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Boneyfiddle's Bazler keeps it clean
By Joseph Pratt
Thousands of tourists visit the riverfront and spend time crawling down Front Street in their cars to take in the detailed history of Portsmouth through the floodwall murals.
A trip down Front Street this summer will show a clean view, sans weeds and trash. The cleanup of the area was all thanks to Margaret Bazler, an 85-year-young retiree living across from them in Riverview Apartments.
Bazler has been a tenant of Riverview Apartments for nearly two years, after suffering from kidney failure and a few other health issues. Even at her age, Bazler said that she doesn't consider any of her outdoor maintenance or gardening work, because it is a passion for her. She went on to explain that she was once a city girl who married and moved to a farm, where she discovered a love of flowers.
"One day, my husband was out of town and my sisters and I just took his plow, attached it to our Jeep, and we began what would become the most beautiful garden anyone could ever see," Bazler said.
Bazler said that the idea to clean Front Street came from her son, Butch Stall. Stall is a local history enthusiast and a member of the Portsmouth Murals Incorporated. Stall discussed clean-up plans with his mother before leaving for a vacation, and when he came back, she had taken it upon herself to completely weed and clean the murals in front of Riverfront Apartments.
Not only that, but the dedicated gardener also took cleaning supplies and went up and down Front Street, cleaning each mural information stand to make them as good as new.
"There were days that it got so hot, and I became so tired, but I just found spots to sit and rest," Bazler said. "I spent quite some time on the bench in front of Tom Russel's glass shop just taking a break and enjoying the murals."
When Stall returned home and saw how clean everything looked, he partnered with his mother and they both completely cleaned the area over the course of one week, all 2,000 feet of street and murals.
"My goal was to get everything done in just one week," Bazler said. "I wanted it done before the Fourth of July, because I knew a lot of families would come down here to celebrate and I wanted them to be proud of our home."
Once Bazler finished her work on Front Street, she moved her dedication to a garden that is cozied between two buildings and provides a place for retirees to enjoy the outdoors.
"I just came out here, saw all the weeds, and began working," Bazler said.
Bazler doesn't consider her time spent cleaning and gardening work at all; spending time in the dirt only means more colorful flowers.
"One thing I really appreciate is all of the different colors," Bazler explained. "I had cataracts on both of my eyes, and when I had them removed, I never realized how beautiful colors were. Now, I just want to fill everything with color."
When asked why she felt compelled to clean the streets and plant flowers, her answer was simple, "Portsmouth is such a beautiful city and I just love it. It is a shame not to keep it clean."
Bazler said that once she began weeding the garden at Riverview, she was surprised to see all the support.
"My daughter even showed up on her own birthday to give me gifts of flowers," Bazler said. "She helped me plant them and everything."
Bazler said that gifts of flowers kept coming in, starting from friend Linda Whisman and going on to include more and more of her family and friends.
"When the weeds became too much to keep up with, and I started to worry, my daughter surprised me with 18 bags of mulch while I was at a dialysis," Bazler said. "She even got the color I was hoping for, because I wanted it to match the brick of the buildings."
Bazler said that she counts each warm minute spent outdoors a blessing.
"When I got sick, before I came here, I was headed to Hospice; but Doctor Khoury put a port in my shoulder to perform dialysis and he saved my life," Bazler said. "After that, I just had a change of heart about living. I wanted to do something and give back."
Bazler said she looks forward to spending more time gardening and cleaning up Portsmouth so that everyone can enjoy the town that she and her son has so much devotion for.
"When I was young, I always thought 65 was so old. I was sure that would be my cutoff date. Now, I am 85 and I keep on going. I think keeping the murals clean and gardening colorful flowers for everyone to enjoy keeps me alive. It gives me something to look forward to and it is makes life just so beautiful.
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Bazler working in the sun to get the area surrounding the murals clean
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Bazler (right) and her friend, Linda Whisman, enjoying the south end of her garden.
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Bazler's garden within the Riverview outdoors area.
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Drones are like the fireworks of the gadget world. They're incredibly cool, everyone loves them, and if you use them inside, you're clearly a sociopath. Like fireworks, most drones can also get a bit costly. Fortunately, the Micro Drone 3.0, a project funded on Indiegogo, is here to let the everyman experience the absolute best in remotely piloted aircraft for a reasonable price.
Birds have pretty much cornered the market when it comes to flight. Sure, an airplane can reach higher speeds, and fowl don't provide an in-flight viewing of Girls Season 2, but when it comes to maneuverability and grace in the sky, the avians have us beat. At least, they used to. The Micro Drone 3.0 is capable of flips, upside-down flying, spins, and even comes with customizable maneuverability settings that can be tweaked with the free flyers phone app. You'll zip, zop, and zap through the air at speeds of up to 45 mph, proving to the animal kingdom once again that humans will always be superior. Fly the Micro Drone 3.0 by any nearby pigeons, and they'll be sure to drop a load out of respect.
Forget for a moment that a drone with the power to stream 720p HD video directly to your device is an idea that a young Steven Spielberg probably wrote in his diary and then drew little kissy faces around. Just focus for a moment on the fact that you can livestream said footage in 3D with a VR headset. You'll see first-person what your drone sees in flight. That's basically like warging into the mind of a raven a la Bran Stark from Game Of Thrones, but without the downside of having to smell Hodor. So whether you use the Micro Drone 3.0 to revolutionize your student films or to get inside the mind of a duck as it commutes to work, just know that this technology will be unlike anything you've ever experienced.
There are a lot of drones on the market. Some of the crazy ones can be traded in for a new car. But the Micro Drone 3.0 was able to raise $3.5 million on Indiegogo on the basis that it would be affordable for the everyday consumer. Thanks to that effort, the creators were able to bring the price to $215 and provide a kit that already comes with everything you need to fly, including a headset and inverted blades for belly-up orientation. However, for a limited time, you can grab the Micro Drone 3.0 Combo Pack from the Cracked Shop for just $145. That way, you can buy enough to start a drone gang and have enough left over for matching jackets.
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. Last year it closed The Picture and People.
The purchase from Pacific is about runway, a phrase commonly used in startups, or the amount of time a business has to continue operating.
The key rationale is that the cost base will shrink with the merged businesses, enabling Bauer to publish for longer, creating jobs for journalists and content for Australian consumers, while moving with caution to a sustainable digital business.
The ACCC's concerns would also hose down expectations of reported sale of the Bauer business in Australia to private equity company Mercury Capital. The addition of Pacific would be a neat package ready for a private equity razor to improve the bottom lime.
The family-owned Bauer is reported to be preparing to exit the Australian market, after trading losses of about $200 million since 2012.
The reported price for a sale to private equity, $150 million, shows how far mass market glossy magazine masthead values have fallen. Nine Entertainment sold what was then ACP Magazines to Bauer in 2012 for $525 Million.
The publishers argue that there would still be plenty of competition from digital players in the market post any merger.
Bauer and Seven West were taken by surprise at the "preliminary competition concerns " raised by the ACCC to the proposal to combine Australia's two biggest magazine publishers..
The deal is similar to when Bauer bought APN's New Zealand consumer magazines in 2013. There were no objections by NZ authorities and all the titles are still publishing.
"And digital competition has gotten stronger, not weaker, since then," industry insiders say.
The ACCC is particularly concerned about the impact on key weekly magazine titles. Bauer's Woman's Day competes with New Idea owned by Pacific Magazines, and Bauer's Take 5 magazine is up against Pacific's That's Life.
Local digital competitors include Mama Mia and 9Honey. And global platforms, including those run by celebrities themselves and bloggers such as Perez Hilton, also compete.
The submissions by the publishers to the ACCC quoted from the consumer watchdog's own digital platforms inquiry, including the decline of print advertising revenue and the rise of online, most of that ad cash going to the big global platforms, Google and Facebook.
Out of every $100 spent in online advertising, excluding classifieds, Google gets $47, Facebook $24 and the rest $29.
The numbers on Pacific, which can be found within Seven West Media's results lodged with the ASX, tell the declining advertising revenue story.
Pacific revenue fell by 7.2% to $129.4 million last financial year. Only $34.28 million of that came from advertising. Digital revenue now represents 30% of total advertising revenue. Pacific cut it costs 6.4% to $121.2 million, leaving only $8.2 million.
Brian Han, senior equity analyst at Morningstar, believes it will be touch and go whether magazines will survive in the long term even with consolidation.
"Over the past decade, Pacific Magazine's profit has fallen from over $40 million a year … with decimating circulations, and proliferating online alternatives, and I'm sure Bauer hasn't done much better," he says.
Analysts believe the merger of the glossy titles is a key ingredient for the immediate health of the sector in Australia.
However, ACCC chair Rod Sims says Pacific and Bauer are the only magazine publishers in certain categories, and their titles appear to compete head-to-head on content and cover price.
The ACCC acknowledges the shrinking advertising revenue. "We are acutely aware of the dramatic decline in magazine revenue, both in terms of lost advertising and reduced sales," says Sims.
"Many magazines titles have closed over recent years, and more titles will close irrespective of this deal.
"However, competition within markets has an important role to play to protect consumers, even in declining markets."
The key Bauer and Pacific Magazine titles are profitable, the ACCC maintains.
"If Bauer bought Pacific Magazines, Bauer would remove its closest competitor in certain segments," says Sims.
"Our preliminary view is that this would allow Bauer to reduce the effort put into content production and the range of content, or to increase prices."
The ACCC says its concerned about these magazine categories: Home & garden; celebrity; fashion & lifestyle; health & fitness; puzzles; food; and parenting.
However, Han at Morningstar described the ACCC's view of the magazine market, especially by segments such as Woman's Day and New Idea, as antiquated.
"The notion that a combined Bauer-Pacific entity can raise prices (for advertisers and consumers) while reducing editorial content/production is almost laughable, given the endless infotainment and celebrity gossips/crap available online," he told AdNews.
Both Bauer and Pacific are preparing further submission to the ACCC. A final decision is due April 2.
Bauer's and Pacific Magazines' titles and the overlaps:
ANALYSIS: The ACCC's 'antiquated' view of magazines could spark job losses
By Chris Pash | 13 January 2020
A block by consumer watchdog the ACCC on the sale of Seven West Media's Pacific Magazines to Bauer Media would result job losses, according to industry sources.
Redundancies would be greater in number than if the deal went ahead, say the sources. Allowing Bauer to unlock synergies and drag down overheads, by merging the two sets of magazine titles, was the better option in temrs of jobs.
"A number of titles, at both Bauer and Pacific, will close before too long if this deal doesn't happen," says an insider.
The big circulation titles, such as the Women's Weekly, are safe. But some of the others, especially in fashion, are in a tough market.
In 2018, Bauer shut Cosmopolitan. Last year it closed The Picture and People.

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Greek Banksters in Action: On the latest twist in the story of mafia-style terror spreading through the Greek polity
English European Crisis Greek Crisis Politics and Economics Uncategorized YanisV 4966 Views 0 comment	April 19, 2013
Last November I posted a piece entitled A Small Victory for Press Freedom in Greece's Struggle against Cleptocracy. That story concerned the courageous decision of Kostas Vaxevanis, one of Greece's few, valiant investigative reporters, to publish the so-called Lagarde List; the list of Swiss bank account holders that Greece's political class did its utmost to keep hidden, to pretend that either it never existed or that it had been 'misplaced'. Since then, Vaxevanis has been arrested by Special Branch officers, was tried in the Greek Courts, was acquitted triumphantly, and, more recently, awarded one of international journalism's top awards.
In an earlier piece, last July, (entitled Bankruptocracy in the Greek Sector of Bailoutistan) I had drawn my readers' attention to the remarkable revelations of Reuters' Stephen Grey regarding the ponzi scheme put together by Greek bankers for the purposes of usurping Europe's bank recapitalisation rules, pretending that they managed to draw private capital into their insolvent banks which never really existed. My piece castigated the Greek media for maintaining a veil of silence on these corrupt and criminal practices, while highlighting the troika's curious lack of interest in the shenanigans of bankers who are receiving billions of European taxpayers' money (in the process of the so-called 'recapitalisation' process).
Today's post links these two stories together in a manner that you, dear reader, will find startling, worrying, enraging, disconcerting. It comprises, mainly, the summary of a letter that Kostas Vaxevanis sent to a London based journalist last week (the translation and summarising from the Greek original is mine). With this letter Vaxevanis sought support, advice and an opportunity of spreading the news of the dire situation faced by Greeks (citizens and journalists) who refuse to keep silent in the face of deep seated, criminal corruption. I urge you to read on.
"In May 2012, I investigated the functioning of Greek banks, with special emphasis on a certain Greek Bank (The Bank henceforth) and its Chairman (The Chairman). I found that The Chairman's family members were the secret owners of a number of offshore companies that would receive loans from the bank without any real collateral. These loans would then: (a) be written off as unserviceable, or (b) be used to buy office space that would immediately be resold to other parties which would then lease them to The Bank or sell them to The Bank at inflated prices. In addition, other offshore companies were used by The Chairman to borrow substantial amounts from two other Greek banks, again with no collateral, for the purposes of buying shares The Bank (thus helping the bank demonstrate its capacity to draw in private capital). Since then the owner of one of these two other banks has been imprisoned (on different charges) while the second bank involved has played a central role in bringing down the Cypriot banking system (after its merger with one of the island's now collapsed banks and the transfer of its headquarters from Greece to Cyprus).
After the publication of these two investigative pieces, photographs of Stephen Grey (the Reuters investigative reporter who broke a part of this story to an international audience), were published in various websites with the caption: "The man who came to destroy Greece". Worse still, the same blogs circulated a 'document' which 'showed' that I was on the payroll of the Greek state's intelligence services. I managed to defuse this campaign of defamation by writing extensively about it in the press.
On 11th September 2012, late at night, a group of 4 or 5 people staked out my home. It was only accidentally that I avoided being ambushed (my motorcycle had a flat tire and I thus returned home in a friend's car). Upon noticing the stalkers I called the police and asked them to come quietly. The police arrived noisily and went to a nearby house first, thus giving the men plenty of time to make their escape. For days, the police refused to investigate properly or to call eyewitnesses to make a statement (later, after I published the story, they did). Since then, I have been denied police protection (unlike most other journalists) and have had to resort to private security.
Soon after the failed ambush, a woman visited my office insisting that I should see her to discuss "the bankers' designs" on me. I decided to meet with her. She was a frightened woman who claimed to be in grave personal danger. She said that she had been, and was, part of a group comprising former agents and salaried members of the Greek intelligence services, connected to business interests who worked on, at first, wrecking my public image and, later on, planning my physical demise. She added that it was her who, following specific orders, had forged the document 'proving' that I was on the payroll of the secret service – a document which her group then circulated to the various blogs that used it.
According to her testimony to me, a group stationed in Skopja was engaged to "see me off". Part of the same plot concerned the defamation of another woman, a former bank manager with The Bank, who had been fired on false charges of embezzlement because, in truth, she possessed damning evidence concerning The Chairman's family's activities. Their plan, vis-a-vis this former bank manager was to plant narcotics in a restaurant that she owned on the island of Zakynthos and to orchestrate a very public arrest so that, in the future, if she ever revealed her evidence against The Chairman's family, the press could dismiss her as a 'drug dealer'. To prove her story, my interlocutor handed over a sequence of photographs that were the result of the surveillance of the former bank manager taken by «her group». The woman further claimed that she had not dared distance herself from that group but she was afraid that she would be killed upon completing her 'tasks'.
On our part, we immediately investigated her claims. We subjected her to an accredited graphologist's test who comfirmed that the forged document showing that I was, supposedly, on the secret agents' payroll (as published in various blogs) was in her handwriting. We also confirmed with the ferry company that the car in which that team of operatives was supposed to have travelled to Zakynthos (to plant drugs in order to frame The Bank's former employee) had indeed travelled there. We also established that the car was registered to former intelligence agents who had been prosecuted for an number of misdeeds – and whose court case is pending.
I met with this woman a number of times in an attempt further to establish the truth of her allegations. In one of these meetings, she said that the headquarters of her group was close to our magazine's (HOT DOC) but also that the group had abandoned those quarters fearing that we had worked out they were conducting surveillance on us from there (after I had written in HOT DOC that I know I am being followed). Furthermore, the woman handed to us audio records from her group's meetings in which they were discussing their plans. We went to the address she gave us to find abandoned offices that were for lease and to see if they featured hidden crypts (where the woman had told her group kept weapons). We found these hidden crevices and photographed them.
To protect myself, I wrote a report on the above which I sealed and delivered to a notary to be released on the event of my death or disappearance. I also visited a district attorney whose incorruptibility I trust. The woman left Athens and is in hiding, even though I remain in contact with her.
Following the above events, I was contacted by the group of people that I consider to have planned to assassin me. I alerted the police and met with them under police surveillance. In the meeting, they denied everything and pretended they had nothing to do with any of these plans. I left that meeting and then refused to take their repeated calls. A few days ago the case files were transferred again from the police to the district attorney. I know nothing further about the law agencies' activities in this regard."
Kostas Vaxevanis' letter then moves on to another, related, issue: The Lagarde List which he and HOT DOC published causing a major political storm, that echoed around the world, and leading to his arrest (for endangering the privacy of those on the list) – not to mention to worldwide acclaim at least within the international community of investigative journalists. Vaxevanis was then acquitted in a short and triumphant trial but the prosecution appealed with the result that a second trial will take place next June.
Meanwhile, following the publication of the Lagarde List, and under enormous pressure from public opinion, the Greek Parliament set up an investigative committee (made up of parliamentarians from each party, in proportion to their strength in Parliament – as per the Constitution) to investigate only one person: the former Minister of Finance, Mr George Papakonstantinou under whose watch the Lagarde List got 'lost' within the Greek government and was never utilised by the authorities. The said Committee has a remit to rule on whether there is sufficient evidence to try Mr Papakonstantinou. In the context of its investigation, the Committee calls witnesses who are then examined by members of the Committee. In his letter, Vaxevanis says that, even though no one disputes that the list he and HOT DOC published was the original Lagarde List – as given to him by an anonymous person – certain members of the Committee subjected him to aggressive examination (something that I can vouch for having read the official transcripts as produced by the Greek Parliament) the purpose of which was, clearly, not to establish the truth about the Lagarde List but to discredit Vaxevanis and HOT DOC. Vaxevanis notes in his letter that the members of the Committee that were most aggressive happened to be the ones that ought to have stood down from the Committee on the basis of a clear conflict of interest. In particular, Vaxevanis writes in his letter:
"The mother of one member of the Committee was on the Lagarde List. The wife of another member of the Committee appears to have power of attorney for an account on the Lagarde List. The third member, who happens to Chair the Committee, is the lawyer of a tax office employee who has been convicted for having embezzled millions of euros of tax payers' money. He has also been the subject of two parliamentary investigations but escaped prosecution shielded by legislation that gives investigators/prosecutors a mere two years before the case is considered to fall under the statute of limitations."
Vaxevanis' letter finishes thus:
"I thought it important to relate to you these events. I am in need for your assistance and advice. Every day that goes by, a new piece of a conspiracy is put together and I fear that the jigsaw may be completed by the time my second trial takes place in June. I feel they are keen to convict me while giving me the option to pay a fine instead of serving time in prison. Of course if convicted I shall refuse to do so, opting for prison in order to publicise in that manner what is going on in this country. I could ask for assistance from opposition parties but I revile the idea of becoming part of the party political game. Thank you for your attention and apologies for tiring you with my long-winded story. Alas, you are our only allies. Greece is sinking not only in an economic crisis but also in filth."
You may wonder what happened to The Chairman and to The Bank. The Chairman is doing fine, thank you. His insolvent bank has now turned into a (by Greek standards) Too-Big-Too-Fail monster, having been handed on a silver platter the good chunks of banks that the Greek taxpayer has paid through the nose to carve out of failed operations. Those in the know expect that he, amongst all Greek bankers, will probably manage to retain control of 'his' bank after ESM-funded recapitalisation (though no one seems to know why he can attract private capital when healthier banks, like the National Bank of Greece, are failing to do so). His close connections with people high up in the Central Bank of Greece and in the political establishment (that the average Greek refers to as the Cleptocracy) have ensured that his power to extract rents from the rest of a crumbling society is inversely proportional to 'his' bank's performance. Being a major 'sponsor' of the bankrupt (both financially and morally) Greek media has certainly not done him any harm.
Bankruptocracy in the Greek Sector of Bailoutistan is, thus, progressing in leaps and bounds. With European taxpayers' loan guarantees providing the capital and a bonfire of the Greek people's hopes for the future supplying the energy.
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I installed Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2 onto my work laptop a few weeks ago, just after I started working for this company.
I'd taken to closing Report Writer and starting GP again from the shortcut as I was a little short of time to investigate this problem; I was focusing more on client related issues.
However, with a little time to spare I decided to take a look into the problem. As I typically do, I started with a quick search online to see if anyone else had seen and blogged about it.
Fortunately, someone had. Mariano Gomez, The Dynamics GP Blogster, had encountered this issue and made a post about it; Unhandled script exception: Illegal address for field '[Not Found]' in script 'Unregister_Triggers'.
Mariano, reports that the error is caused by Extender (which I had installed) when returning to GP from either Report Writer, which I have been experiencing, and Modifier.
He says this has been logged as a bug for scheduled to be fixed. In the meantime the workaround is to close Report Writer, or Modifier, and open GP again. This is what I had been doing anyway, but I'd been hoping for a solution now.


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I Forgot About My Hundred - Murali Vijay
by Chetan Narula Wednesday 17 December 2014
Murali Vijay admitted that he didn't realise he had reached his century at the Gabba
When a batsman is completely in the zone, he is oblivious to all else happening around him. That includes scoring heat and blazing sun, conditions under which the second Test started at the Gabba in Brisbane.
Murali Vijay scored a commanding 144 runs as India cantered to 311 for four on Steve Smith's first day as captain of Australia.
"I wasn't aware of how much I was batting on. I was just looking at the team score and batting," he said.
"Ajinkya (Rahane) was at the non-striker's end and he told me that I got a hundred, only then I realised. It's good in a way that I didn't want to see the score. I got out on 99 last time, and I knew the score then, and this time it made it up for it," he added, referring to the first Test in Adelaide.
Australia were hit with a spate of injuries as Mitchell Marsh was ruled out of bowling again with an injured right hamstring, while Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood suffered intense cramps.
"Today it was really hot and it was testing us all. I could see the bowlers sulking out there and I thought a lot of people are getting tired. So I waited at the crease and made good use of it," said the centurion.
"It was more mentally challenging than mentally draining. There were a lot of suffering from the heat but when you are playing for your country, you have got to be equipped for this.
"I have worked hard on my fitness. You have got to do your stuff to the best of your ability. It was great that I could build a partnership with Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane," he added.
It marks a successful year for Vijay personally especially, as the Indian team has travelled overseas all the way through. He has scored runs everywhere, in South Africa, England and now in Australia, missing out only in New Zealand.
"This is the first time I have played regular cricket overseas. You have got to have a plan to play at this level and I have my plans.
"I am just sticking to them and sticking as close as possible to the basics. At the moment it is helping me out.
"I didn't have any specific plans to play in Australia and England, I just stuck to basics and things are happening for me at the moment. As an individual and as a team we can go forward from here," Vijay said.
Meanwhile, Australian coach Darren Lehmann praised his team for enduring a tough day.
"It was a hard day in terms of conditions. We had a few good periods with the ball, especially in the second session," said Lehmann.
"But in the end, we didn't have a good third session. It is hard to put the ball in right areas when you have so many players pulling up due to cramps or injuries.
"Obviously the heat affected their skills and it was like a revolving door today. But these are excuses and we are better than that.
"Overall though we bowled pretty well. The first session was okay. We didn't get our lengths right.
"Then the second session was very good. The third session was very poor and we were bowling too full and too wide.
"We went for 160 runs in 30-odd overs which is not what we are about. We have got to do better than that.
"But also, credit goes to India, they really played well. Hopefully we can back it up tomorrow and start with taking some quick wickets," he signed off.
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Blacklock hired to build US marine aquaculture industry
17 March 2020, at 9:26am
NOAA has appointed Danielle Blacklock to provide the strategic vision for developing a strong marine aquaculture industry in United States federal waters.
As the agency's new director for the office of aquaculture, She will lead the office's work on several distinct priority areas – including regulation and policy, science, outreach, and international activities in support of US aquaculture.
Danielle Blacklock has been tasked with building a thriving marine aquaculture industry in US federal waters
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"I am thrilled about Danielle's vision for the office and our role as catalysts for the expansion of marine aquaculture in the United States," said Paul N Doremus, deputy assistant administrator for operations at NOAA Fisheries. "Building a strong domestic aquaculture industry is a win-win. It's good for the economy and good for the planet."
"Writ large, US marine aquaculture provides a complement to our world class wild capture fisheries and will be vital for supporting our nation's seafood production, year-round jobs, rebuilding protected species and habitats, and enhancing coastal resilience."
Ms Blacklock said her vision for the office is "to help the United States move even more decisively toward becoming a global leader in sustainable seafood production. Wild capture fisheries and farmed seafood are intertwined and both are critical to our nation's future food supply."
"I plan to work inclusively and transparently to guide the development of sustainable farms in federal waters, while supporting additional development in state waters and associated land-based facilities," she added.
Blacklock comes to this position after serving in various roles within the agency for the past 10 years. Most recently, she has been serving as a senior policy advisor for aquaculture and recently completed a six-month assignment at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, focused on aquaculture sustainability globally.
Blacklock succeeds Dr Michael Rubino, who was appointed the agency's first director of the office of aquaculture. He became the agency's first senior advisor for seafood strategy in April 2019. David O'Brien has served as the acting office director in the interim and will return to his duties as the deputy for the office.


Wednesday 10th August 2016 will see the very first webinar delivered on the brand new FCN Academy – a unique web based tool for female coaches allowing them to connect, share and develop regardless of their sport, geography or experience.
The webinar will be part of the a.c.e programme, an initiative delivered in partnership with the Women's Tennis Coaching Association (WTCA) aimed at raising the number of female coaches working in the WTA.
The topic will be "Working in High Performance Sport" and will be delivered by Vice President of the WTCA, Sarah Stone.
On the date of the webinar, revisit the group and click on the 'Webinar' section on the left hand side of the group page. An embedded window of the webinar will appear – follow the instructions on the page.
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Bon Yagi is a New York City based Japanese-American entrepreneur. He has created many successful Japanese-themed restaurants in the New York area. He is also a board member of the Gohan Society for Japanese cuisine. His success has been compared to that of David Chang.

He opened the Japanese sake bar Decibel in 1993. He opened Sakagura in 1997. He also found success with the soba restaurant Soba-Ya in the 1990s, and later ramen restaurant Rai Rai Ken.
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Digital Advertisers Look to Connected Cars to Push Industry Forward
August 28, 2019 August 29, 2019 by Stephanie Miles	Share this
As the industry continues to evolve, Geopath's Kym Frank predicts that two-way communication between cars and advertisers will become even more commonplace and OOH strategies that involve connected vehicle data will be the norm among major brand advertisers.
"The car itself can communicate with digital displays to trigger optimal creative, and the billboard can communicate with the dash to trigger in-app ads," Frank says. "We are at the very beginning of seeing what is possible and measuring those impacts."
In Targeting the Lucrative Hispanic Market on Mobile, Location Data Is Key
April 6, 2015 April 10, 2015 by Loren Hillberg	Share this
We know that Hispanic Americans are highly engaged with their mobile devices, so it follows that one of the best ways to reach them is through mobile marketing. But "mobile" is a broad umbrella and most marketers are still struggling with the question of how to identify Hispanic consumers. One of the best strategies is to leverage location-based data…
Thinknear Chief: 'No Doubt' That Consolidation Coming in Mobile Ads
December 22, 2014 December 21, 2014 by Noah Davis	Share this
Loren Hillberg recently took over as General Manager of Thinknear at Telenav, replacing the company's founder Eli Portnoy. We caught up with him recently to talk about the transition from the entrepreneurial stage of a business to the scaling stage, the future of mobile-local advertising, and the coming wave of consolidation…
Exit Interview: Thinknear Founder Eli Portnoy Leaves Telenav
October 14, 2014 by Steven Jacobs	Share this
Two years after Telenav acquired Thinknear, the startup's founder Eli Portnoy has left the company. We caught up with Portnoy to talk about some of the surprises in the mobile advertising industry over the past few years, whether location merits its own sandbox, and how his views about the small businesses market have evolved…
Study: Rampant Data Fraud Poses a Threat to the Mobile Advertising Industry
May 19, 2014 May 19, 2014 by Steven Jacobs	Share this
According to a new report, roughly two-thirds of the location data which mobile publishers pass on to advertising exchanges, and eventually to marketers, is inaccurate. The report, released by Thinknear, the mobile advertising wing of Telenav, found that of the 67% of mobile advertising impressions, which include a latitude-longitude data, only a third can accurately predict the location of a user down to 100 meters…
Street Fight Daily: Airbnb Tests Local Experiences, Patch Turns a Corner
May 19, 2014 May 19, 2014 by The Editors	Share this
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Airbnb Quietly Tests Selling Tours and Other 'Experiences' (VentureBeat)… Patch, a Network for Hyperlocal News, Turns a Corner (Boston Globe)… PubMatic, xAd Team To Launch Location-Based Programmatic Marketplace For Mobile (MediaPost)…
Street Fight Daily: Facebook Plans Mobile Ad Network, Apple Readies Payment Push
April 22, 2014 April 22, 2014 by The Editors	Share this
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Facebook Plans Mobile-Ad Network (Wall Street Journal)… Apple Interviewing Job Candidates for Mobile Payments Push (Recode)… Square Denies Report of Potential Sale (USA Today)…
Street Fight Daily: Foursquare Teams With Seamless, Lawsuit Questions Square Story
January 31, 2014 January 31, 2014 by The Editors	Share this
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Foursquare Can Now Satisfy Your Appetite At Home With Integrated Seamless And GrubHub Ordering (Pando)… Lawsuit Questions Square's Start-Up Story (New York Times)… PayPal Wants Role in Apple's Mobile Payments Dreams (Recode)…
Thinknear GM: Why the Shift to Programmatic Will Benefit Local
January 15, 2014 January 15, 2014 by Steven Jacobs	Share this
Eli Portnoy, GM of Thinknear at Telenav, says demand for location ad tech is "white hot." Street Fight caught up with Portnoy recently to talk about what the rise of programmatic means for hyperlocal targeting, and the dirty secret(s) marketers need to know before jumping in…
Street Fight Daily: Facebook Expands Wi-Fi Check-Ins, Angie's List Cuts Prices
October 3, 2013 October 3, 2013 by The Editors	Share this
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Why Facebook Is Giving Out Free Wi-Fi For Check-Ins (CNet)… Cheaper Advice: Angie's List Cuts Prices (Wall Street Journal)… In Test Project, N.S.A. Tracked Cellphone Locations (New York Times)…
Street Fight Daily: SMBs Skeptical of Social, Crowdfunding Hyperlocal
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Survey: 61% of SMBs Say No ROI from Social (Screenwerk)… How Joey Coleman Crowdfunded His Work as a Hyperlocal Reporter (GigaOm)… Facebook Is Said to Hire Apple Maps Executive Amid Mobile Push (Bloomberg)…
Hyperlocal Execs' 2013 Predictions: Goodman, Tolles, Kucharz, and More…
December 26, 2012 December 26, 2012 by The Editors	Share this
As 2012 wraps up, it's clear we've had a ton of action and evolution in the world of hyperlocal this year. Looking toward next year, Street Fight asked 12 hyperlocal luminaries to share their predictions for where local is headed…
Openings and New Hires at JiWire, UBL, Groupon, Booker, Telenav & More
November 16, 2012 November 16, 2012 by Kelly Benish	Share this
JiWire gets a new CEO in a year of big executive changes; Groupon tries for third-time's-a-charm COO; UBL staffs up; Living Social loses an exec; and LocalResponse brings on a new vice president of technology. And that's just what's highlighted in industry moves from this week. Plus, openings at LocalVox, Booker, Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Telenav and more…
Place Off: A Week in the Life of the Mobile Local Revolution
October 22, 2012 October 21, 2012 by Mike Boland	Share this
A couple columns back, I covered the collision of big data, mobile and local (please refrain from acronyms… "BiDaLoMo"!). That covered some location analytics players like JiWire and Sense Networks. But since then, the action has picked up. In the last week alone, I've had in-depth conversations with others defining this space including Placed, PlaceIQ, and Telenav…
Transaction Overview: Telenav Acquires ThinkNear
October 18, 2012 October 18, 2012 by Architect Partners	Share this
ThinkNear provides Telenav with a product that can drive near-term advertising revenue and is well suited to be integrated with Telenav's turn-by-turn direction capability. The ThinkNear team and their mobile advertising knowhow are also an important addition to Telenav's engineering and product organizations…
Following Pivot, ThinkNear Finds Buyer in Telenav
October 16, 2012 October 16, 2012 by Steven Jacobs	Share this
A day after Esri snapped up location-technology firm Geoloqi, Telenav has agreed to dish out $22.5 million to acquire ThinkNear, a hyperlocal advertising startup. The TechStars alum will join Telenav's two year-old mobile advertising group, and form a new platform called Scout Advertising that will serve both the company's consumer facing mobile application, Scout, as well as other partners…
Why Do We Check In?
April 4, 2012 April 4, 2012 by David Hirschman	Share this
"I did not want to be mayor of my dentist's office. Why did I even check in?" read a tweet posted last week by Digital First Media's Steve Buttry. Buttry was echoing a thought that I've had a lot lately about my own habit of checking in to Foursquare: I don't know exactly why I'm checking in, or what I get out of it — yet I do it anyway, usually several times per day.
Street Fight Daily: 09.05.11
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A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
GPS navigation services provider TeleNav has completed the acquisition of goby, a local search engine and mobile application developer. goby provides services that allows users to explore events and activities based on location. (M&A Deals)…
Nonprofit news site The Bay Citizen got a jump start to success early in its life with a unique content relationship with The New York Times that provides two pages of local news for the newspaper's Northern California edition. (NetNewsCheck)…
TeleNav Opens Location and Nav to Mobile/Web Devs
November 1, 2010 April 9, 2011 by Rick Robinson	Share this
 This is a little cool. TeleNav, Inc. the location-based services provider behemoth, is releasing APIs enabling developers to connect such things as such as turn-by-turn directions and location sharing to mobile and web apps. The APIs called TeleNav Connect and TeleNav Share, are available through the TeleNav Developer Platform. "We have made it easy for […]


It sounds audacious, but it is largely the premise of Dorothy L. Sayers' The Mind of the Maker. Because writers, like other artists, are "sub-creators," they can give us a unique perspective on the Creator Himself, which can simplify questions of how one can make good and evil, and how miracle, free will, and the Trinity might work in less "theological" terms.
"Skeptics frequently complain that man has made God in his own image; they should in reason go further (as many of them do) and acknowledge that man has made all existence in his own image. If the tendency to anthropomorphism is a good reason for refusing to think about God, it is an equally good reason for refusing to think about light, or oysters, or battleships.
Since it's been on my mind lately, I thought I'd share a few key quotes.
"It is the artists who, more than other men, is able to create something out of nothing. A whole artistic work is immeasurably more than the sum of its parts…The 'creation' is not a product of the matter, and is not simply a rearrangement of the matter. The amount of matter in the universe is limited, and its possible rearrangements, though the sum of them would amount to astronomical figures, is also limited. But no such limitation of numbers applies to the creation of works of art.
"Whatever we may think of the possibilities of direct divine intervention in the affairs of the universe, it is quite evident that the writer can–and often does–intervene at any moment in the development of his own story; he is absolute master, able to perform any miracle he likes…He can twist either character or plot from the course of its nature by an exertion of arbitrary power. He can slay inconvenient characters, effect abrupt conversions, or bring about accidents or convulsions of nature to rescue the characters from the consequences of their own conduct.
Wow, Andrea! There is some really rich, thought-provoking stuff in these quotes. And so timely for me–as you know I've been dealing with these writing issues myself lately. I'll be re-blogging this tomorrow for sure.
Read the first chapter of SUM: Forty Tales of the Afterlives by David Eagleman (he's a neuroscientist).
Great post, Andrea. There is the need to create, on a deeper level, and maybe, just maybe, the need to control through creation. As for writers, many times their characters resemble real people taken from life. Writing, and as such creating, is a way to make life bearable.
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For the first time ever on Australian television, fans of the smash-hit American wrestling series WWE Raw will be able to watch the biggest and baddest wrestling superstars live and direct from the US on FOX8 every Tuesday at midday from February 4.
Since its inception in 1993 as a one-hour broadcast on US television, WWE has exploded in popularity to become one of the longest running weekly series in US television history. It is now a global phenomenon, airing in more than 150 countries in 30 languages and reaches more than 650 million homes worldwide.
"We are thrilled to be taking our viewers live ringside to each match as it goes to air in the US", said Brendon Moo, Foxtel's General Manager of General Entertainment Channels.
Stars of the hit show who have shot to fame from the series have included wrestling icons The Rock®, Stone Cold Steve Austin™, Triple H®, John Cena®, Undertaker® and Sheamus.®.
When WWE Raw premieres on February 4 with episode 1080 live from Century Link Center in Omaha, Nebraska, the current world champions Randy Orton, Gold Dust and Cody Rhodes will be among the big names featured on the show.
"live and direct from the US on FOX8 every Tuesday at midday"?
so now we get 100 minutes of commercials in a 180 minute "live" broadcast?
Hi @themanfromoz We are really excited to bring the fans of WWE this live broadcast each week and im sure the dedicated followers of WWE will totally enjoy it too.
So I can pass on your feedback to our programming team, can you elaborate on why showing this live telecast is no value?
I would be interested in hearing your thoughts once the show has aired as the first broadcast hasn't aired as yet.
We hope you can get excited about this broadcast @themanfromoz are you a fan of WWE?
LOL at the tags. Go John Cena!
I dunno about that. I've watched it in the US, and don't recall that many ads.
Unfortunately I'm out on Tuesday's, maybe I can catch it on Foxtel on Demand.


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Alfonso Lam Liu (born 1969/1970), also known as Gordo Lam ("Fatty Lam"), is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Lam Liu was part of the cartel during the early 2000s and worked as the regional leader of Río Bravo under the directorship of Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez and Osiel Cárdenas Guillén. As head of organized crime activities in Río Bravo, Lam Liu was responsible for coordinating international cocaine and marijuana trafficking shipments to the U.S. and of smuggling drug proceeds back into Mexico. During his tenure, Lam Liu worked closely with local government officials, who helped facilitate the Gulf Cartel's operations in exchange for bribery payments.

In 2007, Lam Liu was indicted by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for international drug trafficking along with other high-ranking members of the Gulf Cartel and its former paramilitary group Los Zetas. In 2009, when returning from a trip to Las Vegas, he was arrested by agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He was convicted and imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, Texas. In 2017, the Office of the Pardon Attorney announced that Lam Liu's commutation request was denied. His expected release date is 24 February 2026.

Early life
Alfonso Lam Liu, who is known by his nickname Gordo Lam ("Fatty Lam"), was born in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico. Since he was a child, Lam Liu has had a tendency for obesity and was thus nicknamed for it. He was  tall and physically stocky. Lam Liu's father was of Lebanese descent and his mother was of Chinese descent. His family worked in the cotton industry and owned several restaurants in the area. They were part of a group of wealthy Lebanese Mexicans based in Coahuila. Lam Liu was enrolled in the top schools of the area; he attended grade school at the Instituto Francés de la Laguna in neighboring municipality of Gómez Palacio, Durango. For high school, he attended Carlos Pereyra School, a Society of Jesus school in Torreón. Upon graduation, he attended the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Torreón to study business administration but he did not finish his studies.

Career
According to security forces, Lam Liu joined organized crime through Jaime Guerrero González, the father-in-law of the former Coahuila Governor Humberto Moreira. Guerrero worked closely with Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the leader of the Gulf Cartel, organizing events in Piedras Negras for him. Lam Liu later met Cárdenas Guillén and joined the Gulf Cartel. The police stated that Lam Liu had an inclination for violence but preferred to keep a low profile. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Lam Liu coordinated attacks against Mexican government officials who worked against the interests of the Gulf Cartel by using U.S.-born assassins as foot soldiers. Lam Liu was a high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel faction headed by the kingpin Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez; his colleagues were the siblings Gregorio and Héctor Manuel Sauceda Gamboa, Zeferino Peña Cuéllar ("Don Zefe"), and Carlos Landín Martínez ("El Puma").

Lam Liu was the regional leader of the Gulf Cartel in Río Bravo, Tamaulipas. He was responsible for international drug trafficking activities between Tamaulipas and the U.S. Lam Liu reportedly had ties with several local politicians who helped the Gulf Cartel operate freely in the area in exchange for bribery payments. From 2002 to 2004, Lam Liu reportedly had a partnership with the Río Bravo mayor Juan Antonio Guajardo Anzaldúa, who became the first mayor of the city to work closely with organized crime groups. Through his cousin Rolando Aguilar Anzaldúa, the mayor received the payments from the Gulf Cartel and intimidated rival politicians. The Gulf Cartel's paramilitary group Los Zetas was not part of the agreement with the local government because they refused to pay the fee imposed by government officials, resulting in tensions between Lam Liu, Los Zetas leader Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, and Guajardo Anzaldúa. When Guajardo Anzaldúa's mayoralty ended, he ran for congress and continued to receive payments from Lam Liu. He ran for mayor again in 2007 but lost the election. Upon his defeat, he asked the federal government to increase the Mexican Army's presence in Río Bravo, which elevated tensions in organized crime circles. In November 2007, Guajardo Anzaldúa was murdered by gunmen. Days prior to his murder, Guajardo Anzaldúa told reporters the Gulf Cartel financed political campaigns; he showed pictures of organized crime members with Tamaulipas state officials.

According to the Deputy Attorney General's Office for Special Investigation into Organized Crime (SIEDO), along with other cartel members, Lam Liu may have been responsible for organizing the murder of Guajardo Anzaldúa. Investigators also believe Lazcano Lazcano may have ordered the attack. Guajardo Anzaldúa also had disagreements with politician Miguel Ángel Almaraz Maldonado, who headed an illegal Pemex oil theft ring in Tamaulipas with Lam Liu and the cartel. In addition to Guajardo Anzaldúa, Lam Liu was close to Juan de Dios Cavazos Cárdenas, who also served as the Río Bravo mayor; they were often seen together at public boxing events. According to investigators, Cavazos Cárdenas appointed several family members of Los Zetas to government posts. The partnership between Lam Liu and Cavazos Cárdenas extended into their personal lives; Cavazos Cárdenas' son-in-law's sister was married to Lam Liu (her surnames were Canales Melhem). Lam Liu was an investor in their family's businesses, which included a transportation company known as Transportes Trancasa. In politics, Lam Liu supported his cousin Edgardo Melhem Salinas, who was head of the Secretariat of Social Development (SEDESOL) agency in Tamaulipas.

Criminal charges
On 15 November 2007, Lam Liu was indicted by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (D.D.C.) along with several other members of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas for his involvement in drug trafficking. The indictment was initially sealed in court by U.S. officials and was opened in court on 2 September 2008. As a result of the offenses, Lam Liu was ordered to forfeit the drug profits made from this scheme. Lam Liu was charged again in a superseding indictment by the D.D.C. on 15 May 2009 and was identified as the regional leader of the Gulf Cartel in Río Bravo. According to this indictment, in or around 2006, Lam Liu supervised cocaine and marijuana smuggling activities from Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, and elsewhere to the U.S. Both incidents included drug charges of importing at least  of cocaine and at least  of marijuana. U.S. authorities stated that the drugs imported by Lam Liu were smuggled in motor vehicles from Mexico to the U.S.

In addition, the second indictment stated that Lam Liu carried out violent attacks against Mexican security forces and rival gangsters that interfered with their operations, and that he used push-to-talk devices and UHF/VHF radio communications equipment with coded conversations to coordinate with other smugglers and avoid detection by law enforcement personnel. Lam Liu's record-keeping activities were stored on flashdrives and laptops, and included information on other regional leaders, drug shipments and locations, payrolls to gang members and corrupt government officials, and the cartel's accounts receivable and accounts payable. In addition to the drug charges, Lam Liu was also charged with smuggling currency from the drug profits from the U.S. to Mexico.

In the second indictment, U.S. authorities provided more details of Lam Liu's drug trafficking activities; it said he met with Lazcano Lazcano in January 2007 to discuss a  cocaine deal. In the agreement, Lazcano gave Lam Liu the drugs and agreed to let him sell it in Houston, Texas once it reached the U.S., and allowed him to keep half of the profits. Lazcano contacted his associate Daniel Pérez Rojas ("El Cachetes"), who coordinated the delivery to Lam Liu with Víctor Hugo López Valdez. Lazcano's associates confirmed there was surplus cocaine stored in a warehouse in Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas and delivered it to Lam Liu. In a wiretapped conversation mentioned in the second indictment, on 9 March 2007, Lam Liu spoke with the organized crime kingpin Jaime González Durán about a  shipment of marijuana Lam Liu received from suppliers in Río Bravo. Lam Liu stated that the supplier would not be taxed for moving drugs through his turf because he was a good friend of his and that some of the drugs would be sent to González Durán's turf. The indictment stated that González Durán agreed to Lam Liu's request not to tax his supplier.

Manhunt and arrest

In January 2008, Lam Liu was nearly captured by Mexican authorities following a raid at a home in Altamira, where a shootout between organized crime members and law enforcement officers broke out. Authorities confiscated several firearms, ammunition, bullet-proof vests and vehicles. The police stated that Lam Liu may have been hiding there prior to the arrival of law enforcement personnel. In a simultaneous operation, authorities also raided a house in Ciudad Mier and seized multiple vehicles, ammunition, and drugs linked to Lam Liu. The Attorney General's Office (PGR) found several documents that linked Lam Liu to the Gulf Cartel; he was a suspect in several murders of security forces and politicians in Tamaulipas and in other parts of Mexico.

The Mexican Army extended its manhunt for Lam Liu and people aligned to his faction across multiple cities in Tamaulipas, including Río Bravo, Reynosa, Miguel Alemán, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros. Law enforcement officials had information that Lam Liu was hiding in the state. In 2009, the DEA arrested him after returning from a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada. At the moment of his arrest, Lam Liu was accompanied by a woman from Río Bravo. Lam Liu was convicted in a U.S. court and was imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, Texas. On 18 January 2017, the Office of the Pardon Attorney announced that Lam Liu's request for commutation was denied by U.S. President Barack Obama. Lam Liu's expected release date is 24 February 2026.

See also

Mexican Drug War

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Indictment Photos by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

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People from Torreón
Mexican people imprisoned abroad
Living people
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni
Mexican people of Lebanese descent
Mexican people of Chinese descent
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Year of birth missing (living people)


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Blagojevich's future again in hands of jurors
Rod Blagojevich's future was once again in the hands of jurors, after a day of fist thumping and tears during final arguments Thursday at the ousted Illinois governor's retrial on corruption cha...
CHICAGO – Rod Blagojevich's future was once again in the hands of jurors, after a day of fist thumping and tears during final arguments Thursday at the ousted Illinois governor's retrial on corruption charges.
Jurors heard prosecutors describe Blagojevich as a schemer who lied to their faces on the witness stand about trying to sell or trade an appointment to President Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat and shaking down executives for campaign cash.
"What he is saying to you now is not borne out anywhere on the recordings that you have," prosecutor Carrie Hamilton said, urging jurors to listen to FBI wiretap recordings played during the trial.
"There's one person in the middle of it — the defendant," she said, pointing at Blagojevich. "What you hear is a sophisticated man ... trying to get things for himself."
Blagojevich's attorney countered that the government showed only that he talks a lot.
"He didn't get a dime, a nickel, a penny . . . nothing," defense attorney Aaron Goldstein shouted just feet from the jury box. Pointing at Blagojevich, Goldstein added that the trial "isn't about anything but nothing."
Judge James Zagel said he expects jurors to begin deliberations Friday.
Blagojevich's first trial last year ended with a hung jury. That panel could agree on just a single count — that he lied to the FBI about how involved he was in fundraising as governor.
The impeached governor, 54, faces 20 counts, including attempted extortion and conspiracy to commit bribery. He did not take the stand in his first trial, but testified for seven days this time and denied all wrongdoing.
Pacing the crowded courtroom and sometimes pounding his fist on a lectern, Goldstein echoed what Blagojevich said on the stand — that his recorded conversations were mere brainstorming.
"You heard a man thinking out loud, on and on and on," he said. "He likes to talk, and he does talk, and that's him. And that's all you heard."
"They want you to believe his talk is a crime — it's not," Goldstein added, casting a look at three prosecutors sitting nearby.
Lead prosecutor Reid Schar challenged that argument, telling jurors in his rebuttal — the last word to jurors — that Blagojevich went way beyond talk.
"He made decisions over and over, and took actions over and over," he said. "It's not that he talked a lot and it means nothing. It's that he talked a lot and it means everything."
He also mocked Blagojevich for testifying that he didn't mean his apparent comments on wiretaps about pressuring businessmen for cash or other favors.
"There's one person, this guy," Schar said, indicating Blagojevich, "whose words don't mean what they mean."
Blagojevich appeared glum as a prosecutor spoke, picking at his fingernails. He perked up and nodded in agreement at his own attorney. Jurors sat rapt as Goldstein whispered, yelled and moved around the room, but appeared to take fewer notes compared to when the prosecutor spoke.
Goldstein applauded Blagojevich for testifying, saying "it took courage to walk up there" to the witness stand.
"A man charged does not have to prove a thing," Goldstein said. "That man did not have to go up there, did not have to testify."
In contrast, he said many of the government witnesses had agreed to testify under the threat of prosecution or longer prison sentences.
As Goldstein ended his closing argument, he turned to Blagojevich, placed his fist over his heart and said, "Rod, it is an honor to represent you." Blagojevich's wife, Patti, began to sob, and the former governor also later wiped away tears.
As he entered the courthouse earlier, a fan shouted at him, "I love you." Blagojevich beamed and walked over to give her a kiss on the cheek. He joked with an aspiring attorney nearby, "I'm going to hire you for my next case."
After jurors at the first trial said prosecutors' case was too hard to follow, they sharply streamlined it. Prosecutors called about 15 witnesses this time — about half the number from last time. They also asked them fewer questions and rarely strayed onto topics not directly related to the charges.
Hamilton tried to assume the role of professor — speaking in simple terms as she went through each charge and clicking on a mouse to display explanatory charts, complete with bullet points and arrows.
She also insisted that the government's witnesses — not the ousted Illinois governor — told the truth on the witness stand.
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Bleacher Report says four Florida football teams to finish in Top 20
Published on March 1, 2017 in Sports by Gary Shelton
We still have a long wait until college football hits the state of Florida, but if you pay attention to the Bleacher Report, it's going to be worth it.
Bleacher Report anticipates a good season in the Sunshine State, led by Florida State at No. three. The site thinks FSU, behind quarterback Deondre Francois, will finish third in the nation despite a tough schedule, including Alabama in the opener.
That isn't all, however. The website says USF will finish 17th with an 11-2 record behind quarterback Quinton Flowers.
Bleacher Report has Miami finishing No. 19 despite a new quarterback. The Hurricanes are picked to finish 9-4.
Florida is down to finish No. 21 at 9-4. Once again, Bleacher Report says, the defense will carry the load for Florida as coach Jim McElwain continues to search for his quarterback.
Gary Shelton
Gary Shelton is one of the most recognized and honored sportswriters in the history of the state. He has won the APSE's national columnist of the year twice and finished in the top 10 eight times. He was named the Florida Sportswriter of the Year six times. Gary joined SaintPetersBlog in the spring, helping to bring a sports presence to the website. Over his time in sports writing, Gary has covered 29 Super Bowls, 10 Olympics, Final Fours, Masters, Wimbledons and college national championships. He was there when the Bucs won a Super Bowl, when the Lightning won a Stanley Cup and when the Rays went to a World Series. He has seen Florida, FSU and Miami all win national championships, and he covered Bear Bryant, Bobby Bowden and Don Shula along the way. He and his wife Janet have four children: Eric, Kevin, K.C. and Tori. To contact, visit garysheltonsports@gmail.com.
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The Only Way Is Essex
The Only Way Is Essex hotspot Melin Restaurant has licence stripped by court due to 'untrustworthy' owner
The council had previously removed the restaurant's licence in 2021 and a judge has now upheld that decision
Melin Restaurant in Woodford Green, a hotspot for TOWIE cast members, has been stripped of its licence (Image: Google)
A judge has upheld a decision to strip a hotspot for stars of The Only Way Is Essex of its licence after ruling its owner was "untrustworthy" and "lacking integrity". Romford Magistrates' Court has ruled in favour of Redbridge Council's decision to remove the licence of Melin Restaurant in Chigwell Road, Woodford Bridge.
The restaurant is a popular location for the stars of the Essex reality TV series along with Premier League football players. The decision by the court means that the premises cannot serve alcohol or play music between 11pm and 5am.
The four day hearing at magistrates court saw District Judge Donegan conclude that the council's initial decision to remove the licence was "proportionate and necessary". It comes after the council removed its licence for breaches of conditions and allegedly ignoring Covid-19 guidelines and "putting patrons and staff members at risk".
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The judge found that the owner, Mr Melin, lacked integrity and honesty and was untrustworthy in his dealings with members of the public and police officers. Redbridge Council's Licensing Committee revoked Melin's license in 2021 for not complying with licensing conditions.
The committee found the restaurant had continually ignored COVID-19 guidelines at the time and put its patrons' and staff members' safety at risk. The Licensing Committee found that the premises operated as a dance venue on 5 July, 8 August, 28 August, 30 August, and 3 November 2020 in breach of the coronavirus Regulations. Following this decision, an appeal was lodged, during which time the premises could continue operating.
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Khayer Chowdhury, councillor responsible for crime, safety and community cohesion in Redbridge, said: "This judgement vindicates the decision of the council's licensing sub-committee to revoke the license at this premises. While we are always keen to work with business owners and operators, we won't hesitate to take action against those who flout the rules in order to protect local people and visitors."
Jas Athwal, Leader of Redbridge Council, said: "The restaurant owner showed a complete disregard for public safety and staff wellbeing when he repeatedly breached COVID-19 safety rules throughout the peak of the pandemic.
"Businesses across Redbridge worked hard to follow government guidelines and keep local people safe; instead of doing the same, Melin Restaurant flagrantly broke the rules, endangering the public and their own staff. This judgement is complete vindication for the Council's decision."
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Could Mercury be colonized?
February 1, 2015 by Brandon
Mercury is an often-overlooked planet when it comes to missions and discoveries. We've only sent a few probes there. But in the grand scheme of things, would it ever be worth colonizing the planet? How many people could it support? Where would they live? What would they do? Our goal is to theorize why one day, our innermost planet may see humans on it.
High resoultion photo taken by the Messenger spacecraft
THE BIG, BRIGHT PICTURE OF COLONIZING MERCURY
To go anywhere, one must have a reason for it. Christopher Columbus discovered America while trying to find an easier route to China. America was colonized for many reasons – by the pilgrims, by the conquistadors, and also by the natives that (likely) crossed the Bering Strait.
Mercury is a rather barren planet, so what does it harbor that we have need of?
Sunlight.
Thanks to its (obviously) close proximity to the sun, the planet offers the highest amount of solar energy of any planet. The "Solar Constant", or amount of energy available is incredible. At a peak of 14.5 kilowatts per meter -more than ten times as much as Earth – offers an unparalleled location in our Solar System. Only collectors closer to the sun may prove better, but a stable object like Mercury offers many advantages, such as available resources in which to create solar panels and the associated infrastructure.
Mercury may also offer "Peaks of Eternal Light" – areas that are constantly receiving sunlight. This, again, would make Mercury the best location in our Solar System for energy production.
Other important resources include the likelihood of ice at the polar caps, which have a very comfortable temperature of 0° C, or 32° F. Mercury also is likely to have very high amounts of Helium 3, a likely key resource in fusion reactions, as well as ores such as silicates, iron, and magnesium. This is very important, as these resources are all essential in the creation of solar panels. Think of Mercury as the Mid East of the Solar System.
The surface of Mercury is typically nightmarish, as it can get well over 700° F during the slow-moving day cycle. However, the polar regions are (as mentioned) a balmy 0° C, which means that temperature controls would not have to be as difficult to deal with as most other destinations in our Solar System.
LIKE THE MOON, UNDERGROUND SHELTERS ARE ATTRACTIVE ON MERCURY
, as they would mitigate issues on a planet with no atmosphere. Mercury does have a magnetosphere, which protects the planet from cosmic rays, which is a huge plus.
The poles – A very odd surface feature of Mercury
So the likelihood of a base near the poles is perfect. Points would likely feature the aforementioned peaks of eternal light, with reasonable temperatures. Also, due to temperature, ice is likely to be found, which is a very important resource for the spacefaring society. The fewer resources that must be imported, the more viable the colony is to be. This is the same, regardless if its a colony on the Moon, or an island in one of Earth's oceans.
DIFFICULTIES AND DRAWBACKS
COLONIZING MERCURY IS NOT WITHOUT ITS PROBLEMS
.lthough it is very attractive due to its proximity to the Sun, it is also a drawback. The gravitational interaction with the Sun results in more difficulty when launching craft to and from Mercury. As it stands, spacecraft launched to the planet take a significant amount of time to get there – despite being rather close to Earth.
Temperatures are also an issue when venturing beyond the polar areas. If vital resources are found outside the caps, then they may prove very difficult to extract. Mercury rotates just once every 352 days. This means that missions would need to likely take place near the terminator, which the area where day turns into night.
WHEN WILL IT HAPPEN?
Mercury is unlikely to be a primary target of the first colonization missions outside of Earth, as more attractive options exist, such as the Moon, and Mars. However, as energy requirements become larger in a spacefaring society, Mercury becomes infinitely more valuable, especially in Helium 3 becomes very important, as only the Moon, Mercury, and Uranus are attractive options for extracting.
Although its hard to put a date on when its likely we would colonize, we should likely see some attempt made between 2080 and 2120, assuming our society begins to take colonization seriously.
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