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Exclusive: NYPD, D.A. investigating alleged white supremacist group on Staten Island
Updated: Jan. 31, 2020, 7:41 a.m. | Published: Jan. 31, 2020, 5:57 a.m.
Hundreds of counter-protesters gathered in Palmer Square in Princeton in January, 2019, after the New Jersey European Heritage Association said it had planned to be in the area. The night before, the group announced it was a hoax. (Olivia Rizzo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
By Joseph Ostapiuk | jostapiuk@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- An alleged white supremacist group that has placed well-over 50 fliers and stickers across multiple neighborhoods on Staten Island over the past seven months is under investigation by the NYPD and District Attorney Michael E. McMahon, the Advance has learned.
The group, the New Jersey European Heritage Association (NJEHA), has been labeled by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as "a small, New Jersey-based white supremacist group" that "espouses racism, anti-Semitism and intolerance under the guise of 'saving' white European peoples from purported imminent extinction."
NJEHA's main form of exposure is through the distribution of fliers and stickers, which the group encourages followers to print out and place in their neighborhoods.
The fliers, which commonly refer to an unsubstantiated conspiracy that white people are facing extinction, urge viewers to "Reclaim your nation" and "Reclaim your heritage."
The group's website reads: "The non-Whites who will come to replace us will recreate the failed societies they have fled. Our nations will be plagued with high levels of violence, poverty, corruption and instability."
While the Advance reported on the group's presence on the borough on two separate instances in New Dorp, an investigation of Gab — a lightly-censored social media site the group primarily uses — revealed that fliers and other propaganda were placed at dozens of locations on the borough, from Tottenville to Mariners Harbor.
On a near-daily basis, the group posts locations on Gab where its posters and stickers have been placed. A heavy concentration of posts have been made on the East Shore of Staten Island, including one set of instances as recently as mid-January.
One poster propelling an unfounded anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, which has since been removed, was found by a reporter approximately 24 hours after it was posted at the corner of New Dorp Lane and New Dorp Plaza last Tuesday.
An NYPD spokeswoman said that the department "is aware of the posters and the purported connection to a specific group that has engaged in hate speech," adding: "The matter is being investigated."
A spokesman for the district attorney said that McMahon's office is "monitoring these incidents, but cannot comment on any ongoing investigations at this time."
McMahon said that his office "is committed to standing up against any and all acts of hate" and will "continue to vigorously prosecute and seek justice in all crimes based in bias or prejudice against another individual or groups of people."
"Our Hate Crimes Task Force was formed in partnership with a wide array of organizations from all different backgrounds, ethnicities, and religions with the shared goal of preventing hate crimes and educating the public about our Island's diverse communities," McMahon said. "We will continue to work with our excellent partners in the NYPD, and together with the entire Hate Crimes Task Force coalition, we will ensure all Staten Islanders are allowed to live their lives free from fear and hate."
MEMBERS HERE?
It is not clear how many, if any, Staten Islanders are members of the NJEHA, a group that has attended purported white supremacist rallies and demonstrations and has placed fliers across the country; however, the frequency of postings raises the question of its membership on the borough.
A man who picked up the phone for a number listed on one of the NJEHA posters declined to speak to an Advance reporter, saying they "don't want to talk," adding, "you guys are liars and fake news."
While less prevalent on Twitter, where the group only follows one account — President Donald Trump — its last post, from January 2019, directs users to its Gab profile.
On that profile, the association touts placing its material at heavily-trafficked areas, including Wagner College and the College of Staten Island (CSI).
After two stickers were found on the Wagner College campus, they were promptly removed by campus staff, said Lee Manchester, director of media relations at the college.
An email sent to the campus read, in part: "We do not condone racist and anti-Semitic messages and behavior. We also do not condone messages that promote fear, promote hate, and devalue others."
CSI spokesman Robert Wallace provided a statement from the college's president, William Fritz, which was sent out to students after the Advance notified the campus of NJEHA's postings.
"The College was recently notified of the placement of stickers on College property purporting to be from the New Jersey European Heritage Association (NJEHA), a group identified by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as a small, New Jersey based white supremacist group," the statement read. "Public Safety located the two stickers on the north end of campus and immediately removed them."
"The College of Staten Island condemns the hatred, bigotry, and intolerance of extremist groups. I have repeatedly noted that our mission has always been to provide our students with an environment that allows them to achieve excellence and to embrace diversity, and to provide an inclusive and respectful workspace for our employees," Fritz's statement continued.
The ADL said that the group began in early 2018, but its recent increase in activity comes at a time where anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise in New York City.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said that New York City experienced a 21% uptick of anti-Semitic incidents in 2019.
After a shooting in Jersey City killed a veteran police officer and three people inside of a kosher supermarket, and just three weeks before five people were stabbed inside of a rabbi's home in Monsey, N.Y. during Hanukkah, Shea said that there was a connection between seemingly minute instances of anti-Semitism — like a "sign etched on a window or transit," saying he sees a "relationship between those incidents" and the more recent deadly incidents.
"There's an escalation," Shea said. "There's a common theme here, it's ignorance and it's hate."
A sticker spotted at an intersection in New Dorp on Monday included a link to a New-Jersey based white nationalist group. (Staten Island Advance)
ROSE: 'ABSOLUTELY A THREAT'
Rep. Max Rose said during a phone interview that NJEHA is "absolutely a threat," adding that the group's recent presence is "illustrative of a movement that is not only covering virtually the entire United States; it is also illustrative of a global movement."
Rose penned a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in October 2019, urging the State Department to include white supremacist groups in its designation of foreign terrorist organizations — a request that was deferred in a response on a letter dated Oct. 30, 2019.
Rose said that there is "no doubt that every one of these local white nationalist organizations have global connections," and believes that labeling violent international white supremacist groups as foreign terrorist organizations would enable law enforcement to have the "tools" to take action.
Rose said that labeling international white supremacist groups as foreign terrorist organizations enables federal authorities to prosecute domestic individuals who provide support to these groups with terror-related offenses.
Similar to the newly-unveiled NYPD Racially Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremism — "REME" — unit, which focuses on any trends and signs of racially and ethnically motivated extremism, Rose believes that a federal program should be initiated that would enable local jurisdictions and municipalities to create comparable units in an effort to crack down on groups that exhibit this form of extremism on the local level.
Gab, a favorite social media platform with white supremacists and neo-Nazis, has been suspended from the Internet in the wake of mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Platform users say the site does not endorse violence.
ONLINE EXTREMISM?
Gab has been associated with anti-Semitic and hate speech before.
On Oct. 27, 2018, Robert Bowers allegedly barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue and opened fire, killing 11 people in one of the deadliest attacks on Jews in U.S. history.
Before the shooting, Bowers reportedly expressed virulently anti-Semitic views on Gab. The cover photo for his account featured a neo-Nazi symbol, and one of his recent posts included a photo of a fiery oven like those used in Nazi concentration camps used to cremate Jews during World War II before the account was suspended by the social media site.
Multiple users who follow NJEHA have similar profile pictures, including photos of the flag of the German Reich.
Gab was suspended temporarily after the shooting, NPR reported, saying it has been "systematically no-platformed by App Stores, multiple hosting providers, and several payment processors."
"We have been smeared by the mainstream media for defending free expression and individual liberty for all people and for working with law enforcement to ensure that justice is served for the horrible atrocity committed at Pittsburgh," the site said.
Rose, who has been critical of mainstream social media sites like Twitter and Facebook for their lack of adherence to already-established codes of conduct, said sites like Gab have "no regard for any societal responsibility."
Facebook announced new policies aimed at combating online extremism following Rose's push, and the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) — a group comprised of companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube — formalized its efforts to uniformly coordinate a takedown of extremist content across the platforms, but Gab remains a "wild west," according to Rose.
The Raise the Bar Act, introduced by Rose into the House of Representatives to further address rising concerns about hate content on social media, was created with the intention to "raise the bar" on how well mainstream social media companies shut down terrorist activity on their platforms, and the congressman believes this should be applied to sites like Gab.
"It will be a perpetual game of whack a mole," Rose said, "but that doesn't matter."
"We have to stay ahead of the curve and continue to fight them."
Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab, said that the site's "social responsibility since inception in 2016 has always been to put first amendment-protected speech and individual liberty first for all people."
"Accounts that are merely 'offensive,' or 'hateful,' both of which are subjective terms, are not banned," Torba said in a written response, referencing the site's set of simple content guidelines.
"If that upsets Congressman Max Rose and his fragile feelings he needs to get over it," Torba added. "If you don't like what someone is saying you simply don't pay attention by blocking them, muting them, or not following them.
"Individual responsibility shouldn't be a difficult concept for a Congressman to understand. Weak 'leaders' like him are why Congress has an approval rating of 23%. We at Gab hope to see a real man take his place in Congress soon," Torba said
NJEHA: WE DO NOT PROMOTE VIOLENCE
The NJEHA website prompts would-be members with a question prompt that asks, "Are you of European non-Semitic descent?"
NJEHA also has a quasi-written-presence in the form of a lengthy blog on its site, where it has mocked NJ.com, the Advance's sister site, and claimed that the group does not consider itself "neo-nazis" and says that it abhors "that ridiculous terminology as another attempt to discredit our message."
The group's goal — in its own words — of "securing the existence of our people and a future for White children," is accomplished, according to the site, by promoting its ideas partially through the mediums of "simple flyers which do not promote any type of violence or illegal activity."
Despite the NJEHA's self-proclaimed adherence to legality, Rose said that the mantra of "see something, say something" has to be applied to "this type of vitriolic, hateful, disgusting material."
If a poster is seen, Rose said, "pull it down, dump it in the garbage, and report it as well."
"It has no place in our neighborhood."


(b) Threatening to sexually assault, kill, or physically injure petitioner or a named individual.
(c) Purchasing or possessing a firearm.
(d) Interfering with the petitioner's efforts to remove the petitioner's children or personal property from premises that are solely owned or leased by the individual to be restrained or enjoined.
(e) Interfering with the petitioner at the petitioner's place of employment or education or engaging in conduct that impairs the petitioner's employment or educational relationship or environment.
(f) Following or appearing within the sight of the petitioner.
(g) Approaching or confronting the petitioner in a public place or on private property.
(h) Appearing at the petitioner's workplace or residence.
(i) Entering onto or remaining on property owned, leased, or occupied by the petitioner.
(j) Contacting the petitioner by telephone.
(k) If the petitioner is a minor who is enrolled in a public or nonpublic school that operates any of grades K to 12, attending school in the same building as the petitioner.
(l) Sending mail or electronic communications to the petitioner.
(m) Placing an object on, or delivering an object to, property owned, leased, or occupied by the petitioner.
(n) Engaging in conduct that is prohibited under MCL 750.411s (cyberstalking) of the Michigan Penal Code.
(o) Any other specific act or conduct that imposes upon or interferes with personal liberty or that causes a reasonable apprehension of violence or sexual assault.
"[T]he court determines that the respondent has been convicted of a sexual assault of the petitioner or that the respondent was convicted of furnishing obscene material to the petitioner under section 142 of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.142, or a substantially similar law of the United States, another state, or a foreign country or tribal or military law." MCL 600.2950a(2)(a).
The court determines that "the petitioner has been subjected to, threatened with, or placed in reasonable apprehension of sexual assault by the individual to be enjoined. A court shall not grant relief under this subdivision unless the petition alleges facts that demonstrate that the respondent has perpetrated or threatened sexual assault against the petitioner. Evidence that a respondent has furnished obscene material to a minor petitioner is evidence that the respondent has threatened sexual assault against the petitioner. Relief may be sought and granted under this subdivision regardless of whether the individual to be restrained or enjoined has been charged with or convicted of sexual assault or an offense under section 142 of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.142, or a substantially similar law of the United States, another state, or a foreign country or tribal or military law." MCL 600.2950a(2)(b).
The respondent is the unemancipated minor child of the petitioner. MCL 600.2950a(27)(a).
The petitioner is the unemancipated minor child of the respondent. MCL 600.2950a(27)(b).
The respondent is a minor child less than 10 years of age. MCL 600.2950a(27)(c).
The petitioner is a prisoner. MCL 600.2950a(30).
This version of the PPO is intended for petitioners who do not have a domestic relationship with the respondent. However, if the petitioner is either a spouse or former spouse of the respondent, has a child in common with the respondent, is or was in a dating relationship with the respondent, or is or was a member of the respondent's household, then the petitioner should consider filing a domestic PPO action instead. Unlike the non-domestic sexual assault PPO, a petitioner in a domestic relationship does not have to prove actual convictions, threats or perpetrations of sexual assault or obscene material, and enjoys the lower evidentiary standard of "reasonable cause".
A PPO action is an independent court action initiated by filing a petition with the circuit court. There are no fees for filing a PPO action and no summons is issued. A PPO cannot be commenced by filing a motion in an existing case (e.g. divorce or child custody court file) or by joining a claim to an action. MCR 3.703(A).
A petitioner can, and often does, request that a PPO be issued ex parte without any oral or written notice to the respondent or his or her attorney. The court must rule on a request for an ex parte order within 24 hours of the filing of the petition. MCR 3.705(A)(1). The court shall grant the PPO ex parte if, in addition to alleging a conviction of either sexual assault or furnishing obscene material to the petitioner (or that the respondent perpetrated or threatened sexual assault against the petitioner), the petitioner shows "that immediate and irreparable injury, loss or damage will result from the delay required to effectuate notice or that the notice will itself precipitate adverse action before a [PPO] can be issued." MCL 600.2950a(12). If the court refuses to enter the PPO ex parte, then it must advise the petitioner of the right to request a hearing. MCR 3.705(A)(5). If an ex parte PPO is granted, it is valid for not less than 182 days and must state an expiration date. MCL 600.2950a(13); MCR 3.705(A)(3).
The court is prohibited from issuing a mutual PPO for both parties. Either party has the burden of filing their own PPO and having the judge consider each one individually on its own merits. MCL 600.2950a(8).
Upon an ex parte order being granted, the petitioner must serve the petition and order upon the respondent. The petitioner's failure to serve the order does not affect its validity or effectiveness. MCR 3.705(A)(4). "A personal protection order is effective and immediately enforceable anywhere in this state after being signed by a judge, [and], [u]pon service, a personal protection order may also be enforced by another state, an Indian tribe, or a territory of the United States." MCL 600.2950a(9). "If the court refuses to grant a personal protection order, it shall state immediately in writing the specific reasons it refused to issue a personal protection order. If a hearing is held, the court shall also immediately state on the record the specific reasons it refuses to issue a personal protection order." MCL 600.2950a(7).
If the respondent violates any of the terms of the PPO, he or she is subject to immediate arrest and the full civil and criminal contempt powers of the court. If found guilty of criminal contempt, the respondent could be punished by up to 93 days in jail or a fine up to $500.00, or both. MCL 600.2950a(23). However, the respondent cannot be penalized for PPO violations, and the order cannot be entered into the law enforcement information network (LEIN), until the PPO order is actually served. MCL 600.2950(22). Upon effective service, failure of the respondent to immediately comply with the order subjects him or her to immediate arrest.
The respondent may file a motion to modify or terminate the PPO within 14 days of being served with the ex parte order or receiving actual notice of the order (if 14 days has lapsed, the respondent must also show good cause). MCL 600.295a0(13); MCR 3.707(A)(1)(b). Upon the filing of a motion to modify or terminate, the court must schedule a hearing within 14 days. MCL 600.2950a(14); MCR 3.707(A)(2). At a hearing on a motion to modify or terminate the PPO, the petitioner has the burden of justifying the continuation of a PPO that was granted ex parte. MCR 3.310(B)(5); Pickering v Pickering, 253 Mich App 694, 698-699; 659 NW2d 649 (2002).
Respondents often feel that they have been deprived due process rights since a judge will often grant an ex parte order solely on the word of the petitioner. Despite the lack of initial notice, appellate courts have upheld the PPO statutes despite challenges for unconstitutionality. An active PPO restricts the ability of the respondent to own or possess a gun. Furthermore, if the respondent is already on probation or parole, a PPO violation can constitute a "violation of a court order" which can trigger violation proceedings in the criminal case. A record of the PPO will remain on LEIN, even after the original order has lapsed. Respondents often have nothing to lose by attempting to terminate the PPO, but they have a short period of time to make the decision and file the appropriate pleadings.
If you are contemplating applying for a personal protection order, or you are a respondent looking to terminate an existing PPO or defend against alleged violations, then you could benefit from the advice of an experienced PPO lawyer to guide the way. For the best legal assistance, do not hesitate to contact the skilled attorneys at Kershaw, Vititoe & Jedinak PLC today.
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As we head into Blog Business Summit next week, I thought I would post some of the recent blogging links for marketers, advertisers, and PR people.
It started with Bob Cargill at Brand Republic stating his ten reasons "Why advertising, marketing and PR pros should blog".
Then Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture responded with this ten reasons for "Why advertising, marketing and PR pros should not blog".
I then ran across an older article from webpronews.com, where Linda Burton gives 6 reasons for marketers to get out there blogging.
If you are unclear about my position after all of that, I think businesses need to be blogging.


Do You Need A Band Agreement?
In the ideal case, band members would all have the same dreams, goals, commitment and mutual respect. In reality, this is seldom the case.
When bands are first starting out, band members are usually enthused about creating music together. Once the initial efforts start to gel, however, there are many areas where different approaches and different assumptions about the band can lead to conflicts, major and minor.
The best way is to spell out the questions and answers to potential problems before they happen. That's where a band agreement come in.Read more: Do You Need A Band Agreement?
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Doctor claims she was racially profiled during check-in at regional New South Wales motel
By Cheryl Hall
Posted ThuThursday 1 AugAugust 2019 at 7:06amThuThursday 1 AugAugust 2019 at 7:06am , updated ThuThursday 1 AugAugust 2019 at 7:32amThuThursday 1 AugAugust 2019 at 7:32am
Alice Han claimed she was racially profiled while trying to check into a motel in regional New South Wales. (ABC News: Danielle Bonica)
Alice Han is not used to being asked if she is a sex worker.
But that's what she said happened when she tried to check in to a motel room in regional New South Wales after getting a flat tyre.
"Are you a working girl? Is that how you can afford the room?" she said she was asked.
Alice Han is Korean-Canadian. At first, she did not understand the implication.
After a few more questions back and forth, the man asked her if she was "planning to work out of the room".
The penny dropped.
"Do you mean prostitution?" she asked him, stunned.
"I'm a doctor. I've come from being an instructor at Harvard Medical School, and I've moved to Australia to work here. I have ID to prove who I am," she told him.
Dr Han believes what happened to her was a case of racial profiling and is sharing her story to spark a conversation about the issue.
Twice in 12 hours
She said it happened again the next day, when she asked a man in the town for directions while walking to the train station with her suitcase.
Alice Han is a Melbourne obstetrician-gynaecologist. (ABC News: Danielle Bonica)
He asked: "Are you going to be a working girl in Coffs Harbour?"
"For it to happen twice within 12 hours in the town is evidence of a pattern of demeaning stereotyping and racial profiling," Dr Han said.
She said she was used to racial profiling but in Boston, if you're Asian, you were assumed to be a doctor or professor, but definitely not a sex worker.
The ABC spoke to the motel owner, who denied Dr Han was asked if she was a sex worker.
But she did say that a sex worker, of Asian appearance, had recently worked out of one of her motel rooms, and had been asked to leave.
"We're not working-girl friendly. It's not the girls, it's the clients. We don't know who's coming in," the motel owner said.
Dr Han reported her experience to NSW Police, who told the ABC the incident was not racial profiling because race was never mentioned.
A NSW Police spokeswoman said sex workers working out of motel rooms was a problem and motel owners had a right to ask.
FIFO sex worker phenomenon may fuel racial profiling
Marie Segrave, an associate professor of criminology at Monash University, has documented how Australian Border Force officers used racial profiling to identify fly-in, fly-out sex workers.
Racial discrimination in Australia
What does it feel like to be a young Australian on the receiving end of racial discrimination?
Dr Segrave said officers targeted south Asian women they suspected may be either victims of sex trafficking, or sex workers intending to work illegally in Australia.
"There are women who are mobile workers. They are quite well-off women and fly in and fly out, especially to places like this," she said.
"They use hotels because there's nowhere else. It is the safest option and they make good money.
"When they come into the country, they are profiled. They complain they are being discriminated against because they are sex workers."
Dr Segrave said she had no doubt that Dr Han was racially profiled by the hotel owners because she was an Asian woman.
"Absolutely. If it was me, I don't think they'd be asking me the same question."
Racial profiling could affect many
Former Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane said racist treatment did not always involve explicit mention of race.
"Clearly, some of those who never experience racism themselves may only think something is racist if it involves a Ku Klux Klan lynching party.
Mr Soutphommasane said not all racist treatment was explicit or extreme. (Tiger Webb / ABC RN)
"Yet racism needn't always involve physical violence. It doesn't always require racist epithets to be thrown around."
Dr Han said racial profiling was an uncomfortable issue but she felt compelled to speak about it in the hope of empowering others.
"I was in a neighbourhood where normal behaviour got me stereotyped in a demeaning way and denied accommodation where I was in desperate need of a place to stay," she said.
She is now working as a doctor at a Melbourne hospital and has been awarded a research fellowship to study the health system's response to refugee and immigrant women experiencing domestic violence.
"I suspect there are many people experiencing similar incidents who do not have their stories heard."
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Posted March 2nd, 2017	by Robert Mathews	in Tech Corner. Tags: all servers, apache, security.
We've upgraded our Apache Web server software to fix the security bug CVE-2016-8743.
Customers should not notice any changes, with one exception: If you've written your own software, and that software contains certain bugs that haven't previously been noticed, the update may cause the bugs to be more visible.
Posted October 2nd, 2010	by Robert Mathews	in Tech Corner. Tags: apache.
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I was born in Garma -1, Solukhumbu District,Nepal. Prakash is one of the professional trekking guide in our company. He got a training from Nepal Government to be a perfect Guide. He has been done almost all the trekking area in Nepal, Tibet and German and many other. He speaks English ,Nepali and Tibetan.
I was born in Namche -8, Solukhumbu District,Nepal. Pemba is one of the professional Climbing guide in our company. He got a training form Nepal Government to be a perfect Guide. And he did summit Everest 7 Times and Many more 8000,Metter in Nepal and Tibet. He speak English, Nepali & Tibetan.
I was born in Dudkunda -2, Mapung Solukhumbu District,Nepal. I have been working in Matterhorn Treks & Expedition as a Assistants Guide since 2011. I have been flowing trekking area in Nepal. Annapurna, Upper Mustang, Everest, Kanchenjung , Langtang,Dhaulagiri, and many more.
My name is Mingma Nuru Sherpa. I was born in Chaurikharkha-3, Solukhumbu District, Nepal. Originally, I am from Heart of the Everest region, Mingma He is a one of our professional Trekking Guide in our company. He got a training form Nepal Government to be a perfect guide and he has been almost all the trekking areas in Nepal and know the area well with the culture, people and the lifestyle. He can speak English and Nepali.
I was born in Okhaldunga District,Nepal. I have been working in Matterhorn Treks & Expedition as a Assistants Guide since 2010. I have been flowing trekking area in Nepal. Annapurna, Upper Mustang,Manaslu, Everest,Makalu, Kanchenjung , Langtang,Dhaulagiri, and many more.
I was born in Solukhumbu District,Nepal. I have been working in Matterhorn Treks & Expedition as a Assistants Guide since 2010. I have been flowing trekking area in Nepal. Annapurna, Upper Mustang,Manaslu, Everest,Makalu, Kanchenjung , Langtang,Dhaulagiri, and many more.
I was born in Ramechap District,Nepal. Devendra is one of the Professional trekking and Expedition Cook in our company. He has been done almost all the trekking area in Nepal and Ladahk.
She was born in Tahachal, Kathmandu, she had experience of an office assistant from different trekking companies for more than 7 years and now she is working at Account Department of Matterhorn Treks & Expedition (P) Ltd since 2011.
He was born in Solukhumbu District. He has been working at Matterhorn Treks & Expedition (P) Ltd as a Store keeper Since 2008.
My name is Pasang Nuru Sherpa I was born in Chaurikharkha-1, Solukhumbu District, Nepal. Originally, I am from Cold land known as Heart of the Everest region, 'Everest'. He is a one of our professional Trekking Guide in our company. He got a training form Nepal Government to be a perfect guide and he has been almost all the trekking areas in Nepal and know the area well with the culture, people and the lifestyle. He can speak English and basic German.
I was born in Chaurikharkha-1, Solukhumbu District, Nepal. Dawa is one of the professional trekking guide in our company. He got a training form Nepal Government to be a perfect Guide. He has been done almost all the trekking area in Nepal, Tibet. He speak English, Nepali and Tibetan .
My Name is Ang Nima Sherpa was born in Chaurikharkha -9, (Sanogumela)Solukhumbu District,Nepal. I work with Matterhorn Treks & Expedition (P)Ltd. Since 2013 , About my experience I was as a cook since 21 years and I have done almost all the trekking area in Nepal, Tibet.
I was born in Garma -1, Solukhumbu District,Nepal. Tsering Namgel is one of the professional trekking in our company. He got a training from Nepal Government to be a perfect Guide. He has been done almost all the trekking areas in Nepal, Tibet and He Speaks English ,Nepali .
My name is Shinge Lama I was born in Rasuwa District,Nepal. I have been working in Matterhorn Treks & Expedition as a Assistants Guide since 2009. I have been flowing trekking area in Nepal. Annapurna, Upper Mustang, Everest,Makalu, Kanchenjung , Langtang,Dhaulagiri, and many more.
I was born in Rasuwa District,Nepal. I have been working in Matterhorn Treks & Expedition as a Assistants Guide since 2013. I have been flowing trekking area in Nepal. Annapurna, Upper Mustang,Manaslu, Everest,Makalu, Kanchenjunga , Langtang,Dhaulagiri, and many more.
My Name is Mingma Dorjee Sherpa I was born in Chaurikharkha -9, (Sanogumela)Solukhumbu District,Nepal. I work with Matterhorn Treks & Expedition (P)Ltd. Since 2007, About my experience I was as a cook since 21 years and I have done almost all the trekking area in Nepal, Tibet.
I was born in Moli -6, Okhaldhunga District,Nepal. Padam is one of the Professional trekking and Expedition Cook in our company. He has been done almost all the trekking area in Nepal, Tibet and Ladahk.
I was born in Okhaldhunga District,Nepal. Sange is one of the Professional trekking and Expedition Cook in our company. He has been done almost all the trekking area in Nepal, Tibet.
I was born in Deusa -8 Solukhumbu District,Nepal. I have been working in Matterhorn Treks & Expedition as a Assistants Cook since 2013. I have been flowing trekking area in Nepal. Annapurna, Upper Mustang,Manaslu, Everest,Makalu, Kanchenjung , Langtang,Dhaulagiri, and many more.


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Tony Carty on the HKU Academic Freedom Issue (SCMP)
"What exactly does 'academic freedom' mean to Johannes Chan and his supporters?"
Tony Carty (Visiting Professor)
It is widely thought that the decision by the University of Hong Kong council to reject Johannes Chan Man-mun's appointment as a pro-vice-chancellor is connected with the fact that he is "an internationally renowned legal scholar and administrator who champions the fundamental values of human rights and the rule of law". The failure to provide credible reasons for not appointing him is, therefore, a "litmus test for academic freedom", according to a Post article by Jerome A. Cohen and Alvin Cheung.
These sentiments are echoed by Chan himself who says that a publicly funded institution, acting in a matter of general interest, should be transparent in its reasons for decisions. There is even talk of a judicial review to see whether the institution took into account irrelevant considerations in reaching its decision.
Any influence of the Hong Kong government, which has six nominees on the council, will be widely assumed to be nothing more than a "diktat" from Beijing. So, it is easy to widen the Chan nomination dispute to include evidence of a failure of China's "trumpeted support for the rule of law", particularly in view of the "personal smear attacks" on Chan by the pro-Beijing press in Hong Kong (Cohen and Cheung again). Chan has counted 350 such attacks.
So it may appear that Beijing is directly engaged in an attack on the academic autonomy of HKU, one more incident in a global struggle where the Chinese government is itself seen as incompatible with "the fundamental values of human rights and the rule of law". No wonder Chan is seen as a threat! To my knowledge, the content of these smears has not been addressed in English-language media in Hong Kong...
If there was to be a judicial review of these smears, I would expect any judge to say that they are "fair comment". That is, they come within a margin where reasonable people could hold differing views. While I was a member of the faculty, I invited many of my senior colleagues, including the present dean, to comment on these criticisms and received no answer... Click here to view the full article. A Chinese translation of the article is available here.
Posted by Simon NM Young at 4:32 PM
Labels: academic freedom, HKU, Tony Carty


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How Atlantic Canada fortunes and oil and gas are intertwined
By Mark Milke on December 2, 2020 Business, Eye on New Brunswick, Eye on Newfoundland, Eye on Nova Scotia, Eye on PEI, Politics, Today, Viewpoint
By Mark Milke and Ven Venkatachalam Canadian Energy Centre Atlantic Canada struggled to create good-paying jobs long before the COVID-19 pandemic. The multiple reasons include poor policy and high taxes on businesses and individuals. Poor policy reinforces other lousy policy, leading to a self-reinforcing downward economic spiral. For instance, previous governments formed policy forbidding fracking…
Alberta oil and gas critical to B.C.'s economy
By Mark Milke on November 26, 2020 Business, Eye on Alberta, Eye on BC, Politics, Today, Viewpoint
The impact of oil and natural gas is significant, whether it is for salaries, Indigenous jobs, or GDP
By Mark Milke and Ven Venkatachalam Canadian Energy Centre How much do the oil and natural gas industries contribute to British Columbia's economy? One way to see the impact is to look at those of Indigenous ancestry. Their employment proportions across sectors and incomes reveals a lot about where the good-paying jobs are, and also…
Autocratic regimes use energy as a weapon
By Mark Milke on November 22, 2020 Business, Politics, Today, Viewpoint, World
International power politics employed by the likes of Russia have resulted in many countries looking for new energy sources
By Mark Milke and Ven Venkatachalam Canadian Energy Centre Russia cut off the natural gas supply to Ukraine in mid-winter 2009, ostensibly over a pricing dispute. It was a reminder that energy can be used as an economic and political weapon by autocratic regimes – in this instance, Vladimir Putin's Russia. We have more recent…
Why oil and gas are fundamental to Canada
By Mark Milke on November 13, 2020 Business, Eye on Alberta, Eye on Newfoundland, Eye on Saskatchewan, Politics, Today, Viewpoint
The $493 billion in oil and gas revenues paid to governments since 2000 is more than family allowance and children's benefits since 1970
By Mark Milke and Lennie Kaplan Canadian Energy Centre Humans are wired to respond to stories that paint a relatable picture of an issue at hand. And those stories are easier to remember. If we repeat a Rex Murphy story about how out-of-work cod fishery workers from Newfoundland saved their homes and marriages by moving…
U.S. natural gas producers benefit from Canada's retreat
By Mark Milke on October 30, 2020 Business, Eye on Alberta, Eye on BC, Today, Viewpoint
Less supportive policies and regulatory constraints has led to natural gas stagnation in Canada
By Mark Milke and Lennie Kaplan Canadian Energy Centre The United States has undergone an energy renaissance of sorts in recent years. After decades of importing significant volumes of natural gas, there has been a transformation in both the economy and policy on that source of energy in particular. Americans began to produce and export…
Why Ontarians should care about Alberta oil and gas
By Mark Milke on October 21, 2020 Business, Eye on Alberta, Eye on Ontario, Politics, Viewpoint
Alberta's consumers, businesses and governments were responsible for $31.4 billion of Ontario's total interprovincial trade in 2016 alone
By Mark Milke and Ven Venkatachalam Canadian Energy Centre "All politics is local," as 1980s-era U.S. House of Representatives leader Tip O'Neill put it. O'Neill's point was straightforward: Voters care about what affects them. That, naturally, is where politicians then aim their promises and rhetoric. What's true in politics is also true of the economy:…
How oil and gas fuels the nation's economy
By Mark Milke on October 7, 2020 Business, Eye on Alberta, Eye on Newfoundland, Eye on Saskatchewan, Politics, Today, Viewpoint
The importance of oil and gas extraction to Canada's GDP, jobs, incomes or tax revenues can't be understated
By Mark Milke and Lennie Kaplan Canadian Energy Centre No matter how you slice it, Canada's oil and natural gas sector has been one of the nation's most significant contributors to jobs, gross domestic product (GDP) and tax revenues over the decades. Even in down years, such as 2016, the oil and gas extraction sector…
Canada's foreign oil imports: $477 billion since 1988
By Mark Milke on September 15, 2020 Business, Eye on Alberta, Eye on BC, Eye on New Brunswick, Eye on Newfoundland, Eye on Quebec, Eye on Saskatchewan, Politics, Today, Viewpoint
By Mark Milke and Lennie Kaplan Canadian Energy Centre When forecasting future oil consumption around the world, many people have opinions and agendas. Forecasts rooted in facts and technological capabilities are more rare. An example of an informed opinion comes from Vaclav Smil, professor emeritus of the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Environment. Smil is…
Weak oil and gas investment still plagues Canada
By Mark Milke on September 11, 2020 Business, Eye on Alberta, Today, Viewpoint
While oil and gas investment has grown substantially in other parts of the world, Canada has failed to keep pace
By Mark Milke and Lennie Kaplan Canadian Energy Centre Over the past decade, one oft-heard claim is that oil and gas is a 'sunset' industry, where investment in Canada can be expected to decline given a worldwide flight from oil and investment. However, international data (available from 2009 to 2017) show no such worldwide flight…
Paris emissions targets carry extra costs for Canada's economy
By Mark Milke on July 17, 2020 Environment, Eye on Alberta, Politics, Today, Viewpoint
The gap between expectations and existing policy is wide. Closing that gap will cost thousands of jobs and devastate whole economic sectors
By Mark Milke and Lennie Kaplan Canadian Energy Centre Aspirations are important in life but it's always helpful to be clear on the means to the desired end, especially if others are involved. A case in point: General commitments by governments in Canada to significantly reduce carbon emissions by 2030, i.e., the Paris commitment. In…
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Q: how to acess list in a class without an instance of the class? I am making a Tennis program in c# for an exam and I need to read a file with players. I can read the players into a list using this code. Now i need to acess the list MalePlayers from another class to get two players from the list and run a match but I can't figure out how to acess it.
public class MaleReader
{
    private List<Player> MalePlayers = new List<Player>();
    public string FileName { get; set; }
    public string Delimiter { get; set; }

    public MaleReader(string fn, string delim = "|")
    {
        FileName = fn;
        Delimiter = delim;
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        var rv = "";
        foreach (var p in MalePlayers)
            rv += "Player: " + p + "\n";
        return rv;
    }

    public void Load()
    {
        TextFieldParser par = new TextFieldParser(FileName);
        par.TextFieldType = FieldType.Delimited;
        par.SetDelimiters(Delimiter);
        while (!par.EndOfData)
        {
            string[] fields = par.ReadFields();
            int MID = Int32.Parse(fields[0]);
            string Firstname = fields[1];
            string MiddleName = fields[2];
            string LastName = fields[3];
            DateTime DoB = DateTime.Parse(fields[4]);
            string Country = fields[5];
            string ShortCountry = fields[6];

            //Gender gender =
            var p = new Player(MID, Enums.Gender.Male, Firstname, MiddleName, LastName, DoB, Country, ShortCountry);
            MalePlayers.Add(p);

        }
        par.Close();
    }

    public static void RunPlayerReaderMale()
    {
        var f = new MaleReader(@"C:\Users\R0ede\Dropbox\Git\Examprogram\Data\FemalePlayer.txt");
        f.Load();
        //Console.WriteLine(f);
    }
}

Is it possible to do without making an instance of the class?

A: You have several ways to do that, and most of them are just a style choice.
One option would be create a static method which internally creates the MaleReader instance but it only returns its MalePlayers property.
public static List<Player> RunPlayerReaderMale()
{
    var f = new MaleReader(@"C:\Users\R0ede\Dropbox\Git\Examprogram\Data\MalePlayer.txt");
    f.Load();
    return f.MalePlayers;
}

A: You can only do that by making it: public static List<Player> MalePlayers = new List<Player>();
But you need to understand what you're doing here, making this list static means that all instances of your class will share the same List.

A: I wonder why don't you have an instance of the class MaleReader? I assume you had to create it to load players from the file.
I would either keep the instance you used to read the file, or, if you don't want to keep it, extract the List before you get rid of the instance.
Or you can take the static aproach, as others mentioned.

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Bombing Iran: the Spring scenario
by The Economist | NEW YORK
THE London Sunday Times splashed news at the weekend that Israel
has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons ... Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear "bunker-busters".
Which provoked Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters (thanks to Slate for the link) into saying that the story, full of breathless references to laser-guided missiles and bunker-busting bombs, sounded
more like the script to Star Wars IV & VI than a military plan being readied for imminent use.
Which is true. But there may well be something to think about here, all the same.
First, you can be sure that Israel is updating plans to attack Iran, and several other countries, all the time. America is doing the same. That is what defence planners are for. The question is whether we have any reason to think the plan will be put into effect.
Second, you can be reasonably sure that if Israel does foresee the need to attack Iran's nuclear capabilities, it will precede that attack with a global PR campaign in which it it draws attention to the dangers posed to the world at large by an Iranian bomb; to the reasons why it would be a good thing to take action against that bomb; and to the reasons why Israel in particular should undertake such an attack, with all the attendant costs and dangers.
What Israel would not do as part of that PR campaign, of course, would be to leak any details of how the attack might be carried out. Any ostensible leaks of this kind would be deliberately misleading.
Which sounds like roughly where we are now. Israel is flying trial balloons about attacking Iran to test and prepare opinion, and throwing in some fanciful details about high-tech weaponry to grab the attention of the newspapers.
Even this theorising may sound like quite a stretch. Israel's recent misadventures in Lebanon, and America's continuing misadventures in Iraq, have given military "solutions" in the Middle East something of bad name.
But for Israel, and perhaps for America too, Iran's nuclear program counts as a special case so special that it may have to be stopped, probably by an aerial strike, whatever the policy context.
Israel expects Iran to have a nuclear bomb by 2009; which is also the last year in power for Iran's holocaust-denying, Israel-hating president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Israel does not need to be sure that it can destroy Iran's bomb-making programme, to make an attack worthwhile. It just needs to be sure that it can delay the programme by a few more years, keeping the bomb out of Ahmadinejad's hands, and hoping that the fundamentals take a turn for the better.
Another consideration for Israel is that, if it does foresee the need to bomb Iranian reactors, it will surely want to do that while George Bush and Dick Cheney are still functioning more or less normally in the White House; which means, realistically, the sooner the better
A couple of years ago ago Israel probably still hoped to see America bomb Iran directly, or, impose a diplmatic solution. But as diplomacy fails and America worries about other things, so the threat to Israel grows. And as Israel's impatience to act increases, so America's need to act decreases: have Israel do it.
An Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear programme would still, in effect, be American policy carried out by other means. America's role would be to help Israel operationally where it could, and to do its best to limit Iranian retaliation.
By way of retaliation, Iran could fire missiles into Israel; it could support Hizbollah/Hamas attacks into Israel, and it could launch terrorist attacks on Israeli targets abroad. Israel would probably view even retaliation of this kind as a price worth paying for security from an Iranian nuclear attack later. Its greater worry would be that Iran might use chemical weapons, or revenge itself on Jews still living in Iran.*
One big worry for America would be the effect of a short air war in Iran on world oil supplies. Here a new note from the investment bank ING is relatively reassuring*.
True, Iran produces 4m barrels of oil a day, twice what Iraq was producing in 2002: but spare capacity in OPEC countries has soared over the past 1-2 years to almost 4m barrels a day, more than enough to substitute for Iranian exports.
America, too, has been building up its Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is now 95% full and could sustain the country for 75 days without a drop of imported oil—though in practice supplies would continue to be available from Nigeria and other unaffected producers.
Iran might try to disrupt other flows of oil by closing the Straits of Hormuz. The US could retailiate by destroying Iranian oil facilities and warships, and by seizing Iranian islands in the region. (America might even contemplate an oil embargo of Iran, which relies on imports for one-third of its gasoline.)
ING goes so far as to wonder whether America and Israel might have something up their sleeves for as soon as February/March this year. It points to the despatch of two US aircraft carrier battle groups to the Persian Gulf, and a new expeditionary Marine strike force.
It takes the prospect seriously enough to issue investment advice against that contingency. If Israel attacks, it say, then: buy the Swiss franc, sell the Turkish lira, buy Russian oil stocks, and sell Turkish and Israeli stocks.
Am I missing something, or does this all sound quite plausible?
*I draw here on a research note called "Attacking Iran", dated January 9th 2007, by Charles Robertson and Mark Cliffe of ING Wholesale Banking, which is not, so far as I know, available on-line.
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Published on Feb. 28, 2011
Paris, France – February 25th, 2011 – DotEmu, developer and publisher specialized in bringing retro games back to life, is proud to announce imminent releasing of beat them up: 64th Street - A Detective Story.
Originally developed and published in 1991 by JALECO, this symbol of the arcade generation will be available for download worldwide on the Apple AppStore in mid-March 2011.
64th Street is the first opus in Rushing Beat series, it spawned Super NES classics Rival Turf! and Brawl Brothers.
First video preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq7bxWuRfyM
Run through New York in the 50s and track "the Legacy", an evil organization responsible for many kidnappings. Try to find the daughter of one of the most influential men in town. Play the atypical detective duo Rick and Allen. Both are ready to fight the villains and free the girl!
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Milano Men's Fashion FW 2022/2023
The spotlight is turned on on Milano Moda Uomo FW 2022/2023, the event is largely back in attendance (with strict security protocols), but maintains the now well-established "phygital" format with various virtual events.
From 14 to 18 January the fashion world tries to restart. The Omicron variant has got in the way and (also) Milano Moda Uomo has to deal with the pandemic. But like Pitti Immagine, also the fashion week dedicated to men's style and trends chooses to return largely to the presence.
Courtesy of Press Office
Milano Moda Uomo FW 2022/2023: all the information
The appointment with the MFW 2022/2023 is from 14 to 18 January 2022. After London's decision to cancel the traditional appointment at the beginning of the year and to launch three "mixed events" in February, June and September, Milan inaugurates the season of the catwalks dedicated to men's fashion.
The initial calendar included 23 fashion shows, 24 presentations, 9 digital content and 12 events, for a total of 47 brands and 68 appointments. But some designers have decided to cancel or revise the formula of their participation due to the exponential growth of infections.
Certainly (at least, for now), it is Zegna who opens the dance and there are 5 debuts on the catwalk. The brands showing for the first time in Milan are 1017 ALYX 9SM, co-founded by the American designer Matthew M. Williams (also creative director of Givenchy), 4 Label Group, Federico Cina (among the finalists of the LVMH Award), Justin Gall (launched by Gucci Vault) and Jordanluca (present at the 2020 digital edition). There are also 5 brands that make their debut in the calendar of physical presentations: Ardusse, Çanaku, Family First, Dhruv Kapoor and Jet Set.
As for the highly anticipated events in attendance, those of Woolrich and Vestiaire Collective X Fondazione Sozzani are worth mentioning, as well as the 50th anniversary of CP Company and the special installation with live performance by ANTI-DO-TO. This category also includes the concert by the Australian band Parcels, organized by Gucci at the Gucci Hub.
To keep up to date, the reference point is the milanofashionweek.cameramoda.it platform, which acts as a sounding board not only for virtual appointments, but for the whole event.
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BOFH: OutBOFHd
He's good, he's bloody good
By Simon Travaglia 11 May 2007 at 10:41
"...and this is Simon and Steven. Simon, Steven, this is David, he's our new hardware technician," the new Boss says, entering Mission Control.
"New hardware technician? What about our old one?"
"I was under the impression we didn't have an old one."
"That's right," the PFY says defensively. "Because we didn't need one."
"It seems you do. I was looking through the write off statistics and it seems that our equipment has some of the worst expected lifetimes around. In some cases we write off equipment that's almost new."
"Plasma screens have only recently settled down stability wise," the PFY counters. "And the larger sized ones had the worst failure rate."
"Still, probably worth a warranty claim though," David chips in.
"Too late, it was disposed of," the PFY says before someone starts thinking about looking for it. At his place...connected to his DVD player...
...Five minutes later...
"I don't like it," the PFY says. "He's going to be a problem."
"Nah, he'll be fine," I say. "The boredom will get to him."
...The next day...
"Have you guys got an oscilloscope?" Dave asks, with the Boss closely in tow.
"Need to check the data lines of the IDE interface on that machine you're going to toast. We may not need to chuck it out as it may just be a faulty cable," he says.
...Two minutes later after Dave's departed with the scope...
"The bastard!" the PFY fumes. "It took ages to pull that connector to bits and break off some of the data pins. I was going to use that as a home cinema!"
"Yeah, he's good. Strange he didn't just swap the cable out though."
"Mmm," the PFY says thoughtfully. "So he's just showing off?"
"Bound to be..."
...Two further minutes later...
"Yeah, it's stuffed," Dave says, popping his head back into Mission control. "Must be a dud motherboard."
"Ah well," the PFY says. "Sling it in here, we'll dump it later."
"No need," Dave says. "I've got a contact who does sustainable recycling."
"Yeah, but we might be able to use some bits."
"Nah, they're all stuffed," Dave says.
"It's true," the Boss adds. "He checked them all with the ozziscope."
"THE BASTARD!" the PFY snaps.
"Oh, he IS good," I concur. "But lets see how good he is after a few midnight callouts..."
So it's 2am and Dave's just put a machine back into a rack after replacing a couple of failed hard drives that the PFY and I had fitted a couple of hours ago prior to tripping the SNMP alert.
"Odd losing two in one go like that," he says cheerfully. "Still, it happens from time to time though. So if that's all I'll let you guys get onto the data recovery."
"Thanks," I say, letting Dave out.
...Three hours later...
"Sorry for getting you back in again Dave, but it looks like another drive's failed," the PFY says, pointing to the machine.
...Ten minutes later...
"That's funny."
"What is?" the PFY says.
"This drive looks exactly the same as one of the ones I replaced earlier."
"They all look the exactly the same don't they?" the PFY says.
"No, see how this one has a gouge in the label just before the brand name - I think I did that when I pulled the old one out of the drive tray."
"You must have done it twice," the PFY proffers.
"I don't think so. Say, do you have the old drives, I'd like to take a look at them."
"Oh, sorry, I didn't realise you'd want them. I sent them off to a sustainable recycler," the PFY replies, with more than a little sarcasm in his voice.
...Later that day...
"...and then Dave replaced the third drive and we >yawn< recovered the data," I say, recounting the whole thing to the boss.
"Did you keep that drive then?" Dave asks. "Didn't send it off for recycling in the middle of the night?"
"No, we kept it in case you wanted to check it against the next faulty drive," the PFY snaps.
"Which will probably occur tonight," Dave chips. "Once around 2am and another at around...5?"
He IS good!
"No, I'm sure it'll be ok," the PFY says. "Besides, I'm so tired I'm unlikely to hear the pager."
"Yes, David mentioned you might be a little tired so I've had security give him access through your office to the Computer room 24x7."
"The bastard," I murmur before the PFY can say anything.
"Pardon?"
"Hmm?" I respond.
"So we need to make ABSOLUTELY SURE that nothing goes wrong tonight so as not to justify his access."
"Should I check all the machines and do a bit of preventative maintenance?"
"I was thinking more along the lines of disabling the fault reporting system," I say...
"ONTO IT!" the PFY snaps.
The next day dawns without incident - which I confirm when I run into the PFY while waiting for the lift.
"Not a tinkle - the pager was silent all night," he affirms as we enter Mission Control. "MY DESKTOP!" he gasps, seeing his monitor sitting on his chair.
"What did y... *MY* Desktop!" I cry. "And my laptop! And my reserve desktop and reserve laptop!"
"My laptop!" the PFY gasps, opening his second drawer to find an empty space.
A quick scan of the room tells the story that the trolley scuff marks in the carpet should have told us before we walked in.
"WE'VE BEEN RIPPED OFF!"
"And we know whose fault this is!" I say, turning and heading to the Boss' office...which is completely empty.
Completely. Not even a phone.
"They're good," I say, as the PFY looks under the Boss' desk for any evidence.
"There's a note," the PFY says pointing behind the door.
"It's to us!" I say slamming the door and ripping down the note, "It says 'Thanks for the memories, the kit and the plasma screen - Dave and John.'"
"Who's John - and what plasma screen?"
"John is the Boss and the only plasma screen they knew about is the one you've got at - "
"You don't still keep a spare house key in your desk drawer do you?"
"Yes, but it's loc.. THE BASTARDS!!"
"Oh, they're good," I say, noticing the blanking plate where the door handle should be. "They're BLOODY good."
BOFH: The whole shebang
We're late and we're unreliable but we won't invalidate your warranty: We're engineers!
Something for the Weekend, Sir? All we know is hate and machinery
'Our way or the highway' warranty scams shot down by US watchdog: It's OK to use unofficial parts to repair your gear
Warns six major companies, refuses to name names
Class-action sueball over refurbed iThings will ask Apple what 'as good as new' means
Remanufactured kit never as reliable, complainants claim
We lose money on repairs, sobs penniless Apple, even though we charge y'all a fortune
Spare a thought for the lives of the creative accountants
Anyone fancy testing the 'unlimited' drive writes claim on Nimbus Data's 100TB whopper SSD?
Samsung, Toshiba sulking in 30TB tiddler territory
'Acts of war in a combat zone are not covered by your laptop warranty'
ON-CALL Help desk deals with PC exploded in Iraq. By people shooting at the owner
Side-splitting bulging batts, borked Wi-Fi... So, how's that Surface slab working out for you?
Reg reader finds a use for the new London store while others struggle with fubar wireless
Gearheads get their spudgers into an iPhone 11 Pro Max: Bi-lateral charging, anyone?
Plus: Start the week right by watching Apple's latest being dropped repeatedly


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