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Miscellaneous Criminal Cases
MADELEINE McCANN MYSTERY :: Crimes, Unsolved Crimes and Conspiracies
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Re: Miscellaneous Criminal Cases
Freedom on Mon 03 Aug 2015, 7:46 am
I'm probably having a senior moment but I don't remember hearing about this case before.
There's a May 2007 report from the Mail mentioning the McCann case briefly.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-453838/17-years-abduction-Algarve-victim-British.html
Interesting to see though that the media did not then think that the area was awash with paedophiles abducting children - there had been no cases for 17 years.
The last sentence though is a sign of what was to come.
"But the case was mired in claims of police incompetence and corruption".
Guest on Mon 03 Aug 2015, 8:46 am
Yes, clearly that was published as a "bash the PJ" exercise. Very poor choice, though - and I can see why the McCanns didn't want to attach themselves to it. For starters, the kid was found dead (no money in that), not sexually abused (no paedophiles to crusade against) and the stepfather was the prime suspect.
Andrew on Mon 03 Aug 2015, 10:39 am
There's a bit written about this in the book 'Vanished - The Truth About The Disappearance Of Madeleine McCann'
Iv'e not read that book and not heard of this case before either.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dw9UbEdmsoAC&pg=PT165&lpg=PT165&dq=michael+cook+portugal&source=bl&ots=u5mnBejEuj&sig=S4WL2NOvxoOHldEtbj8V8GohtlE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBWoVChMIlujqvc2MxwIVxBceCh1Csgde#v=onepage&q=michael%20cook%20portugal&f=false
The Marchioness Disaster...
Rosa canina on Fri 04 Sep 2015, 3:44 am
This is another murky case with some familiar names in it :
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Marchioness-disaster-Survivor-Magd...
I read this lady's book via Kindle - it's a bit syrupy in places,
but there's some very strange behaviour on the part of the authorities
- a minor example being the (deceased) Portuguese brothers having a police escort
from the site of their funeral to the crematorium.
Freedom on Fri 04 Sep 2015, 9:13 am
Your link doesn't seem to be correct.
Try this one.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2028245/Marchioness-disaster-Survivor-Magda-Allani-asks-Antonio-Vasconcellos-held-key.html
Link on the blink...
Many thanks, Freedom.
Andrew on Thu 24 Sep 2015, 1:31 pm
Cleaning up the crime scene
Disposing the body
Perverting the course of justice
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/killer-who-dumped-body-girlfriends-6506657
Guest on Thu 24 Sep 2015, 2:57 pm
It's absolutely horrendous what has been done to Mr Tomlinson who was killed and his body thrown into a wheelie bin, and the bin was set on fire trying to conceal the body. Kearney was given a life sentence, 6 years, FFS, it should have been 60 years -
Nathan Kearney, 34, was this week given a life sentence after he was found guilty of the manslaughter of Bill Tomlinson, reports the Loughborough Echo .
He had already pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice by destroying or concealing evidence.
Kearney, of Braunstone, will serve a minimum of six years and nine months before being eligible for parole.
I'm lost for words.
Although it does show what lengths people will go to to avoid being caught after they've done a crime, not that I'm alluding to anything I would add.
Yeah exactly. What some people will do to try and get away with it.
Agreed - 6 years is a p!ss take.
Freedom on Thu 24 Sep 2015, 3:29 pm
I had wondered what the motive was. There's more information here.
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Judge-directs-Leicester-jury-convict-autistic-man/story-27639068-detail/story.html
Freedom wrote: I had wondered what the motive was. There's more information here.
Absolutely totally shocking, they knew what they were doing, someone with only a few brain cells between their ears would know that slitting someone's throat is killing someone and they're not likely to survive the ordeal.
I looked up the procedure to write to the "establishment" to protest against such a low sentence (6 years) but apparently "manslaughter" doesn't seem to come under their remit of having the sentence overturned, it has to be classed as murder.
So it looks, to me, like many "murders" are now being classed as "manslaughter" as there are not enough prison places to house people for a proper murder conviction for say 20 or 30 years.
How can you say that slitting someone's throat and setting the body alight is "manslaughter" not "murder".
Here's another one.....
They just keep coming .....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3247542/Mother-four-lied-Primark-security-guard-snatching-nine-month-old-daughter-breastfeeding-faces-jail.html#comments
The comments are interesting to read, not many sympathising with her, I liked this one in particular -
What a despicable excuse for a Mother!
Well at the time this story was originally published, the less gullible amongst us all knew she had fabricated the whole thing! What did she think was going to happen; perhaps a compensation claim for the "excruciating pain she suffered?!?!
Maybe she wouldn't of tried this stunt if the Mccann farce didn't see the light of day.
Shannon Matthews, I would wager, wouldn't of done either.
I'm surprised about the charge of perverting the course of public justice - wouldn't wasting police time have been more relevant?
To be fair (as I always try to be!) she sounds as if she may have mental health issues.
Châtelaine on Thu 24 Sep 2015, 7:41 pm
Slightly off topic: I don't know if anyone got this today, but there has been a new development in identifying [criminal] people. After the fingerprints and then DNA it is now the "cloud" of bacteria you carry and lose in the air. Although we all carry more or less the same types of bacteria, once with us they get an individual signature. Like fingerprints and DNA it may take years before they're accepted as proof in criminal court cases, at least they might/will support investigators and get them in the right direction ...
Re:Miscellaneous Criminal Cases.
costello on Thu 24 Sep 2015, 7:56 pm
Châtelaine wrote: Slightly off topic: I don't know if anyone got this today, but there has been a new development in identifying [criminal] people. After the fingerprints and then DNA it is now the "cloud" of bacteria you carry and lose in the air. Although we all carry more or less the same types of bacteria, once with us they get an individual signature. Like fingerprints and DNA it may take years before they're accepted as proof in criminal court cases, at least they might/will support investigators and get them in the right direction ...
Interesting Chatelaine.
PMR on Wed 30 Sep 2015, 6:33 pm
Freedom wrote: I'm surprised about the charge of perverting the course of public justice - wouldn't wasting police time have been more relevant?
Perverting the course of Justice potentially has a much higher sentence than Wasting Police time. If it's applied or not is another matter
Mystery of British ex-journalist's death
Freedom on Mon 19 Oct 2015, 9:03 am
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3278391/British-woman-50-hanged-toilets-Istanbul-airport-missing-connecting-flight-Iraq.html
nannygroves on Mon 19 Oct 2015, 3:04 pm
According to MailOnline, ''She ( the journalist ) had also spoken in June of her fears that she may be targeted by the Islamic State while working in the Iraqi city of Erbil, reportedly as acting Iraq director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Seems strange to me that a woman who supposedly feared for her life should take her own. Presumably anyone who fears for their lives places value on it ...........so yes, ................odd.
nannygroves
A fake abduction in France in 2009
Freedom on Mon 02 Nov 2015, 6:37 pm
I don't remember hearing about this dreadful case before.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/brutality-lies-and-the-tragedy-of-la-petite-typhaine-1838774.html
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Mimi on Tue 03 Nov 2015, 10:09 am
No, not heard of it either. Seems she was the family scapegoat.
According to this they got 30 years prison sentence.
Translation :-
"Thirty years in prison for the mother and the father-Typhaine
- January 25, 2013 at 11:59 (updated 6:44 p.m.)
Luc Fremiot, General Counsel, stressed the will to kill the little Typhaine in his indictment.
The Advocate General had stressed in his address on the willingness of the couple to kill the little 5 year old girl in 2009.
Thirty years in prison for the mother and the father-Typhaine
On behalf of "children martyred", the Advocate General had requested Frémiot Luc Friday before the assizes North 30 years imprisonment against the mother and stepfather Typhaine, tried for the murder in 2009 of 5 year old girl, they had camouflaged disappearance. Anne-Sophie Reaper and Nicolas Willot, aged respectively 26 and 27, who admitted to repeated violence against the child became their scapegoat but deny having wanted to kill her, incur life imprisonment at the end of trial began Monday. The court decided to comdamner them to 30 years' imprisonment, following the submissions of the prosecutor.
At the resumption of the hearing on Friday shortly after 9:00, the members of the family of the father of Typhaine, civil parties in the trial, tight in the front row had all put on a white T-shirt bearing the image of the little girl . "This little girl with blond hair, his laughing face (...), they looked everywhere, from morning to night. As now, in this criminal court, it seeks, but there is silence. It has energetically sought because a child disappears, that's life that stops ", hammered the Advocate General at the beginning of his indictment two hours.
Become "invisible children" since his mother had taken from her father's family six months before his death, Typhaine "belongs to us all", said Luc Frémiot. The "children martyred" it "are all our children, we have more rights over them you Anne-Sophie Reaper", he protested, looking at the accused, who kept his eyes lowered throughout the indictment.
Referring to the many abuse for weeks the girl become a "puppet dislocated", the Advocate General said be "face to real torture", from a couple whose will to kill does no doubt, he said. "Yes, the act is monstrous, but the monster you have to judge also hides a woman's heart", mother of three children at the age of 22 who had a violent childhood pleaded his side's lawyer Anne-Sophie Reaper, Ms. Blandine Lejeune, calling the jury to deliver a "strong but just punishment".
"What I did was unforgivable, that's why I do not apologize to the families. Typhaine did not deserve this ", said the accused, feverish in the dock before the court withdraws to deliberate in mid-afternoon. The lawyer of his former partner, Mr. Emmanuel Riglaire, had asked the court in the late morning to "individualize" the cases of two accused and ask this question: is his client "guilty of murder" or " guilty of intentional violence causing death "?
The jury will have to answer this last qualification, said the president of the court. For the Advocate General, Anne-Sophie and Nicolas Willot Reaper are "inextricably linked" after signing "a cursed pact for the suffering of this kid, the scapegoat that must get rid".
"Who do we want to believe that a 5 year old child, when one denies eating when one strikes, to whom we want to believe" that the death was "not inevitable? ', S' Advocate General was moved. After being struck in the evening of 10 or June 11, 2009, he recalled, Typhaine had been placed "under the cold shower", and the couple had returned "watching television".
"And ten minutes, fifteen minutes after hearing a rattle, you stay ten minutes watching TV (...) and there is no will homicide?", Accused the Advocate General. "You do not think that in this context, it rushes to the phone to call for help (...)? The willingness homicide, it is there. We see her before we see her for, we see later, we see all the time ", he concluded."
Freedom on Tue 03 Nov 2015, 10:14 am
Thank you. I've corrected the year in the topic heading.
8-year-old boy charged with murder of baby
Freedom on Wed 11 Nov 2015, 10:22 am
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/eight-year-old-charged-with-murder-in-beating-death-of-alabama-toddler/ar-CCe0WT?li=AAaeUIW&ocid=mailsignoutmd
Antonia on Wed 11 Nov 2015, 12:22 pm
The mother left her one year old daughter with a group of babysitters ALL UNDER 9 YEARS OLD. Her daughter was battered to death. The mother went to a nightclub at 11.30 pm. She did not check her child when she returned so only discovered the dead toddler in the morning. An eight year old babysitter is in custody. the mother is to be charged with manslaughter.
This mother is not a middle class professional.
the McCanns left their two year old twins with an almost four year old babysitter. The babysitter vanished and has not been found. No charges have been made against the parents.
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Freedom on Wed 11 Nov 2015, 12:26 pm
We must at least be grateful that she did not try to cover up what had happened.
The more I think about this one, the worse it gets. Was the mother of the 8-year-old aware that he was spending the night at a neighbour's house to mind other children? How could she have allowed this?
P.S. Apparently his mother was out clubbing too!
http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2015/11/police_8-year-old_charged_in_b.html#incart_most-commented_pacific-northwest-news_article
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – City of Alexandria Employees CU filed with the Bureau of Financial Institutions to expand its field-of-membership to include students of Alexandria City Public Schools. Initially the $18.4 million CU will serve 2,000 students at the Academy of Finance at T.C. Williams High School, and eventually the credit union might go lower than the high school grades, said Vice President of Operations Athley Klein. The credit union has about 6,600 members and counts in its FOM City of Alexandria and Alexandria Hospital employees, as well as members of the city and public school boards. Klein said Academy is interested in opening a student-run branch of the credit union at the school to supplement the course in finance being taught and to give the students "real life" experience. City of Alexandria Employees CU will offer deposits and withdrawals at the high school branch. Students 18 years and older will have to get signed parental permission to apply for a loan and checking account.

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Bring Me The Horizon on change, challenges and redefining heavy music
Authored 25 Jan by Matt Doria
Love them or hate them, you can't deny that Bring Me The Horizon have carved out an extraordinary empire. Each new album has rebelled against the rules established by its predecessor, the band constantly in a state of flux, leaping from one scene-stealing sonic revamp to the next. Peaking with 2015's That's The Spirit, the South Yorkshire five-piece had effectively capped a decade in transition from basement-thrashing deathcore hellions to chart-dominating pop rock luminaries.
But alas, the primetime radio play and sold-out arenas have grown stale for Oli Sykes and co. Album number six, Amo, shows them pick apart the quirky pop ideals That's The Spirit introduced us to, with hints of gnashing bass music and booming hip-hop, ultra-textural production and lashings of mosh-ready guitars scaffolding a record that is at once their most palatable and polarising. If their 2015 effort was Bring Me The Horizon dipping their toes into a new beach's sand and testing the warmth of its waters, Amo has them charging headfirst toward a tsunami wave.
"I think it's an album that we couldn't have made until this point," says Sykes. "When we did Sempiternal, that felt like our first step into really pushing ourselves sonically and doing a lot of new stuff with our sound. That's The Spirit felt like the album we needed to make to be able to go from that point to what we really wanted to do, and I think this album is what we really wanted to do. No disrespect to That's The Spirit, because I love that album and I'm really proud of it, but when we made it, the goal was very different."
As tends to be the case with any band once they've had a taste of fame, Sykes explains that the touring cycle for Sempiternal – pegged by headlining slots at prestigious festivals and venues that made their fans look like ants from the stage – made Bring Me The Horizon eager to push the envelope.
"Around that time, people were talking about our band a lot more," he says. "We were playing bigger shows, and there was a little bit of buzz around our band that we'd never had before. Until that point, nobody had ever talked about us being the 'next big thing' or anything like that. And I think… Not that it went to our heads, but you know, it made us hungry for that spotlight. We'd always been the underdogs, or whatever, and we'd never had that amount of attention before. And at least for me, anyway, I wanted to be like, 'Yeah, let's show them that we're up to the challenge.'
"So when we wrote That's The Spirit, we just kind of set out to write 11 bangers – 11 songs that could all be singles in their own right. And it worked to a degree, but there's songs on that album that we never play live, and I don't think they'll ever be someone's favourite Bring Me The Horizon songs because they're all competing to be the top singles, rather than have their own unique qualities. So going into this album, we were like, 'We're not going to do that again.'
"Obviously we like to write those big, arena kind of songs, and songs that can be played on the radio. We've made no secret about the fact that we want to be the band that gets people into rock music, but we don't want to be an elitist band either."
The end result is a record that comfortably appeals to their newfound hordes of teen pop devotees (see 'Nihilist Blues', a buoyant, retro-tinged synthpop gem with Top 40 sheen), but also isn't afraid to flip the script and slap its listener with a sonic 180 (as found in 'Heavy Metal', a crunchy, grime-laden snarler aimed at Instagram haters, pairing beatboxed sections with wall-rattling guitars).
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At their core, Bring Me The Horizon have always been at the curve of heavy music's evolutions. When they burst on the scene with Count Your Blessings in 2006, deathcore bands were venerable royaltyamongst the slew of nu-metal try-hards. 2008's Suicide Season ushered in a new wave of grungy, synth-accentuated metalcore, and when Sempiternal landed in 2013, atmospheric bangers with ungodly amounts of phaser effects were suddenly all the rage. Amo merely continues the trend, with a smarter, more exuberant Sykes at the helm.
"For us and this album, it's more than just showing people that heavy music doesn't need to be this weird, scary world that you think it is – it can blow your head off, but it can also make you think. It doesn't have to alienate you. There's still so many different ways to express yourself, and we're just trying to find those different ways of doing it that suits us. Because I think as rock music gets smaller as a genre, more than ever, people are diversifying their tastes. A lot of people don't like that standard sort of rock music because it's not really saying much or it doesn't stand out so much, so I think people are looking for something with a bit more passion and a bit more heart.
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2. Spike and recovery experiments - For each sample type to be tested, be it final product or in-process samples, you should demonstrate that the assay can recover added HCP or other impurity spiked into that sample matrix. This can be simply performed by spiking some of the highest standard provided with the kit into your sample types and then testing in the assay. Spiking studies are only relevant at or below the MRD as established in Section 1 above. Using our E. coli HCP kit, F410 as an example, we suggest spiking 1 part of the 100ng/mL standard into 4 parts of your sample (e.g. spike 100mL of 100ng/mL standard into 400mL of sample). The spiked concentration into the sample in this case is 20ng/mL. A control dilution of 1 part of assay diluent (zero standard) to 4 parts of sample is also performed to determine the contribution of endogenous HCP in the sample prior to spiking. Both the spiked and diluted unspiked samples are assayed. Percent total recovery is determined by dividing the total HCP measured (from endogenous and spike) by the sum of the spike level + the endogenous contribution of HCP. We suggest acceptable recovery should be within 80% to 120% of the spiked HCP. Table 2 shows example data. If you desire spike and recovery at more than one concentration we recommend that the lowest spike levels should be at least 2 times the Limit of Quantitation (LOQ) of the assay and that the contribution of the endogenous HCP in the sample prior to spiking not exceed two times the spike level to be tested. These two conditions will insure better statistical accuracy.
4 parts final product+ 1 part 250ng/mL std.
3. Precision Experiments - We also recommend that each laboratory and perhaps each technician perform a precision study to demonstrate that they can achieve acceptable precision both within and between runs. Such precision would be best accomplished on controls prepared in your laboratory. Those controls should be made in your product matrix and from HCP derived from your cell line and process. Once prepared at the desired levels these controls can be aliquoted and stored frozen to insure stability. Once statistical values have been established on your controls, you will then have an important QC tool to assure that the accuracy is acceptable from kit to kit and assay run to assay run. Beyond the above critical validation studies, you may want to perform other experiments that statistically establish the LOQ and LOD in your laboratories, robustness, stability, etc. as listed in FDA and ICH guidelines. However, you may want to consider using our in-house generic validation study for this less critical data rather than perform it yourself since we view such non-critical data as inherent in the method and not something each laboratory needs to do.
We find no predictive value in 2D WB of upstream samples as it is too insensitive and non-specific to determine how an antibody when used in an ELISA will quantitatively reactive to the more limited array of downstream HCPs. Instead, we recommend performing AAE on at least 2 samples. The first sample can be very upstream such as harvest material. AAE will provide a more sensitive and accurate assessment of percent coverage than can be achieved by 2D WB. The second sample will come from downstream in your purification process determined by the level of total HCP as measured by ELISA. AAE on this sample will allow you to identify those individual HCPs to which the antibody is reactive. Any individual HCPs spots showing up in a 2D PAGE silver stain or similar method that do not have a corresponding AAE spots can be picked from the 2D PAGE and subjected to Mass Spec analysis to confirm if they are in fact HCPs and if so what is their structure and biological function. Any sample for which dilution linearity cannot be obtained should also be analyzed by Mass Spectrometry to identify major impurities for which there is lack of antibody excess.


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Practitioners in Berlin Expose CCP's Persecution
Dec. 18, 2020 | By Xue Li, a Minghui correspondent in Berlin, Germany
(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners in Germany held a series of activities in Berlin to introduce Falun Gong and to expose the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution. They collected signatures for a petition condemning the persecution at a Christmas market in Steglitz on December 5, 2020 and did an exercise demo and had a waist drum troupe performance in Alexanderplatz on December 6, 2020.
Collecting signatures for a petition condemning the persecution at a Christmas market in Steglitz
Mr. Guo, an elderly immigrant from Hong Kong, told a practitioner, "Falun Gong hasn't done anything wrong. I hope the CCP will collapse soon! Hong Kong used to be a great place, but it has been ruined after it was handed over to the CCP. The CCP has also messed up the United States. President Trump is the only one who can end the CCP. I support Trump, because he has been helping the Chinese people. The CCP is a terrorist organization. It must be disintegrated."
Mr. Guo signs a petition calling for an end to the persecution.
A local resident named Braman said it was the first time she had heard about the forced organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. She and her friends signed the petition without hesitation. Braman said, "I signed to express my condemnation. This shouldn't be allowed to happen in any country, because it violates human dignity. I'm outraged."
Her friend Rister said, "Safeguarding human dignity is equally as important as the economy. No matter if people are rich or poor, their rights can't be trampled on. These two things go together, and we shouldn't choose one over the other."
Braman (right) and Rister (middle) sign the petition.
A man named Gerch who is a political scientist, said that we should let the CCP know its boundaries. He said the CCP has tried to control the world and play a leader's role more and more openly, which was dangerous. Gerch held that the CCP was promoting communism around the world. He signed the petition because he supports people's fight for freedom. "We can't withdraw or give up," he added.
Another man named Röttinger from the German state of Bavaria said, "I hope that Western countries will stop fixating on making money and pay more attention to the people. We can't forget about the terrible situation of the Chinese people just because we want products of lower prices. I have visited China. I have a deep feeling about it. Your signature collection is great!"
Gerch (right) and Röttinger (middle) sign the petition.
A young man from Italy said that the European Union and its member countries should stand up to the CCP. He thought that articles in newspapers won't suffice, and we should take concrete actions. "It's ridiculous for the CCP to cover up the pandemic and blame Western countries as the virus' origins. The CCP doesn't care how many Chinese people have died. They only force their dictatorship on the people."
A young man from Italy would like to see the people in Europe unite against the CCP's ideology.
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It turns out President Bouteflika's resignation was only a tiny part of Algeria's anti-government protesters' demands.
Rabat – Algerians are back to the streets to protest against the Bensalah-led interim government, saying they want an immediate and total break with the Bouteflika regime.
On Tuesday, Parliament appointed Abdelkader Bensalah, the 77-year-old former president of the Council of the Nation, to rule the country during the three-month-long transition until the next election on July 4.
While Bensalah is barred from running in the "transparent" elections he has promised, Algerians see his rule as an extension of the Bouteflika years.
Thousands came out on Friday to mark the eighth week of protest against against the country's political establishment.
While protesters sang "peace, peace," to suggest they were simply here to express disappointment at the turn of events instead of vandalize, police did not hesitate to fire tear gas.
As they faced, undeterred, the riot police's firing tear gas to contain them, they chanted "they will all leave," an anti-government slogan suggesting that the youth-led movement want a total rupture from the old regime.
Police claim that the "infiltrators" are using violence to influence the agenda of what started off as peaceful protests against former President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika.
But analysts have denied those claims, with suggestions that the remaining Bouteflika clan, still controlling the country, is seeking to delegitimize the anti-Bensalah fervor.
Despite perception that authorities will not hesitate to harshly repress protesters should they continue staging demonstrations, Algerians are undeterred because their "demands are clear," Dalia Ghanem, a researcher at the Beirut-based Carnegie Middle East Center, told Aljazeera on Friday.
"They know what they can achieve with their protests every Friday but also their daily protests. The momentum is here and the status quo is winding up," Ghanem said.
Other analysts, meanwhile, have suggested that Algerians have learned from the failed Arab Spring in Egypt and elsewhere. The idea is that Algerian protesters trust neither the army nor the remaining figures of the old regime.
They fear that their revolution could be hijacked and will not relent until they cleanse the country of "le pouvoir," a French word used in Algeria to refer to the restricted circle of generals, businessmen, and technocrats who "confiscated" Algerian politics during the two decades under Bouteflika.
"The July 4 election has already been rejected by the people, which also refuses Bensalah's nomination," Algerian philosophy professor Mahrez Bouich said.
According to Bouich, Algerians will not allow the political establishment to use the constitution to toy with Algerians by removing Bouteflika to only replace him with a kindred leader.
"They will all leave," one of the key slogans of the anti-Bensalah protests, has been interpreted as meaning that demonstrations will continue until Bensalah and all the remaining Bouteflika "gangsters" are ousted.
As the youth asks for a fundamental regime change, it remains to be seen how far General Ahmed Gaid Salah, the army chief of staff who has already denounced the crowds' "unrealistic slogans," will go in repressing the visibly unfading tide of anti-government protests.


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Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger, född 1 augusti 1930 i Milwaukee, Wisconsin, död 4 juni 2011 i Charlottesville, Virginia, var en amerikansk republikansk politiker och diplomat. Han var USA:s utrikesminister 1992–1993.

Eagleburger avlade sin magisterexamen (master's degree) vid University of Wisconsin-Madison. År 1957 anställdes han av USA:s utrikesdepartement och han tjänstgjorde i olika befattningar på ambassader och konsulat, bland annat i Belgrad 1961–1965. 1969–1971 tjänstgjorde han som medarbetare till presidentens säkerhetsrådgivare, Henry Kissinger. Han var USA:s ambassadör i Jugoslavien 1977–1980. Under president Ronald Reagan tjänstgjorde han i flera år som biträdande utrikesminister (nummer tre på departementet).

Eagleburger var USA:s vice utrikesminister (nummer två på USA:s utrikesdepartement) 1989–1992 och utrikesminister 1992–1993 under president George Bush d.ä. Den europeiska pressen uppfattade honom som pro-serbisk och därför kallade somliga honom för Lawrence of Serbia. Vid sidan av tjänsten som vice utrikesminister var han också presidentens rådgivare i frågor som gällde krisen i Jugoslavien 1989–1992.

Eagleburger deltog i arbetet av Iraq Study Group, en kommission ledd av James Baker och Lee Hamilton, som i december 2006 publicerade sina rekommendationer för en ny strategi i Irakkriget. Han ersatte Robert Gates i slutskedet av kommissionen i november 2006. Eagleburger avled den 4 juni 2011, efter en kort tids sjukdom.

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This is the Hibernate query, using the exact same query as I created in psql.
@Query(value = "SELECT bind_name, type_name, max((24 * 60 * date_part('day', current_timestamp - created)) + (60 * date_part('hour', current_timestamp - created)) + (date_part('minute', current_timestamp - created))) FROM job WHERE state IN ('INITIAL', 'SUBMITTED') AND bind_name IS NOT NULL AND  type_name IS NOT NULL GROUP BY bind_name, type_name", nativeQuery = true)

For additional information, the job says -180 minutes have passed when I start a new job. I thought (more so hoped) because I was working in on the west coast this past week, that would have been the culprit, but it seems to persist. Has anyone ran into a problem like this? I haven't seen the issue reported anywhere else. I also tried to change the query to the extract method but got the same issue.

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The ideation, design and project management of the deepsea port commenced in 2007. After a five-year investment period, the management company (Caioporto SA) was awarded a concession that included the design, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of the port. Extensive feasibility studies were carried out and preliminary costs have been invested into the project to build a best in class deepwater port that will act as a catalyst for increasing economic prosperity for all stakeholders.


It's 10 o'clock on a Tuesday night in Bangor. End of the month, money growing thin in many people's pockets, but Embassy nightclub is open to the public. Open, and free to enter (if you've got yourself a Yellow Card from the nearby Yellow Pub). Thankfully, for my bank account, I have one, as do the friends I'm with. So in we head.
We're here tonight to see Vices, a band brave enough to play at gig at the end of the month, on a Tuesday, with only the bare minimum of publicity. As I look around inside Embassy cavernous expanse, I count only eight people there at the opening of the doors. And that includes the three band members. I'm starting to rethink using the word 'brave' at this point.
This is only Vices' second gig. Their first was with my band, Bad Excuses, at the Belle Vue pub in upper Bangor. This is quite the leap from playing in the local tavern, but frontman Llion Hughes is upbeat about tonight. After all, the real fun's in the playing.
As the night rolls on and the punters start coming in, I notice what a broad spectrum of people Embassy's 'Rock vs Indie' nights bring out: from barely-old-enough scene kids to brawny gym beefcakes, pretty much every demographic is represented. It's an eclectic mix of people to say the least but, when the DJ drops the music and Vices start playing, all of them nod their heads as one.
Considering their surroundings, Vices aren't afraid to kickstart proceedings with one of their own songs, even receiving a smattering of applause in doing so. Not a bad start. In fact, all their songs go down well tonight, especially their grunge-crunching explosion of emotion 'I Hate Myself', a tune so raw it would make Kurt Cobain himself go: "Now THAT's dark". My favourite song of theirs, and a real treat to hear live.
For the audience that's grown to over 50 people, the true highlight of the night comes when Vices play their adrenalin-pounding rendition of Feeder's 'Buck Rogers', which fills the dancefloor up to capacity with all-singing, all-dancing revellers. One look at talented bassist Dylan Roberts says it all at this point: a big, confident grin. Please check out Embassy's Facebook page for the photo: this grin seriously has to be seen to be believed. Vices brings their first set to a suitable close with the first song they wrote together: the aptly-titled 'Epic', which leaves the audience breathless but hungry to hear more.
This is only a minor setback though, and it turns great again as they rip through Silverchair's 'Freak' as though the song were a tree and Vices were a chainsaw. Drummer Gwion Griffiths hammer down on this (and all the other songs too) with an almost inhuman fervour. Let's all be thankful he's a mellow guy when he's not behind that kit of his… their final set ends with another round of 'Buck Rogers' which gets the audience back up and energised, and, when Vices finish up, they get a resounding cheer and applause. Well deserved too, guys.
If people don't know the band members personally, it's very difficult to get others to come to local gigs. It's very good of Embassy to take a chance and allow a band to come and play in their venue. Hopefully this will open the doors to more nights like these being held: after all, with no real promotion, a band on their second gig managed to get over 50 people up, dancing, and having a great time.


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National Arts Centre goes for gold, raising $765,000 at 50th Anniversary Gala with Sarah McLachlan
Philanthropists Janice and Earle O'Born make largest gift ever of $10 million to NAC
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The National Arts Centre could not have asked for a better birthday gift than the remarkable $10-million donation that's come its way from philanthropists Janice and Earle O'Born, as was announced during the NAC's signature gala on Saturday night.
The good news was shared on stage in Southam Hall by Christopher Deacon, president and CEO of the NAC, prior to the start of the concert featuring Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan with the NAC Orchestra and its music director, Alexander Shelley, as maestro.
The audience reacted by delivering the first standing ovation of the night. Earle O'Born is chairman and founder of Toronto-based firm The Printing House Ltd. while Janice is chair of the board of directors for the NAC Foundation. The name may also sound familiar because one of the NAC's beautiful new event spaces, the O'Born Room, is named after them.
"It's the largest gift in the history of the National Arts Centre," said Deacon before going on to say how the funds will help enrich the lives of Canadians through the performing arts by helping to put artists on stages at the NAC, across Canada and around the world.
"I'm a little verklempt," chimed in NAC Foundation CEO Jayne Watson, who was standing alongside Deacon at the podium during their remarks.
Earle O'Born, chairman and founder of The Printing House Ltd., and his wife, Janice O'Borne, board chair of the National Arts Centre Foundation, on the red carpet at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Watson also shared the amount of money raised from that evening's NAC's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala: $725,000. The net total rose to $765,000 after the post-concert dinner, which included a live auction. The funds will help support the NAC's education activities in music, theatre and dance from coast to coast to coast.
Watson delivered perhaps the funniest line of the night when she opened with: "Christopher, we really should have checked with each other before showing up wearing the same haircut. That never happened with Laureen [Harper] and Sophie [Grégoire Trudeau]."
It's tradition for the wives of the prime ministers to serve as honorary chairs of the gala. Grégoire Trudeau was invited this year but, with the federal election right around the corner, was not in a position to accept, according to NAC officials.
Jayne Watson, CEO of the National Arts Centre Foundation, with Christopher Deacon, president and CEO of the National Arts Centre, at the NAC's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala, held Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Among the supporters seen that night were Adrian Burns, chair of the NAC's board of trustees and a director of sponsor Shaw Communications; lawyers from Ottawa-based labour and employment law firm Emond Harnden, which was a major sponsor; Gail Asper, president of The Asper Foundation; Sam Mizrahi, president and founder of Mizrahi Developments; Liza Mrak, co-owner of Mark Motors Group; sponsors Chris Taggart and Mary Taggart; Mariette MacIsaac, manager of the Trinity Development Foundation; and regional bank presidents Victor Pellegrino from BMO and Marjolaine Hudon from RBC.
Gen. Jonathan Vance, chief of defence staff, was seen arriving with his wife, Kerry. Also spotted were Beverley McLachlin, retired chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and her husband, Frank McArdle.
From left, Gwen Goodier with NAC Orchestra music director and maestro Alexander Shelley, NAC president and CEO Christopher Deacon, and Zoe Shelley at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Adrian Burns, chair of the board of trustees for the National Arts Centre, is flanked by Canadian songwriter and composer Dave Pierce, left, and award-winning host, writer, and interviewer Dave Kelly at the NAC's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala held Saturday, October 5, 2019. Photo by Caroline Phillips
From left, Emond Harnden LLP partners André Champagne, Sophie Gagnier, Sébastien Huard, Colleen Dunlop, chief operating officer Antoinette Strazza, Céline Delorme and co-founding partner Lynn Harnden at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
From left, 2019 Forty Under 40 recipient Danya Vered, vice president at StrategyCorp, with her husband, David Glick-Stal, sales representative with CBRE, and her sister, Ariel Vered, senior manager with Women in Communications & Technology, at the National Art Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Chris Taggart, president of Tamarack Developments, and his wife, Mary Taggart, publisher and editor-in-chief of Ottawa At Home magazine, were sponsors of the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala, held Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Retired chief justice Beverley McLachlin and her husband, Frank McArdle, are flanked by Indian High Commissioner Vikas Swarup and his wife, Aparna, at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Liza Mrak, co-owner of Mark Motors Group, with her partner, Gary Zed, at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Gail Asper, president of The Asper Foundation, with executive director Moe Levy at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Susan Glass, former vice-chair of the board of trustees at the NAC, and her husband Arni Thorsteinson, from Winnipeg, at the NAC's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Sam Mizrahi, founder and president of Mizrahi Developments, seen arriving to the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala with his wife, Micki Mizrahi, on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. Photo by Caroline Phillips
From left, Michael MacIsaac and his wife, Mariette MacIsaac, manager of the Trinity Development Foundation, with Delphine Hasle, executive director of The Perley and Rideau Veterans' Health Centre Foundation, and Daniel Charron at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Gen. Jonathan Vance, chief of defence staff, with his wife, Kerry Vance, at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
From left, Tina Campagna and BMO regional vice-president Rick Campagna, Stefania Ianni and BMO regional president Victor (Vittorio) Pellegrino, with BMO regional vice-president Omar Abouzaher and Hanadi Abouzaher at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Watson's brother, Mayor Jim Watson, helped out later with the live auction for a private dinner for six with Shelley, and an all-expense paid trip for two to Antarctica, courtesy of OneOcean Expeditions.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson with long-time friend Blair Dickerson at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Gerda Hnatyshyn, wife of the late Ray Hnatyshyn, former governor general of Canada, at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala with Greg Kane, counsel at Dentons. Photo by Caroline Phillips
From left, Bob Gauthier, senior vice-president with Doherty & Associates, and Lizane Castonguay, with Deepali Mani and Mahesh Mani, partner with KPMG, at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
From left, Nicolas de Rivière and his wife, French Ambassador Kareen Rispal, with Alice Martinier and Elliot Bellanger at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
From left, project management consultant John McCourt with his wife, Marjolaine Hudon, regional president of RBC, and her guests, Catrina Curran and Michael Curran, publisher of the Ottawa Business Journal, at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Alan Neal, host of All in a Day on CBC Radio, with his wife, Jill Zmud, on the red carpet at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
The first half of the concert took the audience through 50 years of the NAC, with orchestral music and costumes. There were performances by indigenous pop and electronic music artist iskwē; writer, director and actor Mani Soleymanlou; and National Ballet of Canada principal dancer Greta Hodgkinson, along with appearances from Karen Kain, Come From Away co-writer David Hein, and Kevin Loring, the first artistic director of Indigenous Theatre at the NAC.
From left, Jody-Kay Marklew with her husband, Kevin Loring, artistic director of the National Arts Centre's new Indigenous Theatre, and its managing director, Lori Marchand, at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Indigenous pop and electronic music artist iskwē (third from left) on the red carpet with her family at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
NAC English Theatre Artistic Director Jillian Keiley with special guest David Hein, co-writer of Canadian musical hit Come From Away (and a Lisgar Collegiate Institute grad!) at the National Arts Centre's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala. Photo by Caroline Phillips
In the second half of the show, McLachlan entertained the audience with song after song, including all her beloved hits, while moving between piano and guitar. "I'm so, so, so happy to be here to help celebrate 50 amazing years for National Arts Centre," she told her audience. "They do so much for eduction and youth and the arts. I'm privileged to celebrate the stage with an amazing orchestra and with a wonderful bunch of artists."
McLachlan was warm, charming and so relatable as she shared with the audience the meaning behind some of her songs. Most of the material is "depressing stuff," she acknowledged good-naturedly.
"I love sad songs. The darker the better. I think it's because, as a song writer, it's very cathartic to be able to dive into one's suffering and loss and confusion and try and find a way through it."
Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan performs with the National Arts Centre Orchestra during the NAC's 50th Anniversary Golden Gala, held Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. Ernesto Di Stefano (George Pimentel Photography)
She spoke appreciatively of the opportunities given to her early in life, both from her schools' vibrant music programs and from the private music lessons paid for by her parents. By age 17, she joined a band and was able to share the "powerful force of inclusion and unity" with her fellow musicians.
"I've been so incredibly thankful for it my entire life, to feel like I found my tribe, with my musicians, with people who love the arts, love music, and want to support it.
"I feel that love and energy here tonight, so powerfully."
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Ricketson was arrested on June 2 for flying a drone over an opposition rally ahead of the recent commune elections. He was detained without charge for six days, far beyond the legal limit of 72 hours.
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Warriors lose to Spurs 74-76 in a battle of who erred less
The Golden State Warriors, sans Stephen Curry and only scoring 74 points, lose to the San Antonio Spurs by two points. If you saw that coming, you're lying and but give me your best lotto guess anyway.
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Through five games in the young season, the Warriors have danced, waltzed, skipped and Showtime'd their way to a 4-1 record. Even in their loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, it was a offensive waterfall only outmatched by Hurricane Paul. But facing the team that ousted them in last year's Semifinals, the Warriors looked like they regressed 100 years of offensive basketball. Even without Stephen Curry, we all expected this to happen against the Memphis Grizzlies, not today's version of the San Antonio Spurs that's more reliant on ball movement and shooting than their lockdown defense. When the game slowed to an ugly, flop-filled, brick-fest, the Warriors hung tough before an Andre Iguodala miss on a tough leaner at the buzzer. Look, neither team "deserved" to win it, if you're attempting to make a "we would have won with Curry playing!" argument. The Spurs made one fewer mistake and won. They do that a lot. It's a very Spurs-y thing to do.
Nothing in this game made sense. Toney Douglas made five threes, Tony Parker missed six free throws, and the Spurs shot 26 percent from distance as a team. And the Warriors, a team that's re-made their image as a solid rebounding squad, gave up six massive ones in the final quarter. But look, we can count this as a moral victory. The "We only lost by two without Curry" faction of the fans will surely point to that as a reason to help them mask some other troubles permeating through this team. And yet, it's been five games and small sample size excuses will remain the answers to many questions until it's too late. Which is fine too, until it isn't.
The bench was horrible on offense again; and exceptional on defense again. We can sample size this through 600 games and get the same result. Jermaine O'Neal isn't getting younger, Draymond Green isn't a one-on-one scorer and Toney Douglas might not make five threes in a game for the rest of the season. But that defense? As nasty as watching Joe Staley pulling on a right-side block, snarling right at you.
Bogut was passive on offense when crunch time hit. He passed out of the paint several times and missed an eight foot shot because he leaned into a floater, push-shot thing reserved for guards. But guess what? Tim Duncan shot 3-11 and the Warriors out rebounded the Spurs by eight. Crunch time doesn't happen if Bogut isn't on the court. Is his offensive timing still a little off? Yes. The touch isn't there yet and may never come back. It doesn't look like he's going to finish hard at the rim unless he's in front of a crazed Oracle crowd.
But again, Bogut's going to make it tough for large bigs that excel in the key. This is essential to the Warriors' success in the Western Conference. Zach Randolph, Marc Gasol, Duncan, Pau Gasol, Dwight Howard, and Blake Griffin all live in the paint and they're all in the Western Conference. For a guy that's been less than 80 percent for the past forever, I'm going to keep enjoying this aesthetically pleasing never-before-seen interior defense. If you start down this perfectionist fan-fueled agenda, we might as well start fretting over Curry's thin frame, Iguodala's three-point consistency and David Lee's defense.
1. Klay Thompson has struggled in nearly every game against the Spurs -- except the game he literally caught fire and ascended to heaven. It's tough being chased by lanky wings like Danny Green and Kawhi Leonard off the line on offense and having to guard one of the league's best point guard on defense. Thompson's a very good player but he isn't LeBron James. Expecting him to excel on both sides of the ball against the best players at their positions is a bit much to ask.
2. Harrison Barnes struggled despite holding a physical advantage against every defender. He spent too much time pounding the rock and thinking, rather than reacting and anticipating. He's done it before so it's nothing to worry about. The spacing got all kooky without Curry and there were some quick faux double-then-recover defense that caused a bit of confusion. Again, he's still a bit rusty so the Warriors are hoping for postseason Barnes to show up sooner than later. Aggressive Barnes fluctuates in between and even during a game.
3. Toney Douglas did his best Curry impersonation today, down to the heat check treys and extra passes. The thing he didn't do? Play defense like Curry. Instead, he hounded Parker and whoever he was on, making them work. Parker made several shots but maybe (?) all the dribbling and physicality caused the six missed freebies. Douglas has looked better than what we expected in the preseason. Another reason why preseason doesn't mean anything for players that's played and succeeded in the league before.
4. Extra passes are contagious. The NBA has a scoring champ, judged by the number of points scored per game regardless of shots taken, team efficiency and player context. And people use that arbitrary number as an end-all be-all in arguments of offensive effectiveness. So when a player is open, even if a player is rushing for a contest, they're going to shoot the ball. That's the first instinct for a majority of players. But that's not the case on this team. Curry, Lee, Bogut, Iguodala, even Barnes are ready to make the extra pass from a somewhat contested jumper into a wide-open set shot, usually from the corner. The best example of this working on a team-wide level? Watch the team that the Warriors played today.
5. Draymond Green's help defense is so much better than any other part of his game. Not only does are his rotations and awareness top-notch, he attacks the basketball rather than simply lunging for it. He destroyed a Tiago Splitter (Splitter couldn't see him so he couldn't flop for a foul) layup on the blind side when his man was spacing at the three-point line. Though I don't know what goes on in Green's mind, it makes sense that he guessed Splitter wouldn't see him help downwards if Splitter was facing the basket. It was a gamble based on instinct, and one that worked out perfectly.


I'm working on calculating average in facet chart.
Under data, there is property called aggregation and it can be set to "avg"
According to documentation, there is no "countindex" property under "data"
So, where should I provide countindex property while calculating "avg"?
Well it sounds as the documentation requires additional clarification as TimeChart and FacetChart has some properties in common, but the actual approach may vary.
The data.aggragation is mainly used in TimeChart.
You can set Safari Total value to be 22 (sum) or set it to 11 (avg) or maybe some other calculated value.
What I'm saying is that you actually don't need to use data.aggregation, but you can calculate the value yourself and set it to the parent entry.


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Rinse with plenty of water as precaution.
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Carbon & nitrogen oxides. Wear a self-contained breathing apparatus in pressure-demand, MSHA/NIOSH (approved or equivalent), and full protective gear. Combustion generates toxic fumes. This material in sufficient quantity and reduced particle size is capable of creating a dust explosion.
Dark red to purple to maroon powder.
Stable under normal temperatures and pressures. Materials containing similar functional groups can decompose at elevated temperatures.
LC50: Mosquito fish - 7mg/l - 96h Toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects.