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In late April, on a business trip, I flew from Bangalore to Frankfurt aboard Lufthansa's newest Boeing 747-8i D-ABYH. She is named Thüringen after the state located in central Germany with its capital at Erfurt.
While the business class was packed, the First Class was strangely empty. As we were flying over Europe, a kind and cooperative cabin crew gave me a tour of the "Quietest First Class Cabin" in the sky, and it was quiet. Missing was the classic whoosh sound of the air rushing past the nose of the aircraft.
Eight seats. Six individual along the windows and one double in the centre.
The new 747-8i cabin shares many common aspects of the "Sky Interior" with the 737 and 787.
Uber comfortable seats with "share system" which moulds to the body convert in to beds with nice thick duvets.
Some of the features of the Lufthansa Boeing 747-8i First Class.
"The quietest First Class in the world".
Can some of Lufthansa's competing airlines to give me a short ride in their first class for a comparison report?
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better known by his stage name Rick James, was an African-American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular performer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four number-one hits on the U.S. R&B charts performing in the genres of funk and R&B. Among his well known songs are "Super Freak", "Mary Jane" and "You and I".
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When James was not yet 16, he dropped out of school permanently. To avoid being drafted, he joined the U.S. Naval Reserves. The bimonthly, weekend trainings were difficult to keep up with due to the increasing success with his first band, the Duprees. James was soon told to report for active duty in 1964. Instead, he fled to Canada. James continued his music career in Toronto and formed his first band called the Sailor Boys but they soon changed their name to the Mynah Birds.
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This was the biggest hit for James. He didn't have tremendous success as a solo artist, but was a prolific producer and innovator of Funk. Explaining how he came up with this song, he told Musician magazine in 1983: "I wanted to write a silly song. I was in the studio and everything else for the album (Street Songs) was done. I just put 'Super Freak' together really quickly. I wanted a silly song that had a bit of new wave texture to it. So I just came up with this silly little lick and expounded on it. I came up with the bass part first. Then I put a guitar on it and keyboards, doing the 'ehh ehh,' silly keyboard part.
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The third in a family of eight children, James Johnson, Jr. was born in Buffalo and raised primarily by his mother, a strict Catholic who made ends meet by running numbers for the mob. At the age of 15 he ran away from home and joined the Navy, but quickly discovered that military life conflicted with his musical ambitions. After being reported AWOL as a result of skipping out on weekend training, James fled to Toronto where he established The Mynah Birds, a band that featured future Buffalo Springfield founders Neil Young and Bruce Palmer, as well as Goldy McJohn who later became part of Steppenwolf; helped by James' family connections (his uncle was Melvin Franklin of The Temptations), a deal was secured with Motown Records, but little was recorded and nothing ever released.
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A friend is the main suspect to have killed Vincenzo Costanzo, whose body tied with plastic tape and wrapped in black plastic, appeared on January 29, 2017, on the side of the road to the Universidad para la Paz, Cuidad Colon, in the canton of Mora, San Jose.
The victim, an Italian national with some 25 years of living in Costa Rica, was a majority shareholder of the private company Cebaco Inversiones SA, owner of 17 hectares on the Isla Cébaco, located in the Pacific waters, in Panama, and where only 650 people live.
The murder of Costanzo occurred at a time when the sale of this property, valued at several million euros, was being negotiated with businessmen from Milan, Italy.
Initially, it was presumed that stealing this money could be the motive for the crime. However, after a year and four months of investigations, the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) has the hypothesis that the murder was over an alleged debt for drugs, which the victim had with a 'friend or partner' of Italian nationality.
Likewise, the police chief ruled out that Costanzo's crime is linked to the murders of the 51-year-old Italian Stefano Calandrelli, May 14 and whose body appeared in the Sucio River, on Route 32, and that of Salvatore Ponzo, 36, riddled with bullets on May 23, after he left the Italian embassy, in Los Yoses, Montes de Oca, San Jose.
"It's a casual issue determined by nationality. The three deceased have had no relationship between them, which has been verified," said Gonzalez.
Vincenzo Costanzo was single and has a son. He lived in Jacó (Puntarenas), but visited San José a lot for commercial reasons, as he was the owner of pizzerias.
Costanzo would be meeting in San José with a known Italian "just to have coffee." That person was the contact with those interested in buying land on the island. The name of that person was supplied by the Italian authorities to Costa Ricans.
Alvaro González added that Costanzo was seen alive the last time on January 24 near a residential complex in Alto de Las Palomas, in Escazú. They saw him between 7 p. m. at 7:30 p.m. m. Then he disappeared.
He died of suffocation from a tape too tight around his neck, the OIJ reported. In spite of the decomposition of the corpse, relatives recognized him by his tattoos.
The head of Homicide of the OIJ admitted knowing the message of WhatsApp and the negotiation for the sale of the property.
"A person we have contacted in Panama and who has been willing to collaborate with us in the investigation has helped us rule out the sale of the property as a possible motive for the crime," he added.
González, who preferred not to expand more details on the matter so as not to hinder the police investigation, said their focus is aimed rather at Costanzo who, allegedly, was part of an organization dedicated to sending drugs to Europe, by means of "mules" (people who carry narcotics attached to their body, in suitcases or intracorporeally).
The OIJ chief added that the Italian traveled frequently to the United States, Panama, and Italy, according to immigration records.
Gonzalez said that they have had contact with relatives and have exchanged information with the Italian authorities and the International Police (Interpol). "The only thing I can tell you is that in Italy, Vincenzo Costanzo had no criminal history".


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Kesar has a Bachelor of Laws degree. He lives in Belgrade.

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Kesar received the twelfth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Savski Venac municipal assembly in the 2016 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won thirteen mandates. The Progressives emerged as the dominant party in a municipal coalition government after the election, and Kesar served on the government side. He was given the ninth position on the Progressive list in Savski Venac in the 2020 Serbian local elections and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with twenty-three mandates.

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Kesar received the 136th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children coalition list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected to the assembly when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. He is a member of the assembly committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a deputy member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region and the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self government; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Bhutan; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Malta.

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UTOPIA announces Roger Timmerman as the new executive director
By Jesse | February 8, 2016 - 1:00 pm | February 8, 2016 Cheers, News, UTOPIA
After two years of searching, UTOPIA has announced that Roger Timmerman will be returning from Vivint Wireless to be the new executive director. You may recall that Roger was involved both with UTOPIA and iProvo since the early days (2004, to be exact), so he's bringing a pretty deep understanding of both fiber and municipal networks to the table. I was sad to see Roger go (and you all know how I feel about Vivint), so I'm glad to have him back.
With UTOPIA reaching operational break even and starting to build more network in more places, now is a good time to have someone back in the captain's chair. I hear that in addition to expansions in Midvale, West Valley City, and Layton, the city of Perry is getting a full deployment. Orem also has new councilmember (and UTOPIA supporter) Sam Lentz as their member of the UIA board, so it's possible that there may be some movement there as well.
Tagged Layton, Midvale, Perry, Roger Timmerman, UTOPIA, West Valley City
BREAKING: Perry says yes to Macquarie by a unanimous vote
By Jesse | June 27, 2014 - 9:19 am | June 27, 2014 Cheers, News, UTOPIA
In a 4-0 vote (one council member was not present), Perry opted to move forward with Macquarie's Milestone Two proposal for UTOPIA. This brings the final total of addresses participating to just shy of 53%. Each city who opted to get the full proposal will still need to vote to accept it once it's completed. All UTOPIA pledging cities have had a chance to vote on the proposal before the June 27th deadline to respond.
Tagged Macquarie, Perry, UTOPIA
Brigham City advances to Macquarie Milestone Two
By Jesse | June 20, 2014 - 8:45 am | June 20, 2014 News, UTOPIA
Brigham City became the fifth UTOPIA city to move forward with the proposal from Macquarie and seek full details under Milestone Two. The council passed it on a 3-2 vote. Cities who have not yet taken a vote include Centerville, Orem, Murray, and Perry. This means that over 51.8% of homes in UTOPIA cities are now on board with getting full details of the proposal from Macquarie.
Word on the street is that Perry might actually move forward with the deal to not be left behind by their northern neighbors. Given that the city currently has no fiber, this may be the only way for it to make good on its existing bond commitments. They'll be holding their next city council meeting on June 26th at 7PM.
Tagged Brigham City, Macquarie, Perry, UTOPIA
Updated List of Macquarie-related Meetings
By Jesse | June 3, 2014 - 8:45 am | June 20, 2014 Events, News, UTOPIA
I've just received an updated list of what meetings and votes are currently scheduled to take place regarding Macquarie's proposal to UTOPIA. As always, theses are subject to change and could be added to. If you hear anything, let me know and I'll update accordingly.
Public Meetings and Town Halls:
June 3 @ 7:00PM, Lindon: Lindon City Center, 100 N State St, Lindon
June 4 @ 7:00PM, Tremonton: Bear River High, 1450 S Main St, Garland
June 5 @ 5:00PM, Orem: Orem Senior Friendship Center, 93 N 400 E, Orem
June 5 @ 6:30PM, Murray: Doty Education Center, Building 6 of the Intermountain Medical Center, 5121 S Cottonwood St, Murray
June 5 @ 7:30PM, Centerville: Centerville City Hall, 250 N Main St, Centerville
June 17 @ 7:00PM, Lindon: Lindon City Centr, 100 N State St, Lindon
June 17 @ 7:30PM, Centerville: Centerville City Hall, 250 N Main St, Centerville
June 19 @ 6:00PM, Orem: Orem Senior Friendship Center, 93 N 400 E, Orem
June 5 @ 7:00PM, Layton: Layton City Hall, 437 N Wasatch Dr, Layton
June 18 @ 6:00PM, Payton: Payson City Hall, 439 W Utah Ave, Payson
June 24 @ 6:30PM, Murray: Murray City Hall, 5025 S State St, Murray
June 24, Centerville: Centerville City Hall, 250 N Main St, Centerville
June 26, Orem: Orem City Hall, 56 N State St, Orem
June 26 @ 7:00PM, Perry: Perry City Hall, 3005 W 1200 S, Perry
Some of these are cutting it pretty close to the deadline to respond of June 27. Payson is reportedly interested in finding out more, but their years of not attending board meetings with any regularity has left a huge information and expertise vacuum within the city government. I haven't heard anything about Perry at all. Brigham City will be voting on the proposal either on June 19 or 26 during the regularly scheduled council meeting.
Tagged Brigham City, Centerville, Layton, Lindon, Macquarie, Muray, Orem, Payson, Perry, Tremonton, UTOPIA
Schedule of Macquarie-related meetings
By Jesse | May 21, 2014 - 1:00 pm | May 21, 2014 Events, News, UTOPIA
Want to ask Macquarie some more burning questions? Interested in seeing how your city council votes? Here's the so-far definitive list of what is happening and where. Note that any of these is subject to change and I'll do my best to publish updates.
Thursday May 22: Brigham City will have an open house at the Bunderson Center, 641 E 200 N, from 6PM to 8PM. Macquarie will be there to answer one-on-one questions.
Tuesday May 27: Orem will have Nick Hann at the regular city council meeting to answer questions and take feedback. The council meets at 3PM in the Public Safety Training Room.
Tuesday May 27: Both West Valley City and Layton will be taking votes on advancing with Milestone Two during their normal city council meetings.
Tuesday June 3: Lindon will have a public discussion item on the city council agenda. They meet 7PM at the Lindon City Center on State St.
Thursday June 5: Murray will have an open house at the Doty Center inside the Intermountain Medical Center complex. It starts at 6:30PM.
Thursday June 5: Centerville will have an open house, education session, and public Q&A at 7:30PM. I'm assuming it's at city hall, but the location is unclear.
Tuesday June 17: Centerville, Tremonton, and Lindon should all be taking votes on advancing with Milestone Two during their normal city council meetings.
Notably absent from the list are Payson and Perry, cities that seem to have adopted "bury our heads in the sand and hope for the best" as their strategy. If you live in either city, you should contact your mayor and city council to give them a nudge.
Tagged Brigham City, Centerville, Layton, Lindon, Macquarie, Murray, Orem, Payson, Perry, Tremonton, UTOPIA, West Valley City
More federal dollars for UTOPIA?
By Jesse | December 12, 2010 - 8:03 pm | December 12, 2010 News, UTOPIA
I just read today that Tremonton and Perry could see upwards of $1M to fund UTOPIA expansion. It would be as part of an earmark from Sen. Orrin Hatch to expand distance learning and telemedicine programs. In such small towns, those grants would probably finish Tremonton (about 95% done) and complete a big chunk in Perry.
h/t: Nacilbupera. He/she/they may not like UTOPIA, but they deserve some credit for finding the information.
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What does the broadband stimulus mean for UTOPIA?
By Jesse | August 18, 2010 - 2:48 pm | August 18, 2010 UTOPIA
Now that UTOPIA has $16.2M in federal funding, the question is what it's going to do. The money itself is specifically to hook up "anchor institutions" such as schools, libraries, healthcare facilities, and government buildings. This money will be used to run fiber to over 400 buildings in Perry, Payson, Midvale, Murray, Centerville, Layton, Orem, and West Valley City. With those connections in the ground, it will be much less expensive to build out to nearby neighborhoods. That is, provided that your city joined the UIA and is willing to finance the cost of installations. A few cities are either in opposition to or on the fence about joining the UIA, so the fiber would stop at those anchor institutions. Time is limited to get them on the boat, so make sure you're hounding them about joining.
And if you want to, go take a look at the original press release.
Tagged anchor institutions, broadband stimulus, Centerville, Layton, Midvale, Murray, Orem, Payson, Perry, UIA, UTOPIA, West Valley City
Utah Infrastructure Agency Moving Forward
By Jesse | July 9, 2010 - 3:43 pm | July 9, 2010 News, UTOPIA
Remember UTOPIA's new plan to shift the cost of the network from the cities onto subscribers? It's been moving forward in the form of the Utah Infrastructure Agency, a way for cities to bond for construction without having to put taxpayers as a whole on the hook. So far, West Valley City, Lindon, Midvale, Layton, and Orem are on board with Perry and Tremonton deciding to sit it out. Other cities are still considering signing up for it and need to hear from you.
So what exactly does this do? In short, it's the next evolution beyond the SAA used in Brigham City. The SAA model was to find demand, form an SAA, and then get the funds to start construction. The UIA will, instead, get the money first, find the areas of demand, and then start construction once it becomes feasible. Just like the SAA, the subscribers that get hooked up under the arrangement will be the ones footing the bill. This speeds up the process of connecting customers while still continuing to shift the burden of supporting the network away from cities and onto those who get service.
To be quite honest, I can't see why a city wouldn't be all over this. There's no cost to the cities to participate and increased subscribers will only decrease or eliminate the called pledges. Given the benefits to the taxpayer, that they are taken off the hook, you'd think the Utah "Taxpayers" Association would be all for it. (Fat chance, I know.) The good news is that any city that doesn't elect to participate now can always reconsider in the future. If your city has already declined to join (or does so in the future), you can still pester them until they reconsider.
Note: While Orem was part of the founding group of the UIA, they haven't taken an official vote on the matter yet. There will be a public hearing on Tuesday after which the Orem City Council will decide if they will join. They chose the new bond in a 6-0 vote last time around, but the UTA is holding their rally just before the meeting to try and pack the house with opponents and scare council members into reversing course. It's very important that UTOPIA supporters turn out in force both at the rally and the meeting to thwart these efforts. I hear there's going to be a fun surprise for the UTA during their BBQ, so show up and be prepared for a laugh at their expense.
Tagged Brigham City, Layton, Lindon, Midvale, Orem, Perry, SAA, Tremonton, UIA, UTA, Utah Infrastructure Agency, Utah Taxpayers Association, UTOPIA, West Valley City
BREAKING: Gov. Herbert Recommends UTOPIA for Broadband Stimulus
By Jesse | November 4, 2009 - 9:11 pm | November 4, 2009 Cheers, News, UTOPIA
Peter Pratt at StimulatingBroadband.com tipped me off that Gov. Herbert has made his recommendations to NTIA and that all three of UTOPIA's proposals are on the list. This could pump over $57M into the network at a time when capital for expansion is rather difficult to come by. The money could be ready to use as early as February. While this isn't the final word on which projects will be approved, the NTIA is very likely to go along with the recommendations from the states. The feds didn't give independent reviewers a lot of time to screen applications before sending them to the states.
The money will be set aside for rural and underserved areas of member cities, so expect to see the money flow into Lindon, Centerville, Payson, Brigham City, Perry, and any leftover portions of Tremonton first. Residents in these cities are very likely to see a sharply reduced cost for an SAA (most likely) or the return of the free install (quite unlikely). Overall, this will mean a big expansion of UTOPIA availability which can only help the bottom line. UTOPIA's new management will likely have a targeted build plan meant to maximize new subscribers; previously, the building had been willy-nilly.
UTOPIA isn't the only winner in Herbert's recommendations. UEN and the UTA picked up endorsements as did several projects from the Navajo Nation. Emery Telecom also got the nod for its three proposals to bring FTTP to its service areas in rural Utah, no doubt to unify its separate CATV and phone systems as part of the upgrade. (Seriously, guys, kudos on being one of the few rural ILECs doing something so ambitious.) There's also an application to build a community WiFi cloud in Washington County.
All in all, it's good news for Utah's broadband.
Tagged Brigham City, broadband stimulus, Centerville, Emery Telecom, FTTP, Gary Herbert, Lindon, NTIA, Payson, Perry, Tremonton, UEN, UTOPIA
UTOPIA in Perry: "Real Soon Now" Becomes July
By Jesse | March 23, 2009 - 8:43 am | March 23, 2009 Rumors, UTOPIA
Forum commenter ALinPerry reports receiving a notice with his utility bill that UTOPIA will be going door-to-door in Perry next month to gauge interest in getting service. If interest is high enough, UTOPIA will finish the west side of town and add new subscribers as early as July. If you've been waiting for UTOPIA in Perry, keeps your eyes open for their reps.
Tagged Perry, UTOPIA


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The 100-bed multidisciplinary Nilai Medical Centre.
KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 20): Aurelius Healthcare Sdn Bhd has made its first hospital acquisition, being the 100-bed multidisciplinary Nilai Medical Centre.
In a press release by the healthcare specialist, Aurelius said the acquisition is a strong fit with its strategy to transform healthcare delivery to achieve the most favourable outcomes for patients' health.
Nilai Medical Centre will be renamed as Aurelius Hospital Nilai from September 2021.
The acquisition amount was not disclosed by the healthcare specialist.
"We aspire for rapid growth and improvements for this excellent hospital with its dedicated doctors and staff. It will continue to serve the communities in Negeri Sembilan, Selangor and Melaka, and shall be fully transformed for oncology care, cardiology, women and children's care, orthopaedics and all other clinical specialities of a tertiary hospital for patients at every stage of their life.
"There are plans to rapidly expand the hospital with an additional in-patient medical block to provide patients and caregivers with exceptional care and support," said founder and group managing director of Aurelius Datuk Amir Firdaus Abdullah in the statement.
Notably, private equity (PE) firm Navis Capital Partners completed a majority investment in Aurelius in May, but the exact stake in the healthcare specialist was not disclosed in the statement.
The PE firm said that it is committed to growing the organisation with the aim of having five to 10 hospitals rapidly operating within the platform.
"Aurelius and Navis have a common vision of how private healthcare could better serve the communities in the region. Through world-class healthcare management practice, engagement with various stakeholders around common goals, integrated care and investments in medical technology, we will make healthcare more accessible for our communities," said Navis partner Edwin Fua.
Fua added that the PE firm is open to partnership discussions, be it on a greenfield or brownfield basis.
Aurelius was incorporated in 2019 in Malaysia and is led by a team of industry veterans with global healthcare management experience who are seeking to modernise and make healthcare more accessible across the nation.
Joyce Goh


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[B]http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ded-fbi-boston
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case
Over the past couple days, cable news tabloid shows such as CNN's Out Front with Erin Burnett have been excitingly focused on the possible involvement in the Boston Marathon attack of Katherine Russell, the 24-year-old American widow of the deceased suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. As part of their relentless stream of leaks uncritically disseminated by our Adversarial Press Corps, anonymous government officials are claiming that they are now focused on telephone calls between Russell and Tsarnaev that took place both before and after the attack to determine if she had prior knowledge of the plot or participated in any way.
BURNETT: Tim, is there any way, obviously, there is a voice mail they can try to get the phone companies to give that up at this point. It's not a voice mail. It's just a conversation. There's no way they actually can find out what happened, right, unless she tells them?
CLEMENTE: "No, there is a way. We certainly have ways in national security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation. It's not necessarily something that the FBI is going to want to present in court, but it may help lead the investigation and/or lead to questioning of her. We certainly can find that out.
BURNETT: "So they can actually get that? People are saying, look, that is incredible.
CLEMENTE: "No, welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not."
"All of that stuff" - meaning every telephone conversation Americans have with one another on US soil, with or without a search warrant - "is being captured as we speak".
On Thursday night, Clemente again appeared on CNN, this time with host Carol Costello, and she asked him about those remarks. He reiterated what he said the night before but added expressly that "all digital communications in the past" are recorded and stored:
Let's repeat that last part: "no digital communication is secure", by which he means not that any communication is susceptible to government interception as it happens (although that is true), but far beyond that: all digital communications - meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats and the like - are automatically recorded and stored and accessible to the government after the fact. To describe that is to define what a ubiquitous, limitless Surveillance State is.
(Perhaps this technology and ILLEGAL activity could shed a bit more light on the tragedy that is Danielle van Dam. Imagine all of the information that could be provided through the phone conversations of those who testified in this tragedy and those who didn't.
What was actually said when Damon phoned Denise on Saturday, February 2nd? What did Brenda talk about with Rich and his wife Saturday morning?
I would love to hear the phone conversations had by SDPD. We know it's never going to happen but if Westerfield is granted a new trial, who knows what information could be gained with a subpoena from the court system.
How much of an insight would we have knowing what voice mails were left by Westerfield on Saturday morning and what the context was of the voice mails he left?
I can only imagine how uncomfortable this technology and information would be for some.
It might explain why SDPD focused on Westerfield before any DNA testing was performed on the blood stained items collected from Danielle's bedroom on Saturday and Monday.
My guess is that SDPD and Dorie didn't work Sundays and there wasn't anybody else available to perform "the duties" of Dorie on Sunday, so evidence collection was put on hold for a day, allowing Damon and Brenda time to revisit the crime scene before the shell casing and other items of evidence were collected.)
There have been some previous indications that this is true. Former AT&T engineer Mark Klein revealed that AT&T and other telecoms had built a special network that allowed the National Security Agency full and unfettered access to data about the telephone calls and the content of email communications for all of their customers. Specifically, Klein explained "that the NSA set up a system that vacuumed up Internet and phone-call data from ordinary Americans with the cooperation of AT&T" and that "contrary to the government's depiction of its surveillance program as aimed at overseas terrorists . . . much of the data sent through AT&T to the NSA was purely domestic." But his amazing revelations were mostly ignored and, when Congress retroactively immunized the nation's telecom giants for their participation in the illegal Bush spying programs, Klein's claims (by design) were prevented from being adjudicated in court.
That every single telephone call is recorded and stored would also explain this extraordinary revelation by the Washington Post in 2010:
Every day, collection systems at the National Security Agency intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications.
It would also help explain the revelations of former NSA official William Binney, who resigned from the agency in protest over its systemic spying on the domestic communications of US citizens, that the US government has "assembled on the order of 20 trillion transactions about US citizens with other US citizens" (which counts only communications transactions and not financial and other transactions), and that "the data that's being assembled is about everybody. And from that data, then they can target anyone they want."
Despite the extreme secrecy behind which these surveillance programs operate, there have been periodic reports of serious abuse. Two Democratic Senators, Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, have been warning for years that Americans would be "stunned" to learn what the US government is doing in terms of secret surveillance.
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Strangely, back in 2002 - when hysteria over the 9/11 attacks (and thus acquiescence to government power) was at its peak - the Pentagon's attempt to implement what it called the "Total Information Awareness" program (TIA) sparked so much public controversy that it had to be official scrapped. But it has been incrementally re-instituted - without the creepy (though honest) name and all-seeing-eye logo - with little controversy or even notice.
Back in 2010, worldwide controversy erupted when the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates banned the use of Blackberries because some communications were inaccessible to government intelligence agencies, and that could not be tolerated. The Obama administration condemned this move on the ground that it threatened core freedoms, only to turn around six weeks later and demand that all forms of digital communications allow the US government backdoor access to intercept them. Put another way, the US government embraced exactly the same rationale invoked by the UAE and Saudi agencies: that no communications can be off limits. Indeed, the UAE, when responding to condemnations from the Obama administration, noted that it was simply doing exactly that which the US government does:
"'In fact, the UAE is exercising its sovereign right and is asking for exactly the same regulatory compliance - and with the same principles of judicial and regulatory oversight - that Blackberry grants the US and other governments and nothing more,' [UAE Ambassador to the US Yousef Al] Otaiba said. 'Importantly, the UAE requires the same compliance as the US for the very same reasons: to protect national security and to assist in law enforcement.'"
That no human communications can be allowed to take place without the scrutinizing eye of the US government is indeed the animating principle of the US Surveillance State. Still, this revelation, made in passing on CNN, that every single telephone call made by and among Americans is recorded and stored is something which most people undoubtedly do not know, even if the small group of people who focus on surveillance issues believed it to be true (clearly, both Burnett and Costello were shocked to hear this).
Some new polling suggests that Americans, even after the Boston attack, are growing increasingly concerned about erosions of civil liberties in the name of Terrorism. Even those people who claim it does not matter instinctively understand the value of personal privacy: they put locks on their bedroom doors and vigilantly safeguard their email passwords. That's why the US government so desperately maintains a wall of secrecy around their surveillance capabilities: because they fear that people will find their behavior unacceptably intrusive and threatening, as they did even back in 2002 when John Poindexter's TIA was unveiled.
Mass surveillance is the hallmark of a tyrannical political culture. But whatever one's views on that, the more that is known about what the US government and its surveillance agencies are doing, the better. This admission by this former FBI agent on CNN gives a very good sense for just how limitless these activities are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtI0gjbUeuU
The Clemente Brothers have both worked as FBI Agents, Police investigators, and currently write and consult for television. They are truly a unique pair, but they remain clearly distinct from one-another in their social and political outlooks.
From their take on Gen. Petraeus' recent scandal to their explosive divergence of opinions on the Trayvon Martin case, they showcase their opinions and willingness to challenge the other's reasoning.
GUEST BIOS:
From 1998 until his retirement in October 2009, Jim Clemente was a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Virginia. He has undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Philosophy as well as a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. Clemente was stationed in Guantanamo to consult on interrogation methods and the development of an interrogation plan, but took a public stand against the tactics, saying they violated the US Torture Statute. Clemente is now a Consultant/Writer/Producer for Network Television and Feature Films for the television program "Criminal Minds." He is a nationally recognized expert in the fields of Sex Crimes Investigations, Sex Offender Behavior, Child Sexual Victimization, and Child Pornography.
As an FBI Special Agent Tim Clemente worked as a counter-terrorism and tactical operations expert around the world, specializing in Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa.
An expert interviewer/interrogator, he is extremely adept at "flipping" people, effortlessly turning
defendants, detainees, and targets into cooperators. Tim spent five years running a highly classified (above Top Secret), covert joint operation with the DOE NEST, directly protecting the United States from the threat of rogue nuclear and WMD attack. In his undercover persona as a drug smuggler, Tim worked on long-term narcotics and organized crime investigations in the US, Colombia, and Venezuela, targeting and taking down members of the notorious Cali Cartel.
Prior to the FBI Tim was a Police Officer with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
On the streets of one of the most violent cities in the US, he received multiple commendations for bravery and exceptional performance of duty. After his career with the FBI Tim worked as an embedded, uniformed Counter Improvised Explosive Device Investigator with the US Army 3rd Corps in Iraq in 2007, and with the 101st Airborne Division at Ft Campbell, Kentucky in 2008.
An expert storyteller, adviser, lecturer, and writer, he has addressed and taught law enforcement, military, and university audiences. He is the author of Courage -- A Pictorial Essay on Life in Iraq Today (Feb 2008), and the inventor of the Height Adjustable Rescue Assault System (HARAS), currently in use by leading counter-terrorism agencies on five continents.
Originally posted by the_bigguy_15 View Post
It is just sad to see some of you still here, supporting a child molester and murderer.
You need to move on with your lives and just accept that you supported an evil man who killed and most likely sexually assaulted a 7 year old girl.
Shame on all of you who wanted to point at the other victims - the family - instead of the true evil that was right in front of you.
Keep posting the same old transcripts with certain sections in bold. There is only one real wording that needs to be remembered:
Judge: What do you say in the matter of David Westerfield on the charges of first degree murder?
Jury: Guilty!
(I think my computer has been taken over by demons! Help! Help!
At least the demons know how to use the quote feature.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSRm80WzZk
Q. GO TO PHOTOGRAPH "C." WHAT IS THAT SHOWING US?
A. THAT'S WITH HER DOOR OPEN LOOKING IN HER ROOM.
Q. APPEARS TO BE A GATEWAY ON THAT DOORWAY. WAS THAT THERE THAT NIGHT WHEN YOU PUT HER TO BED?
Q. WHEN DID THAT SHOW UP?
A. AFTER THEY FINGERPRINTED. YOU CAN SEE THE FINGERPRINT DUST IN PHOTOS "B" AND "C" ALSO. AND AFTER THE POLICE LET US BACK IN THE HOUSE, I ASKED THE ROOM -- I ASKED THE ROOM NOT BE CLEANED, SO WE PUT ONE OF THE DOG GATES UP AND PUT A DO NOT ENTER SIGN ON THE DOOR.
(They were let back in the house sometime Sunday. The fingerprinting happened on Saturday. A doggie gate and "Do not enter" sign go up on Sunday and Monday around 11 am, SDPD are back collecting evidence with blood on it? What determines a crime scene has been compromised?)
"...I ASKED THE ROOM -- I ASKED THE ROOM NOT BE CLEANED, SO WE PUT ONE OF THE DOG GATES UP AND PUT A DO NOT ENTER SIGN ON THE DOOR..."
(Who besides the van Dams would be cleaning up a crime scene?)
...Q: IN FACT, AFTER THE OFFICERS TOLD YOU THAT YOU COULD RESUME OCCUPANCY OF THE HOUSE, DID THEY COME BACK LOOKING FOR MORE STUFF?
A: YES, THEY DID.
Q: DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT WHEN?
A: IT WAS -- MY LIFE WAS A BLUR FOR A LONG TIME AFTER THAT.
(Let's see now, they let us back in the house on Sunday and then returned the next morning around 11 am and collected a shell casing, bloody bean bag chair, Danielle's blood stained blanket, three blood drops from the stairwell and who knows what else.)
Q: DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY CAME BACK AND GOT, IF ANYTHING?
A: THEY DID A LOT OF STUFF IN DANIELLE'S ROOM. THEY TOOK THE CLOSET DOORS FROM DANIELLE'S ROOM. THEY TOOK THE CLOSET DOORS FROM THE OFFICE. THEY TOOK A PIECE OF WALL. THEY DID CHEMICAL TESTS IN DANIELLE'S ROOM WHERE THEY WOULD BE IN THERE ALL DAY WITH LIGHTS AND CHEMICALS.
(Investigators back at missing [San Diego] girl's home - Take Closet Doors
San Diego Union Tribune ^ | February 21, 2002 | Joe Hughes)
I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. THEY CAME BACK AND RE-PRINTED -- AS A MATTER OF FACT, AT THE BEGINNING YOU WERE ASKED WHEN WE WERE LET BACK IN. I WALKED AROUND THE HOUSE, AND I NOTICED THEY HADN'T PRINTED THE WINDOWS. AND I ASKED THEY COME BACK AND PRINT ALL THE WINDOWS AND ALL THE GLASS AROUND THE HOUSE, WHICH THEY DID LATER THAT DAY.
AGAIN I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS THE SECOND OR THIRD DAY. AND THEN THEY CLEANED THE WINDOWS, AND THEY CAME BACK AGAIN. THEY CAME BACK AGAIN, A FEW DAYS LATER, AND DID THE WINDOWS ALL AGAIN, AFTER THEY HAD CLEANED THEM. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT ONE.
Brenda:
Q WHEN YOU SAW THE CONDITION OF YOUR HOUSE, ONCE YOU FIRST RETURNED THERE, WHAT DID YOU DO?
A I TOLD MY FRIENDS THAT I COULDN'T LET MY BOYS COME INTO THAT BECAUSE IT WOULD BE -- IT WOULD SCARE THEM.
(When you returned on Sunday, where were your boys? Child Protective Services?)
Q SO WHAT DID YOU DO?
A THEY GOT -- THEY ASKED SOME NEIGHBORHOOD MOMS TO CLEAN.
Q WHO ASKED?
A MY FRIEND.
Q YOUR FRIEND ASKED SOME NEIGHBORHOOD MOMS TO HELP YOU CLEAN?
A YES. I DIDN'T CLEAN.
Q WHAT WAS YOUR CONDITION?
A I WAS DEVASTATED.
Q DO YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT THE NEIGHBORHOOD MOM STARTED TO CLEAN?
A AFTER I ASKED FOR THEM TO CLEAN.
(So who asked for the neighborhood moms to clean, Brenda or her friend?)
Q DID THE POLICE TELL YOU ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU COULD CLEAN AT THAT TIME?
A THEY ACTUALLY TOLD ME I COULD CLEAN THE WHOLE HOUSE. AND I SPECIFICALLY ASKED THEM ABOUT DANIELLE'S BEDROOM, AND THEY SAID TO CLEAN IT. AND THEN I SPECIFICALLY SAID IT TWICE, AND I SAID IF I CLEAN THAT BEDROOM AND YOU COME BACK TO ME AND ASK ME FOR EVIDENCE, YOU ARE GOING TO BE ON MY POOP LIST.
Q OKAY. WHAT DID THEY START CLEANING?
A DOWNSTAIRS.
Q DID THEY COMPLETE THE CLEANING JOB?
Q DID THEY GO UPSTAIRS?
A NO. DAMON AND I DECIDED THAT WE DIDN'T WANT THEM TO CLEAN THE ROOM. JUST IN CASE THERE WAS ANYTHING ELSE THEY COULD GET OUT OF IT THAT WOULD HELP FIND DANIELLE.
(Like a shell casing, bloody bean bag chair, or bloody blanket with a pocket?
Why did SDPD give Damon and Brenda permission to enter and clean the house on Sunday, then come back on Monday morning for more evidence?
What evidence was LOST, DESTROYED, or CONCEALED from Sunday when the van Dams were allowed to clean the crime scene until Monday morning when Dorie and co. returned and collected more evidence from the disturbed crime scene?
That RED FLAG is so large, it's blocking the sun!!!)
Q WAS ANYTHING DONE TO PROTECT THE ROOM?
A WE PUT A GATE IN FRONT OF THE DOOR AND A "DO NOT ENTER" SIGN ON THE DOOR.
Q HAS ANYONE CLEANED THAT ROOM SINCE?
A NO.
Q ANYONE ALLOWED IN THAT ROOM?
Q HAVE YOU GONE IN THERE?
A YES.
(Does that mean Brenda left the shell casing in Danielle's bedroom?)
Investigators back at missing [San Diego] girl's home - Take Closet Doors
Bedroom closet doors taken for examination
By Joe Hughes
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Police returned to the home of missing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam yesterday, this time taking two sliding closet doors from the girl's bedroom in an effort to find additional fingerprints.
(Mirrored closet doors. Like fingerprints are hard to find on glass mirrors.)
Police believe someone entered Danielle's bedroom while she was asleep and abducted her. They are hoping to recover evidence that may have been left behind.
(Was there any DNA evidence of an intruder except for the blood on the bean bag chair and blood on Danielle's blanket? Any hair or prints from an unknown, or just the unknown BLOOD evidence on the bean bag chair and blanket, collected the day after Damon and Brenda were allowed back into the crime scene and allowed to "clean it up"?
If the only foreign DNA evidence was blood on Danielle's blanket and blood on the bean bag chair, wouldn't these become THE most important pieces of evidence from the crime scene? Why were they ignored for MONTHS?)
The visit marked the fourth time since Danielle was reported missing Feb. 2 that detectives and evidence technicians have gone to the van Dam home and carted off items in a search for clues. Officers previously have taken several pieces of furniture, clothing, home decorations and other objects. A rug in the house was damaged from fingerprint dusting.
(First time was on February 2. Second time was on February 4. I'll have to find when the third time was.)
"I don't care if they tear my house completely apart as long as they find my little girl," Brenda van Dam said yesterday.
(I don't care if they take closet doors from the office, drywall and studs from the downstairs area either.)
Meanwhile, Brenda and Damon van Dam held a news conference in Poway to ask for more volunteers to help search for their daughter, who was last seen when her father put her to bed Feb. 1, police said.
(Who was the last person KNOWN to have seen Danielle alive?)
Additional searches are planned in Borrego Springs and Shelter Valley on Saturday and Sunday starting at 8:30 a.m. Further information can be obtained by calling (858) 485-4185.
Searchers are focusing on the desert because a van Dam neighbor who has been the focus of the investigation went to the desert the same weekend Danielle disappeared. He has not been arrested.
(Was she found where Westerfield PROVED he was that weekend?)
Bob Cross, who has volunteered in several searches over the past 20 years, said the search for Danielle is among the most extensive he has seen.
(Based upon a pile of lies from the beginning.)
"There is no letup," Cross said. "We remain determined and committed even after almost three weeks."
About 2,000 volunteers have searched the desert, and 600 have searched other areas of San Diego County, said Diane Halfman, volunteer director of the Danielle Recovery Center.
More than 8,000 fliers and 3,000 buttons have been distributed, Halfman said. The Web site Daniellemissing.com has received 520,000 visits, she said.
In other developments yesterday:
Organizers announced that a candlelight vigil for Danielle will be held at 7 tonight at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, 10125 Azuaga St. in Rancho Peٌasquitos.
Officials announced that a community forum will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Creekside Elementary School, 12362 Springhurst Drive in Sabre Springs. Police and school officials will attend. Marc Klaas, whose daughter Polly was abducted and killed in 1993, will be a featured speaker.
Gov. Gray Davis issued a statement asking anyone with information about the case to call police. He also said he is confident that San Diego area law enforcement is "doing everything to find the little girl and bring her home safely."
...Unfortunately, herculean efforts will not be enough. It is, to put it kindly, highly unlikely that she is alive. Statistics show most in her situation are dead within hours.
...They could be looking for blood.
...Considering the herculean effort of the San Diego Police to ignore the effects of the van Dam lifestyle on the case, I believe it is time offer the remaining explanations to the girl's dissapearence.
...I'd be very surprised if those doors yielded much evidence of anything--they did not make the room a "crime scene" and so there have been any number of people in and out of there, all leaving fingerprints, and no doubt smudging any the "perp" would have left.
...But though I hate to say it, I think that it was the whole drift of the suspicion about Westerfield, and the drift of the comments and statements by the VD's-- that have led away from the identification of the girl's own room as the crime scene. We were set up in all ways to think some baddie came in off the street, grabbed a screaming girl and made off with her in his van to some remote spot where unspeakable things were done.
I am on several threads already to say that I think the girl was already dead when taken out of the VD home, and probably from her room! If not, then she left voluntarily. No abduction. Period.
Now I am going to mention the unmentionable. If this girl was killed in her room, it was probably by someone who was sexually assaulting her right there. And that points to Damon Van Dam, not a stranger. AT LAST I HAVE SAID IT.
"Police say they may never know how Danielle van Dam died, or when."
But they know WHO and WHY, not WHERE!!
Who? Westerfield.
What? A murder.
Where? In her bedroom? In the motor home? In his house? Dehesa? Someplace else?
When? Unknown.
Why? Child porn.
How? Unknown
Medical examiners are trying to determine the cause of death, but Police Chief Dave Bejerano says it's possible that we'll never know how, or when she was killed.
The absence of a body creates a legal challenge, but the district attorney's office has successfully prosecuted four such cases, the most recent in August.
To try someone for murder without a body, prosecutors must establish a "reasonable probability" that the victim has died, said Justin Brooks, director of the California Innocence Project at California Western School of Law in San Diego.
"It's nowhere near as hard as proving something beyond a reasonable doubt, but it's a lot more than just showing blood stains," Brooks said.
NEWSWEEK: Where does the investigation currently stand?
David Bejarano: We are continuing to look at all the evidence in this case and are working with the medical examiner to identify the body. When the searchers first notified the Sheriff's Department that they had discovered a body [on Wednesday], the [department] then immediately contacted us, and we had out people at the scene within a few minutes. Our homicide investigators were there until past midnight last night, at which time we released the body to the medical examiner's office.
(Even the police chief has a problem with the truth sometimes.)
Regarding the evidence, how much blood was found in David Westerfield's recreational vehicle and on his clothing?
Small traces of blood were found. But that's about all I can say about the evidence at this time.
In the warrant to search Westerfield's home, you were looking for very specific things, including child pornography. What led you to believe that Westerfield was in possession of such materials? Did you receive a tip from the van Dams or from someone else that he may have had child porn in his home?
We can't tell you why we were looking for pornography.
Is it common for police to list pornography on a search warrant in a child abduction case?
Yes, I think it is fair to say that in these kinds of child abduction cases, child pornography is commonly involved.
Have you yet recovered any evidence from the dry cleaners that Westerfield may have used for his bedding and clothing the weekend Danielle disappeared?
Again, we can't comment on the evidence at this time, I'm sorry.
Why did Westerfield apparently go to the beach before heading to the desert on the weekend of Danielle's disappearance?
We do believe he went to the Strand State Beach in Coronado first, then headed east to the desert area near Glamis, but we are not currently discussing any possible motives for his actions.
Would you say the location of the body on that road in Dehesa seems to be consistent with Westerfield's actions and whereabouts that weekend?
That road isn't a direct route to the desert, but it certainly is an indirect route, a back way.
Do investigators have any idea yet why Westerfield would have committed such a crime? Can you comment at all on the rumors that Westerfield may have been turned down from what was said to be the van Dams' "swinger" circle, or that he had been shunned by Brenda van Dam in the bar that night?
We're not discussing motive or rumors.
Is it true that investigators brought this case to the San Diego District Attorney twice and were told to go back and get more evidence?
We can't comment.
Can you tell me whether Westerfield had his recreational vehicle steam-cleaned and his clothes laundered after he returned from the desert?
How about other aspects of the investigation, including all the materials removed from Westerfield's house?
How helpful were Westerfield's cell phone records in this investigation?
In any investigation of this magnitude, cell phones are checked. It's a very common and effective tool these days to see who he was calling and from where he was calling.
Can you describe how this investigation was mapped out by police from the beginning?
I can't describe too many details because the investigation isn't over, but I will say that in my 23 years in law enforcement, I have rarely seen anything like this investigation. It's not unprecedented for police to have a 24-hour surveillance of a suspect. But it is very rare for police to have a 24-hour surveillance on a suspect for three straight weeks. Typically, in a long-term investigation, there are breaks along the way. There are days on and days off, as far as surveillance. This is one of the longest and largest continuing investigations I have been a part of, and it isn't over yet.
http://www.komonews.com/news/archive/4034911.html
"It has been one of the most extraordinary things I have seen in my years of law enforcement," Pfingst said about the search.
"They found that needle in a haystack."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/729467/posts
Return to recovery scene
Earlier, Feldman had sought to remind jurors that the 50-year-old design engineer could not be placed off Dehesa Road where Danielle van Dam's body was recovered.
He showed them aerial photographs of the scene and wondered aloud why, as prosecutors have charged, his defendant would drive several hundred miles just to place her in that spot.
"It's narrow," he said of the two-lane roadway. "Where's the evidence anyone saw a motor home? Where's the evidence of David Westerfield (being) in Dehesa?"
Feldman noted the difficulty of accessing the site, pointing out that the area, up a steep bank, was so difficult to reach, steps were later added to it.
Feldman also noted that authorities were unable to identify a hair found underneath the body.
"Whose was it? It wasn't David Westerfield. It's not Danielle van Dam's. How could it have gotten there?"
The defense attorney also pointed out the area was used as a dump, with any number of possible sources of the orange fibers found on Danielle van Dam.
Turning his attention to autopsy evidence, he noted that there were no broken bones around the victim's neck, saying that proved the victim wasn't strangled or asphyxiated, as prosecutors contend.
Bug evidence
Feldman's closing argument also revisited the days of forensic entomological evidence. He pointed out that, based on the bug experts called, it would have been "impossible" for Westerfield to have placed the body there.
February's weather was hot, Feldman said, hot enough to promote the growth of bugs that entomologists have pointed to as evidence the victim's body could not have been exposed since early February. The victim's body was recovered Feb. 27.
Referring to earlier comments by Dusek that authorities didn't know the proper questions to ask of the bug experts, Feldman said:
"So they're going to say because they didn't ask the right questions we should convict David Westerfield?"
The defense attorney also made several pointed references to the reason forensic entomologist David Faulkner was called to the scene – because he was called in by law enforcement. Faulkner ended up being a defense witness in the case.
Faulkner, who has previously testified in cases prosecuted by Dusek, testified that, based on the development of insect larvae, the victim's body could not have been exposed to the elements before Feb. 16.
Feldman told jurors that the best estimate of county medical examiner Dr Brian Blackbourne was that the body was left out 10 to 42 days before its discovery.
He reminded the jurors of the testimony of defense expert Neal Haskell, who testified that blow flies did not colonize the body of the 7-year-old girl until at least Feb. 12.
"We already know that David was under constant surveillance, then it's impossible for him to have done it. If Faulkner is right, he's not guilty, there's no issue."
He called the agreement by his experts a "concordance of science."
Feldman ridiculed the conclusion of one prosecution witness, forensic anthropoligist Dr. William C. Rodriguez III, who concluded the range of possible death dates extended to January 17, a time the victim was still alive.
(Dusek has the precise estimate of Faulkner, yet decides to call Rodriguez who was WRONG by at least TWO WEEKS. Nice try Jeffrey!!)
He also made light of a prosecution theory that the victim's body wasn't colonized within a reasonable time frame because it became "mummified."
"So conditions in San Diego are so unusual, they've never been seen like this before? The body mummified so much that the bugs went 'poink?' "
During his 3 1/2-hour closing argument Tuesday, Dusek told jurors they didn't have to determine how and when Westerfield entered the van Dam house and kidnapped and killed Danielle, just whether he committed the crime.
Feldman urged the jury to examine the details of the case and told them that laws regarding jury deliberations required them to interpret evidence in favor of the defendant's innocence whenever there were two conflicting but reasonable interpretations.
Several witnesses testified that Westerfield had invited them to come along with him on his trip to the desert that weekend, Feldman said. It was a trip he told people he wanted to take on Super Bowl weekend because the desert would be less crowded.
"It was spontaneous, but it wasn't as though, 'I've just kidnapped somebody and I have to get away immediately'," Feldman said.
In his summation, Feldman argued that insect evidence from Danielle's body exonerated the defendant and said there are innocent explanations for all the circumstantial evidence linking Westerfield, the van Dams' neighbor, to the crime. The lawyer blamed prosecution "spin" and crime scene contamination and even hinted that Danielle's mother may be hiding information from the jury.
With Brenda van Dam watching from the spectator's gallery, Feldman suggested that dyed blonde hairs found near Danielle's blood, fingerprints and naturally blonde hair in Westerfield's recreational vehicle might belong to her mother and could indicate some kind of relationship with the defendant.
If Danielle or her mother were in the RV before the kidnapping, he said, that would be a "fatal blow" to the prosecution case — reason enough, he suggested, for her to conceal the truth.
Brenda van Dam, who sat in the last row of the court holding her husband's hand, stared at Feldman but showed no reaction to the charge. At the defense table, Westerfield, a twice-divorced design engineer now facing the death penalty, also remained stonefaced.
Prosecutors assembled a mountain of forensic evidence linking Westerfield to Danielle's disappearance, but Feldman said none of it, not even a spot of her blood on Westerfield's jacket and another in his motor home, proves his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Prosecutors, he charged, should spell out how and when the blood spilled.
"I want to know how that blood got there. You have a right to know," said Feldman.
Feldman suggested Danielle might have left the blood along with hair and fingerprints prior to the kidnapping. Westerfield often parked the motor home in the neighborhood and she might have snuck inside to play, he suggested.
"Kids bleed all the time," he said.
He tried to explain away hair and fiber evidence in Westerfield's house as either stemming from police contamination or a visit by Danielle and her mother to sell Girl Scout cookies a few days before the abduction.
He told jurors that there was no evidence — "not hair, not fingerprints, not fiber, not nothing" — showing Westerfield's presence in the van Dam house. He said several unidentified fingerprints in the home, prints determined not to belong to the defendant, pointed to some other perpetrator.
(Why didn't he include the blood on the bean bag chair and the blood on Danielle's blanket as exclusions for Westerfield?)
No matter the trace evidence, Feldman said, the testimony of bug experts who studied maggots on Danielle's corpse clears Westerfield. In a key battleground of the trial, four forensic entomologists studied the insects and each gave a range of when bugs first infested Danielle's body. Those ranges, Feldman charged, overlapped in mid-February, long after Westerfield was under police surveillance.
"The evidence has been introduced that Mr. Westerfield is not guilty. There it is," he said pointing to a chart displaying the experts results.
Feldman also said the van Dams' unconventional sex life, which included partner-swapping, opened their home to strangers who may have done Danielle harm.
The lawyer described Westerfield as a generous, friendly man with a history of healthy relationships with adult women. Of the prosecutor's suggestion that the defendant was upset the weekend Danielle vanished because of a breakup with a long-time girlfriend, Feldman said, "That's going to cause him to change into a child killer? That's completely illogical."
Feldman hedged on the issue of child pornography, asserting that many of the images on computer disks in the Westerfield home were either not of children or not pornography. He noted that violent child rape movies were just a few of 8,000 files of adult pornography. He also urged jurors to look at a defense computer expert's report that suggested Westerfield's teenage son Neal was responsible for some of the pornography.
Several times during the argument, Judge William Mudd interrupted Feldman's argument to correct him. At one point, when Feldman said the prosecution's theory was that Danielle was killed in her bed, Mudd said, "That completely misstates the evidence."
Feldman's summation style was a jarring change from Dusek's closing. On Tuesday and at the start of his rebuttal Wednesday, the prosecutor stood in front of the jury box, moving only to gesture toward an exhibit or point an accusatory finger at Westerfield. His argument was coordinated with a computer slide show of evidence on the courtroom wall. Feldman raced around the well of the court as he argued his case, sifting through papers on the defense table one moment, sitting in the witness chair to make a point the next. Frequently, he stopped his closing for a moment to search for an exhibit. He struggled to display large posterboards of photos, balancing them on his arm or propping them against his face.
At the start of his rebuttal, Dusek told jurors Feldman was trying to "hook" one of the panel members into hanging the whole jury. He urged jurors to question whether they were being rational in doubting the prosecution's evidence. Ask yourself, he told them, "how reasonable is my position if everyone else sees it otherwise."
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Once detectives discovered traces of Danielle's blood in his motor home, according to police accounts, some searchers turned their attention to the route he might have taken. But with hundreds of square miles of open country, canyons and hills to search, police and volunteers continued to come up empty.
(Wasn't aware Peer was a detective. Was Karen also a detective? Or was it Ott and Keyser who knew where the blood in the motor home would be discovered.?)


The gate into a life of light and glory is open to all of you who have found Jesus Christ; however, it remains closed to those who are still distant from Him and His act of Salvation. Therefore you all should seriously ask yourselves whether you have already taken the path to Him, to the cross; for His path on earth ended with His death on the cross, hence you will have to seek and find Him there, and that is where you must go if you want to participate in His act of Salvation. The goal of His life on earth was the cross, because the crucifixion was intended to bring redemption to you humans.


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Home Marijuana News Ohio Ohio Highway Patrol Confiscates 55 Gallons of CBD Oil During Traffic Stop
Ohio Highway Patrol Confiscates 55 Gallons of CBD Oil During Traffic Stop
Despite the lack of psychoactive effects, CBD is a controlled substance in Ohio.
Courtesy of the Ohio State Highway Patrol
State troopers confiscated 55 gallons of CBD oil last week after discovering several buckets of the hemp extract during a traffic stop, according to a press release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The driver and a passenger of a U-Haul truck that had been pulled over for a "marked lanes violation" on Interstate 70 were arrested and taken into law enforcement custody.
Troopers observed "criminal indicators" during the traffic stop just after noon on February 25 in Muskingum County, about 60 miles east of Colombus, according to police. After an OSHP drug-sniffing dog alerted to the vehicle, a "probable cause" search of the moving van was conducted and troopers discovered eleven plastic buckets containing 7,040 liquid ounces of CBD oil, with an estimated value of $165,000.
Both the driver, Joshua Sellers, 37, of Providence, R.I, and the passenger, Richard Defedele, 37, of North Kingston, R.I., were charged with possession of a schedule 1 substance, a first-degree felony. If the men are convicted, they could face up to 11 years in prison and a fine of up to $20,000.
CBD Tightly Controlled in Ohio
Despite the legalization of hemp and CBD at the federal level with the 2018 Farm Bill, cannabidiol remains a controlled substance in Ohio. In December of last year, state regulators announced that CBD from any source fell under the auspices of the Ohio medical marijuana program that was passed into law by the legislature in 2016. With CBD now considered a form of medical marijuana, the Ohio Board of Pharmacy said that products with cannabidiol would only be allowed to be sold by licensed cannabis dispensaries.
"All marijuana products, including CBD oil, can only be dispensed in a licensed Medical Marijuana Control Program dispensary," the notice reads. "Those marijuana products will have to comply with the rules and regulations of the program. All products must have a known source, as well as known quantities of active ingredients. Testing procedures will be conducted by testing laboratories licensed by the Ohio Department of Commerce."
"Until dispensaries are operational," the board wrote, "no one, including board licensees, may possess or sell CBD oil or other marijuana-related products."
That announcement came despite the fact that retailers across the state had been selling CBD products for years, leading some shop owners to liquidate or remove their stock of CBD goods and others to openly flout the new rules.
Alison Rinehart, the manager of the High Up Head Shop in Columbus, told local media in December that the CBD products sold at her shop should not be confused with marijuana.
"None of our products are derivative from cannabis in any way, shape or form. They come directly from hemp," said Rinehart. "They all have certified insured lab reports behind them as well. There's no THC content in them whatsoever."
E.R. Beach has sold CBD supplements at his four Hemptations pipe shops in Dayton and Cincinnati for seven years. He told local media that he did not intend to stop selling them because of the ruling from the Board of Pharmacy and issued a challenge to police.
"They [law enforcement] are going to have to charge me, and if they charge me, it'll be for possession of marijuana, and when they test the product, they'll find that it's not a marijuana product," he said. "They could do that at any time."
A.J. Herrington
A.J. Herrington is a San Diego-based freelance writer covering cannabis news, business, and culture.


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All Ages - Legal &/or Advocacy - Policy & Information
Tasmania Police was one of the first Australian police services to educate and inform police recruits about the lived experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Intersex Tasmanians. Tasmania Police is building on that proud history by ensuring our services are delivered as fairly and inclusively as possible.
Tasmania Police acknowledge that Tasmania was the last state to decriminalise male-to-male relationships. This has left a legacy of stigma and discrimination that Tasmania Police seeks to address.
An important aspect of the service Tasmania Police provide to the LGBTI community is the LGBTI Liaison Officer. The LGBTI Liaison Officers' mission is to contribute to the creation of mutual trust between police and LGBTI people so they have increased confidence in police through the provision of a fair and equitable policing service. Liaison Officers are police officers located throughout the state who can provide discrete advice on crimes and offences and ensure reports to police are appropriately acted upon.
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To find out more about the LGBTI inclusive services and support provided by Tasmania Police, go to their website or click here to download the LGBTI Liaison Officers Brochure.
Contact: Email – Inspector Robert Blackwood
Phone – 131 444 or triple zero (000) in an emergency and ask to speak to an LGBTI Liaison Officer


Gentle readers, today is Memorial Day and it's fairly early in the morning. I have been down to put out a little grain for my ponies. I like to have them come in every morning in case I need to get a'horseback to retreive any steers that might have strayed onto the neighbors. I haven't fixed my breakfast as of yet but am on my third cup of coffee. The first two cups I drank out on the back deck with Clancy "the wonder dog". I also got a good look at the new steers that arrived a few days ago as they had come in for water.
This country is green, green and greener. It's a beautiful morning with a bright blue Colorado sky and a few scattered clouds that seem as if they have found their location for the morning. A little breeze out of the north and east reminds me that it could really be a hot one today if not for that soft gentle breeze. It seems that this holiday has become more about road races either by foot or by race cars than by spending more time reflecting on those that gave their all for you and I and the freedoms we enjoy on a day like today. I suppose that it's okay to celebrate in any number of ways on a day like today. It's the official start to summer and kids are excited about being out of school and all the adventures that summer might offer up. There will be team ropings plus all sorts of horse activities. It's a good time to have a picnic with family and friends and just relax.
For me, I am going to meet up with a couple of friends here in an hour or so and we'll cruise around on the Harleys, actually two Harleys and one Yamaha that looks like a Harley. Okay, okay, I have ridden Hondas, Yamahas and now a Harley. Today has started off to be a really good day. All of the pieces seem to be fitting into the picture that I had painted in my mind. As one of my friends, Richard Seaworth likes to quote, "Mad Jack, I think you had to much to DREAM last night. He sometimes is right on as I am a dreamer even at my old age. I dreamed up a good day and it's looking like that's exactly what it's going to be. I do hope that all of you dear hearts and gentle readers had a happy and pleasant Memorial Day and that this summer is something that you are looking forward to.


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This Veterans Day, let's proclaim our thanks and gratitude to our Nation's Veterans. Thank you for your service, your sacrifice and for fighting to protect our freedom. Happy Veterans Day!
What great employees we have here at CoventBridge Group! Recently, our Jacksonville office team spent almost 2 weeks training with this tremendous group of field investigators! Lots of hard work was put in, but lots of fun and new friendships came out of it as well!
CoventBridge Group employees had a great time dressing up for Halloween and participating in our annual costume contest!
We were happy to be Partners in Pride at this years JASMYN Coming Out Day Breakfast! Let's come together to create safe spaces for all!


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Home Books Principles of Critical Care, 3e
Chapter 64. Seizures in the Intensive Care Unit
Sarice L. Bassin; Nathan B. Fountain; Thomas P. Bleck
Bassin SL, Fountain NB, Bleck TP. Bassin S.L., & Fountain N.B., & Bleck T.P. Bassin, Sarice L., et al.Chapter 64. Seizures in the Intensive Care Unit. In: Hall JB, Schmidt GA, Wood LH. Hall J.B., & Schmidt G.A., & Wood L.H.(Eds.),Eds. Jesse B. Hall, et al.eds. Principles of Critical Care, 3e. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 16, 2021. https://accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=361&sectionid=39866434
Bassin SL, Fountain NB, Bleck TP. Bassin S.L., & Fountain N.B., & Bleck T.P. Bassin, Sarice L., et al. (2005). Chapter 64. seizures in the intensive care unit. Hall JB, Schmidt GA, Wood LH. Hall J.B., & Schmidt G.A., & Wood L.H.(Eds.),Eds. Jesse B. Hall, et al. Principles of Critical Care, 3e. McGraw-Hill. https://accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=361&sectionid=39866434
Bassin SL, Fountain NB, Bleck TP. Bassin S.L., & Fountain N.B., & Bleck T.P. Bassin, Sarice L., et al. "Chapter 64. Seizures in the Intensive Care Unit." Principles of Critical Care, 3e Hall JB, Schmidt GA, Wood LH. Hall J.B., & Schmidt G.A., & Wood L.H.(Eds.),Eds. Jesse B. Hall, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2005, https://accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=361&sectionid=39866434.
Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology
Diagnostic Approach
Seizures are a relatively common occurrence in the intensive care unit, but may be difficult to recognize.
Seizures that persist longer than 5 to 7 minutes should be treated to prevent progression to status epilepticus.
Three major factors determine outcome in status epilepticus: type of seizure, cause, and duration.
Electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring to titrate therapy should be implemented in seizing patients who do not awaken promptly after institution of antiepileptics, even if tonic-clonic motor activity resolves.
Lorazepam is a preferred agent for initial treatment, followed by consideration of additional agents for long-term management or to "break" status epilepticus.
Patients with refractory status epilepticus require intubation, mechanical ventilation, and aggressive treatment with antiepileptics titrated to the EEG.
The underlying cause of the seizure disorder must be sought in tandem with treatment of the seizure disorder itself.
Seizures are a relatively common occurrence in the ICU, complicating the course of about 3% of adult intensive care unit patients admitted for nonneurologic conditions.1 Status epilepticus (SE) may be the primary indication for admission, or it may occur in any ICU patient during a critical illness. A seizure may be the first indication of a central nervous system (CNS) complication or the result of overwhelming systemic disease. Seizures in the setting of critical illness are often difficult to recognize and require a complex diagnostic and management strategy. Delay in recognition and treatment of seizures is associated with increased mortality;2 thus the rapid diagnosis of this disorder is mandatory.
Status epilepticus refers to a protracted seizure episode or multiple frequent seizures lasting 30 minutes or longer. Although conventional definitions of SE have used this time window, clinicians should recognize that most seizures will terminate spontaneously within a few minutes.3 Recent data suggest that only half of seizure episodes lasting 10 to 29 minutes will stop spontaneously.4 Therefore seizures that persist longer than 5 to 7 minutes should be treated to prevent progression to SE.5
Limited data are available on the epidemiology of seizures in the ICU. A 10-year retrospective study of all ICU patients with seizures at the Mayo Clinic revealed that 7 patients had seizures per 1000 ICU admissions.5 Our 2-year prospective study of medical ICU patients identified 35 with seizures per 1000 admissions.1 The incidence of generalized convulsive SE (GCSE) in the United States is estimated to be up to 195,000 episodes per year,6 but it is unknown how many of these patients require care in an ICU. The incidence of SE in the elderly is almost twice that of the general population.7 Eight percent of hospitalized comatose patients in a recent series were found to be in electrographic status epilepticus.8 Seizures are probably even more frequent in the pediatric ICU, as children in the first year of life have the highest incidence of SE of any age group studied.5
Table 64-1 summarizes the most common causes ...


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When Dr. Chau Nguyen worked as a physician at an Austin-area clinic for seven years, he said he noticed several of his patients were having trouble affording a visit to the clinic.
Several told Nguyen that because of high deductibles they could not afford to see a doctor or have any tests done.
In response, Nguyen said he decided to open his own membership-based primary-care practice, Ochna Health, in April. He said the model should make the clinic more affordable for his patients and allow him to spend more time with them.
"What I've found is there's a lot of costs associated with the insurance company, and there are other markups that I tried to remove and offer the patient a better service for a lower cost," he said.
The doctor offers primary-care services, including preventive care and minor procedures, for patients of all ages. He said no patient is turned away for pre-existing conditions.
Patients can visit Ochna Health without being a member of the clinic and pay a flat fee. If patients choose to become members they have access to unlimited office visits, complimentary in-office procedures and a yearly physical that includes basic lab tests. Nguyen also offers unlimited phone calls, text messages, and email or video chats with patients.
His new model has worked well for Christal Albert, who began seeing Nguyen five years ago. She said she started going to his new clinic because he is a thorough doctor who cares about his patients' physical and mental states.
Ochna Health offers plans for individuals, and small businesses can participate through a health-cost sharing program called Liberty Direct. The health program offers complete health coverage that shares preventive expenses, and the monthly cost includes the price of membership for Ochna Health, Nguyen said.
Individuals with insurance are also accepted, though Nguyen said his model largely cuts out the administrative cost and need for insurance.
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. or by appointment for after-hour care, Sat. morning by appointment, closed Sun.
Not only do you get more attentive service and less bureaucracy (wait times, strange bills), you also save money by cutting out the insurance middle man.
A movement towards direct primary care will save our healthcare system billions of dollars a year in waste. This is the future of health care – I recommend jumping on board.