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a.k.a. Mouhannad Almallah Dabas
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Sibling of Moutaz Almallah
Spouse of Mouhannad Almallah's wife
Mouhannad Almallah was a participant or observer in the following events:
October 19, 2001: Madrid Bombings Mastermind Photographed with Head of Al-Qaeda in Spain
Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet. [Source: Spanish Interior Ministry]Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, later considered one of about three masterminds of the 2004 Madrid train bombings (see 7:37-7:42 a.m., March 11, 2004), is already being monitored by Spanish intelligence. On this day, he is photographed with Barakat Yarkas, leader of al-Qaeda's main cell in Spain. Yarkas will be arrested for an alleged role in the 9/11 attacks less than a month later (see November 13, 2001). [El Mundo (Madrid), 8/16/2005] Fakhet had been under surveillance since 2000. [Irujo, 2005, pp. 182-186] He will allegedly blow himself up not long after the bombings (see 9:05 p.m., April 3, 2004). There are allegations that he was an informant at least by 2003 (see Shortly After October 2003). Also seen in the pictures are Yusuf Galan, another member of Yarkas's cell who will be arrested with Yarkas and later convicted (see September 26, 2005), and Mouhannad Almallah, who has been under surveillance since at least 1998. Almallah will later be sentenced to 12 years in prison for a role in the Madrid bombings (see October 31, 2007). [El Mundo (Madrid), 10/27/2004]
Entity Tags: Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, Centro Nacional de Inteligencia, Barakat Yarkas, Mouhannad Almallah, Yusuf Galan
December 2001-June 2002: Spanish Begin Monitoring Many Future Madrid Bombers
In early September 2001, an Egyptian militant named Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed moves from Germany to Spain. By December, Spanish officials open an investigation about him after noticing he is in frequent contact with other Islamist militants. One month later, Spanish investigators notify German officials that they have Ahmed under surveillance and request information about his background. Ahmed apparently is aware he is under surveillance and tries to keep a low profile. [Washington Post, 11/14/2004] But through him, investigators led by judge Baltasar Garzon begin monitoring other militants he meets. In May 2002, they start tapping the phones of Fouad el Morabit and Basel Ghalyoun. In June, they realize Ahmed is in contact with Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, who has already been under surveillance since 2000 (see October 19, 2001). They also learn at some point that he is in contact with the brothers Moutaz and Mouhannad Almallah. Investigators lose track of el Morabit a near the end of 2002 when he changes phones. They also lose track of Ghalyoun aroun the same time because his conversations apparently are not interesting enough. Ahmed also moves to France. [El Mundo (Madrid), 7/31/2005] However, in early 2003, investigators begin monitoring an apartment where all the suspects mentioned live or meet (see January 4, 2003). All of them will later be accused of being key players in the 2004 Madrid train bombings (see 7:37-7:42 a.m., March 11, 2004).
Entity Tags: Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, Mouhannad Almallah, Basel Ghalyoun, Baltasar Garzon, Fouad el Morabit, Moutaz Almallah
August 2002: Radical Imam Abu Qatada Has Alleged Madrid Bomber Live with Him in London
It will later be alleged that in August 2002, radical imam Abu Qatada calls Spanish militant Moutaz Almallah and asks him to live with him in London. Almallah does move to London one month later. For most of 2002, Qatada is supposedly hiding in London, but in fact British intelligence knows where he is (see Late September 2001-Summer 2002 and Summer-Early November 2002), and he has a history of being an British informant (see June 1996-February 1997). The account of Moutaz moving to London comes from the estranged wife of his brother Mouhannad Almallah. Shortly after the Madrid bombings, she will tell a Spanish judge about the call and much more. She will say both brothers had frequent contact with Abu Qatada before moving. Spanish authorities also are aware that the brothers are linked to Barakat Yarkas, who frequently traveled to London to meet with Abu Qatada for many years (see 1995-February 2001). Abu Qatada will be arrested in October 2002, not long after Moutaz moves there (see October 23, 2002), but Moutaz will continue to live in London while making occasional trips back to Spain. Moutaz will be arrested in Britain in 2005. He will be extradited to Spain for a role in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, but will not have been put on trial by July 2007. In 2007, Mouhannad will be sentenced to 12 years for his role in the bombings (see October 31, 2007). [El Mundo (Madrid), 7/28/2005]
Entity Tags: Mouhannad Almallah's wife, Abu Qatada, Barakat Yarkas, Mouhannad Almallah, Moutaz Almallah
January 4, 2003: Witness Gives Stunning Details about Madrid Bombers and Their Attack Plans
The wife of Mouhannad Almallah gives a statement against her husband to police. She says that he systematically beats her. She also accurately describes in detail his Islamist militant ties:
She says that militants regularly met at her apartment. She and her husband have just moved, and militant continue to meet at their new apartment on Virgen del Coro street in Madrid.
She says that her husband lived with Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet for a month in December 2002. Mustapha Maymouni, Fakhet's brother-in-law, visited as well. They moved when they felt they were suspected by police.
She saw her husband open several boxes and noticed they contained books and videos about Osama bin Laden.
Her husband and his brother, Moutaz Almallah, strongly suspect their phones are being monitored. Moutaz lives in London but frequently visits Spain (see August 2002).
She describes four particularly important meetings held in her apartment beginning in November 2002. Moutaz and Mouhannad Almallah, Fakhet, and Mayoumi attended all the meetings. Basel Ghalyoun attended the fourth one. In these meetings, they always speak of attack and jihad. They talk about bin Laden, but refer to him as "Emir."
Sometimes her husband Mouhannad and Fakhet discuss Amer el-Azizi, who fled a police raid in November 2001 (see Shortly After November 21, 2001). She finds out they helped him escape Spain dressed as a woman. El-Azizi is believed to be linked to the 9/11 attacks (see Before July 8, 2001).
Both Mouhannad and Fakhet remain in contact with el-Azizi by e-mail. Her husband's brother Moutaz does as well.
She occasionally sees her husband with Jamal Ahmidan, alias "El Chino."
Police apparently take her warnings seriously because they begin monitoring her apartment in March 2003 (see January 17, 2003-Late March 2004). Most of these people—Fakhet, el-Azizi, Ghalyoun, and both Almallah brothers—are already under surveillance (see December 2001-June 2002). [El Mundo (Madrid), 7/28/2005] All of the people she mentions are believed to have important roles in the 2004 Madrid bombings (see 7:37-7:42 a.m., March 11, 2004), except for Maymouni, who will be arrested and jailed later in 2003 for having a pivotal role in the May 2003 Casablanca bombings (see May 16, 2003).
Entity Tags: Basel Ghalyoun, Amer el-Azizi, Jamal Ahmidan, Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, Mouhannad Almallah, Moutaz Almallah, Osama bin Laden, Mouhannad Almallah's wife, Mustapha Maymouni
January 17, 2003-Late March 2004: Spanish Police Monitoring Apartment where Madrid Bombers Live and Meet
Beginning on January 17, 2003, Spanish police begin monitoring an apartment on Virgen de Coro street in Madrid owned by the brothers Moutaz and Mouhannad Almallah. Moutaz owns it but lives in London, so Mouhannad is the landlord and works there every day as well. Police were tipped off about the house earlier in the month by Mouhannad's estranged wife. She revealed that a group of Islamist militants are regularly meeting there (see January 4, 2003). [El Mundo (Madrid), 8/10/2005] Both Almallah brothers ties to known al-Qaeda figures such as Barakat Yarkas and radical imam Abu Qatada, and Moutaz moved to London in August 2002 to live with Qatada (see August 2002). In 2007, an unnamed Spanish police officer testifying in the Madrid bombings trial will give details about the surveillance of the apartment. He will call it an important place for both meetings and recruitment. The police note that both brothers travel frequently to and from London and also regularly call London. These calls are usually followed by calls to the Middle East or North Africa. Police are aware that Moutaz has no job in London and is in the circle of people around Abu Qatada (although Abu Qatada himself was arrested in late 2002 see (see October 23, 2002)). Basel Ghalyoun and Fouad el Morabit live at the apartment and frequently meet there with Mouhannad Almallah and Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet. [El Mundo (Madrid), 3/21/2007] Ghalyoun will later admit that in early 2003, Fakhet began to "talk of carrying out an attack in Spain, making jihad…" He will say that others attending jihad meetings at the apartment in 2003 include Arish Rifaat and Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed. [El Mundo (Madrid), 10/15/2005] Mohammed Larbi ben Sellam is also frequently seen there. [El Mundo (Madrid), 9/28/2004] The surveillance intensifies in subsequent months, and soon the apartment is monitored with video as well (see Spring 2003 and After). Police will keep watching the apartment until arrests are made after the March 2004 Madrid train bombings (see 7:37-7:42 a.m., March 11, 2004). Rifaat, Fakret, and others will allegedly blow themselves up shortly after the Madrid bombings (see 9:05 p.m., April 3, 2004). There are allegations Fakret was an informant (see Shortly After October 2003). Mouhannad Almallah, Ghalyoun, ben Sellam, and el Morabit will be convicted in 2007 and each sentenced to 12 years for roles in the bombings (see October 31, 2007). Ahmed will be convicted of different charges in Italy (see October 31, 2007). Curiously, when the apartment is raided shortly after the Madrid bombings, two documents belonging to police officer Ayman Maussili Kalaji will be found inside. Kalaji will admit to having a friendship with Moutaz Almallah dating back at least to 1995 (see May 16, 2005).
Entity Tags: Moutaz Almallah, Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, Mouhannad Almallah, Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, Mohammed Larbi ben Sellam, Mouhannad Almallah's wife, Basel Ghalyoun, Abu Qatada, Fouad el Morabit, Barakat Yarkas, Arish Rifaat
February 12, 2003: Witness Says Future Madrid Bombers Are Planning Specific Suicide Bombing in Madrid
The wife of Mouhannad Almallah gave Spanish police stunning details about a group of Islamist militants planning attacks in January 2003 (see January 4, 2003), and she returns to the police to give them a new lead. She previously said that her husband, his brother Moutaz Almallah, Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, and Mustapha Maymouni have been holding meetings planning attacks. Now she says that her husband told her that "one day" he would like to attack the Torres Kio towers of the Plaza de Castilla, an important Madrid landmark, with a car bomb. That attack does not occur, but all the men she mentions will be killed or arrested for roles in the 2004 Madrid bombings, except for Maymouni, who will be arrested for a role in bombings in Casablanca several months later (see May 16, 2003). Police apparently take her warnings seriously because they begin monitoring her apartment one month later (see January 17, 2003-Late March 2004). The wife's brother, who is also Mouhannad's business partner, will testify in 2007 that Mouhannad also told him about a desire to destroy the Torres Kio towers. [El Mundo (Madrid), 7/28/2005; El Mundo (Madrid), 3/13/2007]
Entity Tags: Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, Moutaz Almallah, Mouhannad Almallah's wife, Mustapha Maymouni, Mouhannad Almallah
Spring 2003 and After: Spanish Police Increase Surveillance of Madrid Bombers
Spanish police have been monitoring an apartment on Virgen de Coro street in Madrid owned by the brothers Moutaz and Mouhannad Almallah since January 17, 2003 (see January 17, 2003-Late March 2004). Police are now aware that the Almallah brothers are part of a group of Islamist militants regularly meeting there. On March 3, police extend the surveillance to the apartment of Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, since he appears to be a leader of the group and the group holds meetings at his apartment as well (see March 3, 2003-March 2004). On March 14, police also start monitoring Mouhannad Almallah's apartment (his brother Moutaz is mostly living in London) (see March 14, 2003). Over the next months, the surveillance of this group is intensified:
Police also keep a very close eye on the cars used by the militants. Police witness many of them taking evasive maneuvers while driving around town.
They notice the militants are taking evasive action such as frequently using pay phones and speaking in code, which are signs they are taking part in illegal activities.
They discover that Amer el-Azizi, a Spanish al-Qaeda operative wanted for a role in the 9/11 attacks, had probably escaped to Afghanistan in late 2001 using Mouhannad Almallah's passport (see Shortly After November 21, 2001).
They find that Fakhet sometimes uses a car owned by relatives of Jamal Ahmidan (Ahmidan is the member of the group who will later lead the effort to buy the explosives for the Madrid bombings, see September 2003-February 2004).
One police report before the bombings says that all three apartments are "regarded as essential points of the logistical network to support the recruitment of 'mujaheddin'" in Spain and that Moutaz Almallah makes the group an international threat, with links in Britain and the Netherlands. [El Mundo (Madrid), 8/10/2005]
Entity Tags: Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, Jamal Ahmidan, Mouhannad Almallah, Moutaz Almallah, Amer el-Azizi
After February 2003: Militant's Wife Continues Reporting on Group of Madrid Bombers
In January and February of 2003, the wife of suspected Islamist militant Mouhannad Almallah gave stunning details on the activities and planned attacks of a group of militants including her husband Mouhannad (see January 4, 2003 and February 12, 2003). She apparently grows estranged from him and sees him less and less in subsequent months. However, Spanish investigators are impressed with her revelations, especially since they had most of the group already under surveillance (see December 2001-June 2002). At some point, she is given a phone and a special number to call at any time she learns more about the group. The group frequently watches violent videos promoting jihad. For instance, one video shows a person in Afghanistan being buried up to his head in sand. There are also videos of radical imam Abu Qatada preaching. She manages to sneak some of the videos to the authorities and return them without being noticed. But most details about what warnings she gave after February 2003 remain unknown. [El Mundo (Madrid), 3/13/2007; El Mundo (Madrid), 3/13/2007]
Entity Tags: Mouhannad Almallah, Mouhannad Almallah's wife
March 14, 2003: Spanish Police Hone in on Apartment of Madrid Bomber
On March 14, 2003, Spanish police begin intensively monitoring Islamist militant Mouhannad Almallah. They locate his house on Quimicos street in Madrid and begin monitoring it too. They notice that his brother Moutaz is frequently traveling back and forth between Madrid and London. Police also apparently begin videotaping the house, although details on that are unclear. [El Mundo (Madrid), 8/10/2005] Mouhannad had been a suspect since 1998, and Moutaz since 1995, and both had already been monitored to some degree (see November 1995). Both were linked to the al-Qaeda cell originally run by Barakat Yarkas. [El Mundo (Madrid), 3/2/2005] Surveillance on Mouhannad increased after police linked him to a group of militants meeting at the Virgen de Coro apartment owned and frequented by him and his brother (see January 17, 2003-Late March 2004). The police will continue to monitor him until the Madrid bombings. He will later get 12 years for his role in those bombings (see October 31, 2007).
Entity Tags: Moutaz Almallah, Mouhannad Almallah
March 16, 2004: Investigators Slow to Find and Arrest Madrid Bombers Despite Obvious Clues
The estranged wife of Mouhannad Almallah goes to the judge in charge of the Madrid train bombings investigation and tells him that her husband had been planning attacks in Madrid. So far Jamal Zougam is the main suspect known to the public, as his arrest was announced three days before (see 4:00 p.m., March 13, 2004). She says that her husband knew Zougam and talked about doing business with him in Morocco. [El Mundo (Madrid), 3/13/2007] A police officer confirms to the judge that she had already discussed many of these connections with police in January and February 2003. At that time, she named her husband, his brother Moutaz Almallah, Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, Basel Ghalyoun, Amer el-Azizi, Jamal Ahmidan, and others (see February 12, 2003 and January 4, 2003). These men will turn out to be most of the key players in the train bombings. All of them have been under surveillance for over a year at her apartment and elsewhere (see January 17, 2003-Late March 2004). She tells the judge additional details about the Almallah brothers' links to Abu Qatada, an imam linked to al-Qaeda (see August 2002). [El Mundo (Madrid), 7/28/2005; El Mundo (Madrid), 7/28/2005] Seemingly, her account, plus all the data collected from monitoring these suspects prior to the bombing, should be enough evidence to arrest the suspects. Strangely, many of the suspects continue to live where they lived before the bombing, and continue to use the same phones as before. For instance, Ahmidan, whom she named, lives at the same residence as before until March 18 (see March 27-30, 2004). But there seems to be no urgent effort to arrest or monitor them, nor are their names or pictures published until March 30. In fact, the apartment where Mouhannad Almallah and his wife lived that was monitored for over a year is not raided until March 24 (see March 24-30, 2004). [El Mundo (Madrid), 8/5/2005]
Entity Tags: Moutaz Almallah, Mouhannad Almallah, Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, Jamal Ahmidan, Amer el-Azizi, Jamal Zougam, Mouhannad Almallah's wife, Basel Ghalyoun
March 24-30, 2004: Spanish Police Slow to Arrest Obvious Madrid Bombings Suspect, Then Inexplicably Release Him Six Days Later
Spanish police raid the apartment of Mouhannad Almallah, an Islamist militant suspected of involvement in the March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings (see 7:37-7:42 a.m., March 11, 2004). The apartment is owned by his brother, Moutaz Almallah. Mouhannad is arrested, but Moutaz is not, since he has been living in Britain since 2002 (see August 2002). Police also raid another apartment on Virgen del Coro street in Madrid owned by Moutaz, where several other bombing suspects, Basel Ghalyoun and Fouad el Morabit, have lived.
Years of Surveillance - It is surprising police took so long to raid either apartment, since the Almallah brothers have been suspected militants for many years. [El Mundo (Madrid), 3/2/2005] Moutaz was considered the closest assistant to Barakas Yarkas, long-time head of an al-Qaeda cell in Madrid, and it appears he was monitored since 1995 because of his ties to Yarkas (see November 13, 2001). He also is known to have lived with the al-Qaeda-linked imam Abu Qatada in London in 2002 (see August 2002). Curiously, a police officer later suspected of a role in the Madrid bombings sold Moutaz an apartment in 1995 and then remained friends with him (see November 1995). [El Mundo (Madrid), 3/2/2005; BBC, 3/24/2005]
Wife's Tips Do Not Lead to Arrests - Mouhannad had been a suspect since 1998, when it was discovered that another member of Yarkas's cell had filed a false document using Mouhannad's name. Furthermore, in January 2003 Mouhannad's estranged wife began informing against him and his militant associates (see February 12, 2003 and January 4, 2003). She exposed the brothers' connections to many suspect militants, including Jamal Zougam, who was arrested just two days after the Madrid bombings (see 4:00 p.m., March 13, 2004). As a result of her tips, police had monitored the Virgen del Coro apartment for a year and were still monitoring it when the Madrid bombings took place (see January 17, 2003-Late March 2004). Mouhannad's wife spoke to police five days after the bombings, reminding them of the link between Mouhannad and Zougam, so it is unclear why police waited 13 days to raid the Virgen del Coro apartment. [El Mundo (Madrid), 3/2/2005]
Let Go Despite Confessing Knowledge of Attack Plans - Mouhannad is finally arrested because two witnesses saw Ghalyoun, one of the two militants living in the Virgen del Coro apartment, near the Madrid trains when they were bombed. Mouhannad admits knowing Zougam, the main suspect. He says he had gone to Zougam's shop to buy a charger for his phone. He says he knows Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, another prime suspect in the Madrid bombings, and that in the summer of 2003 Fakhet had proposed several times to "rob banks and jewelers" to finance an attack in Spain. Fakhet even told him that he wanted to go into police stations and kill as many people as possible. The police are also aware that Mouhannad's brother Moutaz and Fakhet were in telephone contact until at least a few days before the bombings. Yet incredibly, on March 30, Mouhannad is "provisionally released," while still be accused of having a link to the bombings. He continues to live openly in Madrid and is not rearrested. [El Mundo (Madrid), 3/2/2005; El Mundo (Madrid), 8/5/2005]
Possible Involvement in Planned New York Attack - In the apartment where Mouhannad had been living, police find a sketch of the Grand Central Station in New York with precise annotations, leading to suspicions that some militants in Spain were planning a New York attack. However, it will take investigators several months to analyze and understand the sketch, as it is on a computer disc and accompanied by highly specialized technical data. [El Mundo (Madrid), 3/2/2005] He will be rearrested in Madrid on March 18, 2005, two weeks after it is widely reported that possible plans for a New York attack were found in his apartment. [El Mundo (Madrid), 8/5/2005] In 2006, a Spanish police report will conclude that the Almallah brothers had such important roles in the Madrid bombings that the bombings "possibly would not have occurred" without them. [Reuters, 3/8/2007] Mouhannad will eventually be sentenced to 12 years in prison (see March 18-19, 2005).
Entity Tags: Mouhannad Almallah's wife, Mouhannad Almallah, Fouad el Morabit, Serhane Abdelmajid Fakhet, Jamal Zougam, Moutaz Almallah, Basel Ghalyoun
March 18-19, 2005: Brothers with Alleged Long-time Al-Qaeda Links Arrested in Britain and Spain
On March 18, 2005, Mouhannad Almallah is arrested in Madrid, Spain. The next day, his brother Moutaz Almallah is arrested in Slough, near London. Both are accused of involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings (see 7:37-7:42 a.m., March 11, 2004). [Independent, 3/20/2005] The arrests come less than two weeks after it was widely reported that in 2004 police had found a sketch of the New York Grand Central Station terminal in an apartment where Mouhannad was living, leading to suspicions that he was involved in a planned attack on New York. [El Mundo (Madrid), 3/2/2005] It appears that Moutaz was under surveillance in Spain for al-Qaeda links since 1995, and Mouhannad since 1998 (see November 1995). Mouhannad was arrested shortly after the Madrid bombings, but then released (see March 16, 2004). Moutaz will be extradited to Spain in March 2007, but he has yet to be put on trial. [Reuters, 3/8/2007] In 2007, Mouhannad will be sentenced to 12 years in prison for a role in the Madrid bombings (see October 31, 2007).
October 31, 2007: 21 People Found Guilty of Role in 2004 Madrid Bombings, but Alleged Mastermind Found Innocent
Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed. [Source: Associated Press]The trial of 28 people accused of a role in the 2004 Madrid train bombings comes to an end, and 21 are found guilty. However, only three are convicted of murder and are given life sentences: Jamal Zougam, Othman El Gnaoui, and Emilio Suarez Trashorras. Seven of the principal bombers blew themselves up one month after the bombings (see 9:05 p.m., April 3, 2004). None of the accused confessed, making convictions difficult. Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed was accused of being the bombing mastermind. While living it Italy, he reportedly bragged, "I was the leader of Madrid," and "the Madrid bombings were my project, and those who died as martyrs there were my beloved friends." But his defense attorneys argued successfully that the tapes were mistranslated and so they were thrown out as evidence. A counterterrorism expert says the court appeared to have a very strict standard of admissible evidence. However, Ahmed is serving a ten-year prison sentence in Italy based on unrelated charges. [Washington Post, 11/14/2004; MSNBC, 10/31/2007; New York Times, 11/1/2007] Many victims' relatives complain that the sentences are too lenient. And a spokesperson for Spain's main opposition party comments, "We still don't know who gave the order, we still don't know who built those bombs, and we still don't know who was the coordinator of these cells that carried out these attacks." [BBC, 11/1/2007] Some of the other verdicts:
Hamid Ahmidan - 23 years.
Rachid Aglif - 18 years.
Abdelmajid Bouchar - 18 years.
Basel Ghalyoun - 12 years.
Mohammed Larbi ben Sellam - 12 years.
Fouad el Morabit - 12 years.
Mouhannad Almallah - 12 years.
Rafa Zouhier - 10 years.
Youssef Belhadj - 12 years.
Antonio Toro - Acquitted.
Carmen Toro - Acquitted. [El Mundo (Madrid), 11/1/2007]
Entity Tags: Rachid Aglif, Mouhannad Almallah, Othman El Gnaoui, Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, Rafa Zouhier, Mohammed Larbi ben Sellam, Emilio Suarez Trashorras, Hamid Ahmidan, Abdelmajid Bouchar, Antonio Toro, Basel Ghalyoun, Carmen Toro, Fouad el Morabit, Jamal Zougam, Youssef Belhadj


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Composing for theremin
Creating a theremin sample set
Posted: 10/4/2014 7:18:31 PM 31
I would really like to hear your opinion on the question of the player 'modifying' the sound from a theremin, and your opinion on the respective 'balance' between the 'waveform' (core sound) put out by the instrument versus what the skilled thereminist (one with "music in their soul" ;-) can do with this, and how much you feel they can / do 'modify' this sound.
Am I barking up the wrong tree (or barking mad ;-)? .. Its ok, If you think I am, you can say so ;-)
You have probably played more classic and modern theremins than anyone else, and really played them - Iam on the 'outside' listening to recordings and subjectively evaluating what I hear, then ripping waveforms apart and coming up with hypotheses to explain my likes and dislikes - but I have no way of objectively evaluating the relative importance of the "component parts".
Some 'objectivity' is needed for the advancement of the instrument I think - If the "holy grail" can be more easily obtained by improving playability or responsiveness, then this should be a primary focus for new developments, if it is waveform or formant's, these may need more attention - But if it primarily comes down to the players skill and 'soul' (as I now suspect) then searching for the "magic" is just a waste of effort - The time better spent on precision engineering of that which can be engineered.
I am almost completely convinced that I am "right", LOL;-), That probably something way in excess of 50% of what makes some theremin performances wonderful and "mystical" is entirely down to the musician.. And I actually think this is true for classical and experimental, precision and 'chaotic' performances - That some people, knowingly or subconsciously, are able to get more from the instrument and particularly the instruments timbre than others, and that this is done real-time and dynamically.
But like everything I want to believe or (as in this case) dont want to believe, I lack faith ;-)
"In recent years the theremin has its advocates that want to make it easier to play, maybe even faking it, but are they be missing the point? What makes the theremin unique is doing something original that can not be done with any other method effectively. If the music can be done on a keyboard better it would be foolish to use a theremin…" - Christopher
Found something we almost fully agree on!
Making the theremin easier by improving its pitch response (linearity etc) or allowing the note span of the field to be adjusted is, IMO, simply improving the instrument - not "faking it".
Also, I can see that someone who doesn't play any other instrument,may want their theremin be able to control other instrument sounds -and I see nothing wrong with facilitating this if possible- provided the instrument is still a good theremin.. IMO its only when the theremin is 'downgraded' in order to achieve the ability for it to sound like something else that this action becomes utter folly - taken to the unimaginable extreme of the theremini which is so wrecked it cant play anything!
rkram53
Fred said: "That probably something way in excess of 50% of what makes some theremin performances wonderful and "mystical" is entirely down to the musician.."
I'd make it more like 85-90% (some would say 100%) and I can apply that statement to virtually any instrument. In this area I don't see the theremin has any distinct difference than any other. The person playing it is what makes it musical. The instrument itself is just making music.
Now as for trying to make a theremin easier. Ok, maybe you can make it a bit easier, but not by a factor of even two I would think. Even your "easy" instrument will take years, if not a lifetime to master. You can say the same for most any instrument as our nature is to always want to improve.
The biggest stumbling block I see for the thermein is not ease of use. It's that there is no huge popular base. Until more people bring it to the public's attention, write for it, make popular recordings (that people really want to hear), etc., I can't see that it can be much more than it is now.
Thank God for YouTube there. Actually, it was Peter's YouTube videos that made me say - "Wow, gotta get one of those. I'm all in".
Hello Rich,
Oh yes - I agree with everything you say above -
my "That probably something way in excess of 50% of what makes some theremin performances wonderful and "mystical" is entirely down to the musician." was in the context of the sound or timbre - of a specific aspect of the theremin / player contribution to this, rather than a 'global' assessment of performance / music.
If you like, thinking software engineering, I suppose I see the tonal aspects as an "object" within a program - If the performance is the 'program' there will be a huge number of other 'objects' (including timing and intonation etc) and the musician is probably 85% - 100% 'responsible' for the performance with instrument in this context..
But if the "tonal object" has a dull or gross waveform,and/or if the player is unable to 'influence' the subtleties of the sound musically, then this 'object' or 'component' will impact on the higher level 'program' or performance.
And within this context alone, I suspect that at least 50% of this object is, quite literally, in the hands of the thereminist.
As for your other points -
Yes, I see that wider use of the theremin in popular music or new classical compositions would help to 'promote' the instrument..
But I really dont think that sampled theremins played on keyboards will promote the theremin, (I dont think this is what you are suggesting) - I agree that perhaps as a tool for composers, later to be played by thereminists, it could be of use - But even here I have huge doubts.. I think a composer would probably be better off playing the theremin badly (and even applying auto-tune) and then presenting this to a thereminist.
"I can't see that it can be much more than it is now."
To be honest, I dont think it ever can be - I think the theremin will always have only an incredibly few number of people who can really play it, that these people, and these people alone, will be the only reason the theremin survives as anything other than a novelty or noise-maker -and that these people alone (and those who came before and whose recordings are played) will be the inspiration for any future theremin virtuosos.
And the masses will play theremini and other junk badly,and somehow enjoy doing so.
Right. That is not at all what I am suggesting. Let's say a composer gets an assignment for a TV show or a video game and the composer needs a theremin sound but the producer only has $ to pay him/her to do the job (as is often the case these days). Well either the composer can get a synth and create a theremin-like sound, or if a really good sample library exists, perhaps that's a better solution for what the composer wants to do.
Then there are folks like me who want to write for the theremin. Well I can write only simple things I can play now, but that's not what a composer wants to do. They want the muse to take them where they need to go.
Perhaps even that a composer is writing a piece for a therminist friend and they want to get a feel for what it might sound like until the friend can play it.
There are plenty of very practical uses for a good theremin sample set (like there are for any sample set). But not to totally replace the theremin or thereminist.
Posted: 10/4/2014 10:53:46 PM 36
I completely agree that "There are plenty of very practical uses for a good theremin sample set (like there are for any sample set). But not to totally replace the theremin or thereminist."
Has truth in it.
I suppose where I see our primary disagreement is on the following:
"In 10 years time I truly believe there will be no one that can tell the difference as long as the musician using the samples really knows what they are doing. Theremin included (assuming anyone wants to create a professional theremin sample library). " - Rich
I do not believe (for reasons given in the last page) that this is true - or more particularly, I certainly dont believe it can ever be true for the theremin.
But you being right or me being right, actually makes not one iota of difference! There can be no down-side to having a great set of theremin samples, there can be no down side to trying to use such a set for whatever purpose..
The only down-side to any of this is probably at a hardware level- IF a new generation of unresponsive "instruments" was to flood the market and make true theremins (and those who can play them) even more obscure than they already are.
Also, I am a bit biased.. I own a hardware sampler and several software ones, and some wave-table instruments, and I really dont like any of them much.. Oh, IMO they are ok (essential) for pianos and organs and pads and the like, and I could never afford (or fit in my room) a Steinway Grand.. But for any instrument that has a natural interface other than a keyboard, I can hear that its a recording - I know that "I" am not bowing the Cello the way I would if I could play a damn cello- I am just playing a key which is triggering the playback of someone else playing the cello -and if I can get away with it, I much prefer to program an analogue synth and get it to make a cello-like sound I have control over - I actually often prefer the fact that its obviously not a real cello that's being played. I have an OTT reaction to the idea of "canned" theremin - it makes me blood run cold! ---- Give me an analogue mono-synth with portamento,pitch and vibrato wheels any day ! ;-)
You may be relieved to hear that I will be saying no more on this matter ;-) .. Please feel free to have the last word, and BTW, absolutely nothing personal about any of this.. I could quite easily change my mind about everything I have said on this matter, I do not have the musical expertise to make the kind of judgments with any authority or certainty - When it comes to music, I hardly even qualify as a hobbyist!
Cuzzin Freddie wrote: "I would really like to hear your opinion on the question of the player 'modifying' the sound from a theremin"
Think of the raw sound of a theremin the way you might think of the color of the paint on the walls of a room.
Now think of the thereminist as a qualified lighting technician.
A lighting technician cannot change the color of the walls but he can give the impression, within certain limitations, that the color is different from what it really is. He does this with the play of light and shadow, which could be compared to the way a skilled thereminist "sculpts" the sound of his or her instrument.
He can also change the apparent color of the room by adding a certain color of light of his own, just the way a thereminist can "flavor" a certain musical passage by playing in a joyful or melancholy style.
"First, have music in your soul. If you have that, you will find a way to do it." Clara Rockmore
Most people believe they have music in their soul and they will tell you so openly. Unfortunately, they often do not. What they really mean is, they love music. That is quite different. To have music in your soul means that music is with you every waking second of every day, and that is not necessarily an enviable thing.
Experts who study sleep tell us that dreaming of music is relatively rare, even among professional musicians and conductors.
Posted: 10/5/2014 2:31:30 AM 38
I've dreamt whole symphonic movements that I swear were original, and I even have thought while dreaming, I have to go write this down immediately when I wake up. Alas, every time I wake up, the minute the cobwebs disappear so does my symphony! This has happened a number of times. Aggravating!
Anyway the piano is one of the most used examples in this discussion of sound vs. music. Technically, what can you do other than hit the key with different force? There is no breathing into it to dynamically change things. No putting vibrato on a key (though some pianists will do that to stir their souls). On the surface, there is very little a musician can do to really affect it's sound. Yet it can be one of the most expressive instruments there is in the hands of a good painter - and the same instrument can sound totally different when played by two different pianists.
Coalport wrote:
Now, about the human voice, as with other traditional instruments, THERE IS CONTACT between the vocal cords and the singer. There is a PHYSICAL link between the "instrument" and the human brain. The only difference is that the link is direct, and not via the hands, feet, or any other of several human appendages.
It sound slightly odd to say "there is contact between the vocal cords and the singer" - it suggests that the vocal cords are not a part of the singer. I would rephrase that as "the vocal cords are a part of the singer", or "the instrument is part of the player."
With the theremin, this situation is reversed; instead of "the instrument is part of the player", the player is part of the instrument. Here is a diagram of the relevant part of the theremin circuit, illustrating this point.
The similarity is that the link is direct, and not "via" the hands or etc.
Posted: 10/5/2014 11:05:49 AM 40
OT (I love this topic):
"To have music in your soul means that music is with you every waking second of every day, and that is not necessarily an enviable thing." - coalport
I constantly have music going through my head, almost always from the last CD listened to (at the moment it's Under my skin by Peter Bradley Adams). It's weird and usually pleasant, but not always. The playback lyrics are sometimes situational in that they have an insightful take on what is transpiring in my emotional life at that very moment. It's as though my subconscious is tipping its hand a bit by moving the needle around.
"Experts who study sleep tell us that dreaming of music is relatively rare, even among professional musicians and conductors." - coalport
"I've dreamt whole symphonic movements that I swear were original, and I even have thought while dreaming, I have to go write this down immediately when I wake up. Alas, every time I wake up, the minute the cobwebs disappear so does my symphony!" - rkram53
Outside of noodling around on guitar I don't compose in waking life, but the same has happened to me regarding composition of folk / pop songs during sleep and the instant evaporation at waking. A couple of times I've caught my lucid brain in "effortless rhyming" mode which can be quite exciting (if it is indeed to be believed, as the observing portion of the brain is necessarily in an altered state). But in general sleep is my only respite from the internal background music.

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As a personal philosophy, it is as clean and clear as you can get. It speaks of focus and dedication with a hint of pragmatism. This is the mindset that has guided Bro. Mike Decker, SVD.
The U.S. Navy veteran turned missionary Brother is a certified medical caregiver. For the last nine years, Bro. Mike directed the SVD Brother Formation Program for the SVD Tri-Province in North America while working in formation at the Theologate in Chicago. He has returned to his alma mater, Divine Word College, in Epworth, Iowa, as director of health and continue to apply his skills in his formation.
Born on New Year's Eve, 1955, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bro. Mike attended Catholic schools. The examples set by the religious he met along the way left lasting impressions. In grade school, a presentation by visiting religious about their missionary work in Papua New Guinea drew his interest. Later, as he attended a high school run by religious Brothers, their faith and community life also struck a chord with him.
After high school, he joined the U.S. Navy where he was trained as a dental technician and he served aboard ships based in Scotland and the U.S. He planned to go into dentistry after he left the Navy, but while in Scotland, he heard the call to religious life. A trip to Rome to visit a relative who was a religious sister proved to be a turning point. After Mass one day, she introduced him to the presiding priest, who happened to an SVD.
Corresponding with the vocation directors there, he visited the college in March 1979.
"I came for a couple days and I just felt at home. The SVDs, the students, it was a good fit for me," he said.
Enrolling that fall, he majored in Sociology and he decided to become a Divine Word Missionary Brother. After graduation, he entered Novitiate at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi and professed First Vows the following year, then it was on to work in a Louisiana parish. Offered the chance to study nursing and eventually help with the care of elderly SVD retirees, he studied nursing and was certified as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), and assigned to the Philippines to open a new retirement facility at Christ the King Seminary, in Quezon City.
In 1995, he was called back to the Southern Province to do similar work at Bay St. Louis. Eventually he asked the Chicago Province for permission to transfer there to be closer to his Ohio family. Given a choice of assignments, he decided to come to Divine Word College to be director of health and do formation. Techny called him in 2007 to be a formator at the Theologate among seminarians and brother candidates and to be director of Brotherhood Formation.
After a decade, he returns to DWC for the third time, once again to take over as director of Health and to work in formation.
Throughout his life, Bro. Mike Decker followed his father's advice. He has consistently applied himself in a career highlighted by the care of the elderly and guidance of the young.


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package org.wso2.carbon.uuf.renderablecreator.hbs.helpers.runtime;

import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.wso2.carbon.uuf.core.RequestLookup;
import org.wso2.carbon.uuf.renderablecreator.hbs.exception.HbsRenderingException;

import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
import static org.wso2.carbon.uuf.renderablecreator.hbs.helpers.runtime.RuntimeHelpersTestUtil.createAPI;
import static org.wso2.carbon.uuf.renderablecreator.hbs.helpers.runtime.RuntimeHelpersTestUtil.createLookup;
import static org.wso2.carbon.uuf.renderablecreator.hbs.helpers.runtime.RuntimeHelpersTestUtil.createRenderable;

/**
 * Test cases for the {@code {{favicon}}} helper.
 *
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
public class FaviconHelperTest {

    @Test
    public void test() {
        RequestLookup requestLookup = createRequestLookup();
        createRenderable("{{favicon \"img/favicon.png\" type=\"image/png\"}}")
                .render(null, createLookup(), requestLookup, createAPI());
        String faviconUrl = "<link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"/myapp/public/component/base/img/favicon.png\" " +
                "type=\"image/png\" />\n";

        String output = createRenderable("X {{placeholder \"favicon\"}} Y")
                .render(null, createLookup(), requestLookup, createAPI());
        Assert.assertEquals(output, "X " + faviconUrl + " Y");
    }

    @Test
    public void testWithDefault() {
        String layoutTemplate = "X" +
                "{{#placeholder \"favicon\"}}" +
                " <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"{{public \"img/default-favicon.png\"}}\" type=\"image/png\"/>" +
                "{{/placeholder}}" +
                " Y";
        String faviconUrl =
                "<link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"/myapp/public/component/base/img/default-favicon.png\" " +
                        "type=\"image/png\"/>";

        String output = createRenderable(layoutTemplate).render(null, createLookup(), createRequestLookup(),
                                                                createAPI());
        Assert.assertEquals(output, "X " + faviconUrl + " Y");
    }

    @Test
    public void testValidation() {
        Assert.assertThrows(HbsRenderingException.class,
                            () -> createRenderable("{{favicon null}}")
                                    .render(null, createLookup(), createRequestLookup(), createAPI()));
    }

    private static RequestLookup createRequestLookup() {
        RequestLookup requestLookup = RuntimeHelpersTestUtil.createRequestLookup();
        when(requestLookup.getPublicUri()).thenReturn("/myapp/public/component/base");
        return requestLookup;
    }
}

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I have finally plucked up the courage (& the cash!) to invest in scleral contact lenses, which, if they live up to all they promise, will be marvellous - I'll be able to read street names, road signs, music without falling over myself & the music stand trying to see the notes & generally be less of a hazard to all other life forms.
Does anyone else here use them & how have you found them?
I haven't even heard of them! Let us know what you think.
I would recommend them, though. . . crystal clear vision & no Picasso-like astigmatic distortions!
Interesting. Thanks for the update. Like Mollarre, I had never heard of them until you posted your original post.
I have a friend who went for a completely different solution to eyesight problems. He got implanted lenses. This has been a standard treatment for cataracts for something like 40+(?) years but can also be used to improve some poor sight issues. However, it doesn't work as well for people have have had lasic or related laser surgery.
Yes! Thank you for the update! I'm very glad you're finding success with then - you and Bach!


Museum professionals and archaeologists met in London today to discuss how to tackle the growing issue of what to do with archaeological archives in the UK as institutions rapidly run out of space to store them. In fact, many museums have stopped acquiring these types of collections, even though excavations continue to be big business.
"We have archival material in museums that are becoming increasingly inaccessible because of the lack of specialist archaeology curators and we have museums that are ceasing to collect this material which has created a backlog that has nowhere to go," said Duncan Brown, the head of archaeological archives at English Heritage, who was one of the speakers at the Museums Association's conference "Dig It! Museums and Archaeology", held at the British Museum on Friday. A 2012 report on the subject, by the consultant Rachel Edwards for the Society for Museum Archaeologists and English Heritage, stated that there are more than 9,000 undepositable archives in the UK.
The question of what to do with the excess materials was not fully answered, although when a woman in the audience asked if museums should sell unwanted pieces in their bookshops, the panel was unanimous in saying no. Stephenson added that at one point, the Museum of London offered pot sherds encased in acrylic in the gift shop, but the items weren't a big seller—he still has most of them in his office.
The conference was organised in association with the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Council for British Archaeology.


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Kolašin (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Колашин, ) is a town in northern Montenegro. It has a population of 2,989 (2003 census). Kolašin is the centre of Kolašin Municipality (population 9,949) and an unofficial centre of Morača region, named after Morača River.

History

Ottoman period
Kolašin, fortress-settlement, was raised by the Turks in the middle of the 17th century in the namesake village in Nikšić district (nahiye). The village of Kolašin was first mentioned in the Sultan's Decree in 1565, by which the deceased Grand Duke Miloš was replaced by his son Todor. The Turkish town was named after the former village of Kolašin.

In 1651, Patriarch Gavrilo assigned Eparch of Zahumsko, the Eparchy of Nikšić, Plana, the Kolašinovićevs and the Morača to Basil of Ostrog. This document also, like the one from 1667, shows that the Orthodox Christian population of this region called the Kolašinovići, was organized in a recognized and respected tribal community of the Kolašinovićs. The historical science and sources recognize the surname Kolašinović. By all odds, the name was also derived, same as the name of the region, fortress – settlement and the tribe from the same source – the village of Kolašin.

It was in 1798 when young Mina Radović, the son of tke Duke Radule, who had been killed by the Turks, ambushed and killed Hasanbeg Mekić, who had come to collect taxes, in the vicinity of Morača monastery. The attack had been arranged with the Montenegrin ruler Petar I Petrović-Njegoš. Mina Radović received the title of Duke and, in 1799, during the convention of the people's prominent representatives of Montenegro and the Hills held in Cetinje, he was nominated a member of the Court Administration of Montenegro and the Hills, in charge of judicial and administrative power. This meant that the Montenegrin government considered the Morača region to be a legitimate part of Montenegro.

Late modern
Rebecca West visited the town of Kolasin in the 1930s where she learned that in the 18th century,Bosniaks Muslims and Orthodox Montenegrins lived in peace. In 1858, however, several Montenegrin tribes attacked the town and destroyed all the inhabitants who had kept their Bosniak identity or who were Muslim.

There is a document written by Duke Miljan Vukov, who headed the Vasojević tribe in that battle, about the attack on Kolašin in 1858. It was the bloodiest battle in all of Montenegro: I participated in many a battle as ? Flag bearer, captain and warlord – he testified – but none of them had been so fierce and bloody as was the battle for taking Kolašin in 1858, which was, truly, one of the bloodiest that had ever happened in the vicinity of Montenegro.

The victory in that bloody battle established the new borders of Montenegro towards the regions that still remained under the Turkish rule. Fighting for liberation continued on the left bank of the Tara River around the Lower Kolašin villages. The Lipovo battle in 1872 is particularly remembered. There was no peace until the Congress of Berlin when Kolašin joined the principality Montenegro and later 1918. the Kingdom of Yugoslavia created immediately after the World War I, all until it was disintegrated.

By the decisions of the Congress of Berlin, in 1878, Kolašin officially became a part of Montenegro. This was preceded with fierce fighting with the Ottoman Empire over the Kolašin region. Constant battles had been waged by the members of Rovca, Drobnjaci, Morača, Vasojevići, Uskoci and other Serbian tribes of Montenegro to take this and other parts of the land from the Ottomans.
During this period, Kolašin was home to a significant Bosniak community. They were largely expelled in different waves during the late 19th century [[Expulsion of the Bosniaks 1877–1878|expulsion of the Bosniaks] fleeing to Turkey, Skopje (Pristina) and Macedonia. The Montenegrin forces also robbed the Bosniaks before the expulsion. In May 1901, Bosniaks pillaged and partially burned the cities of Novi Pazar, Sjenica and Pristina, and massacred Serbs in the area of Kolašin.

Contemporary
The Bulgarian foreign ministry compiled a report about the five kazas (districs) of the sanjak of the Novi Pazar in 1901-02.  According to the Bulgarian report, the kaza of Kolašin was almost entirely populated by Bosniaks. According to it, the kaza of Kolašin had 27 Bosniak villages with 732 households and 5 Serb villages with 75 households.

A year or two after the Congress of Berlin, the Kolašin brigade of Montenegro's people's army was formed. During the World War I, by the end of 1915 and in the beginning of 1916, it played a major part under the command of Serdar Janko Vukotić as part of the Sandžak army. In the famous Battle of Mojkovac, it successfully defended the gates of Mojkovac having repelled all the attack by much more numerous soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army.

In the liberation wars between 1912 and 1918, the brigade lost more than 1000 soldiers and officers.
In the Second World War, the Kolašin region again suffered hardship, heavy human casualties and destruction, including a Partisan massacre of over 350 civilians on Orthodox Christmas in January 1942. After the Italian capitulation, this part of Montenegro was free and so, on November 15 and 16, 1943, the First Session of the National Antifascist Council of Montenegro and Boka was held in Kolašin, attended by 544 delegates from all regions of Montenegro and 42 of them from Kolašin district, and its decisions were of critical importance for  reconstruction and rebuilding of the Montenegrin state. In those days, Kolašin was the war capital  of Montenegro.

The town of Kolašin changed hands several times between 1941 and 1944. It was bombarded 18 times by the Germans and Italians. Finally, on December 29, 1944, the town was conquered by the soldiers of the 5th Montenegrin Proletarian Brigade. In the national liberation struggle in the period of 1941–1945, more than 1400 soldiers from the Kolašin region took part and almost 400 died. Around 250 patriots lost their lives in various aggressors' torture chambers and on execution sites, and there were quite a lot of futile victims of fratricidal war.

Climate
The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is Dfb. (Warm Summer Continental Climate).

Sports
The local football team is former third tier club FK Gorštak, who play their home games at the Stadion u Lugu. The town's basketball team is KK Gorštak.

Tourism

Kolašin is one of the centres of Montenegro's mountain tourism. Although Žabljak is considered more attractive destination, Kolašin has the advantage of being easily accessible by road and rail.

Kolašin is located on the foot of Bjelasica and Sinjajevina mountains, which offer great conditions for skiing. Because of Kolašin's altitude (954 m), the town is considered an air spa.

Biogradska Gora national park is in the town's vicinity, and is considered a premium tourist attraction.
The development of Kolašin as a tourist destination is bolstered by opening of Bianca Resort & Spa, a luxury resort in town's center.

Transport

Kolašin is connected with rest of Montenegro by two-laned motorways. It is situated on the main road connecting Montenegro's coast and Podgorica with northern Montenegro and Serbia (E65, E80).

Kolašin is also a station on Belgrade–Bar railway.

Podgorica Airport is  away, and has regular flights to major European destinations.

Media
 Ozon Radio

Notable people
 Slavko Labović, a Danish Serbian actor
 Veljko Vlahović, Montenegrin communist politician
 Vlado Šćepanović, a Montenegrin professional basketball coach and former player
 Gavrilo V, Serbian Patriarch, 41st Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church
 Milovan Jakšić, a former football goalkeeper
 Amfilohije Radović, Serbian Orthodox metropolitan bishop

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities
Kolašin is twinned with:

 Lovech, Bulgaria
 Prijepolje, Serbia
 Slovianoserbsk, Ukraine

See also
Bjelasica Mountain
Biogradska Gora National Park
Tourism in Montenegro

References

External links

 The official website for Kolašin tourism
 Kolašin municipality official website
 Kolašin info (English)
 Ski centre Kolašin1450

Populated places in Kolašin Municipality
Ski areas and resorts in Montenegro

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he annual Lunchtime Concert Series returns to the Upper West Side this week with FREE outdoor performances every Wednesday through the end of September. The concerts are noon to 2 p.m. in Richard Tucker Park, the triangle between Broadway and Columbus Ave. at 66th St. Accompanying the musicians is YogaWorks, which will hold free restorative stretch sessions in between music sets for those looking for some additional lunch time relaxation. Plus, neighborhood restaurants will offer free lemonade for both music lovers and yoga enthusiasts.
This week is a jazz theme, with the Yaz Band and John Colianni Jazz Combo. See the Lincoln Square BID website for the full schedule.
On August 28th the concert series will feature a special tribute to Richard Tucker in honor of his 100th birthday b the Opera Collective.


The opening of GTCI is part of SKF's technology strategy to develop a global product development and engineering organisation. The new Global Technical Center will incorporate the existing Global Testing Center, opened in 2009 and the Automotive Development Centre, opened in 2004, both of which are located in Bengaluru. In 2010, SKF opened a Global Technical Center in China.
"India and SE Asia are very important markets for SKF. The opening of this centre further reinforces our commitment to support our customers in these fast developing markets by bringing our core research and development close to them. This will enable us to develop new products to support their unique requirements," says Tom Johnstone, SKF President and CEO.
SKF has invested around SEK 75 million in GTCI, which will employ approximately 400 engineers in the areas of product engineering and development, as well as laboratories for testing metallurgy, chemistry and bearing performance analysis.


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HoloBuilder Inc., founded in 2016 by Mostafa Akbari-Hochberg, Simon Heinen, and Kristina Tenhaft with the goal to assist builders and engineers to create immersive progress views of construction sites.

The company is a German–American construction-technology startup, developed in both San Francisco, California, and Aachen, Germany. They offer tools to create and share 360° views of construction sites and buildings. These digitized sites help organizations in managing their real-world counterparts effortlessly. As of 2016, HoloBuilder has been used in over 190 countries around the world, with more than 15,000 projects created and 800,000 viewers.

The cloud-based software provides virtual reality capturing of construction sites. HoloBuilder for constructions focuses on the whole development process, from the planning phase up until maintenance management.

Products

HoloBuilder
Holobuilder.com is an online virtual reality capturing software. This means that users can easily and quickly create virtual tours using 360° photos through your construction site.
When reliable and affordable 360° cameras hit the market, it became easier than ever to capture surroundings with the tap of a button.

HoloBuilder projects support multiple sheets, making it easy to manage big construction sites with multiple floors in one web-based project, which is accessible remotely, coupled with the time-travel feature, another functionality that makes it easy to track the progress over time on a construction site.

Users include construction companies, realtors. architects, designers and Industry 4.0 companies who use it to create Virtual Tours of real estate properties, construction sites or digital Augmented Reality user manuals.

These projects can be created and viewed in the browser and are embeddable into any website as an iFrame. HoloBuilder leverages HTML5 and WebGL to be usable in browsers without the need of plugins such as Adobe Flash, and in mobile browsers.  It uses the device sensors to support browser-based VR in Google Cardboard and similar VR headsets.

Users can import their 360 pictures taken with cameras like the Ricoh Theta S and combine them with 3D models from editors like AutoCAD, SketchUp or Blender.

JobWalk app

The JobWalk App enables users to create virtual 360° tours on the go. The user connects a 360° Camera with his mobile device via Wi-Fi. After taking 360° images and linking the scenes, the 360° tour can be synchronized with the web-platform.

Product details

Supported imports
 360° images captured by 360° cameras
 Revit renderings
 Navisworks

Features
 Collaboration in real-time: allows to invite an unlimited number of collaborators
 TimeTravel: time travel allows to capture progress over time by adding multiple 360° pictures to the same location point on a sheet
 Multiple sheets: Allows to add more than just one sheet, e.g. floorplans, to a single HoloBuilder project
 Add 3D objects
 Add 2D objects
 Face blurring
 Import HoloBuilder projects into a new one
 Share projects
 Embedding HoloBuilder projects as iframe

Other
 Constructech Commercial Top Products 2017
 Gartner Cool Vendor 2016
 Ricoh Theta Grand Prize 2015

References

External links
 Holobuilder official website
 Tutorials for usage of holobuilder.com functionalities

Computer-aided design software
Technology companies of the United States
Virtual reality
Web applications


The Tesla Model S has been on sale for just over four years now, and its global sales seem to be staying steady.
They're strong enough, in fact, that Tesla Motors claims the electric car dominates its competitive segment.
That's a trend first noticed back in 2013, and a claim that relies on exactly how the competitive segment for the Model S is defined.
The Model S was the top seller among "large luxury sedans" in the U.S. during the third quarter of 2016, according to Bloomberg.
That declaration was based on Q3 sales figures submitted by Tesla for both the Model S and selected vehicles in the U.S. market that it deemed to be competitors.
According to Tesla, the Model S achieved 9,156 sales in Q3, representing a 59-percent increase over the same period in 2015.
It also gave the Model S a 32-percent market share, by Tesla's estimation.
In comparison, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan only managed 4,921 sales in the third quarter.
That represented a 9-percent decrease from Q3 2015, and gave the Mercedes sedan 17 percent of the market.
The S-Class was trailed by the recently-redesigned BMW 7-Series, which recorded 3,634 sales in Q3 2016.
The Tesla-submitted figures also showed the Model S beating sedans from several other prestigious luxury brands, including Audi, Lexus, Maserati, and Jaguar.
Tesla's success against established manufacturers remains impressive, but there are a few things worth noting about this comparison.
The term "large luxury sedan" is somewhat nebulous, and while many of the cars listed are often grouped together for comparisons, they are not universally acknowledged to comprise a competitive set.
The Model S is actually closer in size to mid-size luxury sedans like the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and BMW 5-Series, although its price approaches those of the larger S-Class and 7-Series.
It's also technically a hatchback, although Tesla did include two other hatchbacks—the Audi A7 and Porsche Panamera—on its list.
Sales of these expensive luxury cars, which Tesla estimated at 28,856 units in Q3, also represent a fairly small fraction of the millions of new cars sold in the U.S. every year.
In other words, Tesla has a substantial piece of a very small pie.
Meanwhile, Tesla also said the Model X crossover logged approximately 5,428 U.S. sales in the third quarter, giving it 6 percent of its segment.
Tesla said that was enough to outsell certain Porsche and Land Rover models. But it noted that the Model X still trailed large SUVs from Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Lexus, Cadillac, and Volvo.


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A very light strategy game, not really a bad game, just not my thing.
If you like turn-based strategy, it's a game for you.
The game has a lot of potential, but the gameplay is simply: buy improvements - use it - lead the battles. Sometimes it's boring, sometimes relaxing.


The masculine soul is created to speak and move. So it makes sense that our primary sin will be avoidance or not moving.
Take a look at Genesis 3. Where was Adam when Eve ate the fruit? It appears he was right there. He didn't speak. He didn't intervene. He looked on in silence as Eve acted on the temptation of the serpent. He didn't say anything. He didn't do anything. His initial sin occurred simultaneously with hers.
Up until that point the world was to go easily for man, it is now filled with thorns and thistles. And thorns and thistles bring pain and blood so we don't like them. So we avoid. 'It's too hard." At times in my life I did not try something new because I was afraid of (fill in the blank) so I avoided.
After my 4th grade year we moved to Missouri from Virginia. I really like playing baseball. I was afraid of going to tryouts in Missouri when we arrived here. Maybe I thought the 10 year olds were going to be seven feet tall or with 30 biceps. Whatever drove the fear, I froze. I refused to go to tryouts and missed out on playing a game I really enjoyed.
It's an example of my avoidance as a man. And no happy ending with it. I never playing organized baseball again. I did play one year of fast pitch softball when I was around thirty. It was a redemptive experience to be back out on the dirt infield. I mostly sucked as a hitter, but I still had a great time being on the field and playing.
A great resource on our avoidence as men is Silence of Adam by Larry Crabb.
Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.


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Kentucky: Will Mitch McConnell seriously propose a $700 Million tax increase on Kentuckians tonight?? UPDATE: He did it!!
What arglebargle will come out of Mitch McConnell's mouth regarding trying to yank healthcare away from over half a million Kentuckians this evening?
The Big Senate Debate of the day promises to be the showdown in Kentucky between Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Challenger (and current Secretary of State) Alison Lundergan Grimes.
According to NBC News, there's a chance, at least, that McConnell may finally have to provide a straight answer as to what he intends to do to provide health insurance to the 527,000 Kentuckians (and counting) who are currently enrolled in either private policies or Medicaid via the Kynect healthcare exchange.
Otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act healthcare exchange.
Otherwise known as the Obamacare healthcare exchange.
For his part, McConnell is likely to face questions about health care.
The senator has said he favors repealing Obamacare. But he has been repeatedly pressed on the impact that would have on Kentucky, which had a very successful rollout of the program, with more than 400,000 people now enrolled. Data released earlier this year from Gallup showed that Kentucky ranked second in reducing its uninsured population since Obamacare's inception, behind only Arkansas.
McConnell has suggested the Bluegrass State can keep in place "kynect," the name Kentucky has given its health care exchange, even if Obamacare is repealed. This is technically true, but also very misleading.
If Obamacare were repealed, the federal funds to expand Medicaid and offer subsidized health insurance for people through the exchanges would be gone. It's unlikely Kentuckians would enroll through a health insurance program called "kynect" without the huge discounts in price that come from it being a part of the national health care law.
Glad to hear that this is likely to be on the table. However, a couple of things:
1. As noted above, the total number of Kentucky residents who are enrolled in an ACA-provided policy (private or public) now tops 527,000, not 400,000...and that was a month ago. My guess is the Medicaid side has pushed the total up to around 550K by now.
2. Actually, there is a way that McConnell could keep "kynect" in place, exactly as is, even if the Affordable Care Act was overturned, including Medicaid expansion, tax credits to private enrollees and all. There's only two catches:
The state legislature & Governor would have to agree to it, and...
Oh, yeah: It would impose an additional $700 MILLION TAX (or higher) on the residents of Kentucky.
Now, I know that Kentucky residents hate President Obama.
I know that Ms. Grimes is very reluctant to mention the "O" word under any circumstances.
The fact remains, however, that repealing "Obamacare" means repealing Kynect, and more importantly means taking away the funds for Medicaid expansion & private policy tax credits for over half a million Kentuckians.
Somehow I doubt that a Republican Senator from Kentucky is going to be too keen on adding $160 in new taxes each year to every man, woman and child in his state, but it'll be fun to find out.
UPDATE: Well I'll be damned. He did indeed propose a $700 Million annual tax increase per year for Kentuckians!!
From last night's debate:
McConnell: Now, with regards to kynect, it's a state exchange, they can continue it if they'd like to, they'd have to pay for it because the grant would be over. And with regard to the Medicaid expansion, that's a state decision. The states can decide whether to expand Medicaid or not. In our state, the Governor decided to expand Medicaid...
Moderator: And you would support the continuation of kynect?
McConnell: That's the state's decision; several states have...
Moderator: But would you support it?
McConnell: Well yeah, that's fine (chuckle) I think it's fine to have a website.


Are Cheap Cars Online a Viable Option for Me?
If you balk at the idea of spending a fortune on your next car purchase, you might want to consider some of the options that are available through the web. Cheap cars online are readily available as long as you know how to look and can separate the good from the bad. The following are some of the best ways to look for affordable vehicles on the web.
While you might not be keen on buying from a dealer, it is still an option worth researching online. It will give you an opportunity to look at the stock the dealership has available right now, and you can see the prices they are asking for the vehicles.
Keep in mind that these prices are not always set in stone. You can always negotiate, even online. Contact the company, let them know about the car that interests you and get as much information on it as possible. You could even start negotiating at that point, but they will likely want you to come to the dealership to see the vehicle in person and to drive it. Still, it is a good way to get started searching for cheap cars online.
In addition to the vehicles that are available through dealerships, you will often find private sellers who have cars that they want to get rid of for one reason or another. They often advertise on sites such as Craigslist, and you can usually see some photos of the vehicle, as well as get some basic information. They do not usually provide the same amount of detail that you would find at a dealership, though, and they may not tell you about some of the vehicle's faults.
Try to get a history of the car through a site such as Carfax.com before you buy one of these vehicles. One of the drawbacks to trying to find cheap cars online from private sellers though is that your selection will be seriously limited. You have to be extremely lucky to find what you want.
Also, you will never want to send any money to the person before you are sure you are getting the vehicle. You will want to see the cars from private sellers in person, drive them, and get them checked out by a mechanic before you make your decision.
One of the best ways to find cheap cars online is through auctions. There are many online auctions available, and you can find quite a few different varieties of vehicles. Auctions will sometimes have new and nearly new vehicles, as well as used and salvage vehicles available. This means that the prices the vehicles sell for at auction will vary widely, and you need to know exactly what you want to get and can afford before you get too excited about bidding.
Something else you might want to try is to work with a dealer that can give you access to dealer only auctions. These tend to have high-quality vehicles, some of which you might be able to get at the wholesale price. The dealer will have a website that you can browse through showing all of the vehicles that will be on the auction block. Just as with the other methods of finding and buying cheap cars online, you need to make sure you research the vehicles you buy through auction so you know what you are getting.
As we mentioned, some of the vehicles will have salvage titles. As long as they aren't a "parts only" title, then you can rebuild them, get a rebuilt title, and get back on the road. Always make sure you know exactly what you are getting, though, as there is no changing your mind after you've purchased a vehicle at the auction.
One of the best tips for buying cheap cars online is to know your budget and stick to it. This is true whether you are buying from a dealer, private seller, or through an auction. You can negotiate with dealers on the car lot, as well as private sellers. You can't negotiate at an auction, but you can control how much you are willing to bid on the different vehicles.
Once again, make sure you put in the time to research the vehicle so you know it's something that you really want, and you know how much time and effort you may need to put in so you can get the car into drivable condition.
Using these methods, it is possible to find some great cheap cars online. Just make sure you are buying with your head and not your heart, so you will be happy with your decision.


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How One Organization Is Turning the Women of 'Orange Is the New Black' into Prison Activists
"If you care about these characters, remember that there are so many real women who are just like them and need your help."
By Mattie Kahn
Almost a decade before Netflix turned Piper Kerman's memoir of her time in prison into the addictive Orange Is the New Black Netflix series, Kerman was just one of millions of newly released inmates ready to put her world back together.
"I was lucky in a lot of ways," Kerman told me at the Women's Prison Association's Orange Is the New Black premiere party this weekend. "When I got out of prison, I had a stable place to live. I had people around me. I had help finding a job. But I needed a lot, too. Every person who gets released from prison or jail needs help to come home safely and successfully." And women, Kerman continued, are especially in need of support. Often the heads of households, women leave behind extremely vulnerable families when they are sent to prison and are under incredible pressure to provide for their children or relatives when they return.
"When a man is locked up, there is usually a woman somewhere who is sort of holding down the fort for him," Kerman explained. "But that is less true for women who are incarcerated. When they come home, there is so little structure to support them." Realizing the imbalance, Kerman got involved with the Women's Prison Association (WPA) soon after her own release.
"Women come out of these institutions having gotten very little rehabilitation that caters to what they need."
The WPA works with women during every step of the criminal justice process, advocating for alternatives to their incarceration, supporting them while they're in prison or jail, and offering them resources to help them rebuild their lives once thy've returned to their communities. Kerman is so passionate about what they do that she now sits on the board. "Prisons are built by and for men," she said. "The whole system caters to the 93 percent of offenders who are men. And so women come out of these institutions having gotten very little rehabilitation that caters to what they need. Organizations like the Women's Prison Association do that work. They recognize the unique hurdles that women have to overcome."
Kerman has spread the gospel. Several OITNB cast members now volunteer for the Women's Prison Association on her recommendation. "I love what they do," says Alysia Reiner, who plays prison matron Fig on the show and has been a staunch supporter of the WPA since it premiered. "As I've met more and more of the women they've impacted, I've realized what a gift it is to be part of this work." Reiner has always felt that her work on set and her volunteer commitments go hand-in-hand, but she credits Orange Is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan for communicating the relationship between entertainment and activism: "She's the person who showed me that sometimes it's only when we make art about things that are wrong can we change them. It's when we tell the truths we're afraid to tell that we're able to maybe make a difference."
"Women do not just wake up in the morning and decide today is the day they want to commit a crime."
No surprise: the WPA is glad the women behind the show are sounding the alarm. "If you watch Orange Is the New Black then you already know what we know, which is that women do not just wake up in the morning and decide today is the day they want to commit a crime," said Georgia Lerner, executive director of the Women's Prison Association. Lerner celebrates the emotional heft that the show gives its characters, "showing the paths they took that got them into prison" and giving us a window into what their lives could look like when they leave.
"No woman's story starts when she gets arrested and it doesn't end when she gets locked up," Lerner explained. And she wishes viewers of the show would learn more about the women who are locked up probably not too far from them. "So many people are just doing the best they can when they end up in prison or jail, which is not to excuse the crimes they commit. It's just to say that as a society, we wait until we catch people screwing up, then we punish them, and then we expect them be fixed. The truth is a lot more complicated."
To learn more about the Women's Prison Association, visit their website.
Mattie Kahn Mattie Kahn is a writer who lives in New York.
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that matched the rating plate.
not insert the power plug.
-- This constitutes a fire hazard.
with local and national codes.
-- This may cause frostbite.
for 2 hours after installation.
the inside of the refrigerator.
-- Risk of children entrapment.
children go inside the drawer.
Shelf stopper could not work.
because of glass shelf drop.
-- Do not use a ventilating fan.
and LED Lamp by yourself.
cord or loose wall socket.
with water on the appliance.
due to the ultraviolet rays.
an electric or fire hazards.
shading of the steel plate.
near to already existing food.
•Do not block air holes.
an electric shock or fire.
will form in the freezer.
-- Catering and similar nonretail applications.
as described in this instruction manual.
performed by a qualified individual.
cooling system may not work correctly.
-- Overall space required in use.
Refer to drawing and dimension as below.
-- Otherwise, there is a risk of electric shock.
refrigerator doors to open easily.
back and top for air circulation.
temperature will go below 10 °C.
Otherwise, it may cause floor damage.
higher than the rear side.
full features and functions of the appliance.
back of this user guide.
Refer to installation instructions in this manual.
temperature and wait for an hour.
hours to reach the appropriate temperature.
will sound. Press Freezer or Fridge button.
by carefully lifting the door straight up.
yourself when removing the door.
5. Disassemble the Middle hinge.
hinge by carefully lifting the door straight up.
7. Lay the refrigerator carefully.
Remove the Leg ( 1 ) and the Hinge Low ( 2 ).
Freezer Door in the middle hinge.
Auto Closer ( 2 ) from right to the left.
the Shaft-hinge ( 1 ).
Guide auto close like this Picture.
Low and Fridge Door with Assy Hinge Up.
Fridge Door (Display model only).
like a Picture ( 3 ).
15.Assemble the Cover Hinge to match the Hinge.
side and assemble the door cover.
• Insert the Top Hinge on the Cabinet.
17.Switch the handles from the to left the right.
the inside gasket to the right ( B ).
control panel, you will hear a short beep.
turned on at the corresponding functions.
temperature while Vacation function is on.
compartment before using Vacation function.
Select Zone does not work.
Coolselect Zone function will be activated.
freeze products in the freezer.
freezer indicator will not change display.
This function switches off automatically.
switches back to the previous temperature setting.
Freezer button for 3 seconds.
activate Power Freeze function 20 hours before.
-- When the refrigerator is turned on.
position like as previous illustration.
(optional) just above the bottom drawer.
calculated with these parts removed.
permitted storage period of the produce in months.
date of manufacture or sell-by date.
flavour or drying out, place in airtight containers.
• Check that the packaging is not damaged.
• Check the sell-by date.
shelf life of the frozen food is reduced.
food before the use-by date expires.
Place the food in the packaging.
Press out all the air.
Label the wrapping with the contents and date.
refuse bags and used shopping bags.
blown film can be sealed with a film sealer.
• In a microwave oven.
to thaw or which has already thawed.
been prepared (boiled or fried).
Storage duration depends on the type of food.
There is a risk of falling.
by lifting up after remove shelves.
detergent for risk of fire.
1. Unplug the power cord of the refrigerator.
it is clean and dry.
4. Plug the power cord of the refrigerator.
Please contact your service agents.
• Is the temperature control on the front panel set to the coldest temperature?
always be effective. However, this is not abnormal.
when the moisture in the air comes into contact with the cool surface of the appliance.
• Make sure that strong smelling food (for example, fish) is wrapped so that it is airtight.
• Clean out your refrigerator periodically and throw away any spoiled or suspect food.
• Are the air outlet vents blocked by food stored inside the refrigerator?
door has been left open for a long time.
Check if the power plug is correctly connected.
Is the temperature control on the front panel correctly set?
Does sun shine on the appliance or are there any heat sources nearby?
Is the back of the appliance too close to the wall?
Check if the appliance is installed on a stable and even floor.
Have any foreign objects fallen behind or under the appliance?
Is the noise coming from the compressor in the appliance?
A ticking sound occurs when the various accessories contract or expand.
marked on the rating plate.
ambient temperature and the frequency with which you open the door.
Adjust the temperature as required to compensate for these factors.


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The 2019 Parker Thomson Awards for Outstanding Legal Journalism in Florida were presented Thursday in St. Petersburg during the 2019 Florida Media Conference. The awards are presented by The Florida Bar's Media & Communications Law Committee in recognition of outstanding journalism highlighting the system of law and justice as it affects Floridians. Awards were presented in two categories. First-place awards were worth $500, and second-place honors received $250. All honorees and their media outlets received plaques. The winners:
First Prize: Kathryn Varn and Zack Sampson, Tampa Bay Times, "Stand Your Ground"
In a series of stories, the pair reported about a 2018 fatal shooting outside a Clearwater convenience store and the role of a high-profile Florida law in the case. "A good look at Florida's controversial 'Stand Your Ground' law and how it was applied," one contest judge said.
Second Prize: Tessa Duvall, The Florida Times-Union, "When Kids Kill'
Tessa Duvall's series of stories focused on Duval County's status as having Florida's highest rate of minors arrested on murder and manslaughter charges and possible reasons why. "Great data-driven read on an important problem in Jacksonville," one member of the awards jury said.
First Prize: Greg Fox, WESH-TV 2, "Noor Salman on Trial"
Greg Fox's reporting focused on the widow of the Pulse nightclub shooter and the woman's legal woes in the massacre's aftermath. "Good shoe-leather reporting," a contest judge said.
Second Prize: No award given.
The Parker Thomson awards honor news stories, series, features, editorials, blogs, documentaries, columns, special sections — anything that is produced by a news organization and deals with law and lawyers, courts, law enforcement, the delivery of legal services, the effectiveness of the justice system, the work of the organized Bar or related matters. The media competition is in its 64th year. This year's awards honored works published or produced in 2018. Thomson was a Florida attorney who, from 1968 to 1983, represented numerous prominent clients in First Amendment cases. He argued three cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, including Miami Herald Publishing Company v. Tornillo in 1974. He won that case, helping to overturn a state law that required newspapers to allocate equal space to political candidates on the editorial pages. Thomson died in 2017 at the age of 85.
EDITORS: Please note The Florida Bar is not an association and "Association" is not part of our name. Proper reference is "The Florida Bar." Local bar organizations are properly termed "associations."


Details about how the proposed safe zone would be established and run have not been proffered by either Turkey or the United States writes Asharq al-Awsat.
A Senior Kurdish official rejected a proposal floated by Turkey controlling a "security zone" in Kurdish-held territory in northeastern Syria.
"Military leaders at the US-led International Coalition have not yet presented us with a plan for establishing a safe zone. Up until this moment it remains nothing more than a phone call discussion between the US, Turkish presidents,"Aldar Khalil, a senior political leader at the Syrian Democratic Forces local administrative councils, told Asharq Al-Awsat.
Khalil, citing a Trump tweet, added that no timeline has yet been provided on the plan which would lead to building such a zone.
"We have sent a direct speech requiring to be detailed on the plans entailing such a zone. If it was under the international coalition's control, then it is welcomed, but if it was run by Turkey, then we will not allow for such a thing to materialize," Khalil said.
Such a territory cannot be arbitrarily run, Khalil added.
"ISIS remained in control of Syrian pockets near Turkish borders for two years, and Ankara did not propose establishing such an area at the time," Khalil said, drawing attention to Turkey's inexplicable hatred for Kurdish presence in Syria.
More so, Khalil pointed out that Turkey has nearly turned a blind eye to Tahrir al-Sham (formerly the Nusra Front), the Syrian branch of the extremist al-Qaeda organization, controlling the entire province of Idlib.
Khalil reiterated that Turkey is mainly driven to its hatred of the democratic character of Kurds in Syria, who played a major role in combating extremism and terrorism side by side with Washington.
"In March last year, Turkey took control of the city of Afrin–and before that took over the cities of Jarablus and the Al Bab–and sought to control Manbaj and northeastern Syria, all in an aim to remove them from the power of the Syrian state and mold them into its own sphere of influence," Khalil said.
Turkish interventions are designed to advance the goal of establishing a connected zone from Syria's Aleppo to Iraq's Mosul, Khalil said.