COTY for the second time. He said, “I would like to thank Rick and Rob for the opportunity to fish the tournaments. Without them it wouldn’t be possible. Again, a big thanks to Rob McCarthy for giving us the opportunity to fish in such an awesome fishery. If you haven’t fished Kona, you should.”
Like I always say whenever anyone asks, “When is the best time to fish Kona?” The answer is simple – “Anytime you can.” Nice going Rob! – by Mark Johnston
The 2019 Captain of the Year Cup presented by Hatteras is proud to announce a full slate of divisional sponsors for 2019. Contender Florida Division, the Los Suenos International Division, the AIRMAR East Coast Division, the Furuno Gulf Division, and the Sea Genie II Hawaii Division. ITB thanks all of the sponsors – stay tuned for an exciting year.
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Three to Tango
Mary and John Anderson are living the American dream, until they get wrapped up in the dangerous game of couple’s roulette. Later, a love affair takes a murderous turn when David Swinehart discovers his wife skinny dipping in the gene pool.
Behind The Picket Fence
An Army Major lay lifeless in his bed, shot twice at close range while sleeping next to his wife. Investigators would soon uncover an intricately planned murder plot involving sex parties, adultery and coercion.
Scorned: Love Kills
A successful attorney lay dead in her bathtub, victim of an apparent drowning. Even her family assumed it was an accident - but an 11th hour autopsy revealed a far darker truth. Even more shocking was the killer.
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A bored housewife gets a job as a stripper and begins a sultry double life. While her husband is working she brings home acquaintances from her new job for sexual escapades. When one of her flings turns more serious, a sinister plan emerges.
The seductive highschool teacher befriends a group of her students. It isn't long before she develops a romance with a 15-year-old student. Luring him further with false allegations of abuse at the hands of her husband, a sinister plot emerges.
A conservative couple in Arizona has the family of their dreams, but things unravel when the wife is discovered brutally murdered. The investigation uncovers a lust-fuelled affair, a cold-blooded murder and someone isn't who they seem.
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When Jay Orbin’s torso is discovered in the desert, cops conclude he’s been shot before being frozen and dismembered. Questioning his wife, Marjorie, reveals a string of affairs and a tale of greed and lust that ends with cold blooded murder.
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In August 1999 Michael Fletcher calls 911 after discovering his pregnant wife Leann lying dead on the bedroom floor, the apparent victim of a tragic accidental shooting. But investigators unearth a series of affairs and ultimately a murder.
The Au Pair Affair
In winter of 2007 Stephen Grant reports his wife Tara has gone missing after an argument. For weeks Grant plays the distraught husband to the media, but after a shocking discovery, revelations surface of an illicit affair and a bone chilling murder.
Letter From the Grave
In December of 1998 in the village of Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, Mark Jensen is having an illicit affair with his co-worker Kelly. And his wife Julie will write the final chapter of all their fates.
House of Deception
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Contributions to UK defined contribution (DC) plans are inadequate to provide acceptable income levels in retirement, according to a survey by consultants William M Mercer.
Despite marginal increases in the last two years, UK scheme members, with an average total contribution level of 9.75%, will be “unpleasantly surprised” when given details of future benefits, according to the survey.
“Many people will be blissfully ignorant of the level of benefits they are going to get.
“Members need to be given a clear indication of their likely pension and, where this doesn’t meet their expectations, encouraged to save more,” says Jonathan Gainsford, European partner at William M Mercer.
“On average, total contribution levels for employers and employees are less than 10% of pay. A figure of 15–20% would be more realistic to secure adequate pensions, especially in the current environment,” he adds.
The survey also reveals that two thirds of the surveyed companies do not automatically provide projections of members’ retirement benefits.
Expected new regulations will require companies to provide these projections, at least, on an annual basis from next April, says Mercer.
And less than 1% of the companies surveyed give access to personal fund information over the internet or offer the possibility of changing contribution levels or investment options, according to the consultant.
Overall, just 15% of the surveyed firms provided general scheme information through the internet.
“Twenty-four hour access to members’ information, with transactional facilities, is a goal that all schemes should ultimately be aiming for,” says Gainsford.
The survey also reveals that most companies now outsource the administration of their DC schemes – with only 6% of schemes currently running their plans internally, compared to 20% in 1998.
Today, 55% of the schemes are run by third-party administrators, 34% by insurance companies and 5% by investment managers.
Lifestyle funds have grown in popularity in the last few years, with 55% of schemes now offering them, usually as a default investment option, the study says.
It also shows that the lifestyle fund switching period from equity to bonds, prior to retirement, is still relatively long (10 years or longer) in 30% of the schemes.
“The general consensus now is that five years is adequate – any longer, and members will be paying too much for the added protection offered,” Gainsford notes.
The survey covers 288 companies, mainly clients of William M Mercer, of which 118 have fewer than 250 employees, 76 have between 251 and 1,000 in staff and the remainder have more than 1,000 workers.
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How Agile and DevOps can Boost Software Development Cycle in 2018
By: Katie Johns
Offshore Development|Technology
Whenever am asked to comment about Agile Software Development or DevOps, I always say that they are a power couple (it’s like they’re married for the better). In fact, whoever adopts them in combination, be it software testers, software developers or delivery ops are bound to reap the benefits. “Faster”, “Cheaper” and “Better” are no longer buzz words. Going by the trend, Agile DevOps seems to be the only approach, that can make faster, cheaper and better possible.
I once read this definition of Agile and it kind of stayed with me – “Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end,” a philosophy and mindset at board level.” By Pearl Zhu, who’s a digital visionary and author of the famous book Digitizing Boardroom, The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards.
And I once heard Jez Humble, CTO for DevOps Research and Assessment LLC, describe it as “DevOps is not a goal, but a never-ending process of continual improvement”. Nothing more fitting as the definition of DevOps.
In an article titled Agile and DevOps: Friends or Foes? where he discusses the relation between Agile and DevOps, Ian Buchanan says, “many people think Agile means Scrum and DevOps means Continuous Delivery. This oversimplification creates an unnecessary tension between Agile and DevOps so you may be surprised to find that they are best friends!”
He further adds that both Agile and DevOps emphasize business value and a culture change and that is where they connect strongly. While Agile is always perceived as a response to the negative impact of the good ol’ waterfall approach, DevOps, on the other hand, has never been perceived as a response to Agile. There are Enterprises, that have used both agile and DevOps in combination and say that when used together, Agile and DevOps help to increase productivity and sales.
History of Agile and DevOps
Agile denotes an umbrella term, which simply emphasizes following an iterative development. With Agile, frequent delivery cycles, collaboration, quick response to change, and involvement of key stakeholder so nothing comes as a surprise. There are practices like Scrum, Pair Programming, Scaled Agile Framework, Test-driven development, etc. that help Enterprises to meet the business needs of today.
Agile laid a lot of stress on –
Software development rather than documentation
Interactions rather than processes and tools
Quickly responding to changes
Collaboration with clients
DevOps, on the other hand, is a business-driven approach to help with solution delivery, and uses agile practices, collaboration and automation.
When Agile methodology was introduced, developers had a huge relief but it had drawbacks. There was lack of proper documentation, project getting off track, and failure to deliver on time. Agile methodology involved testers, developers and designers. DevOps could overcome these limitations and ensured secure, frequent and timely product deliveries. It also ensured that there was communication between marketing, customer service, operations, quality and other teams. In fact, DevOps emphasizes the involvement of the IT Operations team.
The focus areas for DevOps includes the following –
Organization culture
Deployment and delivery
Operations and Support
Are DevOps and Agile methodologies different?
There is difference between the two. DevOps is a technical practice while Agile is about processes like Scrum methodology and sprints. DevOps helps to enable cross functional communication (for example teams like QA, development, deployment, infrastructure, etc.) and agile believes in communication between the development team and client. It also emphasizes on inter-team communication with daily scrum calls where the key agenda is to identity the issues and resolve them with the help of agile scrum methodologies.
DevOps uses tools like Docker, Splunk, Jira and Chef that are focused on automating deployment and tracking errors in real-time to quickly fix them. Agile uses tools that are focused on project management and collaboration.
What are the benefits of adopting DevOps Agile for Software Development?
It’s clear that DevOps and Agile are clearly allies. I’m giving you a few pointers to help you understand some obvious advantages.
Agile becomes more flexible with DevOps
Agile Model is flexible to adopt the changing requirements of the client and ensures that the product works in the test environment. But to get to that stage is a long cycle. With DevOps, the working software reaches the production level in a timely and more smooth way.
There won’t be any silos with DevOps Agile
Agile helps different business groups to communicate with each other. But there are creating silos within the Agile production environment. With combination of Agile and DevOps, an overarching plan to develop, deliver and update software collectively can be implemented.
Both the methodologies complement each other
With this point, we’ll just reiterate what we have just discussed. DevOps can take Agile to the next level with increased ease and transition from software to its implementation with the involvement of an operations person.
Trends have repeatedly shown that when Agile and DevOps work together, they give better results. Agile DevOps is a new mindset that is fast turning into a priority for many Enterprises. So, you know why I say they’re married (at least for now).
Are you planning to benefit from their union? Speak to one of our software development experts to understand how you can.
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Student at Lafayette alternative high school accused of pointing handgun after a school fight
Colby R. Blissitt, 18, pointed a handgun at five students as he drove away from a fight at Crossing Alternative High School, Lafayette police said.
Student at Lafayette alternative high school accused of pointing handgun after a school fight Colby R. Blissitt, 18, pointed a handgun at five students as he drove away from a fight at Crossing Alternative High School, Lafayette police said. Check out this story on jconline.com: https://www.jconline.com/story/news/crime/2019/11/26/teen-accused-pointing-handgun-students-after-school-fight/4311517002/
Ron Wilkins, Lafayette Journal & Courier Published 3:31 p.m. ET Nov. 26, 2019 | Updated 4:04 p.m. ET Nov. 26, 2019
Colby R. Blissitt (Photo: Provided/Tippecanoe County Jail)
LAFAYETTE — Eighteen-year-old Colby R. Blissitt pointed a handgun at five students as he drove away from a fight Tuesday afternoon at Crossing Alternative High School, Lafayette police said.
No shots were fired and no one was injured in the incident outside of the school in the 1000 block of Wabash Avenue, police said.
About 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Blissitt was in a fight with some students and brandished a baseball bat, police said. Police reported he did not hit anyone with the bat.
Blissitt went to his car to leave, and as he drove past the students, he pointed a handgun at the group of students standing in front of the school, police said. The students were between the ages of 15 and 18, police said.
Blissitt lives in White County, so Lafayette police contacted White County Sheriff's Office, asking them to check Blissitt's home. White County sheriff's deputies arrested the teen without incident, Lafayette police said.
Police booked Blissitt into the Tippecanoe County Jail on preliminary charges of intimidation with a deadly weapon, pointing a firearm and carrying a handgun without a license.
Reach Ron Wilkins at 765-420-5231 or at rwilkins@jconline.com. Follow on Twitter: @RonWilkins2.
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