For the California primary, Donald Trump has selected several people to represent him as delegates. One of those delegates is William Johnson, a famous white nationalist Trump was forced to disavow in January over a series of racist robocalls. But that was then and this is now: "I can be a white nationalist and be a strong supporter of Donald Trump and be a good example to everybody," Johnson assures Mother Jones.
"I just hope to show how I can be mainstream and have these views," Johnson said in an interview with the website.
It seems Johnson's hard work so far this campaign has finally paid off—until now the most he could get was a winking disavowal from the candidate. In January, his robocalls rallying other racists, "Don't vote for a Cuban. Vote for Donald Trump," earned him a nod from Donald himself, who explained to CNN's Erin Burnett that while he had to disavow the calls, he understood why people would feel that way.
"He disavowed us, but he explained why there is so much anger in America that I couldn't have asked for a better approach from him," Johnson said at the time.
Incredibly, the Trump campaign has not returned a request for comment.


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Wildlife Estates Scotland (WES) accredited Greenlawdean Farm, located just to the north of Greenlaw village in Berwickshire, extends to 426 hectares of arable ground, woodland and pasture. Arable farming on Greenlawdean plays an important part in generating the income to facilitate habitat and species management.
The key game and wildlife management objectives on which Greenlawdean was originally accredited included:
• The provision of mixed woodland, cover crop and open ground habitat to maintain a suitable environment for a variety of bird and mammal species;
• The management of a conservation-based shoot, alternating between released and wild game bird management to ensure an extensive approach that respects habitat, avoids over-stocking and creates benefits for a wide range of mammal and bird species;
• Management of the local Roe Deer population to minimise damage to growing crops and trees whilst retaining their presence as an asset to the Farm;
• Ensuring that game and wildlife management is fully integrated with the farming enterprise.
The conservation work on Greenlawdean is focused chiefly on habitat management through woodland management, the cultivation of cover crops and 3/6-metre grass margins round arable fields.
The main areas of woodland comprise mainly Sitka and Norway Spruce, Larch and Scots Pine, with the edges of these blocks being planted up with mixed species including Birch, Oak, Rowan, Alder and shrubs. This overall mix benefits a wide range of bird, mammal species and insect species.
There is a substantial network of hedgerows around fields, made up of Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Beech, Dog Rose and some fruiting bushes. Some of the hedges were first laid down over 150 years ago, whilst new hedges have been recently planted with SRDP funding support. These are vitally important as shelters, nesting sites and wildlife corridors, linking areas of woodland and habitat together. The grass margins are retained around arable fields, again providing wildlife corridors, cover, seed-heads and habitat for insects, birds and mammals. Arable stubbles are maintained well into the year following harvest, affording a further benefit to birds.
Based on this work and continuing good practice into the future, Greenlawdean has recently been successful in securing funding under the Agri-Environment Climate (AECS) Scheme, which will help to maintain environmental stewardship well into the future. Further, Greenlawdean was highly commended under the Quality Woodlands category awarded by Scotland's Finest Woods at the Royal Highland Show in June of 2016.
Close to the village of Greenlaw, the farm has a number of tracks that the local community is encouraged to use. Open days are held on the farm, with particular emphasis on support for disabled children. Owners Peter and Jenny Leggate are dedicated supporters of Riding for the Disabled, with regular events held on Greenlawdean. They have now gone further and combined education with conservation by organising the construction and installation of bird boxes on the farm in conjunction with Greenlaw Primary School. This has proved very popular with the children and looks set to keep them coming back to check on progress!
Ross Macleod of Wildlife Estates Scotland said: "The original award to Peter, Jenny and the team at Greenlawdean was thoroughly deserved in recognition of the outstanding work they carried out to balance the needs of a working farm with fantastic efforts on forestry, wildlife, habitat conservation, sporting management and community engagement. That they have continued to focus on best practice with a successful application to the AECS scheme, their award for managing sustainable woodland and using the farm as a platform to demonstrate practical conservation to the pupils at their local primary school show that Jenny and Peter have not rested on their WES accreditation laurels."
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Technology to improve accuracy of ovarian cancer diagnosis
Tampa, FL – Moffitt Cancer Center and Frantz BioMarkers, LLC have signed a license agreement on phospholipid biomarkers of ovarian cancer. Frantz BioMarkers, which has been granted exclusive worldwide rights to Moffitt's interests in the biomarkers, will pay initiation, developmental milestone and license maintenance fees, and royalties on sales. Moffitt and Frantz BioMarkers will collaborate on ovarian cancer biomarker research, combining use of these licensed markers with lipid markers developed independently by Frantz BioMarkers.
Each year, 26,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and 16,000 die of the disease. There is no effective screening tool or method for accurate diagnosis without surgery. Even among symptomatic women, surgery is the only reliable way to distinguish between benign and malignant disease. It is estimated that up to 5 percent of women in the United States will undergo surgery for a suspected ovarian neoplasm. More than two-thirds of women undergoing surgery for suspected ovarian malignancy do not have cancer.
The only clinical blood biomarker available for diagnosis is CA125, which is unreliable, especially for accurate diagnosis at an early stage when a cure is feasible. Researchers at Moffitt and Frantz BioMarkers discovered that when CA125 is combined with selected phospholipids, the diagnostic accuracy for early stage ovarian cancer can significantly improve. More than 2,200 women donated blood samples for the research through the Tampa Bay Ovarian Cancer Coalition, a collaborative regional network. Frantz BioMarkers is developing these biomarkers into a clinical diagnostic test.
Co-inventors of the technology are Dr. Rebecca Sutphen, director of Clinical Genetics at Moffitt, and Lorelei Davis, Ph.D., and Lian Shan, Ph.D., of Frantz BioMarkers.
About H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Located in Tampa, Florida, Moffitt Cancer Center is the only Florida-based cancer center with the NCI designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center for its excellence in research and contributions to clinical trials, prevention and cancer control. Moffitt currently has 15 affiliates in Florida, one in Georgia and two in Puerto Rico. Additionally, Moffitt is a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, a prestigious alliance of the country's leading cancer centers, and is listed in U.S. News & World Report as one of "America's Best Hospitals" for cancer. Moffitt's sole mission is to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.
About Frantz BioMarkers, LLC
Located in Mentor, Ohio, Frantz BioMarkers, LLC is a member of Frantz Medical Group, a family of companies that has been developing novel medical products since 1979.
About the Tampa Bay Ovarian Cancer Coalition
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Late style in art may be the visual expression of what it feels like to face the end—or it may be nothing more than a critic's fantasy, a by-product of our hunger for narrative closure.
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The poet Heather Christle's book, which is built of fragments of varying lengths, examines the science, sociology, and history of weeping.
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She had other, better things to do than worry about the eternal problem of the boys' clubhouse—and anyway, she was smarter, so there.
Darryl Pinckney's Intimate Study of Black History
For decades, Pinckney has shown us what's invented and what endures.
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Amos Oz and the Politics of the Hebrew Language
The novelist delighted in Hebrew's expanding resonances, but he was also alive to the ways in which language can be abused.
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Everything made by human hands is a thing. That is the only general definition I will allow myself.
The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge
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What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics
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2015 – 013 The Rotherham Common Purpose Effect
Posted on 6 February, 2015 | 1 Comment
The Rotherham Common Purpose Effect
By blurring the boundaries between people, professions, public and private sectors, responsibility and accountability, Common Purpose encourages "graduates" to believe that as new selected leaders, they can work together, outside of the established political and social structures, to achieve a paradigm shift or CHANGE – so called "Leading Beyond Authority". In doing so, the allegiance of the individual becomes 're-framed' on CP colleagues and their NETWORK. Is it any wonder the local authority is "not fit for purpose" in the latest official report?
Article | February 4, 2015 – 3:05pm | By Martin Edwards
In the May 2013 edition of the UK Column, we published an in depth article discussing the report which resulted from the 31 month Public Inquiry into unnecessary deaths at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust (The NHS Common Purpose: Towards a Million Change Agents).
When presenting his findings Robert Francis QC told his audience:
This is a story of appalling and unnecessary suffering of hundreds of people. They were failed by a system which ignored the warning signs, and put corporate self-interest and cost control ahead of patients and their safety.
Francis claimed there was a lack of care, compassion, humanity and that the most basic standards of care and fundamental rights to patient dignity had not been respected. He also claimed that there was a lack of leadership. Amongst the report's recommendations were that an NHS leadership college should be set up so that managers can share best practice.
One of the four inquiry assessors was Sir Cyril Chantler. Chantler is also on the Board of the Media Standards Trust where he has been sitting alongside Sir David Bell (Common Purpose and an assessor at the Leveson enquiry) and Julia Middleton CEO, Common Purpose.
Chantler was Chairman of the Kings Fund London from 2004 until 2010. According to the Kings Fund website they have been 'developing confident, able and imaginative leaders within the NHS for more than 30 years. Now, more than ever, the NHS needs the right leaders at all levels, who are prepared to drive improvements and inspire change at a time of enormous financial challenge'.
Common Purpose NHS leadership training wasn't mentioned even once in the three volume Francis report. UK Column researchers uncovered the fact that East Midlands Leadership Academy, delivered in partnership with Common Purpose and the Kings Fund, had been delivering training to many NHS personnel.
We also uncovered many examples of external executive coaching organisations providing NHS training via specialists in Neurolinguistic programming. This included direct evidence of involvement by the organisation NLP life. This organisation includes amongst its trainers Dr. Richard Bandler and stage hypnotist Paul McKenna. Bandler is the Co-Founder of the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
The Francis report highlighted the 'appalling and unnecessary suffering of hundreds of people'. Despite this we have heard of no criminal prosecutions or other sanctions against those responsible and shortly after the scandal was publicised it was reported that Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust was to be dissolved. Would we be cynical to assume that this move is designed to frustrate any civil claims for damages due to negligence, we wonder?
The ongoing scandal concerning the industrial scale of abuse of young children in Rotherham provided us with an opportunity to bring into sharp public focus any networks of Common Purpose operatives found within the strategic partnerships made up of various public sector organisations in Rotherham and the wider geographical area.
The 159 page Jay report 'Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham 1997 – 2013' makes more than uncomfortable reading. A flavour can be obtained from the following extracts from the Executive Summary of that report:
• Our conservative estimate is that approximately 1400 children were sexually exploited over the full Inquiry period, from 1997 to 2013.
• They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated. There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators.
• Over the first twelve years covered by this Inquiry, the collective failures of political and officer leadership were blatant.
• The Police gave no priority to CSE, regarding many child victims with contempt and failing to act on their abuse as a crime. Further stark evidence came in 2002, 2003 and 2006 with three reports known to the Police and the Council, which could not have been clearer in their description of the situation in Rotherham. The first of these reports was effectively suppressed and the others were ignored and no action was taken to deal with the issues that were identified in them.
• Seminars for elected members and senior officers in 2004-05 presented the abuse in the most explicit terms.
The remainder of the Jay report is equally damning. For 16 years, not only did the police and social services turn a blind eye, sometimes the police even harassed those who were whistleblowers.
Is there a provable behind the scenes connection between those leading South Yorkshire Police and Rotherham MBC Officers?
David "more concerned with reputation than catching abusers" Compton: Chief Constable, South Yorkshire Police (2012–Present). Whilst Assistant Chief Constable, West Yorkshire Police, Compton Graduated as a Common Purpose Matrix Graduate (1994).
Robert Dyson QPM: Temporary Chief Constable prior to the appointment of David Compton. Deputy Chief Constable, South Yorkshire Police (2007 -2012). Is currently the Independent Chair of Barnsley Safeguarding Children Board. Dyson became a Common Purpose Matrix Graduate in 2002 and is a member of Common Purpose Sheffield City Region Group.
Martin "no council officers will face disciplinary action" Kimber: Chief Executive, Rotherham MBC (2009 – present). Kimber recently declared to MPs that child sex abuse files were "missing from the council archive". Whilst Head of Service, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council in 1992 Kimber became a Common Purpose Matrix Graduate.
Is there evidence of CP involvement with strategic partnerships?
Carole Haywood: Manager for the Rotherham Local Strategic Partnership (December 2008 – Present) and Policy lead for Rotherham Council. Working collaboratively with Rotherham's Strategic partners to look for locally led solutions to issues that impact on Rotherham's people and communities. Haywood is also a member of Common Purpose Sheffield City Region Group.
Joyce Thacker: former strategic director of children and young people's services at Rotherham MBC. She was a project advisor for a pilot programme run by Common Purpose that was concerned with community cohesion and diversity issues in West Yorkshire. Thacker was until recently a member of the Health & Wellbeing Board where she sat alongside Martin Kimber, COE Rotherham MBC (Common Purpose), Janet Wheatley, CEO Voluntary Action Rotherham (Common Purpose) and Carol Stubley, Director of Finance, South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw Area Team, NHS England (Common Purpose).
In the Health & Wellbeing Board Register of Members interests, dated 15th May 2013, Joyce Thacker failed to declare any interests with Common Purpose.
Zaidah Ahmed: Community Cohesion Manager. According to LinkEdin Zaidah's current role is to "provide strategic leadership across the School Effectiveness Service (SES) and within Children & Young People's Services (CYPS) of the programmes to develop community cohesion in the school system". According to the website of the Yorkshire and Humber Improvement and Efficiency Partnership 'Common Purpose had been commissioned to deliver the Get Connected Leadership Programme. Included is Zaidah Ahmed who describes herself as "managing a multi agency team comprising of social workers, educationalist and Health professionals to deliver a fully integrated service for children, young people and families. She is also a qualified Teacher, Counsellor, Youth Worker, Careers and connexions Advisor … Zaidah qualified as a Magistrate (JP) in 2007. She is also a Common Purpose graduate.
Councillor Mahroof Hussain: a Labour councillor in Rotherham, South Yorkshire since 2002. He is currently Cabinet Member for Cohesion. Mahroof was appointed as a Magistrate to the Rotherham Bench in 2001. He is a graduate of the IDeA Leadership Academy, Common Purpose Programme and the next Generation of Leaders in Local Government programme run by the Westminster Leadership Academy. Hussain is a member of the Rotherham Partnership Board and the Local Government Yorkshire and the Humber – Local Authority Commission on Asylum and Migration (Migration Yorkshire).
With two Common Purpose graduates involved with Community Cohesion in Rotherham would we be cynical to believe that the 'race card' has been deliberately deployed in order to deflect attention from the true systemic problem which appears to revolve around the Common Purpose controlled local networks?
Common Purpose Paedophiles
What would the following historical cases of Frank Sheenan, James Rennie and Mathew Byrne suggest to the hypothetical reasonable man on the Clapham Omnibus?
Frank Sheenan: In 2008 Chief Fire Officer for West Midlands Fire Service resigned from his post with immediate effect. He had been arrested on suspicion of making indecent images of children. In 2009 Frank Sheenan received a formal caution and was placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for two years after the Crown Prosecution Service deemed it was 'not in the public interest' to charge him. Frank Sheehan was a Common Purpose 20:20 graduate 1998
James Rennie was the successful chief executive of LGBT Youth Scotland, an organisation dedicated to helping young gay people. A former secondary school teacher, he regularly spoke out in public on gay issues, particularly how they affected young people. But the High Court in Edinburgh heard he was "polluted by deviant compulsion". He was charged and ultimately convicted of molesting a child over a number of years, starting at the age of three months. Rennie was a Common Purpose Matrix Graduate 2003.
Mathew Byrne, a Children's charity boss, admitted a string of sadistic sex attacks on prostitutes in a 'torture chamber bedroom' in 2010. He made his victims dress up as young schoolgirls before carrying out horrific sex assaults on them at his Wirral home. Byrne also admitted four charges of making indecent images of children. In 2008 the charity boss featured in Liverpool: Sung & Unsung – a collection of photographs featuring "individuals that best represent the city" and "make decisions which affect the whole city". He was one of 86 leading lights in the book and appeared alongside then Merseyside Police chief constable Bernard Hogan Howe, comedian Ken Dodd and Archbishop Patrick Kelly. Byrne was a Common Purpose Advisory Group member and helped select other individuals as suitable for Common Purpose training.
In the adjoining Greater Manchester area, Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy and two detectives have recently been served with criminal and gross misconduct notices by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). The claims against Fahy relate to his alleged support to an allegedly poorly-handled investigation into a suspected sex offender. A detective superintendent and a detective chief inspector have also been served with criminal and gross misconduct notices for their roles in the investigation. Assistant Chief Constable Terry Sweeney, has been served with a gross misconduct notice over allegations GMP secretly disposed of the human remains of Harold Shipman's victims.
It is no surprise to learn that Peter Fahy has appeared in a Common Purpose promotional video "What makes for successful collaboration?" He is also a member of UNCIVPOL- United Nations Civilian Police.
Can the involvement of Common Purpose Graduates in the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust case, the Leveson Inquiry and their presence in the networked strategic partnerships which failed to protect vulnerable children in Rotherham be simply explained as coincidental?
Further revelations of our investigation will be revealed in the Issue 1/2015 edition of the UK Column newspaper.
One response to "2015 – 013 The Rotherham Common Purpose Effect"
Brin | 6 February, 2015 at 1:05 pm | Reply
Got in one, Common Purpose has the moto "To lead beyond authority."
That should make everyone sit up! Without authority any such actions are Bolshevik in nature. Google the Frankfurt School of 1926, this illuminating and one can see many of the successes of those Communist German academics in place today.


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Finmere Landfill: April 2021 update
The Environment Agency have sent me the following update about the ongoing situation at the Finmere Landfill Facility:
We received a large increase in malodour reports associated with Finmere landfill for the 12 and 13 April. As a result our officers attended on the evening of 12 April and substantiated offensive odours which were at a level causing pollution at various locations around Finmere village. We then undertook inspections of the landfill on the 13 and 21 April to investigate these odours.
I can confirm that during the inspection on 13 April our officers identified two sources of malodour. The primary source was found to be the top of Cell 10, with a secondary source found in cell 11. The odours resulting from Cell 10 were from an area of the cell that had yet to be capped. It was noted that the operator was already taking action to address the odours from Cell 11 at the time of the inspection. The operator has been scored for breaches of the permit condition related to odour and management controls, and given a series of additional actions to complete.
A follow-up inspection was conducted on 21 April and a significant improvement was noted with no detectable odour noted around cell 11, and only minor localised odours present on cell 10. Three additional gas extraction wells were being installed on Cell 10 at the time of the inspection. The capping work on Cell 10 is very nearly complete with the final section expected to be in place by the end of this week.
We continue to work with the operator to agree future ways of working on site that will provide measure to help reduce the potential for future off-site odours.
It remains important that you report the odours to us via our incident hotline on 0800 807060 as soon as possible after detection of a malodour. This allows us to target our investigation in real time making it far more likely we can establish a source and take appropriate actions to address the problem. Our own inspections and odour checks only provide a snapshot of the impact this issue is having, your calls ensure we have an accurate record of the extent of the problem.
I trust this provides assurance that we continue to take this matter seriously.
Finmere Landfill Facility
In recent months, I have been contacted about ongoing issues with unpleasant odours originating from the Finmere Landfill Facility. I have been liaising regularly with the operator, Environment Agency and Oxfordshire County Council about the odour and subsequent enforcement action.


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Throughout their career, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings remained in high demand both publicly and privately to recreate and often re-imagine songs by other artists. More often than not, these covers were recorded by request – commissioned for placement in movies, television programs, tribute albums, or for samples. This album compiles some of their most popular as well as never-before-heard renditions.
Though the band has mostly built their career on a prolific catalog of originals, these forays into other artists' compositions lay bare their gift for arrangement and the unmatched studio prowess that earned them their reputation as The Baddest Band in the Land.
A1. Signed Sealed Delivered
A2. Little By Little
A3. Just Dropped In (To See What ...
A4. Here I Am Baby
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module MilestonesHelper
  def milestones_filter_path(opts = {})
    if @project
      namespace_project_milestones_path(@project.namespace, @project, opts)
    elsif @group
      group_milestones_path(@group, opts)
    else
      dashboard_milestones_path(opts)
    end
  end

  def milestones_label_path(opts = {})
    if @project
      namespace_project_issues_path(@project.namespace, @project, opts)
    elsif @group
      issues_group_path(@group, opts)
    else
      issues_dashboard_path(opts)
    end
  end

  def milestones_browse_issuables_path(milestone, type:)
    opts = { milestone_title: milestone.title }

    if @project
      polymorphic_path([@project.namespace.becomes(Namespace), @project, type], opts)
    elsif @group
      polymorphic_url([type, @group], opts)
    else
      polymorphic_url([type, :dashboard], opts)
    end
  end

  def milestone_issues_by_label_count(milestone, label, state:)
    milestone.issues.with_label(label.title).send(state).size
  end

  def milestone_progress_bar(milestone)
    options = {
      class: 'progress-bar progress-bar-success',
      style: "width: #{milestone.percent_complete}%;"
    }

    content_tag :div, class: 'progress' do
      content_tag :div, nil, options
    end
  end

  def projects_milestones_options
    milestones =
      if @project
        @project.milestones
      else
        Milestone.where(project_id: @projects)
      end.active

    epoch = DateTime.parse('1970-01-01')
    grouped_milestones = GlobalMilestone.build_collection(milestones)
    grouped_milestones = grouped_milestones.sort_by { |x| x.due_date.nil? ? epoch : x.due_date }
    grouped_milestones.unshift(Milestone::None)
    grouped_milestones.unshift(Milestone::Any)

    options_from_collection_for_select(grouped_milestones, 'name', 'title', params[:milestone_title])
  end

  def milestone_remaining_days(milestone)
    if milestone.expired?
      content_tag(:strong, 'expired')
    elsif milestone.due_date
      days    = milestone.remaining_days
      content = content_tag(:strong, days)
      content << " #{'day'.pluralize(days)} remaining"
    end
  end
end

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Otto GmbH & Co KG (doing business as Otto Group, stylized as otto group, formerly Otto Versand) is a German mail order company and one of the world's biggest e-commerce companies. Based in Hamburg, it operates in more than twenty countries. Otto is primarily a retail e-commerce company, and as a shareholder, it also operates in e-commerce services. The Otto group has expanded into real estate and financial services.

In France, Otto claims to be the leading e-commerce business through 3 Suisses. In June 2013, Otto executed a full takeover to become its only shareholder.

History
The family of executive board chairman Michael Otto owns the majority of the company. The company is based in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded by Werner Otto in 1949. The first catalogue was hand produced offering twenty eight styles of shoes.

During the 1950s, the product range business volume expanded. Otto introduced telephone orders in 1963, and launched an online shopping website in 1995.

Michael Otto was the former owner of Spiegel, Inc., (the parent company of Eddie Bauer and the former owners of the catalogue Spiegel). It filed for bankruptcy on 17 March 2003.

On 25 May 2005, Spiegel, Inc., emerged from bankruptcy renamed Eddie Bauer Holdings, and was primarily owned by Commerzbank.

Subsidiaries
Individual companies of the Otto Group:
About You
Alba Moda
Baumarkt Direct
Baur
bonprix
Venus Fashion
Crate & Barrel
EOS
Frankonia
Freemans Grattan Holdings
Freemans
Grattan
Look Again
Gifts365.co.uk
Clearance365.co.uk
Witt international UK
Swimwear365.co.uk
Curvissa
bonprix UK
Kaleidoscope/ Acquisition DiLusso.it
Oli
Hanseatic Bank (25%)
Hanseatic Versicherungsdienst
Hansecontrol
Hansecontrol-Cert (49%)
Heine
Hermes Europe
Hermes Parcel Services in Germany, Italy, Austria and Russia
 Hermes UK, rebranded as Evri (25%)
Bombay Company
Küche&Co
Lascana
Limango
Manufactum
Mirapodo
MyToys.de (74.8%)
Yomonda
OFT
OTTO
OTTO Doosan Mail Order
OTTO Group Russia
OTTO Japan
Eddie Bauer Japan
OTTO Office (verkauft an Printus im Jahr 2015)
Otto International
Phi-t products & services (50%)
RatePay
Schwab
Shopping24
Smatch.com
3 Suisses International Group
Cofidis (49%)
Venca
Witt Weiden
Witt-Group
Witt International UK
Fegro/Selgros

References

External links

Suisses International Group

Companies based in Hamburg
Retail companies established in 1949
Mail-order retailers
German brands
Online retailers of Germany
Otto family
German companies established in 1949

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I would love to watch this again. It is unusual on SO many levels!
A movie where the spoilers tell you how it begins.
In my top 10-ish list (if not 5-ish).
First saw this on the strength of Moss's then-recent role as Trinity in 'The Matrix' and hate-liking* Guy Pierce for some reason it exceeded my expectations.
Shortly after seeing this, I came across a remixed version which re-edited the scenes so that everything was in forward chronological order and it amped the pathos up to 11 from the original 10.
Ultimately, it's a supremely tragic story for me because the underlying injustice/ anger can never be slaked, and every relief from pain (from enacting revenge) is short lived and never remembered.
One of those rare movies that is so much more than its central gimmick. Very rewatch able.
IIRC this was an alternate version featured on a DVD release? (Having checked Wikipedia it was only on the UK DVD).
Supposedly, on the release that I have (in the US), if you complete the psychiatric exam by selecting the right objects in the right order, the chronological version is unlocked. I've never tested it.
Interesting about the re-edit, I'd read that it ruined the drama and effect of the story. But doubt I could ever pass that test, so moot.
I have the (US) DVD version with the psych evaluation! That's the whole UI and it's pretty weird. "How does this picture make you feel?" "Nervous." "Ok, here's the director's commentary!" There's one where they ask you to arrange a series of pictures in chronological order. If you do it backwards, you get to watch the movie chronologically. That also means all the black and white segments in the hotel room are stitched together, too. It's certainly not as good a movie that way, but it's still quite good.
You know how sometimes really, really smart people have kind of a weird inability to do a particular normal thing, like somehow the smartness took advantage of their mental plasticity and invaded the part of their brain responsible for their sense of direction, or remembering where they left their keys or whatever? Like Sherlock Holmes getting angry because someone told him about the heliocentric model of the solar system, and he thought the information was useless and would take up space in his head?
So, I have a really smart friend who for whatever reason is unable / unwilling to understand flashbacks in movies. She has a PhD, sure, and can do long division in her head and is a front desk violinist, uh huh, but she just doesn't get the narrative convention that when a character says "hey, remember back in 1974, when..." and the screen goes wavy and switches from colour to sepia, and all the actors are wearing clothes from several decades previously and have different hairstyles, that's the director signalling hey guys, now we're in the past relative to when the main story takes place. She just can't follow. Baffled.
Anyway, this is a roundabout way of saying that I made her watch Memento once and she's never forgiven me.
Yeah the UK DVD also has the same easter egg where you can watch the film forwards, but as Sibrax says all the black and white scenes are together, and the pacing is basically dead.
But a very good film in the "right" order. Fun times on a rewatch when you spot the replacement of Sammy with Leonard for a split second, making explicit that this story is how his wife really died.
I hadn't rewatched this movie since it came out.
And I'm amazed at how well it holds up.
The conceit of cutting up a movie like this should make it hard to get into. Unwatchable high art. But it's very engaging even when you don't understand it all yet. Also the philosophical implications (what's the meaning of actions when you don't remember them, ...) aren't ponderous at all.
So much better than Inception.
There's a youtube video of Christopher Nolan explaining the narrative structure of the movie, it's mostly interesting but a little pompous like any creative-type speaking about their art. The wikipedia article also has it diagrammed.
When the movie is stitched together sequentially, what I noticed in the black and white scenes is how effectively the camera work portrays Leonard's psychology. The camera is usually a little too close to Guy Pearce's (his name is spelled wrong in the tags!) face for comfort, he's confined and pacing in the hotel room making you feel like both you and him are trapped in his head. The Sammy Jankis flashbacks are a relief to watch, hinting that this is just a story that Leonard tells himself to feel better. The pacing is killed, but it created an unsettling effect that emphasizes that Leonard is an untrustworthy narrator.


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Why is the snowflake schema a good data warehouse design?
Levene, Mark and Loizou, George (2003) Why is the snowflake schema a good data warehouse design? Information Systems 28 (3), pp. 225-240. ISSN 0306-4379.
levene4.pdf
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4379(02)00021-2
Database design for data warehouses is based on the notion of the snowflake schema and its important special case, the star schema. The snowflake schema represents a dimensional model which is composed of a central fact table and a set of constituent dimension tables which can be further broken up into subdimension tables. We formalise the concept of a snowflake schema in terms of an acyclic database schema whose join tree satisfies certain structural properties. We then define a normal form for snowflake schemas which captures its intuitive meaning with respect to a set of functional and inclusion dependencies. We show that snowflake schemas in this normal form are independent as well as separable when the relation schemas are pairwise incomparable. This implies that relations in the data warehouse can be updated independently of each other as long as referential integrity is maintained. In addition, we show that a data warehouse in snowflake normal form can be queried by joining the relation over the fact table with the relations over its dimension and subdimension tables. We also examine an information-theoretic interpretation of the snowflake schema and show that the redundancy of the primary key of the fact table is zero.
Keyword(s) / Subject(s):
Data warehouse design, Star and snowflake schema, Independent and separable database schema, Acyclic database schema
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Centara marks its debut in Muscat
June 16, 2017	HOTELS, Hotels
Centara Hotels and Resorts continues to expand internationally with the opening of a four-star, 152-room hotel in Muscat — its first of three hotels planned for the Middle East. The Thailand-based hotel operator is also looking at opening properties in Doha later this year and Deira Island in the UAE in 2020.
The Centara Muscat Hotel is ideally located in the Omani capital's bustling Ghala Heights business district, close to the convention centre, Royal Opera House, and the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque. It is conveniently mid-way between the airport and historical district, about 15 minutes from each. The hotel is a modern new building featuring three restaurants, a spa, and a rooftop pool and terrace with views out over the Gulf of Oman. Its premium lounge, banquet and meeting facilities, complimentary Wi-Fi, plus proximity to Muscat's shopping and historical sites, are designed to serve both business and leisure travellers.
Centara is known for combining Thai qualities, such as its service and spa treatments, with Thai and international cuisine. The new Muscat hotel follows this blueprint. Akdeniz, an authentic Turkish restaurant, features fine coffees, Middle Eastern snacks and mezzes, plus meats and fresh fish seared on a traditional Ocakbasi Grill. Tip-tara restaurant serves Thai dishes and international choices, while The Roof offers a relaxed venue for barbeques and private events. Centara's signature SPA Cenvaree offers a variety of therapies and treatments, plus Thai herbal spa products. The rooftop pool is complemented by a children's pool and fitness centre.
Generously appointed rooms and suites feature large windows that frame the city streets. Premium Club rooms come with extra benefits, including access to the top-floor lounge where three meals are served daily. Club Suites offer comfortable living rooms, ideal for couples, small families or business travellers who want extra space to relax.
The hotel's 237-squaremetre banquet hall is large enough to accommodate cocktail receptions of 280 people. Three smaller venues include a boardroom which can be adjusted to fit a range of uses. Another conference room, along with the pleasant rooftop terrace, can accommodate up to 80 people – ideal for an evening event, with the Gulf of Oman as a glittering backdrop.
Thirayuth Chirathivat, Chief Executive Officer, Centara Hotels & Resorts, said, "Introducing Thai hospitality culture for the first time to this historic crossroads between East and West is an exciting opportunity. We believe a thoughtfully-designed, modern facility in this ideal location will be a welcome addition to Muscat, whether you are here on business or vacation."
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During the two-day meeting, the group will discuss the overall state of preparations by Ictimai TV, look into various venues that can host the three pan-European live television broadcasts and go over several regulatory details that are up for improvement.
A highlight prior to this first meeting in the country's capital is the handover of essential guarantee documents requested from the Azeri government by the European Broadcasting Union.
These cover security guarantees, full commitment to a convenient visa policy for the thousands of foreign guests that will travel to Azerbaijan, and freedom of speech and -press in accordance with the European Convention of Human Rights for all those who will visit the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in May as delegates, crew, press and fans.
"A commitment to these fundamental circumstances has been the cornerstone of the success of the Eurovision Song Contest since its foundation in 1956," says Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling, Chairman of the Reference Group, adding that "2012 is no exception to that."
The Reference Group consists of a Chairman, the Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of the EBU, this year's Executive Producer on behalf of Ictimai TV, the Executive Producer of the previous edition and four elected members, who represent the participating broadcasters.
The body meets four to five times a year to evaluate the progress of preparations and to take strategic decisions about the contest.
The Final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest is scheduled to take place on 26 May, two Semi-Finals are set for 22 and 24 May. Some 40 nations are expected to be represented, of which several have already started their search for a potential winner.
Baku 2012: Light your fire!
Reference Group "confident in Baku organisation"


We did not get stuck in Kalamazoo, we got out of Chicago, and we got across the Bay Bridge for our first concert of the Bay Area series at the Oakland Cathedral of Christ the Light. This year we started at 6pm, which meant that we arrived while the light was stil shining through the dramatic representation of Christ which is not visible in the dark. Full house full of friendly faces - a great welcome home.


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Service matter – VRS scheme 2000 – Pension Who completed 20 years of service are entitled to the benefit of Regulation 29 by the date of VRS – Regulations 28 , 29 and Regulation 18 of the Pension Regulations, 1995 – High court relying on earlier DB bench judgement of Punjab National Bank dismissed the writ petition as the employees who took voluntary service not completed the requisite period for granting pension – basing on that judgment Bank filed this appeal – Apex court held that Regulation 18 of the Pension Regulations, 1995 provides that if broken period is more than six months, it shall be treated as one year. Therefore, all the respondents-writ petitioners having completed more than 19 years and 6 months of service in the Bank, they are to be treated to have completed 20 years of service. The aforesaid question was neither raised nor decided in the case of 'Bank of Baroda' or 'Bank of India'. In view of the aforesaid fact, the appellant-Bank cannot derive the benefit of the decision of this Court in Bank of Baroda as the employees who were parties before the Court in the said case had not completed 20 years of service. As per the decision of this Court in Bank of India, the respondents-writ petitioners having completed 20 years of service are entitled to the benefit of Regulation 29.In view of the finding recorded above, the appeals do not have merit in reference with the impugned judgment,they are, accordingly, dismissed. No costs. = STATE OF BANK OF PATIALA … APPELLANT VERSUS PRITAM SINGH BEDI & ORS. … RESPONDENTS = 2014 – July. Part – http://judis.nic.in/supremecourt/filename=41751
Posted by advocatemmmohan ⋅ July 28, 2014
Filed Under Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, Pension Regulations, punjab national bank
Service matter – VRS scheme 2000 – Pension Who completed 20 years of service are entitled to the benefit of Regulation 29 by the date of VRS – Regulations 28 , 29 and Regulation 18 of the Pension Regulations, 1995 – High court relying on earlier DB bench judgement of Punjab National Bank dismissed the writ petition as the employees who took voluntary service not completed the requisite period for granting pension – basing on that judgment Bank filed this appeal – Apex court held that Regulation 18 of the Pension Regulations, 1995 provides that if broken period is more than six months, it shall be treated as one year. Therefore, all the respondents-writ petitioners having completed more than 19 years and 6 months of service in the Bank, they are to be treated to have completed 20 years of service. The aforesaid question was neither raised nor decided in the case of 'Bank of Baroda' or 'Bank of India'. In view of the aforesaid fact, the appellant-Bank cannot derive the benefit of the decision of this Court in Bank of Baroda as the employees who were parties before the Court in the said case had not completed 20 years of service. As per the decision of this Court in Bank of India, the respondents-writ petitioners having completed 20 years of service are entitled to the benefit of Regulation 29.In view of the finding recorded above, the appeals do not have merit in reference with the impugned judgment,they are, accordingly, dismissed. No costs. =
A number of employees who were allowed to retire from the Bank
pursuant to scheme called State Bank of Patiala Voluntary Retirement
Scheme, 2000(herein after referred to as the "Scheme") introduced by
Circular dated 20th January, 2001, and had completed more than 19 and ½
years of service, in whose favour pension was not released by the Bank in
accordance with the State Bank of Patiala (Employees) Pension Regulations,
1995 (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations, 1995"). They moved
before the High Court for direction to the Bank and its authorities to
release pension in their favour in accordance with the Scheme. =
The High Court by the impugned judgment referring to earlier Division
Bench decision of the High Court in Dharam Pal Singh v. Punjab National
Bank, 2008 (1) PLR 745 held that the pension was payable under Regulation
28 and that Regulation 29 will not apply.
The Division Bench of the High Court further held as follows:
"12. A perusal of the Regulation 28 shows that on attaining the
age of superannuation specified in Regulations or settlements
pension is payable. The age of superannuation has been laid down
in Service Regulations which is said to be 60 years now and
earlier it was 58 years. But under the Voluntary Retirement
Scheme, which according to the writ petitioners will be at par
with Settlement, the requirement is 15 years of service or 40
years of age, which admittedly the writ petitioners had. Under
Regulation 32 of the pension is payable on premature retirement
on account of orders of the Bank if the employee was otherwise
entitled to pension/superannuation on that day. Read with
Regulations 14 and 28, the said age is 10 years and if read with
the Scheme, it is 15 years of age or 40 years of service and in
either case the employees were covered by the pension scheme.
The Hon'ble Supreme Court held that Regulation 29 relating to
voluntary retirement was not applicable. Thus, contention on
behalf of the Bank that Regulation 29 applied and therefore,
pension payable only after 20 years service cannot be accepted."=
Apex court held that
The respondents completed more than 10 years of service in the Bank
on the date of retirement; therefore, they fulfill the requirement of
qualifying service as per Regulation 14.
23. It has not been disputed by appellant-Bank that the respondents in
all the appeals have completed much more than 19 years 6 months of service
in the Bank. For example, respondent No.1-Prakash Chand in C.A. No.173 of
2010 had joined the Bank on 4th May, 1981 and relieved on 31st March, 2001.
Thus, he had completed 19 years, 10 months and 28 days of qualifying
service on the date of relieving from service.
24. Regulation 18 of the Pension Regulations, 1995 provides that if
broken period is more than six months, it shall be treated as one year.
Therefore, all the respondents-writ petitioners having completed more than
19 years and 6 months of service in the Bank, they are to be treated to
have completed 20 years of service. The aforesaid question was neither
raised nor decided in the case of 'Bank of Baroda' or 'Bank of India'.
25. In view of the aforesaid fact, the appellant-Bank cannot derive the
benefit of the decision of this Court in Bank of Baroda as the employees
who were parties before the Court in the said case had not completed 20
years of service. As per the decision of this Court in Bank of India, the
respondents-writ petitioners having completed 20 years of service are
entitled to the benefit of Regulation 29.
26. In view of the finding recorded above, the appeals do not have merit
in reference with the impugned judgment,they are, accordingly, dismissed.
No costs.
2014 – July. Part – http://judis.nic.in/supremecourt/filename=41751
« Sec.226,227 and 228 of Cr.P.C.- one out of 3 no charge sheet was filed under sec.302 I.P.C. – but committal court famed charge under sec.302 of I.P.C against this accused too – challanged – high court dismissed the writ for quashing – Apex court held that In this case, it is not alleged that the Sessions Judge has not followed Sections 226 and 227 Cr.P.C before framing the charge. Further, it is not the case of the appellant that the court has not given him hearing at the stage of discharge u/s 227 Cr.P.C. For framing of charge u/s 228, the judge is not required to record detail reasons as to why such charge is framed. On perusal of record and hearing the parties at the stage of discharge u/s 227 Cr.P.C. if the Judge is of opinion that there is ground for presuming that the accused has committed an offence, he is competent to frame charge for such offence even if not mentioned in the charge sheet. We find no merit in this appeal.= DINESH TIWARI … APPELLANT Versus STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ANR. … RESPONDENTS = 2014 – July. Part – http://judis.nic.in/supremecourt/filename=41750
Sec.138 and sec.141 of N.I. Act – Whether the complaint against the accused alone maintainable leaving the company set free -NO – High court quashed the summons issued against the company by trial court and confirmed the summons issued against the appellant – Apex court held that for maintaining the prosecution under Section 141 of the Act, arraigning of a company as an accused is imperative. The other categories of offenders can only be brought in the drag-net on the touchstone of vicarious liability as the same has been stipulated in the provision itself. We say so on the basis of the ratio laid down in C.V. Parekh17 which is a three-Judge Bench decision. Thus, the view expressed in Sheoratan Agarwal does not correctly lay down the law and, accordingly, is hereby overruled. The decision in Anil Hada is overruled with the qualifier as stated in para 51. The decision in Modi Distillery has to be treated to be restricted to its own facts as has been explained by us hereinabove." In the present case, the High Court by impugned judgment dated 13th August, 2007 held that the complaint against respondent no.2-Company was not maintainable and quashed the summon issued by the Trial Court against respondent no.2-Company. Thereby, the Company being not a party to the proceedings under Section 138 read with Section 141 of the Act and in view of the fact that part of the judgment referred to by the High Court in Anil Hada (supra) has been overruled by three Judge Bench of this Court in Aneeta Hada (supra), we have no other option but to set aside the rest part of the impugned judgment whereby the High Court held that the proceedings against the appellant can be continued even in absence of the Company. We, accordingly, set aside that part of the impugned judgment dated 13th August, 2007 passed by the High Court so far it relates to appellant and quash the summon and proceeding pursuant to complaint case No.698 of 2001 qua the appellant.The appeal is allowed with aforesaid observation.=Anil Gupta … APPELLANT VERSUS Star India Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. … RESPONDENTS = 2014 – July. Part – http://judis.nic.in/supremecourt/filename=41752 »


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Rosewill Hercules 1600 W Review
on Aug 27th, 2013 ,
Manufacturer: Rosewill
We would like to thank Rosewill for supplying the review sample.
Rosewill continues to impress us with their top-quality, high-performance products, and we now have the honor of being the first to test their top-of-the-line Hercules-1600. Its name, Hercules, references the ancient Greek hero, which definitely makes sense because it is one of the strongest PSUs on the market today. This beast can deliver 1600 W at even 50°C! 130 amperes of power, a crazily high current output, allows it to simultaneously feed multiple high-end VGAs, highly overclocked CPUs, and the rest of the bundle (pumps, fans, HDDs, lights, etc.) with ease. Surely only very few of you can push the Hercules close to its limits, which is similar to incredibly powerful cars: You know you won't need as much horsepower, but it is nice to know it there.
The Hercules-1600 is not only one of the strongest PSUs on the market, but its length of 243 mm also makes it one of the largest! Only a few cases can accommodate it, which isn't much of a problem since the system it powers will require a large case as well. The Hercules has two +12V rails with unequal power distribution. The first can deliver up to 110 A while the second feeds two EPS connectors and can deliver up to 50 A of power, a sufficient amount for every CPU(s) regardless of its overclock and power consumption. You also have at your disposal sixteen PCIe connectors for your VGAs. However, a problem arises if you have enough money to buy four VGAs as you will still need a special motherboard to install all of them, and even installing four high-end VGAs will leave you with spare PCIe connectors for future upgrades. As you will have noticed by now, everything about this unit is over the top, including its price of $400! But such a price will not intimidate you if you have the right system for such a PSU.
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Upstairs at Eric's es el álbum debut del dueto inglés Yazoo, formado por la cantante Alison Moyet y el tecladista Vince Clarke. Fue producido por el ingeniero Eric Radcliffe y el dúo con asistencia de Daniel Miller, y publicado en 1982 en formato de disco de vinilo; para 1983 se publicó en CD en Francia, y desde 1986 se encontró disponible en formato digital en todo el mundo. Este álbum alcanzó el segundo puesto en el ranking británico.

El álbum sería una pieza influyente para el género de música electrónica en aquella época por su conciliación con el rhythm and blues norteamericano. El título fue tomado de la experiencia del dueto viviendo con Eric Radcliffe durante su grabación.

Listado de canciones
Edición europea en LP

Edición americana en LP
Se cambió uno de los temas por el primer lado B del dueto.

Edición europea en CD

Edición americana en CD

Edición alemana en CD de 1990

Créditos
 voz principal y coros, piano: Alison Moyet
 Sintetizadores, programación y caja de ritmos: Vince Clarke
 coros en I Before E Except After C: la madre de Eric Radcliffe
 coros en In My Room: D.Davis

Dato adicional
El título de la canción I Before E Except After C refiere a un ejercicio nemotécnico de ortografía.

Referencias

Álbumes de Yazoo
Álbumes de 1982
Álbumes en inglés


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The court decided: Oil smuggled by a group of people who violated the United Nations embargo, but justice has held accountable only the transporters
On September 12, 2022, the vessel "Queen Majeda", which was transporting for the third time to Albania Marine Gasoil of Libyan origin, was stopped by the Albanian authorities and the crew was accused of "Trading and transporting goods that are contraband". Three months after the vessel's detention, only part of the crew remains behind bars, with no word on whether this is the first time the vessel has breached the United Nations embargo on trading crude oil from Libya, and whether there are other actors involved in this affair. The prosecution in its investigations claims falsification of the documents of origin and transport. The correspondence with letters of order with Libyan authorities has started, while the judicial process has been grounded.
Author: INA Newsroom
Under the flag of Cameroon, on September 12, 2022, around 2:30 p.m., the vessel "Queen Majeda" belonging to the company "Eldawadi Shipping LTD", owned by Nuri Eldawadi, completed the voyage from Libya to Albania, and was getting ready to dock at the port of Porto Romano, announced since 2019, a free port zone. The crew were identified as nine Libyans and one Syrian.
"With ten crew members, the oil tanker belonging to a company "Eldawadi Shipping LTD", which is registered in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, had left Libya with a cargo of 2272.71 tons of oil and arrived at the Albanian coast with the aim of performing customs practices for the Albanian importing entity "Kastrati" sh.a", – is explained in one of the documents of the Durrës prosecutor's office available to INA Media.
Within a few hours, the load of several tons of oil described as "Marine Gasoil 1000 PPM", in other words oil for ships and not for land transport, was seized. The suspicions not only of Albanians but also of foreign agencies, that oil was being smuggled in cooperation towards Albania, at the top of four months, continue to focus only on the crew consisting of nine Libyans and one Syrian.
The same circumstances are mentioned in the court documents, – "It is worth noting that this ship, through "GK Maritime" with representative E.K. had previously announced its intention to anchor in Porto Romano, with a load of oil, in order to sell it to the Albanian entity "Kastrati sh.a." – say the judges, in the decision provided by INA.
Facsimile from the Durrës court decision
An Albanian who represents the Albanian agency that dealt with the procedure for customs clearance of the Libyan ship has also been placed under indictment. Through the press office, the prosecutor Edmond Koloshi, who is processing the investigation file, told INA Media that "The case is under investigation. There is an Albanian citizen under investigation and he is concretely the citizen E.K.".
The prosecutor adds that – "at this moment there are no other Albanian persons or Albanian companies under investigation".
Experts tell Investigative Network Albania that the value of the seized oil is estimated to be 1.5 to 2 million dollars. In the same voice, the expert of the economy, Zef Preci affirms for INA Media that "taking into account the prices of the retail oil market of the period, the amount of contraband captured in mid-September, if it were to be sold into the domestic market, is estimated at about 2 million euros".
Emphasizing the importance of this assessment, a customs official, under the condition of anonymity, stated for INA Media that until the moment of publication of the article, the Customs Directorate has not been notified by the police or the prosecution to penalize the ship "Queen Majeda", that is, the imposition of a fine that would give an official estimate on the actual value of the cargo.
Regarding the seizure procedures and the penalization of suspected smugglers, he emphasizes that, "after the cargo is ascertained, the customs are notified and the goods are evaluated. This penalty was not imposed because no one asked us. When smuggling is detected by anyone, we make a report that goes to the police and everything remains frozen until the debt is paid. But on the other hand, if there is evidence that smuggling is being carried out, it will be waited until it is unloaded, because smuggling presupposes illegal entry" – asserts the official.
However, despite the procedure expressed above by the customs officials, the Albanian authorities have seized the ship, as well as raising charges, in absence of unloading the goods, or even approaching of the ship near the port of Porto Romano.
The case has been referred for investigation by the police against economic-financial crime at the Durrës Prosecutor's Office, for the offense "Smuggling of goods for which excise duty is paid" and "Storage of goods that are contraband" (Articles 172 and 179 of the Criminal Code). Meanwhile, it turns out that the Prosecutor's Office registered the criminal case under the charge of "Trading and transportation of goods that are contraband" (Article 178), which has a margin of punishment in case of proof from 5-10 years in prison.
The ship "Queen Majeda" at port
For this decision of the prosecutor's office, lawyer Isuf Shehu insists that this case should be investigated directly according to Article 171 of the Criminal Code (Smuggling of prohibited or restricted goods) and Article 25 (Meaning of cooperation), since there is talk of prohibited and restricted goods i.e., embargoed goods.
"This is the right charge that had to be raised, because the cargo is prohibited goods according to a resolution of the United Nations Security Council. The basic criterion of the limitation is met, so the charge should have been this", concludes the lawyer's legal explanation for INA Media.
The prosecution has not yet given way to doubts whether this amount of oil was being traded repeatedly, despite the sanctioning of resolutions 2278, 2259, 2213, 2362 of the UN Security Council, based on which involvement in the exploitation and export of illegal crude oil in Libya is prohibited.
When asked by the media about "Queen Majeda", the prime minister replied that he had faith in justice.
"I don't deal with ships, the matter belongs to the justice institutions, the police have done their duty and on the other hand, if the media also does its duty and does not use its power to misinform or attack and impose fines either for state authorities, whether for business facilities, this would be a contribution to make Albania better", – declared the Prime Minister at that time.
What happened on September 12, the suppliers changed their mind, but also the customers
On September 5, 2022, the vessel "Queen Majeda" departs from Benghazi, Libya with a cargo of 2272.71 tons of oil destined for Porto Romano. This ship approached the Albanian coast on the 12th of the same month.
The announcement of the anchoring was communicated to the relevant authorities 24 hours before the arrival of the ship, also by the field agent of the Albanian company "GK Maritime", registered in the Register of Private Entities in 2021. The captain of the Libyan ship, Z.A. , according to the prosecution, sent the ship's documents in photocopied form in advance through the "WhatsApp" platform. But the docking of the ship and the clearance of the oil would not be carried out.
The prosecution insists that when the "Queen Majeda" approached the Albanian coast, on September 12, at 9 am, and the crew was waiting for the captain's announcement to anchor in Porto Romano, the marine police services approached the ship, which accompanied it towards the port of Durrës.
"I got the oil from the Libyan national company Brega, which deals with wholesale fuel sales in Libya. I want to explain that at the moment of arrival in Porto Romano, I communicate with the port master there and he directs me to the pier where I have to unload, and I don't know which operator the cargo is for, since this procedure is handled by the owner of ship" – said in front of the judicial police officers, the captain of the ship Z.A.
Asked by the investigative group about the actions of the ship "Queen Majeda" when it approached the Albanian coast, one of the customs officers involved in this case, states that "The procedure is as follows: the maritime agency makes the announcement 24 hours before the arrival of the ship and bring it to the customs office and log it. In the notification, the data on the loaded goods, the nature of the goods, the port of loading, the ship's flag, the recipient of the goods, the quantity of the goods are given."
"The date and arrival of the ship in Porto Romano is also written in this document. At the moment the ship is docked at the quay, the maritime agent assembles the practice group, which consists of the captaincy, police, customs, doctor and anti-smuggling officers, ISHTI inspector and private surveyor. As a free practical procedure, the samples are taken by the inspector in the presence of the customs to do the quality control and then the inspector makes the seal measurements in the presence of the customs and anti-smuggling officers. and also, the latter take the measurements and the recipient and the sender of the goods are determined" – he adds.
Among those who were questioned at the prosecutor's office, it turns out that the customs officials explained the origin of the oil.
"This document is issued by the chamber of commerce, the respective customs and the refinery where it is produced. In this case, the documents were issued from the terminal named RAS EL MUNGAR, Benghazi".
"In the transport document and the customs declaration, according to the documents, the sender is noted and the receiver is "Kastrati" sh.a., as in the two previous cases. Regarding the goods, this ship has brought "Marine Gasoil" fuel, which is not for free circulation in Albanian territory and is used for supply for ships. I, as a physical customs officer, after doing the paper procedures, send them to the person in charge and after they see the documents and assess whether they are ok or not, the order to unload the ship is given. Then the pipeline is sealed and the unloading is directed to the warehouses that the entity has determined will unload the goods. Before the unloading, the measurements are carried out in the warehouse and then the unloading begins", – closes the testimony, another customs agent, for the investigation group.
However, these actions for customs clearance and unloading of the oil were not carried out, as the parties claim that what happened between land and sea on the morning of September 12 was a "a change of heart" on the price of purchase and sale of the oil.
"Specifically, the notification of the institutions began; captain's office, customs, border police and after waiting, I heard from citizen G.C. who was a representative of the company "Kastrati" that they will not operate with this ship. Seeing the situation, I made the announcements again, for this ship to start the unloading procedures" – the representative of "GK Maritime" testifies for the authorities.
Cargo Arrival Notice Near Porto Romano
But, as the documents prove that the Libyan team announced through the Albanian maritime company "GK Maritime" almost 24 hours before it docked, just as suddenly the crew asked to leave without even arriving at port. The ship with 10 people on board, which had sailed on previous occasions to Porto Romano, and had been sailing to Durrës for almost a week to deliver its third cargo, did not continue the procedures of entering port, where it was supposed to unload the oil cargo, in order to carry out customs practices, but asked to leave immediately.
The investigative group, under conditions of anonymity, insists to Investigative Network Albania that it has questioned all the protagonists of this case.
"Formally, the practices are all in order. We think that the documentation presented by the Libyans is fake, as documentation is all the documentation to carry out a customs practice. Both the buyer and our authorities cannot judge whether they are fake. The cargo certificate contains the name of the captain, the owner of "Alpha Green oil product trading LLC- Dubai" or "Eldwadi Shipping LTD", destined for the client in Porto Romano, Durrës", one of the members of the investigation group told INA Media.
How was "Queen Majeda" discovered?
The court underlines that the Durrës police received information from other law-enforcement bodies about the ship's travel towards Albania, which was expected to be processed in Porto Romano.
"It has been decided that the ship is subject to full control, both in terms of documents and physically. From the ship's documentation, from the cargo manifest, it is established that the amount of oil was loaded in the port of Benghazi, Libya and had requested to be processed for sale in Porto Romano, Durrës" provide in the documents the prosecutor of the case, Edmond Koloshi, who according to the research of Investigative Network Albania, turns out that after the controls in flagrante delicto, issued a seizure order dated September 23, 2022 for the original documents.
Exactly 11 days after the operation where the judicial police examined and received the accompanying documents sent to the Maritime Agency "GK Marine".
The documents signed on September 5 in Benghazi such as the certificate of quality, certificate of origin, certificate of analysis from Ozu Marine Service LTD and Bunker Credit Delivery Note, are considered forgeries according to the prosecution.
Cargo Origin Document
"It is suspected that this quantity of oil is entirely contraband and its accompanying documentation is falsified", confirms the court, supporting the preliminary data of the prosecution. Among the seied documents are also the letters of the agency notified about the anchoring, which includes the port of registration, arrival in Albania, the ship's data, the amount of cargo and the recipient of the goods, in this case the subject "Kastrati" sh.a.
The embargo was violated, but only Libyans are suspected of smuggling
Despite the suspicions that the embargo was violated, in Albania, in addition to the four arrested Z.A. 54 years old, A.A. 43 years old, M.A.A. 25 years old and B.T. 25 years old, suspected of being smugglers, none of the Albanian companies involved in the import, customs clearance and declaration procedures of the oil in question, are suspected or under investigation for the criminal offenses of filed by the Durrës Prosecutor's Office.
Identified as the drivers of the tanker, four people ended up under arrest for smuggling in collaboration, while 6 others, T.B., M.A., A.B., A.E., A.H. and A.K., have been living inside the ship that is stuck in the port of Durrës for four months now, as persons under investigation under own recognizance. After the granting of security measures by the court of first instance, the suspects have not yet appeared before the appeal court, and everything seems to have been stuck on the letters forwarded since November 7, 2022, from official Tirana to Libya.
The lawyer of the arrested Libyans, Aleksandër Ndreraj, contacted by INA Media, says that after representing them only in the court of first instance in Durrës, he was replaced by another defender.
"I was found by their family members and the Libyan embassy, then when I started to translate the documents from Arabic in Tirana, because there is no such translator in Durrës, they asked me to drop the case because they had found others" – he says for Investigative Network Albania.
For the prosecution, the testimony of the captain of the ship clarifies why "Kastrati" sh.a withdrew from the signed contract and why the crew asked to leave Albanian waters immediately. The captain admitted during his testimony, what the documents confirmed, the transportation of oil from Benghazi to Porto Romano, and the abandonment of its sale and purchase.
"We came to Durrës and were waiting to deliver the cargo. Suddenly the owner of the company called us and told us that we will have to wait as the Albanian company had requested a price reduction. They had not agreed on the price, even though the companies had agreed in advance", – says the suspect.
The captain admits that he sailed with the "Queen Majeda" to transport Libyan oil to Albania, also in the months of July and August of 2022.
"This was the third trip," – he testifies.
This statement confirms the prosecution's suspicions that beyond the current load, the ship "Queen Majeda" had sailed to Porto Romano another two more times, on May 8, 2022, with a quantity of 1750 tons of 1000 PPM oil and three months later, on 7 August 2022, with 2235.90 tons of 1000 PPM oil.
Even for these two episodes, the prosecution requests to be informed by the crew whether the documentation submitted by the captain (already under arrest) was issued by the relevant authority or not, or is it a forged document.
"Albania's request is clear", – stated a source at the Ministry of Justice who was committed to giving way to the letter from the Durrës prosecutor's office. "It is requested whether or not the National Oil Corporation in Libya (NOC) has authorized the export of this amount of oil. If the answer is negative, we have a clear case of smuggling in collaboration," the official told INA.
The previous voyages of "Queen Majeda"
From the documents available to Investigative Network Albania, it is noted that the same corporation (NOC), in May 2022, allegedly signaled that the ship "Queen Majeda" (IMO 91178806), had loaded Libyan oil products in Benghazi for illegal export and was headed towards Albanian ports.
INA Media requested a comment from the National Oil Corporation in Libya (NOC) on the situation created and the suspicions raised by the Albanian justice institutions. As of the time of publication of the article, NOC has not responded.
Identified as an oil tanker, the vessel, contracted on previous occasions as well by the Albanian oil import company for transport of "Marine Gasoil 1000 PPM", in one of the previous trips to Albania, had encountered problems with the Italian authorities, on May 25, 2022.
"Queen Majeda" is mentioned in documents of the Guardia di Financa and then by the Naval Operative Section of Reggio Calabria. An Italian pre-trial judge at the time issued a warrant for the preventive seizure of the oil and 13 of the crew's phones. The decision of the Court of Reggio Calabria dated May 30, 2022, came after the notification of the coast guard of Taranto that it suspected the ship "Queen Majeda" of 53 violations of an administrative nature related to the safety of navigation.
"For this reason, it was subject to an administrative seizure, with the ban on resuming the voyage without first carrying out the necessary interventions to solve the critical issues encountered and to secure the transported cargo", say the Italian authorities, in the control actions they carried out with the Coast Guard of Taranto.
Court Judgment of Reggio Calabria
But the Italian authorities ordered the release of the cargo on June 10, to continue its travel towards Albania.
"It turns out that this ship came at least two more times during the June-September period to our country." – claims a customs official for INA Media.
He further explains that in the customs declarations, the ship "Queen Majeda" originating in Libya, appears in 43 customs practices. The customs agencies that have carried out actions in these cases are Celaman in 42 cases and Alushi Trans in one case.
"For the cases of the recipients of the fuel transported by it, this is information of a confidential nature and is covered by the condition of professional secrecy. And for the last case, I cannot answer who the buyer company is, since we do not have the required information, in the conditions where there was no customs declaration and a customs declaration was not completed, which would contain the required data from your side" – the customs official concludes his explanation for INA Media.
Within 2022, the ship "Queen Majeda" has traveled to Albania with cargoes of oil on three different occasions, with the last time being a catalyst for the initiation of an investigation into the possibility of falsification of documents of origin of the cargo and trafficking of crude oil, in violation of UN resolutions.
However, many questions still remain without an answer: Why were the institutions of justice set in motion only after 3 voyages of this ship, when there were doubts about the falsification of documents from previous voyages as well, and in the absence of such suspicions, why an investigation is required only now, on the previous cases, when the first warning about the possibility of cargo trafficking was made in the month of May? Why, after a one-week trip on the part of "Queen Majeda", the latter and the buyer abandon the contract at the last moment? Why did the Prosecutor's Office file charges for smuggling, when no action was taken to clear the goods from "Queen Majeda"? Why did it take 10 days for the case prosecutors to request the original shipping documents? And finally, why up to this moment only the crew of the ship that carried out the transportation of a cargo is indicted, while the shipping order is made by the company itself?
Many questions, which still await clarification, through a process blocked in the Court of Appeal, with 4 people behind bars and 6 others who have been living on board a ship anchored in the Port of Durrës for months.
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