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Martin Truex Jr. leads five-driver pack to exceed 200 mph in first Sprint Cup practice at Talladega
By Jerry BonkowskiMay 2, 2014, 4:22 PM EDT
It's rare a driver gets a second chance in NASCAR, but Martin Truex Jr. did during Friday's first practice session at Talladega Superspeedway for Sunday's Aaron's 499.
Truex sat on the outside pole for the season-opening Daytona 500 back in February, but his hopes and dreams of a win in the Great American Race ended after just 30 laps when the oil pump on his Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet broke.
End of story, end of race for Truex, who ultimately finished last in the 43-driver field.
But in the first of two practice Sprint Cup sessions on Friday, Truex reached back for some of the same magic he had during qualifying at Daytona.
The New Jersey native, who is in his first season at FRR after a four-year stint with Michael Waltrip Racing, was the fastest in the early afternoon practice.
Not only that, Truex cracked the 200 mph mark in doing so, leading the 47 cars that took part in the practice session with a top speed of 200.721 mph.
Truex is currently 27th in the Sprint Cup standings heading into Talladega, 159 points behind series leader Jeff Gordon.
And while his record at Talladega is far from stellar – he's managed to finish just nine of his prior 18 starts there, Truex is optimistic that he can build upon Friday's practice time.
"The car is fast, and we knew it would be as fast as it was in Daytona," Truex said after the first practice session. "We just didn't have a chance to show the speed at Daytona.
"It's good that we still have the speed in it. We put ourselves in the right spot today to hit the big number. I think we only did nine or 10 laps and everything felt good so we're ready to go and qualify tomorrow."
As a result, Truex said he would not take part in Friday's second practice session.
As for qualifying Saturday, Truex said there's more from where Friday's practice speed came from.
"We would like to be in the same position as we were today," he said. "At the start of practice we got in front of a line of cars and were able to make a run up there.
"The difference (during Saturday's qualifying) is that we don't know what everyone else's plan is going to be. Everyone will be trying to do what we did in practice today and that's to be in the right position to get the fastest speed.
"And at the same time, it's going to be a risky session. Our No. 1 goal right now is to make sure this Furniture Row/Denver Mattress Chevrolet races on Sunday. If we feel like we're in a danger zone, we'll abort. It really doesn't matter where you start here."
Truex is coming off a season-best finish of 10th at Richmond last Saturday, had plenty of company as four other drivers also cracked 200 mph:
Justin Allgaier (200.666), last year's 'Dega spring race winner David Ragan (200.599), Marcos Ambrose (200.540) and super rookie Kyle Larson was fifth-fastest (200.372).
Sixth through 10th were Carl Edwards (199.921), Michael Waltrip (199.875), David Gilliland (199.666), Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (199.654) and Danica Patrick was 10th-fastest at 199.625 mph.
On the flip side, several drivers struggled to find speed in the first session. Kyle Busch was 41st-fastest (195.389 mph), Dale Earnhardt Jr. was right behind (195.337), six-time and defending Sprint Cup champ Jimmie Johnson was 45th-fastest (190.537) and J.J. Yeley brought up the rear of the field at an almost glacial 187.331 mph.
Chevrolet dominated the first practice session from a manufacturer's standpoint with 11 Chevy-powered drivers among the fastest in the top 20.
Ford had seven drivers while Toyota continued its struggles with only one driver in the top 10 (Waltrip, seventh-fastest) and Clint Bowyer (18th-fastest).
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Federici: 'With his head tucked underneath his arm'
FEDERICI, Signor [BAKER, Anatole Frederic[k] Demidoff] (b Florence, Italy 22 April 1850; d Princess Theatre, Melbourne 3 March 1888)
Poor Fred. Nothing in his life made him half so famous as the manner of his leaving it, at 37 years of age. His name is remembered in the 21st century only as a putative 'theatre ghost' at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, whom journalists like to bring up, periodically, to fill an empty antipodean column or two.
There was never any secret but that the Signor, though born in Italy, was an Englishman, by name Frederick Baker. His wife put his date of birth on his tombstone, so we know that too. But nothing else. He was said to have belonged 'to a good family' 'speaking four or five languages' and to move with ease in social circles, but no-one, as far as I know, ever credited his parentage in print, or said what the Baker family was doing or did in Florence, Italy. Which was, of course, at that time in a state of war.
I wondered if he had anything to do with the Mr Baker, 'pupil of Santley', who made a first appearance at the Crystal Palace with Louisa Vinning in 1861 (16 February), or the Mr F Baker from Milan, singing bass in Dublin in 1864. Probably not, I now know.
We are not told where he received his musical education, or how and why he came to Britain, he just turns up at the beginning of 1872, and makes his first appearances in the London concerts, seemingly under the aegis of Julius Benedict. I spot him singing at the Schubert Society ('a new song by Fabio Campana'), the Freemasons Tavern, at St George's Hall for an ephemeral lady calling herself Augusta Rentini ('Eri tu'), for Madame Puzzi, and the Chevalier de Kontski, and in the prospectus for Mme Sainton-Dolby's concerts. A programme like de Kontski's was staffed almost wholly by exiled French society singers – Mme Conneau, 'Mme Abrek', Valdec, the Comte d'Épineul – which has always made me wonder if Federici had spent some of his 21 years to date in France.
He turned out for Signor Scuderi, the Prince Poniatowki (that French and Italian connection again!), and joined Sims Reeves, Blanche Cole and Helen D'Alton in ballad concert at the Surrey Gardens, all as part of a well-furnished first London season. On 18 June, he put on a concert of his own, at the home of the Countess of Crawford and the guest list showed where his connections lay: Mme Conneau, Cora de Wilhorst, Rizelli and Tito Mattei, Prince Poniatowski, Benedict, Campana … He had to have a French connection.
The season over, Federici set out for the north and a series of appearances in Glasgow as part of the 'Sims Reeves party', prima donna Blanche Cole, which ended up performing two Saturdays and a concert of La Sonnambulawithout Reeves. The local press remarked 'We welcome with pleasure Signor Federici to the present staff of British singers ... [he has] a good understanding of the music he interprets but should endeavour to avoid a tendency to throatiness...'.
Scotland evidently agreed with him, for after appearing in London in the Monday pops ('Pietà signor', 'Ce que je suis sans toi') and taking in a Messiahat Leeds, he returned to give The Messiahin Edinburgh and Glasgow, Samsonin Kilmarnock, Carissimi's Jonahwith the Glasgow Choral Union, Jephthaat Paisley, to sing at the Burns Festival in the Glasgow City Hall, and in various concerts ('The Outlaw'. 'The Yeoman's Wedding', 'Far from Mine Eyes'. 'Why do the Nations', Barri's 'Mizpah', 'A Song of the Sea').
The following month he was in Ireland, for the Messrs Gunn, making 'his debut in English opera' in a company dominated by clients of Gunn's friend Richard D'Oyly Carte. Federici (billed as 'of the Opera, Milan'!) was one, as were leading lady Blanche Cole, and the other two bass-baritones of the group, Tom Aynsley Cook and Richard Temple. William Castle was the lead tenor. Federici played the King in Maritana, Rodolfo in La Sonnambula, Valentine in Faust, Arnheim in The Bohemian Girl, the Baron in Lurline, and took part in concertswith 'a rich full voice, and a power of modulating it that few possess'.
The Cole-Cook combination headed from Dublin to London, and thus, on 1 April 1873, the 22-year-old baritone made his London operatic debut in the new Crystal Palace theatre in Faust alongside the neophyte Joseph Maas. When Miss Cole moved on to play a series of performances at the Gaiety Theatre, he repeated Maritana, The Bohemian Girland played Father Tom in The Lily of Killarney.
He appeared in a ration of concerts, notably that of Prince Poniatowski (6 June 1873), at which the Prince's opéra-comiqueAu travers du mur was mounted. Jose Sherrington, Haydée Abrek, Marius Audran and Jules Lefort were the other performers, so the work was obviously given in French. June also saw a repeat of his own concert, visits to the Crystal Palace and St George's Hall, and he followed up by taking part in the Covent Garden proms (Stabat Mater, Smart's 'Poor Jack', 'The Manly Heart' with Constance Loseby), visiting Margate, making a return visit to Glasgow (Plumpton's 'The Trooper'. 'Honour and Arms', Louisa Gray's 'Then and Now') and another to Ireland (this time described as of 'the Royal Italian Opera') to sing with Mme Deméric Lablache at the Dublin Exhibition (Stephen Adams's 'A Warrior Bold', 'There is a Green Hill Far Away').
In November he went out with a Carte concert party, supporting Carlotta Patti, and in December he accompanied Pauline Vaneri, Alice Fairman and J H Pearson in a concert and Messiahseries.
After two seasons of good exposure and a busy schedule, something curious happens in 1874. Signor Federici doesn't disappear entirely, but his workload seems to shrink enormously. In the season, I can only find him singing at Miss Purdy's concert (as each year), and on one Henry Leslie programme ('Speed on my bark', J C Ward's 'The Lives of great men') in May, giving his own annual chez the Crawfords, and appearing with the French actress Marie Dumas in fashionable homes in June. Was he (looking at his later history) ill? Was he overseas? – I spot him in concert in Aix-les-Bains with Titens and Trebelli in August. Curious.
Suffice it to say, that by October he is back on the road, doing another Carlotta Patti tour, from some of which concerts he was obliged, through ill-health, to withdraw. But then he headed on to a Scots Christmas, and back to town for Madame Puzzi, and the Saturday pops. But come the season, Signor Federici seemed to have lost a little of his impetus. He returned to Henry Leslie, ('Oh that we two were maying', 'Heart of Oak', The Captain's Song), to Miss Purdy, to Mme Sainton-Dolby and John Thomas, he visited the provinces with Jose Sherrington and Brignoli, and Nottingham for the premiere of Henry Farmer's Mass in B flat, and he took part, as ever, in the Covent Garden proms, but it wasn't right.
He lasted half of 1876, repeating his usual engagements but also singing the Landgrave Ludwig in Liszt's The Legend of Saint Elisabeth and the Bach Mass in B Minor at St James's Hall. He was clearly unwell in this last ('knowing that he has for some time in indifferent health...'), and was replaced for the second performance. He dropped out, too, of the Lemmens tour of L'Ombre. In November, Madame Puzzi organised a Benefit for him, at the Marchioness of Downshire's. And a week later he was off singing The Messiahand the McGuckin-D'Alton concerts in Ireland, traipising to Huddersfield, to Liverpool to sing The Legend of Saint Cecilia with Albani, Fairman and Lloyd, to Willis's Rooms with Sophie Ferrari, back to Belfast for a Messiahwith Edith Wynne, and to Manchester with Titiens.
Now, in 1885 Mr Federici gave an interview to the American press. He said that 'in the spring of 1877' he had run away from his creditors and joined the 15th Hussars. And that he had stayed in the army till late 1879, when he returned to singing. The only problem with that tale is that, all throughout 1877 and 1878, he can be seen fulfilling engagements as a singer, from one end of the country to the other. So … fantasy or faulty dates?
He performed with Mme Lemmens-Sherrington in her concert and oratorio group, singing the Stabat Mater and St Matthew Passionto the provinces, he sang at Dannreuther's concert of his settings of classic verse, he gave the Creationat the Crystal Palace, he took part in Gustave Garcia's presentation of The Legend of Melusina, singing the role of Count Raymond, and fulfilled all his usual concerts and a few more. In October 1877, he took an extended contract at Arthur Sullivan's Royal Aquarium, singing in concerts ('Hurrah for the fortunes of war', 'There is a Green Hill', 'Speed on my bark') and momentarily playing in Trial by Jury with Pearson, James Fawn, Kelleher and Kate Rivers. When The School for Scandalwas played, with Marie Litton, Federici sang 'Here's to the maiden'.
It was in early 1878 that his affairs imploded, and he was allowed a 'liquidation by arrangement'. But he didn't stop working. He continued at the Aquarium, and the Sullivan-Cellier connection served him well. He was engaged to play the Sultan in a revival of Cellier's The Sultan of Mochaat Manchester, preparatory to the production of the composer's new comic opera Belladonna(Juanito). Back in town, he taught singing, performed at the Covent Garden proms, the Langham Hall, the Marble Club Tuesday pops, at the Exeter Hall national concerts, at the Brighton Dome, and at the Saturday pops (13 January 1879). And then it stops. So is this when the alleged army affair happened?
Well, there is a bit more confusing evidence on that subject. In a court of law, in January 1880, Mr R E Villiers of the London Pavilion referred to 'Mrs Frederici (sic), the wife of the celebrated baritone known on the music halls as Mr Butler', whose husband had enlisted in the 16th Lancers. 'I had known him for nine months, ever since he was in my company, under the name of Butler, singing at public concerts' said Villiers.
The only trouble is, there was no official 'Mrs Frederici' until October 1879. And 'Mr Butler'? When?
Federici himself says that, while he was in the army, he saw HMS Pinafore at Canterbury, with his wife in the chorus. Which is possible. Anyway, he came out of the army, and joined up with his old mentor, Arthur Sullivan, and his old agent, D'Oyly Carte's, hit show, in the role of Bill Bobstay, and shortly afterwards, while the troupe was in Huddersfield (28 October 1879), married 21 year-old Jane Eleanor Finili ('Lena Monmouth') (b London, 1858). For more than half a dozen years, the couple toured together stalwartly in Carte's provincial companies. Fred played Bill or Corcoran in Pinaforeand, as the new shows succeeded in the repertoire, he added Samuel and the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, Colonel Calverly in Patience, Strephon in Iolanthe, Florian in Princess Ida, the Counsel, and the Mikado. He played the Mikado for Carte in America and in Europe, and returned to America to appear as Sir Roderick in Ruddigore.
The Federici family (Lena now had two children) then proceeded to Australia where Williamson, Garner and Musgrove were running the most successful comic opera company of the continent's history, featuring largely the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire. They arrived in June 1887 aboard the Chimborazo and Federici was soon seen on the colonial stage as the Pirate King, Colonel Calverly, Strephon, Dick Deadeye, the Mikado, Florian, as the Marquis de Pontvert in Erminie, Harry Sherwood and Squire Bantam in Dorothy. Lena took small parts such as Lady Betty (Dorothy)or Celia in Iolanthe.
In March 1888, the company produced Faust, and Federici was cast, now, not as Valentine but as Mephistopheles. On the first night, while leaving the stage on his final exit, he suffered a heart attack, and died in the theatre green room.
His theatrical death attracted a considerable press, and quickly became spattered with much corroborative detail tending to add colour and drama to the circumstance. Some details rang more convincingly than others. It was, for instance, related that he had suffered heart problems for years (how did he get into the army?) and carried nitro-glycerine tablets in his pockets. The theatricality of the Mephisto-dies-as-he-descends-to-Hell episode was obvious meat for the spiritist brigade, and Fred's ghost was said to have been seen by some interested folk in the years that followed.
Lena and her two children, Marguerite [Elissa Anita] (1880- 1936) and Louis [Wallace Horace] (b Brighton 22 November 1881), left 3 June on the Orisabafor England. She can be seen in the 1891 census, living with her father, Luigi Finili, a plaster-figures-maker from Lucca, along with her daughter. I don't know what had happened to little Louis. He seems to have ended up in Mandalay.
In 1894, Lena re-married, a retired civil service clerk, Walter Edward Scott, somewhat older than herself and went to live in Chale, in the Isle of Wight. She died in 1937.
Lena's younger sister Blanche also performed for a while with the D'Oyly Carte companies, before becoming wife to surveyor George Stokes.
In the search for Frederick Baker's origins, and, believe me, I searched long and hard, I had little evidence. His son's name? Louis was evidently for Lena's father, but Wallace and Horace?
And then I came upon a little piece, in an Australian newspaper. 'Signor Federici was really an Englishman named Baker', it confided, 'and a brother to the celebrated 'Baker Pasha''. Well, I had to investigate. Hum, both General Valentine Baker ('Baker Pasha', 1827-1887) and his elder brother Sir Stanley White Baker (1821-1893), were sons of Samuel Baker – shipowner and sugar merchant. They had two other brothers, James and John, but no Frederick. And hardly at the right time. I wondered if Fred might not have been connected in some way to that lofty and world-hopping family. He never claimed it, as far as I know. And the same Australian Paper tried to connect Leonora Braham to John Braham, so.... no cigar.
Dig deeper. And longer. And eventually you find. Social? definitely. International? Widely … found!
Anatole Frederick Demidoff Baker was the son of Mr Eric(k) Thomas Baker (b Deal 25 December 1810; d Bentinck Terrace, London 26 September 1882), himself the son of Admiral Sir Thomas Baker KCB, and his wife Georgina Barbara née Crossman. Georgina was the daughter of a British clergyman, George Brickdale Crossman, 'late of St John's Withycombe', who died in 1854, and is buried … in the English cemetery in Florence. The 'unusual' domestic arrangements of the Crossmans, in Bellosguardo, have come under the investigation of Browning students, owing to some friendly connection.
So, there seems a possibility that Mr Baker (sr) and Miss Crossman were married in Italy. But why was Eric(k) there, in the first place? Well, to start with, he was a bit of an aristocratic wastrel. He had gone glaring bankrupt at the age of 24. Was he one of those who fled the English legal system and/or English moral disapproval to sunny Florence? Well, he was in England in 1843-4 ('eldest son and heir-at-law') when his landed father was declared lunatic. But the following year the Admiral died. So …
And remember Horace? Well, Eric had a brother named Horace (so I was right!), but he also had a son named Horace. Fred's brother. Horace George Spencer Eriksson Baker, (1848-1914). Born Stockholm, Sweden. Where his grandmother – apparently a Swedish minor noblewoman had hailed from.
So international and social, definitely.
The name of Eric Baker, surprisingly, surfaces in the music world too. He penned a ballad sung in 1859 at St James's Hall ('who is Eric Baker?' queried the press), and in 1876 he wrote some lyrics which were set by Charles Gounod ('The Veiled Picture').
So, we know now where 'Signor Federici' came from. But I'd still like to know something about those first 20 years!
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My own personal quest to find a solution to the clinical depression I suffered, led me to Reiki in 2007. It worked.
By 2008, I had received my Master Teacher Attunement, and have practiced since. I was able to quit smoking cigarettes using Reiki also. In 2012, I was in a motorcycle wreck that left most of my body broken, including my back. Life saving surgeries, 11 months of intensive rehab and therapy, and almost 3 years of daily Reiki self treatment, I am compared to a "walking, talking, living miracle". I am a breathing example of how much Reiki can do to help us to heal, physically, mentally, and spiritually.
My search for a way to facilitate distant attunements brought me here. I have met people around the world that want to learn Reiki, but have no physical access to a teacher.
I have realized that my own training given, lacked a lot of the information I have since learned through my own searching and studies. While the physical hands on attunements were successful, as I have successfully worked with many people, unfortunately, my teacher is no longer available to me. So I have had to turn to outside sources to satisfy my questions. So specifically, I came here to learn about attuning others to Reiki distantly.
my Intention is to contribute teaching to those that want to learn, and share the knowledge of Reiki near, far, and world wide.


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Q: Network eth0 DHCP, static ip and autonegotiation issues Background
I am running an Ubuntu Server on 14.04 which is currently up-to-date. I have only one network device connected to it. When I use my Ethernet cord and connect it from the wall to my laptop (running windows 7) the DHCP resolves without issue.
Problem
When I connect my Ethernet cord from the wall to my server (running Ubuntu) and power on my server, the DHCP server does not assign my server an IP address. However, when I connect the cord from my server to my laptop using the laptops' Ethernet connected to connect through my Wifi connection the server will get an IP address from DHCP via the laptop. Lastly, after I get an IP from the laptop connection I use the following commands and then DHCP works when the cord is connected from the wall to the server:
sudo dhclient -r
sudo dhclient -v eth0

The next time I restart the server via sudo shutdown -r now the server will not be able to get an IP again from DHCP with the cord from the wall to the server.
Note that when i assign a static address in /etc/network/interfaces file the network will not assign it the IP and the interface will be down.
Question
Is there a way to fix the problem I am having with my network not being able to discover the DHCP server when I power on the server?
If you need more information please let me know.
Additional Information
dhclient before connecting to laptop
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 (xid=0x********)
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 (xid=0x********)
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 (xid=0x********)
...
No DHCPOFFERS received
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

dhclient with server connected to laptop
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 (xid=0x*********)
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.137.233 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x*********)
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.137.233 from 192.168.137.1
DHCPACK of 192.168.137.233 from 192.168.137.1
bound to 192.168.137.233 -- renewal in 275 seconds.

ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:64:23:7c:da
          inet addr:192.168.137.233  Bcast:192.168.137.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::222:64ff:fe23:7cda/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:28265 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2781 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4655957 (4.6 MB)  TX bytes:415144 (415.1 KB)

dhclient after laptop DHCP and cord reconnected from wall to server
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 (xid=0x********)
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 (xid=0x********)
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 (xid=0x********)
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 (xid=0x********)
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.126 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x*******)
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.126 from 192.168.1.254
DHCPACK of 192.168.1.126 from 192.168.1.154
bound to 192.168.1.126 -- renewal in 41950 second.

ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:64:23:7c:da
          inet addr:192.168.1.126  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::222:64ff:fe23:7cda/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:33438 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3391 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:5245215 (5.2 MB)  TX bytes:550462 (550.4 KB)

network interface (lshw)
sudo lshw -class network

  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:22:64:23:7c:da
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.82 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:42 ioport:e800(size=256) memory:febff000-febfffff memory:fdff0000-fdffffff memory:febc0000-febdffff

Update:
My /etc/network/interfaces file is as such
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

I found a temporary fix that seems to work but I would not like it to be my solution if we can solve this problem. I changed the interfaces file like so
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
    pre-up ifconfig $IFACE up
    pre-up mii-tool -R

That would (i believe) tell the interface to reset and for some reason it allowed the DHCP to resolve like it should. Like I said there has to be an actual fix outside of this one.
Solution:
With the help of Fabbys' answer I was able to come up with a more viable solution that I can live with.
Open /etc/network/interfaces and configure the ethernet interface one of these following ways:
DHCP
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
    pre-up ifconfig $IFACE up
    pre-up ethtool -s $IFACE speed 100 duplex full autoneg off

Static
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    post-up ethtool -s $IFACE speed 100 duplex full autoneg off
    address x.x.x.x #Internal IP
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway x.x.x.y #Gateway IP
    dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 #Google DNS

I hope this helps someone else in the future.

A: As per discussion in the chat, turn off auto-negotiation on the server and fix the network speed to the highest level that the Network Interface Card (NIC) can sustain.
Start with 10Mbps, half duplex and work upwards to 10Mbps FD, 100Mbps HD, ... until the problem starts.  Then go down one notch and leave it at that speed.
First, install ethtool (if already installed you will just get a warning that the latest version is already installed)
sudo apt-get install ethtool

Now:

*

*Type the following command (and test them one by one)
sudo ethtool --change eth0 speed xxx duplex yyy autoneg off

where xxx = 10, 100 or 1000 and yyy = half or full.
So start with 10 half, 10 full, 100 half, ...

*Do an ifconfig to check whether you got an IP address.

*Go back to 1 until it stops working and use the previous values that still worked to:

*To make the change permanent, execute the following command:
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

and type at the pre-up section:
pre-up /usr/sbin/ethtool --change eth0 speed xxx duplex yyy autoneg off

A: OH MAN FACEPALM (facepalm to myself as I originally thought of this second instead of first as I should have it is almost always the most simple things that can get you going in circles with technology, eh?)
(moved to top as this is most likely the issue, but left the other content below for reference).
If you are using the same wire to connect your server to your laptop as you are your server to the wall THAT'S PROBABLY THE ISSUE!! (again this is more me getting on myself for missing this first and only thinking of it second.  I did not mean to come across harsh if that's how it sounds)
There are 2 different types of wire you're using here...
Reference:
https://www.computercablestore.com/straight-through-crossover-and-rollover-wiring
First is a Straight Through ethernet cable used for switches and routers to client computers
Second is a Cross over cable:  These are used for machine to machine connections and are physically wired differently!
So, if that cables works between your server and laptop with no switch or router in between the 2 (WiFi connection DOES NOT count here at all for anything) that cable has got to be a cross over.
Get a standard Straight Through Cable and connect from the router to the server and see what happens.
In my experience computer issues boil down to the most simple of overloooked issues.  Some routers and switches are "smart" and may try to make internal adjustments when you use the incorrect cable (crossover) so you can still use it to connect the machine, but that is never something to rely on and is more likely to be the issue.
Uh actually this sounds like a router issue.  I for instance have FiOS and in the router I can go and look at network settings and I see where it bridges the WiFi and Wired segments seperately to the DHCP server so if something were to happen to that setting I could end up with what you have here you can't get an IP over the Wire anymore cause it is not connected to the "Home" network running the DHCP server, but you can over WiFi as that is still connected to the "home" network within the router.  You can either attempt to look through the advanced settings of your router or more often than not if you have a paperclip  and there's a reset pin push button you can look up how to factory reset it (usually hold paperclip in reset button for like 30 secs).
Also your laptop is getting assigned an IP via WiFi Only.  If you have a machine and it has both a wired and wifi adapter and you have WiFi connected and plug a wire in even if that fails your machine will still surf the internet fine and what not cause it is routing all requests via WiFi and ignoring the wired port altogether.
Your "fix" works because you are requesting an IP via the Laptops Wifi adapter in the end.
From reading more here I also notice it maybe a MAC security feature you enabled on the router...  This means that unless the MAC address of your NIC is within the allowed list of clients your router would refuse to give it an address.  You may "fix that by first going through the laptop which is on the list and once you get an addreess that way when you connect back to the wall and throw another request it may skip the MAC check since it sees it already gave you an address and at lest temporarily thinks your server is a trusted client.  I would also check any MAC security you enabled within the router.
I am not saying it is impossible for your routers DHCP server to have some odd issue but this would be SOO SUPER RARE I can't tell you how rare.

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After you file a personal injury claim and submit a demand letter to an insurance company, it is time to negotiate. When you present an organized demand letter and proper documents, then the process will begin with a few phone calls with an insurance claims adjuster. Below are the steps in various stages of the negotiation process.
During the first call with the adjuster, you will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of your claim. Typically they will make an offer lower than what you requested and you will counter with one higher than the adjuster's but lower than the original amount you requested. After a few phone calls you will agree on a settlement figure somewhere in the middle.
If you have a settlement amount in mind, it will help the process be more efficient. Decide on a minimum settlement figure you will accept and keep it in mind while negotiating. Do not reveal this number to the adjuster. If the adjuster points out facts that you didn't originally consider that could make your claim weaker, you may have to lower that figure a bit.
The insurance adjuster will give you a low offer at first and sometimes it is to see if you know what you are doing. If it seems reasonable, you should still counteroffer something lower than your demand letter amount. Showing the adjuster you are willing to compromise will help you reach the right settlement amount.
If the insurance adjuster makes a very low first offer, clearly looking to negotiate, you can ask for reasons why the offer is so low. Take note on what they tell you and write a brief letter responding to the factors the adjuster mentioned. See if they make another more reasonable offer once ther read your reply.
Emphasize emotional points during your negotiation. The adjuster will already have all the facts, so using emotional points to support your claim can put more value on your settlement. Putting a dollar value on emotional factors is tough, but it can be powerful in getting an insurance company to settle your claim.
Once an agreement is reached, confirm it in writing with a letter to the adjuster. The letter doesn't need to be long but just stating the amount you settled, what injuries or damages it cover and the date which you expect to receive the documents from the insurance company.


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Inspiring Women Among Us back for third year
Inspiring Women Among Us returns for its third edition later this month with events around Prince George and Quesnel to celebrate the many outstanding contributions women make in our society and to discuss ways we can support our female friends, colleagues and family members.
RCMP Assistant Commissioner Brenda Butterworth-Carr will give a talk on November 18 about women and leadership in policing.
The theme for this year's event, which runs from Nov. 16-29, is Women, Work & Allies. The 41 events run the gamut from lectures and panel discussions, to films and music, to a cosplay bonspiel and an art workshop.
Among the highlights:
Melanie Mark, Minister of Advanced Education, Skills and Training will give a talk on how post-secondary institutions can be allies to people who are excluded from universities. This event will take place in the Canfor Winter Garden at 11 a.m. on Nov. 16.
RCMP Deputy Commissioner and Commanding Officer of E Division Brenda Butterworth-Carr will give a talk at 1 p.m. on Nov. 18 about women and leadership in policing. This event will take place in the Weldwood Theatre at UNBC (room 7-238).
The opening ceremonies for IWAU take place on Nov. 16 at 9:30 a.m., in the Canfor Winter Garden. There will be a Trans Day of Remembrance event at 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 20 in the Winter Garden. IWAU concludes with UNBC's recognition of the Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women at 10 a.m. on Nov. 29, also in the Winter Garden.
Advanced Education Minister Melanie Mark will speak on how post-secondary institutions can be allies to people who are excluded from universities.
A full schedule of events is available at: https://www.unbc.ca/inspiring-women
Inspiring Women Among Us is an annual event organized by UNBC faculty members, students and community members.
Among the academic guest speakers who will be giving talks this year are Dr. Jamie McEvoy from the Montana State University, Dr. Theresa Healy from UNBC, Dr. Maydianne Andrade from the University of Toronto and Andy McKinnon, a research ecologist with the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.
Films, plays and entertainment
The films being screened in Prince George are: Pink, a Bollywood film on sexual assault and sexual harassment, and No Men Beyond This Point, a Canadian comedy on gender relations. There will also be two readings of the playQueen, about female graduate students dealing with data gone wrong.
There will also be a coffee night, art cabaret, a podcast, a bonspiel where curlers are encouraged to dress up as women who inspire them, and a rock show (ticketed).
Panel topics include Indigenous Women, Indigenous Leaders, Leading the World, featuring the all-female chief and council from the Saik'uz Nation; Women in Health Care, Thriving; What is 'Work'; Women Entrepreneurs and Small Business; and Women, Unions & Universities: Standing Up for Our Rights.
Workshops will touch on subjects as diverse as art, body image and entrepreneurship. Local artists Frances Gobbi and Twyla Exner, activist Shannon Williams, and Prince George Community Futures, will lead them.
Some of the inspiring women who work at Prince George's City Hall will talk about their jobs at an Open Doors event at the Prince George Public Library's Bob Harkins Branch (downtown).
Mayor Lyn Hall will welcome children to the council chambers at Prince George City Hall for the Ms. Mayor event. Next-generation leaders will be able to share what they would do if they were mayor and get a chance to sit in the Mayor's chair.
The Northern Women's Centre is holding an open house.
In addition to the events in Prince George, there will be a speaker series and craft fair in Quesnel on Nov. 25.


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Female, TV characters, Sitcom characters,
The Office characters
Television programs The Office
Park attractions
Portrayed by Rashida Jones
Performance model
Other names KarenTheJimSlayer
Occupation Regional Manager, Dunder Mifflin Utica, NY
Sales Representative, Dunder Mifflin Scranton, PA
Sales Representative, Dunder Mifflin Stamford, CT
Relatives Dan (husband)
Allies Jim Halpert
Enemies Michael Scott
Andy Bernard
Likes First person shooters
Fate Joins and becomes regional manager of the Utica branch of Dunder Mifflin
Karen Filippelli is a character in the NBC sitcom The Office. She is played by Rashida Jones.
Karen is introduced in the third season as a sales representative at the Stamford branch of Dunder Mifflin after Jim Halpert is transferred there. Along with Jim and other Stamford employees, she moves to Scranton following the merger of the two branches.
Like Jan Levinson, Karen is portrayed as an ambitious career woman – having gunned for a corporate vice president position, but is considerably more personable than Jan. Like Pam Beesly, Karen is objectified by several male employees at the Scranton branch.
Karen's ethnicity is deliberately made ambiguous and turned into a sort of running joke. The Italian ancestry implied by her last name is confirmed in "The Merger." But prior to that in the same episode, Dwight suggests that she may be Filipino. She is revealed to be able to speak French ("Grief Counseling") and Chinese (Deleted scene from "Gay Witch Hunt").
In her free time, Karen enjoys first person PC shooters, with her Call of Duty screen name being "KarenTheJimSlayer."
Karen is first introduced as a co-worker of Jim's when he arrives at the Stamford branch. She initially thinks that he doesn't fit there and dislikes the way he looks at the camera, but eventually grows to develop a crush on him.
Throughout the rest of the season, Karen and Jim continue a steady relationship. Following job interviews in New York, Jim leaves Karen there and returns to Scranton, where he asks Pam out on a date. In a promo clip for season four, Karen states that "Jim dumped my ass and left me crying by a fountain in New York!"
After returning from New York, Karen explains to Jim that she has worked too hard for her career and does not intend on leaving. However, the next day, her desk at the office is empty and she is nowhere to be seen.
In "Dunder Mifflin Infinity," a promoted Ryan tells Kelly that Karen had emailed him asking for a date. He claims he turned her down out of respect for his relationship with Kelly.
She later becomes the regional manager of the Utica branch, and develops a rivalry with both Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute, as she wants to out-do them.
In season five, it is revealed that Karen in pregnant, which shocks both Jim and Pam. Michael asks if Jim is the father, but she tells them she is married to a man named Dan. She also learns Jim and Pam are engaged, and seems to be genuinely happy for them.
Retrieved from "https://characters.fandom.com/wiki/Karen_Filippelli?oldid=106243"
Sitcom characters
3 Steve (Minecraft)


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Q: Adding scale_fill_brewer() to the code causes change in plot values? I am using a dataframe to create facet plot by months to view highest covid CFR states for each month (Issue shown in point 3).

*

*DF:

df_ind_stacked_cum <- read.csv(url("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johnsnow09/covid19-df_stack-code/main/df_ind_stacked_cum.csv"))

*When I create a plot this is what I get:
2.1

2.2 code:
df_ind_stacked_cum %>%
  filter(!State.UnionTerritory %in%
           c("Maharashtra***","Punjab***","Chandigarh***","Telangana***", "Cases being reassigned to states")) %>%
  mutate(month = lubridate::month(Date, label = TRUE, abbr = TRUE)) %>%
  filter(Cases_type == "Confirmed") %>%
  group_by(State.UnionTerritory, month) %>%
  summarise(CFR = max(CFR, na.rm = TRUE)) %>%
  group_by(month) %>%
  top_n(n = 7, wt = CFR) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  mutate(State.UnionTerritory = fct_reorder(State.UnionTerritory, CFR, max)) %>%

ggplot(aes(x = CFR, y = State.UnionTerritory,
           fill = State.UnionTerritory, group = State.UnionTerritory )) +
  geom_col() +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90),
        legend.position = "none") +
  facet_wrap(~month) +
  # coord_cartesian(clip = "off") +
  # scale_fill_tableau() +
  labs(title = "Top 7 CFR States based on each month")

*Issue: When I add scale_fill_brewer() then plot looks changed ?

3.1

3.2 Code:
df_ind_stacked_cum %>%
  filter(!State.UnionTerritory %in%
           c("Maharashtra***","Punjab***","Chandigarh***","Telangana***", "Cases being reassigned to states")) %>%
  mutate(month = lubridate::month(Date, label = TRUE, abbr = TRUE)) %>%
  filter(Cases_type == "Confirmed") %>%
  group_by(State.UnionTerritory, month) %>%
  summarise(CFR = max(CFR, na.rm = TRUE)) %>%
  group_by(month) %>%
  top_n(n = 7, wt = CFR) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  mutate(State.UnionTerritory = fct_reorder(State.UnionTerritory, CFR, max)) %>%

ggplot(aes(x = CFR, y = State.UnionTerritory,
           fill = State.UnionTerritory, group = State.UnionTerritory )) +
  geom_col() +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90),
        legend.position = "none") +
  facet_wrap(~month) +
  # coord_cartesian(clip = "off") +
  # scale_fill_tableau() +
  labs(title = "Top 7 CFR States based on each month") +
  scale_fill_brewer(palette = "Paired")

*It gets changed based on palette I select:

scale_fill_brewer(palette = "Set2")

*How can I change colors without changing the plot?


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Murder on trial: Was a Melbourne woman's conviction beyond reasonable doubt?
Sarah Dingle
Broadcast Sat 9 Feb 2019 at 9:05pm Saturday 9 Feb 2019 at 9:05pm Sat 9 Feb 2019 at 9:05pm
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
Duration: 40 minutes 56 seconds 40m
Alice Brennan: Hey there Alice Brennan here, Executive Producer of Background Briefing. Well -- they say justice is blind... but that doesn't mean the courts always get it right.
This week -- A murder amongst friends... and a mother of three is the convicted killer.
Now I just want to give you a bit of a heads up -- Sarah Dingle's story contains some gory details -- and there's also some bad language peppered throughout.
It's half past three on a winter's afternoon in 2011, in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs. Eight people are gathered in one small apartment - seven men, and one woman.
They've been partying and several of them have been drinking for a day or more.
In the space of half an hour this party becomes a crime scene.
Responder: emergency services, 199, 303 couldn't get a location
Operator: Thanks. Where do you need the police?
Man: 44 Princes Highway, room 23
Operator: In what suburb...Yeah listen hey hey listen. Princes Highway goes all around Australia, what suburb?
Man: Oh yeah okay. Dandenong.
Alice Brennan: One man won't leave that flat alive and the lone woman there will be named as a killer...
Operator: What's wrong there, why do you need the police?
Man: There was um an accident just happened. There was a lady just stabbed someone inside there and all this...
Operator: I don't understand. What's the problem?
Man: Someone is stabbed!
Alice Brennan: 26 year old William Awu has been stabbed once, deeply, right through the heart.
Man: Someone is stabbed in...in... inside there, in that room, in that house, we need emergency here.
Alice Brennan: The only person who tells the court that he saw the crime, says the woman did it... Sarah Dingle -- 6 years later -- there's growing unease about her conviction?
Sarah Dingle: Yeah. The crucial question here Alice is -- Did our criminal justice system function as it should... or did Boronika Hothnyang fall through the cracks?
Alice Brennan: Fresh information has come to light... and some say her guilt is not beyond reasonable doubt. I'll let you take it from here, Sarah...
Sarah Dingle: Boronika Hothnyang is a single mother of three. She's in her mid 20s.
Each of her three children has a different father.
And in the words of a judge at her sentencing, every one of those men has abused, neglected or rejected her.
In the months leading up to William Awu's murder, Boronika is unable to care for her children.
She's a severe alcoholic and she often drinks a cask of wine a day.
She can be an aggressive drunk, and she's been admitted to a psychiatric unit on a number of occasions after self-harming.
In 2013 a jury finds Boronika guilty of William Awu's murder, and she's sentenced to 14 years in prison, with a minimum of 10 and a half.
Boronika Hothnyang: Hello?
Michele Ruyters: Hi Boronika, it's Michele. How are you?
Boronika Hothnyang: I'm good, thank you. How are you?
Michele Ruyters: Yeah, I'm good, I'm good.
Boronika Hothnyang: That's good.
Sarah Dingle: Boronika Hothnyang is allowed to call a handful of numbers from prison.
I'm in the grey, crammed offices of the Bridge of Hope Innocence Initiative in Melbourne when she calls the Director of this organisation, Michele Ruyters... as she does every now and then.
Michele Ruyters: Do you have friends in prison?
Boronika Hothnyang: I don't trust nobody in prison.
Michele Ruyters: No, you don't have anyone you can talk to?
Boronika Hothnyang: I especially when it's come to talk don't trust nobody in prison, that's rule number one. Keep anything to yourself.
Sarah Dingle: From the moment she was arrested, until today, Boronika has insisted she's innocent.
Michele Ruyters: I'll just ask you, have you ever stabbed anyone before?
Boronika Hothnyang: No. I can't kill a chicken or fly how I'm going to go kill someone?
Sarah Dingle: Michele Ruyters' job is to investigate miscarriages of justice. She believes Boronika should NOT have been convicted.
Michele Ruyters: No, not based on the the evidence that I've seen.
Sarah Dingle: To convict someone of murder, there must be sufficient evidence to prove their guilt beyond reasonable doubt... it's that old legal cliche...but it's as relevant today as it ever was.
Michele Ruyters thinks it's impossible to say for sure Boronika killed William Awu - she says there's a LOT of reasonable doubt.
Boronika's friends still don't understand how she was found guilty.
Her former social worker Abigail says the Boronika she knows is not a murderer.
Abigail: She's so harmless. She was just an extremely non-aggressive, passive sort of woman. The abuse that she's been involved in has been abuse inflicted on her. Not the other way around. If anyone's been a victim, it's been Boronika.
Sarah Dingle: Boronika Hothnyang has not had an easy life.
She grew up in warring Sudan, but left for Egypt just as she entered her teenage years.
In Egypt, she worked as a domestic servant, was ill-treated by some of her own family members, fell pregnant while still in her early to mid-teens but then miscarried.
She never went to school.
Boronika came to Australia as a refugee aged either 15 or 16.
Abigail: Well her life was horrific. And it was so bad that she would drink. She never would hurt the children. She was a wonderful mother. Her only issue was the drinking.
William Awu and Boronika were firm friends -- he used to cook for her.
Boronika says William was like family.
Michele Ruyters: Were you good friends?
Boronika Hothnyang: yeah
Michele Ruyters: Did you like William?
Boronika Hothnyang: Yeah, he's a good brother, like a brother you know.
Sarah Dingle: I meet a former support worker of Boronika's, Deb, in Dandenong, where she says Boronika and William met years ago.
Their friendship was sealed one day on a nearby bridge.
Boronika had fallen pregnant again - destroying the engagement her family had set up for her with a different man... while shocking others in the Sudanese community.
Deb: Nobody from her community would talk with her because she was having the baby outside of marriage, and so she had gone to a bridge, to jump off a bridge here in Dandenong.
Sarah Dingle: She was 17?
Deb: She was 17. She was heavily pregnant. I think she was about 6 months pregnant. A young man saw her and came to the top of the bridge and calmed and talked with her. He rang police and ambulance, stayed with her, convinced her that she needed to live for her and her baby, and they remained friends. But as I said she didn't just call him her friend, it was her brother as far as she was concerned.
Sarah Dingle: And that young man was William Awu.
Deb: That's correct, the young man that she has been accused of murdering.
Sarah Dingle: William Awu was the much-loved brother of ten siblings. They all told the court he was a good, responsible and helpful person.
Questions about his murder persist.
Not only was he good friends with Boronika, but on that winter's afternoon in 2011 - he'd been staying at her flat so she could look after him while he recovered from tuberculosis.
All of the other men present in Boronika's flat on the day of the murder gave differing accounts of events.
In 2013, Boronika was sent to prison for murdering her best friend in cold blood... a crime the judge described as "motiveless".
The disquiet about her conviction now reaches from Dandenong all the way to the office of Victorian silk, Gerard Nash QC.
Gerry Nash: She didn't flee from the scene. She was found upstairs in bed apparently asleep and drunk which really when you think about it is remarkable. I've never committed a murder but I anticipate that if I ever did I'd be fairly worked up after it, not relaxed.
Sarah Dingle: So did Boronika Hothnyang kill her best friend?
Was she, as the judge said, so drunk she might not even remember doing it?
Or has our system failed to provide justice to one of our most vulnerable?
Chapter one: Dandenong.
It's mid-afternoon on the 15th July 2011 in the most multicultural area in the country - Dandenong - and it's market day.
Ten dollars for the jack here! Ten dollars for the jack...
Just up the road, there are eight people in Boronika Hothnyang's two-bedroom flat.
...Boronika, the victim William Awu, Boronika's boyfriend who we'll call Joshua, another friend who we'll call Paul and four other men.
They're all originally from war torn Sudan.
Most of the group including William have been drinking since the previous day.
They wake up around 8 thirty or 9 in the morning and they keep drinking.
About three thirty in the afternoon, they run out of grog, so two men are sent out for more.
Leaving Boronika, her boyfriend Joshua, William Awu, Paul, and two other guys in the apartment.
Boronika's front door is about 10 metres behind me, or less. What I want to show you is not just the small space of time in which all these events took place and William Awu was stabbed but also the small geographic space.
I start to walk towards the nearby Coles Liquorland, less than 200 metres away.
It takes me under two minutes.
CCTV records tendered during the trial show the two men buying alcohol here at 3.49PM, before they start the short walk back to the flat.
While these guys are out at the shop -- back in the apartment William Awu is stabbed.
William, Boronika and her boyfriend Joshua stay in the flat but everyone else runs out towards Liquorland.
They meet up with the two men coming back with a cask of Coolabah wine and, according to Paul's evidence at trial, then tell them that Boronika has stabbed William.
Operator: How many people have been stabbed? Is it a man or a woman that was stabbed?
Man 1: No, a man! Stabbed by a woman!
Sarah Dingle: As this triple zero call goes on... just metres away William Awu is slumped inside the flat with a stab wound straight to the heart.
The phone gets passed around... and the operator grows increasingly frustrated.
Operator: Yeah but that's not what I asked, okay what other language do you speak?
Man 2: English!
Operator: Okay this is going nowhere. Is there somebody who speaks better English than you there? Hello? I know it's number 23, but are the people still inside or are they outside?
Man 3: No that man still inside?
Operator: Is the man still inside? Okay is the woman with the man now?
Man 3: Yeah they are there inside yeah
Operator: Okay, hang on.
Operator: Okay now what's your name?
Man 3: my name?
Operator: yes
Man 3: My name is um... Matthew.
Operator: Matthew. What's your last name, Matthew?
What's your surname Matthew, what's your family name?
Man 3: Okay I think the police come already
What's your last name, Matthew?
Man 3: Ibon... (hangs up)
Sarah Dingle: But Matthew Ibon is not his real name according to court documents.
The police arrive at Boronika's flat less than ten minutes later.
They find William's body in the lounge and Boronika and her boyfriend Joshua apparently asleep in bed.
And from here on everything becomes less clear.
Chapter two: the eyewitness
Sarah Dingle: What are you going to do with that knife?
Michele Ruyters: Well we got the skeleton mainly to see how difficult it, or how easy or difficult it would be to insert the knife between the ribs and the rib cage.
Sarah Dingle: I'm in a cluttered room, full of folders, computers and a human skeleton.
The director of the Bridge of Hope Innocence Initiative at RMIT University is holding a knife.
Michele Ruyters stabs the skeleton in a downwards fashion, and the knife hits bone.
The angle of the ribs protects the heart.
Michele Ruyters: The way the ribs are angled, it's far more problematic to drive the knife down and be accurate and to hit the area that you're intending to hit.
Sarah Dingle: William Awu was stabbed once. The 22 centimetre blade of the knife passed cleanly between his ribs...to a depth of 12 centimetres.
William was sitting in a chair at the time, either asleep or passed out drunk....
Paul was the only one who told the court he saw it happen.
We've asked actors to read court transcripts:
Paul: I was directly looking at her. She just went into the kitchen then came from there with her arm on her back, then just toward William and stab William then.
Paul said Boronika did this in complete silence.
But his description of the stabbing was inconsistent with the autopsy report.
He said William was in a chair, and Boronika, who's tall, bent down to stab him in a downwards arc, a bit like the classic stab motion from the movie Psycho.
Female Prosecutor: You're demonstrating with your right arm and what, just coming sort of in a forward movement and down?
Paul: Yep.
Sarah Dingle: Forensic pathologist, Dr Linda Isles performed the autopsy.
She told the court:
Dr. Linda Isles: The stab wound passed backwards and to the left and slightly upwards.
Sarah Dingle: So Paul said the knife came down, but the autopsy found it went up.
And here we come to the next thing about Paul: he's a known liar.
If there ever was a Father of the Bar in Victoria, Gerard Nash QC might be it.
He became a barrister 60 years ago, a silk more than 30 years ago, and in those years he was also Dean of the Faculty of Law at Monash University.
Gerard Nash says Boronika's conviction rests ultimately on Paul's word.
Gerard Nash: There's something terribly wrong here, because it all turns on the evidence of one person with a large criminal record.
Sarah Dingle: Boronika's defence team cross-examined Paul on his substantial history of not telling the truth.
In 2002, Paul pleaded guilty to numerous dishonesty charges -- including applying for finance in a false name, obtaining thousands of dollars by deception and falsifying documents including a driver's licence.
In 2004 he was charged with giving a false name and address to police, amongst other matters.
Then a year later, Paul also pleaded guilty to another raft of dishonesty charges.
Gerard Nash is critical about Paul's credibility as a witness in a court of law.
Gerard Nash: What it says is that he is a man who is prepared to lie if it suits him. Whether or not he is telling the truth or not... in many ways his veracity I think was very much not only a matter at issue but was very relevant.
Sarah Dingle: After the murder, the three men who called emergency services tell police they don't know Boronika at all - they say they just happened to be walking along the street. They also say they've never been to her house.
Police aren't convinced -- but when they go to reinterview the men -- they have a hard time finding them.
So Detective Scott Jones tells the court he used Paul -- the man who claimed to be the only eyewitness -- as a go-between.
Detective Scott Jones: Quite often when I was attempting to look for the other men they were fairly difficult to locate. Paul was a reasonably good constant and as he had a good rapport with all of these men I went through him quite a lot... He can be quite a charismatic individual... His English was far better and his phone seemed to have credit a lot more often.
Sarah Dingle: The judge told the jury that if they convicted Boronika, they'd have to accept Paul's account of events.
Gerard Nash QC believes there's still too much doubt about Boronika's guilt... but the jury found otherwise.
On the same day the judge summed up the evidence for the jury, both the front page of The Age and Channel Seven's Sunrise program had big stories about Sudanese youth, violence and crime - and the judge explicitly told the jury to ignore them.
Do you think that would have had an impact on the jury?
Gerard Nash: I can't say whether it would or not but it clearly could.
Sarah Dingle: Boronika Hothnyang pleaded not guilty.
Her former social worker Abigail says that during the trial Boronika had at least two opportunities to plead guilty to manslaughter in exchange for a lesser sentence.
Abigail: Boronika was adamant that she couldn't lie because she didn't do it. So...
Sarah Dingle: What did you think?
Abigail: About taking a plea when you're innocent? Look in hindsight, I reckon I might take a plea, but at the time I just thought, well this is ridiculous, why would you do five years for something you didn't do?
Sarah Dingle: If she had received only five years for manslaughter... Boronika would be free by now.
I can't say that Boronika didn't commit this crime.
But the question is, should she have been convicted on the evidence presented to court?
Did it prove she did it beyond reasonable doubt?
So... what was heard at trial? And what wasn't?
Chapter three: the crime scene.
For a small crime scene with eight people in it, very little forensic evidence is found in the case of Boronika Hothnyang...
Let's start with the knife.
The prosecution said the murder weapon was a wooden handled knife that had been found in the kitchen sink.
Police tested the knife for fingerprints. But they didn't find any.
In fact, the jury was ultimately told there was nothing of evidentiary value on that knife.
What is the role of DNA evidence in this case?
Michele Ruyters: None, it hasn't played any part.
Sarah Dingle: There is also a question about the extent to which the police considered the possibility that someone other than Boronika was involved in William's death.
As part of their investigation, police seized clothing from Boronika and the men.
At first, they only tested Boronika's clothes for blood - telling the committal hearing they didn't plan to test any of the men's.
By time of trial, that had changed - Detective Scott Jones told the court they had now tested the men's clothing for blood but found nothing.
At that trial most of the questions about forensics went to Detective Jones.
That's because both sides of the case had agreed that to save time, they'd let him cover all the evidence the expert witnesses had previously covered.
Michele Ruyters believes this practice, while not unusual, can potentially disadvantage the accused.
Michele Ruyters: And what we're losing then is all of the responses that they might have given to cross-examination or certainly examination achieved in the first place. As far as I can see you end up moving further away from the truth. The whole point of the system is to be able to fact check. That's the whole point of calling witnesses and cross examining them.
Sarah Dingle: The prosecution said the day William Awu was killed, Boronika was drunk, loud and aggressive.
The victim was also very drunk - the autopsy found he had a blood alcohol level of 0.42 - technically enough to kill someone in itself.
Most of the men in the flat that day described an incident where, at the urging of her boyfriend Joshua, the victim William Awu had drawn a cartoon of Boronika as fat.
They said Boronika was so enraged she put William in a headlock.
The men differed in their accounts of how serious that was.
One said the headlock was so hard William's tongue came out, but another said after it happened everyone carried on as normal.
Paul told the court Boronika was so upset by the drawing that she'd threatened to kill three people.
I ask Michele Ruyters about William's cartoon.
What do you make of that incident?
Michele Ruyters: Can I say this? Other than he is a dick? Once again strategically it's not good for Boronika because it looks as if she is rising to the provocation of it.
Sarah Dingle: The prosecution argued that Boronika was volatile on that day... easily angered. Around noon, Boronika and one of the men walked to the Department of Housing offices to complain about Boronika's broken door.
Michele Ruyters: One of the housing officers spoke about having a panic alarm which they had actually been directed not to use but at one stage thought about using it because of the aggressive demeanour of Boronika's companion, not herself. But certainly she is described there, and this is at around 12:15, as being unsteady on her feet.
Sarah Dingle: After that, Boronika and her companion went back to the flat.
From prison, Boronika Hothnyang is telling Michele Ruyters her version of what happened the day William Awu was stabbed.
Boronika says after they return, and before William Awu is killed, there's a visitor from the Department of Housing.
Boronika Hothnyang: And then we went to the house and then I start drinking and drinking. And then they get another man, the Housing, they send him to fix the door.
Sarah Dingle: If true, this means there was a sober outsider at Boronika's flat present at an important time of day. A Department official told the police investigation a contractor fixed the door but he didn't know when. What happened after that is unknown, but no contractor gave evidence at trial.
So I went back to the Department, more than seven years later, and they told me the contractor was there between the 12th July and the 15th - with the 15th being the day of the murder.
They wouldn't tell me the name of that contractor.
Boronika Hothnyang: then after they fix the door we start drinking and then after we drinking I fall down and I left the boy outside and I said OK I'm going sleep and then I went to sleep, i did not see what happened. I don't know what happened, when the police come they wake me up.
Michele Ruyters: Yeah. And you were hard to wake up.
Boronika Hothnyang: Yes.
Michele Ruyters: How much do you think you had to drink, Boronika?
Boronika Hothnyang: I drink too much.
Sarah Dingle: When emergency services arrive William can't be revived and is pronounced dead at the scene.
Police find Joshua and Boronika in bed, both apparently asleep, and get them up:
Female Police Officer: The female appeared very drowsy. I asked her to sit up. She moved slowly and had her right breast hanging out of her dress. Both the male and the female started to yell.
Sarah Dingle: This is what Boronika says she was yelling:
Boronika Hothnyang: and then like the police telling me shut the fuck up and I tell them don't tell me shut the fuck up in my own house, and you the one who have to shut the fuck up, who let you in? They handcuffed me and I tried to sleep and the lady telling me don't sleep, just get up, talk to me. And I say why, and she says, because I want to make sure you are all right.
Michele Ruyters: Right. So she knew that you were very drunk.
Sarah Dingle: Finally at 3.30 the morning after William is stabbed, police interview Boronika with an interpreter.
They ask if she wants to phone a friend or a lawyer and she says no, and then asks when she can go home.
Police proceed with the interview.
They ask her why she stabbed William Awu, and Boronika denies it, telling them to ask William himself.
Police tell her William is dead.
Boronika Hothnyang: The whole night they've been interviewing me until when I sleep in the floor and then they wake me up and they keep asking me, Are you okay? I say I'm fine, and I tell them if you think I kill William you can do DNA, whatever you want to do, but I did not do it.
Sarah Dingle: The police interviewed Boronika until ten to five in the morning, then they let her go home.
A few hours later, police came back to Boronika's flat and formally arrested her for the murder of William Awu.
Which brings us to Chapter Four: The Right Arm
I'm hitting the shops in Melbourne's Bourke St with Abigail.
Years before the murder, Abigail was Boronika's social worker.
She doesn't think much of the men who were at Boronika's flat the day of the murder.
Abigail: So they'd sort of squat at her place. They knew that she was getting Centrelink. So she had the public housing, she had the Centrelink money, so they would just expect her then to go to Aldi or the other supermarket and buy the wine.
Sarah Dingle: Although I've rung numbers, door-knocked addresses, and reached out through social media, I haven't been able to speak to any of the men who were at the flat that day to hear their side of this story.
Today Abigail is after some essentials for Boronika - underwear and socks - for her prison visit this weekend.
Abigail is relieved at least that Boronika seems to have done 'easy time' inside.
Abigail: When she first went into prison she said to me it was the safest she'd ever felt. I have to say for me that was just heartbreaking for her to say that. I think it was true though. And she had a routine and because she was big and she was in there for murder, she was left alone. And look, she's done some training in there and courses.
Sarah Dingle: The other thing that Boronika's had access to in prison is regular medical attention - which she's needed in particular for her right arm.
I've been given medical records and fresh information, including documents obtained under FOI.
In 2008, three years before William Awu was killed, Boronika was in a car accident.
Her right arm was severely injured, and she had to have wire put in her elbow.
Michele Ruyters: How difficult was it for you, the injury?
Boronika Hothnyang: Uh, when it's cold weather I can't move my arm because i've got metal on it.
Michele Ruyters: Yeah. And then what, what happens when you can't move it? Can you use your hand, or...?
Boronika Hothnyang: My hand get numb.
Sarah Dingle: In 2010... documents show Boronika presents to her doctor complaining of pain in her right arm, saying she keeps dropping things - and can't even hold on to a cup.
Boronika is right-handed - this is recorded by a physiotherapist in 2008.
Prison medical documents released under Freedom of Information show just four days after the murder, Boronika is treated for right elbow pain, and issues with full range of movement.
It's possible that Boronika used her left hand to stab William.
And it's also possible she was so drunk that she didn't feel any pain in her right.
But the issues in her right arm are ongoing.
In January 2017, Victoria's statutory third-party insurer finally agrees the car accident has left her with a permanent impairment, and gives her a payout.
Boronika Hothnyang: It's still painful, yeah.
Michele Ruyters: So do you think you could have stabbed William?
Boronika Hothnyang: Nah.
Sarah Dingle: The year after she was sent down for murder, Boronika Hothnyang appealed her conviction.
Her counsel on that appeal was David Hancock.
David Hancock: There were quite a few strong appeal points. The strongest in my view being the conflicting forensic and oral evidence given by the main eyewitness.
Sarah Dingle: David Hancock says he wanted to include evidence of injury to her right arm, but there were some technical difficulties.
David Hancock: In order to run that on an appeal, you really have to argue that it's fresh evidence, and that is evidence that's come to light since the conviction. It wasn't technically fresh evidence, it was evidence that was available to the defence team at the time and they made that forensic decision not to use it.
Sarah Dingle: It's not suggested there wasn't a very sound reason for this.
Running a legal defense for someone accused of murder is complex -- we wanted to get Boronika's legal teams' insights into the trial and the verdict.
Her counsel at trial -- Gaven Meredith has since been appointed to the bench and can't comment.
Other members of the defense team were either unavailable or declined to speak.
The appeal was dismissed.
There are other questions around Boronika's capacity in her right arm - and not just because of the car accident.
Chapter five: the boyfriend.
Ask Boronika about what it was like being with Joshua, and she doesn't hesitate.
Michele Ruyters: How would you describe your relationship?
Boronika Hothnyang: Violence.
Michele Ruyters: Yeah, he hurt you?
Boronika Hothnyang: Many times.
Sarah Dingle: Domestic violence doesn't always get reported to police, which means it's tricky to verify.
I also haven't been able to find Joshua to put this to him.
But I have found a few other things.
I'm in Dandenong, outside the little flat where Boronika used to live, alongside the Princes Highway.
I'm here to meet Deb, who drives up in a floral maxi dress with her dog in the backseat.
Deb: I met Boronika when she was needing somewhere to stay with her little baby. And so her and her baby came to live with me and my husband.
Boronika lived at Deb's house for months and they've stayed friends.
I've asked Deb to meet me here to show me what happened the last time she was at Boronika's flat.
At 10pm on Thursday the 21st of April - three months before William Awu was murdered - Deb says she was at home in bed when she received a phone call.
It was Boronika.
Deb: And she was very distressed. She told me she was in her bedroom. Made the door stuck, was her word, that her boyfriend was going to kill her and she rang me to say goodbye. And then just the phone went dead. So I got in my car and I drove straight down here. I actually pulled up in the same spot I am now.
Sarah Dingle: We're about 10 metres away from Boronika's driveway, so you saw the ambulance.
Deb: Yes, I saw the ambulance.
Sarah Dingle: All this time you were thinking, Boronika....
Deb: I thought she was dead already. It didn't sound like the door was going to hold and she was really clear about saying goodbye and I thought he had already killed her or was hurting her more. I was about here at the end of the letterboxes and the ambos were just at the beginning of the white stairs and had started to talk to someone that was up there.
Sarah Dingle: So we're just out of sight of the front door.
Deb: Just out of sight, he never saw me, and the ambos were directly, maybe a little bit even in front of where he was, and they were engaging with him. I could see he was covered in blood. He had a T-shirt on, he had blood down him, and they were saying, are you okay? He said, Yes I'm fine. His speech was really slow, his movements were slow, so I assumed he was drunk. They then said, we're here for a woman. And he said, no woman. And they were still watching him but stepping backwards. Because clearly they realised this was a pretty dangerous situation.
On the phone from prison, Boronika Hothnyang tells Michele Ruyters what she remembers about that night.
Boronika Hothnyang: Because he's been bashing me and then he's grab something and I tried to push him away and I'm drunk, I was drunk.
Michele Ruyters: Did you see what he had?
Boronika Hothnyang: No.
Michele Ruyters: Okay. But you got cut by something?
Michele Ruyters: Okay. So you never, never worked out what it was?
Boronika Hothnyang: No, because I'm trying to protect myself and then that's when I call Debra.
Michele Ruyters: Okay and then and then the ambulance came?
Boronika Hothnyang: I don't know. I don't know.
Michele Ruyters: Oh okay.
Boronika Hothnyang: Because when start beating me I get a chance to push him and then I run.
Deb says she went back to her car and stayed there for 20 minutes to wait for the police.
She says Joshua went inside and changed his shirt to a clean one before police showed up and swept the area.
Deb: They came to me and said, she's not in there, but we found a blood trail going over the verandah so we think she's actually jumped. And they were calling for the scent detection dogs to come and see if they could track her. I was asking them to please look in the bushes to see if she was here.
I was really, I was really angry that the situation had even got to this. We had been begging for them to get her out of Dandenong, to get her into support services, get her into rehab because she had started drinking. She needed help. She needed to be away from the shadow men that are in this community and instead of her being supported and helped and instead of her children being supported and helped, they were just pushed down even further. And this is why all this happened.
Deb says police eventually located Boronika the next morning.
Deb: And then she did speak to me later on in the day she said she was very sorry, I said it's not her fault. And I asked, are you okay? She said, I'm cut. And I said, you need to go see a doctor, and she promised she would.
Sarah Dingle: Deb made a statement to police, but Boronika refused.
I asked police questions about this night - including whether Joshua was ever charged over the incident -- and they've declined to comment for this story.
But I've come across another document - also not covered at trial.
A doctor's report, released under Freedom of Information, shows that Boronika visited her GP on 4th of July 2011 for a cut hand.
This is a little over two months after the alleged domestic violence.
The doctor's report says:
GP: "Her ex-bf came to her house yesterday and cut her with the knife on the right hand, her friend called the police and came to her house, [he] was drunk and looking for trouble."
Sarah Dingle: It's possible that "ex-bf" is not Joshua - but it seems unlikely.
The name is spelled similarly, and Boronika and Joshua had been in a relationship for around a year.
It's possible that the date of the alleged incident being "yesterday" is a misunderstanding - in 2011 Boronika's English is not great.
It's also possible that Joshua cut Boronika twice on the same hand in two separate incidents where police were called... or that he didn't cut her at all - she was cut from something else...
Regardless, what this doctor's note from the 4th July 2011 shows is intriguing.
Less than two weeks before William Awu is stabbed clean to the heart, not only did right-handed Boronika have a bad right arm from a car accident - she also had a laceration on her right hand between her thumb and the index finger.
Sarah Dingle: Did you ever see the injury on her hand?
Deb: Only after I visited her at the women's prison, there was scarring on her hand and she said that they couldn't get her working because she can't hold things properly in her hand.
Sarah Dingle: And when was that?
Deb: That would have been within four to six weeks of the murder that occurred here.
Sarah Dingle: None of this evidence was put to the jury. Boronika was convicted and is now halfway through her 14 year sentence.
But just three years after William Awu's death -- Joshua was sentenced for his role in a vicious assault at another Dandenong home.
He's drinking among friends when a victim is punched, then kicked, and then Joshua walks into the kitchen and returns with a knife.
Joshua threatens to kill the victim.
The victim's injuries are horrific - the top of his skull is removed for a month to treat the haemorrhaging and he's left with severe traumatic brain injury.
Joshua is convicted and released on a community corrections order in 2016.
The judge decides not to send Joshua to prison because Joshua has -- quote -- "dreadful schizophrenia", and he also has to undergo assessment for alcohol issues.
Boronika Hothnyang has just one final possible avenue of appeal, to the High Court, and given her previous appeal failed, she's cautious about using that up.
I certainly can't say Boronika is innocent... but if she's guilty, the questions about how and why persist.
Gerard Nash believes she should not have been convicted on the evidence.
Gerard Nash: It's sad, sad, sad. And unfair.
Regardless of whether Boronika was rightly convicted or not, Gerard Nash says questions raised by this case remind us our justice system might not always work perfectly.
Gerard Nash: I think what it does tell us is that we have mistakes. We all know that. Juries make mistakes. Counsel make mistakes. Judges make mistakes. I think the system works up to a point. But we do have convictions in cases where there should not be a conviction.
Sarah Dingle: As part of this investigation, I put a number of questions to Victoria Police.
They declined to comment except to say that the matter was investigated, the facts were presented before a court of competent jurisdiction and a subsequent determination was made.
I contacted the Awu family, trial judge Betty King and prosecutor Michele Williams QC for this story, but they were unavailable for an interview.
Background Briefing's Sound Producer is Leila Shunnar.
Sound engineering by Ingrid Wagner and Tim Jenkins.
Our Digital Producer is David Lewis.
Fact checking by Benjamin Sveen.
Supervising Producer is Ali Russell.
Our Executive Producer is Alice Brennan.
I'm Sarah Dingle.
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In 2011, Boronika Hothnyang was accused of fatally stabbing her best friend, William Awu, directly in the heart.
But when police arrived at the scene of the crime, Boronika's apartment in Dandenong south-east of Melbourne, she was fast asleep.
Six men who had earlier been drinking at her place each gave detectives a very different version of events.
In this episode, Sarah Dingle uncovers new evidence that raises serious questions about the strength of the case against Boronika.
Sarah Dingle, Reporter
Benjamin Sveen, Researcher
Leila Shunnar, Editor
Ingrid Wagner, Sound Engineer
David Lewis, Producer
Ali Russell, Supervising Producer
Alice Brennan, Executive Producer
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O.K. Industries is building a quarry next to Capital Regional District land, as shown in this map from the rezoning applicaiton. (Photo courtesy District of Highlands)
Millstream Quarry wins again in court against Highlands community's appeal
Judges rule province not obligated to investigate climate change before issuing permit
Zoe Ducklow
Opponents of a rock quarry in Highlands have been dealt another legal loss.
Three B.C. Court of Appeal judges ruled June 14 that although the mines inspector did not consider climate change impacts before granting a permit for the Millstream Quarry, "his failure to do so did not render his decision unreasonable."
Justice Barbara Fisher wrote, "In my view, this is a submission that seeks a legislative response to a problem of global magnitude, but provides no basis for this court to intervene."
She, along with Justice Anne MacKenzie and Justice Bruce Butler, unanimously rejected the appeal brought by the Highlands District Community Association.
The association argued that the wider impact of climate change should have been considered before a permit was granted by the province. Residents and the District of the Highlands have vehemently opposed the quarry since it was proposed in 2016, citing concerns about dust, noise, impact to the subsurface aquifer, road safety, quality of life and a negative impact on house prices for surrounding residents.
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Fisher found that the community association essentially wanted the mines inspector to take on his own investigation to "quantify the estimated tonnes of carbon which would be emitted through the life of the project together with the net impact of the loss of carbon sinks present on the lands."
The inspector could have done so, but is not required to, she said. She also noted that the association was welcome to submit a technical report of relevant data, but did not do so.
O.K. Industries owns the property, which it bought from the province. It's beside another quarry and a landfill, and the Highland's Official Community Plan points to that plot as ideal for future commercial development.
Mel Sangha, corporate advisor for O.K. Industries, said when the quarry has finished blasting and crushing rock on the site, the land will be level and ready for development.
"The bigger discussion is the process. How is it we were able to get a permit when the community is so opposed?" Sangha said.
The District of Highlands rejected their rezoning application in 2017, but the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation approved the permit.
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The District tried to enforce its bylaws – specifically requiring a tree-cutting permit – but were told by the court they have no jurisdiction to enforce its bylaws on the Millstream Quarry property, as long as it's an active mine. The district appealed that decision in January 2021, but a court date has not been set.
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. "Inputs from the law enforcement agencies suggest that concerted efforts continue to be made by Pakistan, with the help of separatists/anti-national elements within the JK to facilitate infiltration of (militants), which depends heavily on high speed internet as also propagate (militancy) by misuse of social media through circulation of provocative audio/video content, fake news, and coordination of (militant) activities, which too rely upon high speed mobile connectivity," Shaleen Kabra, Principal Secretary Home Department said in an order. "During the last fortnight, there have been a number of (militant) incidents and recovery of huge cache of arms/ammunition, and, apprehending disruption to public order, with the larger aim of causing disaffection and discontent against the state, the mobile data services had to be completely suspended, though for limited durations, in some areas of the Kashmir Valley." He said that keeping in view, the situation requires close monitoring including in the districts of Ganderbal and Udhmapur. Considering the position and reports of the law enforcement agencies, inter-alia bringing out the necessity of speed related restrictions on mobile data services to prevent its misuse, the Pricipal secretary ordered that directions issued on September 08 shall continue to remain in force till October 21 October unless modified. The IGP, Kashmir and Jammu have been asked to ensure "communication of these directions to the service providers forthwith and their implementation in letter and spirit," the order added. (GNS)


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Prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA) is a cell surface, glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored glycoprotein. Its overexpression has been detected in both local and metastatic prostate cancer (PCa), making it a potential therapeutic target. We previously reported that silencing PSCA by small interfering RNA targeting human PSCA (siRNA-PSCA) inhibited biological activity of PSCA-positive PCa cells leading to reduced proliferation, motility and invasion in vitro. In this study, we extended this in vitro findings to in vivo settings in order to investigate the effects of this specific siRNA on the tumor growth and metastasis development of PCa in vivo. The siRNA-PSCA and ectopically overexpressed-PSCA vector were constructed and transfected into human PCa PC-3M and LNCaP cells, respectively, and were subcutaneously inoculated into the male SCID mice. Tumor growth was measured with a caliper, and formation of metastasis in mice bearing xenograft tumors was studied by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and autopsy analysis. Western blot and immunohistochemistry were used to assess the expression levels of PSCA protein in tumor tissues from xenograft and distant metastases. Consistent with our previous in vitro findings, the subcutaneous xenografts of PC-3M-siPSCA exhibited the almost completely inhibited expression of PSCA protein in their tumors tissues (P < 0.001 and P < 0.001, respectively), and consequently had a significant reduction in tumor growth volumes (P < 0.05 for all), and metastasis onset and sites (P < 0.001 for all) compared to those of PC-3M and PC-3M-siScrm. Conversely, LNCaP-PSCA showed significantly enhanced primary tumor growth and metastasis formation of xenografts compared to LNCaP-vehicle and LNCaP cells (P < 0.001 for all). Moreover, the up-regulated expression of PSCA protein was detected in the distant metastases of xenograft tumors from all groups. Taken together, these observations suggest that PSCA has a promoting role in the growth and metastasis of PCa and siRNA-PSCA may be a potential therapeutic strategy for PSCA-positive PCa.


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NAO report, PWLB accounts, Lancs & Norfolk cuts, Segars heads up LGPS board
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— 19 Jul, 2013
NAO sees continued drop in adult social care spend
Councils' spending on adult social care ranged from £630 to £2715 per head for 2011/12 according to research from the National Audit Office. London Boroughs spent the most and county councils the least. A total of £9.07bn was spent to support just over a million people and the NAO found that spend per head on adult social care had fallen each year in all types of council since 2006/7.
PWLB 2102/13 accounts published
The Public Works Loan Board saw its interest income nearly half between 2011-12 and 2012-13. Figures issued today show interest income received for the most recent financial year at £2,892m. For 2011-12 this figure had been £4,503m, reflecting £1,722 in early redemption premiums it made from reallocating the debt of local housing authorities. For 2012-13 loans with a principal value of £198m were redeemed early.
Lancs & Norfolk look for massive savings
Lancashire County Council is developing a four-year budget to find savings of £300m, or 38% of the council's current budget, for 2014-2018. The plan, being developed by a new Cabinet, should be approved in February 2014. Meanwhile Norfolk County Council is looking for another £182m over the next three years as its funding gap increases. Finance head Paul Brittain wrote in a report: "Whilst there had been the hope that the government's deficit reduction programme with its associated reductions in public spending would now be coming towards its end, it is clear that this is not the case and that, in the absence of stronger economic performance, public spending reductions are likely to continue for the next four to five years at least."
Segars to chair LGPS board
National Association of Pension Funds chief executive Joanne Segars has been elected chair of the shadow Local Government Pension Scheme advisory board. She takes up the role on July 15 and also remains chief exec of the NAPF. The shadow board helps LGPS schemes and advises the government through five subcommittees to promote best practice.
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