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Nigerian student sentenced to nearly 4 years after defrauding Texas firms out of millions
August 30, 2017	Latest News Leave a comment 8 Views
A Nigerian in the United States on a student visa was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison on Wednesday in a sophisticated fraud scheme that cost banks and other businesses millions of dollars.
Amechi Colvis Amuegbunam, 30 pleaded guilty in March to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He has been in custody since his arrest in Baltimore in August 2015.
The scheme Amuegbunam was part of had at least 10 victims and resulted in losses of about $3.7 million, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney's office in Dallas. Amuegbunam has also been ordered to pay $615,555 in restitution.
From November 2013 through August 2015, Amuegbunam and others sent fraudulent emails to companies in North Texas and elsewhere including Luminant, Wells Fargo and J.P. Morgan Chase. The emails were designed to look like a forwarded message, supposedly from a top executive at the company, sent to an employee in the firm's accounting department who had authority to make financial transfers, the news release said.
The investigation began when two businesses reported to the Dallas FBI office that they had received targeted spear phishing emails.
Although the emails appeared to be coming from a company executive, the messages were actually coming from a fake email account. The fraudulent domain name would contain one small difference from the company's true email address, such as transposed letters. The investigation traced the creation of some of the documents to Amuegbunam.
The FBI has been tracking what they now call business email compromise, or BEC schemes, since 2013. According to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), between January 2015 and December 2016, there was a 2,370 percent increase in identified exposed losses. Such scams have been reported in all 50 states and in 131 countries with losses totaling more than $5 billion.
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Graham McKenzie's easy approach and well-oiled action were deceptive: he hit the pitch, the bat, and sometimes batters, very hard indeed. Picked on his first Ashes tour as a teenager in 1961, he impressed at once with his pace and poise; nothing seemed to ruffle him, although when stirred, he possessed a wicked bouncer. By the age of 23, he had 100 Test wickets; by 27 he had 200 - this despite a general lack of support and an era of benign pitches. He took three ten-wicket bags in Tests, all in wins - two against India, in Madras and Melbourne, and the third in an innings victory over West Indies in 1968, also at the MCG, which featured his career-best figures of 8 for 71. Overwork, however, finally took its toll, and he renounced Test cricket - only two wickets short of the Australian wicket record then held by Richie Benaud - in favour of county cricket with Leicestershire. In 1975, his last year at Grace Road, they won the Championship for the first time.
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Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 1 May 2020
by William Gritten
Johnson: UK is past coronavirus peak
Boris Johnson said yesterday that the UK was "past the peak" of the coronavirus outbreak and is "on the downward slope". In his first appearance at Downing Street's daily briefing since being hospitalised with Covid-19 in early April, the prime minister defended his government's response to the pandemic, saying that, "broadly speaking, we did the right thing at the right time". He also promised that information about the government's lockdown exit plan would be released next week.
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Trump suggests Covid-19 was created in Chinese lab
US President Donald Trump yesterday said he has seen evidence that the coronavirus was made in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak. The claim appears to contradict his own intelligence officials, who hours earlier has said they believed the virus "was not man-made or genetically modified". Pressed by a White House reporter to explain what evidence he had seen, Trump responded: "I can't tell you that. I'm not allowed to tell you that."
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Sudan bans female genital mutilation
Sudan's government has banned female genital mutilation, a year after coming to power following the overthrow of dictator Omar Hassan al-Bashir. The move represents a profound shift for the Northeast African country, where an estimated nine in ten women have been subjected to mutilation of their external genitalia, according to the United Nations. "The law will help protect girls from this barbaric practice," said a spokesperson for the UN Children's Fund. "Now there are consequences."
UK 'unlikely to meet 100,000 daily tests deadline'
Boris Johnson yesterday admitted that his government was almost 20,000 short of its target of carrying out 100,000 coronavirus tests a day by the end of April. Latest figures show that a total of 81,611 coronavirus tests were carried out on Wednesday, up by 30,000 on the previous 24 hours - but it will not be clear whether ministers have met their goal until later today. Conceding that the deadline was likely to be missed, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said: "Even if we don't hit it, we will in the next few days. I think it was right to set an ambitious target... the direction of travel is the most important thing."
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Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has announced that he has contracted Covid-19. "The tests I submitted for coronavirus came back positive," he said in a televised video call with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. Mishustin has been leading his country's response to the pandemic, but will now temporarily exempt himself from his duties.
Captain Tom Moore turns 100
The appeal by NHS fundraiser Captain Tom Moore topped £32m yesterday as he celebrated his 100th birthday. The war veteran was treated to an RAF fly-past, a letter from the Queen, a recorded message from Boris Johnson, a promotion to honorary colonel, and more than 150,000 birthday cards from the public, in honour of his efforts to raise funds for the health service by walking laps of the garden at his Bedfordshire home.
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Nasa has announced that the US space agency will work alongside three companies to develop human landing systems for a mission to the Moon. A ten-month contract worth a total of $967m has been awarded to Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Elon Musk's SpaceX and Alabama-based tech firm Dynetics. The aim is to pick a final design by next February, as Nasa strives to meet Donald Trump's target of landing Americans on the Moon by 2024.
UK factory output set to halve, warns trade body
UK factory output risks falling by more than half during the current quarter, as 80% of manufacturers report a collapse in orders as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a leading trade body has warned. Make UK said a survey of 297 members conducted in the week to 27 April showed that more than three-quarters had already suffered a drop in sales.
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Bakery chain Greggs has stepped back from a tentative plan to reopen 20 of its shops next week, amid fears that an "excessive numbers of customers" may storm in. The company wanted to test its ability to maintain social distancing rules at 20 of its more than 2,050 UK outlets, but an overly enthusiastic response on social media gave rise to concerns. "We will now initially operate these trials behind closed doors in order to effectively test our new operational safety measures," said a spokesperson said yesterday.
Briefing: is lower air pollution under lockdown saving lives?
Improvements in air quality during coronavirus lockdowns have resulted in 11,000 fewer deaths across Europe over the past month, according to a new study.
Researchers at the Helsinki-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) say the effects of the significant reduction in air travel and road traffic are comparable to "everyone in Europe stopping smoking for a month".
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January 17, 2017 January 17, 2017 ~ chasdefeo
Hello everyone! The staff at Oremus Communications prays that your spiritual journeys are off to a good start in this New Year of 2017! We hope that you continue to include us in your efforts to make a spiritual difference in the world by logging onto oremuscomms.com and praying with us on a regular basis both Live or on Archive throughout the New Year. Specifically, the Oremus Communications Novena Prayer Program in honor of Our Lady of Fatima begins at 12:05 pm (EST) {Monday thru Saturday and 1:50 pm on Sundays}; followed by our Family Rosary Program (OCFRP), starting at 12:15 pm (EST) {M-Sat and 2:00 pm on Sundays}.
There is much to pray for in 2017. Many of our intentions from last year still remain such as the end to violence in all of its forms, the health and welfare of Pope Francis and all the members of the clergy throughout the world, respect for the right to life in all of its forms and stages, the end to evil discrimination in all of its forms , and so on. In addition, we will focus our efforts in bringing more awareness to the Fatima Message as we prepare to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima's visits to Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco back in 1917.
Our guest co-hosts will continue throughout the year to pray with us and inspire us with their own spiritual stories and experiences. Starting this month on Monday, January 9, Fr. Peter Welsh who serves as Parochial Vicar at St. Helena Parish in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and as the Spiritual Director of Regina Pacis, the Spanish Curia of the Legion of Mary will return to the OCFRP talking about the importance of the Feast Day celebrating the Baptism of The Lord.
On the following Friday, Mr. Carl Malburg the Guardian of the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima will pray with us and talk about the Fatima Message as the countdown to the 100th Anniversary of the Fatima apparitions fast approaches!
One week later on the 20th, Mr. Charles DeFeo, OP from The Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic will be with us again to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Dominicans and to discuss early church history.
On Wednesday, the 25th, a newcomer to OCFRP will join us. Fr. Michael Davis, Parochial Vicar from the Assumption B.V. M. parish in Feasterville, Pa. will pray the Holy Rosary followed by a description of his experiences on a recent mission awareness trip to Tanzania in Africa.
We hope you can join us in these events and that you stay well in all ways. Until then:
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A van has struck pedestrians on London Bridge in central London and the occupants have attacked people around nearby Borough Market. Police have declared a "terrorist incident".
Six people have been killed during attacks in two closely connected areas of London on Saturday night which police have described as "terrorist incidents''.
Three suspected attackers have also been shot dead by police.
The incidents took place on London Bridge and in nearby Borough Market.
There were multiple casualties in addition to the fatalities with London Ambulance Service saying they have taken at least 48 people to five hospitals in the capital.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Hospital said it was "on lockdown" to keep patients, relatives, and staff safe.
The first report of an incident was a white van plowing into pedestrians on London Bridge at about 10.08pm.
Witnesses said the van swerved onto the pavement.
Police say the van continued on to Borough Market where there have been reports of multiple stabbing.
Pictures have been circulating showing a suspect on the ground in the market; he appears to have canisters strapped to his body.
Police say those canisters were part of a hoax suicide vest.
Theresa May, the prime minister, has called the events a "terrible incident'' that is being treated as a "potential act of terrorism''.
Police urged people to stay away from the affected areas.
The government said there would be a meeting of the emergency committee Cobra on Sunday morning.


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Airbus marks two milestones for Zephyr solar-powered drone
By: Andrew Chuter July 16, 2018
Airbus started series production of the Zephyr S high altitude pseudo-satellite at a new facility about 200 yards from where Farnborough 2018 was being held. (Airbus)
FARNBOROUGH, England — With the Farnborough air show opening in searing temperatures it was perhaps appropriate that Airbus Defence and Space used the first day to announce two program milestones with it's Zephyr solar powered unmanned air vehicles.
Airbus announced July 16 that series production of the Zephyr S high altitude pseudo-satellite had begun at a new facility sited about 200 yards from where Farnborough 2018 was being held.
Just as important in terms of proving the solar powered vehicle's operational capabilities, Airbus revealed the first of three Zephyr S vehicles ordered by the British Ministry of Defence made its maiden flight from a base in Arizona last week.
Zephyr, which operates on the edge of space, already holds the world duration record at 14 days. Nigel Chandler, the head of sales for the solar electric powered vehicles, says that recent improvements will see the vehicle beat 100 days.
To date the Zephyr family has racked up over 1000 flying hours and their experience far exceeds any rival operators.
Earlier this year BAE Systems announced it was collaborating on a rival solar powered high altitude, long endurance vehicle designed by Farnborough-based company Prismatic. First flight of a vehicle known as the PHASA-35 is slated for next year.
The MoD here has invested some £13 million (U.S. $17.21 million) in securing the vehicles for operational concept demonstration work. The latest S version of the Zephyr family were acquired by the British military in a deal signed in 2016.
The arrangement will see the vehicles owned by the MoD but operated by Airbus.
Nobody at Airbus was saying what role the British envisions for the Zephyr, but the machines have previously been touted in media as capable of providing surveillance or communications relay capabilities, possibly for special forces.
The third vehicles ordered by the MoD were visible and complete on the floor of the new Airbus production facility.
Previous test and prototype versions of Zephyr were built at a research and development site nearby.
Dirk Hoke, the CEO of Airbus Defence and Space said the official opening of the facility "represents a significant milestone in the Zephyr program. The facility is home to the world's leading high-altitude pseudo satellite and will be a showcase location, linking to our operational flight bases around the world. …Today we have created a new future for stratospheric flight."
Chandler said that by the end of this year up to seven aircraft will have been built at the series production site. Next year that number should rise to 10 and could eventually be amped up to 30 if demand warrants it.
Some of the Zephyr production will go to Airbus itself. Chandler said one of principle business opportunities is to use Zephyr as a managed service.
The service would offer launch and recovery, payload integration, piloting, airspace management and other requirements.
In future, Airbus will be flying Zephyr S from a new operating site at the Wyndham airfield in Western Australia. Airbus said it has chosen Australia as the first launch and recovery site for the Zephyr due mainly to its largely unrestricted airspace and reliable weather. The site will be operational from September this year with the first flights expected during October.
It's not clear whether the British MoD will use the Australian site for some of its concept demonstration work.
Airbus has also developed a ground station in a box to allow operations to be conducted where customers have a requirement.
Why BAE Systems doesn't want a real cockpit in its Tempest


love to have former playmate, Neymar, and former coach, Pep Guardiola back at the Camp Nou.
Speculations continue to link Neymar back to Barcelona after he left for a world record $253m to Frenchside, PSG, back In August 2017.
Although the talisman knows that it would be hard for Neymar to be released by PSG, however, he still hopes to have the Brazilian skipper back at his side very soon.
Also, Messi spoke about his former boss Pep Guardiola who is currently in charge of English Side, Manchester City: "Although it is difficult, I would like to work with Guardiola again" he said.


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The 21st Dhaka International Film Festival is underway. 129 feature films and 123 short films and independent films will be screened daily in 5 theaters. 81 of them are Bangladeshi films. Today is the seventh day of the festival. Today, 22 short films and 21 feature films are screened in six halls. The film 'Santao' is screened today at the Dhaka International Film Festival. Popular actress Ainoon Putul played the lead role in the crowd-funded movie "Santao" directed by Khandkar Suman. His character in the film is also called Putul. The film is set to hit theaters on January 27. Earlier, the film premiered at the Dhaka International Film Festival on Friday.
Main Auditorium, National Museum
Three hours 'With the wind', Iran. 5 p.m. 'Nakodo-Matchmakers', Japan. 'Santao' at seven in the evening, Bangladesh.
10:30 a.m. 'Aviyan', India. 1 a.m. 'Dear Friend', India. At 3:00 p.m. "Tale of a murder", Bangladesh. At five o'clock in the afternoon "There are 7 people", Bangladesh.
Sufia Kamal Auditorium, National Museum
Three o'clock in the morning, Ghate Fouri, Iran. At 5 p.m. 'Undefeated', India. Bangladeshi short films 'Awaaz Haghretei', 'Graha Grast', 'Bonsai', 'Tulika', 'Anger' and 'Your Eyes' at 7 p.m.
Shilpakala Academy National Music and Dance Auditorium
10:30 a.m. 'Mazel a Tazemství Lesa', Germany; 'L'Aire de Reine', France. At one o'clock 'Maguado', Spain, Brazil. Three Hours 'Beyond the Past', Sri Lanka. At five o'clock in the afternoon "Jay Jai Din", Bangladesh; 'Quyor Bang', Bangladesh; 'How many days I don't go to school, Bangladesh; " But why ? », Bangladesh; "Journey to Zero", Bangladesh; 'Na Pak', Bangladesh at 7:00 p.m. 'Going Home', South Korea; 'Perm', South Korea; "Don't Get Too Comfortable" (Qatar, United States, Netherlands, Yemen, United Arab Emirates); 'Kitpress 35A', Romania.
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9:30 a.m. 'Zindegi wa Zendegi', Iran. 11:00 a.m. 'The Journal', Sri Lanka. At 2:00 p.m. "Undefeated", India. 4 p.m. 'I am not the Jhelum River', France.
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The magnificent Château de Bourscheid is a 1000-year-old castle superbly situated on a rocky bluff overlooking farmland and the Sûre River. It's one of the most beautiful castles in the Grand Duchy and, indeed, affords the best views. The central portion is the castle's oldest sector; surrounding it is a 14th-century wall dotted with circular towers.
Remich is the centre of Luxembourg's wine industry and the main cave or winery is St Martin. Producing white and sparkling wines, the latter known as crémant, St Martin's offers interesting tours which delve into the méthode traditionelle used to process their sparkling wines.
The Luxembourg City History Museum is a multi-level, state-of-the-art complex. The lower floors trace the city's history via a series of wooden maquettes, while the upper levels occupy splendid public rooms of a former mansion and are decked out with paintings and decorative arts. The view from the glass elevator reveals the town's rocky geology.


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Liverpool 4-0 Tottenham Hotspur: 6 Things We Learned from Anfield Rout
March 31, 2014 Vince Siu Leave a comment
A Younes Kaboul own goal and goals from Luis Suarez, Philippe Coutinho and Jordan Henderson handed Liverpool an impressive 4-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on Sunday, which saw the Reds climb back to the top of the Premier League once again.
Another flying start by Brendan Rodgers' side saw Raheem Sterling combine well with Glen Johnson down the Liverpool right, forcing Kaboul to turn the ball into his own net. Suarez's excellent left-footed finish after putting Michael Dawson under pressure deservedly doubled the Reds' lead on 25 minutes.
Coutinho's excellent low drive from range further extended the hosts' dominance on 55 minutes, before Henderson's free kick from the left flank evaded everyone in the Spurs box and sealed another Liverpool rout over Tottenham, following their five-goal demolition job at White Hart Lane back in December.
Here are six things we learned from Liverpool's excellent win. Enjoy, and let us know your thoughts below.
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Take your pick from two well-worn cliches in the sports world: "The best defence is offence" or "Defence wins championships."
Whichever your preference—and while Sunday's result by no means confirmed anything in terms of the Premier League title race just yet—Liverpool showed both offensive drive and defensive steel against Tottenham, much like the reverse fixture in December.
Jon Flanagan bounced back from a quiet couple of weeks with a performance full of heart, commitment and excellently timed tackles, while Glen Johnson put in an admirable defensive shift, albeit against a toothless Spurs left.
Simon Mignolet was on hand to make a few crucial but routine stops—including an excellent left-handed parry of Christian Eriksen's deflected shot in the dying minutes—to keep what was a rare clean sheet for Liverpool this season.
Martin Skrtel had one of his almost flawless performances featuring a few blockbuster last-ditch blocks. Even Daniel Agger, normally in the "cool, calm and collected" school of defending, saw fit to put in a few flying blocks of his own.
The clean defensive performance, which was admittedly due to a disappointing Spurs display, will be one of the key points stressed by Brendan Rodgers to replicate in the end-of-season run-in.
Liverpool Might Just Have the Best Right Flank in the Premier League
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But enough about the defence: Besides keeping a second successive clean sheet against Tottenham this season, Liverpool have again hit four goals with no reply in the Premier League this season, making it 11 matches this season where they have scored at least four goals.
Even more encouraging for both Rodgers and Liverpool fans alike will be Glen Johnson's return to fitness—and, it seems, to a level almost touching his flying best. It was Johnson's run behind the Spurs defence that led to Liverpool's early opening goal and one that fully illustrated his valuable contributions to the Reds attack.
And in reverting to his tried and trusted 4-3-3, Brendan Rodgers started Raheem Sterling on the right, which paid dividends both in the final third and also on the defensive end. The young winger, who by now must surely be on the plane to Brazil this summer, was a constant menace to the Tottenham defence, while a physical duel with Mousa Dembele before his substitution—which he won—was a sign of his growing confidence and maturity.
Johnson's dovetailing with Sterling down the right made it once again Liverpool's preferred attacking outlet, even while the hapless Kyle Naughton started as right-back on the opposite side of the pitch.
Pablo Zabaleta and Seamus Coleman, step aside—if Johnson and Sterling keep up their performances on both ends of the pitch, they'll comfortably win any award for the Premier League's best right flank.
Familiarity Breeds Success
When Mamadou Sakho's return from injury was announced, Liverpool fans would've been forgiven for wanting him to go straight back into the starting XI, with Daniel Agger not being at his domineering best this season.
When Lucas made a first-team comeback as well, many wanted him to return as the midfield anchor, releasing Steven Gerrard of his holding and controlling duties at the base of the Reds midfield and allowing the captain to push further up the park.
Instead, Rodgers has chosen to stick by and large with a starting lineup that has served him so well, if not entirely in defensive solidity then at least in results, only sacrificing Joe Allen for Sterling.
Besides the Allen/Sterling change, this was the same lineup that started Liverpool's previous few victories, allowing them to have built up a winning momentum and a growing sense of confidence, which was increasingly apparent as the match wore on.
In sticking with a winning team, despite having other strong contenders on the bench, Rodgers has gone with familiarity, both as a sign of his confidence in his team and as a reward to those players who have served him well amidst the previous injury problems.
Tactical Flexibility Now a Liverpool Hallmark
It was the Allen/Sterling change, though, that reflected a return to the 4-3-3 formation that had been used to such excellent effect at times this season. (Lest we forget, the 4-4-2 diamond was, of course, a formation ushered in partly out of desperation.)
Liverpool played like they'd never even thought about veering away from their original 4-3-3, such was the fluency in their build-up and possession play, while Coutinho once again impressed as the most advanced member of the midfield trio.
Not that they played the entire match as a 4-3-3, though: Rodgers' two substitutions between the 64th and 70th minutes meant that Allen and Lucas did come on to replace Coutinho and Gerrard, and Sterling was pushed back into the middle to revert to the 4-4-2 diamond.
In doing so, the home side displayed yet another trait it's developed this season: a tactical flexibility that has allowed it to approach different opponents in different ways.
The Liverpool players have become so comfortable with each other and with Rodgers' possession-based attacking philosophy that they've taken every formation change almost like a duck to water, and this can only bode well for the rest of their title-chasing season.
And it paid off spectacularly.
Tottenham Hotspur Are Stuck in Limbo
Spare a thought for Tottenham Hotspur, as not only did their players not seem to have a game plan in mind, but their head coach also seemed to have lost his fiery passion for which he's been so famous.
A 60th-minute double substitution aside, Tim Sherwood didn't appear to take any initiative to improve his side's fortunes, and he cut a lone figure in the Spurs director's box as the match wilted away from a Tottenham point of view.
According to BBC Sport, Netherlands manager Louis van Gaal is reportedly on his way to White Hart Lane as Spurs' new manager after this summer's World Cup. Judging from Sherwood's demeanor, he might well feel like a dead man walking, with his opportunity to impress at the Spurs helm limited in the end to less than a full season.
In the meantime, however, a host of Tottenham players have been frozen out—the likes of Sandro, Mousa Dembele and Paulinho have been left out in favor of the youngster Nabil Bentaleb—and the lack of cohesion on the Anfield pitch on Sunday will have made for some jarring watching for Spurs fans.
Having spent in excess of £100 million in the wake of Gareth Bale's departure, Tottenham were supposed to mount at least a strong challenge for fourth. Instead, they've lost all their league matches against the Premier League top four this season (barring a home draw against Chelsea in late September) and their season is well and truly unraveling.
Plenty of work to be done in the summer.
It's All in Liverpool's Hands Now
By notching their 22nd win of the Premier League season, Liverpool return to the top of the table in emphatic fashion, two points above Chelsea after the Blues' shocking loss at Crystal Palace on Saturday.
While Manchester City have two games in hand and would yet reclaim the top spot with two wins out of two, the reality remains that Liverpool's fortunes for the season are entirely in their own hands now.
From this point forward, if the Reds win all six of the remaining fixtures on their schedule, they will be crowned Premier League champions since both Chelsea and City have yet to visit Anfield.
For the first time in many a season, Liverpool only have themselves to worry about, without having to hope for rivals dropping points before they can look to capitalize.
Brendan Rodgers will know that this is a key advantage for his team in the run-in, but as usual, he will be stressing the need to keep calm and focus on the next game.
Bring on West Ham United.
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Marmol Radziner creates a wood and glass view home in Annapolis
Architecture and Interior Design: Marmol Radziner
Text: Laura Mauk
Photography: Alan Karchmer
The winding road leading to the house that California architects Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner recently devised in Annapolis, Maryland, is lined mostly with split-level and Colonial-style homes that, in effect, present the new design as a kind of modernist spectacle. But for however wonderfully understated the house appears, its dynamism—the way it blends with and frames the natural landscape—is its most remarkable quality. "The landscape is a constantly changing element that provides a foil to the steady presence of a structure," says Radziner, who, as he always does, took a holistic approach, treating the architecture, the interiors and the landscape as a single design. "Landscape has the ability to not only complement a building, but to interact with and strengthen it," he says.
Indeed, nature is never stagnant, but the Annapolis landscape might be busier than some others. "We're right here on the bank of Whitehall Creek," says one of the residents, the husband, who owns a home development business. The wife, who is working toward a degree in Clinical Nutrition and Integrative Health, says, "There are beaver, river otter and Canada geese, and recently I saw two bald eagles while sitting in my office." The waterfront woodland setting—an undeniably cinematic scene—is alive with many more creatures, too. "There's a blue heron that comes to fish from the pond outside the living room," the husband says. "We've seen a piebald deer and her fawns along the shoreline of the creek. And when the creek was last frozen, we saw a skulk of foxes running back and forth on the ice."
The couple had always desired a home with a strong connection to the environment. "We wanted a house on the water," the husband says. "I love to fish and I love the calm that comes from being this close to nature." Before purchasing the lot, they lived on another creek-front parcel a few doors down. "We had our eye on this site because it sits higher up and has better views," the husband says. "One day it went up for sale and we bought it." Then they rented a nearby residence while they oversaw the construction of the home they'd always wanted. "The house that was here was too dated to keep," says the wife, who began the design-build process by hiring Annapolis-based Bohl Architects. "The frame was in place when I called Marmol Radziner," she says. "I've always loved their work." The four-inch binders she filled over the years with photographs of Marmol Radziner designs are proof of her affinity. "Three quarters of the images are of their buildings," she says.
The husband and wife now experience their own Marmol Radziner design on a daily basis. And like many of the houses the architects have created, it displays materials that meld with the textures and colors found in nature around it. On the exterior, mostly glass walls are interspersed with natural stone, ipe and anodized bronze cladding. One of the ipe walls pierces a glass wall and continues on the interior, sectioning the dining room and linking the inside with the outside. The natural stone is also featured on the interior, most prominently on the massive fire surround. Walls and partial walls made of walnut add more texture and warmth to the interior rooms, which include a double-height living room, an open kitchen with a lounge area, a formal dining room, a loft-like library, his and hers offices, three guest rooms and a spacious master suite. "The clients wanted a house that would support their love of entertaining," Radziner says. "The home also has a custom wine-tasting room, an outdoor bar and fire pit and a pool." A basement-level living-and-bar area, a screened-in porch and an outdoor conversation area near a private dock on the creek provide more places to entertain. "We go out to dinner a lot, too, and typically, we go by boat," the husband says. "There are restaurants just down the creek by the bay."
As you move through the house, different perspectives are revealed via the glass walls and strategically placed windows, which act like apertures that capture various woodland scenes. "The home embraces garden spaces in nearly every direction, maximizing visual connections and relationships to the outdoors," the architect says. Radziner and Erika Montes, the firm's Interiors Studio Director, worked with the residents to select vintage, new and custom furniture pieces that tie to the architecture and the natural environment. "The clients have an appreciation for midcentury aesthetics so we used some iconic pieces and newer production pieces with a nod to the midcentury design era." They outfitted the lounge area in the kitchen with an Eero Saarinen–designed Womb chair and a custom coffee table topped with tile by Heath Ceramics. For the dining area, Radziner chose a Lindsey Adelman chandelier, rosewood-and-leather Cantu chairs designed by Sergio Rodrigues, and a walnut-and-bronze table from Blackman Cruz in Los Angeles. "The clients' tastes lean toward the sculptural," Radziner says. "That statement chandelier informed the rest of our choices for that space."
When it came to color and pattern, Radziner and Montes used few prints and employed tones found in the landscape. "It's an array of materials and fabrics that are organic and earthy," Radziner says. "We kept pattern to a minimum and used a variety of textures like mohair, felted cashmere, glazed leather and silk to create visual interest." In the living room, Flexform sofas wrapped in tobacco-colored mohair, Jorge Zalszupin armchairs with honey-colored leather, and a silvery silk rug complement a large custom marble-and-brass coffee table. When you're standing or sitting inside the Annapolis home that Marmol Radziner designed, you feel a part of its woodland setting; there's little delineation between the interior and the natural environment. "The landscape and interiors are integral parts of our architecture practice, allowing building and site to become an expression of a singular vision," Radziner says. It's a rich fluidity—one the clients dreamed of having for years. "You know, some people get excited about the idea of meeting Brad Pitt or George Clooney; I wanted to meet Leo and Ron," says the wife. "This house is special. Every day I'm appreciative of the fact that I get to live here." Marmol Radziner, marmol-radziner.com


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Amytta is een geslacht van rechtvleugeligen uit de familie sabelsprinkhanen (Tettigoniidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van dit geslacht is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1888 door Karsch.

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Amytta abbreviata Beier, 1967
Amytta kilimandjarica Hemp, 2001
Amytta olindo Hemp, 2001
Amytta pellucida Karsch, 1888
Amytta ukamica Beier, 1965

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The Sex Establishment I
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
– Nelson Mandela
Before we get into the Anglo-American Establishment predilection for abuse, which looms over our societies like a particularly large shadow we need to go back for a more general look at sexual abuse as a whole focusing on the UK and the United States. The links between social and economic deprivation, crime and the incidences of abuse are clear. If the data is even close to being true, then the effects of sexual abuse on children have ramifications for societies as a whole. Bear with me while a few more statistics descend…
One North American study from five years ago once again confirmed sexual assaults on children were committed by relatives at 47 percent; 49 percent by acquaintances, such as a teacher, a coach or a neighbour; and only 4 percent by strangers. 20 percent of sexually exploited children who were interviewed were involved in prostitution rings that worked across state lines. [1] This underlines the statistical reality that another study found, in that most prostitutes on the street were sexually abused as children.
59 percent of incarcerated women in maximum-security prisons were sexually abused in childhood and 80 percent of women in prison and jails have been victims of sexual and/or physical abuse. A report on convicted killers shows that 83.8 percent suffered severe physical and emotional abuse 32 percent were sexually abused as children. 75 percent of juvenile girls identified as delinquent by the courts have been sexually abused. [2]
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According to one UK survey conducted by the Great Ormand Street Hospital, one in eight boys who were sexually abused grew up to be a paedophile. "The research, published today in The Lancet, showed that 26 of the 224 former victims studied went on to commit sex offences, nearly all of which involved children." [3] It was also significant that if the child had been abused by a woman, his mother for example, as well as suffering from neglect and violence, the likelihood of becoming an abuser tripled the probability.
That said, it is far from proven that some paedophiles and child molesters automatically come from generational abuse. Many counsellors and psychologists note in their experience it is not necessarily true that cases suggest the abused will carry on the pattern of abuse. It may depend entirely on the intrinsic qualities of the victim involved. It will surely come as no surprise to many that sexual victimisation "may profoundly interfere with and alter the development of attitudes toward self, sexuality, and trusting relationships during the critical early years of development" with a propensity for victims to seek an escape through substance abuse. [4] Abuse or neglected children are 67 times more likely to be arrested between ages 9-12 then those who aren't and are more than twice as likely to run away from home as non-abused children. [5]
If we it were true that the highest statistics are incorrect, the lowest estimates of child abuse are still far too high. From a 1988 study a "typical" child sex offender molests an average of 117 children, most of whom do not report the offense. [6] Another study concluded the average child molester abuses between 50 and 150 children before he is arrested the first time, and an average of 360-380 children in his/her lifetime. Broken down, convicted child molesters who abuse girls have an average of 52 victims each. Men who molest boys have an average of 150 victims. [7]
From another report only 232 child molesters were studied using methods which guaranteed confidentiality and thus provided a reduced margin of error where the interviewees were free to talk as they wished, offering much needed data. The results included 55,000 attempts at child molestation, with a total 17,000 victims. Other research included interviews from 561 offenders including other sexual offences who admitted to over 291,000 offences and over 195,000 victims.
According to psychologist Anne Salter's research comprising in-depth interviews with hundreds of sex offenders, she came across a wide number of victims ranging from an average of 10 to 1,250. As Salter mentions, conceiving such figure it difficult but she allows us to imagine it rather aptly by describing it in the following way: "…consider that the Louisiana Superdome, site of five Super Bowls has a maximum seating capacity of 72,675. If all the victims of those 561 men wanted to meet, they would have filled two and one-half Superdomes. Despite the astounding figures most of these offences had never been detected." [8]
Statistics can be erroneous but what appears as a consistent correlation both in quantitative and qualitative data, as well as the simple logic that wraps around these field of sexual abuse, is that we will not hear about abuse that is taking place, let alone see the offences reaching a courtroom.
One study in an increasing number from The Children's Hospital Medical Centre of Cincinnati, shows that allegations made by child victims match closely with confessions of paedophiles. The study, presented to the Paediatric Academic Societies and American Academy of Paediatrics at a joint meeting in May 2000, also showed that genital exams are most often normal in victims of sexual abuse, even when genital penetration is admitted to. Physical examinations tended to be unreliable indicators of abuse. According to the authors, emphasis on listening to children became all the more important, something that was seriously lacking in the past.
Reviewing the records of 31 paedophiles who confessed between 1994 and 1999, the researchers had access to the case files: "…which contained all available victim, witness and perpetrator statements, and pertinent victim medical records. They analysed each case for admissions or denials of specific sexual acts. They also analysed victim medical histories, examinations and reports from criminal investigators for specific histories of sexual assault and exam findings." [9] What was more disturbing was the fact that the total acts of sexual abuse exceeded the above quota. Researchers discovered: "The 31 perpetrators confessed to a total of 101 acts of sexual abuse, some of which they committed multiple times. The perpetrators abused 47 children. 45 of the children were old enough to provide a history described 111 acts of sexual abuse." [10]
Research discoveries by Dr. Gene Abel of the Behavioural Medicine Institute in Atlanta do not bode well for the effects generated by the male abuser in society. The research confirmed the possibility of a generational time-bomb of damaged children and potential abusers:
Boy victims of sex crimes are at high risk to become sexually attracted to children and to become child sexual abusers.
Men who have sex with children are nearly always committing additional sex crimes.
Men who have sex with children usually start that behaviour before they are 18 years old.
Men who have sex with children usually have 3 victims before they are 18 years old.
Men who have sex with their own children may also be having sex with other children in the community. [11]
Child abuse is not some external infection that arises out of nowhere. There are economic, social and psychological factors that guide its manifestation. Then there is psychopathy which drops like a heavy stone into the already fragile framework of social interactions. The nature of these individuals and the severe trauma they imprint on a child, a family and the psychic infection that will no doubt be left behind is the closest we can get to a clinical description of evil. For example, when 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford was raped, bound with speaker wire, wrapped up in garbage bags, and put into a hole in the ground before being buried alive by her kidnapper we can safely say that the manifestation of the sadistic child rapist is a consequence of this genetically hard-wired "human" pre-disposed to acts of evil. [12]
Yet, they come from within the heart of what we call Western "civilised society."
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I do not mean to suggest that we are living in a sea of pathology as a natural consequence of our essential nature. Quite the opposite. You might say we allowed the door marked "psychopathy" to be left wide open so that the evil they produce could spread like wild fire and in often highly deceptive ways. As a result, psychological disorders are now common place.
Perhaps it is not that conscienceless persons are made by society but they are allowed to manifest as a natural consequence of a system that progressively mirrors their nature. It is rather like sparks that ignite the tinder box; once the fire has ignited and the initial flame is hot enough it will continue to consume whatever stands in its way. Similarly, primary psychopaths need not be on every street corner. Their effects are quadrupled by having systems that are made for them to manipulate with impunity. Justice and law, education and government are products of this mind that go deep into the clinical mind of psychopathology and psychopathy. We can understand them in isolation but without an understanding of ponerology we succeed only in giving systematic sexual and physical abuse the fire it needs to continue unabated. Thus the following examples are merely "nodal points" for expanding a network of like minds that flourish given the correct circumstances.
For instance, a 25 year old white single male who "pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping, sodomy, and assault with a dangerous weapon." The charges stemmed from an incident in which he lured a 12 year old boy into his car, drove to a deserted quarry, stabbed the boy, and then sodomized him after enlarging his anus with another knife wound." The boy miraculously survived.
Or the married man who pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of his 3 month daughter. He denied the charges but "his wife had witnessed him with his penis in the baby's mouth on four occasions. When semen was found in the baby's mouth by a visiting relative, Child Protective services were notified and the infant was placed in a foster home."
A 40 year old man was convicted of sexually assaulting his 11 year old son. This man was a college graduate, a superb athlete with an exemplary military history and a successful businessman: He also had no prior criminal history. "He became jealous of [his wife as she worked nights and] of the men she worked with and he began to experience some problems with impotency. Cory also quarreled with his wife because of her friendship with a neighbor, whom he claims was lesbian. … He says he claimed he planned his sexual offense against his son, Bud as a means of forcing his wife to give up work."
The successful businessman who lured children to his home proffered cannabis and porn before sexually abusing the boys. His true psychopathic nature was on show when he was waiting to be shown from his security cell after being remanded in custody where: "security staff spent time trying to unlock a door to the cells, [he] stood and glared at the family members. He claimed the abuse was to 'pleasure the boys, not himself' and described what he did as an 'art.'" [13]
The 35 year old truck driver from Suffolk, England "who was charged with first degree sodomy in conjunction with the alleged sexual abuse of his four-year-old daughter." The abuse was thought to have been going on since the child was had been three months old some of which included "oral sodomy, photography and video taping of the victim and defendant engaged in sexual activity.[14]
Another perceived "pillar of the community" was 68-year-old Dr. Morgan Francis Fahey an international expert in trauma medicine and with a history of selfless volunteer work and public and community service. In fact, the Doctor had become a well-known and much loved celebrity. There was one problem with this well-crafted image: it was a deception. Less than a week out for the local elections on June 1 2000 the doctor was jailed for rape, sexual violation and indecent assault. He pleaded guilty to 13 charges of sexually abusing 11 female patients over 30 years. One of the charges included raping a "seven-month pregnant patient on his exam table, using a vibrator on another and fondling the breasts of a prospective Ansett NZ flight attendant during medical examination."
Fahey, known as "fingers" within the airline: "… received four years for the rape charge, two more years on sexual violation count, One year jail on using a vibrator and six months jail on three charges involving Ansett flight attendants (served concurrently) […] Disgraced Fahey appeared in the media again in November 2001, when a cell search uncovered medical notes from former patients, cash and pornography. […] leading Prime Minister Helen Clark to ask the Queen to strip his OBE that was received in 1977 for services to the community." [15]
47-year old "Paul Whitmore" was at the higher end of the abuse scale for acts committed against multiple victims of all of whom were children. These included committing a lewd act on a child, aggravated sexual assault on a child, using a minor to pose for sexually exploitative pictures for commercial purposes, as well as special allegations of bondage, sodomy, sexual penetration and oral copulation. With evidence shown to the jury that was "graphic, shocking and overwhelming," and which included: "One of Whitmore's photos show[ing] a tied-up 9-year-old drinking water out of a cat bowl" it is hardly surprising that this man showed no remorse other than the fact that he had been caught. This particular psychopath had created a pornography ring whereby he induced others to molest children, grooming them into a "circle of hell," where the children had photos of themselves being molested posted on the internet by Whitmore. In this case, child pornography was the perfect outlet to both fuel his desires and as a source of income.
From the isolated paedophile/child molester, the propensity for networks of child pornography and child abuse is real and present as we shall discover in later posts. Notice too, that the instances of abusers as "pillars of the community" such as Mr. Fahey is high. Positions of power are the magnets by which serial abusing can take place, relying on status and perceived philanthropy and service as the perfect cover. (witness the Catholic Church after all). The presence of high society within systemic and organised abuse is more than coincidental but often glimpsed through what might be called low-level sociopaths and psychopaths acting as scouts and handlers.
Throughout the 1990's and early 2000's child abuse and child rape networks were front page news until around 2007 where reports seemed to die down once again. It was not until 2010-2012 that more stories began to show up with more frequency revealing that the so called investigations and official inquires had not made any lasting gains into the core networks which lay within the Establishment.
In 2011, The Boston Globe and Yahoo! News reported that child pornography accusations within the Pentagon and DARPA itself had not been investigated due to an apparent lack of resources. When Congress and civic lobbying groups forced a "revisit" of over 5,200 names and the subsequent identification of employees and staffers, only 70 of these were investigated at the close of the year. [16]
High level reports of abuse continued to surface though whether these were genuine cases or fabrications remains unclear. South Florida's former chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Anthony V. Mangione, pleaded guilty to charges accusing Mangione of transporting and receiving images of minors "engaging in sexually explicit conduct." What is bizarre about this case is that the ICE investigates migrant smuggling, illegal weapons exports, terrorism and drug trafficking and child pornography. Mangione himself spoke out against "predators" who shared images via computer networks and was known for praising the agency's efforts in tackling online child porn. An embedded predator himself or was he set up? [17]
Then we have the continuing allegations of an "epidemic" of child sex abuse in Hollywood making the headlines throughout 2011 with former child star Corey Feldman adding credence to the evidence against those charged when he stated: "I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia," … "That's the biggest problem for children in this industry… It's the big secret." [18]
Then there were the more recent cases of Mr. Jerry Sandusky in the US and Jimmy Savile in the UK.
Loners? Or nodes to something deeper?
[1] 'Children's Sexual Exploitation Underestimated, Study Finds' By Raymond Hernandez, The New York Times, September 10, 2001.
[2] Survivor Healing Center Santa Cruz, USA. ww.survivorshealingcenter.org/
[3] 'Child abuse victims become perpetrators, survey reveals' The Guardian, February 7, 2003.
[4] 'Therapy groups for women sexually molested as children. Archives of Sexual Behaviour', 7, 417-429. M.Tsai & N.Wagner, 1978/1984 | 'Childhood Sexual Abuse: Impact on a Community's Mental Health Status,' 1992, By K.D. Scott.
[5] Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse–Later Criminal Consequences, by Cathy Spatz Widom, US Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice (1995)
[6] The National Institute of Mental Health, 1988.The Research conducted by Dr. Gene G. Abel, M.D., full professor of Psychiatry comes with the highest pedigree. The professor taught at several medical schools, including Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Abel is currently affiliated with Emory University School of Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Abel, who has been a research scientist in the field of sexual violence for more than 30 years, is at the top of his field, both nationally and internationally. His treatment outcome study demonstrated that when treatment focused first on specific techniques to directly lower the offender's sexual arousal to children, it was most effective. Those techniques, along with an option of medical intervention for the most dangerous and both a strong relapse prevention component and a surveillance component, proved 96per cent effective in stopping subsequent sex crimes.
[7] Study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health conducted by Dr. Gene G. Abel, Emory University, 1980.
[8] op. cit. Salter (p.11).
[10] 2000 Pediatric Health News Releases May 8, 2000 'Children's Testimony in Sexual Abuse Cases Studied' – "Amy Arszman Daso, a medical student at Case Western University School of Medicine, who worked with Robert Shapiro, M.D., co-director of Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati's Child Abuse and Neglect Team and co-author of the study."
[11] Child Molestation Research and Prevention Institute (CMRPI) http://cmrpi.org/ Research conducted on Projects from 1973-1985.
[12] 'Gruesome Details Emerge About the Murder of Jessica Lunsford' April 21, Buzzle News.com, 2005.
[13] 'Businessman admits sex offences against 13 boys' The New Zealand Herald, December 17, 2005.
[14] 'Dix Hills Man Held For Sexual Abuse' By Robert Leuner, Suffolk Life, October 3, 2001.
[15] 'Dr Morgan Fahey – The story of sexual predator doctor Morgan Fahey, once thought of as a 'pillar of society'' 2006 http://www.crime.co.nz
[16] 'Pentagon reopening probe into employees allegedly tied to child porn' By Adam Levine, CNN, September 15, 2010. By Adam Levine. | '5200 NSA, DARPA, and Pentagon Employees Purchased Child Porn' May 10, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jrTJx19oh4&feature=youtu.be
[17] 'South Florida's ex-ICE chief to plead guilty to Internet child-porn charges' By Jan Weaver, The Miami Herald, June 26, 2012.
[18] 'Recent Charges of Sexual Abuse of Children in Hollywood Just Tip of Iceberg, Experts Say' Fox News, May 12 2011. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/12/05/recent-charges-sexual-abuse
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The Story of Richard Williams and His Unfinished Fairy Tale, The Thief and the Cobbler
Simon Abrams August 20, 2019
"What have I got if I haven't got those awards? I've got nothing; I've got the building and the staff that's in it. And an unmade picture." –Richard Williams, in "Richard Williams: The Thief Who Never Gave Up"
A photo of Canadian-British animator and three-time Oscar-winner Richard Williams might perfectly illustrate the term "scenius," a neologism coined by music pioneer Brian Eno that repositions art as the product of multiple (and not singular) related creative geniuses: "Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the genius."
Williams has often been hailed for the "persistence of vision" (also the title of a 2012 documentary about Williams) that he needed to continue working, for decades, on "The Thief and the Cobbler," a gorgeous animated fairy tale (based on Persian and Ottoman paintings and fables by Sufi folk hero Nasreddin Hodja) that was sadly never completed. But Williams, who died of cancer this weekend, was also significantly aided in his quest to make animation "grow up" by old-school cartoonists like Art Babbitt (an influential former Disney animator who got on the studio's shit list after he joined the animators' strike of 1941); Emery Hawkins (who re-designed Woody Woodpecker in the mid-1940s); and Grim Natwick (Fleischer Studios animator most famous for his work on Betty Boop).
Williams had previously learned from and worked with most of these artists (all dead) on projects like his BAFTA-winning 1971 TV version of "A Christmas Carol" (executive produced by "Loonie Tunes" God Chuck Jones, who recommended Williams for the job); the 1977 feature "Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical"; and the Oscar-winning 1988 live-action/animated hybrid "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Williams' career and work is not, in that sense, the result of solitary ingenuity, but of collective imagination.
Born in 1933, Williams first saw and was taken in by "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" when he was five years old; that film's Evil Queen antagonist was animated by Babbitt, his future colleague. At 16, Williams had a personal epiphany after looking at a series of Rembrandt paintings: "I suddenly understood what all this art stuff was all about" he recalls in a 1982 made-for-TV documentary called "Richard Williams: The Thief Who Never Gave Up." For Williams, there wasn't a huge difference between what Rembrandt did with oil paintings and what cartoonists could do with cel animation: "if you were Rembrandt today, you wouldn't be able to resist animation."
Williams was a renowned perfectionist: his formative use of perspective was matched by his meticulous attention to detail and general preference for animating "on the twos" (ie: 12 frames per second) or even "on the ones" (24 frames per second); most of Williams's peers cut corners (and frames) by animating on the threes, four, or fives. Williams, working on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," was also a pioneer in his use of multi-layered image-compositing (now mostly done digitally), as realized by Industrial Light and Magic (for more on that process, check out Cartoon Brew's interview with Ed Jones, the supervisor of optical photography for "Roger Rabbit").
Williams was also a pragmatist: he became an award-winning commercial artist in order to finance "The Thief and the Cobbler," a project that he started developing in 1968. Richard Williams Animation, Williams's London animation studio, would go on to win hundreds of awards after making thousands of animated advertisements, many of which can be seen on the expansive TheThiefArchive YouTube channel (as well as the animated sequences he produced for several live-action films' opening credits, including "Return of the Pink Panther" and "Casino Royale"). Williams hated the modern "art world" ("I couldn't stand the idea of doing paintings for rich industrialists' wives"), but was convinced, after a 1963 conversation with British filmmaker Clive Donner, that he should apply as much sincerity and ingenuity as he could to his commercial work. You can also see Williams commiserating with his animators in "The Thief Who Never Gave Up," when he recommends that they not spread themselves too thin: "If [the clients] won't give us the time, you have to drop the quality [of your work]. You just drop it. And drop it again."
"The Thief and the Cobbler"
Williams obviously did not take his own advice during the 24-plus-years-long production of "The Thief and the Cobbler," which was seized from him in 1992 by Warner Brothers and a completion bond company, who would later re-sell the film's raw materials to Miramax, who eventually released a drastically simplified version of the film under the title of "Arabian Knight." That year, Williams also had to lay off a couple dozen of his own animators and shut down Richard Williams Animation.
The Miramax cut was praised by Jake Eberts, who represented Allied Films, a British production company that invested $10 million in "The Thief and the Cobbler." According to Eberts, Williams "could never finish a scene," citing how much attention he paid to the unnamed Thief, a character who, like Tack the Cobbler, was mute (Williams often likened them to Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy). Alexander Williams, Richard's son and a contributing animator on "The Thief and the Cobbler," argued that Miramax's changes were drastic and untrue to his father's vision, highlighting the unnecessary dialogue they gave to some characters whose mouths didn't noticeably move (Incidentally: Richard Williams was, for a while, reluctant to speak about the Miramax cut). Still: Eberts, in a 1995 interview with The Austin American-Statesman's Robert Welkos, maintains that Miramax "made extremely good changes."
To be fair, "The Thief and the Cobbler" was the most extravagant project that Williams undertook. It was also, in many ways, the culmination of his training and imagination: the film's first ten minutes of footage took 14 years to complete and cost about 1.5 million British pounds to produce (adjusting for inflation, that's about $31 million today). In 1982, Williams estimated that he needed 10 million more pounds to complete his project. But several well-documented obstacles prevented Williams from achieving his goal, as film critic Bilge Ebiri recalls in an essential piece for Drugstore Culture:
"In 1978, a Saudi Arabian Prince expressed interest in helping bankroll the production, but backed away after Williams ran wildly over-budget and behind schedule completing a ten-minute sequence to show prospective partners. In the mid-1980s, 'Star Wars' producer Gary Kurtz became involved, and Williams met Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, who were looking for an animator to help them with Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
Zemeckis and Spielberg's project inarguably revitalized Williams's passion project, but "The Thief and the Cobbler" is also a continuation of Williams' earlier short films. You can see Williams's characteristic preoccupation with the divided self—the greedy, galvanizing Thief is just as essential to the story's action as the kind-hearted, but inept Cobbler—in earlier shorts like "Love Me, Love Me, Love Me," an anti-"moral tale" from 1962 that concludes with a shaggy dog punchline: "When it comes to love, no one really has it good, especially stuffed alligators named Charlie."
You can also see the thematic and stylistic seeds that would fully blossom in the "The Thief and the Cobbler" in Williams' "The Little Island," an Oscar-winning 1958 short about three men who each carry one thought in their respective heads: truth, beauty, and goodness. That cartoon establishes a perennial Williams concern: humanity's irreconcilable spiritual imbalance, represented by his three main characters' absurd, intractable, and borderline fascistic devotion to their ideals. That theme recurs in "A Lecture on Man," a 1962 animated collage that combines hand-drawn animation and found photographs—a recurring feature in Williams' commercial work—that illustrate man's incomplete nature since, in the short, men either lack the heart or the brains to care for themselves.
You can also see Williams's fingerprints all over the animated sequences from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," a feature that Williams initially found difficult to conceive. Still, Williams signed onto the project after extensive discussions with director Robert Zemeckis and a 45-second animation test of Roger Rabbit falling down a flight of stairs. Williams' use of fluid camera-work to film the cel animation—a process that created a lot of extra work for Williams' animators—was the key to his creative success, not to mention a five-step process of image-compositing that led Williams and his team to say the film was made in "two-and-a-half-D." The Philadelphia Inquirer's Steven Rea, in a 1988 article, smartly broke down Williams and his team's process as follows:
(1) a story-board sketch of the scene; (2) the live-action shoot (with puppeteers and technicians manipulating props that would ultimately be 'held' by the Toons); (3) a rough line drawing done on a photostat blowup of the live-action frame; (4) a hand-painted cel drawing, which was then shot on its own frame; (5) a cel that was then added to the live-action frame, with elements of light and shadow to render the animation three-dimensional.
Williams's fastidious approach was essential to the success of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," one of the top-grossing films in 1988 and a major catalyst for the decade-long Disney Renaissance that began in 1989. That same year: 560 lots of animation cels from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"—ranging in initial cost from $400-20,000—were sold at auction at Sotheby's; the sales of these cels helped to finance new buildings and infrastructure at Disney's Burbank studio, including two domes shaped like Mickey Mouse's ears.
Ironically, Disney's resurgence indirectly killed "The Thief and the Cobbler": the concurrent production of "Aladdin" led Warner Brothers to pull their support from Williams's project, leaving its completion to a bond company that, in 1992, seized Williams's film. California-based animator Fred Calvert was then given the thankless job of completing the film and, while Calvert ultimately gave the job to a group of Korean animators, he was reluctant to be involved in any capacity. In 1995, Calvert told Welkos that "I really didn't want to do it[…]but if I didn't do it, it would have been given off to the lowest bidder. I took it as a way to try and preserve something and at least get the thing on the screen and let it be seen.'' Calvert's cut (which took an extra 18 months to complete) was a musical in the vein of recent Disney hits like "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast."
The most complete director-approved version of "The Thief and the Cobbler" is the "A Moment in Time" edit that premiered in 2013 and preserved by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (in "The Art Babbitt Collection"). You can also find a copy of this edit in Disney's "Animation Research Library." There's also a riveting fan edit of the film, called the "Recobbled" cut, that was completed by Williams expert Garrett Gilchrist. Gilchrist's version can be found on YouTube; it's the most comprehensive edit of the film to date.
Watching Gilchrist's version of "The Thief and the Cobbler" after Williams's death is an overwhelming experience. So much care was put into this film and so much invisible work that nobody but Williams, his fellow animators, or peers will fully appreciate. Still, it's hard not to wonder what Williams would have done had he been able to complete scenes like the one where the Thief walks an impossibly high tight-rope.
"The Thief and the Cobbler" is the apex of Williams' career and as close as he came to making animation grow up. Its "Duck Amuck"-style conclusion—the Thief grabs hold of the film surrounding him, pockets it, and skulks off into the far distance—is also a bittersweet, but fittingly abrupt high note for Williams's career to end on. Some stories don't have a happy ending: they're just adopted and refashioned by other imperfect geniuses.
Simon Abrams
Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, and elsewhere.
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* '''2018-09-29''' [https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/09/marion_county_deputies_violate.html Marion County deputies violated use of force policy in arrest of homeless person, sheriff says]
* '''2018-06-29''' [https://www.kgw.com/video/news/local/no-charges-for-deputy-in-beating-of-suspect/283-8175598 No charges for deputy in beating of suspect]: video, including interview with Tessa
* '''2018-06-11''' [https://jakimfett.com/status-report/derrick-ramseyer-brutaliity/ When Law Enforcement Isn't 2: Electric Boogaloo (aka Derrick Ramseyer's Brutality)]: Tessa's account
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June 4, 2018 Four Marion County Sheriff's deputies were recorded on video[1] apprehending someone for no apparent reason and then holding them down while one of them, Deputy Jake Thompson, beat the person repeatedly in the head – all while the victim reiterated multiple times that they were not resisting and that the police were hurting them.
The victim, Tessa Lovelace of Portland, is agender and identifies with "they/them" pronouns. News articles are falsely referring to them by their deadname (i.e. their as-yet-uncorrected legal name, "Kevin Straw") and an incorrect gender, and much internet discussion[2] is following suit; this is nonetheless in error.
Tessa is an engineer, sysop, and co-founder of a successful Portland company, Red Thread Studios.
Tessa reported in a voicemail on June 6[3]: "I was beaten by law enforcement and then placed [in a psychiatric ward] against my will." and "The individual who attacked me has been suspended... the ACLU is involved, thankfully."
A follow-up news article[4] also reports on the suspension and states: "The sheriff's office said [Tessa's deadname] was taken into custody because [they] kept yelling while emergency responders were coordinating a search for two missing fishermen and refused to stay away when told to leave at least twice by deputies." We have not been able to check this account of events. Another article[5] contains a statement from David Rogers, executive director of the Oregon ACLU: "That video is disturbing. It's violent. Honestly, if that does not represent excessive use of force, I'm not quite sure what does."
Tessa was released from psychiatric confinement the evening of June 8, the authorities not having been able to identify any reason to keep them there.
On June 29, the Marion County Sheriff's Office released a statement clearing Tessa of any wrongdoing (no criminal charges will be filed) and stating its intention to proceed with a Professional Standards Investigation.
The video lasts a total of 5 minutes and 38 seconds, and begins after police have approached and surrounded Tessa. Tessa apparently asks the officers if there is a problem; one officer responds "Here is the problem: you're under arrest. Do not do anything." Tessa calmly responds "I'm not doing anything." The officer then orders "Put your hands behind your back" while several officers force Tessa to the ground while Tessa is shouting "NO! NO! Please stop!".
Tessa says, loudly and clearly, "I am not resisting! I am not resisting! I am not! STOP! STOP! STOP! HELP! HELP! OW! HELP! STOP!" while one officer beats Tessa repeatedly in the head.
The arrest continues in this vein for another minute or so, with officers continuing to beat and restrain someone who has offered no violence, repeatedly stated that they are not resisting, repeatedly stating that they are in pain and telling the officers to stop. Tessa also clearly informs the officers that Tessa is bleeding and in need of medical attention; the officers appear to completely ignore all of this.
At 1:34 into the video, Tessa says "I came to warn you about the cougar!" This is in reference to a cougar that Tessa reported having tracked down outside Detroit.
At 1:48 into the video, Tessa says "Somebody record this!" A female voice can be heard answering from off-camera that "A lot of people are recording this, actually." Tessa then says "Post it on YouTube! Post it on Facebook!" Tessa then mentions an organization and an individual who should also be contacted.
Tessa then asks to be allowed to make a phone call, and reiterates that they are bleeding, but the police continue to ignore everything they say.
Some dialogue does finally ensue when Tessa tells the police how to remove Tessa's equipment safely.
At 3:35, the officers finally begin getting up off Tessa; Tessa thanks them for doing this.
At 3:48, Tessa notes that the officers have cut off Tessa's scarf, rather than simply removing it. "You cut my scarf! You jerks!"
There is some dialogue after that where Tessa asks "what did I do?" but much of it is inaudible due to increased traffic noise.
By 4:34, Tessa has regained their feet with some assistance from the officers. Tessa can then be heard saying "Whoever it was that punched me, multiple times in the head, I really didn't appreciate that."
At 5:12, Tessa can be heard saying "I have a communication disability. (Tessa is autistic.)
The police then escort Tessa, who remains physically calm throughout, towards a police vehicle. The video then fades out.
↑ 2018-06-04 Video of Marion County deputy punching homeless man during arrest under review, police say
↑ 2018-06-05 Shaun King on Twitter: "This homeless man is not violent. He's also mentally ill & thought he was helping the police. A huge cop then throws 14 blows, full strength, to the back of his head. These punches are illegal in the @UFC. They cause brain damage." (The gender usage here is incorrect; Tessa is agender.) (This links to a shorter edit of the same video here.)
↑ 2018-06-06 16:59 ET Tessa, voicemail to Woozle
↑ 2018-06-05 Marion County deputy reassigned after repeated punching of homeless man during arrest
↑ 2018-06-05 Oregon sheriff's office reviewing video of deputy punching homeless man
2018-09-29 Marion County deputies violated use of force policy in arrest of homeless person, sheriff says
2018-06-29 No charges for deputy in beating of suspect: video, including interview with Tessa
2018-06-11 When Law Enforcement Isn't 2: Electric Boogaloo (aka Derrick Ramseyer's Brutality): Tessa's account
2018-06-07 Homeless person punched by deputy says 'the whole thing shouldn't have happened'
Video shows police hitting homeless man as he says 'I am not resisting'
I Am Not Resisting!: misgenders and misnames Tessa
The beating of Tessa Lovelace by Marion County deputies: a collection of articles
Video shows police repeatedly punching man (AP)
Few answers after deputy punches suspect (video): includes an interview with a former police officer who has not seen the video and did not want to comment on it, but who nonetheless stated that there are often circumstances "where hitting someone on the ground is appropriate." Note that this says nothing at all about whether it was even remotely appropriate in this situation. The one specific justification he offers (distracting the victim long enough to secure a weapon before the victim can use it) was clearly not applicable here.
2018-06-04 Deputy reassigned as review continues into repeated punching of homeless man
2014-05-09 Marion County Sheriff's Office Use of Force Policy, uploaded by KGW News
2018-08-30 [L..T] Beaten for Autism? The person filmed by KGW News on June 4 being struck on the head 16 times by a Marion County sheriff deputy while pinned down by three additional officers says the incident may be partly understood as the response of uninformed individuals to people they don't understand.
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