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Welcome to North Ayrshire Women's Aid
North Ayrshire Women's Aid has supported 452 women this year. We can help you too.
Contact us on: 01294 602 424
North Ayrshire Women's Aid is a unique specialist service which provides the full package of emotional and practical support which is both needed and valued by women and children affected by domestic abuse.
What are the signs of domestic abuse? (see Information section of this site)
We know that making that first step towards getting help can be difficult. We have set up this website so that you can gain a full understanding of what we can offer you, at your own pace, and in your own home.
When you're ready to get in touch, you can call us on 01294 602424 (9-6). one of our workers will be available to listen, to help you think about your options, and if necessary, arrange somewhere safe for you to stay. Please do not feel embarrassed or ashamed, because you are not alone.
(Outwith office hours call the national helpline on 0800 027 1234).
All our support services are free. If you are working and stay at the refuge you may have to make a contribution to your accommodation costs.
All information you share with us is confidential unless we have any concerns about safety and risk.
What is unique about North Ayrshire Women's Aid?
NAWA is the only organisation in the area which specialises in the support and protection of women, children and young people affected by domestic abuse.
Everyone has the right to live free from violence, fear, oppression, intimidation and threats.
Everyone has the right to make their own choices and decisions.
Everyone has the right to have contact with their friends and family.
Everyone has the right to be treated with respect.
The responsibility for domestic abuse always rests with the abuser.
It is estimated that 1 in 5 women will experience domestic abuse in a relationship with a man at some time in their lives. 100,000 children and young people in Scotland are currently living with domestic abuse.
North Ayrshire Women's Aid are a charity set up to help women, children and young people who have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse.
We aim to change attitudes about abuse and ultimately end it. We help women, children and young people to recover from the effects of domestic abuse and move on with their lives.
We have outreach services in the Garnock Valley, Irvine area, and the Three Towns area. We also have refuges at various addresses around North Ayrshire.
Public Offices:
1-5 Union St, Saltcoats KA21 5LL
Equalities Statement
North Ayrshire Women's Aid opposes all forms of prejudice and discrimination and aims to create an environment and culture where diversity is respected and celebrated. North Ayrshire Women's Aid aims to treat all people with dignity and respect, recognising the value of each individual. North Ayrshire Women's Aid is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination in service delivery, employment and governance and recognises that the promotion of equality and diversity is fundamental to our practice.
North Ayrshire Women's Aid recognises the current legal frame work, outlined in the Equalities Act (2010) that extends protection from discrimination to cover nine 'protected characteristics' : age, disability, gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership status , pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation. North Ayrshire Women's Aid recognises that this is not an exhaustive list and extends our Equality Policy to cover HIV status, trade union membership and gender identity or expression.
Charity No: SC003486 Company No: 357590
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Gathering dust since the summer, its first major outing since then was to beautiful, rugged Connemara in the west of Ireland – the poor ol' Nikon deserved a treat!
The photography Gods were smiling on us as we got a fine, sunny, rain-free day – rare enough at the best of times, never mind January!
These photos are ordered chronologically from first light to last light, or from our Salthill base in the morning to the sunset in Connemara.
They show our stop offs on our way to Connemara National Park, which were made randomly, when we liked the look of something… and I liked the look of a lot of reflections!
And then they show, when we got to the park, the hike up Diamond Hill and back down again, as the sun set on a great day.
Stopped here while driving by, hopped a fence, tip-toed through a very marshy field looking for tufts of steady tufts of grass to get to the water's edge. Feet got wet. Fell on my arse. It also got wet. Totally worth it!
Wayside Shrine at Killary Pier, Connemara.
I have disappeared off the blogging radar in recent times. This has been largely due to a combination of being very busy and a lack of inspiration when windows of opportunity do arise.
I took the neglected Nikon out yesterday for my niece Savannah's Communion celebrations and some of those photos are below.
I have also included a few snaps I took on a couple of the other rare occasions I have briefly taken the camera out lately.
Hopefully, this post will kickstart more regular photo taking and posting.
We took a quick spin to Skerries yesterday afternoon as it's where the owner of the ear pictured above will be spending her working week.
And what's a reconnaissance mission without a few photos?


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TESTIMONIES – PAROW CENTRE
We had the wonderful opportunity to, once again, hand out balloons to the children at Parow Centre. Over 1000 balloons were distributed, with Scripture messages on them. There were many happy children walking and running around with colourful balloons.
"Some of the comments people wrote on our Email List sign-up sheet clip board: "good eye-opener", "great stand and inspiring", "awesome and informative", "you opened my eyes and changed my mind."
Campaigning Against Human Trafficking
Abrie "trafficked" dozens of people by saying "we are offering well-paid jobs, no experience necessary. Would you be interested?" If they said yes, he sent them to the table where I explained to them, "Sorry, the offer was fake. We told you this to show you how easy it is to be tricked into being trafficked!" I then told them how we can evaluate job opportunities by asking the right questions. If it seems too good to be true, then it probably is too good to be true! The 0800 222 777 Anti-Trafficking Resource Line (manned 24/7 by A21 Campaign) can also help check out the company/person if you suspect that a job opportunity may be a scam or a front for trafficking.
Conversation Leads to Conviction and Conversion
I had a good Gospel conversation with one of the young women who came to our table as result of this "trick". She said she is a "believer", but when I probed further, she started to cry when I explained how, without Christ setting us free, we are slaves to sin. We often find ourselves going back to the same old sin, even when we know that it is destructive for ourselves and others! I explained further that when Jesus gives us a new heart, with new desires, He also sets our will free from being in bondage to our sinful nature. When we are born again, we can overcome sin through the power of His Holy Spirit dwelling within us. I asked her when she going to truly repent of her sin and surrender her life to Christ? She said "when she gets home"!
Abrie gave his phone number to a man that he shared the Gospel with. This man later phoned him and said that he is really struggling with alcoholism and he would like to give his life to the Lord!
Testimonies from Traffick Victims
One shopper said to me, "I am so shocked, I did not know trafficking was happening in South Africa." He later carefully read through the National Freedom Network story board banners that give five different real-life personal stories of trafficking at our display.
Fighting the New Drug that Feeds Human Trafficking
I spoke to two different teachers interested in us giving the Traffick Proof presentation at their schools. One of the teachers also shared with me how she caught two boys from her class looking at porn on their phones. She shared with me how she felt ill-equipped to explain to these boys the dangers and destructiveness of pornography. The boys were not ashamed of what they were doing and were accessing the porn very easily on the internet via their phones. This teacher took a stack more of our Stop the Traffick and Fight the New Drug leaflets for her Life Orientation class, who will soon be required to write an essay on such issues.
Free Gospel DVDs for Those Who Completed Evangelistic Survey
Some of our volunteers told every shopper walking past that they could receive a free DVD at our table. This was true, but only if they completed our evangelistic survey! This meant that we had people queuing up at our table to do the survey! Thankfully, several of our volunteers were equipped to go through the survey with shoppers. We soon ran out of our Gospel DVDs, although we also had New Testaments to offer them."
- Taryn Lourens
TESTIMONIES – LONGBEACH MALL
"We, as Traffick Proof SA, hosted multiple awareness campaigns in malls across Cape Town. At Long Beach Mall in Sunnydale, Jonathan, Nick, Cameron and Emma handed out Traffick Proof pamphlets to shoppers and little bracelets as gifts to women. There was a steady flow of shoppers all day. The women were all very happy to receive gifts, as was evidenced with the beaming smiles and many Thanks.
A Gangster's Testimony
We had some very interesting conversations with passer's by, one of which was with an ex-gangster who was very aware of the horrific trafficking going on, even in our communities in Cape Town. The opportunity arose to share the Gospel with him, which really stilled his spirit and with glistening eyes he asked for prayer for the Lord's guidance and protection. Even the toughest characters are overcome with the overwhelming love and grace of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Many shoppers came and thanked us for the work we were doing and had many lovely words of encouragement."
- Emma Vaughan-Jones
"I Know All About Human Trafficking! I Work for the UN!"
"One lady I spoke to asked what it was all about. I replied that we were raising awareness against human trafficking. 'Oh, I know all about that!' she answered. 'I work for the UN.' We discussed it further and I mentioned that a lot of the problem involved absent or missing fathers. She disagreed, saying that the problem was women who weren't strong enough. 'A strong woman', she maintained, 'would choose the right kind of man, not one that would leave'. I pointed out that men often 'sow wild oats', leaving children behind with the woman. She countered that a 'strong woman' would not 'pick up the seed' and that anyway a 'strong woman' would have the 'strength' to go to the clinic and have an abortion!
It was quite odd, with the usual 'blame the man' attitude being reversed.
A second lady was also aware of human trafficking, as her hairdresser had posters up, against it, in the salon. However, she did not know the extent of the problem and was shocked when I told her there were over 30,000 children enslaved in South Africa. It is encouraging to know that there are other people raising awareness against human trafficking."
- Nick Collins
"I had a good conversation with a pastor from an independent Pentecostal church in Ocean View. Pastor Dan was not aware of the hugeness of the Human Traffic industry and was surprised to hear about the inroads it has made in our society, especially in Cape Town. He agreed to the fact that it is a form of slavery and is a very big money making industry and that it must be exposed.
One of the women I spoke to was a Christian, and expressed her gratefulness for promoting awareness against human trafficking. She was very encouraged to know that people are reached with the Gospel through the wordless Gospel colours bracelets we handed out as free gifts."
- Jonathan Soeker
TESTIMONIES – CANAL WALK
"Our team was very fortunate in being placed in a busy area near the Pick 'n Pay entrance of Canal Walk. We are most grateful to the Marketing Management team of the centre for allowing us to be there.
This awareness campaign stretch over a period of 12 hours. From 9am until 9pm. As requested, we did not hand out balloons. However, our focus was very much on handing out the STOP the Traffick leaflet, as well as free bracelets to the ladies.
We had many fruitful conversations with passersby and only a very small number of people were rushing past us without wanting to take a leaflet. Every lady who received a bracelet were very thankful and it also opened a door to many conversations. It became clear that there is a great number of people in Cape Town who are not aware of the human trafficking epidemic.
Two gentlemen, on separate occasions, asked us whether they could have a bunch of our leaflets. One gentleman is a Geography teacher and he wants to hand a leaflet to each of his students. The other wanted to hand it out to friends and family.
We also had a few occasions in which people walked straight up to our display and immediately asked how they could get involved. Our pull-up banner, which reads 'Women and Girls are NOT for sale' attracted a lot of attention and we believe that the banner itself can create an awareness, make people think and even do further research on this topic.
I pray that God will work in the hearts of those people we reached at these malls and that they will spread the news and help create a greater awareness within our country. It is a further hope that the statistics in the leaflets will encourage people to act and that the organisations and contact details in those leaflets will be kept on record and will be used by the public.
Please stand with us as we pray that the seeds sown will be used by God for His glory and for saving lives."
- Tershia de Klerk
Approximately 30 Volunteers helped us distribute over 3000 STOP the Traffick leaflets and other tracts throughout the malls.
We have been conducting these "Missions in the Malls" every Women's Day since 1995.
Over the last few years, we have been receiving increasing resistance from mall management. By God's grace, and after much prayer, we were welcomed into three shopping centres in the Cape Peninsula.
"While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there."Acts 17:16-17
Malls are a great place to reach people who rarely leave their homes except for work or shopping. They are the marketplaces of the city. Like the Apostle Paul who stood up in the marketplace of Athens in Acts 17 and reasoned with the Jews and the Greeks, we too have to make a bold stand for truth and against human trafficking.
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if [ "${SPARK_VIRTUAL_USER_NETWORK}" = "true" ]; then
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# Separating stderr from stdout (already applied in the template) and applying SPARK_LOG_LEVEL if provided
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# I first set this to MESOS_SANDBOX, as a Workaround for MESOS-5866
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# ./bin/run-example or ./bin/spark-submit
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# - SPARK_PUBLIC_DNS, to set the public dns name of the driver program
# - SPARK_CLASSPATH, default classpath entries to append

# Options read by executors and drivers running inside the cluster
# - SPARK_LOCAL_IP, to set the IP address Spark binds to on this node
# - SPARK_PUBLIC_DNS, to set the public DNS name of the driver program
# - SPARK_CLASSPATH, default classpath entries to append
# - SPARK_LOCAL_DIRS, storage directories to use on this node for shuffle and RDD data
# - MESOS_NATIVE_JAVA_LIBRARY, to point to your libmesos.so if you use Mesos

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# - HADOOP_CONF_DIR, to point Spark towards Hadoop configuration files
# - SPARK_EXECUTOR_INSTANCES, Number of workers to start (Default: 2)
# - SPARK_EXECUTOR_CORES, Number of cores for the workers (Default: 1).
# - SPARK_EXECUTOR_MEMORY, Memory per Worker (e.g. 1000M, 2G) (Default: 1G)
# - SPARK_DRIVER_MEMORY, Memory for Master (e.g. 1000M, 2G) (Default: 1G)
# - SPARK_YARN_APP_NAME, The name of your application (Default: Spark)
# - SPARK_YARN_QUEUE, The hadoop queue to use for allocation requests (Default: 'default')
# - SPARK_YARN_DIST_FILES, Comma separated list of files to be distributed with the job.
# - SPARK_YARN_DIST_ARCHIVES, Comma separated list of archives to be distributed with the job.

# Options for the daemons used in the standalone deploy mode
# - SPARK_MASTER_IP, to bind the master to a different IP address or hostname
# - SPARK_MASTER_PORT / SPARK_MASTER_WEBUI_PORT, to use non-default ports for the master
# - SPARK_MASTER_OPTS, to set config properties only for the master (e.g. "-Dx=y")
# - SPARK_WORKER_CORES, to set the number of cores to use on this machine
# - SPARK_WORKER_MEMORY, to set how much total memory workers have to give executors (e.g. 1000m, 2g)
# - SPARK_WORKER_PORT / SPARK_WORKER_WEBUI_PORT, to use non-default ports for the worker
# - SPARK_WORKER_INSTANCES, to set the number of worker processes per node
# - SPARK_WORKER_DIR, to set the working directory of worker processes
# - SPARK_WORKER_OPTS, to set config properties only for the worker (e.g. "-Dx=y")
# - SPARK_DAEMON_MEMORY, to allocate to the master, worker and history server themselves (default: 1g).
# - SPARK_HISTORY_OPTS, to set config properties only for the history server (e.g. "-Dx=y")
# - SPARK_SHUFFLE_OPTS, to set config properties only for the external shuffle service (e.g. "-Dx=y")
# - SPARK_DAEMON_JAVA_OPTS, to set config properties for all daemons (e.g. "-Dx=y")
# - SPARK_PUBLIC_DNS, to set the public dns name of the master or workers

# Generic options for the daemons used in the standalone deploy mode
# - SPARK_CONF_DIR      Alternate conf dir. (Default: ${SPARK_HOME}/conf)
# - SPARK_LOG_DIR       Where log files are stored.  (Default: ${SPARK_HOME}/logs)
# - SPARK_PID_DIR       Where the pid file is stored. (Default: /tmp)
# - SPARK_IDENT_STRING  A string representing this instance of spark. (Default: $USER)
# - SPARK_NICENESS      The scheduling priority for daemons. (Default: 0)

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As our children grow and become productive citizens of the world they will create their own legacy. But, what about the legacies and our leaders of the past? Is it important for children to understand history and its influential people? Yes! As we grow as a culture, understanding our history is how we celebrate our triumphs, instil pride and learn from our mistakes to make the world a better place.
Read a biography or short story. Exposing historical figures to children by way of literature is a great way to enhance literacy skills and learn about leaders through storytelling.
Watch age appropriate documentaries. Many options can be found online through a video uploading site, at the local library or they may be available for purchase to keep at home. Make it a movie night to watch the story play out and discuss it as a family.
Listen to audios/speeches. The internet has a plethora of resources in finding audio speeches of many of our leaders. Utilizing this learning tool is a great way for children to understand how words are powerful, can be used to express emotion and can change the world.
Look up old news articles. Old news articles chronicling the times of the historical figures are a great way to get a better picture of how that leader was living during that time period. Discuss what the news article was reporting at an age appropriate level and talk about what the article was saying about the figure.
Talk to elders. It is so important for children to connect with older generations. For many of our elders, reflecting on the past can be an emotional experience, whether good or bad. But their testimony is an important one. Giving your child the space to speak with an elder who can share what they know about certain leaders will make a unique connection that no book, recording or article will ever be able to give.
With these simple tips, our children will be given the perfect foundation to honor our ancestors' legacies as well as begin to establish their own.


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Home » TV & Movies » ITV star Charlotte Hawkins apologises to Donny Osmond after red-faced GMB moment
ITV star Charlotte Hawkins apologises to Donny Osmond after red-faced GMB moment
Good Morning Britain star Charlotte Hawkins has apologised to music legend Donny Osmond after an 'awkward' moment on Good Morning Britain.
The star appeared on the morning programme on Monday, where he was instantly serenaded by Charlotte's on-screen co-presenter Adil Ray, who showed off his own version of his hit Puppy Love.
The 46-year-old newsreader was so ashamed of her co-star's performance that she took to Instagram to say sorry.
She wrote: "With apologies to @donnyosmond this morning on @gmb for @adilray's version of 'Puppy Love'…
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Fans of GMB flooded the comments section to hail the twosome for such a great start to the week.
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MP Dominic Raab appeared on the latest episode of the ITV favourite to discuss the heavily questioned gathering that is believed to have been a government Christmas party last year – while Covid-19 measures were in place.
The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain showed his face via video link to discuss a photo that showcased Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his wife Carrie and Downing Street staff enjoying wine and cheese in a garden during lockdown.
Shouting over the MP, Adil asked: "Give me an example of another group of people who are not in Downing Street that could have done that?
"Give me an example of another group of people in the entire country on May 2020 who could finish work and sat there and had cheese and wine. Give me one example of another group of people."
As Dominic attempted to answer the question, he was cut off by Adil who now seemed annoyed that he wasn't getting any clear cut answers.
The MP then chirped back: "Sorry, you're doing the usual thing of trying to sort of…"
Adil interjected: "But you're doing the usual thing, Mr. Raab, of not answering the question and everyone can see that."
Good Morning Britain returns to ITV on Tuesday at 6am.
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There's another new food truck that hit the streets recently, and if you love cold Italian heros, pay attention. This was one of the best sandwiches we've had in a long time.
We spoke with the owner, Andy D. (a long Italian name that we didn't catch all of). Andy told us he was looking to open a storefront sandwich shop, but between the lease and negotiations over everything, it dragged on for over 9 months.
At a certain point, Andy decided to stop the storefront idea and instead open a sandwich truck. Retail's loss is street food's gain!
DiSO's Italian Sandwich Society has all the Italian meats, cheeses and condiments you could imagine. There's proscuitto, capicola, porchetta, sopressata, provolone, mozzarella, parmigiano reggiano, sun-dried tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers and much more.
The sandwiches are named after gansgsters like Vinny Chins, Sonny Red, Joey Bats and Lucky Luciano. For our First Look, we got the shakes, Joey Shakes that is. A hero is $11.50, half is $7.50 and on focaccia it's $8.50
We did a little research after eating the Italian Sandwich. It seems that someone on Midtown Lunch ran across DiSO's and waited 45 minutes for their sandwich. With everything sliced to order, you are guaranteed to get everything as fresh as possible, but you're also guaranteed a long wait.
We went there around 3:30 last week, and it was much better in a non-lunch hour, but we still waited for 10-15 minutes. Andy told me he recognizes this is a problem, and is working on a solution.
The problem with going at 3:30 for lunch is they run out of things, but luckily they were only out of proscuitto. We were handed a piece of porchetta to taste as a potential substitute, and it was delicious. Ham wrapped in pancetta, mmm!
There was a lot on this Italian Sandwich besides three meats and two cheeses. Opening up the bread, there were also chopped hot peppers, basil leaves and a balsamic vinegar dressing.
It was difficult to say what our favorite part of the sandwich was because it was beautifully balanced. The dressing was certainly a highlight, with the deep tang of balsamic vinegar in a sweet glaze.
There was a nice amount of perkiness from the hot peppers, and the parmigiano reggiano cut through everything like a chef's knife.
We got white Italian Sandwich hero bread, but you can also get wheat or rosemary focaccia bread.
The hero was crusty and soft at the same time, making for a nice foundation on which to build this delicious sandwich.
DiSO's Italian Sandwich Society can be located on twitter here or on our Mobile Munchies twitter feed. You can also check them out on facebook here or at their website.
With the length of the menu and the quality of the food, we expect to be regulars.
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"A Tribe Called Quest are just as important as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones".
It's quite a statement. The pinch of salt comes when you realise it's made by Michael Rapaport, the actor turned director / producer behind the Grammy-nominated 2011 documentary Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest.
"Hip-hop is now popular music, just like classic rock", says Rapaport. "And without A Tribe Called Quest you wouldn't have Nicki Minaj or others. The sensibility of their music changed things, and that's why I make that comparison. The next generation hold them in the same regard as those classic rock musicians I've mentioned".
Cue producer and recording artist Pharrell Williams, who's said: "Myself, Kanye [West]... we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Tribe albums".
Notions such as these make this year's Wireless Festival a must-attend for rap fans of all generations living in the UK: it's set to host the first live show from the group in the country for 20 years.
Their last long player, the Grammy- nominated The Love Movement (1998) ended a sequence of five variously gold and platinum-selling albums that had begun with 1990's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. Throughout, Tribe's poetry and percussion engineered a strong bridge between their parents' jazz and soul collections and the host of acts they themselves were to later inspire.
They've since performed together only a handful of times, one of the last being at March's South by South West festival in Texas, where they opened for Prince.
The group has three chief members: rapper Phife Dawg, rapper-producer Q-Tip, and DJ rapper-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. The fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, is a sometime contributor who true blue fans are always quick to remember as a debut album stalwart. Between them they plucked basslines and wove drum loops from the most eclectic of sources; Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side one moment, Lou Donaldson's Pot Belly the next.
Overlaid with lyrics that sought to step outside an eighties brag culture some had begun to find stifling and stagnant, Tribe, along with others in a self-styled New York collective known as Native Tongues (including De La Soul and others), became exponents of the idea the MTV generation might enjoy more 'enlightened' fare.
"I think the consciousness was very organic", says Rapaport. "They didn't beat you over the head..."
He cites Sucka Nigga from the Midnight Marauders album (1993) as a case in point. The lyrics touch on how the n-word, reclaimed by young African Americans, was causing concern within their community. "If you listen to a song like that, it's just one of the most conscious, thought-provoking records", the director insists.
By the time Midnight Marauders was being recorded, Tribe had not only secured the attention of millions of listeners worldwide; they had also held it for some time.
Early on, Q-Tip's velvet-voiced guest spots on modern classics such as Deee-Lite's 1990 hit Groove Is in the Heart welcomed hordes of the formerly uninitiated into the fold.
On their own tracks, games of verbal tag played between Q-Tip and childhood friend Phife Dawg proved infectious. Phife's near-breathless, urgent style offered a perfect counterpoint to Q-Tip's more laid-back routine.
"The chemistry was unlike any other", remembers Phife, now 42-years-old, adding: "I think that's attributed to us being friends before. I could finish Q-Tip's sentences and he could finish mine, that's how close we were".
Phife and Q-Tip were kids with Caribbean links who had grown up in the Linden area of New York's Queens.
Rapaport describes them as coming from 'good families', and Phife has no qualms about discussing being brought up on the right side of the tracks.
"Where I lived with my parents was Linden and 192, and where my grandmother lived was Linden and 178, but there was a railroad track in the middle. It was the same area, but I spent more time on her side than our side", he explains.
"It was a cool upbringing. But I had to fight to get involved in music, because of my grandmother's religion.
"Seventh-Day Adventist Christians are really, really strict: they're not into secular music. Not only that, but she's from Trinidad and Tobago so she wasn't having none of it. You put those two together - you can forget it.
"But I loved what I loved... I had to be a part of it.
"My parents being from Trinidad, there was a bunch of calypso being played", says Phife. "There was a bunch of reggae, and the disco era, like Chic and Sister Sledge, D.Train and a lot of the SalSoul and Solar labels' music.
"Jazz was more of a Q-Tip thing", he explains. "His father was an avid collector and of course [Q-Tip] followed suit".
Whilst records played in Q-Tip and Phife's homes differed in style, they nonetheless spun in the same direction.
Brooklyn DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad helped bring the music together in an alchemy that made their sound dense in riff and reference; rich in critical acclaim.
"The sampling is some of the best", Rapaport says, adding: "The production is seamless, timeless...it's like listening to good jazz".
And although their music relied on the art of making borrowed beats their own, the notion of following that same path lyrically was anathema to them.
"One thing I know is that we were always in our own world", Phife insists. "Biting (plagiarism) was forbidden on all levels".
He equates a lack of originality with "a lack of respect to your forefathers".
"Coming up as a youngster, Stevie Wonder made a difference in my life, The O' Jays made a difference, Tony! Toni! Toné! made a difference. Nowadays there aren't too many people out there who are making that difference".
Of his own crew's approach, he says: "We were probably taking a risk, but it ended up working out, so I'm grateful for that. We were just true to ourselves".
One might look to Phife's family again if in search of an answer to why authenticity was so important to the young man whose birth name was Malik Isaac Taylor.
"As far as my family is concerned: the son is a rapper and the mom is a poet".
His mother - Cheryl Boyce Taylor - served as a strong example of what it takes to make one's voice heard when of a mind you have something worthwhile to say. Not long after the 20-year-old Cheryl had given birth to Malik, the early seventies found her much influenced by a burgeoning Black Power Movement; she established the Boyce Taylor Theatrical Company in Queens just a short ten years after having arrived there from Trinidad as a 13-year-old girl.
Phife's description of her work could easily be mistaken for a description of his own: "She'll hit you with the social issues... childhood themes, and family issues too. I wouldn't say it's abstract, but you have to read a lot between the lines sometimes".
Cheryl remains an important influence on his life; Phife recently followed his mother's advice when accepting an invitation to speak before students.
"It was my colleague DJ Rasta Root's class - I was really his guest", he explains.
The lecture on DJ-ing was given at the University of North Carolina (UNC) back in April of this year.
"My mom had been telling me that I should do something like that, and I just hadn't done it yet, but after this first time at UNC I'm looking forward to doing it at other schools - or strictly at UNC if need be. Next semester or the semester after that they're going to have an MC class that I hope I'll be able to be a part of, because that's obviously my field".
His 'field' or not, he still holds strong opinions on the present absence of a certain DJ-ing skill that young listeners might be forgiven for not recognizing if ever they heard it: record scratching.
"There's a lot of laziness that's come about in this particular industry", insists Phife. "Just like at one time there was a lot of vinyl that you could purchase. These days, you can still purchase it, and things of that nature, but with the CDJs being involved and different types of equipment you can use to DJ, that's what they've started to cater to now. It's not about turntablism like it used to be.
"You have a select few DJs like Kid Capri, DJ Scratch - formerly of EPMD - DJs like that who still put the real in the forefront; Grandmaster Flash, and I'm sure if Run DMC's late great Jam Master Jay was still around he'd be doing the same - he has his Academy. So you still have DJs who put that in the forefront, but there's not enough DJs doing that. That's what I mean by the laziness.
"The CD is a cool item", he adds, "but it's not the same, and I wish it would go back to regular Technics 1200 where your skillset is beyond 'up to par'. Right now, it seems like anybody can DJ because there are so may buttons you can press in order to mix a record nowadays.
"I've not really been a DJ - I know how to do it; I know how to blend records - but they've made it easier for me given that I was never a pure turntablist like that. They've definitely made it easy for someone such as myself. Hence the reason why you have a lot of celebrities that DJ nowadays. And I think it's kind of messing up the game. Not to be a hater or anything, but I want to see Kid Capri use his hands to rock the party: he'll always do that. DJ Scratch...he'll use everything on his body to rock the party - it's not like that any more. It 's starting to dwindle...it's starting to lose its lustre".
Besides making guest lecture appearances on performance, Phife has found A Tribe Called Quest performing live themselves of late. The group's South By South West appearance - complete with their sometime fourth member Jarobi White - caught the attention of old school fans across the globe.
"We toured right before the doc came out, so we were touring in 2010. But SXSW was the first gig with the fellas since 2010.
"It was cool. It was definitely brought together last minute, but when you hear 'opening for Prince'... who's going to turn that down? So we got together. And every time we get together it feels like we never left. Once the music drops, it's all systems go".
Talk of Prince - an artist formerly known just as much for his wranglings with studio moguls as for the peerless recordings he's released over the years - brings us to a discussion on 'the industry' and how things have changed for artists since Tribe debuted on the scene.
Tribe's 1991 single Can I Kick It? was arguably the first to hit home and make them household names in the US, the UK and beyond. With its playfully eclectic sampling - featuring the likes of Ian Dury, Sergei Prokofiev, and most significantly, Lou Reed's Walk On the Wild Side - it remained astutely radio-friendly, thanks in no small part to a call and response chorus that mixed in a soupçon of Super Ted dialogue for good measure. But it was far from a commercial coup for the group.
"It came down to a clerical error. I mean, it's one of our biggest records. We made a little bit of money from it but the bulk of that money went to Lou Reed, the Walk on the Wild Side creator.
"He wasn't nasty about it, which was cool, because he could have said 'No - you can't use it at all'. And who knows where we would have been if he had said that. But he said 'yeah, sure, you can use it, however... I need this that and the other', and that was basically the bulk of the money.
"We knew that before we even knew it was going to be a smash, but it just so happened to be one of our biggest records. We already knew we weren't going to see much from it".
One can't help wondering if things are better or worse for recording artists today?
"I think things are better now business-wise", he explains, "because there's a lot more independence compared to the late eighties or early nineties. Back then we depended on then labels to put their best foot forward and get the project going... investing in the artist. Nowadays you have no choice but to point the finger to yourself if things go wrong or if things go right.
"So I think it's better now, because for me personally, I'm in my forties at this point - I think I'm too old to be running to labels, begging for certain kinds of deals, or being told what single I should drop first because it's going to make that particular label more money or it's a better 'look'. I'm doing it all by myself and I feel better.
"The one thing I'm looking forward to right now is the distribution. By the time I step to a distributor, I already have everything pretty much done. They can't tell me what I can't do".
Between break up and reunions, Phife has recorded the Ventilation LP (2000) and Songs in the Key of Phife (2011) as a solo artist.
He's soon to release a mix tape, Cheryl's Big Son - the Anomaly, and an EP set to be called Muttymorphisis.
Tribe's final album - The Love Movement - was arguably an ironically-titled one, given that by then the group were already close to breaking point, with relationships strained.
When it all ended, they had one album still outstanding in their contract with Jive Records.
"I guess to make a long story short, we just grew apart", Phife reflects.
As well as the issues with his musical family, Phife also constantly contended with the often debilitating diabetes that had almost stopped him short, even before his career had begun in earnest: "Our first album had only come out for a month when I was diagnosed... I thought my career was done".
Eventually, in 2008, he was to accept a successful kidney transplant from his own wife.
Past stresses behind him, Phife sometimes muses upon the idea of cutting that elusive final album.
"I thought that same album we owe Jive should have been the soundtrack to the documentary that was made", he has said. "They would've bounced off each other: it would've been a successful album, God-willing, and the movie from what I've seen has been very successful. So if you add that soundtrack... just imagine.
"Everybody wasn't on the same page and it didn't happen. So go figure".
Rapaport also remains convinced new music from Tribe would have galvanised the project.
"I was disappointed, especially considering the Oscars only nominated two 'Original Songs' that year", he explains. "If Tribe had done an original song, I would have loved nothing more than for them to have been nominated in that category... it would have been exciting for hip-hop".
One wonders if a new album will ever materialise.
"I have no idea", admits Rapaport. "I got yeses and nos from all of them... it's always different".
Phife offers his own response for today: "It's been almost 14 years now... I don't see it. I really don't. We're as far away from that as possible - shows or no shows".
For now, fans might take comfort in the fact this year's Wireless Festival is set to go some way to filling the void long left echoing with distant voices.
"There was an honesty in their words and music - you felt that you knew them", claims Rapaport. "Q-Tip and Phife had an It-factor and charisma that drew you closer.
"Another reason I make that comparison to the Beatles and The Stones is that if you have a pulse, you like them", he says. "Tribe's music is for everybody, but it's not compromised. That's what separates the good from the great. Certain artists have that, where it just works for everybody.
"That's the stuff you're going to remember".
A Tribe Called Quest play the main stage of the Yahoo Wireless Festival, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, on Sunday 14th July.
'Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest' is available to buy on DVD.
By: Andrew Davies-Cole
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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › New York › Eastern District of New York › 1966 › United States v. Carlson
United States v. Carlson, 260 F. Supp. 423 (E.D.N.Y. 1966)
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York - 260 F. Supp. 423 (E.D.N.Y. 1966)
260 F. Supp. 423 (1966)
UNITED STATES of America,
Walter O. CARLSON, Defendant.
No. 65 CR 88.
United States District Court E. D. New York.
*424 Jules Ritholz, New York City (Kostelantz & Ritholz, New York City, of counsel), for defendant.
Donald F. McCaffrey, New York City (Joseph P. Hoey, U. S. Atty. for Eastern District of New York, of counsel), for the United States.
MEMORANDUM and ORDER
DOOLING, District Judge.
Defendant has moved to suppress evidence obtained by the Special Agents of the Intelligence Division of the Internal Revenue Service through interviews conducted by them with defendant at which defendant was not advised that he was entitled to be represented by counsel and that the investigation was addressed to fixing upon him criminal responsibility for his understatements of income tax in the years 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961. Defendant moved also, on the ground that it is necessarily founded upon evidence illegally obtained, to dismiss the indictment and all the counts of it.
The indictment, under Internal Revenue Code § 7206(1) charges that defendant willfully made tax returns for 1958, 1959 and 1960 which he did not believe to be true and correct in material matters; the specification is understatement of income tax liability due to the omission of dividends, capital gains, and interest.
Admittedlynow at leastdefendant's income tax liability in each year was substantially understated. Defendant reported some dividends every year and in one year reported a capital gain; he did not report all his dividends, nor any of his savings bank interest, nor all his capital gains. The data available for prosecution include defendant's own statements of his dividend income derived from securities kept in his own custody, the records of Goldman Sachs & Co., Bache & Co. and Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith (and Form 1087s filed by Merrill, Lynch) copies of the savings bank pass books, and Form 1099s filed by various dividend-paying corporations. Suppression is significant only as to such evidence as the taxpayer produced against himself about his knowledge that he had the income and had not reported it and the reason for not reporting it, and as to the data, if any, *425 which came to the Government's hands only after the Intelligence Division began its criminal inquiry and by reason of leads obtained from defendant in the challenged interviews.
The Government, here, is transactionally interested as tax-collecting sovereign in the tax owed to it and not paid. Apart from being prosecuting sovereign the Government is interested to get the data to compute its tax for collection. As a prosecuting sovereign it is additionally interested in matter relevant only to criminal punishment or to the related but milder punishment of the fraud and negligence penalties that are collectible as additions to tax.
In this latter aspect the Government is interested in making such inquiries irrelevant to the tax computationas these: Were you conscious that you had omitted material items and that the tax you showed was less than the tax due? Did you intend by the conscious omission from the returns of items that you knew were taxable to evade and defeat the payment of the tax? Did you observe on the brokerage statement that you received the printed legend advising you to preserve the broker's statement for use in preparing your income tax return? Did you know that capital gains on securities are taxable even though within 18 months the proceeds are re-invested in property of substantially the same sort? The answers to such questions bear upon criminal responsibility and on liability to "civil" penalties for negligence or fraud.
The United States as tax-imposing sovereign was entitled under Internal Revenue Code §§ 6011(a), 6012 and 6013 to have a return of tax from the defendant or from the defendant and his wife which set forth the information required by the tax form and the regulations. It is idle to suggest that the duty to file that return or to supply the information called for by the tax form and regulations was discharged by filing an incorrect return. The duty to respond correctly to the inquiries made by the form of tax return is a continuing duty. It is not distinctively a duty of self-accusation for, considered by itself, the supplementing of a return by additional information relevant to tax computation is wholly compatible with innocence and with the absence of negligence, fraud, wilfulness and criminality.
Internal Revenue Code §§ 7601-7606 empower the Internal Revenue Service to examine records relative to an inquiry directed to ascertain the correctness of any tax return and to summon the persons liable to the tax, and anyone having custody of books of account relating to the tax liability, and such summonses are enforceable in the District Courts. There can be no question that appropriate inquiries under Sections 7602 through 7605 are necessary governmental implementations of the duty to file the returns and to pay the taxes. The mere filing of an inadequate tax return can not discharge the responsibility to make the disclosure that will complete the return merely because to do so will supply indispensably necessary data preconditioning any governmental case for criminal responsibility. So, the present case may involve delineating the boundary between the area of responsibility for civil disclosure and the area in which, if ever, interrogation and the eliciting of evidence and evidentiary leads were material only, or only significantly, to the pursuit of criminal objectives.
A whole second range of consideration is presented in this case, because of the nature of the defendant's professional experience. If a defendant is entitled to be toldor remindedthat he has the right to the assistance of counsel, must that be done for men equally competent with the interrogating officer to remind him that the right exists? And if no broad generalization can be made based on the calling and competency of the particular taxpayer and potential defendantfor he may not be sensitive to the moment when inquiry has become oriented toward eliciting evidence for use in a criminal proceedingdoes that become a factor in the context of a particular *426 interrogation and the possibility that the taxpayer and potential defendant is calculatedly investing a mixture of self-condemning statements, exculpatory arguments and proffers of belated co-operation with the Internal Revenue Service even as the Internal Revenue Service may be skirmishing for inculpatory statements as well as pursuing objective factual data?
The final range of considerations brought to bear upon this case arises out of defendant Carlson's health.
Two grounds of suppression are suggested: the first of these is that Miranda v. State of Arizona, 1966, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694, requires suppression because defendant was not advised of his right to counsel. The second reason is that there was a transgression of defendant's rights because the admissions were the product of his mental disturbance at the time.
To deal with the last question first: The evidence of the two psychiatrists, who dealt with the defendant's situation with sympathy and insight, does not nearly suggest that the defendant was by reason of his health unable either when they saw him, or at the period considerably earlier when he was going through his interviews with the government, to take care of himself in the tax interviews. Dr. Wadsworth found what he construed to be definite evidence of a deteriorative brain damage very likely arteriosclerotic in its general nature. He found this manifested in the defendant's diminished visual motor coordination, his problems of gait, his inability to continue well-formed handwriting through the whole of passages of modest length, and the cumulative impression of a deteriorating personality indicated in impairment of ethical judgment and diminution in mental efficiency. Dr. Wadsworth could not back-date his observations of November 1, 1964, to any definite earlier period. His conclusion was not final and was not an opinion that defendant's was a weak spirit or will or mind. On review in 1966 he could not say that the aggregate data available to him enabled him to either confirm or rule out an impression of diffuse brain damage and cerebral arteriosclerosis. While he took very much into account a systematic and properly administered psychological test which indicated some impairment of thinking, Dr. Wadsworth pointed out that the test showed superior intelligence in some areas of test, and he noted the preservationnot unexpectedlyof superior mathematical acuity.
Dr. Wadsworth pointed out that a man having such symptoms as the defendant exhibited was capable of holding down a good job, a job that involved responsibilityon the assumption, and the Doctor was firm in finding no evidence of malingering, that all of the symptoms reported to him were genuine.
Dr. Lehrman, too, did not depict defendant as a person unequal to the occasions of his life. He insisted that the complex of health problems that defendant had faced over the years could well be consistent with the production of such a depression as could impair judgment. He noted that being told that one was subject to a catastrophic illness could cause impairment of judgment in other life activities conducted in the same period, and that emotional disorders traceable to a protracted episode of that kind could both accelerate organic deteriorations and, perhaps, precipitate latent ones into an active form, and so bring about impaired judgment. But, the doctor's ultimate conclusion that there was nothing inconsistent between the defendant's record of business achievement and his mental condition again underlines that neither doctor was saying the defendant was inadequate to trying situations. They were saying he was not mentally a wholly well man, although he was competent to conduct the business of life.
Both doctors said that defendant could have masked his twitch and the nodding of his head so that it was not observed by the Internal Revenue Service personnel. *427 All of the Service witnesses testified that they had not observed any spasmodic twitching or tic. Both doctors indicated that such a tic, although in general continuous, is not incessant, and is not incapable of being masked, or, for some periods of time, controlled.
Neither doctor had read the text of the meetings between the defendant and the Intelligence Division but neither thought the text would throw light on whether the defendant was on those occasions evincing a morbid mental condition. Dr. Lehrman pointed out that without the total atmosphere of the occasion the words themselves would not communicate a great deal nor would they indicate what the interplay of pressures in the meeting was.
The testimony about defendant's illness and mental condition contributes no evidence that his mind was over-mastered, or that his disclosures were to any extent the product of anything except his own healthy volition.
Whether or not the Miranda case and similar cases are treated as limited to the case of a person in a custody that is inescapable as a practical matter, and granting that in the typical Miranda-type case there can be no silent or unexpressed waiver of the right to counsel, the case still has no application here. The present case presents the perhaps equally difficult question of when it is that evidence has been so unfairly taken that its use against the defendant will be suppressed. Bolich v. Rubel, 2d Cir. 1933, 67 F.2d 894, 895, may oversimplify in suggesting that, while a taxpayer may file no return at all and then stand on his privilege against self-incrimination in refusing to produce any evidence against himself, he nevertheless subjects himself to limitless scrutiny if he does file a return, and that no constitutional difficulty arises until an abuse appears. And while the Miranda case deals with the extreme position of the man in custody, from which an implicit inference of a want of true volition is so powerful that the interrogating government is required to show clearly that the interrogation proceeded only after certain sternly formal procedures were complied with, every other case of interrogation by a government presents, if in diluted form, an underlying inequality of confrontation that may be supposed to require the government to show the answers that it has in its possession were derived from a genuinely free volition. Whether a person is in custody or not, he is entitled to the assistance of counsel if he is facing an explicit or imminent criminal charge. It is logically difficult to determine whether anything more is necessary to ripen the rights to the assistance of counsel and to a warning to that effect than the mere fact that the government is the interrogator and is conducting the interrogation in the perspective of criminal law enforcement, whether or not it has already resolved to go forward. The tax cases do not indicate that the standard is the standard applicable to protect persons in custody. United States v. Silverstein, 2d Cir. 1963, 314 F.2d 789, 790, treats an appearance before a special agent of the Intelligence Division as in the nature of an appearance in a criminal investigation, and it says that a claim of privilege against a summons directing production of individual papers would be sustained in that context. Russo v. United States, 2d Cir. 1957, 241 F.2d 285, 287, may assume, though without comment, the inadmissibility of disclosures obtained by Treasury Agents by means of deceiving a taxpayer into thinking an examination was for the purpose of a routine civil audit rather than for the purpose of a criminal charge. In United States v. Sclafani, 2d Cir. 1959, 265 F.2d 408, 414-415, defendant sought to exclude data from evidence on the ground that it was turned over after the case had been transferred to the Intelligence Division without the taxpayer's having been advised that the case had ceased to be a routine audit and had become a criminal investigation. The Court rejected the contention essentially on the ground that the defendant was entitled to no more in the context *428 than freedom from deceit and that the change in the coloration of the investigation, if it had occurred, did not vitiate the defendant's consent to the production of the data.
In re Turner, 2d Cir. 1962, 309 F.2d 69, was an appeal from an order denying a motion to quash a summons issued under Section 7602(2) of the 1954 Code. The taxpayer had been commanded to produce all of his records covering designated tax years. The taxpayer argued that the Special Agent was embarked upon an investigation directed to instituting a criminal proceeding and that in consequence the taxpayer was protected against appearing and producing his papers by his Constitutional right not to incriminate himself. The District Court denied relief on the ground that the taxpayer could assert his Constitutional rights when he appeared before the Special Agent. The Court of Appeals affirmed, said that any tax investigation involved a theoretical possibility of disclosures that might lead to a criminal indictment, and that no special class of investigations, such as those initiated by Special Agents of the Intelligence Division, could be treated as exclusively directed to the initiation of criminal cases. The taxpayer, like any other witness, must obey the summons and claim his Constitutional privileges as particular questions are asked which accrue the right to assert the objection. As to the production of self-incriminating records, the Court said that not only was it unclear that defendant and his counsel might not decide to produce the records, but also it was not yet evident that production of every item in the defendant's records must be dangerous because it might result in injurious disclosure.
The cases assume that interrogation is relatively free as between government and taxpayer until some ill-defined zone is reached in which fairness requires the government to alert the defendant that the theoretical risk of a criminal prosecution implicit in any investigation of an imperfect return has become a matter of pointed interest on the part of the government, whether or not the government has resolved to proceed. At some point the Government's further questions may become an attempt to take testimony in aid of prosecution rather than as part of an investigation.
In Kohatsu v. United States, 9th Cir. 1965, 351 F.2d 898, cert. den. June 20, 1966, 384 U.S. 1011, 86 S. Ct. 1915, 16 L. Ed. 2d 1017 (Mr. Justice Douglas voting to grant and to affirm) no warning with respect to Constitutional rights had been given. The Court considered that the rule of Escobedo v. State of Illinois, 1964, 378 U.S. 478, 84 S. Ct. 1758, 12 L. Ed. 2d 977, did not reach a case in which the defendant had neither been arrested nor indicted. The Court rejected the suggestion that the Escobedo case should be extended to a case in which all the statements were made and the documents delivered voluntarily and not under the inducement of stealth, trickery or misrepresentation. The Court relied on United States v. Sclafani, supra. In the Kohatsu case (351 F.2d at 900) the defendant conceded that an Internal Revenue Agent had the right to determine a taxpayer's correct civil liability and in so doing to interrogate the taxpayer and examine his books and records. The defendant argued only that such a "routine civil tax investigation" changes when a revenue agent discovers facts indicating substantial unreported income and the facts are such that the revenue agent suspects fraud.
In the present case defendant's disclosures were not the product of any sort of fraud, misconduct or misleading on the part of the revenue agents. Defendant had plainly moved into the zone of criminal investigation, and he knew it. His first answer to the first formal interrogation expressed his understanding that the nature of the proceeding had changed. Special Agent Alleva's warning at the beginning did not separate out clearly the two ideas that statements did not have to be made and that if made they could be used against the taxpayer, but the reference to the Fifth Amendment and the compacted statement that *429 the defendant did not have to make any statements that he felt might incriminate him under federal law expressed the full menace of the choice defendant was making in submitting to interrogation.
It may well be the fact that of fifty investigations in which Special Agent Alleva has been involved in the five years since he has done this work only seven proceeded beyond the preliminary stage, that only four resulted in indictments or informations and that of the remaining three one resulted in the recommendation that there be no prosecution and two are still open; and it may well be that the attitude of mind of Special Agents in the Intelligence Division is rather that they seek to determine whether there should be prosecution rather than to unearth evidence to support a desired prosecution. But transfer of a case to the Intelligence Division is formal administrative action genuinely signifying official orientation of the investigation toward data relevant to criminality rather than to tax liability as such. Hence the question is simply whether in such a preliminary but definitively criminal investigation as the present one something more than the warnings given was necessary. It is concluded that no more was needed in the circumstances of an investigation conducted by the Intelligence Division in the manner and circumstances of the present investigation.
In the present investigation the defendant had ample time to consider, before he appeared voluntarily at the Intelligence Division office, whether to consult with counsel and to be accompanied by counsel. The interrogation was not reassuring to the defendant. It was straightforward and its thrust most evident. In the first interrogation the special agent proceeded systematically to elicit the depth of the defendant's education, the nature of his work, his bank accounts, his brokerage accounts, his savings accounts (which were then for the first time itemized), the source of the funds in the savings accounts, the extent of defendant's ownership of stocks (both directly and through brokerage accounts), the collateral position of certain of the securities, the places of deposit of dividends and interest, the status of a collateral loan, the capital gains transactions, the real estate transactions and holdings, and the source of the funds used for the real estate transactions. Then the Special Agent examined about the preparation of each of the three returns, and about defendant's consciousness of the omissions from the returns and his explanation of and excuses for the omissions. There is no doubt that many of the statements made are highly incriminating. It was very evidence to the defendant that the questions called for incriminating answers, and they were freely given, the defendant distinguishing between the instances, such as the omission of capital gains, where he considered that he had a satisfactory explanation, and those in which he presented only an excuse for having filed returns which did not include income items which he said he knew were taxable.
Similarly in the case of the September 25 interrogation: defendant was first warned of his Fifth Amendment rights, and the questions related to defendant's possessing a Treasury Department card until 1962, to the explanation of the omission of dividend and interest income, to the details of the excuse of the unavailability of records needed to make a complete return, to the kind of accounting work that defendant had done and his participation in preparing corporate income tax returns, and to the cost basis of certain stock.
The government's inquiries could not induce in defendant a belief that criminal proceedings were not contemplated as possible. Defendant's motivations in participating as he did in the inquiry are not brought out by the evidence, since defendant did not testify. The most profound of lawyers might well have advised defendant that just such was the wisest course for him to pursue in view of the completeness of the data already at the *430 Government's command. There is, in any event, no evidence of any overreaching on the Government's part.
Accordingly on defendant's motion to suppress and to dismiss the indictment, it is
Ordered that the motion is in all respects denied.


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Case Study: Mevris Ai Helps Orient Customers Cut Their Air Conditioning Costs By 79%
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Our journey with Mevris began in the summer of 2017 when a team of BlueEast engineers retrofitted an Orient DC Inverter Air Conditioner at a customer's home. To help ease the skeptical looks of the customer our team asked him what motivated him to become the first customer of Mevris enabled Air Conditioner. He quickly replied, "Energy Metering! DC Inverters are expensive I want to make sure, I am getting the energy savings promised by DC Inverter Technology". The feedback resonated with everyone at BlueEast.
When we launched Mevris as an IoT platform back in 2017, the energy crisis was in full swing in Pakistan. At one point electricity generation had shrunk by up to 50% due to an overreliance on fossil fuels. The country was hit by its worst power crisis in 2007 when production fell by 6000 Megawatts and massive blackouts followed suit. By 2018, Load shedding, power blackouts, and brownouts had become a part of daily life in Pakistan with shortage peaking at 9000 Megawatts. Responding to the energy crisis, Pakistan's air conditioner market became 80% DC Inverter and 20% Fixed Speed while the international market stood at 60% DC Inverter and 40% Fixed Speed. The DC Inverter Air Conditioners are generally 40% to 50% more expensive than their Fixed Speed counterparts. People wanted to know if they were getting value for money while investing in DC Inverters.
Last year (2019) has been generally marred by the economic crisis that caused Year-on-Year inflation in Pakistan to reach 12.3%. Adding fuel to fire, Pakistan was forced to increase electricity prices multiple times during the year due to IMF program requirements. Pakistan's air conditioner market became 96% DC Inverter and 4% Fixed Speed by the summer of 2019.
The vision behind the Mavris IoT platform from day one was always to provide our customers with REAL value using the 4th Industrial Revolution technologies. The feedback from our first customer has always been a guiding star for all the development that has always gone into Mevris. Responding to the deepening energy and economic crisis, Mavris Product Development Team decided to harness the power of artificial intelligence to help our customers reduce their air conditioning costs.
In mid-2018, BlueEast introduced the Predictions feature into the Mevris platform which helped our customers to visualize the relation between thermal comfort and energy consumption. The prediction models behind Mevris Predictions use the energy metering data of individual air conditioners. The insights let people know how much energy and time would it take to reach a certain thermostat temperature set- point at that point of the day with internal and external weather conditions. The predictions created a lot of awareness among energy-conscious air conditioner customers. We started getting a lot of positive feedback from the customers as they began realizing energy savings by sensible use of the air conditioners.
In 2018 Engineering Team experimented with the implementation of energy-saving as a service at one of the leading multinational banks with nationwide branches across Pakistan. The implementation was aimed to achieve at least a 20% electricity bill reduction across the nationwide bank branches. The team out-performed itself and achieved savings north of 43% in some branches. The data gathered from the implementation at banks became the basis of our next innovation. At the beginning of 2019, BlueEast Engineering Team embarked on a very ambitious and one-of-a-kind Artificial Intelligence-based energy-saving algorithm. We named it Mevris Autopilot. Just like the several fitness-cardio programs on an advanced treadmill at gyms which focus on different aspects ranging from endurance building to weight loss to fat loss. Mevris Autopilot gives our customers to make automatic Ai-based trade-offs between comfort, convenience, energy savings, and resource management depending on the specific situation and needs of a particular air conditioner installation.
At the beginning of every new year, the data science team at BlueEast generates insightful analytics on Mevris platform performance as well as the impact made on the daily lives of our customers during the last year. Naturally, this time we were all anxious to find out how our Autopilot performed! Mevris Customers have reduced their monthly air-conditioning energy consumption to 81 KWh (July 2019) from 390 KWh (July 2018). That is a 79% reduction reported from the raw anonymous data sample. A deeper inspection reveals that Mevris Customers also optimized their air conditioning run-time from 146 hours (July 2018) to 119 hours (July 2019). This indicates a reduction of air- conditioning usage by 18%. Accounting for reduced run-time of air conditioners, July of 2018 saw an average power demand of 2.67KW while it got reduced to 0.68KW in July of 2019. Thus, the adjusted energy consumption reduction stands at 75%. Commenting while reviewing the Mevris Autopilot performance, Mr. Abdul Rehman Talat, Charman and CEO of BlueEast said, "Mevris platform is living up to its promise of educating and helping the consumers in optimal-way of using their air-conditioners while ensuring comfort as well as energy savings".
This success story started with our first customer who ignored everyone in his home and started playing with Mevris App as soon as his air conditioner became online on the Mevris platform. We observed he was attracted to the insights and visualizations that Mevris provided. Apart from analytics and data visualization, Mevris also provides online control on the go along with the timeline of activities and events taking place on the smart air conditioner. Asad Bukhari, Head of Marketing Operations at Orient Electronics also simplified this mechanism of Mevris: "The energy metering information available for our Ultron Series DC Inverter Air-conditioner is similar to the ECO mode indicator in modern cars that let drivers know if they are pressing the accelerator pedal in an optimum way."
Our customers are now more confident and enlightened regarding their air conditioning usage than those who haven't installed the Mevris App. Most of the consumers in the past used to set their thermostats at 16C. which is, in fact, neither achievable nor comfortable. So, the air conditioners, despite being DC inverters, kept running at max-power to achieve this impractical temperature. Consequently, making their electricity bills escalate. Now with the proper knowledge and artificial intelligence of Mevris comfort and energy savings are both are balanced.
With this experience of successful implementation of Artificial Intelligence in solving REAL-LIFE problems, We at BlueEast plan to launch a complete ecosystem of IoT solutions in both Smart Home and Industrial applications in 2020. The solutions will focus on providing a world-class experience to our customers while focusing on localized unique problems.
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