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TARKOVSKY/EDWARD ARTEMIEV, ANDREY
Solaris. Sound And Vision: The Film Album
CD/BOOK
SONG CYCLE RECORDS
CY 001CD
$47.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/14/2020
Song Cycle Records announce the release of Solaris. Sound And Vision: The Film Album, in collaboration with the Andrey Tarkovsky Institute. A collector's edition book that includes the exclusive photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Andrey Artemiev and Edward Tarkovsky, and the soundtrack on CD realized by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for the Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece film Solaris (1972). List of contents: Dialogue with Andrey Tarkovsky about science-fiction on the screen by Naum Abramov; Interview with Edward Artemiev; Music in Solaris and other Andrey Tarkovsky films by Roberto Calabretta; Exclusive and unreleased images from Solaris. Deluxe photo-book (hard-cover); 30x30cm, 96 pp, 73 photos, 7 illustrations; limited edition of 1000.
TOOP/PAUL BURWELL, DAVID
CY 980LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020
Song Cycle present the first reissue of Wounds by David Toop and Paul Burwell. Originally released in 1980 on Toop's Quartz! label, the album is representative of a seminal moment within the British music scene evolved around the London Musicians Collective in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Founded in 1976 by a group of improvising musicians and sound artists including Evan Parker, Peter Cusack, Lol Coxhill, Sylvia Hallet, Max Eastley, the LMC contributed to shape a new generation of free improvisers with broader interests ranging from the music of John Stevens, Evan Parker, and Cornelius Cardew, to non-western music experiences. David Toop and Paul Burwell came to know each other precisely in these crucial moments, to start a long-lasting collaboration on two separate but intertwined projects a trio with the artist and poet Bob Cobbing, and an improvisation duo. As result of the latter, the nine tracks included in Wounds are edited from a single performance at the LMC, date 30.6.1979. Recorded by Max Eastley and Russ Wood, these shows saw the employment of different musical instruments as well an odd number of found objects placed in front of the artists, on the floor, ready to be picked up and played. Electric guitar, flute, cassette, water, rubbish, explosives, six strings harp, bamboo fiddle, whistle were only a few of the wider arrange of instruments at the disposal of the two. The result is an ambivalent album, suspended between the unfolding of the time of performance, and the circularity of the ritual. And if the collage of texts appearing on the artwork demonstrates a certain disapproval and skepticism toward the progress of society, Wounds seems also suggesting a possible cure. The improvised music, the use of non-canonical instruments, the presence of pre-recorded sounds coming, seems indeed to be an open invitation to the listeners to abandon the old conventions and to search for a new system of relationships.
Snapshot: Jazz Now Jazz Aus Der DDR
Song Cycle presents a reissue of Snapshot: Jazz Now Jazz Aus Der DDR, originally released on FMP in 1980. In August 1979, East German musicians were invited to perform a three-day festival in West Berlin. Billed as "Jazz Now," this landmark meeting was recorded and initially released in a limited edition. From stunning duos to challenging small-group performances, from large rave-ups to Mingus nods, Snapshot: Jazz Now Jazz Aus Der DDR provides much more than that name suggests. It's as complete a portrait of jazz in the GDR as one is ever likely to find, and a moment in time that continues to reverberate -- via these sounds -- today. Features: Berliner Improvisations Quartett, Gumpert/Sommer Duo, Friedhelm Schönfeld Trio, Ulrich Gumpert Workshop Band, Studio IV, Gumpert/Sommer and Manfred Hering, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky Quartett, and Hans Rempel Orchester. Gatefold sleeve, edition of 500.
The Last LP: Unique Last Recordings of the Music of Ancient Cultures
Song Cycle Records present a reissue of Michael Snow's The Last LP: Unique Last Recordings of the Music of Ancient Cultures, originally issued in 1987. The album is an extraordinary collection of tracks "of rare music derived from threatened, obsolete, or now-extinct cultures from around the world" that although the claiming of being field recordings of ancient musical experiences, are in fact pieces played, conceived and recorded by the artist himself. As it was for Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder (CY 999LP, 2016), with this issue the Canadian artist further developed his conceptual investigation around the object-LP where the single elements (the record, the music, the text and the jacket) are so indissolubly intertwined to create what the artist calls a "sonics-sculpture-text". Partly motivated by the announced obsolescence of the vinyl format, The Last LP is also a critical reflection on the impact of new technologies on the relationship between played and recorded music. Presented with remastered sound from the original tapes and a faithful reproduction of the original artwork. Gatefold sleeve, 180 gram virgin vinyl. Edition of 500.
RAUSCHENBERG, KAT EPPLE, AND BOB STOHL, ROBERT
Strategic Structures
Song Cycle Records present a reissue of Strategic Structures by Robert Rauschenberg, Kat Epple, and Bob Stohl, originally released in 1989. Available for the first time on vinyl, this is powerful instrumental music performed by the three on electronics, and a series of musical metal sculptures called "Strategic Structures". The sounds range from other-worldly, foreboding resonant tones, to angelic, celestial timbres. These spontaneous compositions were created and performed live, with no overdubs, late one night in 1989 at Rauschenberg's beach house on Captiva Island, Florida. It was a magical night, an inspired collaboration, in an exhilarating setting. The sculptures themselves were a collaborative artwork created by Stohl and Epple, with renowned visual artists, Lawrence Voytek and Rauschenberg. Printed inner sleeve with liner notes by Kat Epple. "The structures are constructed utilizing a variety of metals, including aluminum, bell-grade brass, steel, and both elemental and Alpha/Beta weapons-grade titanium, using an 8000-degree arc welding torch with high frequency current at 440 volts and 310 amps." --Kat Epple in the original liner notes.
FOX, TERRY
Audioworks
Song Cycle Records present a reissue of Terry Fox's Audio Works, originally released in 1983. Terry Fox (1943, Seattle-2008, Cologne) was one of the leading pioneers of American body art and conceptual art. He became famous in the '70s with performances and installations, which took their point of origin in the transformative processes of materials, and in which he used his own body as a medium for exploring often extreme psychological and physical experiences. With his lifelong exploration of sound and space, Terry Fox was also one of the pioneers of contemporary sound art. Terry Fox belongs to those artists of the '60s and '70s who radically rejected traditional art forms and sought new forms of artistic expressions. In numerous installations, performances, and street events he directed attention to everyday phenomena and aspects of social existence. He researched unknown or little regarded aspects of energy in substances and materials, most especially sound and vibration. Since the '80s Terry Fox composed objects, language, acoustic, and process-oriented events into multilayered images in space and time. In his later years, quiet sounds at the limit of audibility became more and more prominent. This collection of Terry Fox's AudioWorks was published in 1983, during the time he lived in Florence, by Maurizio Nannucci in the Recorthings series of audio cassettes on the Exit & Exempla label. Recorthings is a record label linked to the activities of Zona non-profit art space (1974/1985) and to the broadcasting program Zonaradio (1981/1983).
Solaris. Sound And Vision
LP BOX
CY 001BK
$100.00$85.00 IN STOCK
[note: the Blu-Ray disc is NOT region free as the label intended; it is manufactured to be Region B for Europe and will not play on standard USA Blu Ray players] Song Cycle Records present the release of Solaris. Sound And Vision, a collector's edition box set, that includes the soundtrack realized by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece film Solaris (1972). The box includes the soundtrack in two formats: 180 gram, high-quality virgin vinyl and, for the first time, CD. The release is also accompanied by an exclusive, hardcover photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Artemiev/Tarkovsky, and the BluRay version of the film, in original language with English subtitles; BluRay region B (Europe only). The set comes in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies.
The collaboration between Tarkovsky and Artemiev started in conjunction with the completion of Solaris when the director was seeking for a film score capable to give back and complete, through the sound, the meaningful images of the film. Back in the day, Artemiev was a member of the legendary Experimental Studio of Electronic Music in Moscow, a place of high experimentation in the field of the electronic music, in the context of which the ANS synthesizer was conceived and employed for the first time for music composition. Invented almost ten years before by Murzin, the ANS was used by Artemiev to create the special sound atmosphere that Tarkovsky was looking for. Artemiev and Tarkovsky's association will also extend to two other undisputed masterpieces of Tarkovsky, Mirror (1975) and Stalker (1979), both forthcoming. A unique artistic joint-venture is that among the duo, in which the musician is seen as a sound organizer, more than a composer, within the process of giving form to a soundscape intertwined completely with the film in its unfolding: always essential and never to be experienced as an accessory element. What emerges here is how and at what degree for Tarkovsky the sound is part of his own existence. Made in collaboration with the Andrey Tarkovsky Institute, Solaris. Sound And Vision is a compelling publication for everyone who wants to dive deep into the Tarkovsky's realm.
SCHNEIDER TM
Original motion picture soundtrack by Schneider TM (Dirk Dresselhaus) for Omer Fast's acclaimed first feature Remainder (2015). A heuristic creative approach characterized the collaboration between Omer Fast and Schneider TM, where music and images beautifully intertwined in a compelling sonic structure. 180 gram vinyl; Includes CD; Edition of 500.
From the extensive liner notes by Thomas Venker: "Composition was about shared moments, a steady process of improvisation and interaction. They watched Remainder on loop until the sounds they were creating were an equal partner to the other aspects of the film and the life of its characters. Omer Fast describes the music as possessing the capacity to step into the gaps of a room, in between his characters who have somehow lost their own connection with society."
Poesia Sonora
Song Cycle Records present a reissue of Poesia Sonora, originally released in 1975. Sound poetry emerged in the early years of the post-war avant-garde and pioneered phonetic art forms that explored the relationship between human speech and sound, experimental music and structures of language. Affiliated to concrete poetry, fluxus, minimalism, conceptual and performance art, the first generation of sound poets questioned the meanings of "music" and "poetry" using interferences as source of new phonetic art patterns/compositions. Poesia Sonora represents one of the first international sound poetry compilations. The record came out in 1975 for CBS under the label "Recorthings & Zona Archives", curated and edited by Maurizio Nannucci. The anthology collects pieces by some of the most important pioneers of the sound poetry movement: Bob Cobbing, François Dufrêne, Henri Chopin, Ernst Jandl, Franz Mon, Arthur Pétronio, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Brion Gysin, Bernard Heidsieck, Sten Hanson, Maurizio Nannucci, Paul De Vree. Poesia Sonora is an indispensable reference anthology that sensitizes the ear for extraordinary pieces/compositions of sound and literary experiments. Released in collaboration with Maurizio Nannucci. Fluorescent artwork; Limited edition clear vinyl (hand-numbered).
ZORN/EUGENE CHADBOURNE, JOHN
LP + BOOK
Song Cycle Records present a reissue of 1977-1981, a collection of rare free-jazz pieces performed by John Zorn and selected by the American guitarist and music critic Eugene Chadbourne originally released in 1998. Originally released to accompany the book release of Sonora: John Zorn (Materiali Sonori), the album is presented here for the first time in an exclusive release in limited edition on vinyl. This special issue includes the original book that features exclusive interviews, essays, and photos about the artist's entire oeuvre up to 1988.
Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record)
Song Cycle Records present a reissue of Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record), originally released in 1982. Revolutions Per Minute is a two-record album of twenty-one original sound works by artists represented at that time by the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc. in New York. Each gallery artist was asked to record or provide a three-to-five minute segment for Jeff Gordon's Greene Street Recording Studio. No further directions were given, and the sound works are an amazing mix. List of the artists involved: Jud Fine, Eleanor Antin, Terry Fox, Margaret Harrison, Les Levine, Hannah Wilke, Douglas Davis, Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid, Helen Mayer Harrison / Newton Harrison, Vincenzo Agnetti, Chris Burden, Piotr Kowalski & William Burroughs, Ida Applebroog, Edwin Schlossberg, SITE, R. Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Shannon, Conrad Atkinson, David Smyth, Todd Siler, and Joseph Beuys. Comes on 180 gram vinyl; Gatefold sleeve.
FEDRIGOTTI/DANILO LORENZINI, MICHELE
I Fiori Del Sole
Song Cycle Records present a reissue of Michele Fedrigotti and Danilo Lorenzini's I Fiori Del Sole, originally released on Cramps Records in 1979. I Fiori Del Sole is a composition for organ and piano by the Italian duo of Michele Fedrigotti and Danilo Lorenzini. The encounter between minimalist aesthetic and evocative religious atmospheres make this album one of the most interesting and obscure treasures of Italian minimalism. The album was produced by the legendary Franco Battiato with whom the duo Fedrigotti-Lorenzini collaborated the same year for L'Era Del Cinghiale Bianco. Comes on 180 gram vinyl.
Fluxus Anthology: A Collection Of Music And Sound Events
Song Cycle Records present a reissue of Fluxus Anthology: A Collection Of Music And Sound Events, originally released in 1989. Fluxus was a collaborative movement of artists that worked across the diverse artistic mediums of performance, music, dance, poetry, photography, architecture, painting, sculpture, and film during the 1960s. Emerging in New York City, and spreading to Europe and Japan, Fluxus was led by recognized artists such as George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, La Monte Young, and John Cage. Fluxus Anthology is a collection of works created by these visionary artists, featuring works by: Walter Marchetti, Juan Hidalgo, La Monte Young, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Milan Knizák, Robert Filliou, Alison Knowles, Emmett Williams, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, Philip Corner, Eric Andersen, Robert Watts, and Ken Friedman. Released in collaboration with Maurizio Nannucci. Presented here on clear, 180 gram vinyl.
KUBISCH AND FABRIZIO PLESSI, CHRISTINA
Two And Two
Song Cycle Records present a reissue of Two And Two, the outcome of the ambitious research developed by Christina Kubisch and Fabrizio Plessi, originally released in 1976. Two And Two was a collaborative effort towards the merging of visual and sound elements into a new form of intermedia. Influenced by the aesthetics of Fluxus, the duo produced a highly complex and articulated performance, involving two camera operators and several video screens, as well as a variety of objects and unconventional instruments - such as an electric vibrator, a Swanee whistle, a ventilator, an electronic metronome, and a water jet on a steel drum. The result is structured into four parts, inspired by the natural elements, in which single instruments lose their different sonic characteristics, becoming inseparable parts of a unique visual/acoustic process. Presented here on 180 gram vinyl.
The Entire Musical Work Of Marcel Duchamp
Song Cycle Records present a reissue of The Entire Musical Work Of Marcel Duchamp, originally released by Multhipla Records in 1976. The Entire Musical Work Of Marcel Duchamp is a collection of experimental pieces composed in 1913 by the legendary artist, and executed by Petr Kotik and the S.E.M. Ensemble in 1976. Employing chance operations and non-musical sounds, Marcel Duchamp's musical oeuvre predated some radical concepts developed forty years later by John Cage. Presented here on 180 gram vinyl.
ROEDELIUS
A stunning collection of quiet and soft piano pieces by the legendary German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius co-founder of seminal krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia. Inspired by the monumental work of Erik Satie, the album was originally released in 1991, and is recommended for fans of Max Richter, Goldmund, and Sylvain Chauveau. Two 180-gram LPs in gatefold sleeve. 45-RPM audiophile edition. Includes the bonus track "In Der Dämmerung."
Heures sans Soleil
"The compilation album Heures sans Soleil was originally released in October 1985 in an edition of 1000 copies. It was the fourth vinyl release on LTM, the label I founded while still at school in Edinburgh, and followed on from singles by Minny Pops and A Primary Industry, as well a live album by Crispy Ambulance. . . . I can't claim the idea of an artsy cosmopolitan compilation album was terribly original. I was 19 years old at the time, and still deep in the thrall of earlier Crépuscule collections such as From Brussels With Love and The Fruit of the Original Sin." Includes extended liner notes by James Nice. Released in collaboration with LTM/James Nice. 180-gram vinyl. Includes tracks by Section 25, Anti-Group, Minny Pops, Tuxedomoon, Mazowsze, Eric Random, Dislocation Dance, The Happy Family, Crispy Ambulance, and A Primary Industry.
LP + 7"
CY 998W7-LP
180-gram LP version with bonus 7". Limited edition of 250. "The compilation album Heures sans Soleil was originally released in October 1985 in an edition of 1000 copies. It was the fourth vinyl release on LTM, the label I founded while still at school in Edinburgh, and followed on from singles by Minny Pops and A Primary Industry, as well a live album by Crispy Ambulance. . . . I can't claim the idea of an artsy cosmopolitan compilation album was terribly original. I was 19 years old at the time, and still deep in the thrall of earlier Crépuscule collections such as From Brussels With Love and The Fruit of the Original Sin." Includes extended liner notes by James Nice. Released in collaboration with LTM/James Nice. 180-gram vinyl. Includes tracks by Section 25, Anti-Group, Minny Pops, Tuxedomoon, Mazowsze, Eric Random, Dislocation Dance, The Happy Family, Section 25 , Crispy Ambulance, and A Primary Industry.
MINGHI/PIERO MONTANARI/ROBERTO CONRADO, AMEDEO
First reissue of one of the holy grails from the vault of the amazing Italian library music label Octopus. Originally released in 1973, Climax is a killer studio session by Amedeo Minghi, Piero Montanari, and Roberto Conrado. An incredible collection of psych jazz funk tunes with crazy Moog sounds, violent drums, and deep bass. An ultra-rare, hard-to-find item finally available again, on 180-gram virgin vinyl.
Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder
Musician, visual artist, composer, writer, and sculptor Michael Snow is also one of the world's most highly acclaimed experimental filmmakers. In 1975 he released this album under the record company Chatham Square. The label was founded by the owner of Michael Snow's gallery, the Bykert Gallery, which also issued the first Philip Glass recordings. This reissue is released in collaboration with Michael Snow. 180-gram vinyl; gatefold sleeve.
SONG 170212LP
Restocked, new lower pricing. Gatefold double LP version on 180 gram vinyl. Christian Fennesz is an Austrian electronic musician active since the late '90s and influenced by artists like Fripp and Eno and guitar-synth pioneer, Chuck Hammer. Fennesz uses guitar and laptops to created "multilayered compositions that blend melody and conventional musical instruments with harsh, irregular glitch-influenced sounds and washes of white noise." Over the years, Fennesz has played and collaborated with a number of artists, including Mike Patton, Jim O'Rourke, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Keith Rowe, Peter Rehberg, Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse), and David Sylvian. In 2012 Fennesz also wrote the original soundtrack to the independent Austrian film, Aun, directed by Edgar Honetschläger, and based on the writings of Claude Levi-Strauss. On this double LP Fennesz can be heard performing in front of a live audience at the beautiful Marino Marini Museum (located in a medieval church) in Florence, Italy in February of 2012, backed by the images of the 1927 silent film by German filmmaker Walter Ruttmann Berlin called Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Symphony of a Great City).
2LP/CD/DVD
SONG 170212-LTD
Restocked, new lower pricing. Song Cycle is a label dedicated to box sets and multimedia limited editions. This limited box set presents a full retrospective of the artist's performance at Museo Marini in Florence on February 17, 2012 with additional features and bonus content: a DVD, photo albums and more. A strictly limited edition of 500 copies. Christian Fennesz is an Austrian electronic musician active since the late '90s and influenced by artists like Fripp and Eno and guitar-synth pioneer, Chuck Hammer. Fennesz uses guitar and laptops to created "multilayered compositions that blend melody and conventional musical instruments with harsh, irregular glitch-influenced sounds and washes of white noise." Over the years, Fennesz has played and collaborated with a number of artists, including Mike Patton, Jim O'Rourke, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Keith Rowe, Peter Rehberg, Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse), and David Sylvian. In 2012 Fennesz also wrote the original soundtrack to the independent Austrian film, Aun, directed by Edgar Honetschläger, and based on the writings of Claude Levi-Strauss. On this double LP Fennesz can be heard performing in front of a live audience at the beautiful Marino Marini Museum (located in a medieval church) in Florence, Italy in February of 2012. In addition to the 2LP and CD of the performance, this deluxe box set includes a 12-page photographic book, a CD-ROM with a virtual gallery of the museum and a DVD featuring a 1927 silent film by German filmmaker Walter Ruttmann Berlin called Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Symphony of a Great City). DVD is NTSC region-free format.


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International Arms Dealer Extradited on Terrorism Offenses
NEW YORK- Michael J. Garcia, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele M. Leonhart, the Acting Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced that international arms dealer Monzer Al Kassar, a/k/a Abu Munawar, a/k/a El Taous, arrived in New York today after being extradited from Spain on federal terrorism charges. Al Kassar was extradited to New York for his participation in a conspiracy to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (the FARC) -- a designated foreign terrorist organization -- to be used to kill Americans in Colombia. Al Kassar's co-defendants, Tareq Mousa Al Ghazi and Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy, were both previously extradited to New York from Romania to face the same terrorism charges. According to the superseding Indictment filed in Manhattan federal court:
Since the early 1970s, Al Kassar has been a source of weapons and military equipment for armed factions engaged in violent conflicts around the world. Some of these factions have included known terrorist organizations, such as the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF), the goals of which included attacking United States interests and United States nationals.
To carry out his weapons-trafficking business, Al Kassar developed an international network of criminal associates, including co-defendants Al Ghazi and Moreno Godoy, as well as front companies and bank accounts in various countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania. Additionally, Al Kassar has engaged in money-laundering transactions in bank accounts throughout the world to disguise the illicit nature of his criminal proceeds. See, USDOJ.

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When it comes to being lucky, my choice of basketball games was right on. I did not make it to the UMD-Winona State game Friday night, but the back-up plan worked out fine, because UMD played the Upper Iowa Peacocks on Saturday night, also at Romano Gym.
Turns out, Myer was ill, something he came down with early Friday morning, and he couldn't go. So my luck was that the game I attended, Myer indeed played, and led the Bulldogs from a 34-34 halftime deadlock to a 79-64 victory.
The Bulldogs put up a very balanced attack Saturday. Myer scored 21, Logan Rohrscheib 19 and Sean Burns 17 to set the pace. Myer might have scored more, but he was a bit off his game, connecting on 8 of 16 shots because he eagerly went to the bench several times because he was out of gas. He plays a driving, slashing game, equally adept at pulling up and shooting a 3 as he is driving around defenders and finding an opening to serve up a soft-touch layup. He's averaging over 21 points per game.
Superior has not exactly been a breeding ground for basketball stars in recent years, but Myer doesn't mind breaking that mold.
"Growing up in Superior, the guy I wanted to pattern myself after was Joel Lindberg," Myer said. "I was in middle school and I wasn't very big. I didn't make varsity until I was a junior at Superior. I was about 6-feet tall after my sophomore year, so I went out for point guard. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because I learned everything about the game playing guard. And I started out being not very coordinated.
"I'd go out in the driveway to shoot, but my dad wouldn't let me shoot until I dribbled all the way up the driveway right-handed, and then all the way back left-handed," he said.
So by the time he made high school varsity, Myer could handle the ball like a guard but as he grew, he also acquired all the slippery moves of a forward, He's now 6-foot-7 and 205 pounds. My first exposure to Myer was his freshman year, when I thought he stood out as being the most talented player on the team, even though he was limited by coaching decisions. The change to Justin Wieck as head coach met with quick approval by Myer.
In the second half against Upper Iowa, Myer was clearly tiring easily — the flu will do that to you — and he asked to come out a couple of times. But he took charge in the second half. The Bulldogs shot 15-33 for 45 percent in the first half, and 17-28 for 60.7 percent in the second half. While Myer's points were invaluable, he also grabbed a game-high 14 rebounds, 11 on the defensive end. It helped that Rohrscheib was hot, hitting 7 of 10 field goal tries, and Burns was 7-13 from the floor. Jake Paper came off the bench to hit 5-of-7 for 10 points.
The ironic thing was that I spotted Roger Hanson when I first entered the gym, because I've suggested to numerous basketball fans that Myer is the best Twin Ports developed player to play for UMD since Roger Hanson.
Myer and the Bulldogs had to share the spotlight during the game because two youngsters who were tending to mopping any trace of moisture from the floor did an upbeat dance routine along with every trip out to squeegee the floor.
I first spotted Hallie Maleski running out and gleefully doing a hop-step over her mop every time she changed directions. It caught your eye, and made you be sure to look at the next stoppage in play. Sure enough, they repeated their moves, and people noticed.
Hallie said she's a third-grader at Piedmont, and the fellow at the opposite end of the court was her brother Oliver Maleski, who is 5 and announced he's in kindergarten at Piedmont. It's a great side show.


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Honestly, Waka Flocka should give the weather everyday.
Waka Flocka Flame is a jack-of-all-trades; from trap star rapper to aspiring presidential candidate there's nothing the Atlanta MC can't do. And now, he's taking a stab at telling you the forecast.
On Monday night (Nov. 9) the rapper made a pit-stop at Columbia S.C.'s local news station, News 19 WLTX as a special guest, in efforts to promote the city's Music Farm concert. The show, is for raising money for flood victims in the area.
"Rain, rain, go away, that's what all the haters say," said Waka sporting a black hoodie which said "Local Trap Star," while signaling at local locations on the map. "We'll be going hard in the paint all week. It's gonna be sunny, that's gon' be a party all week. A Grove Street party," he continued chanting.
The Flockaveli 2 rapper was quite charming, and entertaining. Could meteorology be Waka's new talent? You be the judge and peep the hilarious video below.


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Oct 05, 2017 Web Exclusive By Jim Scott
It doesn't usually go like this. After a five-year absence from the live stage, and seven since their last record, 2010's Expo 86, Wolf Parade got back together to promote a re-issue of their debut album, Apologies to the Queen Mary. Then last year they dropped an EP, and now, their fourth full-length, Cry Cry Cry.
Typically, when bands reform after successful solo or side gigs (in this case the notables being Spencer Krug's Moonface, Dan Boeckner's Divine Fits and Handsome Furs, and Dante DeCaro's work with Frog Eyes) the result upon their reformation is a taking of turns, where each member basically contributes a song that sounds very much like their other band. Sometimes this evens out over time, sometimes it doesn't, but the point here is Cry Cry Cry is fully and completely a Wolf Parade record. The band not only sounds like itself, it sounds as good as ever.
The standout is the rollicking "Valley Boy," which sounds like a Bowie song about the death of Leonard Cohen (see the heartrending couplet, "The land wants the tongue and the air wants the spirit/But it's all inside the heart and Marianne won't let them near it"). Cry Cry Cry is deep, though, and, as with all great records, the next best song varies day by day. This is partially driven by the variety. Through the various side projects, Wolf Parade has only gained versatility, from the somber sing-along opener "Lazarus Online," to the power pop of the post-election burner "You're Dreaming," to the hazy prog of the epic "Weaponized."
The greatest and most wonderful surprise is that Cry Cry Cry burns with the passion of a debut. Whatever electricity had maybe seeped out of the band prior to their hiatus has crackled back to life and then some. Cry Cry Cry captures the sound of a group thrilled by playing music together again. (www.wolfparade.com)
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using Android.Content;
using Android.Util;
using Android.Views;
using Android.Views.InputMethods;
using Android.Widget;

namespace Toggl.Joey.UI.Views
{
    public class TogglField : RelativeLayout
    {
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        private TextView titleText;
        private TextView assistView;
        private ImageView arrow;

        public TogglField (Context context) : base (context)
        {
            Initialize ();
        }

        public TogglField (Context context, IAttributeSet attrs) : base (context, attrs)
        {
            Initialize ();
        }

        void Initialize ()
        {
            var inflater = (LayoutInflater)Context.GetSystemService (Context.LayoutInflaterService);
            inflater.Inflate (Resource.Layout.TogglField, this);

            TextField = FindViewById<EditText> (Resource.Id.EditTimeEntryBitText);
            titleText= FindViewById<TextView> (Resource.Id.EditTimeEntryBitTitle);
            assistView = FindViewById<TextView> (Resource.Id.EditTimeEntryBitAssistView);
            arrow = FindViewById<ImageView> (Resource.Id.EditTimeEntryBitArrow);

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            TextField.FocusChange += (sender, e) => {
                titleText.Selected = TextField.HasFocus;
                Selected = TextField.HasFocus;
            };
        }

        private void OnTextFieldEditorActionListener (object sender, TextView.EditorActionEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.ActionId == ImeAction.Done) {
                TextField.ClearFocus ();
            }
        }

        public TogglField SetName (string name)
        {
            titleText.Text = name;
            TextField.Hint = name;
            return this;
        }

        public TogglField SetName (int resourceId)
        {
            titleText.SetText (resourceId);
            TextField.SetHint (resourceId);
            return this;
        }

        public TogglField SetAssistViewTitle (string title)
        {
            assistView.Text = title;
            assistView.Visibility = ViewStates.Visible;
            ClipText();
            return this;
        }

        public TogglField DestroyAssistView()
        {
            assistView.Visibility = ViewStates.Gone;
            ClipText();
            return this;
        }

        public TogglField RestoreAssistView()
        {
            assistView.Visibility = ViewStates.Visible;
            return this;
        }

        public TogglField DestroyArrow()
        {
            arrow.Visibility = ViewStates.Gone;
            return this;
        }

        public TogglField SimulateButton()
        {
            TextField.Touch += (sender, e) => {
                e.Handled = false;
                titleText.Pressed = e.Event.Action != MotionEventActions.Up;
            };
            TextField.Focusable = TextField.Clickable = false;
            return this;
        }

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        {
            int paddingLeft = 0;
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                assistView.Measure (0, 0);
                paddingLeft = assistView.MeasuredWidth + 20;
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            if (arrow.Visibility == ViewStates.Visible) {
                arrow.Measure (0, 0);
                paddingLeft += arrow.MeasuredWidth;
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}

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Is clean tech China's moon shot?
By Gerard Wynn
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - So far, wind turbines are not Sputnik. But one day they could be.
Vanes are lift onto a windmill at Beijing's first wind farm which starts installing wind turbine generators on the outskirts of Huailai, north China's Hebei province July 23, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Lee
The global race to develop clean technology is not just about who can build the best solar parks or wind farms. It is also shaping up as a contest between Chinese-style capitalism and the more market-oriented approach fancied by the United States and Europe.
The question comes down to this: will China's highly capitalized command-and-control economy trump laissez-faire in a low-carbon shift that is widely portrayed as the next industrial revolution?
The failure in Copenhagen to agree to replace the Kyoto Protocol with a new global climate treaty when it expires in 2012 has thrown the focus on national measures. And by almost all accounts, the Chinese are coming on strong.
Beijing's top leaders have made clear their intention to have their nation dominate this new industry, up and down the value ladder. And in their quest for the prize, they are not burdened by concerns facing their Western counterparts -- such as the impact of wind turbines on landscapes, higher energy prices for consumers, or investor returns.
"Developed markets need to be aware that China is gaining in this space," said David Russell, co-head of responsible investment at the 28 billion pound ($45 billion) British universities pension fund, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
The recession has made it tougher for Europe and America to effect meaningful climate policy change. And with most major nations piling on debt to stimulate flagging economies, politicians likely will find it harder to earmark additional voter money for clean technology.
Instead, recession-hit Western economies are hoping the private sector can plug an estimated worldwide $150 billion annual funding gap to avoid more extreme droughts and floods.
But investors almost always follow the returns, and if the performance is not there, they are not likely to risk their capital. For example, Britain's USS allocates about half a percent of its assets to low-carbon and renewable energy funds, not including its investment in conventional energy companies, which themselves will have some green tinges.
It's hard to imagine the West filling the clean tech funding gap if pension funds -- which are as influential as they are big -- don't pony up more.
Russell says he would like to do more, but like other fund managers he has an obligation to pension holders. He and other fund managers say they won't allocate more to green because their first duty is to guarantee payouts for their members, and while clean tech stocks can yield decent returns, they are often small and risky.
Since a trough in global equities last March, energy efficiency stocks have risen 126 percent and clean energy and technology by 88 percent, compared with wider global stocks' 70 percent, a Deutsche report found this month.
But there are limited opportunities for investors. Oil majors, for example, dwarf the asset value of green companies, and cleantech funds can't move the dial for the big funds whose participation is necessary to close the funding gap.
Advantage, China?
Fortunately for the West, it's not so simple.
WINDY PLAYING FIELD
The global wind industry highlights diverging tactics between China and the West in developing important new markets.
China is leapfrogging global wind power rankings with a combination of aggressive growth targets and domestic support. It has doubled its entire installed capacity each year since 2005, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
This month, the British government announced plans for 32 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2020 -- more than a third of its entire present electricity generating capacity now.
The plan also depends on 100 billion pounds of increasingly finicky private capital. And this is an election year.
"I think it will happen," said Benjamin Sykes, head of renewables technology at the UK government-funded Carbon Trust, which advises British companies on how to reduce their carbon footprint. "It's do-able."
Others are less sure. "I don't think it's achievable without a big redirection of investment focus," said investor Tom Murley, at private equity firm HgCapital.
Murley runs a 300-million euro infrastructure fund focused on renewable energy projects in western Europe, in wind power, biogas and solar. The fund has combined debt and equity assets worth over 1 billion euros.
"Will the capital flow to this sector? That's the big question mark. Offshore wind is still relatively new, as yet we don't really know how that equipment is going to perform in the long-run, whether that's really going to be a good investment," said Murley.
As he and other investors see it, British policymakers have to make a choice: either create bigger incentives for investors to underwrite offshore wind power or impose additional taxes on fossil fuels, which would make carbon-based energy less profitable.
Clean tech: can sovereign wealth help?
CHINA INC.
Europe has the world's clearest, most ambitious renewable energy law, most analysts agree. A European Union directive requires that the 27-nation bloc get a fifth of its energy from renewable sources by 2020.
Germany is leading the charge there. It has the world's biggest solar power market because of aggressive market incentives that even Beijing has sought to mimic.
But China has its own distinct advantages. First and foremost is a "cozy relationship" between state-owned utilities, grid companies and banks, said Steve Sawyer, secretary-general of the Global Wind Energy Council.
China is expected to announce a target soon for about 150 gigawatts of wind power by 2020, which it would hit if it simply maintained present annual capacity growth, said Sawyer. The country also has two turbine makers, Sinovel and Goldwind, in the world top 10, according to the International Energy Agency.
Tao Wang, a climate policy expert with WWF China, said the country would this year develop its next five-year development plan to run from the start of 2011: this is likely to contain new steps to boost alternative energy.
"The Chinese government is essentially using the state banks and state power companies to support and foster a turbine industry," said Jefferies Bank analyst Michael McNamara.
It's not as if Western governments aren't involved in promoting wind turbines. The United States and Germany are the top two countries by installed power, and China edged out Spain into third place last year, according to GWEC.
How fast wind power develops in the United States depends on a climate and energy bill. If the United States passed a bill with an ambitious renewable energy target then "all bets are off" on the pace of growth, said Jefferies' McNamara.
But China has been on a tear -- last year it installed more wind turbines than any other country, says GWEC.
Furthermore, Western businesses are worried China is freezing them out of this lucrative market, preferring to nurture its own nascent industries without subjecting them to competition.
"The state-owned energy company sets up its development arm and they then go to a state-owned bank to get the funding, and they go to a state-owned grid company to make sure they can get a grid connection, and then lo and behold! If there's a bidding process, the state-owned turbine manufacturers happen to win the contracts," said McNamara.
That process has annoyed some Western manufacturers. They say that despite being forced to build local factories in China, because of a "local content" rule for installed turbines, they were still passed over on major contracts.
CAN THE MARKETS PREVAIL?
Some Western analysts still believe a markets-oriented approach works best and will ultimately prevail.
They argue that subsidized inputs will result in a less efficient industry, more focused on volume than cost and quality. "The best solutions come out of a competitive environment," said the Carbon Trust's Sykes.
The focus on adding new capacity has also run ahead of grid connections, meaning many Chinese turbines may never actually produce electricity.
"They will look like wind farms, and they may spin like wind farms, but there's no guarantee that they will actually work like wind farms," said Michael Liebreich, chief executive of the research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Moreover, some in the West believe the United States still has an advantage in innovation. The owner of patents, not factories, will likely earn the biggest profits and win the technology race.
In a Reuters poll of 41 U.S. venture capital investors, more than three-quarters of respondents said the United States would be the best market for cleantech over the next five years, and 88 percent believed America was the best place to base this business in the same time period. China ranked as the second best market (with 16 percent of the total).
"The world has absolutely no hope of making any substantial impact on global warming without major scientific breakthroughs, almost all which will come from United States' innovation," said Robert Nelsen, co-founder and managing director of Arch Venture Partners.
An undeniable edge for China is its huge pile of foreign exchange reserves. The nation's clean energy industry has recently benefited from Beijing's aggressive economic stimulus, which included funds for energy-efficient buildings.
Signs of an overheating Chinese economy may turn that tap down for a spell. By contrast, Western economies are expected to spend much of their green recovery cash this year and next.
FUNDING GAP
In recession-battered Western nations, and in China, the prime motives for promoting clean technology are jobs, profits and energy security -- not climate change. That leaves no guarantee that there will be enough investment to fight global warming.
An estimated $150 billion invested globally last year was only about half what is required annually by 2015 to avoid dangerous climate change, the International Energy Agency estimates.
"There is a big funding gap. I would say we need at least a doubling by 2015," said Cecilia Tam, citing draft estimates the IEA published in June.
If over the next 20 years the world is to boost renewable power, build greener buildings and roll out more fuel-scrimping cars including hybrid and electric models, it must invest more than an additional $500 billion annually, according to Tam.
Many forms of renewable power are expected to be more expensive than their fossil fuel counterparts for at least another decade.
Given the incompatibility of communist-style targets with western democracies, how can free markets mobilize more green technology cash?
CHINESE LESSONS
Western nations could boost clean investor returns with a tax on fossil fuels or guaranteed higher prices for renewable power. And aside from market levers, governments could adopt standards to make clean tech more attractive -- requiring homes to install smart meters, for example -- but rapid deployment doesn't seem politically palatable at the moment.
"It's worthwhile learning from the Chinese that these big transformations do require some exercise of public power," said James Cameron, vice-chairman of green investors and advisers Climate Change Capital.
Dutch pension asset manager APG has about 2 billion euros allocated to green investments, by the "broadest definition", said Rob Lake, head of sustainability. That compares with total assets of 206 billion euros.
"The reality at the moment is that investment in oil and gas is still attractive," said Lake.
But pension funds and other institutional investors can do more. Even if they don't put more of their own money into clean tech, they can use their clout to encourage more conventional energy companies to clean up, said Marcel Jeucken, head of responsible investment at the Netherlands-based, 86 billion euro PGGM pension asset manager.
Jeucken said his fund is "in constant dialogue" with Royal Dutch Shell, the oil major with a major investment in Canadian oil sands -- where oil production entails more carbon emissions than conventional oil fields.
"We used our shareholder rights wherever possible," he added. "Climate is one of our focus areas, and within that we are working on oil sands. We initiated a trip to the oil and fields last year."
TRY URANIUM?
A discouraging sign for investors who were hoping environmental markets would soon take off is the cloudy future of cap-and-trade plans. Such schemes force coal plants and other polluters to buy carbon emissions permits. They add to the cost of electricity, and are proving a hard sell in the United States.
Opposition to cap-and-trade among U.S. Republicans and some Democrats could block the roll-out of a federal trading scheme which would limit the further growth of global carbon markets, valued at around $125 billion last year.
Furthermore, last month's U.N. summit in Copenhagen was expected to unveil an expansion of global trade in carbon offsets between rich and developing nations, but in the end they won no explicit mention in a weak, final declaration.
What all that means for traders is clear: "To tell you the truth I'm starting to look toward other commodities -- uranium," said Laurent Segalen, head of emissions trading at Nomura.
Does all this suggest China is destined to win the clean tech race? Hardly, though it does seem to have a little more forward momentum than do its rivals these days.
But it's still very early goings, and there's more at stake than business success.
Additional reporting by Chris Buckley in Beijing and Larry Aragon and Peter Henderson in San Francisco; Editing by Jim Impoco and Sara Ledwith


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Q: Auto rename multiple sheets and copy content of main to all newly created sheets I have a master sheet that contains formatted columns (B2:Y14 and A18:B24) and am trying to create as many sheets as there are in the forthcoming month and then copy the master sheet data into each of the newly created sheets.
For example: for the month of December I would need to create 31 sheets named DEC1...DEC31 that contain the data from the master sheet.
What I have tried is the following:
Sub AddSheets()
    Dim j As Integer
    Dim curSheet As String
    Dim prevSheet As String

    'Dim summarySheet As Workbook

    newName = Application.InputBox("Name", "Rename Sheet", "", Type:=2)
    numSheets = Application.InputBox("Range", "Number of Sheets", "", Type:=1)

    prevSheet = "Main"
    'Set summarySheet = Sheets("Main").UsedRange.Copy

    For j = 1 To numSheets
        Sheets.Add After:=Sheets(CStr(prevSheet))
        curSheet = newName & " " & j
        Sheets(CStr(curSheet)).Name = curSheet
        Sheets("Main").UsedRange.Copy
        Sheets(CStr(curSheet)).Select
        Sheets(CStr(curSheet)).Paste
        prevSheet = curSheet
        'ActiveSheet.Paste
    Next j
End Sub

A: The easiest way is to  set the new sheet as variable when added.  Then you can refer to it.
Sub AddSheets()
    Dim j As Integer
    Dim prevSheet As String
    Dim newsht As Worksheet
    'Dim summarySheet As Workbook

    newName = Application.InputBox("Name", "Rename Sheet", "", Type:=2)
    numSheets = Application.InputBox("Range", "Number of Sheets", "", Type:=1)

    prevSheet = "Main"
    'Set summarySheet = Sheets("Main").UsedRange.Copy

    For j = 1 To numSheets
        Set newsht = Sheets.Add(After:=Sheets(CStr(prevSheet)))
        newsht.Name = newName & " " & j
        Sheets("Main").UsedRange.Copy newsht.Range("A1")
        prevSheet = newsht.Name

    Next j
End Sub

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This "Fancy" chicken is soft and cuddly and stuffed with a polyfill. She also has a pocket of rice at the base to allow her stand upright.


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Mecklenburg native Simmons ascended to DGIF's top post
Published December 7, 2016 | By Keith Corum
Family, friends and extended family from within the ranks of law enforcement, both past and present, are mourning the death of a Mecklenburg County native that once served as the highest ranking officer with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF).
Gerald P. Simmons, a resident of Powhatan and formerly of Union Level, died Tuesday, Nov. 29. Simmons was 87.
Simmons enjoyed a stellar career with DGIF, having the distinction at the time of his ascension through the ranks of DGIF as the lone sworn officer that began his career as a game warden and worked his way upward to the highest ranking post within DGIF.
Simmons enjoyed a career spanning more than three decades before announcing his retirement in the early 1990s.
Simmons forged a number of lifelong friendships during his tenure with DGIF and is recalled with much love and admiration as a man committed to the service entrusted to him by the Commonwealth of Virginia and to those with whom he served during key, pivotal formative years of expansion and growth for law enforcement statewide.
"He was made for that job, and that job was made for him," said Sammy Simmons Sr., brother to Gerald Simmons and a current resident of South Hill, who makes no attempt to suppress the deep and abiding admiration and affection he holds dear for his older brother, who was also a lifelong friend and mentor to the younger Simmons.
"He joined the United States Army at a young age," Simmons recalled, adding, "After his return to Mecklenburg County when I was around 7 years old, Gerald, who played professional baseball in the army, joined a team in Chase City."
Regarding his brother's career with DGIF, Simmons noted that, "He truly worked his way up to colonel. He did not attend college, but he later took courses.
"He was self-educated and was loved and respected by many At a retirement dinner held in his honor, I was in awe of the people in attendance. FBI, Secret Service, law enforcement from state, local and county levels, they were all in attendance.
"My brother was my hero. He earned your respect, and he made an impression wherever he went. Although he had relocated to Powhatan many years ago, he always considered Mecklenburg County his home. He will be loved and missed by many."
A memorial service is scheduled to take place Thursday, Dec. 8, at 7 p.m. at Bennett and Barden Funeral Home located in Powhatan.


The Evergreen Cemetery in Phoenix, Arizona, has many tombs, gravestones, and markers imbued with Christian symbolism. One such monument in that cemetery is a statue of St. John. St. John, who wrote the Fourth Gospel, three Epistles, and the Book of Revelation. Because of these influential writings St. John is often referred to as John the Divine.
St. John is often depicted with a quill and a book representing his authorship of the Fourth Gospel. He is also depicted as an eagle or standing with an eagle at his side.
In the mosaic from the columbarium in the St. Francis Catholic Cemetery in Phoenix, St. John is depicted as an eagle.


The average voltage supply from many national grids around the world is often higher than the ideal operating voltage for most electrical equipment like lighting and motors. For example, a 230V linear appliance used on a 240V supply will take 4.3% more current and will consume almost 9% more electricity than at 230V. Sites fitted with a voltage optimisation system often achieve reductions in the region of 5 to 15% for energy consumption, costs and therefore carbon emissions! The first step in voltage optimisation is to monitor and know your present incoming voltage levels, the Electrocorder allows you to determine this.
A common misconception about VO is that a reduction in voltage will result in an increase in current and therefore power consumed will remain constant. This is true for certain fixed-power loads, however most sites have a diversity of loads that will benefit to a greater or lesser extent with energy savings aggregating across a site as a whole. The benefit to typical equipment at three phase sites is discussed below.
The three phase induction motor is one of the most common type of three phase loads and is used in many items of equipment including refrigeration, pumps, compressors, fans, air conditioning, conveyor drives and lifting systems. Overvoltage results in flux saturation of the iron core, wasting energy through eddy currents, increased hysteresis losses. The drawing of excessive current results in excess heat output from copper losses. The additional stress of overvoltage on motors will decrease motor lifetime.
Avoiding overvoltage high enough to cause saturation does not reduce the motors running efficiency therefore substantial energy savings can be made through reducing iron and copper losses.
However motors designed for the nominal voltage (e.g. 400V Ph-Ph or 230V Ph-N) should be able to cope with normal variation in voltage within the supply limits(+/-10%) without saturation, so these motors are unlikely to be running in saturation, so savings are small.
Reducing voltage to an induction motor will slightly affect the motor speed as slip will increase, but speed is mainly a function of the supply frequency and the number of poles. Motor efficiency is optimum at reasonable load (typically 75%) and at the designed voltage, and will fall off slightly with small variations either side of this voltage. Larger variations affect efficiency more.
Very lightly loaded motors with loading of around 25% and small motors benefit most from reducing voltage.
Motors driven by Variable Speed Drives will use the same power as before, but may draw more current, it should be noted that with reduced stored energy in the DC Bus capacitors, they may be more vulnerable to power dips.
Switched mode power supplies will use the same power as before, but will draw a slightly greater current to achieve this, with slightly increased cable losses, and slight risk of the increased current tripping MCBs.
The energy savings achieved by VO are an aggregation of the improved efficiency of all equipment across a site in response to the improvements in the power quality problems outlined above.
It has been and continues to be a key technique for savings in energy consumption and consequently carbon dioxide emissions.
Research in Taiwan suggested that, for an industrial supply with voltage reduction upstream of the transformer, there is a 0.241% decrease of energy consumption when the voltage is decreased by 1%, and an increase of 0.297% when the voltage is increased by 1%. This assumed a mixture of loads including 7% fluorescent lighting, 0.5% incandescent lighting, 12.5% single-phase air conditioners, 5% single phase motors, 22.5% small 3-phase motors, 52.5% large 3-phase motors. It is likely that a modern installation would have less opportunity, with almost no incandescent lighting, partly high-frequency fluorescent lighting (no saving), some variable speed drives (no saving), higher motor efficiencies (so less waste to save). A northern European installation would not have the large number of small single phase motors for air conditioning.
When lighting loads are in use for a high proportion of the time, energy savings on lighting equipment are extremely valuable.
When voltage is reduced, incandescent lighting will see a large decrease in power drawn, as well as large decrease in light output and an increase in lifetime.
Other types of lighting can also benefit from improved power quality, including systems with resistive or reactive ballasts. Fluorescent & discharge lighting is more efficient than incandescent lighting. Fluorescent lighting with conventional magnetic ballasts will see a reduced power consumption but also a reduced lumen output from the lamp. Fluorescent lamps on modern electronic ballasts will use approximately the same power and give the same light. To provide the same wattage at the reduced voltage will require a greater current and increase cable losses. Lighting controllers and ballasts are responsible for generating high levels of harmonic distortion, which can be filtered with some types of voltage optimiser, therefore reducing the need for lighting controllers. A common concern is that some lighting will fail to strike at lower voltages. This should not occur since the aim of VO is not simply to reduce the voltage as far as possible, rather to bring it to the service level voltage at which it was designed to operate most efficiently.
Heaters will consume less power, but give out less heat. Thermostatically controlled space or water heaters will consume less power while running, but will have to run for longer in each hour to produce the required output, resulting in no saving.
Voltage Optimisation does offer savings, like any product it is the purchaser's responsibility to determine the likely savings in their environment. A word of warning, one company a plastic extrusion company, was told that they could save 20% of their total electricity bill with VO. The salesman ignored the fact that 85% of their electricity usage was in the heating of extruder heads for the extrusion process, these heads need to be heated to a certain temperature as part of the process, therefore no savings would be possible on these items, the total saving was actually only 20% of remaining 15%, which is a 4% saving.


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Book Edit
Ask the book buyer about the perfect summer read. Part 3.
The sun is shining, the birds are singing and you may well be gearing up for that summer break. Welcome to the final part of our recommendations for holiday reading, says Jarrold book buyer, Chris Rushby.
If you're NOT gearing up for a summer break and don't want to be reminded of that fact then please forgive this and the two previous edits, the premise of which has been essentially that you'll be wanting something to read on the beach, or similar (as someone who doesn't have a holiday now until mid-September I can only sympathise). Nevertheless, there are plenty of us who'll do as much reading over the next few weeks as we'll do for the rest of the year, so for those looking for inspiration here's a third selection of new and new-ish paperback novels, at least one of which should fit the bill. And remember: all these books, along with a host of others, are part of our 'buy one, get one half price' offer online and in-store.
Happy reading (and, if you're traveling, safe journey),
One of our most popular authors is back with the tenth of the Norfolk-set Ruth Galloway mysteries. If you haven't tried Elly yet the place to start is [link to] The Crossing Places, the first in the series. If you're up to date, though, her latest features a baking hot Italian setting for much of its action, making it a perfect summer crime read. We're delighted that Elly Griffiths will be visiting Jarrold on Saturday 14th July to sign copies of her work (click here for tickets). Come and meet one of the warmest, most personable writers we know and get your books signed and dedicated.
The Midnight Line
Remarkably, this is the twenty-second Jack Reacher thriller to be published and they say a Lee Child novel is now sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds (quite a hard assertion to check, but I'm sure it must be true). A legion of fans know exactly what they're getting and won't be disappointed with this latest instalment. Fortunately for those fans, most of the characters in the novels have obviously never read one, or they'd have realised it's simply best to keep out of Jack Reacher's way.
For the avoidance of doubt I'm not, and in fact never have been, a young woman. If I was, or had been, though, I might find myself agreeing with the Daily Mail journalist who described this novel as 'the best I've read on what it means to be young and female right now.' This is a brilliant debut: a dark, sharp, funny, brilliantly observed novel about modern relationships from a young writer who seems destined to go far.
Two Kinds Of Truth
If you haven't yet read one of Michael Connelly's best-selling crime thrillers featuring Harry Bosch don't just take my word he's worth trying; take Stephen King's, who calls Connelly 'a master of the genre'. In this outing we find Harry apparently being framed for a crime and needing to turn to lawyer Micky Haller (whom fans will know from another of Connelly's successful series) for help. It's a bit like Superman and Batman coming together in a DC comic special.
'Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.' If that isn't an opening sentence to make you want to read onward in a novel I don't know what is. This is quite a hard book to categorise: with elements of thriller, love story, inter-generational relationships and race issues there's something in this intelligently written piece of fiction to appeal to a broad range of readers.
The Mitford Murders
Jessica Fellowes
Finally, a good old-fashioned novel for fans of retro British crime fiction, written by the author of the best-selling Downton Abbey books. It's 1919 and Louisa Cannon's dream of escaping a life of poverty in London is a nursemaids's position in the Mitford household deep in the Oxfordshire countryside – the Mitford household of Mitford Sisters fame, that is. A murder on a train in broad daylight sets Louisa on the path of amateur sleuth-dom, accompanied in her endeavours by Nancy, the youngest of the Mitford sisters. Fans of Agatha Christie, or the British Library crime reprints, should be happy.
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Grits has a suggestion for the Legislature.
Reduce local jail costs – which have been a big driver of tax increases in many Texas counties – by reducing penalty categories for low-level marijuana possession (currently a Class B misdemeanor for possession of two ounces or less) and driving with an invalid license (DWLI, currently a Class B misdemeanor on the second offense). Make those two offenses a Class C or even a civil violation and local governments, especially counties, would save money a) by writing tickets instead of jailing people, b) from the fact that attorneys aren't appointed for the indigent in Class C cases, and c) by keeping more officers, both sheriffs deputies and municipal PDs, out on patrol instead of at the jail arresting pot smokers and drivers who couldn't pay the Driver Responsibility surcharge.
Texas already started down this road, reducing first offense DWLI from a Class B to a Class C in 2007 after the Driver Responsibility surcharge flooded county courts in the first years after its passage. The same year, the Lege passed and Gov. Perry signed legislation to allow local police departments to write tickets instead of make arrests for DWLI, marijuana possession, and several other petty Class B offenses. Only a few agencies took the Lege up on that optional authority, though, and county jails and court dockets remain stuffed with these low-level, non-violent offenders. So reducing penalties for those two Class Bs is a logical next step, as the House County Affairs discussed during an interim committee hearing on the topic earlier this year.
Unlike the feds, Texas' budget must balance. Any claim to cut taxes will prove a mare's nest without a correspondent reduction in spending in a long-term sustainable way. That's why property-tax relief through the school districts can't be certain in light of the surely soon-to-be-coming court verdict on school finance. The state has little wiggle room to spend less on healthcare. And pols have promised to spend more, not less, on transportation. After baseline reductions in 2003 and 2011, there's not a lot of fat left to cut, particularly that would impact property taxes.
By changing state policies to reduce county jail costs, the 84th Legislature could deliver real, not just temporary or superficial, local property-tax relief, cutting costs on a big-ticket item that affects every Texas county. I can't think of a quicker, more certain way the Lege could reduce upward pressure on local property taxes given the practical constraints imposed by law and politics on the state budget.
See here for the context, and remember that "balancing" the budget is one part rhetoric, one part prestidigitation, and about five parts hot air. As sensible as this is, and as much as it would deliver benefits beyond a reduction in costs to counties, the main obstacle this would face is that it's not immediate gratification. Lop ten points off the tax rate and you can say "See! I cut your taxes!" Do this and you have to wait and see what all the county commissioners do, and if/when they do cut taxes as a result of the savings, they'll claim the credit for it themselves. I completely agree with Grits' idea here, and I think in the abstract a lot of legislators would, too. What I don't think they would do is see this as "tax relief" in any meaningful way. The people who are talking about that want something they can point to and take all the credit for.
Total jail costs, and this includes being the de facto mental health hospital for a huge portion of the population, comprise about 14% of county budgets. Changing the law to lower penalties for crimes is not going to greatly impact how much county residents pay any more than it will "reduce downward pressure" on such costs. This is just another bout of Grits' wishful thinking on how to manipulate the teabaggers and GOP by catering to greed. As such, shaving limited portions of the jail population solely for economic benefit provides limited bang for the buck, though I actually agree with many of the policy positions on drugs (legalize pot and most other drugs but greatly enhance the penalties for committing crimes under their influence). As jail beds are opened up from one group, others will simply be given less of a break in how their time is factored, greatly reducing any savings.
Aside from the problems of everyone wanting someone else to pay for all the government goodies or the crazy idea that you can get good government for next to nothing, most people really don't know how their tax dollars are spent. When confronted with the actual cost of jailing criminals, everyone I spoke with was willing to pay a few bucks more to keep inmates incarcerated on a day for day program but I run in different circles than people like Grits.
How much could we save if we cut the jail populations by a third by making it easier to get out of jail while waiting for trial?
Ross, the underlying premise to saving money by liberalizing bonding is that counties will be able to hire fewer people to work in corrections. Taking your idea of a third fewer people all the way out, you won't be saving anything of substance. The same facilities will be staffed by the same people using largely the same costs. This will only allow jails to require those convicted to stay more of their sentence with fewer multipliers applied to days served. I'm not saving it isn't worthy of consideration, just that you won't save money.
As far as cutting pensions for employees, especially those you believe have "platinum plated" pensions, I'd like to hear who you think gets such a deal in the state of Texas outside the Governor, certain high ranking officials, and the occasional gadfly. Such pensions are so few and far between that eliminating them altogether won't amount to much, clearly you fall into the group I mentioned in my first comment. Locally, HFD and HPD are the lowest compensated public safety employees for the entire state (in terms of major cities), Texas generally not very high ranking compared to other states where such employees get a far more lucrative pay and benefit package to begin with. The state has nothing to do with such plans in the first place so any cuts will not save the state any money but I suspect you knew that too.
I guess I Wasn't clear that I was talking about county level taxes. Cutting the jail population by a third by letting those waiting for trial out on their own recognizance would be a good start there.
Anyone who can retire at 55 with 30 years at 90% of their pay has a platinum plated pension. I believe that describes the HFD pension. If I were to retire at age 55 with 30 years at my job, I would have a company pension of 36%, and could collect social security at a reduced rate at age 62. And, my employer knows to the penny what my pension is.
By using recognizance bonds to free up space, the resulting space would only then be used by inmates who were being given multiple days credit for each day served. I thought my comment was clear but maybe that will clear it up. The bottom line is that given the generous formulas used, even cutting massive numbers of pre-trial suspects free would still allow authorities to keep their budgets by making more people stay longer on the sentences they pled to or were handed.
As far as pensions, by all means compare total direct compensation for those you believe are so well paid. Aside from the fact that HFD does not pay into Social Security and would not derive a benefit at any age, courtesy of the city opting out in the 80's, their pay is substantially below that of other major cities and the private sector. Any larger percentage based on a smaller number is hardly a "deal" and the suggestion that the city doesn't know what each employee has earned at any given time is a lie since they track all relevant numbers via payroll. The only number they don't know for sure is the date an employee opts to retire. Now that HPD has received a few raises since pay parity was ended under Brown, they opted for a bigger paycheck up front, anyone employed in the past 10 years getting far less, staying longer, and paying more into their system but guess which pension is more fully funded? But if you went to your employer and offered to take a 40% pay cut and watered down benefits, he'd probably offer you a better pension too.


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Ozubulu Massacre: cover ups, lies and the "suspected" drug lords who would walk free.
The families of over 30 people who died at the Ozubulu church Massacre may not find closure or get justice.
Chief Aloysius Ebubechukwu Ikegwuonu AKA "bishop" who was the target of the killing that cost the lives of over 30 worshipers has come back into Nigeria with his head held high.
Security operatives have not searched his residence, questioned his family members and associates for any proof of alleged drug peddling
The three churches he built has not been sealed off for further investigation into sources of funding
EFCC, ICPC and other related bodies are yet to launch an investigation into the source of his wealth
There has been no follow up press conference briefing Nigerians about the status of the investigations
In case you are unaware about the Ozubulu massacre, let's recap the incident
6th of August 2017
It could have been scripted straight from the "GodFather" movie
Gun men walked into St. Philip's Catholic Church in Ozubulu during the evening mass at 6pm and killed over 30 defenseless worshipers injuring a lot more
Pandemonium broke out not just in Ozubulu or Anambra, but across the country. People wondered, could it be the Badoo cult group, Boko Haram, Fulani herd's men or a terrorist attack.
The dust finally settled , it was fight between rival gangs of drug dealers.
They were brothers from Ozubulu community who ran factional drug Cartels in South Africa. Misunderstandings broke out among them and they start killing each other.
Chief Aloysius Ebubechukwu Ikegwuonu famously known as "Bishop" was the target of the Sunday massacre
Governor Obiano and the Anambra State police collaborated this story in an interview
The lies and cover ups.
Governor Obiano has sworn to bring the perpetrators to justice, but the second drug ring leader who allegedly wants to assassinate bishop has been identified as Obrocho.
Obrocho is also from Ozubulu, he is known to the priest, the community and the church. It should not be difficult to call him in for questioning whats holding that up ?
The Governor said that 11 people were killed and about 8 injured, but inside sources has confirmed that over 50 people have died.
It is believed that the police will be inviting him soon for questioning to ascertain if indeed the church attack was drug motivated or an act of terrorism as many have also claimed.
But we all know that if its drug motivated, he would not say that, so far he has not been searched, and his financial details have not been investigated.
Chief Aloysius is great friends with the State Government, priests and police authorities
The church were the crime was perpetrated was built by him single and dedicated in 2015 with Willie Obiano invited to witness the event.
The dedication of his church also coincided with his 35th birthday, loads of billboards were deployed to announce the event.
He is said to have tarred some roads in his community – Amakwa Ozubulu in Ekwusigo local government area .
In fact, on May 1, 2017, the governor was billed to inaugurate some of the roads Ikegwuonu tarred in his community.
He received the Ozo title as Uzochukwu Kwalu 1 of Umuje Anyamelum LGA on 14th December, 2014, after which he collected the title with the sum of N500,000,
"The Igwe of Umuje said he gave the title to Chief Alloy because of his kind gesture to indigenes of Umuje."
Why court of public opinion finds him guilty
He has splurged huge amounts of money on philanthropy work, building roads, churches and buying chieftain titles. yet no one knows the name of his business, the product they produce and who his partners in China are.
Xenophobia attacks have pointed to a huge number of Nigerians pushing hard drugs in South Africa.
The Facebook page for his philanthropy organisation Ebubechukwu foundation is devoid of clear mission, vision and objectives. Rather it parades men drinking bear and enjoying traditional delicacies.
We know that everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but he is rich and we dont know what he does
Guilty as charged! or what do you think
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Malaysia's attorney-general says Anwar accuser was not charged because he was a witness
By Annette Gartland on February 13, 2015
Malaysia's Attorney-General, Abdul Gani Patail (pictured left), says the complainant in the case against the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was not prosecuted for consensual anal sex with Anwar because he was a witness against Anwar in a case similar to corruption.
On Tuesday, Malaysia's federal court upheld a ruling by the Court of Appeal last year, which found Anwar guilty of sodomising his former aide Saiful Bukhari Azlan in 2008, and sentenced the former deputy prime minister to five years in prison.
The verdict has been heavily criticised both locally and internationally. Amnesty International said the decision to jail Anwar was an oppressive ruling that would have a "chilling effect" on freedom of expression in Malaysia.
Anwar (pictured left) says the case against him was fabricated by his political enemies. He has previously spent two years in political detention and six years in prison after an earlier conviction on corruption and sodomy charges.
Gani said in a statement yesterday that in almost all corruption cases, the receiver is charged while the giver is used as a witness against the accused.
"The Attorney General's Chambers emphasises that the case against Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim is more akin to that of corruption cases," Gani said.
The president of Malaysia's Bar Council, Christopher Leong, had said there were "glaring anomalies" in the case against Anwar, which fuelled the perception that the opposition leader had been persecuted. These anomalies, he said, included the failure to charge Saiful.
Leong (pictured left) explained that Anwar was charged under Section 377B of the Penal Code, read together with Section 377A. Section 377B provides that whosoever voluntarily commits the acts described in Section 377A shall be punished with imprisonment for a term that may extend to twenty years, and shall also be liable to whipping.
"It is notable that Anwar was not charged under Section 377C of the Penal Code for forced sodomy or sodomy rape, although there may appear to have been some allegation of coercion made in the proceedings," Leong said.
Gani said the public prosecutor opted to charge Anwar under section 377B, which has no minimum term of imprisonment. "This was purely based on the prosecutorial discretion sanctioned by Article 145(3) of the Federal Constitution."
MP Lim Lip Eng from the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) has filed a police report, calling for an investigation into Sailful's involvement in the act of sodomy. "The highest court in Malaysia has ruled on Tuesday that sodomy, a crime in our country, took place between Anwar and Saiful," he told Channel NewsAsia. "Shouldn't both parties in this criminal act be punished?"
Gani said it was "highly inappropriate" and in fact misleading for Leong to suggest that Anwar should have more properly been charged "under section 377C of the Penal Code for forced sodomy or sodomy rape", because "there may appear to have been some allegation of coercion made in the proceedings".
He added: "In point of fact it appears that the President of the Malaysian Bar instead is suggesting that he should be charged under section 377C which is a more serious offence and which would have exposed Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim to a minimum sentence of imprisonment of five years and a maximum of twenty years."
Gani said that the perception of certain parties that Anwar had been charged and convicted for a "victimless offence" was clearly "insupportable". Saiful was the person who suffered, Gani insisted. "He provided sworn testimony to a court of law of the acts he suffered which are a matter of judicial record."
Gani added: "It must be remembered that all three courts found Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan to be a credible witness and there was nothing inherently improbable about his story."
The Attorney General said that, from 2010 to 2014 , 171 cases had been brought under Section 377B and 489 cases under Section 377C. "While the number of cases charged under section 377B is less than those charged under section 377C, the figures categorically demonstrate that section 377B is not a 'rarely used' provision as suggested by certain parties."
Gani added: "The Attorney General's Chambers wishes to further emphasise that throughout the six and a half years long of proceedings, the honourable Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was accorded the right to a fair trial and afforded every opportunity to exercise his constitutional rights before the courts of law."
Judgement criticised at home and abroad
The US, Australia, Canada, Britain, and Germany are among the countries that have raised concerns about the jailing of Anwar.
Spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, said the UNHCR was disappointed by the federal court ruling. "There are allegations that this case has been politically motivated and the trial marred by violations of due process rights in relation to the opportunities provided to the defence, raising concerns about the fairness of the judicial process."
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) president, Karim Lahidji, said the verdict was the "disgraceful conclusion of a relentless judicial campaign against Anwar Ibrahim".
Malaysia's judiciary had failed to demonstrate its independence from the executive branch in a trial that had clear political motivations, Lahidji said.
In his statement about the case, Amnesty International's Asia Pacific director, Richard Bennett, said: "This is a deplorable judgment, and just the latest chapter in the Malaysian authorities' relentless attempts to silence government critics. The 'sodomy' charges against Anwar Ibrahim have always been politically motivated, and he should be released immediately.
"The Malaysian judiciary missed an opportunity to demonstrate its independence from political interference. We consider Anwar Ibrahim to be a prisoner of conscience – jailed solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression.
"The attempts to silence the opposition leader come amidst a wider crackdown on dissenting voices in Malaysia. The authorities have over the past year made increasing use of the draconian Sedition Act to target journalists, politicians and academics they find inconvenient. This practice must end immediately."
Anwar's children have launched a "March to Freedom" campaign, there are nightly vigils outside the Sungai Buloh prison where Anwar is being held, and politicians are focused on who will now lead the Pakatan Rakyat (People's Pact) coalition, and who will contest the parliamentary seat that Anwar will shortly be disqualified from holding. (Under Malaysia's constitution, the disqualification takes effect 14 days after conviction.)
Full statement from the Attorney General
1. On 10 February 2015, the Federal Court dismissed Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim's appeal and affirmed his conviction and sentence of five years imprisonment imposed by the Court of Appeal against YBhg Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim for an offence under section 377B of the Penal Code.
2. Although the written grounds of judgement are not yet available, various parties have questioned the merits of the Federal Court's decision and raised various legal issues to undermine the prosecution of Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim as well as his conviction.
Charge under section 377B of the Penal Code
3. Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim was charged for an offence under section 377B of the Penal Code, which carries a sentence of imprisonment of up to twenty years and whipping, based on the evidence obtained through the police investigation. The Penal Code provides two instances where a person can be charged for sodomy. One is section 377B where "with or without consent" is not an ingredient. The other is section 377C where the act of sodomy is committed without consent or against the will of the other person. The other distinguishing feature is the punishment where the law imposes a minimum sentence of five years under section 377C.
4. This is in line with section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalizes unnatural offences where, whether or not there is consent to the carnal intercourse against the order of nature, an offence would be committed.
5. The Public Prosecutor however, opted to charge Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim under section 377B which has no minimum term of imprisonment.
This was purely based on the prosecutorial discretion sanctioned by Article 145(3) of the Federal Constitution. Such exercise of prosecutorial discretion is not unknown to law as previously in cases involving possession of firearms simpliciter, for example in Lee Weng Sang v Public Prosecutor [1978] 1 MLJ 168, the Federal Court held that Public Prosecutor can choose to prefer a charge under the then section 57 of the Internal Security Act 1960 which carried a death penalty or section 8 of the Firearms (Increased Penalty) Act 1971 which carries a maximum of fourteen years imprisonment and whipping of not less than six strokes. The Public Prosecutor in exercising such discretion will have regard to the facts and circumstances of each case and certainly not at his whims and fancies.
6. Therefore it is highly inappropriate and in fact misleading for the President of the Malaysian Bar to suggest in his Press Release dated 11 February 2015 that Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim should have more properly been charged "under section 377C of the Penal Code for forced sodomy or sodomy rape", because "there may appear to have been some allegation of coercion made in the proceedings". In point of fact it appears that the President of the Malaysian Bar instead is suggesting that he should be charged under section 377C which is a more serious offence and which would have exposed Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim to a minimum sentence of imprisonment of five years and a maximum of twenty years.
Victimless offence
7. Further, the perception of certain parties that Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been charged and convicted for a "victimless offence" is clearly insupportable. Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan was the person who suffered. He provided sworn testimony to a court of law of the acts he suffered which are a matter of judicial record.
8. It must be remembered that all three courts found Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan to be a credible witness and there was nothing inherently improbable about his story.
Why the complainant was not charged for abetment
9. Another question that has been raised is why the complainant, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, "was not charged for abetment under sections 377A and 377B, read together with section 109 of the Penal Code". The Attorney General's Chambers emphasizes that the case against Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim is more akin to that of corruption cases. In almost all corruption cases the receiver is charged while the giver is used as a witness against
Prosecution under a rarely used provision of the Penal Code
10. Based on the Attorney General's Chambers and Royal Malaysia Police statistics, 34 cases where charged under section 377B in 2014, 28 cases in 2013, 20 cases in 2012, 34 cases in 2011 and 55 cases in 2010.
This brings the total number of section 377B cases to 171 in a five-year period.
11. In relation to section 377C, there were 121 cases in 2014, 98 cases in 2013, 82 cases in 2012, 83 cases in 2011 and 105 cases in 2010. This then brings the total number of cases to 489 cases in a five-year period.
12. Therefore while the number of cases charged under section 377B is less than those charged under section 377C, the figures categorically demonstrate that section 377B is not a "rarely used" provision as suggested by certain parties.
13. The Attorney General's Chambers reiterates that the proper forum for the determination of factual and legal issues pending before a court should be the court itself. Therefore the decision of the Federal Court, after having gone through a thorough trial and appeal process in accordance with due process of law, should be the final arbiter of this case.
14. The Attorney General's Chambers wishes to further emphasise that throughout the six and a half years long of proceedings, YBhg. Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim was accorded the right to a fair trial and afforded every opportunity to exercise his constitutional rights before the courts of law.
YBhg Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim had also been given every opening to exhaust avenues of review and appeal available to him as provided by the law.
Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, Attorney General, 12 February 2015.
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