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The Natural Bridge is the second studio album by indie rock group the Silver Jews. Released in 1996 as an LP and CD on Drag City (DC101) in America and Domino (WIG28) in Europe, The Natural Bridge was engineered and mixed by Michael Deming and Thom Monahan and features cover art by Mike Flood.  Featured musicians include: David Berman; Matt Hunter; Rian Murphy; Peyton Pinkerton; and Michael Deming.

Some tracks on the album were originally recorded using members of the Scud Mountain Boys as Berman's backing band, but scrapped.  None of these recordings have ever been released, and were rumored to have been destroyed.  According to the Scuds' Joe Pernice, the songs sounded "exactly like the Scud Mountain Boys with David Berman singing" and not like previous Silver Jews recordings.  An unreleased cover of Echo and the Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon" was also recorded with the Scuds.

Another 1995 session, with Pavement members Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, and Steve West, was aborted when Berman stormed out of the recording studio.  The remaining musicians used the paid studio time to record Pavement's Pacific Trim EP.

The name refers to two natural bridges that David Berman was aware of, one of which in Virginia that inspired him to name the album after it. With respect to the album, Berman said "I was living in Charlottesville at the time and spending a lot of time in Lexington with Steve West's family. I was in the [Natural Bridge Park] gift shop and realized if I called the album Natural Bridge, everything in the store would be instantly be converted into promotional merchandise. Sort of like my idea for the band Trad. Arr. that would infuriate record collectors and rock critics who would normally never deign to acknowledge 'my work' by covering their most treasured objects into advertisements for my band."

Track listing
All tracks composed by David Berman.
 "How to Rent a Room" - 3:03
 "Pet Politics" - 4:05
 "Black and Brown Blues" - 4:05
 "Ballad of Reverend War Character" - 3:47
 "The Right to Remain Silent" - 2:37
 "Dallas" - 4:14
 "Inside the Golden Days of Missing You" - 2:27
 "Albemarle Station" - 3:41
 "The Frontier Index" - 3:38
 "Pretty Eyes" - 4:13

References

1996 albums
Domino Recording Company albums
Drag City (record label) albums
Silver Jews albums


One block from Florida Street, steps from the Galerias Pacifico Mall and well located for all of Buenos Aires' key sites and interesting neighbourhoods. The hotel is also surrounded by a wide range of the city's best restaurants and Irish Pubs. The hotel has 120 rooms with hardwood floors, air conditioning and FREE Wi-Fi internet access.
Flight pricing/routing correct as of 07 March 2019.


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In case of mental health emergency, please call Washington County Crisis line at 503-291-9111.
To schedule an appointment or for information call 503-352-2191.
At the first appointment, referred to as an Initial Consultation, students are asked to complete two forms. During the initial consultation at the SCC, the counselor works with the client to clarify and assess concerns and determine the options available. The mission of the SCC is to provide time-effective assistance with problems in living that interfere with students' academic success. When more intensive or specialized service is required to meet a client's needs, the counselor will discuss with the client if extended care can be managed within this agency or if referral alternatives within the community would be more appropriate.
By the end of the initial assessment clients may expect to gain at least three things: 1) some idea of the goals the client and the counselor believe reasonable to work toward; 2) a general plan for getting to that goal; and 3) some idea of the length of time that may be needed to work toward your goal.


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Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space.
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IDB Board of Governors receives General Capital Increase document for formal vote
The Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank, which oversees the Bank's operations in representation of the 48 member countries, on Friday received a Report that sets up a formal vote for the Bank's Ninth General Capital Increase.
IDB sees turning point in remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean
MEXICO CITY – Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean are showing signs of stabilizing and could register a single-digit increase this year, following last year's sharp drop due to the global economic crisis, Inter-American Development Bank President Luis Alberto Moreno said today.
Juscelino Kubitschek Award receives nominations from 144 institutions
The first Juscelino Kubitschek Award, created by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to recognize institutions that have made a significant contribution to social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean, has drawn nominations from 144 organizations in the Americas and Europe.
Prepared Statement by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner at the Inter-American Development Bank's Annual Meeting of the Boards of Governors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 29, 2009 CONTACT: Treasury Public Affairs (202) 622-2960 Medellin, Colombia -- President Moreno, ministers, ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to be able to join you today. I would like to thank the Government of Colombia for hosting this important meeting in this historic city of Medellin. We meet at a critical time, for this hemisphere, for the global economy, and for the Inter-American Development Bank.
Nobel Prize winner Robert Merton decodes global financial crisis in IDB seminar
Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 03:00
MEDELLIN, Colombia – Leading economists discussed today the global financial crisis and economic and social policies that may help Latin America and the Caribbean weather the turbulent times. Nobel Prize winner and Harvard Business School professor Robert Merton; Paul Collier, director for the Center for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford, and Juan Enríquez Cabot, an expert in the impact of biotechnology on the quality of life, expressed their points of view in a seminar moderated by Foreign Policy magazine editor Moisés Naim.


Developmental Monitoring and Screening for Health Professionals Recommend on Facebook Tweet Share Compartir If a child has a developmental delay, it is important to identify it early so that the child and family can receive needed intervention services and support.... To facilitate periodic developmental screening of all children, a Prescreening Developmental Questionnaire was created to identify those children under 3 years of age who require a more thorough screening with the Denver Developmental Screening Test.
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Abstract. Norms on the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) developed in Denver, Metro-Manila, Tokyo, Okinawa, and the Netherlands were compared.


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La morte di Empedocle è un film del 1986 diretto da Jean-Marie Straub e Danièle Huillet.

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Evocazione del poeta Friedrich Hölderlin della vita del filosofo siceliota Empedocle che si gettò nell'Etna.

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New Delhi: With just a day to go for the Commonwealth Games, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit says she is no longer nervous and that Delhi is ready for the Games.
In an exclusive interview to NDTV's Barkha Dutt, Group Editor, English News, the Chief Minister said she was horrified by the condition of the Games Village when it was handed over, as over 60 per cent of the rooms were in an unlivable condition.
Sheila turned the Games around in just four days.
Listen to her in a frank exclusive interview here.
Blaming the Delhi Development Authority, The Organising Committee of the Games and builders EMMAR-MGF, Sheila said it was her office that turned the Games Village around in just four days. "Sixty per cent of the Village was unlivable when it was handed over to us...we made the Village first rate all in one week," she said.
Sheila also said as the Delhi Chief Minister, all the blame comes to her, but she did not have authority in many areas of the Games.
"I have been telling everyone that the Delhi Chief Minister should be given more powers, and control," she added.
Also speaking on the all the controversies that have surrounded the Games, she promised that everything will be scrutinised after the Games end.
Sheila Dikshit also said she felt pained when people like former Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar decide to skip the event by going out of the city.
"I feel pained, I feel bad. How are the games disturbing anybody?" she said.
Aiyar, who criticised holding of the Games and had said that only "evil" will patronise them, left for London a few days ago.
Also speaking on the comments on different standards of hygiene for west and India by Lalit Bhanot, the secretary general of the CWG, the Chief Minister called them "thoughtless".


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The OOA is pleased to announce its 2007 award recipients who will be recognized at the 109th Ohio Osteopathic Convention in June: E. Thomas Harnish, DO, of Youngstown, will receive the Distinguished Service Award, the OOA's highest honor for an osteopathic physician; Richard J. Snow, DO, of Columbus will receive the Trustees Award; Donald R. Furci, DO, Columbus, will receive the M. Bridget Wagner, DO, Humanitarian Award; and Mary Schreck, of Athens, will receive the Meritorius Service Award, which recognizes a non-physician for outstanding accomplishments in service to the profession. In addition, Leonard Kohn, MD, has been selected to deliver the J.O. Watson, DO, Memorial Lecture. This lecture is an ongoing tribute to one of Ohio's most respected osteopathic physicians. This year marks the first in a new collaborative sponsorship of the award by the Ohio Osteopathic Foundation and Osteopathic Heritage Foundation.


An e-Portfolio is one tool for becoming a more active, lifelong learner.
A portfolio is your space to COLLECT , CONNECT , and REFLECT on your learning experiences here at Boise State. Keeping a portfolio can help you make connections between different courses, see your growth, and realign your goals. It is a place where you can articulate and understand your own story–and practice sharing it with others.
CONNECT: Describe what you have learned. Showcase your accomplishments. Explain how different projects, courses, and experiences deepen the same skills or introduce entirely new ones.
REFLECT: Make sense of your progress and set or reset your learning goals.
In University Foundations courses, most students take three beginning steps on their e-portfolio journey.
Ready to start making your first e-portfolio? Below are some step-by-step instructions to help.
See the following links for getting started in Blackboard Portfolio, or visit Boise State's help site for students: https://oit.boisestate.edu/learning/portfolio-support/.
University Foundations students currently create e-portfolios through Blackboard Portfolio software. But prior to the 2017-18 academic year, students used Digication software, which is now being discontinued.
Boise State's contract with Digication will expire in August 2018, and the service will no longer be supported after that date. The decision to end the Digication service on campus involved student and faculty review, low usage by instructors, and the overall cost of the service.
Contact Digication directly at support@digication.com and request your e-portfolio content be maintained by Digication for a fee.
Use the Download option in Digication, accessed through the Portfolio Tools tab on your e-portfolio. If you have problems downloading your content, please contact support@digication.com.
If you need assistance with your Digication content, please schedule an appointment by contacting the Office of Information Technology at (208) 426-4446, or emailhelpdesk@boisestate.edu.


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Q: smoothly Hidden navigation bar How can I do it with out resize view frame (or tableView)?
I use this code and I have resized view then I scroll down/up
I use code, not storyboard
 - (BOOL)gestureRecognizerShouldBegin:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer
 {
if ([gestureRecognizer class] == [UIPanGestureRecognizer class])
{
    UIPanGestureRecognizer *panGestureRec = (UIPanGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer;
    CGPoint distance = [panGestureRec translationInView:self.tableView];

    if (distance.y > 0 || distance.y < 0)
    {
        if (distance.y > 0) // down
        {
            //NSLog(@"user swiped down");
            [self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];

        } else if (distance.y < 0) //up
        {
            //NSLog(@"user swiped up");
            [self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES];
        }

        return NO;
    } else {
        return YES;
    }
}
return YES;

}

A: Try this code . This will give smooth animation (Used UIView Animation property)
- (BOOL)gestureRecognizerShouldBegin:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer
 {
if ([gestureRecognizer class] == [UIPanGestureRecognizer class])
{

    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:2];

    UIPanGestureRecognizer *panGestureRec = (UIPanGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer;
    CGPoint distance = [panGestureRec translationInView:self.tableView];

    if (distance.y > 0 || distance.y < 0)
    {
        if (distance.y > 0) // down
        {
            //NSLog(@"user swiped down");
            [self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];

        } else if (distance.y < 0) //up
        {
            //NSLog(@"user swiped up");
            [self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES];
        }

        return NO;
    } else {
        return YES;
    }

   [UIView commitAnimations];
}
return YES;

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Home > Document > Rules Governing Traffic and Parking
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Rules Governing Traffic and Parking
Section 1 - Introduction
Section 3 - Parking Fees and Charges
Section 4 - Parking Permits
Register of Parking Permits
Exemptions from Parking Permits
Section 5 - Parking of Vehicles
Section 6 - Traffic
Section 7 - Breaches, Infringements and Penalties
Breaches of this Rule
Self-Enforcing Infringement Notice Scheme (SEINS) ('the Scheme')
Other Actions
Section 8 - Objections to the Cancellation of Parking Permits
Section 9 - Appeals Against Penalty Infringement Notices
Section 10 - Exemptions
This is the current version of this document. To view historic versions, click the link in the document's navigation bar.
(1) This Rule applies to all vehicles brought onto the Callaghan and Ourimbah Campuses of the University of Newcastle (University) and to the University's Newcastle CBD campus. Traffic and parking on campus is also regulated by the Road Transport Legislation of New South Wales.
(2) This Rule is made by the University Council under the University of Newcastle Act 1989 No 68 and University of Newcastle By-law 2017.
(3) In the context of this document:
"drive" has the same meaning as that defined in the Road Transport Act 2013 (or any replacing Road Transport Legislation);
"infringement notice" means any advice authorised by Revenue NSW in which particulars of an offence alleged to have been committed in breach of this Rule are recorded and which is affixed to a vehicle, sent by post or notified by any other means;
"leave standing" or "left standing" means to stop a vehicle or to allow a vehicle (whether attended or not) to remain stationary;
"owner" used in relation to a vehicle, has the same meaning as defined in the Road Transport Act 2013 (or any replacing Road Transport Legislation);
"parking permit" means a parking permit issued under this Rule and includes:
a daily parking permit issued by a parking permit machine;
a digital parking permit issued via a mobile application or web platform; and
any other type of parking permit issued by the University;
"prescribed officer" means any person authorised by the Deputy Director Campus Services for the purposes of this Rule;
"register" means the Register of Parking Permits to be kept pursuant to Section 3 of this Rule;
"Road Transport Legislation" refers to any New South Wales or Federal Act or Regulation, or any provision of an Act or Regulation, that is:
in force at a relevant time; and
concerning roads, traffic, vehicles or driving or is otherwise applicable to the subject matter of this Rule;
"University road" means any street, road, lane, thoroughfare, footpath or place under the control of the management of the University;
"visitor" means any person who brings a vehicle on to the campus and who is not a member of staff or a student of the University.
(4) Fees and charges will be determined and reviewed from time to time by the University Council in accordance with Part 4 Section 16 (1) (j) of the University of Newcastle Act 1989.
(5) The following categories of vehicles and persons are exempt from parking fees:
disabled drivers who are issued with a Roads and Maritime Services mobility permit; and
maintenance service vehicles (e.g. facilities maintenance providers, utility service providers, emergency service vehicles), where access to the vehicle is required to carry out the maintenance and a service permit is displayed; and
University departmental and fleet vehicles where a University fleet permit is displayed.
(6) The University Council will determine, and review from time to time, the days and hours of the day that motor vehicle parking fees will apply.
(7) The Director, Infrastructure and Facilities Services will determine the categories of parking permits.
(8) All vehicles parked on the campus must have a valid parking permit displayed on the vehicle, unless an exemption as outlined in this Rule applies.
(9) A parking permit (other than a daily parking permit) will not be valid when:
the person to whom the parking permit was issued ceases payments for the issue of the parking permit;
a digital parking permit becomes inactive or is cancelled in the permit management system;
the Director, Infrastructure and Facilities Services cancels the parking permit;
the Director, Infrastructure and Facilities Services cancels all parking permits or all parking permits in a particular category; or
the parking permit (including a daily parking permit) is not legible or has expired whichever shall be the earlier.
(10) A holder of a parking permit (other than a daily parking permit) must notify the Deputy Director Campus Services within fourteen (14) days of any change to their qualifying status for which a parking permit has been issued.
(11) The Director, Infrastructure and Facilities Services, may cancel a parking permit, or any type of parking permit, in the application of this Rule or in the course of normal University business.
(12) All physical parking permits must be displayed in accordance with conditions communicated to the permit holder at the time of issue. Communication of said conditions may occur either by:
signage displayed near or in close proximity to a ticket machine; or
terms and conditions provided to the permit holder.
(13) Failure to display a physical parking permit in accordance with the conditions provided to the permit holder will render the parking permit invalid.
(14) A register will be maintained by the Deputy Director Campus Services. The following information will be recorded in the register:
the permit number, date issued, staff number, name, type of payment, time issued and description for which a parking permit (other than a daily parking permit) has been issued; and
the name, and qualifying status of the applicant for such a permit.
(15) The following categories of vehicles and persons are exempt from parking permits:
bicycles;
motorcycles; and
delivery vehicles, providing they are parked in a loading bay.
(16) Except when picking up or dropping off persons or goods, a driver of a vehicle may only park or leave standing a vehicle on the Campus in accordance with:
the category of parking permit issued;
the conditions of a restricted parking area;
any other direction, notice or instruction.
(17) Where a vehicle is parked or left standing on the Campus in breach of this Rule or in contravention of any parking sign or direction, an infringement notice may be issued in accordance with this Rule by a Prescribed Officer.
(18) A driver of a vehicle on any part of the Campus must:
stop the vehicle when signalled to do so by a Prescribed Officer;
give to a Prescribed Officer such information as may be reasonably required;
obey any directions which a Prescribed Officer may reasonably give concerning the driving, parking or moving of the vehicle;
not drive at a speed greater than forty (40) km/h or greater than any other speed which may be indicated by signage;
not drive or leave standing a vehicle in such a manner or in such circumstances which would be an offence if that part of the Campus were a public street and shall obey any sign or direction as if it had been erected, painted, affixed, marked or otherwise displayed on a public street with the authority of the Roads and Maritime Services NSW;
not drive, park or leave a vehicle on any lawn, grassed area, garden, undeveloped area, builder's access road or on any roadway;
comply with all other directions relating to traffic which are indicated by appropriate signs;
not drive a vehicle while it is causing unreasonable noise or inconvenience to other persons or where it may reasonably be expected to cause unreasonable noise or disturbance;
comply with the Road Transport Legislation;
comply with any determination of the Director, Infrastructure and Facilities Services under Section 7 of this Rule.
(19) A breach of this Rule may be referred to the Deputy Director, Infrastructure and Facilities Services who may determine to:
cancel a parking permit;
prohibit a person from driving on campus;
prohibit a person from driving a particular vehicle or category of vehicle on Campus.
(20) If as a result of any breach of this Rule any damage is caused to University property, the University may take appropriate action to recover any costs or losses incurred by the University as a result of the damage.
(21) The University is authorised to issue infringement notices under the Scheme, which is administered by Revenue NSW.
(22) Infringement notices may be issued for:
exceeding the speed limit;
failing to stop when signalled to do so by a Prescribed Officer;
refusing to provide information required by a Prescribed Officer;
failing to obey instructions given by a Prescribed Officer;
parking in an area not identified as a designated parking area; and/or
parking contrary to directions marked on a parking bay or on a sign displayed near a parking bay.
(23) Any infringement notice issued under this Rule may be:
left on or affixed to the vehicle;
served personally to the driver; or
sent to the registered owner of the vehicle.
(24) Penalties for infringements will be determined based on schedules of infringement penalties issued by Revenue NSW.
(25) The University may issue a penalty at an amount lower than that prescribed by Revenue NSW.
(26) If the amount payable under the Penalty Notice has not been paid within the prescribed time Revenue NSW may issue a Penalty Reminder Notice.
(27) A Prescribed Officer may organise for the towing of the following vehicles at the owners expense:
vehicles blocking emergency or service roads;
vehicles parked in a way which may create a danger to other vehicles or pedestrians; or
vehicles causing an obstruction or inconvenience.
(28) Within twenty (20) working days of notification that action is being considered by the Director, Infrastructure and Facilities Services under Clause 11 of this Rule the person on whom the notice was served may lodge an objection with the Director, Infrastructure and Facilities Services. The objection must be in writing and contain grounds as to why the proposed action should not be taken.
(29) Upon receipt of an objection under Clause 28 the Director, Infrastructure and Facilities Services will either uphold the original determination or withdraw it, and notify the person making the objection in writing within twenty (20) working days.
(30) Within twenty (20) working days of receipt of the decision of the Director, Infrastructure and Facilities Services, the person objecting may lodge an appeal with the Vice-Chancellor. The appeal must be in writing and must contain grounds on which the appeal is based. An appeal can only be made on the grounds that the requirements of this Rule have not been met by the University or the original decision was impacted by a conflict of interest.
(31) The Vice-Chancellor will provide notification of the outcome of the appeal to the person making the appeal, in writing within twenty (20) working days.
(32) An appeal against a Penalty Infringement Notice must be made in accordance with the Fines Act 1996 (NSW).
(33) A particular person, vehicle or category of person or vehicle may be exempted from the application of this Rule (or any part of it) for a particular time or purpose or for a particular part of the Campus on such conditions as may be specified by the Vice-Chancellor or the Director, Infrastructure and Facilities Services.


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Digital Migration and the Democratization...
Digital Migration and the Democratization of Africa's Information Space
As numerous sub-Saharan African countries make the switch from analog to digital broadcasting, regulators, governments, and policymakers have largely failed to consider how the digital migration process will impact censorship, media ownership, and access to information—and there is already cause for concern. The majority of African countries have designed digital migration policies that establish governmental monopolies of broadcast signal distribution platforms. A worrisome number of countries have selected Chinese companies affiliated with the Communist Party of China to build and manage these platforms. It is critical to understand how this transition will affect the integrity of the African media space and to design interventions to mitigate the democratic degradation that could result from it. In his presentation, Mr. George Sarpong examined the approaches to digital migration on the continent, explained the legal and regulatory fault lines, and explored how migration strategies could undermine democratic principles if governments, civil society, and the international community do not address fundamental policy questions. Comments by Dr. Nicholas Benequista followed.
George Sarpong, Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow
with comments by
Nicholas Benequista, Research Manager and Editor, Center for International Media Assistance
Sally Blair, Senior Director of Fellowship Programs, National Endowment for Democracy
Mr. George Sarpong is a lawyer, journalist, and recognized industry leader in media and communications policy in Ghana. He currently serves as executive secretary of Ghana's National Media Commission, which oversees more than 360 radio stations, 80 registered newspapers, 25 television channels, and various online publications. As executive secretary, he initiates and implements policies to ensure free, responsible, pluralistic, and diverse media and works to address threats to media freedom and development. Mr. Sarpong also spearheads several civil society initiatives. He is the founder and Chair of the Board of the Media and Governance Institute, and in 2001, he founded the Youth Network for Human Rights and Democracy (you-net) to train young Ghanaians in leadership and good governance. Additionally, in 2010 he set up the Party Youth Forum to foster peaceful cooperation among youth from different political parties.
Dr. Nicholas Benequista is the research manager and editor at the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), a think-tank unit at NED dedicated to strengthening efforts around the world to build vibrant and pluralistic media systems that can sustain democratic politics. He was previously a foreign correspondent based in Ethiopia and has done extensive research in Eastern Africa and the Horn on media, citizenship, and accountability.
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Therefore, teleetrade treats the issues of data security, privacy, integrity and backup with the utmost attention and care, providing the best security in the market.
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2- Encryption means that the data transferred over the communication line is encoded in a special way at sending end, and decoded using the same algorithm in reverse at the receiving end. Therefore, the data that goes through the communication channel is meaningless to an eavesdropper, even if he does succeed in intercepting the data. Unless the eavesdropper can decode the data, he cannot read it.
3- Encryption of facts and figures is a common way to protect the exchange of facts and figures, it can be characterized as a procedure that encodes the data which is moved or swapped.
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Your phones are a very important part of day-to-day business. Old phone systems can be costly and a pain to maintain. POTS line delivery charges can be astronomical! Tidewater Techs has partnered with VoIP providers that deliver all-in-one solutions with hardware included right to you. No need to deal with a local phone company, no need to install additional wiring for your phones. No need to even be in the office! Our VoIP solutions offer everything from hybrid systems that work using your existing PBX to completely removing the on premise PBX and utilizing the power of the cloud. With apps for your phone and desktop apps to allow you to stay connected even when not in the office, VoIP is changing the way you do business.
Tidewater Techs partners with vendors for specific needs. We want to keep things as simple as possible while offering options based on your business needs both current and future.
3CX brings your business options and security. Simple pricing with both Cloud and On-Premises options to work with your single location or bridge multiple locations for seamless communication. 3CX allows us to scale to meet your growing needs on your budget while maintaining your security. Your phone systems not in a shared environment. Each cloud solution is a dedicated VPS with only your company data.
BroadVoice is a solution that brings a more traditional phone service solution to VoIP. Allows a transition from Google Voice business that are growing. Plans that range from no-contract to multi year with equipment included. Broadvoice works well with existing PBX phone systems and offers telcom delivery just about anywhere.
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We no longer partner with vonage as their service and support is not to par with our standards.
How does cloud help me with phones?
Cloud affords you the ability to not have to be "in" the office to place and receive calls. Should your power be out, internet be down, mother nature take a toll, you are still fully functional as long as you have access to internet somewhere.


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Q: Remove parts of a string and copy the rest back to a file with vbscript I would like to remove the unwanted text from each string in a file.
the input string looks like this
username^time stamp^don't need this printed on printer name more useless info pages printed:some number

I want to remove everything else but keep the username,time stamp,printer name and some number.Then write each line to a file so the output looks like this
username  timestamp printername some number

This is the code I'm working with
Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
sf = "C:\test.txt"
Set f = fs.OpenTextFile(sf, 1) ''1=for reading
s = f.ReadAll
segments = Split(s,"^",-1)
s= segments(1,)
f.Close
Set f = fs.OpenTextFile(sf, 2) ''2=ForWriting
f.Write s
f.Close

A: There's always a moment that somebody asks "Why not use a regular expression?". This is that moment.
Try this:
Dim re, s, match, matches

s = "Chuck Norris^12-12-2012^don't need this printed on HAL9000 more useless info pages printed:42  "

Set re = new regexp
re.pattern = "(.*)\^(.*)\^.*printed on (\w+).*pages printed:(\d+).*"
re.Global = True

Set matches = re.Execute(s)
Set match = matches(0)

msgbox "username=" & match.submatches(0)
msgbox "time stamp=" & match.submatches(1)
msgbox "printer=" & match.submatches(2)
msgbox "pages printed=" & match.submatches(3)

Neat huh? And I bet you'll figure out how to implement it in your existing code.

A: Code:
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A Reporter Demands His Subject's Prosecution
Posted by Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®
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When I was a young reporter for The Associated Press, I never signed political petitions, or donated to candidates, or joined civic or labor organizations other than the Wire Service Guild (the AFL-CIO affiliate that represented AP employees).
I could not vote in primary elections because, as someone who covered politics for a living, I would not join a political party. I did not buy individual company stocks because I also covered business and legal news, and I might have found myself called upon to cover an enterprise in which I owned shares. Mutual funds were OK, since I neither controlled which shares they traded nor knew their holdings at any particular time.
I certainly never authored editorials or op-ed pieces on the news subjects I covered. I do not recall writing any opinion pieces at all while at The AP.
Legally, I could have done any of these things. There are no government-imposed rules of conduct for American reporters. My personal restrictions also went beyond The AP's requirements, which were probably somewhat hazy, but which certainly would have allowed me to register as a Democrat or Republican and vote in my party's primaries. But I did not think a reporter ought to do anything that might call his or her independence and impartiality into question. While my personal approach might have been a bit more rigid than most, it was still a mainstream view among journalists at the time.
This attitude carried over to my second career as a financial adviser. My colleagues and I do not accept compensation from anyone other than our clients, because we want the people we serve to have complete faith in our objectivity and loyalty to their interests.
The world, however, has changed, as anyone who has watched cable television news is well aware. Yet I was still surprised last week when a reporter for ProPublica wrote an op-ed column advocating the criminal prosecution of BP executives in connection with the 2010 Gulf oil spill.
Abrahm Lustgarten, whose op-ed appeared in The New York Times as well as on propublica.org, is ProPublica's environmental reporter and was formerly a staff writer at Fortune magazine. He has written a book about the Gulf spill, "Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster." His profile page on ProPublica's site also announces the availability of his current e-book, "Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling." I have not read either book, but I would certainly grant that Lustgarten appears to have strong views and considerable energy - both of which are fine attributes for a reporter.
There is nothing wrong with a journalist holding opinions about the subject he covers. If he cares about his work, it's inevitable. An important line is crossed, however, when the reporter steps away from the role of gathering facts and telling the story and veers into telling the audience how to react to that story.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein did not tell Washington Post readers how to react to news about the Watergate break-in and cover-up. The Nixon White House would surely have been delighted if they had called for the president's impeachment; it would have played into their argument that their opponents trumped up Watergate after failing to prevent Nixon's re-election. Woodward and Bernstein, however, kept their reactions to themselves, even when they later wrote about Watergate in their book, "All the President's Men."
Mainstream reporters who covered the civil rights demonstrations, anti-war protests and race riots of the 1960s did not call for legislation or other policy measures. Their accounts of mayhem amid fire hoses and police dogs spoke for themselves. There are plenty of editorialists and opinion writers to offer just about every perspective on the news. There is no need for a field reporter to join the fray.
Last Sunday, The New York Times' David Barstow and several colleagues broke the story that Wal-Mart hushed up an investigation into widespread bribery by the company's Mexican unit. This would not only be a crime in Mexico, but it would also subject the company and any U.S. executives who authorized or covered up the bribes to prosecution under our Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. I highly doubt Barstow will demand the prosecution of Wal-Mart and its executives; it would be pointless. His story drew immediate worldwide attention. Prosecutors and investigators are, no doubt, already hard at work. Wal-Mart's stock price dropped by about 5 percent on Monday after the news broke.
Unlike Barstow, who told his readers exactly what crime may have occurred and who might have committed it, Lustgarten's op-ed argued that because BP is a "huge and profitable corporation," its $30 billion in estimated total cost for the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 workers, is insufficient. "What is missing," Lustgarten wrote, "is the accountability that comes from real consequences: a criminal prosecution that holds responsible the individuals who gambled with the lives of BP's contractors and the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico. Only such an outcome can rebuild trust in an oil industry that asks for the public's faith so that it can drill more along the nation's coastlines. And perhaps only such an outcome can keep BP in line and can keep an accident like the Deepwater Horizon disaster from happening again."
Lustgarten does not identify the "individuals who gambled with the lives of BP's contractors," nor does he say exactly how they gambled, nor does he give even a hint of what criminal offense they may have committed. Since accidents can happen at any drilling site, and particularly in a challenging environment such as the deep-water Gulf, I suppose his argument could be that any resulting disaster is the result of the gamble of deciding to drill in the first place. By that logic, all drilling accidents become crimes.
Lustgarten seems to be calling for criminal prosecution because he thinks the public demands it as the price for future offshore drilling. Someone at BP - a real, live person - should therefore face financially ruinous defense costs, and the threat of prison, as a sort of human sacrifice on behalf of the industry in which he or she works.
Yet Lustgarten conceded that none of BP's senior executives were "malicious." That being the case, is there some charge on which they could be convicted? Or is Lustgarten arguing that prosecution, even with little hope of conviction, is penalty enough and would frighten other executives into being more careful in the future? Prosecution without a reasonable likelihood of conviction would be a gross abuse of prosecutorial power.
Coincidentally, federal prosecutors announced yesterday that they had filed criminal charges against former BP engineer Kurt Mix. Though these are the first criminal charges related to the Gulf oil spill, Attorney General Eric Holder suggested they might not be the last, saying, "The Deepwater Horizon Task Force is continuing its investigation into the explosion and will hold accountable those who violated the law in connection with the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history."
Still, the relative strength of Lustgarten's argument is not the main issue. Woodward and Bernstein would have had a stronger case against President Richard Nixon, but they did not make it. They just gathered the news and they let the editorial writers and other pundits take it from there.
I wrote to ProPublica's senior editors last week, asking their views. Editor-in-Chief Paul Steiger (a highly respected journalist who was The Wall Street Journal's managing editor before taking the top spot at ProPublica) responded on Monday. Our email exchange appears below this column on my firm's website, and is accessible via this link if you are reading my commentary on another site.
"Mr. Lustgarten seems to have placed himself in the multiple roles of grand jury, prosecutor, judge, jury and journalist," I wrote to the editors. "Isn't the last in conflict with the others? If not, why not?"
Steiger vigorously defended his reporter. "Mr. Elkin, no one is better suited to cover BP - now and in the future - than Abrahm," he wrote. "He covered the company for a sustained period while at Fortune magazine. He reported deeply, for ProPublica and for his book, on the Gulf explosion and spill. His conclusion that the record of BP's leaders in the years leading up to the spill evinced a callous disregard of the risks to human life and the environment was not a matter of opinion; it was totally supported by multiple facts."
"His role is as a journalist, pure and simple," Steiger added. "At ProPublica, we define our journalistic mission as seeking to shine a spotlight on the abuse of power and failure to uphold the public interest. Abrahm's work is an admirable example of that role."
Steiger is as much a part of American journalism's establishment as anyone. If his position - that a reporter can call for a subject's prosecution one day, and be called upon to impartially present the subject's side of the story the next - is generally accepted, then the world has changed even more than I thought.
An Email Exchange With Paul Steiger, Editor-In-Chief Of ProPublica
This email was sent to Mike Webb, ProPublica's director of communications, with copies to Editor-In-Chief Paul Steiger and Managing Editor Stephen Engelberg. Steiger responded below.
Dear Mr. Webb,
I am a former journalist, now president of a financial advisory firm, and I write a daily commentary that covers a range of topics occasionally including issues in news reporting. You will find a relevant example here, and all my columns are at my firm's website. Most are picked up by other financial news sites, as well.
Abrahm Lustgarten's op-ed calling for criminal prosecution of someone at BP for the 2010 Gulf oil spill caught my attention. I am examining his argument and the wisdom of a news organization permitting (in fact, since it appeared on propublica's site as well, distributing) a beat reporter's demand for the criminal prosecution of an organization and its employees whom he covers.
My questions, which I would like to direct to the editor or managing editor (whom I have attempted to copy here), are: Is this appropriate? Is the reporter's fairness, and the audience's faith in his fairness, compromised by his publication of this piece? Can and should he continue to cover BP, the oil spill, and the regulatory aftermath?
Mr. Lustgarten does not name any individual who committed a crime, nor does he identify a crime that may have been committed. He does not assert that the authorities who examined the accident failed to look diligently for evidence of a crime. In fact, he says BP's top managers were not "malicious." His arguments seem to boil down to:
Something very bad happened;
This was not the first very bad event for which BP was responsible;
BP is a profit-seeking and profit-making organization;
The penalties and costs BP will bear in connection with the Gulf accident, while large, are not enough to seriously hurt the organization;
Because many people in such a large organization participate in decisions, it is difficult to hold any individual responsible.
Mr. Lustgarten calls this "plausible deniability." A judge or prosecutor would likely describe this as an inability to prove, at the criminal standard of beyond a reasonable doubt, either criminal act by an individual or criminal intent.
Nevertheless, Mr. Lustgarten argues that somebody ought to go to jail.
Mr. Lustgarten seems to have placed himself in the multiple roles of grand jury, prosecutor, judge, jury and journalist. Isn't the last in conflict with the others? If not, why not?
Thank you and best regards,
Larry Elkin
President, Palisades Hudson Financial Group LLC
Dear Mr. Elkin:
I'm responding to your note to Mike Webb, because I'm ultimately the one responsible for what ProPublica publishes.
You don't seem to dispute Abrahm Lustgarten's reporting of what went on at BP. To quote from your summary of his "argument":
Where you differ is on conclusions. Abrahm's is that a prosecution would be difficult if not impossible because of "plausible deniability." Yours seems to be that it's all fine that no one at BP is likely to face criminal prosecution, because, quoting you again, of "inability to prove, at the criminal standard of beyond a reasonable doubt, either criminal act by an individual or criminal intent."
Mr. Elkin, no one is better suited to cover BP - now and in the future - than Abrahm. He covered the company for a sustained period while at Fortune magazine. He reported deeply, for ProPublica and for his book, on the Gulf explosion and spill. His conclusion that the record of BP's leaders over the years leading up to the spill evinced a callous disregard of the risks to human life and the environment was not a matter of opinion; it was totally supported by multiple facts. If new leadership at BP succeeds in changing the company's culture, I'm confident Abrahm will write that, assuming he is still on the beat - a beat I see no reason to take him off. His finding that the lesser penalties and threat of penalties were insufficient to deter BP's previous leadership from its flagrant misconduct is in clear accord with an enormous factual record.
One final point. You chide Abrahm for supposedly placing himself in the role of grand jury, prosecutor, judge and jury as well as journalist. He has done no such thing. His role is as a journalist, pure and simple. At ProPublica, we define our journalistic mission as seeking to shine a spotlight on abuse of power and failure to uphold the public interest. Abrahm's work is an admirable example of that role.
Paul Steiger
Larry M. Elkin is the founder and president of Palisades Hudson, and is based out of Palisades Hudson's Fort Lauderdale, Florida headquarters. He wrote several of the chapters in the firm's book, Looking Ahead: Life, Family, Wealth and Business After 55. His contributions include Chapter 1, "Looking Ahead When Youth Is Behind Us" and Chapter 4, "The Family Business."
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Emirates chief to battle subsidy charges in Washington
Tim Clark, CEO of the United Arab Emirates' flag carrier Emirates Airlines, poses for photographers before a news conference in Berlin March 5, 2015. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ
Andrea RothmanHans Nichols| Bloomberg
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on March 06, 2015, on page 4.
Tim Clark
Akbar Al-Baker
Qatar Airways Ltd.
Airbus Group nv
American Airlines Group inc.
Emirates and the other airlines targeted by the U.S. allegations have not been given a fair chance to respond to a report that Clark said took two years to compile, the executive said.
Clark said Emirates has added value to the U.S. cities it serves with "very reasonable" fares and connections that are more favorable than those provided by his U.S. competitors.
U.S. carriers including American Airlines Group Inc., United Airlines Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. should review their long-haul philosophy instead of trying to roll back the advancements in connectivity that Emirates and its Gulf counterparts have established in recent years, Clark said.
Emirates' existing fleet of A380s uses the competing powerplant by General Electric Co. and United Technologies Corp., which Clark said are unlikely to re-engine.


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ESTHER PASCUAL, PETITIONER, VS. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, RESPONDENT.
DEL CASTILLO, J.:
This Petition for Review on Certiorari under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court seeks to reverse and set aside the April 13, 2012 Decision[1] and the October 18, 2012 Resolution[2] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-GR. CR No. 32138, which affirmed the July 25, 2008 Decision[3] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Las Piñas City, Branch 201, in Criminal Case No. 04-1039, finding petitioner Esther Pascual (Pascual) guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the complex crime of Estafa through Falsification of Public Document.
Proceedings before the Regional Trial Court
Pascual and Remegio Montero (Montero) were indicted for the crime of Estafa through Falsification of Public Document for colluding and making it appear that they had facilitated the payment of the capital gains tax of private complainant Ernesto Y. Wee to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) when, in truth and in fact, they converted and misappropriated the money for their own personal benefit. The charge against these two stemmed from the following Information filed by the Office of the Ombudsman:
That on or about June 26, 2003 in Las Piñas City, Philippines and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused ESTHER PASCUAL a low ranking public officer, being an employee of the City Assessor's Office, Las Piñas City, while in the performance of her official function, committing the offense in relation to her office, and taking advantage of her official position, conspiring and confederating with one REMEGIO MONTERO, a private citizen and helping each other, did then and there willfully, unlawfully and feloniously defraud one ERNESTO Y. WEE thru LEONOR A. TIONGCO in the following manner, to wit: the said accused received from said ERNESTO Y. WEE thru LEONOR A. TIONGCO the amount of P130,000.00 for the purpose of paying the Capital Gains Tax on a real estate property which complainant bought in Las Piñas City, with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), forge and falsify or cause to be forged and falsified B1R Official Receipt No. 2145148, in the amount of P102,810.00 as payment of Capital Gains Tax of said ERNESTO Y. WEE by making it appear that they paid said amount of P102,810.00 with the BIR, when in truth and in fact, accused fully well knew that there was no payment made with the BIR and did then and there willfully, unlawfully and criminally take, convert and misappropriate for their own personal use and benefit the aforesaid amount of P130,000.00, Philippine Currency, to the damage and prejudice of said ERNESTO Y. WEE in the aforesaid sum.
CONTRARY TO LAW.[4]
Montero was arraigned on April 11, 2005, but was later acquitted of the crime charged for insufficiency of evidence in a Decision rendered on March 31, 2008. On the other hand, Pascual was arraigned on January 10, 2007; she entered a negative plea to the crime charged.
During the trial, the State presented the following witnesses: private complainant Ernesto Y. Wee (Wee), Leonor A. Tiongco (Tiongco), Wee's secretary, and Ma. Nimfa Penalosa De Villa (De Villa), the Assistant Revenue District Officer of the BIR at Las Piñas City. Their collective testimonies tended to establish these facts:
Sometime in 2003, Wee and his wife Susana Wee purchased a real property in Las Piñas City. Since Wee was based in Bacolod City, he directed his secretary, Tiongco, to go to Manila to process the transfer of title to the said property and to pay the capital gains tax thereon. On June 27, 2003, Tiongco informed Wee that she had paid the capital gains tax through Pascual, an employee at the City Assessor's Office of Las Piñas City, who was referred to her by Montero, a part-time businessman from Bacolod City and an acquaintance of Wee.
According to Tiongco, Montero told her to prepare P130,000.00 as payment for the capital gains tax. Thereafter, she met Pascual and Montero at SM Megamall, along EDSA. Pascual personally offered to facilitate the payment through her alleged "connections" or "contacts" at the BIR office. Tiongco asked if she could meet Pascual's "connection" or "contact" at the BIR, but Pascual replied in the negative. Upon Pascual's and Montero's insistence, Tiongco issued a check for the said amount, in Montero's name, and Montero encashed the check at the Robinson's Savings Bank, Ortigas Branch. Montero then gave the money back to Tiongco for "safekeeping," After this, Tiongco, Pascuai, and Montero went to the BIR office located inside the Metropolis Mall in Las Piñas City. When they got there, Pascual then asked for the money so she could "facilitate payment of the taxes." At first, Tiongco was apprehensive about giving the money to Pascual, so she asked Pascual if she could meet the person, i.e., Pascual's alleged "contact" or "connection" inside the BIR office. But Pascual replied that "the person would not face me at the time," and added that she was just accommodating her (Tiongco), and that if Tiongco wanted to pay less tax, then she had better trust her and just give her the money. Because Pascual was insisting on getting possession of the money, saying that she even had to go on leave from work for two days just to accommodate her (Tiongco); and because Montero also told her (Tiongco) that she (Tiongco) might as well make use of the opportunity to conclude the business for that day since that was her purpose in being there after all, Tiongco gave the P130,000.00 to Pascual and made her sign a voucher dated June 26, 2003.
Pascual and a lady companion then went inside the BIR office with the money, and after some time Pascual came out with a photocopy of BIR Receipt No. 2145148. Pascual told Tiongco that the original of this BIR receipt was left inside her "contact" at the BIR. Pascual then hastened to assure Tiongco that the certificate of title to Wees' property would be issued in three months' time. But the three months came and went, and despite repeated demands, Pascual still did not deliver on her promise. Worse, the Wee spouses discovered that the photocopy of BIR Receipt No. 2145148 was fake.
The other State witness, Las Piñas City Assistant Revenue District Officer De Villa, testified that her office did not have BIR Receipt No. 2145148 in its possession, nor did her office ever issue one such receipt to Pascual. She affirmed that the photocopy of the receipt in question is in fact a fake BIR receipt.
Pascual waived her right to present countervailing evidence in her defense.
Ruling of the Regional Trial Court
On July 25, 2008, the RTC of Las Piñas City, Branch 201, rendered judgment finding Pascual guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Estafa through Falsification of Public Document. The dispositive part of the RTC's Decision reads:
WHEREFORE, premises considered, the Court hereby finds the accused Esther Pascual GUILTY beyond reasonable [doubt] of the complex crime of Estafa [through] Falsification of a Public Document and pursuant to the provisions of Article 315 and Article 171 of the Revised Penal Code, she is sentenced to suffer the penalty of Prision Mayor. Applying the Indeterminate Sentence Law, the accused is sentenced to a prison term of Three (3) years of Prision [C]orrec[c]ional to Eight (8) years of Prision Mayor and a fine of P5,000.00.
By way of civil liability, the accused is ordered to pay the offended party the sum of P130,000.00 representing the sum given by private complainant duly received by the accused and the sum of P20,000.00 as attorney's fees.
Pascual filed a Motion for Reconsideration but same was denied by the RTC; hence Pascual elevated her case to the CA.
Ruling of the Court of Appeals
Before the CA, Pascual argued that she was convicted of an offense that was different from that alleged in the Information; that although she was accused of Estafa through Falsification of Public Document, she was however convicted by the RTC under Article 171 (Falsification by public officer, employee, or ecclesiastical minister) in relation to Article 315 (Estafa) of the Revised Penal Code (RPC). Pascual insisted that no evidence had been adduced tending to prove that she falsified BIR Receipt No. 2155148.
But her arguments failed to impress the CA, which after review of the appealed case, disposed as follows:
WHEREFORE, premises considered, the instant appeal is hereby DISMISSED for lack of merit. Accordingly, the assailed Decision of the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 201, Las Piñas City convicting the accused of the complex crime of estafa through Falsification of Public Document is AFFIRMED.
In reaching the foregoing conclusion, the CA ruled that Estafa through Falsification of Public Document is not a singular offense but a complex crime where two different offenses are tried as one because one offense was committed as a necessary means to commit the other, or because a single act constitutes two or more grave or less grave felonies.
The CA rejected Pascual's contention that the State failed to prove that she falsified the BIR receipt in question. On the contrary, the CA found that the State was able to satisfactorily establish clear and convincing evidence that Pascual was responsible for falsifying such receipt.
Hence, this Petition.
Pascual raises the following issues in this Petition:
WHETHER THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION BY GIVING FULL WEIGHT AND CREDENCE TO THE PROSECUTION'S VERSION.
WHETHER THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DECISION OF THE REGIONAL TRIAL COURT DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE EVIDENCE ON RECORD FAILED TO SUPPORT A CONVICTION.[7]
Pascual now argues that the CA erred in upholding the judgment of the RTC and in giving foil weight and credence to the State's account of the indictment against her.
Anent the alleged estafa, Pascual contends that she did not in any way beguile or mislead Tiongco into believing that she was connected with the BIR, as indeed the only representation she allegedly made was that she knew someone inside that office.
As to the alleged falsification, Pascual contends that she did not take advantage of her official position at the BIR at all because it was not her duty to make or prepare the BIR receipt in question.
Our Ruling
We deny the Petition. Both the RTC and the CA correctly found Pascual guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Estafa through Falsification of Public Document.
The State was able to satisfactorily establish the elements of estafa, to wit: "(1) that the accused defrauded another by abuse of confidence or by means of deceit, and (2) that damage or prejudice capable of pecuniary estimation is caused to the offended party or third person."[8] Here, Pascual defrauded Tiongco by pretending that she had "connections" or "contacts" within the BIR to whom she could allegedly directly pay the capital gains tax at a reduced amount and also with whose help and assistance the transfer certificate of title to the property purchased could be expedited. In fact, in their first meeting, Pascual impressed upon Tiongco that she is a person of some power and influence because she was an employee of the Las Piñas City Assessor's Office and thus had "connections" or "contacts" within the BIR and the City Registry of Deeds.
Moreover, the State was also able to establish the following elements of the crime of Falsification of Public Document: "(1) that the offender is a public officer, employee, or notary public; (2) that he takes advantage of Ms official position; (3) that he falsifies a document by causing it to appear that persons have participated in any act or proceeding; (4) [and] that such person or persons did not in fact so participate in the proceeding."[9]
We adopt the following findings of facts of the CA as these findings are borne out by the records:
It was established that the accused won over Tiongco by appearing to have expertly facilitated transfers of title in the past while accelerating the payment of taxes along the way. To this end, she assured Tiongco that she knew people from the BIR to whom they could directly pay the capital gains tax for less. When Tiongco appealed apprehensive, she would sound urgent (she was allegedly absent from work for two days to accommodate Tiongco) and, at one point, incensed (she told Tiongco that she was wasting her time for not having the cash). To allay Tiongco's fears, the accused consistently appeared resolute in her purpose especially when it was time for her to pay the capital gains tax. In this instance, she 'transacted' inside the BIR in plain view of Tiongco and thereafter presented her with a photocopy of the BIR receipt that later turned out to be forged.
The deceit by which the charade was accomplished is unmistakable. Deceit as used in this instance is defined as any act or devise intended to deceive; a specie of concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading. Concomitantly, for it to prosper, the following elements must concur: (a) that an accused defrauded another by abuse of confidence, or by means of deceit; and (b) that damage and prejudice capable of pecuniary estimation is caused the offended party or third person.
In the present instance, the accused made certain that Tiongco would fall prey to her artifice by presenting herself as someone with extensive connections in the BIR and the Registry of Deeds being herself an employee of the Assessor's Office whose function is the appraisal and assessment of real properties essentially for taxation purposes. She did not relent until Tiongco prepared the amount of P130,000.00 supposedly necessary for the payment of taxes. The accused guaranteed that the money will go as intended because she has done it many times before and her transactions turned out well. This, of course, was pure farce because the title of the property was not transferred to the private respondent's spouse as intended, while the capital gains tax remained unpaid. More importantly, it was discovered later that the BIR receipt furnished by the accused was a falsified document per testimony of Hie assistant district revenue officer of BIR-Las Piñas. This constitutes as the other half of the offense.
Falsification of public document carries with it the following elements: (a) That the offender is a public officer, employee, or notary public; (b) That he takes advantage of his official position; and (c) That he falsifies a document by causing it to appear that persons have participated in any act or proceeding.
Naturally, the accused attempted to deny having forged or falsified the BIR receipt, alleging that there was no direct evidence presented that would link her to the charge of falsification.
Indeed, there was no one from the prosecution that witnessed the accused in the act of falsifying or forging the BIR receipt. However, while direct evidence is scarce, the circumstances surrounding the events that led to her indictment speak of no one but the accused as the perpetrator of the offense. For instance, she did not contradict Tiongco's testimony that after she received the money intended for the payment of the capital gains tax, she and her lady companion went inside the BIR office supposedly to pay the capital gains tax. Neither did she deny Tiongco's testimony that she later came out of the BIR office with the forged BIR receipt which she furnished to Tiognco. Quite revealingly, the accused also remained mum about the testimony of the assistant revenue district officer, Ma. Nimfa Peñalosa De Villa, who disclosed that the document under discussion was unauthentic because it did not come from the BIR.
Clear as they are, the circumstances mentioned earlier are indubitable manifestations that the person responsible for the falsity is the accused herself given that she was the one who supposedly made the transaction inside the BIR, and that she had it in her possession before she passed it off as an official transaction receipt from the BIR. Conviction is not always arrived at by relying on direct evidence alone. Sometimes, the testimonies of witnesses, when credible and trustworthy, are sufficient to bring out a conviction and must be given full faith and credence when no reason to falsely testify is shown.
In the case at bench, Tiongco's testimony is neither erratic nor marred by inconsistency, glaring or otherwise. She was straightforward and narrated the events without missing the focal points. Her testimony, along with that of the assistant revenue district officer, is more than sufficient to espouse the conclusion that the accused personally forged the receipt and deceived Tiongco therewith.[10]
We now turn to the proper imposable penalty.
The crime committed was estafa through falsification of public document. Being a complex crime, the penalty for the more serious crime shall be imposed in its maximum period. Falsification under Article 171 of the RPC has a corresponding penalty of prision mayor and a fine not to exceed P5,000.00. On the other hand, "[t]the amount of damages is the basis of the penalty for estafa,"[11] Specifically, Article 315 of the RPC provides the penalty of prision correccional in its maximum period to prision mayor in its minimum period, if the amount of fraud is over [P12,000.00] but does not exceed [P22,000.00]; and if [the amount defrauded exceeds P22,000.00], the penalty provided in this paragraph shall be imposed in its maximum period, adding one year for each additional [P10,000.00], but the total penalty which may be imposed shall not exceed twenty years x x x [and] shall be termed prision mayor or reclusion temporal, as the case may be.
In this case, the amount defrauded was P130,000.00. As such, the prescribed penalty of prision correccional in its maximum period to prision mayor in its minimum period shall be imposed in its maximum period which has a range of six (6) years, eight (8) months and twenty one (21) days to eight (8) years, adding one (1) year for each additional P10,000.00. Thus, the maximum term of the imposable penalty is from sixteen (16) years, eight (8) months and twenty one (21) days to eighteen (18) years of reclusion temporal. Thus, as compared to the crime of falsification under Article 171 which carries a penalty of prision mayor, the offense of estafa is the more serious crime.
Applying the Indeterminate Sentence Law, the penalty next lower in degree to that prescribed for the crime of estafa is prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods which ranges from six (6) months and one (1) day to four (4) years and two (2) months.
In fine, the proper indeterminate penalty to be imposed should be four (4) years and two (2) months of prision correccional, as minimum to eighteen (18) years of reclusion temporal, as maximum.
WHEREFORE, this Petition is DENIED, The Decision of the Court of Appeals dated April 13,2012 in CA-GR. CRNo. 32138, is AFFIRMED, subject to the MODIFICATION that petitioner Esther Pascual is sentenced to suffer the indeterminate penalty of four (4) years and two (2) months of prision correccional, as minimum, to eighteen (18) years of reclusion temporal, as maximum. All damages awarded shall earn interest at the rate of 6% per annum, reckoned from finality of this Decision until fully paid.
Carpio, (Chairperson), Brion, Mendoza, and Leonen, JJ., concur.
[1] CA rollo, pp. 107-115; penned by Associate Justice Stephen C. Cruz and concurred in by Associate Justices Vicente S.E. Veloso and Myra V. Garcia-Femandez.
[3] Records, pp. 822-828; penned by Presiding Judge Lorna Navarro-Domingo.
[8] People v. Remullo, 432 Phil. 643, 655 (2002).
[9] Goma v. Court of Appeals, 596 Phil. 1, 10 (2009).
[11] Obando v. People, 638 Phil. 296, 315 (2010).


Coming Soon has learned that Columbia Pictures has set an October 15th 2010 release date for director David Fincher's The Social Network. The film will go head to head with CBS Films' Faster, an action film starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton.
Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and from the creators of "Band of Brothers", The Pacific is a a 10-part HBO mini-series which tells the intertwined stories of three Marines, Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda), during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. You might remember that we posted a promo trailer for the series back in March.
HBO has begun airing a new trailer for this epic miniseries. Watch it now after the jump, and please leave your thoughts in the comments below!
Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and from the creators of "Band of Brothers", The Pacific is a a 10-part HBO mini-series which tells the intertwined stories of three Marines, Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda), during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.
/Film reader Donovan has sent me a promotional trailer for the miniseries, which has no announced release date but is expected to air in late 2009/early 2010. Watch it after the jump, and as always, leave your thoughts in the comments below.


The fresh air submitted by system of ventilation to salon of the car through filters of rough and thin cleaning, can be warmed up or cooled depending on a choice of the driver and passengers. The heater, on models without the conditioner, or the conditioner of air settles down in salon, in the case under the dashboard. All stream of air submitted to salon goes for heating or cooling through the same casing. The temperature and speed of a stream of air is regulated by means of governing bodies located on the control panel.
Regulation of speed of rotation of the fan is carried out by the electronic device, Heat allocated at operation of the engine, transferred by cooling liquid to the radiator of a heater located in salon. The brought stream of air from system of ventilation passes through a radiator and heats up heat of cooling liquid of the engine proceeding in a radiator. Extent of heating is regulated by means of mixing in a certain ratio of cold and hot air by means of a mixing zaslonka with the servo-driver.
If it is necessary to disconnect supply of fresh air, for example, at a bad smell, the system is switched in a circulation mode at which external air in salon does not arrive.
If on the car the diesel engine is established, there is the additional electric heater which has been built in a contour of cooling of the engine, and included at low temperature of external air. If the external temperature falls below +8°С and at the same time the temperature of cooling liquid makes less 70°С, the additional heater joins, depending on the provision of a regulator of temperature in salon, and automatically lifts temperature of cooling liquid that provides heating of salon of the car.
The additional heater is located on the block of cylinders, at the left over a starter, looking in the direction forward.
Works with central air should be carried out by experts.
The conditioner of air is capable both to warm up and cool, and to drain air arriving in salon. In the crude weather, arriving fresh air previously it is cooled, then again heats up to the set temperature. Thus there is a condensation of excessive moisture of air, i.e. its drainage. Thus the zapotevaniye of glasses is eliminated.
The conditioner consists of a heater and the refrigerator. The conditioner refrigerator - from the compressor, the condenser, a throttle, the evaporator, capacity with a coolant and pipelines. In system the coolant (R134ГЎ type) which, depending on temperature and pressure, can be in a liquid or gaseous state circulates.
The compressor of the conditioner is given in rotation from a cranked shaft of the engine by means of a ridge belt. He creates pressure to 30 atm. in a contour of cooling of installation owing to what the coolant representing gas, heats up. In the condenser the coolant is cooled with external air (not arriving in salon). Thereof the warmed-up coolant is condensed, turning into liquid. Having big pressure, it is passed through a throttle therefore its pressure falls. After that the coolant evaporates, at the same time strongly being cooled. In the evaporator the coolant selects heat from air blown through it. Air is cooled. The cooled air arrives in car salon. As a result of heating in the evaporator the coolant turns into gas and under low pressure arrives in the compressor then process of circulation repeats.
To order the car can be equipped with the automatic conditioner of air (climatic installation). Two options of the installations, differing touch management and comfort automatic equipment are thus possible.
Central air should be served by exclusively prepared technicians trained in safe working methods with use of the appropriate equipment with observance of rules of depressurization, acquainted with receptions of collecting and order of storage of an automobile coolant.
В· Do not allow contact of a coolant to skin.
В· At work near central air put on goggles.
В· At coolant hit on skin or eyes do not pound the struck place. Immediately wash out cold water within not less than 15 minutes. Immediately address to the doctor or in medical institution. Self-treatment is not allowed.
· The coolant is stored in a new cylinder under pressure. Store a cylinder at temperature not above 50°С. Take the measures excluding falling of a cylinder from height or other situations which can lead to its damage.
В· Works should be carried out in well aired room. The coolant quickly evaporates, has no smell. Its accumulation leads to reduction of access of oxygen and difficulty of breath.
В· The gaseous coolant is heavier some air and rather quickly should gather below, for example, under the car.
В· At combustion of a coolant poisonous gas is formed. Store a coolant far from open sources of fire. Do not smoke. When using an ardent techeiskatel avoid smoke inhalation.
В· At carrying out welding works near central air to influence of high temperature or an open flame. The overheat can lead to pressure increase in system and to ignition.
В· Condenser or evaporator cleaning by means of water vapor is not allowed. It is necessary to use only cold water or the compressed air.