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Culture-independent characterization of bacterial communities associated with the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico
Bacteria are recognized as an important part of the total biology of shallow-water corals. Studies of shallow-water corals suggest that associated bacteria may benefit the corals by cycling carbon, fixing nitrogen, chelating iron, and producing antibiotics that protect the coral from other microbes. Cold-water or deep-sea corals have a...
Kellogg, C.A.; Lisle, J.T.; Galkiewicz, J.P.
Culture-independent characterization of bacterial communities associated with the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico; 2009; Article; Journal; Applied and Environmental Microbiology; Kellogg, C. A.; Lisle, J. T.; Galkiewicz, J. P.
Characterization of Northern Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Hard Bottom Communities with Emphasis on Lophelia Coral - Lophelia Reef Megafaunal Community Structure, Biotopes, Genetics, Microbial Ecology, and Geology (2004–2006)
Allen, Brooks R.; Caruso, John H.; Grottoli, Andrea; Harden, William M.; Johnson, Robin L.; Kellogg, Christina A.; King, Tim L.; Luke, Kirsten E.; Miller, Jana M.; Morrison, Cheryl L.; Nizinski, Martha S.; Norem, April D.; Quaid, Andrew J.; Randall, Michael T.; Risk, Michael J.; Ross, Steve W.; Schill, William B.; Sulak, Kenneth J.; Williams, Branwin; Yeargin, George E.; Sulak, Kenneth J.; Randall, Michael T.; Luke, Kirsten E.; Norem, April D.; Miller, Jana M.
Attribution: Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Ecosystems,
Sulak, K.J., Randall, M.T., Luke, K.E., Norem, A.D., and Miller, J.M., (eds.), 2008, Characterization of Northern Gulf of Mexico deepwater hard bottom communities with emphasis on Lophelia coral--Lophelia reef megafaunal community structure, biotopes, genetics, microbial ecology, and geology (2004–2006): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008–1148; OCS Study MMS 2008–015, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20081148.
Cross-kingdom amplification using Bacteria-specific primers: Complications for studies of coral microbial ecology
PCR amplification of pure bacterial DNA is vital to the study of bacterial interactions with corals. Commonly used Bacteria-specific primers 8F and 27F paired with the universal primer 1492R amplify both eukaryotic and prokaryotic rRNA genes. An alternative primer set, 63F/1542R, is suggested to resolve this problem. Copyright ?? 2008, American...
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Cross-kingdom amplification using Bacteria-specific primers: Complications for studies of coral microbial ecology; 2008; Article; Journal; Applied and Environmental Microbiology; Galkiewicz, J. P.; Kellogg, C. A.
Phage therapy for Florida corals?
Coral disease is a major cause of reef decline in the Florida Keys. Bacterium has been defined as the most common pathogen (disease-causing organism). Although much is being done to catalog coral diseases, map their locations, determine the causes of disease, or measure the rates of coral demise, very little research has been directed toward...
Kellogg, Christina A.
Attribution: Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Ecosystems
Phage therapy for Florida corals?; 2007; FS; 2007-3065; Kellogg, Christina A.
Coral microbiology
In the last 30 years, there has been approximately a 30% loss of corals worldwide, largely due to emerging diseases (Harvell et al., 2002, 2007; Hughes et al., 2003). Coral microbiology is a new field, driven largely by a desire to understand the interactions between corals and their symbiotic microorganisms and to use this knowledge to eventually...
Rosenberg, Eugene; Kellogg, Christina A.; Rohwer, Forest
Coral microbiology; 2007; Article; Journal; Oceanography; Rosenberg, Eugene; Kellogg, Christina A.; Rohwer, Forest
Aerobiology and the global transport of desert dust
Desert winds aerosolize several billion tons of soil-derived dust each year, including concentrated seasonal pulses from Africa and Asia. These transoceanic and transcontinental dust events inject a large pulse of microorganisms and pollen into the atmosphere and could therefore have a role in transporting pathogens or expanding the...
Microbiology and public beach safety: integrated science for the protection of public health
Kellogg, Christine A.; Lisle, John T.
Microbiology and public beach safety: integrated science for the protection of public health; 2006; FS; 2006-3045; Kellogg, Christine A.; Lisle, John T.
Saharan dust - A carrier of persistent organic pollutants, metals and microbes to the Caribbean?
An international team of scientists from government agencies and universities in the United States, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), Trinidad & Tobago, the Republic of Cape Verde, and the Republic of Mali (West Africa) is working together to elucidate the role Saharan dust may play in the degradation of Caribbean ecosystems. The first step has been...
Garrison, V.H.; Foreman, W.T.; Genualdi, S.; Griffin, Dale W.; Kellogg, C.A.; Majewski, M.S.; Mohammed, A.; Ramsubhag, A.; Shinn, E.A.; Simonich, S.L.; Smith, G.W.
Saharan dust - A carrier of persistent organic pollutants, metals and microbes to the Caribbean?; 2006; Article; Journal; Revista de Biologia Tropical; Garrison, V. H.; Foreman, W. T.; Genualdi, S.; Griffin, D. W.; Kellogg, C. A.; Majewski, M. S.; Mohammed, A.; Ramsubhag, A.; Shinn, E. A.; Simonich, S. L.; Smith, G. W.
Kellogg, Christina
Coral microbial ecology; 2005; FS; 2005-3039; Kellogg, Christina
Dust storms and their impact on ocean and human health: dust in Earth's atmosphere
Satellite imagery has greatly influenced our understanding of dust activity on a global scale. A number of different satellites such as NASA's Earth-Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) and Se-viewing Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) acquire daily global-scale data used to produce imagery for monitoring dust storm formation and movement....
Griffin, Dale W.; Kellog, Christina A.
Attribution: Land Resources
Dust storms and their impact on ocean and human health: dust in Earth's atmosphere; 2004; Article; Journal; EcoHealth; Griffin, Dale W.; Kellog, Christina A.
Characterization of aerosolized bacteria and fungi from desert dust events in Mali, West Africa
Millions of metric tons of African desert dust blow across the Atlantic Ocean each year, blanketing the Caribbean and southeastern United States. Previous work in the Caribbean has shown that atmospheric samples collected during dust events contain living microbes, including plant and opportunistic human pathogens. To better understand the...
Kellogg, C.A.; Griffin, Dale W.; Garrison, V.H.; Peak, K.K.; Royall, N.; Smith, R.R.; Shinn, E.A.
Characterization of aerosolized bacteria and fungi from desert dust events in Mali, West Africa; 2004; Article; Journal; Aerobiologia; Kellogg, C. A.; Griffin, D. W.; Garrison, V. H.; Peak, K. K.; Royall, N.; Smith, R. R.; Shinn, E. A.
Tropical Archaea: Diversity associated with the surface microlayer of corals
Recent 16S rDNA studies have focused on detecting uncultivated bacteria associated with Caribbean reef corals in an effort to address the ecological roles of coral-associated microbes. Reports of Archaea associated with fishes and marine invertebrates raised the question of whether Archaea might also be part of the coral-associated microbial...
Kellogg, C.A.
Tropical Archaea: Diversity associated with the surface microlayer of corals; 2004; Article; Journal; Marine Ecology Progress Series; Kellogg, C. A.


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Home | Sports | Boys Basketball | Noland receives Big 12 honor as OU battles No. 3 Baylor, No. 14 Texas Tech
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Noland receives Big 12 honor as OU battles No. 3 Baylor, No. 14 Texas Tech
Travis M. Smith March 11, 2022 Boys Basketball, NCAA, Waxahachie High School 881 Views
By Travis M. Smith | KBEC Sports
KANSAS CITY, MO — Waxahachie alumnus CJ Noland was named to the Big 12 All-Freshman Team prior to the conference tournament this week.
Noland appeared in 29 games prior to Thursday's opening round of the Big 12 tournament, which included 16 conference games. The 6-foot-2 true freshman is averaging 4.1 points and 1.4 rebounds per contest.
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Noland has made 29 appearances in his first season in the Crimson and Cream. The freshman guard from Waxahachie, Texas, averaged 4.1 points and 1.4 rebounds per contest. Noland appeared in 16 Big 12 contests.
Noland and the Sooners are currently battling it out against some of the nation's best in the Big 12 Tournament at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
OU defeated No. 3 (26-6) Baylor on Thursday night, 72-67, to move into a showdown against No. 14 (24-8) Texas Tech. In his 30th appearance of the season, Noland scored 3 points while adding two rebounds and five assists to help OU into the conference tournament semifinal game.
Tipoff between the Red Raiders and Sooners was slated for 8:30 p.m. Friday. The game was set to be streamed on ESPN2.
OU is still considered by many to be a "bubble team" for the upcoming NCAA March Madness Tournament. The Sooners entered the Big 12 tournament as the seventh-seed with an overall record of 18-14 and 7-11 mark in conference play.
Noland is a 2021 graduate of Waxahachie. His father, Belvis, is no stranger to the intensity of Big 12 basketball, as he starred at Kansas State. It was there in Manhattan, Kansas, where Belvis met Nicole, CJ's mother. Oddly enough, Noland recorded season highs in points (10), minutes (24) and field goals made (4) against Kansas State on Jan. 1.
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"Friends of the CTBT" group issues video call for Treaty's entry into force
The "Friends of the CTBT" – Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands – issued this video message and press release at 16:00 CEST on 1 October 2020:
The Foreign Ministers of the Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) call for a permanent ban to nuclear weapons testing
In a video message released today, the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands call for the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which bans all forms of nuclear weapons testing. Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the Foreign Ministers of the Friends of the CTBT cannot, for the first time since 2002, hold the biennial Ministerial Meeting endorsed by many countries at the UN General Assembly high level week.
In the video, Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu stated that the "tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki must never be repeated". Motegi added that "worldwide condemnation against North Korea's nuclear tests demonstrates the strengthened sense of norm against nuclear testing". Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne added that "prior to the CTBT's opening for signature, more than 2000 nuclear tests had been conducted. Each test had contributed to the development of nuclear weapons". Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne stated that "nuclear testing heightens global tensions and leaves devastating, enduring impacts on people and the environment."
Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas reaffirmed that, until we achieve entry into force, "the Friends of the CTBT will continue to lobby for the treaty. It is an excellent example of multilateralism in practice and an effective response to the nuclear threat."
Regarding the spin off uses of CTBTO verification data for disaster warning and science, Stef Blok, Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, noted that the CTBT had already provided a "wealth of knowledge about the arrival of monsoons, the impact of meteorites, the migration patterns of whales and eruptions of volcanoes. In itself, this discovery is a valuable lesson for humankind".
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto stated that he was "proud to host one of the stations of the CTBT's global network, detecting nuclear tests and assisting in disaster warning across the globe". He emphasised that "our common goal is a world free of nuclear weapons. The CTBT is a key contribution towards that end."
In the video, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres and the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban-Treaty Organization, Dr Lassina Zerbo, also pledged their support to the CTBT in their official capacity.
The CTBT bans all nuclear explosions, thus hampering both the initial development of nuclear weapons as well as significant enhancements (such as hydrogen bombs). The treaty also helps to prevent damage caused by nuclear testing to humans and the environment.
To date, the CTBT has been signed by 184 states and ratified by 168 (map). Its strict entry into force formula requires 44 particular "nuclear technology holder" states to ratify it in order to enter into force. Eight of them have yet to ratify: China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and the US (China, Egypt, Iran, Israel and the US have already signed the treaty).
A verification regime to monitor the globe for nuclear explosions is nearing completion with over 90 percent of the 337 planned International Monitoring System facilities already in operation. The system has demonstrated what it is capable of by detecting each of the DPRK's nuclear tests conducted since 2006.
Watch the video with French subtitles here.
Full video statements from each Minister, as well as from UN Secretary-General António Guterres and CTBTO Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo, can be viewed here:
Australian Foreign Minister, Marise Payne
Canadian Foreign Minister, François-Philippe Champagne
Finnish Foreign Minister, Pekka Haavisto
German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas
Japanese Foreign Minister, Motegi Toshimitsu
Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, Stef Blok
Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres
CTBTO Executive Secretary, Lassina Zerbo
Full resolution versions of these videos can be downloaded here: ftp://ftp.ctbto.org/CTBT_Friends_2020_Video_Messages/


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XProg is consistent with standard MATLAB syntax and data structure, so it is extremely friendly to those who are familiar with MATLAB. The toolbox relies on highly efficient subroutines to process large sparse matrices and to obtain robust counterparts, in forms of linear, quadratic, second-order cone, or mixed-integer conic programs. It is also capable of exploiting the special structure of uncertainty sets to greatly reduce problem dimensions, thus lowering the computational burden in solving large-scale problems.
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Visual timeline project traces 'underlying Islamophobia' in war on terror
Aysha Khan
Image courtesy of Justice for Muslims Collective
On the 18-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that set off the ongoing global war on terror, a new visual timeline seeks to document the U.S. policies and programs that Muslim and civil rights activists say have resulted in major encroachments on human rights.
"The goal is to really underscore how the war on terror is so rooted in Islamophobia and to really lift up the story of the ways that Muslims have been impacted," said Maha Hilal, a researcher on the war on terror and co-director of the Justice for Muslims Collective who directed the yearlong effort to produce the timeline.
"We don't have the resources to create a whole museum, but we hope this visual representation will help people understand the war on terror has almost exclusively targeted Muslims," Hilal said, noting that the timeline highlights the "underlying Islamophobia" linking nearly two decades of torture, immigration crackdowns, surveillance overreaches and more.
Illustrator Zaynub Siddiqui and graphic designer Maura Dwyer from The Sanctuaries DC, a community space for artists and activists that includes several Muslim members, illustrated and designed the 19 panels that comprise the timeline.
The resulting exhibition, "Shattering Justice & Re-Making the Muslim Threat: A Visual Timeline," will open in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11. Attendees will also hear a talk from Hilal on dismantling "the expanding apparatus of state violence," a workshop by The Sanctuaries on cultural organizing, as well as parts of speeches by Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush related to the U.S.-led global campaign against terrorism.
"This is not about Trump," Hilal added. "Trump is just building off the infrastructure that was perpetuated by Obama and pushed through by Bush."
Events on the timeline include the campaign against Afghanistan and authorization for use of military force in 2001; the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and the signing of the so-called Torture Memos in 2002; the 2004 release of photographs showing abuse and torture of Abu Ghraib prison inmates; the murder of journalist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi last year; the Supreme Court's controversial February ruling against a Muslim death row inmate seeking to have an imam at his execution; and Trump's July veto of congressional resolutions that sought to block his administration from selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates without Congress' approval.
As she illustrated the 100-plus events on the timeline with just a pencil, a black marker and white paper, Siddiqui said she was struck by just how "emotionally straining" the process was.
A detainee from Afghanistan is carried on a stretcher before being interrogated by military officials at the detention facility Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba on Feb. 2, 2002. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
"Every single time I read one of the event's descriptions, I would just be horrified," she said. "I could have finished it earlier but it was so grim … it was difficult to read about these things that were happening to my people, to our ummah (community), and realize that this was planned."
When viewers pair that language with her drawings, she said, they will walk away with a better understanding of how the war on terror has impacted Muslims.
"Reading what happened in 2001 doesn't compare to seeing what happened in 2001," she said. "You can read anything and it won't always resonate with you. The hope is that a graphic timeline will invigorate some emotions."
But the timeline may also serve as a wakeup call for Muslims who have missed the global impact of the campaign against terrorism.
Hilal told Religion News Service that war on terror policies have created a "sense of hierarchy" and "false distinction" between the rights of U.S. citizens and noncitizens, so much so that most Muslim civil rights groups have left behind noncitizens in their advocacy, particularly detainees like those in Guantanamo Bay.
"Guantanamo sets the moral boundaries of what is considered acceptable treatment for Muslims," Hilal said of the prison where dozens of detainees remain without charge. "When you have a place where the most egregious forms of torture have been utilized against Muslims, then anything less than that is considered almost benign."
The work is equally critical for non-Muslim audiences and "all people who care about creating a more just world," said the Rev. Erik Martínez Resly, who founded The Sanctuaries and oversaw the timeline's production.
"People will understand and really feel the impact of these policies and the broader structure of Islamophobia on their lives and the lives of people that they know and love," Martinez Resly said. "They'll see that this isn't just a set of abstract policies, but this viscerally impacts people's lives in oftentimes violent and cruel ways. I hope, with the way we're depicting it, they leave with a deepened sense of how this has been constructed and, by extension, how we can deconstruct it."
"What's striking is how much power the government wielded and how all these policies were put in place, and just caused so much trauma to Muslims in the name of protecting Americans," said Dwyer, who designed the timeline. "And how much of it actually worked? Seems like not much."


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What is Dowsing?
Dowsing is an act completed to find hidden things. However, they most commonly seek water. Archeologists believe that dowsing is at least 8,000 years old, if not more. The original reason for dowsing was lost to history, but people today use the practice to find many different things including water, people and treasure.
Dowsing Tools and Uses
Dowsers use a stick, pendulum or two rods to search for hidden or missing things. If using a stick, the dowser finds one that has a "Y" shape. The practitioner holds each fork in a hand and has the long end pointing ahead. Usually, the dowser will hold the stick with his or her palms facing downward. The dowser then slowly walks over an area to find the hidden object or water. If it is detected, the stick will dip, incline or twitch.
The most common wood used for dowsing is hazel or witch-hazel. Branches can be fresh cut or picked up off the ground. Other common woods used are willow and peach tree sticks. However, some dowsers do not have a favored type of wood to use.
The use of a pendulum for dowsing is quite different. The dowser uses a crystal or a metal weight suspended on a chain or string. This pendulum will rotate, or rock back and forth and up and down. The dowser will determine which direction means yes and which means no. He or she will then ask the pendulum questions about the hidden object's location.
Actual dowsing rods are similar to the dowsing stick. A dowser holds the rods at the short end. The metal or wooden rods will move side to side, which helps the dowser determine where an item is located. The rods will cross to form an "X" when the item the dowser seeks is nearby.
Other Names for Dowsing
The practice of dowsing has several other names. The most popular terms for dowsing in the United States are divining and doodle-bugging. Dowsing for water carries its own terms, which include water finding, water witching and water dowsing. If using a willow rod to dowse, some practitioners called it willow witching.
There is no true explanation for how dowsing works. In the 1700s, scientists thought that dowsing detected the emanations of substances. Wooden rods were thought to absorb these particles, causing the wood to turn or bow up or down. Later research suggests that sensory cues, probability and expectancy effects caused the dowsing rods to react. However, science has truly failed to prove or disprove the act of dowsing.
Dowsing is a practice over 8,000 years old. Dowsers were once considered evil practitioners of witchcraft. Today, this is not necessarily the truth. Many men and women use dowsing to find water, lost items and even people. In many areas of the country, farmers use dowsing to find wells and oil workers employ these tactics to find oil wells. A true dowser will have a high success rate, which is something that science nor the act of dowsing itself can explain.
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The Batman new trailer showcases The Bat and the Cat
December 27, 2021 by EJ Moreno
While it's only a few months away, we still have seen very little of Matt Reeves' upcoming The Batman. Thankfully, in a late Christmas present, Warner Bros. is offering up a new look at one of the most anticipated DC films in quite some time.
The trailer is themed around Robert Pattinson's Bruce Wayne/Batman and Zoe Kravitz's turn as Selina Kyle/Catwoman. We get a little of the Riddler here, but the trailer mainly focuses on the intense budding relationship between Batman and Catwoman. The sexual tension is there, and the fighting is there; basically, it seems to pan out exactly how you'd expect between these rivals and lovers.
Check out the latest trailer for The Batman here…
Two years of stalking the streets as the Batman (Robert Pattinson), striking fear into the hearts of criminals, has led Bruce Wayne deep into the shadows of Gotham City. With only a few trusted allies—Alfred Pennyworth (Andy Serkis), Lt. James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright)—amongst the city's corrupt network of officials and high-profile figures, the lone vigilante has established himself as the sole embodiment of vengeance amongst his fellow citizens.
When a killer targets Gotham's elite with a series of sadistic machinations, a trail of cryptic clues sends the World's Greatest Detective on an investigation into the underworld, where he encounters such characters as Selina Kyle/aka Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz), Oswald Cobblepot/aka the Penguin (Colin Farrell), Carmine Falcone (John Turturro), and Edward Nashton/aka the Riddler (Paul Dano). As the evidence begins to lead closer to home and the scale of the perpetrator's plans becomes clear, Batman must forge new relationships, unmask the culprit, and bring justice to the abuse of power and corruption that has long plagued Gotham City.
The Batman sees Robert Pattinson (The Lighthouse) donning the cape and cowl as Bruce Wayne/Batman alongside Zoe Kravitz (Big Little Lies) as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Colin Farrell (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) as Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin, Paul Dano (Escape at Dannemora) as Edward Nashton/The Riddler, Jeffrey Wright (Westworld) as Jim Gordon, Andy Serkis (War for the Planet of the Apes) as Alfred Pennyworth, John Turturro (The Big Lebowski) as Carmine Falcone, Alex Ferns (Chernobyl) as Commissioner Pete Savage, Con O'Neill (Ordinary Lies) as Chief Mackenzie Bock, Peter Sarsgaard (The Killing) as Gotham D.A. Gil Colson and Jayme Lawson (Farewell Amor) as Bella Real.
The Batman is released on March 4th, 2022.
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Those five of you who read my blog know that I love good food. And good stories.
Lawrence Schoen does a weekly blog entry every Monday called Eating Authors, where he gets authors to discuss some memorable meal. I also recently reviewed Ferrett Steinmetz's debut novel Flex (DW). So today's entry is a confluence of all that is good and wonderful.
Ferrett Steinmetz on Eating Authors.
So when I discuss the best meal I've ever had, should I talk about eating the gold-encrusted salad I had at the two-Michelin star restaurant Sixteen? Or the life-changing agnolotti I had at Joe Bastianich's Babbo? Or even the greasiest, cheapest, most delicious egg-and-bacon sandwich you can get at Cleveland's very own Old Fashion Hot Dogs, where you can stuff three people full of perfectly-grilled "dawgs" for under ten dollars?
No. The first fine meal I had was the greatest fine meal, and cannot be surpassed. Because of my Uncle Tommy.
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Youth World Cup - 2018
Round Robin South Africa ZAF 8th Aug. 2018 8/8/2018 12:10 p.m. 12:10 Malaysia MYS Won 8-3
South Africa ZAF 8th Aug. 2018 8/8/2018 2:40 p.m. 14:40 Australia AUS Lost 0-18
South Africa ZAF 8th Aug. 2018 8/8/2018 5:10 p.m. 17:10 New Zealand NZL Lost 1-12
South Africa ZAF 9th Aug. 2018 9/8/2018 10:40 a.m. 10:40 United States USA Won 8-0
South Africa ZAF 9th Aug. 2018 9/8/2018 2:00 p.m. 14:00 Singapore SGP Lost 3-8
South Africa ZAF 9th Aug. 2018 9/8/2018 4:30 p.m. 16:30 Malaysia MYS Won 5-0
South Africa ZAF 10th Aug. 2018 10/8/2018 9:50 a.m. 9:50 Australia AUS Lost 1-19
South Africa ZAF 10th Aug. 2018 10/8/2018 1:25 p.m. 13:25 New Zealand NZL Lost 3-11
South Africa ZAF 10th Aug. 2018 10/8/2018 5:05 p.m. 17:05 United States USA Won 5-1
South Africa ZAF 11th Aug. 2018 11/8/2018 9:10 a.m. 9:10 Singapore SGP Won 3-2
Finals South Africa ZAF 11th Aug. 2018 11/8/2018 12:00 p.m. 12:00 Australia AUS Lost 1-18
South Africa ZAF 11th Aug. 2018 11/8/2018 3:00 p.m. 15:00 Singapore SGP Won 5-3
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Meekah Almae Cocking 2 11 - -
Kganya Makhothi 3 10 1 -
Leah Barbosa 4 11 2 -
Imraah Daniels 5 11 1 1
Insaaf Levy 6 10 5 2
Alexandra Butler-White 7 11 6 2
Chioma Okereke 8 11 2 -
Juleiga Siljeur 9 11 5 -
Mushfiqah Cassiem 10 9 1 1
Sange Matebese 11 11 2 -
Shae Muchna 12 7 - -
Ayla Nuttall 13 11 2 -
Paige Waberski 14 10 6 2
Elme Kruger 15 12 7 1
Tannah Swart 16 11 3 1


Finished 15.8 lengths 5th (31.26) at Cranbourne over 520m on December 27 in a Res race beaten by Fernando Rocks. Previously finished 12.4 lengths 4th (30.93) on December 19 over 520m at Cranbourne behind Fernando Rocks in a Res race. Take on trust.
Finished 4.2 lengths 2nd (26.57) at Warragul on January 17 over 460m beaten by Dyna Dixon in a Grade 6 race. Previously finished 2.8 lengths 4th (26.54) on January 10 at Warragul over 460m in a Res race beaten by Venus Allen. Each-way claims.
On January 13 over 515m at Sandown Park was beaten 20.9 lengths 7th (31.53)in a race behind Black Hornet. Before that was 5.2 lengths 4th (30.38) from 7 on January 6 at Sandown Park over 515m beaten by Ursula Allen in a race. Right in this.
Looked good defeating Island Cruiser by 2 lengths (26.32) on January 10 at Warragul over 460m in a Maiden race. Previously finished 6.8 lengths 6th (26.86) at Warragul over 460m on January 6 in a Maiden race beaten by Zipping Caesar. Has another chance.
Always at rear when 7th (26.33) beaten 5.2 lengths by Dream Gem in a Grade 5 race at Warragul on January 15 over 460m. Looked good defeating Knock The Clock by 2.4 lengths (25.42) at Sale on January 8 over 440m in a race. In top form.
Always near the lead when beaten 6 lengths, 3rd (29.94) by Okay Kirsty at Sale on January 13 over 520m in a Grade 4/5 race. Battled on before that when 3rd (38.68) beaten 10.2 lengths by Soda Flakes in a Res race at Sale on January 8 over 650m. Conditions suit.


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West Yan'an Road (延安西路) is een station van de metro van Shanghai. Het station is onderdeel van lijn 3 en lijn 4.

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We present a novel approach for real-time multichannel speech enhancement in environments of nonstationary noise and time-varying acoustical transfer functions (ATFs). The proposed system integrates adaptive beamforming, ATF identification, soft signal detection, and multichannel postfiltering. The noise canceller branch of the beamformer and the ATF identification are adaptively updated online, based on hypothesis test results. The noise canceller is updated only during stationary noise frames, and the ATF identification is carried out only when desired source components have been detected. The hypothesis testing is based on the nonstationarity of the signals and the transient power ratio between the beamformer primary output and its reference noise signals. Following the beamforming and the hypothesis testing, estimates for the signal presence probability and for the noise power spectral density are derived. Subsequently, an optimal spectral gain function that minimizes the mean square error of the log-spectral amplitude (LSA) is applied. Experimental results demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed system in nonstationary noise environments.


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Will State Senator Carlos Uresti Step Down?
The San Antonio Democrat vows to appeal his conviction on eleven counts of fraud.
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Texas Sen. Carlos Uresti, D-San Antonio. right, enters the federal courthouse for a hearing, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Antonio. AP Photo/Eric Gay
State Senator Carlos Uresti's ongoing trouble with women just got worse. A federal court jury found the San Antonio Democrat guilty of eleven counts of fraud involving allegations that he had engaged in a sexual relationship with a grieving South Texas mother as part of a plot to bilk her out of almost $900,000 in a Ponzi scheme.
The jury convicted Uresti and co-defendant Gary Cain on federal fraud charges. Uresti immediately said he would appeal and declined to step down from office. Late Thursday, the Senate Democratic Caucus issued a statement urging Uresti to resign.
Immediately after his conviction, Uresti, at an impromptu news conference, said, "This is a shock to all of us. This is not the verdict we were expecting. So, I'm going to meet with my family and my wife and my attorneys, and we'll make those decisions down the road."
Prosecutors claimed Uresti had "groomed" Denise Cantu of Harlingen to gain her trust to invest in the scheme, a fracking company called FourWinds Logistics. Her money had come from a wrongful death lawsuit following a 2010 car wreck that claimed the lives of her son and daughter. She invested in FourWinds on Uresti's recommendation, but he claimed he did not know the company was a fraud scheme.
Handsome and a dapper dresser, Uresti's apparent downfall in a plot involving sex is just the latest example of his trouble with women.
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But another video became fodder for an opponent in the 2016 elections when footage emerged of a young, female lobbyist smooching on Uresti in a hotel bar. Uresti had won his seat in the Texas Senate more than a decade ago by defeating incumbent Frank Madla, who died several months later in a tragic house fire. Madla's widow unsuccessfully challenged Uresti's re-election last year, using a clip gathered by the American Phoenix Foundation in 2015 as proof that he was bad on women's issues.
Although state law bars felons from holding elective office in Texas, that only applies after appeals are exhausted and a conviction is made final. The federal appeals process often takes one or two years. When sentencing occurs, the judge will have the discretion of allowing Uresti to stay free on bond while the case is appealed, but the judge also can order Uresti to await his fate in prison.
In the meantime, Uresti won't have much to do in the Senate. On Thursday, Patrick announced that he was doing what he could to sideline Uresti. "As lieutenant governor, I do not have the authority to remove Sen. Uresti from the Texas Senate but I have notified his office that he will be relieved of his committee assignments, effective immediately," Patrick said in a statement.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story used a photo of state Senator Jose Menendez that was mislabeled as Carlos Uresti. The photo has been replaced. We regret the error.
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HIGH SCHOOLER HIT IN FACE BY TEAMMATE'S SOFTBALL BAT; THIS ACCIDENT CASE DISMISSED AFTER TRIAL DUE TO "ASSUMPTION OF THE RISK"
Posted By Gary E. Rosenberg
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York
Case: Navarro v. City of New York
Date: Sept. 8, 2011
From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Queens Bronx; Queens accident attorney)
Plaintiff high school student accidentally hit in the face with a softball bat by a teammate. Apparently, there was a momentary lapse in supervision.
The appeals court threw this case out based on our old friend, the doctrine of "assumption of the risk." What stinks here is that the New York City Department of Education, the defendant, waited until there was a trial verdict in favor of the accident victim to apply to have the case dismissed. A summary judgment motion would have come earlier in the case, been neat and tidy, and saved both sides the time and expense of a trial to a (successful and here overturned plaintiff's) verdict.
But due to budgetary constraints or lack of staffing or whatever, it's likely the Department of Education's attorneys (the office of the New York City Corporation Counsel) didn't look at the file seriously until the time of trial. So there was huge waste of judicial (and lawyer) resources. Maybe there should be a rule that such attacks on plaintiff's cases must be made early, or they can't be made at all. Or maybe the Department of Education should have to reimburse the court system for wasting its time.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Dominic R. Massaro, J.), entered May 15, 2009, which denied defendant Department of Education's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict granted, and the complaint dismissed. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment dismissing the complaint as against said defendant.
During an elective high school softball class, plaintiff, then 16 years old, hit ground balls to a fielder as a warmup exercise. A student named Johanny approached plaintiff and asked if she could hit a few balls. Plaintiff handed the bat to Johanny and told her, consistent with the teacher's instructions for practice drills, that she should not take full swings. Upon being handed the bat, however, Johanny immediately threw the ball in the air and took a full swing before plaintiff had time to get out of the way. As a result, the bat hit plaintiff on the cheek, causing injury.
Plaintiff subsequently commenced this personal injury action, which, after a jury trial, resulted in a verdict in her favor against defendant Department of Education. Defendant appeals from the denial of its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial. We reverse and grant the motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.
Because the record establishes that plaintiff assumed the risk that resulted in her injury, defendant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law (see CPLR 4404[a] ). A participant in an athletic activity is deemed to have assumed "those commonly appreciated risks which are inherent in and arise out of the nature of the sport generally and flow from such participation_ (Morgan v. State of New York, 90 N.Y.2d 471, 484 [1997] ). In this regard, it is well established that -- the danger associated with people swinging bats ... while warming up for the game -- is inherent in the game of baseball" ( Roberts v. Boys & Girls Republic, Inc., 51 A.D.3d 246, 248 [2008], affd 10 N.Y.3d 889 [2008], quoting Napoli v. Mount Alvernia, Inc., 239 A.D.2d 325, 326 [1997]; see also Marlowe v. Rush-Henrietta Cent. School Dist., 167 A.D.2d 820 [1990], affd 78 N.Y.2d 1096 [1991] [baseball player assumed risk of bat being thrown] ). This principle has equal application to softball. Given that the risk of being hit by a practice swing of a bat has been held to be assumed even by a spectator "claim[ing] lacunae in her knowledge and experience of the game" (Roberts, 51 A.D.2d at 248, 380 N.Y.S.2d 1004) and by a child (Napoli, 239 A.D.2d at 326, 657 N.Y.S.2d 197), that risk was necessarily assumed by plaintiff, an experienced softball player who admittedly knew the risks inherent in the sport (see Kennedy v. Rockville Ctr. Union Free School Dist., 186 A.D.2d 110, 111 [1992] ). The record is devoid of evidence that plaintiff's injury resulted from any "unassumed, concealed or unreasonably increased risks" (Benitez v. New York Bd. of Educ., 73 N.Y.2d 650, 658 [1989] ) from which she should have been protected by her teacher. Inasmuch as plaintiff assumed the risk that resulted in her injury, "[r]ecovery may not ... be had on a theory of negligent supervision" (Roberts, 51 A.D.3d at 251, 850 N.Y.S.2d 38).
We note that the verdict cannot be sustained on a theory of negligent supervision for an additional and independent reason. Plaintiff testified that only three to five seconds elapsed between her giving the bat to Johanny and the bat's striking her face. "Where an accident occurs in so short a span of time that even the most intense supervision could not have prevented it, any lack of supervision is not the proximate cause of the injury and summary judgment in favor of the [defendant school district] is warranted." ( Esponda v. City of New York, 62 A.D.3d 458, 460 [2009], quoting Convey v. City of Rye School Dist., 271 A.D.2d 154, 160 [2000] ). Schools are not insurers of safety and cannot be held liable for every thoughtless or careless act by which one pupil may injure another. (Lizardo v. Board of Educ. of the City of New York, 77 A.D.3d 437, 438 [2010], quoting Mirand v. City of New York, 84 N.Y.2d 44, 49 [1994] ).
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R v Symss - [2020] QCA 17
Reported at (2020) 3 QR 336
R v Symss [2020] QCA 17
SYMSS, Shane Antoni
DC No 2821 of 2018
District Court at Brisbane – Date of Sentence: 1 March 2019 (Clare SC DCJ)
Sofronoff P and Morrison and McMurdo JJA
Leave to appeal granted.
The sentence imposed for counts 1, 2, 4 and 6 is set aside.
For counts 1, 2 and 4 the applicant is sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 10 years.
For count 6, the applicant is sentenced to imprisonment for a term of four years.
The applicant is eligible for parole on 1 March 2023.
The sentences for counts 5 and 7 are not disturbed.
CRIMINAL LAW – SENTENCE – RELEVANT FACTORS – TOTALITY – OFFENCES COMMITTED IN DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS – where the applicant was convicted of seven serious offences including rape, indecent assault, breaking and entering into the house of a woman in the night-time with intent to commit an indictable offence, and stealing – where the offences were committed in 1996 in Queensland – where the applicant received a sentence of 16 years imprisonment to be served concurrently with parole eligibility after four years – where the applicant was previously convicted for various armed robberies and house breakings in Queensland between 1993 and 1994 – where the applicant committed various offences including unlawful use of a motor vehicle and trespass while on probation – where the applicant was previously convicted for burglary and theft offences in Victoria in 1998 while serving a three years suspended imprisonment sentence from Queensland – where the applicant was previously convicted for murder in New South Wales and sentenced to 22 years imprisonment – where the applicant remains in custody and has not been paroled – where the applicant has been transferred to serve the remainder of his New South Wales sentence in Queensland – where the applicant's sentence of 16 years imprisonment in Queensland is to be served after already serving a sentence of almost 20 years – where, in effect, the total imprisonment term to be served is 36 years with parole eligibility after 24 years –whether the principle of totality has been distorted by the mixed jurisdictional environment – whether the sentence is manifestly excessive
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Markarian v The Queen (2005) 228 CLR 357; [2005] HCA 25, cited
Mill v The Queen (1988) 166 CLR 59; [1988] HCA 70, cited
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Roffey v Western Australia [2007] WASCA 246, cited
S A Lynch for the applicant
J A Wooldridge for the respondent
Legal Aid Queensland for the applicant
SOFRONOFF P: Between February 1993 and December 1994, the applicant committed five armed robberies with personal violence, three of which were in company, an attempted armed robbery and two house breakings. He was aged between 15 and 17 years at the time he committed these offences. He pleaded guilty on 4 September 1995. By then the applicant was 18 years old and he was sentenced as an adult. He was ordered to serve three years probation.
Then, in January 1996 and in March 1996, when he was still only 18 years old, the applicant committed seven further offences. These were:
Breaking and entering into the house of a woman in the night-time with intent to commit an indictable offence – 11 January 1996;
Raping the same victim – 11 January 1996;
Unlawfully and indecently assaulting the same victim, including by penetrating her vagina with his fingers – 11 January 1996;
Raping the same victim again – 11 January 1996;
Stealing that victim's purse – 11 January 1996;
Breaking and entering the house of another woman in the night-time with intent to commit an indictable offence – 4 March 1996;
Indecently assaulting that victim – 4 March 1996.
Later, he breached his probation again by committing some other offences and, as a result, he was sentenced to three years imprisonment but that sentence was immediately suspended for an operational period of three years. At that time it was not known that he had committed the serious offences referred to in paragraph [2].
He was not charged with those offences at the time, which were committed during the period of probation.
In 1998 the applicant moved to Victoria. In that State he committed burglary and theft offences for which he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment to be served by way of an intensive corrections order. These offences were committed during the period of the suspended sentence that had been imposed in Queensland.
The applicant then moved on to New South Wales where, together with a co-offender, he killed an elderly widow living alone. She was smothered and stabbed. The two offenders blamed each other and they were both found guilty. However, the applicant's co-offender was found guilty only of manslaughter while the applicant was found guilty of murder (as well as robbery in company and larceny). All of those offences had been committed by him while he was still subject to the suspended sentence of imprisonment that had been imposed in Queensland. He was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 16 and a half years. He has not yet been paroled and remains in custody. His full time discharge date will be 26 April 2021.
The applicant committed the offences in Brisbane in 1996 in the following circumstances. The number of each offence in paragraph [2] above was the count for that offence on the indictment. The complainant in counts 1 to 5 was a 33 year old woman who lived with her two sons aged six and eight. On the night of 10 January 1996, she fell asleep with her two boys in her lounge room. She awoke to find the applicant with his hand over her mouth. He was kneeling over her holding the tip of a screwdriver at her neck. He told her not to look at him. He took the complainant to her bedroom and tied her nightgown around her eyes, made her remove her clothes and then raped her. He inserted his fingers into her vagina, after which he raped her once more. The complainant's young son approached the bedroom and, while the applicant hid behind the bedroom door, the complainant dressed and told her son to go back to bed. The applicant told the complainant to lie down. He then stole her purse and left.
The complainant in counts 6 and 7 was a 70 year old woman who lived on her own. While his brother stood watch, the applicant entered her bedroom where she was sleeping. The complainant felt a hand across her mouth and awoke to see him holding a bladed weapon. The applicant's brother came into the bedroom and helped to tie up the complainant.
At some point, the complainant noticed the applicant's knife on the pillow beside her. She grabbed it and swung it at the applicant. He and his brother then ran away.
Many years later, DNA evidence identified the applicant as the offender in these cases. The applicant was charged with counts 1 to 5 on 5 March 2009 and counts 6 and 7 on 1 April 2013. In May 2018 the applicant was transferred to serve the remainder of his New South Wales sentence in Queensland under legislation that allowed such transfers. He refused to be interviewed by Queensland police.
On 1 March 2019 the applicant pleaded guilty to these charges before Clare SC DCJ. By then he was 41 years old.
Part 9A of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld), which creates the regime of serious violent offences, did not apply to the applicant's case because the offences he committed occurred before those provisions were enacted. The Crown submitted that the applicant should be sentenced to not less than 14 years imprisonment for counts 1 to 5 alone. Defence counsel submitted that an appropriate sentence would be in the order of 13 years. Clare SC DCJ observed:
"… that's the real question, here, is – in my view, is how to – how to properly reflect the cumulative nature of the present sentence. After such a long period of continuous custody, while still recognising the extreme level of the offending. The overall offending."
Her Honour rightly described the applicant's offending as "shocking" and demonstrative of a "level of inhumanity and callousness that is beyond the experience of most offenders". However, her Honour took into account the applicant's adoption of religious beliefs and his productivity while in prison.
Clare SC DCJ sentenced the applicant to concurrent terms of imprisonment as follows:
Count 1: 16 years
Count 3: 4 years
The applicant submits that these sentences were manifestly excessive having regard both to comparable sentences and to the totality of the sentences that he must now serve. He points to Mill v The Queen[1] in which the appellant had committed three armed robberies over the course of six weeks. He committed two of these robberies in Victoria and the third one in Queensland. In Victoria he was sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years with a non-parole period of eight years. After his release in Victoria he was sentenced in Queensland to imprisonment for a further eight years with parole after three years. The High Court said that he should have been sentenced as though he had committed all three offences in one State and had been sentenced for all of them at the same time. Upon that hypothesis, it was unlikely that he would have been sentenced to an aggregate head sentence of 18 years. Instead, an appropriate sentence would have dealt with the third offence in the same way as the second offence, namely by making it partially cumulative.
The applicant submits that the sentences that were imposed upon him are similar to the sentences that were criticised and overturned in Mill. The sentences meant that the applicant would serve a further period of imprisonment of 16 years (albeit being eligible for parole after four years) after he had already served a sentence of almost 20 years. In effect, he would be punished by a total sentence of 36 years with parole eligibility after 24 years.
He submits that the appropriate sentence should have been:
10 or 11 years for counts 1 to 5;
Three to four years for counts 6 and 7;
The primary sentence should have attached to counts 1, 2 and 4 (as indeed was done);
The sentences on counts 1, 2 and 4 should have taken into account the offending in counts 6 and 7, resulting in notional sentences of between 12 and 13 years;
Under the totality principle, that sentence should have been reduced to a sentence of 10 years to give effect to the approach endorsed in Mill; and
The result would be an effective total sentence in New South Wales and in Queensland of 30 years imprisonment.
The respondent submits that the situation presented by the applicant's offending is unlike the situation that was addressed in Mill. That submission should be accepted.
In Mill the issue for the Court was to identify the applicable principle that must be applied when sentencing an offender for crimes that are closely related in time and nature although committed in more than one State or Territory.[2] The appellant in Mill submitted that in such a case the appropriate combination of sentences imposed in two different jurisdictions should not differ from the sentences that would have been imposed if all offences had been committed in a single State and if the offender had been sentenced for all those offences on the same occasion.[3]
The problem in Mill arose because, but for the political division of Australia into several legal jurisdictions, the appellant would have been sentenced for his three crimes at a single hearing before the same court. The sentencing for the Queensland offence was delayed until after he had been dealt with by the system of justice in New South Wales. The High Court held that the delay in sentencing resulting from the interest of two legal jurisdictions in the sentencing process should not affect the overall punishment imposed upon an offender for offences which are related in time and character but not in jurisdiction. Mill was a case in which it was held that the principle of totality should not have been distorted by the mixed jurisdictional environment in which the appellant found himself being sentenced.
That is not this case. Here the applicant committed seven serious offences in Queensland which would have warranted an overall sentence in excess of 12 years. In 1999, three years after committing those offences, he committed a murder in New South Wales. The Queensland offences and the New South Wales murder were not "closely related in time and nature".
The principle of totality is a solution to one of the problems that may confront a sentencing judge because of the numeric nature of imprisonment as a penalty.[4] Sentences of imprisonment are necessarily calculated by reference to the number of months or years for which an offender must be imprisoned. However, strict adherence to the mathematics of sentencing can lead to injustice. Markarian v The Queen[5] addressed one problem that can arise by slavish adherence to a mathematically formulaic approach to sentencing. The totality principle addresses a different problem caused by arithmetic when it is applied to sentencing, namely the possibility that when a strictly arithmetical method is applied when sentencing for multiple offences, the result may be disproportionate to an offender's actual overall culpability. According to the totality principle, when considering what is a just sentence for a number of offences, a judge must not be satisfied by passing the sentence which such arithmetic produces. The judge must instead look at the totality of the criminal behaviour constituted by all of the offences when regarded together and then consider what is the appropriate sentence for all the offences.[6] Mill then applies this principle to multi-State offences in the same way. The totality principle applies whether the penalty takes the form of a fine or a term of imprisonment or, indeed, whatever might be the form of punishment. It will apply whether the resulting accumulation of punishments is relatively light, such as a series of fines or several cumulative short terms of imprisonment, or whether it is severe. The principle is very much concerned with the concept of proportionality that pervades so many facets of the system of law. In some of its applications it reflects the prohibition against double punishment which is a risk when several offences committed at the same time contain elements that are all proved by the same fact. The present case presents a distinct but related sentencing problem. The offences in this case were committed years apart. They were committed against different victims. They were different kinds of offences. They were committed in different States. They were separated by a third, intervening, period of offending for which the applicant was punished in Victoria and which the applicant does not suggest has to be taken into account in mitigation in these proceedings. The offender has been sentenced already for two of those three sets of offences, in New South Wales and Victoria, and then came to be sentenced finally for the third set of offences, in Queensland, which, however, were committed first in time.
The three sets of offences are discrete and independent of each other in every way except that it was the same offender who committed all of them. The sentences imposed for the offences in Victoria and New South Wales did not and could not reflect any punishment for the applicant's culpability for the Queensland offences.
Indeed the applicant's complaint is not that in this case there is a body of culpable conduct that can be comprehended as a coherent unit or domain for sentencing and to which the totality principle can be applied. The applicant's complaint is that if he serves the terms of imprisonment that have been imposed upon him in Queensland, then by the time he is finally released, after having served the remainder of the New South Wales sentence and the whole of the Queensland sentences, he will have served 36 years in prison. His complaint is that even taking into account, as one must, that he finds himself in this predicament by reason of his own acts, the addition of the Queensland sentences to those the applicant was already serving results in a term of imprisonment that is too harsh to be just or fair.
By any standard, the applicant is facing a very long term of continuous imprisonment. Cumulative sentences resulting in imprisonment of such length can be justified in some cases, such as when an offender is sentenced to a long term of imprisonment but then commits a further serious offence while imprisoned, or while at liberty after escaping, or, sometimes, while on bail awaiting trial for a set of offences for which he is later found guilty.[7] If sentences in such cases were not made cumulative then the offender would effectively get a discount by a misapplication of the totality principle. Also, sometimes the need to vindicate the rights of different victims while giving effect to the totality principle results in making sentences cumulative in whole or in part.[8]
In cases in which the factors that ground the totality principle do not easily justify a reduction in an otherwise appropriate sentence, but in which the actual or effective cumulation of sentences would result in a term of imprisonment that the sentencing judge regards as much too harsh, the common law provides a different avenue to alleviate harshness. It is by reference to the notion that a sentence should never be a "crushing sentence".
In R v Beck,[9] Nettle JA said:
"It has been said that the notion of a crushing sentence has never been adequately defined in this State, although it is generally conceived of as one that is imposed in such a way that it would provoke a feeling of helplessness in the applicant if and when he is released or as connoting the destruction of any reasonable expectation of useful life after release. It is also accepted that if multiple sentences are so imposed as to make the totality of the prisoner's liability to incarceration crushing in that sense, some of the sentences should be modified by appropriate orders for cumulation in the application of the totality principle. There are of course no hard and fast rules as to how one is to decide whether the totality of multiple sentences imposed at different times is crushing. As in so much of sentencing, each case depends on its own facts." (citations omitted)
In Beck, Nettle JA concluded that a sentence may be crushing:[10]
"… if the applicant had been sentenced by the one judge at the one time for all of the offences concerned it is difficult to conceive that the judge would have imposed a total effective head sentence as great as nine and a half years with a minimum term of seven years; especially when one has regard to the applicant's plea of guilty and demonstrated co-operation and frankness towards the police. Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, the circumstances of the offences and the applicant's personal circumstances lead me to conclude that the total effective sentence is so long as to risk provoking within the applicant a feeling of helplessness and the destruction of any reasonable expectation of a useful life after release."
In some cases that result may be required nonetheless. The mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for any kind of murder is an example. Also as Doyle CJ said in R v E, AD:[11]
"Care must be taken in using the concept of a crushing sentence. Not uncommonly, for particularly serious crimes, a sentence that is crushing in its effect must be imposed. The use of that term does not imply that when a very heavy sentence is called for, it is appropriate for the court to reduce it simply because to the offender the sentence may be crushing. At the end of the day if that is what is called for, that is the sentence that must be imposed."
However, when a sentence is discretionary, as in the present case, it is open to a judge to decline to exercise the discretion so as to impose a sentence if it would, in the judge's opinion, be crushing. The concept of a sentence as one that is "crushing" has been explained as an aspect of the totality principle.[12] But in cases in which a judge concludes that a sentence that is the result of the application of conventional principles is crushing, the judge may reduce the sentence to avoid that consequence.[13]
The present is a case in which the sentences that were imposed should be reduced for that reason. The principle under discussion operates, in general, after the orthodox process of reasoning to arrive at a just sentence has been concluded. It is during the conventional process of sentencing that factors in mitigation of sentence and factors in aggravation of sentence are to be considered. Those factors arise from the objective circumstances of the offence and from the offender's subjective circumstances. As sentencing judges know too well, many of these factors conflict with each other.
The idea that a sentence should be less severe because it would otherwise be a crushing sentence may conflict with factors that aggravate the severity of the offence, particularly denunciation, yet effect is given to it despite that. Moreover, effect is given to it even in cases in which the offender may be, in some ways, undeserving.
This is because it is invoked by shared values of the community which do not countenance either cruelty in punishment or a total abandonment of hope, even for the worst kind of offender. It was this latter consideration which moved Gleeson CJ in R v Jamieson[14] to deprecate the making of recommendations that a prisoner "never be released". His Honour observed that it was impossible for a sentencing judge to forecast all of the many different possibilities that the future may hold, particularly in the case of a young offender.
Obviously enough, the reduction in the severity of a sentence serves a prisoner's personal interests. But the purpose of alleviating a sentence that is seen to be inappropriate because it is crushing is to serve the community values that I have attempted to identify.
The applicant's childhood is one that is commonly presented on behalf of offenders with the applicant's criminal history. His parents separated and, at some point in his early teens, he was placed in foster care and he then lived with an aunt. He began to abuse alcohol and cannabis at an early stage of his life. He was 18 when he committed these offences and he is now 42 years old. He cannot remember whether he was intoxicated when he committed the current offences.
On 8 November 2001 he was sentenced in the Central Criminal Court in New South Wales for the murder offence to a term of imprisonment of 22 years for murder, with a parole eligibility date of 26 October 2015. He has failed to get parole. While imprisoned in New South Wales he was assaulted by other prisoners and, because of the circumstances of the murder, he was at risk of further assaults. He was placed in protection for some time, which is an added hardship. He attempted suicide. None of these mitigation factors could be given much weight having regard to the horrendous circumstances of his crime. A denunciatory sentence was called for and was imposed. However, the New South Wales sentencing judge observed that there was evidence that the applicant was not "unredeemable". He noted that the applicant had expressed an interest in furthering his education while in custody. That prospect has now been realised.
At the sentence hearing in this matter the applicant, by his counsel, accepted the allegations of fact set out in the statement of facts. He said that he was ashamed of his past acts and did not seek to minimise the significance of what he admitted having done. He made admissions. He has undertaken many courses of study offered in prison. He has become a devout Christian. He has completed several bible study and other religious courses. There were certificates provided to the prosecution to prove these matters and they were not challenged.
Clare SC DCJ sentenced the applicant to imprisonment for 16 years with a parole eligibility date after serving four years. That date was set expressly so as to give effect to the factors in mitigation. The result was that the Queensland sentences and the New South Wales sentences were cumulative for all but a little over two years. Their effect is that the applicant will be released on 1 March 2035, when he will be 57 years old and by then he will have been in prison continually since he was 24 years old.
The head sentence was at the high end of the range or, perhaps, just above that range,[15] but these were very bad offences. However, if the applicant had been sentenced for these offences in Queensland when he was being sentenced for the offence of murder and his associated offences (under a hypothetical sentencing regime that did not provide for mandatory life imprisonment for murder), it is inconceivable that he would have been sentenced to imprisonment for 34 years or that his eligibility for parole would have been postponed until he had served 22 years. To sentence the applicant with the result that he remains imprisoned from the age of 24 until he is almost 60 is to inflict a punishment that is so harsh that it must be ameliorated.
Such mercy is not a reflection upon the applicant's subjective characteristics or his deserts. It reflects the attitude of our community that, in general, and in the absence of particular circumstances, even a justly severe punishment ought not remove the last vestige of a prisoner's hope for some kind of chance of life at the end of the punishment.
The seriousness of the offences in this case mean that, despite the sentence for murder, there should be a degree of cumulation in these sentences above the term to be served for the offence of murder. Consequently, the applicant's parole eligibility date must be set accordingly.
Having regard to these matters, leave to appeal should be granted, the appeal should be allowed and the sentence imposed for counts 1, 2, 4 and 6 should be set aside. For each of counts 1, 2 and 4 the applicant should be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 10 years. For count 6 the applicant should be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of four years. The applicant should be eligible for parole after serving 40 per cent of the period of imprisonment for these counts (and the sentences for counts 5 and 7 which should not be disturbed). Consequently, the applicant's full time release date will become 1 March 2029 and his parole eligibility date will be 1 March 2023.
MORRISON JA: I have read the reasons of Sofronoff P and agree with those reasons and the orders his Honour proposes.
[1](1988) 166 CLR 59.
[2]supra, at 62.
[3]ibid.
[4]The principle was authoritatively stated in Mill, supra, at 63; and cf Pearce v The Queen (1998) 194 CLR 610, at [45].
[5](2005) 228 CLR 357.
[6]Mill, supra, at 63, citing Thomas, Principles of Sentencing, 2nd ed. (1979), pp. 56-57.
[7]R v Makary [2019] 2 Qd R 528.
[8]Richards v The Queen [2006] NSWCCA 262.
[9][2005] VSCA 11 at [19].
[10]supra, at [22].
[11](2005) 93 SASR 20, at 30.
[12]Roffey v Western Australia [2007] WASCA 246, per McLure JA, at [24]-[25].
[13]R v Rossi (1988) 142 LSJS 451, at 453 per King CJ, cited with approval by Doyle CJ in R v Walkuski [2010] SASC 146, at [6].
[14](1992) 60 A Crim R 68, at 80.
[15]Comparable cases of rape were R v Penniment [1992] QCA 110 (15 years); R v Coghlan [1998] 2 Qd R 498 (14 years); R v Henry [2002] QCA 520 (11 years).
Reported Citation:
(2020) 3 QR 336
Selected for Reporting:
Primary Judgment DC2821/18 (No Citation) 01 Mar 2019 Date of Sentence (Clare SC DCJ).
Appeal Determined (QCA) [2020] QCA 17 14 Feb 2020 Application for leave to appeal against sentence granted; appeal against sentence allowed; sentence imposed for counts 1, 2, 4 and 6 set aside and in lieu thereof applicant sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 10 years: Sofronoff P and Morrison and McMurdo JJA.


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