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Interview with Joel Green from WITCHSKULL
The bloody heavy stoner metal rumbles through the vast of Australia as new (yet not so young) power trio Witchskull rocks over the country. Officially Tony McMahon (bass), Joel Green (drums) and Marcus De Pasquale (vocals, guitars) gathered under that name only two years ago, but facts say that they know each other much longer. So don't be surprised with Witchskull's professionalism and skills as they're literally merciless in their aspiration to bring down the best groove they have. They sound classic, they sound modern and actually and overall they sound killer. As their debut "The Vast Electric Dark" was released in October 1st, 2015, the trio already has already started writing new material, and Joel readily tells me about Witchskull's current status in this interview.
Hi Joel! How are you? What's going on in Australia? What is the current scene like in Australia especially for upcoming bands such as yourselves.
All good thanks Aleks. Lots going on in Australia mate, we have a very strong scene with a lot of really good heavy bands. It is hard for Australian bands to get recognition overseas because it is difficult and expensive to tour, but our scene has always had a lot of killer bands.
Okay, what's Witchskull current status?
Currently we are playing shows in Oz to support The Vast Electric Dark while writing for the new album that we are recording in New York in October 2016.
What are perspectives to consider with organizing gigs in Australia itself and Tasmania or New Zealand? How many places is it possible to visit during one tour?
Australia is a big place, so touring is not easy. Canberra (where we are from) is only 300km to Sydney and 650km from Melbourne so we can easily play the main two cities in Oz over a weekend. There is smaller towns like Newcastle and Wollongong that are close by but most other big cities are too far to drive, so you need to fly. We have only played Sydney Melbourne and Canberra so far, but hope to get to the other major cities over the coming year or so? I have never played NZ or Tasmania, but would love to at some stage.
How do you already have a new album so soon? How many songs do you have for it and will it hold the direction you took on "The Vast Electric Dark"?
We rehearse a lot and are constantly writing, and don't want to spend too long between records. I am not a fan of long albums, so we will probably have 8 or 9 on the new one? We are working on around 15 and will select the ones we like most closer to the time. Our direction is pretty similar to The Vast Electric Dark, but we don't let anything stop us pursuing whatever feels right at the time. I feel we are getting better, but I guess time will tell? As long as the three of us are happy, we really don't concern ourselves with outside opinion. Obviously we would prefer that people like what we are doing, but we don't care if they don't. This band is purely about playing what interests the 3 of us and what comes naturally.
And one more question - why are you going to record it in New York? I bet that you have some really good studio on your mind.
We Chose New York because our bass player is from there. He moved to Oz in 2005 and we thought it would be good to make the next record in his home town. We were trying to record at The Magic Shop, but it recently closed down, so we are now recording at a fantastic studio in Brooklyn called Studio G.
Witchskull – World's Away
Your debut full-length "The Vast Electric Dark" was released in October 1st, 2015. How did you promote it as you released in such a DIY way? Do you now have now label or distro who now help you?
The album was recorded and pressed independently, so all of the initial work was done DIY. Since then we have signed with a NYC label called STB Records for a vinyl release of the album and Ripple Music out of San Francisco for worldwide release of all other formats. This should all happen in the next few months, so we are pretty stoked about that.
"The Vast Electric Dark" is a tight and solid album. How did Witchskull get together. Did you all know each other or before you formed the band. How did you gather under the mark of Witchskull?
We have only been together for a couple of years, but Marcus and I went to school together and played in a metal band back in 1985. We all have very similar tastes in music, and wanted to create something that wasn't forced in any way. Our writing comes from the gut, with no bullshit. It is what is entrenched in our DNA. Marcus and Tony had the concept of the band going before I joined, but things didn't fully start to take shape until they asked me to join.
May I ask you what the concept of Witchskull from the start was?
From the beginning, we wanted to create music from the gut. We want to make primal, feral, heavy music that hasn't been polluted by concerns of how others will perceive it. We simply don't give a fuck what anyone thinks, so everything we create together remains pure.
The band plays rocking stoner with doom elements, do you care about such labels?
We grew up listening to Sabbath, Motorhead and AC/DC, before going through NWOBHM and the first wave of thrash. Because we have been listening to heavy music since we were kids we don't care too much about how music is labeled. For us it is all about how it makes us feel. If the 3 of us like it, then we go with it. We have been labeled a lot of different things and don't really mind.
Most of your songs have a lot of really infectious parts, and overall impressions from the "The Vast Electric Dark" are pretty positive. It's strong stuff. How do you see Witchskull potential for further development?
Thanks for your kind words, it is very much appreciated. I guess we feel that our songs are getting stronger but that is purely my opinion. I guess we won't know until the second record is done? We are really into what we are doing, so as long as we are happy we will keep it going.
Joel, what emotions influence you when you play and compose with Witchskull? Is this process a conscious one or not?
Most of what we do comes from jamming a single idea for a long time. We let the songs evolve and never force arrangements. We leave songs open ended until they kind of arrange themselves over time. For us, this seems to keep things cohesive and unforced. We try not to think too hard about it, so I guess we are not overly conscious of how we put it all together?
Songs lyrics on "The Vast Electric Dark" sound both abstract and personal, what do you put into it? I'm talking about both music and lyrics - what's Witchskull about?
The lyrics are Marcus' domain. He is an incredible artist…Very well read, articulate and unique. Musically we are all involved in building the songs. Most of the riffs are from Tony and Marcus, but I contribute as well. Once we get an idea, we jam it for weeks or months until it kind of arranges itself. Things seem less forced to me if they evolve naturally over time. We try to keep things simple and groove based and heavy…Less is more is our belief.
Witchskull – Pan's Daughter
How do you see the "witching" aspect of the band's concept?
Again, Marcus is more the bloke to talk to regarding our conceptual take on things. If you read through his lyrics you can take a lot of different things from them.
What is the most difficult part of being in Witchskull?
It's not difficult at all. Marcus and Tony are like brothers to me, so I couldn't ask for more. Being in any band requires patience and above all, respect so because of our friendships we are able to resolve differences fairly easily.
And what is the best experience you ever had with the band?
I have played in a lot of bands over many years, and never felt a stronger chemistry that what we have in Witchskull. That in itself is the best part of this band for me.
Joel, what are your plans for the next Witchskull record? Do you already have some tunes in mind?
We are writing for the new album now, and are very happy with the results so far. We have a great studio booked and have a really good producer locked in, so we can't wait to see how it all turns out?
Thanks for your interest in the band Aleks, hopefully we will meet before too long!
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Words by Aleks Evdokimov and Joel Green
Labels: Aleks Evdokimov, Doom Metal, Interviews, Ripple Music, STB Records, Stoner Metal, Witchskull
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1282 Mar 30, Furious inhabitants of Palermo attacked French occupation force in the "Sicilian Vespers." The Mafia appeared in Sicily to revolt against French rule after a drunken soldier attacked a young woman on her wedding day.
1891 Mar 14, A mob in New Orleans broke open a jail after a court dismissed charges against 19 Italian men indicted for the murder of police chief David C. Hemmessey. 11 of 19 defendants were hanged. The book "Vendetta" by Richard Gambino, and the movie of the same name, covered the event.
1902 Jul 4, Meyer Lansky (d.1983), mobster (Started numbers), was born.
1905 Jan 18, Joseph Bonanno (d.2002), later NYC mafia boss, was born in Castellmmare del Golfo, Sicily.
1921 Mar 21, "Big Jim" Colisimo, US gangster, was murdered by Al Capone.
1925-1933 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, was used by Al Capone-led mobsters to store liquor for smuggling to the US on the Soo Line. Underground tunnels, built for steam heating the city, were converted mob quarters. In 2000 "The Tunnels of Moose Jaw" opened as a tourist attraction.
1928 Nov 4, Arnold Rothstein (46), US mobster, was shot to death at the Grand Hotel in NYC. In 2005 Nick Tosches authored "King of the Jews," a biography of Rothstein.
1929 Apr 6, "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, was born.
1929 May 7, Albert Anselmi, John Scalise and Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, US gangsters, were murdered by Al Capone.
1930 Mar 17, Mob boss Al Capone was released from jail.
1931 Oct 17, Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.
1932 Feb 2, Al Capone was sent to prison at Atlanta, Georgia, for "tax evasion."
1932 Feb 8, Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, mobster, was killed by Dutch Schultz gang.
1932 May 4, Mobster Al Capone, convicted of income-tax evasion, entered the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.
1932 May 18, Luigi Malvese, bootleg gangster, was ambushed and shot to death in front of the Del Monte Barbershop at 720 Columbus Ave, SF, Ca. A police dragnet rounded up some 1,000 "usual suspect" in an attempt to pressure the underworld to rein in its wild men. Louis Dinato, Al Capone's tailor, was among those rounded up.
1933 Jun 17, In the Kansas City Massacre 1 FBI agent, 4 cops and 1 gangster were killed by the mob.
1933 Jul 10, 1st police radio system began operations at Eastchester Township, NY.
1934 Mar, In SF Michael R. Catalano, underworld figure, was murdered.
1935 Feb 2, A lie detector was 1st used in court at Portage, Wisc.
1935 Oct 23, Abe Landau, US gangster, was murdered.
1935 Oct 23, Dutch Schultz (33), born as Arthur Flegenheimer, was shot in the men's room of the Palace Chop House and Tavern in Newark, New Jersey. He lingered for nearly a day before dying after being the target of a mob hit. Schultz wanted to have Thomas E. Dewey murdered because the special prosecutor had set his sights on the numbers racket operated by Schultz. A syndicate of New York's top mobsters decided to murder Schultz because it feared the wrath of the authorities and decided against the assassination.
1942 Mar 12, Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano, mobster (testified against John Gotti), was born.
1947 Jan 25, American gangster Al Capone died of syphilis in Miami Beach, Fla., at age 48.
1947 May 7, Nick DeJohn, former capodecina in the Chicago Family, was strangled and his body stuffed into the trunk of a car parked on a San Francisco street. DeJohn had reportedly fled Chicago after murdering several other gang members and was living in Santa Rosa, California, under an alias at the time of his death.
1950 Jul 5, Salvatore Giuliano (b.1922), Sicilian bandit, was shot by police in Castelvetrano.
1957 Oct 25, Mob boss Albert Anastasia, the "Lord High Executioner" of "Murder Inc.," was shot to death in a barber shop inside the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York.
1957 Carlo Gambino (d.1976) became head of the Gambino crime family and was later the model for Don Corleone in the film "The Godfather."
1957 In Cuba the Capri Hotel was built in Havana. It became one of the flashiest mob joints of the time. Charles Tourine managed the nightclub and Nicholas di Costanzo ran the casino. Both were associated with Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante.
1959 Jan 1, Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista, who fled to the Dominican Republic. American mafia scrambled to secure their cash and close casinos ahead of crowds that took to the streets and trashed their businesses. In 2008 T.J. English Morrow authored "Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba …and Then Lost It to the Revolution."
1962 Jan 26, Charles "Lucky" Luciano (65), NYC Mafia gangster, died.
1962 May, A memo from the CIA briefing for Attorney Gen'l. Robert Kennedy revealed that $150,000 was offered to the US mob for the assassination of Fidel Castro. The mob insisted on doing the job at no charge.
1964 Joseph Valachi was the first La Cosa Nostra member to publicly confirm that organized crime existed. He talked under a new Witness Security Program before a congressional committee. "The Valachi Papers" by Peter Maas was written in 1972.
1964-1987 FBI agents in Boston used hit men and mob leaders as informants and shielded them from prosecution in exchange for information on the Mafia. This allowed the Winter Hill Gang to rise in power as the prosecutors brought down the Patriarcha crime family.
1965 Mar 12, Edward "Teddy" Deegan was found dead in an alley in Chelsea, Mass. A week later an FBI memo named 6 men, including Vincent J. Flemmi and Joseph "The Animal" Barboza, as the killers. Barboza became a star witness and provided false testimony to convict 4 innocent men. The New England Mafia shotgunned Barboza in SF in 1976.
1970 Mar 23, Mafia "Boss" Carlo Gambino was arrested for plotting to steal $3 million.
1971 Apr 3, Joseph Valachi (b.1903), US gangster, died at La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution in Texas. A biography heavily influenced by Valachi's memoirs and by interviews with Valachi was written by journalist Peter Maas and published in 1968 as The Valachi Papers.
1973 Feb 18, Frank Costello (b.1891), Italian-born US gangster, died in NYC.
1975 Jun 19, Sam Giancana (b.1908), Italian-American mob boss, was murdered at his home in Oak Park, Ill. He had a romance with Phillis McGuire, of the McGuire Sisters vocal group, and was credited with assisting John F. Kennedy in efforts to win the presidential election. A movie was made in 1995 that depicts the Giancana-McGuire romance.
1975 Jul 30, Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared from the parking lot of the Machus Red fox Restaurant in suburban Detroit. Although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. He was scheduled to meet with Mafia captain Tony Jack Giacalone (d.2001 at 82) and New Jersey Teamster boss Anthony Provenzano. In 2004 Charles Brandt authored "I Heard You Paint Houses," in which he says Teamster official Frank Sheeran (d.2003) claimed to have shot Hoffa. Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982.
1976 Oct 15, Carlo Gambino (b.1902), US gangster, died at his summer home in Long Island.
1976 Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was shotgunned in SF by the New England Mafia.
1976-1981 Joe Pistone, FBI agent, infiltrated the Bonanno family. His testimony later helped jail more than 120 mobsters.
1977 Dec 6, SF FBI agents arrested James "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno (64), a reportedly leading West Coast Mafia figure.
1979 Mar 20, In Rome, Italy, the Mafia killed Mino Pecorelli, a magazine editor. In 1996 Premier Giulio Andreotti went on trial for allegedly turning to the Mafia to kill the troublesome journalist. Andreotti was acquitted by a jury in 1999. 5 others were also acquitted. In 2002 an appeal court in Perugia sentenced Giulio Andreotti to 24 years imprisonment for ordering the murder of Pecorelli.
1980 Mar 18, John Favara struck a killed Frank Gotti (12), the son of mobster John Gotti, as the boy darted in front of his car on a minibike in Brooklyn. Favara disappeared on July 28. In 2009 it was reported that mobster Charles Carneglia (62) had killed Favara and dissolved his body in acid.
1981 There was a bloody war for control of the Bonanno family.
1982 Jun 18, In Italy Roberto Calvi, director of Banco Ambrosiano, hanged himself following the fraudulent bankruptcy of the bank. In 1992 the chairman of Olivetti SpA Carlo De Benedetti was convicted for contributing to the bankruptcy. In 1996 the courts upheld his conviction and that of 30 others. In 2003 RAI state television said prosecutors believed the Mafia killed Roberto Calvi because he lost their money and knew too much about their operations.
1982 Jul 31, Jai Alai executive John B. Callahan (45) was fatally shot in Miami by mob hit man John Martorano. Callahan's body was found Aug 2 in the trunk of his Cadillac. In 2008 former FBI agent John Connolly was convicted of 2nd degree murder for leaking information to mobsters that led to the shooting death of Callahan. In Jan, 2009, Connolly was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
1982 Tony Mirra, mobster friend of Donnie Brasco (aka FBI agent Joe Pistone), was shot to death.
1983 Jan 15, Meyer Lansky (born Majer Suchowlinski, July 4, 1902), American gangster, died. He and Charles "Lucky" Luciano were instrumental in the development of the so-called "National Crime Syndicate" in the United States. He was the intellectual impetus behind the Commission and the so-called "Mogul of the Mob." In 2004 Enrique Cirules authored "The Secret Life of Meyer Lansky in Havana." The book was only available in Cuba in Spanish.
1984 In Japan a split in the yakuza, the country's biggest organized crime group, left some two dozen gang members dead in territorial battles.
1985 Dec 16, Reputed organized-crime chief Paul Castellano was shot to death outside a New York City restaurant on orders from John Gotti (d.2002). Gotti seized power in the Mafia after he had Paul Castellano killed.
1985-1991 In Italy a mafia war during this period claimed the lives of almost 600 people. Giovanni Tegano, a senior gangster in Reggio Calabria, was a key participant.
1986 Feb 10, The largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opened in Palermo, Italy.
1986 Dec 17, Richard Kuklinsky, a Mafia hitman known as the Iceman, was arrested in New Jersey. He was found guilty of all charges May 25, 1988. Anthony Bruno later authored "The Iceman."
1986 The bodies of Tony (48) and Michael (41) Spilotro were found buried in an Indiana cornfield. Tony "The Ant" Spilotro was a top mob figure in Las Vegas. In 2005 prosecutors indicted 11 Chicago mob figures for at least 18 murders, including the Spilotros.
1987 Mar 13, John Gotti was acquitted of racketeering.
1989 Oct 29, Angelo Mercurio (1936-2006), an FBI informant, attended a Mafia induction ceremony at a suburban Boston home. His evidence helped bring down the crime family led by Raymond "Junior" Patriarca.
1990 Feb 9, John Gotti (1940-2002) was acquitted of charges that he commissioned the Westies gang to shoot a union official in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. This earned him the nickname "The Teflon Don."
1991 Joe Massino took over as head of the Bonanno family in NYC. In 2004 he faced trial on racketeering charges and 7 murders.
1991 Tano Grasso was placed under police protection after he founded Italy's first anti-racket association. In 2011 Grasso and Lirio Abate held the Trame literary festival in Lamezia Terme focusing on books about the Mafia.
1992 Apr 2, John Gotti (d.2002), Mafia boss, was convicted in New York City of 5 murders and racketeering. Underboss Sammy "the Bull" Gravano provided testimony. The murders included the 1985 hit on Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino family. He was sentenced to life in prison on June 23.
1992 May 23, In Sicily anti-Mafia investigator Giovannii Falcone was murdered on a highway outside Palermo. Falcone's wife and 3 bodyguards were also killed. Sicilian politician Salvo Lima was also murdered. Anti-Mafia investigator Paolo Borsellino was killed in another blast some months later. In 1997 Pietro Aglieri, aka "U Signurinu" (The Little Gentleman), was arrested for involvement in all three murders. 24 mobsters were convicted in the murder in 1997, including Leoluca Bagarella.
1992 May 27, Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo (86), mobster (heir to the late Al Capone), died.
1992 Jun 23, John Gotti (d.2002), Mafia boss nicknamed the "Teflon Don" after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, was convicted on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering and sentenced in New York to life in prison. His son John Gotti Jr. succeeded him as head of the Gambino crime family and was arrested in 1998.
1992 Jul 19, Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, was murdered by mafia. In 2014 An Italian newspaper reported that the remote control to detonate the bomb that killed anti-Mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino was hidden inside the intercom at his mother's Palermo residence.
1992 The Italian Mafia demanded that sentences passed against some 400 Mafiosi at a mass trial in 1987 be softened and that a law that imposed a harsh prison regime for Mafiosi be repealed. A list of 12 demands was written by written by the son of Salvatore "The Beast" Riina on a scrap of paper while his father was still at large during alleged secret negotiations between the state and the Mafia. The note was only made public in 2009.
1993 Jan 8, Sicilian journalist Beppe Alfano (b.1945) was killed by the Mafia.
1993 May 18, Italian police arrested Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola.
1993 May 20, Giovanni Brusca was believed to have led teams that damaged the Uffizi museum in Florence with car bombs. He is believed by many to be the leader of the Italian Mafia teams. In 1996 he was arrested in Sicily and charged with masterminding the murder of Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards in 1992. In 1998 Mafia boss Lelluca Bagarella and 13 others were sentenced to life in prison for the May and July bombings.
1994 Mar 19, Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, was murdered.
1994 Jun 4, Gregory Scarpa, nicknamed The Grim Reaper, died in a Minnesota prison. He was a soldier for the Colombo crime family and an informant for the FBI.
1994 Nov 30, Loanshark Sabato Lombardi was murdered during a card game in Brooklyn. Mario Fortunato of the famed Fortunato Brothers Bakery in Greenpoint was later convicted in federal and in state court for planning the murder. Both verdicts were overturned by appeals courts. In 2014 Fortunato won a $300,000 settlement in the NY state Court of Claims.
1994 Roberto Pannunzi, Italian mobster, was arrested in Colombia. He had forged links with Colombian cartels for transatlantic trade in cocaine. He was extradited to Italy and released when his detention expired. He was rearrested in 2004 but disappeared in 2009 when sent to a private clinic near Rome following a heart attack.
1996 Apr 13, James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke (64), criminal, died.
1997 The Mike Newell film Donnie Brasco with Al Pucino and Johnny Depp opened. It was based on a true story of an FBI agent, Joseph D. Pistone, who infiltrated the mob in 1976 and wrote Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia in 1988.
1998 Mar 19, In Italy suspected mafia member Giuseppe Magaddino was shot and killed. Sicilian Mafia member Claudio Adriano Giusto was later charged with killing Magaddino using a 7.65 mm firearm and then taking his wallet. Giusto was arrested in Spain in 2011 after 13 years on the run.
1999 Chris Paciello was indicted for the home-invasion murder of a Staten Island housewife. He confessed to Mafia financing for his nightclubs and vanished into the witness Protection Program.
1999 John A. Gotti Jr. pleaded guilty to racketeering and extortion and accepted a 6-year prison sentence.
2000 Jan 14, In Boston investigators found the bodies of 2 men and a woman believed to be the victims of mobsters Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi and James "Whitey" Bulger. One of the bodies was said to be Arthur "Bucky" Barrett, one of 6 men who stole $1.5 million in a 1980 bank robbery.
2001 Feb 23, Anthony Giacalone, Detroit mobster, died at age 82.
2001 Aug 23, Peter Maas, novelist and non-fiction writer, died at age 72. His work included "The Valachi Papers" (1969), "Serpico," "The King of Gypsies," and "Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia."
2002 May 11, Joseph Bonanno (97), former Mafia boss, died in Tucson. His autobiography was titled "A Man of Honor."
2002 Sep 6, Salvatore Gravano, mob turncoat aka Sammy the Bull, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In 1998 Gravano, took over his son's failing Arizona drug-dealing operation, an ecstasy drug ring. Gravano pleaded guilty in 2001.
2002 In Italy Francesco Sbano co-produced a new malavita (mafia folk music) CD: "La Musica della Mafia."
2003 Mar 6, Italian police raided a house in Palermo and captured Salvatore Rinella (49), a top Mafia boss.
2003 Nov 23, Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno (57), a regional Mafia boss, was killed in Springfield, Mass. In 2008 Frankie Roche (35), a low level Mafia member, admitted to the murder.
2004 May 27, Vito Bigione (52), one of Italy's most-wanted Mafia suspects, was captured in Venezuela. He was accused of a key role in international drug trafficking and flown back to Italy. Bigione had spent years living in Namibia and only recently moved to Venezuela.
2004 Jul 30, In NYC Joseph Massino, a Bonanno crime boss, was convicted of orchestrating murder, racketeering, arson and extortion over the last 25 years.
2004 Dec 17, Italy's interior ministry said 181 people had been arrested in the past three months in a crackdown on the Camorra in Naples whose turf warfare now overshadows that of the Sicilian mafia.
2004 Dec 18, Naples police said they have broken up a mob protection racket focused on local bakeries and flour makers.
2005 Jan 22, In Italy a war within the Camorra, the regional mafia of Naples, was reported to have claimed 35 lives over the last 4 months.
2005 Mar 9, The acting boss of the NYC Gambino family and at least 30 other mob figures were arrested following an undercover FBI operation.
2005 Mar 9, In Las Vegas 2 retired NYC police detectives, Louis Eppolito (56) and Stephen Caracappa (63), were arrested on federal charges of taking part in 8 murders on behalf of the Mafia. In 2009 both men were sentenced to life in prison.
2005 Apr 25, In Chicago 11 reputed mob figures were indicted on charges of plotting at least 18 murders including the 1986 hit on Tony Spilotro.
2005 Jun 23, Joseph Massino, who went from the New York Mafia's last old-school don to its highest-ranking turncoat in a betrayal that rocked organized crime, was sentenced to life in prison after admitting his involvement in eight mob murders.
2007 Aug 15, In Germany 6 Italian men were fatally shot in the head in the western city of Duisburg, an execution-style killing that Italy's interior minister said appeared to be a feud between two Italian organized crime clans. On March 12, 2009, Dutch police arrested Giovanni Strangio (30), an Italian man wanted for the killings in Duisburg.
2007 Oct 22, An Italian lobby group for small businesses said revenue from organized crime amounts to an estimated $127 billion annually, making it the largest segment of the economy.
2007 Oct 23, Police broke up an Italian-Canadian mafia clan that ran drug trafficking and money laundering operations, arresting 12 people and seizing millions of dollars in assets. The clan was led from Canada by Nick and Vito Rizzuto, a father and son, who were jailed for previous crimes respectively in 2006 and 2005.
2007 Dec 3, Daniele Emmanuello (43), the Mafia godfather of Gela, Sicily, was killed while trying to escape police. He was considered one of Italy's 30 most dangerous Mafia fugitives.
2007 Dec 4, In Italy Vincenzo Santapaola, a suspected Mafia boss, and scores of alleged mobsters were arrested during raids in Catania, Sicily. Police also seized weapons and drugs, and found a book that listed extortion fees and salaries of the people working for the family.
2007 Dec 15, Italian authorities said they have captured, Edoardo Contini (52), a fugitive Naples crime boss who built one of the most dangerous cartels.
2007 Joseph Dominick Pistone (b.1939), alias Donnie Brasco, authored "Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business." Pistone, a former FBI agent, worked undercover for six years (1976-1981) infiltrating the Bonanno family and to a lesser extent the Colombo Family, branches of the Mafia in NYC.
2007 Roberto Saviano authored "Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System."
2008 Jan 16, Italian police arrested scores of suspected mobsters in Palermo in the latest raid on suspected Sicilian Mafia hideouts.
2008 Jan 18, A court in Palermo convicted Sicily's Gov. Salvatore Cuffaro of helping a Mafia boss and sentenced him to five years in prison.
2008 Feb 7, Authorities in Italy and the US conducted raids targeting dozens of alleged members of Mafia clans who controlled drug trafficking between the two sides of the Atlantic. A 169-page indictment in the US went back 3 decades and included at least 7 murders. The main targets in NY included 3 of the "five families" controlling organized crime in America: the Genovese, Bonanno and Gambino families.
2008 Feb 13, In Italy police raided sites in Calabria and issued arrest warrants for 57 people, including politicians, bankers and businessmen, in the latest mafia sweep targeting drug trafficking and extortion rackets.
2008 Feb 18, Italian police captured Pasquale Condello (57), the top boss of a powerful organized crime syndicate. The Condello crime clan was one of the most ferocious 'ndrangheta families and Condello had received several life prison terms for four murders and other crimes.
2008 Mar 15, Thousands of Italians marched in an anti-mafia protest and called on all citizens to take a public stand against Italy's powerful crime syndicates.
2008 Jul 30, Nicholas Corozzo (68), New York City mob captain, pleaded guilty to racketeering and 2 murders in 1996. In 2009 he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
2008 Jul, In Italy Carmelo "Nuzzo" Novella (58), a suspected mobster, was shot dead in a bar in San Vittore Olona after airing the view that the "Ndrangheta in northern Italy should be autonomous.
2008 Aug 5, John A. "Junior" Gotti (44) was arrested at his Long Island home on charges linking him to three New York murders. In 1999 Junior Gotti pleaded guilty to racketeering crimes including bribery, extortion, gambling and fraud. He was sentenced to 77 months in prison and was released in 2005.
2008 Sep 30, Italian police arrested scores of suspected mobsters, including three top fugitives believed linked to the gangland-style slaying of six African immigrants near Naples.
2008 Oct 11, Italian security forces including army paratroops arrested seven members of the Camorra mafia believed linked to the killing of African immigrants near Naples last month.
2008 Oct 13, Italian police arrested five people in the Calabria region, including the mayor of Rosarno, for suspected ties to the local mob.
2008 Oct 16, Italian police arrested Antonio Pelle (46), an alleged fugitive mobster, believed to be the head of an organized crime clan involved in the slaying of six people in Germany last year. His family was involved in a feud that led to the Aug. 15, 2007 killing of six Italians outside a restaurant in Duisburg, Germany.
2008 Nov 4, Italian police arrested 47 people including the wife of a jailed mafia boss in raids on a Naples-based organized crime syndicate. They also seized bank accounts and assets worth about 80 million euros ($102 million) in the raids.
2008 Nov 6, In Italy Domenico Magnoli (27), an alleged mobster, woke up in a private Italian clinic following liposuction surgery, and was arrested for trafficking in cocaine. Police alleged that Magnoli, born in Cannes, France, has links to the Piromalli crime clan in the 'ndrangheta syndicate.
2008 Nov 17, A car carrying one of Israel's top mafia kingpins exploded as it traveled in central Tel Aviv, killing him and threatening to unleash an all-out war in Israel's increasingly violent underworld.
2008 Nov 18, Italian authorities in Sicily seized assets worth euro700 million ($885 million) from Giuseppe Grigoli, a supermarket chain owner, suspected of letting the Mafia use his businesses to launder money.
2008 Dec 16, Italian police backed by helicopters arrested almost 90 suspected mobsters and thwarted a plan by the hobbled Sicilian Mafia to reconstitute itself and form a new ruling commission to set strategy. Gaetano Lo Presti (52), the alleged Mafia boss of a Palermo neighborhood, hanged himself in jail, hours after he was arrested in a blitz against Cosa Nostra.
2009 Jan 14, Italian police arrested Giovanni Setola, a top Mafia fugitive, who had eluded capture earlier this week by climbing through a trap door and into a sewer below his hideout.
2009 Mar 6, Former NYC police detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were sentenced to life in prison for their conviction in 8 gangland murders. They had moonlighted as hit men for the Luchese crime family while on the police force during the 1980s.
2009 Mar 21, Tens of thousand of people marched in Naples to commemorate the victims of the mafia and demand an end to the stranglehold of organized crime on southern Italy.
2009 May 15, In Spain police arrested of Raffaele Amato, an alleged Camorra boss who investigators say was one of Italy's top cocaine importers.
2009 May 19, Italian police arrested Franco Letizia (31), one of the country's "most-dangerous" fugitives, in raids that netted at least 70 suspected members of the Naples-based Camorra crime syndicate. The search for dozens more was still under way.
2009 Jun 20, In Venezuela authorities arrested Salvatore Miceli, suspected of being a key intermediary in the drug trafficking trade and one of Italy's most dangerous Mafia fugitives, as he left his apartment in Caracas. Police also picked up two other Italian suspects.
2009 Jul 22, Italian authorities seized some euro200 million ($284 million) in assets and businesses owned by the 'ndrangheta crime syndicate, including the Cafe de Paris of "La Dolce Vita" movie fame. 12 other restaurants, apartments and luxury cars were also impounded in the operation.
2009 Oct 31, Italian police arrested one of the country's most wanted mafia fugitives after tearing down a wall in a dawn raid at a chicken farm near Naples where he had built a hideout. Salvatore Russo (51), the head of a Camorra clan carrying his name, had been sentenced to life in prison for homicide and links to organized crime and was on the run since 1995.
2009 Nov 15, Italian police captured convicted mobster Domenico Raccuglia, one of Sicily's top mafia fugitives, in an apartment near Trapani.
2009 Dec 1, Italian officials said police have broken up a major mafia clan, issuing 83 arrest warrants and seizing businesses, land, race horses and a London-based online betting company. Local politicians and businessmen in the southern city of Bari were among those implicated as part of a 3-year operation, called "Domino," for collaborating with the Parisi clan.
2009 Dec 4, A jailed Mafia hitman linked Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi to the Cosa Nostra, telling a court that a godfather convicted for a 1993 bombing campaign had boasted of his links to the media mogul.
2009 Dec 5, Italian police found convicted Mafioso Gianni Nicchi (28), alleged to be Cosa Nostra's No. 2 leader, hiding in an apartment in Palermo. Nicchi, a fugitive since 2006, was convicted last year of extortion and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Authorities in Milan arrested Gaetano Fidanzati (74) as he strolled down a street. Fidanzati is a reputed longtime Cosa Nostra boss of a Palermo crime clan and has been a fugitive for two years.
2009 Mike Dash authored "The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia."
2010 Feb 2, The key witness in a Mafia trial in Sicily told a court that a close ally of PM Silvio Berlusconi had direct links with the former "Boss of Bosses" of the Cosa Nostra.
2010 Mar 10, National police in Rome say 20 warrants have been issued so far in Palermo and six arrests have been made in the United States. Police say the crackdown targeted a Palermo-based Mafia crime family, and those named in the warrants are suspected of being mobsters and running extortion, money laundering and drug trafficking operations.
2010 Mar 15, Italian police arrested the "postmen" of the Mafia's top boss, 19 close aides who delivered the notes Matteo Messina Denaro writes to impart orders from his hideout.
2010 Apr 26, Italian police arrested Giovanni Tegano (70), a veteran mobster who was on the run for 17 years, in a house in Reggio Calabria. He was among the most wanted men of the 'ndrangheta organized crime group.
2010 May 10, Italian anti-mafia police said they have broken up an unusual alliance of Italy's three main crime syndicates controlling wholesale produce markets, including price fixing.
2010 May 14, In New Jersey 34 alleged members and associates of the Lucchese crime family were indicted in connection with an illegal gambling operation.
2010 Jun 15, Italian police arrested Nicola Schiavone, a powerful mobster of the Camorra crime syndicate, in his villa in Casal di Principe, a small town north of Naples. He is the son of imprisoned mobster Francesco Schiavone, reputedly the longtime top boss of the clan. Another of the elder Schiavone's sons was arrested last month.
2010 Jun 25, In southern France Giuseppe Falsone, an Italian mobster and one of the country's top 30 most wanted fugitives, was arrested in Marseille.
2010 Jun 27, It was reported that Vienna residents have become victims of burglary in recent weeks. The Austrian interior ministry suspected that many of the burglers were from the Republic of Georgia and were supported by the Georgian Mafia. The alleged local head, a restaurant owner in Vienna, has been arrested. Police suspected the burglaries were part of plan to finance a coup against Geeorgian Pres. Saakashvili.
2010 Jul 13, Italian police launched one of their biggest operations ever against the powerful 'ndrangheta crime syndicate, arresting 300 people including top bosses and seizing millions worth of property in pre-dawn raids.
2010 Jul 22, In Italy police carried out six arrests and charged that members of the Camorra mafia won contracts to rebuild the quake-hit city of L'Aquila with the help of four bank employees.
2010 Aug 14, In Italy police in Sicily said they've hit at the heart of the financial empire of a convicted Mafia associate, seizing euro800 million (more than $1 billion) in property and businesses, including a clinic for cancer patients and a local soccer team. Local health mogul Michele Aiello (53) was convicted of Mafia association, corruption and fraud and sentenced to 15 1/2 years in prison.
2010 Sep 23, In Italy Carabinieri investigators in southern Calabria said that an euro8 million winning ticket in the national Superenalotto numbers game was sold in a smokeshop owned by the father-in-law of a suspect jailed in a drug probe. The winner avoided taxes on interest due had the windfall been deposited in a bank. The mobsters got an excuse to open a mega-account. Italian law requires those making big deposits to prove the funds aren't illegal. Police seized millions of euros worth of assets from the jailed mob suspect.
2010 Oct 20, Italian police arrested Antonio Cortese. He is suspected of planting an unloaded bazooka and carrying out a bomb attack earlier this year that damaged the entrance of the Reggio Calabria courthouse in southern Italy. Turncoat Antonino Lo Giudice, a former top 'ndrangheta boss, accused Cortese of planting the explosives in an attempt to intimidate prosecutors.
2010 Oct 23, In Italy mafia fugitive Gerlandino Messina (38) was nabbed by Carabinieri in Favara, near Agrigento, his power base in Sicily. He had been on the run for 11 years before being caught.
2010 Nov 10, In Canada alleged Mafia patriarch Nicolo Rizzuto (b.1924) was gunned down at his home in Montreal.
2010 Nov 17, Italian police captured Antonio Iovine (46), one of the country's most wanted mobsters. He was considered the financial brains behind the Camorra crime syndicate clans.
2010 Nov 23, Authorities in southern Italy arrested two women in an operation against suspected mobsters, a development that reflects the increasing role of women in running the mob's affairs. Those arrested included Carmelina Capria, wife of imprisoned clan boss Antonio Pesce, and Maria Grazia Pesce, wife of fugitive boss Roberto Matalone.
2010 In Italy Operation Gaol led to the arrest of over 40 people associated with the 'Ndrangheta organized crime group.
2011 Jan 19, Luigi Manocchio, the reputed head of New England's Patriarca crime family, was arrested in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
2011 Jan 20, US FBI agents dealt another major blow to New York's five Mafia crime families by arresting some 127 suspected mobsters throughout the Northeast on charges including murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking.
2011 Feb 9, Enrico Ponzo, aka Jay Shaw, appeared in a Boise courtroom to face charges from a 1997 indictment for racketeering and attempted murder. The New England mobster vanished in 1994 after trying to kill his boss, Frank Salemme, former head of the Patriarca Family of La Cosa Nostra.
2011 Mar 8, Italian police picked up 31 suspects in a major crackdown on the 'ndrangheta crime syndicate. 6 suspects, all Italian citizens, were apprehended in Germany on an Italian-issued European arrest warrant. 3 suspects in Canada and one in Australia were still being sought. Among those picked up in Italy was Francesco Maisano, a boss who tried to hide in an underground bunker when police raided his home.
2011 Apr 18, Spanish police arrested Sicilian mafia fugitive Claudio Adriano Giusto (43) after 13 years on the run for murder and robbery. Giusto was accused of shooting and killing Giuseppe Magaddino with a 7.65 mm firearm and then taking his wallet in Italy in March 1998.
2011 Apr 23, Italian police arrested Francesco Campana (38), the alleged No. 1 boss of the organized crime syndicate based in Puglia, the region that makes up Italy's boot-shaped heel.
2011 May 3, Italian anti-mafia prosecutors said that 80 Mafiosi from two prominent crime syndicates have been arrested in separate operations. 40 were arrested for association with the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate in Calabria. Another 40 people in Naples were accused of trafficking drugs between Italy and Spain.
2011 May 23, Reputed Philadelphia mob boss Joseph Ligambi and 12 others were indicted with charges of racketeering and gambling.
2011 Jun 22, Mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger (81) was captured near Los Angeles, along with longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig, after 16 years on the run that embarrassed the FBI and exposed the bureau's corrupt relationship with its underworld informants.
2011 Sep 23, Federal agents in Rhode Island said they have put a major dent in the ranks of the New England mafia with the arrests of Edward Lato (64), Alfred Scivola (70), Raymond Jenkins (47) and Albino Folcarelli (53).
2011 Nov 24, The body of alleged Mafia boss Salvatore Montagna, who US authorities said once led New York's notorious Bonanno crime family, was fished out from a river north of Montreal.
2011 Nov 30, In Italy a judge, politician and police official were among 10 people detained in a crackdown on the 'ndrangheta crime syndicate in Milan and southern Reggio Calabria.
2011 Dec 7, Italian police captured Michele Zagaria, one of the country's most-wanted fugitive mobsters, arresting the last major boss of the Casalesi clan of the Neapolitan Camorra, one of Italy's bloodiest mafia clans.
2011 Federico Varese authored "Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories."
2012 Jan 20, A US federal appeals court in Boston upheld multimillion-dollar judgments that found the federal government liable for the deaths of 3 people allegedly murdered by James "Whitey" Bulger. The FBI had used Bulger and associate Stephen Flemmi as informants and had shielded them from prosecution.
2012 Jun 12, A federal judge in Boston sentenced Catherine Grieg (61), girlfriend of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, to 8 years in prison for helping Bulger stay on the run for 16 years.
2012 Nov 4, In Canada Joseph di Maulo, an alleged Mafia kingpin, was shot dead in the driveway of his Quebec home.
2012 Nov 14, In Rhode Island Anthony L. DiNunzio, acting head of the New England Mafia, was sentenced to 6½ years in prison for shaking down local strip clubs for protection money.
2012 Dec 20, A Thai court ordered the extradition of Vito Roberto Palazzolo (65), a fugitive Italian banker found guilty of laundering money for some of Italy's top mobsters through New York pizzerias from 1975-1984. Palazzolo has written about his legal woes and getting swept up in the Pizza Connection probe on his website, www.vrpalazzolo.com.
2012 Dec 25, Chicago mobster Frank Calabrese Sr. (75) died at a federal prison in North Carolina. He was among 5 men convicted in September 2007 at the Family Secrets trial.
2013 Apr 3, Italy's anti-Mafia investigators said they have seized a record €1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) in cash and property from Vito Nicastri (57) for tax fraud. The Sicilian alternative energy entrepreneur was alleged to have close ties to the Mafia.
2013 Jul 6, In Colombia Roberto Pannunzi, a suspected Italian mafia boss, was arrested and deported to Italy. He was described as Europe's most wanted drug trafficker and the world's biggest cocaine importer.
2013 Jul 9, In NYC nine reputed members of the Bonanno crime family were charged in a 158-page indictment of mob activity.
2013 Jul 26, Italian police said a mafia clan in Calabria staged hundreds of fake car crashes every year to get millions of euros in insurance payouts to buy drugs and weapons.
2013 Aug 7, British police arrested Domenico Rancadore (64), a senior member of an Italian mafia clan. He had been sentenced to seven years in jail while on the run and was detained in west London under a European arrest warrant.
2013 Sep 21, The Italian government announced that police in The Netherlands have arrested Francesco Nirta, a senior mafia boss and one of Italy's 10 most wanted men.
2013 Nov 5, Italy's La Repubblica newspaper reported that a group of Italian computer boffins have launched a new website, Mafialeaks, aimed at encouraging victims of organised crime and former gangsters to spill the beans.
2013 Nov 28, England's High Court overturned a decision to grant bail to an Italian mafia boss who was arrested in London after two decades on the run. Domenico Rancadore was wanted in Italy to serve a seven-year jail term for his role in the Sicilian mafia and authorities are seeking his extradition.
2013 Dec 13, Italian police said they have arrested 30 people linked to Matteo Messina Denaro, the head of Cosa Nostra, including his sister and several cousins in western Sicily.
2014 Jan 22, Italian police seized 27 pizzerias, cafes and other eateries in the heart of Rome and elsewhere in a probe highlighting the seemingly legitimate business fronting for organized crime in places far from the mobsters' Naples base.
2014 Jan 23, NYC police arrested Vincent Asaro (78) and charged him with helping direct the Dec 11, 1978, Kennedy Airport robbery that netted almost $6 million in cash and jewelry. Asaro was named along with his son, both captians in the Bonanno crime family, and three other defendants in a wide-ranging indictment.
2014 Feb 19, An Italian court sentenced Rafaelle Lombardo, a former governor of Sicily, to six years and eight months in prison for links to the Mafia. He resigned in 2012 following an indictment.
2014 Mar 17, A British judge ruled that Domenico Rancadore (65), a convicted Mafia boss, will be allowed to return to his comfortable home in west London rather than sent back to Italy and put in prison. The judge cited concerns about conditions in Italian prisons.
2014 Apr 3, Italian police arrested Nicola Cosentino, a former member of Silvio Berlusconi's government, accusing him of colluding with the mafia to quash competition against his family's petrol distribution business near Naples. Twelve others were also arrested on suspicion of extortion and unfair competitive practices.
2014 Apr 27, Dominican Rep. police arrested Nicola Pignatelli (43), an alleged high-ranking member of the Italian mafia. He had fled Italy in 2011 to avoid a prison sentence.
2014 Jun 13, In Italy Marcello Dell'Utri, a longtime ally of former PM Silvio Berlusconi, was extradited to Italy under Interpol guard and transferred to a prison in the northern city of Parma. Authorities said he had fled to Lebanon to escape a prison sentence for Mafia association.
2014 Jul 9, Spain's Interior Ministry said police in Madrid have arrested 32 suspected members of Italy's Camorra crime group involved in drug trafficking, extortion, fraud and money laundering. Four arrests were also reported in Italy.
2014 Dec 16, Italian police said they have arrested 59 suspects in a probe of ties between the 'ndrangheta organized crime syndicate and Milan businessmen, including alleged efforts to snare San Siro stadium's catering business.
2014 Dec 19, Italian police seized construction companies, apartments, villas and a yacht belonging to Cristiano Guarnera, a businessman who authorities allege consorted with a Mafia-like gang in Rome with ties to local politicians.
2015 Jan 28, Italian police conducted a huge dragnet against a Calabrian mafia clan operating in the north, arresting 110 people and seizing more than 100 million euros ($114 million).
2015 Jan, Italian police raided and closed a chain of more than 20 pizzerias allegedly belonging to the Camorra, a mafia of the southern city of Naples and its surrounding area, Campania.
2015 Feb 20, A British court overturned a previous ruling that prison overcrowding in Italy could breach his human rights allowing convicted Sicilian mafioso Domenico Rancadore (65) to be extradited. He had spent two decades living incognito in Britain.
2015 Mar 23, In Los Angeles Vianna Roman (39), the daughter of an imprisoned Mexican Mafia kingpin, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. She had pleaded guilty last year to racketeering, narcotics and weapons charges.
2015 Jul 8, Italian authorities said they have seized assets worth more than 1.6 billion euros ($1.75 billion) from a family of five Sicilian pensioners believed to have links to a prominent mafia clan. The haul belonged to Carmelo Virga (66), his brothers Vincenzo (78), and Francesco (71), and their sisters Anna (76) and Rosa (68).
2015 Jul 22, Italian police seized assets worth 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) and issued 41 arrest warrants in raids on gambling companies in Italy and abroad run by the 'Ndrangheta mafia organization.
2015 Aug 3, Italian police arrested 11 suspects linked to the fugitive head of the Sicilian Mafia, including a former boss who ran a secret message system for the mobster using a sheep-based code. Matteo Messina Denaro (53) had been on the run since 1993.
2015 Aug 20, In Italy the funeral of purported mobster Vittorio Casamonica featured a gilded, horse-drawn carriage carrying his casket and a band playing "The Godfather" theme outside the church. Police and Carabinieri patrols accompanied the funeral procession. A helicopter pilot flew low over Rome to drop flower petals.
2015 Aug 27, Italy's government put Rome city hall under close supervision following allegations it had fallen under the sway of organized crime, but allowed beleaguered Mayor Ignazio Marino to stay in office.
2015 Sep 17, In Florida Anthony Moscatielo was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the mob-connected 2001 slaying of Konstantinos Boulis during a dispute over gambling ships.
2015 Nov 2, Police in Sicily arrested 22 suspected mobsters after businesses, tired of paying the Mafia "protection" money, rebelled and contacted authorities.
2015 Nov 12, In NYC mobster Vincent Asaro (80) threw his hands into the air and shouted "Free," grinning as he walked out of a courthouse following his surprising acquittal on charges he helped plan the legendary 1978 Lufthansa heist retold in the hit Mafia film "Goodfellas."
2015 Nov 20, Italian police arrested six members of Sicily's Cosa Nostra mafia as part of an inquiry that uncovered a threat of violence against Interior Minister Angelino Alfano.


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SCIENTIFIC CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF ANTARCTICA TAKES OFF FROM SOUTH AFRICA
December 24, 2016 Sales
An international scientific voyage, comprising 60 researchers from 30 different countries (including Argentina), has set off from South Africa on a three-month tour of the Antarctic to study the extreme environment and impact of climate change on the Southern Ocean.
The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) is the first project of the Swiss Polar Institute (SPI), an initiative by the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and Zurich (ETHZ), the Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL), Bern University and Editions Paulsen.
The Southern Ocean is a key player in regulating global climate, temperatures and carbon cycles by exchanging heat with tropical regions near the equator.
The poles are essential for climate balance, but they are also the regions where changes are most apparent: that's where the largest temperature differences have been recorded, said Philippe Gillet, vice president of EPFL and interim director of the SPI, in a statement.
The researchers will be traveling on board a Russian research vessel, the Akademik Treshnikov, along with about 60 crew members. Their journey will not only take them around the world's southernmost continent, but also to some dozen nearby islands.
The ACE includes 22 different research projects in fields ranging from glaciology and climatology to biology and oceanography, which will gather data on plankton, island biodiversity, ocean carbon dioxide storage, pollution, and even whale songs.
The expedition is a joint project by the SPI, the Swiss foreign ministry, and Presence Switzerland, a government organization responsible for promoting Switzerland's image abroad. Logistical support is also being provided by Swedish businessman and philanthropist Frederik Paulsen, Jr., chairman of Ferring Pharmaceuticals based in Switzerland.
On the occasion of the expedition's departure, the SPI also instated its newest chair, the Ingvar Kamprad Chair of Extreme Environments, which will be supported by Ferring Pharmaceuticals and based at EPFL's Valais-Wallis campus.
The Akademik Treshnikov is expected to return to Cape Town on March 19, 2017, and an initial review of results will be presented in September.
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Beat the egg yolks into the chocolate mixture one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine vanilla and flour.
Beat the egg whites using an electric mixer until there are stiff peaks and foamy. Add in cream of tarter and salt and mix a few seconds to combine them well.
Going slowly add in about 1/2 of the egg whites to the chocolate and fold in with a spatula. Then add in the remainder.
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Home Article Pit Bulls & Parolees' Tia Maria Torres is apart from Husband Aren Marcus Jackson. Find out the reason here.
Pit Bulls & Parolees' Tia Maria Torres is apart from Husband Aren Marcus Jackson. Find out the reason here.
Updated On 22 Sep, 2019 Published On 21 Apr, 2017
Popular American TV personality Tia Maria Torres is best known for her role in "Pit Bulls & Parolees" which is a famous reality series on Animal Planet.
"From dogs to livestock to exotic animals, I think I've had the honor to meet a good majority of the Animal Kingdom. Everything I know today, I learned from these "creatures" and I feel so fortunate that I have been able to share a life with them."
"Although my world is a tough one to endure, to be able to wake up in the morning, knowing how much of an impact I will make on their lives but on mine as well., makes the struggles worth it. I am a better person because of the animals in my life. Without them, I am nobody."
She runs the show and it's the United States Largest Pit bull animal shelter. Her love for animals is not a mystery to the world but what about the real love of her life? Well, it's not a mystery too!
She was a happily married woman. Her husband is Aren Marcus Jackson, and the couple was living a blissful family life until her husband, Aren was arrested for property theft and several other reasons in 2007.
Is he still in prison? Was he sent to prison over false accusation? Are they still together or already separated with a divorce? Let's know all the facts in brief.
TV Personality Tia Torres Is Apart From Husband Aren Marcus Jackson: Arrested In 2007
By the summer of 2007, Aren was living a happy life with his wife, Tia Torress in Agua Dulce, California.
Aren Marcus in a shot.
Source: Features
But in August 2007, the worst thing happened to this happy family as Aren Marcus got arrested by a Country Detective addressed Agent Dorsey suspecting Aren for his involvement in an auto break-in the Santa Clarita and Antelope valleys in 2007.
The private asset was stolen from the car, and somebody tried to access the stolen credit card. Agent Dorsey admitted that the man in the video footage was none other than A.J.
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With all the evidence, he was arrested in 2007 and is still in prison. However, Torres still defends him and often releases the statement of her partner not being guilty and was falsely accused.
Well, is the couple still together despite major incidents? Let's get the fact!
Married Life Of Tia Maria Torres And Aren Marcus Jackson: Are They Still Together Or Divorced?
We can not say that Tia and Aren live a fairy tale life without any problems as there are still complications, but the one thing that will never change is the love and support that they had for one another in past.
Everything was going on smoothly until Aren was arrested in the year 2007 for property theft. He is currently serving a 15 years sentence in California.
Tia Torres and her husband Aren.
Source: My Space
Despite immense love and care, the couple has gone through adamant situations.
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Everyone thought that the pair is still together but one of the posts on 'Tia Maria Torres of Pit Bulls & Parolees' Facebook page, it clearly states that they have already been separated with an official divorce.
She what she wrote:
"Speaking of Mr. Jackson who only appeared in one and a half episodes, 10 years ago. Everyone wants that fairytale happy ending. And despite that fact that I have not mentioned his name NOT ONCE for the past 10 years, according to the lovestruck experts on some of these websites who want so badly for "Tia to be in love"...SURPRISE! I've been divorced for years. I'm thinking that maybe now I need my own spin-off now...Date My Dog...if you can get past Lucky....you might have a chance."
Well, it is a piece of shocking news for Torres' fans.
Despite her personal distress, she's actively connected with her fans via her Facebook page. Here's one of her Facebook posts:
Tia Torres is not single. She is still married to her beau Aren Marcus Jackson. The duo tied a knot in early 2006 after dating a couple of years. They are united as a life partner for over a decade now. The Southern California native is living a sound life with all of her children and partner.
Even though, there's a speculation in between the 2010s that the lovers aren't together anymore. But, most of the genuine news agencies claim they are relishing each other's company. Their bond is as strong as they had in the beginning.
The Ex-Couple Is Proud Parents Of Four Adorable Children
Tia Torres and Aren Marcus share four children out of which two are adopted. She welcomed her daughter, Tania Torres from her previous relationship with a late gang banger boyfriend.
Their biological daughter, Mariah Torres shared a healthy relationship with their adopted brothers, Kanani Chock and Keli'i Chock. The two bikers also paint and have an interest in music.
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Tania is also a keen animal lover. She tours the world as an animal trainer, especially for movie productions. While her sister is a public speaker' She also took part in many beauty pageant shows. She holds a degree in criminal psychology and has a keen interest in fashion designing.
Tia Torres' Children
Tia's kids provide help and support to her work, Her Hawaiian twin's sons provide comic relief for shows and deal with most difficult dogs. Likewise, her daughter also shows their effort in production along with crew members.
How They First Met?
The love affair of Tia and Aren Marcus started during the 1980s when she was tracking the owner of a lost dog.
It was very difficult so she used the inmate locator as the only option. The only clue she could find was that the owner was in California penitentiary.
Tia Torres.
Source: Media Planet
As you are expecting, the owner was none other than her future husband Aren. Soon after their encounter, they started writing letters and became good friends.
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Though Aren had a bad reputation as he was imprisoned for several times for property theft, Tia could not stop herself from loving him.
Later after 2006, despite several obstacles, the duo got married.
Tia Torres's Love For Animals
At the early age of 17, Tia showed courage to leave her home with her pets including two horses of Arabian origin, an Angora goat, and a dog.
She suffered a lot to keep all the animals easygoing. Tia fought her best to protect animals and prove that they are gentle and lovely.
She worked with many organizations like "The Pit Bull Support Group", "Villalobos Rescue Center", etc. which provide help, training classes, and everything concerned with Pit Bull.
See what she says about her love for animals of all kind:
The amazing Tia Torres talking about Pit Bulls with Ellen DeGeneres.
Tia's work with 'Pit Bulls and Parolees' dragged the attention of a renowned magazine in Los Angeles and she was introduced as 'Most Important People'.
A post shared by Tia Maria Torres (@tia_pbp) on Apr 18, 2013 at 4:15am PDT
The program on The Animal Planet became really very famous that donations and adoptions of dogs increased drastically.
Tia's work of rescuing dogs across the country and providing them a good shelter is really praiseworthy. We are very pleased to see such a kind-hearted lady with an immense love for animals.
Recently, she announced via her Facebook page that she's attending a fundraising event for Speranza Animal Rescue as a guest speaker on 8 September 2018.
The program is presented by Dillsburg Vet Center.
Tia Maria Torres: Wiki
Source: The Herald Times
Born on June 11, 1960, in California in a middle-class family.
She was raised by her stepmother and her father.
She spent most of her childhood days in a broken home in Southern California.
Spent her childhood cleaning horse stalls and feeding them.
Grew passionate about saving dogs when her neighbor dumped their dog on her doorstep.
Left home when she was 17 with two Arabian goats and her Catahoula Leopard dog Cougar and was a truck driver and also served in the US Army.
She has a huge love for animals.
She is a founder of the Villalobos Rescue Center; which is the largest pit bull animal shelter of the United States.
She married longtime boyfriend around the year 2006 Aren Marcus Jackson.
Her husband is now in a jail arrested on a charge of theft.
Has two biological daughters Mariah and Tania and adopted two boys twin named Keli'i and Kanani.
Her net worth is estimated to be around $300,000.
Tia is the owner of Villa Lobos, Village of wolves, rescue Center in New Orleans, Los Angeles.
Tia Morris is a mother of daughters Tania Torress and Mariah Torress.
Aren Marcus Jackson: Quick Facts
Came into the limelight after he married his girlfriend Tia Torres.
He was already in prison when he first met his future wife.
He is currently at the jail with an accusation of multiple felony charges.
He has several charges of drug dealing, theft, attempt to murder as well.
He is still on the trail and considering his charges it is quite difficult for him to get out of the jail.
Though he is a criminal he seems to be a good husband and the couple is still together.
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Q: SharePoint 2013 workflow won't run under SharePoint App (from App Step) I have two lists.  List A has a Designer workflow that uses an App Step to create a new item in another list - essentially copying the data to that list.  That works great.  However, List B has a workflow that should start when new item is created and it won't. I do have Workflow can use app permissions turned on.   I don't know what else to look for.
I have followed the instructions in this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj822159(v=office.15).aspx .
I've been trying to find an answer for days without success.

A: Whenever you create an item in another list from appstep, it is created on behalf of "System Account". Any workflow which runs on 'Created' won't start if value of  "created by" is "System Account". I'll suggest you to give the user permission on  list B and take the steps to create an item out of the app step.

A: I am facing the same issue. I am using SharePoint online. My scenario was a workflow 2013 run on an item in List A use 'start 2010 workflow' action inside 'App Step' action to turn on another 2010 workflow on the same item. It work well before. But, some how it start to fail after some minor edit on the workflow 2013. The easiest solution I can found was, move the 'start 2010 workflow' permission out of the 'App Step' section.

A: Well I had a similar issue and I spent lots of efforts but nothing worked until I try SharePoint 2010 workflow instead of SharePoint 2013 designer workflow. I enabled app step that is equivalent to impersonation, but even that didn't helped. SharePoint 2013 App Step will create item on behalf of user who has published workflow, but unfortunately it would not trigger SharePoint designer workflow.
What I did is I created the same workflow but with SharePoint 2010 without App-Step and it worked like charm.

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Hindu Mahasabha says will make Godse's statue using Ambala jail's soil
The right-wing organisation's comments came on Monday when it observed Godse's death anniversary.
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The incident happened hours after Prime Minister Morrison unveiled the statue, at the Australian Indian Community Centre ...
Mahatma Gandhi arrested in South Africa on this day in 1913: All you need to know
Gandhi was arrested on November 6, 1913, while leading a march that numbered 2,037 men, 127 women and 57 children.
This day, that year: What happened on November 6 in history
From the election of Abraham Lincoln as 16th US President in 1860 to the partial shut down of Delhi due to air pollution ...
Akhilesh Yadav mentions Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Jinnah in same breath; prompts BJP criticism
Yadav lavished praise on Patel on his 146th birth anniversary but raised eyebrows at one point when he appeared to...
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The Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship is a two-year certificate programme in public policy and management.
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Sternberger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dolf Sternberger (1907–1989), German philosopher
Estelle Sternberger (1886–1971), American activist, writer and broadcaster
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Jakob Marzel Sternberger (1750–1822), Bohemian German mayor
Jacob Sternberger, grandson of Jakob Marzel Sternberger
Lionel Sternberger, credited by some with producing the first cheeseburger
Marcel Sternberger (1899–1956), Hungarian-American portrait photographer

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Großer Sternberger See, lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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Q: Is it possible to implement data classification scheme (for choropleth plot) in altair? I am creating a choropleth plot function with Altair and want to use different data classification scheme for the size of the scatter markers. I have looked up the bin parameters and bin transform in encoding but haven't worked it out. Ideally I want to implement the classification schemes like they are in GeoPandas. Here is my current code and plot (only the size part is relevant I believe)
base = alt.Chart(choro_data).mark_geoshape(
    fill="lightgray",
    stroke='white',
    strokeWidth=0.1
).properties(
    width=1000,
    height=800,
    title='Safe Graph for Average Distance'
).project(
    type='albersUsa'
)

cold = alt.Chart(choro_data).mark_circle().encode(
    latitude='properties.latitude:Q',
    longitude='properties.longitude:Q',
    stroke=alt.ColorValue("black"),
    strokeWidth = alt.value(1),
    strokeOpacity = alt.condition(
        'datum.properties.recency <= 5',   ### condition value set to??
        alt.value(1),
        alt.value(0)),
    color=alt.Color('properties.recency:Q',
                                     bin = alt.Bin(step=5),
                                     scale=alt.Scale(scheme='blues'),
                                     legend=alt.Legend(title='Week Numbers (Cold Spots)')),
    size=alt.Size('properties.total:Q',
                  scale=alt.Scale(range=[0, 70]),
                  bin=alt.Bin(step=5),
                  legend=alt.Legend(title='Number of Time Classified as Cold/Hot Spots')),
    tooltip=display
)

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Southee stars as RCB down Mumbai Indians
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Tim Southee's spectacular show with the ball helped Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in registering a 14-run win against Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Tuesday.
The match started with Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma winning the toss and opting to field first. His decision seemed an incorrect one as the hosts reached to 121 in the 15th over at the expense of just three wickets and looked set for a total in excess of 180.
However, visitors made a grand comeback in the last five our and restricted RCB to a total of 167 for seven in their allotted 20 overs.Young opener Manan Vohra finished the innings with the top score of 45 off 31 balls with the help of two fours and four sixes. He was well supported by former New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum and RCB captain Virat Kohli, who scored 37 and 35 off 25 and 26 balls respectively.
For the visitors, the star in the bowling department was pacer Hardik Pandya, who claimed figures of three for 28.
In reply, Mumbai had a horrid beginning as they lost first four wickets just 47 runs inside the first eight overs. A 37-run partnership between veteran all-rounder JP Duminy and Pandya kept the team in the tie, but the former departed in the 12th over.
From there on, Krunal Pandya along with his brother Hardik scored 56-run for the sixth-wicket partnership kept Mumbai in the hunt, but with run-rate increasing at a rapid pace, Rohit Sharma-led unit could keep up the pace and were restricted to 153 for seven in their 20 overs.Pandya finished the innings with the top score of 50 off 42 balls with the help of five fours and one six.
For RCB, pacers Southee, Umesh Yadav, and Mohammad Siraj claimed two wickets each.
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Roland March is a homicide detective who stopped 'showing up' for his job some time ago. Despite past fame he is now a disgrace throughout the department. He has cashed in all of his favours to stay employed and time is running out. Given one last chance Roland is desperate to redeem himself. It will take time and even with successes, there are those who still have doubts that he won't backslide.
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Effect of Geopolymer Aggregate on Strength and Microstructure of Concrete
5-Dec-2018 1:00 PM EST, by American Concrete Institute (ACI)
Fig. 1––High pressure and reduced temperature production methods are used to manufacture geopolymer coarse aggregates.
Fig. 2(a) ––Mean compressive strengths of up to 40 MPa
Fig. 2(b) Flexural strengths up to 4.5 MPs were achieved for the concrete manufactured with the geopolymer aggregate.
Fig. 3––Dry density of the geopolymer aggregate concrete was 2140 kg/m3 compared to 2645 kg/m3 for the natural aggregate concrete.
ACI Materials Journal, November 2018
Effect of Geopolymer Aggregate on Strength andMicrostructure of Concrete
by Chamila Gunasekera, David W. Law, and Sujeeva Setunge
Newswise — Researchers in the School of Engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne conducted a study investigating the mechanical properties and microstructure of a novel manufactured geopolymer coarse aggregate that uses low calcium fly ash. Overall, the geopolymer investigated in this research shows potential as a lightweight coarse aggregate for concrete, with the additional benefit of reducing the environmental impact of fly ash from coal-fired power generation.
In the study, testing included compressive and tensile strengths of concretes made with the manufactured geopolymer coarse aggregate and a comparative natural crushed coarse aggregate. In addition, the microstructure and pore structure development of both concretes at the interfacial transition zone (ITZ) and bulk cement matrix were studied though scanning electron microscopy and X-ray-computed tomography. The data showed that the novel geopolymer coarse aggregate satisfied the requirements of the Australian Standard, AS 2758.1:2014, "Aggregates and Rock for Engineering Purposes," and is comparable to the results from the natural aggregate.
The manufacture of a geopolymer coarse aggregate using low calcium fly ash is a recent development. The technology for the manufacture of this geopolymer coarse aggregates uses novel techniques employing high pressure and reduced temperature production methods (Fig. 1). The reaction mechanism of the geopolymer coarse aggregate is similar to that of fly ash-based geopolymer concrete.
Results of the study showed that concrete made with the geopolymer aggregate achieved mean compressive strengths up to 40 MPa (Fig. 2(a)) and flexural strengths up to 4.5 MPs (Fig. 2(b)), with similar initial and final setting times to those of natural aggregate concrete. The dry density of the geopolymer aggregate concrete was 2140 kg/m3 compared to 2645 kg/m3 for the natural aggregate concrete (Fig. 3). Thus, the geopolymer aggregate could potentially save in construction costs due to the lightweight nature of the aggregate and, overall, shows potential as a lightweight coarse aggregate for concrete.
If viable, the use of this manufactured geopolymer aggregate could lead to improved sustainable concrete design and a greener environment. Worldwide natural aggregate production is approximately 4.5 billion tonnes with demand increasing with the expansion of construction worldwide, such that natural aggregate reserves are depleting fast. Australia alone consumes about 130 million tonnes of aggregates annually. The production of 1 tonne of natural crushed aggregate emits between 7.4 and 8.0 kg of CO2. Furthermore, quarrying of the aggregate can have a detrimental impact on natural drainage patterns and slope stability due to the removal of trees and can lead to loss of natural habitat for the local fauna.
The research can be found in a paper titled "Effect of Geopolymer Aggregate on Strength andMicrostructure of Concrete," published by ACI Materials Journal.
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Caption: Fig. 1––High pressure and reduced temperature production methods are used to manufacture geopolymer coarse aggregates.
Caption: Fig. 2(a) ––Mean compressive strengths of up to 40 MPa
Caption: Fig. 2(b) Flexural strengths up to 4.5 MPs were achieved for the concrete manufactured with the geopolymer aggregate.
Caption: Fig. 3––Dry density of the geopolymer aggregate concrete was 2140 kg/m3 compared to 2645 kg/m3 for the natural aggregate concrete.


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EU Between Green Deal And Survival
By: Admin - Climate DepotApril 29, 2020 8:31 AM
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The coronavirus crisis risks becoming an existential crisis for the European Union, say diplomats and analysts, as the EU struggles to coordinate a financial response to the pandemic.
Last week, the EU's national leaders struck an interim agreement on a recovery deal with an emergency fund of about $581 million (a half-billion euros), which the hardest hit member states can tap into for immediate assistance.
But the wrangling over how to cope with the economic impact of the pandemic is far from over, and the overall $2 trillion-plus economic package mooted last week by the national leaders includes the budget costs of the EU itself for the next seven years.
In fact, no final numbers, aside from the emergency fund, have yet been agreed upon, according to analysts. Members states already were at loggerheads over money before the coronavirus appeared, with sharp arguments between them about how to make up for the loss of Britain's financial contribution to the EU.
The emergency relief package came after an ill-natured squabble and warnings by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte that the EU project itself was in jeopardy unless the wealthier northern states help bail out their poorer southern neighbors. It also has left unresolved whether aid from the emergency fund to countries like Italy and Spain will be in the form of loans, which must be paid back, or grants, which won't.
Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte delivers his message to the Lower House of Chambers of the Italian Parliament, in Rome, April 21, 2020.
Another key issue is whether the eurozone countries will eventually have to mutualize their debt by issuing jointly so-called "coronabonds" to meet health-care costs and mitigate the impact of a deep economic slump, one that could rival the Great Depression almost a century ago.
As the behind-scenes quarreling continues over money, euro-skepticism, which before the pandemic appeared to be ebbing, is rising once again. It's being fueled by southern Europeans smarting over what they see as an absence of solidarity by the more affluent nations, reminiscent, they say, of the debt crisis following the 2008 financial crash that nearly tore the EU apart. The pandemic is opening up the wounds of that crisis, which also saw a sharp split between the north and south.
"The coronavirus pandemic could well be the ultimate acid test of its resilience as a community based on solidarity and common values," according to Stefan Lehne of Carnegie Europe, a think tank based in Brussels. In a posted commentary, he wrote: "The mindset of everybody for itself, which is so tempting under the acute stress of the crisis, must be countered by stepping up cooperation and mutual assistance among the member states. Otherwise, the EU will be in great danger."
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Former Hanoi Rocks Singer Has 'No Interest' in Motley Crue's 'The Dirt'
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Motley Crue's The Dirt was one of several rock biopics to come out in the last year. Based on the 2001 biography, the Netflix film seemed to be either loved or hated by critics and fans. Former Hanoi Rocks frontman Michael Monroe hasn't seen the movie, and claims he has "no interest" in doing so.
"Nah. I never read the book. I'm not interested in that band. Why bother? To me, it's nothing," Monroe told The Metal Gods Meltdown after being asked if he had seen the movie.
Crue frontman Vince Neil got into a car accident on a December night in 1984, and Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle was his passenger, who died in the incident. Neil was sentenced to 30 days in prison, but was released after 18 days and ordered to go to rehab.
The accident was obviously one of the more serious parts of both the book and film version of The Dirt, but Monroe claims that isn't why he won't watch the movie.
"I'm just not interested. It's not my kind of thing. I was never into that band before or after the accident. It was a tragic thing that happened, but I doubt that it's truthful to what really went down," he says. "People are telling me, 'Oh, yeah, Razzle is in the movie.' 'Oh, yeah? Did they also mention the two teenagers who got paralyzed from the neck down?'"
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