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Posted by Ross Wilkers Magazine on June 1, 2011 in Executive Spotlight, Features | 646 Views
From Millions to Billions
Sitting in a 10th-floor conference room with floor-to-ceiling windows and expansive views of Reston, Ed Casey points to a building just across the street.
"See where it says Serco on that building?" Casey asks, referring to the large letters on the top floor marking Serco's growing territory. "That used to say SI."
Casey is talking about an office building that formerly housed the federal contracting firm SI International — until Casey, now in his fifth year at the helm of Serco, Inc., oversaw the acquisition of the multimillion-dollar information services firm. The "merger of equals," as Casey calls it, doubled the size of Serco, taking it from $600 million in revenues to more than $1 billion.
The acquisition was just one component of a lightning-fast growth strategy for the North American arm of Serco — a publicly traded, U.K.-based provider of professional, technology and management services focused on the federal government. When Casey joined the firm in 2005, his mandate was to grow the company's presence on this side of the pond.
"We were a global leader in our space, but yet had hardly any presence here in North America," Casey says. "The question was, 'How do we take this company and build an important player in North America?'"
The answer? Hire a CEO slash wonder kid known outside of federal contracting circles for growing companies and boosting balance sheets. At Serco, Casey has so far lived up to his head-spinning reputation with two successive acquisitions, first in 2005 with RCI Holding Corporation, one of the main service providers to the Defense Department, and then SI International in 2008.
With these two integrations complete, Casey is once again in search mode. But Casey isn't the kind of CEO who adds companies just to boost the balance sheet.
"I strongly believe to be successful in the acquisition game, you have to spend time developing a strategy," he says. "What are the companies that make sense for you as a company, and are they going to help you grow your business? We have defined acquisition criteria, and we're very disciplined about that.
With RCI and SI International, for example, Serco was able to expand its range of capabilities, now offering services to every branch of the U.S. military, key federal civilian agencies and the intelligence community.
Integration is also key. Even before SI agreed to the acquisition, Casey established a team to prepare for the potential integration."We built the [transition and integration] plan while we were doing our due diligence," he says.
Casey's success didn't go unnoticed by his peers in the industry. "When Ed joined the industry, he did so with a successful, diverse and — when compared with most government service-industry executives — a different experience base," says William C. Hoover, president and CEO of AMERICAN SYSTEMS in Chantilly. "The diversity of his industry experience combined with his open-minded attitude, in my opinion, have been a benefit and differentiator for Ed."
Putting Family First
Casey's acquisition approach may be methodical, but his path to Serco was a bit more circuitous. A graduate of Harvard College and University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, Casey spent the first 25 years of his career in investment banking and the energy sector. His career path took him — and his family — all over the country, from New York to Louisville to Houston.
By the time he settled in San Francisco as a managing partner of The Fremont Group, Bechtel's investment arm, his high school-aged son and daughter announced they wanted to head back east for boarding school.
Casey, in a move not typical of someone working in the competitive corporate world, decided he'd leave his job so his family could be together. Casey and his wife relocated to her hometown of Charlottesville, Va., while the kids attended boarding school in D.C. Casey then spent a year shuttling back and forth from New York and Charlottesville as he transitioned out of The Fremont Group.
"Ultimately, I took a three-year sabbatical," says Casey, who relished the extra time with his family. "I have no regrets because that time I had [with my family], they were really magical years for us. Not many people on the corporate fast track get that opportunity."
During those years, Casey was active as an investor in small businesses. But — still a CEO at heart — the camaraderie and teamwork would eventually bring him back to the corporate sector.
"I call this industry the ultimate team game. This is not about superstars. This is not about a strategic silver bullet. This is not about negotiating a deal or creative financing. This is about building a high-performance team so you're delivering great service every day."
'More Than a Job'
Serco has been yet another chapter in Casey's unfolding career. Working in the federal space, he says, has shown him another slice of the marketplace.
"In this industry, it's more about execution," Casey says. "For me, there is no strategic silver bullet that determines why one company is more successful than another in this space. It's all about providing great service to your customer."
One path to success, Casey says, is by a total commitment to the mission. He cites work on a recent naval contract that had a Serco team readying deployable hospitals. Serco won the contract — beating out an incumbent — right before the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The Serco team immediately rushed to get supplies to the devastated country.
"One of the great feelings in my career, we didn't have to go down and ask our people to work harder — they heard it from the customer and immediately were working 24/7," he said. "Ultimately, we were even able to surprise our Navy customer with how quickly we got those hospitals deployed."
Within 12 days, Serco had assembled 16,000 supplies and set up a 150-bed hospital in Haiti.
"You walk away from that saying, 'Okay, this is more than a job.' Our government customers know we will move heaven and earth to help them achieve their missions," he says.
With such gratifying experiences the rule rather than exception, Casey has no plans to leave Serco anytime soon. But no doubt this isn't the last chapter in his varied career.
"I don't identify who I am with my career and I've always felt so secure in my family life that it's enabled me to embrace change and take some personal career risks," he says. "As a result of that, I've had a very interesting career."
— By Katie Wilmeth
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Sacred Valley: Ollantaytambo
Our second day trip from Cusco was to El Valle Sagrado ("Sacred Valley") which is known as the heart of the Inca empire. These Incas, I tell you. They were brilliant people.
The valley is approximately 37 mi / 60 km in length and is home to many mind-blowing Inca sites like Ollantaytambo, Pisac, the Mara salt pans, and Moray. Our tour included visits to Ollantaytambo, the Mara salt pans, the Andean village of Misminay, and Moray. We clocked many hours and miles in the van that day visiting these sites.
Protip: Take motion sickness tablets before you hop into your tour vehicle.
The elevation in Sacred Valley varies from site-to-site but in general, it is higher than Machu Picchu and lower than Cusco. In Ollantaytambo, the elevation is 9,160 ft / 2,792 m. It's what I call a no-joke elevation where a brisk walk can leave you with shortness of breath.
A "Boleto de Touristico" (tourist ticket) is required to visit archeological sites in and around Cusco and there are four ticket options. Tickets can be purchased (cash only) at the first site you visit so there is no reason to pre-purchase a ticket in Cusco.
The full ticket is valid for 10 days and costs S/130 (~$40 USD). Unless you are in the Cusco region for a couple of weeks and plan on doing multiple day trips, you should think twice before purchasing the full ticket. The other three ticket options are partial tickets with various sites on each ticket and are priced at S/70 (~21 USD). The partial tickets are valid for one or two days depending on the ticket.
We purchased the partial ticket when we arrived at our first site, Ollantaytambo. Our partial ticket permitted entry into Pisac, Ollantaytambo, Moray, and Chinchero and was valid for two days. Our visit to the village of Misminay did not require a ticket because it is not considered an archeological site.
The incredibly wide and steep stepped terraces are the first thing that catches your eye after walking through the entrance at Ollantaytambo. From ground level, it is difficult to assess the height of each terrace (~9 ft / 2.7 m) because your view of the site is straight-on and the site extends in all directions.
Still recovering from PTSD from hiking Huayna Picchu the day before, I hoped that we would not be climbing up the terraces but at the same time, I wanted to see the view from the top of the terraces. Our guide wasted no time getting down to business and up the stairs we went. He climbed the stairs with ease whilst Jessi, Sara, and I gasped for breath after about five stairs.
It seemed like an eternity by the time we reached our first resting terrace which was only about five terraces up. There was a large oval-shaped stone on the terrace and our guide invited us to have a seat on the "Inca sofa". We happily accepted.
As our guide explained the Inca empire in detail, I applied sunscreen to my face. The weather was perfect on the day of our visit and I could feel the sun trying to burn my nose off.
Note: The arrow points to the Inca sofa.
Whilst sitting on the sofa, I noticed two buildings built into the mountainside of a nearby mountain. Our guide explained that the buildings were used to store food. They were constructed high up the mountain for two reasons. First, security. Second, the temperatures are cooler (and windier) to help the food last longer.
He told us that the villagers hike to the top of that mountain (Pinkuylluna mountain) once a year.
If our trip were longer and were staying in Cusco for 10-14 days, then I would have reserved a full day to visit Ollantaytambo. My itinerary would have been to visit the terraces in the morning, eat a hearty carb-heavy meal, hike Pinkuylluna mountain in the afternoon, and then eat another hearty carb-heavy meal. In between potatoes and other various carbs, I would have slipped in delicious Peruvian espresso whenever possible.
We continued our journey up the terraces after about an hour on the Inca sofa, eventually arriving at the Temple of the Sun (a small lookout platform).
The arrow points to the Temple of the Sun.
Aside from the complexity and enormity of the site, one of the most puzzling things about Incan construction is that they perfectly joined the granite stones with no grout or space between the stones. It is said that a feather cannot fit between the stones on an Incan wall.
Inca wall in Cusco
It's not known how the stones acquired their smooth edges. Grinding the stones manually would have taken years with manual tools so that theory seems a bit far-fetched. Another theory is that they used a plant that produced an acid-like substance that was used to "polish" the stones. The reality is that no one knows.
The "nubs" are thought to be handles used to carry the stones.
There are six very, very, very large pink granite stones at the Temple of the Sun. The stones are not native to the site and were harvested from a nearby mountain and somehow moved across the valley and up the mountainside to where they reside now.
One theory is that the stones (each stone is estimated to weigh over 50 tons) were transported up the mountainside via the narrow gravel path that wraps around the back of the Temple of the Sun, however, the path is not wide enough for a stone itself so it is not plausible that a stone plus thousands of people were pushing/carrying/rolling the stone up the path.
It's a rubbish theory in my opinion but I don't have a better theory. Thinking about this does my head in.
Below is a view of the path that extends behind the Temple of the Sun. It is believed that the pink granite stones were harvested from the mountain on the left in this photo.
To conclude our visit, we walked the opposite direction across the terraces and along a path built into the side of the mountain. It is from this path (to the right of the terraces as you look at the terraces from ground-level), that the steepness of the site can be seen. In total, we were at Ollantaytambo for two hours.
Note: The arrow points to the path on the side of the mountain.
Note: Our day trip to Sacred Valley was on October 3rd, 2019 which is the very beginning of spring in South America.
Motion sickness medication
Sunscreen (apply liberally to your nose)
10 Soles for the entrance fee (free toilets)
Phone charging cords + portable power bank/battery
Small day pack with a water bladder
Camera (a proper one since this is a once-in-a-lifetime visit)
It was warm and the sun was shining on the day of our visit. I saw people dressed in beachwear (sandals, shorts, t-shirt) and I saw people dressed in full hiking garb. Anything goes for clothing; just make sure you dress for the weather.
Next, the Mara salt pans.
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Garb! Awesome pics!


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Do you know of "Moomin"? The Moomin family and their friends are characters created by the Finnish author Tove Jansson who feature in the Moomin books.
The Moomin family and their friends live in an idyllic, peaceful place surrounded by an abundance of nature. This world of Moomins has been created for real in the form of Moomin Valley Park in Hanno city, Saitama, which was opened on March 16, 2019.
Are you ready to dive into the world of the Moomins? The park is divided into four sections and in this feature, we will guide you through each area.
This is the entrance to the world of Moomin. In order to enter, you pass through this Moomins book.
Once you enter this world, you will instantly be transported into the world of your favorite Moomin characters. From enjoying pancakes to shopping for Moomin-themed goods, there is more than enough to have a fun-filled day!
This is the main area of the park where you can experience various things.
At Emma Teatteri, a theater stage, you can feast your eyes on live entertainment by actors dressed as Moomins' characters.
We spotted Little My on one of the buildings with cute Moomin graffiti!
In this area, you can discover many cute things so take your time to admire the artwork on these buildings.
Kokemus, meaning "experience" in Finnish, is an exhibition facility.
At this exhibition facility, you can see scenes from the picture book in three dimensional form as well as see various bits and pieces of Moomin stories. The exhibits vary through the year.
On the first floor, there is a cafe where you can try treats inspired by Northern Europe and the Moomin characters as well as a concept store where you can purchase Moomin products. Don't miss the concept store as there are limited-edition Moomin goods here that would be ideal as souvenirs!
In this area you can have plenty of fun amidst nature! Have an adventurous time in this treehouse-like structure and remember your childhood. This will be a hit if you're traveling with kids!
If you feel like something more challenging, zoom through the Moomin valley on a zip line and enjoy the views of the park.
There are way too many attractions in Moomin Valley Park and it's impossible to introduce them all in one go. A detailed world of the Moomin story is recreated in many ways, including objects inspired by the original artwork as well as quotes from the stories displayed throughout the park.
You can see, eat, experience, and create a special memory whilst enjoying the natural beauty around the park.
After reading this feature, we're sure you're wondering how to get to Moomin Valley Park. Probably many of you heard about Hanno city in Saitama for the first time. You can easily get to Hanno from Ikebukuro station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line!
If you take the express trains on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line, it only takes about 50 minutes from Ikebukuro to Hanno station. Since you don't have to change trains, the express trains are really convenient. In fact, there are many people who thought that it's unexpectedly close to Tokyo.
You can take two express trains that take about 40 minutes: Laview, launched on the same day as the opening of Moomin Valley Park, or the Red Arrow Limited Express. (You need to purchase a limited express ticket in addition to the basic fare ticket).
Laview is a limited express train that has a curved front featuring a large window and popping yellow interiors. Doesn't it look unbelievably cute?
The windows of the "Laview" train are bigger than your usual train windows offering you wide views of the gorgeous scenic beauty on your ride. You'll feel like you're amidst nature!
You're guaranteed a comfortable ride and you'll feel the buzz of going on a holiday!
How about visiting the Moomin Valley Park by taking this amazing "Laview" train on the Seibu Line? Without a doubt, you'll have a fantastic time!
Have fun with the SEIBU 1Day Pass!
In order to get to the Moomin Valley Park, you need to take the Seibu Ikebukuro Line (Seibu Railway) up to Hanno. Did you know about the one day special discount pass? Only valid for foreigners, the SEIBU 1Day Pass costs only 1,000 yen. If you have this pass, you can enjoy unlimited rides on the Seibu Line (except for Tamagawa Line).
You can go to various spots such as Chichibu known for its natural beauty, Kawagoe popularly known as Koedo, and Araiyakushi-mae where you can see beautiful cherry blossoms. A round trip ticket between Ikebukuro and Hanno is 940 yen, so if you go to one of the other spots, you will find that the pass is a great deal!
You can take the Seibu Ikebukuro Line from Hanno station up to Tokorozawa station and change to the Seibu Shinjuku Line to get to Araiyakushi-mae Station, known for its cherry blossoms.
You can purchase the discounted SEIBU 1Day Pass from the Seibu Tourist Information Center Ikebukuro, etc. For further details, check the SEIBU 1Day Pass official website.


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CFP: Partial Answers: A Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas (journal)
Thursday, December 6, 2001 - 9:03pm
Leona Toker
Partial Answers: A Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas
Partial Answers, a biannual journal sponsored by the School of Literatures
of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is devoted to the interdisciplinary
study of literature and the history of ideas. It welcomes contributions
that explore the ways in which
CFP: International Review of Modernism moving to e-journal (no deadline; journal)
Friday, November 30, 2001 - 9:25pm
Leonard Orr
The _International Review of Modernism_ is in the process of moving to an
e-journal format. It will no longer appear in printed form, but will be
freely accessible to anyone with internet access. Please check our web-site
(http://www.modernism.wsu.edu) for full information, including submission
guidelines, and outline of our peer-review process.
CFP: Contemporary British Writers (book series)
Wednesday, November 28, 2001 - 6:25pm
Daniel Lea
SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT
CONTEMPORARY BRITISH WRITERS
Manchester University Press is proud to announce the launch of a new
series dedicated to the critical appraisal of recent British fiction.
The Contemporary British Writers Series will reflect the breadth and
diversity of writing in Britain over the last thirty years, and will
provide critical evaluations of established, emerging and neglected
authors. Building on the success of the Press's Contemporary World
Writers, this series offers an exciting opportunity for the
interrogation of notions of the contemporary and for the analysis of
current and developing modes of representation.
CFP: Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness (e-Journal)
Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 9:29pm
Salwa Ghaly
Apologies for cross-posting.
E-Journal Launch & Call for Submissions
Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness
CFP: American Popular Culture, 1900-present (e-journal)
editor_at_americanpopularculture.com
Americana:
The Journal of American Popular Culture
(1900-present)
Americana is currently accepting submissions for its peer-reviewed
e-journal, published at americanpopularculture.com.
Please send submissions to editor_at_americanpopularculture.com.
1) Articles must be attached to a brief cover letter in the email text
(containing the author's name, institutional affiliation, and contact
information), and both must be formatted in Microsoft Word.
2) Articles must follow MLA guidelines.
CFP: Asian American Literary Studies (book series)
Friday, November 9, 2001 - 6:43pm
ludwig_at_ens.unibe.ch
>Manuscripts are sought for a new series published by
>LIT Verlag (Berlin), entitled CAALS (Contributions to
>Asian American Literary Studies). This series of
>monographs or collections of essays is the first of
>its kind edited in Europe and aims to create an
>international forum for the interdisciplinary
>discussion of Asian American Literary Studies.
>Contextualizing the Asian American experience in
CFP: Discourses in Dance (journal)
Alex Beech
A new journal from Laban Centre London in 2002
redefining dance research
Volume 1 2002
DISCOURSES IN DANCE
Susan Leigh Foster
Ramsay Burt
DISCOURSES IN DANCE is an international, peer-reviewed, bi-annual journal
covering research in the field of dance and related areas. The Journal
aims to promote the development of dance research in the international
academic field. Articles address the rapidly expanding discipline of dance
studies as it is developing through scholarly and artistic forms of dance
CFP: Agora: Online Graduate Humanities Journal (grad) (no deadline; e-journal)
James Gifford
Agora announces the release of issue 1.1 and seeks submissions for future
See Agora at:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/agora
CFP: Lingua Romana (e-journal)
Scott M Sprenger
Lingua Romana--a new e-journal devoted to the study of
linguistic, literary and/or cultural issues pertaining to France, Italy
and/or Romania--is seeking submissions for its inaugural issue
in spring of 2002. We will also consider English-speaking
representations of romance-language cultural issues.
Send articles of no longer than 20 manuscript pages to the
Editor, Lingua Romana, 4022 JKHB, BYU, Provo, Utah 84602.
Electronic submissions can be sent by attachment to:
sms22_at_email.byu.edu. We are also looking for book reviews
(of recent literature, criticism, philosophy) and movie reviews.
Please inquire before submitting reviews.
CFP: NMEDIAC: The Journal of New Media & Culture (e-journal)
Jonathan Lillie
The soon to be launched online peer-reviewed journal, NMEDIAC:The
Journal of New Media & Culture, is accepting paper submissions for its
first and second issues.
CFP: SCOPE: Conference Reports (no deadline; e-journal)
Jeongmee Kim
Scope, a fully refereed on-line journal of film studies (we're at http//
www. nottingham.ac.uk/ film) edited by staff and postgraduate students
within the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham, is
looking for conference reports of about 1000-1500 words to be included in
forthcoming issues. We're seeking contributions on the events listed
below, but we also welcome reports on other relevant conferences in film,
media and cultural studies.
Reports, queries and expressions of interest should be sent to Jeongmee
Kim, Conference Reports Editor; arxjk_at_nottingham.ac.uk.
· Cosmopolitan Cinema: Hollywood and Asia: American Studies Association Conference (11/8-11/01, Washington DC)
CFP: Encyclopaedia of British-American Relations (encyclopedia)
William Kaufman
Call for Contributors:
Encyclopaedia of British-American Relations, ABC-Clio Publishers
CFP: torquere: Queer Studies (Canada) (ongoing; journal)
Wednesday, October 24, 2001 - 5:49pm
Rachel Warburton
Please distribute
*torquere* warmly invites submissions of completed scholarly papers
or creative writing to be published in our forthcoming issues.


This evening when walking the fields the sheep were lying very low in the grass hoping that the flies wouldn't find them.
They looked like puddles of wool where ever they were, some even looked like they were dead they were so still.
I could walk right up to them and they would stay as still as possible hardly flicking an ear.
I got right up close to Wagtail only to discover why she was so very very still. There was a huge bot-fly on her back trying to lay it's eggs.
I swatted away but couldn't kill it. They are a nasty pest to the sheep and horses.
I made a short film showing what a sleeping sheep looks like so you can see why they can look like they are dead and you have to walk right up to them to make sure they are still alive.


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Georg Sombart (ur. 1843, zm. 1912) – niemiecki prawnik i urzędnik kolejowy.

Życiorys
Urodził się w rodzinie hugenotów lub holenderskiej, której przedstawiciele byli kupcami, radnymi i burmistrzami w Ermsleben. Syn Antona Ludwiga Sombarta (1816-1898), geometry, przemysłowca, polityka i działacza stowarzyszenia, oraz Klementyny Liebelt (1821–1895). Obronił pracę doktorską z zakresu prawa. Był zatrudniony na Kolei Nassau (Nassauische Eisenbahn) w Wiesbaden (1874), pełnił funkcję prezesa Królewskiej Dyrekcji Kolei w Szczecinie (Königliche Eisenbahn-Direktion Stettin – KED Stettin) (1901-1909).

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What if dentists or plastic surgeons started repossessing their work after someone refused to pay their bill? Might make people take things a little more seriously wouldn't it.
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Apparently, he wasn't bluffing. The victim says that when she arrived at home on December 22, 2016, the entire roof, including the roofing paper was all gone.
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Whitley Abbott
Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
The Life of Whitley
When Whitley Abbott was born in 1870, in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Jeremiah Abbott, was 37 and his mother, Selina " Linah" Holdsworth, was 36. He married Harriet Zillah Murgatroyd on 2 July 1895, in Windhill, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Shipley cum Heaton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for about 40 years. He died in 1944, in Keighley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74.
Learn about Whitley's homeland.
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Harriet Zillah Murgatroyd
Marriage: 2 July 1895
Ada Abbott
Sarah Ann Abbott
Ridley Abbott
Windhill, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Jeremiah Abbott
Selina " Linah" Holdsworth
Miranda Abbott
Harriet Abbott
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
English and Scottish: from Middle English abbott 'abbot' (Old English abbod) or Old French abet 'priest'. Both the Old English and the Old French term are derived from Late Latin abbas 'priest' (genitive abbatis), from Greek abbas, from Aramaic aba 'father'. This was an occupational name for someone employed in the household of or on the lands of an abbot, and perhaps also a nickname for a sanctimonious person thought to resemble an abbot. In the U.S. this name is also sometimes a translation of a cognate or equivalent European name, e.g. Italian Abate , Spanish Abad , or German Abt .
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Die Elfenbeinküste nahm an den Olympischen Sommerspielen 2000 in der australischen Metropole Sydney mit neun Athleten, fünf Männer und vier Frauen teil.

Seit 1964 war es die neunte Teilnahme der Elfenbeinküste an Olympischen Sommerspielen.

Flaggenträger
Der Leichtathlet Ibrahim Meïté trug die Flagge der Elfenbeinküste während der Eröffnungsfeier im Stadium Australia.

Teilnehmer nach Sportarten

Leichtathletik
 Männer
 Ibrahim Meïté
 100 m: 10,24 s in der ersten Runde; 10,40 s in der zweiten Runde, nicht für die nächste Runde qualifiziert
 Ahmed Yves Douhou
 200 m: 20,98 s,nicht für die nächste Runde qualifiziert
 Ahmed Yves Douhou, Ibrahim Meïté, Éric Pacôme N'Dri, Yves Sonan
 4 × 100 m Staffel: 39,06 s in der ersten Runde; 38,82 s in der zweiten Runde, nicht für die nächste Runde qualifiziert
 Frauen
 Louise Ayétotché
 100 m: 11,52 s, nicht für die nächste Runde qualifiziert
 200 m: 22,85 s in der ersten Runde; 22,86 s in der zweiten Runde; 22,76 s im Halbfinale, nicht für das Finale qualifiziert
 Affoue Allou, Louise Ayétotché, Mary Gnahore, Makaridja Sanganoko
 4 × 100 m Staffel: 44,34 s im Vorlauf, nicht für die nächste Runde qualifiziert

Schwimmen
 Männer
 Gregory Arkhurst
 100 m Freistil: 53,55 s, nicht für die nächste Runde qualifiziert

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Komplette Ergebnisse der Olympischen Spiele 2000 bei la84foundation.org (PDF-Datei; 2,1 MB)
 Komplette Ergebnisse der Olympischen Spiele 2000 bei pandora.nla.gov.au (PDF-Datei; 2,1 MB)

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How A Witness Derailed The Hunt For A Killer: Laverne Pavlinac
1 year ago Tim Hodge
Taunja Bennett, 23 years old.
Currently Netflix are running a season of Catching Killers. This is a great documentary format that interviews the cops that were involved in notable cases. Many now are getting on in years yet their insights give us a behind the scenes view of the big picture that was their day to day.
In the first of these they look at the hunt for The Green River Killer. This turned out to be a nonsense creature called Gary Ridgeway. Ridgeway killed sex workers and others that had slipped through the cracks in our society. The total in the end was 49. All were killed in the state of Washington in the USA. The lead investigator and others on the team take us from the first murders to the point when Ridgeway was put away for good.
The second case was not thought a series of murders at the time. It was a single brutal killing. 23 year old Taunja Bennett had been at a bar in Multnomah County, Oregon. During the night she had been playing pool and having a good time. Her body was found dumped off a road into bushes. This was in January 1990. Multnomah is a area which is part of the greater Portland-Vancouver region and the terrain is what you would expect. When it is dark it is very dark, when it is light it displays stunning scenery and ample woodland. Both of these elements allow free movement of good and bad people without much observation.
The cops had some problems identifying the body as Ms Bennett had suffered strangulation and severe beating. When they did get an ID they then went about the business of tracing her movements. This led to the patrons of a bar called the JB Lounge. She had last been seen on 23rd January 1990. She was a happy person apparently. I noticed in particular the description of her hugging strangers as they came in. Maybe she thought everyone was her friend.
A call came in identifying a suspect. John Sosnovske was 39 years of age and was described as an alcoholic with violent tendencies. The informant turned out to be Sosnovske's girlfriend, 58 year old Laverne Pavlinac. She was very co-operative with the police. She claimed to be scared of her boyfriend. She talked of him being violent during sex and having a thing about knotting rope.
Pavlinac and Sosnovske
Cops interviewed Sosnovske and as time went on Pavlinac provided more and more information. Finally, she gave an account where Sosnovske had selected Ms Bennett as a victim and influenced Pavlinac to help him. The detail she gave included evidence she had created and in the account of the murder she admitted pulling on a rope that ended Ms Bennett's life. As you might have guessed the big problem was Pavlinac was making the whole thing up.
This woman literally implicated herself in a murder and put herself right in the centre of it when she and Sosnovske had had nothing to do with it. Worse Sosnovske gave an account indicating someone he knew had killed the victim. He placed himself in a car with Ms Bennett's body after the fact.
None of it was true. In fact this poor young woman had been killed by a serial killer called Keith Hunter (AKA Jesperson). You can check out Hunter if you like. He was a huge nonsense creature who killed women because he was messed up by mum and dad or some other excuse he came out with later. His type do not interest me much. They seem to be like clones of one another. They select weak people and go after them. Most are as dumb as bricks but are lucky for a bit. Others are clever though they are messed up, inadequate killers wrapped in a ball of cruelty and sordid obsession. It is hardly the sort of clever I can respect.
My issue is with witnesses. I highlight this point in the case of Roy Tutill. In most situations witnesses are well meaning. Occasionally they are spot on. At other times they do what Pavlinac did. She is fantastic example of why we should be so careful theorising about murders online.
She played the victim. The intimidated girlfriend. Maybe Sosnovske was a nasty guy, equally he might not have been. He was an ex army vet from the Vietnam war and otherwise I know nothing about him. Pavlinac died in 2003, but I would not take her word for what the weather was doing outside if she was still breathing. Pavlinac gave several accounts, she used newspaper photos to direct the cops to where the body had been dumped and concocted the whole thing.
When we look at cases and give our view Pavlinac should come to mind.
She and Sosnovske spent over five years in prison before Hunter pushed the cops to accept he had killed Ms Bennett. The view is that he was not happy about these others taking 'credit' for the murder. Maybe that was true. He demonstrated that he was her murderer by directing cops to where he had ditched her purse and contents. These items had disappeared that night and were found a distance away. Only the killer could have known about this and where they were. Certainly Pavlinac and Sosnovske had not been able to say what had happened to the items.
Hunter had killed Ms Bennett after meeting her and taking her back to his home nearby. The terrible thing is Hunter went on to kill seven more women.
Applying The Pavlinac Effect To Online Investigation
I'm going to coin the phrase and use it every time I start thinking through an unsolved case. When a witness, even one that implicates themselves, gives slam dunk evidence I'm going to apply thought to the Pavlinac effect. As you might know I see witness evidence as essential to criminal prosecutions, but I place it way down at the bottom of a list of the best evidence.
In some ways this brings to mind the unsolved murder of Sophie Tuscan Du Plantier in Ireland. There a person gave detailed evidence about seeing a suspect. She named him and claimed he had been intimidating her. She was the star witness. Later she told a court she had made the lot up. Though many believe she had become scared and tired of the very long investigation, a stark fact remains. Time was lost and focus was altered by her testimony.
In Pavlinac's case she is described as a person who so wanted rid of a bad boyfriend she made the lot up. She would rather have been in prison than outside with him. That is one possibility. I also suggest it may have had an element of something similar to Munchhausen's. That condition is one where the illness a person claims to have is concocted because of the fuzzy feeling they get from the sympathy of others. It can lead to illnesses being claimed for children or others around them. This is called Munchhausen's by proxy.
Was Pavlinac at first looking to get rid of a boyfriend? Once she found pliant and sympathetic detectives did she then revel in the central character role she had created for herself? If you watch the documentary you might find grounds to agree with me.
Far from being a person I can feel sorry for, Pavlinac ( and to a lesser extent Sosnovske) became a focus and as a result Hunter was left to go on killing. The detectives investigating the murder of Ms Bennett, at least the one on the TV, I would not ask to check if the front door is locked. Left to them it is quite possible Hunter would have got away regardless. We will never know. What I can say is Pavlinac epitomises why we should be wary of witnesses. She shows how witnesses can send an investigation so far off a killer gets to kill again.
Do you know of other situations where witnesses have deliberately placed themselves in court for a murder they did not commit and allowed a serial killer to kill more?
NB: I have seen two dates for the murder of Ms Bennett, 21st and 23rd of January. I went with the most mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverne_Pavlinac
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3654
Tags: 23rd january 1990, john sosnovske, laverne pavlinac, Portland, taunja bennett
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King Biscuit Flower Hour
For other uses, see King Biscuit Flower Hour (disambiguation).
Album-oriented rock
D.I.R. Radio Network
Bill Minkin
Bob Meyrowitz
February 18, 1973 (1973-02-18) – December 25, 2005 (2005-12-25)
kingbiscuit.com
The King Biscuit Flower Hour was an American syndicated radio show presented by the D.I.R. Radio Network that featured concert performances by various rock music recording artists.
The program was broadcast on Sunday nights from 1973 until 2005, although new programming ceased in 1993 and previous shows were repeated from that point. During its prime, the program was carried by more than 300 radio stations throughout the United States. The show's name was derived from the influential blues radio show King Biscuit Time, which was sponsored by the King Biscuit Flour Co., combined with the hippie phrase "flower power". The first show was broadcast on February 18, 1973, and featured Blood, Sweat & Tears, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Bruce Springsteen. The long-time host of the show until the mid-1990s was Bill Minkin, whose voice has been described as "the perfect blend of hipster enthusiasm and stoner casualness."[1]
The concerts were usually recorded with a mobile recording truck, then mixed and edited for broadcast on the show within a few weeks. In the 1970s, the show was sent to participating radio stations on reel-to-reel tape. Some shows were recorded and mixed in both stereo and quadraphonic. In 1980, D.I.R. began using the LP format, producing the show on a three-sided, two-record set. The first show on compact disc was a live retrospective of the Rolling Stones broadcast on September 27, 1987. By 2000, King Biscuit was using CD-R media to distribute the show. These tapes, records or compact discs were accompanied by a cue sheet which gave the disc jockey a written guideline of the content and length of each segment of the program.
In 1982, a three-alarm fire damaged the Manhattan office tower that housed D.I.R. Broadcasting.[2] Reportedly, many of the King Biscuit Flower Hour recordings were lost in the fire.[3]
Although closely associated with classic rock in its later years, the King Biscuit Flower Hour dedicated much air time to new and emerging artists, including new wave and modern rock artists in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
In 2006, the King Biscuit tape archives were acquired by Wolfgang's Vault which began streaming concerts online and has made some available for download.[4]
King Biscuit Flower Hour Records[edit]
After founder Bob Meyrowitz sold his interest to new ownership, King Biscuit Flower Hour Records was formed in 1992 with the intention of releasing live albums from the archives. Although licensing issues prevented the release of the most popular artists featured on the program, dozens of recordings did see commercial release.
^ Gallucci, Michael. "King Biscuit Flower Hour Records: There's Plenty More in the Archives" Goldmine May 8, 1998: 42-46
^ "Fire Sweeps Tower's Lower Floors", New York Times, Jan. 3, 1982: 26
^ Kominicki, John. "I came upon a child of God, he was walking the LIE" Long Island Business News May 15, 2009
^ Levine, Robert (March 12, 2007). "Who Owns the Live Music of Days Gone By?". www.nytimes.com. The New York Times Company. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=King_Biscuit_Flower_Hour&oldid=910177709"
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I am a keen gardener but by no means an expert and my second love is football. My husband and I are keen Arsenal supporters however, football is not allowed to be played in my garden!
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The Economic Policy Institute (EcPI) calls itself a "nonprofit, nonpartisan" think tank. But behind its façade of political balance lays an agenda-driven organization. EcPI has roots in radical leftist politics, and it receives a large portion of its funding from organized labor. EcPI's donors have on at least one occasion been allowed to review its research prior to publication.
The Economic Policy Institute was founded in 1986 by Jeff Faux, who was previously the co-director of the National Center for Economic Alternatives (NCEA). As its name suggests, the NCEA specialized in offering "alternatives"—alternatives characterized as "radical" in The New York Times—to mainstream U.S. domestic policy.
NCEA's co-director was Gar Alperovitz, now a University of Maryland professor and author of America Beyond Capitalism. Prior to working at the NCEA, Alperovitz co-authored the essay collection Strategy and Program: Two Essays Toward a New American Socialism, where he advocated using socialist ideas to make the United States a "fairer" nation.
Together, Faux and Alperovitz advocated reindustrialization, a scheme that required a national committee to review and guide the re-development of selected major industries in the United States. One professor at Columbia University, writing in The New York Times, called their ideas "a poorly disguised version of national planning."
At NCEA, Faux and Alperovitz promoted public ownership of energy, defense, and transportation corporations, and economic planning handled through local councils. Over time, they envisioned the replacement of large U.S. corporations with new institutions directly accountable to the public.
"Nonpartisan"?
Lawrence Mishel, EcPI's president, acknowledged in The Huffington Post his prominent status among political liberals. "When we get attacked by the Wall Street Journal editorial page, I tell my people, 'Be proud.' I never got listed by Glenn Beck. I felt left out because I feel like I'm an important person on the left."
In 2004, EcPI created a 501(c) (4) political advocacy group called the "EPI Policy Center." It was most active in 2008, releasing negative reports about "The Bush Legacy" and criticizing then-Presidential candidate John McCain's health care proposals. The Center was partially funded by a liberal "Section 527" group called the Coalition to Defend the American Dream.
EcPI coordinates the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN), a nationwide coalition of left-leaning policy organizations. Its members include The Drum Major Institute, the National Employment Law Project, Progressive Majority, the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, Good Jobs First, and People for the American Way. EARN members also include 57 different state-level left-leaning policy organizations.
EcPI's board of directors includes a number of left-wing partisans, including the former president of Bennett College for Women Julianne Malveaux. In 1994, Malveaux famously said of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: "You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease."
The Tobacco Institute—the trade association that represented the interests of the tobacco companies—budgeted for contributions of at least $430,000 to EcPI between 1988 and 1998. During that time, EcPI released research that (among other topics) supported The Tobacco Institute's position on the regressive nature of cigarette excise taxes.
Documents from the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement reveal that the Tobacco Institute was at least once provided copies of EcPI's research to review before it was published.
In 1990, EcPI released a study called "Investing the Peace Dividend." A letter from May 17, 1990 demonstrates that the report was reviewed before its release by a consultant for The Tobacco Institute, James Savarese:
"Jim Savarese has reviewed the final version of the paper and his comments have been addressed and incorporated into the paper (please see pages 5-7)."
Page six of the final product includes language criticizing "regressive consumption taxes".
Savarese's comments were also incorporated elsewhere. For instance, writing Savarese about the 1990 edition of EcPI's well-known report, The State of Working America, communications director Roger Hickey had this to say:
"As you can see in Chapter 2, this time around Larry [Mishel] produced an entire chapter on tax inequities and the regressive burden of excise taxes—just as he promised to do." (Emphasis Added)
Savarese and The Tobacco Institute were also closely involved in a paper EcPI released in 1993 titled "The Impact of Health Care Financing on Family Budgets." It was authored by Edith Rasell, Kainan Tan, and Jared Bernstein. (Bernstein most recently served as Vice President Biden's chief economist.)
Having campaigned on broad health care reform in 1992, President Bill Clinton came into office with plans to remake the U.S. health care system. The Tobacco Institute had an interest in ensuring such changes weren't financed with an excise tax.
In September 1992, Savarese met with EcPI staff to discuss a "proposed health care financing study." These meetings continued: Documents show that Savarese met with EcPI staff in December 1992, January 1993, February 1993, March 1993, and April 1993—each time to discuss the "status of health care financing study" or a "timetable for release."
The final study was highly critical of the regressive nature of health care financing in the US, and supported efforts to make it less so.
EcPI and Labor Unions
After leaving the NCEA, Faux teamed up with eight labor unions and prominent left-leaning economists to create the Economic Policy Institute. According to The Washington Post, Faux's stated goal was to "create an intellectual climate that gives politicians more courage to advocate greater government management of the economy." This goal was similar to that of the older NCEA, but within EcPI it could be accomplished with the greater credibility that prominent economists (including future Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich) would lend to it.
The Post reported that eight labor unions made a five-year funding commitment to EcPI in its first year:
AFSCME
United Auto Workers
Steelworkers
United Mine Workers
Communications Workers
Service Employees
Food and Commercial Workers
The unions' first year funding commitment totaled $460,000, with another $340,000 coming from private foundations.
EcPI's budget has grown substantially since its 1986 birth, but labor unions remain major donors. Government filings show that in fiscal year 2008, labor groups contributed over $1.6 million; in fiscal year 2009, labor groups contributed over $2.5 million.
Between 2002 and 2005, half of EcPI's top donors were labor groups, adding a combined total of $3.89 million—about one-fifth of EcPI's total contributions during this period. The organization also received money from left-leaning foundations including George Soros' Open Society Institute. The full list of top donors, and the amount donated between 2002 and 2005, is shown below.
Ford Foundation: $3,871,000
American Federation of Teachers: $1,150,924
Open Society Institute: $1,011,400
Rockefeller Foundation: $850,000
Mott Foundation: $730,000
Wellspring: $700,000
Joyce Foundation: $650,000
AFL-CIO: $595,138
AFSCME: $562,997
SEIU: $410,923
UAW: $400,000
United Steelworkers of American: $400,000
National Education Association: $378,474
EcPI's Board of Directors is a "who's who" of powerful union leaders, including Richard Trumka (AFL CIO), R. Thomas Buffenbarger (IAM), Bob King (UAW), Randi Weingarten (AFT), Gerald McEntee (AFSCME), and Leo Gerard (Steelworkers).
Given its donor base and board of directors, it's not surprising that EcPI's proposals closely match the union line:
Since President George H. W. Bush first considered the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), labor unions have virulently opposed its passage and implementation. Faux and others at EcPI have been equally critical of NAFTA through studies and newspaper op-eds.
Labor unions pushed for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would effectively eliminate employees' right to a secret ballot during union organizing. EcPI also strongly supported EFCA, releasing statements and studies in favor of its passage, as well as including it as a part of their "Plan to Revive the American Economy."
Teacher unions strongly oppose the idea of merit-based pay for educators. EcPI has also taken up the cause, releasing reports with titles like "The Perils of Performance-Based Pay" and "Making the Case against Performance Pay."
In the debate over health care reform, labor unions strongly opposed the excise taxes on high-cost health care plans. EcPI's report, "The House Health Care Bill: Right On the Money," claimed that "taxing high incomes is better than taxing high premiums."
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CJEU Decision in SkyKick offers relief to trade mark owners
29 January 2020 | Europe
Legal Briefings – By Joel Smith and Joanna Silver
The CJEU has today handed down a crucial decision as it seeks to provide clarification on important questions about the extent of the monopoly businesses can obtain legitimately through the registration of a trade mark
The CJEU held that a registered trade mark cannot be declared wholly or partly invalid as a result of a lack of clarity and precision of the terms used to designate the goods and services covered by that registration. Further, whilst invalidity on the ground of bad faith may be triggered where an applicant registers a mark without any intention to use it in relation to specified goods and services, bad faith will only be established in exceptional circumstances. This outcome is very helpful to existing trade mark proprietors and favours the existing status quo of the trade mark system.
Trade mark protection in the UK and the EU is granted in respect of the specific goods and services which the applicant has determined the mark should cover. However, there are ambiguities in the EU law relating to the relationship between trade mark specifications and the validity of trade marks. Following a reference from the High Court of Justice (England and Wales) (the 'High Court') to the CJEU in the case Sky v SkyKick, Case C-371/18 (Sky plc and others v SkyKick UK Limited and other) the CJEU has given judgment.
For the facts giving rise to the dispute in the main proceedings, please see our previous summary of the case in the Herbert Smith Freehills 'Trade Mark Update for 2018' here. We previously reported on the Opinion of the Advocate-General ('AG') in this case here.
The reference to the CJEU focussed on the relationship between the specification of goods and services and the validity of trade marks.
Lack of clarity and precision as a ground of invalidity
The CJEU set out that the grounds of invalidity laid down by EU legislation are exhaustive and therefore rejected the idea that a trade mark could be attacked as a separate ground of invalidity on the basis that the specification of the goods or services lacked clarity or precision, or because such lack of clarity and precision was contrary to public policy. The only way to attack a registered mark is on the basis of revocation for non-use, after the event, if the particular goods or services were not in use after five years.
This decision favours the existing status quo of the trade mark system, where big brands often file extensively and widely, taking into account the likely areas of expansion of their use of the trade mark over time. The decision provides a clear, if unexpected, result, despite the steer from the High Court over concern at broad, undefined terms such as "computer software". The Court chose not to focus upon whether it was possible to claim trade mark protection for terms that do not exactly specify for what a trade mark was or was intended to be used. This contrasts with the AG's Opinion, which suggested that a lack of clarity in the specification could fall under the public policy absolute ground for refusal of a registration and therefore invalidity. The CJEU found no basis for an attack at all; the only question was whether the trade mark proprietor used the mark and, if not, whether part of the mark could later be revoked for non-use.
Bad faith as a ground for refusal of registration and invalidity
The CJEU confirmed that 'bad faith' may be triggered where an applicant registers a mark without any intention to use it in relation to the goods and services covered by that registration. However, it clarified that bad faith will only be established in the exceptional circumstances where it could be demonstrated that the applicant deliberately sought to monopolise classes of goods or services in order to block or undermine the interests of other businesses. Bad faith cannot be presumed on the basis of the mere finding that, at the time of filing, the applicant had no economic activity corresponding to the goods and services referred to in that application. The court should look at the motives of the trade mark owner when they filed their application and at whether they intended to abuse the system by blocking a competitor at that time. This is a very high evidential burden to meet and would only rarely be found. Even where it is, the trade mark would only be partially invalid to the extent that the scope of the goods or services had been improperly applied for.
The High Court will now need to reach a final ruling, with the benefit of the CJEU's Judgment. At present, it had found that SkyKick had infringed Sky's trade marks, unless it had a defence and counterclaim by way of seeking to make out that Sky's trade marks were partially or wholly invalid.
This decision is very favourable to existing trade mark proprietors. Critics will say that it misses an opportunity to regulate the ever increasing thicket of broad trade mark registrations and leaves the burden on third parties to contest such marks. However, the decision effectively favours the status quo, so avoids any concerns regarding a radical new approach being thrust upon the UK at the time of Brexit. Had the CJEU followed the AG's Opinion, all businesses with trade marks, not only big brands, risked their trade marks being found invalid across the EU if they were filed with overly wide specifications, which could have had a chilling effect on companies seeking to enforce their key trade marks in the EU through litigation. Whilst this concern has not materialised, businesses protecting new brands would still be wise to look carefully at the scope of protection that they file for and to be clearer in specifying exactly the goods or services they intend to protect.
This decision will continue to impact businesses in the UK, despite the UK leaving the EU shortly. Following this reference from the UK High Court, the UK Government made detailed submissions to the CJEU upon its interpretation of the legislation. After the UK leaves the EU, the UK will though lose the ability to seek to influence the outcome of such cases (and will no longer have a judicial representative on the CJEU), but the likely consequence of having trade mark law that is so closely aligned with the EU is that the UK courts will nonetheless continue to apply EU case law.
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