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Critical Systems Working Group
The critical systems and networks that constitute the critical infrastructure of society are often taken for granted. We rely on them and may only realize our dependence on them when they fail to deliver their services, and in those cases the consequences could be very serious.
Today, the systems are automated and interlinked through computers and communication facilities and the trend shows an increase of both automation and linkage. We expect the future to increase the interdependencies between different critical infrastructures, leading to a complex "mesh of systems". We realize that having systems linked improves their efficiency and adds new capabilities to them, something that makes them more competitive. On the other hand, the interlinked capabilities also render the systems much more vulnerable to disruption and attack. The possible attack vectors and possibilities for harmful influence are multiplied and the detrimental effect of a service disruption is increased.
In fact, the cascading effects between several systems might lead to a global outage, affecting systems and networks even in seemingly unrelated sectors. If such cascading effects cannot be contained, they will directly influence both the economy of society and the physical safety of its citizens.
The goals of this working group are:
to identify and discuss future and emerging threats to those critical systems that society in general depends upon. Threats may be technical, but also e.g. societal or natural.
to try identifying appropriate ways and developments to counter the identified threats.
to network and coordinate the efforts between players in academia and industry that are active in these areas.
to inform and influence decision makers about the results of our activities, something that should help them initiate necessary action to thwart the identified threats.
to prepare a chapter in a white book that highlights the most important threats in this area. This text will contain clear recommendations for policymakers to address the identified challenges.
to facilitate the creation of a roadmap for research in the identified areas.
In this working group, we discuss society's dependence of critical infrastructures in general and the consequences of disruption of the services from these infrastructures. We try to identify the possible reasons for such disruption and how to prevent it, i.e. to guarantee that the critical services are continually and correctly delivered. We do not address critical systems that are stand-alone, i.e. not connected to any network or communicating with any other entity. In this working group, we discuss all threats in smart environments. This includes threats to the users, to organizations, and possibly the larger impact to society. The following list enumerates the topics that are in scope. Moreover, it provides exemplary questions that belong to these different topics.
The following list provides issues and questions that are within scope of the working group
Which are the concrete threats to Critical Systems?
In particular, how do we deal with terrorsit action?
How should we cope with cascading effects between different systems?
Internet is by far the most critical system in society. The implications of this must be investigated.
What kind of data can we gather that would help us draw the right conclusions?
Critical infrastucture protection is not only technical. There are important issues that are related to issues such as cooperation between authorities, information dissemination, preparation and training with the aid of scenarios as well as planning for recovery action.
This section describes the way in which the working group attempts to achieve the goals outlined in Section I. We envision four mechanisms to achieve the outlined goals:
First, we have two mailing lists. One mailing list is public and allows participants to exchange ideas about possible future threats, to point out an emerging threat that starts to manifest in the wild, and to provide pointers to material (publications, presentations, events) that is related to the addressed areas. This mailing list is public, that is, anyone is invited to join and express her opinion. Of course, the mailing list owner (the consortium) moderates the list to prevent spam or postings that are unrelated to the topic.
The second mailing list is private and provides access only to trusted, vetted members. Initially, the list members are the participants of the first Forward workshop that expressed interest in this working group. Any list member can suggest new members. The approval of a new addition to the list requires the positive recommendation of at least two other list members. Also, the existing list members can voice qualified objections against the approval of a new member. This list is closed because it serves as a platform to exchange data that is more sensitive in nature, e.g. information about novel threats that are not known to a larger audience yet.
In addition to the mid-term working group meeting, there are regular telephone conferences in which participants can directly engage in lively discussions. Email correspondence and use of common working areas will be the most common way of interacting between group members. If need be the working group can temporarily be split into sub-groups to discuss specific topics.
Third, the working group maintains an open, living document that captures the discussions in the mailing lists and telephone meetings. This document is actively maintained by the members of the consortium. It provides a first structure of the topics that are relevant for the working group. It also contains questions that the are identified as important and should be addressed.
Fourth, the working group members will maintain an active dialogue with other researchers, industrialists and members of appropriate authorities, both in order to get input to the project and to test and discuss intermediate results. We shall also keep contact with other relevant EU projects, e.g. Think-Trust.
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The collaboration between IOP, our BrandNewBrand! partners, and The Bronx Conservatory of Music culminates with the launch of The Conservatory’s identity and website. At the end of a challenging and unprecedented year for all, it was a rewarding achievement worth celebration!
The Conservatory’s new messaging, logo and palette capture the youthful energy of the conservatory and the opportunities for personal growth and self expression that it brings. This visual identity is brought to life in the website and across a full spread of communications tools, including Word and PowerPoint templates, business cards, and recital program templates.
And, as the work took place throughout 2020, the need for supporting the arts and arts education has never been more urgent.
Visit the website.
Having laid the foundation in the creation of their brand platform & identity, we focused on designing a beautiful, modern website for The Bronx Conservatory of Music. Designed to help with the achievement of their goals, the site will allow them to continue recruiting the most enthusiastic students, as well as help further generate both financial and non-financial support for their cause.
Once the design and production files were ready, our development team started work on the site. Unfortunately, due to the wide reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we faced some unprecedented challenges that complicated our efforts. However, we are delighted to say that development is now back in full swing and we’re collaborating remotely to continue making progress once again!
The website that we are building for The Bronx Conservatory is an easy-to-use WordPress site that will make the maintenance of their content going forwards as effortless as possible. We’re very excited to be getting close to the launch!
In late December Peter Ross donated his talent (and his Saturday) to photograph the Conservatory faculty and board portraits. Beautiful and consistent portraiture was a mandate to establish a unique POV as one aspect of our recommended brand imagery. Our partners are helping make this one of the most robust packages we’ve been able to give.
Using video to tell the Bronx Conservatory’s story
In order to help further The Conservatory’s cause and to reach a wider audience, our BNB! partner, Tribe Pictures, has been generously contributing their time and expertise to create a compelling video.
“We love collaborating with IOP and when the opportunity arose to be part of Brand New Brand! we jumped on board. It’s been great for us to be able to use our art to tell a story about the important work that the BCM is doing for the Bronx, one of the most underserved communities in the country.
“At Tribe Pictures we are currently doing a documentary on ‘Happiness’ and the scientific research says that in order to be happy you need to be of service. We know that’s really true.
“To work with our friends at IOP, to meet new friends at the Bronx Conservatory, and to practice our craft while in service to others makes us very happy indeed.”
— Vern Oakley, CEO, Tribe Pictures
— Matteo Banfo, Producer/Director, Tribe Pictures
Tribe’s hard work is still underway, but all will be unveiled alongside The Bronx Conservatory’s new brand and website — so watch this space!
How can The Bronx Conservatory’s website better serve their needs?
With the visual identity design underway, we started work on the organization and communication of their website, through sitemaps and wireframes.
With no previous analytics to work from, we’re focused on how their website can support their mission, fundraising, and operations, as well as alleviating some of the labor-intensive manual work that they currently face.
This digital strategy is converging with our identity design efforts to take the project to the next level.
Brand platform & identity design
We dove deep with The Bronx Conservatory of Music to understand their values, aspirations and needs. Next, with the added expertise of BNB! partner Alex Reid from 2&2, we set to work developing their brand platform — positioning and messaging — before visualizing the brand itself. After encapsulating the approach, we set about the initial design.
We explored the visual identity, color palette, and typography in order to best to communicate the essence of the organization. We looked at the needs systematically, assessing how we’d apply the brand to all the various touchpoints.
We shared the brand platform and the strongest visual contenders with The Bronx Conservatory, getting alignment on the best way forward. After a spirited discussion, we all rallied around one approach and are now on our way to thinking about the website visual design and full brand expression!
Work is underway!
Following a deep dive with The Bronx Conservatory of Music to understand their values, aspirations, and needs, IOP is currently in full swing. While students are off for the summer, IOP is working hard to develop the brand platform, visual identity, digital strategy and information architecture for the website.
We’re getting excited to share our progress with them soon!
IOP attends The Bronx Conservatory’s End of Year Recital
We were delighted to attend The Bronx Conservatory of Music’s end of year recital. The event was a culmination of the hard work put in by students and faculty alike throughout the academic year, expressed in a joyful, musical celebration! It was a great chance to see the organization in action and the performance at the Gould Memorial Library Auditorium at Bronx Community College really brought the Conservatory to life as we get underway with our work.
Judges’ Session
Today our three independent judges gathered for a 3 hour, deep dive — examining our 6 fantastic semi-finalists from every angle in an invigorating discussion!
All three of our experts brought insight and thought-provoking perspectives to the table that contributed to an invaluable conversation.
At the end of the day, our Judges whittled it down to 2 outstanding candidates and generated a fan of final, investigatory questions for each organization. These questions and this deeper dialogue with each finalist will provide the last information needed for IOP to name our 2019 Brand New Brand! recipient!
2019 First Selection Round
Having received a record number of applicants for our biennial pro bono initiative, we were excited to review the list of inspiring entrants with our IOP experts and generous BNB! partners in the first round of selection.
With so many fantastic causes and organizations meeting the criteria for a successful partnership, it was a difficult process but we narrowed the list to 6 amazing and deserving semi-finalists.
Next week, our independent Judges will come in for the final selection round. We can’t wait for their input, discussion and expertise to help us designate our 2019 recipient!
Our 2019 Brand New Brand! Judges
Rebecca Carrier
Rebecca Carriero currently oversees communications for Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Arts and Culture initiatives. In her role she works with local governments, cultural institutions, artists, and non-profits to promote the value of the arts.
She has also managed communications for the foundation’s public health, environment, education and government innovation programs. Previously, Rebecca worked for The Financial Times, Goldman Sachs and Parsons School of Design.
Rebecca holds an M.A. in Corporate Communications from the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College, where she graduated as the highest ranking member of the class. She also earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts and Journalism from The New School. Additionally, she is a CubaOne Foundation fellow, and member of the Cervantes Institute in New York.
Frank Mentesana
Frank Mentesana is the Founding-Director of EcoSpaces Education, the 2015 recipient of IOP’s Brand New Brand! pro bono branding initiative. EcoSpaces Education brings Food Literacy Education to students and communities through cooking, gardening, and healthy eating. EcoSpaces provides professional development to teachers and school administrators through its Growing Healthy Community Conferences and workshops. EcoSpaces’ newest initiative, the Mobile Food Lab, brings food education to schools via its mobile field trip classroom.
Brooklyn-based, Frank has worked in and around food for a long time. He was the founding owner of the renowned bakery/café Once Upon a Tart in Soho, New York City and is the author/photographer of Soups, Salads, Muffins and More (Knopf). His food styling, writing and photography have been seen in Martha Stewart, Food and Food, Delish.com, Kashi.com, Real Simple, The Washington Post, Woman’s Day, Edible Communities, TV and cookbooks. He is a consulting partner in the California restaurant group Locale 90 and he sits on the GrowNYC advisory committee.
Danielle Sachs
Denielle Sachs leads The Tembo Group, a social impact consultancy that advises a range of organizations, including companies, family offices, and nonprofits that are looking to build, enhance or launch a major social impact effort. She founded the company after seven years as the Director of Social Impact for McKinsey & Company, where she architected and led the firm’s first ever, global corporate citizenship strategy. She also built, launched and incubated McKinsey’s corporate foundation and its first program, which is committed to addressing global youth employment.
At Tembo, Denielle has built teams dedicated solely to leading good intentions to great ideas – moving initiatives from concept through to execution, launch and impact. Over the last two decades, she has built organizations, boards and coalitions from the ground up, designed culture and thought leadership strategies that ignite movements, and led special projects for Fortune 500 businesses. Denielle also serves as the part-time Executive Director of Blue Sphere Foundation, a nonprofit focused on safeguarding the planet’s oceans.
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House Okays R&D Tax Credit
The $60 billion package curbs oil industry tax breaks, a move the White House has threatened to veto.
House lawmakers on Friday approved a $60 billion package that renews tax incentives aimed at boosting research and development by U.S. businesses, among other provisions.
To pay for the extended tax credits, which follow similar provisions passed by the Senate earlier this week, the package imposes limits on oil industry tax breaks and closes loopholes that allow hedge fund managers to write-off taxes on overseas income, measures Senate Republicans and the White House oppose.
Both the House and Senate tax bills also include tax credits for solar, wind and other renewable energy resources, along with write-offs for purchasing electric cars. They also provide as many as 20 million taxpayers a one-year reprieve from the alternative minimum tax, or AMT.
Created in 1981, the R&D tax credit has expired 13 times, including as recently as December. It allows businesses to cover up to 20 percent of R&D spending.
Senate leaders have warned that any changes to its tax bill, which passed on Tuesday by a vote of 93-2, would derail the entire package. President Bush has also threatened to veto any bill that raises new taxes.
Business and trade groups say the R&D tax credit is crucial for supporting U.S. innovation and global competitiveness.
"The federal R&D credit is a proven incentive for spurring additional R&D activity and investment in the United States," the National Association of Manufacturers said in a statement to Congress earlier this month.
More than half of the companies that claimed the credit in 2005 had total assets of less than $5 million, the trade group said, adding that 40 percent of its small business members used the credit last year.
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Cristina’s Plunder
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa
WASHINGTON—I recently suggested that the U.S. government’s bailout of the financial system, which includes the de facto nationalization of several banks, would arouse populists around the world and give them the perfect alibi to confiscate private property. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina has been the first to confirm my prediction.
Terrified that she would not be able to pay off about $10 billion of public debt fast approaching maturity, Fernandez de Kirchner nationalized her country’s private pension funds. The 10 affected funds constituted the biggest source of savings for Argentina’s economy and the financial system’s primary source of liquidity. With the stroke of a pen, the savings of 10 million people—about $30 billion—have been passed on to the Peronist government, which is sort of like putting the family jewels in Ali Baba’s care.
Unlike what happened in other Latin American countries that privatized their social security regimes in the 1990s, Argentines who opted for private, individual accounts were allowed to go back to the old system if they so wished. When Cristina’s husband, Nestor, was president, the couple announced that they would change their own private pensions back to the state-owned system.
If that is not enough indication that the hand of the authorities was never too far from the workers’ pockets, consider this: The government was already using a large chunk of the money belonging to the private pension funds by virtue of the fact that 60 percent of their capital was invested in government bonds—something that was required by law. Given the magnitude of the government’s spending commitments and the national debt, not even that was enough.
The government wants to pay off the debt that will mature in 2009 so that it can request new loans and sustain its populist model. With a 30 percent inflation rate and the prices of commodities going south, the model is already in dire straits: The price of soybeans dropped 50 percent this year, as did the price of oil. (Argentina exports natural gas, whose price shadows that of oil.)
One-third of the 10 million Argentines who owned individual pension accounts were still economically active and contributing 11 percent of their wages. The government is betting on those contributions as a source of funding for its ongoing populist spree once it pays off part of the debt.
The financial meltdown in the U.S. and around the world gave Fernandez de Kirchner an ideal opportunity to plunder the people’s savings. “When the interventionist policies are adopted by the United States,” the president said, sarcastically, “they are charming and intelligent, but when Argentina adopts them they are statist and populist.” The pretext was that if the government did not nationalize the private pension funds, their investments would be dragged down by the financial crisis. Of course, as soon as the nationalization was announced, the Argentine stock market collapsed. The ripple effects were felt as far as Spain, where the markets also suffered dearly.
Unlike six years ago when Argentines took to the streets in order to protest the freezing and devaluation of their bank deposits, this time there has been little initial reaction. “Now,” says Argentine economist Gabriel Gasave, “you will not find the victims of this plunder in the public square. Many of the people affected are future retirees for whom retirement funds are an abstraction.”
Under the Kirchners, Argentina has been living in a world of make-believe. Following the old populist recipe, the presidential couple raised public spending 200 percent and salaries 40 percent in the last four years, kept interest rates artificially low, established price controls and created state-owned enterprises. But the truth is that there was little private investment and scant wealth-creation. Foreign direct investment dropped almost 30 percent in the last three years. Sooner or later, reality was going to explode ... in the faces of the middle class and the poor.
The Kirchners have prolonged Argentina’s modern tradition of self-destruction. To think that six decades ago, when Europe was engulfed in World War II, Austrian author Stefan Zweig could write in his famous autobiography that in Argentina, “there was an abundance of food, wealth, surplus, there was endless room and hence food for the future!”
The delicious irony here is that even Juan Domingo Peron, the legendary populist whom the Kirchners regard as a national hero, declared in the 1970s that “nationalizing private pensions is theft.” He was talking about his own heirs.
(c) 2008, The Washington Post Writers Group
Alvaro Vargas Llosa is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute.
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Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
David Wessel
David Wessel, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter, columnist, and bestselling author of In Fed We Trust, dissects the federal budget: a topic that is fiercely debated today in the halls of Congress and the media, and yet is misunderstood by the American public.
Now a New York Times bestseller.
In a sweeping narrative about the people and the politics behind the budget, Wessel looks at the 2011 fiscal year (which ended September 30) to see where all the money was actually spent, and why the budget process has grown wildly out of control. Through the eyes of key people--Jacob Lew, White House director of the Office of Management and Budget; Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office; Blackstone founder and former Commerce Secretary Pete Peterson; and more--Wessel gives readers an inside look at the making of our unsustainable budget.
Praise For Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget…
“An excellent book” –Fareed Zakaria
“Should be a first port of call for American voters sadly misinformed about their federal budget…Wessel’s aim is to explain for a general audience the basics of the budget – where the money comes from and goes to – and to make the explanation interesting. He succeeds.” –Financial Times
“Wessel…has an insider’s grasp of the players, issues and argot surrounding the budget. Yet he writes with an outsider’s eye, distilling his tale of the fiscal monster into about 150 pages of simple prose and a smattering of charts.” –Businessweek
“This is the most useful book on government spending since the publication of the classic work, The Debt and Deficit by Robert Heilbroner and Peter Bernstein. In the service of economic literacy, I wish that a few members of the House and the Senate would read the entire book aloud on the floor of the respective chambers (but don't hold your breath).” –Huffington Post
“The federal budget is an inherently complex subject that could easily become boring. But Wessel staves off yawns by painting miniature portraits of lovable wonks from across the spectrum…He gets right to the core of the problem: Big-ticket programs that much of the public loves but few want to pay for.” –Reason
“An extraordinarily useful book…For people unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the federal budget, it should be required reading. For those who already know their way around government finances, it is still a handy resource, but at the same time deeply depressing.” –Salon
“[Wessel] is blessed with the ability to make the obscure and arcane comprehensible.” –Canada Free Press
"Packed with facts and figures--not normally the sort of material that makes for riveting story-telling. Yet the plot of Red Ink is fascinating and frightening." –Daytona Beach News-Journal
“When laid out in front of us in the clam and talented hand of Wessel, we begin to understand in more detail exactly what we’re deciding on, and that while it’s not going to be easy, fixing the deficit is entirely doable... If you’re interested that dialogue and in further education instead of soundbites and the pontification of pundits this election season, then this is certainly a book for you.” –800 CEO Read
"A highly informative volume designed to give voters a grip on what exactly is at stake...Wessel doesn't tell you how to think, but he does give you the facts to think more clearly about what needs to be done." —Kirkus Reviews
"The inner workings of the federal budget and where the money goes by economics expert David Wessel...Controversy over whether tax increases of spending cuts should be made to defense, Medicare, or Social Security spending provides fuel for great debate." —Booklist
"A timely analysis." —Library Journal
“The federal budget deficit is among the country’s most discussed but least understood policy issues. If only everyone would read David Wessel’s Red Ink.”
—Alan S. Blinder, professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, former vice chairman, Federal Reserve Board
“Red Ink is the most concise, understandable, and focused book I have read about the dire problems we now face because of our burgeoning deficits and debt. It is not a pretty tale, but it is a tale all informed citizens should know.” —David M. Rubenstein, co-chief executive officer, The Carlyle Group
“Stop. Buy this book, or at least read the first chapter. David Wessel explains the approaching debt crisis in clear, concise, nonpartisan plain English. It will not only scare your pants off, it will motivate you to call your congressman and scream, ‘For God’s sake, enough partisanship, save America, cut spending, raise revenue, whatever! But do it and do it now.’” —Erskine Bowles, former chief of staff for Bill Clinton and co-chairman of Barack Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility
“In Red Ink David Wessel has accomplished two miracles: he has made a budget book interesting and he has deciphered the behavior of Washington for Americans beyond the Beltway. Nicely done.” —Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office
“David Wessel’s Red Ink is a wise and pithy introduction to the great economic issue of our time.” —N. Gregory Mankiw, professor of Economics, Harvard University
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The Many Faces of Maya Rudolph, in Her Own Words
"If you have anyone or any thing in life where, when you go there again, you're right back where you left off, that's what ['SNL'] is for me."
When she was just a little girl, “Saturday Night Live” legend Maya Rudolph had vision. She wanted to be known. She wanted to make history.
And now she has.
When the 2020 Emmy nominations were released July 28, Rudolph had been nominated twice for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (for NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and “The Good Place,” respectively), which according to Gold Derby, made her the first person in history to be nominated twice in the same guest category in a single year.
If that weren’t enough, Rudolph earned another nomination for her work on Netflix’s “Big Mouth,” where she contributes several characters, perhaps most memorably Connie the Hormone Monstress, who upon her introduction in Season 1 immediately became a fan favorite.
But Rudolph isn’t just talented. She’s thoughtful and humane, which made her recent video interview with IndieWire such a delight. Here’s what she had to say about the roles and shows that nabbed Emmy voters’ attention (and respect).
On Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris (“SNL”)
“As a person who for so many years played different people on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ it’s such a joy to get to be part of the race. You know, I did Obama once when he was running and never made it to air, and I think that’s a good thing.”
“[‘Saturday Night Live’] is really the only place I will do anything for and they know that. I think Lorne [Michaels] learned that about me a long time ago. He knows I’m a lifer. But for some strange reason, I’ve been lucky to return there so many times. That’s why this Emmy nomination for playing Kamala is so nice because it really is a joy for me. I got to go and I brought my 14-year-old daughter with me who hadn’t been there since she was a little girl, and I got to see all my friends that are still there. The crew is like family, you know.
“And that part, for me, means more than anything. That place means so much to me. It really does. And it’s one of those things, like, if you have anyone or any thing in life where when you go there again, you’re right back where you left off, that’s what that place is for me. It really soothes me somehow. My husband said he saw me and he said, ‘You look so happy.'”
Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris on “Saturday Night Live”
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On Connie the Hormone Monstress (“Big Mouth”)
“It’s so fun to get to do voiceover because you do so many different voices. And so that day, they asked me to try to do this voice that they thought would be fun. It definitely helped that Nick knew my voice well and from there, we just tried to figure out how [Connie] could really chew up words and that, because she was a monster and a monster for hormones, specifically, she had this roller coaster of a voice, roller coaster of of emotions. She was this hairy woman; this like hairy, juicy, female-formed thing and a monster to boot, so we just tried to figure her out.
“I don’t know how we got to that voice because I can barely remember. I was in New York and everyone was out here in L.A., and I was just doing it and trying it and I think I’m pretty sure ‘bubble bath’ was in that first episode and when we hit those Bs we were like, ‘Oh, that’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to like really make a meal out of that.’ And I think it was ‘tortellini’ or ‘tiny tortellini,’ or something. Her alliterations were something that were fun. She’s such a great character because she’s fun to give words to. You know, you want to hear her read the phone book.”
On Judge Gen (“The Good Place”)
“I feel like the fact that Mike Schur [creator of “The Good Place”] saw me that way and had me play the judge was in and of itself, a gift. Those are the moments where, when you’re younger you’re like, ‘I wish someone would just give me a really cool job. Someone who just sees me as someone who’s really fantastic and knows everything and is in charge of everything.’ And then someone who really knows you and sees you says, ‘Here you go.’
“It really allowed me to connect to the show so instantly, as though I had always been there. And they’re all such lovely elements to that show and then it was like we had always been there together. I think I always prove to myself that I’m an actor, when I have a job that makes me feel like, ‘Oh, I got to be that a little bit. I got to be an inter-dimensional judge that gets to decide if people live or not and has opinions about the universe. It’s very cool to be thought of as that. I’ll take it. So I feel very honored.”
For more from Maya Rudolph, check out the video interview embedded above.
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Philly teens entering workforce in droves, filling holiday gaps amid ongoing labor shortage
With starting pay at $13 an hour, "I like having money in my pocket," says one teen.
Shoppers walking through the King of Prussia Mall on Black Friday, Nov. 26, 2021.Read moreALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer
by Erin Arvedlund
Teenagers are filling the gaps in this year’s holiday labor shortage, part of a broad national trend in which 16- to 19-year-olds are entering the workforce in numbers not seen since 2008.
They’re needed, too: Retailers, grocers, and delivery services are clamoring for more workers. The National Retail Federation anticipates retailers will be hiring from 500,000 to 665,000 seasonal workers. Amazon is aiming to hire 150,000 seasonal workers.
And large employers such as Walmart are conducting hiring events for thousands of employees. UPS is holding UPS Brown Friday to hire extra holiday workers, with some shifts starting at $20 an hour.
So high school students including junior Luke Watson are stepping up. “I work about 16 hours a week, and there are quite a few coworkers around the same age as me,” said Watson, 16, who works as a cashier at ShopRite’s Union Mill Road store in Mount Laurel, N.J.
“I can tell they’re minors, because we all have yellow name tags,” he said.
Teen workers also appear more willing to work jobs that may not pay enough for older Americans.
“This is my first job. I’m really enjoying it,” said Nate McCollum, a 15-year-old high school sophomore. “It’s really nice to have money in my pocket. And I’ve met a lot of new people. It’s helped me experience new things.”
He and some of his friends from Upper Merion Area High School are also employed part-time. “Everyone’s bored and looking to get out of the house,” McCollum said.
There are unprecedented crosscurrents at work in the American labor force: plenty of potential workers, but a shortage of people willing to work at current wage levels, or without childcare, or amid the threat of COVID infection.
“This is like a quiet strike,” wrote Wolf Richter, a finance writer and investor, on wolfstreet.com.
The age group of 16- to 19-year-olds enter and leave the workforce in numbers that mirror recessions and expansions nationally, said Stephen Herzenberg, executive director of the Keystone Research Center in Harrisburg.
“We haven’t seen teen employment this high since the fall of 2008, right before the Great Recession,” Herzenberg said, when 32% of 16- to 19-year-olds were employed. Today that ratio of teens in the population is just over 32%.
The prior high for teen workers was 46% of the 16- to 19-year-old population in the year 2000, right before the dot.com bubble burst.
Pennsylvania is seeing the same trend: Monthly stats from the Department of Labor & Industry show a 12-month moving average of unemployment among 16- to 19-year-olds dropped more than any other group between August 2020 and August 2021, according to the Keystone Research Center.
“Anyone who thinks they have a single answer to the labor shortage doesn’t have the answer,” said Lara Rhames, chief economist at FS Investments. “It’s a combination of higher childcare costs, people with previously double-income families, early retirement, people moving, all kinds of factors.”
Inflation bites
How’s the pay? For Watson it’s $13 an hour at ShopRite. McCollum said he started at Panera Bread in King of Prussia this past summer at $9 an hour, and in early November, the company raised starting pay to $13 an hour for the staff nationally.
In Philadelphia, wages were due for a hike: Wage inflation has not kept up with overall inflation, according to new research from the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, the think tank based in Center City.
“We always hear the mantra that Philly’s the poorest large city in the U.S. right now, but compared with other metro regions, we were one of the closest to the national average, and slightly below average, in inflation in housing, medical care, and food,” said Michael Shields, a project manager at the Economy League, specializing in data. That said, “with a high poverty rate, even a small price surge impacts the poorest the most.”
Between 2011 and 2021, the cost of everyday items increased 14.4% while average wages in the region only rose by 8.2% in real terms. “Workers in our region lost purchasing power during this period,” said Shields.
“The growing cost of everyday items in Greater Philadelphia measured by inflation has outpaced wage growth in the past decade,” said Shields.
It will be a real challenge to retailers to fill all of their seasonal openings given the overall labor shortages.
McCollum, for his part, is happy with his $13 an hour. He works most closing shifts on the weekends, except Sunday evening when he leaves at 7 p.m. due to schoolwork.
“Some of my friends work at Peppers [restaurant], and then another one had a job at a local ice cream shop, and another at Duck Donuts” in King of Prussia. Yet another worked as a pooper scooper, picking up animal waste on lawns. “I’m probably making more than most of them.”
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Student wins entire year's rent back after court battle against landlord and writes her dissertation on it
Tuesday 11 May 2021, 2:44pm
Ciara Cohen-Ennis
Reporter, ITV Wales
Meg Cole wrote her dissertation on her experience of the private rental sector Credit: Meg Cole
A university student from Cardiff took her landlord to court after discovering he was operating illegally.
Meg Cole was living in an eight-bedroom house in multiple occupation (HMO) - or shared house - in the Selly Oak area of Birmingham while studying at the university.
Meg and her housemates found a number of issues with the house right from the beginning when they moved in, in July 2019.
There were a series of notes, which previous tenants had hidden around the home warning of the landlord's "rogue behaviour" and problems with the property, including ants' nests, mould in bedrooms, leaky showers and broken ovens.
Meg Cole said there were a number of issues with the house as soon as she moved in Credit: Meg Cole
She said: "It wasn’t fun at all living in the house. The pandemic meant most of us only lived there between September and March but in that six-month period we had so much dodgy stuff happen."
Meg said the boiler did not work for the whole month of October, which meant she was forced to shower and friends' houses and at the university gym.
"We text and called our landlord many times, he’d always say he was sending someone but he never did.
"Bailiffs showed up once demanding to see our tenancy agreement when there was £1000 unpaid electricity and gas bill. If the mafia showed up one day I wouldn’t be surprised."
Damp spread over the ceiling of Meg's house Credit: Meg Cole
The tenants decided to do some research and looked up their house on the HMO register. They discovered it was unlicensed, which meant their landlord was operating illegally.
There are minimum standards required for a house to be given a HMO license, including minimum room sizes, provision of toilet, bathroom and kitchen facilities and standards relating to the provision of adequate heating.
Meg and her housemates reported the issue to Birmingham City Council, who then carried out an assessment of the house. They found that one of the living room walls was around 90% damp.
Birmingham City Council advised the tenants that they could apply for a Rent Repayment Order (RRO) and that they can claim back a maximum of 12 months rent.
We were delighted by the prospect of claiming 12 months rent back but to do so, we had to live in the unfit accommodation for a whole year.
Meg Cole
There were high levels of damp in the rented home Credit: Meg Cole
Meg and her housemates won the judgment after filing for RRO but they then had to go to a small claims court to get their rent payments back. They each spent between £200 and £300 of their own money to complete the process but despite winning the judgment in the small claims court, it is not enforceable so the students still have not received their money.
On paper it looks like we have justice but in reality we had to live in that house for however long and haven't been able to get the money back.
Going through this process inspired Meg to write her dissertation on her experiences and research on housing policy.
She said: "I’m a bit of nerd when it comes to academic research. There’s a lot on social housing and homelessness but not HMO housing and the private rental sector so I realised there was a research gap that could be explored and expanded upon...
"There seems to be an acceptance that rented housing is poor quality and we have to live with it."
Housing is so pivotal to mental health but often we are so reluctant to stand up for ourselves and fight for the quality of housing we deserve.
The situation has motivated Meg to work for a charity like Shelter. She hopes to one day take on a policy researcher role and develop "new and radical" housing legislation.
A photo of Meg with her dissertation has been shared hundreds of times on Twitter.
"It surprised me how much it resonates with so many people. I’ve never gone viral on social media before but when I saw how many likes it had I thought I’d get loads of abuse... but there was so much support and solidarity with people going through similar situations."
A spokesperson from the National Residential Landlords Association said:
“Landlords have a clear responsibility to provide safe homes for renters. Addressing the problem of rogue landlords is a necessary step towards the building of a private rented sector which is fair and works for all.
“Local authorities have a range of powers at their disposal to address sub-standard accommodation, including civil penalties, the serving of improvement notices and taking over the management of properties. In our view these powers need to be used effectively so that criminal operators who bring the wider landlord community into disrepute can be dealt with in the appropriate way".
Meg's landlord has been approached for comment.
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Experts Help Prepare for New School Year, Address Youths’ Mental Health Challenges Virtual Conference August 17 – 21, 2020
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Experts Help Prepare for New School Year, Address Youths’ Mental Health Challenges
Virtual Conference August 17 – 21, 2020
BACK- The coronavirus pandemic has had a significant negative impact on mental health that is expected
GROUND: to continue and grow for months to come and possibly longer. According to a report released by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday, adults were more likely to report adverse mental health conditions, substance use and suicidal ideation this past June compared to one year ago. In addition, EAB, which partners with K-12 schools, colleges and universities to improve outcomes for all students, shared that the increasing rates of anxiety, depression and suicide among children and teens that were observed before the COVID-19 crisis could skyrocket due to the trauma associated with the pandemic.
WHAT: Virtual Suicide Prevention Conference, Packing a Toolkit for the New Norm
WHEN: August 17 through August 21, 2020: Presentation each day from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
WHO: The New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies, Inc. (NJAMHAA), a
statewide trade association representing hospital-based and freestanding organizations that provide mental health care, substance use treatment and other support services; Attitudes In Reverse® (AIR™), a Princeton-based nonprofit that offers mental-health and suicide-prevention education; co-sponsor Hackensack Meridian Carrier Clinic, a private, not-for-profit, behavioral healthcare system that specializes in psychiatric and substance use treatment; and co-sponsor American Foundation for Suicide Prevention – New Jersey Chapter, a voluntary health organization that gives those affected by suicide a community empowered by research, education and advocacy to take action against this leading cause of death.
Monday, August 17th: Initiatives in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic from a Mental Health Perspective – Craig Kramer, JD, MBA, Mental Health Ambassador and Chair, Global Campaign for Mental Health, Neuroscience External Affairs, Janssen R&D, a Johnson & Johnson Company
Tuesday, August 18th: How New Jersey Schools Are Preparing for Reopening and Supporting Students – David Aderhold, EdD, Superintendent of Schools, West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, and Jennifer Walters, LPC, Elementary and Middle School Counselor, Princeton Public Schools
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Wednesday, August 19th: Strategies for Helping Youth Cope with the Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 and Adjust to the New School Year – Jane Todey, EDSp, Private Consultant, Former Research Program Manager, Partnerships in Prevention Science Institute, Iowa State University
Thursday, August 20th: Proactive Approach to Suicide Prevention: Foundational Focus on Functional Emotional Development – Jeff Guenzel, MA, LPC, Chief Executive Officer, Inter-disciplinary Council on Development and Learning
Friday, August 21st: Inspiring Stories of Overcoming Mental Health Challenges during the Pandemic and Overall: Carrie Genzel, AIR Advisory Board Member and Actress, and Peter Lee Kramer, Mental Health Advocate
Registration fee: $25 for any or all of the presentations. Proceeds will support AIR’s mental-health and suicide-prevention programs.
The New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies, Inc. (NJAMHAA) is a statewide trade association representing 144 organizations that serve New Jersey residents with mental illness and/or substance use disorders, and their families. Their members may be found in every county and almost every community statewide. They serve more than 500,000 children and adults each year and contribute to the economy through 61,000 direct and indirect jobs. NJAMHAA’s mission is to promote the value of its members as the highest quality behavioral healthcare providers for the residents of New Jersey through advocacy and professional development. For more information about NJAMHAA, please visit www.njamhaa.org.
Attitudes In Reverse® (AIR™) was established by Tricia, Kurt and Katelyn Baker of Plainsboro, NJ, in 2010, soon after their son/brother Kenny died by suicide following a long battle against severe depression and anxiety. Their mission is to save lives by educating students about mental health, related disorders and suicide prevention. Since January 2011, they have presented to more than 95,000 students in middle and high schools and colleges in New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Missouri, Texas and Arizona. AIR also offers Youth Mental Health First Aid instruction and includes the AIR Dogs: Paws for Minds™ program, bringing dogs into schools to help students de-stress and engage in the conversation about mental health. In addition, AIR trains and certifies Emotional Support Animals and offers a lunch-and-learn program for businesses. For more information about AIR, please visit www.air.ngo or call 609-945-3200.
Hackensack Meridian Carrier Clinic is a private, not-for-profit, behavioral healthcare system that specializes in psychiatric and substance abuse addiction treatment, founded in 1910. One of the largest independent, nonprofit central Jersey behavioral health facilities, Carrier Clinic specializes in inpatient psychiatric treatment and treatment and rehabilitation for substance abuse. Carrier Clinic provides a complete array of expert care and education for adolescents and teens, adults, and older adults on the inpatient and residential levels. Outpatient services are provided for ECT treatment and drug abuse addiction. Carrier Clinic offers free community education, screenings and support groups. For additional information on Carrier Clinic’s programs and services and to see their new building and facility upgrades, visit CarrierClinic.org.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization that gives those affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered by research, education and advocacy to take action against this leading cause of death. AFSP is dedicated to saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide. AFSP creates a culture that’s smart about mental health by funding scientific research; educating the public about mental health and suicide prevention; advocating for public policies in mental health and suicide prevention; and supporting survivors of suicide loss and those affected by suicide in its mission. AFSP has local chapters in all 50 states with programs and events nationwide. For more information about AFSP, please visit www.afsp.org.
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Yoel Levi conducts Britten: War Requiem
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Yoel Levi, conductor
Tatiana Pavlovskaya, soprano
Jamez McCorkle, tenor
Morgan Pearse, baritone
The Gary Bertini Israeli Choir, directed by Ronen Borshevsky
The Joshua Tuttnauer Ankor Choir of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance directed by Dafna Ben Yohanan
Bat Shir Choir of the the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, directed by Tali Weisman
Britten: War Requiem
If there is a work that captures the essence of the terror, shock, desperation and hope that the world experienced in the 20th century, a work that is living testimony to the helpless, unnecessary victims of war, it is Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. This monumental work could be dubbed a “masterpiece”, not only for its musical qualities, but also for the emotion it arouses in listeners, who consider it a horrifying expression of the feelings and frame of mind experienced in the here and now, and whose significance seemingly exceeds the realms of a work of art.
On the title page of the score, Britten quoted the pacifist poet Wilfred Owen, one of the last casualties of the British Army in World War I: “My subject is War and the pity of War. The poetry is in the pity… All a poet can do today is warn.” Britten created a contemporary Passion of sorts, a work that combines traditional texts from the Latin Requiem Mass and poems by Owen that deal with the futility of war and its horrendous outcome. It seems that each component of the work has deep symbolism. Written for the inauguration of the renewed Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed during the German bombings of World War II, the texts were written by a poet who also gave his life in the war. The soloists chosen to sing in the premiere were carefully picked by Britten: English tenor Peter Pears, German baritone Dietrich Fischer Dieskau and Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya (who was not allowed to leave the USSR for the premiere and was replaced by Heather Harper, but later sang in the “ultimate” recording of the work in 1963, with Britten conducting).
One must remember that the War Requiem is primarily a superb musical work, and one cannot attribute its unprecedented success among performers, critics and audiences around the world merely to the relevance of the subjects with which it dealt. Britten, a skilled opera composer, created here a dramatic musical language, whose music covers a vast expressive range: from the whispers of angels, through grief over the victims, helplessness and rage over the pointlessness of war, to acceptance and yearning for peace and calm following the horrors. Britten’s ability to write wonderful melodies, which freely alternate between modality and tonal expansion; his use of basically traditional harmonic language; the orchestration, which is both functional (supporting the singing) and spectacular; his gift in creating sonorous and textural variety, thus not tiring the listener throughout this extensive work – these qualities have made the War Requiem one of the most successful and popular works of the 20th century.
Britten divided the performing forces on stage into three groups. Owen’s texts are sung by the tenor and baritone, accompanied by a small chamber orchestra, creating an intimate atmosphere, resembling a dramatic, chamber-like discussion. At the premiere of the work, in which Britten himself conducted the small orchestra, he stopped conducting at certain points, thus allowing the performers to listen to each other more attentively and to emphasize the text. Performances with two singers who specialized in the Art Song, such as Pears and Fischer-Dieskau, created a performing tradition and set an especially high standard. The texts from the traditional Requiem are performed by the soprano, a large choir and a vast symphony orchestra. The third group of performers is the children’s choir (situated in many performances on stage), singing a kind of religious, angelic “interpretation”, accompanied by an organ. Britten, a master of setting words to music, wrote a work in which the music leads the text, while also embellishing it. The movements of rage and terror about the Dies irae (“Day of Wrath”) are interspersed with the gruesome text about Isaac’s sacrifice, which, in Owen’s hands, becomes a horrifying allegory, in which even the cry of the Lord to Abraham, “Lay not thine hand upon the lad” does not stop the knife from slaying “half the seed of Europe one by one”. The lamenting Latin text, Agnus Dei (“Lamb of God”), is set against Owen’s poem (in an asymmetrical rhythm of five sixteenth notes), in which the tenor sings of a statue of Jesus, situated on a crossroads, whose arm was severed during the war. The heart-wrenching Lacrimosa, sung by the soprano with choir and orchestra, combines with a chilling lament and the cry of a soldier leaning over the body of his dead friend, “Was it for this the clay grew tall?”
The War Requiem clearly follows with the tradition of the Requiem in musical history. Britten’s Dies irae overtly resembles the Dies irae of Verdi’s Requiem, the Lacrimosa shares the lyricism and accompanimental textures of the corresponding movement of Mozart’s Requiem, and the Gregorian qualities of the music sung by the children’s choir in “Seraphim of Heaven” imply that Britten, in his way, wished to suggest that even centuries of Requiems have not managed to prevent the horrors of war that the world has known. In this sense, Owen’s warning and Britten’s music are more relevant to our times than ever.
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Biodiversity encompasses the variability of all the life forms on earth, from the level of genes, species and all the way up to ecosystems.
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Biological resources represent a foundation for survival and sustainable development of civilization. At the same time, endangerment of a great number of organisms and ecosystems on a global scale is at the highest level since history of humankind. Therefore, research and protection of biodiversity are of exceptional value for the survival of humanity.
Laboratory for Biological Diversity (LBD) is focused on the research involving fungi as a large, ecologically relevant group of organisms that are severely under researched. Up to this day, around 140.000 species of fungi are scientifically accepted and described, but their actual number is thought to be between 2.2 and 3.8 million.
As a part of our work, we are conducting basic and applied research in the areas of taxonomy, phylogenetics, biogeography, ecology and conservation of fungi. Taxonomy is a biological scientific discipline that discovers, defines, and classifies biodiversity. Our approach to taxonomical research is integrative, via the use of methods from different complementary scientific disciplines like comparative morphology, molecular phylogenetics, DNA barcoding, ecology, and population genetics.
Recently, our Laboratory has implemented a modern, globally used method for biodiversity research called DNA metabarcoding used on environmental samples (soil, wood, air, water, etc), which is based on the technology of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). The data concerning the biodiversity of fungi in Croatia gathered throughout many years were the foundation for the protection of fungi and their habitats in Croatia.
Members of our laboratory participated in the making of RuleBook(s) on Protection of Fungi (1998, 2002), the Red list of fungi in Croatia (2005), and the Red book of fungi in Croatia (2008). On the world scale, we participated in the process of evaluation of fungal species needed to make the IUCN global fungal red list.
Members of the LBD act as experts in identifying the fungal species in cases of poisonings, collaborating with the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health. Throughout the years members of the Laboratory published more than 50 internationally published original scientific papers, in them taxonomically defining and describing 20 species and six genera new for science. Over 1300 new fungal species for Croatia were recorded by the members of the lab.
Enhancement of Croatian forest ecosystem services through assessment of fungal diversity based on DNA barcoding (ForFungiDNA)
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The American Anthropological Association Barely Defeats “Boycott Israel” Resolution
Jun 24, 2016 Glynn Custred
In an article I wrote for the Pope Center last year, I explained how my academic field, anthropology, is increasingly dominated by activists who want to use it for their political purposes. In keeping with that trend, last year, a task force of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) passed a resolution calling for the association to boycott Israeli academic institutions as punishment for the Israeli state’s Palestinian policy.
The resolution was placed on the agenda for discussion at the association’s national convention held last November in Denver. The meeting where the resolution was discussed attracted an overflow crowd. The boycott was vigorously debated with some speakers defending the measure on moral grounds while others questioned its propriety and its effectiveness.
After the debate, the members voted by a margin of 88 percent to bring the resolution before the entire membership in the form of a referendum. Voting on that referendum by email took place over a six-week period, during which emails by various individuals to the members urged them to either support or reject the measure.
Fifty-one percent of the membership took part in the referendum, the most ever in the organization’s history. The results were announced in the first week of June and the referendum was barely defeated, with 2,423 opposing and 2,384 supporting the boycott.
One of the questions asked by some members was what effect would a boycott of Israeli academic institutions have to change policies of the Israeli government? The answer is none.
The resolution makes that clear. It states, “If the boycott is adopted, the AAA will refrain from any formal collaborations or other relationships with Israeli academic institutions…. There are no such relationships at this time, so adopting the boycott would formalize the current status quo in this regard.” It was meant, therefore, as mere rhetoric without any effect.
The resolution further states that the boycott would not hinder members from collaborating with their Israeli colleagues, and that Israelis could still be members of the association and would be allowed to publish in its journals. Indeed it would be an attack on academic freedom to attempt to block AAA members from such activities, but this again emphasizes the emptiness of the proposal.
But effectiveness in changing Israeli policy was not the point. What was the point was a show of solidarity with those outside the profession who share their ideological perspective. It was, in other words, merely a public profession of faith and a symbolic gesture of solidarity with like-minded, ideologically motivated groups.
Another question raised during the campaign was whether a professional organization should take a position on a matter outside the discipline’s sphere of activity when so many of its members disagree with the substance or the tactics of the position. Some members also asked whether it is appropriate that a scholarly organization become involved in a campaign of political action, in this case the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign that was begun in 2005 by Palestinian groups as another line of attack, along with street demonstrations and suicide bombers, in their war against the Jewish state.
The “activist” wing within the AAA seems unaware of the true motives behind the boycott, or if they are, they don’t care. They’re fixed solely on solidarity with other activist groups in the pursuit of their ideology and its political agenda. Despite the razor thin defeat of the referendum, the AAA leadership has vowed, in their words, to “press on.”
Consequently, the Executive Board of the AAA announced plans to issue a statement censuring the Israeli government, and write letters to U.S. government offices identifying ways that U.S. resources and policies are violating the rights of Palestinians. Those are just more empty gestures having nothing to do with anthropological science.
People who hold those views are of course entitled to their opinion, but such posturing has nothing to do with the discipline of anthropology. Moreover, one faction of the organization has no right to force its views and policies on the rest of the membership.
This is yet another example of the lurch on the part of a large number of anthropologists away from the principles and the mission of the discipline. They’re moving it towards a narrow ideologically inspired political agenda and that has resulted in the take-over by activists of the governing apparatus of its principal professional organization.
In the process, the profession is losing legitimacy and credibility, both of which are necessary for support in financing anthropological enterprises. Those enterprises range across the spectrum of science, from the physical sciences in physical (biological) anthropology, through the social sciences to the humanities, which, like the other two branches of systematic inquiry, give us a better understanding and a greater appreciation of humankind as a part of nature.
Such an approach is not only important for a deeper, well-rounded understanding of the human species, but also because what anthropologists investigate and explain are of general public interest (seen for example in news coverage of its latest discoveries), and in the attention paid to museum presentations, historical sites as well as interest in courses in anthropology on the part of students specializing in other fields.
To jettison all that for some narrow ideology, of little or no practical consequence and perhaps only ephemeral in character, is to do a great disservice to science and the general public.
Scholarship requires an open forum, a skeptical approach, freedom of investigation and expression, and the acceptance of the results of research based on verifiable findings. The ideological approach in anthropology today is headed in the opposite direction: restriction of research, emphasis on the “correct” outcomes and suppression of opinions of dissenters through political correctness that leads to self censorship. Those features are closer to religion than to sound, scientifically based scholarship.
Some find it disheartening that the activists have gained so much control of the profession’s major association and that the victory over the ill-conceived boycott referendum was so close. Yet over half those who voted opposed the boycott, and emails sent to AAA members during the voting, arguing that the proposed boycott was inappropriate, indicate awareness of what is going wrong.
Also 49 percent of the membership did not vote at all, leading one to think that among them are many scholars who continue to pursue anthropological research and teaching in the proper manner.
Perhaps I am too optimistic, but it seems that political activism is starting to burn out in anthropology. Let’s hope this turn in events will soon run its course and anthropology as valuable branch of scholarship and human understanding will continue as before.
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Speedway Motorsports Promotes Senior Executives Burch and Caldwell
With more than 40 years of combined leadership and service to Speedway Motorsports, today, two industry veterans received promotions as Mike Burch was named the company’s chief operating officer, while Jerry Caldwell was promoted to president of Bristol Motor Speedway. The promotions were announced by Speedway Motorsports President and CEO Marcus Smith.
“Mike Burch and Jerry Caldwell are dedicated leaders who search every day for innovative ways we can serve our fans, partners and employees,” said Smith. “We are proud to have Mike and Jerry on our executive leadership team and thankful not only for their past successes but for their continued hard work to elevate the profile and performance of Speedway Motorsports.”
Burch, who joined Speedway Motorsports in 2003, most recently served as chief strategy officer, and previously held positions of senior vice president of national sales and marketing and manager of business development. He earned undergraduate degrees in economics and management & society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in sport management from Georgia Southern University before working with several NBA teams, including the Orlando Magic, Houston Rockets and Charlotte Hornets, where he served as vice president of marketing from 2000 to 2002.
“Mike has been an integral part of our organization and a key architect of how we’ve pulled our facilities and staff together as a more cohesive company,” Smith added. “He aggressively stays on top of trends in sports business and management to better support our stakeholders, while also serving as a key strategist and liaison with NASCAR in development of the annual event schedule. Mike is the biggest proponent of our GLOBE mentality, to ‘generously lend our best efforts’, and as chief operating officer, he’ll continue to be a significant part of our success.”
Caldwell’s career at Bristol Motor Speedway epitomizes the American Dream, starting as an events department college intern before transitioning full-time to the BMS sales and marketing department in 1997. In the following years, he was recognized twice as the BMS Employee of the Year and once as the Speedway Motorsports Salesperson of the Year. In 2010, Caldwell was named executive vice president and general manager of Bristol Motor Speedway and Dragway. Under his leadership, The Last Great Colosseum continued its illustrious history as one of NASCAR’s most revered venues, set an NCAA record for highest attendance (156,990) at a college football game and transformed to a world-class dirt racing facility and concert venue.
“Jerry Caldwell continues to raise the bar for what can be done at one of the world’s most iconic entertainment venues,” Smith commented. “Jerry is the first three-time Speedway Motorsports ‘Promoter of the Year’ honoree. He and his team captivated the sports world with Bristol’s transformation for NASCAR to race on dirt in 2021, and he’s leading our charge to bring NASCAR back to Nashville’s Fairgrounds Speedway. Jerry is also a tremendous community servant, and I’m honored to name him President of Bristol Motor Speedway and Dragway.”
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Professor Joel Hayward, ZDaF, BA, MA Hons, PhD, FRSA, FRHistS
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Claritas Books has taken the opportunity to interview Professor Joel Hayward, a scholar of Islam. With his new book The Leadership of Muhammad just released by Claritas, we were especially keen to learn from the professor his views on the historicity of the Prophet.
Originally published HERE.
QUESTION: As a history professor trained in the methodology accepted throughout the academic discipline of history, can you tell us something about the early sources we have for the Holy Prophet’s ﷺ life? For example, are there many sources from within his lifetime or thereabouts and do they tell us much about his life? Are they reliable?
ANSWER: Actually, for a major historical figure from antiquity, the sources for Muhammad’s ﷺ life are surprisingly early in origin, specific, and illuminating. There are Greek, Syriac and Aramaic sources from within his lifetime and immediately after which describe an Arab leader bringing religious teachings, proclaiming laws, leading armies, and fighting battles. Some of those sources name him as Muhammad or the local variant of his name. And within the Islamic tradition itself we have nine early letters written by ‘Urwah ibn al-Zubayr (died c. 711 CE) addressed to the Umayyad ruler ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan and his son and successor, al-Walid I. These letters, which sketch out the Prophet’s life with striking consistency with the major subsequent biographies by Al-Waqidi, Ibn Hisham and Ibn Sa’d, have not survived but they were quoted or reproduced in later works, most notably in the Tarikh al-Rusul wa al-Mukuk and the Jamiʿ al-Bayan ʿan Taʾwil āy al-Qurʾan of Abu Ja‘far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (died 923). ‘Urwah was not himself a companion of the Holy Prophet, but his father, al-Zubayr ibn ‘Awwam, was a very close and trusted companion. Through his mother Asma, ‘Urwah was also a grandson of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, the Prophet’s first successor. His letters therefore are both early and authoritative.
Some non-Muslim historians of Islam’s origins consider the early books of Sirah (Prophetic Biography) to be so hagiographical and imbued with miraculous and supernatural interventions that they cannot be considered reliable records of the Prophet’s life, even for its broad outline.
Whilst I agree that it’s problematical that the most influential and detailed early biographies were written 150, 200 or even more years after the Prophet’s death, I actually consider three in particular — Ibn Hisham’s Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah, Al-Waqidi’s Kitab al-Maghazi and Ibn Sa‘d’s Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir — to be surprisingly thorough and highly useful.
QUESTION: And are they reliable?
ANSWER: Well, they were written many generations after the events they describe, and the authors had no living participants or eyewitnesses they could interview. Yet they drew upon earlier research and written sources which were then available to them, but have since been lost, so it’s not as though they drew only or even primarily upon oral traditions.
QUESTION: You sound skeptical of oral sources. Are you?
ANSWER: Yes. We know that the human memory is both malleable and unreliable, and that remembering long, complicated and detail-rich matters and then conveying them accurately and unchangingly is almost impossible without some fixed reference point for constant comparison.
QUESTION: Does the Holy Qur’an tell us much about events in the Prophet’s ﷺ life?
ANSWER: The Qur’an does not record events in a narrative sense like the Bible does. It seldom tells complete stories, instead commenting insightfully on highlighted aspects or snippets of biblical, historical and contemporary events that its seventh-century audience understood very well.
Reconstructing the “Asbab al-Nuzul,” the actual historical occasions in the life of the Prophet ﷺ when Qur’anic revelations appeared, is not an exact science, and we scholars sometimes disagree about when certain verses or surahs appeared. Yet there’s enough agreement on the specific context in which many verses appeared that we can consider the Qur’an to be a valuable — albeit an episodic and sparing — source of historical information on Muhammad’s life.
QUESTION: Are the early books of Sirah less reliable than the records for other notable historical figures?
ANSWER: On the contrary, the historicity of Muhammad is beyond reasonable doubt, and the early sources for the basic outline and key events of his life (forget the details for now) are sufficient for us to reconstruct his life and times with a sense of confidence.
If we as historians had to avoid trying to say something meaningful about Muhammad’s life because of the likelihood of subjectivity and bias in the sources, and the fact that they date from the eighth and ninth centuries, by the same standard we would have to give up trying to write about Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Jesus Christ, and many other historical figures. The key sources for their lives postdate the events by long periods, are equally problematic, and no less likely to contain subjectivity and bias.
For example, the earliest surviving Greek source for Alexander the Great’s life is the Bibliotheca Historica, written by Diodorus Siculus over 265 years after Alexander’s death in 323 BCE. And added to this gap of more than ten generations is the problem that the oldest extant manuscript copy of the relevant section of Diodorus’s work dates from the fifteenth century CE, over 1,500 years after Diodorus died. Yet historians still use that manuscript as a source.
QUESTION: Almost all biographies of Muhammad ﷺ are written by Muslims who obviously see him as a paradigmatic human; as the man they should emulate. Does this mean that their scholarship is more likely to be biased and therefore less reliable than works by non-Muslims?
ANSWER: Hmm. Yes and no. I’ll start with the “no” first. It’s not necessary for a scholar to have an ambivalent, neutral or negative view of a person to be able to write a detached or “objective” assessment of him or her. One can identify one’s own biases and assumptions and manage their impact regardless of one’s respect for the person being studied. If this isn’t true, then no Christian could ever write about Jesus, and no scholar of strategy could ever write about Napoleon, with any chance of their work being taken seriously because of their positive starting point. Acknowledging that Napoleon was a master of war doesn’t mean that a historian will ignore or minimize, much less suppress or falsify, any evidence showing flawed thinking or acting.
Likewise, let’s think about those scholars who study history’s more infamous leaders, such as Hitler and Stalin. Most would admit that their starting position would be strong dislike or even disgust for their subjects. That doesn’t mean that they can’t reflect on their own biases and find effective ways to minimize the potentially deleterious impact of those biases on their scholarship. We certainly have excellent books on those evil people — books we can consider reliable and useful — written by scholars who would admit to having personal moral objections to them.
On the other hand, if a scholar holds to a faith-based position that the historical figure they are studying succeeded in his or her activities because a god intervened to ensure those outcomes, or if the scholar believes that the person’s successes can only be explained by the fact that he or she possessed divinely bestowed gifts and powers, then the scholar is likely to see and explain causality in subjective supernatural terms that might not satisfy any reasonable standards for establishing truth. Their analysis would be very different to that of non-religious scholars, who see human nature, decisions and actions, and natural and environmental influences upon them, as the prime causes of political, military, social and even religious outcomes.
QUESTION: Is this a challenge for you as a scholar and a Muslim believer?
ANSWER: Yes, naturally. My holy book the Qur’an tells me that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was close to Allah, the God I believe in and try to follow, and that he possessed such superb traits that he was not only the Seal of the Prophets, but was among the “Ulul Azmi,” the five most respected and elevated prophets. Yet he was also a human, a person of history, who lived and taught and fought as an ordinary man, 1400 years ago. Even saying that he was “ordinary” might seem an awkward thing for a Muslim to say, and might surprise my co-religionists who place him beyond all other humans. Yet I only mean ordinary in the sense that Muhammad was a non-divine, flesh-and-blood man whose mortality was no different to mine and everyone else’s.
As a scholar, this creates an internal tension, I guess. How do I analyze the actions and reactions of someone I believe to have been a messenger of Allah? How, for this book, did I analyze his leadership ideas, habits, methods and actions?
Perhaps the answer is what makes my book different to those of other Muslim scholars writing on Muhammad’s leadership. Conscious of my own faith-based biases, I did not allow myself the starting point that Muhammad must have been a great leader because he was a prophet, or that he was a great leader because he was a morally superior man.
QUESTION: Can you please explain that?
ANSWER: Yes. What I mean is this: other Muslim writers on Muhammad’s ﷺ leadership say that he was devout, honest, compassionate, tolerant, patient, fair, decisive and courageous. These traits, they insist, are precisely what made Muhammad a great leader.
Their books are worth reading, and I enjoy doing so. Yet, with no disrespect to my fellow authors, their deductive logic rests on two mistaken arguments: firstly, they say that because the legacy of Muhammad’s life is a worldwide religion, we must consider him to have been a successful leader; and secondly, they insist that, as he was both a very good man and a very good leader, we must deduce that he was a successful leader because he was very good man.
Neither argument is strong. We can dismiss the first assertion on the basis by itself that Jesus Christ’s lack of worldly success proves that a lasting religious legacy is not a sound criterion for judging a prophet’s leadership. According to his followers, Jesus died a violent death after a short-lived ministry that, in his lifetime, secured him very few followers and no earthly power at all. In that sense, we cannot say he was a successful leader in any commonly understood sense. Yet over two billion humans now follow his teachings.
We are therefore left with the second argument, which is that, because he was both a very good man and a successful leader, we must conclude that he was a successful leader because he was very good man. This argument is equally illogical. History reveals that very many deeply imperfect, corrupt or wickedly cruel people — including (by historical consensus) Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stalin and Mao Zedong — have been very successful leaders.
Let’s be clear. While it can be true that a good person is a good leader, it can equally be true that a bad person is a good leader. Likewise, it can be true that a good person is a bad leader, and equally true that a bad person is a bad leader. Thus, a leader’s elevated morality (which Muhammad undoubtedly possessed) does not necessarily cause leadership effectiveness.
With this in mind, I have tried to avoid using an assessment of Muhammad’s traits or his moral character as the primary basis of establishing and explaining his leadership success. Instead, I have attempted to analyze his actual leadership ideas, methods, and related behavior — in other words, what he thought and did as a leader (according to the early sources) — in order to ascertain whether his ideas and actions reveal substantial and meaningful insights into the effectiveness of his leadership.
QUESTION: And do they?
ANSWER: Yes indeed. The early works of Sirah, and a number of relevant reliable hadiths, are sufficiently broad, deep and consistent to reconstruct a picture of Muhammad’s ﷺ leadership that explains its great success. He was a highly skilled leader with unusually developed levels of aptitude, intuition, talent and capacity. He quickly learned how to do something better each time and made mental notes of what did or didn’t work so that he could repeat what succeeded and avoid what failed.
QUESTION: It is often said that the key role of a strategic leader is to develop and articulate a persuasive vision for a better future. Was this true in Muhammad’s ﷺ case?
ANSWER: Absolutely. After Muhammad ﷺ arrived in Medina in 622 CE, he made the most of what might have seemed a limited opportunity, choosing not merely to serve as a mediator in the squabbles between Medina’s tribes, as he was assigned, but to advance a far grander vision for both himself and the people around him.
He recognized that his goals were new, untried, audacious, and stunningly grandiose, and that he could only achieve them if he succeeded in persuading people that his goals would create a better future. He therefore worked tirelessly to teach and persuade people around him that his vision would be beneficial for them as individuals, as a community, and as members of what would become a larger faith movement. Aware of human nature and concerns for comfort and wellbeing, he did not promote ascetic or austere ideas. Instead he conveyed the appealing message that submission to Allah’s laws, devotion to prayer and charity, and common goodness to each other, would be rewarded in this world and the next.
His vision did not grow from an aspiration to acquire and use power for any selfish reasons, but, rather, from a desire to create a movement of religious reform that emphasized strict monotheism and moral behavior in conformity with what God revealed to and through him. But to spread this movement, and nurture its growth beyond infancy so that it would survive after his own death, he would need to acquire at least some power, a reality that he grasped very early on. His ability to see and exploit opportunities, and his profound and intuitive understanding of human nature, allowed him to consolidate and expand power at a remarkable pace. Thus, by the time of his death in 632 he had effectively gained authority over much of Arabia.
QUESTION: You use the word “power”. Desire for power is usually seen negatively. Why was this not so in Muhammad’s ﷺ case?
ANSWER: Muhammad ﷺ understood authority, both in its forceful forms (after all, he lived in a distinctly pitiless environment) and in its nuanced and sensitively applied forms. His very strong preference for the latter, and his concerted effort to avoid the former, made him not only a leader to obey, in some ways like other Arab tribal leaders, but also one to esteem, love and imitate.
QUESTION: Thank you very much for taking time to answer our questions. We wish you every success with this new book, which is your fifteenth or sixteenth book. What are you currently working on?
ANSWER: I have a couple of books on early Islam near to completion. And in the meantime I’m doing the preliminary research for a new analysis of Sultan Mehmet II’s conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
Professor Joel, thank you again.
Professor Joel Hayward is Professor of Strategic Thought at the National Defense College of the United Arab Emirates. The opinions he expressed in this interview are his own and do not reflect the views of the National Defense College or the United Arab Emirates government.
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The JPII School Board
The School Board of John Paul II Catholic School is made up of parents, educators, parish pastors and community members who are invested in shaping the future of our school and providing the best quality Catholic education to our students. The board meets monthly to discuss and make decisions about how to provide the best facilities, education, programming, policies, and marketing to benefit the entire school community, both current and future. The members of the board come from diverse backgrounds and represent the various parishes that make up the JPII community, as well as non-parishoner representation. We welcome the input of all of our JPII families.
Who sits on the School Board for the 2020-21 School Year?
Diane Pugh, St. Clare
Diane is a member of St. Clare Parish where she attended elementary school. She is involved in many ministries at St. Clare including representing the parish for John Paul II families. She is an avid volunteer at church, at JPII, as well as in the community. Diane retired from her position as General Manager of Bacall’s Cafe over a year ago to care for her father. She lives in Liberty Twp with her husband Leonard, and their daughter, Elaina, who attends JPIICS.
Dan Starkey, OLR
Dan has been a member of Our Lady of the Rosary Parish for more than 25 years where he has coached grade school teams and watched his children Rob and Maria graduate from the school. Dan was recruited by Fr. Chris Coleman to serve on the Parish Council and the JPII School Board after retiring from 38 years of teaching and coaching at Roger Bacon High School where he was a Guidance Counselor, History teacher, and Health and Physical Education Teacher. Dan and wife Sarah are long-time Greenhills residents who enjoy spending much of their time with their six grandchildren.
John Lamping, St. Claire
John has been a member of St. Clare Parish for 18 years. He has previously served on parish council and facilitated school-aged family events. John and his wife Ann have two children, both of whom are JPII graduates. John has been an Intervention Specialist for 25 years. He currently teaches at College Hill Fundamental Academy in Cincinnati Public Schools.
Tanya Dempsey, OLR
Tanya has 4 children who are either students or graduates of JPII. Tanya holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business from the University of Cincinnati and works in the field of finance. She has been an active member of the JPII PTO as well as the finance committee at OLR. Tanya has 4 children who are either students or graduates of JPII. Tanya holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business from the University of Cincinnati and works in the field of finance. She has been an active member of the JPII PTO as well as the finance committee at OLR.
Lisa Lee, non-parishioner
Lisa’s two sons currently attend JPIICS and her daughter is a recent graduate of JPIICS. She and her husband Ernest reside in Springfield Township. She earned a BS in Journalism from Ohio University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Cincinnati. Lisa serves as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in Butler County.
Father George Jacquemin, St. Clare
Fr. George is a graduate of St. Veronica grade school. He went on to attend St. Gregory Seminary, the Athenaeum of Ohio and Xavier University, attaining a Master’s Degree in Divinity and a Master’s Degree in Education. Fr. George was ordained as a diocesan priest in May of 1972. His parish assignments have included: St. Bernard, Winton Place, and Mother of Christ, Winton Terrace (1972-1984); St. Anthony Parish, Madisonville (1984-1997); and St. Clare Parish, College Hill (1997-present). He presently serves on the board of Christ Community in College Hill and is a member of the College Hill Ministerium. Fr. George is also devoted to his beekeeping hobby.
Father Jerry Hiland, St. Bartholomew
Fr. Jerry has been a diocesan priest for over 30 years. Over this time he has served in various roles, including: associate pastor at three different parishes, often pastoring 2-4 parishes at a time, archdiocesan historical archivist and consultant, board member of the Couple-to-Couple League for 20 years; leading workshops for seminarians on natural family planning and sexuality for 25 years, mentoring younger priests and seminarian interns, and served as high school chaplain, jail chaplain, orphanage chaplain, police chaplain, and hospital chaplain, just to name a few.
Amy Krajewski, St. Bartholomew
Amy and her husband Robert have been members at St. Bartholomew parish since 2007. They have two sons who attend or are graduates of JPII. Amy has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Bowling Green State University and works in Research and Development at Procter & Gamble.
Father Alex McCullough, Winton Wyoming Pastoral Region
Fr. Alex McCullough is the pastor of the Winton Wyoming Pastoral Region, comprised of St. James of the Valley, Our Lady of the Rosary, and St. Matthias. He is passionate about Catholic education, and is currently serving as the Juridical Pastor for John Paul II School for the 2020- 2021 school year.
Sifa Ndusha, St. James of the Valley
Sifa and her family have been members of St James of the Valley Parish since 2017. They came in USA from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012 and were members of churches where they were living; Lexington KY at Christ the King Cathedral, Louisville Ky at St Pius X Church and St Savior Parish in Cincinnati Ohio. Sifa has Six Children and two step daughters. Her son is working on his Master’s degree at Xavier University and step daughter is a freshman at Northern Kentucky University. She has three children attending JPII and one who graduated in 2019 and is now attending Mount Notre Dame High School. Sifa has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Kentucky States University and is currently working at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital as an Operations Manager.
Mellen Moors-Dressing, Roger Bacon High School
Mellen Moors-Dressing has been a parishioner at St. Bart’s for over 20 years. Before that she was a parishioner at St. Clare for 15 years where she also served on the Education Commission. Now retired from the classroom, she taught English for 37 years, 31 of them at Roger Bacon High School. Currently she subs at RB. Married to Steve for 40 years this year, she has two children who graduated from St. Bart’s Consolidated School, and she is proud to be called Nana by her first grandchild.
Norie Roach, Principal, JPIICS
Norie is the principal at John Paul II Catholic School. She has been in Catholic education for over 30 years. Her passion for Catholic education began with her experience at a Catholic grade school and continued through Catholic high school and college. For 17 years, Norie taught in the primary grades at Our Lady of the Rosary and then moved to the principal position where she has been serving for the past 15 years. Her mission as principal is to make sure all children and parents are welcome at JPII. She believes all children are God’s gifts and should be challenged to develop the talents God has given them.
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Jerusalem Post Israeli News
Ecuador’s foreign minister meets Netanyahu as two nations improve ties
This is the highest-level visit by an Ecuadorian official since 2011.
Published: NOVEMBER 23, 2017 03:52
Ecuador's Foreign Affairs Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa attends a news conference in Barcelona, October 24, 2007.
(photo credit: ALBERT GEA/ REUTERS)
A year after Ecuador’s ambassador to the UN equated Zionism with Nazism, that country’s Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday, signaling a dramatic change in the course of ties between the two countries.
This is the highest-level visit by an Ecuadorian official since 2011, and diplomatic officials said it is further evidence that the country’s new President Lenin Moreno is striking out on a course for his country substantially different from that of his predecessor, Rafael Correa, who had the nation firmly in Venezuela’s Iranian and anti-American orbit.
Moreno, who was Correa’s vice president, won the country’s presidential election in February.
The Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement saying Netanyahu and Espinosa discussed cooperation between the countries in technology, agriculture and water, as well as the threats in the region – including those emanating from Iran – and “Israel’s demands in order to reach true peace with the Palestinians.”
Israel’s ties with Ecuador have been strained for years, with Quito temporarily withdrawing its ambassador in 2014 to protest Israel’s actions during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza that year. It is among a bloc of anti-American Latin American countries, which also includes Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, that for years has been stridently anti-Israel.
Cracks in that anti-Israel wall began to appear publicly in March, however, when Israel and Nicaragua restored diplomatic ties after a seven-year break, and Espinosa’s visit is viewed in Jerusalem as another example of a change in attitude.
On Wednesday Espinosa thanked Israel for aid it sent to the country after an earthquake hit there in 2016. More than 670 people were killed in that earthquake, and the disaster relief group IsraAID set up a field hospital in a village hit hard by the trembler.
Espinosa and Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely also signed an agreement enabling the spouses of diplomatic officials to work in the host country.
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In Brussels, NATO officials will meet with Russian team on Ukraine
By Rachel Martin,
Published January 12, 2022 at 4:17 AM CST
NATO has just wrapped up talks with Russia in Brussels. It was all an attempt to reduce tensions on the Ukraine border, where Russia has massed troops amid a series of demands. The fear and worst-case scenario - a land war in Europe. NPR's London correspondent Frank Langfitt has been covering all this, and he joins us now. Frank, where are we at? Was there any progress at all?
FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: You know, not if you listened to the press conference today afterwards with NATO's secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg. Both sides seem really dug in for now. Russia - among its demands are it wants NATO to stop letting in new countries, particularly Ukraine because Ukraine has a large border - 1,200-mile border - with Russia. And it's also asked NATO to basically pull back its troop deployments to a time when NATO was much, much smaller, back in 1997. NATO - for its perspective, it says, you know, we'll keep talking to you, but we want you to pull your troops back from the Ukrainian border right now. So Stoltenberg says they're in the neighborhood of 100,000 Russian troops on the border there, which, you know, Ukraine finds naturally pretty threatening. So at the moment, what's not clear, Rachel, is an off-ramp in this dispute between Russia and NATO.
MARTIN: How do NATO leaders see the stakes of this, and how is the U.S. wrapped up in it?
LANGFITT: Yeah, the stakes here, I think, are really big. You hinted it at the beginning. The possibility of a land war with a major power like Russia in Europe is very frightening in the way that it could destabilize the region. And certainly, Russia has already done this before, to some extent. In 2014, it annexed Crimea. It also has troops in Georgia and elsewhere. And so I think the concern is that it just creates more tension in the region. The United States' interest is the United States is far and away the largest military power in NATO. It helped create NATO after the Cold War, and it was to defend against what was then the Soviet Union.
Well, what sort of happened here - of course, the Soviet Union collapsed, and NATO then began to expand in the 1990s. And this really upset the Soviets - or the Russians, at that point - certainly, and they felt to some degree like the United States was taking advantage of all of their problems. And so what you're seeing in recent years, particularly with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia is pushing back, at least from his perspective, against NATO. The concern, though, is that we're just not - these are really - people have very different opinions here, and it's not clear how they can resolve it.
MARTIN: So the risk is a land war in Europe. And what, after this...
LANGFITT: Yeah.
MARTIN: ...Everyone just, like, goes back to their Outlook calendars and says, let's schedule some more talks?
LANGFITT: Well, at the moment, right now, what NATO's offering is not what Russia wants. They're saying, well, we'll talk about limiting missile deployments in Europe. And they say if you go into Ukraine, we might deploy even more troops into some of our Eastern allies. And so we don't see a way out of this at the moment. There is a little bit of a time pressure here on Russia, in the sense that if it does want to make some kind of move - and most people do not think that Russia would actually try to take over Ukraine. It's an enormous country. But they might try to take a part of Ukraine, as they did in 2014. One thing is that the weather is a factor. When you get into late March, it begins to rain quite a bit, and that becomes a problem for Russian armor, moving around Ukraine. For the moment, they're still - both sides are certainly willing to talk. We're waiting to hear, of course, from the Russians. Their delegation hasn't commented yet, and it'll be very interesting and very important to see what their take is on how things went today.
MARTIN: NPR's London correspondent Frank Langfitt, thanks for all this, Frank. We appreciate it.
LANGFITT: Good to talk, Rachel. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Bad Vybz
POLICE had to quell unruly fans outside the Supreme Court in Kingston on March 13th, after a jury pronounced Adidja “Vybz Kartel” Palmer (pictured) guilty of murder. Although the death penalty is unlikely to be applied, the self-proclaimed “World Boss” of Jamaican music faces up to 50 years in prison when he is sentenced on March 27th.
Along with three associates, Mr Palmer was found guilty of butchering Clive “Lizard” Williams in August 2011, for failing to return two guns. (His lawyers say he will appeal.) He has been behind bars since September 2011, charged originally with two separate murders. In July last year, he was found not guilty of murdering a 27-year old music promoter, Barrington “Bossy” Burton. The “Lizard” trial started in November, and this time he was less fortunate.
The guilty verdict took many people by surprise. The police produced incriminating text messages and video recordings, among them a text saying Mr Williams’s body was chopped up “fine fine… As long as u live dem can never find him.” But the defence argued that this digital evidence was unreliable: a seized BlackBerry phone appears to have been switched on and used while supposedly in a secure evidence locker; and a back-up CD with telecommunications data went missing. On the day of the verdict, a juror was arrested for allegedly attempting to bribe his fellow jurors to plump for a “not guilty” verdict.
Mr Palmer’s fall from grace would be big news on its own. He is a big star in the world of dancehall, the successor to Jamaica’s earlier reggae music. Before his arrest, Mr Palmer attracted high-profile corporate sponsors such as LIME (Landline, Internet, Mobile and Entertainment), the local affiliate of a British telecommunications company, Cable and Wireless. His violent lyrics, said apologists, were just word-play. In court, he tried to distance himself from his bad-boy image: "My Lord I bleach my skin My Lord, and I am heavily tattooed My Lord, but that is merely superficial, My Lord. That is part of the persona of Vybz Kartel not Adidja Palmer.”
But the verdict fits into a broader pattern. Other Jamaican entertainers have hit trouble. Mark “Buju Banton” Myrie is in a Florida prison, serving a ten-year cocaine trafficking sentence; his appeal is before the courts. Desmond “Ninjaman” Ballentine was charged with murder in 2009; he is on bail, with a trial set for April. A string of others have been charged with, and in some case convicted of, rape, drug, domestic violence, firearms or “lottery scam” offences (in which criminal gangs fleece elderly Americans of their savings).
In September the police commissioner Owen Ellington in September told the Jamaican parliament that “intelligence and evidence” show that some entertainers have been co-opted by criminal gangs, and use songs to promote killing, intimidation and a code of silence that allows wrongdoers to operate at will. Academics link violent lyrics to the marginalisation of young working-class males. On March 7th Parliament passed legislation prohibiting any “audio, visual or audiovisual communication” that promotes killing or violence. There is plenty to ban. “They’ll have to keep on locking them up,” says one Jamaican musician.
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Going Dark: The Internet Behind The Internet
Tor is the main browser people use to access Darknet sites, allowing users to remain completely anonymous.
The average computer user with an Internet connection has access to an amazing wealth of information. But there's also an entire world that's invisible to your standard Web browser.
These parts of the Internet are known as the Deep Web. The tools to get to there are just a few clicks away, and more and more people who want to browse the Web anonymously are signing on.
Fans of the series House of Cards might recall the Deep Web being worked into the plot of latest season. The character Lucas, a newspaper editor who was trying find a hacker, gets a little crash course from one of his reporters:
"Ninety-six percent of the Internet isn't accessible through standard search engines. Most of it's useless but it's where you go to find anything and everything: child porn, Bitcoin laundry, narcotics, hackers for hire ..."
Wired reporter Kim Zetter tells NPR's Arun Rath that the show kind of got it right, but that there should be a distinction between what's called the Deep Web and what are known as Darknet sites.
"The Deep Web is anything not accessible through the commercial search engines," Zetter says.
Then, there's the Darknet, a specific part of that hidden Web where you can operate in total anonymity. Without being tracked, people can access websites that sell drugs, weapons and they can even hire assassins. One such black-market site, Silk Road, got attention last fall after a crackdown by the FBI.
Zeeter says the Darknet has another purpose that doesn't usually make the news: It helps political dissidents who want to evade government censors.
Accessing The Hidden Internet
Tor is the main browser people use to access the part of the Web where anonymity reigns. "Tor" is an acronym for The Onion Router; the onion refers to the layers you go through to disguise your identity.
It's free and anyone can download it. It's a simple site that looks like a Web browser, but if you take the right steps, it's quite different. When you connect to a site through Tor, your computer goes through a series of other computers and bounces around anonymously until it reaches a destination.
"No one will be able to see you're the one visiting those websites, and the websites will not be able to see you either," says Runa Sandvik, a privacy and security researcher. "They will only be able to see that you're using Tor to do something."
Usually when you visit a website, your Internet service provider can see that you are visiting that site. Sandvik, a former contractor with the Tor Project, says if you use Tor, the location that you appear to be in will change.
"You can be in D.C. and send your traffic through Germany, Sweden and Russia, for example," she says. "And the website that you're visiting will see that someone in Russia is visiting, not you in D.C."
Like the Internet itself, Tor was created by the government. Developed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, its initial purpose was to protect the communications of the U.S. military, Sandvik says.
"But the challenge here is that if you have this anonymity system and [all] traffic going into the system is the U.S. Navy and everything popping out is the U.S. Navy, then you're not that anonymous," she says. "So by opening up this system to everyone, different groups of people can hide in a big crowd of anonymous Tor users."
Sandvik says because of how Tor was developed, emphasizing privacy by design, there is no way to figure out who's using Tor or if those users are using it for illicit activities.
It's Not All Dark
Despite the reputation Silk Road brought to the Deep Web, Sandvik says there's a lot more going on besides criminal activity.
"There's human rights activists, journalists, military, law enforcement [and] normal people," she says. "It just really depends on what you want to do."
Tor is a valuable tool for Chinese dissidents who can't access sites like Twitter. And it became a valuable tool during the Arab Spring.
"We saw that the numbers were skyrocketing," Sandvik says. "For example in Iran, Tor usage went from 7,000 users in 2010 to 40,000 users two years later."
In Syria, the number of Tor users grew from 600 to 15,000 in just two years, she says.
Closer to home, Tor's executive director is working with victims of domestic abuse, who need to communicate without being tracked by their abusers.
Tor use jumped again in the last year, since the revelation of the National Security Agency's surveillance program. Sandvik estimates there are close to a million daily users worldwide.
With Americans increasingly concerned about being monitored online by corporations, or their government, that number is certain to grow.
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Parts Of Patriot Act Expire, Even As Senate Moves On Bill Limiting Surveillance
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks from the Senate chamber after opening a special session to extend surveillance programs in Washington on Sunday.
(This post was last updated at 11:09 p.m. ET.)
It was a dramatic day on the floor of the United States Senate on Sunday. Unable to overcome parliamentary maneuvers by Sen. Rand Paul, the body adjourned and let three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act expire at midnight.
Trying to beat a midnight deadline during a rare Sunday session, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tried to fast track a House bill that would overhaul the government's bulk collection of Americans' phone records.
At around 7 p.m. ET, the House bill cleared a key procedural hurdle, but as the sun set on Washington, it became clear that a Senate rule allowing for 30 hours of debate would force parts of the Patriot Act to expire at least temporarily.
"The Patriot Act will expire tonight," Paul, the Kentucky Republican who has led the charge against the government's bulk collection program, said. "But it will only be temporary. They will ultimately get their way."
Before this session, Paul promised to use any parliamentary moves available to him to force any Senate vote on the measure to happen after the 12 a.m. deadline.
He was warned by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle that he was putting the country at risk.
"To go dark on this is a risk on Americans' lives," Sen. Dan Coats, an Indiana Republican, said on the floor of the Senate.
McConnell, the senior Republican senator from Kentucky, said that blocking this legislation should be "worrying for our country." McConnell said that even though he had vehemently opposed this bill previously — his chamber had also failed to move it forward earlier this week — he would attempt to pass it.
"We shouldn't be disarming unilaterally as our enemies grow more sophisticated and aggressive, and we certainly should not be doing so based on a campaign of demagoguery and disinformation launched in the wake of the unlawful actions of Edward Snowden," McConnell said.
Paul fired back, saying he worried that the House bill actually made the government better at collecting phone records in bulk. He said he couldn't trust the secret court tasked with interpreting the law and that he wanted to add amendments to the bill. He added that the U.S. is using fear to convince Americans of the need for these programs, but the country already has the tools to fight terrorists. They could seek warrants, he said, instead of dragging Americans into what he said was an unconstitutional surveillance system.
"Mark my words," he said, "the battle is not over."
At around 9:45 p.m. ET, after a lengthy break, McConnell took the floor again and admitted defeat. He offered several amendments to the House bill and adjourned until 12 p.m. ET on June 1, guaranteeing that parts of the surveillance programs instituted by the U.S. after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 would end entirely at least temporarily.
In a statement, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that the Senate had taken "an important—if late—step forward tonight."
The White House has always supported HR 2048 — also known as the House's USA Freedom Act. The bill ends the bulk collection program as we know it. If passed, the government would still have access to the data, but it would now have to query databases kept by phone companies.
"We call on the Senate to ensure this irresponsible lapse in authorities is as short-lived as possible," Earnest said. "On a matter as critical as our national security, individual Senators must put aside their partisan motivations and act swiftly. The American people deserve nothing less."
We'll live-blogged the Senate action as it happened. Keep reading if you want a play-by-play.
Update at 11:03 p.m. ET. The Most Dramatic Moment:
We'll leave you tonight with video of the most dramatic moment of the night. It happened as Sen. Rand Paul tried to get five minutes to speak. Here's the video via Real Clear Politics:
Paul, by the way, goes on to win the parliamentary tousle, finally getting his five minutes.
Update at 10:19 p.m. ET. Irresponsible Lapse:
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest issued the following statement:
"In January 2014—a year-and-a-half ago—the President called on Congress to reform elements of our electronic surveillance programs. The President and members of his team subsequently worked painstakingly with members of Congress from both parties to craft a sensible path forward. The result, the USA FREEDOM Act, struck a reasonable compromise balancing security and privacy—allowing us to continue to protect the country while implementing various reforms, including prohibiting bulk collection through the use of Section 215, FISA pen registers, and National Security Letters. National security professionals, civil libertarians, and 338 members of the House of Representatives—both Democrats and Republicans—agreed that the legislation allowed our intelligence and law enforcement professionals to retain key tools while strengthening civil liberty protections.
"The Senate took an important—if late—step forward tonight. We call on the Senate to ensure this irresponsible lapse in authorities is as short-lived as possible. On a matter as critical as our national security, individual Senators must put aside their partisan motivations and act swiftly. The American people deserve nothing less."
Update at 9:45 p.m. ET. Senate Adjourned:
The Senate has adjourned. Three provisions of the Patriot Act will expire at least temporarily.
Update at 9:34 p.m. ET. Senate Still In Session:
The Senate is still technically in session. A senator suggested the absence of a quorum, which has given the Senate time to figure out what will happen next.
Update at 9:31 p.m. ET. Strong Support For 'Comprehensive Reform':
In a statement, Michael Macleod-Ball, acting director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office, said today's vote and the likely temporary end of the bulk collection program are a reflection of strong support for "meaningful and comprehensive reform of the surveillance laws."
He added: "Congress should take advantage of this sunset to pass far reaching surveillance reform, instead of the weak bill currently under consideration."
Update at 8:16 p.m. ET. What To Expect?
So, where do we stand right now? The Senate now has the ability to move on the House bill, but senators can debate the bill for 30 hours.
Manu Raju of Politico reports that Majority Leader McConnell "plans to employ a prerogative Reid rarely used: Making senators actually debate in post-cloture time — or he'll continue process."
Congressional Quarterly reports that a McConnell spokesman said there will " 'likely' be no more votes tonight."
This means three provisions of the Patriot Act are likely to lapse, if only temporarily.
Update at 8:00 p.m. ET. Bulk Collection Will Likely Lapse:
Wyden and Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat from New Mexico, are still talking on the floor.
It's worth noting that according to White House officials, who briefed reporters last week, it is now likely there will be a lapse in the government's bulk collection program.
As we reported: While the statutory deadline is Monday, June 1, "senior administration officials said they have to begin winding down their surveillance programs at 4 p.m. ET on Sunday. That process, they said, could be aborted as late as 8 p.m. ET."
We are now past that window.
Update at 7:57 p.m. ET. Hard Questions:
Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, just finished a speech on the floor. Wyden has been a long-time critic of the bulk collection program.
During his speech, he reminded Americans that the administration had misled Congress in the past. He was specifically referring to a hearing in which he asked National Intelligence Director James Clapper if the National Security Agency collects "any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans."
Clapper answered, "No sir," before adding, "not wittingly."
Clapper ended up apologizing for that answer.
Wyden said that's why the Senate has to ask the "hard questions."
"It is our job to ask the hard questions," Wyden said.
Update at 7:53 p.m. ET. What Does The House Bill Contain:
We've noted Paul's reservations about HR 2048 — or the House's USA Freedom Act.
From a previous post, here's what that bill would do:
"Under the bill, the United States would no longer be allowed to keep a massive database of call data. Instead, the data would remain with service providers and the government can seek court orders for specific records. ...
"The bill lifts the secrecy surrounding key decisions made by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Going forward, some will be made public.
"This is important because it was that court that found bulk data collection constitutional. The legal reasoning remained secret for years. The Obama administration declassified some of those rulings after the Snowden leaks.
"HR 2048 also allows companies to challenge National Security Letter gag orders. That's a kind of subpoena issued by the FBI when it is seeking info about, for example, Internet companies' customers. The subpoenas also come with gag orders, so the companies are not allowed to notify their customers or even ask a court to intervene. This bill would allow companies to challenge the order."
Update at 7:42 p.m. ET. Patriot Act Will Expire:
Sen. Paul said: "The Patriot Act will expire tonight. But it will only be temporary. They will ultimately get their way."
With that, Paul stepped off the floor. Here's a quick recap of what he said:
He said one of his concerns is that this new bill will be interpreted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which he called the "rubber-stamp court" that had decided that the bulk collection of Americans' phone records was constitutional.
He said that another concern is that this bill would actually make the U.S. government "better at collecting our phone records" by giving them easy access to cellphone records as well as landlines.
He's concerned that all this bill does is move bulk data from the hands of the government to the hands of phone companies.
Therefore, Paul is offering a few amendments: The first would only let the government query the records of "specific individuals." The second would change the standard for getting those records. The government would have to show it has probable cause instead of just showing that the records are "relevant" to a terrorism investigation. The third amendment he will propose would dictate that any information collected in a "less than constitutional manner" is only used against foreigners or terrorists.
Update at 7:28 p.m. ET. 'Bill Will Ultimately Pass':
Sen. Rand Paul took to the floor shortly after the cloture vote passed. He conceded that the House bill would "ultimately pass," but "tonight begins the process of ending bulk collection."
His issue with the House bill, he said, is that Congress may just be replacing one bulk collection program with another.
"It's hard for me to have trust in the people who we are giving great power to," Paul said.
The senator from Kentucky said he would offer up amendments to the bill.
Update at 7:08 p.m. ET. Procedural Vote Passes By Large Margin:
The procedural measure to move onto the House bill ultimately passed by a large margin — 77 to 17.
It means the Senate has overcome a major procedural hurdle, but any senator can still debate the measure for 30 hours.
Update at 6:42 ET. Senate Clears Procedural Hurdle:
The votes are still coming in, but the Senate has reached the 60 votes needed to limit debate and move on to the House bill.
However, Paul, or any senator for that matter, can force the Senate to debate the matter for another 30 hours before they can vote on the bill. That is of course many hours after the midnight deadline.
The vote so far: 75 in favor of cloture, 15 opposed.
Update at 6:27 p.m. ET. Reconsidering House Bill:
With a temporary extension off the table, Sen. McConnell said he had only two options: One, let the programs expire. Two, try to pass the House bill.
The first option, he said, is "completely unacceptable." So, he said, he would move forward with the reconsideration of the House bill.
That motion passed with a voice vote and the Senate is now voting to limit debate and move on to the House bill. That's also known as a cloture vote.
As Fox's Chad Pergram reports on Twitter, that doesn't mean much because even if they get the 60 votes needed for cloture, "Paul can still require 30 hrs burn off clock before Senate can get on Hse's NSA bill. Means pgms would lapse."
Update at 6:16 p.m. ET. McConnell Proposes To Extend Two Sections:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the floor to propose a very limited bill — one that would extend Sections 206 and 6001, the so-called roving wiretaps and lone wolf provisions.
Just like that, Paul objected, and McConnell said that his objection should be "very worrying for Americans."
"The nature of the threat is very serious," McConnell said; therefore, we should not be "disarming unilaterally."
Update at 6:15 p.m. ET. Senate Reconvenes:
The Senate has reconvened. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is on the floor.
Update at 6:05 p.m. ET. The Debate So Far:
While we wait for the Senate to reconvene, here's a little recap of what we've heard on the floor so far: Democratic Sens. Harry Reid and Patrick Leahy made the case that the Senate should act quickly to pass the House bill.
Leahy said that it had been passed by the House in bipartisan fashion, and that it makes significant changes to the government's surveillance programs.
Reid said that this is an important national security program. He said that CIA Director John Brennan and even Senate Republicans agree that allowing parts of this law to expire would "threaten our national security." In his words, this is "big time stuff."
In his five minutes, Sen. Paul essentially scoffed at that notion.
"How will we protect ourselves?" he asked. "What about using the Constitution? What about getting a warrant?"
Update at 5:56 p.m. ET. What To Expect:
Right now the Senate is in recess. Both parties are meeting to discuss how to go forward. When the Senate returns, we expect a series of votes to reconsider HR 2048 — also known as the House's USA Freedom Act.
The Senate had already failed to move that measure forward earlier this month.
Update at 5:48 p.m. ET. Early Drama:
It did not take long for the drama to get started. About an hour into the session, Sen. Rand Paul asked to speak for five minutes. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a fellow Republican, shot him down, and Sen. John McCain, another fellow Republican, suggested Paul should learn the rules of the Senate.
That's when Paul called for a live quorum — a roll call that determines whether a majority of the Senate is in the chamber to continue doing business. To speed things up, the live quorum was called off and Paul was given his five minutes.
"This in important debate," Paul said. "This is a debate over the bill of rights, over the Fourth Amendment. ... It is a debate over your right to be left alone."
Paul said that the surveillance programs put in place by Section 215 were illegal. Then he issued a warning: "I'm not going to take it anymore."
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In Montgomery, Rosa Parks' Story Offers A History Lesson For Police
By Debbie Elliott
Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat touched off the Montgomery bus boycott and the beginning of the civil rights movement, is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956, when she was among several others charged with violating segregation laws.
Sixty years ago Tuesday, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. A police officer made the arrest that set off the modern civil rights movement. Today police recruits in Alabama's capital city are being schooled in that history in a course designed to eliminate bias in policing.
If you want to be a cop in Montgomery, first you have to take a bus tour of sorts. About two dozen police recruits, in cadet blues, are in the Rosa Parks Museum in downtown Montgomery, standing in front of a replica of a city bus.
In silhouette, through the bus windows, they watch as the driver orders Parks to give her 11th-row seat to a white passenger. She stays put.
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Montgomery police cadets gathered outside the Rosa Parks Museum before a tour. The tour is part of a course called "Policing in a Historic City: Civil rights and Wrongs in Montgomery."
Parks' act of defiance led to a year-long boycott of city buses, headed in part by a young preacher, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Museum Director Felicia Bell welcomes the police recruits, and suggests there's a lesson here that's relevant today: "When citizens protest peacefully, that we should support them. That dissent is the highest form of democracy."
The museum tour is part of a broader course called "Policing in a Historic City: Civil rights and Wrongs in Montgomery."
"You can look at our history of civil rights, particularly down South, and go, 'OK, well that was just the time back then,' but that kind of sugar coats it. That kinda lets us off the hook too early," says Public Safety Commissioner Chris Murphy.
And, in Alabama, law enforcement played a major, often brutal, role in resisting civil rights protesters: The state troopers and sheriff's deputies who beat voting rights marchers in Selma; and Birmingham Police Commissioner Bull Connor, who unleashed dogs and fire hoses on young demonstrators.
In Montgomery, Murphy says, older residents will recognize the patch local officers wear on their uniform. "This is the same patch you'll see on the shoulder of the person fingerprinting Rosa Parks and arresting Martin Luther King," he says.
Montgomery Public Safety Commissioner Chris Murphy holds the city's police patch — the same one that officers wore when they arrested Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
Murphy says that history can set the stage for unnecessary conflict today if young officers don't understand the context in which they are policing.
He cites as an example when the department was planning for the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march earlier this year. It had to contend with record crowds and an appearance by the president.
"One of the officers said, 'Well what we're planning on doing, once they finish the sweep, is having the bomb dogs and we're just gonna walk around the crowds.' And I said, Oh no, no, no. You cannot do that after Bull Conner. You cannot have that image. ... that's why history is so important."
The Montgomery Police Department has a history of mistakes that continued after the civil rights movement. Murphy calls one case from 1975 this city's Ferguson. Officers shot in the back and killed a black man, mistaken for a robbery suspect, and then planted a gun on him to cover it up. No one was ever criminally charged, and the city has only recently admitted responsibility. A few years ago, police discovered one of their officers was stealing from undocumented immigrants on traffic stops.
Critics say things are slow to change in a place where mistrust of law enforcement is passed down from one generation to the next.
"Learning history is great. Reality is real," says Karen Jones, who started a Black Lives Matter group in Montgomery. She says there's still a lot of mending to be done.
"When I have young kids who are terrified of police because they've seen their family members slammed, thrown, arrested, and that in a child's mind, you hurt my family member. Now these kids don't trust police," Jones says.
Officials believe they're making progress through community policing initiatives, and the training that emphasizes the city's historic role.
Lt. Stephen Lavender remembers when he first realized trust was broken as a young cop responding to a fight. "Well I'm business, so I had my mean face on. You gotta stop fighting," he recalls saying. The fight was in a neighborhood that was the site of a clash between black residents and white police officers in the 1980s. Lavender was not welcome.
"I couldn't get ... . OK, I understand you might not want other officers, Caucasian officers here but I'm African-American. What's the problem? And it had nothing to do with the color of my skin. It had all to do with that uniform and that situation that took place years before I became a police officer."
Now he's teaching the history of that neighborhood and others at the Montgomery Police Academy. He says he starts with Dred Scott and moves from slavery through the civil rights era, and to today's tense relationship between police and communities of color.
Lavender says the lesson is intended to change the tactical mindset of officers. No more mean face, he says, but instead try to understand what's behind the situation you're responding to.
"You're still firm, but a little bit more de-escalating," he says. "Instead of trying to add to that fire that's already burning. Try and see if we can put it out a little bit. And that's what policing in a historic city is all about. It's trying to put out the fire that's been burning too long."
At the Rosa Parks Museum, recruits finish their tour at an exhibit that shows civil rights leaders sitting on the front of the bus, as they make a "victory" lap after federal courts struck down segregated buses.
Cadet Greg Purnell says the experience gives him a new appreciation for the legacy of his hometown. "Seeing this first hand gives you an idea of what they went through," he says.
He thinks it will affect how he interacts with people on the beat. "Instead of just tuning them out, you say, OK, I understand what you went through. I understand why you think the way, or why you speak the way you speak. So I think it helps you to understand them better."
He may be policing a new generation today, but the feelings and experiences from 60 years ago linger.
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Colorado Voters Accept Right-To-Die Measure
Published November 9, 2016 at 4:40 PM CST
Colorado state Rep. Lois Court consoles Carol Stork after her 2015 testimony about the death of her terminally ill husband, during a legislative hearing on a proposal to offer life-ending medication to such patients.
Colorado became the sixth state to pass a measure allowing terminally ill patients to obtain life-ending medications.
The ballot measure allows adults with six months or less to live the option to obtain prescription medication from a doctor and administer it themselves. The measure passed with about 65 percent of the vote, according to The Denver Post.
The measure requires that people "make two oral requests, separated by at least fifteen days, and a valid written request to his or her attending physician." It also requires that people be capable of taking the medication unassisted, and stipulates that patients can rescind a request for life-ending medication at any time during the process.
The law protects doctors and pharmacists from prosecution for prescribing or dispensing such medications.
The Denver Post reported two similar measures had previously failed to make it through the state legislature.
"We congratulate Colorado for becoming the sixth state where more people have peace of mind at the end of life and fewer suffer unnecessarily," Barbara Coombs Lee, the head of the national assisted-dying advocacy group Compassion & Choices, wrote in a statement.
The other five states with so-called aid-in-dying laws are Washington, Vermont, Montana, California and Oregon. Montana's law has effectively legalized the practice of helping terminally-ill patients end their own lives by protecting physicians from prosecution, as we have reported.
California's law is the most recent — it was signed by the governor in 2015 and took effect in June this year. Like the Colorado measure, it gives the right to life-ending prescriptions to patients with six months or less to live.
Oregon's aid-in-dying law has been on the books the longest — it took effect in 1997, according to the Oregon Health Authority.
John Daley of Colorado Public Radio has reported that Colorado's proposal is modeled after Oregon's law. "In both, two doctors must determine a patient is mentally capable of making the choice and isn't under undue influence or coercion," he said.
Stringent anonymous data collection requirements in Oregon's law mean there is detailed information available about how the law has been used by patients and doctors in the nearly two decades since it took effect. For example, between 1997 and 2015, more than one-third of people who obtained prescriptions didn't take the medications, according to data compiled by the state.
Oregon data also showed an increase in the number of people requesting life-ending medication in the last three years.
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Epidemiologist Says Use Caution, Not Fear, In Approaching Coronavirus
KUER 90.1 | By Caroline Ballard
Published February 4, 2020 at 5:09 PM MST
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The World Health Organization pronounced the spread of the new coronavirus a public health emergency, though no cases have been confirmed in Utah.
The coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, now has more than 20,000 reported cases. Flights to China have been canceled, quarantines are in place and the outbreak has been declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization.
To make sense of what this virus is and the risk to Utahns, KUER’s Caroline Ballard turned to Dr. Andrew Pavia, chief of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah, who has worked in pandemic preparedness for 25 years.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Caroline Ballard: How does a coronavirus differ from something like the flu?
Andrew Pavia: Coronaviruses are a big family of viruses that mainly infect animals. And the coronaviruses we deal with routinely are four types that cause pretty mild illness most of the time.
Influenza is different in that it can rearrange itself and change dramatically, so that we know influenza will come around in different forms every year and periodically cause pandemics.
With coronavirus, we didn't really have it on our radar until 2003 when SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) appeared and then again with MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome). And after two shots across the bow, we knew that coronaviruses were something we had to think about.
CB: How is this coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, distinguished from things like SARS and MERS?
AP: What we really care about is the differences in how it's transmitted and what kind of disease it causes. In that regard, there's both good news and bad news.
The good news is that SARS and MERS seem to cause much more severe disease. Up to a third of people get MERS die, and 9% or 10% of those who developed SARS died. And our current estimate with this coronavirus is at 2%, but we all feel that that's going to drop because we're only counting the more severe cases. That's the good news.
The bad news is that SARS and MERS were not terribly well-transmitted. With SARS, most of the people who developed SARS were quite ill. And so you could spot them, get them in isolation and that was eventually what brought it under control.
The difference here is that we are seeing, we think, a lot of mild to moderate illness with people who are walking around, probably not recognized as having the virus and transmitting it.
CB: Is the United States’ healthcare infrastructure prepared for a larger outbreak of a virus or illness?
AP: That's not a simple answer. We've done a lot of preparedness work really triggered in 2001 by the anthrax attacks.
The [Wuhan coronavirus] virus was characterized very quickly. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was able to develop a diagnostic test in a matter, really, of days. People are sharing data around the world, and there are a number of pathways towards making a vaccine that we wouldn't have had a few years ago.
On the other hand, we really are not prepared to deal with a large surge of ill people. Most of our hospitals operate pretty close to full capacity. Most of our ICUs are pretty close to full all the time and our supply chains are designed for just-in-time inventory.
We do have other strategies that can help with that. One of the things that we can do is we can slow the arrival of the virus and slow the surge.
CB: Putting this into perspective, there are only a handful of cases in the United States right now and no confirmed cases in Utah, either. But what does risk look like for people in the state?
AP: So right now, the risk to any individual Utahn is pretty close to zero. But that's today, and things are changing rapidly.
We should make sure that people listen carefully to what we know about the disease. This is not Ebola. This is not the Andromeda Strain. It's not going to kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Our best guess is that it's going to be a bad respiratory illness. It’s going to look like a very bad flu for which we don't yet have a vaccine.
CB: How can public health officials and hospital officials — people who are thinking about this potential outbreak and how to contain it — balance being prepared and cautious with being paranoid or hysterical?
AP: That's the million-dollar question. [What] you want to do is to communicate to people that it's potentially serious. We should pay attention. We should put work into preparing for this sort of thing, but that it's not catastrophic. It doesn't need blazing 18-point headlines about the next great plague.
We've never been very good at sort of walking that line, and then we, as humans, aren't very good at assessing risk. So that no matter how good a job public health does, the problem is when as we hear it, we have generally two responses: Either ‘It's all a lot of baloney and hype’ or ‘Oh my God! I'm going to die.’ And both are inappropriate responses.
Caroline Ballard hosts All Things Considered at KUER. Follow them on Twitter @cballardnews
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Caroline Ballard is a central Virginia native and a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School. Ever since 2014 – to her delight and the dismay of her East Coast family and friends – she has steadily moved further west. For five years she served as Morning Edition host at Wyoming Public Radio, as well as its newsroom editor and host of the podcast HumaNature. She earned two PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors Inc.) awards for Best Podcast for her work as lead producer on episodes of the show. In 2016, her reporting project Women Run the West, which examined the representation of women in western politics, was selected to be a part of the first NPR Story Lab. Caroline became KUER’s All Things Considered host in August 2019. When she’s not behind the mic, you can find her spending time with her husband and her rescue pup Scrappy, and cooking recipes that are far too complicated for her skill level.
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A Dream in a Town Named Academy, South Dakota
KWIT | By James C. Schaap
Published February 25, 2020 at 9:06 AM CST
James C. Schaap
Out in the middle of nowhere, an old white frame building is all that remains of a heart-felt dream that, as an answer to prayer, opened its doors in 1893 to a dozen kids who wanted an education not otherwise available in the Dakota Territories before the turn of the century.
Credit James C. Schaap
The Camfield memorial stone in Academy, South Dakota
A monument stands proudly out front, a tribute to the Rev. Mr. Lewis E. Camfield, a blood relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a fellow abolitionist, and almost as much a dreamer. The Reverend Camfield put legs beneath that vision to make an education available to pioneer kids still streaming into ex-reservation land, open country all around.
One day in 1892, Camfield went out among the new, white homesteaders of Charles Mix County and collected donations for the education of black children down South. At the end of the day, they had twenty dollars. They were thrilled.
If a hundred dirt-poor farmers could cough up that kind of money for needy kids a thousand miles away, shouldn’t it be possible, they thought, to create, a preparatory school right there for their own children?
So Reverend Camfield said he’d try, and a year later Ward Academy opened its doors to 23 students. In a few years, Ward had admirable facilities and close to 150 students. Tuition was nothing to sneeze at--$100. Most kids worked on the grounds and the farm to pay off that daunting bill.
In 1911, when the enrollment hit 148 students, Warren Hall was built, a monument three stories high—plus basement. Cost in total--$20,000. Warren Hall was “commodius,” or so the Reverend Camfield described it--a common dining hall, an assembly room, an office, and two dormitories—one for women, the other for teachers.
The broad prairie around Academy, South Dakota, is so flat and wide people like to say you can watch your dog run away for three days in any direction. Amid that land, try to imagine sky-scraping Warren Hall, a three-story monster, a battleship in the ocean of eternal land and sky.
For a time, Ward Academy was “velvet in a rugged new land of burlap green,” one old local history calls it, way out there, 27 miles from the nearest railroad.
A church in Academy, South Dakota
Today, what’s left is a single frame building in a town that’s dying. Ward Academy hasn’t seen a student in almost 90 years, because 39 years after its birth, Ward Academy shut its doors. It was 1931—the dust bowl, the Depression, end of story.
Today, out front, a stone memorial commends the diligence: “To the memory of Dr. Lewis E. and Ella Woodman Camfield, founders of Ward Academy at this site in 1893, [who] dedicated their lives to the building of Christian character through church and school.”
Today, there’s nothing but a church, and it’s not a mega. It’s an old white frame place you might expect to appear as if out of nowhere here in the grassland. For years it looked as if it would someday soon just blow down and away.
I try make it a habit to stop by every so often. Something about the place is haunted. Or I am. So many dreams, so much hard work, so much dedication.
A month ago I stopped by again, first time in several years. I wanted to get a good picture of that stone memorial out front. It’s a fine granite monument that’ll stand long after what they built out here is completely erased from the prairie all around. I took a couple pictures of that front yard monument, got back in the car, and drove around the back of the old building.
You won’t believe it—something akin to gold was on all the corners, and there’s brand new yellow lumber under the steps into the back entrance. A bright new sheet of pressed wood is nailed in over a window that needed replacement. Tools were out there, as if ghost workmen would take up the job once more when I made my way out of the driveway.
Here’s the news. Pardon my braying. Someone is fixing up Ward Academy. Can you believe it? Someone is holding what’s left of a dream together.
Today, out back what you see is a thing of beauty.
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Man draws prison term for bomb threat, robbery
Christopher Behnan
LANSING – A 63-year-old Haslett man was sentenced to 20 months to 15 years in prison Wednesday for making a false bomb threat and robbing a pharmacist of medications last year.
Gary Peterson was sentenced in Ingham County Circuit Court on charges of unarmed robbery and making a false bomb threat in the June incident at Mid-Michigan Physicians in Lansing Township. Police said Peterson told a pharmacist he had explosives strapped to his body and demanded pain medication. He was given the medications and fled.
Peterson pleaded guilty to the charges last month. He will be considered for parole after 20 months, his attorney, Burt Burleson, said. He was credited for 155 days already served in the Ingham County Jail.
Burleson said Peterson was weaning off pain medications at the time of the robbery. He was prescribed the medication following a commercial truck driving accident about eight years ago, Burleson said. Burleson said Peterson has terminal emphysema and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Following the 2014 robbery, officials evacuated the building and searched it and nearby cars for a bomb for several hours, police said. Peterson was arrested at his home after police surrounded it for several hours and negotiators convinced him to come out.
One of Peterson's family members earlier blamed the incident on Peterson's chronic back pain.
Peterson's wife, Jamie Peterson, said her husband acted out of desperation when he couldn't get prescriptions filled for chronic back pain.
"We had tried to get a hold of doctors to help us and nobody would help us. It doesn't excuse what he did at all but no one was willing to help us," she said.
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The Banality of Intellect: Christian Ingrao’s “Believe and Destroy”
By Jan Mieszkowski
Triptych image: Gerhard Katz, photographer unknown, 1926
Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands
WHO’S AFRAID OF THE INTELLECTUALS? Perhaps it’s the same people who can’t get enough of them. Brad Pitt may have been the leading man in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009), but it was Christoph Waltz as SS Colonel Hans Landa, “The Jew Hunter,” who stole the show. From the film’s opening scene, Landa is an ambiguous figure, an urbane dandy possessed of great cunning and a remarkable facility with languages yet prone to the exaggerated showmanship of a buffoon. While the pleasurably unnerving spectacle of the evil genius/jester is a venerable trope, Landa complements his campy behavior with the sober declaration that he is far too intelligent to be a true believer in the National Socialist cause and should simply be regarded as a careerist trying to excel at his job. “I’m a detective. A damn good detective,” he tells his American adversaries when they taunt him with his ominous nickname. “Finding people is my specialty. So naturally, I worked for the Nazis finding people. And yes, some of them were Jews.”
Landa is a comic figure, of course, but it is not clear whether he is meant to lampoon the incoherence of our ideas about the Nazis or the vanity of intellect itself. The instability of his persona is a reminder that the study of Hitler’s Germany and the Holocaust is still haunted by questions about what kind of people could perpetrate such unspeakable crimes. One might presume Nazism and intellectualism to be incompatible. In Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), Hannah Arendt notoriously declared that Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief organizational engineers of the Holocaust, was an obedient functionary rather than an evil monster and had “no insane hatred of Jews.” “Neither perverted nor sadistic,” Eichmann was rather, Arendt argued, “terribly terrifyingly normal.” For Arendt, the key to understanding Eichmann’s behavior lies in his “quite authentic inability to think.” Unable to grasp what anyone else’s viewpoint might be — having read, Arendt muses, no more than one or two serious books in his life — Eichmann was condemned to the oblivion of obtuseness. This supercilious judgment is often held up as proof of Arendt’s intellectual elitism. Would she, one wonders, have taken a cosmopolitan Nazi like Landa more seriously?
In fact, Arendt was well aware that there was a place for the thinking man in the Third Reich. In Eichmann in Jerusalem, she goes out of her way to observe that the heads of the Einsatzgruppen, the paramilitary death squads of the SS that conducted mass killings on the Eastern front, were members of an intellectual elite. How did these men, who did not, unlike Eichmann, suffer from a “lack of imagination,” become an integral part of a sustained genocidal operation of unparalleled scale? The Belgian historian Christian Ingrao’s Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine attempts to answer this question.
In the 1990s, a high-profile debate took place between historians Christopher R. Browning and Daniel J. Goldhagen about the participation of “ordinary” Germans, people with no party affiliation and little or no ideological indoctrination, in the Holocaust. In Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992), Browning looked at a unit of middle-aged working-class men and concluded that their willingness to carry out orders to execute Jews was proof of their respect for authority and the power of peer pressure, and not evidence of deep-seated anti-Semitism. Four years later, in Hitler’s Willing Executioners (1996), Goldhagen vehemently contested this conclusion, arguing that an “eliminationist anti-Semitism” was a cornerstone of German culture and crucial for understanding the readiness of individuals such as Browning’s policemen to slaughter civilians. Interest in this dispute was heightened by an exhibition organized by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research entitled “War of Annihilation: Crimes of the Wehrmacht, 1941–1944,” which toured German and Austria from 1995 to 1999. It made a strong case that the German army was actively involved in the planning and implementation of genocide and was not, as many had presumed, a passive bystander to the crimes of the SS.
The past 15 years have seen efforts to complement this research with studies of elite groups at the center of the Nazi world. Ingrao and others have concentrated on the intelligence arm of the SS, the Sicherheitsdienst (“Security Service” — hereafter SD), painting a picture of an extremely professional organization that attracted ambitious, highly educated young men and became a real academic force before serving as the vanguard of genocide. Believe and Destroy focuses on “a group of eighty university graduates: economists, lawyers, linguists, philosophers, historians and geographers.” Drawing on a range of archival sources, Ingrao follows their careers from school and university through their participation in the SD and subsequent efforts to defend themselves in postwar trials. (A dozen members of the group were hanged; most of the others received prison sentences.) He is particularly concerned with the transition from the 1930s, when the SD evolved into an immense surveillance and social science research organization operating inside Germany, to the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, when these men took the first steps toward putting their theories about the Germanification of foreign lands into practice.
The historian Raul Hilberg, who defended Arendt’s account of Eichmann against its many detractors, famously declared that “the German perpetrator was not a special kind of German” but inhabited “a remarkable cross-section of the German population.” Given the breadth and diversity of the Nazi phenomenon, Ingrao’s focus on 80 men of similar backgrounds and careers might seem to offer too narrow a perspective from which to draw conclusions about their distinctive qualities. Moreover, his decision to term his objects of study “intellectuals,” while effective as a provocation to the likely audience for his book, confers a monolithic identity on a collection of individuals who may not have conceived of themselves as a homogenous unit, much less as part of an intelligentsia.
Ingrao is well aware of such concerns. While at times he appears to come close to romanticizing his subjects — the opening line of the book is: “They were handsome, brilliant, clever, and cultivated” — these are controlled, ironic gestures, designed to foreground the ways in which myth-making can permeate even the most rigorously positivistic historiography. As much as a piece of empirical research, Believe and Destroy is a book about the methodological challenges confronting the study of Nazism, and the narrow path the historian must navigate through a minefield of potential errors. Ingrao argues that existing scholarship on the Nazi elite has been overly reliant on poorly defined concepts of “ambition,” “careerism,” and “obedience,” and the resulting explanations have been either too abstract or too dependent on a “degraded Freudianism.” Not only have scholars ignored the larger cultural dynamics in which Nazi-era Germans lived and worked, Ingrao claims, they have “artificially bridged [the] gap between statistical reality and psychological life.” As a consequence, analyses of the behavior and motives of the perpetrators of the Holocaust have too often devolved into an unproductive series of oppositional diagnoses, as if the people responsible for the genocide must have been either fanatics or opportunists, free agents or pawns, calculating monsters or functionaries unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
As if these constraints were not challenging enough, Ingrao’s “social anthropology of Nazi emotions” aims to avoid what he regards as yet another bad habit of historians, namely their tendency to focus on institutions at the expense of studying informal social groups or individuals. As for the political scientists and sociologists who have explored these phenomena, he maintains that they have neglected the affective dynamics of ideology and the systems of interpellation inherent to Nazi belief systems. Ingrao, himself an archival historian, even argues against any simple privileging of archival research, observing that scholars of the Holocaust have embraced a “myth of archival exhaustiveness,” as if one could gradually approach the truth by amassing “all” the data. In this field, he reminds us, there are “too many archives,” more documents in more languages than anyone could hope to peruse, much less master, in a lifetime.
In the face of this methodological negative theology, one could be forgiven for being unsure what form Ingrao thinks his own analysis should take. At first glance, the results are surprisingly ordinary. Examining the early lives of his 80 subjects, Ingrao relates a familiar story about the collective trauma that beset Germans in the aftermath of the First World War and the ensuing rise of völkisch ideologies. Nazism, he argues, was an eminently flexible system that allowed aspirations for Germany’s restoration and fears of foreign threats to the nation to be coordinated with racial hierarchies. His young SS-officers-to-be
became part of precociously radicalized networks of associations, which deployed intense political activity presented as a defensive struggle against a universal and Protean enemy, an enemy which, on the “home front,” took the shape of the Spartacist, the Social Democrat, the separatist and — already — a Jewishness to which they were profoundly hostile.
All this is relatively well known. The tale becomes less familiar when Ingrao demonstrates that the dissertations of these young scholars (completed in the early 1930s) betray not a crass Nazification of scholarly practices but a more subtle politicization of research that began with the erosion of the boundary between intellectual inquiry and activism. The resulting Volkstumswissenschaften (social sciences focused on national character) were a heady mixture of history, geography, sociology, ethnography, and economics that would slowly come to be dominated by fascist doctrines — a disturbing reminder that there is nothing inherently progressive about interdisciplinarity.
Eighty percent of Ingrao’s group entered the SD between 1934 and 1938, when its authority, and funding, were on the rise. With a broad mandate for surveillance and investigation, members of the department followed the methodological dictates of the academic social sciences in which they had been trained to develop a dynamic account of Germany’s cultural and economic life, in the process producing mountains of memos on energy resources, agriculture, and industry. Charged with scrutinizing everything written by potential enemies of the state, these SD intellectuals also developed a robust hermeneutics of suspicion avant la lettre. While other Nazis were solidifying the Party’s reputation as a band of book-burning hoodlums, these men were immersing themselves in the writings of Jews, Communists, Freemasons, and Social Democrats.
In assessing the motivations and ideological convictions of this group, Ingrao finds the evidence inconclusive. About half were active in the party before joining the SS, although it is not obvious whether they received their jobs due to, or in spite of, their political views. Given that only one of these 80 officers was investigated on suspicion of questionable beliefs, it would appear that they easily negotiated the formal and informal expectations they faced in the workplace as they moved up the career ladder, whatever their private feelings.
Had the SD remained a research and surveillance unit operating solely within German borders, this would be a very different story, primarily of interest to administrative historians. But the advent of Operation Barbarossa in June of 1941 and the Nazi invasion of Soviet territory saw a radical transformation of the agenda as the officers were sent to lead death squads on the Eastern Front. Participating in the drive east was ostensibly an opportunity to implement Nazi plans for the restructuring of lands and peoples on an unprecedented scale. Part war, part ethnic crusade, part redemptive adventure, this campaign was supposed to culminate in the “spatial repression” of over 35 million people and the extermination of another 21 million, freeing up vast swaths of land to be repopulated by a Nordic baby boom. Interspersed among these gruesome projections, Ingrao provides striking details about SS designers’ elaborate prototypes for colonial German villages and their ideas for neo-pagan ceremonies to be observed by the Aryan peasants, in effect placing “these new Volksgemeinschaften under the aegis of belief in an SS god.”
For the most part, however, the SD intellectuals’ duties were less grandiose. Following in the wake of the advancing Wehrmacht, they oversaw the mass killing of civilians, primarily by machine-gunning them into ditches. Given their academic backgrounds and experience, one wonders how easily these men were able to put aside their books and memos and take up such ghastly tasks. While a minority of them never overcame the initial revulsion at the slaughter of noncombatants, Ingrao suggests that a majority of the SD officers appear to have performed in this capacity without obvious adverse psychological consequences. Those who stayed in the field “for a long period […] were apparently not affected by it. They never attempted to obtain leave, and never pleaded family or health difficulties as a way of prolonging their holidays in Germany.” A second group, the largest, participated successfully in the Osteinsatz for shorter tours. What is one to make of this information? Should we be surprised that these individuals were able to carry out their horrific duties so well?
According to Ingrao, considerable effort was taken to make it appear to the SS rank and file as if their murderous operations were part of a larger military enterprise. A complex judicial-military rhetoric was disseminated that sought to legitimate the crimes as defensive measures crucial for the self-preservation of the German people, as well as on utopian grounds, presenting genocide as a precondition for the historically inevitable Germanization of the East. Such efforts were complemented by the intense propaganda visited upon the entire Wehrmacht. Inculcated with stories about the bestiality of their foes and the tyranny of the Jewish rulers of the Soviet Union, German troops, Ingrao argues, “entered Russia in an advanced state of psychosis.” He is less clear about whether the same level of delusion beset the SD officers, who were presumably better informed and more capable of resisting such brainwashing, not least since they helped write the scripts.
Of course, one of Ingrao’s explicit goals is to move beyond vague psychological speculations about how these men were able to stomach their grisly responsibilities. To this end, he proposes to treat violence “as a language,” that is, as a system of performances and representations not reducible to the emotions or intentions of an individual or group of individuals. His aim is to show that the executions were codified rituals with carefully crafted gestures and procedures, all designed to lend the slaughter a veneer of the inevitable while defusing the taboos associated with firing on unarmed women and children. Unfortunately, the precise contours of Ingrao’s proposed analysis remain a bit vague, in part because his commitment to it seems halfhearted. On the one hand, he presents gripping accounts of particular spectacles of violence and their role in imposing order. In one memorable example, he describes how two men were “perched on a lorry positioned under a gallows, and the rope was tied round their necks in front of a crowd of Ukrainian spectators and soldiers of the Wehrmacht.” The locals were “dressed up as if they were on holiday, especially the women accompanied by their children,” while the soldiers laughed as they asked the driver to advance his vehicle slowly so that they could photograph the exact moment the men fell. On the other hand, Ingrao forgoes any discussion of the scene’s implications by declaring that such events may have happened only rarely and can therefore not be accorded paradigmatic significance. As effective as he is at detailing the inner logics of “collective ritualistic frameworks,” he cannot bring himself to generalize from his examples.
This would be less of an issue if Ingrao were willing to put more interpretive pressure on the numerous documents at his disposal. Believe and Destroy cites many shocking texts but offers relatively little commentary on them. At one juncture, Ingrao presents us with a couple of letters a Viennese policeman serving in the SS wrote to his wife. “I have volunteered for a special action tomorrow,” he writes:
I will have a chance to use my pistol for the first time. I have taken 28 bullets. This will probably not be enough. It concerns 12,000 Jews of whom, somehow or other, there are too many in the town, and who need to be killed. I’ll have some nice things to tell you between now and when I get back. But this is enough for today, otherwise you’ll think I’m bloodthirsty.
Beyond the observation that the policeman’s writings are “only one example,” if perhaps not a unique one, of such correspondence, Ingrao has little to say about this remarkable document. In the hands of a different interpreter, much could be done with this sort of text, especially given Ingrao’s stated ambition to understand how competing systems of representation helped shape the Third Reich’s genocidal operations. In this particular letter, there is a tension between the exact quantitative assessments of the task’s parameters (28 bullets, 12,000 Jews) and the vague judgments about the likely results (“somehow or other,” “probably not enough”). The policeman’s sense of precisely when he should end his story (“But this is enough for today, otherwise …”) suggests a concern for the potential emotional impact of his tale at the same time as it forces the reader to wonder what additional information he might have to share. This heightens the ambiguity that surrounds the overarching intention of the letter, which claims that it should be imparting information about “nice things,” and, despite its ostensibly gruesome subject matter, may actually see itself as doing so (“I will have a chance to use my pistol for the first time”). It would be interesting to contrast such a document with transcripts from the trials after the war, also quoted by Ingrao. The violence inherent in the struggle for control of the verbal order, already in evidence in the wartime writings, becomes increasingly explicit in the postwar juridical setting as the exculpatory rhetoric of the accused becomes more and more desperate.
This reluctance to treat any particular phenomenon as part of a larger system, coupled with a tendency to let too many of the documents “speak for themselves,” contributes to the sense that Ingrao’s different pieces of evidence don’t cohere. In a chapter entitled “SS intellectuals confronting defeat,” he describes reactions to the collapse of the Third Reich as follows: “each response was […] of an individual kind. However, these reactions were also a figure of the social structure, since they all fell within a typology of behavior that needs to be analyzed in collective terms.” No effort is made to explain how the individual and social registers relate. Moreover, no less than the psychological researchers from whom he tries to distinguish himself, Ingrao casually invokes concepts — “structure,” “figure,” “typology,” and “collectivity” — with little attention to their internal dynamics or to the discourses from which they are borrowed.
For all the fascinations of the material, the conclusions of Believe and Destroy prove disappointing, largely because it is not entirely clear how they have been reached. Having shown that his 80 SD intellectuals allied “scientific rigor with the demands of Nazi elite militancy,” Ingrao declares that “the internalization of the Nazi belief system was thus a matter of fervor even more than of a political and activist calculation.” His demonstrations, however, only partly support this claim, not least since he also describes Nazism as “a consoling, soothing system of beliefs.” While this book offers insight into some of the defining dynamics of the Third Reich, it ultimately leaves us uncertain whether its group of SS officers really internalized fascist beliefs, or if, like Tarantino’s Landa, they went along with the Führer primarily for the sake of their own careers.
For a study of intellectuals, Believe and Destroy remains curiously coy about who or what intellectuals are and why we might expect their personal and professional experiences to be distinctive in the first place. We thus find ourselves back with Arendt’s Eichmann and Tarantino’s Landa, unsure who is the greater villain: the bland functionary or the brilliant careerist. If Ingrao’s book invites us to reflect on our own prejudices about education, erudition, and moral agency, it only hints at what a more thoroughgoing exposition of the foundational relationships between knowledge, power, and violence might look like.
Jan Mieszkowski is Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College.
Believe and Destroy
Intellectuals in the SS War Machine
By Christian Ingrao
Heritage Girl Crush: On “Hannah Arendt”
By Moira Weigel
The Militarized Imagination: On Napalm and Nuclear Warfare
Nazi Noir: The Ghost of the Prophet of Fascism
By Rodger Jacobs
Unshared Histories: Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands"
By Menachem Kaiser
For Future Friends of Walter Benjamin
By Brían Hanrahan
Was Gertrude Stein a Collaborator?
By Renate Stendhal
Creative Destruction
By Thomas S. Hines
Good Germans: On Heinrich Böll
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AN ORDINANCE TO INCORPORATE THE PLANTERS* ASSOCIATION OF CEYLON.
[26th June
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Planters’ Association of Ceylon Ordinance.
Incorporation of the association.
2. From and after the passing of this Ordinance the present chairman and members of the committee of the Planters’ Association of Ceylon (hereinafter referred to as ” the association “), and such and so many persons as now are members of the association or shall hereafter be admitted members of the corporation hereby constituted, shall be a corporation with limited liability in manner hereinafter provided, with perpetual succession and a common seal, under the style and name of ” The Planters’ Association of Ceylon ” and by that name shall and may sue and be sued in all courts.
General objects of the corporation.
3. The general objects for which the corporation is constituted are hereby declared to be to promote, foster, and protect the planting industry of Sri Lanka and the interests of the planting community, and to manage and control the Ceylon Labour and Coast Agency Commission.
4. The affairs of the corporation shall be administered, subject to the rules for the time being of the corporation as hereinafter provided, by a committee to be elected in accordance with the rules for the time being of the corporation.
The register.
(1) The committee shall cause a register to be kept, in which every person who at the date of the passing of this Ordinance is a member of the association, and every person thereafter duly admitted a member of the corporation hereby constituted, shall have name inscribed.
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(f) the decision of matters of local custom and usage;
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(h) the determination of any question as to the interpretation of any provision of this Ordinance or of any rules made thereunder;
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Corporation may hold property movable and immovable.
10. The corporation shall be capable in law to take and hold any property, movable or immovable, which may become vested in it by virtue of any purchase, grant, gift, testamentary disposition, or otherwise, whether absolutely or in trust-
(a) for the collective benefit of the members of the corporation, or of the members of any district association the whole of whose members are members of the corporation; or
(b) for any object in which the members of the corporation or of such district association are interested; or
(c) for the benefit of any local community or body of persons which is, wholly or mainly, composed of members of the corporation,
and all such property shall be held by the corporation for the purposes of this Ordinance and subject to the rules for the time being of the said corporation, with full power (subject to any trusts attaching to any such property and the law regulating such trusts) to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange, or otherwise dispose of the same.
Limit of liability of members.
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Better provision for cyclists at the new Oxford Parkway Station
The new Oxford Parkway Station provides for approximately 800 car park spaces but only 150 cycle spaces.
Previously the number of cycle spaces being planned was just 100, but due to a small success thanks to public pressure through petitions such as this, the number was increased by Chiltern Railways. This figure is still woefully short of what should be provided. Please sign the petition to help keep up the pressure for more cycle spaces to be introduced.
Thousands of people live within easy cycling distance of the new station, and the local Lib Dems believe far better provision should be made to encourage people to cycle to the new station.
Layla Moran said: “We also need to look at the cycling networks in and around Oxford which is fragmented, poorly constructed and above all dangerous.
“We need a system that is well maintained and puts cyclist’s safety at the heart of the design, only then can we encourage the kind of take up that will drive down traffic congestion and increase the health and wellbeing of the local community.”
The Liberal Democrats want to see more provision for cyclists at the station itself and dedicated, good quality cycle routes there from Kidlington, Oxford, Gosford, Yarnton and Begbroke.
Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate, Layla Moran, and the local Lib Dems have started a petition calling on Chiltern Railways, Cherwell District Council and Oxfordshire County Council to increase the provisions for cyclists at the new Oxford Parkway Station and for dedicated good quality cycle routes to the station from Kidlington, Oxford, Gosford, Yarnton and Begbroke.
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As the ALA Executive Board recently stated, “Such bias and bigotry are not new, but they have found fertile terrain in a country beset by disinformation, discrimination, xenophobia, Sinophobia, and white supremacy.” We couldn’t agree more. That is why we remain firmly committed to promoting literacy and education in Long Beach. Education is a powerful tool in fighting these social ills.
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12(1)A person commits an offence if he obtains compensation or increased compensation for himself or another person by deception F1. . . .N.I.
[F2(1A) “ Deception ” means any deception (whether deliberate or reckless) by words or conduct as to fact or as to law, including a deception as to the present intentions of the person using the deception or any other person. ]
(2)A person commits an offence if for the purposes of obtaining compensation he—
(a)knowingly makes a false or misleading statement,
(b)makes a statement which he does not believe to be true, or
(c)knowingly fails to disclose a material fact.
(3)A person guilty of an offence under this paragraph shall be liable—
(a)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, to a fine or to both, or
(b)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to both.
(4)Section 82 shall not apply in relation to an offence under this paragraph.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 12 para. 12(1) repealed (15.1.2007) by Fraud Act 2006 (c. 35), s. 14(1)(3), Sch. 1 para. 31(1), Sch. 3; S.I. 2006/3200, art. 2
F2Sch. 12 para. 12(1A) inserted (15.1.2007) by Fraud Act 2006 (c. 35), s. 14(1), Sch. 1 para. 31(2); S.I. 2006/3200, art. 2
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PEI Media
Liberty advises the management team of PEI Media Group on their secondary buyout
LDC, the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investor, has exited its investment in PEI Media Group Ltd (‘PEI Media’) in a sale to Bridgepoint Development Capital. The deal value is undisclosed.
Private investment markets in real estate, infrastructure, private equity, and private debt - including specialist sector-specific activities within those private asset markets - are the key focus of PEI Media. The Group has developed deep connections with international sources of alternative investment capital since its inception in 2001. Clients served include public sector and company pension plans, insurance groups, endowments and family offices - as well as leading private-asset fund managers who raise and deploy capital raise from institutional investors.
PEI was formed following a management buyout from Euromoney Institutional Investor plc. It has grown a diversified portfolio of alternative asset-focused publications, databases and branded events. Headquartered in London with offices in Hong Kong and New York, the company currently employs c. 180 people and has clients based in over 80 countries. The company's publications include PERE, Infrastructure Investor, Private Debt Investor, Private Equity International, Real Estate Capital, Private Funds Management, Agri Investor and Secondaries Investor, amongst others.
Over the past three years the business has significantly invested in the development of its digital and content capabilities, enhanced its subscription offering and doubled revenues from its events arm, which now has a portfolio of premium international annual conferences.
Liberty is delighted to have advised the management team, led by Tim McLoughlin, on all the management incentive aspects of this transaction, as they did on the LDC investment in 2015.
Commenting on the acquisition, PEI Media Chief Executive Tim McLoughlin said: "This is a pivotal moment for PEI. As the global investment market continues to transform and mobilise towards Alternative Assets this is a great time to lock into a new partnership with Bridgepoint who bring an entirely new level of global expertise and experience in helping companies achieve scale and value-adding complexity. We're looking forward with real excitement to delivering the organic and acquisitive opportunities we've been working on with the Bridgepoint/BDC team.”
I have had great success in working with Liberty before so they were my immediate choice again on this transaction. Their skill is in shaping the deal from Management-focussed standpoint but with the benefit of deep buy-side and sell-side appreciation, developed across many contemporaneous equity deals. I’ve found Liberty’s calm concision to be uniquely valuable in the cut and thrust of unfamiliar and complicated deal dynamics.
Tim McLoughlin
Chief Executive of PEI Media
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Life’s Tough—YOU Can Be TOUGHER!
Brian Marks, from health food to hair products, this entrepreneur has created wildly successful brands
Dustin Plantholt’s “Life’s Tough, YOU can be TOUGHER!” podcast is honored to feature Brian K. Marks, who has launched a series of companies that offer quality hair care products. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Brian began his entrepreneurial career by selling products to the health-food trade from his car trunk.
This “Life’s Tough” episode released on August 14th, 2019 and is now available on all major podcast networks, under the Podcast Channel “Life’s Tough”.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Brian began his entrepreneurial career by selling products to the health-food trade from his car trunk.
At age 25, he started a haircare company called “African Pride.” That company, which produced haircare products for the African-American community, was so successful that Brian received the prestigious “Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award” in 1996.
Revlon, ultimately, purchased “African Pride” in 1998.
Brian then was named president of Revlon’s worldwide Multicultural Division. Working at a big company, however, did not suit his entrepreneurial spirit.
He waited out his non-compete agreement with Revlon, and then, in 2004, started another new brand, “Dr. Miracles.” The brand name referred to a fictitious, cure-providing scientist.
Like “African Pride,” the brand was a hit, and Brian subsequently sold it to a major private-equity company.
“African Pride” and “Dr. Miracles, along with a couple of other brands Brian created – “All Ways Natural” and “Ginseng Miracle” – continue to rack up sales, surpassing a billion dollars in collective retail revenue.
After the sale of “Dr. Miracles,” Brian took time off.
He met his future wife Nene, a former model who emigrated to the United States from West Africa. The couple has three sons and three daughters.
Brian also became curious about his Jewish heritage and began studying it which prompted him to travel to Israel for the first time.
It was while in Israel that Brian said he felt “an amazing connection to something ancient, spiritual, and energizing.” He further discovered that there were ingredients, which had been used for thousands of years. Such ingredients, he thought, could be the basis for a new, organic haircare formula.
The result was the onset of Brian’s latest product line, “My Israel’s Miracle.”
In addition to introducing this new line, Brian continues his strong focus on philanthropy and recently pledged to support Hatzalah, the largest independent, non-profit, fully volunteer Emergency Medical Service organization that provides the fastest and free emergency medical first response throughout Israel.
Life’s tough – you can be tougher, like Brian Marks, who never tires of bringing a new product to fruition, and leveraging his success for the sake of good in the world.
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NLIU-India Foundation Constitutional Law Symposium Commences
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The NLIU-India Foundation Constitutional Law Symposium commenced yesterday with paper presentations from students from all over India. Out of over 80 submissions received, the organizers shortlisted 8 outstanding papers to be presented at the Symposium via a thorough review process.The day began with an inaugural ceremony, graced by the chief guest, Prof N.L. Mitra (Former Director, National...
The NLIU-India Foundation Constitutional Law Symposium commenced yesterday with paper presentations from students from all over India. Out of over 80 submissions received, the organizers shortlisted 8 outstanding papers to be presented at the Symposium via a thorough review process.
The day began with an inaugural ceremony, graced by the chief guest, Prof N.L. Mitra (Former Director, National law School of India, Bangalore and Founder Vice Chancellor, National Law University, Jodhpur), Major General Dhruv Katoch (Director, India Foundation), Prof. V Vijayakumar (Vice Chancellor, NLIU), and Prof. Ghayur Alam (Dean, Academics, NLIU). After the traditional lighting of the lamp ceremony, Major Katoch addressed the student body. He pointed out that as such events are usually reserved for Delhi, NLIU and India Foundation have partnered to break this trend. Prof. Mitra, in his address to the students, expressed his pleasure at being a part of this novel event, and detailed his journey from the world of economics to the realm of law. Prof. Vijayakumar shared his views about the Indian constitution being "one of the best written constitutions in the world, one which citizens should read regularly". Prof. Alam outlined his take on the essence of the Constitution, which is to question everything and everyone, particularly the ones in power.
The first presentation of the day, titled "Does Your God Satisfy the Constitutional Test?" dealt with the controversial Sabarimala verdict. The speakers took the stand that the core belief of the devotees of Sabarimala is not the alleged impurity of menstruating women, but a unique brand of celibacy practiced by Lord Ayyappa. The speakers advocated that preference be given to religious practices in case of conflict between them and government regulations, with exceptions made when the practices have crossed the intolerable degree threshold.
The second presentation of the day, "Relooking at the Admissibility of Illegally Obtained Evidence", outlined the need for revamping of our evidentiary laws with respect to admissibility of evidence. The speaker contended that there should be a balance between human dignity and the weight of the evidence.
The next presentation, "How Islam and Article 25 Jibe Against FGM" dealt with the controversial topic of female genital mutilation, practised by specific communities. The speakers elaborate how the practice cannot be protected under Article 25 as it does not pass the essential religious practice test, and is hence not sanctioned by Islam.
The presentation titled "Essential Religious Practices with respect to Sabarimala" discussed the various definitions and understandings of religion in legal parlance. The speaker further discussed the doctrine of essential religious practice evolved by the courts and examines how it is violative of the right to freedom of religion with special emphasis on the Sabrimala judgement.
The fifth presentation, "Gulping the Spike: Rationalizing AFSPA", described the various sections of the AFSPA and their operations. It raised the question of whether the Courts have the institutional competence to delve into matters of National security and whether there is a constitutional basis for courts to exercise review jurisdiction over military actions.
The last presentation of the day talked about the Jarnail Singh case on reservation in promotions. The author discusses the ambiguities brought about by the judgement and the issues regarding the ascertainment and effective choice candidates from SC/ST classes for reservation in promotion.
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5 Great Places To Observe Comet ISON
By Elizabeth Howell published 25 November 13
(Image credit: NASA, ESA, J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute), and the Hubble Comet ISON Imaging Science Team)
While any place with a dark sky and a low horizon is good one from which to see Comet ISON — a comet making a close approach to the sun on Nov. 28, 2013, and that could be visible in the United States into December — there are some viewing areas that have a bit of an edge. Perhaps it's a national park in the middle of a dark, dry desert. Or maybe it's a telescope that is close to the city, with trained astronomers on site to show the public around.
These five viewing locations are a mix of natural and built-up areas across the United States boasting great views of ISON, and in some cases, facilities where you can use a big telescope to get a better look.
(Image credit: Great Basin National Park/NPS.)
Great Basin National Park in Nevada not only has dark skies and dry, desert air to provide a beautiful view, but the park itself has a robust astronomy program during the spring, summer and fall. Even wintertime viewers can get some information on the park's website about the forecast for the evening, and the best spots to gaze at the sky.
"The area boasts some of the darkest night skies left in the United States," according to the park's website. "Low humidity and minimal light pollution, combined with high elevation, create a unique window to the universe
(Image credit: National Park Service.)
Stepping into Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah is like living in a time before there was light pollution, according to the park's website. "Here the Milky Way extends from horizon to horizon like a vast silver rainbow," officials wrote. "Here Venus, and even Jupiter, are bright enough to cause you to cast a shadow."
The park hosts an astronomy night every Saturday night between November and March, with more frequent events in the spring, summer and fall. Rangers monitor not only light pollution, but also air quality, which has an effect on nighttime views because particulates in the atmosphere can cloud the sky.
Appalachian State University Dark Sky Observatory
(Image credit: Leander Hutton.)
Dark skies and expert eyes — courtesy of public events hosted by astronomers — are some of the appealing features of the Appalachian State University Dark Sky Observatory in North Carolina. Visitors have access once a month to the 32-inch telescope onsite to look at different objects in the sky, which could include Comet ISON if it gets bright enough.
"The observatory is located about 20 miles [32 kilometers] northeast of Boone at an elevation of a kilometer [0.6 mile]," the observatory website states. "Far from major cities, its dark skies provide a good setting for digital imaging and spectroscopy done in stellar and solar system research projects."
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Observatory
(Image credit: Harvard-Smithsonian CfA.)
While the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Observatory is located in bustling Cambridge, Mass., visitors have access to its 15-inch telescope during monthly observing nights. The telescope was first installed in 1847 and was the largest one in the United States for 20 years, although now its use is limited to public nights.
If the weather and comet holds up, the observatory will hold a special public event Dec. 14 to talk about Comet ISON's history and prospects. "Like the Great Comet of 1680, if it survives its close encounter with the Sun, it could be a comet to remember," officials said on the observatory's website.
(Image credit: Maxim Senin.)
Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory is close to a huge metropolis, but the advantage for visitors is frequent access to its telescopes: Visitors can look through the lenses any night that the observatory is open and the sky is clear. Plus, the observatory holds frequent astronomy nights for visitors.
"Griffith Observatory's unique architecture and setting, compelling programmatic offerings, and cinematic exposure have made it one of the most famous and visited landmarks in Southern California," the observatory's website says. "Tens of millions have come to walk the inside of the building, view the live planetarium shows, or simply gaze out towards the coast and the heavens."
Elizabeth Howell is a regular contributor to Live Science and Space.com, along with several other science publications. She is one of a handful of Canadian reporters who specializes in space reporting. Elizabeth has a Bachelor of Journalism, Science Concentration at Carleton University (Canada) and an M.Sc. Space Studies (distance) at the University of North Dakota. Elizabeth became a full-time freelancer after earning her M.Sc. in 2012. She reported on three space shuttle launches in person and once spent two weeks in an isolated Utah facility pretending to be a Martian.
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Ancient Meteor Strike Triggered Eruptions Lasting Up to a Million Years
By Charles Q. Choi published 5 May 17
A huge meteor that hit Earth about 2 billion years ago was responsible for explosive and long-lived volcanic eruptions, scientists have found. (Image credit: solarseven/Shutterstock)
A giant meteor impact on Earth nearly 2 billion years ago triggered more explosive and long-lived volcanic eruptions than previously thought, a new study finds.
This finding sheds light on how meteor bombardment may have dramatically shaped the evolution of the early Earth, researchers in the new study said.
Meteor strikes have left giant craters all over Earth. For instance, the cosmic impact that scientists think ended the age of dinosaurs about 66 million years ago left behind a crater more than 110 miles (180 kilometers) wide near the town of Chicxulub (CHEEK-sheh-loob) in Mexico. [In Photos: The Impact Craters of North America]
Gargantuan craters are seen pockmarking the rest of the solar system as well. Recent studies of such impact craters on the moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars suggested that meteor strikes could trigger volcanic activity.
However, over the course of millions of years, geological activity has eradicated the vast majority of ancient impact craters on Earth. This has limited research into whether meteor strikes could also set off volcanism on Earth, said study senior author Balz Kamber, a geochemist in Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, and his colleagues.
To see what effects giant impacts might have had on the surface of the Earth, the researchers analyzed one of the oldest meteor craters on the planet, the 1.85-billion-year-old Sudbury basin in Canada. It's also the second-largest and best-preserved crater on Earth, measuring about 93 to 161 miles (150 to 260 km) in diameter. A 2015 study estimated that the crater may have been created by a comet about 9.3 miles (15 km) wide.
From 2013 to 2014, the scientists in the new study collected samples from the 0.93-mile-thick (1.5 km) layer of rock that filled the Sudbury crater. Although the crater is easy for researchers to get to, "there are lots and lots of blackflies in the spring, and later mosquitoes, and in the summer, there are a lot of blueberries, and so a lot of black bears," Kamber said.
The scientists examined 139 samples from 15 locations in the crater. Their analysis suggested that this material not only consisted of rock that had melted from the heat of the impact, but was also peppered with tiny fragments of volcanic rock.
The researchers noted that these volcanic rocks often had very distinctive angular shapes resembling crab claws. These shapes form when gas bubbles expand in molten rock that then catastrophically explodes, a feature of violent eruptions involving water, such as those seen under glaciers in Iceland, the researchers explained. They said these angular Sudbury volcanic rocks likely arose when seawater flooded the crater floor, either gradually or suddenly.
In addition, the scientists found that the composition of these volcanic-rock fragments varied in nature, with some originating from molten crust and others from "a deeper magma source," Kamber said. These findings suggested that the volcanic activity that created these rocks changed over time and was therefore prolonged, he said.
How long might this meteor-triggered volcanism have lasted? "I think 1 million years would have been an upper limit," Kamber said. "Hundreds of thousands of years is a more reasonable estimate."
These findings shed light on how meteors could have influenced the evolution of early Earth, Kamber said.
"About 3.8 billion to 4 billion years ago, we know the inner solar system experienced heavy bombardment from impactors," Kamber said. The oldest rocks on the planet coincide with the last peak of this bombardment, suggesting that "the older rocks on Earth were somehow destroyed by this bombardment," he said. "The bombardment alone would not have done sufficient damage to have caused the comprehensive loss of primordial rocks on Earth, but if that bombardment also triggered additional eruptions, that could have buried the primordial rocks and plowed them back into the mantle."
The scientists said they are now investigating whether the deep magma they detected in the crater came from the deep crust or from the mantle layer just beneath Earth's crust. They detailed their findings April 22 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
Charles Q. Choi
Charles Q. Choi is a contributing writer for Live Science and Space.com. He covers all things human origins and astronomy as well as physics, animals and general science topics. Charles has a Master of Arts degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Florida. Charles has visited every continent on Earth, drinking rancid yak butter tea in Lhasa, snorkeling with sea lions in the Galapagos and even climbing an iceberg in Antarctica.
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Florida airport monkeys are the descendants of zoo escapees
By Stephanie Pappas published 21 May 21
A colony of wild African green monkeys living near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport finally gets an origin story.
Two green monkeys perch near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. (Image credit: Aaron Mencia)
Much-beloved wild African monkeys that live near the Fort Lauderdale airport are the descendants of a bunch of zoo escapees from 1948.
Local lore long held that the monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) may have descended from a failed private zoo, but a new genetic study and historical deep dive into the region's history now confirm that the monkeys' ancestors came from the Darnia Chimpanzee Farm, which shut down in 1956. The private zoo imported monkeys for use in animal research and also acted as a roadside attraction, complete with alligator wrestling.
Researchers led by Deborah "Missy" Williams, a biologist at Florida Atlantic University, are currently working to conserve the small population of escapee descendants, 36 in all, that live near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and nearby Dania Beach. Williams and her colleagues created a database of all 36 monkeys' appearances and conducted a genetic analysis to determine where the ancestors of the animals came from. Historical records suggested that Darnia Chimpanzee Farm imported its monkeys from Sierra Leone.
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A genetic analysis of two fragments of DNA from the male monkeys' Y chromosomes and one fragment of mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down only through the maternal line, revealed that the monkeys are green monkeys, so named because of the greenish tinge to their mostly brown fur. Green monkeys are closely related to vervet monkeys, and sometimes the times are used interchangeably. The Florida monkeys' ancestors hailed from western Africa, the researchers reported May 8 in the journal Primates.
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The monkeys are also known for their golden-tipped tales and, in males, blue scrota.
South Florida is also home to introduced populations of two other monkey species: rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus). The vervet monkeys live near the airport Park 'N Go, where they rarely cause trouble, the parking lot manager told Local10 News in January. But the monkeys do occasionally rifle through cars with open windows, looking for snacks. The species is very adaptable, Kate Detwiler, the study's senior author and an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University, said in a statement.
"Data from our study lays the groundwork for future studies to address new questions about the status of the population and how the monkeys have adapted to the urban and industrial environment of South Florida," Detwiler said. "The correct taxonomic identification and history of the introduced Dania Beach monkeys is important for community outreach and wildlife management, given the remarkable ability for Chlorocebus to thrive in most environments."
Originally published on Live Science.
Stephanie Pappas
Stephanie Pappas is a contributing writer for Live Science, covering topics ranging from geoscience to archaeology to the human brain and behavior. She was previously a senior writer for Live Science but is now a freelancer based in Denver, Colorado, and regularly contributes to Scientific American and The Monitor, the monthly magazine of the American Psychological Association. Stephanie received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of South Carolina and a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Home Living Christchurch School: A Century of Introducing Students to the World
Christchurch School: A Century of Introducing Students to the World
by Karen Newton
Founded in 1921 by the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, Christchurch School opened its doors with 10 boarders—at an annual cost of $400 for board and tuition—and a handful of local students.
The school’s idyllic 125-acre waterfront setting provides students unique opportunities for class outings, academic field research, leadership training events, and colorful sailing regattas.
Sailing Pavilion
The 1970s brought big changes with the first female day students admitted in 1972 and the first female graduates in 1975.
The Learning Skills Program is geared toward students with learning differences and supports their needs while fully integrating into the school’s curriculum.
Puller Science Building
The national championship sailing team launches directly onto the Rappahannock River and sails throughout the fall and spring.
JB Davis `70 grew up in rural North Carolina, in the kind of small town that could be considered a first cousin to Andy Griffith’s Mayberry.
He was a successful student on the pathway to college until 1965, when he joined a rock and roll band and began playing weekend gigs at honky-tonks and beer joints in eastern North Carolina The Beatles-driven British Invasion was in full swing and the Age of Aquarius was dawning, but that wasn’t the lifestyle Davis’ parents had envisioned for their 15-year-old son. When they decided prep school was the wisest option, his parents decided on Christchurch School.
Years later, outsiders may still have a vague sense of Christchurch as a great school for young people who like to sail—and it is that with the addition of the Clyde V. Kelly IV (class of `04) Sailing Pavilion in 2003 and the Christchurch sailing team bringing home the National Championship in 2019—but it’s also an institution that has transformed itself over the decades to address the changing educational needs of new generations. A look back reveals that it’s Christchurch’s history and culture that have kept it moving forward over the past hundred years as faculty and students prepare to celebrate the school’s centennial in 2021 and embark on its next century.
Founded in 1921 by the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, Christchurch School opened its doors with 10 boarders—at an annual cost of $400 for board and tuition—and a handful of local students. The centerpiece of the campus, St. Peter’s Chapel, was built in 1927, basketball was the school’s first competitive sport, and the school newspaper, the Stingaree, had its initial printing in 1930.
According to Associate Director of Development Huntley Galleher, when the hardships of the depression hit, the school drafted a strategy for survival with a goal of developing the features and opportunities unique to Christchurch’s remote, waterfront location. Bishop Brown dormitory was built to honor the man considered to be the inspiration for and founder of Church Schools in the Diocese of Virginia. In 1938, the student body was tasked with choosing a mascot and the seahorse was chosen. Eventually, the school’s teams became known as the Fighting
Seahorses despite the creatures’ peaceable nature.
When young Davis arrived at Christchurch in the summer of 1967, he brought with him a laid-back approach to school. “The order of the day, the full schedule, the academic challenge and the required sports participation were new to me, so I either had to adapt or fail,” recalls the Christchurch class of 1970 graduate. “Thankfully I adapted and thrived. Discipline and effort were requirements for success at Christchurch School.”
During the 1940s, the school achieved full enrollment for the first time, while during the 1950s, the school gained a library and an administration building. That trend continued in the 1960s as faculty housing, the Wilmer multi-purpose building, Yarbrough Gymnasium, a swimming pool and the Miller classroom building were added to the 125-acre waterfront campus.
For Mark Sullivan, class of 1988, attending Christchurch opened his eyes to the world as he met and became friends with kids from all over the country and even the world. “I learned so much from talking to other students who were attending Christchurch—about cultures, other parts of the country I had never visited, music and more,” he says. “Because I enjoyed my teachers and the relationships I had with them, I learned and I started to feel more self-confidence, beyond just sports, than ever before. I believed in myself.”
The 1970s brought big changes with the first female day students admitted in 1972 and the first female graduates in 1975. Looking back on those years, Davis waxes poetic, beginning with executive chef Joe Cameron’s Rappahannock River fried oysters and Saturday afternoon trips to Urbanna to hang out at the Marshall’s Drug Store lunch counter sipping a chocolate milk shake.
“The many friendships that began at Christchurch School have lasted a lifetime,” he says. “One of my best friends there even introduced me to my wife of 43 years and we’re still going strong!” Turns out it’s not an uncommon occurrence to meet one’s match because of Christchurch School. Travis Beauchamp, class of 1995, met his wife Dimitry `95 during preseason of their freshman year. “Although there are many positive experiences,” he recalls, “That is by far the most impactful.”
Almost as important as adding females to the student body was the development of the game-changing Learning Skills Program in 1983 and subsequent hiring of its founding director, Gracejean Hennigar, who served for 33 years. The school’s enrollment skyrocketed as a result of the new program which was geared to students who learned differently.
Every Christchurch graduate seems to carry cherished memories that range from classmates who became lifelong friends to experiences on the field, but Sullivan’s strongest memories are of staff members who set the standard by being exceptional role models. “One example was our chaplain, Edward Meeks “Pope” Gregory, who everyone called Pope,” Sullivan recalls. “Pope was older than most, if not everybody, who worked at the school and he was smart, witty and very soft-spoken. His quiet examples of caring and humility have been something I’ve tried to remember and carry with me through life.”
Besides being ranked in the top 15 percent of “Best College Prep High Schools in America” by Niche.com, the community at Christchurch creates relationships that the students may not have had otherwise, a natural result of spending so much time together in a tight-knit community where collaboration is inevitable. “Working together is a life skill that I think Christchurch teaches very well,” Beauchamp says. “Those experiences shaped my career in education, first as a teacher and now a soccer coach at the University and club levels.”
Beauchamp was in the unique position of having his father (who was a Christchurch `57 graduate) teach English at Christchurch throughout his time there. Although his dad’s interests leaned more towards performing arts and music, he took the assistant baseball coaching job so that he could spend more time with his son. “When I was a junior, our head coach Mr. Griffin unfortunately had to step away from a game and Dad was the only adult left to coach the team,” he recalls of that long-ago afternoon. “I don’t think he even knew the signs, so he deferred to the players in making our own decisions. Time has a way of enhancing these stories, so I’m going to say we won!”
Walking around the campus today reveals examples of how the school has segued seamlessly into the 21st century. The renovated library houses a student center and a Makerspace where students can create everything from a guitar to robotics. With expansive windows overlooking the river, the Lewis B. Puller Jr. Marine and Environmental Science Center—named after Pulitzer Prize-winning author and class of `63 graduate Lewis Puller, Jr.—houses spacious laboratories and classrooms.
One of the oldest buildings on campus, the Bell Tower, got a replacement bell in 2018 to ensure that the tradition of each graduate ringing it after accepting their diploma would continue. It’s also used when one of the teams wins an away game and returns to campus to ring the bell to announce the victory. The hill behind the tower leading down to the river remains a favorite student sledding spot on snow days.
In 2001, Marston Hall was converted into the David and Wendy Charlton Fine and Performing Arts Center with seating for larger assemblies and 14 flags hanging from the ceiling representing the various countries from which the student body comes. “Diversity, inclusion, and equity are all part of our mission and in line with our Episcopalian identity,” explains Wes Charlton `01, Director of Advancement. Christchurch currently has students from 15 states and 14 countries.
Although education was important to Mark Sullivan’s parents, a psychiatric nurse and a writer for Time Life Books, his family life had always been simple and hyperlocal. “Life at
Christchurch exposed me to other students from all walks of life and allowed me to learn about jobs and careers I never had exposure to previously,” he says.
“I learned that the classmate who may have been from a very wealthy family or middle-class home was not necessarily any different or smarter than the kid who was on scholarship and that we were all able to compete at the highest level. It helped me expand my dreams and understand that anything is possible.”
William Styron, a graduate of the Christchurch class of 1942, author of “The Confessions of Nat Turner” and “Sophie’s Choice” and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1968, acknowledged as much. “But of all the schools I attended… only Christchurch ever commanded something more than mere respect—which is to say, my true and abiding affection.”
Visit christchurchschool.org to learn more about their exceptional curriculum and CCS community. 804-758-2306
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India pleads with farmers to help cut pollution
Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg News
File photo: Turning the tide in the fight against pollution will depend on efforts such as the one now underway in the state of Punjab, the powerhouse of Indian agriculture. There the authorities are engaged in a race to persuade farmers not to torch their fields.
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PUBLISHED: October 15, 2018 at 2:35 p.m. | UPDATED: October 16, 2018 at 4:19 a.m.
By Joanna Slater | Washington Post
MADAN HERI, India – All it takes is a match.
One by one, in the coming days, farmers in this compact village in northern India will set fire to the straw in their freshly harvested rice fields. Pungent gray smoke will rise into the air. Then it will drift southeast toward New Delhi, thickening the smog that has turned India’s capital into the most polluted major city in the world.
Just weeks remain before the 29 million people living in greater Delhi are plunged into their annual battle with extreme air pollution. Each November the past two years, the level of particle pollution considered most harmful to human health has spiked to more than 30 times the limit prescribed by the World Health Organization. The air in the city remains hazy and dirty throughout the winter.
The Indian government has a new action plan in place: It just shuttered the last coal-fired power plant in Delhi and recently banned the use of certain industrial fuels within the city. On days when the pollution soars, other measures will kick in, such as a halt to all construction activities and a ban on trucks entering Delhi.
But turning the tide in the fight against pollution will depend on efforts such as the one now underway in the state of Punjab, the powerhouse of Indian agriculture. There the authorities are engaged in a race to persuade farmers not to torch their fields, urging them to shun a tactic that is cheap and efficient in readying the area for the next crop but that is also a key source of pollution.
The smog that blankets northern India each winter is a toxic mix of car exhaust, construction dust and industrial emissions that settles over the region as wind speeds and temperatures drop. What makes it unusual is the addition of smoke from thousands of fires as farmers hurry to switch their fields from fully grown rice to newly planted wheat in the span of a month.
“The uniqueness of the smog season is precisely because crops are being burned at an unheard-of scale anywhere else in the world,” said Siddharth Singh, author of the forthcoming book “The Great Smog of India.”
According to a government-sponsored study, stubble burning contributed 26 percent of the most harmful particulate matter to Delhi’s winter pollution during 2013 to 2014; another found it contributed as much as 50 percent on certain days during the burning season. Such particulate matter – referred to as PM2.5 – is 30 times as thin as a human hair and can penetrate deep within the lungs.
The task of dissuading the farmers from burning is a microcosm of India’s broader pollution challenge. Unlike China’s authoritarian regime, which has made strides in recent years in stemming air pollution, India must operate within the constraints of a democratic system. Reducing the sources of pollution in India involves confronting entrenched interests, overcoming political rivalries and motivating people to change their behavior.
China has been able to “maintain the scale and momentum of action,” said Anumita Roy Chowdhury, an executive director at the Center for Science and Environment in Delhi. “In India, you have to make democracy work for clean air.”
That’s especially true in the case of crop burning. Farmers are a powerful constituency in Punjab and in other straw-burning states such as Haryana, and there are roughly 2 million farmers in Punjab alone. “The number of farmers is so large that we cannot take very harsh measures,” said Kahan Singh Pannu, agriculture secretary in Punjab.
A senior bureaucrat known for his tough approach to polluters, Pannu is leading the anti-burning efforts in Punjab. He has mostly carrots, not sticks, at his disposal. For the first time this year, India’s central government earmarked money to help farmers buy machinery that turns the straw into mulch. It has also contributed to a large-scale awareness campaign, complete with songs on social media, television advertisements and village-by-village meetings – all urging farmers not to burn.
Gurdial Kumar is one of the foot soldiers in the statewide effort. A 48-year-old employee of the Punjab agriculture department, he and his colleagues began visiting each of the 182 villages in their territory last month. On a recent afternoon, they arrived in Madan Heri, a village of 2,500 people west of Chandigarh, where about 20 farmers had gathered in the shade of a giant banyan tree.
Kumar and his three colleagues put up posters illustrating the impact of air pollution, including images of diseased lungs and small children wheezing. They talked about the virtues of the new subsidized machines, including one called the “Happy Seeder.” They appealed to religious precepts; most of the farmers practice Sikhism, whose sacred text emphasizes the holiness of nature.
The farmers listened politely but without enthusiasm. Then they launched into questions: How about simply paying farmers a fee per acre not to burn their fields? Why was the government asking small farmers, already financially strapped, to scrape together cash for new machines? If they invested in the machines – which cost about $2,000 each – when would the government pay the subsidy, equivalent to half of the cost?
Gurtej Singh, 42, said he had farmed – and burned – these fields for more than two decades. He agreed that setting fires is bad for the environment but said that dealing with the straw using other methods is more expensive and time-consuming. “Small farmers can’t do it,” he said.
He rejected the blame for Delhi’s pollution, a common theme among farmers in the area. Pollution in the capital “is because of vehicles and industry, not because of us,” he said. Farmers did not suffer any ill effects from the crop burning, he asserted. Pollution-related health issues are “a problem of weak people in cities.”
Farmers in nearby villages echoed those sentiments. “Burning is the best solution,” said Darshan Singh, 43, as green-tipped rice swayed in the fields behind him. “Whatever machine you use, you have to pay more.”
But the government’s campaign was having an impact. Darshan Singh was cagey when asked whether he would burn his crop stubble this season. “Whatever other people do, I will also do,” Singh said. Crop burning is technically banned. If farmers are caught setting fire to their fields, they face fines ranging from $35 to $140. In rare instances, some have also faced criminal charges.
“It’s not that these are poor, illiterate, information-starved people who are doing a bad thing and if only we educate them, they’ll do the right thing,” said Aseem Prakash, director of the Center for Environmental Politics at the University of Washington. “If people are really serious about tackling [the problem], they have to come up with an economically viable solution.”
The trend is moving in the right direction. According to the Punjab government, there were 81,000 fires after the rice harvest in 2016, then the figure dropped to 44,000 in 2017. Through Friday, there had been 509 fires this year – but the crucial period for burning will come later this month.
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“It seems there will be less fires this year,” he said. “But if the government gives a little relaxation” – he flicked his fingers upward in a flame-like motion – “it will all be done in one day.”
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‘The #MeToo movement needs to stay angry, if we are to deliver real change for women’
Olivia Adams 29/01/2020 1:30 pm
As the accused sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein's trial gathers pace, Shivonne Graham, Managing Director of Women for Women International, says his Hollywood ending is not enough for the global #MeToo movement
‘We women have historically been trained to be pleasant at all times. We need to stop that and be authentic; justifiable anger is a part of that. Being angry is OK.’ These are the words of Rose McGowan, taken from her painfully honest memoir, Brave. I was listening to Rose narrate the audiobook while I was driving. As one of the first whistle-blowers of the #MeToo movement, hearing the actress recount what she has gone through is heart-breaking.
Harvey Weinstein is now facing trial in New York for rape and sexual assault, and it feels like the final act of an Oscar-worthy legal drama. Hollywood has conditioned me to want a fairytale ending for Rose and her fellow survivors. But during my seven years at Women for Women International, I have seen how the law so rarely delivers justice for survivors of rape and sexual violence, and how it more typically ignores, excludes or harms them.
While there will be a symbolic power to watching Weinstein sitting in the dock, this trial won’t deliver the systemic change we desperately need. Certainly not for those women and girls who are most vulnerable to violence and abuse – those living in poverty, those caught up in conflict, those at the margins of society.
Nevertheless, I do think there are some vitally important lessons we can learn from the Weinstein case – lessons that should galvanise us as we enter the next act of the #MeToo movement. Because this story is far from over.
1. Storytelling is powerful
While I had read many reports on the Weinstein scandal, listening to McGowan tell her own story affected me on a different level. She described how throughout her life she had been controlled and silenced by powerful men – during her childhood in a cult, trapped in an abusive relationship, and then as a young actress in Hollywood. Now, she has emphatically reclaimed control of her own narrative.
Hearing Rose’s story makes me think of the many other stories that remain untold. Poverty, conflict and trauma greatly increase women and girls’ vulnerability to abuse – our programme is filled with women who have experienced this first-hand. Some have endured rape at the hands of soldiers or militia, who use sexual violence as a weapon of war. Many more women living in conflict zones or as refugees will be subjected to abuse at the hands of their partners or family members; war and displacement have been shown to fuel rates of domestic violence and forced marriage.
While some women I have met wanted to share their stories – which will stay with me forever – the vast majority do not disclose their ordeals because of the stigma and discrimination associated with sexual violence. Women who have been raped during conflict are frequently rejected by their husbands and ostracised by their communities. They are taught to stay silent, to internalise the pain and turn their anger on themselves.
#MeToo has brought women’s unfiltered pain and anger out into the open. Some women will encounter greater obstacles to speaking up than others. We need to ensure all women can feel the power of taking control of their own story.
Harvey Weinstein arrives in court in New York (courtesy of Getty Images)
2. Laws are not enough
In order to speak out, women need to know that they will be listened to and believed. But police stations, lawyers’ offices and courtrooms are rarely safe, impartial spaces for women to tell their stories. All around the world, our legal systems are failing to punish abusers and shield women and girls from violence.
The Weinstein case is being tried in a comparatively peaceful, prosperous society, where the rule of law is taken for granted. However, a woman in rural northern Nigeria, for example, faces immeasurably greater barriers to seeing her rapist prosecuted, if she takes that first daunting step of coming forward.
As in many conflict-affected countries, national and international laws enshrining gender equality and protecting women’s rights are not effectively enforced. A much stronger, unwritten code of customary law treats women as the property of men. 23% of Nigerian women have experienced physical or sexual violence committed by a husband. But, to quote one of my Nigerian colleagues: ‘If a woman goes to the police and tells them her husband raped her, they will say, ‘what do you mean?’ According to the law, a husband cannot rape his wife.’
I need your help. Please say a protective prayer (or spell) for the brave women testifying. They will be vilified, they will be lied about, they will be shamed. The tactics employed against them will be like an old-fashioned witch burning. These women will feel the flames at their feet, the flames of societal judgement. No matter what is said at this trial, we all know the truth. They can never take that away. 🙏🤝💥
A post shared by Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) on Jan 22, 2020 at 5:23pm PST
3. Social change is vital
Major cultural transformation is a complex, gradual process, as generations of women’s rights activists will testify. It is not glamorous; it doesn’t fit the neat story arc of a Hollywood movie. But it is deeply, urgently necessary.
A powerful man facing a jury and being held accountable for his actions sends a decisive message, not just to survivors, but to society at large, about how we should treat sexual violence.
In a similar way, the landmark cases establishing the prosecution of rape as a war crime, a crime against humanity and genocide under international law, have been deeply significant – despite the very small number of convictions. They strike an important blow against a culture of impunity, rooted in gender inequalities and power imbalances, where violence against women is normalised.
But we don’t just absorb lessons about gender and power from our legal institutions. We learn them at home, at school, in the workplace, walking down the street. Cultural change is needed, at every level, to tackle the roots of sexual violence – the harmful gender norms that are part of our social fabric.
Whatever the legal outcome in the Weinstein trial, we must not lose sight of this much bigger picture. The #MeToo movement has unleashed an explosive and devastating collective testimony of women’s pain. Now, we need to look beyond our desire for a familiar, feel-good Hollywood ending, and concentrate on the mammoth task at hand. We must not allow our feelings of outrage to be easily and neatly resolved.
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Being angry isn’t just OK – it’s absolutely essential.’
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Tickets almost gone for extraordinary Marionettes anniversary celebration
by Caroline Taylor on June 29, 2009 in News
Tickets are already almost sold out for the Marionettes Chorale’s 45th Anniversary Celebration, which plays at the Queen’s Hall July 10-12. And if you happen to be among those who walk or drive by while the Marionettes are rehearsing, you will understand why.
You’ll hear something incredible, something that you perhaps could only hear in Trinidad & Tobago. Nearly 150 voices and an international orchestra of steel pans, strings, brass, woodwinds and a dizzying a range of percussion performing some of the most powerful music every composed.
From gripping western classical music, the rehearsal then shifts seamlessly to hit American Broadway and pop music from the 50s and 60s, before transitioning into regional rhythms – Brazilian samba and vintage calypso from Sparrow and Lord Blakie.
All of this is part of the Marionettes’ preparation for their anticipated mid-year concert, the second of three major concert series commemorating the Marionettes’ 45 years of musical excellence.
Patrons will be treated to the Marionettes’ usual versatility, with a programme ranging from best-loved regional folk and calypso to Western operatic favourites, and everything in between. In addition to premiering some new works, the choir will also bring back some of their best-loved performances, including the inimitable “Carmina Burana”.
• Borodin’s “Prince Igor”, Verdi’s “Nabucco”, and Rossini’s “William Tell” – like you’ve never heard it before!
• The unforgettable “Carmina Burana”, of which the Marionettes presented the Caribbean debut in 1989
• Treasured African-American spirituals
• Evergreen hits from the 50s & 60s (the decade that gave birth to the Marionettes)
• Popular musicals “Sister Act” and “Wicked”
• Regional favourites from the Mighty Sparrow, Lord Blakie and more
• And a very special tribute to the late Michael Jackson – gone far too soon
This must-see performance also celebrates a number of other joyous anniversaries. This year marks 35 years of exemplary leadership from artistic director and conductor Gretta Taylor; assistant musical director Susan Dore; and founder member and secretary Joanne Mendes. It also marks 37 years of immeasurable support from sponsors bpTT; 20 years of the Marionettes’ partnership with the Noble Douglas Dance Company; and 14 years since the formation of the Youth Chorale – with members from over 30 schools nationwide.
During this anniversary year, the choir will also be renewing their fundraising drive as they move to build their own home in Mucurapo. Polo shirts, CDs, and other memorabilia will be on sale, proceeds from which will go to the Marionettes Property Fund, as the group has every intention of being here 45 years from now as vibrant as ever.
Tickets for this anniversary celebration are available at the Queen’s Hall Box Office (open 12pm-6pm, tel: 624-1284); online at www.CaribbeanBoxOffice.net; and from members of the choir. They are $200 reserved; $150 open; and $100 for students (see Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/MarionettesChorale for details about student tickets).
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When Public Works employed millions
Sarah Gardner Apr 3, 2017
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Men from all over the United States came to Northern California to find work at Shasta Dam. Construction lasted seven years, from 1938-1945. courtesy U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
President Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan is still in the nascent stages, but it’s a key part of his promise to create millions of jobs. Once upon a time, infrastructure was this country’s job. Think the Great Depression, public works and the New Deal, when the government employed millions of Americans building airports, bridges, schools, you name it. Between 1933 and 1939, more than two-thirds of federal emergency expenditures went toward public works.
The Public Works Administration alone helped build infrastructure in all but three American counties. Its initial appropriation of $3.3 billion amounted to nearly 6 percent of U.S. gross domestic product in 1933. Other agencies, like the Works Progress Administration, the Civil Works Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, also made building (and repairing) things the nation’s business during that era.
New Deal historian Jason Scott Smith, University of New Mexico, said these were public works programs designed to put people back to work.
“Roosevelt and his advisers saw that building what they called ‘socially useful’ infrastructure would be a central part of how they could drive unemployment down, put the nation back to work and get something tangible and long lasting out of this investment,” he said.
Smith, author of “Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956,” said it’s hard for people today to imagine the depths of economic despair during the Depression.
Up to 2 million Americans “became transients who simply drifted from place to place, wandering across the nation in search of opportunity,” Smith said. The nation’s gross national product had dropped almost a third between 1929 and 1933.
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Enter mega-projects like Shasta Dam on California’s Sacramento River, built from 1938 to 1945. It’s a key part of California’s complex plumbing system and helped make the state an agricultural powerhouse.
When California couldn’t afford to fund the project during the Depression, the federal government stepped in. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation oversaw construction. Funding came through the Public Works Administration.
Today, Shasta Dam prevents floods, channels water to cities and farms, and generates hydropower to more than half a million homes.
“It’s integral to the whole economy of California,” said Don Bader, manager for the Northern California Area Office, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Hoover Dam had just been completed and the federal government awarded the Shasta construction bid to a conglomerate called Pacific Constructors Inc. for just under $36 million. That’s about $600 million today. Pacific Constructors and the Reclamation Service, which oversaw construction, started hiring like gangbusters.
On Shasta Dam, “peak workforce was 4,500 folks, 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Bader said. “The overall numbers were about 13,000 to 15,000 different workers over the course of a seven-year period.” Wages for ordinary laborers were a dollar an hour, more or less.
That was much higher than minimum wage, which took effect in the first year of dam construction, at 25 cents an hour. More skilled workers got higher pay, including the men who performed the most risky jobs, like high-scaling steep walls of rock, seen below.
Among those workers was Barbara Cross’s father. Cross, 83, was a little girl when her dad piled the family into an old Chevy truck with all their belongings. They drove to California from Chickasha, Oklahoma, a small college town, because her dad needed a job. They camped along the 1,800 mile route to the construction site. Cross said the first month, she, her two siblings and her parents lived in a tent. Her mother was appalled.
“Most of the women were not impressed,” Cross recalled, laughing at the memory. “It was hard living. They didn’t have running water. It was pretty primitive for them.”
Cross and others like her are known locally as the “dam kids.” Their parents either built the dam or ran businesses in the boomtowns that sprouted up. Despite the “hard living,” most of the dam kids remember the experience fondly. Cross’s husband, Donald, said parents didn’t worry about their children’s safety because “everybody knew everybody.”
Eighty-seven-year-old Del Hiebert’s family moved from Montana, where his dad had owned a grocery store at another federal dam site, Fort Peck. His father ran a store and post office in the boomtown of Central Valley, near the Shasta construction site. Hiebert said the project employed a lot of skilled construction workers, but there were plenty of jobs for the unskilled as well, like excavating rock and hauling brush in triple-digit heat.
“All they wanted was people that were willing to work. And nobody asked, ‘How much do I get an hour?’” Hiebert said. “They just says, ‘I want a job, gimme a job.’”
Shasta and other federal dam projects also produced numerous jobs because they were built in remote places. Crews needed to build or move existing infrastructure in order to build the dam. At Shasta, workers built a conveyor belt almost 10 miles long to transport materials to the construction site. They moved 30 miles of railroad track. Henry Kaiser, the famous industrialist, built the world’s largest cement plant just so he could supply all the cement Shasta Dam required.
An estimated 14 workers died building Shasta Dam. That was a vast improvement over Hoover, where some 100 men died amid workplace conditions that would never pass the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s standards today.
Ruth Ann Kobe’s father worked at both dams. At Hoover Dam, he ran a jack hammer and high-scaled, hanging from ropes high on the canyon walls. Kobe said there were many men willing to do the dangerous work.
“If you got sick and you said, ‘Oh, I can’t go to work today,’ they didn’t come back because the job was taken up,” she said.
Much has changed since the 1930s, of course. Harvard economist Edward Glaeser warns against drawing too many lessons from that era for today.
“I think it’s fundamentally a mistake to think of infrastructure as a job creation program,” Glaeser said.
New Deal public works didn’t fix the Great Depression, he said, but they created a lot of jobs, and, by and large, “good employment.” The New Deal also created infrastructure still in use today.
But today’s employment situation doesn’t begin to compare. And not only because the unemployment rate is much lower today. Glaeser said modern infrastructure builds don’t need as many unskilled workers. We’re not literally moving mountains anymore. And even if we did, we’ve got more technology to do it, the kind that calls for skilled labor.
“Much of infrastructure today is quite technologically intensive,” Glaeser said. “It involves a lot of machines relative to the level of unskilled labor, and thinking that you’re just going to hop readily from one industry to another seems like a mistake.”
Skilled construction workers are in short supply right now.
Richard Walker, director of The Living New Deal, a University of California, Berkeley-based project aimed at documenting the New Deal’s legacy, would still like to see the Trump administration fund a national infrastructure campaign aimed at helping the underemployed that feel left behind by the modern economy.
“Why don’t we insulate every house and apartment in America? Think of the people we could put to work upgrading houses in every city, every town, every rural area to help with energy conservation,” Walker said. “Those are not exotic, sophisticated projects.”
The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the nation’s transit infrastructure a D- in its 2017 report. It’s widely agreed the infrastructure most needed are repairs and upgrades, not glistening new monuments or fundamentally new connections, like the interstate highway system.
“The benefits of connecting America were huge,” Harvard’s Glaeser said. “Today we have relatively good connections as long as we maintain them. And so it’s not that you can’t do anything around the margins, but the benefits are always going to be much smaller.”
Smaller but necessary. Take California’s Oroville Dam. It made national headlines in February when its main spillway started crumbling under historic rains. Fixing the dam won’t take tens of thousands of workers over multiple years, and it won’t solve underemployment. But to the people near the dam who fled their homes in fear of massive flooding, the benefits of the Oroville infrastructure job are priceless.
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M.Sc. On Campus Online Blended
Centre for Alternative Technology
8720 GBP/year
On this Green Building degree at Centre for Alternative Technology you will develop a deep understanding and confidence around sustainable design principles and sustainable materials, their regulatory and legal requirements and their practical use. You will also acquire a rigorous understanding of the social, practical, political, economic and environmental aspects of green building.
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Machynlleth , Wales , United Kingdom
This Master’s degree tackles these themes through a combination of academic study, discussion and hands-on practical work. We give our MSc students the knowledge, skills and experience needed to develop a career in the environmental sector and make an impact. The programme draws on our expert staff and a wide selection of academics and specialist guest lecturers; people who have made exceptional contributions to environmental thinking and action.
The MSc course uses the concepts of sustainability and adaptation transformation to frame an analysis of environmental and climate change policy and its implications for society. Students can then choose modules from a wide range of topics which cover the practical uses of sustainable building materials and methods, the theory behind the selection and use of materials, energy flows, building design, planning and retrofitting, waste management and policy and planning issues
How is the course taught?
Our MSc programme is taught either by distance learning or through residential blocks in one of the most imaginative environmental buildings in the UK, or through a mixture of the two.
What qualification will you receive?
Successful completion of the programme MSc Sustainability and Adaptation at the Centre for Alternative Technology leads to the award of Master of Science (MSc) by UEL. The programme is also available to study as a Postgraduate Certificate and as a Postgraduate Diploma.
Why study at CAT?
Studying at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) is a truly unique experience. For the past 40 years CAT has been at the forefront of the environmental movement, pioneering low-carbon living and renewable technology. At the Graduate School of the Environment (GSE), students benefit from our extensive practical and academic knowledge, graduating with the skills needed to become leading players in the sustainability sector. Find out more about our facilities here.
At CAT, hands-on learning takes place side by side with academic study. Residential on-site block learning weeks are taught at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), an inspiring learning environment. Nestled in a disused slate quarry on the edge of the Snowdonia National Park, CAT is a living laboratory for practical, sustainable solutions. It contains some of the most innovative and renowned environmentally conscious buildings in the country, as well as one of the most diverse range of installed renewable technologies, on site water and sewage treatment, sustainably managed woodland and acres of organic gardens.
It is a flexible degree, taught in blocks taken either with an intensive residential stay of five or six nights at the centre, or by distance learning. MSc students are free to choose between these teaching modes for every module. There is a choice of modules, each 8 weeks long, taken over one year or two – meaning the degree can be part time. It is a masters degree designed to give you the best possible experience whilst also meshing neatly with the pressures of modern professional and family life.
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Optional residential module weeks include lectures, seminars, group work and practicals. Applied work tends to dominate later in the week once we have laid the theoretical groundwork. These module weeks provide a truly immersive environment to escape daily life and apply yourself to new learning. Many eminent experts give guest lectures or hold seminars during these modules, as it is a course which seeks to draw on the expertise and learning of the whole environmental sector.
This course is created and delivered by CAT and validated by the University of East London. The course is due to be reviewed in early 2022 so this description of the course is as its currently delivered. Some aspects may change before the start of the 2022 academic year.
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MusicSeptember 20, 2021
Hank Williams’ Final Heartbreak
New Year’s Eve is the big musical party night of the year, with merriment in the mist as tipsy toasters dance the year away in glittery abandon. It’s ironic, then, that the major music event to occur in the hours connecting two years is significant mainly for the songs it prevented. In the quiet back seat darkness of a Cadillac speeding from Knoxville, Tenn., on Dec. 31, 1952, to make a New Year’s Day gig in Canton, Ohio, Hank Williams succumbed to a heart attack brought on by years of hard living. The greatest country songwriter of all time was 29.
Early on that fateful night, 17-year-old Charles Carr, whom Williams had hired to drive him from Montgomery, Ala. received a speeding ticket in Rutledge, Tenn. When the officer saw Williams sprawled across the seat, motionless, he told Carr that his passenger looked dead. But Carr said Williams was just sedated, having received two shots of morphine for nagging back pain earlier in the day.
At about 5 a.m. on Jan. 1, Carr stopped in Oak Hill, W.Va., to get gas and ask for directions, and that’s when he discovered that his human cargo was an even ghostlier shade of white than usual. Somewhere in the night, Williams’ heart had broken for the last time. Police found a pint of vodka, several tablets of the sedative chloral hydrate and a loaded pistol in his pockets. In his hand was a piece of paper containing lyrics he had been working on. The last line read: “I love you still and always will, but that’s the poison we have to pay.”
Just 2 1/2 months earlier, Williams had made a big show out of marrying 19-year-old beauty Billie Jean Jones, with the couple repeating their vows twice for paying audiences. You can be pretty sure, though, that that final song, like so many previously, was written with his ex-wife Audrey Mae Williams in mind. The dominant and ambitious woman who helped push him to stardom divorced him May 29, 1952, after eight years of fighting and making up.
Mostly they fought about Hank’s drinking and, given an ultimatum, he even quit for a while. In fact, he quit dozens of times. But it seemed that every two weeks or so he’d blast off on a bender that often landed him in jail. In his classic 1947 hillbilly rocker “Move It On Over,” he sings “Came in last night about half past 10/ That baby of mine wouldn’t let me in,” but in real life the time Williams came stumbling in would be close to 10 in the morning. He’d go straight from the jailhouse to the doghouse, but it seemed that the more “Miss Audrey” forbade his drinking, the more he wanted a drink.
During the last year of his life, he was drunk almost all the time, mixing painkillers with alcohol and missing gigs. He eventually was fired from the Grand Ole Opry, where he was the most popular performer, because of his repeated no-shows. The man whose best songs were soaked in passion had degenerated to the point where he was regularly wetting the bed in a drunken, drug-addled stupor.
Zelda to his F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nancy to his Sid, Miss Audrey was Williams’ inspiration and accomplice, as well as a constant source of mental torture. Such painful songs as “Alone and Forsaken,” “A Teardrop on a Rose” and “For Me There Is No Place” mirrored their stormy relationship, but Williams’ songs also revealed just how much affection he had for her.
In many ways, Williams personified a dual nature. He craved a family life and loved little Hank Jr ., whom he nicknamed “Bocephus,” yet hespent months at a time on the road, boozing and carousing. He played the Cadillac Cowboy to the hilt every Saturday night, but he also recorded moralistic Sunday -morning songs such as “Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals” under the alias Luke the Drifter. He was a lazy drunk and a prolific songwriter, a consummate craftsman with untamed eyes. His drunken escapades are legendary, but when he didn’t drink, Hank Williams was the most sober man alive.
On “I Can’t Escape From You,” Williams put his drinking in context, singing “A jug of wine to numb my mind/ but what good does it do/ The jug runs dry and I still cry/ I can’t escape from you.” But he didn’t mention the role that his alcoholism played in the breakup. He looked at drinking as a cure for a problem it had created and in the process inspired such later country classics as “Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down” by Merle Haggard and “If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will)” by George Jones. Williams’ songs laid the blueprint for most of the great country music that followed, and his influence is still strong in such newer artists as Jimmie Dale Gil>more, Wayne Hancock, Marty Brown, Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Boys, BR-549 and many more. Hank Williams is to country music what Bob Marley is to reggae — a pioneer who continues to attract new fans for the simple reason that he’s never been topped.
It’s easy to think that the country giant’s demise was such a waste. In a recording career that spanned only six years, Williams had created such standards as “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “I Saw the Light,” “Hey Good Lookin,”’ “Cold, Cold Heart,” “Jambalaya,” “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You),” “Kaw-Liga” and more,which are as much a part of our national fabric as the stars and stripes. He was perhaps the greatest American songwriter since Stephen Foster, but like the writer of “Beautiful Dreamer” and “Oh, Susanna,” who died drunk and penniless in 1864, Williams did his best to obliterate all his gifts with drugs and alcohol until he finally succeeded in a big way on New Year’s Eve 44years ago.
But would Williams have been the same songwriter, the same singer, if he wasn’t possessed by the inner turmoil that only death could exorcise? Where did the artist end and the man begin? Was the final tragedy just the wrapping on the complete package?
It was a sorrowful day when they took away the body of the man who could cut through an entire congestion of feelings with just one line, delivered from deep within. Unlike the stodgy performers of the day such as Eddy Arnold, Hank Snow and George Morgan, Williams exuded raw energy and a sexual spark. The first time he played the Grand Ole Opry, in June ’49, the audience members leapt from their seats and demanded six encores, which was unheard of in country music.
Where many late-’40s hits were about gunfights and trains, Williamsled the introspective revolution from within, writing about heartbreak and regret and changing country music forever.
The skinny kid, born Hiriam King Williams in Mount Olive, Ala., on Sept. 17, 1923, became famou>s because he was able to set everyday emotions to music, yet after becoming the King of Country Music, he found those simple feelings harder to deal with. After hearing the applause, he had trouble being alone. As soon as the party was over, doubts and fears engulfed him, so his response was to keep the party going. By the end he was drinking not in celebration but for medication. With riches untold, Williams crashed in the back seat, nailing the stark reality, later reinforced by the likes of Jim Morrison, Marilyn Monroe and Kurt Cobain, that stardom provides no solution to deep-seated personal problems. Sometimes it has the opposite effect.
Perhaps the lyric that best underlines the lonely spiral that ended in the death of Hank Williams is from an obscure tune called “Men With Broken Hearts.” Stumbling off the pedestal and plunging into desolation, he sang:
Some were paupers, some were kings/ And some were masters of the arts/ But in their shame, they’re all the same/ These men with broken hearts
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W. Blaine
Excellent! Well done, Michael! Alcohol is a deadly medicine. That the results are routinely tragic doesn’t stop the abusers or lessen our pain at their loss. Thank the godz for the music left behind.
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'An exceptional job' - Dods delighted by racing's restart
TRAINER Michael Dods has heaped more praise on racecourses and the BHA for the way the return to action has been handled this week.
Michael said: "It’s been great to see our sport up and running again this week, and I think the racecourses and the BHA have done an exceptional job. Everything has been so well organised, and we’ve all been delighted with the way things have gone.
"Obviously, we can only speak for Newcastle because that’s where we’ve had our runners, but I think the reports on all the courses have been the same – everything has been properly planned and thought through, and everyone feels safe running their horses, which is the most important thing.
"In fact, when you look at some of the pictures from the last couple of weeks, it’s probably the case that the racecourses are about the safest place in the country you could be at the minute. They’ve definitely got it right, and everybody’s been following the guidelines that are in place.
"You’ll always get a few ups and downs, but in general, we’re happy with the way the horses have been running. We’ve had a winner and a few places – the horses look fit enough, some of them just have a bit of rustiness that needs blowing away. You’re always going to get that at the start of any season – some horses take a bit longer to blow away the cobwebs than others."
Michael is also looking ahead to the weekend in his regular update on his Facebook page. The stables has Queens Gift (main picture) in the Group 3 Palace House Stakes at Newmarket, Good Vibes in the listed Cecil Frail Fillies Stakes, and John kirkup on the all-weather at Newcastle. Here are his thoughts on the trio:
"We’ve got a couple of Saturday runners starting with JOHN KIRKUP in the Betway Casino Handicap (1.30) at Newcastle. It’s there for all to see with John Kirkup – he loves heavy ground, and if you get him over six furlongs on heavy ground, he’s pretty much guaranteed to run his race. The problem, of course, is that the race programme is very limited at the moment, so we’re starting him off over seven furlongs at Newcastle. He looks well and I’m sure he’ll be ready to go, but when you see him over six on heavy ground, you’ll see a different horse. We’re having to try something different, but he needs to start somewhere and it’ll be nice and safe for him up at Newcastle. Hopefully he’ll run nicely.
QUEENS GIFT runs in the Palace House Stakes (1.50) at Newmarket. It’s obviously a big step up from what she was doing last season. She ran well in two Listed races last year, but it’s a big jump to a Group Three from there. It’s important for a mare to get black type though, and this is obviously a chance for her to do that. She’s well, and we think she’s improved over the winter. She’s in good form and hopefully she’ll run well – we’ll just have to see whether or not she’s up to Group class.
GOOD VIBES was also entered in the Palace House, but instead, she’s going to run on Sunday in the Betway EBF Cecil Frail Fillies’ Stakes (4.25) at Haydock. It’s always tough for three-year-olds that have done very well at two because they’re right at the top of their handicap mark. So we’re going for a Listed race and we’ll see how things go. We discussed things with connections during the week, and decided to go over six furlongs here rather than in the Palace House. The plan is to see how she fares over six – if it doesn’t really work, she can always go back to five. She’s got some decent form over six, but as I said, it can be tough for three-year-olds. At least she’ll be running against her own sex, which should be a help."
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MDU Resources Group manages its business with a long-term view toward sustainable operations, focusing on how economic, environmental and social impacts help us in Building a Strong America®.
Sustainability efforts are integrated into our business strategy because they directly affect long-term business viability and profitability. Our focus on sustainability strengthens our ability to increase revenues, profitability and competitive advantage, while attracting a skilled and diverse workforce. [Gb]
A sustainable corporation is one that meets the needs of stakeholders while operating in a manner that ensures its future success. To ensure that MDU Resources remains a sustainable corporation, we will:
Maintain a healthy, viable, skilled workforce.
Safety is our top priority.
We are committed to an inclusive environment that respects the differences and embraces the strengths of our diverse employees.
Maintain adequate financial resources.
Be a good steward of the environment.
Comply with or surpass all applicable environmental laws, regulations and permit requirements.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity from our electric utility by 45% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.
Ensure asset and operational longevity.
Develop and nurture relationships with stakeholders.
MDU Resources’ board of directors established an Environmental and Sustainability Committee in 2019 that oversees and provides recommendations to management and the board with respect to the company’s policies, strategies, public policy positions, programs, and performance related to environmental, health, safety and other social sustainability matters and related laws, regulations and developments. The committee is a standing committee of the board of directors and meets quarterly in conjunction with quarterly meetings of the board. [Ga]
In all business operations and projects, management at MDU Resources’ companies strategically evaluates ESG factors, particularly in areas of safety, employee engagement, integrity and the environment. [Gb]
In its sustainability reporting, MDU Resources uses the following guidelines for reporting:
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s Engineering & Construction Services framework for the company’s construction services business.
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s Construction Materials framework for the company’s construction materials and contracting business.
The environmental, social, governance and sustainability reporting template developed by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and the American Gas Association (AGA) for the company’s electric and natural gas utility business and its natural gas pipeline business.
MDU Resources has begun incorporating Task Force on Climate-related Disclosure (TCFD) guidance into its reporting. Throughout the Sustainability section of our website, you will find information tagged to indicate the portion of the TCFD guidance to which it relates. For example, a tag of [Ga] indicates the information relates to the TCFD guidance outlined under Governance recommended disclosure “a) Describe the board’s oversight of climate-related risks and opportunities.” A list of the incorporated tags can be found here.
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MDU Resources Group, Inc., a member of the S&P MidCap 400 index and the S&P High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats index, started as a small utility company in 1924, serving customers in Montana and the Dakotas. Today, MDU Resources is Building a Strong America® in 46 states through our regulated energy delivery and construction materials and services businesses.
MDU Resources is headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota, and employed 12,994 people as of December 31, 2020. Employee numbers may reach more than 16,000 during peak construction season.
MDU Resources trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MDU. We began trading on the NYSE in 1948. As of December 31, 2020, there were 200.6 million weighted average common shares outstanding, diluted, and we had total assets of $8.1 billion.
Our Vision: With integrity, create superior shareholder value by expanding upon our expertise to be the supplier of choice in all of our markets while being a safe and great place to work.
Our Mission: Provide value-added natural resource products and related services that exceed customer expectations.
Our Strategy: Deliver superior value with a two-platform model, regulated energy delivery and construction materials and services businesses, while also pursuing organic growth opportunities and using a disciplined approach to strategic acquisitions of well-managed companies and properties.
Company Organizational Structure [Gb]
MDU Resources’ subsidiaries include:
Three utilities — Cascade Natural Gas Corporation, Intermountain Gas Company and Montana-Dakota Utilities Co.
Natural gas storage and transportation with pipeline-related businesses under WBI Energy, Inc.
A construction materials and contracting business — Knife River Corporation.
A construction services business — MDU Construction Services Group, Inc.
The electric segment, Montana-Dakota Utilities, generates, transmits and distributes electricity in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. This segment served 143,782 customers at December 31, 2020.
The natural gas distribution segment includes Cascade Natural Gas, Intermountain Gas and Montana-Dakota Utilities, and distributes natural gas in Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming. These operations also supply related products and services. This segment served 997,146 customers at December 31, 2020.
Our companies:
Cascade Natural Gas Corporation
Intermountain Gas Company
Montana-Dakota Utilities Co.
The pipeline segment, under WBI Energy, Inc., provides natural gas transportation through approximately 3,700 miles of regulated pipeline systems, mainly in the Rocky Mountain and northern Great Plains regions of the United States, as well as natural gas underground storage in Montana and Wyoming. This segment also includes a variety of other energy-related services such as cathodic protection and energy efficiency product sales and installation services. Volumes of natural gas transported through this segment’s pipeline system have increased significantly each of the past three years:
WBI Energy, Inc.
WBI Energy Corrosion Services
WBI Energy Transmission, Inc.
Construction Materials and Contracting
The construction materials and contracting segment, Knife River Corporation, and its subsidiaries, mines aggregates and markets crushed stone, sand, gravel and related construction materials, including ready-mixed concrete, cement, asphalt, liquid asphalt and other value-added products. It also performs integrated contracting services. Knife River operates in the central, southern and western United States and Alaska and Hawaii. Knife River has approximately 1.1 billion tons of aggregate reserves.
Our operating companies include:
Alaska Basic Industries, Inc.
Anchorage Sand & Gravel Company, Inc.
Baldwin Contracting Company, Inc. dba Knife River Construction
Concrete, Inc. dba Knife River
Connolly-Pacific Co.
DSS Company dba Knife River Construction
Fairbanks Materials, Inc.
Granite City Ready Mix, Inc. dba Knife River Materials
Hawaiian Cement
Jebro Incorporated
JTL Group, Inc. dba Knife River
Kent’s Oil Service dba Pacific Northwest Oil
Knife River Corporation — Midwest
Knife River Corporation — Mountain West
Knife River Corporation — Northwest
Knife River Corporation — North Central
Knife River Corporation — South
LTM, Incorporated. dba Knife River Materials
Northstar Materials, Inc. dba Knife River
Rail to Road, Inc.
Sweetman Construction Co. dba Concrete Materials
WHC, Ltd. dba West Hawaii Concrete
The construction services segment, MDU Construction Services Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries, offers a diverse array of products and services to utilities and large manufacturing, commercial, industrial, governmental and institutional customers. It specializes in constructing and maintaining electric and communication lines, gas pipelines, fire suppression systems, and external lighting and traffic signalization equipment. It also provides utility excavation services and inside electrical wiring, cabling and mechanical services, and manufactures and distributes specialty equipment.
Bell Electrical Contractors, Inc.
Bombard Electric, LLC
Bombard Mechanical, LLC
Capital Electric Construction Company, Inc.
Capital Electric Line Builders, Inc.
Desert Fire Protection, LLC
Duro Electric Company
E.S.I., Inc.
International Line Builders, Inc.
Lone Mountain Excavation & Utilities, LLC
Loy Clark Pipeline Co.
OEG, Inc.
PerLectric Inc.
Rocky Mountain Contractors, Inc.
USI Industrial Services, Inc.
Wagner-Smith Equipment Co.
The other category includes the activities of Centennial Holdings Capital, which insures through its subsidiary InterSource Insurance Company various risks as a captive insurer for certain of MDU Resources’ subsidiaries, and it owns certain real and personal property. The other category includes certain assets, liabilities and tax adjustments of the holding company primarily associated with corporate functions and certain general and administrative costs and interest expense, which were previously allocated to MDU Resources’ refining business and exploration and production business and do not meet the criteria for income (loss) from discontinued operations. The other category also includes Centennial Resources’ former investment in Brazil.
Electric and Natural Gas Utilities
Because we know having a sound, stable environment is critical to continuing our businesses, MDU Resources Group operates in a way that minimizes impacts and promotes conservation while maximizing resource use in meeting our customers’ needs.
Some of MDU Resources’ efforts include engaging in wildlife protection practices, promoting emission reduction and fuel conservation, working with wildlife regulatory agencies, developing water enhancement practices, protecting water quality, controlling and preventing the spread of noxious weeds, reducing noise, and implementing programs to develop and enhance public spaces in the communities we serve.
MDU Resources has three primary environmental goals:
Minimize waste and maximize resources.
Be a good steward of the environment, while providing high-quality and reasonably priced products and services.
We strive to meet these goals through established operational practices and by leading or participating in a number of programs that help ensure a viable environment.
MDU Resources’ pledge to operate in an environmentally responsible manner is reviewed and encouraged through several measures, including oversight by professional environmental staff with reporting and direct accountability to the CEOs at our operating companies, through audits of operating activities and through property reviews during due diligence on potential acquisitions. [Gb]
MDU Resources’ corporate policy addresses environmental practices. The environmental policy, as adopted by the board of directors, directs that the corporation will operate efficiently to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. [Ga]
Our company environmental leaders have responsibility for administering the environmental policy, and our company officers are responsible for compliance. [Gb]
Our Construction Materials Business
Our Construction Services Business
Our Electric and Natural Gas Utilities
Our Pipeline Business
Knife River Corporation is the sixth-largest sand and gravel producer in the United States. With approximately 1.1 billion tons of aggregate reserves, Knife River mines aggregates and markets crushed stone, sand, gravel and related construction materials, including ready-mixed concrete, cement, asphalt, liquid asphalt and other value-added products, to public and private-sector clients. The company also specializes in related services, such as concrete accessories sales, precast concrete structures, rock and landscaping products, underground utility work and more.
Knife River has operations in the central, western and southern United States, plus Alaska and Hawaii. It maintains physical locations in 14 states and performs work in 15 states. The company’s operations include approximately 60 hot-mix asphalt sites, 100 ready-mix sites, seven cement terminals, several hundred aggregate sites, five liquid-asphalt terminal sites, and several used-petroleum-product collection points.
Environmental-related investments
As part of its capital investment planning, Knife River annually assesses continual investment in environmental impact mitigation efforts in its operations, particularly in regard to meeting or exceeding permit requirements and environmental regulations. Up to 20% of Knife River's annual capital budget is allocated to replacing or upgrading equipment and plants to comply with changing environmental targets. [Sb, RMa] Examples include:
In Oregon, Knife River has installed additional emissions capture equipment, such as wet scrubbers on asphalt plants, to meet or exceed air quality requirements.
Knife River operates a soil reclamation business to handle contaminated soils for customers. Alaska Soil Recycling pioneered the first thermal remediation service in Alaska to treat contaminated soil and operates its facility under permits issued and enforced by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.
Depending on the climate of particular geographic areas, Knife River has implemented additional measures in response to local conditions. For instance, in arid regions such as California and Texas, Knife River has implemented more stringent measures for dust control at its plants and job sites. In areas with high precipitation, such as Oregon, Knife River uses enhanced water containment controls to handle potential storm runoff.
Knife River has invested in Blue Planet Systems Corp. to pursue the use of synthetic aggregates in ready-mix concrete. Blue Planet is testing methods of creating synthetic limestone, using carbon dioxide captured from existing sources. The synthetic limestone could then be used as a component of concrete. In addition to sequestering carbon dioxide through this process, the use of synthetic limestone would prolong the life of natural aggregate sources.
Vehicle emission reduction efforts
Knife River continually evaluates fleet vehicles to ensure the appropriate-size vehicle is purchased for specific needs. The company buys smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles to mitigate fuel costs and help reduce emissions whenever feasible.
As Knife River updates its equipment and vehicles, its fuel usage and fleet emissions are reduced because of manufacturers’ advancements in motor efficiency. The average model year of Knife River’s on-road trucking fleet is 2011. The average model year of Knife River’s construction equipment is 2010.
Knife River has implemented fuel conservation programs that educate employees and promote fuel conservation measures. Training sessions encourage employees to efficiently use resources and inform employees of the proper procedures for shutting down diesel-fueled engines.
Knife River has an engine idling policy. The policy establishes a companywide diesel and gasoline engine idling limit and institutionalizes the company’s Shut Down & Save fuel conservation program.
Knife River installs automatic shutdown systems on heavy-haul construction trucks, which helps reduce emissions. These systems can automatically shut off a vehicle's engine after five minutes of idling. Knife River also installs equipment on haul vehicles that lets the company monitor operating times, idle times and emissions, which can be used to evaluate performance.
In California, off-road and on-road diesel fleet requirements are more stringent than other areas where Knife River operates. On-road diesel fleets must meet or exceed a 2010 emissions standard via fleet replacement targets affecting on-highway trucks that are greater than 14,000 pounds in gross vehicle weight. In 2020, Knife River replaced all vehicles in its California fleet that were 17 years or older. In 2023, the company will have no vehicles in its California fleet that are older than a 2010 model, putting Knife River on track to meet the regulation two years ahead of schedule. Off-road diesel construction and mining equipment fleets must meet a target based on the combined total horsepower and emissions factors of all engines in the fleet, with compliance targets that began in 2009 and go through 2024. Knife River has been proactive in meeting early targets and anticipates meeting the 2024 target.
Toxic Release Reporting
Knife River provides toxic release inventory reporting to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for nitrate compounds released with process wastewater from ready-mixed concrete operations and polycyclic aromatic compounds emitted during the handling and processing of liquid asphalt oils and binders. [MTa]
The TRI data for reporting facilities can be accessed at www.epa.gov.
Land impacts
Knife River uses mine planning to manage aggregate reserves and aggregate mine sites in an environmentally sound manner. The company works regularly with government agencies, landowners and other stakeholders to develop reclamation plans that return mined land to viable and productive use. In some cases, land that may not have been useful before mining has been made into wetlands or other wildlife habitat.
Knife River continues its long-standing practice of recycling and reusing building materials. Recycling conserves natural resources, uses less energy, reduces waste disposal at local landfills and ultimately costs less for our customers. Knife River recycles or reuses asphalt pavement, pre-consumer asphalt shingles, refined fuel oil, demolition concrete, returned concrete at ready-mix plants, fly ash, slag, silica fume and other cement-replacement materials, and dimension stone reject material.
Jebro Inc., a Knife River company in Sioux City, Iowa, has recycled used oil since 1989 and used oil filters since 2006. After being emptied of oil, used oil filters are turned into No. 1-grade recycled steel that are shipped to smelters in the United States. Recovered oil is recycled and used. Jebro’s service area includes parts of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming.
Environmentally friendlier asphalts
Knife River Corporation is experienced in producing and placing warm-mix asphalt and rubberized asphalt. In applications where warm-mix asphalt is allowed, the product enables conservation.
Warm-mix asphalt is produced at cooler temperatures than traditional hot-mix asphalt, which reduces the amount of fuel needed in the production process, thereby reducing emissions and fumes.
Knife River, where allowed by the applicable government entity, also uses ground-up tire rubber blended with asphalt to beneficially modify the properties of asphalt in highway construction. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says asphalt rubber is the largest single market for ground rubber. It provides a beneficial use for an estimated 220 million pounds, or approximately 12 million scrap tires, annually. Asphalt rubber also provides longer-lasting road surfaces, reduces road maintenance, is more cost effective over the long term and lowers road noise. Asphalt rubber is being used in greater amounts by state Departments of Transportation.
Spills
No Environmental Protection Agency-reportable or National Response Center-reportable spills occurred within Knife River’s operations in 2018-20. A number of minor spills were documented internally, some of which were reported to state and local agencies based on their reporting requirements.
Fines for noncompliance
Knife River is committed to fully complying with all environmental rules and regulations. Regrettably, we have not always achieved full compliance.
Fines paid $1,600 $27,950 $25,680
Number of violations 7 12 7
Impacts of regulations and laws
Knife River is reliant on federal and state infrastructure-funding mechanisms. Long-term funding mechanisms established at the state and federal levels help ensure road, highway and bridge construction projects, which provide opportunities for Knife River. The absence of long-term funding mechanisms can negatively impact workloads.
Additionally, certain regulatory efforts may impact Knife River’s operations. For instance, carbon pricing programs being implemented in the states of Oregon and Washington are expected to add to Knife River’s costs of operations. [Sa]
California emission reductions and regulatory compliance are more stringent than other Knife River operating areas. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) in the past 15 years has implemented several regulations around air quality standards. These regulations are based on source categories, several of which impact Knife River. The three categories having the most impact to Knife River’s California operations are:
Off-road diesel particulate and oxides of nitrogen. This regulation affects construction and mining equipment with greater than 25 horsepower. The regulation requires each fleet to meet an emissions target based on the combined total horsepower and emissions factors of all engines in the fleet. Compliance targets began in 2009 and go through 2024. To better comply with this regulation, Knife River combined all its California assets into one fleet pool. This gives Knife River the flexibility to upgrade machines in locations with better utilization. Knife River was proactive in meeting the early targets, which provided early action credits. These credits allow Knife River to better time its capital investments. With its fleet management program, Knife River anticipates meeting the 2024 target.
On-road diesel particulate and oxides of nitrogen. This regulation requires fleets to meet or exceed a 2010 emissions standard via fleet replacement targets affecting on-highway trucks that are greater than 14,000 pounds in gross vehicle weight. Knife River is meeting this regulation by replacing all vehicles older than 20 years. In 2020, the company replaced all vehicles that were 17 years or older. In 2023, Knife River will have no vehicles in its California fleet that are older than a 2010 model. Knife River is on track to meet the regulation two years ahead of schedule.
Harbor craft diesel particulate and oxides of nitrogen. This regulation pertains to Knife River’s marine construction equipment and boats but varies based on local air districts and ports superseding compliance targets. To comply, Knife River repowered its equipment in 2008-09 to meet the highest regulation. The company is in the process of repowering its equipment again, where practicable, to meet newer standards. Knife River continuously works with its equipment manufacturers on these upgrades.
Potential impacts of climate change
Based on predictions by the scientific community about potential impacts of climate change, Knife River may benefit from longer construction seasons in certain areas where it operates and from opportunities presented when infrastructure repairs are needed after storms and natural disasters impact an area. However, the company’s construction activities may be negatively impacted by greater volatility in weather patterns. [Sa]
Read more about environmental matters related to Knife River in MDU Resources’ most recent 10-K.
MDU Construction Services Group, Inc. and its subsidiary operating companies, collectively referred to here as MDU Construction Services Group, provide inside and outside specialty contracting services. Its outside services include design, construction and maintenance of overhead and underground electrical distribution and transmission lines, substations, external lighting, traffic signalization, and natural gas pipelines, as well as utility excavation, and the manufacture, sale and rental of transmission line construction equipment. Its inside services include design, construction and maintenance of electrical and communication wiring and infrastructure, fire suppression systems, and mechanical piping and services. MDU Construction Services Group also constructs and maintains renewable energy projects. These specialty contracting services are provided to utilities and large manufacturing, commercial, industrial, institutional and government customers.
MDU Construction Services Group operates a fleet of owned and leased trucks and trailers, support vehicles and specialty construction equipment, such as backhoes, excavators, trenchers, generators, boring machines and cranes.
As of December 31, 2020, MDU Construction Services owned or leased facilities in 17 states. This space is used for offices, equipment yards, manufacturing, warehousing, storage and vehicle shops.
Read more about MDU Construction Services Group’s workforce here.
MDU Construction Services Group’s operations are subject to federal, state and local regulations that are customary for the industry. The company believes it is in substantial compliance with these regulations.
Few, if any, environmental permits are required for the type of work MDU Construction Services Group performs. In several locations, MDU Construction Services Group uses petroleum storage tanks for operational convenience. Where used, these tanks are permitted under state programs authorized by the Environmental Protection Agency. MDU Construction Services Group has no ongoing remediation related to releases from petroleum storage tanks.
Federal permits for specific construction and maintenance jobs that may require these permits are typically obtained by the hiring entity, and not by MDU Construction Services Group.
MDU Construction Services Group’s operations are conditionally exempt small-quantity waste generators, subject to minimal regulation under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. MDU Construction Services Group believes it is in compliance with regulations under the act.
Environmental-related expenses
MDU Construction Services did not incur any material environmental-related expenditures in 2020 and does not expect to incur any material capital expenditures related to environmental compliance with current laws and regulations through 2023.
Renewable energy service providers
MDU Construction Services Group provides power line, substation and system installation construction services for wind, solar, combined heat and power, and other renewable electric projects. The company has helped construct more than 1,000 megawatts of solar electric facilities throughout its service area. MDU Construction Services Group continues to expand renewable installation offerings, including battery energy storage systems, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, microgrids and renewable natural gas/hydrogen-fueled electric generating units.
Read more about environmental matters related to MDU Construction Services Group in MDU Resources’ most recent 10-K.
TCFD Climate Scenario Analysis
MDU Resources is working toward incorporating guidance provided by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) into its sustainability reporting. TCFD guidance encourages organizations to conduct climate scenario analyses relative to their entities.
"Scenario analysis is a process for identifying and assessing the potential implications of a range of plausible future states under conditions of uncertainty. Scenarios are hypothetical constructs and not designed to deliver precise outcomes or forecasts. Instead, scenarios provide a way for organizations to consider how the future might look if certain trends continue or certain conditions are met. In the case of climate change, for example, scenarios allow an organization to explore and develop an understanding of how various combinations of climate-related risks, both transition and physical risks, may affect its businesses, strategies, and financial performance over time." (Source: TCFD)
Most of MDU Resources’ direct greenhouse gas emissions are from its electric utility operations. As such, MDU Resources is focusing its initial climate scenario analysis efforts on these operations. The company expects to publish soon its climate scenario analysis report specific to its electric utility operations.
MDU Resources Group’s utility companies serve approximately 1.14 million customers. Cascade Natural Gas Corporation distributes natural gas in Oregon and Washington. Intermountain Gas Company distributes natural gas in southern Idaho. Montana-Dakota Utilities Co., and its division Great Plains Natural Gas Co., distributes natural gas in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. Montana-Dakota also generates, transmits and distributes electricity in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. These operations also supply related value-added services.
MDU Resources’ utility companies’ customer base is expected to continue to grow at a rate of 1-2% per year. Our utility companies strive to maintain compliance and operate in an environmentally proactive manner, while taking into consideration the cost to customers.
ELECTRIC OPERATIONS
Montana-Dakota provides electric service at retail, serving 143,782 residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers in 185 communities and adjacent rural areas in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming as of December 31, 2020.
As of December 31, 2020, renewable resources comprised approximately 27% of Montana-Dakota's electric generation resource nameplate capacity. As its renewable generation resource capacity has increased, the carbon dioxide emission intensity of its electric generation resource fleet has been reduced by approximately 28% since 2005.
MDU Resources has a target, through its electric utility, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 45% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels from its generating facilities. Montana-Dakota intends to achieve this target through continued diversity in its electric generating fleet, including through retirement of aging coal-fired generating units. The following chart shows Montana-Dakota’s progress, and anticipated progress upon planned retirement of two coal-fired electric generating facilities, in reaching its intensity target.
The principal properties owned by Montana-Dakota as of April 1, 2021, for use in its electric operations include interests in 15 electric generating units at 11 facilities and two small portable diesel generators, approximately 3,400 miles of transmission lines and 4,900 miles of distribution lines, and 81 transmission and 298 distribution substations. At December 31, 2020, Montana-Dakota's net electric plant investment was $1.5 billion and its rate base was $1.3 billion.
Retail electric rates, service, accounting and certain security issuances are subject to regulation by the public service or public utility commission in each state where Montana-Dakota operates. The interstate transmission and wholesale electric power operations of Montana-Dakota also are subject to regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under provisions of the Federal Power Act, as are interconnections with other utilities and power generators, the issuance of certain securities, accounting and other matters.
Through Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc. (MISO), Montana-Dakota has access to wholesale energy, ancillary services and capacity markets for its interconnected system. MISO is a regional transmission organization responsible for operational control of the transmission systems of its members. MISO provides security center operations, tariff administration and operates day-ahead and real-time energy markets, ancillary services and capacity markets. As a member of MISO, Montana-Dakota's generation is sold into the MISO energy market and its energy needs are purchased from that market.
Through an interconnected electric system, Montana-Dakota serves markets in portions of western North Dakota, eastern Montana and northern South Dakota. These markets are highly seasonal and sales volumes depend largely on weather. Additionally, the average customer consumption has tended to decline with higher use of energy-efficient lighting and appliances. The interconnected system consists of 14 electric generating units at 10 facilities and two small portable diesel generators, which have an aggregate nameplate rating attributable to Montana-Dakota's interest of 750,318 kilowatts and total net zonal resource credits of 512.3 in 2020. ZRCs are a megawatt demand equivalent measure and are allocated to individual generators to meet planning reserve margin requirements within MISO. For 2020, Montana-Dakota's total ZRCs, including its firm purchase power contracts, were 553.2. Montana-Dakota's planning reserve margin requirement within MISO was 531.4 for 2020.
The maximum electric peak demand experienced to date attributable to Montana-Dakota's sales to retail customers on the interconnected system was 611,542 kW in August 2015. Montana-Dakota's latest forecast for its interconnected system indicates that its annual peak will continue to occur during the summer and the sales growth rate through 2023 will be approximately 2% annually.
Montana-Dakota's interconnected system electric generating capability includes four steam-turbine generating units at four facilities using coal for fuel, four combustion turbine units that combust natural gas or fuel oil, depending on the unit and time of year, at three facilities, three wind electric generating facilities, two natural gas-fired reciprocating internal combustion engines at one facility, a heat recovery electric generating facility and two small portable diesel generators.
Additional energy is purchased as needed, or in lieu of generation if more economical, from the MISO market. In 2020, Montana-Dakota purchased approximately 25% of its net kilowatt-hour needs through the MISO market.
Montana-Dakota also serves electricity to Sheridan, Wyoming, and neighboring communities in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council jurisdiction. The maximum peak demand experienced to date attributable to Montana-Dakota sales to retail customers on that system was approximately 64,129 kilowatts in July 2020. Montana-Dakota has a power supply contract with Black Hills Power Inc. to purchase up to 49,000 kW of capacity annually through December 31, 2023. Montana-Dakota is a 25% co-owner of Wygen III, a coal-fired electric generating unit near Gillette, Wyoming, that serves a portion of the needs of its Sheridan-area customers.
Retirement of coal facilities
In February 2019, Montana-Dakota announced the retirement of three aging coal-fired electric generating units. Lewis & Clark Station Unit 1 was retired March 31, 2021. The retirement of Units 1 and 2 at Heskett Station are expected to be complete in early 2022.
Montana-Dakota also announced its intent to construct a new 88-MW simple-cycle natural gas-fired combustion turbine peaking unit at the Heskett Station site. On February 16, 2021, the company obtained a final Permit to Construct from the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality. The new generation resource was selected as part of Montana-Dakota’s 2019 Integrated Resource Plan process. Additional information about Montana-Dakota’s electric load forecasting, demand and supply analysis, and risk analysis can be found in the company’s Integrated Resource Plan at https://www.montana-dakota.com/rates-services/electric-generation/. [RMa, RMb]
Electric environmental matters
Montana-Dakota's electric operations are subject to federal, state and local laws and regulations providing for air, water and solid waste pollution control; state facility-siting regulations; zoning and planning regulations of certain state and local authorities; federal health and safety regulations; and state hazard communication standards. Montana-Dakota believes it is in substantial compliance with these regulations.
Montana-Dakota's electric generating facilities have Title V Operating Permits, under the federal Clean Air Act, issued by the states in which they operate. Each of these permits has a five-year life. Montana-Dakota submits renewal applications when these permits near their expiration. Permits continue in force beyond the expiration date, provided the application for renewal is submitted by the required date, usually six months prior to expiration.
State water discharge permits issued under the requirements of the federal Clean Water Act are maintained for power production facilities on the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers. Each of these permits has a five-year life. Montana-Dakota renews these permits as necessary prior to expiration. Other permits held by these facilities may include an initial siting permit, which is typically a one-time, preconstruction permit issued by the state; state permits to dispose of combustion byproducts; state authorizations to withdraw water for operations; and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permits to construct water intake structures. Montana-Dakota's Army Corps permits grant one-time permission to construct and do not require renewal. Other permit terms vary and the permits are renewed as necessary.
Montana-Dakota's electric operations are very small-quantity generators of hazardous waste and subject only to minimum regulation under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
PCB elimination
Montana-Dakota Utilities routinely handles polychlorinated biphenyls from its electric operations in accordance with federal requirements. The company has a policy of proactively identifying and eliminating PCBs from its electric transmission and distribution system equipment.
In 2016, the company began a multiyear project to expedite removal of PCB-regulated distribution system transformers and continues to make annual progress on this effort. Through 2020, the project is approximately 81 percent complete. The company’s continuing efforts to remove these units from service helps avoid potential impacts to the environment from PCB spills and reduces company risk.
PCB storage areas are registered with the Environmental Protection Agency as required.
Electric generation emissions reductions
Since 2005, Montana-Dakota Utilities has reduced greenhouse gas emissions from its electric generating facilities through a variety of efforts, including retiring older generation plants and installing emission control and pollution control equipment. The following charts show Montana-Dakota’s progress, and anticipated progress upon planned retirement of two coal-fired electric generating facilities, in reducing annual GHG and other air emissions.
Coal combustion residuals management
Montana-Dakota Utilities complies with Coal Combustion Residual (CCR) rule requirements at its coal-fired electric generating facilities. The CCR rule requires proper management of coal ash, groundwater monitoring and may require a facility to conduct corrective action for impoundments and landfills.
Several projects have been completed at Montana-Dakota’s owned and co-owned coal-fired electric generation resources for compliance with CCR rule requirements. These projects include pond closures, temporary storage pad closures, a pond retrofit, and bottom ash handling system retrofits.
Montana-Dakota Utilities’ electric generating facilities use water from rivers, lakes and wells for various processes. The majority of water these facilities remove from water bodies is used for noncontact cooling purposes and is discharged back to the water bodies. Some facilities have once-through cooling, which requires water to be withdrawn and discharged continuously, and some plants use cooling towers and air-cooled condensers that require periodic withdrawals of water. Usually, no chemicals are added to water used for once-through cooling.
A smaller portion of water is withdrawn from a water body for use in an electric generating facility’s condenser, air emissions scrubbing process or in other smaller plant operations. Cooling water or process wastewater that is returned to surface waters is discharged in compliance with National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit requirements. Water withdrawals at company electric generating facilities will be significantly reduced starting in 2021 as Lewis & Clark Station Unit 1 was retired on March 31, 2021, and Heskett Station Units 1 and 2 are scheduled to be retired in early 2022. By 2023, as a result of retiring these three generating units, water withdrawals are projected to decrease about 97% compared to 2020 levels.
Montana-Dakota Utilities has been involved with renewable energy analysis and development for many years and has several renewable energy installations. It has 205 MW of installed wind generation capacity at three locations, providing more than 25% of its customers’ electric energy requirements. Montana-Dakota also owns a 7.5-MW heat recovery facility in south-central North Dakota, which uses high-temperature exhaust gas as the primary heat source. Because waste heat is used to drive this generating facility, no additional fossil fuel is required and incremental emissions to generate electricity are negligible.
Owned renewable generation facilities include:
155-MW Thunder Spirit Wind farm near Hettinger, North Dakota.
30-MW Diamond Willow Wind farm near Baker, Montana.
19.5-MW Cedar Hills Wind farm near Rhame, North Dakota.
7.5-MW Glen Ullin Waste Heat electric generation facility near Glen Ullin, North Dakota, which uses waste heat from a pipeline compressor station to produce electricity.
Carbon sequestration research
Montana-Dakota Utilities has been active in researching options for carbon dioxide capture, sequestration and beneficial uses. The company has been a member of the Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership since the partnership’s inception in 2003. The partnership is led by the Energy and Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota and is one of seven regional partnerships across the United States. More information about the partnership and its achievements is available at www.undeerc.org/pcor.
Montana-Dakota also has been a member of the Partnership for CO2 Capture project since 2014, which also is led by the Energy and Environmental Research Center. The Partnership for CO2 Capture provides support of pilot-scale demonstrations and researches and evaluates promising CO2 capture technologies that can enhance the cost and performance of CO2 capture systems.
Montana-Dakota has actively participated in environmental workgroups of the North Dakota Lignite Energy Council, such as the Lignite Technology Development Workgroup and the Environmental Workgroup. In recent years, these workgroups have focused on CO2-related issues such as lignite gasification, oxyfuel combustion, pre- and post-combustion CO2 capture technologies and beneficial uses of CO2.
Montana-Dakota Utilities has invested approximately $168 million in environmental emission control equipment and other pollution control improvement at our coal-fired electric generation plants since 2005. The investments have resulted in substantial reductions in mercury, SO2, NOX and filterable particulate from these plants.
In 2020, Montana-Dakota incurred $800,000 of environmental capital expenditures for its electric operations, mainly for an embankment stabilization project at Lewis & Clark Station and coal ash management projects at Lewis & Clark Station and Coyote Station. Environmental capital expenditures are estimated to be $600,000, $3.9 million and $4.1 million in 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively, for various environmental projects, including a coal ash impoundment closure project at Lewis & Clark Station and coal landfill closure project at Heskett Station, to coincide with retirement of coal-fired electric generating facilities.
Montana-Dakota's capital and operational expenditures could be affected by future air emission regulations, such as regional haze emission reductions.
Electric utility customer energy efficiency and conservation programs
Montana-Dakota Utilities actively pursues programs to increase energy efficiency and conservation for electric residential and commercial customers, and partners with local community action agencies in providing low-income assistance for utility customers. State regulatory agencies also set program requirements, in some circumstances, to which our utility companies must adhere. The total kilowatt-hour savings from electric energy efficiency and conservation programs completed in 2020 was about 1.42 million kWh, equating to a reduction of more than 1,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent.
Montana-Dakota has residential and commercial incentive programs in Montana and South Dakota that promote installation of energy-efficient electric equipment. Montana-Dakota also has commercial demand-response programs in its electric service areas in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. These programs include interruptible rates and an electric demand-response program in which customers can enroll.
Also, in 2017, Montana-Dakota started an LED conversion program for company-owned street lighting and company-owned private lighting rental throughout its service territory to reduce energy usage and thus help reduce emissions. The project concluded in early 2021 with more than 25,585 energy-saving LED lights installed, resulting in approximately 17.6 million kWh in annual energy savings, which is the equivalent of approximately 13,775 metric tons of CO2 emissions reduced annually.
NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION OPERATIONS
MDU Resources’ natural gas distribution operations consist of Montana-Dakota, Cascade and Intermountain, which sell natural gas at retail, serving 997,146 residential, commercial and industrial customers in 340 communities and adjacent rural areas across eight states as of December 31, 2020, and provide natural gas transportation services to certain customers on the company’s systems.
These services are provided through distribution systems aggregating approximately 20,600 miles. At December 31, 2020, the natural gas distribution operations’ net natural gas distribution plant investment was $2.0 billion and rate base was $1.3 billion.
These companies are subject to regulation regarding retail sales, service, accounting and certain security issuances by the state public service or public utility commission in each state where they operate.
Montana-Dakota, Cascade and Intermountain and various distribution transportation customers obtain their natural gas directly from natural gas producers, processors and marketers. Demand for natural gas, which is a widely traded commodity, has historically been sensitive to seasonal heating and industrial load requirements as well as changes in market price. Our companies believe that, based on current and projected domestic and regional supplies of natural gas and the pipeline transmission network currently available through their suppliers and pipeline service providers, supplies are adequate to meet their system natural gas requirements for at least the next decade.
Natural gas distribution environmental matters
Montana-Dakota, Cascade and Intermountain are subject to federal, state and local environmental, facility-siting, zoning and planning laws and regulations. These companies believe they are in substantial compliance with the regulations.
These operations are very small-quantity generators of hazardous waste, and subject only to minimum regulation under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. A Washington state rule defines Cascade as a small-quantity generator but regulation under that rule is similar to RCRA regulation as a very small-quantity generator.
Certain of these companies’ locations routinely handle PCBs from their natural gas operations in accordance with federal requirements. PCB storage areas are registered with the EPA as required.
Capital and operational expenditures for natural gas distribution operations could be affected in a variety of ways by potential new greenhouse gas legislation or regulation. In particular, such legislation or regulation would likely increase capital expenditures for energy efficiency and conservation programs, and operational costs associated with GHG emissions compliance. Montana-Dakota, Cascade and Intermountain expect to recover operational and capital expenditures for GHG regulatory compliance in rates consistent with the recovery of other reasonable costs of complying with environmental laws and regulations.
Montana-Dakota, Cascade and Intermountain did not incur any material environmental expenditures in 2020. Except as to what may be ultimately determined with regard to the issues described in the following paragraph, our natural gas distribution operations do not expect to incur any material capital expenditures related to environmental compliance with current laws and regulations through 2023.
Montana-Dakota has ties to six historic manufactured gas plants as a successor corporation or through direct ownership of the plant. Montana-Dakota is investigating possible soil and groundwater impacts from the operation of two of these former manufactured gas plant sites. To the extent not covered by insurance, Montana-Dakota may seek recovery in its natural gas rates charged to customers for certain investigation and remediation costs incurred for these sites.
One claim has been made against Montana-Dakota for a site operated by Montana-Dakota and its predecessors, seeking that Montana-Dakota participate in investigation and remediation of environmental contamination at a site in Missoula, Montana. The site operated as a manufactured gas plant from approximately 1907 to 1938, when it was converted to a butane-air plant that operated until 1956. Montana-Dakota or its predecessors owned or controlled the site for a period of the time it operated as a manufactured gas plant and Montana-Dakota operated the butane-air plant from 1940 to 1951, at which time the company sold the plant. There are no documented wastes or byproducts resulting from the mixing or distribution of butane-air gas. Preliminary assessment of a portion of the site provided a recommended remedial alternative for that portion of approximately $560,000. However, the recommended remediation would not address any potential contamination to adjacent parcels that may be impacted by contamination from the manufactured gas plant. An environmental assessment was started in 2020, which is estimated to cost $800,000. Montana-Dakota and another party agreed to voluntarily investigate and remediate the site, and that Montana-Dakota will pay two-thirds of the costs for further investigation and remediation of the site. Montana-Dakota has accrued $800,000 for remediation and investigation costs, and has incurred costs of $130,000 as of December 31, 2020. Montana-Dakota received notice from a prior insurance carrier that it will participate in payment of defense costs incurred relative to the claim.
Cascade has ties to nine historic manufactured gas plants as a successor corporation or through direct ownership of the plant.
A claim was made against Cascade for contamination at the Bremerton Gasworks Superfund Site in Bremerton, Washington, which was received in 1997. A preliminary investigation found soil and groundwater at the site contain contaminants requiring further investigation and cleanup. The EPA conducted a Targeted Brownfields Assessment of the site and released a report summarizing the results of that assessment in August 2009. The assessment confirms that contaminants have affected soil and groundwater at the site, as well as sediments in the adjacent Port Washington Narrows. In April 2010, the Washington DOE issued notice it considered Cascade a potentially responsible party for hazardous substances at the site. In May 2012, the EPA added the site to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites. Cascade has entered into an administrative settlement agreement and consent order with the EPA regarding the scope and schedule for a remedial investigation and feasibility study for the site. Current estimates for the cost to complete the remedial investigation and feasibility study are approximately $7.6 million, of which $5.0 million has been incurred as of December 31, 2020. Based on the site investigation, preliminary remediation alternative costs were provided by consultants in August 2020; therefore, the accrual for these costs was increased in the third quarter of 2020 by $11.1 million. The preliminary report projected possible costs for a variety of site configurations, remedial measures and potential natural resource damage claims of between $13.6 million and $71.0 million. As of December 31, 2020, Cascade had accrued $2.6 million for the remedial investigation and feasibility study, as well as $17.5 million for remediation of the site. The accrual for remediation costs will be reviewed and adjusted, if necessary, after the feasibility study is completed. In April 2010, Cascade filed a petition with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission for authority to defer the costs incurred for the environmental remediation of this site. The WUTC approved the petition in September 2010, subject to conditions set forth in its order.
A claim was made against Cascade for contamination at a site in Bellingham, Washington. Cascade received notice from a party in May 2008 that Cascade may be a potentially responsible party, along with other parties, for contamination from a manufactured gas plant owned by Cascade and its predecessor from about 1946 to 1962. Other potentially responsible parties reached an agreed order and work plan with the Washington DOE for completion of a remedial investigation and feasibility study for the site. A feasibility study prepared in March 2018 identifies five cleanup action alternatives for the site, with estimated costs ranging from $8.0 million to $20.4 million with a selected preferred alternative having an estimated total cost of $9.3 million. In 2020, the other potentially responsible parties developed a cleanup action plan. Design documents are expected to be complete in 2022, with construction of the cleanup action estimated for 2023. Cascade believes its proportional share of any liability will be relatively small in comparison to other potentially responsible parties. The plant manufactured gas from coal between approximately 1890 and 1946. In 1946, shortly after Cascade's predecessor acquired the plant, it converted the plant to a propane-air gas facility. There are no documented wastes or byproducts resulting from the mixing or distribution of propane-air gas.
The company has received notices from and entered into agreement with certain of its insurance carriers that they will participate in defense of Cascade for certain of the contamination claims subject to reservations of rights and defenses to insurance coverage. To the extent these claims are not covered by insurance, Cascade will seek recovery of investigation and remediation costs through its natural gas rates charged to customers.
Natural gas utility customer energy efficiency and conservation programs
MDU Resources’ utility companies actively pursue programs to increase energy efficiency and conservation for natural gas residential and commercial customers. State regulatory agencies also set program requirements, in some circumstances, to which our utility companies must adhere. The total savings in 2020 from our natural gas utility company programs was approximately 2.25 million therms, equating to a reduction of nearly 12,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalents.
Montana-Dakota Utilities has residential and commercial incentive programs in Montana and South Dakota that promote installation of energy-efficient natural gas equipment. Great Plains Natural Gas offers residential and commercial incentive programs in Minnesota to promote installation of energy-efficient natural gas equipment.
Intermountain Gas’ Energy Efficiency Program promotes home-energy efficiency by offering rebates for installation of high-efficiency natural gas appliances and incenting new home construction incorporating energy-efficient design. Intermountain’s program received an Energy Star Certified Home Market Leader Award from the EPA for two consecutive years for outstanding commitment to energy-efficient new homes. Intermountain also partners with organizations throughout its service territory to inform and raise awareness about energy efficiency and its program.
Intermountain also is a member company of the Gas Technology Institute, which is a national leader in natural gas research. GTI’s Utilization Technology Development group creates and advances products, systems and technologies to save consumers money, save energy, integrate renewable energy with natural gas, and achieve safe, reliable, resilient end-user operation with superior environmental performance. To ensure the advanced products developed through GTI are accepted in the marketplace, Intermountain also has joined the North American Gas Heat Pump Collaborative. This group works to encourage early adoption of new highly efficient technologies.
Intermountain recently signed on to participate in the newly formed Low-Carbon Resources Initiative. A joint venture of GTI and the Electric Power Research Institute, LCRI is a unique, international collaboration spanning the natural gas and electric sectors that will help advance global, deep decarbonization of all segments of the economy. The goal of the five-year initiative is to accelerate the development and demonstration of low-carbon energy technologies. The LCRI is targeting advancements in low-carbon electric generation technologies and low-carbon energy carriers, such as hydrogen, ammonia, synthetic fuels and biofuels.
Cascade actively partners with communities in Oregon and Washington to promote efficient and sustainable use of natural gas for residential, commercial, industrial and low-income customers. In its Oregon service territory, the company offers rebate programs for energy-efficiency upgrades and weatherization through the Energy Trust of Oregon to its residential, commercial and industrial customers. Weatherization services also are offered in partnership with low-income assistance agencies
In Washington, Cascade manages and offers rebates through its long-standing Conservation Incentive Program, which encourages customers to install high-efficiency appliances and use efficiency measures. The rebates are available to residential, commercial and industrial customers. Cascade also offers rebates to qualified agencies for delivery of weatherization services to income-qualified natural gas customers. The company presents its proposed program in a Conservation Plan submitted annually by December 1 to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission. Results of the program are reported annually by June 1 in the company’s Annual Conservation Report to the WUTC.
In addition to its rebate program, Cascade supports innovations in energy efficiency efforts and regularly works with local partners to encourage community-focused cooperative reduction efforts. Some other programs Cascade continues to support include Built Green® Certifications, Sustainable Connections, the Sustainable Living Center, Community Action agencies and the Northwest Clean Air Agency, as well as collaborating with Western Washington University on energy policy, mentoring and efficiency-related education through the Energy Institute.
In 2015, Cascade joined the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance Natural Gas Market Transformation Collaborative. This five-year effort, with a combined $18.3 million commitment from participants, was focused on advancing development and market adoption of energy-efficient natural gas products, practices and services in the Pacific Northwest. In 2019, Cascade renewed its membership in the alliance through 2024, obtained a director position on the collaborative’s board, and started funding the NW Power Council’s Regional Technical Forum to support regionally vetted and reviewed energy savings estimates for efficient natural gas technologies.
MDU Resources’ utility companies all partner with local community action agencies in providing low-income assistance for utility customers.
Methane emissions reductions
Programs have been established at the federal level to provide platforms to encourage utility companies to voluntarily commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, including the EPA’s Natural Gas Star Methane Challenge Program. The EPA established the Methane Challenge Program in collaboration with oil and natural gas companies, and MDU Resources’ natural gas distribution companies participated as founding partners of the program in March 2016.
As founding partners, MDU Resources’ utility companies participated in the program under the Best Management Practice (BMP) Commitment – Excavation Damages within the natural gas distribution sector. The BMP Commitment includes companywide implementation of BMPs to reduce methane emissions. The program also provides a forum for companies to share knowledge on successfully implementing BMPs and reducing methane emissions.
Our companies have a Public Awareness and Damage Prevention Manager and three coordinators who assist in providing public outreach that focuses on damage prevention and further reducing potential releases of methane from excavation damages. The Public Awareness and Damage Prevention Department and local utility management and staff also engage directly with contractors and excavators with face-to-face interactions in the field, and through meetings and training events. By proactively engaging with these third parties, in certain jurisdictions our companies have experienced a decreasing trend in overall excavation damages and excavation damage rates, as well as an increase in locate ticket requests.
Our utility companies conduct investigations when damages occur to company natural gas distribution pipeline and infrastructure. Key information, such as location, root cause, type of excavator, type of equipment used and type of work performed, is collected to analyze and trend on a quarterly basis. This data is used to assess ways to mitigate risks associated with excavation and, along with effectiveness surveys, helps our utilities assess the success of their programs, outreach strategies and messaging.
Some examples of our utility companies’ outreach efforts includes annual direct mailers to public officials, emergency response organizations, excavators, customers, schools and individuals who live along our distribution lines; participation in a variety of general public outreach events; development of materials that deliver multifaceted education campaigns, including campaigns via television, radio, online, newspapers, magazines, social media and billboards. The utility companies provide publications in up to eight languages to align with the demographics of its jurisdictions. The utility companies also sponsor community events, such as golf tournaments, chamber of commerce events, county fairs and rodeos, and sporting events, where pipeline safety and Call 811 information is displayed and distributed to attendees. The utilities also provide excavation safety and emergency response training upon request.
Each of our utility companies actively participates in 811, Common Ground Alliance, and damage complaint programs, and the companies continually explore other voluntary actions that could reduce methane emissions from excavation damage.
In 2020, the state of Washington enacted HB 2518, the Natural Gas Transmission bill, requiring natural gas transmission and distribution companies to expedite mitigation of hazardous leaks and reduce as practicable nonhazardous leaks, and providing utilities rate recovery to mitigate these leaks. Cascade collaborated with other Washington natural gas distribution companies on implementing the methodology for compiling data and estimating emissions. Cascade submitted its first report in March 2021 to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission and will be evaluating the potential to address nonhazardous leaks in the future.
Beyond the commitment to reduce methane emissions from excavation damages, our companies have completed operational and infrastructure changes to comply with federal requirements that lower methane emissions. A significant area of focus has been replacing older pipelines with pipelines made of newer materials, such as those made with polyethylene and steel. In 2020, our utility companies replaced 79.3 miles of our distribution system and expect to replace 92.6 miles in 2021. Our utility companies have no unprotected steel pipeline and no leak-prone cast iron pipe in their systems.
Local GHG reduction goals
Certain communities within and adjacent to Cascade Natural Gas’ service territory have expressed interest in adopting greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. Cascade engages with these communities on their goals to reduce GHG emissions, including partnerships on the integration of renewable natural gas, potential future hydrogen opportunities, energy efficiency and possible carbon offset programs.
Renewable natural gas (RNG) is biogas that is produced from a number of non-geologic sources, upgraded to biomethane by removing contaminants and increasing the heating value, and processed to meet natural gas pipeline-quality standards. RNG comes from a variety of sources, including municipal solid waste landfills, digesters at water resource recovery facilities (wastewater treatment plants), livestock farms, food production facilities and organic waste management operations. RNG can provide benefits such as energy diversity, economic revenues or savings, improved air quality and greenhouse gas emission reductions. RNG development has the potential to mitigate the carbon footprint associated with traditionally sourced natural gas.
MDU Resources’ natural gas utilities actively review, evaluate and pursue potential RNG development opportunities. Our companies review regional, state and federal guidelines and studies that involve RNG, and engage in developing standards for acceptable delivery of RNG in natural gas distribution systems.
Montana-Dakota Utilities produces RNG from the Billings Regional Landfill in Montana. The project came online at the end of 2010 and has produced approximately 1.36 million dekatherms of RNG through year-end 2020. The RNG is supplied to the vehicle fuel market generating renewable identification numbers (RINS) and low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) credits in California and Oregon. In 2020, the Billings Landfill Plant produced approximately 1.53 million RINs and 1,547 LCFS credits.
In Idaho, Intermountain Gas supports development of RNG projects and to date has provided pipeline services for three dairy digesters to transport and sell RNG. The first dairy digester project on which Intermountain assisted began delivering RNG into Intermountain’s distribution system in mid-October 2019. The two additional dairy digesters began injecting RNG into Intermountain’s system in August 2020 and September 2020. As of April 2021, the three producers had injected more than 480,000 dekatherms of RNG into Intermountain’s system. Intermountain is evaulating and pursuing a potential fourth dairy RNG project and is evaluating feasibility studies for four additional potential RNG projects.
Washington and Oregon have enacted policies allowing natural gas distribution utilities to supply RNG to customers. Cascade is committed to developing RNG programs for its customers under these policies and rules. The company also is committed to exploring opportunities to help communities meet their GHG reduction goals, including through RNG or potential future opportunities for hydrogen. The company has met with various entities regarding RNG projects involving municipalities, wastewater treatment plants, biodigesters and landfills. Cascade also has developed a cost-effectiveness methodology for evaluating RNG opportunities.
MDU Resources’ natural gas utility companies continue reviewing opportunities in their service areas for RNG development and exploring options to partner with developers and customers on RNG projects.
Environmental recognition
Cascade Natural Gas ranked at the top of the list of 31 utilities named as 2021 Environmental Champions on Earth Day. The national survey was conducted by Escalent, a top human behavior and analytics firm.
The results were based on a 1,000-point index scale and included 140 of the largest utility companies in the United States. Consumers surveyed cite significant improvements on utility support for environmental causes and dedication to clean energy. The average index score was 688. Cascade topped the list with a score of 751.
Escalent’s Cogent Syndicated 2021 Utility Trusted Brand & Customer Engagement Residential study was based on surveys among 74,224 residential electric, natural gas and combination utility customers of the 140 largest utility companies, based on residential customer counts.
Intermountain Gas received the 2021 ENERGY STAR® Market Leader Award for its efforts to promote energy-efficient residential construction and help homebuyers and residents experience the quality, comfort and value that come with living in an ENERGY STAR-certified home or apartment.
Each year, the ENERGY STAR Residential New Construction program presents Market Leader Awards to outstanding partners who have made important contributions to energy-efficient construction and environmental protection by building or verifying a significant number of ENERGY STAR-certified homes and apartments, or by sponsoring a local program that supported these activities during the previous year. More than 120,000 ENERGY STAR-certified single-family homes and multifamily units were built in 2020, for a total exceeding 2 million homes since 1995.
Intermountain Gas had 1,536 ENERGY STAR certified homes and apartments in 2020.
Read more about environmental matters related to the electric and natural gas utilities in MDU Resources’ most recent 10-K.
WBI Energy, through its subsidiaries WBI Energy Transmission and WBI Energy Midstream, conducts both regulated and nonregulated natural gas transmission pipeline, natural gas storage and related operations. WBI Energy Transmission, the regulated business, owns and operates approximately 3,700 miles of natural gas transmission and storage lines in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. WBI Energy Transmission’s underground storage fields in Montana and Wyoming provide storage services to local distribution companies, industrial customers, natural gas marketers and others, and enhance system reliability. Our system is strategically located near four natural gas-producing basins, making natural gas supplies available to our transportation and storage customers. Our system has 13 interconnecting points with other pipeline facilities, allowing for the receipt or delivery of natural gas to and from other regions of the country and from Canada. Under the Natural Gas Act, WBI Energy Transmission is subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regarding certificate, rate, service and accounting matters and, at December 31, 2020, its net plant investment was $548.3 million.
WBI Energy’s nonregulated business, WBI Energy Midstream, provides a variety of energy-related services, including cathodic protection and energy efficiency product sales and installation services to large end-users.
A majority of WBI Energy’s business is transacted in the northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States.
WBI Energy’s operations are subject to federal, state and local environmental, facility-siting, zoning and planning laws and regulations. WBI Energy believes it is in substantial compliance with these regulations.
Ongoing operations are subject to the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and other federal and state regulations. Administration of many provisions of these laws has been delegated to the states where WBI Energy operates. Permit terms vary and all permits carry operational and compliance conditions. WBI Energy believes all required permits are in place and that it is in substantial compliance with all permit terms.
Environmental review of construction, abandonment and maintenance projects on WBI Energy Transmission’s natural gas transmission pipeline, compressor stations and storage facilities are conducted in accordance with FERC’s National Environmental Policy Act implementing regulations. Detailed environmental assessments or environmental impact statements, as required by NEPA, are included in the FERC’s environmental review process.
Fuel use reduction efforts
WBI Energy continually evaluates the efficiency and effectiveness of its operating facilities, and proactively maintains a program to replace existing facilities with newer, more fuel-efficient and lower-emitting equipment. More recent replacement projects include:
2011 — Replaced five natural gas-fired compressor engines with one natural gas-fired engine subject to New Source Performance Standards (NSPS).
2012 — Replaced five natural gas-fired compressor engines with one electric-driven compressor unit.
2014 — Replaced two natural gas-fired compressor engines with one natural gas-fired engine subject to NSPS.
2019 — Replaced three natural gas-fired compressor engines with one natural gas-fired engine with emission controls.
Together, these projects have reduced the amount of potential natural gas consumed by more than 250,000 thousand cubic feet per year.
Additionally, when designing and building new facilities, WBI Energy installs electric compression where feasible. For example, the company’s Tioga Compressor Station constructed in 2017 and the Mapleton Compressor Station constructed in 2018 are electric-driven compressors, saving approximately 195,000 thousand cubic feet per year of natural gas fuel from being burned.
WBI Energy recognizes the importance of reducing operational methane emissions. Along with the other member companies of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA), WBI Energy has committed to continuously improving practices to minimize methane emissions by implementing best practices at its facilities. These practices include reducing pressures prior to “blowing down” lines for planned maintenance, routine replacement of rod packing on compressors, conducting leak surveys at compressor stations and well sites and repairing leaks in a timely manner, reporting emissions as required, and continuing to participate in efforts to evaluate emissions data and identify opportunities for methane reductions.
Additionally, WBI Energy is working toward participation in the EPA’s Natural Gas STAR Program. Voluntary partnerships such as the STAR Program encourage companies to adopt cost-effective technologies and practices to reduce methane emissions. To prepare for participation in the program, WBI Energy is developing a plan to implement methane control technologies and quantify emission reductions from these efforts.
WBI Energy’s efforts to replace legacy facilities with lower-emitting equipment and install electric-driven compression where feasible at new facilities have resulted in reductions and savings of potential greenhouse gas emissions at these facilities of approximately 14,000 and 10,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, respectively. These projects also reduced nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 800 tons per year.
Minimizing construction impacts
WBI Energy understands the importance of protecting environmental resources when developing plans to expand or replace its pipeline system. When developing routes for pipeline rights-of-way, extensive studies relating to cultural resources, wetlands and waterbodies, endangered species, and other sensitive resources are conducted. The company puts significant effort into routing lines to the extent possible to avoid sensitive environmental resources. When resources are crossed by a pipeline or exist adjacent to a construction corridor, WBI Energy works closely with subject matter experts and resource management agencies to develop plans to reduce or mitigate impacts.
Third-party environmental inspectors closely monitor construction activities to ensure adequate protection of resources. Work adheres to applicable regulations and permits as well as company-developed, project-specific plans for dust mitigation, protection of unanticipated discoveries of cultural resources, spill prevention, and noxious weed management, as examples.
WBI Energy recognizes that the land crossed by its pipeline system belongs to other stakeholders, whether privately held or public lands, and it is critical to return construction workspaces to their original condition or better. WBI Energy works closely with landowners and land managing agencies to reclaim pipeline right-of-way and continuously monitors reclamation activities until they are complete.
Environmental fines and costs
WBI Energy did not incur any fines related to environmental compliance in 2018-20. Additionally, WBI Energy companies did not incur any material environmental capital expenditures related to environmental compliance with current laws and regulations in 2018-20 and do not expect to incur any material capital expenditures related to environmental compliance with current laws and regulations through 2022. Expenditures related to environmental impact management are primarily annual operating expenses.
Read more about environmental matters related to WBI Energy in MDU Resources’ most recent 10-K.
MDU Resources knows that it operates at the discretion of various stakeholders, including customers, shareholders, employees, regulators, lawmakers and the communities where we do business. It is these stakeholders who allow us to conduct our business and are vital to our success. MDU Resources remains committed to maintaining the trust of these stakeholders by operating with integrity and being a good corporate citizen.
MDU Resources Group is committed to safety and health in the workplace and in the communities where we do business. Safety metrics related to our businesses can be found in the reports under the environmental tab.
Safe natural gas pipeline operation
Operating a safe natural gas pipeline system requires diligence and the proper tools. This is a sample of the precautions taken at our companies:
Cathodic protection. This applies an electric current along a steel pipeline to protect against corrosion.
Rectifier inspection. We inspect corrosion rectifiers every two months to ensure they are adequately protecting the steel pipeline system. All aboveground facilities are checked for atmospheric corrosion every three years.
Patrol. We patrol pipeline facilities to look for changes to exposed piping, as well as areas where excavation activity may have taken place.
Leak survey. We use highly sensitive instruments to check annually for leaks on distribution lines in business districts and every four years in non-business districts. We conduct leak surveys on transmission lines annually and instrument leak surveys in populated (Class 3) and high-consequence areas twice a year.
Our Commitment to Customers
MDU Resources is committed to competing in business only by lawful and ethical means. Our long-term success can be achieved only through fair, honest and intelligent decisions in dealing with customers.
MDU Resources’ successful relationship with customers requires that we provide quality products and services competently and efficiently and treat customers with courtesy. The corporation makes many commitments to customers about the availability, quality and price of our products and services in furtherance of the corporation’s vision to be the customers’ supplier of choice in all our markets. Each employee is expected to ensure that MDU Resources lives up to these promises, including maintaining open communication with customers and responding promptly to inquiries, requests and complaints.
MDU Resources’ commitment to employees is based on a firm belief in the value and dignity of the individual. Through the following, we strive to maintain an environment in which each employee can perform effectively and efficiently:
Comply with applicable labor and employment laws and regulations.
Provide a workplace free from discrimination, harassment, retaliation and violence.
Recruit, hire, train, promote, discipline and discharge employees fairly and impartially based on job-related criteria without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other personal characteristics determined to be a protected category under applicable state law.
Respect employees' differences and support an inclusive culture where everyone can feel valued.
Prevent workplace injuries by adhering to applicable workplace safety laws and regulations and corporate standards.
Maintain a workplace free from the influence of illegal drugs and abuse of alcohol or prescription drugs.
MDU Resources Group’s management is committed to acting in the best interest of the corporation and protecting its assets, and serving the long-term interests of the company’s shareholders. This includes protecting our tangible interests, such as property and equipment, as well as intangible assets, such as our reputation, information and intellectual property
Every employee is responsible for protecting MDU Resources’ assets, and management is responsible for establishing and maintaining appropriate internal controls to ensure assets are used only for lawful and proper purposes, protected against loss from unauthorized use, recorded using reliable information and scrupulously accounted for. Every employee is responsible for abiding by management’s internal controls for protecting the corporation’s assets.
MDU Resources Group is committed to strong corporate governance practices. For more detailed information about the company’s governance practices and policies, please see our most recent annual proxy statement. These are highlights of our practices:
Annual election of all directors.
Majority voting for directors.
Succession planning for executive officers.
Separate board chair and CEO.
Executive sessions of independent directors at every regularly scheduled board meeting.
Annual board and committee self-evaluations.
Risk oversight by full board and committees.
All directors are independent, other than our CEO.
“Proxy Access” allowing shareholders to nominate directors in accordance with the terms of our bylaws.
Standing committees consist entirely of independent directors.
Active investor outreach program.
Stock ownership requirements for directors and executive officers.
Anti-hedging and anti-pledging policies for directors and executive officers.
No related-party transactions by our directors or executive officers.
Compensation recovery/clawback policy.
Annual advisory approval on executive compensation.
Mandatory retirement for directors at age 76.
Directors may not serve on more than three public boards, including our board.
MDU Resources’ corporate code of conduct or “Integrity Code,” outlined in its “Leading With Integrity Guide,” provides a summary of the expected behaviors that guide our employees to perform with integrity in all matters.
Through the Integrity Code, MDU Resources makes a commitment to:
Integrity — Employees will conduct the corporation’s business legally and ethically with their best skills and judgment.
Shareholders — Employees will act in the best interests of the corporation and protect its assets.
Employees — Employees will work together to provide a safe and positive workplace.
Customers, Suppliers and Competitors — MDU Resources will compete in business only by lawful and ethical means.
Communities — MDU Resources will be a responsible and valued corporate citizen.
MDU Resources’ board of directors is made up of five men and four women. As of December 31, 2020, they range in age from 50 to 71.
Dennis W. Johnson, 71, is chair of MDU Resources’ board of directors. Johnson has served on the board for 20 years. He is chair, president and CEO of TMI Corp., an architectural woodwork manufacturer. He also is a former president of the Dickinson, North Dakota, City Commission and a former director of Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
MDU Resources’ board of directors, as a whole and through its committees, has responsibility for oversight of the company’s risk management. Management is responsible for identifying material risks, implementing appropriate risk management processes, and providing information regarding material risks and risk management to the board. The board of directors has the responsibility to satisfy itself that the risk management processes designed and implemented by company management are adequate for identifying, assessing and managing risk. Management regularly provides risk assessment and mitigation reports to the audit committee or the full board, which provides opportunities for discussions about areas in which the company may have material exposure, steps taken to manage such exposure, and the company’s risk tolerance relative to company strategy. For disclosure of risk factors facing MDU Resources, see the Risk Factor section of the MDU Resources’ most recent 10-K. [Ga, Gb, RMa]
The board chair meets regularly with MDU Resources’ CEO to discuss strategy and risks facing the company. Senior management attends the board’s quarterly meetings and is available to address any questions or concerns raised by the board on risk management-related and other matters. Each quarter, the board receives presentations from senior management on strategic matters involving operations. Senior management annually presents an assessment to the board of critical enterprise risks that threaten the company’s strategy and business model, including risks inherent in the key assumptions underlying the company’s business strategy for value creation. [Ga, Gb]
Periodically, the board receives presentations from external experts on matters of strategic importance to the board. At least annually, the board holds strategic planning sessions with senior management to discuss strategies, key challenges, and risks and opportunities for the company. [Ga, Gb]
While the board is ultimately responsible for risk oversight at MDU Resources, the four standing board committees assist in fulfilling oversight responsibilities in certain areas of risk. [Ga]
The audit committee assists the board in fulfilling its responsibilities with respect to risk management in a general manner and specifically in the areas of financial reporting, internal controls, cybersecurity, and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and, in accordance with NYSE requirements, discusses with the board policies with respect to risk assessment and risk management and their adequacy and effectiveness. The audit committee receives regular reports on the company’s compliance program, including reports received through the company’s anonymous reporting hotline. It also receives reports and regularly meets with the company’s external and internal auditors.
The compensation committee assists the board in fulfilling its oversight of risks relative to company compensation policies and programs.
The environmental and sustainability committee assists the board with oversight of policies, strategies, public policy positions, programs, and performance related to environmental, workplace health and safety, and other social sustainability matters and related laws, regulations and developments.
The nominating and governance committee assists the board in oversight of risks associated with board organization, membership and structure, succession planning for directors and executive officers, and corporate governance.
MDU Resources has been recognized for gender diversity on its board of directors. 50/50 Women on Boards™ recognized MDU Resources as a "3+" company for having three or more women on its board of directors, and Women’s Forum of New York recognized MDU Resources for accelerating gender parity in the boardroom.
MDU Resources’ corporate management team, referred to as the Management Policy Committee, is made up of six men and three women who, at December 31, 2020, ranged in age from 42 to 65. [Gb]
Officers of MDU Resources are elected by the board of directors and include a president, chief executive officer, vice presidents, treasurer, general counsel and secretary.
MDU Resources President and CEO David L. Goodin, 59, has been with the corporation for 38 years. He serves on the board of directors and as chair of the board of the corporation’s major subsidiary companies. He was formerly the president and CEO of MDU Resources’ utility companies.
MDU Resources has developed a robust compliance program to promote a culture of legal and ethical compliance, consistent with the right tone at the top, to mitigate risk. The program includes training and adherence to the company code of conduct and Leading With Integrity Guide.
Grievance reporting
MDU Resources has a Compliance Reporting and Investigation Policy, which also covers whistleblower protection. Employees are encouraged to report if they have concerns that something may be unethical or illegal within the company. Employees can report concerns to their manager, human resources representative, a company executive or their compliance officer. MDU Resources also has a reporting tool in place called EthicsPoint® that allows for anonymous reporting.
EthicsPoint is a telephone- and internet-based third-party system. Employees, customers and other stakeholders can report confidentially and anonymously any concerns about possible unethical or illegal activities. Reports are carefully considered and investigated, with reports and investigative summaries provided to the board of directors. Anyone who wishes to file an anonymous report can call 1-866-294-4676 or visit http://ethics.mdu.com.
PUBLIC POLICY PARTICIPATION
Employee participation in politics
MDU Resources’ corporate policy on Employee Participation in Political Affairs encourages employees to actively exercise their individual citizenship responsibilities, including voting, serving in civic bodies, keeping informed on political matters, volunteering time for political causes, contributing financially to the corporate political action committee, contributing financially to a political party or candidates, campaigning for a political party or public office, and holding a political party or public office.
The policy also says an employee engaging in political activity does so as a private citizen and not as a representative of the company. Also, to avoid potential job-related conflicts, an employee who wants to seek public office or serve in a civic body must consult with his or her manager prior to seeking such office or position.
Communications and Public Affairs Department
MDU Resources’ Communications and Public Affairs Department provides public affairs and lobbying services for MDU Resources and its companies. The department actively monitors, tracks and testifies on legislation affecting company and business interests, and spends approximately $250,000 per year on lobbying efforts.
The department works closely with state and national trade associations, various state chambers and other industry groups that share the company’s position on issues of interest.
Department staff members encourage MDU Resources’ employees to be aware of political activities.
Good Government Fund PAC
The MDU Resources Group Good Government Fund is a political contributions program for eligible employees. It is a voluntary, not-for-profit political action committee organized to encourage the financial participation of eligible employees in the state and federal election process.
The purpose of the Good Government Fund is to receive personal contributions from eligible MDU Resources employees, directors and shareholders and make contributions to candidates for local, state and federal office who support the private enterprise system and the interests of MDU Resources’ constituencies.
Every member of the Good Government Fund has an opportunity to recommend contributions to candidates. The Good Government Fund board of directors and certain MDU Resources Communications and Public Affairs Department personnel review all recommendations. The Good Government Fund chair has the authority to approve contributions of up to $1,000 without prior approval from the Good Government Fund board, but all such contributions are reported to the board.
Whenever possible, an effort is made to deliver Good Government Fund contributions in person, directly to the candidate, which gives MDU Resources’ employees an opportunity to describe firsthand the issues that are important to them.
The Good Government Fund is nonpartisan and independent of any political party. It supports deserving candidates from any political party whose voting record or beliefs support MDU Resources’ interests.
Copyright © MDU Resources Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Alabama unemployment claims surge amid COVID-19 pandemic
The number of Alabamians seeking unemployment benefits has surged as the spreading U.S. coronavirus pandemic sends financial markets into free fall and widespread bans on some businesses shutter much of Alabama public life.
Since Monday, the Alabama Department of Labor received 3,867 claims for unemployment benefits, more than double what the department received in a five-day period last week.
The total number of claims in the past -business day period — 5,542 — has nearly reached the 5,819 total claims the DOL received in all of February.
More:Coronavirus in Alabama: What we know today as confirmed COVID-19 cases top 50
Alabama currently has $704 million in its state fund for unemployment compensation, the DOL said.
Prior to the pandemic, the state’s unemployment rate had been low compared to the rest of the country. From November 2018 to November 2019 Alabama’s unemployment rate dropped by more than a percentage point, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Gov. Kay Ivey has touted the strong economy since taking office in April 2017, and made a central part of her successful 2018 election campaign.
“We are starting our new century enjoying the best economy our state has ever had, ever,” Ivey said in this year’s State of the State Address, adding that “these are unquestionably the best of times.”
The Alabama Department of Labor last week modified existing compensation rules to accommodate the COVID-19 pandemic. It's unclear how many recent claims were filed under the new rules.
More:Alabama Department of Labor extends unemployment benefits amid COVID-19 pandemic
Anyone affected in the following ways can apply:
Those who are quarantined by a medical professional or a government agency,
Those who are laid off or sent home without pay for an extended period by their employer due to COVID-19 concerns
Those who are diagnosed with COVID-19
Those who are caring for an immediate family member who is diagnosed with COVID-19.
The requirement that a laid-off worker be “able and available” to work while receiving unemployment compensation benefits has been modified for claimants who are affected by COVID-19 in any of the situations listed above.
Additionally, anyone who applies for the benefits also will not have to search for other work as long as a claimant takes reasonable steps to preserve their ability to return to work when a quarantine is lifted or illness subsides.
The waiting week, which is typically the first week of compensable benefits, will also be waived.
The Department of Labor may require verification of illness or quarantine and the criteria are subject to change, according to the news release.
People who are being paid to work from home, or those receiving paid sick or vacation leave are NOT eligible for unemployment compensation benefits, regardless if they experience any or all of the situations listed above.
Workers can begin filing claims March 23, and can do so online at www.labor.alabama.gov or by calling 1-866-234-5382. Online filing is encouraged.
“We understand that we are entering a difficult time for workers and employers,” said Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington. “We want to help those who may be temporarily financially impacted by helping them to replace some of their lost income while being unable to work. We are working with both federal and state government to ensure that we are doing all that we can to help ease the burden during a potentially trying time.”
Employers who shut down due to causes related to COVID-19 should treat the shutdown as a temporary layoff, according to the release.
Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Melissa Brown at 334-240-0132 or mabrown@gannett.com.
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Rare political win-win for Bentley
Darrio Melton
Alabama Voices
With all the chaos coming out of the Governor's Mansion in the past month, it's been easy to overlook the chaos coming out of the State House. While the governor has been tied up in a scandal, the Legislature has continued to meet and vote on legislation, which has all subsequently made it to the governor's desk.
One such piece of legislation is the General Fund budget. For the past few years, we've argued over whether we need more cuts or more funding, and the truthful answer is that we need a little bit of both. The Legislature doesn't have an appetite for new taxes, so the General Fund budget that made it to Bentley's desk underfunded Medicaid by around $85 million.
This underfunding means Medicaid patients may lose eye care, prescription drug coverage, and many other services on which they depend. Medicaid reform has been a key issue of the Bentley administration, as his background as a physician left him with a desire to reform our costly and broken system. Yet amidst the scandals in Montgomery, it's clear Bentley has lost all political capital.
When the budget with the $85 million Medicaid shortfall hit Bentley's desk, he vetoed it – just as he said he would. And the Legislature promptly overrode his veto – just as they said they would. It's clear that this $85 million shortfall is not only costing hundreds of Alabamians – mostly children – the care they need; it's also costing Bentley his key reform: Regional Care Organizations.
He's threatening to return the Legislature for a special session, but with impeachment threats looming, he might reconsider creating any additional legislative days on the calendar that could be used to bring articles of impeachment against him. It's clear the Legislature holds all the cards.
But Bentley has a card up his sleeve he hasn't played: Medicaid expansion.
The governor has made an issue of rural hospitals closing and Alabama children failing to get the care they need, yet he has one card left to play to remind the Legislature who the chief executive is and achieve the goals he's set out for his second term without allowing the Legislature to hamstring him. Governor Bentley has the authority to expand Medicaid and bring in millions of federal dollars to offset our struggling budget.
Is it about people or about power, governor? In this case, you've finally got a win-win opportunity for both. You can help the people you were elected to lead while simultaneously grabbing the bit of power left under your control. This could make or break your second term and the legacy you leave for Alabama. Do what's right. Expand Medicaid.
Representative Darrio Melton is a Democrat from Selma. He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 2010 and currently serves as Chair of the House Democratic Caucus.
Opinion -- Josh Moon: No logical explanation for VictoryLand's closure
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Update: District of Delaware Continues All Jury Trials Scheduled to Begin Before June 30
Client Alert
The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware modified its COVID-19 standing order today. Although the Court remains open, all jury trials scheduled to begin before June 30, 2020, are continued under the revised order. Jury proceedings affected by the order will be reset by further order of the assigned judge. The Court has provided, however, that individual judicial officers may continue to schedule and hold in courtroom hearings, conferences, and bench trials at their discretion.
All other provisions of the Court’s previous standing orders related to the coronavirus emergency, including the Court’s March 18, 2020 standing order, remain in effect.
Copyright © Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP. These materials have been prepared solely for informational and educational purposes, do not create an attorney-client relationship with the author(s) or Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, and should not be used as a substitute for legal counseling in specific situations. These materials reflect only the personal views of the author(s) and are not necessarily the views of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP or its clients.
Delaware Judge Leonard P. Stark Nominated for Federal Circuit
Jennifer Ying Named to 2021 Delaware Business Times 40 Under 40
Federal Circuit Affirms Jury Verdict for F’real Foods After Multiyear Patent Litigation Dispute
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Anne Cutler
Language Comprehension Department
Director (Emer.) Director (Emer.)
Anne [dot] Cutler [at] mpi [dot] nl
Bruggeman, L., & Cutler, A. (2016). Lexical manipulation as a discovery tool for psycholinguistic research. In C. Carignan, & M. D. Tyler (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2016) (pp. 313-316).
Ip, M., & Cutler, A. (2016). Cross-language data on five types of prosodic focus. In J. Barnes, A. Brugos, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, & N. Veilleux (Eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016 (pp. 330-334).
To examine the relative roles of language-specific and language-universal mechanisms in the production of prosodic focus, we compared production of five different types of focus by native speakers of English and Mandarin. Two comparable dialogues were constructed for each language, with the same words appearing in focused and unfocused position; 24 speakers recorded each dialogue in each language. Duration, F0 (mean, maximum, range), and rms-intensity (mean, maximum) of all critical word tokens were measured. Across the different types of focus, cross-language differences were observed in the degree to which English versus Mandarin speakers use the different prosodic parameters to mark focus, suggesting that while prosody may be universally available for expressing focus, the means of its employment may be considerably language-specific
Jeske, J., Kember, H., & Cutler, A. (2016). Native and non-native English speakers' use of prosody to predict sentence endings. In Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2016).
Kember, H., Choi, J., & Cutler, A. (2016). Processing advantages for focused words in Korean. In J. Barnes, A. Brugos, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, & N. Veilleux (Eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016 (pp. 702-705).
In Korean, focus is expressed in accentual phrasing. To ascertain whether words focused in this manner enjoy a processing advantage analogous to that conferred by focus as expressed in, e.g, English and Dutch, we devised sentences with target words in one of four conditions: prosodic focus, syntactic focus, prosodic + syntactic focus, and no focus as a control. 32 native speakers of Korean listened to blocks of 10 sentences, then were presented visually with words and asked whether or not they had heard them. Overall, words with focus were recognised significantly faster and more accurately than unfocused words. In addition, words with syntactic focus or syntactic + prosodic focus were recognised faster than words with prosodic focus alone. As for other languages, Korean focus confers processing advantage on the words carrying it. While prosodic focus does provide an advantage, however, syntactic focus appears to provide the greater beneficial effect for recognition memory
Cutler, A., & Bruggeman, L. (2013). Vocabulary structure and spoken-word recognition: Evidence from French reveals the source of embedding asymmetry. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH: 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp. 2812-2816).
Vocabularies contain hundreds of thousands of words built from only a handful of phonemes, so that inevitably longer words tend to contain shorter ones. In many languages (but not all) such embedded words occur more often word-initially than word-finally, and this asymmetry, if present, has farreaching consequences for spoken-word recognition. Prior research had ascribed the asymmetry to suffixing or to effects of stress (in particular, final syllables containing the vowel schwa). Analyses of the standard French vocabulary here reveal an effect of suffixing, as predicted by this account, and further analyses of an artificial variety of French reveal that extensive final schwa has an independent and additive effect in promoting the embedding asymmetry.
Cutler, A. (1983). Semantics, syntax and sentence accent. In M. Van den Broecke, & A. Cohen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 85-91). Dordrecht: Foris.
Cutler, A. (1974). On saying what you mean without meaning what you say. In M. Galy, R. Fox, & A. Bruck (Eds.), Papers from the Tenth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society (pp. 117-127). Chicago, Ill.: CLS.
Cutler, A. (1970). An experimental method for semantic field study. Linguistic Communications, 2, 87-94.
This paper emphasizes the need for empirical research and objective discovery procedures in semantics, and illustrates a method by which these goals may be obtained. The aim of the methodology described is to provide a description of the internal structure of a semantic field by eliciting the description--in an objective, standardized manner--from a representative group of native speakers. This would produce results that would be equally obtainable by any linguist using the same method under the same conditions with a similarly representative set of informants. The standardized method suggested by the author is the Semantic Differential developed by C. E. Osgood in the 1950's. Applying this method to semantic research, it is further hypothesized that, should different members of a semantic field be employed as concepts on a Semantic Differential task, a factor analysis of the results would reveal the dimensions operative within the body of data. The author demonstrates the use of the Semantic Differential and factor analysis in an actual experiment.
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Part of the Pit Crew: What it's like to be at Advocado
By Ymani Wince on May 26, 2021 |
As a college student, one of the lessons I was taught about the job interview process was to ask questions. The closer I came to graduation, I learned to always ask about company culture.
“What’s it like to work here?” That was always my go-to. But beyond that, I never critically thought about what it meant to have company culture, and what it looks like to have a meaningful place within it.
It takes some trial and error when looking for a role, and it’s even harder to find a management structure that values their employees. In the past, I’ve had some tough situations at work. We all have. But those tough times taught me to really dig in to where I’m interviewing, and to be more specific with my questions regarding company culture.
From my first interview with Advocado, I felt welcome. The process was smooth, and I was always in contact with someone from the team who could guide me on next steps. But the most surprising aspect of the interviewing and application process was taking a Culture Index survey.
Culture Index surveys serve as a feedback tool for companies that help give insight into how their employees work, satisfaction levels about the organization, and most importantly, fixed personality traits that are unique to each employee.
Knowing that my personality traits and just who I am is taken into consideration for hire was amazing to me. It made me feel like being Ymani Wince, combined with my experience and skills were enough.
Fast forward nearly six months since I’ve joined the #pitcrew as the Marketing Content Manager. I can honestly say that my life has changed in the most beautiful way. I am respected as a knowledgeable professional in marketing, journalism and social media. My supervisor, Amy Bobchek, has been a resource, mentor and all around Power Girl who’s helped me grow into my role and encouraged me to reach higher.
The entire Advocado team is awesome. Each morning, we begin our day on Zoom with Huddle. It’s the 15 minutes our team sets aside each morning to express that day’s gratitude, announce what’s on our schedule, and address any items that need action from team members.
Since we’re still working from home, I look forward to interacting with my coworkers. I’ve learned so much about what everyone does, what they’re passionate about in their personal lives, and even know a few pets that have made Zoom appearances. Huddle is the opportunity for everyone to chat and be together, but it also serves Advocado as a whole. Huddle is productive. It keeps our team lean on unnecessary meetings, and allows the team to check in with each other, guaranteed.
I think that’s what I love most about Advocado. Sure we have an amazing product, but the emphasis is actually on the people's experience. My team is vibrant, I feel motivated to do my best and express my ideas and concerns. It’s easy to be myself, to know that I belong, and to feel confident that I am qualified and an asset to the team.
With so many exciting updates happening at Advocado, I’m excited to see where the company is even just a year from now. I’m even more excited to know that I’ll be part of it.
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West London News
Teenager found guilty of killing young man who tried to stop Parsons Green drug dealing
The 20-year-old's dad saw him die in the street
Andy Datson
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A teenager has been convicted of fatally stabbing a 20-year-old man who confronted him about selling drugs outside his Parsons Green home.
The 17-year-old boy, of Shildon in Durham, who has not been named for legal reasons, was found guilty of the manslaughter of Omid Saidy at the Old Bailey on Thursday, May 10, after a trial. He was found not guilty of murder.
Another teenager, Shafiq Smith, 19, of Laitwood Road in Wandsworth, was found not guilty of murder or manslaughter in relation to Omid, but he was found guilty of grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent in relation to Omid’s friend Oluwafemi Omotosho.
They will both be sentenced at the Old Bailey on June 15.
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Police were called on October 16, 2017, at 7.37pm following reports of three males stabbed in the area surrounding Parsons Green Tube Station.
Officers attended along with the London Ambulance Service (LAS) and three males were found at various locations suffering from injuries.
One of the injured men was Omid, who was sadly pronounced dead at the scene less than an hour later at 8.30pm.
Omid Saidy was stabbed to death in Parsons Green on Monday October 16 (Image: Met Police)
Omid’s friend Oluwafemi Omotosho and another unnamed male was also found suffering from stab injuries at the scene.
At about 4pm on October 16, 2017, Omid was at home when he saw what he believed to be a drug deal happening outside, which had been a reoccurring problem. He went outside and asked the two males to find another spot.
They returned about 30 minutes later and Omid went back outside, this time with his father and brother, and once again asked the males to move on. They agreed and walked away.
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At about 7pm, Omid’s father was alerted by his daughter that the males were back and were covering their faces with masks and hoods.
He went out to investigate with his dog, when he saw Omid, who had left the house earlier thinking the situation was resolved, challenge the males and chase them away. Omid’s father followed behind.
During the chase, Smith and the 17-year-old produced knives and were waving them at Omid. Omid, also armed with a knife, said he would not be intimidated by them and he wanted them out of the area.
The dry cleaners where Omid is believed to have been stabbed (Image: FM)
Omid called his friend Omotosho for help. Omotosho arrived a short time later and joined the chase on his moped. He also had a knife.
There was an altercation between the three, which resulted in Omid receiving fatal injuries. It is believed Omid stabbed one of the men he was pursuing during the altercation.
Omotosho drove at the males on his moped in a bid to defend his friend, but he lost control and crashed into some parked vehicles.
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Omotosho fell to the ground and was defenceless when Smith approached him and stabbed him in the chest. Both suspects then fled the scene.
At this point, Omid’s father caught-up and found his son collapsed on the floor near Parsons Green Tube Station. Despite emergency treatment, Omid died at the scene. He had been stabbed four times, in his neck, torso and buttock.
Both Smith and the 17-year-old were seen several times on CCTV in the area on October 17, 2017.
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The 17-year-old was also stabbed during the altercation, and was subsequently arrested. Smith went on the run, but was soon located on October 19.
Omotosho was arrested and charged with possession of a bladed or sharply pointed article in a public place and affray.
He previously pleaded guilty to these charges on October 23, 2017, and was remanded to be sentenced at the same time as Smith and the 17-year-old.
Candles were set out on the street in remembrance to Omid (Image: FM)
In a statement Omid's family said: "Nothing will bring back out our beloved son Omid and we don't feel that justice was fully served with the verdict.
"However, we as a family hope that this conviction goes some way to showing the young people out there that carrying a knife in public has serious consequences. We pray that no other family has to go what we have gone through."
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National Park Service to Present Mall Plan to the Commission of Fine Arts
With the new Administration now in place, it appears little has changed regarding the National Park Service’s approach to the public consultation process for its National Mall Plan and a new Mall signage program.
Tomorrow — Thursday, February 19th — the Park Service will be presenting its latest version of the Mall Plan to the Commission of Fine Arts. In addition, it will seek “concept/final” approval for a Pedestrian Guide Sign Program for the Mall. The meeting begins at 10 a.m. See the Commission’s draft agenda below.
Since May 2008, the last time the NPS invited public comment on its first round of planning ideas, we have been waiting. A group of local nonprofit organizations wrote joint letters to NPS in May 2008 and again in December 2008 urging further discussion of critical maintenance issues (grass, trees, restrooms, signage) while also pointing out the need for a larger, multi-agency planning effort (Smithsonian, National Gallery of Art, DC Government, and more) that goes beyond NPS jurisdiction to include the entire Mall.
Instead of scheduling the required public consultation meetings, or responding to our comments and concerns, NPS apparently decided to move ahead on decisions without sufficient opportunity for public involvement. The notice of tomorrow’s CFA meeting is the first we’ve heard about a Mall signage program, which we believed was supposed to be part of the Mall planning process.
This attitude, unfortunately, has characterized NPS’s attitude toward public engagement for some time. It was articulated most directly by former NPS Associate Director John Parsons letter in his letter to The Washington Post on January 18.
The lack of transparency is not a new story. Nor should it be a surprise to Congressional oversight committees. Oversight hearings were held about NPS’s National Mall Plan efforts in April 2005 (Senate Energy, Subcommittee on National Parks) and May 2008 (House Resources, Subcommittee on National Parks). Once again, we may have to raise our voice: The public, including groups following closely the fate of the National Mall, deserves the chance to be heard.
Meeting of the Commission of Fine Arts
10:00 A.M. CONVENE, Suite 312, 401 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001-
B. National Park Service
1. CFA 19/FEB/09- , National Mall and Memorial Parks. Draft Master Plan. Information Presentation.
2. CFA 19/FEB/09- , National Mall and Memorial Parks. Pedestrian Guide Sign Program. Designs for two new sign types. Concept/Final.
For more information, contact Coalition vice chair Kent Cooper at 202-338-3442.
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Haqi Ali
About Haqi Ali
Haqi was born in Birmingham, England.
As a teenager he was a member of the St Pauls Youth Theatre where he found his passion to perform, act and write.
Haqi started his career as a stand-up comedian where he gained notoriety following his performance at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s “So Your think Your Funny Comedy Competition” and tour in 1993. He went on to build a successful career as a comedic actor and stand up comic. Haqi has also featured In BBC’s Network East, as a stand up comic.
TV work includes: for the BBC Citizen Khan, Man Like Mobeen andDoctors.
Film work includes:for Goldwyn Films Waiting For The Barbarians; for Paramount Pictures Jungleland; for NetflixJawbone; a Bollywood Film called Chall Mera Putt. He also featured in the award-winning film Get the Picture in 2004.
Theatre work includes Every Thing Must Go with Friction Arts; The Decent with Midlands Actors Theatre; Salty Waters with Pubanat, Fifth Cup with Castaway Arts and King Lear with RSC Open Stages.
He was an Official Nominee for the BATSFF 2015 Best Supporting Actor, for his role in the film Go With God in 2014.
Haqi is also a talented scriptwriter and film Director and has gone on to write screenplays and had his directorial debut film; ‘Return’.
He is also a film Editor: Mr Creep (Short film); Return (Feature Film) and Tainted Love (Short Film).
When he is not working as an actor Haqi also facilitates and brings film, theatre and drama production to youth communities who don't usually have accesses to performing arts.
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Scientists explore susceptibility of different animals to SARS-CoV-2 infection
By Angela Betsaida B. Laguipo, BSNJul 20 2021
Numerous reports indicate severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spillovers have occurred from humans to animals since the COVID-19 pandemic began, as evidenced by the transmission of the virus between keepers and tigers and lions at the New York Bronx Zoo.
To date, however, it is unclear what species of animals are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2. This type of information can usually be gathered by infecting various animal species with a virus to determine if they are susceptible. However, in order to reduce animal testing and refine animal experiments, researchers set out to answer this question in a more elegant and animal-friendly way.
A team of researchers at the Institute of Infectious Diseases (IFIK) at the University of Bern and the Institute of Virology and Immunology (IVI) has utilized a unique collection of advanced cell culture models of cells lining the airways from various domesticated and wildlife animals. This way, the team can determine which animals are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
In the study, published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, the team revealed that SARS-CoV-2 efficiently infected the respiratory cells from cats and monkeys, suggesting that infection surveillance is important for these animals.
Study: Susceptibility of Well-Differentiated Airway Epithelial Cell Cultures from Domestic and Wild Animals to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2. Image Credit: Krakenimages.com / Shutterstock
SARS-CoV-2 in animals
Over the past two decades, scientists have observed zoonotic outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China in 2003 and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in Saudi Arabia in 2012. The outbreaks have been followed by the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused over 191 million cases worldwide.
Humans appear to be the main hosts of SARS-Cov-2, but its zoonotic origin and intermediate and spillover hosts are unknown. Studies in the past have shown that these spillover events can happen from humans to animals.
Scientists believe that close human-to-animal interactions drive zoonotic events. Throughout the pandemic, several reports of animals being infected with SARS-CoV-2 have emerged. These include infection in pets like dogs and cats, and zoo animals like big cats (lion, tiger, cougar, leopard, and puma), and gorillas. Farm animals like minks were reported to have contracted the virus, too.
In studies, animal models are essential to study the host spectrum. Aside from that, these studies can shed light on the viral pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2, testing novel antiviral drugs, immunotherapies, and vaccines.
In the current study, the researchers evaluated the susceptibility of various mammal species to SARS-CoV-2 by recapitulating the initial stages of infection in a controlled in vitro model.
The team used the repository of well-differentiated airway epithelial cell (AEC) cultures from various domesticated and wildlife animal species to arrive at the study findings. In total, cell cultures from 12 mammal species were examined, including rhesus macaque, cat, ferret, dog, pig, rabbit, goat, cattle, llama, camel, and two neotropical bat species.
The cells were isolated from deceased animals, and these cells can be increased in a petri dish. Hence, the researchers do not need to perform any animal experiments. To evaluated the susceptibility of the animal species to SARS-CoV-2, the 12 well-differentiated mammal ACE culture models were infected and monitored for viral replication kinetics.
Tropisms of SARS-CoV-2, IAV, and IDV in infected airway epithelial cell cultures from diverse mammal species. We inoculated well-differentiated animal airway epithelial cell cultures with either 30.000 PFU of SARS-CoV-2 (SARS-CoV-2/München-1.1/2020/929), 10.000 50% tissue culture infective dose of IAV/Hamburg/4/2009, or IDV (D/bovine/Oklahoma/660/2013). We incubated virus-infected airway epithelial cell cultures at 33°C or 37°C and formalin-fixed them at 96 hours postinfection (for SARS-CoV-2) or 48 hours postinfection (for influenza viruses). After fixation, we stained virus-infected cultures using antibodies against either SARS-CoV-2, IAV, or IDV NP (green), and β-tubulin (cilia, red). We acquired images using an EVOS FL Auto 2 Imaging System equipped with a 40x air objective. Scale bar indicates 50 µm. *Sturnira lilium bat; †Carollia perspicillata bat. IAV, influenza A virus; IDV, influenza D virus; NP, nucleocapsid protein; SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
The team observed that SARS-CoV-2 replicated efficiently only in money and cat culture models. However, upon conducting whole-genome sequencing, they found no apparent signs of nucleotide transitions required for SARS-CoV-2 to infect monkey and cat airway epithelial cell (AEC) cultures productively.
The study findings suggest that certain species of these two animals may be particularly vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
“Our findings, together with previous reports of human-to-animal spillover events, warrant close surveillance to determine the potential role of cats, monkeys, and closely related species as spillback reservoirs for SARS-CoV-2,” the team concluded in the study.
Further, the team says the study results highlight that in vitro well-differentiated animal AEC culture models can be used as an alternative to conventional animal experimentation models to study SARS-CoV-2’s host spectrum.
Gultom, M., Licheri, M., Laloli, L., Wider, M., Strassle, M. et al. (2021). Susceptibility of Well-Differentiated Airway Epithelial Cell Cultures from Domestic and Wild Animals to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2. Emerging Infectious Diseases. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/7/20-4660_article
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Tags: Antibodies, B Cell, Cell, Cell Culture, Cilia, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Disease COVID-19, Drugs, Genome, Imaging, Immunology, in vitro, Infectious Diseases, Influenza, Nucleotide, Pandemic, Petri Dish, Protein, Respiratory, SARS, SARS-CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Syndrome, T-Cell, Tissue Culture, Virology, Virus
Angela Betsaida B. Laguipo
Angela is a nurse by profession and a writer by heart. She graduated with honors (Cum Laude) for her Bachelor of Nursing degree at the University of Baguio, Philippines. She is currently completing her Master's Degree where she specialized in Maternal and Child Nursing and worked as a clinical instructor and educator in the School of Nursing at the University of Baguio.
Laguipo, Angela. (2021, July 20). Scientists explore susceptibility of different animals to SARS-CoV-2 infection. News-Medical. Retrieved on January 17, 2022 from https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210720/Scientists-explore-susceptibility-of-different-animals-to-SARS-CoV-2-infection.aspx.
Laguipo, Angela. "Scientists explore susceptibility of different animals to SARS-CoV-2 infection". News-Medical. 17 January 2022. <https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210720/Scientists-explore-susceptibility-of-different-animals-to-SARS-CoV-2-infection.aspx>.
Laguipo, Angela. "Scientists explore susceptibility of different animals to SARS-CoV-2 infection". News-Medical. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210720/Scientists-explore-susceptibility-of-different-animals-to-SARS-CoV-2-infection.aspx. (accessed January 17, 2022).
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DeGrasse Tyson's Apology Gets Bashed, Too
Astrophysicist says data was 'true but unhelpful'
By Arden Dier, Newser Staff
Posted Aug 7, 2019 8:27 AM CDT
In this Sept. 9, 2017 file photo, Neil Degrasse Tyson arrives at night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
(Newser) – Neil deGrasse Tyson has apologized for his "true but unhelpful" tweet following mass shootings that killed at least 31 people in 48 hours—though some feel the apology is just as lacking in empathy. DeGrasse Tyson's Sunday tweet listed the greater average number of preventable deaths from car accidents, flu, and suicide across a 48-hour period, noting, "Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data." "What I learned from the range of reactions is that for many people, some information—my Tweet in particular—can be true but unhelpful, especially at a time when many people are either still in shock, or trying to heal—or both," the astrophysicist wrote in a Monday Facebook post, per Fox News. He added, "So if you are one of those people, I apologize for not knowing in advance what effect my Tweet could have on you."
"Ooh. Not good," writes Justin Bariso at Inc, who translates that last sentence as, "I'm sorry I couldn't tell the future. And that I couldn't foresee that a few oversensitive people wouldn't be able to handle the truth." Zack Sharf at IndieWire similarly reads between the lines of this quote from deGrasse Tyson: "I personally value knowing with precision and accuracy what reaction anything that I say (or write) will instill in my audience, and I got this one wrong." According to Sharf, deGrasse Tyson "appeared to be apologizing more for causing a controversial reaction than for what he actually wrote." DeGrasse Tyson did clarify his aim, however. "My intent was to offer objectively true information that might help shape conversations and reactions to preventable ways we die," he wrote. "I genuinely believed the Tweet would be helpful to anyone trying to save lives in America." (Read more Neil deGrasse Tyson stories.)
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A star is reborn
Janis Stevens’ powerhouse portrait of Vivien Leigh keeps her busy—and keeps improving
By Jeff Hudson
Janis Stevens had a bright idea: that she could play Vivien Leigh. Well, duh!
That was quick.
Actress Janis Stevens opened Vivien at the Sacramento Theatre Company on December 15. And within days, the one-woman show was sold out for the remainder of the run (ending January 6).
That’s pretty good for a show that was a late substitute in the schedule, not listed in STC’s season brochure. But it’s not surprising, given that people still talk about Stevens’ Vivien at California Stage back in 2000, when this theatrical portrait of Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire star Vivien Leigh was still in development.
The fact that she got the show to New York in 2005—and garnered a Drama Desk nomination for Best Solo Performance—only heightened anticipation for another engagement here, in the city where Stevens lives (and teaches at American River College).
The current Sacramento run is a tune-up for a higher-profile gig. “I close at STC on the 6th, then I get on a plane that night, and I start rehearsals in Philadelphia on the 8th,” Stevens told SN&R recently.
Vivien opens January 17 at Philly’s Walnut Street Theatre, which has been in business since 1809.
“It’s illustrious,” Stevens said of the venue. “It’s where A Streetcar Named Desire premiered, before it went to New York.” That kind of detail is significant to Stevens, who is aware of history, and might fairly be described as having “old-school” sensibilities.
An eventual Off-Broadway run for Vivien is also a possibility.
Stevens and playwright Rick Foster have worked on the show Vivien for years, sculpting Leigh’s often unhappy life into a script written with Stevens’ considerable abilities in mind. “I first performed it at Sierra Repertory Theatre in 1997,” Stevens recalled. “Then we worked on it for three years in the Bay Area.” In 2000, Vivien had a workshop run in Sonora, followed by modestly-publicized spring and fall engagements at the tiny California Stage in Sacramento.
Then came the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where Vivien opened on Sept. 8, 2001—and got buried by a national disaster three days later.
When a New York run finally was secured in 2005, Stevens brought in a new director—her one-time acting teacher, Peter Sander. They made some changes. “[Foster] flew out, and he and Peter and I really attacked the end of the show. And I think we have succeeded with that,” she said.
Stevens feels Vivien now is a stronger show than when local audiences saw it in 2000. “The journey has deepened, and I think it’s a more satisfying piece altogether,” she said. “It’s certainly more satisfying for me to play.” She credits Sander for bringing the play to the level that attracted the Drama Desk nomination.
Adding to the credibility, Stevens has reached the same age as Vivien Leigh at the time of her death (53).
Having lived with Vivien for over a decade, Stevens said, “What I know now better than anything is how I channel her, and don’t worry any longer about whether I can pull the wool over people’s eyes—mimicking her and looking like her. It’s more about how I let this woman’s essence filter through me, and bring a real human being to life on stage for people.”
Stevens is gratified to have a full calendar nowadays. “I’ve been working nonstop. I don’t know whether it’s been the Drama Desk nomination, or whether I’m outlasting some of the others. But it’s been great.”
After Vivien closes in Philadelphia on February 3, Stevens flies home to direct Fool for Love at Capital Stage. Then she’ll be at the Space (California Stage) doing Love, Isadora, a play about Isadora Duncan. After that, she expects to be at Theater at Monmouth, a summer series in Maine featuring Shakespeare and modern classics. “It’s old-time rep, and I love it,” Stevens said.
A personal afterword. This writer saw Stevens do Vivien in the spring of 2000, in a Sonora workshop. I rated it a standout—a remarkable combination of a viscerally powerful actress (working at the top of her game) with a skillfully-crafted, custom script that etched an elusive, famous personality. Very occasionally, reviewing in a smallish theater market like ours, I encounter a developing show that displays genuine big-league potential. And when I saw Vivien seven years ago, I wondered, “What might people say, if this one gets all the way to New York?”
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'Bae,' 'Enhanced Interrogation' Land On Banned-Words List
By Danny Matteson
Michigan's Lake Superior State University is moving to ban many of those words you might have heard a little too often in the past 12 months.
You know how every year the dictionary adds a bunch of new, trendy words that were popular that year?
Well, this is kind of the opposite. Northern Michigan's Lake Superior State University is moving to ban many of those words you might have heard a little too often in the past 12 months.
The list includes words like bae, hack, swag, cray-cray, curated, enhanced interrogation, takeaway, skill set — even foodie.
"Foodie? What's wrong with foodie?" HLN's Robin Meade wondered.
LSSU compiled the list through nominations on its website and targets "pet peeves" from everyday speech, news and technology, among other categories. (Video via Lake Superior State University)
It's obviously not binding — just more of a suggestion.
And it's not new, either. Dubbed the "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-use, and General Uselessness," it was actually created 40 years ago by a university public relations director at a 1975 New Year's party.
In total, the list includes more than 800 words.
Also making the list this year was the word "nation" affixed to any sports team. You know, something like "Yankee nation" or "Red Sox nation."
And "polar vortex." We're guessing that's a term most of you wouldn't want to hear right now anyway. (Video via The Weather Channel)
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Facts About Kitchen Cousins That May Surprise You
By Joan Moore/Aug. 3, 2016 11:46 pm EST
In 2011, first cousins and best friends Anthony Carrino and John Colaneri launched their HGTV show Kitchen Cousins. The duo, who work together at their family's Brunulleschi Construction company in New Jersey, focus on conceptualizing and constructing dream kitchens. However, there's more to these two than just designing bigger and better places for their clients to eat. Here are a few potentially surprising facts about the Kitchen Cousins that you probably didn't know.
John's fantasy customer is JFK
If the cousins could design a kitchen for anyone, living or dead, who would they work with? Colaneri told Shoptalkhe'd pick late President John F. Kennedy; Carrino chose Filippo Brunelleschi, the Italian Renaissance designer and engineer their company is named after.
Anthony fell for fellow HGTV host Genevieve Gorder
Carrino met Genevieve Gorder, an interior designer and host of HGTV shows Genevieve's Renovation, White House Christmas, and Dear Genevieve, while filming promos for their shows. "We didn't like each other at all," Gorder told Hudson Mod, but the two quickly realized each was the counterpart the other needed. "Strong needs strong," Gorder said. "That's really what both of us were missing in our lives. I want a successful, confident man." Gorder claims an astrologer predicted Carrino would come into her life.
Sued for shoddy work
The cousins were sued by two customers for shoddy work. According to NJ.com, Robert and Peng Avery sued Colaneri, Carrino, and their company in 2013 for consumer fraud, breach of contract, fraud, and negligence. The plaintiffs alleged the cousins lied about their house passing inspections and abandoned the job after being paid a total of $211,000 for their work. The Averys won the lawsuit in arbitration and were awarded $857,894.
Filing for bankruptcy
Colaneri and Carrino were forced to file for bankruptcy in August 2015 as a result of the Averys' lawsuit. Their attorney told NJ.com that filing for bankruptcy "prevents the Averys from moving ahead with liens against his clients." The Averys reportedly bought their home, which was once owned by New York Yankees baseball legend Don Mattingly, in 2012 for $1.3 million, but weren't able to move in until the summer of 2015 after hiring another contractor to finish the renovation, their attorney told the news site.
They never intended to make a show
Colaneri and Carrino never imagined they'd have their own TV show. According to the Jersey City Independent, Carrino and his dad decided to start a business together after remodeling a brownstone in Hoboken, N.J., and then Colaneri joined in.
The cousins were later asked by a friend if she could film a "day in the life" of the cousins as they were remodeling homes throughout the area. "I told her she was crazy," Colaneri told the Jersey City Independent. That tape was submitted to a local production company who shopped it around, eventually landing with HGTV. "We did trip into it," Carrino said. "It's nothing we ever expected nor were we working towards."
Working with Khloe and Lamar
The Kitchen Cousins designed and renovated reality star couple Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom's entertainment/movie theater room. "The room is purple and gold, but they want to do away with that," Colaneri told The Huffington Post in 2013. "So we're putting our twist on the space with something warmer and cozy that feels more contemporary, like a second living room."
Being generous with DeGeneres
The cousins have partnered with the queen of daytime TV, Ellen DeGeneres, on two occasions to do some serious good. According to The Huffington Post, they teamed up with DeGeneres in 2012 to surprise a family in Pittsburgh, Pa. with a new kitchen, but once the brothers learned about the family's financial struggles, they decided to transform the entire home. Later that year, they rebuilt a home for a family that lost their house in Hurricane Sandy.
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Anthony started in construction when he was 10
It's never too early to start working toward your dreams. For Carrino, "early" was 10 years old, when he first helped his dad build an extension on their house, reported Yahoo News. Fourteen years later, father and son founded their construction company.
Carrino did experience a time in his life where he wasn't on the path to becoming a famous contractor and home designer. Post-college, he worked as a software salesman. "If I got stuck in that rut, I would have never dug deep," Carrino told Babson College. "I saw the money as a graduating senior and was impressed. But you have to measure your quality-of-life decisions as much as the money."
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How Much Is Andrew Giuliani Actually Worth?
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By Kathryn Cook/May 18, 2021 12:32 pm EST
Andrew Giuliani is best known for being the son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani. In 2021, Andrew made headlines for himself by announcing a run for governor. Andrew has close ties with former President Donald Trump, and during Trump's time in office, he worked as the Office of Public Liaison director, per NBC News. Now, he has his sights set on the governor's office for 2022.
"I plan to run," Andrew told the Washington Examiner in April. "I believe I can win the race. I think I'm the right candidate, and this is the right time to help change New York State, and we've got a playbook that works." NBC New York reports that Andrew has basically grown up in the limelight. When his father won the race for New York City mayor in 1994, Andrew was only 7 years old.
In 2008, Andrew made headlines for filing a lawsuit against the Duke University men's golf team (via Golf Digest). The team dismissed Andrew from the squad just two weeks after Rudy quit the Presidential race. Andrew argued that he was unfairly let go. "The suit argues that his enrollment at Duke constituted a contract in which his payment of $200,000 in tuition and fees across four years brought him, among other things, lifetime access to the university's golf facilities," per Golf Digest. Andrew has come a long way since then. Keep scrolling for deets.
Inside Andrew Giuliani's Net worth
Andrew Giuliani has done pretty well for himself. According to Exact Net Worth, the political figure has an estimated fortune between $2 million and $4 million. In 2019, CNBC reported that Andrew, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 in 2020, made around $95,000 per year while serving as "Special Assistant to the President and Associate Director of the Office of Public Liaison." In comparison, Kal Penn, who worked under Barack Obama in the same position, only earned $41,000 a year in 2009. If Andrew were to beat out Andrew Cuomo in the race for governor, he would receive a huge pay boost. According to Forbes, Cuomo raked in around $225,000 in 2020, making him the highest-paid governor in U.S. history. In 2021, it's estimated that Cuomo will make $250,000 — not too shabby if you ask us!
In turn, Rudy Giuliani has a net worth of $45 million (via Celebrity Net Worth). So it's safe to say that Andrew could follow in his father's footsteps and gain a net worth far bigger than he has now, but he still has a long way to go.
When his father's home was raided by the FBI in April, Andrew made his opinion clear. "If it can happen to the former mayor who led New York City through 9/11, it can happen to you, too," he wrote in the Washington Examiner. Rudy's legal troubles could perhaps affect Andrew's trajectory, politically and financially.
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From Ken Doctor’s “Newsonomics”: What Phil Balboni learned about online journalism from cable news
By Ken Doctor @kdoctor Feb. 8, 2010, noon
[I’m very pleased to say that Ken Doctor, one of the smartest minds out there on the business side of journalism’s digital future, is going to be joining us here at the Nieman Journalism Lab. You’ll see his pieces on the economics of news here weekly. But at the moment, Ken is focused on the release of his new book, Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get. Today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, we’ll be running three brief excerpts from the book, each a Q&A with a leading journalist whose career has been shifted by the Internet. First up is GlobalPost CEO Phil Balboni. —Josh]
Phil Balboni launched GlobalPost in January 2009, just as many news companies were further reducing international reporting. He acted on a forty-year-old idea he’d had about bringing back global news to American audiences — and had seen that the ability of Internet efficiencies now made it possible. GlobalPost is his second career; he founded and ran the award-winning New England Cable News (NECN) business for many years. Now he can look out on the harbor, where clipper ships came in, and beyond, to his growing network of more than seventy correspondents working around the world.
Q: How did your cable news experience inform your GlobalPost plan?
A: There are quite a few, seminal lessons learned from NECN. First, the enormous value of more than one revenue stream and not being solely dependent on advertising.
The most important thing I did on the business side of NECN was throw myself totally into building distribution and selling the network to cable systems — always for cash and never for free. This generated over time enormous growth in steady, reliable revenue that was recession proof and not subject to the ups and downs of the ad market. In my final year, thanks to new contracts with new distributors like Verizon, we were headed toward a double-digit net revenue increase from license fees. Second, the essentiality of intelligent cost control.
Finally, quality works. In journalism, this is generally not believed and, therefore, virtually all media companies chase the largest audience with the lowest common denominator content. We started with a determination to be the high-quality provider of local news on television in New England. We also knew that we would never be the most viewed station with the highest ratings. We created our entire operation and our entire business to be able to be successful as a high-quality provider of content and to live happily with the smaller number of people who wanted an intelligent news product.
Q: What’s the moment when the lightbulb went off on how dramatically this new digital business of journalism would be radically different from legacy media?
A: For me, it was probably the fall of 1997, when we launched necn.com as the first all-video-news web site — perhaps in the world, certainly in the United States. There were probably not more than a couple of dozen broadband connections in the Boston metro area, but we believed in the promise of digital, of being interactive, of letting people have what they wanted in the order they wanted it, and only what they wanted.
And then I saw how slowly this built, how long it took for people to catch on to the power of the web to deliver video, but we never doubted that we were doing the right thing, and today the power of video has swept over the Internet.
Q: What have you learned about the role — and economics — of bloggers that surprised you?
A: I am constantly amazed at the enormous scope of blogging and the immediacy of its viral power. I would never have expected it to have come this far but it has, and shows no signs of any significant slowdown. To the contrary, the economics are generally not there, and blogging is not of great interest to advertisers. There are certainly some exceptions, but I don’t see this changing much. It is more of a social networking and intellectual engagement tool than an economic one.
Q: Is this “freelance stipend” model a big part of journalism’s future? [GlobalPost correspondents are generally not full-time employees; they’re paid a regular stipend as freelancers in exchange for a set number of pieces a month.]
A: I do believe that it will be a meaningful part of the future for journalists as the large and well-endowed media companies disassemble. It puts the burden on the journalist to cobble together the means of his or her support, but, on the other hand, it offers more freedom, more flexibility, and more creativity than being yoked to one entity. We do hope, and expect, to reward the best of our correspondents with compensation that will look more and more like full- time payment. That depends on our overall economics, of course, but it is part of the game plan for GlobalPost.
From Newsonomics by Ken Doctor. Copyright 2010 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC.
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Wes Unseld Jr. calls Kings COVID situation ‘concerning’
/ by Andrew Gillis
Just under two hours before tipoff against the Phoenix Suns, Wizards coach Wes Unseld Jr. expressed concern about the reported coronavirus outbreak in Sacramento.
The Wizards played the Kings on Wednesday and later traveled to Arizona for their game against the 22-5 Suns. But once the Wizards left, there was an outbreak of positive tests in the Kings’ organization.
Sources: The Sacramento Kings are having a COVID-19 outbreak of multiple positive tests among players and staffers, including Marvin Bagley, Alvin Gentry â with potentially multiple additional players and staff entering protocols. There are some symptomatic cases.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 16, 2021
“It’s very concerning, honestly,” Unseld said before the Suns game. “We were aware of some positive cases (in the) early afternoon, I think that’s why they changed their shootaround schedule. But the league felt confident that the game should proceed. That’s all we can do is go on their recommendation.”
It is unknown how many players and staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, as there remains concern about whether or not the team will be able to play the Grizzlies on Friday night.
The Wizards, for their part, were tested earlier Thursday and returned zero positives. Kyle Kuzma returned from COVID protocols for Wednesday’s game, as the Wizards had Kuzma and a team staffer test positive recently.
The team was tested twice a day in the midst of those positive tests, which produced zero further positives.
“Protocols are put in place, we’ve been testing for some time now with the cases that we’ve had,” Unseld said. “It’s not unusual, it’s not unique to our team. You look around the landscape of this league and this country, there’s been a dramatic uptick in cases, knock on wood, the severity of those cases and the rate of hospitalizations don’t appear to be as dramatic, but it’s still very real.”
Unseld said he and the rest of the team are mindful of who they’re around and will try to remain as cautious as they reasonably can during a time when every league in season is dealing with a host of positive tests.
“It’s very frustrating,” Unseld said. “I don’t know what the answer is, to be honest with you. I spent three months in the bubble. I get it. We have a job to do, we’re given this opportunity and this platform to do it. But at some point, there is a concern not only for your own personal safety, but the safety of your loved ones and friends and folks you have at home that you could potentially be, unbeknownst to you, bringing something to your house.”
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Could Wizards end 22-year drought vs. Spurs?
/ by Chase Hughes
It has been so long since the Wizards won a road game against the San Antonio Spurs that Bill Clinton was president. Playing for the Wizards were Rod Strickland, Juwan Howard and Mitch Richmond. The Spurs had Tim Duncan in his second year, David Robinson, Steve Kerr and Jaren Jackson, a.k.a. the father of Grizzlies big man Jaren Jackson Jr.
Not since 1999 have the Wizards won in San Antonio, having lost their last 21 tries. But on Monday night they may have one of their best opportunities to break that streak in quite some time. That's because the Wizards are off to their best start in years, while the Spurs are struggling to a degree they rarely do.
At 13-7, the Wizards have their best record through 20 games since the 2014-15 season. Meanwhile, the Spurs at 5-13 have their worst record to this point since 1996-97.
While it may be rare to see Washington win like this so early in the season, it is much more unusual to see the Spurs stumble out of the gate. That 1996-97 season was the one that preceded San Antonio landing Duncan with the first overall pick. They then made the playoffs in 22 straight seasons, winning five championships along the way.
The Spurs have missed the postseason in two straight years, but still managed to beat the Wizards in their annual meeting in San Antonio. They won by 20 points when the Wizards traveled there in January, fresh off their coronavirus outbreak and missing a host of key rotation players.
While the Wizards are up and the Spurs are currently down, that doesn't mean they aren't capable of a surprise. They just snapped a six-game losing streak by beating the Celtics and have a roster full of emerging young players.
Dejounte Murray, 25, is averaging 18.9 points, 8.4 rebounds, 8.1 assists and 2.1 steals per game. He's also an excellent defender. Keldon Johnson, 22, is averaging 15.1 points and 6.5 rebounds while shooting 39.2% from three. And 21-year-old Devin Vassell, a lottery pick from the same draft class as Deni Avdija, is averaging 12.2 points and 3.9 rebounds while shooting threes at a 39.3% clip.
The Spurs also have head coach Gregg Popovich, one of the best in the game. Amazingly, he was the coach back in 1999 as well.
Despite winning two straight, the Wizards haven't been playing their best basketball of the season in recent days and weeks. They lost four in five games recently, including a major letdown at the Pelicans which may have been their worst loss of the season so far.
Still, the odds seem decent the Wizards can break the streak. Maybe someone can go off like Richmond, who had 31 points the last time they won in San Antonio.
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Today's Birthday, May 19: Australian actress Claudia Karvan (1972 - ). She's one of the most recognised faces in Australian television drama with her performances attracting a number of awards. Claudia Karvan's performances in The Secret Life of Us (2001), Love My Way (2004) and Saved (2009) earned her a Logie for Most Outstanding Actress. She won her first Australian Film Institute award for Best Actress for the G.P. in 1996 and won the award again in 2005 and 2007 for her role in Love My Way. Karvan says she seeks roles that have "complex and surprising storytelling that have enough subtext to keep me satisfied". "I'm happy if I can stab a vampire in the neck or behave like a misanthrope or turn a cartwheel," Karvan told The Australian. In her most recent series, Newton's Law, she plays a solicitor. "I've been wishing for a role that has authority, maturity, heart, warmth and is not apologetic about any of those qualities," she told the Sydney Morning Herald. Karvan was born in Sydney in 1972 and attended SCEGGS Darlinghurst. When she was eight she lived with her mother and brothers in Bali for a year. They returned and moved to King's Cross, where her stepfather owned the nightclub Arthur's. She began screen acting in 1983 in the film Molly, before appearing alongside Judy Davis in Gillian Armstrong's High Tide four years later. In 1993, Karvan won a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actress for her role in The Heartbreak Kid. She starred alongside fellow Australians Guy Pearce in Flynn (1991), Dating the Enemy (1996) and Jack Irish (2016), and Hugh Jackman in Paperback Hero (1999). In 2006 she was in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. She has since appeared in Spirited (2010), Puberty Blues (2012), The Time of Our Lives (2013) and many more. Karvan recently joined the cast of the second season of Stan series The Other Guy, which is written by and stars former triple j presenter and comedian Matt Okine. Karvan also sits on the board of Screen Australia. Karvan has two children, Audrey and Albie, and is a stepmother to Holiday, from her partner Jeremy Sparks' previous relationship. Australian Associated Press
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Today's Birthday 19/5
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Actress Claudia Karvan is one of the most recognised faces in Australian drama.
Today's Birthday, May 19: Australian actress Claudia Karvan (1972 - ).
She's one of the most recognised faces in Australian television drama with her performances attracting a number of awards.
Claudia Karvan's performances in The Secret Life of Us (2001), Love My Way (2004) and Saved (2009) earned her a Logie for Most Outstanding Actress.
She won her first Australian Film Institute award for Best Actress for the G.P. in 1996 and won the award again in 2005 and 2007 for her role in Love My Way.
Karvan says she seeks roles that have "complex and surprising storytelling that have enough subtext to keep me satisfied".
"I'm happy if I can stab a vampire in the neck or behave like a misanthrope or turn a cartwheel," Karvan told The Australian.
In her most recent series, Newton's Law, she plays a solicitor.
"I've been wishing for a role that has authority, maturity, heart, warmth and is not apologetic about any of those qualities," she told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Karvan was born in Sydney in 1972 and attended SCEGGS Darlinghurst.
When she was eight she lived with her mother and brothers in Bali for a year.
They returned and moved to King's Cross, where her stepfather owned the nightclub Arthur's.
She began screen acting in 1983 in the film Molly, before appearing alongside Judy Davis in Gillian Armstrong's High Tide four years later.
In 1993, Karvan won a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actress for her role in The Heartbreak Kid.
She starred alongside fellow Australians Guy Pearce in Flynn (1991), Dating the Enemy (1996) and Jack Irish (2016), and Hugh Jackman in Paperback Hero (1999).
In 2006 she was in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith.
She has since appeared in Spirited (2010), Puberty Blues (2012), The Time of Our Lives (2013) and many more.
Karvan recently joined the cast of the second season of Stan series The Other Guy, which is written by and stars former triple j presenter and comedian Matt Okine.
Karvan also sits on the board of Screen Australia.
Karvan has two children, Audrey and Albie, and is a stepmother to Holiday, from her partner Jeremy Sparks' previous relationship.
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A Hunter woman who has recently returned to Australia after being stuck in India for 10 months has called on the Australian government to bring stranded citizens home from the COVID ravaged country. Belmont's Deb Tellis, who lived in India for five years, managed to get a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade flight to Australia in March after the ordeal she went through trying to get home led to her being declared a vulnerable person. But an estimated 8000 Australians are still stuck in India, which is facing the world's worst COVID-19 outbreak. The country has set a new global record of daily cases in seven of the past eight days. Ms Tellis said she could not believe the Australian government had paused all flights from the country and was not going in there to bring Australian citizens home, like it did in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic. "Why isn't there the same concern and emergency? India is now worse than China," she said. "We're losing valuable time to get people back. "If they need to quarantine them longer fine so be it. We need to get them out. Take them to Howard Springs or Christmas Island. "Let's hope it doesn't take Aussies coming home in body bags before the federal government takes the necessary action. The government has also closed a loophole that allowed travellers from India to fly to Australia after transiting through Qatar. Ms Tellis said she had an anxiety attack when she heard how much the situation had escalated in India. "I was just crippled," she said. "I just couldn't believe it, then to have all those flights cut. It doesn't make sense to me anymore." Ms Tellis said she believed there was a misconception about Australians who were still overseas. "People think they should have come home, but that's the lie the government has been feeding everyone," she said. "All commercial flights were grounded. "India is a country that has remained locked. It's hard to get out of India and it's hard to get in to Australia. "A lot of people have run out of money, those people who are stuck are weighing up quarantine prices on top of tickets. "Compassion seems to be missing. The attitude is basically 'suck it up, you left'. It's a valuable opportunity to go overseas and work. People say 'oh now you want to come back because it's safer here', well actually we're citizens. "Every other country has brought their citizens home. The Indian government brought back six million people and shipped people wherever they couldn't fly them." Ms Tellis is the spokesperson for Free and Open Australia, which has brought a United Nations case against the federal government to bring Australians home. She also moderates Facebook pages for Australians stuck in India and around the world. She said a lot of people stuck in India were scared. "I think they're living with a lot of fear now," she said. "They feel so abandoned and it's not for the lack of trying that they're stuck there." IN NEWS TODAY: Our journalists work hard to provide local, up-to-date news to the community. This is how you can continue to access our trusted content:
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Deb Tellis urges Australian government to rescue Aussies from COVID-19 ravaged India
CONCERNED: Deb Tellis says she believes the government should be bringing stranded Aussies home from COVID ravaged India. Picture: Jonathan Carroll
A Hunter woman who has recently returned to Australia after being stuck in India for 10 months has called on the Australian government to bring stranded citizens home from the COVID ravaged country.
Belmont's Deb Tellis, who lived in India for five years, managed to get a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade flight to Australia in March after the ordeal she went through trying to get home led to her being declared a vulnerable person.
But an estimated 8000 Australians are still stuck in India, which is facing the world's worst COVID-19 outbreak. The country has set a new global record of daily cases in seven of the past eight days.
Ms Tellis said she could not believe the Australian government had paused all flights from the country and was not going in there to bring Australian citizens home, like it did in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic.
"Why isn't there the same concern and emergency? India is now worse than China," she said.
"We're losing valuable time to get people back.
"If they need to quarantine them longer fine so be it. We need to get them out. Take them to Howard Springs or Christmas Island.
"Let's hope it doesn't take Aussies coming home in body bags before the federal government takes the necessary action.
Deb Tellis during quarantine in Howard Springs.
The government has also closed a loophole that allowed travellers from India to fly to Australia after transiting through Qatar.
Ms Tellis said she had an anxiety attack when she heard how much the situation had escalated in India.
"I was just crippled," she said. "I just couldn't believe it, then to have all those flights cut. It doesn't make sense to me anymore."
Ms Tellis said she believed there was a misconception about Australians who were still overseas.
"People think they should have come home, but that's the lie the government has been feeding everyone," she said. "All commercial flights were grounded.
"India is a country that has remained locked. It's hard to get out of India and it's hard to get in to Australia.
"A lot of people have run out of money, those people who are stuck are weighing up quarantine prices on top of tickets.
"Compassion seems to be missing. The attitude is basically 'suck it up, you left'. It's a valuable opportunity to go overseas and work. People say 'oh now you want to come back because it's safer here', well actually we're citizens.
"Every other country has brought their citizens home. The Indian government brought back six million people and shipped people wherever they couldn't fly them."
Ms Tellis is the spokesperson for Free and Open Australia, which has brought a United Nations case against the federal government to bring Australians home. She also moderates Facebook pages for Australians stuck in India and around the world.
She said a lot of people stuck in India were scared.
"I think they're living with a lot of fear now," she said. "They feel so abandoned and it's not for the lack of trying that they're stuck there."
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Home Call for Applications Vienna Biocenter Summer School 2022 for undergraduate students worldwide (Fully Funded to...
Vienna Biocenter Summer School 2022 for undergraduate students worldwide (Fully Funded to Vienna, Austria)
Application Deadline: January 31st 2022
The Vienna Biocenter Summer School provides a unique opportunity for approx. 25-30 undergraduate students to work side by side with leading researchers in a dynamic scientific environment.
The programme aims to attract talented students from around the world, creating a vibrant and diverse atmosphere. It is the perfect preparation for those students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences arena. Applicants who are successful are provided with accommodation, a travel allowance and a stipend for the duration of the scholarship. The programme, starts on the last Friday in June and finishes on the the last Friday of August each year.
The school is a collaboration between five of Europe’s leading research institutes: Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CEMM), Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) and the Max Perutz Labs (Max Perutz Labs) and is generously sponsored by the Max Birnstiel Foundation.
Completed at least 2 years of an Undergraduate Degree at University or at least 1 year of a Master Degree by 30 June.
Applicant have previous research experience
Good academic record
High level of English language
Evidence of enrollment in a University program for the current academic year and the next year (if possible).
Free Accommodation will be provided.
Stipend of 1400 euros will be provided to each selected candidate after tax for the duration of nine weeks program
Comprehensive Medical Insurance
A free travel pass providing unlimited use of public transport within Vienna for the duration of the scholarship
Reimbursement of travel costs to and from Vienna
Numerous social events
Each fellow will be allocated a faculty member, with whom they will work closely. A diverse range of research projects are available in: Molecular biology, neuroscience, immunology, bioinformatics, RNA biology, stem cells, and biochemistry. The research project will focus on a current topic in the allocated lab. Supported by a member of the laboratory the scholar will be expected to perform experiments, analyse data, generate ideas, and discuss their results. In addition to practical laboratory work the scholar will also take part in lab meetings and journal clubs.
Each year our students organize a retreat at a location outside Vienna. The aim of the retreat is to facilitate discussion about scientific topics related to different aspects of science. This is an opportunity for students to interact on a personal and professional level.
In order to create a friendly environment, the retreat takes place at a hotel or other venue outside of Vienna. It normally lasts two days, during which there are scientific sessions and social activities.
All Vienna BioCenter PhD students are actively encouraged by their supervisors to attend the retreat which has proved to be very popular over the last years.
Scientific Symposium
The Vienna Biocenter Summer School concludes with a scientific symposium. In a short talk each scholar will present her/his findings to students and faculty. Prizes are awarded to the students that give the best presentations.
Visit the Official Webpage of the Vienna Biocenter Summer School 2022
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The Gift of Mission
In 2011 the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers celebrated one hundred years of mission work in more than forty countries around the world in a symposium that brought together missioners, theologians, and scholars with a wide range of expertise and insights. These selected essays explore both the achievements and failures of the past and the challenges and rewards that mission outreach experiences today in our pluralistic world. Acknowledging and honoring the past, The Gift of Mission also provides perspectives into the future of Christian mission and the changing nature of that mission in the 21st century—and beyond.
Contributors include Cardinal Francis George, Robert Schreiter, Peter Phan, Dana Robert, Bishop Ricardo Ramirez, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Barbara Reid, Daniel Groody, and many others.
James H. Kroeger, M.M., is professor of mission theology at the Loyola School of Theology and the East Asian Pastoral Institute in Manila, Philippines. He has written or edited more than thirty books and contributed to many others. He serves as president of the Philippine Association of Catholic Missiologists and as executive secretary of the Asian-born Missionary Societies Forum.
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Mowry Shale production up by 0.56% in August 2021
Mowry Shale witnessed an increase of 0.56% in total oil and gas production to 24,913.29 boe/d in August 2021 when compared with the previous month, according to GlobalData’s USL48 database.
The oil and gas production in Mowry grew 5.3% in August 2021 from 23,660.28 boe/d in August 2020. On a YTD basis, the total oil and gas production in the play increased by 2.75% from the same period in 2020.
In Mowry, oil production grew 0.52% in August 2021 as compared with the previous month, while gas production increased by 0.88% to 18.34 mmcf/d.
On a YTD basis, oil production in the play increased by 4.73% in 2021 when compared with the same period in 2020, while gas production declined by 8.74%. Out of the total oil and gas production in August 2021, oil held an 87.31% share, while gas had a 12.69% share.
In Mowry, Merit Energy emerged as the largest oil and gas producer, recording a total oil and gas production at 16,092.49 boe/d in August 2021, an increase of 0.56% from the previous month. The company held a 67.68% share in oil production and 43.4% share in gas production in August 2021.
On a YTD basis, the company registered a 1.94% increase in total oil and gas production from the same period in 2020.
Compared with other counties within Mowry Shale, Park county recorded the highest oil and gas production, holding a 64.37% share in August 2021. The county witnessed a 0.33% increase in production to 16,036.24 boe/d in August 2021 when compared with the previous month.
On a YTD basis, it registered an increase of 2.71% in total production from the same period in 2020.
All publicly announced wells data are included in this analysis, which is drawn from GlobalData’s USL48 database that provides insights into oil and gas permits and wells as disclosed by state ministry sites.
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RITCHIE, MAYOR.
FIRST SESSION, HELD NOVEMBER 16TH, 1903
TAKEN IN SHORT-HAND BY
MESSRS. BARNETT AND BUCKLER.
Short-hand Writers to the Court,
VOLUME CXXXIX.
SESSIONS I. TO VI.
STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED. 119, CHANCERY LANE.
Before the Right Hon. SIR JAMES THOMPSON RITCHIE , Knight, LORD MAYOR of the City of London; the Hon. Sir CHARLES JOHN DARLING , Knight, and the Hon. Sir JOSEPH WALTON , Justices of His Majesty's High Court; Sir MARCUS SAMUEL , Knight, Sir JOSEPH SAVORY , Bart., and Sir GEORGE F. FAUDEL-PHILLIPS , Bart., G.C.I.E., Aldermen of the said City; Sir FORREST FULTON , Knight. K.C., Recorder of the said City; WALTER VAUGHAN MORGAN , Esq., FREDERICK PRAT ALLISTON , Esq., and HOWARD CARLILE MORRIS , Esq., other of the Aldermen of the said City; FREDERICK ALBERT BOSANQUET , Esq., K.C., Common Serjeant of the said City; LUMLEY SMITH , Esq., K.C., Judge of the City of London Court, and JAMES ALEXANDER RENTOUL , Esq., K.C., M.P., LL.D., Deputy Judge of the City of London Court; His Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, holden for the said City, and Judges of the Central Criminal Court.
Sir JOHN KNILL , Bart., Alderman
ALFRED JAMES REYNOLDS , Esq., J.P.
Under Sheriffs.
RITCHIE, MAYOR. FIRST SESSION.
OLD COURT.—Monday, November 16th, 1903.
MAURICE ASHDOWN.
1. MAURICE ASHDOWN (31), PLEADED GUILTY to stealing a watch and chain from the person of William Stewart Ross, having been convicted of felony at Clerkenwell Sessions on January 9th, 1900, as Maurice Balm. Four other convictions were proved against him. † Three years penal servitude as an habitual criminal. —
ALFRED GEORGE CROCKER.
Deception: forgery, Deception: fraud.
(2). ALFRED GEORGE CROCKER , to feloniously endeavouring to obtain £50 from William Bird Pearse and others by virtue of a forged instrument; also to unlawfully attempting to obtain from William Bird Pearse and another £50 with intent to defraud. He received a good character. Discharged on recognisances. — [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
THOMAS WATSON.
Damage to Property: other.
(3). THOMAS WATSON to unlawfully setting fire to a stack of wheat the property of William Curtis. Nine months' hard labour. — [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
ALFRED PETTIFER.
(4). ALFRED PETTIFER , to feloniously marrying Eliza Giles, his wife being alive. One day's imprisonment. — [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
MARK SYMONS.
(5). MARK SYMONS , to stealing from the person of William Dowson Calvert a purse, a brooch, and 3d. his property, having been convicted of felony at Clerkenwell on February 5th, 1901, as Henry Scott. Ten other convictions were proved against him. Three years' penal servitude as an habitual criminal. — [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
JOHN NOLAN.
(6). JOHN NOLAN , to stealing and receiving fifty yards of merino the property of W. Hollins and Co., Ltd. Two previous convictions were proved against him. Eighteen months' hard labour. — [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
ROBERT VICTOR CHRISTOPHER.
(7). ROBERT VICTOR CHRISTOPHER , to feloniously marrying Annie Pye, his wife being alive. Three months' hard labour. — [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
CHARLES HENRY ALBERT LUCAS.
(8). CHARLES HENRY ALBERT LUCAS (25) , to stealing, whilst employed under the Post Office, two post letters containing 6d., a leather purse and 1s., the property of the Postmaster General. Nine months' hard labour. — [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
FREDERICK ANDREWS, FREDERICK WILSON, HARRY BLADES.
(9). FREDERICK ANDREWS (23), FREDERICK WILSON (26), and HARRY BLADES (22) , to stealing and receiving a watch, the property of Ernest Poulter, from his person, ANDREWS having been convicted of felony at Clerkenwell Sessions on February 6th, 1900, as Sidney Smith, WILSON at this Court on March 6th, 1899, as Albert Wilson, and BLADES at Clerkenwell on December, 18th, 1900, as Thomas Thomas. Seven other convictions were proved against Andrews, two against Wilson, and one against Blades. ANDREWS— Four years' penal servitude. WILSON— Three years' penal servitude. BLADES— Eighteen months' hard labour. [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
NEW COURT.—Monday, November 16th, 1903.
TIMOTHY HANLAN.
Royal Offences: coining offences, Royal Offences: coining offences.
10. TIMOTHY HANLAN (37) PLEADED GUILTY to unlawfully uttering a counterfeit half-sovereign on October 24th to Sarah Wickham. Second count. Unlawfully uttering a counterfeit half-sovereign to Clara Wolff;. to this he pleaded
NOT GUILTY.
CLARA WOLFF . I am the wife of Frederick Wolff, a baker of 1, Cross Street, Islington—about 2.30 p.m. on October 23rd the prisoner came and asked for change for a half sovereign—I sounded it on the counter and gave him in change two half crowns and five separate shillings—he took up the change and went away—it is a wooden counter and was wet, as I had been scrubbing it—I doubted the coin as it was light—I took it to the post office, where it was weighed and found light—I paid it to the barman at the Britannia, who tested it and fetched the manager—a constable on point duty was sent for—I attended Clerkenwell Police Court on Saturday and was discharged by the Magistrate—I identified the prisoner at Clerkenwell Police Court on October 26th.
WILLIAM DOBBY . I am manager of the Britannia public house, Britannia Road, Islington—on October 23rd I was called into the bar by my barman where I found Mrs. Wolff—I took this gilded Jubilee sixpence from the till—it is a trifle larger than a half sovereign, and the barman tried to force it into the slot, but the coin not being of proper weight the lever pushed it out, the test being for weight as well as quality—I sent for a constable and gave her into custody—I marked the coin.
SARAH WICKHAM . I am an assistant in a baker's shop at 1, Gillingham Street, Pimlico—on October 24th, about 2.30, I gave the prisoner change for a half sovereign—I found it was a Jubilee sixpence gilded—I ran out of the shop for a policeman—the prisoner came back as I handed the policeman the coin—the prisoner was about half way down the street, six or seven houses off—the policeman was about two doors off—the prisoner had passed him—this is the coin.
Cross-examined. Five minutes could not have elapsed, because I noticed the coin at once, and running out of the shop saw a policeman coming up the street and spoke to him, or else I was going for the prisoner.
WILLIAM WEST (20 B.) About 2.30 on October 24th I saw the last witness run out of a shop in Gillingham Street, three or four yards off—he showed me this sixpence and pointed to the prisoner, whom I had just
passed—when she spoke to me he was near enough to hear—he said, "Give me that half sovereign back; that is a good one; you can have your change"—she said that he had tendered it to her and that she thought it was bad—I said, "I think it is a gilt sixpence"—the prisoner said, "It is a good one"—I said, "If it is, all the better for you, but you will have to go to the station with me"—he produced a good one—I took him to the station—he gave no answer to the charge—I searched him and found a good half sovereign, two half crowns, two florins, and three sixpences in silver, and 6 1/2d. bronze—he wanted to hand 10s. back to the prosecutor—I found it on him—I could have caught him if he had run away.
CHARLES WALTERS (Police Sergeant N.) I was present on October 20th when Wolff identified the prisoner at Westminster Police Court—I showed him this coin and told him he would be charged with uttering it—he said, know nothing at all about it."
WILLIAM JOHN WEBSTER . I am Inspector of coin to His Majesty's Mint—these are gilded sixpences—they resemble half sovereigns and were called in in consequence after the Jubilee year, and in two previous reigns.
The prisoner in his defence stated that he believed the coins were good.
GUILTY .** Fifteen months' hard labour.
11. WILLIAM SMITH (19) , Unlawfully uttering counterfeit coin.
EMILY CHERRY . I assist Mr. Guscott, a baker, at 128, Stoke Newington Road—on November 2nd the prisoner came in and asked me to change a half sovereign—he put this coin in my hand—I looked at it—I said I did not think it was good—he said it was a Jubilee coin—I said I did not think it was right—he said before that it was a Jubilee coin—I took it to Mr. Guscott, who came into the shop and examined it—he said it was not good—the prisoner took another coin out of his pocket and held it in his hand—he said he got it from a barman, the result of betting—I did not hear the further conversation, I was standing behind Mr. Guscott, there was a great deal of noise from traffic.
JAMES GUSCOTT . I am a baker, of 128, Stoke Newington Road—the last witness is in my employment—on November 2nd, in the afternoon, she brought me this coin—I looked at it and went into the shop and told the prisoner I had doubts about it—he said he had got it from the Walford public house and showed me a paper with writing on it, which he said he had got from a barman, and that he would take it back to him—he then balanced it in his hand with a good coin and said the weight was all right—I said, "We can easily see by cutting it with a knife"—he said he would take it back—I got possession of it again and rubbed it on something rough, and said, "Look at that"—you can see the streak where the gold is rubbed off—he said, "Oh, there!" took the coin, and said he would go back to the barman—he hurried out of the shop—I went to see how he got on with the barman—he ran when I got to the corner—I ran after him, to Arthur Street, about a quarter of a mile, where I lost sight of him—I said to a man, who turned out to be a policeman in plain clothes, "Stop him"—he secured him as he was going by him and said, "What has he done?"—
I told him that the prisoner had tried to pass off a gilded sixpence—the prisoner then produced a good half sovereign and said that was what he had asked me to change, and that I had no right to run after him—the policeman said, "What have you thrown away?"—he said, "Nothing"—the policeman said, "I saw you throw something and hoard it jingle"—he said he had not thrown anything away—I said I should have him locked up—he asked me not to, as he was a bookmaker and had taken that half sovereign for a bet, and he should get into trouble for betting—I ordered him to be locked up—I saw him searched—I identified him—that is the man.
Cross-examined by the prisoner. You said you got it from a barman—you mentioned the Walford.
JOHN HONOUR (463 N.) I met the prisoner in Arthur Street, running towards me—he threw something away—I heard a metallic sound of something dropping on the ground, opposite the Arthur Road, where there are little gardens—he started to run; at the same time Guscott came round the corner and said, "Stop him"—I ran after him about fifty yards and brought him back to Guscott—I asked what was the matter; Guscott replied, "This man has given me a gilded sixpence for change for a half sovereign"—the prisoner produced a genuine half sovereign from his pocket and said, "This is the one I tendered to you"—the prosecutor replied, "No, that is not the one"—I told him I was a police constable, and the prosecutor said, "I will give him into custody"—the prisoner said, "I don't want to get into a bother over this, what will you take to square it?"—I took him to the police station—I went hack and searched the gardens with Sergeant Thornhill, and found this sixpence in No. 1, Arthur Road—I found on the prisoner a half sovereign, 5s. 6d. in silver, and 1s. 6d. in bronze good money—when charged he made no reply—he gave his address as the Rowton lodging houses, Kennington Lane, Lambeth.
ALFRED LEONARD THORNHILL . I went with Honour and searched the gardens at I, Arthur Road—I found this coin and gave it to Honour.
ERNEST DOVE . I am manager of the Walford public house, Stoke Newington—the staff consists of barmaids; there are no men—I never recollect seeing the prisoner—I never betted with him—I did not give him this coin.
WILLIAM JOHN WEBSTER . I am Inspector of coin to H.M. Mint—this coin is a Jubilee sixpence—it closely resembles a half sovereign.
GUILTY. Recommended to mercy by the Jury on account of his youth
He had been convicted of burglary and bound over. Six months' hard labour.
HENRY COOTES.
12. HENRY COOTES otherwise Coates (3l), Feloniously wounding Thomas Lamont, with intent to do him grevious bodily harm.
MR. HUGHES Prosecuted; MR. FOAKES Defended.
THOMAS LAMONT . I am a driver. No. 9591. of a hansom cab—I live at 169. Farringdon Road Buildings—on October 27th, about 1 a.m., I drove into Ormond Yard, Great Ormond Street, where my cab is kept—the prisoner and five or six more were outside a public house in the
yard—I heard someone say, "Here he is"—the prisoner got on the step at the back of the cab while I was still on the box—he climbed the cab on the left hand side and made several blows at me—he hit me with something in his hand on the loft of my face, just behind the eye—I felt I was bleeding—several women in the yard called, "Police!"—the men all ran away—I had seen the prisoner about 9 p.m. on that night in Salisbury Square, when he had a few words with another cabman—he knocked a paper out of a man's hand and tapped him on the hat—he struck me on the nose then—a policeman took me to the hospital at one o'clock.
Cross-examined. I have known the prisoner for some time—I believed he was an inoffensive man—I did not strike anybody till I was struck in Salisbury Square—the prisoner is a porter outside the Salisbury Hotel—I had not assaulted him that night—after he struck 'me I attempted to defend myself: I struck him—I cannot say that I gave him a black eye or made his face bleed, because he ran away—I now know Horncastle, White, Gibson, and Stapleton—there is a barmaid at the Barley Mow—I could not hit hard enough to black the prisoner's eye—I am not aware that I am called, "Big Boot Monte"—I was in the doorway of the White Swan when the policeman, at the landlord Gibson's request, turned us out—I did not go to Drury Lane and bring people from there—I was perfectly sober that night—it is untrue that the prisoner left the yard at twelve o'clock—he did not say he had come about an overcoat of Bill Ridley's, as he lived eight or nine miles away—I did not ask a man called Tiddles to ask the prisoner to let it all blow over—it is untrue that he came back with the answer, "Yes, if you can give a reason for knocking me about"—I hit a man with a cup at a coffee stall nine months ago, I think—he was going to assault me, so I poked it at him in self defence—Horncastle did not try to prevent me from fighting—I did not throw anything at Horncastle—I have never seen the prisoner with a knife.
Re-examined. I did not fetch Stapleton, a cabman, from Drury Lane; he was in Salisbury Square—no knife was used in Salisbury Square, that I know of—that dispute was ended between 10 and 10.30—the other dispute at Ormond Yard was between 1 and 1.30 a.m.—I did not see the prisoner between those times—I did nothing to provoke a dispute at Ormond Yard—I had earned us. 6d. between the disputes—I was taking my cab home for the night.
CLARENCE GRANVILLE HAY . I was house surgeon at the Homeopathic Hospital on October 27th—the prosecutor was brought in between 1 and 2 a.m.—I was called at 1.55—I found him bleeding from several wounds on the left side of his face and neck—the deepest and longest was behind the angle of the jaw on the left side—he was also bleeding from three punctured wounds under his left eyebrow, and five superficial scratches over his left eyebrow and down the cheek—there were ten wounds altogether—that behind the angle of the jaw was about three-sixteenths of an inch deep—it was in a dangerous position—if it had been a very little deeper it would have entered the external jugular vein—it might have been fatal—the scar is there now—he was bleeding profusely—the wounds
must have been caused by a sharp instrument, especially the longer wound—they had been inflicted fifteen or twenty minutes at the longest—the wounds were dressed, and he was told to come on Thursday at eleven o'clock, but he did not turn up.
Cross-examined. The wounds proved not to be serious—a broken bottle could not easily have caused them—the tissues on the side of his neck were naturally drawn tense by his turning his head, in which case a blunted instrument would make a deeper wound than when they were lax—he had taken alcohol, but was not drunk.
Re-examined. Broken glass might have caused the injuries if used repeatedly.
FREDERICK HORREX . I live at 9, Ormond Yard—I am employed by Mr. Rogers, the prosecutor's employer, to work in the yard—I walked out of the stable as the prosecutor pulled up with his cab soon after 1 a.m. on October 27th—he was sitting on the dickey—five or six men came behind the cab from the other end of the yard and asked the prosecutor to get down—they used bad language—I had something in my hand and walked into the office—there is a public house in the yard—I heard the horse backing, and ran outside—I saw the prisoner come from behind the cab and strike at the prosecutor with his right hand on the near side—I identified the prisoner from twelve or fourteen men at Bow Street—I did not swear he was the man; I said he resembled him very much—I now think he is very much like him—I saw him striking at the prosecutor—I cannot say whether he had anything in his hand—Lamont was bleeding when the surgeon came—Lamont had not time to speak—some ladies called, "Police!"—the men walked away.
Cross-examined. There was a lamp right against the cab—I was first spoken to about it about an hour afterwards, when the surgeon came—no one described the man to me—I went before the Magistrate on the 28th—I gave evidence before I identified the prisoner, and again about a fortnight afterwards.
Re-examined. The warrant was applied for on the 28th.
SIDNEY WYBORN (Policeman E.) About 7.30 p.m. on November 7th I saw the prisoner in Salisbury Court—I said, "Is your name Coates or Cootes?"—he said, "No"—I said, "You answer to the description of a man wanted for stabbing a cabman named Lamont on the 27th of last month at Ormond Yard, and I am going to take you into custody"—he said, "You have made a mistake"—on the way to the station he said, "My name is Cootes, not Coates; on that night a cabman named Monte and several others set about me and gave me a good hiding, and I went to Ormond Yard to get the cabman's name and address to summons him for assault"—I read the warrant to him, and took him to Gray's Inn Road Police Station—on the way he said, "What took place took place at Salisbury Court"—when charged he made no reply—I went to Ormond Yard on October 28th between 11 and 12 a.m.—I saw blood stains on the stones outside the stable.
The prisoner, in his defence on oath, repeated what he said to the policeman,
and added that he was so knocked about, and his clothes so torn that he went to Ormond Yard about 11 p.m. to borrow an overcoat to go home in, but had left before the assault there.
ARTHUR HORNCASTLE . I am a newspaper collector of 218, Waterloo Square, Camberwell—I collect newspapers for firms I work for—I was at the Barley Mow public house, in Salisbury Court, between 8.30 and 9 p.m. on October 26th—the prisoner came in—his face was puffed up and his eyes getting black as if he had been knocked about on his face—he said he had been fighting with three cabmen—I went out with him to see fair play—a Mr. White went with me—outside there was scuffling between the prisoner and some cabmen—I tried to prevent them fighting—my share in the proceedings was a smack on my nose—a policeman came and quiet followed—afterwards I went to the White Swan public house with the prisoner and the cabman White—the prosecutor followed us into the saloon bar with Stapleton, and others and set about me—I was kicked and an umbrella was broken across my head after I was knocked down—the landlord had the lot turned out—I went home.
Cross-examined. I did not hear that the prisoner had been to Ormond Yard till the next morning—we had no dispute with the prosecutor—I tried to get the prisoner away—I did not see the prosecutor being struck—the prisoner said he was going home.
ARTHUR WHITE . I am a packing case dealer's assistant of 17, Arnold Road, Tottenham—I was with White on October 26th in Salisbury Court about 8.30, when the prisoner was set about by cabmen—Horncastle and I went out of the public house and saw the scuffle and tried to get the prisoner away—the police came and stopped it—the prisoner told me he was going home—we went back into the public house—the prosecutor followed us with a mob of ten or twelve men and set about us—a bottle and an umbrella were broken—the prisoner was not there then—the landlord turned them out.
Cross-examined. Horncastle was kicked when he was on the ground—I saw the prisoner three or four days afterwards.
THOMAS GIBSON . I am the proprietor of the White Swan public house, Salisbury Court—I knew Horncastle as "Jerry," and Lamont by sight—on October 26th, between 10.30 and 11 p.m., the cabman Lamont came in followed by seven or eight others—I wanted to know what was the matter—a man was called out—I said, "Kindly retire, I will see the man comes out"—they knocked Horncastle on the floor, and Lamont kicked him while he was on the floor—an umbrella and bottle were broken—I saw nothing thrown—I sent for a policeman, and with other customers we got the men out.
FLORENCE PALMER . I am barmaid at the White Swan—on the evening of October 26th half a dozen fellows came into the passage—a young fellow behind one in a fawn coat, with a club foot, said, "You young fellow of the name of Jerry, come out"—(The prisoner was lame)—the one in the fawn coat set about Horncastle and hit him with an umbrella—he fell, and
the young man was ready to kick him when the police came in and stopped him.
Cross-examined. I was asked to give evidence last week when a gentleman asked me to go to Bow Street.
OLD COURT.—Tuesday. November 17th. 1903.
WILLIAM HUSTWAYTE.
13. WILLIAM HUSTWAYTE (38), PLEADED GUILTY to stealing thirty-nine umbrella handles and a pearl umbrella handle, the property of Jonathan Howell and others his masters, Recommended to mercy by the prosecutors. Seven months' hard labour. —And
GEORGE WILLIAM BARNBY.
14. GEORGE WILLIAM BARNBY (32) . to receiving the same knowing them to be stolen. He received a good character. Five months' hard labour. [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
CHARLES RICKARDS.
15. CHARLES RICKARDS (44) , Stealing thirty umbrella handles, the property of Joseph Husbands. Second count, Receiving the same. Mr. Travers Humphreys and MR. BOYD Prosecuted: MR. ELLIOT and
MR. BASIL WATSON Defended.
George Cox, a warehouseman in the service of Joseph Husbands and Company, was called and sworn, but having stated that he had lost his memory through, an accident, his evidence was not proceeded with.
JOSEPH HUSBANDS . I carry on business as J. Husbands and Company, wholesale umbrella and blouse manufacturers, at 7, Little Britain—Joseph Wheeler was employed by us for some years—his duties took him into the basement—on September 8th I found in the warehouse some sticks from which the handles had been broken, in consequence of which I instructed two servants to keep watch in the basement; one of them, Cox, has had an accident; the other, Mordan, is here—my servant, Wheeler, was given into custody that night—on September 10th, at the police station, he made a statement to me in the presence of the police, in consequence of which I went to 12, Bethnal Green Road, which is a railway arch, used by Rickards as a shop and store—there is nothing displayed, just a name painted in front—I saw Rickards' son—on September 11th I went again in the morning with Detective Hallam and again in the afternoon, when I saw the prisoner—Hallam was there before me—I told the prisoner that I wanted to look at the goods of his stock of umbrella handles—he showed me some—I said those did not interest me, I did not see what I was looking for, and that I wanted to see anything that he had bought recently—he said he had not bought anything just lately—I said he had, and that I should like to see the stuff he had bought up to yesterday—he said he was quite sure he had not bought anything up to that time, that he had plenty of stuff, and had not wanted anything, I think he said for several weeks—I told him I knew he had bought from the man Wheeler—he said he did not know him and had not soon him—I then asked to see more of his goods, or I should have him arrested, because I knew he had bought stuff that was stolen from me—his son produced some boxes of umbrella handles, in
which I found thirty of my stock that I got from Hall and Portbury, who made the silver for the handles—I bought the whole of their stock—I had not sold them—I only sell the completed umbrella or sunshade—I had missed the stock by the figures in the book, and I have missed about 700 more since this case—I take stock in June each year—seven of these have been specially made for me, I have no doubt they are my handles—I told the prisoner I could swear to them as having been stolen from my stock by Wheeler, and unless he could account for them I should give him into custody there and then—he said he had not got them from Wheeler—I asked him where he got them—he said he could not tell—I said, "Show me the receipt where you bought these, if you bought these goods and paid for them"—he said, "I do not get a receipt, if you refer to the bulk I bought them from J. and R. Morley"—they are a wholesale house—I have not sold any handles to J. and R. Morley—these are 1s. each wholesale—he produced Morley's receipt for sample handles which he paid for at the time he bought them—referring to some I said, "These never came from Morley's, these have been stolen from my stock, and unless you tell me from whom you bought them I shall give you into custody; have you any books?"—he said he did not keep any—I gave him into custody—he was taken to Snow Hill Police Station—some of these handles have been broken off the sticks and some have been sawn off—I have never sold them to the trade in this state—whilst waiting for the charge to be taken at the station in the presence of Detective Loakes, the prisoner said, "Do not be too hard on me, Mr. Husbands, I ain't had all your stuff, there's half a dozen others in it"—then I said, "Who are they, give me their names?"—he said, "Why should I tell you; it won't do me any good"—he was charged immediately after that—I was subsequently present at Guildhall when my servant Wheeler pleaded guilty to selling my handles, and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.
Cross-examined. When Wheeler pleaded guilty these goods were produced—I believe they were shown to him—I do a nice business—I handle nearly every article—we try to avoid similar patterns of handles—I usually engage the pattern when it is shown to us by the trade—we make umbrellas—these patterns were bought absolutely for ourselves—we cleared the whole lot—we buy the sticks and handles—I do not sell to Hall and Portbury—they have dissolved partnership—they sold us 200 dozens—I accept the statement of the seller that the samples are put in with the goods—I examine all the goods—I leave the warehouseman to count them—probably three in a parcel may be thrown out to be returned for the pattern to be altered or some other reason—the partners are at the warehouse fifteen hours a day—not the employees—I know and A. Grant, of Aldermanbury Avenue; De Saxe and Company, of Odell Street; and Barnett Phillips, of London Wall, who deal in goods of much the same class—I imagine they deal of Hall and Portbury, but I do not know that they were supplied with exactly the same class of goods—the goods are made in London—those firms supply wholesale firms like J. and R. Morley, Copestake's, and so on—some of these silver goods are
Hall and Portbury's—they are sterling silver and have the hall mark—the goods I identify as mine are absolutely different in pattern to those of any other firm—at the shop the prisoner cried and said, "Do not lock me up, do not ruin me"—at the station he said, "Do not be hard on me, Mr. Husbands, I have a wife and four children, I have not had all the stuff, there are others that have had it," not "I have not had the stuff," nor "There are half a dozen others in it"—I was engaged some hours in this investigation—I made a note on a paper I have in my pocket (Produced)—I made it in my office as soon as I returned from the police station—it might have been three quarters or half an hour afterwards.
Re-examined. This is my note: "Do not be hard on me, Mr. Husbands, I have a wife and four children; I ain't had all the stuff; there's half a dozen others in it"; then my own remark, "Who are they, tell me their names?" and his reply, "Why should I tell you? it won't do me no good"—I wrote it in pencil on a scrap of paper in the office—the dissolution of Hall and Portbury's partnership was within the last few weeks—the business is now carried on by Mr. Portbury as Hall and Portbury—I asked to see him or a traveller—these seven handles come from Vienna—the bulk is made specially for me.
FRANK HALLAM (Detective, City.) On the morning of September 10th Joseph Wheeler was detained at the Snow Hill Police Station—at his request I sent for his employer. Mr. Husbands, to whom he made a statement in my presence, in consequence of which I went to Rickards' shop in Bethnal Green Road—I saw his son—on leaving the shop I watched the premises from 50 to 100 yards off—I saw Rickards' men at the door and watched from another position—on September 11th I went to the shop in the afternoon—I said to Rickards, "I am a police officer; I should like to ask you a few questions; there is a man named Joseph Wheeler in the employ of Joseph Husbands, of 7, Little Britain, who has been charged with stealing a quantity of umbrella handles, and he says he has been stealing them, and that he brought the whole of the property to you, that you paid him 2d. each for them, that you knew that the whole of the property was stolen, and that last Wednesday he brought some to you, and you received them"—he said, "I do not know a man named" Joseph Wheeler; the only Wheeler I know is a man who works at the stores; he never brought me anything last Wednesday"—I said, "I should like to look through your premises"—he said, "Very well"—I went over the premises with him—I waited till Mr. Husbands arrived, and together we wont behind the counter—Rickards produced three boxes containing umbrella handles—Mr. Husbands selected thirty from the three boxes and said to him, "From where did you receive these umbrella handles?"—he said, "From J. and R. Morley's"—Husbands said, "I know that these umbrella handles came from my promises, and that they are stolen"—Rickards said, "No. they do not; if they do not come from J. and R. Morley's I do not know where they come from"—Husbands asked for a receipt, and ho produced this one for seventy-two dozen job sticks and 120 whole feathers and other job items, to the value of £40 1s., and dated July 9th, 1903, from J. and R. Morley—I did not hear the further conversation;
I was searching the premises—at that time a detective brought into the shop this brown bag—I said to Richards, "Yesterday afternoon, when I left your premises I saw one of your work girls with your son come out of your door with this brown bag"—I showed him the contents, a quantity of umbrella handles and covers belonging to Messrs. Howell's, and asked him to account for them—he said, "I refuse to give any information"—I told him he would be charged with receiving the thirty umbrella handles—he said, "They are not stolen"—I conveyed him to Snow Hill Police Station—he made no further reply to the charge.
Cross-examined. He immediately offered to go over the premises with me—I was there an hour to an hour and a half—there were more receipts for the same class of goods.
JAMES PORTBURY . I now carry on the business of Hall and Portbury, formerly carried on with Mr. Hall at 20, Australian Avenue, City—the partnership is now dissolved—we make silver mounts for sticks—I sold twenty of these handles to Mr. Husbands about fourteen months ago—this is the invoice, dated August, 1901—he bought all the stock we had mounted—up to eleven weeks ago, when we dissolved partnership, we had not made any similar patterns for anybody else—we kept no samples back, even the odd sticks and handles were sold—I have no doubt these are some of the goods—it was what we call a job line.
Cross-examined. These were all made within a few weeks—we used to make job lines up for sale of different patterns—these handles are not a job line—we sold all the lot to Husbands—we did not take out the samples—I bought and sold for the partnership, and my late partner may be under a misapprehension in saying that we did—we work up handles in the slack season—Husbands would have bought more if we had had them.
JOSEPH WHEELER . I am a convict in His Majesty's Prison at Pentonville—on September 22nd I pleaded guilty at Guildhall to stealing seventeen umbrella handles from my master, Mr. Husbands—I am now undergoing the sentence of two months' imprisonment—after receiving sentence I was called as a witness against Rickards—up to September 9th I had been in Husbands' employ for some years—my duties took me into the basement, where I got the umbrella handles I am charged with stealing—I got them in the dinner hour, between 1 and 2 or between 12 and 1—I was arrested on September 9th in the evening—I sold them in the afternoon and evening—those that I took between 12 and 1 I sold to Rickards at his place of business, Bethnal Green Road—on September 9th I took him a dozen and a half—I saw Rickards—I have known him about six years—I first took Husbands' goods to the prisoner about three or four months ago—passing one evening, I went in and asked him if he bought umbrella handles; he said, "Yes "; I asked him how much he would give me; he said 2d. each, and we made a bargain—I went to his premises five or six times a week perhaps—he always gave me 2d. each for them—he asked me no questions—I do not think he knew my name—I knew him as being in the same line as I was—I did not know his name—I had spoken to him at concerts and that sort of thing—my wages were 25s. a week—I was porter and packer—he asked me later on what my name was—I told him "Wheeler"—
he asked where I was employed—I told him I worked for Mr. Husbands, an umbrella maker—after being locked up on the night of September 9th the next morning I asked to see Mr. Husbands, who was sent for—I made a statement to him—these are some of my governor's umbrella handles that I took—I saw them at the Guildhall—I took some similar stuff to these and some different.
Cross-examined. It is not the fact that the prisoner has not seen me, and does not know me.
JOHN LOAKES (City Detective.) I was present at the police station on September 11th, when the prisoner was charged with stealing thirty umbrella handles—previous to being charged he said to Mr. Husbands, "Don't be hard on me, Mr. Husbands; I have a wife and four children; I ain't had all the stuff; there's half a dozen others in it besides me"—Husbands said, "Who are they?"—he replied, "Why should I tell you? it won't do me any good"—I made a note of that statement about a quarter of an hour afterwards; as soon as the prisoner was charged and put back in the cells I put it down in my book—on September 11th I kept observation on 12, Bethnal Green Road—I saw Sergeant Hallam and Mr. Husbands go there—after they had left the shop and were going towards High Street, Shoreditch, I saw a man come out of the prisoner's premises—he crossed the road and looked down the street in the direction Husbands and Hallam had gone, then crossed to where I was, and appeared to be watching them—they stopped at the bottom of the Bethnal Green Road—they were in sight then—they moved round the corner out of sight, when the man re-crossed the road and went into No. 12—shortly afterwards the girl, Flora Hills, came out, carrying a brown bag—she got on a 'bus with it, putting it on the stage, as it seemed heavy—I saw her subsequently—in consequence of information she gave me I went to 163, Wilmot Street, Bethnal Green, where Miss Whalen gave me the bag—it contained a quantity of umbrella handles, and parts, and some sunshade covers—some of the articles have since been identified as having been stolen from Henry Howell and Co., of Old Street, and from Mr. Reddrop.
Cross-examined. The prisoner did not say, "I have not had the stuff, others have had it"—he did not send the girl Hills to fetch the bag.
Re-examined. Some of the articles in the bag have not been identified—there are two slides to the bag and a lock slide as well.
CHARLES RICKARDS . I am the prisoner's son—I live with him and assist him in his business—he gave me this bag—it was full—he said I was to send it to Miss Whalen—she is employed by him at her own house—it was on a Wednesday or Thursday—in consequence of my father's instructions I sent Flora Hills with the bag.
FLORA HILLS . I live at 61, Burdett Road, St. Paul's Road, Tottenham—I was employed by Rickards in his shop—I took this bag to Miss Whalen by young Mr. Rickards' instructions.
ELIZABETH WHALEN . I live at 163, Wilmot Street, Bethnal Green—I work at my home for Mr. Rickards—I remember Hills bringing this bag on September 10th—I did not know what was in it—it was taken away the next day by Sergeant Loakes.
EDWIN HEARD . I am manager to Messrs. Howell and Co., cane and stick manufacturers, Old Street, City—the thirty-nine umbrella handles and forty-six parts of handles in this bag are our property—they have been stolen from our warehouse—the prisoner Hustwayte (See page 10) has pleaded guilty to stealing them—he was a porter in our employ—they were safe, and I had seen most of them within a month.
Cross-examined. Some of these goods are made expressly for us.
WILLIAM HORACE REDDROP . I live at 19, Holmwood Road, Bromley, Kent—I am an umbrella manufacturer, of 22, Bartholomew Close—this umbrella handle found in this brown bag is my property—I know it by the mark "W. H. R." and the hall mark—it is not complete—it has never been sold by me—we do not sell articles in this condition—we have missed many handles lately.
The prisoner, in his defence on oath, said that his statement to Mr. Husbands was that he had not had the goods, but someone must have had them that he did not know; that he had never bought of Wheeler or even seen him, nor knowingly received any stolen goods; and he produced receipts for goods which he had bought from Morley's and others, and said that the goods in the bag he bought from Barnby, a traveller, and did not suspect anything wrong then, but subsequently sent the bag away to save bother.
JAMES HALL . I am a stick mounter, of 31, Northampton Square, Clerkenwell—I was formerly in partnership with Mr. Portbury, trading as Hall and Portbury—we dissolved the partnership about four months ago by mutual consent—before that I sold to Mr. Husbands 200 dozen sticks of all kinds, horns, cats on sticks, and so on—it was not a clearance, because we never sell the samples—there might have been a few old samples sold, but not those we were working on—we did not agree with Husbands not to sell similar goods—we have since sold many similar goods, some to J. and R. Morley—the goods are supplied by what we call factors—I have sold to G. and A. Grant, of Aldermanbury, on many occasions, also 150 dozen to De Saxe, of Odell Street, and some to Barnett and Phillips—they are similar goods—they are delivered in parcels of about 24 dozen at a time—I have been in the trade twelve years in London—the firms referred to, supply the wholesale trade—the 200 dozen sold to Husbands were made at quiet times, and were the result of collections of those made when trade was slack.
Cross-examined. I was in the counting-house when the transaction with Husbands was arranged—Mr. Portbury did not arrange it alone with Husbands—we have sold to him at different periods, but never the samples we work on—we sold what we had and made other articles which are identical with these, so far as I remember.
Re-examined. I have no doubt that we made similar articles subsequently to the sale to Husbands.
The prisoner received a good character.
GUILTY , Eighteen months hard labour.
THIRD COURT.—Tuesday, November 17 th, 1903.
Before J. A. Rentoul, Esq. K.C.
JOSEPH SLATER.
Deception: forgery, Theft: stealing from master.
16. JOSEPH SLATER (17) PLEADED GUILTY to forging and uttering an order for the payment of £25; also to stealing a cheque for £25, the property of Walter Parry, his master. He received a good character Discharged on recognisances.
ALBERT GODWIN.
17. ALBERT GODWIN (28) , Unlawfully removing and concealing certain part of his property, within four months of his bankruptcy. Second count for not delivering to the trustee to his estate certain property, with intent to defraud.
MR. MUIR and MR. ARTHUR GILL Prosecuted; and MR. STUART and MR. NOLAN Defended.
HENRY CLEMENT ELEY . I live at 68, Faulkland Road, Hornsey, and am manager to J. A. Lawton and Co., carnage manufacturers, of 24, Orchard Street, London—in April, 1900, we had a transaction with a Mr. J. A. Scott—the prisoner is the man—he gave an address of 120, Stamford Hill—he described himself as a horse dealer—our firm let him have on a hire purchase agreement, dated April 14th, a tub cart—the instalments for that were paid—on May 1st we let him have a buggy on a hire purchase agreement, payable at £3 monthly, price £52 10s—£10 was deposited in the first instance—he paid £11 of the £52 10s., having got into arrear—on December 1st we entered into another hiring agreement with him, and treated the £11 as a deposit on that agreement, which was practically a renewal of the old agreement, the instalments being similar—it was provided in it that if there should be any breach of any stipulation it should be lawful for us to enter any dwelling-house or premises and take possession of our property—the prisoner paid nothing in respect of this agreement—we tried to find him at the address given when the agreement was signed, but failed—I heard nothing of him until the bankruptcy proceedings against him in 1902.
Cross-examined by MR. NOLAN. I saw the prisoner's stepfather, Powles, about twelve months after the first agreement was entered into—the prisoner did not tell me that he and his stepfather were in the same line of business of horse dealers—I had no conversation with Powles—I next saw Powles last Wednesday week—I do not know that he has been financing the prisoner for the last eight years—I do not know that Powles was in the habit of giving the prisoner money to buy horses and vehicles for Powles—I say that the buggy was hired from us—I was not aware that all the time the prisoner was dealing with Powles' money.
Re-examined. I have only seen Powles twice—he came to us with Scott when Scott paid an instalment, and Scott, who is the prisoner, then introduced me to his father—nothing has been paid for the buggy except the £11, and there is £41 10s. still due.
By MR. NOLAN. We have received about £90 altogether from the prisoner.
ROBERT SHARP WARREN . I live at 31, Rosendale Road, Dulwich—
in May, 1902, I acted for my uncle, Mr. William Henderson, in letting Holmesdale Stables to Mr. "A. J. Smith," who is the prisoner—I produce the agreement signed by Smith and myself—the tenancy began on June 2nd—I saw several carriages in the coachhouse and horses in the stalls from time to time—the prisoner continued in occupation till about December 29th—I noticed then that there was no light in the stable, and no sign of anyone being there—I went in and found it empty, and some of the racks belonging to Mr. Henderson missing—the first quarter's rent of the stable was paid; the last quarter was not—we had no notice that the prisoner was giving up possession—from that time until the bankruptcy we did not know of his whereabouts.
Cross-examined. I do not know anyone named Powles—the prisoner did not say to me that he was carrying on business with his step-father—the rent was paid by cheque in his own name, Godwin.
Re-examined. I did not know that the cheque was his own cheque at that time.
ARNOLD JOSLIN . I am a coach builder, of 67, West Street, Upper Norwood, in business with my father, who is the owner of Riddlesdale Mews, Upper Norwood—in 1902 I let some stables to the prisoner in the name of Albert Godwin at £50 a year, rates and taxes inclusive—I called on him several times, and saw in the stables some vehicles—one of them I should describe as a Scotch char-a-banc, another was a gig, another a phaeton, and another a trolley—the gig might be described as a buggy, and the char-a-banc as a brake—the prisoner told me it was necessary for his business that he should have such vehicles, as it helped him in the sale of horses, and he gave me to understand that they were his own property—he was in possession from July to Christmas, 1902—we received the rent to the Michaelmas quarter—we had no notice to quit—when I went for the rent after Christmas I found the premises empty—there was no property there.
Cross-examined. I think I saw the prisoner once or twice a week, on an average—I never saw him with a man whom he called his step-father—I do not know a man named Powles—I saw the prisoner with a man named Murphy, who has stables in the neighbourhood—I know Murphy personally—Murphy did not tell me that the vehicles I have spoken of were his property, nor do I know that he took possession of them.
Re-examined. Murphy is a merchant in iron and steel goods at Bristol—he was introduced to me by Godwin.
ARTHUR CHARLES BOURNER . I am a chartered accountant—about last October I saw this advertisement in the Daily Telegraph: "Very handsome match pair of cobs, 15 hands, five and six years. The owner would lend them in good hands, or sell them reasonable. They are perfectly quiet in single or double harness. If sold, veterinary surgeon's certificate given.—Apply, Holmesdale Stables, Dulwich Wood Park, Gipsy Hill"—I went there and saw the cobs, and made this agreement with' the prisoner: "Received from Arthur C. Bourner the sum of £80, which, together with the horse 'Prince Charles,' is the agreed price for the two chestnut cobs, to pay him £90, and take, them back at any time
within fourteen days"—the prisoner signed that agreement in my presence—I tried the cobs for fourteen days, and then agreed with him for a further fourteen days' trial—I was dissatisfied with them and returned them on. I think, October 30th—I sent my cashier down to demand repayment of my money, but could not get it—I then instructed my solicitor to issue a writ; I got judgment, but was unable to get anything under it except £1 3s. 4d. from the bank, under a garnishee order—my judgment was for £101 odd—the prisoner was made bankrupt, and I was appointed trustee—he has not handed any property to me, nor disclosed the fact that he has any property—the assets realised about £6—I reported the facts to the Bankruptcy Court, and a prosecution was ordered.
Cross-examined. The prisoner gave me a certificate of soundness with the cobs—when I sent my cashier to him for the repayment of my money I think he saw the prisoner—I first of all wrote demanding payment, and as I did not receive an answer I sent my cashier—I know that Powles has said that the vehicles and horses which were discovered afterwards were his but I do not believe it—I know he has stated that he financed the prisoner.
Re-examined. On October 3rd, at the time of the purchase by me, I saw some vehicles in the prisoner's stable.
By MR. NOLAN*. I was there about an hour and a half—that was the first time I saw the prisoner.
WILLIAM JAMES BRADLEY . I am one of the firm of Swan, Bradley and (Jo., solicitors, 6, East India Avenue, London—on instructions from Mr. Bourner, I issued on November 5th a writ against the prisoner for £90, to which an appearance was entered on November 13th—on November 28th I obtained judgment and issued execution—a return was made of "No goods"—I have not realised anything under that judgment—on December 11th I issued a bankruptcy notice, and on December 31st I filed a bankruptcy petition on Mr. Bourner's behalf.
EDWARD CHARLES ANSTEE . I am a clerk in the Royal Courts of Justice, Central Office—I produce the original writ for £90 and costs in the action of 'Bourner c. Godwin"—I also produce the appearance to the writ, signed by Clifford, Turner and Company, solicitors for the defendant; that is Albert Godwin—I also produce the original judgment in the action for £101 10s.
ALBERT EDWARD SPANSWICK . I live at 24a, Fieldhouse Road, Balham, and am cashier at the London and South-Western Bank, Upper Norwood—the prisoner opened an account there on July 11th, 1902—I produce a certified copy of it—the last entry is December 17th—on October 3rd a cheque was paid into that account for £80, drawn by Mr. Bourner on the National Provincial Bank, head office—on November 5th a cheque for £5 was drawn to Garnett, and on November 7th one for £250 to Godwin—on November 12th another cheque to Garnett was paid for £45—that left a credit of £1 3s. 4d., which was eventually paid out under a garnishee order—I produce an extract from the cashier's paying book, showing the numbers of the bank notes by which the cheque for £250 was paid—they were five £50 notes numbered 22278, 22279, 22280,
45950, and 45951—they were paid over the counter—the cheque for £45 to Garnett on November 12th was paid in cash.
CHARLES ARTHUR THOMPSON . I am clerk to Messrs. Thomas Barnard and Company, bankers, of Bedford—I recognise the prisoner—he opened an account there on December 16th, 1902, in the name of Albert Goodwin, of 11, Victoria Road, Bedford, by a credit of £295—I produce a certified copy of that account—these are the notes by which the payment was made; five £50 notes, numbered 45950, 45951, 22278 to 80, and nine £5 notes—on December 31st £285 was drawn out by this cheque (Exhibit 11)—on January 20th a cheque for £150 was paid, made payable to John Powles, and indorsed "John Powles"—on February 7th another cheque for £65 was drawn on that account, payable to and endorsed by "J. Powles"—I produce a copy of our paying cash book, showing the notes by which those cheques were paid—the £285 was paid by four £50 notes, numbered 70957, 99216-7-8, and three £10 notes, 66059, 29392, and 65715—the £65 cheque was paid partly by a £10 note, No. 06050—after these moneys had been withdrawn there was a balance of £4 10s., which was paid over to the Official Receiver.
Cross-examined. I have seen Powles, but he has not to my recollection paid money into the bank—it might happen without coming to my knowledge.
Re-examined. I find on two of the notes an indorsement of "A. Goodwin, 11, Victoria Road"—I should say it is A. Goodwin's writing.
By MR. NOLAN. I cannot say whether Powles paid £100 into the prisoner's account at our bank.
FREDERICK HARTOP . I am a carriage proprietor, of Rye Close, Kempston Road, Bedford—I have some stables called Rye Close Stables, which I let on December 15th to the prisoner at £30 a year—he took possession the following Monday, bringing a brake and four horses altogether—he had a number of horses and carts as well as harness there—I do not know the exact date he left, but about the middle of February he took a lot of things away—he gave me no notice to quit, and left owing about £7 5s. for rent, gas, and water.
Cross-examined. He went away one morning about seven with his father-in-law—the latter came back, but I did not see the prisoner any more—when I asked for the rent which was due, Powles said, "You needn't trouble about that; what is going away is mine; there is plenty here to pay your rent."
JAMES GEORGE OWEN . I am a coachman employed at Kirkby Hall, Brixton—in January last I was living at 23, Derby Street, Bedford, and entered the prisoner's employment on January 19th at Rye Close Stables—I knew him as Mr. Goodwin—in the stables were four horses, a pony, a buggy, a brake, and eight rugs and harness—I saw the brake loaded up one morning when I went to work—I was discharged because he had no further employment for me—there were two horses there, that is all.
Cross-examined. I knew Powles; he was often there—I did not know that he was in the same line of business as the prisoner—I was a little
over three weeks in the prisoner's service—he gave me orders, and paid me the first two weeks, and Powles the second two weeks.
Re-examined. Mr. Goodwin engaged me.
WALTER CRICK . I live with my father at Northampton—we have some stables there, which we let early in February to J. Powles—I saw the prisoner in the neighbourhood of the stables once or twice—there were some horses in the stables and one vehicle, of which I only saw the end—it seemed like a coach—I found the tenants had left the stables near quarter day—we never got any money from them, and they left no address.
Cross-examined. I have found out since that the prisoner has been carrying on business with Powles for a number of years—I had no conversion with the prisoner, our dealings were with Powles—Powles did not told me the horses and vehicle were his—I did not see anyone bring them.
GEORGE INGLIS BOYLE . I am a messenger in the Bankruptcy Court—I produce the file of proceedings in Albert Godwin's bankruptcy—the Petition was filed on December 31st, 1902, by Arthur Charles Bourner, the act of bankruptcy being the allure to comply with the bankruptcy notice served on December 8th—an order for substituted service was issued on January 9th and that was published—the receiving order was made on January 23rd, 1903. and the prisoner was adjudicated bankrupt on February 7th, 1903—down to that date he had never appeared—on February 20th a warrant for his arrest was issued—I arrested him at Bedford—on March 11th Mr. Bourner was appointed trustee—on March 12th the debtor filed a statement of affairs, with net assets of £6 10s., cash at the bankers—the liabilities were £660 10s., the deficiency being £6546s.—among the creditors as Mr. Bourner for £100—the public examination began on March 16th and concluded on June 11th—there are upon the file the notes of the bankrupt's examination, presumably signed by him on each page. "Albert Godwin"—there was an order by the Court for prosecution on June 19th. [Extracts from the public examination were here read.]
Cross-examined, There was a judgment for £00 and costs, which made up Mr. Bourner's £100—with the exception of Mr. Powles for £400, he the largest creditor—I was not present at the examination.
HARRY RATTLE . I am Examiner in the Department of the Official Receiver Bankruptcy—I conducted the prisoner's preliminary examination, at which he said, "I did not remove any horses, carriages, harness, or any goods from the stables when I loft Holmesdale, as there was nothing there, all sold previously "; also, "When I left Dulwich I took £250 out of the bank, which I have since paid to my father-in-law in part repayment of £400 I owed him."
Cross-examined. I heard this morning for the first time that he had stated that he had not removed from Holmesdale, but that Powles had.
Re-examined The preliminary examination was long before the public examination.
ARTHUR STANLEY PEARCE . I live at 146, Broadhurst Gardens, West
Hampstead, and am a clerk in the London and Provincial Bank, Edgware Road—I do not know the prisoner—I know a Mr. A. J. Smith, who was present when I gave evidence before the Magistrate—the witness White-house, now in Court, is the "A. J. Smith "I know—he was a customer of the bank—on February 25th he came there, bringing a £50 note numbered 99217, which I changed—I gave him £10 notes, amongst them one numbered 31476—a George Russell is also a customer—on February 26th he paid in four £10 notes, one of them being 06050—on May 4th he changed a £50 note, 99218.
RICHARD HILLS . I am a clerk in the Bank of England Note Department—I produce some £10 paid notes numbered 60050, 29392, 06050, also £50 notes, 99217, 70957, 99218.
HARRY CULLIP . I live at New Gladstone Street, Bedford, and am a clerk in the Bedford Post Office—I was in charge there on January 6th, when this bank note, No. 60059, was paid by Albert Godwin for postal orders—"A. Godwin "is on the back—this £10 note was also paid in by A. Godwin on January 12th—it is endorsed with his name.
CHARLES HERBERT CLIFTON . I live at 37, St. Peter's Road, Bedford, and am a clerk to Stafford and Rogers, auctioneers, 83, High Street, Bedford—I recognise the prisoner—he bought two horses at a sale of stock held by us on January 24th, 1903, paying for them with a £10 note numbered K.293292 and coin.
Cross-examined. I do not know whether he bought them for himself or anybody else—I did not notice anyone with him.
HARRY WHITEHOUSE . I am known as "A. J. Smith," and live at Stanton Street, Upper George Street, W.—I am manager to a lady who carries on the business of a job master's commission stables in the name of "A. J. Smith"—I knew the prisoner when he was at Holmesdale stables—I heard that he there went by the name of A. J. Smith, and asked him not to do business in that name—I have known him as Scott—I recommended him to Lawton's, as he wanted to buy a carriage—I know Mr. Pearce, who has been here—it is Mrs. Smith's account at the bank, not mine—I have her permission to sign cheques as A. J. Smith—I am known there also as Whitehouse—in February last I went to the Bank to change a £50 note, which I got from Powles, and received £10 notes in exchange—I know Mrs. Powles—I had no transactions with her after cashing the note, but I had £5 in gold from Powles—I gave Powles nothing in return for the £50 note.
Cross-examined. I have known the prisoner all my life—I know that Powles has been carrying on a horse dealer's business practically all his life—I know that he has supplied the prisoner with money for his business, and I believe Powles employed him to buy horses for him.
Re-examined. I have been present when Godwin and Powles have bought horses.
ALEXANDER GEORGE LAIDLAW . I live at 5, Aspley Road, Bedford and am clerk to Harry Ball, an auctioneer, of Duke Street, Bedford—we ad a sale on March 10th, and under the Official Receiver's instructions, included certain furniture described as belonging to Albert Godwin—
I know Mrs. Powles—she attended the sale and bought several articles of furniture, which, with one exception, I believed belonged to Godwin—she paid a £10 note, No. 31476, and cash.
Cross-examined. They were articles of household furniture.
CHRISTOPHER WHITFIELD . I live at 13. Sovereign Road, Cambridge Street, Edgware Road, W., and am managing director to Whitfield's, Limited, cab proprietors and horse dealers—I have known the prisoner for fifteen or sixteen years as Goodwin—I became his bail in the Bankruptcy Court about February 27th, 1903—I have a foreman named Revens—I gave him a £50 note to change at Gardiner's, the clothiers, in Edgware Road—he brought part of the change back, and said they would give him the rest next morning—I got a £50 note from Mr. Powles that morning, but cannot say that was the one.
Cross-examined. I am in a large way of business, and get a large number of notes, including £50 and £100 ones—I cannot say for certain that this was the particular note received from Powles—the prisoner bought three horses from me five years ago, which Powles paid for—I have seen the two together at fairs and auctions—I have seen Powles pay for horses bought—if I had done any business with the prisoner and Powles had been there, I should have looked to Powles for the money.
Re-examined. This is my signature to the bail, dated February 27th, 1903.
MAUDE MASON . I am a cashier to Gardiner and Co., clothiers—I cashed this note on February 27th, 1903—Mr. Bowden, our assistant manager, handed it to me—Mr. Shaw is the manager of the hat department.
THOMAS SHAW . I am manager of the hat department at Messrs. Gardiner's—I remember a £50 note being cashed by the last witness on February 27th, 1903—it was brought by the manager of Whitfield's—I do not know his name—I saw him hand it to Mr. Bowden, who consulted me about it, and it was cashed.
ALFRED BALL (Detective Sergeant.) On July 11th, 1903, I arrested the prisoner at Guy Street, Leamington, on a warrant charging him with causing a material omission to be made from his statement of affairs in bankruptcy—he said, "I suppose they are having another shot at me; I will come with you"—I took him to London—he was charged and made no reply—he informed me that he had no books or papers—I 'served a notice on him yesterday that further evidence would be put in [Exhibit 16], a letter of recommendation to Powles—he said, "It is quite right; I did write a letter: it is no good making a fuss about it'"—I found no books or papers.
Cross-examined. The letter referred to was, I believe, handed in by Mr. Crick, one of the witnesses—it was produced before the Magistrate.
GEORGE RUSSELL . I am a horse dealer, and carried on business at Brown's Court, Edgware Road—I had an account at the London and Provincial Bank, Edgware Road—I have known the prisoner as Godwin for some years—I do not know Powles—on February 26th I paid into my bank two £10 notes, but I do not know where I got them from—on
May 4th I remember changing a £50 note at my bank—I got it from a man at Shepherd's Bush for a horse I sold him—having changed the note, I gave him the difference.
Cross-examined. This was not the first time I had had a £50 note in payment for horses—we do not have a writing up of every horse dealing transaction.
GUILTY . Three months' hard labour.
NEW COURT—Tuesday, November 17th; and
THIRD COURT—Wednesday and Friday, November 18th and 20th, 1903.
ALFRED WILSON, ALEXANDER CHAMBERY.
18. ALFRED WILSON (17) and ALEXANDER CHAMBERY (18) PLEADED GUILTY to feloniously breaking and entering the warehouse of Arthur Ogden, and stealing 100 postage labels, £2 4s. 10d., a coat and other articles, the property of Arthur Sutton, having been both convicted of felony at Guildhall, Wilson on April 23rd, 1903, and Chambery on April 15th, 1902. Three previous convictions were proved against Wilson and one against Chambery. Nine months' hard labour each.—
LOUISE DE LIGNY.
(19). LOUISE DE LIGNY* (32) , to unlawfully procuring Maria Gorrara, a girl under twenty-one years of age, to have unlawful carnal connection with a man. Discharged on her own recognisances. — [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
OWEN DOBSON, JOSEPH BINSTEAD.
Deception: forgery, Theft: stealing from master, Deception: fraud, Deception: forgery, Theft: receiving.
(20). OWEN DOBSON (34) , to forging and uttering an order for the delivery of goods with intent to defraud; also to stealing and receiving two cases of cigars, the property of B. Morris and Sons, Limited, his masters; also to conspiring with Joseph Binstead and other persons unknown to cheat and defraud B. Morris and Sons, Limited; also to forging and uttering a writing purporting to be a certificate of stock in bond; and JOSEPH BINSTEAD (33) , to receiving the said cigars, well knowing them to be stolen. Twelve months' hard labour each. — [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.] And
FRANK COLLETT.
(21). FRANK COLLETT (43) , to forging and uttering a certified copy of a certificate of marriage with intent to defraud. Three years' penal servitude. [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
JOSIAH BURKE LYNCH, MYLES MACPHAIL.
22. JOSIAH BURKE LYNCH (65) and MYLES MACPHAIL , Being a director and the secretary of the St. Helen's Buluwayo Association, Limited, did fraudently convert to their own use certain property of the said Company. Other Counts, Falsifying a book belonging to the said Company with intent to defraud, and omitting certain particulars from the books of the said Company.
MACPHAIL PLEADED GUILTY .
MR. ELDRIDGE Prosecuted; MR. ELLIOTT and MR. LAYMAN appeared for Lynch, and MR. BODKIN for Macphail.
JOHN DIXON . I live at Harewood House, near Crossbills, Yorkshire, and am chairman of the St. Helen's Buluwayo Association, Limited, which was incorporated on February 6th, 1894; this is the certificate of its incorporation—the registered office was at 10, St. Helen's Place—I am a shareholder in the Company—Lynch has acted as a director during the whole time I have been chairman, which is for six or seven years—by the minute book it appears that Lynch was appointed a director on
February 13th, 1894, and Macphail as secretary on March 29th, 1895—he remained secretary until his arrest—on July 5th, 1901, application was made to me by the secretary on behalf of Lynch for a loan of £300; this is the letter—(This stated that Lynch desired a loan of £300, and saying that he would lodge as security for the loan certain shares in the Simmer and Jack West Company.)—the application was granted, and a charge was given to the company on 200 Simmer and Jack West shares—this (Produced) is the charge, signed, I believe, by Lynch—on October 9th there was a further application to increase the loan to £450 for three months—that was agreed to on October 10th, and a cheque drawn for £150 in favour of Lynch—it is endorsed by him—the cheque for £300 was drawn on July 9th, 1901, by Lynch as a director, and is endorsed by him—I believe the loans were confirmed at a board meeting on November 1st, 1901—Lynch and Macphail were both present then—on February 23rd, 1902, a further application was made by Macphail on behalf of Lynch for a further sum of £250, and a cheque was drawn on February 26th, 1902, for that amount—it is signed in the same way as the others and endorsed by Lynch—that loan was confirmed at the board meeting on March 26th, 1902, Lynch and Macphail being present—when the loan was increased to £450 on October 9th, 1901, the company received this charge and also this one when it was increased to £700—on June 10th, 1902, an application was made by the secretary on behalf of Lynch to extend the loan by £200, lodging as security some shares in the Imani Company, making the total security £1,200—on June 11th I received this letter from Macphail—(Stating that Lynch wished to increase the loan by £300 instead of £200, and proposing to lodge 200 Matabele Sheba shares, which would give 30 per cent. cover)—the application to increase the loan to £1,000 was agreed to, and I believe on June 12th, 1902, a cheque was drawn for the further advance of £300—it is in favour of Macphail, drawn by Lynch and endorsed by Macphail—there was a power for one director and the secretary to draw cheques—by the minute book, Lynch and Macphail were present at the meeting on September 11th, 1902—the financial statement book was then produced; it was the practice of the company to have that book produced at every meeting of the company; it contains an account of the financial position of the company—amongst other things it would contain the amount of the loan to Lynch and the securities—each statement is numbered, and No. 80 says, "J. B. Lynch, £1,000." and then "Security, 200 Simmer and Jack West, 200 Imani, and 200 Matabele Sheba"—at each board meeting down to October 16th. 1903, a financial statement was produced, made up in the financial statement book—in the statements down to October 16th, 1903. those shares appear as the security for Lynch's loan—300 Antenior shares appear as a further security, but I only know of them from the book—the minute book shows that Lynch and Macphail were present from time to time at the board meetings down to August, 1903, and Lynch was present when the statement was produced in October; Macphail was away on his holiday—there was a steady fall in the South African market, and the directors became concerned for the value of their security, and on October 16th
it was decided to call in the loan—Lynch had been seen earlier with regard to it—on August 28th it had been reported to the Board that he was making arrangements to repay it; he was present then—the meeting of October 16th was adjourned till October 19th—on October 17th I sent for the security box, and it was opened in the presence of myself, Mr. Chisholme, and Mr. A. J. Macphail, who were two of my co-directors; neither of the prisoners were present—there was no certificate for Simmer and Jack West shares; this blank transfer was there (Produced.)—we found no Imani shares or any document relating to them—we found no Matabele Sheba shares—we found in the box the various charges, and also this document, giving a charge dated October 1st, 1901; penciled over the 1901 is 1902 (This gave a list of the securities, and was signed "J. B. Lynch.")—at the board meeting of October 19th Lynch was present; Macphail was not present—Lynch was informed that the box had been opened, and that the securities had gone—he was asked if he could give any information with regard to them—he said he could not, as he did not know—the meeting was adjourned until the next day, when Mr. A. J. Macphail produced this document—I have an idea that it is in Myles Macphail's writing, but I cannot swear to it—Lynch was present then—the document shows what had become of the shares—"Disposal, 130 Simmer and Jack West shares, transferred to A. D. Ford, proceeds handed to Mr. Lynch; 70 converted into four Matabele Railway debentures and subsequently handed to Mr. A. D. Ford for a consideration, which was handed to Mr. J. B. Lynch; 200 Main shares carried by T. J. I've and subsequently taken at T. J. I've, we will say the proceeds.; 200 Matabele Sheba shares transferred to A. D. Ford: D. Ford did the above business in good faith, and he will produce his cheques; understand all the above money went to pay differences."—that was read out by the solicitor of the company—Lynch was present; he threw all the blame on the secretary for parting with the securities—he said that he himself had not done it, that he was innocent, and did not know anything about it—he was then confronted with the transfer certificate of the Matabele Sheba shares, which was in the office for registration—the office of the Matabele Sheba Company is also at 10, St. Helen's Place—the transfer was executed by Lynch—he said that they had been lodged four or five days before for transfer, that he must have received the advice note that the shares were to be transferred from his name into that of another—it is for the company to advise the transferor that the transfer has been lodged—he produced a press copy of the advice note—we told him that he must have been aware of this, and that it had only happened four or five days before, and that he must have been aware where they were, and he admitted that he was aware of it—he went on to explain that he did not wish to admit anything until he had seen the secretary, that that was his excuse for not admitting anything on the day before, and that he supposed he himself was responsible and would have to suffer—there was a very long conversation; he got very agitated—this blank transfer for the Simmer and Jack West shares, Nos. 236502 to 236701, inclusive, has no date on it—I do not know whose
writing it is in—it was found when the box was opened—I do not remember ever having seen it before; it is signed by Lynch.
Cross-examined. I have known Lynch since 1895 or 1896; I have been a fellow director of his since that time up to his arrest—with the exception of this unfortunate matter, I have always found him to be straightforward and honourable—I placed great reliance in him—I did not know that he was a partner in Lynch, Beach and Company—I knew that he has been connected with Lloyd's for over forty years—the secretary would have the key of the security box—I am not aware that the directors have keys—so far as I know, the secretary was the only person who had a key, and unless he opened it, the directors, in the ordinary way, could not do so—the shares had never been transferred to the company—the transfer had never been through the company's books—whoever had removed the securities had left the charges which recorded their having been deposited; all the charges produced to-day came from the box—from those documents the company could, by means of them, trace exactly what shares were missing from the box—the means of identification had been left behind—when Lynch was first spoken to about the loss of the securities he was not more upset than the rest of the directors; we were all upset—he said that he himself was responsible, and would have to suffer, but that he was innocent—he never admitted that he had been a party to taking the securities away—when the matter was first broached to him he said that, owing to the absence of the secretary, he could not explain matters—he said he knew nothing whatever of the Antenior shares—I do not know, of my own knowledge, of any substitution of the securities—I do not know how it is that in the charge there are only 100 Simmer and Jack shares instead of 200.
Re-examined. I do not remember Lynch saying, that twelve months before he had parted with the Imani shares—we could not believe what he was saying, because we showed him the Matabele shares, which he must have known had been transferred.
ALEXANDER WALKER . I am a clerk in the office of Simmer and Jack West, Limited. 8, Old Jewry—I produce the share register of that company—on April 1st, 1901, there were 200 shares transferred into the name of J. B. Lynch—he was registered as the owner of them, Nos. 236502 to 236701—he held no other shares in the company—a certificate was issued for those 200 shares—on October 20th, 1902, that certificate was brought in to be split into three blocks—three certificates were issued instead of one: one was for 100 shares, Nos. 236502 to 236601; one for 70 shares. Nos. 236602 to 236671. and the balance of thirty was represented by a certificate, the numbers being 236672 to 236701—on November 13th, 1902, a transfer was lodged in respect to the block of seventy shares—that is a transfer from J. B. Lynch to somebody named Lazarus, it is executed by Lynch—the witness to Lynch's signature is Myles Macphail the consideration being £97 10s.—on June 8th, 1903, a transfer, dated May Kith, for 100 shares, Nos. 236502 to 236601, passed a board meeting for registration—it is the same block of shares for which we issued a certificate for 100; they are transferred from Lynch to A. D.
Ford; it is witnessed by Beckley, and there is a note on the back saying, "These shares are only put into the name of the transferee temporarily as security for a deal, and market value of shares has not been paid. Signed, Ford"—a transfer dated October 12th, 1903, was lodged for the thirty shares; they were transferred to Allen Douglas Ford—Lynch's address is given as Lloyd's—when a transfer is lodged for registration, we always advise the transferor.
Cross-examined. I have no specific recollection that we did so in this case; I could obtain the information—I have a great many transfers of a similar character—I have not seen Lynch in connection with any of these transactions; I never saw him until I saw him at Guildhall—I have now looked through the letter book, and find that we advised Lynch on October 12th that the transfer had been lodged—we had previously advised him on the other two occasions.
THOMAS ALFRED HENNINGTON . I live at 59, Wilberforce Road, Hendon, and am the Registrar of the Matabele Sheba Gold Mining Company, Limited—the registered office of the company is at 10, St. Helens Place—I produce the share register—on March 25th, 1902, a transfer of 200 shares to J. B. Lynch was registered; the numbers are 30601 to 30800—Lynch held no other shares in the company—a certificate was issued in due course—on October 12th, 1903, a transfer was executed by Lynch for the whole of those shares in favour of A. Douglas Ford; it was witnessed by Myles Macphail—on the same day I sent out an advice note that the transfer had been lodged for registration—Lynch's address is given as Lloyd's, E.C.—I am also the Registrar of the Imani Gold Mining Company, whose offices are also at 10, St. Helens Place—on January 6th, 1903, 200 shares were registered in the name of J. B. Lynch—he had lodged them for registration on December 2nd, 1902—he had no other shares in the company—on December 18th, 1902, before they were registered in Lynch's name, we received a transfer executed by him in favour of Frank Helder for the whole of them—Lynch was advised that that transfer had been lodged—the shares were registered both in Helder's and Lynch's names on January 6th, 1903.
Cross-examined. I never had any dealings with Lynch—no certificate was ever issued to Lynch in the Imani Company.
Re-examined. That was because before the shares were registered, we received a fresh transfer from Lynch for the shares, to somebody else—if we received a transfer from Lynch we should give a receipt for it—we issue receipts for transfers before the certificates are issued.
THOMAS JAMES I'VE . I am a member of the Stock Exchange, and carry on business at 28, Throgmorton Street—this (Produced) is my client's ledger—I had an account opened with Lynch, whom I knew—I received instructions to sell for the mid November account, 1902, 70 Simmer and Jack West shares—they were sold in the market, and delivered into the name of Alfred Lazarus—the transfer from Lynch was in my possession—at the same account he instructed me to buy £400 Mashonaland Railway bearer debentures, which I did, and on November 21st I bought another £100 of the same stock for him—I have had dealings with him in
other shares up to his arrest—when I closed the account it was then in debit to me about £40—I had also an account with A. J. Macphail—in the mid December account, 1902. 200 Imani shares were brought to me to contango—I do not know if Myles Macphail brought them, but they were in A. J. Macphail's account for Myles Macphail; the rules of the Stock Exchange do not permit me to have a speculative account for an employe; I had these things opened for Myles Macphail with the permission of his brother. A. J. Macphail—I contangoed the 200 Imani shares at one in the market; you can begin an account with a contango—I can borrow on the shares at the market price—we simply deliver the stock, take the money for it, and hand the money over, which is similar to a transaction of having purchased 100 shares in the next account—the 200 Imanis were placed in my possession, and I obtained money on them—cheque for £180 was paid to A. D. Ford on December 11th and there was a balance of £20 left in the account—the shares were carried over from account to account until June 26th, when they were taken up at by A. D. Ford, who paid £176 for them, which left Myles Macphail £16 8s. 11d. in my debt at the end of the account—I took proceedings against him for that amount—when the Imani shares were taken up I had a transfer for them: they were originally delivered to Frank Helder—they might or might not come back from him—this (Produced) is the transfer from Lynch for 200 Imani shares in A. J. Macphail's account, which I delivered to Holder; Myles Macphail brought the transfer from Lynch, whose address is given at Lloyd's—that was executed by Lynch.
Cross-examined, I knew Myles Macphail before I knew Lynch—I knew Lynch through him—I do not remember Lynch coming to my office, but I often saw him—I should not open an account without seeing him—any essential documents which were brought were generally brought by Myles Macphail—I had to get certain signatures for transfers, and those were brought back bearing, I suppose, Lynch's signature—I knew Myles Macphail was secretary to several companies; I do not know how many—I do not know if any of them were companies of which Lynch was not a director—I am not sure if it was he who first spoke about an account being opened in Lynch's name—I fancy he spoke to one of my half commission men, who would probably speak to me about it, and I consented to open an account, after inquiries—a half commission man is one who introduces business on half profits and half losses.
Re-examined. All the contract notes were posted direct to Lynch—I have not the slightest doubt that the two transfers were executed by Lynch.
ALEXANDER JOHN MACPHAIL ., I am a joint managing director of the Rhodesia and General Corporation, and am a director of the St. Helens Buluwayo Association I am a shareholder in both companies—this document which was submitted to the board meeting of the St. Helens Company on October 20th is in Myles Macphail's writing—it was read over by the company's solicitor in Lynch's presence, who said, "I take full responsibility in this matter; I know I have been a fool; I shall be glad when I am in gaol"—I have looked at the financial statement, but
there is nothing in it to show that the 200 Simmer and Jack West shares, the 200 Imam, and the 200 Matabele Sheba have been disposed of—I believed they were the security for Lynch's loan until the time of these proceedings—the account book was passed round at every board meeting, generally by the chairman to Lynch, and then to the other side of the table—Lynch acted as vice-chairman—I had an account with Mr. Ive, and about the end of last year Myles Macphail asked my consent to carry over 200 Imani shares in my account—I consented, and on each Stock Exchange account day I received an account, which I generally passed to my brother, because it was entirely his matter—I had no idea that those shares were the property of the St. Helens Company—to my mind the shares did not really exist; the account was simply a speculative one—I held a considerable amount of shares in the Imani Company, and I did not think my brother was really speculating—as I was largely interested in the company myself, I did not look upon it as a speculation—at that time the company looked well.
Cross-examined. I do not think that I knew 200 shares had been charged to the St. Helens Company—I generally initialled the financial statement book as having seen it—all the directors generally did was to compare the bank balance with the bankers' letter, to see that they agreed with the financial statement—I did not say at Guildhall that Lynch had said that he should be glad when ho was in gaol—I mentioned it to the solicitors and to Mr. Church—I do not recollect Lynch saying that he was innocent.
Re-examined. An entry was made in the minute book, of what Lynch said—I knew that the security for Lynch's loan was from time to time entered in the book.
CHARLES FREDERICK BURTON . I am a partner in Burton, Cook and Company, chartered accountants, of 7, Lawrence Pountney Hill—we are the auditors of the St. Helens Buluwayo Association, Limited—the last audit took place in the early part of December, 1902, and on December 16th I went with the secretary, Myles Macphail, to the company's bankers, the Union Bank of Scotland; the security box was produced, which the secretary unlocked, and I examined the securities for Lynch's loan—there was a certificate and blank transfer representing 200 fully paid shares in the Matabele Sheba Gold Mining Company, a transfer receipt and blank transfer in respect of 100 Simmer and Jack West shares, and bearer bonds for 400 Mashonaland Railway debentures, and 300 Antenior Matabele Mining Company debentures—there was an agreement which provided for a certain margin, and the margin did not appear to be sufficient—I called the secretary's attention to that, and I received this letter from him—(Stating that he had obtained a further £100 cover from Lynch)—the fact that these different shares were the security for the loan would not be stated in the balance sheet—the amount of the loan would be stated there.
ALLEN DOUGLAS FORD . I am a commission agent, of 1, Royal Exchange Buildings—I know the prisoners, and have had various transactions with them—I knew Macphail in 1896 as the secretary of some companies—on September 25th, 1902, he brought me a certificate for thirty shares in the
Simmer and Jack, in the name of J. B. Lynch, and wanted me to lend money on them—I said I could not do so, and drew his attention to the fact that the shares were not his property, and asked if I could deal with the owner—on the same day I drew a cheque in favour of Lynch for £100 (Produced), which I handed to Macphail—it is crossed and is endorsed by Lynch—Macphail entered into a loan agreement with me—I had seen Lynch at the offices of the St. Helens Buluwayo Company before I lent the money—I told him I should like to sec him in reference to the loan and he said, "See Macphail"—I had a letter signed by Lynch directed to Macphail, who brought it to me—(Dated September 26th, 1902. saying that Macphail could use thirty of his Simmer and Jack shares to raise money on and hoping that he would not want it for long)—I also received a certificate and blank transfer for thirty shares, the transfer being signed by Lynch—those remained in my possession until October 12th, 1903). when I took them to the company for registration—on January 29th. 1903. Macphail brought, me a certificate for 100 shares in Simmer and Jack West, which stood in Lynch's name on the blank transfer—I advanced £200 on them, the cheque being drawn in favour of Lynch, and it bears his endorsement—it was crossed and then opened again—I put "Please pay cash "on it—on February 12th I lent another £60 on those shares—this is the cheque for it; it is made payable to Lynch—it was about five minutes to four when the transaction was done, so I cashed the cheque myself and sent the notes over to Lynch by Macphail, and kept the receipt (Produced), which is all in Lynch's writing—on May 15th, 1903, I took the transfer of those 100 shares to the company for registration in my name—this is the transfer—it is dated May 16th—it is executed by Lynch—it was passed on June 8th—on March 12th, 1903, I lent £50 on the security of 200 Matabele Sheba shares in the same way that I had lent money on the others—that was paid by cheque drawn in Lynch's favour, and endorsed by him—I received a blank transfer and a certificate of those shares—I have since lodged the paper for registration—my name was filled in when I lodged it—this (Produced) is the transfer from Lynch to me—on December 2nd, 1902,1 received 200 Imani shares from Myles Macphail—I gave him £162 10s. for them—that was not a loan, it was a purchase for cash—the cheque is drawn in Lynch's favour, and is endorsed by him—I sold those shares at a profit to Mr. Ive—I think I handed him the same transfer that I received—this (Produced) is a transfer from Lynch to Holder—I probably held it, but I have no means of identifying it—it has not got my name on it—the three agreements are signed by Lynch—I bought some Mashonaland Railway debentures from him—I have no record of them—I do not know how many I bought, or when it was—it was last yea—there was an advance made on some which I had the right to take if the loan was not repaid in a certain time—I have not got the cheque in relation to them—they were bearer debenture bonds. So there was no transfer—I keep no books: all my business is done with a stockbroker—it all goes through his books—there were 200 debentures, and they were a little above par.
Cross-examined. I knew Macphail first, and had had some transactions
with him before I was brought into contact with Lynch—Lynch never came to my office to my knowledge—his authority was produced to me by Macphail—I was at the St. Helens Company office nearly every day—I may have gone to see Lynch sometimes—when I first spoke to him about the matter he said, "I have a board meeting; please arrange with Macphail," or something like that.
Re-examined. The shares that Macphail brought to me were Lynch's—I do not think a loan could be raised on them without his signature—I should not have lent money on them without his signature—I think all the cheques went through Prescott's Bank, except one.
JESSE CROUCH (Detective). On October 22nd I received a warrant from Guildhall, and on the 23rd I saw Lynch at his solicitor's office, where he surrendered to me—I told him I was a detective officer, and cautioned him—on the advice of his solicitor he said nothing—on the way to the station he said, "Is Macphail locked up? Macphail is a scoundrel; he has let me in for this"—the same evening, about 6 p.m., Macphail surrendered at the police office at Old Jewry.
Cross-examined. Lynch surrendered to me by arrangement—I had no difficulty in the matter.
The prisoner, in his defence on oath, said that Macphail had said nothing to him about taking the securities in order to raise loans on them; that he did not that any of the transfers he signed were connected with his security for the loans, as the transfers were generally in blank; that about a month before Macphail went for his holiday he told him (Lynch) that all the securities had gone, and were all in Ford's hands, but that he did not know of it till then; that he had had suspicions that Macphail was not acting squarely, but he had no idea that it was in reference to the St. Helens security; that he did not know there was a security box, and had never had access to it; that when Mr. Dixon asked him to repay the loan he said that he was not responsible for it, and that it was not his business, and that he was perfectly innocent. He admitted that when Macphail was going away he said he was not coming back; that he could not explain writing to Macphail and telling him that he might use thirty of his Simmer and Jack West shares; that he had signed agreements in blank, so that anybody could put what they liked into them; that the money received for the shares he may have handed to Macphail, but he did not know on what security the money was paid by Ford; that some of the security was accommodation bills, some of which he had repaid; and that the whole of his business was done in a most careless way. (Lynch received a good character.)
GUILTY . The prosecution stated that Macphail was the dupe and tool of Lynch. MACPHAIL— Six months' hard labour LYNCH— Twelve months' hard labour.
CHARLES TUNBRIDGE.
Miscellaneous: other.
23. CHARLES TUNBRIDGE , using a certain place for the purpose of betting.
MR. MUIR and MR. LEYCESTER Prosecuted.
FRANK JAMESON . I am a land agent and surveyor, of 77, Chancery Lane, W.C.: my firm is Moss and Jameson—I am agent for the owner of No. 1, West Smithfield and 27, King Street, adjoining—there is a passage
there which goes under the Newmarket Hotel—the owners have" a right of access through that passage—this plan (Produced) was prepared in our office, and correctly shows the position of the premises and passage—there is, I believe, a gate to the passage, which is shut at night.
GEORGE NASH ANDREWS . I am a clerk to Mr. William Hale, the solitor, of Messrs. Young, Jones, and Co., 7, Lawrence Pountney Lane—he is solicitor to the landlords of the Newmarket Hotel, which is sub-leased—I produce a deed dated April 8th, 1903, relating to the right of way by the passage under the hotel—I also produce the Newmarket Hotel lease, dated April 26th, 1896, which includes the passage, subject to a right of way.
GEORGE SHARPE (230, City.) I am acquainted with the making of plans—I made this plan of the Newmarket Hotel—it shows King Street on the right hand, and the passage at the bottom—it shows an entrance from the passage to the public bar of the hotel, and then one into the saloon bar—I also took this photograph (Produced).
WILLIAM NEWALL (City Detective.) I took these two photographs—one shows the outside of the hotel and the entrance to the passage, and the other shows the entrance to the passage—I had not a very good light, and there were people moving in and out, which caused the photographs to be blurred.
COLBY WINDETT (City Detective.) I kept watch on the Newmarket Hotel from September 22nd till October 8th—on September 22nd I was in plain clothes—I saw the prisoner standing in the doorway of the public bar, and saw him receive slips of paper and money, and separate the money from the paper and put the money in his pocket—I handed him a paper with a bet on it, "Rightwell. 1s. each way," and gave him the 2s. for it—he opened the paper and said, "I don't know you"—I said, "I've not started work around here long"—he walked up the passage, opened the paper, looked at it, put it in his pocket with the money—I went back into the public-house—I saw him take seven or eight bets—there were generally two barmen serving—I also saw the manager—the prisoner said to the manager, "Let me know if he comes in," but I could not hear any more then—I was there about three-quarters of an hour, I went again on the 24th about one o'clock—the prisoner was in the private part of the saloon bar, the part marked with a black cross on this plan (Produced)—he was talking to the manager—he looked round, nodded, and walked out into the passage—a man followed him out and gave him a slip of paper and money—I said to the prisoner, "I have got a bit to come"—he pulled out a black book and said, "You have got 4s. 9d. to come"—I said, "Give me 2s. 9d. and take this slip," being a slip with another bet. 1s. each way on Simon Glover at Folkestone, any to come, on Doncaster Beauty colt—he said, "Give me 3d., and I will give you 3s."—I asked him if he would have a drink—he shook his head and returned to the public bar—I saw him go out after, and join men in the passage seven or eight times—two of the men made out their slips in my presence—I went on the 25th. Friday—the prisoner came into the bar with two or three other men talking about racing—I made another bet with him
—I saw him on the 26th in the saloon bar, talking to the manager, about 12.30; after I had been there a few minutes he beckoned to me to come round—I went into the passage and met him opposite the door of the saloon bar—he referred to his book and said, "You have got 2s. to come"—the horse had not run—a man borrowed my newspaper, looked at it, took a piece of paper out of his pocket, wrote the name of two horses down, and signed it—I went there again on the 28th—the prisoner came to the door of the public bar, looked towards me, and went back to the saloon bar, and talked to the manager—I went into the passage—he came out and I handed him a slip of paper and Is,—I said, "What is your limit for the big race?"—he said, "33 to 1"—I said, "For a place?"—he said, "8 to 1"—I said "Have you got one of your cards"—he said, "No, but I will bring you one up"—the next time I went was on October 5th, about one o'clock—I was in the public bar—prisoner was talking to the manager in the saloon bar—I saw him receive two or three slips of paper and money—I beckoned him into the passage and made another bet with him, Gower 1s. each way—I said, "I am backing my old fancy"—he said, "I will tell you what will win; Liquidator"—I overheard part of a conversation between the prisoner and the manager—the manager said, "It would be a pity if we get done in"—I went again on the 6th about 1.10 o'clock—he said to me, "You have got 4s. 6d. to come"—I said, "That is right," and he gave me 2s. 6d. and a 2s. piece—I asked him for his card again, and he said he had not got it, but said, "They all know my limit"—I went again on October 7th—the prisoner was in the saloon bar talking to the manager—he beckoned to me to come into the passage—I went there and gave him a slip of paper and 1s. for another bet—I left about 1.30; the prisoner was there when I left—I went again on the 8th—I saw the prisoner dressed in a long butcher's smock, in the public bar, and one of the barmen said to him, "Dodger, here is a client"—that was the first time I heard him called that—he turned round and said to me, "You had b---r----luck yesterday," referring to my bet—I walked towards the door leading into the passage and gave him a slip and 2s—the barman could see me—the prisoner then went to the saloon bar—I went on the next day, the 9th, and saw the prisoner—he was then wearing his ordinary clothes—he looked at me, walked into the passage, and up to the saloon bar—I followed and beckoned him out into the passage—I handed him 1s, and a slip of paper—he said, after he took the slip, "I want to speak to you; are you anything to do with the splits?"—I said, "I don't know what you are talking about"—he said, "Come inside"—I followed, and he said, "Are you anything to do with the detectives?"—I said, "I don't know what you are talking about"—he said, "I was served with four blisters yesterday"—I said, "Did the detective see me bet with you?"—he said, "No, but someone else said they thought you was in the splits"—I said, "Well, they want something to talk about"—then he went away, and I went every day.
ROBERT LYON (Police Inspector D.) On September 25th I went to the Newmarket Hotel dressed in ordinary clothes—I saw the prisoner going from one bar into the other—I saw about eleven persons hand him slips
of paper and money in the passage—I went again on October 1st, and saw him receive eight slips and money from various persons—I obtained four summonses against him, and served him on October 8th—I did not know his name—he was described in the summonses as Long Tom—he did not answer to the summonses at the hearing on the 14th—then I got a warrant and arrested him in a public house in the New Kent Road—he said, "I do not know that I am the man now"—I said, 'I am satisfied you are the man"—he said, "If I have done anything wrong why did not you take me with two other people; any papers I take for other people does not make me a bookmaker; I have been a hard working butcher in the market for fifteen years."
FREDERICK HOLMES (Police Inspector.) On September 26th I went to the Newmarket Hotel—I saw the prisoner at a quarter to one, and three different persons handed him slips of paper and money in the passage—I was only there about five minutes—I went again at about a quarter to two—he was in the saloon bar—two men handed him slips and money—the manager was behind the bar, and the barmen, and could see what was going on—I went again on the 29th—he was in the saloon.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was a butcher in Smithfield Market, and served the hotel with meat, and he was innocent of the charge.
GUILTY . One month's imprisonment.
ANNIE HARRISON.
24. ANNIE HARRISON (26) , Feloniously wounding Rebecca Wright, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm.
MR. GANZ Prosecuted; MR. HUTTON Defended.
REBECCA WRIGHT . I am wife of Arthur Wright, of 370, Kennington Road—on the evening of October 12th I had been to the Tivoli Music Hall with Mrs. Pickering—I went into Charing Cross Station alone, and met Mrs. Pickering again in Villiers Street, and was talking to her outside the Craven public house when the prisoner came out and asked me to lend her 6d.—I said, "I have not got one"—then she struck me on my ear with her hand, with a knife in it—I saw the knife—I put my hand up to my ear and found a lot of blood—Mrs. Pickering came between us, and she got a blow on her nose—the prisoner then struck me on my stomach on the left side—I am wearing the coat I had on then—I went with Mrs. Pickering to Gatti's Restaurant, and they lent me a towel—I washed, and went on to Charing Cross Hospital—about twelve o'clock I went to Bow Street, and did not see prisoner again till a night or two afterwards in the Strand, and pointed her out to a policeman—I told him there was a warrant out for her arrest, and he arrested her.
Cross-examined. I had not known the prisoner for some time—I have known Mrs. Pickering a long time—when the prisoner came out of the Craven I had not been in the house—Mrs. Pickering came out—we talked, and then I went to Charing Cross Station—I believe Mrs. Pickering went into the Craven—I did not see her go in—I met her there afterwards by chance—I do not go to the Strand every day—I said at the police court I had only seen the prisoner once previous to the night of the attack—
I had not seen her three times before the affair—I had never had any quarrel with her of any kind—there was no reason why she should ask me for 6d.—it was a small pen knife that she wounded me with; I saw it distinctly—it went through my clothes into my flesh—the first blow was a stab on the ear—she did not hit me on my shoulder with her fist—I do not know Mrs. Reece, a lady who came out of the Craven—there was no cabman there—a few people collected—I did not use a filthy expression to the prisoner as she came out of the Craven—I did not go into the Craven—I have been there before, but not once or twice a week—I heard no bad language, and the prisoner did not call me anything when I refused her the 6d.—I did not see Mrs. Pickering strike her—I thought Mrs. Pickering had come out of the Craven, as she was standing outside.
Re-examined. I am wearing the same overcoat I had on at the time.
JANE PICKERING . I am the wife of George Henry Pickering, a horse dealer, of 9, Boyson Road, Camberwell—on the night of October 12th I went to the Tivoli Music Hall with Mrs. Wright—we came out about 10.45 and walked to Charing Cross—I said "Good night" to her and went into the Craven public house—I saw the prisoner there—she said "Good evening "to me as I went in—I stayed there about ten minutes—nothing happened while I was there—when I came outside she followed me—whilst I was standing outside, thinking which way to go, Mrs. Wright came up, and the prisoner came out whilst Mrs. Wright was there, and asked her for 6d. for a drink—Mrs. Wright refused her, and the prisoner struck her on the ear—I saw a penknife in her hand as she went to strike her a second time, and I got in between, and received a stab on my nose and lip—when the prisoner came the second time I said, "Do not strike her again; she is about to become a mother"—she made a third blow at Mrs. Wright, and directly she had done it she ran away—I took Mrs. Wright down into Gatti's and bathed her face—we went over to Charing Cross Hospital from there, saw a doctor, and had the wounds upon her ear and my face dressed—then we got into a cab and went home—I did not see the prisoner again till after the warrant was issued—on the way home Mrs. Wright was complaining in the cab, and said, "She must have done something to me, I feel so sore"—she undressed herself, and there was where the knife had gone in her coat—there was a cut where the point of the knife had penetrated—we went back next day to the hospital and got the surgeon to attend to the wound.
Cross-examined. I do not live with Mrs. Wright—we were friends—it was about 9.30 when the prisoner was arrested—I was not going to a theatre with Mrs. Wright—we went to see if we could find the prisoner—I am not often in the Strand—I did not think I was going to see Mrs. Wright again after I said good night to her—the barman of the Craven did not turn me out, he turned the prisoner out—the manager did not request me to go—there were no gentlemen there at the time—I did not say at the police court that the prisoner struck my friend on the shoulder and asked her for 6d.—I will swear it—the first blow was on the left ear, with a small pocket knife—she did not strike her with her fist—I
saw the knife—she then struck her in the stomach with a knife—she never told the doctor when we first went to the hospital about the stab in the stomach—we did not have anything to drink at the Tivoli—we had a drink when we came out—I had not been to the Craven with Mrs. Wright—I was there alone—my husband was not with me—I was asked at the police court if I had been there with Mrs. Wright, not if I had been there alone—I struck the prisoner seven or eight years ago, for which I got six weeks—I have not been charged since—I did not knock her teeth out; a man did it, but I suffered for it.
Re-examined. I do not know Ethel Reece—I did not hear Mrs. Wright use a filthy expression to the prisoner, or any bad language by anyone—Mrs. Wright was not in the house.
By MR. HUTTON. The prisoner struck me before she struck Mrs. Wright—she took the knife out of her right hand pocket; a small pocket knife already open—I was not told to leave the house—a man named Davitt did not tell me to go and see her off the premises.
ALFRED GRAY . I am manager of the Craven public house, Villiers Street—on the night when this attack took place, I heard an altercation in the private bar—I ordered the prisoner out about 11.20—she was talking to a person whom I recognise as Mrs. Pickering—I ordered her to go, as I had previously cautioned her about coming into the place—I saw her strike Mrs. Pickering.
Cross-examined. When the prisoner struck Mrs. Pickering it was a smack in the face—that was just inside the door in the first place—I saw nothing in her hands when the barman seized her by the wrist.
JOSEPH MCDAVITT . I am barman at the Craven—on October 12th, about 11.15 p.m., I was serving in the public bar—I heard the governor's voice asking somebody to leave—I got over the bar and told Mrs. Pickering to go out, and she left—I then came back and put the prisoner out.
Cross-examined. I took hold of the prisoner's hands—there was nothing in them at all I had seen Mrs. Pickering in the house several times—I had not seen the prisoner there recently.
DAVID BRIDGER . I am house surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital—about midnight on October 12th Mrs. Wright came with Mrs. Pickering—I examined Mrs. Wright, and found a small incised wound on her face about a quarter of an inch long—I did not probe it—it had been caused by a sharp instrument, such as a pocket knife—she came again next morning and showed me another wound on her abdomen, similar to the one on her face, and her garments were cut through and bloodstained—the wound might have been inflicted twenty-four hours before—nothing was said of the wound in the stomach the night before—I treated the other woman for one or two small wounds on her nose—the wound in the stomach was not a dangerous one.
HARRY NEWELL (430 E.) I was on duty in the Strand on October 15th—Mrs. Wright pointed to the prisoner and said she was wanted on a warrant for assault—the prisoner said it was an old grievance of eight years ago—I took her in charge.
GEORGE BARR (Detective E.) At 10.30 on October 15th I read the warrant to the prisoner at Bow Street—she made no reply.
The prisoner, in her defence on oath, said that she lived with a man engaged in the Strand on night work, and, was in the habit of meeting him between nine and ten at night, but had not met him on this occasion; that she went into the Craven with a young lady, and Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Pickering entered with a man, and they had drink, and when they were going out Mrs. Wright used a foul expression, and she replied that she was a lady; that she asked her to come out, and Mr. Gray came up then, and the prisoner; that they walked away, and she remained; that there was no quarrel; that Mrs. Pickering came back and called for bitter ale, and two or three minutes after Mrs. Wright entered with five others, and directly after she struck her (the Prisoner) on her face, and she returned the blow; that Mrs. Pickering then set on to her, and her hat was torn and her face scratched and blouse torn; that the barman asked them to leave, and when she got outside she was set upon again by both of them; that she had no knife, and did not carry one, but defended herself as best she could; that she thought Mrs. Pickering was making some complaint about her; that if Mr. Gray and McDavitt said they never saw anything of the two women setting upon her, they were not speaking the truth, but that she did slap Mrs. Pickering's face to defend herself; that the barman did not turn her out, but asked her to leave; and when she got outside, Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Pickering both set on to her and hit her about her face, and she dropped her umbrella in the scrimmage, and Mrs. Pickering picked it up and carted it off; that she never struck Mrs. Wright in the stomach, neither was she informed that she was about to become a mother.
ETHEL REECE . I live at 92, St. George's Road, Southwark—I was not at the police court, but was suboenaed to come here—I was at the Craven with the prisoner on the night of the assault at about quarter to ten—I have known Jane Pickering about five or six years—the two women came in after I was there and a man.
Cross-examined. Rebecca Wright called the prisoner a foul name, to Which the prisoner retaliated, "You are a lady"—they challenged her to Come outside, and she said "Yes"—when the man asked her to come out he refused—I remained in the public house—shortly afterwards Mrs. Pickering returned alone—then Mrs. Wright returned with some men, cannot say how many, and Mrs. Wright struck the prisoner a blow, and hey were turned out of the Craven—I still remained—I did not see what book place outside—I saw no weapon in the prisoner's hand.
Re-examined. I remained in the public house—I do not know what happened after they got into the street.
EVERARD NEAVE.
25. EVERARD NEAVE, otherwise NELMA (24), PLEADED GUILTY to stealing diamond ring, the property of Hyland's, Limited; also a diamond pin, the property of John Elkan; also another diamond pin, the property of Thomas Pickford , Three years penal servitude.
OLD COURT.—Wednesday, November 18th, 1903.
EMMA PARKINS.
26. EMMA PARKINS (35) was indicted for and charged on the Coroner's inquisition with the wilful murder of Ernest Parkins.
MR. ARTHUR GILL Prosecuted; MR. SANDS Defended.
ELLEN BENSTEAD . I live at 22. Wharfdale Road, King's Cross—I am the prisoner's sister—she was living with her husband—she has six children now living—her last child, the boy Ernest, was born on August 22nd—she was very depressed—she was attended by a doctor—she seemed to get on nicely—on September 25th, about 10 a.m., she brought the baby to my room—she said, "Auntie, here's your boy"—she said she had had a troublesome night with the baby, and asked me if I had heard him cry—I replied no—I had heard him cry—she took him down stairs, saying that she would wash and dress him, and perhaps that would make him sleep—she came again to my room about 10.15, and asked me if I would fetch her some beer—I said it was rather early, as she did not usually have it so early in the morning—I fetched her half a pint of beer—I gave it her at her bedroom door—I did not go into the room—about ten minutes later she called out and asked me if I would attend to her meat, which was in the oven, cooking—I went down at 11.10—I missed her and the baby—I thought she had taken it with her—about 12.30 her husband came in—I asked him if he knew, where my sister had gone, as I had missed her since 11.10—I had looked for her in the back room—I was in and out all the time—I made a further search with her husband—I found the baby in a pail half filled with water close against the bedstead—it was wet, and quite dead—I sent for Dr. Cotter—I searched for my sister—I next saw her in Winchester Street—her husband was with me—I asked her where she had been—she replied, "Only for a little walk," and that she had not had a cup of tea—I took her back home—I said nothing more—I next went to the station and told the Sergeant I had found my sister—he came, and she accompanied him to the station.
Cross-examined. The children sleep in the room—it is used as a living room in the daytime—the bed was made—it looked as if the baby had been picked of it—it slept on a blanket—the pail was about 15 in. high—I had seen my sister depressed about twelve months ago—she was taken to an infirmary, having attempted suicide—for three months she had been very funny—when I found her she seemed strange, quite stupid—I do not think she knew what she was doing—she seemed quite well in the morning—the baby was not dressed—the blanket fell off him as we took him out of the pail—he only had its night dress and a blanket round him.
PATRICK GALLAGHER COTTER , M.D. I live at 57, Caledonian Road—I attended the prisoner just before her confinement, the last time on August 21st, for abdominal pain and low spirits, such as one expects in a pregnant woman—after the confinement I next saw her in the dock at the police Court—on September 25th. about midday. I was called
to 22; Wharfdale Road, where I saw the dead body of a male infant about five weeks old on the bed—its clothes were all wet—it had been dead for some time—I made a post mortem examination the following day—death was due to suffocation from drowning.
Cross-examined. The prisoner was depressed and low spirited when I saw her—I was not surprised to find her suffering from puerperal mania, I did not anticipate anything of the kind—I saw the bed—the position of the pail was pointed out to me—it was quite close to the head of the bed, not at the side.
EDWARD LAWRENCE COUNTER . I am divisional surgeon—on September. 25th, about 9 p.m., I saw the prisoner at King's Cross Police-Station—I examined her—I found her mind unsound—she was not responsible for her actions—she suffered from puerperal melancholia or mania—I endeavoured to converse with her, but all I could get was that she did not want to be there—she said, "I do not want all these men, what are they all doing here? I want to go away, "referring to the policemen.
Cross-examined. Puerperal mania in conjunction with unsoundness of mind occurs before child birth, during pregnancy, during the birth, and during lactation—it shows itself in various forms, attempts at suicide and often an attempt of the life of the child.
GUILTY, but not responsible for her actions. To be detained till His Majesty's pleasure be known.
NEW COURT—Wednesday, November 18th, 1903.
GEORGE HENRY MOCKFORD.
27. GEORGE HENRY MOCKFORD , PLEADED GUILTY to feloniously marrying Elizabeth Beatrice Hayes, his wife being alive Three days' imprisonment —
ALLAN CLAUDE WELLER.
(28) ALLAN CLAUDE WELLER (22) to obtaining £1,000, £1,000, and £800 from Margaret Miller Innocent Murphy by false pretences with intent to defraud. Fifteen months' hard labour. — [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.] and
JOHN CANNINGTON PETTIT.
(29) JOHN CANNINGTON PETTIT (38) to fraudulently converting to his own use £56 17s. 11 1/2d., the moneys of The Elder Tree Loan Society The amount was handed back in Court to the prosecuting society). Three days' imprisonment. [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
ARTHUR JAMES WEIBKING.
30. ARTHUR JAMES WEIBKING , Being intrusted with a bill of exchange for £20, fraudulently converting the proceeds thereof to his own use.
MR. JENKINS Prosecuted; MR. RANDOLPH Defended.
JOSEPH RITTER . I live at 53, Parkholme Road, Dalston,. and am a picture frame maker at 17, Balls Pond Road, London—I drew a bill of exchange for £20, which was accepted by Joseph W. Lewin—I have town the prisoner two or three years—he is a builder—he and I are embers of a club that meets at the Norfolk Arms, Norfolk Road, Dalston—on July 29th I saw him there and asked him if he could get a bill discounted for me which he promised to do, and hand me the proceeds in couple of days, because it would take, that time for the document to
pass through the bank—I handed him the bill—nothing was said about deducting expenses, only the bank charge—I was to have the net proceeds—I went to 2b, Englefield Road, Dalston the next evening and handed the prisoner the bill—I called at the house again a few days after, but could not see him—I again called a few days after, but did not see him—his wife handed me this letter, dated August 12th, "Dear Jo., I have not been successful in getting your bill done, I am sorry to say; I have placed it in another quarter to-day, where it might be more successful, and shall know the result on Friday"—I did not get the money—I called again—I received another letter from the prisoner in these words, "Dear Jo., No letter to hand re bill, I am sorry to say; I will make it my business to see the people this morning and see if I can get the matter settled—yours truly, ARTHUR J WEIBKING"—a few days after I received another letter from him with an enclosed letter from "A. Haynes"—(This stated that the bill would be discounted and the cash forthcoming the next Thursday.)—I did not know who Haynes was at that time—I wrote to the prisoner and called again at his house on September 5th—I saw him and asked for my money—he replied, "I was in need of it, I have had it, and found it came in very handy"—I said, "Don't you think you have done me a very dirty trick?"—lie replied, "Oh, well, you have got to do all kinds of things"—I have never had a penny of the bill.
Cross-examined. I got the bill on July 27th, and the prisoner was the first person I took it to on the 29th—he said he would let me have it back in two days time—I think I did say that at the Police Court—he said it would take two or three days for the bill to pass through—I swear he was the first one who had the bill—Mr. Proust never had it—he lives at 135, Sandringham Road—I asked Proust if he could get it discounted for me—it was then about a day old—he did not say that he would see Mr. Young, the manager of the London and Provincial Bank, Kingsland—I had been to Mr. Young with another bill, and he would not do it—I then asked Mr. Proust to see what he could do—I say that the prisoner said that he had had the money and that it had come in very handy, and I told him he had done me a very dirty trick—I do not know why I did not mention that at the police court—I did not attach much importance to it.
Re-examined. I have no vindictive feeling in the matter—if I had had the money even at the eleventh hour, I could not have prosecuted; the whole matter would have dropped.
HENRY ARCHIBALD SMITH . I am a clerk in the London Trading Bank, Limited, of 12, Coleman Street, City—I produce a bill of exchange for £20 and a certified copy of the ledger account of A. Weibking and Company, Limited—I see an entry on August 14th that the bill was discounted and put to the credit of that company—the balance on the morning of that day was £5 3s.—then the £20 was paid in and £80—on the same day £34 6s., £3, and £81, with charges 12s. 3d. were drawn on the account—on August 15th there was a cheque to Haynes for £25—the prisoner had a private account at the bank—the company's account was under the control of the two partners at the beginning—since February, only the prisoner has drawn on it.
Cross-examined. The prisoner could, as far as I know, have put the bill through his private account—there would have been more than £20 on August 14th that could have been drawn on, but for a bill of £34 that we held.
Re-examined. The balance at the end of the day on August 14th was £13 15s. 3d.
ARCHIBALD HAYNES . I live at Canonbury, and was employed as clerk by A. Weibking and Company, Limited, until September 14th, when the company went into liquidation—I constantly saw the prisoner—he handed me a bill of exchange for £20 about August 8th or 9th, and asked me if I could discount it, but I could not, nor could I get it done, so I handed it back to him about August 9th or 10th—he asked me to write him a letter, which I did, saying that I had not then been able to get the bill discounted, but should be able to in a few days' time—the letter was untrue.
Cross-examined. I tried to get the bill discounted, but could not, so handed it to the prisoner—he did say he thought there would be money coming in at the end of the week for the company, which would enable him to draw a cheque on the company's account to meet the bill—the amount has been treated by the company's liquidator as a preferential claim, and I think there is enough of the company's property to meet it.
The prisoner, in his defence on oath, said that the bill was not handed to him on July 20th, but on August 8th; that he took it to his bank and asked them to discount it; and that when it was done he thought he should be able to draw a cheque to meet it, but had forgotten that there was another bill due; and he was not able to pay the money over.
GUILTY . Judgment respited.
FOURTH COURT—Wednesday, November 18th, 1903.
WILLIAM EVERLEIGH.
31. WILLIAM EVERLEIGH , Forging and uttering a form of nomination of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society with intent to defraud.
MR. T. HUMPHREYS Prosecuted.
WALTER CROFT . I live at 1, Stafford Place, Richmond, and am a clerk in the employment of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society—I produce a copy of the rules—rule 17 states that any member may nominate a person to receive money due by the Society, to his nominee at his death, and such member in registering the nomination is debited with the sum of 3d.—, those forms are written on yellow paper, and the forms for membership on blue paper—I believe William Page has been a member of the Society for thirty-three years—I only knew him as such—the form of nomination marked "A," dated March 19th, 1902, is 'marked as having been issued on March 10th, and returned to the society on the 22nd, 1902—it is in the following terms: "I, the undersigned, residing at 3, Fordingley Road, being a member of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, do hereby nominate my friend James Edwin Spencer, residing at 95, Chippenham Road, and now of the age of twenty-five years, to receive any moneys payable by the said Society to my representative upon my death"—
the member who made the nomination appears, by the signature, to be William Page and to be witnessed by William Everleigh—James Edwin Spencer was a member of the society—his form of nomination is dated March 5th, 1902—that was before the yellow paper, which the Jury have in their possession, was issued—Mr. Page's name does not appear in that at all—it would not be necessary, though not usual, for Page to be a member of the society for the purpose of nominating anybody as receiver—I am not aware of any particular reason why Spencer became a member of the society.
WILLIAM PAGE . I am a coachman, of 3, Fordingley Road, and have been a member of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society thirty-three years—I can write my own name; I signed it to my deposition at the Police Court—the signature on Exhibit A was not signed by me—after reading this form, which purports to be a nomination by me of a man called Edwin Spencer to receive at my death whatever sum is due, I say I know nothing about it, nor did I ever intend to nominate Spencer or anybody else to receive my money—I am married, and my wife is living—I saw Spencer at the Police Court, but did not recognise him as ever having seen him before—I never on any occasion asked Spencer to fill up or write anything for me on this or any other form, nor did I ever ask Everleigh to do anything of the sort—some time in this year my wife went and paid 3d., with which I was debited by the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, a charge which is made for registration, and that was the first time I discovered that I was supposed to have sent in a nomination—the prisoner lodged with me for over twelve months at my house, 3, Fordingley Road—I think he left me nearly two years ago, about February, 1902—he knew that I was a member of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society—I kept my certificate of membership hanging up in the room which he occupied—that had my number upon it, 17576.
Cross-examined by the prisoner. I do not remember your coming to the coffee house where Spencer was in Chippenham Road, nor do I remember your asking Spencer if he would propose me to be a member of the Hearts of Oak Society—you did not bring Spencer over with his paper to me—that never happened—Spencer never came to my house until a fortnight ago, when he came to ask me if my wife could recognise him—I did not ask you to fill in a paper for me because I could not write—I do not remember asking you previous to this, two years ago, to fill in a paper called the Census Paper because I could not write—I do not remember the occasion at all.
JOSEPH SIMMONS (Police Sergeant D.) On October 16th I went to 228, Carlton Vale, Kilburn, and arrested the prisoner on this charge—he said, "I know nothing about it; I never belonged to the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society; you have got the wrong man"—at the Police station he said, "I know nothing about it"—next morning at the Police Court he said, "I have been thinking it over, and it has come to my mind that about eighteen months ago I signed a paper of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society for my landlord at his house; that is all I know, about the society."
Cross-examined. You said, "I signed it for my landlord to join"—if you meant it was not for your landlord but for Mr. Spencer, you did not say so.
THOMAS WHITE . I am a draper, of 198, Cambridge Road, Kilburn—the prisoner was formerly employed by me as book keeper—for that reason I know his writing—I have no doubt that Exhibit A is all in the prisoner's handwriting.
GEORGE DOUGLAS INGLIS . I am an expert in handwriting, and have carefully compared the prisoner's admitted writing in the book produced to me, with the writing upon the Exhibit—in my opinion, they are decidedly the same hand.
JAMES EDWIN SPENCER . I keep a coffee house in Camden Town—I formerly lived at 95, Chippenham Road—looking at Exhibit A I observe that James Edwin Spencer, of 95, Chippenham Road, is nominated to receive whatever sum is due to the representative of William Page on his death—I did not know that there was such a nomination form as this until this case started; I did not know anything about it, and neither the prisoner nor Mr. Page ever spoke to mo about it—the document by which I became a member of the Hearts of Oak. Benefit Society is this blue admission form contained in the book now shown to me—this is the form I signed to become a member—with the exception of the doctor's certificate, it is all in my own writing—I recollect signing it at 95, Chippenham Road, where I was employed—It is dated March 5th, 1902, as far as I recollect.
Cross-examined. At my coffee house one day I asked you if you knew anyone in the neighbourhood to propose me in the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society—you said you believed your landlord, Mr. Page, was a member of it, and would ask him to propose me—I came over one night with a paper, Mr. Page being there also—the paper he asked you to fill in was blue, not yellow, and Page only asked you to sign his name and number—there was nothing to fill in but this.
By the COURT. I asked Page to sign a paper, and Page asked the prisoner to sign it for him, and the prisoner was supposed to have signed it—I went with the paper to Page's house, but I cannot recollect whether the prisoner signed it or not—he was supposed to have signed it; I mean, it was given back to me, and I thought Page's name was on it.
WILLIAM PAGE (Re-examined). I see the prisoner now, but did not see him eighteen months back—I never saw him then at all—I hear what he says now, that he came to me eighteen months ago with a proposal form for membership of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, and that I asked him to sign my name for me—I say I did not; there is not a word of truth in that at all—I became a member of this society in order that I might share in its benefits.
J. E. SPENCER (Re-examined.) I obtained first of all a blue form of admission for membership, and filled that up—a space is left for the name of the member who proposes you—I went round to Page's house to have filled in, but whether it was filled in or not I do not know—the form , which is in my writing, is not filled in so far as the prisoner is concerned
—at the time when I say this took place Mrs. Page was there besides myself and Everleigh—I went round about a fortnight ago to Mr. Page's house to see if Mrs. Page could recognise me—she was unable to do so, but I recognised her—I never had a yellow printed form—I do not say that the day on which I went to Page's house was some time before I signed that form—I signed the form shown to me on March 5th, and it was received at the office on March 7th—this is the paper, as far as I know, that I took to Page's house—it was blue.
The prisoner, in his defence on oath, said that he was living at Mr. Spencer's coffee house; that Spencer asked him if he could recommend him to a member of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, and he said he believed his landlord was a member, and that he would propose him; that he asked Mr. Page, who said "Yes," and that Spencer went with him one night, and Mr. Page said, "Will you fill in the form, because I cannot write"; that he said he would do his best; that he did not thoroughly understand it, but filled in the form and signed it, and asked them both if they thought it would do, and they said "Yes," they thought that it was all right, and Mr. Spencer put it in his pocket; that he had not thought of it or heard anything about it until he was arrested: about eighteen months ago when he was fitting in the paper he did not understand it, but thought if it was wrong it could be sent back to be corrected by Mr. Spencer; that he was in the employment of a Mr. White to take his stock, and kept the book produced, but did not think his writing would be called good; that he did not know if I understood this form; but could read fairly well (Reading the form to the Jury).
J. E. SPENCER (Re-examined.) I never saw the yellow paper which the prisoner spoke of—I did not know there was such a paper, and I positively swear that it was not that paper which I took away.
The prisoner further stated that he did not understand the paper when he filled it in, and did not understand it now; that he was not a book keeper, but only had to make out bills; that it was just over a week after Spencer asked him to get somebody to nominate him that he went to Page's house; that he did not remember if Spencer showed him the blue form, and the only form he remembered was the yellow one, and that he expected he must have read the form without understanding it.
ISHER ABAS.
32. ISHER ABAS (65) , Stealing a purse, a postage stamp, part of a ring, and £2 5s. in money, the property of Florence Hickman.
MR. BOULTON Prosecuted.
ARTHUR SIMMONS (City Policeman.) On October 18th, in the afternoon, I was in Middlesex Street—there was a large crowd, and Miss Hickman was standing on the outskirts of it—the prisoner was standing slightly behind her on the right side, sideways, somehow—I saw him stooping, looking this way—he then put his left hand under his right, and put it into Miss Hickman's right hand pocket—I saw his hand disappear—he then withdrew his arm and turned his back to me, and made his way into the crowd—the young lady looked round; she was confused, and exclaimed
that she had lost her purse—I followed the prisoner, brought him back to her, and asked her if she had lost anything—she said her purse had been stolen—I then asked the prisoner where it was—he replied in broken English, "This is the only purse I have got," and drew an old one from his pocket—on being sworn and charged at the police station, he stated through an interpreter that he was innocent of the charge.
The Prisoner (Interpreted.) If the policeman saw me taking out the purse, why did he not stop me there and then—nothing was found upon me, so why should they arrest me?
FLORENCE HICKMAN . On the afternoon of October 18th I was in Petticoat Lane, now called Middlesex Street—I had a purse in my right hand pocket containing £2 5s., a piece of a ring, and a stamp—I felt someone's finger just in the palm of my hand, which I had partly in my pocket—I felt a hand go into my pocket and snatch the purse away—I turned round sharply, and saw that old man (the prisoner) a small distance away, just standing up like that—the constable ran after him and took hold of him, when I turned round—there were a few people about who might have captured him.
Cross-examined by the prisoner. I could not hold you when I felt your hand in my pocket because you moved away quickly.
ARTHUR SIMMONS (Re-examined.) The purse has not been found—I saw the prisoner's hand disappear into the pocket—he then pushed his way and rushed across the road, and I stopped him—it did not strike me that he had stolen anything until the young lady looked round.
The prisoner, in his defence on oath, stated that he had been in England five months; that he was standing in Petticoat Lane, and was suddenly held by a policeman, who said that he had picked someone's pocket; that he took out his own purse, and the constable asked the lady if it was hers, and she said "No," and he was taken to the police station; that had he been dishonest the authorities would not have given him a passport to come over to England, which is only given to honest people; that he came to England in June last with 200 marks of his own, which he had spent, and had nothing left.
GUILTY . At the suggestion of the Court, arrangements will be made to send the prisoner back to Roumania. Judgment respited.
HENRY DEAN.
33. HENRY DEAN (26) , Robbery with violence, with another person unknown, on Harris Firestein, and stealing a purse, two keys and three shillings, his property.
MR. NOLAN Prosecuted.
HARRIS FIRESTEIN . I live at 101, Grove Street, St. George-in-the East—I am a teacher of Hebrew—on the night of November 11th, about 10.30,1 was going along Grove Street on my way home, and about three or four houses before my house I was suddenly attacked from behind, and somebody placed his hand on my throat—I was almost choked—one of them was holding my eyes, and the other took a purse from my pocket containing about 3s. or less, and two small keys—the prisoner came from behind—I could not see him—I was too much exhausted and upset to follow them.
NATHAN ROSENBERG . I live at St. George-in-the-East—about 10 p.m. on November 11th I was down James Street—I came down from Southwark—I wanted to walk round Commercial Road, so I went round Grove Street, and while there I saw the prisoner rush up behind the old man and put one hand round his throat and the other hand over his eyes—another man was with him, who put his hands down the old man's pockets—one of them took out the money, I suppose—I was on the same side of the street as the prosecutor; his face was towards me—when I saw this I rushed up, and the prisoner left go and wanted to rush past me—I tried to stop him, but he chucked me aside, and I fell against the wall—I recovered and ran after them—on the way some men tried to stop the prisoner and to hold him, but he knocked them aside—I kept on running after him until I saw another man try to stop him, but he started hitting the man—I came up behind and caught hold of his hand as he lifted it up—he went like this, so I thought he was going to use something, and I said, "Sam, catch hold of the other hand"—then a constable, hearing cries of "Stop thief!" came towards us—I saw the prosecutor in Grove Street—he could not talk—I asked him some questions.
Cross-examined by the prisoner. I ran after you, I should say, for 100 yards—I did not lose sight of you—when you turned the corner out of Grove Street I kept about half a yard behind you—the man who first stopped you was probably afraid to come and give evidence against you, because you had "busted "his ear when he tried to stop you—I have never seen you before—although it was dark when you were arrested. I recognised you by your nose and chin, as the man I saw committing the assault.
By the COURT. There were other people about—I heard a woman screaming "Murder," and ran up and saw the assault take place.
FRANK GORDON (322 H.) I was in the neighbourhood of Grove Street on November 11th, between 10 and 11 p.m.—I heard cries of "Stop thief!" coming from Fairclough Street—I saw a crowd running away through Fairclough Street—I saw the prisoner there, running, with the others following—Rosenberg had hold of the prisoner when I got there—I asked the prisoner what was the matter and he stated that he was being set about by Jew boys—I asked Rosenberg what was the matter, and he stated that the prisoner had knocked a man down in Grove Street and robbed him—I took the prisoner back to Grove Street, and there I saw the prosecutor, who gave him into custody—the distance from the place in Fairclough Street where I came up with prisoner to the spot where I found the prosecutor in Grove Street was about 100 to 150 yards—I took the prisoner to the station, and when charged there he stated that the prosecutor could not have seen him do it, and he knew nothing at all about it—I searched him, and found 5d. in bronze.
Cross-examined. I have said that the distance between the prisoner where I arrested him and the spot where the assault took place was more than 300 yards, but I corrected it immediately after to 150—I first saw Rosenberg at Fairclough Street, when the prisoner told me that he had been
set upon by Jew boys—I did not say that it was a rough quarter, and that I had had a lot of trouble before.
The prisoner, in his defence on oath, said that he had been to the Forest Music Hall with a young woman, and came out a little after 9, and left her about 10.30, and on his way home saw five chaps standing at the corner, one of whom passed a remark which he did not like, and he spoke to him about it, and was punched, and punched back again; that others closed round, and as he could not fight four or five, he ran for 100 yards, and was stopped by a constable.
GUILTY . He then
PLEADED GUILTY to a conviction at the North Lonhon Sessions on May 27th, 1902, and several other convictions were proved against him. Five years penal servitude.
OLD COURT.—Friday, November 20th, 1903.
Before Mr. Justice Walton.
WILLIAM TAYLOR LEE AUGUSTUS JAMES.
34. WILLIAM TAYLOR LEE AUGUSTUS JAMES (46), was indicted for and charged on the Coroner's Inquisition with the wilful murder of Dorcas Pizer.
MR. BODKIN and MR. MURPHY Prosecuted; MR. ELLIOTT and MR. WATSON
FRANCIS ALLRIGHT (Detective Y.) Produced and proved plans of 19, Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell, and also a photograph of the back of the house, showing that a person, with the aid of the steps shown in the photograph, could easily get on to the top of the lavatory and then in at the landing window.
KATHERINE DENLEY . I am the wife of George Denley, of 31a, Danehurst Street, Fulham—the prisoner is my brother—his second wife died in 1898, when he came to live with me until he left to marry Mrs. Purkiss in 1899—on August 31st, 1903, he came again to live with me—I knew that he was then employed at Stubbs'—when he came on August 31st he had a black eye and a bruised forehead—I asked him how they were caused, but I cannot remember what he said except that they were caused in Myddelton Square—he remained with me up to October 6th—he had a week's holiday in the last week in September—he did not go away for that—on October 6th he left the house about 7.15 a.m., saying he would be a little later than yesterday, when he had come home between 2 and 3 p.m.—his holidays were over then—he had gone back to work on the Monday—October 6th was a Tuesday.
Cross-examined. While my brother lived with me he was quiet and well behaved—he was always home in the afternoon, and he never went out any more—he generally spent his evenings with me and my husband playing "Ludo"—he could not sleep, so he would not go to bed early—so far as I saw, he was kind and good natured—we had no quarrel while he was with us.
Re-examined. We used to play "Ludo" till 11 or 12, or perhaps 1 or 1.30—the prisoner had a separate bed room to himself, but we all lived together—as far as I know, he never missed any day in going to his work
—he was regular and very punctual—once or twice he said he had a lot of writing to do, and he used to get tired of it.
FREDERICK LEFEVRE MILBURN . I am a registered medical practitioner, of 43, Claremont Square, Clerkenwell—during 1901 and 1902, on various dates, I attended Mrs. James for illness, and on June 1st, 1901, I attended her for injuries—I found her to be suffering from severe nervous prostration—she was very severely bruised down the right side of her body, commencing at her head—she had a large swelling on her leg—I judged from the appearance of her hair that it had been pulled—it was all anyhow—that was the only occasion on which I found her to be suffering from bruises or injury—I asked the prisoner his reason for behaving in the manner he was doing to his wife, and he said, "She is always nagging at me."
Cross-examined. I was Mrs. James' regular medical attendant—I attended her down to October, 1902, since when she has not required my services—as far as I know, no other medical gentleman has attended her—I have not seen the prisoner since June, 1901.
THOMAS KELLY . I am an hydraulic fitter, of 162, Barnsbury Road, and am Mrs. James' son in law, as I married a Miss Purkiss—I have known the prisoner for about four years, since he married my mother in law—I remember going to Myddelton Square about August 28th—my wife had made a statement to me, and in consequence I went there—about an hour afterwards the prisoner came in—I said, "Hulloa!"—he laughed and asked me what I wanted—I said I had come to make a visit—he said, "Clear out"—that was in the passage up stairs—he went down to the breakfast parlour in the basement, and I followed him—he was talking to Miss Florrie, his step daughter—I see a very strange look in his face—I thought he was going to catch hold of her, and I struck him, as I thought there would be trouble—I was asked to look after the daughters, and so I struck him—he struck me back, and we fought for about a couple of minutes, and both fell through a glass door—two policemen came, and the prisoner and I went to the station with them—I cannot remember whether I spoke to the prisoner on that day about what my wife had told me.
Cross-examined. I thought the prisoner looked as if he hardly knew what he was going to do—I have always said to his wife that I did not think he was right, but I have never seen him quite so wild as this—at times he behaved like a man who was not sensible—he did not offer me any violence until I struck him—he was talking to Florence in a strange way, and he appeared to be a little excited—I thought he might' be going to hit the girl, and I thought if he did I should not be able to stop him—I hit him with all my might with my fist—I think I hit him somewhere on the cheek—I was not particular where it was—I should say he had had a little drink—I have sometimes seen him a little excited by drink—I believe he used to drink a good drop.
Re-examined. I cannot say if he was a man of bad temper, because I was never there much—he always treated me with the greatest respect—he did not appear to be in a bad temper—on this occasion—I should say
he was a little angry at seeing me there—I do not think my following him down stairs made him more angry—he was talking to Florence, something about household affairs, I cannot say what—he was grumbling and scolding—his eyes moved about as I have seen people who have been insane—I should not say he was in a strong passion.
CHARLES COBHAM . I am a labourer, of 32, Noble Street, Clerkenwell—about 9.45 p.m. on October 6th I was in Wilmington Square with a friend—when we got to the end of Tysoe Street, and near the square, I saw a man standing under a lamp post—I see something shining in his hand—when he came by he held up what he had in his hand and fired it, and then put it in his right hand pocket—I saw it was a revolver—he then ran towards Margaret Street and Farringdon Road—I followed him into Margaret Street—I saw a policeman at the corner—I spoke to him and went with him to Attneave Street, where I left him—he walked on down Attneave Street—I was shown a number of men at the station, and picked out the prisoner as the man who had fired the revolver.
Cross-examined. I was just across the road from the prisoner when I first noticed him—he looked in the direction of the boys' club and fired something—he looked as if he expected somebody was coming after him—when I walked up past him he put his arm up like that and fired—I was then a few dozen yards from him—I and my pal were the only persons near to him—he did not apparently fire at anybody, and the moment he had fired he put the revolver into his pocket and walked away—he seemed strange in the way he behaved—it attracted my attention—I do not know if he had seen us before he fired—he was looking in our direction—it was not until we walked in his direction that he did anything—I saw him take the pistol from his right hand pocket.
Re-examined. The pistol went off at once when he held it up—I did not see him touch it with his other hand—he looked very strange in his face, like scowling—he seemed to be aiming the pistol where it would not hit anybody.
ANNIE MARLES . I am the wife of Henry Maries, of 13, Arundel Square—I have known the prisoner about three years—about 4 p.m. on October 6th he called at my house, and asked for my landlord's address—he did not say why he wanted it—I told him I could not exactly tell him—he said, "I have left Mrs. James, as I thought she had put her daughters in front of me; I am now going to do her all the harm I can; I am going to have what you commonly call' your own back'"—then he said he would call again in a few days—he was with me for ten or fifteen minutes.
Cross-examined. I have never seen him like that before—his manner struck me as strange—I did not take his statement about doing Mrs. James harm seriously—after he had gone I only thought that he was rather peculiar.
Re-examined. He dragged his words out, and seemed to talk peculiarly—I understood what he said, but I had to ask him once or twice what he said—I thought he was in drink—I did not notice any smell of liquor about him—before October 6th I had not seen him for nearly two years—he had not corresponded with me during that time—I was first called at the
inquest—the prisoner did not seem excited when he called on me, or as if he had anything on his mind—all I noticed about him was that he spoke a little indistinctly, which I put down to his having been drinking.
FLORENCE PURKISS . I live at 19, Myddelton Square, and am a dressmaker's assistant—I have two sisters living at home—one of them is named Lilian—my mother, Mrs. James, was married to a Mr. Purkiss before she married the prisoner—we are Mr. Purkiss' children—he died in 1899—we have lived at 19, Myddelton Square for three or four years—the prisoner also lived there for a time, and also my mother's sister, Dorcas Pizer—she was a maiden lady just over fifty years of age—we took in lodgers, and she assisted my mother to manage the house—I and my sisters are employed during the day as dressmakers, and go home in the evening, except for four months, when I was at home, because mother had no maid—while the prisoner was living with us he treated my mother on the whole very well, except on one occasion, a few weeks before October 6th; it was a Saturday; I was in the drawing room with my mother on the ground floor—I think it was the last Saturday in August—the prisoner was living in the house then—he had lived there ever since he married my mother, with the exception of five weeks—there were some proceedings at the police court about a year ago, when a separation order was made between him and my mother, and he was to allow her 10s. a week—I have no idea how that came about—after the five weeks the prisoner came back and lived with us till August 28th—on the last Saturday in August my mother and I were cleaning the mirrors in the drawing room; the prisoner came in and started removing the ornaments—mother was cleaning a mirror over the fireplace—the prisoner moved some ornaments off the mantelpiece and off a large consol table—I do not know what my mother said, but she remonstrated with him—he got hold of her by her right ear—I went to her assistance—I was knocked down somehow. I cannot say how—I did not fall over any thing. I was knocked down—mother ran out of the room, I don't know where to—the prisoner went out of the house—I have got a married sister, Mrs. Kelly: she was not in the house when this happened—she came later in the day, and her husband—I do not know if they came together—the prisoner returned to the house—Mr. Kelly was there then—I did not hear what passed between them—I do not remember being in the kitchen on that day, and the prisoner speaking to me—he has never spoken to me in a scolding way about household matters—there was some violence between Kelly and the prisoner—I saw part of it—they and a policeman left the house—the prisoner came back that night for a day or two longer—he left on September 31st and I did not see him till October 6th—we go to bed at different time—I generally went at about 11 or 11.30—as a general rule, we were late people—on the night of October 6th my sister Lilian, myself, mother and my aunt Miss. Pizer, were all at home—we have got a little sitting room down stairs called the breakfast room—that is the general room used by the lodgers—it looks over the garden—as you look out of the glass doors which form the windows you can see right down the garden path to the back entrance gate—my mother and sister and I were in that room—my mother and sister both left a little before ten—my
aunt was in the front kitchen—I think she was in good health—there is a bed in the front kitchen—my aunt did not sleep there as a rule, but on this night she was going to sleep there—mother heard a noise in the garden before she went to bed—I heard it also—we all remarked upon it—as far as I know, my aunt had not left the kitchen all the evening—we had supper there together about nine o'clock—we took about thirty minutes over it—we left the kitchen about 9.30 or 9.45, leaving my aunt in there—after my mother and sister went up stairs I was sitting on a chair reading, with my back to the fireplace; my newspaper was on the table—I was facing the door—while I was reading, the dog, which was lying on the sofa in the same room, barked—I looked up and saw the prisoner at the door—that only seemed a minute or two after my mother and sister had gone up stairs—the prisoner did not say anything—I said, "Oh, Mr. James, whatever do you want?"—he did not answer—I only saw his face in the doorway—the door was partly open, and he was looking round it—he then came further into the room, and I could see the whole of him—I noticed when he came inside the door that he had a revolver in his right hand, pointing downwards—I saw him slowly raise his hand—I was still sitting with my back to the fireplace—then I heard a report and saw a flash—I stood up—the prisoner seemed to be twisting something round on the revolver with his other hand—when I heard the report he was standing sideways to me—I do not know in which direction his hand was when he fixed—when I stood up I walked backwards towards the glass door into the garden—the prisoner came down the fireplace side of the table, which was the same side that I was on—he was rather near to me; I do not remember how far—I went down the side of the table, and when I got to the end of it I got underneath it—the prisoner did not come right to the top—I did not get underneath quickly; I then crawled under the table towards the room door and away from the glass door—I ran up stairs, leaving the prisoner in the room—when I got a little more than half way up the stairs I heard a scream and a report—I looked back down the stairs and saw the prisoner at the front kitchen door—I could see nearly all of him—he had his back towards me and was standing still—the kitchen door was only a very little open; not enough for him to see into the kitchen—I then went on up the stairs to see after my mother, and to call the police—just as I got to the top of the kitchen stairs some policemen passed me and went down stairs—I said something to the first one—I do not know how many there were—I crossed the hall and went out of the street door on to the doorstep, where I saw a lot of people—my mother and Lilian were standing on a neighbour's doorstep—I went back into the house and down two or three steps to the first landing, going down into the kitchen—I saw the prisoner on the stairs in charge of the police—I passed them and went down into the kitchen—I saw my aunt lying on the floor, with some people attending to her—on the next day, Wednesday, I was in the little sitting room at the back, when I found this bullet (Produced) on the floor—on the same day I noticed a mark on the table in the same room—it was on the door side of the table and very near the edge, on the top—on the night before there was a table cloth on it—the mark went right through the table from the top downwards,
slantways—I had never noticed the hole before—the table cloth is a woollen one, and you cannot see the hole very well which is in it—I found the bullet near the garden door and the sofa.
Cross-examined. I was living with my mother at 19, Myddelton Square when she married the prisoner in 1899, and I lived with her right down to this affair—the prisoner was always very kind to me, except when he tried to take the ornaments from the mantlepiece; he wanted to move them to the conservatory—I do not know if he had brought them to the house when he married my mother—at the time he moved them I do not think he said anything—my mother tried to prevent his moving them—I should not care to say how I was knocked down; I only remember that I was knocked down—the prisoner was pulling one way, and my mother the other, and I went to help her—the prisoner left the house finally on the last day in August—I was at the house when he went away—he did not say good-bye or anything; he went out just as if he was going to business in the ordinary way—he had been at home all the previous day, a Sunday—we were all on good terms during that day, and also when he left—we had all had breakfast together—when the prisoner came into the sitting room on October 6th he raised the pistol without saying anything after I spoke to him—I saw a flash and heard the report—at that time I did not know where the bullet had gone, if one had gone at all—I was sitting with my back to the fire, a trifle nearer to the kitchen side of the table than the centre—he did not appear to be firing at me or anything in particular—I noticed his face—he seemed very strange indeed to me—he seemed to have a wild and dazed look—he did not look like a man who knew what he was doing—he was not angry with me—after he had fired the first time I rose from my seat—I stood up quite still; it seemed a long time to me, but I suppose it was only a second or two—he had plenty of time to fire at me again while I was standing if he had wished to—I was facing him, between the fire grate and the table; then I went to the edge of the table, near the glass doors, and crawled underneath it—I stayed under the table for what seemed a long time to me—if he had chosen to do so the prisoner had plenty of time to fire at me while I was there—I could see his legs, but I could only see him walking about—he did not further molest me—then I crawled from under the table to the door and got on to the stairs—when I got to the door the prisoner was standing opposite the door—he could see me as I went out—he could easily have fired at me if he had chosen to while I was walking out of the door—I did not notice him come out of the room as I went up the stairs—in order to get into the kitchen he would have to come out of that door and go in at the kitchen door—I think I must have got up five or six steps when I heard the report—the scream came from the kitchen—I know my aunt's voice; the scream was hers—I turned round and saw the prisoner just outside the kitchen door—as I turned and looked down I think he turned and looked at me, but I am not positive about it—I did not notice where his hand was in which he had the pistol—it only took me 8 minute or two to get from the breakfast
room door to five or sis steps up the staircase, because, I ran as hard as I could the moment I got out of the door; it was only about half a dozen yards—the prisoner and my aunt were on most affectionate terms—I have never known them to have any quarrel—my aunt was just the opposite in appearance to my mother; nobody could mistake them for each other—my aunt was short, not above 5 ft., I should think—I should think mother would be 5 ft. 7 in. or 8 in., and is a fine looking woman—my aunt was not stout, she was very small—I did not see my mother at the same time that I saw the policeman.
Re-examined. When the prisoner caught hold of my mother on August 28th neither of them had any ornaments in their hands—it was not a question of his pulling one way and she the other when I was knocked down—it was after I stood up at the table on October 6th that I saw the prisoner doing something to the revolver—I am not positive about it, but I think that is what made me get up—he only did that something to the pistol for about a minute—when I went out of the room I could not see which way the prisoner was looking; I could only see that he was there—I was very much frightened—what had happened was a very great shock to me—I think I was able on that evening to give a clear account of what had happened—I do not know Dr. Caunter—we burn two ordinary hanging kitchen gas burners in the kitchen—I could not see any light coming from the kitchen door when I went up stairs—the door opens that way, and you cannot see if there is any light there—I do not know what light there was in the kitchen, but we have always one burner there—my aunt was almost undressed when I saw her lying on the floor—if anybody coughed or made a noise in one room you could hear it in the next—the prisoner was subject to rather sudden fits of temper sometimes—I do not know if it was when anything annoyed him—I did not hear him say that my sister and I were being put before him by our mother—I never heard anything of that sort—while the prisoner was living with us up to the end of August, my aunt was also there; she used to sleep at the top of the house—there was also a bed in the kitchen, and if we had visitors someone slept there to make another bed upstairs—my aunt had slept there for some nights before October 6th; sometimes she slept there for two or three weeks straight off—I believe she had slept there once or twice while the prisoner was in the house, but I am not positive—I cannot remember when first a bed was put into the kitchen—it might have been since last summer or last summer year; it was when my brother came home, I think, in the summer year, it was after the separation order that it was put up—I can only remember coming home and seeing it fixed up—the prisoner was living in the house then—when the kitchen was used as a bedroom it was always used by my aunt—nobody else slept there.
LILIAN PURKISS . I am Florence Purkiss' sister; the prisoner is my stepfather—I live at 19, Myddelton Square, with my mother—shortly before 10 p.m. on October 6th I was sitting in the breakfast room with my mother and sister—I left the room about ten to go to bed, leaving my mother and sister in the room—I went to the first floor back room,
where I was sleeping for the time being—I was preparing to go to bed, and about 10.13 I heard a kind of a scream—I did not hear any other noise after it—I opened the door and ran downstairs—when I got on to the landing outside the room I noticed that the landing window was open; it is a stained-glass window—when I went up to bed it was closed—when I ran down stairs I went into the street—going down stairs, I heard the noise of what I took to be a shot and another scream—I did not notice which came first, I was so frightened—I do not remember if the door was open when I got down stairs—I saw my mother in the street—a little later, I returned to the house and went down into the kitchen, where I saw my aunt—she was attended to by Dr. Goddard—the steps shown in this photograph were always kept with a lot of lumber in the space just outside the conservatory, which looks into the garden.
Cross-examined. While the prisoner lived with us I was on good terms with him—he had no grudge against me or Florence, and he was most attached to my aunt—when he went away in the mornings he always used the back door, he never used the front—we did not all always use the back door—I used the front because it was the nearest way to my business—the prisoner used the back because it was a near cut to the City.
FREDERICK SAVILLE (221 G.) On the night of October 6th I was on duty in Myddelton Square—when I was opposite to No. 19 I saw Mrs. James run out of the house—she spoke to me—in consequence of what she said I went in with Peacock—he came in just behind me—we went through the hall to the top of the stairs—I saw the prisoner coming up the kitchen stairs, with a revolver in his right hand—I. immediately seized him and wrenched it away from him—with the assistance of Peacock, I arrested him—he struggled a little when I got the revolver away—he was trying to keep it—he said, "All right, I will go quiet; I know quite Well what I have done; they have driven me to this; I have been away for five weeks' holiday, and I wish I had stopped there"—Peacock helped me to take him to the station—on the way the prisoner said, "Let me have a smoke; it will be the last one I shall get in this world"—he was taken to the station, and there detained—this (Produced) is the revolver I took from him—I did not say anything to him before he said, "All right, I will be quiet," and nobody else had spoken to him.
Cross-examined. As soon as I got the revolver from him he became quite calm, and did not offer any further resistance.
WILLIAM PEACOCK (22 G.R.) "At 10.15 p.m. on October 6th I was in the neighbourhood of 19. Myddelton Square—I heard screams—I joined Saville, and went to the house with him—I saw the prisoner on the stairs with a revolver in his right hand, which Saville took from him—I held him—I knew him, and called him by his name—he said, "All right; I know quite well what I have done; they have driven me to this; I have only just come back from five weeks' holiday; I wish I had stopped there"—I went down into the kitchen, and saw the deceased lying on her back about a yard and a half from the door and across it—if you walked in at the door you would have had to walk right over her body—she was partly undressed—she had a wound in her right side, which
was bleeding—I left another constable in charge and went back to the prisoner—I went with him and Saville to the station—on the way the prisoner said, "Will you allow me one favour?"—I asked him what it was—he said, "To have a smoke, as it will be the last one I shall get in this world"—I granted his request—he had his pipe in his hand, he lighted it, and proceeded to smoke.
Cross-examined. Saville went into the house just in front of me—he snatched the revolver from the prisoner—he struggled at first—he told us not to be too rough with him—he continued to struggle after the revolver was taken from him, and until I called him by his name, and then he looked up and said, "I will be quiet"—I do not know if he knew me, but I knew him.
JESSE FAIRFAX (129 G.) On October 6th I was on duty in Myddelton Square, when Florence Purkiss came and spoke to me—I went with her to No. 19, where I saw the prisoner in the custody of Saville and Peacock—I went down into the kitchen, and saw the deceased lying there—there was a gas light there—I remained with her until Dr. Goddard arrived.
Cross-examined. When I went down there was plenty of light in both rooms—the gas was full on—when I first saw the prisoner he was quite quiet.
WILLIAM PEACOCK (Re-examined.) The prisoner smelled strongly of whisky.
By the COURT. I do not know who went into the kitchen first—when I went down, there were no police there then—I left Fairfax in charge of the deceased—the gas was alight in the kitchen.
BERTRAM GODDARD . I am a registered medical practitioner, of 27, Pentonville Road—at 10.25 p.m. on October 6th I was called to 19, Myddelton Square—I found the body of Dorcas Pizer lying on the floor; her head was towards the door, and her feet towards the fireplace across the room—I found that she was suffering from a bullet wound through the right seventh rib—I temporarily dressed it, sent for a cab, and personally took her to the Royal Free Hospital—she died in my arms on the way—by a post mortem afterwards, I found that she was a healthy woman, and that her death was caused by syncope, produced by internal hemorrhage from wounds in the liver, spleen, and kidney—this (Produced) is the bullet I found in the left kidney—I do not think she would be able to move any distance after being struck—I should say she fell down immediately—when I got there she was just conscious, and said, "Dear me dear me!"—the direction of the wound was across the body through the right lobe of the liver—it was nearly straight, but slightly downwards.
Cross-examined. The deceased was not tall—the wound on her body would be about the height which the prisoner's hand is now in.
WALTER SELBY (Detective Sergeant G.) About 11.30 p.m. on October 6th I went to the back garden of 19, Myddelton Square—I found the back garden gate opening into a passage, ajar—the stained glass window shown in the photograph was slightly open—the dust on the window sill was recently removed, and the steps were against the wall, as shown in the photograph—I should say with the steps in that position it would
not be difficult for anyone to get on to the top of the lavatory, and then in at the window—about 12.30 a.m. I saw the prisoner at King's Cross Road Police Station—I assisted to search him, he took a key from his right hand trouser pocket and handed it to Inspector Briggs, who handed it to me—I subsequently fitted it to the gate leading from Myddelton Passage into the garden—just by the fowls' house I found a high hat and an umbrella—on October 14th I was at Clerkenwell Police Court, when the prisoner was committed for trial, and when Cobham identified the prisoner, he said, "Yes, that is right; I saw this boy there, I remember him."
Cross-examined. The key moved easily in the lock, as if the gate was constantly used.
WILLIAM BRIGGS (Inspector G.) I know the prisoner well—he joined the Police force in January, 1879—he was made a sergeant in 1884, and left the force in 1896—since then I have seen him daily—I was not present on October 2nd, 1902, when the separation order was made—on October 6th I was passing through Myddelton Passage, a little after 10 p.m.—I saw the prisoner—he was wearing a tall silk hat, a serge jacket, and was carrying an umbrella—we were going in opposite directions—I had just passed the back door of No. 19, and he was going towards it—as he passed me I noticed that it was the prisoner—I did not speak to him; he seemed to wish to avoid me, otherwise I might have said good night to him—about 10.45 I saw him detained at King's Cross Road Police Station—Saville handed me this revolver—I did not examine it then; I put it in a safe place and went to Myddelton Square—having heard that Miss Pizer was dead, I went back to the station—I said to the prisoner, "Your sister-in-law is dead, and you will be charged with her wilful murder; you will also be charged with attempting to murder your step daughter Florence"—he said, "I will offer no resistance in the least degree"—the charges were entered against him, and read over—he made no reply—he took everything out of his own pockets; amongst other things was this knife (Produced); it is a dagger knife, and has a sheath, but it was not in it then; it was as it is now, in his left coat pocket—he said, "I bought that to-day; I was going abroad on Friday: I quite realise my position; I want you to examine that revolver"—I had it in my hand then—I said, "I have done so; there are three spent cartridges and two live ones in it"—he said, "That is right; if you say there are three spent cartridges and two live ones that is right"—placing his hand in his left hand trousers pocket, he took out a handful of cartridges and said, "There are forty-five more here. I bought a box of fifty. When the tale comes to be told there will be quite a different complexion put upon it. I know exactly my position. You will observe there are three spent cartridges; one of them was accidentally spent by me just before this affair. I know perfectly well what you will say in the morning. I wasted one of the cartridges in Wilmington Square, opposite Tysoe Street. I thought a man was following me and spoke to a constable in Margaret Street. I want you to make some inquiry about that. All I expect is fairness, and I know you will do that"—he made that statement about, midnight—Dr. Caunter arrived with me at the station about midnight, and remained
there about half an hour—I had the prisoner under my personal observation from the time that I came back with the news of the death of the deceased—Dr. Caunter did not see the prisoner until he arrived at the station with me—the prisoner was perfectly cool; he made his statement quite clearly, and in his ordinary tone of voice; there were no appearances of drink or excitement about him—he was not incoherent; his statement was made right off by him, and was not in answer to questions—I was not on duty throughout the night—I saw him again next morning before he was taken before the Magistrate; his condition then was similar to that of the night previous—the revolver is a self cocker, and has an ejector action—there is no half cock—until all the cartridges are spent there is no particular object in opening it—in whatever position it is, if you pull the trigger it discharges the revolver, and by pulling the trigger the next cartridge is brought into position—you can also easily turn the barrels with your hand.
Cross-examined. When once you have loaded the five chambers, all you have to do is to go on pulling the trigger until they are all discharged—the two undischarged cartridges were side by side in the revolver—it struck me that on October 6th, when I met the prisoner, he appeared to avoid me—I have known him for many years—I am sure he recognised me—I sometimes said good day to him, but I never stopped and had a conversation with him—I had never known him before to attempt to avoid me—inquiries have been made by the Treasury as to his family antecedents—I had a report from the Police Superintendent at Gloucester in regard to a man named William Taylor, who was the first cousin of the prisoner's father—(This stated that Taylor, who was an agriculturist of considerable note, was of a very excitable temperament, and that before he died, at the age of sixty-nine, there were undoubted signs of depression coming upon him; that he had to relinquish all his business and put it into the hands of a manager; that on the day of his death he asked the servant to get him his gun, as the sparrows were eating all the seeds in his garden, and that when he got the gun He went out and blew his brains out.)
RICHARD LAWRENCE CAUNTER , M.D., M.R.C.P. I am divisional surgeon of police, and on October 6th, about 10.45 p.m., I was called to 19, Myddelton Square—I saw Florence Purkiss, and stayed with her for some time—she was suffering from shock and fright—I did not see the deceased at the time; she had been removed from the house—later on I saw the prisoner at King's Cross Road police station—I remained watching him for half an hour; while doing so he was charged and searched—I heard what he said to Briggs—he was perfectly sober, rational, and, in my opinion, perfectly sane.
Cross-examined. I have had sixteen years' experience of persons who are insane, as an ordinary practitioner only—I have not made it a special branch of my practice—I have known persons when suffering from epilepsy to murder people and within half an hour to be perfectly rational, but there are different symptoms of epilepsy—you can have madness before the epileptic attacks, or between them, or, as it is called, post epilepsy—there are different forms of epilepsy—there is an excitable form, which
comes shortly before the fit itself—in those cases the face is red and the eyes bloodshot, and a general appearance of strangeness in demeanour.
Re-examined. There was not the slightest indication to my mind that the prisoner had ever had epilepsy, or was in an epileptic state on this night—there was not the slightest thing which gave rise to any such suspicion in my mind—until this moment it has never been suggested to me that he was ever suffering from epilepsy.
JAMES SCOTT . I am the medical officer at Brixton Prison—for the last seven or eight years I have held that position at Brixton and Holloway—I have had considerable experience in looking at and examining and testing those as to whom there is any suggestion of insanity—the prisoner was received at Brixton on October 7th, and, as is usual in such cases, was at once put under special observation—I have seen him daily from the evening of the 10th till now—my fellow medical officer, Dr. Watson, saw him up to the 10th—during the time he has been in prison he has been nervous and depressed, but rational both in his conduct and conversation—I do not consider that he was more depressed than is natural, considering the charge against him—I have conversed with him on several occasions in order to discover whether he suffered from delusions, or any disease of the mind—I have not detected any insanity during the time he has been under my observation—there was no evidence of recent excessive drinking—I have had placed before me the whole of the depositions in this case, and I have been in Court to-day during part of the trial—in my opinion I do not think it is shown by the evidence that on October 6th he was suffering from any disease of the mind—I have seen no evidence that he is an epileptic, and he has had no attacks of that nature while under my observation—he said that for some years he had fainting fits, but that, to his knowledge, he never had a convulsive fit—insanity is not necessarily hereditary—from the statements I have seen as to the prisoner's family insanity, I do not think it is strong enough to lead one to think that he has inherited it or not.
Cross-examined. It is difficult to say whether insanity may show itself in any particular branch or generation—there are not many cases of persons who, suffering from mental trouble, go long periods without any overt act—there are cases where persons go voluntarily into retreats when they feel the approach of such trouble, remain there some time, then emerge once more—there is generally something to be traced if you inquire into it.
WILLIAM RIDDELL WATSON . I am deputy medical officer at Brixton Prison—I was on duty on October 7th when the prisoner was brought in—I examined him within an hour or two—he was depressed, and he looked melancholy—he was quite sober, and showed no signs of recent drinking—I had a considerable talk with him—he seemed quite rational and quiet—I do not think he was more depressed than the circumstances would account for—his condition was practically the same for the next three or four days, except that he seemed slightly less depressed—I saw him certainly twice a day and perhaps oftener.
Cross-examined. I have kept him under observation ever since he came in, but I have not seen him so frequently as Dr. Scott.
By the COURT. I saw no signs of insanity or of epilepsy.
FLORENCE PURKISS (Re-examined by the COURT). The door into the garden was unlocked at 10 p.m. on October 6th—it was usually unlocked until we went to bed—the lights can be seen quite plainly from the garden.
GUILTY of manslaughter. Twenty years' penal servitude.
FOURTH COURT.—Friday, November 20th, 1903.
Before Lumley Smith, Esq., K.C.
JOHN SMITH, PATRICK SULLIVAN.
35. JOHN SMITH (25) and PATRICK SULLIVAN (21) , Robbery with violence on Albert Townsend, and stealing a watch and portion of a watch chain, his property.
SULLIVAN PLEADED GUILTY to robbery without violence.
MR. HINDE Prosecuted.
ALBERT TOWNSEND . I am a sailor, and was boatswain of the Cassabianca—on Tuesday night, October 20th, I went to the Oporto Tavern, Poplar, and stood drink to the prisoners—I left about 10.30 to go to the urinal, having announced that I was coming back to the public house—Sullivan followed me and struck me under the chin—as I was falling he snatched my watch and chain, and as I got down in the gutter Smith kicked me on my forehead—I went to the police station where Dr. O'Brien put stitches into the wound—I described the prisoners to the police, and a little later the same night, after their arrest, I identified them.
Cross-examined by Smith. I saw your face when you put your arm around my neck, because your face was then close beside mine—I lost my ship in consequence of the affair, and am in debt for board and lodging.
HENRY CAMPKIN (418 K.) I saw the prosecutor coming to the station, bleeding from a large cut on his eye—he described two men who had robbed and assaulted him—I went to the Oporto, and found Smith there—I had previously seen the two prisoners drinking together there with the prosecutor—I told Smith I should take him into custody for the assault and robbery—he said, "I will go, but I know nothing about it myself"—I went with Detective Gale to Pennyfields, Poplar, saw Sullivan and told him I should arrest him for the assault and robbery—he said, "Hold on, governor"—he was taken to the station—the two prisoners were put up for identification, and the prosecutor picked out Smith and then pointed Co Sullivan, saying, "There is the man who has got it"—at that Sullivan went behind another man—both prisoners were charged—Smith said, "I know nothing about it myself"—Sullivan made no reply—Sullivan was searched by Gale, and the watch was found in his possession—there was no doubt whatever about the identification by Townsend of both the prisoners'.
Cross-examined by Smith. When Townsend identified the prisoners at he station he did not say to you, "It was not you."
Cross-examined by Sullivan. Smith pointed you out first, and then Townsend said, "That's him"—Townsend had not been able to identify Sullivan before that.
THOMAS GALE (Detective Officer K.) About 11.20 on the night of October 20th I was at the station—the prosecutor came in bleeding, and made a complaint to the inspector that he had been robbed and assaulted by two men—I went with Campkin to Pennyfields and arrested Sullivan—I took him to the station and placed him with Smith amongst several other men—when the prosecutor came in he went straight up to Smith and said, "There is the one I want"—Smith turned to Sullivan, who was some distance away, and said, "Why don't you own up, Patsy? You know you were there; you don't want to get me into trouble"—the prosecutor at once said, "That's the other man that was there"—the prisoners were charged, and made no reply—I searched them both, and on Sullivan found a watch and chain, which were identified by the prosecutor, and also some coppers—I asked him where he got the watch and chain—he said, "A man gave it to me; this is what you get by minding a bit of stuff."
ALBERT TOWNSEND (Re-examined.) This is my watch and chain.
Evidence for Smith's Defence.
PATRICK SULLIVAN (The prisoner.) Smith was in my company on the evening in question from 6 till between 8 and 8.30—after that I left him, and did not see him again till I saw him at the police station—I plead guilty to the robbery, but not to the assault—I left Smith in the public house, and he knows nothing about the affair.
Cross-examined. I left Smith in the public house between 8 and 8.30—Townsend treated other men, but not myself or Smith—we paid for our own drink, and Campkin's evidence that he saw the prosecutor and us drinking together is untrue—the first time I saw Townsend that night was in a little turning beside the public house—he was then with another man—that was between seven and eight—I committed the robbery about ten o'clock—I snatched the watch, but used no violence—Townsend was drunk, and fell and hurt himself—there was somebody with me when I committed the robbery, but this man was a stranger, and I don't know his name—I have known Sullivan a tidy while.
The prisoners' statements before the Magistrate: Smith says, "I am as innocent as a new-born babe." Sullivan says, "I plead guilty to stealing the man's watch and chain, but Smith is innocent, and was not with me. I never assaulted the man at all."
Both GUILTY of robbery with violence. Smith then
PLEADED GUILTY to a conviction of felony at this Court on May 5th, 1902, and four other convictions were proved against him. Six previous convictions were proved against Smith. Three years' penal servitude each.
JAMES SULLIVAN, LOUIS GROSMAN.
36. JAMES SULLIVAN (43) and LOUIS GROSMAN (13) , Committing an act of gross indecency with one another.
MR. RODERICK Prosecuted. NOT GUILTY .
JOHN RECANO.
37. JOHN RECANO (39) , Unlawfully attempting to procure the commission by Claude Lewin Duckett Chidley of an act of gross indecency.
MR. LYNE Prosecuted. NOT GUILTY .
WILLIAM PENN.
38. WILLIAM PENN (57) , Feloniously wounding Mary Penn, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm.
MARY PENN . I am the prisoner's wife, and reside with him at 8, Tarling Street, St. George's, in the house of George Vidler—on November 2nd, at 9 p.m., I was sitting in the kitchen against the copper—the prisoner came in and punched me on my mouth—I said, "Let me go up stairs"—he then knocked me off the chair—my head did not come in contact with the copper—he kicked me while I was on the floor—I went up stairs to get my shawl—he was standing behind the door, and hit me on my head with what I thought at first was a knife, but I think now it was the key—he said, "I will lay you out like Rooky Donovan"—that is a man who murdered his wife, and got twelve months' hard labour at this Court—I went out and found a policeman—my head was dressed at the station.
WILLIAM VAUGHAN (29 H.) At 10 p.m. on November 2nd, in consequence of information received, I proceeded to 8, Tarling Street, and found the prisoner in bed, and told him he would be charged with cutting and wounding his wife—he said, "I do not know what you mean; when I returned from my labour I found my wife drunk on the stairs; as for stabbing, that is out of my jurisdiction; it occurred in the kitchen; we had a row in the kitchen, and she fell against the copper; that was how it was done"—I examined the copper; it has a sharp edge—there was some blood upon it, but it had been wiped away by the landlord in whose room the row occurred—both the prisoner and his wife had been drinking—the wife did not appear to be drunk, but she smelt of drink.
CHARLES GRAHAM GRANT (Divisional Surgeon.) On November 2nd, about 9.30 p.m., I tended the woman at the police station—I found her suffering from an incised wound on the left parietal bone, 1 3/4 inches long, penetrating to the bone—it was not a very sharp instrument that had inflicted the injury—she had also contusions on her mouth, and her eye was ecchymosed—she had lost a large quantity of blood—she had been drinking, but was to all intents and purposes sober—the wound was not such as could be caused by bumping against the copper; I have examined the copper, and the edge is not nearly sharp enough—the wound might have been inflicted with a blunt knife.
Cross-examined by the prisoner. The prosecutrix had one or more old scars on her head, but the wound on this occasion was not an old wound that had reopened.
GEORGE VIDLER . I am a scaffolder, of 8, Tarling Street, St. George's—the prisoner and his wife were my lodgers in the upper front room—between 8 and 8.30 p.m. on November 2nd they had had words in my kitchen—he gave her a nasty blow; she reeled round, nearly fell into the fireplace, and bit her head on the edge of the copper—she got up and put on her bonnet and shawl—I thought she was going to the hospital, but she went to the police station—the man went out after her, and I never saw him afterwards—he did not strike his wife more than once—her head
bled when she hit it against the copper—the wound on her head was there before she went up stairs—I did not see the prisoner go up stairs.
The prisoner's statement before the Magistrate: "I got home about 7.30, and found my wife beastly drunk. She used bad language, and spat in my face. I shoved her, and she fell against the copper. She has been here dozens of times for being drunk. As to the matter she referred to. I know nothing about it. That is nothing else but her adding up."
JOHN CAREY.
39. JOHN CAREY (40) , Feloniously causing grievous bodily harm to Jesse Veitch.
MR. HENDERSON Prosecuted.
JESSE VEITCH . I am manager of a common lodging house at 23, Lawrence Street, Chelsea—on the evening of March 28th the prisoner was in my house—he had not engaged a bed—another man had paid for one for him—I was sitting in my office up stairs, and heard cries of "Murder! police!" and my name was called—I went downstairs into the kitchen, and found the prisoner and another man named Croucher—they had robbed two men, and were kicking them—I stooped down to assist Palmer, one of the men, and as I did so the prisoner made a running kick at me, saying, "Take that, you f—g bastard; that is one I owe you"—I picked the man up, set him on a form and ordered the prisoner out of the house—he went—I was severely bruised, but did not know then that my injuries were so serious—the kick had broken two of my ribs—I went to St. George's Hospital, and was there treated for that, and then pleurisy set in, and I was under treatment as an out patient for a further six weeks—I feel the effects of my injuries now—the prisoner has borne ill-will against me for five years because I was the principal witness against him for robbing a bootmaker five years ago.
Cross-examined by the prisoner. The man you robbed was a little fellow called "Punch"—Punch is afraid to come forward and give evidence—I did not allow you to sleep in the house after the affray.
SIDNEY HERBERT LATHAN . I am house physician at present at St. George's Hospital—on March 28th I was house surgeon—the prosecutor came to the hospital on that date and was admitted as an out patient—his seventh and eighth ribs on the left side were broken—I believe he was under treatment for several weeks, but after the first week he was transferred to my assistant, and I never saw him again—he had pleurisy a fortnight after the injury, which was a serious one.
HENRY FITZGERALD (Policeman B.) On November 8th I read the warrant to the prisoner in Chelsea Police Station—he said, "Quite right," and was afterwards charged with the offence, and said, "That's right."
GEORGE PALMER . About 9 p.m. on March 28th I was in the kitchen of Lawrence Street, Chelsea—Punch Allen was there treating some gentlemen to drink—a light took place, and I tried to rescue Punch—the prisoner caught hold of me, threw me over, and split my elbow—Mr. Veitch came down and assisted me and the prisoner got oft me, turned
round sharp and kicked him on his ribs—it was one sharp kick—I did not hear him say anything.
Cross-examined I have not seen Punch for over a fortnight—Veitch came down into the kitchen while you were on top of me.
LAMBERT. I am a labourer—I was in the kitchen of this lodging house on the night of this row—we had all been drinking together—there was a row between Croucher and Allen, the man who was supposed to have been robbed—when the row was starting the prosecutor came running down stairs, and while down there the form overturned and he fell over it—there was no kicking—the room is only 16 feet square, and has a large table running through it, so there is not sufficient room for a man to make a running kick.
Cross-examined. I have been convicted four times of assault and on other occasions for other offences, but that does not stop me from telling the truth.
FREDERICK CROUCHER . I am a plasterer—I was in this lodging house on the night in question—there was a quarrel between me and a man called Punch—he took off his coat and waistcoat and challenged me to fight—Palmer pulled Punch away, and I knocked him into a corner—he hurt his arm—Carey kept out of the row altogether—I did not see any kicking.
Cross-examined. Veitch came down and fell over the form that was knocked over—I will swear he was not kicked—I have been once convicted of assault—it was the only time I have been in trouble.
PLEADED GUILTY to a conviction of felony at the North London Sessions on October 4th, 1898. Fifteen months' hard labour.
THOMAS SUMMERS.
40. THOMAS SUMMERS , Stealing a cardboard box and twelve pairs of ladies' shoes, the property of David Hayes and another.
THOMAS RATCLIFFE (Detective G.) About 11.15 a.m., of November 9th, I saw the prisoner carrying a cardboard box—I stopped him and asked him what he had in it—he said, "I don't know, a man with a fair moustache, in Milton Street, asked me to carry this as far as Dawson's, in City Road, and he would meet me there"—I said, "I am not satisfied with your answers"—I took him to the police station, made inquiries, and found the parcel had been stolen out of White Street, and was the property of Hayes and Co., Hansell Street—I went to Hayes' and got a traveller to come and identify the goods, and took the prisoner to Moor Lane Police Station, where he was charged and made no reply.
THOMAS AVIS . I am an errand boy in the employ of Hayes and Co.—on the morning of November 9th I was delivering parcels with a trolley in White Street,. Finsbury—I took a parcel to Perrott's, on the first floor, leaving another in the trolley—when I came down it was gone—it contained twelve pairs of ladies' boots.
FRANK WILLIAM HARRIS . I am a traveller for David Hayes and Co., 4, Hansell Street, City—on November 9th I was called to the police
station to identify a parcel which contained twelve pairs of ladies' shoes, the property of Messrs. Hayes—I valued them at £4 10s.—this is the parcel (Produced).
PLEADED GUILTY to a conviction of felony at Clerkenwell, on January 18th, 1892, and three other convictions were proved against him. Twelve months' hard labour.
GEORGE SMITH, WILLIAM TURPIN.
41. GEORGE SMITH (16) and. WILLIAM TURPIN (25) , Robbery with violence on Gustav Victor Rusthall, and stealing £8 10s., his money.
The prosecutor a ship's carpenter, was absent at sea.
BRIDGET BYRNE :. I am the wife of Jim Byrne, and live at 49, Martin Road, Custom House—on November 15th I met a man called Rusthall; he was sober—we went along the Victoria Dock Road—the prisoners and a man called Duggan were standing outside a public house—they followed us into a coffee shop, where Rusthall ordered some tea—Rusthall and I walked out, and the prisoners and Duggan followed—we went into a public house, where I had a small lemon and Rusthall a glass of bitter—the three followed us there—Turpin said, "Why shouldn't I have a drink?"—I never answered, and we walked out—we went into another coffee shop next door to the public house, and had something to eat in there—the three men followed us there—we came out and went along towards the Docks—when we got into the Dock, Turpin followed us up and hit Rusthall on his face in several places, which knocked him up against some wood, and Smith went through his pockets and cleared off, and I went on board the ship with Rusthall.
Cross-examined by Turpin. I did not call the boy Smith into the coffee shop we first went into—I did not send him for a pennyworth of snuff—when we went into the public house I did not signal to you and the other man to come in also—I did not put the snuff into Rusthall's beer—I did not slip a shilling into your hand as I came out of the public house nor sixpence into the other man's—I did not go with Rusthall afterwards into the "Hit or Miss "public house, and call for a gallon of beer—I did not, when going to this public house, call you and say, "I have got the man's money, I have sent it home to my landlady"—I am married—my husband maintains me—it is my business how long I have known Rusthall—when I go aboard ships at 6 p.m. it is to take or fetch washing—the reason I did not give you in charge for complicity in the robbery was because I was so much upset—I did not steal the money myself.
Cross-examined by Smith. I saw your hand in the man's pocket—you did not stand waiting for Turpin while I was on the ship, you cleared off.
CHARLES WARREN (218 K.) On November 10th I saw Turpin enter the Trafalgar public house—I said, "I shall arrest you on suspicion of being concerned with another man in robbing a seaman this afternoon"—he said, "All right"—at the station he said, "There is more in it as well as me; Duggan, another man, and a woman; the woman told me she had the money and sent it home to her landlady"—when charged
he said, "I don't think it is fair to say it was me"—he was searched, and 9s. 6d. in silver found on him.
Cross-examined by Turpin. You did not say at the police station that the woman ought to be there as a prisoner, and you as a witness against her—I know nothing about your having written to the woman where the snuff was bought to come up and give evidence.
WILLIAM BARNES (285 K.) About 1.35 a.m. on November 11th I went to 8, Nelson Street, and found Smith under a bed, fully dressed, pretending to be asleep—I pulled him out, told him I was a police constable, and should arrest him for being concerned with two others in robbing a man in Victoria Docks—he said, "What, me? I don't know nothing about it"—I took him to the station where he was charged—he made no reply.
Cross-examined by Turpin. When I went to your house I did not kick the door open; it had never been shut—I know nothing about the boy (Smith) having got under the bed, because he thought you had come home drunk and smashed the door in; all I know is I found him there.
Turpin in his defence on oath said that he was standing outside the Victoria Docks at four o'clock, when Mrs. Byrne came along with Rusthall, and went into a coffee shop, and he went into the same coffee shop with Duggan and had some tea; that Smith was outside the shop, and Mrs. Byrne, called him in and sent him for a pennyworth of snuff, and before he went out, by way of deceiving the landlady as to what she was sending for, she said, "You know what I mean, the "East End News "; that she and Rusthall went into the public house next door into the private bar, and he and Smith and Duggan into the public bar, when Smith called his attention to the fact that the woman was putting snuff into the sailor's beer, and stirring it with her finger, the effect of which would be to drug him; that as she came out of the bar she slipped a shilling into his hand and sixpence into the hand of the other man; that she must have been flush of money to have done that, for she had never given him anything before, though he had known her for years; that after that all of them went round to the "Hit or Miss," where the landlady refused to serve Rusthall, thinking he was drunk; but that he was not drunk but drugged; that Byrne afterwards called him aside and said, "I have got the man's money and have sent it home to my landlady"; that they all went from there to the ship; that Rusthall had bought some whiskey, and a gallon of beer, and as they walked through the docks he took hold of the whiskey to drink some, and Rusthall called him a name and struck him, and he struck back; that they went aboard the ship with Rusthall and the woman, which he certainly would not have done if he had robbed him; that Rusthall got into his berth and found that he had lost his money; that the woman said nothing to Rusthall about being robbed till he went to the police that night, and then by way of clearing herself she laid the blame on Smith; that he knew Byrne well, as she was always at the Sailors' Home, and lived in a bad house with a woman called Kate Benard; and that £8 10s. had been stolen, but only 9s. 6d. had been found on him and nothing on Smith, who did not go on board the ship; that they went on board the ship about six, and he, the woman, and Duggan were afterwards turned off for being drunk; he admitted
having been twice convicted, but stated that he was now trying to get an honest living.
The prisoners' statements before the Magistrate. Turpin says, "I am not guilty; someone else has had the money." Smith says, "I am not guilty."
NOT GUILTY . The Jury stated that they did not believe a word of Mrs. Byrne's evidence.
WILLIAM TURPIN.
42. WILLIAM TURPIN (25), was again indicted for unlawfully assaulting Bridget Byrne and causing her grievous bodily harm.
MR. FITZGERALD offered no evidence
NEW COURT.—Friday, November 20th; and Saturday, November 21st, 1903.
ARTHUR EDWARD SAUNDERS SEBRIGHT.
43. ARTHUR EDWARD SAUNDERS SEBRIGHT , Unlawfully inducing Arthur Wills John Wellington Blundell Trumbull Hill, Marquis of Downshire, to accept two bills of exchange for £5,750 each, by false pretences, with intent to defraud.
MR. BANKES, K.C., MR. MUIR and MR. FORREST FULTON Prosecuted;
MR. AVORY, K.C., MR. BIRON and MR. FRAMPTON, Defended.
ARTHUR WILLS JOHN WELLINGTON BLUNDELL TRUMBULL HILL, MARQUIS OF DOWNSHIRE . I first made the prisoner's acquaintance at the Prince's Restaurant, on January 5th, 1903—I was lunching there with a lady, and he came up to us—I am not sure that the lady introduced us, but he knew her—there was a conversation about some horses; that was all that passed on that occasion—I next saw him a week or so afterwards at the same place—we had a conversation—he told me he had some shares in a certain company, and that he had not at the time thought of any name to place them in, and had put them in my name, and that I was entitled to a profit of £1,000 by having sold them—I think the company was called the "Credit Foncier"—this letter of January 10th I wrote at the Hotel Albemarle to the prisoner at Wargrave, "Berks:" My dear Sebright,—I hope you will not think me an awful bore writing to you when I am fully aware what a lot of letters you must needs have to attend to, but as I want you, as a pal, to grant me a great favour, I cannot desist writing; the favour is this, that if when your daughter has tried the horse, and you still like him, you will accept him as a token of my gratefulness to you for what you have done for me"—I understood by the transaction about the shares that I was entitled to the £1,000, and so I offered him the horse, which I think cost me £160—he had it on trial, with the idea of buying it from me—this was arranged between our two meetings at Prince's Restaurant—he next came to see me at my hotel, on the 12th, I think, and said, "I have come to see you about these shares," producing a letter ready written, which was, I supposed, a receipt for the bills which I was to sign, a formal document, to entitle me to draw the
£1,000—I said I had no idea of this business, or something like that, but that I would simply take his word for it—I was asked to sign two bills; they looked like cheques, but I found out afterwards that they were bills of exchange—I read them, but did not understand them—he did not say very much about the effect of them, except that I was entitled by signing them to draw this money—nothing was said about my being liable for anything if I signed them—I said I must take his word for what I did in the matter—I signed them, writing, "Accepted, payable at Drummond's"—it is all in my writing, according to the prisoner's dictation—I never accepted a bill before, except under advice—I had accepted one for about £3,000, relating to a cigarette company, under my father-in-law's advice, for my brother-in-law—I think that bill was paid, but it was done through my agents—I can only recollect one bill—this is the letter the prisoner brought on January 12th, and which I have described as a receipt: "My dear Downshire,—I have this day received from you two acceptances of £5,750 each in purchase of 12,650 preferred shares of £1 each, fully paid up, which you have this day purchased from me in the company which I am about to form, which is to be called the Credit Foncier of England, and am, yours sincerely, Arthur E. S. Sebright"—I wrote this letter [Exhibit 3] at the same time, on January 12th, at the prisoner's dictation: "My dear Sebright,—I enclose you my two acceptances of £5,750 each in payment of ray 12,650 shares preference of £1 each in the company which you are forming, and which is to be called the Credit Foncier, which I have this day bought from you.—Yours very sincerely, Downshire"—I did not understand much about it, as I trusted to the prisoner—I also wrote this letter: "My dear Sebright,—Out of the proceeds of the sale of my bonus shares in the Credit Foncier, please pay to "the person named "the sum of £525.—Yours very sincerely, Downshire"—I explained to the prisoner what I wanted to do, and he told me the language to write it in—I had never before had any transactions in shares of a public company except under advice—my agent manages my business and money affairs—the prisoner came next day to my hotel with another man, and said he had brought Mr. Hicks, the Secretary of the Reversionary and General Securities Company, to witness my signature—in the presence of the prisoner and Hicks, I went over the acceptances with a dry pen, at the prisoner's request—I think Mr. Hicks asked me if I had signed the documents, and I said, "It is all right"—I think I also went over my signature to letter No. 3, but I am not quite sure—I think on the 12th I asked the prisoner when I was to get my £1,000, and he said "Very soon"—I met him casually afterwards, and he gain said, "You will get your £1,000 very soon"—I always had the same answer—he accepted my gift of the horse—one day the driver of my private hansom gave me certain information about the prisoner, and I went the same day, February 4th, to my solicitors, Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, who upon my instructions commenced two actions, one in the Chancery Division to restrain dealings with the bills, and one in the King's Bench Division to recover possession of the horse—I swore some affidavits in both actions, and the injunctions were granted, but too late to save
one bill, which I had to pay, 23,782 6s. 5d.—this is the receipt—the action the other bill came before Mr. Justice Buckley on June 29th and 30th—I gave evidence then—judgment was given in my favour, and the bill was impounded in Court—after Mr. Justice Buckley's decision, the horse was returned to me.
Cross-examined by MR. AVORY. I cannot remember whether on the first occasion I met the prisoner I was introduced to him by name by the lady I was lunching with, but I think so—we soon became on such friendly term that he called me "My dear Downshare," and I called him "My dear Sebright"—I am thirty two years old, and was at a public school for six or eight years—I have estates in Ireland and England which are managed by agents—I draw a large number of cheques in the course of a year—I know what a cheque is, and do not require assistance to draw one—I am aware that there are such things as public companies and shares in companies—I know the difference between a company which is in existence and one about to be formed—I did not bother very much about whether the company the prisoner spoke to me about was a company that was formed or not—I understood that this was a company which was going to be formed, but was not yet in existence—he was to be the manager. I thought—I understood that I was going to get £1,000—I did not know anything about bonus shares—as to letter No. 1, beginning "My dear Sebright, "I explained to the prisoner that I wanted to give halt the amount resulting from the sale of the shares to a certain lady; the lady who introduced me to him—I suppose it was explained to me that I was to get bonus shares—I suppose in consideration of the £11,500 I was to get 12,650 preference shares—I suppose that was because the company was not then formed—I suppose I was to receive a bonus of a thousand shares which, when sold, would give me £1,000—I said at the police court, "My object in taking the shares was to get the £1,000 profit; I was not told when I should get it"—that was correct—I understood the prisoner to say that these shares had been sold before January 12th—I really say that before January 12th I did not know what a bill of exchange was—I had, as I say, accepted a bill of exchange before under advice in the case of a cigarette company; it was payable at Drummond's Bank, and duly paid—that was a company about to be formed, and I suppose I accepted the bill for the purpose of taking shares in it—when Mr. Hicks came with the prisoner to my hotel I did not recognise that he came from the same office that I had been to in 1894 and signed an acceptance to a bill Hicks produced the two bills and said, I believe "Are these your bills and did you accept them" and I think I replied, "It is all right"—I knew then that they were bills and not cheques—I thought they were formal documents—after these criminal proceedings were commenced I went to a Mr. Faulkner, an engineer and model maker, of Shaftesbury Avenue—Faulkner did not introduce me to someone, saying, "This gentleman knows Sebright"—I may have had some conversation with Faulkner—I did not say there when asked what a bill was "I know what a bill is well enough"—I do not remember saying "I have been a—fool"—I may have said, I went to Lewis and Lewis, and left the
matter in their hands, and whatever they have drawn up I have sworn to; they told me they would get me out of paying, and that is all I—well care about"—I have been occasionally to the Trocadero bar—I am sure I have not been there drinking with the man who drives my hansom—I do not think I said to anyone, "I swore what I was told to swear to get him committed and that will bring the—money."
Re-examined. I am prosecuting by the advice of my solicitors as much as anything—in the course of this case I have become aware that the prisoner has been an undischarged bankrupt since 1880. and that he has been four times bankrupt since—I have realised all along that neither by criminal nor civil proceedings was there any possibility of getting anything out of him.
JOHN HARRISON . I am a clerk in the Registry of Joint Stock Companies—I produce the file of a company called "The Credit Foncier, Limited"—it was registered on January 28th, 1903, by G. S. and H. Brandon, solicitors, of 15, Essex Street, Strand, London—this address at Essex Street was registered as the company's office on July 15th, 1903—on the file are the memorandum and articles of association, and also the application to register, the declaration of compliance with Sections 1 and 2 of the Companies Act, 1900, the statement of the nominal capital, and the agreement with the Registrar—(Extracts from the Memorandum and Articles of Association and agreement were here read.)
Cross-examined. The fees and stamp duty on the registration of the company, amounting to £2,551 17s. 6d., were paid on January 29th, 1903—£2,550 is the stamp duty on the nominal capital.
Re-examined. The fees have to be paid before the certificate of registration is issued.
GEORGE MUSGRAVE HETHERINGTON . (MR. AVORY objected that this witness's evidence was not relevant to any of the false pretences contained in this indictment. MR. BANKES contended that the statement that the prisoner had sold 12,650 preference shares at a profit of £1,000 was a false statement, and made fraudulently, and one of the ways to prove it was to show that the business said to have been acquired by the company was worthless, THE RECORDER declined to exclude the evidence.) I am Chief Clerk to the Registrar of the Oxford County Court, and produce a file of the bankruptcy of Arthur E. Saunders Sebright—the receiving order is dated March 10th, 1896, the adjudication is April 13th, 1896, the estimated liabilities were £8,397, the estimated assets £823 8s.—he has never been discharged.
Cross-examined. I am not aware that the creditors received 10s. in the pound—there is no record, and it is no part of my duty to ascertain that.
Re-examined. There is no record on the file of his having paid anything, or ever having applied for his discharge.
GEORGE INGLIS BOYLE . I am a messenger in the Bankruptcy Court, and produce the bankruptcy file relating to Arthur Sebright, of Claridge's Hotel, gentleman—the receiving order was on June 24th, 1886, the adjudication on July 15th, 1886—the liabilities were £15,281 14s. 8d.
the estimated assets were nil—I produce another file relating to the same person in 1899—the receiving order was August 18th, and the adjudication on September 18th 1890 the estimated liabilities were £2,828, the estimated assets nil—he has nor applied for or obtained his discharge—I pro-life a further file of 1898, relating to the same person—the receiving order was July 25th and the adjudication August 18th, 1898—the liabilities were£23,409 17s. 8d. the estimated assets nil—he has not been discharged, nor applied for a discharge.
GEORGE JONES PLOWMAN . I am clerk to Mr. Registrar Farman, of the Char., chance in Division, High Court of Justice—I produce a bill of exchange marked "I.B." drawn by the prisoner on January 12th. 1903, for £5,750 at throe months, and accepted by Lord Downshire—it was ordered to be brought into Court in an action between Sebright and Lord Downshire.
HENRY JEAPES . I am an accountant to Messrs. G. S. and H. Brandon, solicitors, of M. Essex Street, Strand—I was the secretary protem, of the Credit Foncier of England, Limited—I produce the company's books—I produced on either June 29th or 30th, 1903, before Mr. Justice Buckley, this "register of shareholders," which is called a minute book—I purchased these books prior to the registration of the company, to the best of my recollection.
Cross-examined. Messrs. Brandon registered the company on January 28th and 'hey received from the prisoner £3,000 altogether for the purpose—I think the registration has been in their hands for something like eighteen months—the memorandum and articles of association had been settled by Counsel long before.
Re-examined. Counsel settled them on instructions—the amount for the company's registration came from the prisoner's agent, I subsequently found out, Mr. Attenborough, who discounted a bill of Lord Downshire's, so I have heard.
GUILTY . (MR. AVORY requested the Recorder to state a case for the Court of Crown Cases Reserved, but the Recorder entertained no doubt upon the subject and refused to do so). A conviction under Bankruptcy Act at the Central Criminal Court on October 27th, 1899, was proved against him. He was given a bad character by the police. Eighteen months' hard labour.
OLD COURT.—Saturday, November 21st, 1903.
WILLY WINTER.
44. WILLY WINTER (32) PLEADED GUILTY to feloniously sending to Fritz Shilmerman a letter threatening to accuse him of an infamous crime with intent to extort money from him. The police stated that the prisoner had been convicted in Berlin of receiving and blackmailing. Ten years' penal servitude.
ALFRED MULLER.
45. ALFRED MULLER (32) . Conspiring with the said Willy Winter to send letters to certain persons demanding money with menaces, and threatening to accuse them of committing infamous crimes.
MR. HUTTON. for the prosecution, offered no evidence
ARTHUR WEBSTER.
46. ARTHUR WEBSTER . Rape on Rhoda Beesley.
MR. FITZGERALD Prosecuted; MR. A. GILL Defended.
THIRD COURT.—Saturday, November 21st, 1903.
HARRY WOOD.
47. HARRY WOOD (26) , Forging and uttering a cheque for £6 10s., with intent to defraud.
MR. C. W. MATHEWS and MR. BODKIN Prosecuted; and MR. BLACK
HENRY JAMES CHURCHOUSE . I live at Capper Villa, Derby Road, Woodford—I am chief cashier at the Union and Smith's Bank, formerly Dimsdale, Prescott and Company, 50, Cornhill—the Smokeless Brickette Company, Limited, opened an account at Prescott's in March, 1897, which ran for about one year—a cheque book was issued, including the three cheques produced (Exhibits 12, 13, and 14), Nos. 10695, 10697, and 10698—I have been chief cashier about a year, but have been in the bank thirty-six years—neither in 1897 nor since have we had any customer named W. F. Goff, which is the signature of the drawer of Exhibit 12, nor any drawers named "V. Battery "or "A. C. Fardell," as on these two cheques (Exhibits 12 and 14)—I do not know the writings—the Brickette Company's account was closed in 1698—Exhibits 12 and 14 were presented at the bank, and I marked them as they appear—Exhibit 13 is a blank form.
EDWIN STEVENS (293 G.) I live at 41, Chapel Street, Hoxton—about October 1st I was on duty in the City Road—the prisoner came and asked me if I knew where he could get respectable lodgings—he was dressed in blue serge, as he is now, and a peak cap—he said he was an engineer off the torpedo boat Red Breast, and came from Chatham—I gave him my address—he came the next day—lie asked me if I could change this cheque (14) drawn by the "V. Battery" and signed "A. C. Fardell," of September 22nd, 1903—I said I could not do it, but we would go to a publican along the street—we went to Mr. Clark, whom I knew—the prisoner asked him if he could pass it through his bank—he said it would take two or three days—the prisoner asked if he would let him have £1 on it—Mr. Clark said he did not know him, but if I would stand security for him he would let him have it—I went surety for him, thanking he was respectable—Clark gave him the sovereign on my undertaking to be responsible—the prisoner lodged with me that night—he left 1s. 6d. with my wife to pay for the carriage of his box, which he said contained curios from Somaliland, where he bad come from, and diamonds and other things, but he could not mention all—his box never arrived—the next day we were in the garden, and he got smothered in tar, so I lent him two shirts, as his own were dirty; my wife said he could have mine, and they could be put back after he got his luggage—he said his
father was a brewer in Dublin—he stayed one night and two days—I next saw him at Bow Street—he gave no notice that he was going—he left nothing—he did not repay the £1—in consequence of Mr. Clark communicating with me I went to see him—he showed me the cheque marked as it is now, and I had to refund the amount.
Cross-examined. I did not write to him nor say that I could provide him with better lodgings—he said he had only come for two months, and I told him that he could live along with me—he said £5 of the cheque was from the officer of his ship—I know he was arrested, and could not return—I know nothing about him—he told me he had telegraphed for his box, and that a telegram had come back, "Too heavy, coming by goods."
Re-examined. He said the other 30s. of the £6 10s. cheque was for his wages.
HENRY CLARK . I am a licensed victualler, of the Prince Albert, Howe Street, Kingsland Road—I know Stevens—he came with the prisoner on October 1st—he asked me to change this cheque—I said I could not do so, but I would pass it through my bank—then one of them, I think Stevens, asked me if I would advance a sovereign—I agreed, on condition that I should hold Stevens responsible for it—I did so, and paid the cheque into my bank—it came back marked as it is now, "No account"—it was already endorsed as it is now—the constable has repaid me the sovereign.
THOMAS STANLEY FORSHAW . I am a grocer, of 19, Exmouth Street, Stepney—the prisoner was my schoolfellow at Epp Street board school—I have since seen him on different occasions in Stepney—on August 15th he came to my shop dressed in a blue serge suit and a middy's cap with a peak—he told me he had been to the War Office for money due to him, that he was a day or two too soon, and his account had not come through, but that Major Goff, of the Pay Department of the War Office, had given him this cheque for £5 4s. as part payment of his account—I asked him if it was genuine—he assured me that it was, and I cashed it—I told him I had no banking account but I would pay it to my provision people—a day or two afterwards I paid the cheque to a provision merchant, Mr. Brown, of Half Moon Passage, Whitechapel, and a few days later I received a communication from him with the cheque as it now appears, marked "No account," in consequence of which I went to 16, Hawkins Street, Stepney, where the prisoner had told me he was—I did not see him in the evening he came to me—I told him the cheque had come back—he said he was very sorry; he could not understand it being returned, and he was sorry he could not see about it the next day, being Sunday, but he would go on the Monday morning at twelve o'clock, and let me know the result—I have not seen him since, nor had any communication from him, until I saw him at Bow Street in custody—I have never had any part of my £5 4s. back.
Cross-examined. A promise was made by his sister after he was taken up on Tuesday or Wednesday—I believed his statement—I cannot say if he was himself deceived—he has been in the Army—he told me he had
recently come from South Africa—his sister promised that if I would not give evidence on the following Wednesday, the money would be forth-coming on the Friday—I gave my evidence.
HENRY WILLIAM WOOD . I live at 137, Jubilee Street, Stepney—I am a foreman at the London and India Docks—I have been there this month forty-one years—I have lived in the neighbourhood of Stepney all that time, and in this house twenty-five years—the prisoner is my son—he was born on June 24th, 1879—up to eight years ago he lived with me, when he left to reside with a friend named Crewley—I know very little about him—he visited us occasionally—I think he worked with Crewley's son—I have never followed any other employment—I have never been connected with any brewery in Dublin—I knew he had joined the Royal Marine Artillery about three years ago—he remained in that service about three months—this is his photograph—he was a private—I have seen him in uniform—I have heard why he left—he never told me.
Cross-examined. I heard he had been a trumpet major in the Scottish Horse—I am not aware that he was an engineer or a ship sergeant major—we were not on good terms—letters came to my house addressed to him from the War Office.
GEORGE CULPIN . I am a clerk in the Army List Department of the War Office—there is no Major W. F. Goff employed in the Army Pay Department.
Cross-examined. There is an A. H. Goff in the Royal Artillery and a Major C. W. T. Goff in the East Lancashire Regiment, both spelt Goff—the List would contain the list of half-pay officers and of retired officers, unless an officer failed to report his existence.
JOHN PALFREY (Detective Officer.) On October 3rd I saw the prisoner detained at Shepherdess Walk Police Station—he was searched—upon him was found this blank cheque (Exhibit 13) upon Prescott Dimsdale's Bank—I showed it to him—he said, "It is one of my old cheques left at our office in Bolt Court"—that is in Fleet Street—I told him he would probably be charged with forging this cheque for £5 4s.—he said the endorsement was his writing.
Cross-examined. Another officer charged him with forging a cheque for £19,400—he did not say "Bond "Court, but "Bolt "Court—I know he visited Bond Court, Walbrook, but not that Budd had anything to do with him—I listened carefully, as I knew something about the other address—I did not put any questions to him—I made no note.
The prisoner's statement before the Magistrate: "The other two cheques were handed to me; the two drawn on Prescott Dimsdale's Bank for £5 4s. and £6 10s.—they were handed to me to get cash for them; the one for £5 10s. was handed to me for my fare to Africa, and the other for £5 4s. was handed to me by a gentleman who asked me if I would accommodate him by getting it cashed; he waited at the top of the street while I went into Mr. Forshaw's shop; I sent the money since to Mr. Forshaw by my cousin, and he said the police told him he could not accept the money; I believe that money is in the possession of my solicitors at the
present time; as regards the £1, Police constable Stevens lent that to me independently of the cheque; we knew we could not get the cheque cashed by strangers; I was arrested the next night, and so I have not had a chance of paying the pound back; as regards the two shirts, they were lent me because we were doing a little job in the garden, and I got mine smothered with dirt; I left my own shirts at the house."
The prisoner, in his defence on oath, repeated this statement, and added that the constable invited him and offered him better lodgings; that he told him he was short of money; that he never asked for the money, as he doubted the cheque, and was deceived; that the cheque for £5 is was handed to him by a runner, for whom he had changed cheques, and who promised to lend him 50s. of the proceeds; that he gave him Major Goff's address, and that he wrote to the address at G.P.O. in the Strand.
GUILTY . There were two other similar indictments against him; and one for obtaining money by false pretences; Sergeant Palfrey further stated Chat the prisoner had said that he was coming into an enormous fortune when he came of age, and that he had posed as Lieutenant Edwards, the son of the Earl of Leatrim, and that by these and other false pretences he had defrauded various people since he left his home. Seven years' penal servitude.
MARY ANN BAXTER.
48. MARY ANN BAXTER (32) , Feloniously wounding John Baxter.
MR. THOMAS Prosecuted.
JOHN BAXTER . I am a shoemaker, of 8, Montague Terrace, Hackney Wick—the prisoner is my wife—on November 23rd we were in the kitchen about 1.30—we had a few words—I cannot tell you any more, I was in drink, and do not know what happened—we had a scuffle—I found I was bleeding; I do not know how it was done—we have been married thirteen years last September—I use this knife for my work, and sometimes at table.
The prisoner. He tried to strangle me in the kitchen—it is not the first time, for he has kicked me out at night, and turned the children out—it is no good putting anything to him, he remembers nothing.
By the COURT. I cannot remember whether I kicked her, or tried to strangle her, in the kitchen—I was intoxicated—I may have done so in the struggle—I have not molested her for years—I felt the blood in the kitchen—we agreed to separate.
JOHN BAXTER JUN . I am twelve years old, and live with my father and mother in Hackney Wick—they quarrelled about three weeks ago—I got out of bed and went down stairs into the kitchen—I saw father kick mother—he went up stairs—we followed—he tried to throw her down stairs—he called her everything he could lay his tongue to—he said, "Go and fetch a doctor"—it was directly after the quarrel in the kitchen.
By the COURT. Father ill-treated mother—he threw her in the street in the night—on this night he was tipsy—I have seen him kick her when he was tipsy before—when she is in bed he wakes her out of sleep and Jaws her—he has been throwing her out in the street and hitting and
punching her—he has been before the Justices for violence to mother—she had the baby in her arms.
JOHN WILLIAM OLIVER . I am assistant medical officer at the Hackney Infirmary—on November 3rd, about 3 a.m., the prosecutor was brought there by the police—I examined him—I found a wound about an inch long and half an inch deep in his right groin—it had been bleeding—there was a trace of blood on his shirt—I dressed the wound—it has healed—last Saturday I sent for him and examined the wound; it was practically healed yesterday week—it was not a dangerous wound—it might have been done with this knife.
Detective Sergeant Arnum (not sworn) here stated that the prisoner was a hard working woman; and that there had been a separation order through the prosecutor knocking her and the children about
FOURTH COURT.—Saturday, November 21st, 1903.
JAMES COURTNEY MILLER, SYLVESTER VERNON, ABRAHAM MOSS.
49. JAMES COURTNEY MILLER (41), SYLVESTER VERNON (32), and ABRAHAM MOSS (30) , Stealing 10 Canadian notes, value £10, the property of Justus Duncan Wilson. MILLER PLEADED GUILTY .
MR. FORDHAM Prosecuted; MR. FRAMPTON Defended Vernon
and Moss; MR. HUTTON Defended Miller.
JUSTUS DUNCAN WILSON . I am a sergeant-major in the South African Constabulary—I stay at Queen Anne's Hotel, Aldersgate—I returned from South Africa on October 18th—on October 22nd I was in Trafalgar Square, opposite the National Gallery, when the prisoner Vernon spoke to me, and asked if it was open—I did not know him before—he said he had come recently from South Africa, and that he had been in the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles, a corps I knew something about—I met him again on the 24th, when he introduced me to an old friend of his, named Courtney, from Australia—he told me that Miller was on his way to Canada to go into a ranche—on October 30th I met them at Anderton's Hotel, in the coffee room—a few minutes after they came in Moss came round and was introduced to me as an insurance agent or a commission agent—arrangements were discussed with Miller with a view to my being in his service as manager—he asked me if I could go out at once—I said, "No, I could not leave under ten days"—he asked me to take charge of some thoroughbred rams, as he could not sail with them himself—I was to meet him at Halifax or Winnipeg—Moss came in and bowed to me, and in a conversation with Miller said that the sheep had been delivered at a railway station between here and Liverpool, and were being stored and fed for 1s. 6d. a day per head, and that a man had been secured to take charge of them—Miller said an arrangement had been made with me, and I was to go on the 29th—I met them at the same hotel and signed this agreement (Produced)—Moss suggested that I should give security for the sheep to the sum of £20—I demurred, as I had no banking account in Canada—ultimately I was persuaded to find security for £12—when I objected Vernon took
me on one side in a disinterested way and said, "You are getting a very good business opportunity; I know these Courtneys, and it will be a very good thing for you; you will be simply sending your money to Canada instead of having it in your pocket"—I consented, and as the banks were closed I handed Miller thirteen sovereigns, and we went into the Money Exchange opposite Charing Cross Post Office and got Canadian notes for sixty dollar—Miller handed them to me and I counted them—Miller put them in a registered envelope and sealed it, but before we got to the post office I noticed Moss with what appeared to be the envelope, putting it in his pocket—I said, "Let Courtney carry it"—we went into Charing Cross Hotel for a minute or two then went to the post office—Miller took out what I supposed to be the envelope with the notes in—I had gloves on, so Miller addressed the envelope at my dictation, and I believed it to contain the sixty dollar notes—it was addressed at a side table, away from the counter, and as he was in the act of getting it registered Sergeant Matthews took the letter and his men arrested the prisoners—Matthews asked me what was in the envelope—I told him it contained sixty dollars, and he said, "Open it and see"—I opened it and found pieces of newspaper—if it had not been for the officers I should not have discovered it until I got to Canada.
By the COURT. The reason for posting the notes to Canada was that Moss was insuring the sheep and wanted security to show that I was sailing and looking after them on board ship.
MR. FRAMPTON stated that the prisoners would themselves cross-examine the witnesses.
Cross-examined by Vernon. I said after we had first spoken that I should be glad to see you again, and I would not deny that I asked you to dinner in an offhand way—I did not gather that Courtney was only a casual acquaintance of yours—at the subsequent meeting, when you walked in and out, you could have known what Miller and I were talking about—I first met you and Miller at Anderton's Hotel on the 29th: on the following day I met Miller, and he asked me to meet him at St. Paul's Church, as he wanted to get information about my sailing—I never saw the agreement in your possession—you appeared disinterested until the end—I never saw you in possession of my money or of the registered letter at the Post Office—I had no suspicion till the moment when you were all arrested.
Cross-examined by Moss. The conversation when I first met you was not addressed to me, but it was so that I could hear that it was with regard to insurance of the sheep—something was said about the employment of another man, not myself, and I got a bit impatient, and said, "There has been no harm done; let it drop."—I produced papers which satisfied you all as regards the guarantee you asked me if my commanding officer was in London, and I told you you could see him if you liked: you then produced the agreement at the hotel, by which I was to enter Miller's service, and I believed that you had drawn it up—you signed as a witness—you were introduced to me as representing an insurance
company, and it was stated that the sheep had been insured and delivered at a railway station—I would not be sure you were alongside of me when I got the American money, but I believe you were present.
By the COURT. When the question came up as to whether or not I should pay money down Vernon's interest was exhibited all the stronger.
FREDERICK MATTHEWS (City Detective Sergt.) I was with Orsmond, Brown and Crocker in Fleet Street, and kept observation upon the prisoners on October 30th, and saw them go into the Money Exchange at Charing Cross—Miller and Vernon went in; Moss went up to the railway station—I saw them go afterwards to the Grand Hotel, all four together—Moss came out and went down into the lavatory underneath by himself—ultimately, they went to the post office—I saw Miller writing at a desk, and when he was handing the letter across the counter I took it, and the three prisoners were arrested—I said to the prosecutor, "What have you got in this?"—he said, "60 dollars Canadian notes"—I asked him to open it and see, and he found a piece of newspaper inside.
By the COURT. We arrested these men as a consequence of information we had received about a gang of sharps, and our suspicions were aroused by the prisoners' movements—the prosecutor did not know that we were watching.
JOSEPH ORSMOND (City Detective.) On October 30th I kept watch on the prisoners with the other officers—I arrested Moss in the post office—he said, "You have made a great mistake"—at Bow Street he made no reply to the charge—he was searched, and the envelope containing the Canadian notes was found upon him.
Cross-examined by Moss. I did not see you receive any letter as you crossed the street.
SAMUEL CROCKER . On October 30th I arrested Vernon—he said, "I am the dupe of others"—when formerly charged he made no reply.
Cross-examined by Moss. At the police station the Magistrate asked if anything was known about you, and the reply was, "Nothing known."
Cross-examined by Vernon. The same reply was made with regard to you, and about all three prisoners.
Vernon, in his defence, said that he had not known Miller before he met him in a casual way, and that he introduced him to the prosecutor because Miller was going to Canada, and would like some information about the place; that he was a stranger in England, and that at all the meetings between the prosecutor and Miller he was a totally disinterested party, and, in fact, did not even listen to the conversations; that he (Vernon) was in the Johannesburg Horse, and his wife had managed a private hotel for two years, and was now managing a private hotel in Africa during his absence.
Moss, in his defence, said that he was introduced to the prosecutor as a commission agent; that Miller called upon him at his premises, and stated he was a stock buyer, and wanted an insurance effected on some rams for Canada, and Miller introduced him to Vernon and the prosecutor at Anderton's Hotel, and that the prosecutor was partly engaged to look after the sheep on board ship; that he told them the insurance company would want
to know that the man who was being employed was of good character, and the prosecutor proposed a security of £20, which he said would be no good, and suggested payment of the money into a bank and obtaining a bank draft; that he did not encourage the finding of cash security; that he went Co Charing Cross on the day of the arrest to see his sister off by train, and while he was there the other prisoners visited the Exchange; Chat he met them by the station gates and crossed over to the Post Office; Chat Miller said, "You can do this business for me; I want to send some letters," and he gave him a registered letter with another one, and put one into the letter box; Chat Miller gave the two letters to him in front of the prosecutor; that Miller took the registered letter, and the prosecutor remarked that his business was with Miller; that he had nothing to do with the agreement between the prosecutor and Miller, and had no idea that anything underhanded was going on.
MOSS and VERNON GUILTY . Eighteen months' hard labour each MILLER— Nine months' hard labour.
OLD COURT.—Monday, November 23rd, 1903.
THOMAS WINTER CALVERLEY.
50. THOMAS WINTER CALVERLEY (33) , Feloniously demanding £20 from Almire Houssier, with menaces.
MR. BODKIN and MR. FITZGERALD presecuted; MR. SCHULTESS YOUNG
ALMIRE HOUSSIER . I keep a restaurant at 13, Soho Street—on October 16th, when I returned home, I saw the prisoner in the kitchen—I did not know that he was a sanitary inspector, but he told me that he was one—he said more ventilation was to be given to the lavatory—he looked into the larder and saw some meat there, and said it was nice and fresh—on October 17th I received this sanitary notice—I put the work in hand—on October 23rd the prisoner called again about 12.30 or 1 p.m.—he went and looked at the work—he said it was badly done, and said "It I will cost you £50 to have the work done that way"—he looked into the larder and picked up five cutlets and two chops, and said, "Every piece will cost year £50"—he said it was rotten—he looked at a tin of spinach and said, "Have you got any others?"—I said, "Yes, I have some in the corner of the kitchen"—we went into the kitchen, where he saw eight tins of spinach; the one in the larder was open—he said they were wrong and then said, "It will cost you £50"—he said that each cutlet and each tin of spinach would cost me £50—he said, I want to speak to you"—I said "Come up stairs"—we went into the dining room; I said, "Would you like to have a drink?"—he said, "I do not mind"—I said, "Would you like a whisky"—he said, "Yes"—we had two whiskies and a soda—he said, "It is a very bad thing for you, you will have to pay £700"—I said, "I cannot pay that money"—he said, "Very well, you will have to do eighteen months"—I said, "What have I to do?"—he took out a pocket book and wrote on the bottom of one of the white leaves, "£20"
—he showed it to me and said, "That, sir, you have to do"—this (Produced) is what he wrote—I said, "It is impossible to pay that amount of money; I have already a lot of trouble"—he said, "All right you have eighteen months," and he asked my name and put it in this book—he asked me my Christian name—I saw what he wrote—I also saw "213, Edgware Road," and "104 Oxford Street"—those are other places of mine—I did not give him those addresses—when I said I could not get the £20 he said, "Oh, yes, you can raise that money"—we were down stairs then—he said, "You are a big man; you can raise that money"—I went to fetch a letter from my landlord to show the prisoner that I had £30 to pay on the Monday—I said, "I cannot pay that, and look at the money I have to pay"—he said, "You can raise £20; you can go and ask your brother if you have not the £20"—I left him then, and went into the kitchen—the prisoner left the house, and I went to see one of the Councilors of the Borough of Westminster, Mr. Wilson—he and the Rector of St. Ann's Soho, Mr. Carson, came and looked at the meat—about 4 p.m. the prisoner and Mr. Strutt, the Chief Sanitary Inspector, came—we went down into the larder, and the prisoner pointed out the meat and other things to Mr. Strutt, who said it was bad—he said, "What are you going to do?"—I said, "I cannot pay the money"—he said, "All right, call the carman, and have the things removed"—when I said I could not pay the money I did not mention any sum—we went up on to the ground floor, and Mr. Strutt went away—the prisoner and I remained in the passage—before Strutt went away he said, "I am going to give instructions to the carman," and he gave the name and address, but I did not hear it—when he had gone the prisoner said, "Look here, look at the trouble; if you give me £20 you will not have the trouble"—I said, "It is impossible"—he said, "Yes, you can raise the £20; try and raise the money for next Monday, and we won't do anything before next Monday, but you must have the money; I know you can raise £20; you have got three places; ask your brother if you can have the money; mind you have the money for next Monday," and he went away—I did not say what I would do, I did not promise anything—if he had asked me £2 or £3 I was willing to give it him, but £20 was impossible for me to give—I did not say anything about £2 or £3—on Saturday, October 24th, went to Messrs. Allen's office at 17, Carlisle Street; they are solicitors to the City Council of Westminster, and made a statement there—I saw Mr. Hunt, the Town Clerk—no police were there then—on Sunday, about 2 p.m., Inspector Drew came to my house, and he came again on Monday with another policeman, about 3 or 3,30—he was shown into the sitting room, where tie previous conversation had taken place—he got under a table—before doing so he gave me £20 in gold, which warn marked by him—the prisoner had come to the house at 11 a.m., but had not seen me; he came again about 4.30—we went up stairs into the dining room—I took hold of some bills I had to pay and said, "Look here, sir, I have all those bills, more than £50 to pay, let me off with £10"—he said, "I cannot help your trouble, I must have the £20"—I picked up a bill and said, "If I don't pay that hill to-morrow I shall be summoned; let me out with £5;
I will give you £15, and I will keep the £5"—he said, "I must have the £20; if you don't give me £20 I have been this morning to Marlborough Street Police Court, and have had those two summonses signed by Mr. Denman, the Magistrate, and you will be up there to-morrow in the Court"—he showed me two blue papers—I did not see any name on them except "Westminster City"—they were like these two papers (Produced). but I did not see the bottom of them—I then gave him the £20; I put it into his hand and said, "It is very hard for me to give this £20 "'—he said, "It is not only for me; I have to share with somebody else"—he put it into his pocket and said, "Mind you keep your mouth shut, because if you say anything to anybody you will have six months, and I shall have six months as well"—I said, "Would you like to have a whisky?—he said, "And you?."—I said, "I don't mind," and I called for two whiskies—I did not go out of the room to do so; one of the waitresses came in, and I said, "Bring two whiskies and a soda"—the prisoner said, "Where was she, that girl? she was listening to us what we say"—I said, "No she was on the staircase, I suppose"—he said, "Anybody else in the room listening to what we have said?"—I did not answer, because Inspector Drew came out from under the table and arrested him—the other officer was in the next room—the prisoner was taken away.
Cross-examined. I do not regard all sanitary inspectors as my enemies—I was convicted on June 12th, 1900, of keeping a brothel on these same premises with two other persons—I was fined £15 and £5 costs or two months', the others were let off with a trifle—I do not know who prosecuted me then—on October 16th the meat was said to be fresh, and no complaint was made about it then—the sanitary notice that I received was to do with the sanitary arrangements of my house—I did not ask the prisoner to accept a present of a sovereign in regard to those alterations—I did not ask the prisoner on October 23rd what I could be fined for the cutlets—he put one of them on a piece of dirt—I picked it up and put it on the safe again—he said, "No, that belongs to me," and put it on a box of soda—I did not ask him how much I could be fined for it, because the meat was good; the rector and Mr. Wilson had been to see it, and they are well known gentlemen—the tin of spinach, which was bad, was by itself, and I said to the chef, "Put it away, and not only put it away, but put it in the dust hole"—it was not with the stock, which was in the larder—some of it was blown, and that was in the kitchen—I asked the prisoner to have a whisky and soda; he did not ask if he might have one—I did not push a sovereign across the table to him then—I was willing to give him £2 or £3, or perhaps £5, but I thought £20 was too much—I went and saw the rector and Mr. Wilson on the same day that the prisoner said I could get the money from my brother, and before he came again at 4.30—Mr. Wilson and the rector came and looked at the meat about 2 o'clock—the prisoner came to my house three times on October 26th—he came at 1 a.m., I was not at home then; he came about 1 o'clock, I was at home then; but I hid myself in the kitchen, because I did not want to see him, as I had not got the detective there then, and I had not got the £20—it was arranged that he should come at 4 o'clock—I do not know why,
because at 1 o'clock I had not promised him a farthing—I do not know if the papers he produced to me were quite blue—I do not think they were quite white—after the interview, while Drew was under the table, I asked the prisoner if he would have a whisky and soda—I knew that I might be liable for conspiring with another person to take a bribe—I could not sleep, because I was so frightened—I did not want to square the matter.
Re-examined. Calling for the whiskey and soda at the end of the interview, when Drew was there, was a matter which had been arranged—when I returned home on the Monday my wife told me something, and I went again to 17, Carlisle Street, where I was given some advice, in conesquence of which Drew came about 3 p.m.
EDWARD DREW (Detective Inspector C.) I was first consulted about this matter on October 25th—I went to the prosecutor's house on that day, and had a conversation with him—on Monday, the 26th, I went there again in the morning—it was arranged that I should go there again about noon—I went there about 3 p.m. with Sergeant Burton—I left him in an adjoining room, and was handed by the prosecutor twenty sovereigns, which I marked—I returned them to him, and then hid myself under a table at the further end of the dining room—about 4.30 the prosecutor and the prisoner came in—I was unable to see them, but I could hear everything that took place—I heard them sit down, and the prosecutor said, "I have a lot of bills to pay, and I cannot afford to give you the £20"—the prisoner said, "I cannot help you; I know it will be worth your while to give me what I ask you, and £20 is not too much; if you give it to me you will not hear any more about it, but if you don't you will have to go to Marlborough Street, and you can be fined as much as £700, so that you are getting off very lightly; I have been to Marlborough Street Police Court this morning, and have got the summonses, and here they are, signed by Mr. Denman, but you may take it from me that you will not hear any more about it"—I heard a sort of slapping of paper on the hand—the prosecutor then commenced to argue with the prisoner, and said he had a lot of bills to pay, and asked if he would let him off with £10—the prisoner said, "No, I have got somebody else to give it to; if you don't give it to me it will be very serious. If you tell anybody what you have done, you would get six months for doing it, and I should get six months as well"—I then heard some money counted, and I should imagine, being put on the table—I then heard the prosecutor ask the prisoner if he would have a Scotch and soda; the prisoner said "Yes,"—the prosecutor crossed the room and called out to the girl to bring up Scotch and soda—the girl came immediately into the room, and when she went out the prisoner said, "Was she listening?"—the prosecutor said, "No"—the prisoner said, "Have you got anybody else here?"—the prisoner said, "I do not know ", or he was about to make a remark, when I came out from underneath the table—as I did so the prisoner jumped up from the table and put both his hands into his trousers pockets—I rushed at him, seized both his wrists, and held both his hands in his pockets, and told him I should prevent him from
taking anything out—I could hear money jingling—I told him to take his hands out of his pockets empty, which he did—I then told him who I was, and that I should arrest him on a charge of demanding money by menaces from the prosecutor—he stood quite mute for several seconds—I called in Sergeant Burton, and sent him for a cab—the prisoner then said, "Can I have bail?."—I said, "No"—I told him to button up his coat, which he did—I put him into a cab and conveyed him to Vine Street Police Station—on the way he said, "I did not use any threats"—at the station I told him to turn out his pockets, and he produced from his right hand trousers pocket a quantity of gold, silver, and bronze, saying, "There is £22 there in gold"—I said, "Before you came to the place this afternoon I marked twenty sovereigns which I handed to Mr. Houssier and I have ascertained since you have been in custody that he has handed them to you at your request"—I then commenced to inspect the sovereigns—as I identified them by my mark, I put them down—he asked if he might also inspect them—I showed him where my mark was, and after examining three or four he declined to examine any more—he had also this pocket book and these two destruction orders signed by Mr. Denman—as soon as I got to the station I wrote down in my pocket book the conversation I heard underneath the table—I read it over to the prisoner, he made no reply, but said, "What Act do you charge me under?"—I said, "The Larceny Act"—he said, "This has all been arranged; I knew he was going to do it, and I was going to charge him under the Corrupt Practices Officials Act for bribing me; that is my answer to the charge."
Cross-examined. I arranged with Houssier that after the prisoner had accepted the money he was to give a signal by asking him if he would have some whiskey, so that I could catch him, and also to give a signal to Burton in case I could not get out of my position, as I was crumpled up under the table—it was as much a signal to Burton as it was for me, in case the prisoner tried to run out of the room—it was not intended that he should have it; I do not think the girl brought it—I told Houssier that at first he must refuse to give him the money, so that I could judge what the prisoner's intentions were—I did not tell him he was to give what he could afford.
JOHN HUNT . I am a member of the Bar, and Town Clerk to the City of Westminster—the prisoner was one of the sanitary inspectors under the Council—he had previously been at St. James's, Piccadilly—he has been at Westminster for five or six years—he was a full sanitary inspector with food powers—it was no part of his duty to act under the Public Health London Act in unsound food cases—there are food and drug inspectors appointed for that—his chief duties were in regard to sanitary matters—if, in inspecting places, he saw bad food it would be his duty to report it—he had no authority to institute or carry on any proceedings under the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act; it is a most complicated Act; you have got to get the fiat of the Attorney-General before you can proceed under it; the prisoner had no authority to take any money at all—it has never been properly laid down by the Council that if he
found any unsound meat ho should consult Strutt before taking it to the police court to have it condemned, but, properly speaking, he should do so—after an order of condemnation was made he should report it to Strutt and to the Public Health Committee; they sit alternate Tuesdays—there—was a meeting on October 27th—the first intimation that I had that the prisoner was in communication with Houssier with regard to £20 was on Saturday morning, October 23th, and that was when Mr. Wilson and Mr. Cardwell called upon me—I never had any communication from the prisoner that he was communicating in such a way with Houssier.
The prisoner, in his defence on oath, said that the prosecutor had first offered him a sovereign, and afterwards £20 Co square the matter so as not to have any trouble; that he (the prisoner) wrote "£20" in his pocket book, and the prosecutor said, "Yes, I will give you that"; that there never was a summons against the prosecutor; that when he went to the house on October 26th, he went by arrangement to receive the £20; that he did not know why he said what he did about the Corrupt Practices Act, as he had not intended to charge the prosecutor with bribery; that it was not true that he was going to share the £20 with anybody; that the prosecutor had asked him how much he could be fined for each tin; and that he said he thought about £30.
The Jury returned a verdict of
GUILTY, but said, "We are of opinion that the bribe emanated from the prosecutor," upon which MR. YOUNG submitted that that was a verdict of
NOT GUILTY. MR. JUSTICE DARLING said that it was a verdict which people did not apparently understand, and asked the Jury to reconsider it, upon which they returned a verdict of
GUILTY, but strongly recommended him to mercy. He received a good character. Twelve months' hard labour.
ARTHUR CROME, EMMA CROME.
Not Guilty > unknown; Guilty > lesser offence
51. ARTHUR CROME (31) and EMMA CROME (28) , Breaking and entering the warehouse of Arthur Thomas Soar, and stealing twenty-one rolls of cloth, forty overcoats, and other articles, their property. Second count, Receiving the same, knowing them to be stolen.
MR. METCALFE Prosecuted, and MR. WARD appeared for A. Crome, and
MR. WORBURTON for E. Crome.
ARTHUR THOMAS SOAR . I am a clothier, of 22, St. Michael's Road, Poplar—I live at 118, Melbourne Road, Leytonstone—I am my own stock keeper—on October 20th I personally locked up my premises at 5 p.m., and left everything as it should be—at 8 o'clock next morning I went there and found only the front door up; every other door was down, the place ransacked, and stock to the value of £90, including boys' overcoats and clothing, had disappeared, a quantity of which Property I have been shown since by the police—these two rolls (Produced) were at my premises, which were locked up on the night of October 20th, and which were missing the following morning—this is only a small part of the property missing—the rest of it is at Forest Gate police station—these
are merely samples in addition to this, a sun blind 30 feet long and 5 feet wide was taken from the rear of the premises—I have not seen it since; the pieces are left behind there were tickets on the cloth, with my number upon it, and they were still there when I saw them at the police court, so there can he no question as to their identity.
Cross-examined. I don't know either of the prisoners, or how the goods came into their possession.
GEORGE EDWARD EDGSON . I live at 240, Brunswick Road, Poplar—I am in the employ of the London and North-Western Railway Company—on October 21st, at 6.20 a.m., I was on my way home from night duty—I passed Mr. Soar's premises T did not notice anything in front, but when I turned the corner I saw a light chestnut cob, and a barrow with red wheels, and a man outside putting tarpaulin on the front—I stopped a little while just opposite—presently one man came out of the premises with a sun blind—that man, to the best of my belief, was like that man (The prisoner Arthur)—after that two more men came out—I could not see if they brought anything out—I noticed some cloth on the barrow under the tarpaulin—I remained there for about two minutes—I walked up the street, and on turning round I saw a barrow with three men by it at the top of the street—they jumped on and went away.
Cross-examined. I noticed this particularly, because I knew Mr. Soar did not start work till 8 o'clock—I cannot say positively that it was this man who was there—I was doubtful whether they were thieves or not, and did not mention it to any policeman on my way home, and, for all I know, the man I saw may or may not be the male prisoner.
DAVID SOLOMON . I live at 37, Old Gravel Lane, St. George's-in-the East—I am an errand boy in the employment of Harrison Garston, a tailor—on October 19th Mr. Garston handed me sixty-one ladies' jackets, which I put upon a barrow and took them, at Mr. Garston's direction, to Sun Court, Golden Lane—I left them outside the offices of Messrs. Brussell and Co., and went into the shop and remained there about two minutes, and when I came out the barrow had gone—I have never seen it or its contents since—they were shown to my master afterwards.
HARRIS GARSTON . I live at Old Gravel Lane, St. George'-in-the-East, and am a tailor—on October 19th I handed to David Williams sixty-one ladies' jackets to be taken on a barrow to Messrs. Brussell—the barrow was my property he came back without anything—on October 25th I went to Forest Gate police station and identified thirty-one grey and twelve blue jackets, value about £14, as a portion of the sixty-one jackets lost, valued at £20.
ARTHUR PUDDINGTON . I am a clothier, of 3, Pineham Street, Lime-house I personally closed my premises on October 17th, and left everything secure—on the morning of the 18th I was aroused by Constable Hubbard—I went down stairs and found that a burglary had been committed, and about forty silk handkerchiefs, ten skirts, two blouses, two frocks and other goods were missing, value £7—on October 24th I identified at Limehouse Police Station a quantity of my stock stolen between the 17th and 18th inst, value about £5.
DANIEL HUBBARD (683 K.) On the morning of October 18th I was stationed at Burnham Street, Limehouse., and noticed that two shutters at No. 2 had been forcibly removed from the window, which was broken—I aroused Puddington—a lot of things had been taken away.
ARTHUR WALTERS (Detective Sergeant K.) About 8 a.m. on October 18th I went to 2, Burnham Street, Limehouse, and found evidence of a burglary having been committed—I was present on October 24th, when Mr. Puddington identified a portion of his goods at the station—later in the day I took a handkerchief from Arthur Crome, which he was wearing, and which the prosecutor afterwards identified.
Cross-examined. He was wearing it.
HENRY WILLIAM BATES . I live at 175, Basing Road, Camberwell—am head packer and dispatcher at 14, Cannon Street—it is the custom to dispatch parcels from Sutton and Company at Golden Lane, owned by Mr. Watson, who carries on business as Sutton and Company, carriers—on October 8th, I dispatched by one of my carts to Sutton's, twenty children's waterproof cloaks and two children's mantles, and got Sutton's receipt for them—they were to be sent to Spooner at Plymouth—they never reached there—on October 12th, 16th, 19th, and 20th I dispatched parcels to different people in the same way, and in each case with the same result—I have since been down and identified part of the consignments found by the police, the greater part of which I had packed myself and dispatched—the value of them would be about £55.
HENRY WARD . I live at 35, London Road, Forest Hill—I am buyer and manager to Bryce, Palmer and Company, at 14, Cannon Street—during October I had had complaints of parcels not arriving—on October 28th and 30th I went to Forest Gate police station, and identified by the distinguishing label attached, forty-seven articles value about £30—the value of the goods lost was about £55.
Cross-examined. The marks on the ticket only refer to the colour and number of the goods—that ticket would not necessarily be taken off when it got to the customer—some use their own and some not.
Re-examined. The marks "English make waterproofs, Spooner and Company, Plymouth, warranted waterproof" are our customers', put hero by our direction.'
WILLIAM BROWN . I am an inquiry officer in the employment of Sutton and Company, 22, Golden Lane—I have examined the entries of October 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th, and 20th in relation to goods received rom Bryce, Palmer and Company—these are the signatures of receipts Of our firm as having received goods which were with us when they were stolen—I have no idea how they left our possession.
Cross-examined. Bryce, Palmer and Company send us consignments of goods to be sent to their customers—our representative signs the receipt or the goods—from the time they were handed to the sorters in the yard they were lost sight of, and from that point we can follow them no further.
ALFRED VANSTONE (Detective Sergeant K.) I am stationed at Forest Gate—at 9.30 p.m. on October 23rd I and another detective were keeping
observation in Green Street, Upton Park—there is a kind of open air market there—the two prisoners had a stall there, and round the corner of the street was a barrow left incharge of a boy—whilst they were at the stall the woman was in front of it serving customers—I noticed her in particular speaking to a lady with regard to a jacket—I was not near enough to her to see whether it was offered for sale or not—she did not take it a way with her but after she had gone I saw Crome take another coat from under the stall—I then went up to Arthur crome and spoke to him—I told him I was sergeant of police, and asked if that was his stall—he said, "Yes for to-night"—I then said, "You have some goods on your stall which I believe are the proceeds of a robbery, I shall take you to the Forest Gate police station—he said, "I bought them, I have receipts to prove it"—I said, "Whom did you buy them from?"—he replied, "Two men I know"—I said, "Who are they, where do they live?"—he replied, I do not know their names, nor where they live; this is all I bought," showing me four boys' overcoats—I took him to Forest Gate police station, and then spoke to the woman, and said, "You must come to the station with me, and you will be charged with the man I have just arrested for stealing a quantity of clothing"—she replied, "You cannot charge me: I am his wife, I have never known him to do anything like this before, and I did not know it was stolen, as I buy in the City; I have receipts to prove it"—I said, "Have you any more of these little coats?"—she said, "No; are you going to my house?"—I said, "Yes, and will search it"—she replied, "There are lots of other things there, but they do not belong to this job; I shall not say anything more about them until I hear what my husband says"—I took her to Forest Gate police station—she said, "We have not got any rolls of cloth, only a few little pieces in the front room up stairs; this is the first time we have done anything like this"—she said she had bills and receipts, which I have seen since; they are not connected with this case—she pointed out a pony and barrow at the side of the street, and said That is mine"—it was a costermonger's barrow—close to it was a chestnut peny, recently clipped—I searched No. 14. Old Ford Street, and, found the property connected with Soar's goods—these goods were all identified, with the exception of the four jackets, as being stolen from Mr. Soar's—I found the rest of the property, which has been identified since—I also found property of the various parties connected with the case, which has all been identified—these are only a few samples of property stolen between October 8th and 20th.
Cross-examined. I made a thorough search of the house, but did not remove everything; I knew they were carrying on a large business—I knew them before this transaction—Crome has been carrying on this business for six years in Green Street—I went on Friday night to the place—the goods were among other goods on the stall, for the purpose of sale, and anyone could rummage through them—I have ascertained that these people purchase generally from City houses—I have a number of bills—no charge had been made against them up to the time of their arrest.
Re-examined. I never saw the woman selling goods in the absence of her husband—she voluntarily pointed out the barrow to me'.
ALFRED NICHOLS (Police Inspector K.) At 11 p.m. on October 23rd I found the prisoners at Forest Gate police station—I told them I was an inspector of police, and I believed they were in possession of a quantity of stolen goods, and was going to search their residence and stables—he said, "You will find the stuff up stairs; there are the keys"—I then went to the premises in Old Ford Road, and found a large quantity of stolen goods—I seized the property, and took it to Limehouse Police Station first, and then to Forest Gate police station—it would fill a two-horse van—I was present when the goods were identified at Forest Gate by the persons connected with the case. I was also present when the male prisoner was identified from nine other men—the pony and cart were also identified—the prisoners were charged, but made no reply; they are man and wife; their marriage certificate is in Court—I asked them if they could give any account of their possession of the property—Crome replied, "I gave a chap £40 for the lot"—I do not know their names, nor where they live—he had no receipt—he has made a declaration since, which is not in his affidavit—there are two men awaiting trial for burglary at Brixton Gaol—in consequence of his telling me that those men stole the goods, I put them up for identification amongst some others—he was unable to identify them.
EMMA CROME— NOT GUILTY ; ARTHUR CROME—
GUILTY on the second count. (See next case.)
ARTHUR CROME, SAMUEL PHILLIPS.
52. ARTHUR CROME (31) and SAMUEL PHILLIPS , Breaking and entering the warehouse of Henry Wheeler and another, and stealing four rolls of serge cloth and other goods, and 1s. 8d. in money, belonging to Henry Wheeler and another. Second count, Receiving the same.
MR. METCALFE Prosecuted; MR. WARDE Defended Crome.
ISAAC SMITH . I live at 30, Fenton's Avenue, Plaistow, and am care-taker to Henry Wheeler and Co., clothiers, of 107 to 113, London Road Plaistow—I securely fastened the premises at 6.45 p.m.—on the 13th I found the place upside down, and a large quantity of goods missing, including four rolls of blue serge cloth, 75 yards in each, two dozen grey singlets, marked "Liverpool House, 95, Commercial Road," on the tabs, seven dozen flannelette shirts, marked "Day Bros., 246, Barking Road," on the tabs, twenty-one flannel singlets, eighteen blue dungaree trousers, and sis dozen blue jerseys, marked with a diamond.
WILLIAM ALBERT EDWARD PRATT . I am manager to Henry Wheeler and Co.—on October 24th I went to Limehouse police station, and examined four rolls of blue serge cloth and two pairs of serge trousers, and recognised them as the property of my firm, stolen* between the evening of the 12th and morning of the 13th—I have since examined forty-three jerseys, eleven cardigans, and twenty-six shirts, produced to me at Plaistow.
Cross-examined. I examined the goods found at Tilbury on Phillips, and identified them as the property of my firm.
FREDERICK STEVENS (Detective Sergeant K.) On the morning of October 18th I visited the promise 107. London Road. Plaistow—by the gate by the side of the budding, by breaking a pane of glass on the second floor window and removing a thumbscrew and chain, a door leading through an iron staircase had been forced, and several marks of a costermonger's barrow having been and out of the yard—the marks corresponded with a barrow with red wheels and a green body belonging to Crome.
JOHN STAFFORD (583 K) On the morning of October 15th I was on day at Medhurst Road. Old Ford—at 4.15 a.m. I saw Crome come out and wit! two men I do not know, harness the pony to the barrow—thinking there was something wrong. I said, "You are going out early"—he said, "I am going up the market," and he and the two men drove away down Grove Road.
By the COURT. Neither of the two men was Phillips.
Cross-examined. I thought it was an unusual time for Crome to go out so early—I have seen him go out at half past nine, never as early as on this occasion.
ALFRED VANSTONE (Detective Sergeant K.) At 9.30 p.m. on October 23rd I was keeping observation in Green Street, Upton Park, on Crome and his wife at their, stall—there was a costermongers barrow in a side street, Crescent Road, painted green and red wheels, and a chestnut pony, recently clipped, attached—I saw Crome's wife offer a coat for sale, and then place it under some other clothes—I went up to Crome and said, "Is this your stall?" he replied, "Yes"—I said, "You have some coats, the proceeds of a robbery: I shall take you to Forest Gate police station"—he said that he bought them, and had receipts—subsequently I took him to the police station, searched him, found some keys, went to where he lived, 14, Olga Street, Old Ford, and found four rolls of cloth and two pairs of trousers—took them to the station—I went to Gravesend on November 9th, and found Phillips detained there—I said, "You will be charged with feloniously receiving a quantity of jerseys and shirts, the proceeds of a robbery at London Road, Plaistow"—he said, "I expected that, but I did not know they were stolen; I made a mistake in giving a wrong statement at first: Fred asked me to fetch them from the station, I thought it was all right, as he sells things in the market; these are the two bundles; I knew what was in the little one, but I aid not know what was in the other; I did not know they were stolen; Fred told me to fetch them from Gravesend Station; I have sold two shirts"—I brought him to Forest Gate Station.
Cross-examined. I do not suggest that all the things on the stall were stolen, but a great portion of them were—he said he bought the goods in the City, which he had receipts to prove—Inspector Nicholls has the receipts.
Re-examined. Among goods on the stall there were twenty-two ladies waterproof jackets, five boys' overcoats, have since been identified as stolen property—the identification marks were torn off the tabs.
By MR. WARDE. The linings of the coats had been fairly torn out by force.
ALFRED NICHOLLS (Police Inspector K.) At the station Crome told me where he lived, and with keys found upon him I went to 14, Olga Street, and examined four rolls of cloth there and two pairs of trousers, and took them to Limehouse Station, where they were identified, and afterwards to Forest Gate Station—Crome said that he bought the property with others off two men for £40—I asked where they lived, and he said he did not know—I asked if he had receipts—he said, "No"—he showed me receipts as to other property—have never seen rolls of cloth on his stall, only cheap goods, remnants, etc.—I have no evidence against Phillips, and there has been no previous charge that I know of against him, but I have had him under observation for some months.
GUILTY on the second count. CROME— Two years' hard labour PHILLIPS— Twelve months' hard labour.
GEORGE BIRD.
53. GEORGE BIRD , Feloniously applying to the presiding officer at a municipal election for a ballot paper in the name of George Terry. The prisoner, in the hearing of the Jury, withdrew his plea of not guilty and PLEADED GUILTY , and the Jury therefore returned a verdict of guilty. Two months in the second division.
GEORGE HENRY WOODART.
53. GEORGE HENRY WOODART (38) , Wilful murder of Ellen Paxton.
MR. C. W. MATHEWS and MR. BODKIN Prosecuted; MR. MURPHY
MATILDA PAXTON . I am married, but living apart from my husband, at 15, Mercer's Grove, Lewisham—I am a laundress—in November, 1893, I was living in Boone Street, Lee, with two boys of eight and two years of age, and a girl of ten months—I left them with Mrs. Woodward, of 18, Barrow's Place, Church Street, Lee, as I knew her—I paid her 10d. A day to mind them while I went to my work—on November 14th, 1893, I took the two younger children to Mrs. Woodward about 8 a.m.—Ellen was quite well then—I had fed her with bread and milk, and afterwards gave her a crust of bread, which she had when I left her—she had swallowed some of it—there was nothing wrong with her then—at 12.45 that day the boy Ernest brought me a message, in consequence of which I went at once to Mrs. Woodward's, and found her with Ellen in her arms at the door—it was only about four minutes' walk from where I work—blood was gushing from the baby's nose and mouth—it seemed to be suffocated, as if it could not get its breath—I took it first to Dr. Burroughs, and, on his advice, to Guy's Hospital—I did not see the prisoner—I knew he was living in the house with his mother and father—I understood she was Mrs. Woodward—I did not give the child corks, nor anything from which it could have taken corks.
Cross-examined. The child was not strong—it had never been under a doctor—the crust of bread was about the size of the forefinger—it held it in its hand—it had the breast in its mouth as I went round—I often used to give her a crust of bread—she could not crawl about; wherever you put her she remained; you would find her there the next time you went—I washed her and laid her on the bed while the boy was got ready for school—I had no medicine in the house, and only one bottle, and that had paraffin in—that was in the cupboard.
Re-examined. I gave it the crust of bread about 7.30 a.m.—I washed it, and after that I gave it the crust of bread—the child had no difficulty in swallowing it—I washed Ernest—he dressed himself—he was about in the room—he was eight years old—Walter was dressed and sitting in front of the fire—he was two years of age.
MARY ANN DUGGAN . I live at 6, Chapel Place, Boone Street—for seventeen or eighteen years I have been living with the prisoner, and had come to be known as Mrs. Woodward—I lived continuously with him till he was taken into custody on this charge—in November, 1893, I was living with him at 10, Barrow's Place, Lee—I used to take care of Mrs. Paxton's children, Ellen, Ernest, and Walter, for her—the prisoner was not in work in that November—Mrs. Paxton brought Ellen on November 14th, about 8 a.m.—the prisoner was at home—I went out to the shop about 10.30 till 11.30—I left the child with the prisoner in the same room—it was all right then—we had only one room—there were medicine bottles in the cupboard, and two or three bottles on the mantelpiece—I did not notice any corks in them—when I returned the child was bad, and blood was coming from her mouth—she was sitting on the floor—the prisoner was sitting in a chair in the room—I took the child up—I said, "What is the matter with this child?" and he did not answer me—I nursed the child, and sent the prisoner to tell Mrs. Paxton—he went out of the room—he came back and said, "I did not go myself, I sent the boy"—I said, "What is the matter with the child? is the mother coming?"—he said, "I have sent the boy"—I had the child in my lap—she was bad, and blood was coming from her mouth—Mrs. Paxton came and took the child away—I gave evidence on the first day of the inquest—when I came home I said to the prisoner, "What do you think?"—I told him I was going to the inquest—I did not know what was the matter with the child—I told him I had been summoned as a witness—he did not say anything—I said I could not think wherever the child got the corks from, or who gave them to her—he did not reply—that was not before I went to give evidence the first time, because I did not know; it was the second time, because I had to go and give evidence the second time—when I got back I said, "That poor child has had corks; where did she get them from?"—he made no answer—I said some were found in the stomach, and one at the back of the throat—he never said anything—the Coroner said, "He has got to come the next time"—I told the prisoner so—he said, "All right"—before I went the second time the prisoner said I was to say there were not any bottles in the place—I said, "Well, did you give them to her?"—he did not answer me—
I went with the prisoner to the second hearing—I told the Coroner I did not lose sight of the child, but I did go out for an hour—the prisoner told me to make this statement, I think two or three days before the second day—I said, "Why am I to say that?"—he made no answer—I did not know about his writing to Scotland Yard—he said nothing to me about it—I had kept on saying to him that I could not think who gave her the corks, and he did not say a word all the time.
Cross-examined. The prisoner behaved very funny to me—he threatened to hit me two or three times—he has not behaved right for a long time—he behaved decently to me the year the child died—he was kind—he was out of work two or three weeks—I did not have the third child—I applied the 10d. a day for minding the two children to the household expenses—the prisoner shared the food—I have had three children—one girl lived till she was five—the prisoner has threatened me a good many times—he has knocked me about two or three times, but not lately—he likes a drop of drink—he occasionally came home drunk—he was very fond of rum—sometimes he would come home sober—I left the child sitting on the floor that day—she could just crawl on her little knees—I asked the prisoner to look after her—he was sitting by the fire—the child was on the floor when I came in—I told the Coroner there were no corks in the house—I recollected my statements before the Coroner when I was before the Magistrate—I thought it was funny for my husband to tell me to tell the Coroner there were no bottles in the house, but he told me to say that—my husband had been drinking lately—he had a little work in August—I do not think he had work in September; only one or two days in the week—he is a grainer—there was not much money—I left the other little boy in the room when I went out for the hour—he walked about the room, being two years old.
Re-examined, The prisoner was sober that morning when I left him for an hour—he had had nothing to drink that morning.
By the COURT. He behaved well to me when I had the child—I asked him to marry several times—my first child died of convulsions and bronchitis, the second of diphtheria, and the youngest of consumptive bowels—we had not quarrelled lately before his arrest—I did make up my mind to leave him two or three times—I told him so—he said I could go—I did not go—'I did not know he was going to accuse himself of killing the child—he did not say he had been writing—I did not know it till the inspector came and told me he had been writing, and I was out at work the day he was taken—he has never charged me with putting corks in the child's throat, nor has anyone else.
LEOPOLD BURROUGHS . I am a medical practitioner, of 50, Eltham Road, Lee—in November, 1893, I had a surgery in the high road—I remember Mrs. Paxton bringing the female baby—I examined it, and found its breathing was very bad—its head was thrown right back, and the larynx pushed forward, as if there was an obstruction in the throat—I gave the woman a card for Guy's Hospital, with instructions to take it there.
Cross-examined. I was called at the inquest—I have bad oases of
young children swallowing what was not food, and not accidentally, and of older children—that child could masticate a piece of bread.
Re-examined. I never knew a child of ten months get into its gullet a cork an inch in length.
RICHARD HARMAN LUCE . I am a registered medical practitioner, of 42, Friar Gate, Derby—on November 14th I was assistant house surgeon at Guy's Hospital—the child, Ellen Paxton, was brought in by a woman—I examined it—I found it breathed with considerable difficulty, as though there were some obstruction—there seemed to be inflammation at the back of the throat—he was under the charge of Dr. Lister the next few days—after November 16th I took over Dr. Lister's work—on November 17th the child died of inflammation of the lungs—I was present at the post mortem examination, when a cork was found in the gullet of over an inch in length—I believe these bottles contain the gullet with the cork, and the stomach with two pieces of cork as they were found (Produced)—Dr. Targett has the charge of them—the cork interfered with the child breathing, so food had sunk into the lungs, that caused pneumonia and death—a child of that tender age could not have swallowed corks of the size of these or anything like it—they could not have passed into the gullet without assistance from without—the one in the gullet was too big to pass to the stomach.
Cross-examined. The larger cork pressed against the windpipe just below the epiglottis, and prevented food passing down the gullet, and so it passed down the windpipe into the lungs—the other two corks are not quite the same size; they are all in gradation—there is laceration in the gullet, but not above the point where the cork is; nothing observable certainly—there was at the point where the cork rested—there was evidence at the time that there was bleeding, but I did not see it—Dr. Burroughs gave the evidence.
Re-examined. The evidence on the post mortem examination bore out the suggestion that the corks were wilfully forced down the child's throat—I think it is impossible for a cork to get as far as that without assistance—I believe someone must have pushed them down.
THOMAS DAVID LISTER . I am a registered medical practitioner, of 50, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square—in November, 1893, I was house surgeon in Guy's Hospital—the child, Ellen Paxton, was taken in on November 14th, suffering from a swelling of the neck and difficulty in breathing and swallowing—I had her in my charge from November 14th to 16th, when I handed her over to Mr. Luce—it was not possible for her to have obtained works while under my charge—it was extremely unlikely for a child of en months to have accidentally got corks into its gullet and stomach in the position in which I see them to-day for the first time (Produced).
Cross-examined. The preserving spirit would not, I should say, make he cork swell—I cannot say without experiment, but I think the tendency would be to contract rather than swell them—I put my finger down the child's throat—there was a good deal of swelling of the tissues, the soft lining of the tissues of the throat; I could not get beyond that—one might feel the top part of the posterior wall of the gullet, the oesophagus
—I should not like to say it is impossible for the corks to have got there without other aid, but it is highly improbable.
JAMES HENRY TARGETT . I am a surgeon at Guy's Hospital—I made the post mortem examination in November, 1893—these bottles contain the corks which were taken from the child's stomach and gullet—the large corks remained in the gullet—the Exhibits have been in my charge—I agree with Dr. Luce with regard to the way in which the corks must have got into the child's gullet—that the child was unable to swallow was evidence of that fact—two are in the stomach; the other one is too large to have been swallowed by natural mechanism—if the smaller corks had got sufficiently far back in the throat the child might have swallowed them, but force must have been required to have got the larger cork in that position.
Cross-examined. I mean if they got within the grasp of the muscles; behind the soft palate it would not be impossible, but it is quite improbable—the preserving spirit, which we call formalin, would not swell the corks—I should not think they have been swallowed since the child was in the hospital—I do not think the position of the corks has been altered—a cork could only be pushed in by the end of the finger in a child's mouth; one could hardly assume two fingers at work.
Re-examined. In my opinion the large cork was pushed down by the finger—the smaller corks probably passed sufficiently far back to get within the grasp of the muscles, but there must have been some assistance, a child of ten months having a smaller passage—swallowing is a rapid act, but it might have been painful—the corks would have to distend the throat from the back of the mouth—the big cork could not have got into the child's stomach by any muscular action—it is in a curious part of the passage separating the part above and the tubular part below, and the passage is rather narrower there—I cannot imagine a child picking up the smaller corks and swallowing them, and then swallowing the larger one to the point where I found it.
ARTHUR IANGHAM . I am a solicitor, of Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn—I was Deputy Coroner for the Borough of Southwark—on November 28th I held an inquest on the body of this child—I took notes of the evidence which was given on that occasion—I have before me my note of the examination of George Henry Woodward, taken on that day in my own writing—it was not signed by the deponent—he was sworn before he gave it—(Read): "George Henry Woodward, sworn, saith, I live at 10, Barrow's Place, Church Street, Lee. I am a painter. I first saw deceased child about the first week in November; that is when it came to my wife; she came with my consent. I was at home on the 14th November the whole day (I had no work to do that day). About twenty past nine in the morning the child was brought by the mother. My wife took it in her arms and nursed it all the morning. About half past twelve she gave it a slice of brown bread and butter. About one o'clock it was took with a choking in the throat, and turned very black in the face after that it began vomiting up a lot of blood. My wife said to me,' For goodness sake, do go for the mother!' I went round at once; she was
gone to dinner then. But I saw his eldest boy, and told him to go for his mother at once, as the baby was bringing up blood. She came about two minutes after that, and said, "What do you think I had better do with the child? "I said, 'Take it to a doctor at once.' She got up and took it, I suppose. I did not go with her, neither did my wife. She came back again about an hour and half after. She said she had been to the doctor's. Both Dr. Burroughs had seen the child and also Dr. Clark, and had ordered it to Guy's Hospital. She brought the child back with her. That would be away from the station. The mother brought the brown bread and butter in the morning. I had not taken any notice of it. My wife nursed the baby the whole morning without putting it down once. I did not object to my wife taking charge of the baby; I said she could do as she liked about that. It was rather troublesome. About a week after she first had it I said she would have to give it up if it kept so troublesome. Mrs. Paxton came one night at the beginning of November and asked my wife if she would mind the child, without any introduction. I do not know what made her come, I am sure. I cannot account for the corks. I am quite sure the child never got them in my house. My child was ill about three months ago, and died. My child had medicine from Dr. Burroughs and the Evelina Hospital. It only had one bottle. I am quite sure of that. Only one bottle was used for all the medicine he had. I threw the cork away in the dust bin I am quite sure I have no more medicine bottles in the house. The size of the cork would be about an inch long. The child's little brother, two and a half years old, was the only person in the house besides me and my wife."
DONALD HANLEY NORTH . I am Registrar at Scotland Yard of letters received by the Commissioner of Police, which, as in this case, we stamp and send to the Criminal Investigation Department—the four Exhibits are dated August 17th, September 23rd, October 25th, and "August 12, 1902"—they were received, stamped, and forwarded on August 18th, September 24th, and October 26th, and on or about October 13th, 1903.
Cross-examined. We read them—I cannot say what, if any, are statements without foundation, as they were dealt with by the Criminal Investigation Department—we get plenty of rambling letters—inquiries are made, and some are answered—the one dated August 12th, 1902, was received in October, 1903.
FREDERICK CLEVELAND (Police Inspector R.) On October 13th I went to 6, Chapel Place, Boone Street,—the prisoner opened the door—when he saw me he immediately ran up stairs, saying, "Come up stairs; I know who you are, and what you have come for; you have come for me"—I went up stairs—I told him I was a police officer, and that anything he said I should take down, and it might be afterwards used in evidence against him"—he said, "I know that; I am here waiting for you, and all you have to do is to take me"—I had not made up my mind to arrest him at that moment—I had a letter in my possession, and said, "Is your name G. H. Woodard?"—he said, "Yes, my name is George Henry Woodard"—I then showed him letter A (Of August 12th)—I had made
up my mind then, because he told me his name was Woodard—there was further conversation—I took him to the station, where he was charged, after which I observed that he was about to say something—I told him I should take down any statement he made—he said, "All I have to say is that I choked the child with corks; I had been drinking for two or three days previous; I do not know why I did it"—he signed that in my presence.
Cross-examined. I heard him say before the Magistrate that he did not remember writing the letters, as he was drunk—he said, "All those notes I sent off to Scotland Yard I sent under the influence of drink," or words to that effect—I have known instances where people have sent statements which on inquiry have proved to be wholly unfounded—I have never had a case of a person saying he was guilty of crime, but I have heard of such cases.
MARY ANN DUGGAN (Re-examined.) I know the prisoner's writing—the three letters and the post card produced are his writing—(Read) "August 17th 1893. Sir about 11 years ago a child was taken in Guys hospital name Ellon Paxton and died about 24 hours after in a inquest was field Before Mr. Langham 1 cork and 2 Peases of Cork was fount inside the Child, they war Wilfly forst down the Child throat to kill her, and her murder lives in Boone Street Lee. Now what the mother and the young woman said at the inquest was the truth But what the man said was false that man can tell you Who done it if he likes Please excuse Bad riting every word is the truth W.—H. C."—Post card: "September 23 1902. Sir your man is on the right track this time all you have to do now is to trace this hand riting and you will find the man that worst the corks down the childs throat Name of the child was Ellon Paxton"—"October 5 1902. Sir. has you have taken no steps to and the truth of What is sent to you about the man that kild the Child lame elon Paxton I Will Send you one mor clue and the Last I shall send to you the man that done the deed was at the inquest Be for the Corner Mr. Langham At Guy's hospital"—"August 12th, 1902. Sir I am the man that kild the Child name Elon Paxton at 10 Barruns Place Church Street Lee By choking her with corks and I am ready when you like to fetch me G. H. Woodard 6 Chapel Yard Boone Street Lee").
GUILTY of manslaughter. Five years' penal servitude.
Before Mr; Recorder.
WILLIAM WHEELER, MATTHEW HEDLEY.
55. WILLIAM WHEELER (32) and MATTHEW HEDLEY (38) , Robbery with violence, with another man unknown, on Arthur Edward Becker, and stealing from him two books, his property.
MR. BIGGS Prosecuted.
ARTHUR EDWAR SECKER . I live at Deptford, and am manager to the Glengar Iron and Steel Manufacturers at Grove's Wharf, Cubitt Town—I am in the habit of going, at the end of the week, to my home via Bridge Street, Greenwich—on Saturday, October 17th, I was going home between 12 and 12.30 p.m.—I had been over to the works to get some
books—I was carrying £13 in gold and £2 in silver in ray pocket, a cash book belonging to the firm, and this Encyclopaedia of my own (Produced)—when I came out of the works the street was quite deserted—I had not got more than seventy yards into Bridge Street when I was suddenly attacked from the rear—I was hit behind my head, on my chest and throat, and was knocked down—there is no lamp in the street, and the public houses were closed—I recognise Wheeler; he kicked me; there were three of them there, and they all had a go at me—I was knocked nearly senseless—I had thirteen bruises on my body, and some on my hands, where I have the scars now—I was kicked while I was on the ground—I shouted for assistance to the best of my ability—a witness ran across the road and knocked Hedley down on top of me—I defended myself as well as I could with my umbrella until it was taken away by Hedley and broken—a few days afterwards the Encyclopaedia was brought to me by the police—my assailants did not obtain the cash, as assistance came to my aid, so they had not time—this (Produced) is what is left of the umbrella.
Cross-examined by Wheeler. When you were at the station on the Sunday night I said you were the man who knocked me about—I had been in bed all day suffering from the effects of the kicks and bruises which you gave me.
Cross-examined by Hedley. I had seen you in Bridge Street about 9.30 p.m.
By the COURT. It is not my usual practice to leave the office at that time on Saturdays, but I had been away to Scotland on business.
NATHANIEL HAWKINS . I am a labourer, of 20, Connelly Street, East Greenwich—on October 17th, about 9.30 p.m., I was going from. Church Street into Bridge Street—I saw the prisoners and another man whom I do not know—the prosecutor was walking behind me—I did-not know Wheeler before, but I heard him say, "That's him; he is the manager over the water"—I saw Wheeler again at 12.30 or 1 a.m. in Bridge Street—I next saw him in custody, and I recognised him as the man whom I had heard make that remark earlier in the evening—Hedley was with Wheeler at 9.30—I do not know if they are companions.
Cross-examined by Wheeler. When I heard you say, "That's him, he is the manager over the water." you were in Bridge Street with Hedley and another man.
Cross-examined by Hedley. I did not see you strike or kick the prosecutor.
ROBERT PETERS . I am a labourer, of 16, Church Street, Deptford—in the early morning of October 18th I saw the prisoners standing at the corner of Bridge Street and Church Street—I had seen them before—I saw the prosecutor walking round the "corner towards the prisoners—he was on the other side of the road to me—I see them stop the prosecutor, then all of a sudden I see a scrimmage in the road; the prisoners and another man attacked him—I was only a few yards away—I am quite sure the prisoners are two of the men—I have worked for the prosecutor's firm for the last week—I saw the men breaking up the prosecutor's umbrella,
and then try to kick him three or four times—I interfered, Hedley made a strike at me, and I told him not to kick me, and I knocked him down—I saw one of the other men walk round the prosecutor with a book under his arm, then he ran away—dozens of people were there at the time—it was fairly easy to see.
Cross-examined by Hedley. Ton were going to kick the prosecutor when I shoved you away.
By the COURT. The three men were kicking the prosecutor.
JOHN FRANCIS . I live at 7, Little Thames Street, Greenwich—in the early morning of October 18th I was in Bridge Street, Greenwich, opposite the Nag's Head, which is not a stone's throw from the corner of Church Street and Bridge Street—I could see anything that took place at the corner—I saw the prisoners at the corner—I saw the prosecutor coming along carrying a book under his arm—I did not know him—when I got to the corner I saw Hedley punch the prosecutor in the chest, knock him down, and kick him in the thigh—Wheeler picked up the book, and walked away—I did not see him strike the prosecutor—another man whom I cannot recognise was there—I do not know if he kicked the prosecutor—the police came and caught hold of Peters, who was helping the prosecutor—the police thought he was the man who had knocked the prosecutor down—I pointed out Wheeler.
THOMAS HONEY BUN (35 R.) At 12.30 a.m. on October 18th I was in Bridge Street—I saw the prosecutor surrounded by several men—I do not know who they were—I asked the prosecutor if he would know the men who had knocked him down—he said, "Yes"—I subsequently arrested Wheeler; he had no book in his possession then—when he was in the dock I noticed that he had a piece off his thumb—when he was charged he said, "I know nothing about it."
Cross-examined by Wheeler. When I arrested you you were walking towards me.
GORDON ROWE (Detective Sergeant R.) On October 19th, about 10 p.m., I arrested Hedley—I told him I was a detective officer, and should arrest him for being concerned with Wheeler in assaulting and robbing a man in Bridge Street—he said, "Are you sure you are not mistaken?—I said "No, I do not think so"—he said, "Well, you will see"—on the way to the station he said, "Are you sure?"—when charged, he said, "Well, you are certain"—on October 21st I found this Encyclopaedia in front of St. Peter's Church, about seventy yards from where the crime was committed, and in the direction which Wheeler took.
Cross-examined by Hedley. While you have been waiting for trial I have been to your wife—I did not say to her, "If we could get the other man it would be all right, because we know it is not your husband that we want."
By the COURT. There was a third man whom we have not been able to arrest up to the present—we have a description of him—I do not know him by name.
The prisoners' statements before the Magistrate: Wheeler toys, "I know nothing at all about it." Hedley says, "I can prove where L was at 12.30, the time they say."
GEORGE MARKER . I am a labourer, of 81, Bridge Street, Greenwich—I was coming down home on October 18th about 12.30 a.m.—I see Hedley the worse for drink, and I took him home—I did not see anything of Wheeler—the public houses had been closed about twenty-five minutes—it was two or three minutes' walk from the Nag's Head that I saw Hedley.
Cross-examined. I was sober enough.
Wheeler's defence: "I was at work until one o'clock on the 17th. I went home to change myself, and went out. I had been out drinking all the afternoon, and that is how I do not remember much about this case."
Hedley's defence: "I can prove I was in doors by 12.30 on the Saturday night."
A. E. SECKER (Re-examined.) I had not taken the money from the works earlier in the day—I had not had it in my pocket since 1 o'clock; I took it when I left the works the last time.
GUILTY . The prosecutor stated that he still felt the effects of the violence end could only work half the day instead of the whole in consequence.
Eighteen months' hard labour each.
CHARLES HITT.
56. CHARLES HITT (50) , Fraudulently converting to his own use and benefit £5 3s. 10d., £2, £1 14s. 1d., and £3 11s. 5d., received by him on account of Dakin and Co., Limited.
MR. TRAVERS HUMPHREYS Prosecuted; MR. TURNELL Defended.
FRANCIS MATHEW WILLIAMS I am cashier to Dakin and Co., Limited, Tea and Coffee Importers, of St. Paul's Churchyard and Cornwall Road—the prisoner has been a traveller for them since November last year, under the agreement produced—he obtained orders in different parts of the country and sent them on to Cornwall Road—he also collected money, and in the case of cash he paid it into his own banking account, drawing a cheque against it and sending the firm his own cheque about three times a week, with an advice letter—on June 20th he sent an account of £5 7s. 4d., but did not account for the receipt of any such sum, and we did not know it had been paid, and the same as to £2 received by him on August 4th, which we did not know had been collected, also £1 14s. 1d. received from Mr. Breed—on December 14th, as to £3 11s. 5d. received from a Mr. Gregory, he never accounted for it, although he did account for other sums—on September 27th, in consequence of knowledge acquired by the company, a letter was written to him, giving him notice to terminate the agreement on account of his irregularities and mode of life—a circular letter was addressed to our customers about September 29th, and in consequence of the replies a warrant was obtained for his arrest—he was paid his commission week by week and expenses—he said that he left
Brixton, where he lived, because he had arranged to work new ground—we did not know, till we found out for ourselves, that he had given up his house, or anything about his connection with a Devon County Tea and Coffee Association—I never knew him as M. J. Hayes or as M. J. Hill—when he says that the accounts were his I do not know what he means—he got his commission directly the orders were sent out.
Cross-examined by the prisoner. I heard that you had been in the employment of the company for seven years, but had left about a year ago—I wad with the firm when you came back—nothing was said in the agreement with you as to the collection and receipt of moneys by you.
Re-examined. If the prisoner kept moneys for some time before he accounted for them I did not know it—his commission was about £300 a year—he collected about £2,500 a year.
HERBERT JAMES LEY . I carry on business at Brockley—I bought goods through the prisoner on June 19th—I paid him £5 7s. 4d., less 3s. 6d. discount, in cash, and he receipted the bill.
JAMES ALFRED BREED . I am a baker and confectioner, of 87, Hazleville Road, Hornsey—I owed the firm £3 14s. Id.—on July 31st I received a statement of account, and on August 14th I paid £2 on account to the prisoner, and received his receipt—I paid the balance by postal order, and received receipt dated September 9th, 1903—the postal orders were sent to his house at Brahma Road, Brixton.
MRS. MARGARET GREGORY . My husband is a baker and confectioner at 290, High Street, Brentford—in September we owed Dakin and Co. £3 13s. 3d.—on the 14th I paid the prisoner cash to that amount, less 1s. 10d. discount, and received a receipt.
REGINALD FRANK DIBBIN am a clerk in Receiving Department of the London and South-western Railway at Nine Elms—about September 16th I received from 16, Brahma Road, Brixton, a letter signed "M. J. Hill," to collect one ton weight of boxes and cases.
FRANCIS MATHEW WILLIAMS (Re-examined). The customers were in different parts of the country, and considerable expense would be incurred in going to look them up.
ALFRED LONG (Detective Sergeant L.) On October 11th I went to Plymouth and found the prisoner already in custody—I had a warrant for his arrest, which I read to him—he said, "That is not all; it runs into about £200 altogether; I do not think this ought to be a criminal prosecution, it ought to have been recovered by civil action, as I am a traveller employed on commission"—I brought him to London, where he was charged, and made no reply—when I arrested him I found on him a number of cards with "Devon County Tea and Coffee Association Agent, M. J. Hayes, 12, Hamilton Gardens, Mutley," printed on them.
GUILTY. Strongly recommended to mercy by the Jury. Two months in the Second division.
FRANK ELLIS, JOHN DALY.
57. FRANK ELLIS (62) and JOHN DALY (35) PLEADED GUILTY to breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Edward Turner, and stealing a locket and other articles, his property, ELLIS having been convicted of felony at Newington on July 12th, 1899, as William Grub; and DALY at Clerkenwell, on December 4th, 1900. Six other convictions were proved against Ellis, and five against Daly. Five years' penal servitude each.—
GEORGE HIATT, FRANK DUTNELL, ARTHUR LEVERETT, ALFRED HIATT.
Theft: simple larceny, Theft: simple larceny.
Imprisonment > hard labour; Imprisonment > hard labour; Imprisonment > hard labour; Miscellaneous > sureties
(58). GEORGE HIATT (18), FRANK DUTNELL (16), ARTHUR LEVERETT (15) and ALFRED HIATT (15) , to stealing and receiving 340 yards of copper wire, the goods of the London and South-Western Railway Company; ALFRED HIATT and FRANK DUTNELL, also to stealing and receiving 190 yards of copper wire, the property of the same company. Leverett received a good character. GEORGE HIATT— Fifteen months' hard labour; ALFRED HIATT— Six months' hard labour; DUTNELL— Ten months' hard labour; LEVERETT— Discharged on recognisances. [Pleaded guilty: See original trial image.]
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Looking forward to our leader’s dinner event, taking place April 23rd in Edinburgh.
Pathfinder 26 Mar 2019
Pathfinder together with Causeway, are delighted to welcome Mike Russell, Minister for UK Negotiations on Scotland’s place in Europe, to speak at our leader’s dinner event.
Since 2015, Pathfinder has been proud to run a series of informative, relaxed and topical dinner events for our valued clients and partners. This Spring in Scotland is no different – we are excited to host Mike Russell and hear from him on his career to date, where he sees opportunities from the Scotland and Ireland relationship, and the impact of Brexit.
Mike Russell is the Minister for UK Negotiations on Scotland’s Place in Europe. Mike has previously served as Regional Member of the Scottish Parliament representing the South of Scotland.
Before entering the Scottish Parliament, he worked in a variety of media sectors including television, he has been a national newspaper and magazine columnist, and has written seven books, including one novel.
When the SNP entered Government in 2007, he became Minister for Environment, and was subsequently Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution, before becoming Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning in December 2009, a post he held until November 2014.
Partner at Pathfinder, Tom Byrne, is the Regional Chair for Ireland at Causeway Ireland Scotland Business Exchange. Causeway is a not-for-profit membership organisation that provides a high-level forum for businesses to build relationships and expand their networks across both sides of the Irish Sea. With Pathfinder having offices in both Dublin and Edinburgh, Tom realised the importance of developing contacts between the two countries in these strange times and was delighted to be invited to join Causeway.
We look forward to welcoming Minister Mike Russell.
If you would like to know more about our Leaders Dinner event, please contact opendoor@pathfinder.ie
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Coronavirus curfew met with frustration,…
Coronavirus curfew met with frustration, resignation in Inland Empire
As businesses prepare to adjust, some blast the new restrictions as others say they’re needed to protect the community
Bartender Anthony Close makes drinks Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, at The Sire Bar & Grill in Riverside, which will be affected by the 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew that starts Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Inland Empire businesses and government officials reacted with frustration and resignation Thursday, Nov. 19, to news that Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a 10 p.m. curfew for counties hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, including the Inland region.
“It’s tough enough to try to operate a business outside,” said Mike Brewer, owner of The Sire Bar & Grill in Riverside, referring to existing restrictions on indoor dining.
Bartender Anthony Close makes drinks Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, at The Sire Bar & Grill in Riverside, which will be affected by the new 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew that goes into effect Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
The Sire Bar & Grill, seen Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, will be impacted by the state's new curfew. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Riverside residents Michael Lowe, left, and Chris Hoxie enjoy beers Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, at The Sire Bar & Grill in Riverside, which will be affected by the state's new curfew that begins Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Riverside resident David Hanson enjoys a glass of red wine while watching football at The Sire Bar & Grill in Riverside on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. He said the state's new curfew will not affect him because he goes to bed early and gets up early. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Bartender Anthony Close makes drinks at The Sire Bar & Grill in Riverside on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Starting Saturday, Nov. 21, counties in the state’s purple tier will have to stop all non-essential work, movement and gatherings between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., under Newsom’s order. As of Monday, Nov. 16, 41 of the state’s 58 counties, including Los Angeles County and all of Southern California, are in the purple tier. Ninety-four percent of Californians live in purple-tier counties.
L.A. County had already set its own 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for bars, restaurants and related businesses on Tuesday, Nov. 17.
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Brewer said businesses like his serve people who work non-traditional hours, such as first responders.
“They have very limited options, as the evening progresses, to have sit-down meals,” he said. “We keep our kitchen open until midnight, and now with the curfew we won’t be able to do that, and these people are going to have less of an opportunity to get something to eat after they get off a third shift.”
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Activist Kristie Sepulveda-Burchit with Stand Up San Bernardino County, which has opposed previous shutdowns, questioned the logic behind the curfew order.
“I don’t really know what good it will do,” she said. “Is there science behind a curfew? Is there science behind it?”
Yes, according to Dolores Green, executive director of the Riverside County Medical Association.
“Between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., it’s largely large gatherings, parties and bars,” Green said. “It targets specific activities that we know are spreaders. I think, for the health of the community, we have to take these steps to try and get things under control before the flu season and holiday season.”
Double-features are likely going to be cut short at the Mission Tiki Drive-In in Montclair, the Rubidoux Drive-In in Jurupa Valley and the Van Buren Drive-Ins in Riverside.
“Any second picture is going to play to no audience,” said Frank Huttinger, vice-president of De Anza Land and Leisure Co., which runs the three drive-ins, which all had double-features booked for this weekend. “This is going to be an interesting round of phone calls to film distributors.”
More on COVID-19 in the Inland Empire
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San Bernardino County coronavirus cases now second highest in state
Riverside County needs to curb the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to Cindy Roth, president and CEO of the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce and eliminate the need for similar restrictions in the future.
“We have sent an email out to our members urging our members to comply, but we are going to continue to work with the state to see what other alternatives there are to continue to bend this curve to get us out of this purple tier,” Roth said Thursday.
She said her organization is working to publicize new no-cost coronavirus saliva tests offered in Riverside. Riverside officials have said the county is in the purple tier due to mostly symptomatic people being tested, giving an inflated impression of how many COVID-19 cases are present in the county.
Bellflower-based Norms Restaurants, which boasted 24-hour breakfasts before the pandemic, now closes at 10 p.m. most nights and most locations, but is open until 11 p.m. on weekends. That’ll change when the curfew goes into effect.
Norms’ top priority is the health and safety of its guests and staff, CEO and President Mike Colonna wrote in an email.
“The greatest difficulty is in planning due to the circumstances of the ever-changing environment, but I can assure you Norms and the restaurant industry knows how to serve guests in a safe atmosphere,” he wrote.
On Wednesday, the United States passed 250,000 coronavirus deaths, the most of any country in the world. Locally, San Bernardino County and Riverside County have the second and third-highest number of COVID-19 cases in California. On Tuesday, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to prepare a lawsuit against Newsom over his coronavirus restrictions.
Newsom’s order remains in effect through the morning of Dec. 21.
Staff writer Fielding Buck contributed to this report.
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High noon for federal health records program?
2015 will be a critical year for testing the system.
By ARTHUR ALLEN
Vast spending, frustrating software, angry doctors facing a punch in the wallet — and a hungry new Congress. It could add up to a powerful threat to the Obama administration’s $30 billion program to digitize the nation’s medical records.
Many doctors hate the clunky, time-sucking software they got through the massive subsidy program, and most complain that cumbersome information exchange is frustrating their efforts to coordinate and improve patient care. A quarter-million — half of those eligible for the electronic health records program — will face fines in 2015 for failing to use the systems in the way the government required.
State Medicaid officials don’t know how many of their doctors are using electronic records, although they have handed out $9 billion of those federal funds to encourage their adoption. Nor do they have much sense of how much the technology is helping low-income patients.
All in all, while many believe digital health will eventually bring huge benefits, physicians have seen few of them to date.
Now, as the government begins cutting payments to those who have failed to demonstrate “meaningful use” of the electronic health records Washington began subsidizing four years ago, physician groups are fighting mad. And Congress wants to know why an industry with three freshly minted billionaires isn’t making better software.
2015 promises to be a critical year for determining whether electronic health records will enable physicians to communicate with each other efficiently to create better care. If they can’t get their systems to interact, the program may be seen as largely a waste.
Why it has failed
Since 2011, U.S. doctors and hospitals have had to show they were using electronic records to do things like prescribing and ordering tests, getting patients to download information, and to prove they were asking patients questions about things like smoking and blood pressure control.
When the subsidy program was announced as part of the federal stimulus, 12 percent of doctors had computerized records. Now, 60 percent of doctors and nearly all hospitals do. That’s a major commitment, and no one wants to go back to paper. But it’s a two-edged sword.
Those who see Medicare patients can earn up to $43,720 in federal payments for demonstrating “meaningful use” of their computers, but eventually they face penalties of as much as 5 percent of their Medicare payments for failing to meet the program’s requirements.
The first year of penalties starts in January; more than 250,000 doctors will have 1 percent of their Medicare payments docked.
Members of Congress who track health IT are convinced the program is on the wrong track, according to House Energy and Commerce Committee staff. They aren’t entirely sure how to fix it, but 30 House members, including two Democrats, have co-sponsored a bill that would keep more doctors from being penalized by Medicare.
The fines are a bitter pill for doctors, who are spending an average of nearly an extra hour a day typing information into their computers because of the new rules. That means lost time with patients, and less income.
Rather than saving physicians and health care money, the program in effect has created a new industry — the medical scribe. About 100,000 of these glorified typists are expected to be working for doctors by 2020.
“After five years I can’t really do anything I couldn’t do before the program started,” says Martin O’Hara, a cardiologist who practices in northern Virginia. Computers make everything more legible, O’Hara says, but otherwise the payoff has been slim.
At one hospital in the D.C. area, administrators were pulling their hair out over the huge fees charged to transmit data including routine lab and radiology tests. “I talk to EHR vendors all day long and many of them have these criminal-like practices of setting whatever price tag they want because they can,” said a medical informatics officer who spoke on condition he not be named.
Recently an EHR vendor charged the hospital $50,000 just to pull information from the computers of 20 affiliated physician practices and send it to the Department of Health and Human Services. The hospital had no choice but to pay, because HHS would withhold certain Medicare payments without the data.
EHR vendors promise they are working to improve the flow of data between medical offices and hospitals. But these blocked exchanges have attracted the attention of the Federal Trade Commission, and Congress put language in the spending bill President Barack Obama signed Dec. 16 that requires HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to investigate why records aren’t flowing smoothly — and to decertify software that blocks such transactions.
Free data flows were a prime objective of the federal health IT push. The idea was that computers would make it easy for, say, a doctor to learn that his diabetic patient had been hospitalized. He could make sure she went home with the right drugs and a home nurse, so she didn’t end up back in an ER a week later after falling during a blood sugar-related bout of dizziness. And if she had other specialists, perhaps affiliated with different hospitals, they could follow her progress and communicate with each other too.
The idea is to both help the individual patient have better coordinated care, and to save the health care system money. If the records of 10,000 such diabetics flowed into databases used by researchers, went the thinking, they could more easily figure out the best drugs and treatments and make health care safer, cheaper and more effective.
The slow progress of health IT has also put a drag on research. Multiple sclerosis patients trying to set up a database leading to cures for their disease “run into a brick wall” trying to get information out of their electronic health records, says Marcia Kean, a consultant who works with one MS group.
Many of these patients see multiple doctors, each of whom has a different policy or capacity for sharing data. It’s not easy to obtain a record that makes sense to either the patient or a researcher, Kean said.
Hope on the way?
Optimists think an $11 billion contract to rewire the military’s electronic health records system could give software vendors the kick in the pants needed to get the country’s systems talking to each other.
The military, which wants the medical records of its active-duty soldiers to move smoothly to the Department of Veterans Affairs when they retire, has said it will pay only for a computer system that openly talks with others.
The major health IT giants, including Epic and Cerner, both run by Fortune 400 billionaires, have been vying for the contract by talking up their ability to exchange information.
Epic, a privately held company that holds the medical records of about half of Americans, has often been accused of failing to provide cheap or easy ways to connect with doctors or hospitals that don’t use its software. But now Epic and other vendors have joined alliances promising to improve information exchange.
“Whether these are real or just shiny keys — time will tell,” said Joel White, CEO of the tech-promoting advocacy group Health IT Now.
HHS is weighing whether to require vendors to equip their health records software with a single programming interface, like what Apple uses to allow app makers to smoothly and freely plug into its computers.
Meanwhile, as Congress focuses on data exchange, researchers say there are lingering problems with the usability of computers — and, potentially, their safety.
Doctors have to multitask much more of the time after switching to computerized systems. That explains why they feel more stress, says Raj Ratwani, scientific director of the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare in Washington.
Studies suggest that electronic systems do make health care safer overall — for example, by replacing doctors’ chicken scratch with electronic prescribing, and alerting them to dangerous drug combinations. Yet computers are introducing their own risks due to the strain they put on doctors’ brains.
Most health record vendors didn’t pay enough attention to medical workflows when they designed the current generation of software. Better designs are coming down the pike, Ratwani says, but hospitals that spent hundreds of millions to install a software system can’t quickly switch to a new one.
Jon White, the deputy National Coordinator for Health IT (and no relation to Joel White), sees hopeful little signs in the health care system.
Several days ago, his 13-year-old daughter broke a finger playing tag. She had it X-rayed, and by the time she reached the orthopedist’s office a half an hour later, the radiologist had already transmitted the image. It was hanging on the wall of the exam room.
“It made me so happy the orthopod could look at the results so quickly,” White said. “That wouldn’t have been possible five years ago.”
David Pittman contributed to this report.
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The Wuhan virus—how are we doing?
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The Wuhan virus—how are we doing?#15093828
By Doug64 - 23 May 2020 16:37
- 23 May 2020 16:37 #15093828
Looking over the thread titles, I don’t see one for just a general update on how we’re all doing, comparatively. Later when I have access to my desktop I’ll rank the states of the US, the nations of the EU, both the US and the EU in total, and the UK, for deaths per million and how that compares to the current ten-year average flu season. Maybe I’ll throw in some of my other favorite countries, like the rest of the Anglo cultural cluster and Japan. If anyone has some other favorite countries they’d like to see in the mix, let me know. Just don’t ask for China, Russia, or Iran, any stats their governments release are at best propaganda.
But to start off, an opinion-piece on Georgia (the US state, not the country):
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Atlanta is not burning. Bodies are not piled up in the streets. Hospitals in Georgia are not being overwhelmed; in fact, they are virtually empty. There is no mad rush for ventilators (remember those?). Instead, men, women, and children in the Peach State are returning to some semblance of normal life: working outside their homes, going to restaurants and bars, getting haircuts, exercising, and most important, spending time with their friends and families and worshipping God. The opening that began more than three weeks ago is continuing apace.
Oh, my apologies, you were waiting for bad news? Sorry, I forgot, we were actually not supposed to be rooting for the virus. Despite the apparent relish behind headlines like "Georgia's Experiment in Human Sacrifice," one assumes that most Americans, even the ones most committed to omnidirectional prophecies of doom, were actually hoping this would happen. While it really is a shame that we do not get to gloat about the cravenness and stupidity of yet another GOP politician, I think on balance most of us will be glad to hear that Gov. Brian Kemp was not badly wrong here.
What is happening instead of the widely predicted bloodbath? Confirmed cases of the virus are obviously increasing (though the actual rolling weekly average of new ones have been headed down for nearly a month) while deaths remain more or less flat. This is in fact what happens when you test more people for a disease that is not fatal or even particularly serious for the vast majority of those who contract it, for which the median age of death is higher than the American life expectancy.
How was this possible? One answer is that the lockdown did not in fact do what it was supposed to do, which is to say, meaningfully impede transmission of the virus. In fact, data both from states like Georgia and from abroad suggests that the lifting of lockdowns is positively correlated with a decrease in rates of infection. This could be because lockdowns are inherently ineffective at slowing down a disease whose spread appears to be largely intrafamilial and nosocomial.
It could also be the weather. That's right: another thing that we were told months ago not even to suggest aloud because it would be irresponsible to make assumptions of any kind about the virus, even sensible ones, like the idea that wearing masks just might help slow it down. This is not science. COVID-19 arrived from China, not from outer space. Unsurprisingly, it appears to behave very much like other respiratory viruses, including influenza. It hates sunlight and the outdoors generally and prefers cramped stuffy conditions, like those found in public transit systems and dense housing complexes with poor ventilation.
It is worth pointing out here that journalists and Democratic politicians (most notably Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia state representative who labors under the bizarre illusion that she won a statewide election there two years ago and would now like to be vice president) were not the only critics of Gov. Kemp. After a series of spasmodic muscular contractions that seemed to have resulted in tweets calling upon unnamed persons to "liberate" various states, President Trump changed his mind and insisted on more than one occasion that he "strongly disagreed" with the decision to open Georgia. Expecting anything resembling consistency from this president is a fool's errand, but one hopes that at least some of his supporters remember that he was wrong here.
None of what I have written above should be taken to suggest that Kemp's handling of the pandemic is above reproach, or that he should receive a medal for clear-sightedness here. (I might give one instead to Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, where amid shrill moaning about the non-existent dangers of people standing on beaches, thousands of lives may have been saved by a swift executive order banning the re-introduction of coronavirus patients to elder care facilities). Nor am I suggesting that things in the Peach State cannot possibly take a turn for the worse, especially if appropriate measures are not taken in nursing homes. Two much narrower claims are being made. The first is that those who insisted that Georgia would be transformed into a post-apocalyptic wasteland within days or even weeks of reopening were wrong, and predictably so.
The second is that this is something about which we should be happy.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
—William Pitt
Doug64
Location: Nevada, US
Re: The Wuhan virus—how are we doing?#15093910
By Godstud - 24 May 2020 02:06
Confirmed:41,127
819 New cases, yesterday
Deaths:1,783
33 deaths, yesterday
Georgia COVID-19 cases, deaths tick up over last week
But in just the past day, 78 more deaths were reported - marking the fourth-highest daily total so far. We're going to watch that number closely over the next few days.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/he ... 04a0367866
Godstud wrote: Georgia
Naturally, there was an uptick in Georgia, I doubt anyone that's been paying attention didn't think there wouldn't. But today there was only 37 deaths. In the past three weeks Georgia has gone from 110.6 deaths per million to 171.6, an average increase of 2.9 per million per day. Meanwhile, New York has gone from 1,252.6 to 1,496.5, an average increase of 11.61 per day. So far there has been no explosion of Wuhan virus deaths in Georgia.
I never said there was an explosion, but there is no signs of it decreasing in infection rates, or death rates, yet.
Pretending everything is hunky-dory, is supreme stupidity.
Considering how the stupid flows downhill...
(2 minute video)
Gov. Kemp, local churches react to President Trump's comments on houses of worship reopening
The president announced at an abrupt White House briefing Friday that governors should allow churches and places of worship to open during the pandemic.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/he ... 5ea145b460
By Hindsite - 24 May 2020 09:31
Godstud wrote: I never said there was an explosion, but there is no signs of it decreasing in infection rates, or death rates, yet.
Here in Georgia, many of the young people don't seem to be worried about it any more, because most of them that have gotten the virus have had very little symptoms and when they do it is not worse than a cold. I do wish they would be more considerate of us old people in our 70s and at least wear masks when they are out in public. However, I don't want to infringe on their liberty and pursuit of happiness, so I make sure I have a mask and keep my distance, at least for now.
The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
Hindsite
Location: Augusta, Georgia, USA
By Patrickov - 24 May 2020 09:32
Hindsite wrote: I do wish they would be more considerate of us old people in our 70s and at least were masks when they are out in public. However, I don't want to infringe on their liberty and pursuit of happiness, so I make sure I have a mask and keep my distance, at least for now.
Had most people around the world done this the epidemic would have been lessened significantly.
Patrickov
Hindsite wrote: However, I don't want to infringe on their liberty and pursuit of happiness, so I make sure I have a mask and keep my distance, at least for now.
And yet when I said that everyone's wearing masks in Thailand, you said:
It may be that people in Thailand are too scared to stand up for liberty.
He is contradicting himself, @Patrickov.
He says everyone should wear masks, and in the next breath he said that people should be allowed to do what they want.
Freedom to die, as long as it's not him, I guess.
You didn't notice the caveat at the end of Hindsite's statement: ",at least for now.", did you, @Patrickov ?
Godstud wrote: And yet when I said that everyone's wearing masks in Thailand, you said:
You either don't understand what you are reading or deliberately twisting the meaning to suit your hateful mind.
Godstud wrote: He says everyone should wear masks, and in the next breath he said that people should be allowed to do what they want ...
I probably only noticed the part close to truth, and ignored the parts which aren't.
To me, the best way to deal with nonsense shit is to ignore it, given that it is not an assault on what I care.
He's a stubborn senior citizen, yes, but he's not in power like Trump or Xi, and he does not take a side to assault what I care (If anything, I probably have offended him more than he would ever offend me). Not to mention most of his posts are repetitions of his own comment and makes no difference (too ridiculous and petty to qualify as propaganda).
Therefore, dispelling every false information he's stated is a waste of my time and energy. It might be necessary for certain circumstances, but I don't find it so now.
EDIT: One more thing. I like appreciating someone when he or she does something right, more than attacking someone when he or she does something wrong. It is a pity Apologies if I do the latter more.
Hindsite wrote: You either don't understand what you are reading or deliberately twisting the meaning to suit your hateful mind.
You are projecting again. Nothing I said was hateful. I was pointing out inconsistencies in what you were saying.
@Patrickov It's important to pay attention to everything a person says, and not forget the falsehoods. People are far from perfect, but what they lie about gives you insight into who they really are.
Godstud wrote: You are projecting again. Nothing I said was hateful. I was pointing out inconsistencies in what you were saying.
There are no inconsistencies or falsehoods in anything I have said. You are twisting my words to fit your belief. I never said that all people should wear masks. I simply said I wish the young people would wear masks when out in public around people in their 70s. I am not interested in mandating draconian measures that everyone must wear masks.
You assume that people are smart enough, or have other people's best interests at heart. Most people, like yourself who implies only following the rules, for now, aren't smart enough to do what is good for everyone. Selfishness can often be called liberty or freedom.
Reality proves that rules have to be put in place to protect most people from the few dumb ones. Is being pragmatic bad, or should we all live in a dreamworld where everyone cares for others, even when it might be hard, or inconvenient for them?
How is wearing a mask in public considered "draconian"?
Godstud wrote: It's important to pay attention to everything a person says, and not forget the falsehoods.
People are far from perfect, but what they lie about gives you insight into who they really are.
I used a wrong word in my previous post. Instead of "notice", I actually selectively responded to the truth part of his message.
Instead of continuously calling out one's lies (which Hindsite's incorrigibly immersed himself into), I think it's a good idea to point it out when one does talk something correct.
IMHO encouraging people to do correct things is far more constructive, if the opportunity arises.
Conversely, I see me attacking his every lie is a waste of my time and energy.
Not to mention you are already doing it.
If you ignore the lies, then people like Trump eventually become the norm. No one wants that, except the gullible who have bought into the lies, already.
Trump's lies have resulted in people ignoring lies, in the USA. When you ignore the little ones, the bigger ones become more palatable.
Godstud wrote: If you ignore the lies, then people like Trump eventually become the norm.
This is a slippery slope.
As I said, I have a line for myself. If the said person is in power and I also find my words can make a difference I would be happy to join in.
Member Hindsite simply does not worth it, at least as an individual, because he has always been keen to demonstrate his thought's entertainment value being higher than debate value. By extension, PoFo members usually do not qualify that either, except those I find opening too many threads of the same topic or (conversely) constantly assaulting whatever thread I start.
And even under such circumstances I don't want to repeat whatever I said. If the said person just repeat his words or behaviour then I already "won" (vice versa is also true of course).
Godstud wrote: If you ignore the lies, then people like Trump eventually become the norm. No one wants that, except the gullible who have bought into the lies, already.
I ignore the rumors about so-called lies that Trump made because they are all made up lies by the left-wing media that deliberately twist what he says. So it all amount to Fake news as I have said many times before. Any of his campaign promises that he has not fully completed can't really be called a lie until he is no longer in office, and even then, it is still an attempt prevented by a hostile Congress in most cases.
Asserting that the low rate of deaths per million means that opening the economy is the right thing to do isn’t “pretending everything is hunky-dory.” Neither is pointing out that headlines like “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice” are overblown to the point of being slanderous.
By Rich - 24 May 2020 16:37
Ah here we have the nub of the matter. Trump has drastically lowered the level of political debate when it comes to grammar. But in terms of politicians speaking honestly and informatively I really don't see much difference between Trump and the politicians that preceded him. I generally minimise the amount of time I spend listening to politicians, preferring to hear a precis of the useful information second hand. If I'm ever in a position of running a discussion channel / programme, most politicians of any political stripe will not be welcome.
I'm totally opposed to separately elected executive Presidencies, as I am to Governorships and Mayors. So Trump making a mockery of the Presidency is a good thing. Unfortunately British politics has gone in this direction, the last election giving a choice of Boris or Corbyn.
The Center for Disease Control has just released a new study that includes the current best estimate of hospitalization and fatality rates for those that develop symptoms. The overall averages are 3.4% for hospitalizations, and 0.4% for deaths. They estimate that the percentage that are asymptomatic is 35%, which seems really low to me. Broken out by age, they are:
0-49: 1.7%
50-64: 4.5%
65+: 7.4%
0-49: 0.05%
It looks like the ones really at risk are the elderly in nursing homes, and practically no one else. And remember, this is for symptomatics, factor that in and the overall numbers drop to 2.2% for hospitalizations and 0.26% for deaths. Assume the number of asymptomatics is more like 50%, and they drop to 1.7% for hospitalizations and 0.2%for deaths.
By Kaiserschmarrn - 27 May 2020 02:09
An FT reporter does weekly updates of excess deaths on Twitter (see pinned tweet) which provide a good perspective that doesn't depend on the level of testing. For the US as a whole and some US states:
The worst affected regions/cities worldwide to date:
Various countries (mostly European):
Doug64 wrote: The Center for Disease Control has just released a new study that includes the current best estimate of hospitalization and fatality rates for those that develop symptoms. The overall averages are 3.4% for hospitalizations, and 0.4% for deaths. They estimate that the percentage that are asymptomatic is 35%, which seems really low to me. Broken out by age, they are:
The results of the Spanish antibody study, which to my knowledge is the largest to date, also show that about a third of cases is asymptomatic, so I don't think this parameter is necessarily too low.
El Pais wrote: One out of every three people who tested positive for antibodies was asymptomatic and did not realize they had contracted the virus.
That said, I tried to find sources at the link to see on what basis they made this assessment, but as with all the other data there don't seem to be any. Quite poor for a study by a public body in my view.
Another parameter of interest is their best fatality rate estimate which seems very optimistic, with an overall implied IFR of 0.27% and an IFR for the 65+ age group of 0.87%. Again, would really like to see the data they're working with, but they don't seem to provide it.
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Inside the surprisingly complex engineering process that creates an Olympic torch
A torch like the one in the Tokyo games is so much more than just a simple vessel for flame. This is how they spark into being.
By Erin Fennessy | Updated Jul 23, 2021 10:09 AM
The unique Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch, designed by Tokujin Yoshioka, was inspired by the cherry blossom flower. The torch is fashioned out of 30 percent recycled aluminum. Courtesy of Tokyo 2020
The Olympic torch relay represents an iconic beginning to the games. Former Olympians and members of the public carry the Olympic flame from Athens all the way to the opening ceremony, signifying the official commencement of the games.
Beginning with the Berlin 1936 summer games and the 1952 Oslo winter games, each iteration has featured a novel torch design that reflects the identity of the host country in addition to displaying the Olympic flame throughout the torch relay. This year, the games kick off today, July 23, with the lighting of the “Celebration Cauldron” in Tokyo. Expect that to happen just after 8 pm Tokyo time, or 7 am EDT.
Creating a unique, functional torch is a massive undertaking. Identical torches must be manufactured for each runner in the relay before the initial lighting of the Olympic flame in Greece. The entire process of designing, modeling, prototyping, testing, and manufacturing actually begins years before the games themselves begin.
The design of the Olympic torch
The fundamental elements of an Olympic torch are simple. It must contain a fuel canister and discharge system to support the burning of the flame; the Olympic flame must be clearly visible while burning and resistant to being extinguished under extreme conditions; and it must be a manageable weight and shaped in a way that is easy to hold. Beyond that, the unique design for a particular host city is left up to the organizing committee.
The concept design of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch. Courtesy of Tokyo 2020.
Typical torches range from 15 to 32 inches in length. Past materials span a wide range — aluminum has been a popular choice in recent years, but various kinds of natural wood, other metals, glass, and resins have comprised torches.
Design teams submit a portfolio of ideas to the committee, which then selects a smaller group of finalists. The final teams are asked to come back after a short period of time with a plan for obtaining the required materials and manufacturing the proposed design, according to Jay Osgerby, co-founder of the design studio Barber Osgerby, which was behind the London 2012 torch.
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Each torch is designed with the host country in mind. In the case of the Tokyo 2020 torch, designer Tokujin Yoshioka was inspired by the traditional flower of Japan, which is the cherry blossom. Yoshioka also shaped the torch out of aluminum recycled from the temporary housing constructed in the wake of the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011, according to the Tokyo organizing committee. Approximately 30 percent of each individual torch contains this recycled aluminum.
Past Olympic torch designs: London and Salt Lake City
For London 2012, the triangular shape of the torch signified the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect, the Olympic motto of “Citius, Altius, Fortius,” in addition to commemorating London’s third time serving as host city. Each torch also featured 8,000 perforations to represent the 8,000 torchbearers and the 8,000 miles of the relay route from Greece and then throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Before manufacturing, the designers of the London 2012 stage went through many stages of prototype-making and materials evaluation to optimize the final design. David Brook.
The torch for the 2002 Salt Lake City winter games incorporated an aged metal finish to signify the American West and copper to represent the history of Utah. After the initial concept was finalized, the 2002 torch was handed off to a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology for 3D modeling and prototype development. Tim Purdy, senior lecturer of industrial design, led the modeling team. “We used some 3D printing technology to basically make two prototypes of the torch,” he says. Prototypes were as far as 3D printing could take the torch. “There was nothing existing at that time in the [3D printing] industry that could handle extreme heat so we had to go with more traditional methods,” Purdy says of the move from prototypes to manufacturing.
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Even in 2012, for London, large-scale 3D printing of the torch was considered, but was dropped in favor of more reliable metal welding and laser perforation. “It was important to the committee that the torch technology represent technology in the UK,” Osgerby, who designed the torch with his colleague Edward Barber, says. “At the time, 3D printing and laser sintering was really taking off in the automotive industry and Formula One, and aviation.” While Osgerby says laser sintering was a promising option, the committee ultimately decided that the technology was too new, and they couldn’t afford to have it go wrong.
Fueling the Olympic flame
Equally important as the outer design of the torch is the inner workings of the fuel canister system that feeds the flame visible at its top. In fact, according to Tecosim, the engineering firm that collaborated on the London 2012 torch with Barber Osgerby, the first metric for deciding which type of fuel and fuel system would be used was the size of the canister. The canister determines the amount of space available in the aesthetic design and the amount of fuel required to produce a yellow flame of at least 10 inches in height, with a burn duration of a minimum of 10 minutes.
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After a fuel canister is selected, the next consideration is the kind of fuel that will be used. The seven most recent Olympic torches have been fueled by substances such as propane, butane, or a mixture of the two. The London 2012 torch designers explored a green fuel alternative which combined elephant grass and coconut oil, but it was ultimately abandoned for the final torch due to challenges with lighting and extinguishing the flame, Osgerby says. The Rio 2016 design team also researched an ethanol biofuel alternative which didn’t come to fruition due to inconsistent flame brightness under heavy weather conditions. Both design teams ultimately elected to go with a mix of propane and butane.
While butane gas can be stored at a lower pressure than propane, it requires higher temperatures to be converted from a liquid in the canister to a gas, the state in which it is fed to the flame. Liquid propane, on the other hand, evaporates into gas around -40⁰F, so a mix of 55 percent propane and 45 percent butane was chosen to balance safe fuel pressure within the canister with a lower evaporation temperature.
The Tokyo 2020 torch features a fuel canister and burner system similar to that of its London 2012 counterpart. Courtesy of Tokyo 2020.
Tecosim says the burner system itself is very similar to that of a hot air balloon. Liquified gas is removed from the canister with a long offtake tube that runs up the length of the torch. From there, fuel is dispensed into a stainless steel coil that wraps around the burner unit at the very top of the torch, just under the base of the flame. Here, the fuel is heated very quickly and converted from a liquid to a gas before being fed to the flame via the burner nozzle.
Finally, the gas is released through a special valve in the burner unit. “The valve was designed and calibrated so that it allows an exact ratio mix of gas and air to create the desired yellow, very visible flame,” Tecosim says.
Since the fuel is removed from the tank as a liquid, the flow rate of fuel required to sustain the flame is maintained as “the high heat energy provided by the torch flame allows the evaporation of the liquid into a gas, before it reaches the burner nozzle,” the engineering firm explains.
While the principle of all gas-fueled Olympic torches is the same, significant factors in the design and in the season of the games create specific engineering challenges. “As an example, the Turin 2006 winter Olympic torch had a predominantly solid body design with a closed-in torch head, and the London 2012 summer Olympic torch had a much perforated body design and an open burner head,” Tecosim says. As a result, each torch system is unique.
Testing the torch: wind and extreme temperatures
Along with the development of aesthetic and technical prototypes, the torch is subjected to a variety of tests to ensure the flame can withstand extreme weather conditions, high altitudes, and even being dropped during the relay.
In the case of the London 2012 torch, testing was conducted at the BMW wind tunnel in Munich, Osgerby says. The torch was tested at temperatures ranging from 23⁰F to 104⁰F, wind speeds of up to 50 miles per hour, various humidities, simulated driving rain and snow—all at variations in the torch angle relative to the airflow in the tunnel. “In support of the climatic wind tunnel testing, there were several hundred hours of torch airflow testing completed, using a large industrial fan and fabricated nozzle to boost the airflow speeds,” Tecosim says.
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Additionally, the torch was dropped from a height of 10 feet onto a concrete floor, and altitude-tested at the top of Mount Snowdon, where wind gusts were more than 50 miles per hour. Tests such as these are typical for the vetting of the torch.
Mass manufacturing the torches
The final step in the long process of developing the Olympic torch is manufacturing the thousands of torches required for the torch relay. The manufacturer, like the design, varies from year to year depending on the materials and specifications required.
After the initial piece of aluminum was perforated with the 8,000 required holes, the London 2012 torch was robotically welded into its final shape. The gold color was applied to the surface at the end of the process. Lee Mawdsley.
In 2002, Coleman, an American manufacturer of outdoor gear, manufactured the metal components of the torch while the glass topper was obtained from a supplier overseas, according to Purdy. In 2012, manufacturing logistics were handled by The Premier Group, an engineering firm based in Coventry, UK. Each torch faces unique challenges in the scale-up of the torch design—for Salt Lake City, the glass topper was very fragile, and for London, a new laser cutter was obtained in order to cut the 64 million circles required for the group of 8,000 torches.
“We actually got a new laser cutter, one that could cut 16 holes a second,” says Osgerby, one of the torch’s designers. The final laser cut product debuted in the first leg of the torch relay in May 2012 and made its final appearance at the opening ceremonies 78 days later, officially opening the games with the lighting of the Olympic flame in London and continuing the tradition of its unique predecessors.
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Country singer Aaron Pritchett is performing a special Penticton concert in November in support of the Youth Resource Centre. File photo
Aaron Pritchett lending a helping hand to youth
Country singer is performing a special concert in Penticton to raise funds for Youth Resource Centre
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Aaron Pritchett is coming to Penticton for a special concert, helping raise funds for the Youth Resource Centre.
“The youth resource centre will be a pillar of learning, hope and support for future generations in our community. It’s a critical resource and a sound investment”, said Jim Cressman, CEO and president of Invictus Entertainment Group, which partnered with other local sponsored to bring Pritchett to town for the Nov. 23 concert.
All proceeds from the concert will be going towards the Futures Start Here fundraising campaign for renovating the main floor of the Youth Resource Centre, 501 Main St., and opening Foundry Penticton.
Foundry Penticton will provide a one-stop-shop for young people to access mental health care, substance use services, primary care, social services and youth and family peer supports. OneSky Community Resources will operate Foundry Penticton, expected to open in 2019, bringing health and social services together in a single place to make it easier for young people to find the care, connection, and supports they need in partnership with over 20 local youth organizations.
The Community Foundation of the South Okanagan-Similkameen, sponsors of the YES Project, has successfully raised $1 million to purchase the Youth Centre Building and renovate the second floor. The Futures Start Here campaign aims to raise an additional $1. 2 million to renovate the main floor and open Foundry Penticton.
“It is really incredible to see the community coming together for youth in our community. This benefit concert for the Youth Centre will certainly help us reach our $1.2-million goal,” said Aaron McRann, CFSOS executive director.
If you are interested in donating a silent auction item to the concert please contact the foundation at250-493-9311.
Pritchett is playing at the Penticton Lakeside Resort’s east ballroom on Nov. 23. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the concert starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $40 each and include a burger and coleslaw. JCI Penticton will also be hosting a silent auction at the event to help raise additional funds.
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How to Rid the World of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over one billion people worldwide. This group of viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases can be found in 149 countries – that’s 76 percent of countries in the world – and most often affects impoverished populations, who lack access to clean water or sanitation and live in close contact with infectious vectors.
The effects of NTDs on communities can be devastating – keeping children out of school and preventing adults from going to work or caring for themselves or their families. The good news is the World Health Organization has determined that several NTDs are able to be controlled, eliminated and even eradicated. But how do we know which approach is best to manage each unique disease?
Watch this video to find out:
Following a blueprint to manage diseases has led to great progress in the fight to beat NTDs, particularly trachoma, the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. Pfizer is a proud partner in the global effort to eliminate this disease through its donation of an antibiotic that can help treat and prevent the spread of trachoma in a community. In 2011, 325 million people required treatment for trachoma. Since then, the number has dropped to 182 million. Last year alone, trachoma was eliminated from Mexico, Cambodia and Laos, which joined Oman and Morocco as countries where trachoma is no longer a public health problem. Recently, Nepal and Ghana also joined this group, becoming the first two countries to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem in 2018.
This incredible progress would not be possible without steadfast partnerships between the public, private and non-profit sectors. Together with over 100 partners, including the International Trachoma Initiative, International Coalition for Trachoma Control, and Uniting to Combat NTDs, we are building upon the successes of 2017 and the first half of 2018 and working to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem worldwide. We are eager to see the further progress that 2018 brings. The time to act is now.
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FDA Warns Companies Selling CBD Products
The agency sent warning letters to 15 companies for illegally selling cannabidiol products.
FDA announced on Nov. 25, 2019 that it had sent warning letters to 15 companies that were selling cannabidiol (CBD) in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). The warning letters are in response to the agency’s ongoing efforts to develop pathways for CBD products to be marketed lawfully. The agency states there are unanswered questions regarding the toxicity of CBD that raise concerns about the safety of CBD-containing products.
The companies warned by FDA in the recent warning letters have used website pages, online stores, and social media to market CBD products across states, including products proposing to treat diseases, products marketed to children, and dietary supplements. The agency states this violates the FD&C Act, which states that products intended to treat a disease are considered a drug and must be approved by FDA. “Unlike drugs approved by the FDA, there has been no FDA evaluation of whether these unapproved products are effective for their intended use, what the proper dosage might be, how they could interact with FDA-approved drugs, or whether they have dangerous side effects or other safety concerns. In addition, the manufacturing process of unapproved CBD drug products has not been subject to FDA review as part of the human or animal drug approval processes,” the agency stated in a press release.
“As we work quickly to further clarify our regulatory approach for products containing cannabis and cannabis-derived compounds like CBD, we’ll continue to monitor the marketplace and take action as needed against companies that violate the law in ways that raise a variety of public health concerns. In line with our mission to protect the public, foster innovation, and promote consumer confidence, this overarching approach regarding CBD is the same as the FDA would take for any other substance that we regulate,” said FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD, in the press release. “We remain concerned that some people wrongly think that the myriad of CBD products on the market, many of which are illegal, have been evaluated by the FDA and determined to be safe, or that trying CBD ‘can’t hurt.’ Aside from one prescription drug approved to treat two pediatric epilepsy disorders, these products have not been approved by the FDA and we want to be clear that a number of questions remain regarding CBD’s safety-including reports of products containing contaminants, such as pesticides and heavy metals-and there are real risks that need to be considered. We recognize the significant public interest in CBD, and we must work together with stakeholders and industry to fill in the knowledge gaps about the science, safety and quality of many of these products.”
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Salix Announces 2021 Gastrointestinal Health Scholars Program
Students Living with GI Disease Are Encouraged to Apply Through May 31, 2021
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LAVAL, QC, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) ("Bausch Health") and its gastroenterology (GI) business, Salix Pharmaceuticals, ("Salix"), one of the largest specialty pharmaceutical companies in the world committed to the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, today announced the opening of the application period for the 2021 Salix Gastrointestinal Health Scholars Program. The program, in its second year, will award 10 outstanding students living with GI disease a scholarship of up to $10,000 to help them pursue their higher education goals.
"We're proud to continue the Salix Gastrointestinal Health Scholars Program to provide financial assistance to students who are balancing the challenges of living with GI disease while also pursuing their higher education goals, and we look forward to honoring 10 deserving students later this year," said Robert Spurr, president, Salix.
To apply for the 2021 scholarship, students are required to write an essay that describes the impact having a diagnosed GI condition has had on their life, as well as the role that a health care provider played in helping to manage their condition. Scholarships are offered to school applicants or current attendees of a two- or four-year college, university, or an advanced (post-high school) vocational or technical school for the 2021-2022 academic year, and are available in four categories:
Undergraduate Scholar Awards for students pursuing undergraduate degrees
Graduate Scholar Awards for students pursuing graduate degrees
Working Parent's Scholar Award for students who are parents pursuing undergraduate, vocational/technical or graduate degrees
Single Parent's Scholar Award for students who are single parents pursuing undergraduate, vocational/technical or graduate degrees
Students can apply for the Salix Gastrointestinal Health Scholars Program through May 31, 2021. Winners will be announced in July 2021. To learn more about the scholarship, including eligibility criteria, terms and conditions, please visit www.salix.com/scholarship.
The Salix Gastrointestinal Health Scholars Program Scholarship program is funded through the Bausch Foundation.
About the Bausch Foundation
The Bausch Foundation was established in 2017 to improve the lives of patients globally by providing access to safe, effective medicines and by financially supporting health care education and causes. Since its inception, the Bausch Foundation has contributed millions of dollars' worth of financial and product donations to charitable health organizations.
About Salix
Salix Pharmaceuticals is one of the largest specialty pharmaceutical companies in the world committed to the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. For more than 30 years, Salix has licensed, developed, and marketed innovative products to improve patients' lives and arm health care providers with life-changing solutions for many chronic and debilitating conditions. Salix currently markets its product line to U.S. health care providers through an expanded sales force that focuses on gastroenterology, hepatology, pain specialists and primary care. Salix is headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey. For more information about Salix, visit www.Salix.com and connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Bausch Health
Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) is a global company whose mission is to improve people's lives with our health care products. We develop, manufacture and market a range of pharmaceutical, medical device and over-the-counter products, primarily in the therapeutic areas of eye health, gastroenterology and dermatology. We are delivering on our commitments as we build an innovative company dedicated to advancing global health. More information can be found at www.bauschhealth.com.
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A blockbuster is a work of entertainment—typically used to describe a feature film, but also other media—that is highly popular and financially successful. [6] After the success of Jaws and Star Wars, many Hollywood producers attempted to create similar "event" films with wide commercial appeal, and film companies began green-lighting increasingly large-budget films, and relying extensively on massive advertising blitzes leading up to their theatrical release. A blockbuster is usually something that goes beyond the expectations attached to a super hit. Neale, Steve. Actor Richard Dreyfuss (left) (as marine biologist Hooper) and British author and actor Robert Shaw (as shark fisherman Quint) look off the stern of Quint's fishing boat the 'Orca' at the terrifying approach of the mechanical giant shark dubbed 'Bruce' in a scene from the film, How mRNA Tech Gave Us the 1st COVID-19 Vaccines. lamenting the death of the author-driven, "more artistic" small-scale films of the New Hollywood era (despite criticism of the praise the latter set of films received). 4. one who practices blockbusting. A Dec. 22, 1950, British Daily Mirror article predicted that Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah (1949) would be a “box office blockbuster” when it opened in the U.K.; a review in the Nov. 14, 1951, issue of Variety called the movie Quo Vadis (1951) “a blockbuster” that was “right up there with The Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind for box office performance.” When the film opened in Italy in March 1953, TIME reported that it cost more than $6,500,000 to make (more than $60 million today) and was the third biggest-grossing film in movie history, boasting a take of $10.5 million (about $100 million today). * The request timed out and you did not successfully sign up. Meaning of blockbuster. In December 1950 the Daily Mirror predicted that Samson and Delilah would be "a box office block buster", and in November 1951 Variety described Quo Vadis as "a b.o. Making a blockbuster movie means that some other activities get fewer resources. The term has also come to refer to any large-budget production intended for "blockbuster" status, aimed at mass markets with associated merchandising, sometimes on a scale that meant the financial fortunes of a film studio or a distributor could depend on it. The term began to appear in the American press in the early 1940s,[1] referring to aerial bombs capable of destroying a whole block of buildings. Step Into History: Learn how to experience the 1963 March on Washington in virtual reality, Eventually, the idea of a blockbuster movie became associated with summer action flicks, especially after Steven Spielberg’s shark attack thriller Jaws, released June 20, 1975. The Meaning of ‘Blockbuster,’ From ‘Wonder Woman’ to Scoops on Trump A term often invoked for movies, politics and sports has its roots in World War II bombing raids Audiences interacted with such films, talked about them afterwards, and went back to see them again just for the thrill." Blockbusters are the type of movies that can be watched over and over again and Amazon Prime offers an endless library of movies to choose from. A true blockbuster is extremely popular and brings in a lot of money. You can also call a successful play or a new, popular video game a blockbuster. Write to Olivia B. Waxman at olivia.waxman@time.com. How to use blockbuster in a sentence. Ed. ... 'Godfather' was the first that I remember, movie, that was like a big blockbuster, then came other movies. Julien Stinger. 21 synonyms of blockbuster from the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, plus 26 related words, definitions, and antonyms. a very successful product, film, etc. The trade press subsequently appropriated the term as short-hand for a film's commercial potential. The term was actually first coined by publicists who drew on readers' familiarity with the blockbuster bombs, drawing an analogy with the bomb's huge impact. That transition too can be seen in the pages of TIME. Typically, a blockbuster is a fabulous summer movie that audiences line up to see the first weekend it's released. This film was the biggest blockbuster of the summer. You can unsubscribe at any time. Please attempt to sign up again. What does blockbuster mean? Meaning The meaning of "blockbuster" is originally from the Second World War. Hall posits that it took a few years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for writers to feel comfortable using a bomb-based metaphor in such a lighthearted way, but it soon became clear that the entertainment meaning of blockbuster would win out over the military one. [3], The term fell out of usage in the aftermath of World War II but was revived in 1948 by Variety in an article about big budget films. Another trade advertisement in 1944 boasted that the war documentary, With the Marines at Tarawa, "hits the heart like a two ton blockbuster". Meaning you didn't know much about it besides the title.
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cannes best actress nominees 2019
Olivia Colman Wins 'Best Actress - Musical or Comedy' for 'The Favourite' in Golden Globes 2019COPYRIGHT ⓒ 2019 NBC. The 'World Bloggers Awards' is the world’s first ever awarding ceremony for the best bloggers across 22 nominations. All rights reserved. CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 24: attends the Inaugural 'World Bloggers Awards' during the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival on May 24, 2019 in Cannes, France. Palme d’Or Nominees. fashion Cannes Film Festival 2019: The best celebrity red carpet fashion . FEEL FREE TO PIN ALL THE IMAGES TO YOUR FAVORITE PINTEREST BOARD OR TO PRINT IT AND USE ON YOUR MOOD BOARD. Test your knowledge on this movies quiz to see how you do and compare your score to others. May 21, 2019 Matt Winkelmeyer Getty Images. The Palme d'Or went to the South Korean film Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho; Bong became the first Korean director to win the award. The race for the top prize, Palme d'Or, has 19 films in contention. Read about them. We will find it out very soon, as soon as the curtains of the Cannes Film Festival 2019 will rise! Vice leads the film nominees with six, followed by The Favourite , Green Book and A Star Is Born with five apiece. No copyright breach is intended. The jury also on occasion cites actresses with a special citation that is separate from the main award. Here's where you can watch the biggest winners and nominees from Oscars 2019. 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The ritziest week of red carpet premieres has begun. Un Certain Regard is the prize awarded under the second main official section of the selection and is given to films outside the competition for the Palme d’Or. The Five Nominees for Best Featured Actress in a Musical Are Funny, Fierce and Fabulous. The 2019 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 14 to 25. Three police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert must band together to defeat the zombies that have suddenly risen in a small peaceful town to terrorize its inhabitants. Starting off with one of the strongest Oscar nominees of the 2019 awards season, ‘Jojo Rabbit’ is a satirical look into the world of Nazi Germany through ... Top News Videos for best actress nominees 2019. Support Us. Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle ISLE OF DOGS. Oscars 2019 Have Long Way to Go On Gender Equality. Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell present Olivia Colman with the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in "The Favourite" at the 91st Oscars in 2019. The Cannes Best Actress Award (French: Prix d'interprétation féminine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. Here are the Cannes Film Festival 2019 nominees for the Palme d’Or. A Star Is Born. Check here to indicate that you have read and agree to Terms & Conditions/Privacy Policy. The Climb is an American comedy film, directed by Michael Covino. Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson MIRAI. The awards will be handed out this Sunday night. The Cannes Best Actress Award (French: Prix d'interprétation féminine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival.It is chosen by the jury from the official films in competition at the festival. The four films were A Big Family in 1955, Brink of Life in 1958, A World Apart in 1988, and Volver in 2006. No awards were given to actresses in 1947, 1953, and 1954. The awards season is well underway. Showing all 27 wins and 38 nominations. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, equivalent to the Oscars in the U.S., announced today the nominations for the 2019 … Emily Beecham (who won Best Actress at Cannes for her performance) and Ben Whishaw star in a story about scientists endeavoring to create a houseplant that makes its … It is a look at the friendship between two guys that spans over many years. THE highly anticipated Oscars 2019 is right around the corner and we will soon find out who has won Best Actress. Pain and Glory is a Spanish drama film directed and written by Pedro Almodovar. Check out the nominees for Best Actress! The Palme d’Or is certainly the best-known award of the Cannes Film Festival and concerns the main official section of the selection. View trailers, photos and detailed information about the 92nd Academy Awards nominees. Il Traditore is an Italian film, directed by Marco Bellocchio. Here are the Cannes Film Festival 2019 nominees for the Palme d’Or. Now in its 72nd edition, the Festival will be held from May 14th to 25th in the renowned French city of cinema and the announced names bode great. Movies Quiz / Best Supporting Actress Nominees 1980-2019 Random Movies or Oscar Quiz Can you name the Best Supporting Actress Nominees 1980-2019? DON’T FORGET TO FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK, PINTEREST, INSTAGRAM. See the list of 2020 Oscar Nominations including best picture, best actors and actresses, and more. It is a prestigious award that is recognized for the overall best film of the year. Accueil • EWA Network Blog • Women nominees at the 2019 Oscars. From Robert Pattinson’s The Lighthouse to Terrence Malick’s new movie and Bong Joon-ho’s thrilling Parasite, these are the best movies we saw at Cannes 2019… Tracee Ellis Ross and Kumail Nanjiani announce part two of the Oscars 2019 nominations! Barbara Hershey won the award consecutively in 1987 and 1988. It is about the story of a film director in his decline, Salvador Mallo, with some physical reencounters and some memories about his childhood, his emigration, his first love and his premature discovery of the cinema. Here is the full list of 2019 Oscar nominations: Best Picture: “Black Panther” “BlacKkKlansman” “Bohemian Rhapsody” “The Favourite” “Green Book” “Roma” “A Star Is Born” READ MORE: 2019 HOME DECOR TRENDS WE’RE OBSESSED WITH. Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu served as jury president. Quiz by showtunes4life . Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward DID YOU LIKE OUR POST? Can you name all the nominees for the Academy Award for Best Actress 1988-2019? The 2019 Cannes Film Festival announced its official lineup of films on Thursday, April 18. The 2019 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 14 to 25. The Best Red Carpet Looks From the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The Cannes Best Actor Award (French: Prix d'interprétation masculine) ... Antonio Banderas for Pain and Glory (2019) History. Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET Isabelle Adjani is the only actress to win the award for her roles in two different films on the same competition, which she did in 1981. Parasite is a South Korean drama film, directed by Bong Joon-ho. Best animated feature film of the year nominees: INCREDIBLES 2. Visit Golden Globes Winners & Nominees to stay up-to-date on this year's recipients and dive into our winner & nominee history. 1:26 AM 1/23/2019. Oscars 2019 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress Our expert has been closely following the races and the voters, all season. 03:19 'Roma' Breakout Star Yalitza Aparicio Wants to Meet Will Smith at the Oscars | Oscar Nominees Night 2019. These are nominees for FAMAS 2019 Best Actress. Asia Contents Awards 2019 Nominees Unveiled . The 2019 Golden Globes nominations were announced Thursday morning. by rlagreda Plays Quiz not verified by Sporcle . by Kathy Henderson • Jun 6, 2019. Nominations for the 2019 British Academy Film Awards (otherwise known as the BAFTAs) were announced Wednesday (Jan. 9). The awards will be handed out this Sunday night. Aljem’s crime comedy debuted in Critics Week at Cannes 2019, ... having debuted close to 50% of Oscar best documentary nominees across the last decade. The Dead Don’t Die is an American zombie comedy film, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It is chosen by the jury from the official films in competition at the festival. SUBSCRIBE HERE AND DON’T MISS A THING! It is a prestigious award that is recognized for the overall best film of the year. 22 February 2019 . By Alyssa Bailey. The Palme d’Or is certainly the best-known award of the Cannes Film Festival and concerns the main official section of the selection. The TelevisionAcademy.com sites look and perform best when using a modern browser. The Palme d’Or ceremony for the 2019 Cannes Film Festival will take place at 8:15pm GMT on May 25. USER CONTENT. Here are the Cannes Film Festival 2019 nominees for Un Certain Regard. These kudos, honoring the best British and international contributions to … From the A-list actresses wearing couture, to the ultra glam supermodels working designer dresses direct from the runway, these are the best dressed celebrities from the Cannes 2019 red carpet. On four occasions, the jury has awarded multiple men (more than 2) the prize from one film. www.biff.kr. Cannes Film Festival 2019 is already making movie lovers from all around the world dream about who will win the coveted Palme d’Or this year. The ceremony was cancelled in 1948, 1950, and 1968. Updated 20th May 2019. No awards were given to actors in 1947 and 1956. Cannes Film Festival 2019: films, winners, and reviews Little Joe is a cross between Black Mirror and Invasion of the Body Snatchers The 5 best films we saw at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival It was first awarded in 1946. As Cannes Film Festival unfolds, take a look at the most memorable red carpet moments. We suggest you use the latest version of any of these browsers: Chrome It was first awarded in 1946. On four occasions, the jury has awarded multiple women (more than 2) the prize from one film. The award can be for lead or supporting roles with the exception of the period from 1979 to 1981, when the festival used to award a separate "Best Supporting Actress" prize. Academy Award for Best Actor (2000s) 31; Movies of Five Decade Academy Award Nominees 8; Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and Director 7; Nominations in All Acting Categories 4; Best Actor by First and Last Letters 4; Oscars Through the Decades 4; Academy Award Best Actor Letter Blitz 4; One-Star Oscar Winners II 3 News and Updates about the Cannes Film festival 2019 Day 1 - Top 17 Best Dressed celebs on the Red carpet . Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star . GAME OF THRONES: BRING WESTEROS INTO YOUR HOME DECOR, 2019 HOME DECOR TRENDS WE’RE OBSESSED WITH, A Guide To The Inspiration Behind Essential Home’s Mid-Century Pieces. Hailed as among the best of the decade, the 2019 Official Selection of the Festival de Cannes is still adding sparkle to the careers of the films it highlighted last May. The ceremony was cancelled in 1948, 1950, and 1968. CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 24: attends the Inaugural 'World Bloggers Awards' during the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival on May 24, 2019 in Cannes, France. Let’s have a look at the official Cannes Festival nominees and try to guess who will be the lucky one! Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes last May and a host of festival audience awards since, ... played by best actress nominee Yalitza Aparicio. Among the Oscar nominees, THE FAVOURITE and ROMA received the most nominations with 10, including nominations in the categories of Best Picture, Actress in a Leading Role, and Actress in a Supporting Role. APKIT Awards 2020 Nominee APKiT: Best Feature Film ... Cannes Film Festival 2019 Winner FIPRESCI Prize: Un Certain Regard Kantemir Balagov: Winner ... Best Actress Award: Viktoria Miroshnichenko. Read about them. Tracee Ellis Ross, star of ABC's black-ish, and Kumail Nanjiani, THE BIG SICK, announced the nominees for the 91st Academy Awards live this morning. Can you name all the nominees for the Academy Award for Best Actress 1988-2019? Features. Now it's up to the jury to decide which one was the best. Entertainment City's Teri Hart is bringing us all of the 2019 nominees for best actress at the Oscars! Viewing 15 posts - 1 â ¦ Anne Thompson. The 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 25 May 2019. 2019 European Film Awards: Nominees and ... picked up the best screenplay award for "Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire" at the Cannes Film Festival ... duo in the best actress category. It narrates the story of Tommaso Buscetta, first a mafia member and later collaborator of justice, who was embroiled with the famous clan Cosa Nostra. Thursday ... Best Actress The Favourite is available to own on … The 'World Bloggers Awards' is the world’s first ever awarding ceremony for the best bloggers across 22 nominations. by Rhonda Richford ... getting nine nominations, including for best film and best director. Whereas Film Festivals are signing a Pledge (*) pushing themselves to achieve greater gender parity by the year 2020, the Oscars are an all- male party since women are still under-represented. A Brother’s Love is a Canadian drama film, directed by Monia Chokri, but the plot is still unknown. As we prepare for the 2019 Oscars, we can't help but reflect on how far all of the best actress nominees have come, both when it comes to their successful SEE ALSO: GAME OF THRONES: BRING WESTEROS INTO YOUR HOME DECOR. Award-winners and contenders from Cannes Film Festival (2019) Cannes Film Festival 2019: reviews, news, and analysis The 15 best movies we saw at Cannes this year Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Tarantino’s … It tells the story of Ki-taek and his unemployed family, that find themselves entangled in an unexpected incident with the Park family, with which they had a particular interest. Which film are you hoping to win the Palme d’Or and Un Certain Regard? 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Practical Abdominal Ultrasound (July 2021)
This two-day, practical workshop will improve your confidence and skill when performing abdominal ultrasonography. Aimed at novice to intermediate scanners wishing to improve their technique and maximise their machines potential.
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Plzeňský Prazdroj innovates and introduces Gambrinus Original 10° and refreshing mixed beer-based beverages
5.4.2012 Gambrinus
The flavour preferences of Czech consumers are developing. Gambrinus, the beer that for many years has been the main representative of the typical Czech beer, is also responding to the change in trends. “The Czech beer market is much more dynamic than ever before. Consumers expect to be offered innovations and a diverse choice. Gambrinus addresses millions of people and listens carefully to what they wish for. That´s why we are introducing Gambrinus Original 10°, with a fuller taste, and mixed beverages with lower alcohol content that pleasantly combine the taste of Gambrinus tap beer and natural fruit juice,” says Doug Brodman, Plzeňský Prazdroj’s CEO.
Gambrinus Original 10° with a fuller taste
Gambrinus Original 10° has fully preserved popular pilsner beer characteristics and offers an even fuller taste. „We are aware of the fact that today’s beer lovers prefer a fuller beer taste. That is why we have decided to enhance the richness of the taste of their favourite Gambrinus beer by increasing the dose of malt and hops,“ says Adriana Jahňáková, Plzeňský Prazdroj’s marketing manager, who continues: „The name Original 10° indicates that it is a pilsner beer brewed according to the original brewing procedures, using top–quality Czech ingredients, just as it was in the case of Gambrinus Pale.“
It is the Gambrinus brand that for many years has been the main representative of traditional Czech beer’s characteristics, and it remains the standard for the production of other Czech beers. „Gambrinus, the most popular Czech beer brand, has won over the hearts and minds of beer lovers, thanks to its long–lasting high quality and to the original brewing procedures, the observance of which has been overseen by generations of Pilsner brewmasters for over 140 years. My family is proud to belong to these generations too,“ points out Jan Hlaváček, who comes from the fifth brewing generation. Hlaváček´s family has brewed Gambrinus beer for more than 80 years. His father and grandfather played a key role in the history of Gambrinus.
Gambrinus Original 10° will be available on tap in restaurants and pubs as of May 2012. It will also be distributed in all the popular packaging types, including 0.5–litre returnable bottles, PET bottles and cans in all shops across the Czech Republic.
Pleasant refreshing beer taste and natural fruit juices
Besides that, Gambrinus is extending its portfolio. „There are increasing numbers of people who like to try out novelties and a variety of flavours. That is why we have decided to come up with mixed beer-based drinks to appeal to those consumers who are looking for pleasant refreshment,“ said Adriana Jahňáková.
Since the beginning of April, Gambrinus Sharp Lemon and Gambrinus Lime & Elderberry (mixed beer-based drinks with lower alcohol content) have been available in shops. They are produced by mixing Gambrinus tap beer with natural fruit juices. „Of the whole variety of flavour options they were offered, consumers responded best to the lime flavour with a bit of elderberry. The elderberry flavour is very popular amongst Czech consumers, and it brings them typical Czech refreshment. Lemon is the classic flavour that is appreciated for being the most refreshing one. But again, we wanted to offer a bit more, which is why our choice was the sharp lemon flavour,“ Adriana Jahňáková said.
Both mixed beer drinks are now available in 0.5–litre cans in shops across the country. Starting in May, 0.5–litre returnable bottles will be introduced, intended namely for bars, pubs and restaurants.
Vladimír Jurina
Brand PR Manager
Notes for editors:
The broad portfolio of the Gambrinus brand comprises Gambrinus Original 10°, Gambrinus 11° Excellent, Gambrinus Premium pale lager and Gambrinus Dry with reduced sugar content.
Since 2012, the range of products from Gambrinus has been expanded by Gambrinus Sharp Lemon and Gambrinus Lime & Elderberry. These are mixed beer-based drinks. They are characterised by their lower alcohol content and light refreshing taste.
Thanks to the adherence to original brewing processes characteristic of Czech beer, and also thanks to the use of traditional Czech brewing ingredients, Gambrinus can use the České pivo (Czech Beer) indication as a guarantee of quality.
The history of the Gambrinus brand goes back to the year 1869. This beer has won its place in the hearts and minds of beer lovers, thanks to its high quality.
Gambrinus is part of the portfolio of Plzeňský Prazdroj, a. s., which is a member of SABMiller plc. With total sales of over 9.9 million hectolitres in 2011 (including licensed production abroad) and exports to more than 50 countries around the world, Plzeňský Prazdroj is a major beer producer in the region and the largest exporter of Czech beer.
SABMiller plc is one of the world’s largest brewers, with brewing interests or distribution agreements in over 60 countries across six continents. The SABMiller brand portfolio consists of international brands such as Pilsner Urquell, Miller Genuine Draft, Grolsch, and Peroni Nastro Azzurro, as well as many other successful regional brands.
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328 Cases Make Up The Logo In The Courtyard Of The Brewery
31.7.2009 Uncategorized
“The spot will be used as official material for support of candidacy for the European Capital of Culture 2015. Young artists from the Multimedia Department at the Institute of Art and Design at Western Czech University are working on it. It can be seen by visitors of the city and of the candidacy website. It will also be included in the supporting materials in the application and will be further used as part of the presentation material,” adds Jana Komišová, head of the Department of Public Relations and Marketing of the city of Plzen.
Plzenský Prazdroj supports the candidacy of the city of Plzeň for the European Capital of Culture 2015 and allowed artists from the Institute of Art and Design at Western Czech University to build a logo for the candidacy out of Pilsner Urquell beer crates. The process of building the logo is part of the making of the clip and also part of the promotion of the candidacy. The video will also feature the courtyard in the brewery, the historical Jubileum gate and the filling room.
“Plzen is the beer capital – we say this with a little bit of Czech exaggeration, but of course we are very serious. The title of European Capital of Culture would be nice for a city where the first fermented lager was brewed. Of course, we have been supporting the candidacy of Plzeň for quite some time now and we are happy that the exterior of the brewery can host the making of the spot,” says Jiří Mareček, press release officer of Plzeňský Prazdroj.
Activities involving the Plzen Prazdroj for visitors of the city of Plzen include the visitors’ center, visitors’ tour, filling room of the brewery and also the Beer Museum and historical underground area of the city center.
The brewery became a social hub of the region, a place where various cultural, educational, and promotional events take place and it is one of the most attractive tourist destinations in the Czech Republic.
The Beer Museum in Plzen is situated in the old brewery and was kept in its original state in Veleslavínova Street. It was opened in 1959, for the 100th anniversary of the brand Plzeň beer.
Every year the brewery and the Beer Museum welcome more than 185,000 visitors from all around the world.
Jiří Mareček, Plzenský Prazdroj, +420 724 617 219
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Predigen News
New Tests Hope To Diagnose Bacterial Infections More Quickly
By Judy Stone
Published in Forbes Magazine
The inability to tell whether an infection is caused by a bacteria or virus is a huge problem, driving a lot of antibiotic overuse by physicians. Another, which I see almost every time I work in the hospital, is a patient being put on empiric broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy without any cultures having been obtained. Sometimes there is an urgency in beginning antibiotics, but often a short delay to obtain critically important information would be better.
There are several new approaches to this long-standing problem of telling bacterial infections apart from viral infections. One, which I wrote about previously here, uses gene expression. Each infecting organism elicits a unique immune response. The patterns of gene expression “signatures” can identify the culprit. Using only a drop of blood, it appears that we will be able to distinguish a bacterial infection from other causes of fever or inflammation in the future. Dr. Ephraim Tsalik’s work on this is progressing at Duke. A recent pilot study with BioFire Diagnostics, LLC presented at an American Society of Microbiology meeting showed ~86% accuracy. Tsalik’s group has just been awarded a grant from NIH and BARDA (Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority), through the Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostic Challenge program to further refine this rapid diagnostic test, which has a turn around time of about an hour—a remarkable improvement over cultures, which can take days.
Another promising approach was just reported from UCSF (University of California San Francisco) in Scientific Reports, using PET (positron emission tomography) scans. Their radiology researchers developed a radioactively labeled tracer using the, D-amino acid, D-methionine. Dr. Oren Rosenberg, an infectious disease researcher in the UCSF group, explained to me that this tracer will be picked up by any bacteria with a cell wall, like Staph, Strep, and Gram negatives (e.g., E. coli).
PET scans of mice, whose muscles were injected with bacteria.
In their tests, the researchers injected mice with Staph or E. coli to produce localized abscesses. They then injected the radio tagged tracer, which homed in on the bacteria. The PET scan then showed where the bacteria were localized, highlighting difficult to detect infections. So far, the assay has been developed in mice; it is just entering trials in humans.
This type of diagnostic test would be particularly helpful for patients with more chronic infections, particularly of bone. I regularly see such patients, where it is difficult to tell if inflammation and x-ray abnormalities are due to trauma from a fall or fracture, inflammatory arthritis, or infection. The yield from bone biopsy for a spinal infection, the gold standard for diagnosis, is surprisingly low, ranging from only 33% in one recent study to 58% in another.
Another advantage of the PET scan is that this approach focuses on localizing the bacteria causing infection. Many other assays look for signs of inflammation, which may be missing in patient who have HIV/AIDS, or are on chemotherapy or immunosuppressive drugs, and who are at highest risk of infection.
The UCSF’s team’s tracer detected both Gram negative bacteria (E. coli) and Gram positive (Staph aureus). Johns Hopkins researchers are using a similar approach, but with a sorbitol based tracer that only picks up Gram negatives. They are also studying other tracers to identify specific bacteria.
The major limitations of this PET scan approach are that it won’t be able to be used for intra-abdominal or respiratory tract infections, as people have too many bacteria colonizing those areas. The assay will be of best use in normally sterile areas, such as bone or brain. The other big problem is that PET scanners are not readily available in community hospitals. The machines themselves cost between $200,000 and $600,000. The cost of each PET scan ranges from approximately $3000 to $10,000, depending on largely on the geographic location of the test. While very expensive, it would likely be cost effective in some settings, by reducing prolonged hospitalizations and other x-rays, and reducing inappropriate antibiotic use (with subsequent complications of superinfections or C. difficile colitis).
One of the greatest challenges in infectious diseases is the need for rapid diagnostic tests to make a diagnosis and to reduce the inappropriate antibiotic use that drives the emergence of resistance. If a physician was confident that an infection was caused by a virus, there would be no reason to give antibiotics, which are ineffective against viruses.
The approach being studied by Duke (among other universities), looking at the person’s response to infection through their gene expression response, has great promise for helping reduce inappropriate antibiotic use, particularly in emergency rooms and acute care settings.
In contrast, using PET scans will likely be more limited, given the expense and need for more specialized equipment not readily available in smaller communities. This approach looks quite valuable in solving difficult diagnostic cases, particularly for musculoskeletal and central nervous system infections.
Both approaches are promising and thus are worth keeping an eye on, but neither is quite ready for clinical use.
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IDNR releases fish to create habitat near Hofmann Dam site
Agency introduced more than 100 smallmouth bass to the Des Plaines
by BOB UPHUES October 16, 2012 February 8, 2021
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources last week acted to help “kick-start” the fish habitat near the site of the former Hofmann Dam on the Des Plaines River.
On Oct. 9, a half-dozen members of the Hofmann Dam River Rats met with IDNR personnel to release 126 smallmouth bass in the river, above and below the former dam site.
The specimens were “brood-size” adults, ranging in weight from 3.5 to 4 pounds. Half were released in the river just east of the Barrypoint Road bridge, while the other half were released upstream of the dam at the boat launch in the Plank Road Meadow forest preserve area in Lyons.
“We’re hoping they can spawn for a few more years upstream and downstream of the dam,” said Steve Pescitelli, a stream specialist for the IDNR’s Division of Fisheries.
The smallmouth bass came from the IDNR’s Jake Wolf Fish Hatchery in Topeka, said Pescitelli. It’s the first time since 2010 that the IDNR has stocked fish in the Des Plaines River and the first time ever they’ve stocked fish immediately upstream of Hofmann Dam, which was considered a dead zone for fishermen.
“We never bothered fishing there because we would never catch anything,” said John Mach, a member of the Hofmann Dam River Rats, who was on hand Oct. 9 to help release the fish into the river.
“Now there’s a really good spot near [the Des Plaines Valley] Mosquito Abatement [District property in Lyons], and also by Salt Creek it’s gotten better.
“I’ve been up there 6-8 times [since the dam was removed] and except for one time, I was extremely successful.”
In August, Pescitelli reported that the ecosystem in the river above the former dam site had already changed dramatically. In the area that once formed part of a stagnant lagoon behind the dam, the IDNR found more than 20 species of fish, including a channel catfish.
Mach said the movement of channel catfish from below the dam area was continuing to occur and that one such fish was caught since August near Cermak Road. Previously the catfish were unable to move upstream because of the dam.
The introduction of the smallmouth bass near the dam is an added push to improve the fishing habitat.
“It’s an opportunity to kick-start the whole thing,” said Pescitelli.
Each of the fish was tagged prior to being released. The tags include a phone number, which anglers are asked to call when they catch the fish. That way, said Pescitelli, the IDNR can track the movement of the fish and whether they’re being caught.
Mach believes that the fish, because they have spent their entire lives in a hatchery, will be easily caught. But there are enough, he said, to begin repopulating the river next year.
“They’re very vulnerable to being caught, but it’s an effort to get a population going back in the river,” Mach said. “These will be spawners next spring. If they were smaller fish, it could take three or four years for them to spawn.”
While fish will move up and down the river, Pescitelli hopes they’ll stick around the dam area.
“There’s a good habitat right in that section, so it should hold,” Pescitelli said. “They’re not quite as migratory as some species.”
He added that the IDNR hopes to restart its sauger stocking program next year, which could bring additional fish to the Riverside/Lyons area of the Des Plaines River. And that’s good news for fishermen like Mach and the River Rats.
“It’s good for us that the DNR is actually doing something with this river,” said Mach. “The DNR could have put those fish in anywhere in the state.”
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Litigation in Ireland... A whole New World
By Claire Murray
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed, or dramatically accelerated the rate of change, in working practices for people in all sectors of the economy. As the Court Service announces plans to ramp up the facilities to hear cases remotely and with a number of high profile cases having recently been directed to remote hearing in the Commercial List of the High Court, despite objection by some parties, I take a look at some significant changes to practice and procedure in civil litigation in Ireland. These changes were put on a statutory footing by the Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 (“the Act”), the relevant sections of which came into effect on 21 August 2020. This article will focus on the civil law aspects which are defined in the Act as being anything other than criminal proceedings.
Remote Hearings
The first provision of note in the Act is Section 11, which deals with remote hearings. A remote hearing is defined as one in which one or more of the participants participates from a location other than the court itself, whether within or outside the State, by means of electronic communications technology that enables real time transmission and real time two-way audio-visual or audio communication.
Essentially, the Act provides that a court can, on its own initiative, or at the request of a party, direct that any proceedings (or any part) be heard remotely. The court can nominate the electronic technology (real time two-way audio-visual or audio communication) to be used and may give any ancillary directions. A remote hearing should not proceed where the court considers that a remote hearing would be unfair to any of the parties or otherwise be contrary to the interests of justice. The Act permits the making of rules of court to govern the conduct of remote hearings. Where a remote hearing is to take place, the court will have all of the powers (including in relation to the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents) which it usually would have at a normal, in-person hearing.
A person who participates in remote hearings from a location other than the court itself, whether within or outside the State, by means of electronic communications technology, is deemed to be present and they benefit from the same immunities and privileges and are subject to the same obligations and liabilities as if it were not a remote hearing. Recording remote proceedings without the court’s consent or interference with the technology is a criminal offence which will be taken to have been committed within the State (even though the person may be located outside the State).
District Court or Circuit Court Judges hearing cases remotely are deemed to be present at a sitting of the District Court or Circuit Court in which they would otherwise have been sitting and may exercise, while in any place in the State, any power conferred on them.
The Act permits the publication of practice directions in the interests of the administration of justice and the determination of proceedings in a manner which is just, expeditious and likely to minimise costs. A practice direction may provide for such incidental, supplementary and consequential matters, including in respect of a failure to comply with a direction.
Another innovation in the Act is that any record in document form (unless privileged) compiled in the ordinary course of business (including a business which has ceased to exist) will be presumed to be admissible as evidence of the truth of the facts asserted in the document where the document complies with the certain requirements. This applies to copies of records where the original has been not still in existence so long as the court is satisfied with its reliability. The presumption of admissibility does not apply to documents where the party seeking to rely on the document could not compel the author of the document to give evidence. The presumption of admissibility would generally not apply to information compiled for the purposes or in contemplation of any criminal investigation, any investigation or inquiry carried out pursuant to or under any enactment, civil or criminal proceedings, or proceedings of a disciplinary nature. There are some stated exceptions to the non-presumption of admissibility but the rule generally applies.
The presumption of admissibility applies to business records in document form that originate from outside the State notwithstanding the fact that any person who may act on behalf of the business concerned is not compellable to give evidence in a court in the State.
In order to avail of the presumption of admissibility, unless the court allows it, the party seeking to rely on the document must serve a copy of the document on the other party at least 21 days before the trial, notify the other parties of their intention to give the information in evidence and give them a copy of the document. The receiving party may not object to the admissibility of the document unless they have served a notice of objection at least 7 days before the trial date.
Business records may not be admitted as evidence if, having had regard to all the circumstances (such as reliability, authenticity and absence of opportunity to controvert the evidence), the court is of the opinion that in the interests of justice the information should not to be admitted. Where business records are admitted as evidence, evidence may be given of the author’s credibility or that they had made other statements inconsistent with the record.
Electronic Filing
The Act provides for the making of rules of court relating to the filing of documents, the making of an application to court or the issuing of proceedings or judgments by electronic means.
Statements of Truth
The Act also provides for the making of rules of court to allow a “statement of truth” in respect of any evidence which would otherwise be given on, or a document or information to be verified by, affidavit or statutory declaration. The statement of truth may be in electronic form, must contain a statement that the person making the statement of truth has an honest belief that the facts stated therein are true, may be signed by the person entering his or her name in an electronic format or otherwise electronically as may be permitted by rules of court, and must comply with any other requirements as to its content, verification, authentication or form as may be prescribed by the rules of court. A person who makes, or causes to be made, a statement in a statement of truth without an honest belief as to the truth of that statement is guilty of an offence.
For a system that has been traditionally conservative, the modernising reforms introduced by the Act have dramatically altered civil litigation practice in Ireland and signal a forward-looking approach to embracing the benefits of technology. The reforms should result in efficiencies which are likely to reduce the duration and overall costs of litigation. The prospect of evidence being given remotely, and business records being admitted without the old formal proofs may have a transformative effect on how proceedings are conducted. It will be interesting to watch the courts’ interpretation and implementation of these new provisions. While there may be caution and even resistance from some quarters, this is the future and there will be no going back.
For more information on the content of this insight please contact:
Claire Murray, Partner | E. claire.murray@rdj.ie | T. 353 91 895320
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Indigenous Australia For Dummies
Larissa Behrendt, Stan Grant
John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd
A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming? How many different Indigenous tribes and languages once existed in Australia? What is the purpose of a corroboree? What effect do the events of the past have on Indigenous peoples today? Indigenous Australia For Dummies, 2nd Edition answers these questions and countless others about the oldest race on Earth. It explores Indigenous life in Australia before 1770, the impact of white settlement, the ongoing struggle by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to secure their human rights and equal treatment under the law, and much more. Celebrating the contributions of Indigenous people to contemporary Australian culture, the book explores Indigenous art, music, dance, literature, film, sport, and spirituality. It discusses the concept of modern Indigenous identity and examines the ongoing challenges facing Indigenous communities today, from health and housing to employment and education, land rights, and self-determination. Explores significant political moments-such as Paul Keating’s Redfern Speech, Kevin Rudd’s apology, and more Profiles celebrated people and organisations in a variety of fields, from Cathy Freeman to Albert Namatjira to the Bangarra Dance Theatre and the National Aboriginal Radio Service Challenges common stereotypes about Indigenous people and discusses current debates, such as land rights and inequalities in health and education Now in its second edition, Indigenous Australia For Dummies will enlighten readers of all backgrounds about the history, struggles and triumphs of the diverse, proud, and fascinating peoples that make up Australia’s Indigenous communities. With a foreword by Stan Grant, it’s a must-read account of Australia’s first people.
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UPDATE: 3 arrested in homicide investigation
UPDATE 4:43 p.m.: Redding police say three people have been arrested in connection with this morning's homicide.
Two suspects were arrested during a traffic stop near Market Street and Benton Drive. A third was arrested at a residence on Willis Street.
The identities of the suspects and the victim are not being released at this time, according to Redding police.
The Redding police said in a news release issued late this afternoon that they were called to 1268 Heavenly Oak Lane Apt. 1 in Redding at 12:03 a.m. They found a man outside who said he had escaped from the residence after he and his roommate were being robbed at gunpoint. Police found a man dead in one of the rooms.
Leads and interviews with witnesses led police to identify three suspects staying at a home on Willis Street in Redding. At 1 p.m., officers followed a car that left the Willis Street residence and stopped it at Market Street and Benton Drive. Two suspects were arrested. A third was arrested at the Willis Street home.
Police say that the homicide is related to an armed robbery at the T.A. Truck Stop on Knighton Road on Wednesday, but that the robbery victims were not associated with the homicide.
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UPDATE 2:55 p.m.: Initial reports from Shascom this afternoon say that police action on the Miracle Mile portion of Market Street today was related to the homicide investigation.
Witnesses said they saw SWAT team members on the street that was blocked off.
Neighbors in a generally tranquil south Redding neighborhood awoke Thursday morning to find tight-lipped police investigating a reported homicide.
But the stunned residents, including those who live right across the Heavenly Oak Lane townhouse where the homicide happened, said they didn't see or hear anything.
"It's horrible," said a neighbor who only identified himself as "Manny."
He said his daughter, who also did not see or hear anything out of the ordinary, told him there was a crime scene outside their townhouse when he woke up.
"This is a pretty quiet area," he said.
Other neighbors echoed his statements.
John Campbell, who lives next door to the crime scene, said late Thursday afternoon as police continued to process the crime scene, that he first saw the crime tape and police officers around 10:30 a.m. as he went outside to drive downtown.
And that was when he learned of the homicide, saying he did not hear or see anything during the night or early morning.
"I didn't see anything," He said. "Nothing. I sleep like a rock."
As some residents peeked out their windows and front doors to take a look outside, others on their way to work slowly drove by as officers investigated the homicide.
Still others walked by with their dogs and asked if anyone knew what happened.
Kellie Lynch, a property manager for Mygrant Properties, said although she did not know what occurred, she did say she spoke with the woman whose son was the apparent homicide victim.
"She's devastated," she said.
The townhouse, which is on Heavenly Oak Lane just off Lofty Oak Drive, had crime-scene tape around it following the incident, which occurred shortly after midnight.
The neighborhood is just east of the Interstate 5-South Bonnyview Road interchange.
Police investigating the incident remained tight-lipped, but confirmed that they are conducting a homicide investigation.
A police chaplain also was at the townhouse complex, comforting the grief-stricken woman whose son was killed and other family members, including the father.
The father politely declined to speak with a Record Searchlight reporter, saying he was still trying to process what happened.
Lynch, the property manager, said although the area does get a number of Dumpster divers, the neighborhood is usually quiet and peaceful.
"It's a really good neighborhood with great tenants, very quiet," she said.
A spokeswoman for the Shasta County coroner's office said the body of the homicide victim is there at the coroner's office, but an autopsy won't be performed until sometime next week.
The name of the victim has not been released, she said.
A Redding Police Department press release issued Thursday morning provided few details on what happened, only saying that police are "currently investigating a major crime in the 1200 block of Heavenly Oak Lane."
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 225-4200.
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Column: Franklin's controversial Pitt comments have ulterior motive
Dan Sostek
Poor Akron didn’t want to be dragged into this.
Following No. 4 Penn State’s stonewalling of Pitt in the second installment of the revived rivalry game on Saturday, Nittany Lions head coach James Franklin took some fairly obvious shots at his intrastate rivals after his team's 33-14 win.
"I know last year beating us for them was like the Super Bowl," Franklin said after the game. "This was just like beating Akron for us."
While the overall sentiment Franklin expressed has been consistent with his general message that Pitt is not some sort of special rivalry game and instead just the next opponent on the schedule, the words really appeared to be pouring salt in the wounds of the Nittany Lions’ in-state opponents.
Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi responded to the comments on Monday with a non-response, paraphrasing former first lady Michelle Obama by quipping, “They went low, and we went high.”
Still, the civility from Narduzzi notwithstanding, Franklin’s comments must have stung the Pitt program, fanbase and community. They are ripe with condescension and passive-aggression. But to think the main motive was to simply ire Narduzzi and his team is oversimplifying things.
The quote was not just to taunt after a wire-to-wire victory. These words were of the opportunistic nature. Franklin had plenty of top Pennsylvania high school recruits’ eyes on the game, and, despite having a better year than Pitt on the surface in 2016, and he knew it. He'll never outwardly say it, but he must have been dying to erase the black mark of being bested by the Panthers in Week Two last year, a loss that also kept Penn State out of the College Football Playoff.
So, once the horn sounded and the game was over, Franklin’s one and only goal in his presser was to send a message to every top-tier high school player in the state: Pitt is still desperately trying to chase Penn State football.
In most regards, that’s true. Penn State outdraws Pitt at home games by astronomical amounts. Penn State has won more than Pitt this decade. It recruits better than Pitt.
But Pitt is still 1-1 against Penn State this decade. It was the only team to defeat the national champion Clemson last season, and plays in a conference with two of the last four national champs. And, with pros like Aaron Donald, LeSean McCoy, Larry Fitzgerald and Darrelle Revis, it’s produced some of the best recent NFL talent of any school in the country, exceeding even the Nittany Lions’ current professional alumni.
And, perhaps the biggest hurdle that Franklin will always have to jump, the Panthers are geographically closer to the blue chip recruits in the state. Franklin has to convince prospects along the Allegheny that State College is home, while most players in the football hotbed of Western Pennsylvania already know Pittsburgh is.
Despite all those factors, Franklin is still thriving against Narduzzi in garnering top-talent. He’s lost some battles to Narduzzi, like Jordan Whitehead, Damar Hamlin, Paris Ford and Aaron Mathews, but for the most part is dominating the Panther coach on the recruiting trail. Last year, Penn State had the 15th-best class, according to 247 Sports. Pitt, despite beating the Nittany Lions, ranked 37th.
So, if he could dominate the Panthers in recruiting, landing local Pittsburgh blue chips Lamont Wade and C.J. Thorpe, after suffering a heartbreaking, nationally-televised loss to Pitt in 2016, imagine what he could gain after a dominating, nationally-televised win this year?
Franklin was always going to take his opportunity to maximize that national exposure of state superiority.
Now, there’s always a chance that Franklin’s statement could rub players and families the wrong way. It’s superficially cruel, and also gives the appearance he’s been waiting a whole year to deliver that line, to step on the legs of a defeated soldier.
But it’s now part of the conversation. At least for one year, the idea that Penn State is ahead of Pitt in all aspects is in people’s heads.
The game, and the win, were important for James Franklin, whether he wants to admit it or not. Because, for one year, there’s little Pitt can lord over Penn State. And that’s just the way he wants it.
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Reform meets opposition
Since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s election at the end of 2018, renewable energy in Mexico has faced an uncertain regulatory environment. The current government is focused on restoring the power and influence of Mexico’s state-owned energy companies. But it is now at a crossroads, as the previous administration aimed to open the segment up to foreign investment. Maria Chea of IHS Markit examines the policy decisions the government has taken this year and how these have soured private investor sentiment. These changes will likely weigh on utility-scale PV procurement in the country through 2024.
November 3, 2020 Maria Jose Chea, IHS Markit
While the reform did not come without flaws, it positioned Mexico as a solid, emerging market for renewable energy.
Image: Pawiis09/pixabay
From pv magazine 11/2020
Mexico’s former president, Enrique Peña Nieto, spearheaded a five-year-long process to reform the country’s energy sector in 2013. The reforms sought to end the dominance of state-owned entities and to open doors to investors. At the end of 2013, the Mexican Congress approved a constitutional reform that allowed private and foreign investment in the segment for the first time in 75 years.
While the reform did not come without flaws, it positioned Mexico as a solid, emerging market for renewable energy. In the utility-scale PV segment, the country went from having an installed capacity of 17 MW in 2013 to over 5 GW at the end of 2019, accounting for a compound annual growth rate in the 2013-19 period of 126%.
Most of the utility-scale capacity came from government-backed energy auctions. The first was launched in 2015 and two additional auctions were launched in 2016 and 2017. The tenders allowed for over 5 GW of solar to be procured. The winners for the fourth auction were scheduled to be announced in February 2019. But on Dec. 3, 2018 – mere days after taking office – the new government of President López Obrador suspended the fourth tender, citing staff changes and the need to review the objectives and scope of the auction process. Twenty-six companies had been prequalified to participate. A few months later, on Feb. 1, 2019, the government officially canceled the auction. IHS Markit estimated at the time that the cancellation represented a possible loss of over 1 GW of PV that could have been awarded.
Despite the cancellation, the corporate and bilateral market is a promising segment for developers. IHS Markit estimates that there are more than 2.9 GW of solar projects that have been completed and are being installed outside of the auctions.
Ongoing battle
After the cancellation, the government pursued a series of policy decisions that began to chip away at the renewable energy sector and cloud it in uncertainty. One that made headlines and saw international criticism came on May 1, 2020, when the National Energy Control Center (CENACE), the country’s market operator, said it would suspend testing and grid connections for renewable energy plants indefinitely. CENACE said the intermittent nature of renewables posed a threat to the reliability of the grid during the era of Covid-19. The measures became effective on May 3, 2020, and a few weeks later, the Energy Secretariat (SENER) published the Policy of Reliability, Security, Continuity and Quality of the National Electric System (SEN). The policy imposes competition barriers for renewable energy power plants, citing their inherent intermittency as the main issue to the grid.
These decisions were swiftly criticized by industry players such as the Mexican business council, the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE), the Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE), PV association ASOLMEX, the European Union, Canada, and Greenpeace. A month after the announcements were made, several players were able to obtain preliminary injunctions and continue to move forward with connection tests. In June, Mexico’s Supreme Court upheld a complaint filed by COFECE and suspended the measures, although a final ruling is still pending.
Three months after the shock caused by these measures, on Aug. 12, 2020, the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) vetoed the publication in the Official Federal Gazette (DOF) of five agreements that had been previously discussed and approved. The CRE announced it would publish modified rulings regarding distributed generation. Rejecting the publication of these regulations generates even greater uncertainty and goes against the official discourse of the federal government and the commission. Of the provisions rejected, one aimed to allow small generators to sell energy to users, and the other gave guidance on the installation of battery storage for PV plants.
Timeline of major decisions
The Mexican government suspends the fourth energy auction one day before bids were due, citing a change in staff and the need to review the objectives and scope of the auction.
Two major transmission projects, the Baja California and Yautepec-Ixtepec transmission lines, are canceled.
Mexico’s Secretariat of Energy (SENER) announces the cancellation of the planned fourth energy auctions.
SENER published a decree to modify the criteria to recognize clean energy certificates (CELs). SENER sought to allow older clean generation assets to be certified. The changes were rejected, as CELs were designed for new renewable power to help decarbonization objectives.
The CFE drafted a proposal that seeks to increase transmission costs for independent private generators.
CRE proposed rule changes to the National Commission for Regulatory Improvement (CONAMER), seeking to prevent legacy projects from making modifications to their permits.
CENACE issued a resolution to generators on May 1, suspending all pre-operative connection tests for wind and solar power plants. A few weeks later, SENER published a new policy imposing several barriers on renewables, due to intermittency and threats to grid stability.
The CFE announced an increase in fees to high- and medium-voltage rates paid by private companies for the use of transmission and distribution lines (tarifas de porteo).
The CRE rejected the publication in the Official Journal of the Federation of agreements regarding distributed-generation rules, including regulations for small generators and the addition of storage to PV projects. The CRE will prepare modifications to distributed-generation rules.
The CRE approved a resolution to amend the legal framework for holders of legacy self-supply and cogeneration permits. The resolution prohibits these permit holders from modifying expansion plans and adding new off-takers not originally in the permits. COFECE has pointed out this resolution reduces incentives to invest in the sector and generates further uncertainty.
More changes
At the beginning of September, the administration’s political party, the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), announced a legislative plan to create a new energy reform. The party is looking at the Congressional elections, scheduled for July 2021, to make changes to the constitution. If López Obrador’s party wins a majority, future policy will likely favor Mexico’s oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), and state-owned utility, Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE).
President López Obrador’s popularity remains high, although it has taken a hit due to ongoing recession, increasing unemployment, and his management of the Covid-19 crisis. Depending on how the administration continues to tackle these issues, MORENA could lose its current majority in the lower house of Congress, thus limiting the government’s ability to push forward changes to the energy sector.
In the lead-up to the Congressional elections, industry stakeholders will likely continue to use several platforms to inform the public about renewable energy’s economic and social benefits. Moreover, although utility-scale projects have faced obstacles since the new government took office, there are still opportunities in distributed generation. The DG segment has been recovering after a slowdown at the beginning of the pandemic. To date, Mexico has installed more than 1 GW of residential and commercial installations. If regulation does not change for this segment, IHS Markit expects an additional 1 GW to be installed through 2024.
The increased regulatory risks for renewables will likely favor large developers that have the financial ability to cushion any shortfalls that could occur in an uncertain market, while smaller developers are likely to leave or not enter the Mexican market. It is expected that renewables will continue to face an uphill battle with the current administration, causing uncertainty and diverting investors to other countries where policies are more stable.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those held by pv magazine.
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QBE Foundation appoints co-chairs to drive impact across Australia, New Zealand and Pacific
The QBE Foundation today announced the appointment of two new co-chairs to drive its community focused strategy and initiatives across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Chief Claims Officer Jon Fox and Chief Customer Officer Commercial Lines Jason Clarke will commence their appointments this month.
The QBE Foundation partners with impactful not-for-profits to protect vulnerable communities, enable financial resilience, strengthen health and wellbeing and work towards building more inclusive, sustainable communities.
Jon Fox said there is scope to expand the Foundation’s work.
“I’m excited to come on board to help drive the Foundation’s increased focus on deepening and broadening the impact it makes across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
“We’re currently working on a number of important initiatives delivering real change to local communities and I look forward to working with our people and partners to maximise the impact of these truly worthwhile activities.”
Jason Clarke said the Foundation would continue to bring together QBE people, partners and customers in support of local communities.
“The Foundation will continue to play an important role in our culture and our offering as an employer, partner and insurance provider.
“The Foundation empowers our people and partners to support causes that are important to them, not only helping to deliver on QBE’s commitment to give back to the communities it operates in - but also providing a fantastic platform for employee and partner engagement.”
Recent support has gone to a variety of initiatives and causes, including food relief, indigenous inclusion, financial literacy, social services, gender equality, homelessness, natural disaster recovery and medical treatment and research.
Launched in 2011 to coincide with its 125th anniversary, the Foundation formalises QBE’s long history of supporting communities that help people overcome disadvantage, strengthen their abilities and live more independently, successfully and productively.
About the Australia Pacific QBE Foundation
The QBE Foundation partners with impactful not-for-profits around the world to protect vulnerable communities, enable financial resilience, strengthen their health and wellbeing, and to build more inclusive, sustainable communities. QBE’s Australia Pacific Foundation works across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Find out more at: https://www.qbe.com/au/about/sponsorship-community/the-qbe-foundation
Paul Dekkers
QBE Australia Pacific
Email: paul.dekkers@qbe.com
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Explanatory Notes to the UK Medical Devices Bill
In order to assist all parties involved in operations with medical devices to maintain compliance with applicable requirements under the new framework established by the recent UK Medicines and Medical Devices Bill, special Explanatory Notes have been published. In particular, the document accompanies the Bill that was introduced earlier on February 13, 2020, and provides the industry representatives with more details regarding the way the new rules would be implemented and the consequences they will have.
Overview of the Regulatory Framework
Novelties of the UK’s Medical Device Legislation
New Medical Devices Regulation in Detail
According to the explanatory notice, the new Bill is intended to:
Implement a new approach to the distribution of power in the sphere of medical device regulation,
Combine all provisions regarding enforcement and liability in one document,
Establish a system that improves access to information about medical devices.
Prior to Brexit, medical device regulation was in the sphere of EU competence. Thus, EU regulations covered all issues related to medical devices and procedures associated with placing them on the market. All legislation in this area has been developed and adopted in accordance with the appropriate European procedures and then implemented to the UK national legislation through the adoption of the appropriate acts. In particular, medical devices were regulated under the UK Medical Devices Regulations 2002 which was subject to periodic updates to implement changes to the general European legislation. The document sets forth the definition of a medical device and the detailed obligations of the manufacturers. According to the notes, after the expiration of the transition period, new changes to the EU legislation would no longer be implemented to the appropriate UK legislation. Another important point is that current UK national legislation covers mostly the matters related to the safety of the devices allowed to be placed on the domestic market and to amend them the basic regulation should be implemented first. To deal with this issue, the new Bill creates legislative mechanisms necessary to amend existing regulation.
One of the most important changes to the EU legislation related to medical devices was the implementation of the new Medical Devices Regulation 2017/745 (MDR) and In Vitro Medical Devices Regulation 2017/746 (IVDR) aimed at the improvement of the regulatory framework. Upon the expiration of the transitional period, both regulations would be fully applicable in all member states, but the way they would be applicable in the UK differs substantially:
The MDR will be applicable in the EU, as well as in the UK from May 26, 2020; and
The IVDR will be applicable in the EU from May 26, 2022, while it would not be applicable in the UK.
Thus, the UK would have to develop its own approach to the in vitro diagnostic devices regulation using the mechanisms established by the new Bill.
When describing the device-specific legislation it is important to mention the following: in most cases the device should bear a CE mark in order to be allowed to be placed on the EU market. Prior to placing such a mark, the manufacturer shall confirm that the device has successfully passed the assessment and complies with any and all requirements related to safety and performance for the intended purpose. In the UK, general oversight and post-market surveillance are performed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulating Agency (MHRA) which is the authority responsible for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of the devices allowed to be marketed in the UK.
First of all, it is planned that the new act would contain all provisions related to the enforcement regime with regard to the medical devices. The document would also include the provisions regulating sanctions applicable in case of violations conducted by the entities operating medical devices. At the moment, the provisions regulating the aforementioned aspects are spread among numerous acts and create legal uncertainty and complexity of implementation.
To improve the existing situation with the enforcement and regulatory framework, the new Bill implements several important aspects:
All provisions related to enforcement notices issued in the case of noncompliance with applicable regulations will be consolidated into the singular act,
The criminal offense and its features would be further clarified,
As an alternative to the criminal prosecution, new civil sanctions would be introduced (in the form of a monetary penalty),
The Secretary of State would be entitled to share information about medical devices upon certain circumstances directly indicated in the act (e.g. to make information on medical devices public in case if it is reasonably necessary for safety reasons to protect the public health).
The document also describes the specifics of the implementation of the Bill depending on the particular territory. According to the general rules, the Bill would be applicable within the whole territory of the UK. At the same time, in certain parts the application of the bill would be limited – in particular, it would be based on the additional acts the Bill amends. Thus, such an amendment would be applicable only within the territories where the appropriate initial regulations should be applied. For example, in a case, if the new amendments in some parts are related to the sphere subject to the regulation by the Scottish Parliament, The National Assembly for Wales on the Northern Ireland Assembly should be adopted by the aforementioned legislative bodies first before being applicable within the appropriate territories.
The main part of the explanatory notes is dedicated to the description of the particular provisions of the new Medicines and Medical Devices Bill and the way they should be implemented. Regarding the medical devices’ regulation, the explanatory notes provide the following:
Regulatory aspects. Describing the delegated powers the Bill refers to the “Secretary of State”, while actually the appropriate functions would be performed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. As it was stated in the Bill, all actions taken by the Secretary of State should be made taking into account the safety matters, the availability of medical devices on the domestic market for patients and healthcare institutions, and also the attractiveness of the UK for medical device manufacturers and suppliers. According to the Bill, the Secretary of State should be also responsible for the development of provisions establishing the requirements medical device should meet in order to be allowed to be placed on the market. For the compliance with applicable requirements to be confirmed, the device should pass a conformity assessment procedure performed by the eligible assessment body.
Enforcement. The Bill consolidates all the provisions governing the enforcement procedures in the sphere of medical devices. In particular, the Bill defines the “Enforcement authority”, provides the exhaustive list of enforcement notices and describes in detail each type of the notices and the information it should contain.
To assist manufacturers, importers, suppliers and other industry representatives in assessing the impact of upcoming regulatory changes, the present explanatory notes provide an in-depth and rigorous description of all provisions of the new Medicines and Medical Devices Bill and of all the important aspects associated thereto.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0090/en/20090en.pdf
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Culture, Impact, Wellness
Impact Travel: A More Meaningful Kind of Wellness
Written byAnna Haines
Date 8 April 2019
Gone are the days when voluntourism remains separate from wellness vacations, as travellers begin to realize that the two are inextricably intertwined. In an increasingly globalized world, travellers now yearn for opportunities to engage with the communities they visit while simultaneously becoming more aware of the excess of humanitarian crises that call for international assistance. Recognizing the power of uniting people with the common motivation to help others, The Assemblage, a New York City-based co-working and co-living community has begun offering mission-based journeys that enable travellers to tap into their own potential through exercising their empathy and compassion. We joined them on their latest journey to Mexico to learn how helping others might just be the next best recipe for wellness.
Less than 24 hours after a group of creatives and entrepreneurs from across the United States convened for the first time in the historic quarter of Mexico City, they were off to Miztli School equipped with a bag of toys, balloons and paint, ready to begin a full day of service. Through the help of Glasswing International, an organization that empowers local communities to implement their own development projects, The Assemblage group worked with the students to renovate the learning spaces of this 30-year-old school. Jessica, an 18-year-old professor at the school, and her 14-year-old student, Leslie, peered from a window on the top floor of the school, smiling as they watched the volunteers paint murals, plant a garden, and build a playground with some of the youngest school children. As the day progressed, it became clear that the reward was not only felt by the school, but by the visitors too, as everyone involved became noticeably more energized as they witnessed the space transform into an inspiring learning environment. “Knowing that this school is going to bring a smile to these kids makes all the difference in the world,” Michael Chen, a New York City-based entrepreneur said as the day ended with a special performance, piñata competition and countless extended hugs.
Any social impact trip would not be complete without experiences that deepen the travelers understanding of the cultural and environmental dynamics of the communities in which they serve. Thus, The Assemblage partnered with Umbral Axochialt, a NGO dedicated to the rehabilitation of Xochimilco; a uniquely fertile agricultural region in the heart of Mexico City. After a boat ride along the peaceful Xochimilco river, travelers met with Benicio don Nicho, a local farmer who believes the degradation of the region has largely been due to farmers abandoning their plots and giving up their Chinampas farming traditions. “Most of what we perceive as garbage is not garbage,” he says. “There are ways to live off the land that preserve it.” Endowed with this deepened understanding of Mexico City’s struggle to protect the rural economy in the face of rapid urbanization, it was time for the group to escape the city to the tranquil countryside.
The ideal environment for moments in between acts of service to reflect and turn inward? Tepoztlan, a sacred valley considered to be a healing hotspot due to the unique mineral properties in the soil. The group spent the second half of their journey at Hostal de La Luz, a wellness resort offering chakra therapy treatments, vegetable-forward cuisine and a meditation labyrinth overlooking the lush valley. What set this journey apart from the traditional impact trip was the rare opportunity to feel, in every sense of the word, the benefits of connecting with others through service. Each day involved intense meditation, breath-work and sound healing sessions designed to challenge participants to confront their deepest forms of self. These sessions took the un-layering of the ego instigated by service one step further by forcing participants to be vulnerable in the presence of others. The group rose from each meditation renewed and grounded, with a greater sense of unity and openness.
While meditation sessions exercised our mental and emotional ability to turn inward, the Temazcal experience presented the ultimate physical challenge to unlocking one’s full potential. A local shaman, Jose, led the group through forty minutes of breathing and chanting synchronized with the beat of his drum inside the traditional sweat lodge that reached up to fifty degrees Celsius. After rubbing down the body with fresh aloe, each participant was projected out a slide, depicted as the throat of a dragon, exiting its mouth into a chilling pool of freezing water. “We want to run away from the Temazcal, not because of the temperature but because of our thoughts. Let’s liberate sensations and our thoughts.” Jose told us prior to entering. “The Temazcal is a representation of a mother’s womb. We enter to be reborn. You resist the heat and after, you are born again.” An experience that is a far cry from the typical sauna session one might expect of a wellness resort, it was only through this kind of intense physical spiritual work that the real reward of mental clarity, emotional confidence and connection came to fruition.
On the first day, Peggy Chan, one of the volunteers said, “We can’t give unless we take care of ourselves. You have to fill your own glass before you can serve other people.” On the last day, the group led an art class at Tashirat Foundation Orphanage, where the owner echoed a similar sentiment, “You have to be able to help yourself in order to help other people.” The group came full circle as they toured the orphanage that has, over the last twenty years, grown into a series of homes for twenty-eight children who have been excluded from state-run adoption programs. Unlike government-funded orphanages with inconsistent dorms and rotating staff, Tashirat Foundation takes a holistic approach, placing each child in their own home with their own host mother. Just as The Assemblage believes in rethinking ways of engaging with the world, their travellers get the opportunity to work with organizations that similarly defy traditional structures, demonstrating that this kind of impact trip goes beyond benefiting the individual participant, to encouraging knowledge-sharing and the promotion of innovation at a global scale.
After a closing meditation watching the morning sun rise over the rolling hills of Tepoztlan, the travelers returned to their respective homes, equipped with a new sense of clarity, intention and confidence. It was in that moment that words shared on the first day by Juanita Galvis, the Head of Social Impact Advocacy and Impact Travel at The Assemblage, took new significance, illuminating that a journey like this is as much about healing one’s self and fellow travelers as it is about helping the service project beneficiaries. “We have the superpower of helping others, even if we need help. When we connect in a vulnerable way, we help each other to heal our emotional wounds. Each day I remind myself of the quote, ‘one person can’t change the world, but you can change the world for one person’.” By inviting travellers to serve others, confront their deepest vulnerabilities and support others in doing so, The Assemblage offers a new kind of wellness vacation; one that goes beyond a temporary solution of fleeting relaxation to a more permanent resolution, that of personal transformation.
Article and photography by Anna Haines
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Home ALL NEWS Francis Alistair Funeral Notice
Francis Alistair Funeral Notice
admin January 7, 2021 Funeral Notice
Alistair Francis Maclean – 1936 – 2021
Alistair Francis Maclean was born in Greenock, Scotland. During his time at sea as a marine engineer, Alistair met Johanna Lim in Singapore. They married and moved to London, England, where Fiona was born. The family moved to Toronto, Canada in 1969 where Alistair found work as a marine engineer at the Toronto Harbour Commission, working on the tugboats. In 1981 he joined the Toronto Fire Department as marine engineer on the William Lyon McKenzie (the fireboat). Alistair retired in 2000, shortly after the passing of Johanna in 1999.
Alistair was an avid reader, golf fanatic, and techie. He had a keen interest in science and was always watching science programs. At 84, he still played golf every week, wrote his own computer programs (completely self taught) and enjoyed technology and gadgets. We were always first on the block with the newest gadgets – I remember when he bought his first computer, a Commodore PET, complete with a tape drive and less RAM than you would find in a Dollar Store calculator. He was very easy going with a wonderful sense of humour, and probably the most knowledgeable person I’ve ever known. Alistair passed peacefully in his sleep on January 5, 2020 after a courageous battle with cancer. He will always be remembered. I will miss him forever.
If you wish to make a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society in Alistair’s memory, please use the web page link. https://www.forevermissed.com/alistair-maclean/about
If you wish to share any memories, His Daughter Fiona can be reached at fionafars@gmail.com
Sincerest Condolences from all our Retiree Groups go out to the Family and Friends.
In Solidarity, Retired Toronto Fire Fighters Association I.A.F.F. Local 3888
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Life-saving apprentice Eleanor recognised with university award
Categories: School of Health and Society
Nursing Associate Eleanor Mears (pictured below) has been studying on her apprenticeship course for over a year now, and at first wasn’t convinced it was for her. But a chance encounter during lockdown led to her putting her skills into practice to save a child’s life, and now she has been named ‘Apprentice of the Year’ by the University of Salford.
Eleanor told us: “I never knew what I wanted to do when I left school. I worked in retail, but never felt I had found my calling until I got a job at a care home. I loved looking after people and being able to make a difference to someone's life. The Nursing Associate apprentice course was perfect for me – with paying my mortgage and bills it would have been hard for me to quit my job in order to study.
“When I first started the course, it was a struggle to manage juggling university and full-time work, especially having been out of education for so long. But the university and my clinical educator gave me so much support and positivity. I am so glad I stayed as now I love it!”
Eleanor’s nursing skills were put to the test a few weeks ago, as she was out walking the dog with her partner. As they were changing into their walking boots in the car park, they heard a ‘huge bang’ and screaming.
The training Eleanor had received kicked in immediately, and she sprang into action. “I realised I needed to go and offer my skills to help, so I threw everything into the car and went running to see what had happened. As I got out onto the main road, I could see a seven-year-old boy had been run over. He was unresponsive and not breathing. My training and everything I had learnt at university came flooding back, and I checked to see if the airway was clear and started rescue breaths and compressions.
“After what felt like hours, an air ambulance arrived as well as the paramedics; the doctor instructed me to carry on with my compressions, while he administered oxygen and gave out orders to others.”
Despite being exhausted and emotional from providing CPR, Eleanor stayed on hand to help comfort the casualty’s family once the paramedic team took over.
The police told Eleanor afterwards that if it hadn’t been for her quick actions providing CPR and first aid at the scene, the child may not have survived. The serious nature of the incident has affected her deeply.
“Since it happened, I’ve been struggling to sleep, felt worried leaving the house on my own, been having nightmares and just generally over-thinking a lot. I’ve had a lot of support from work and the university as well as my family and friends, which has got me through. I’ve also had to accept that I needed to take some time away from work to take care of myself, and am now just doing a few hours a week, which has helped.
“After lockdown I’m hoping to climb Snowdon to raise money for the amazing air ambulance and Aftermath Support group who have helped me get through this, and raise awareness of how important it is that people learn basic first aid – a lot of other people who were on the scene of the accident said that if I wasn't there they wouldn't have known what to do. Delaying first aid could have been the difference between life and death, so it is so important people have these skills.”
Now Eleanor has been awarded the title of ‘Apprentice of the Year’ by the University of Salford as part of their celebrations for National Apprenticeship Week (8-14 February 2021).
Nicole Blythe, Clinical Educator at the University of Salford, who nominated Eleanor for the award, said: “Eleanor has received nothing but praise from her assessor and her managers about her hard work, dedication and enthusiasm, and she has become a great asset to her team. Eleanor is a fantastic role model with great communication skills and her engagement to develop her knowledge, skills and behaviours is exemplary. Her recent actions in saving the life of a child who had been involved in a car accident are truly inspirational, we are so proud of her!”.
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