The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), the apex body of the gems and jewellery industry, has introduced identity card for artisans in West Bengal which will be rolled out nationally later this month.
GJEPC is holding advanced talks with the ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship (MoSDE) for national classification of gem & jewellery sector workers/ craftsmen under LMIS (Labour Management Information Systems).
This segment-wise classification of workers, craftsmen and artisans will provide additional benefits under relevant MoSDE schemes, it said.
The council has also created Swasthya Kosh, a special fund to offer health insurance to identity card holders and their families.
The card would benefit the entire gem & jewellery industry and ensure proper authentication for social security purposes, it said.
The objective of this project was to create a verified and well-crafted database for gem & jewellery workers to provide them better job opportunities, help find financial support from banks and financial institutions and provide better healthcare services through the specially designed smart card, a GJEPC statement said on Friday.
Pramod Kumar Agrawal, chairman, GJEPC, said, "The USD 40 billion gem and jewellery industry was heavily dependent on the artisans and craftsmen of India."
Today, India has become a global pioneer in the business of diamond processing, only because of these extremely talented and skilled workforces, he added.


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'Finding Yingying': Listening to the Voices of Three Women ☆☆☆
"Finding Yingying" begins with a howl of despair. It's the voice of a mother, speaking the international language of a great tragedy–outliving one's offspring. By the end, director Jiayan Jenny Shi has conjured up the image of a promising young scientist whose exciting adventure into a new world ended in death. At a time when anti-Asian sentiment is rising in the US, "Finding Yingying" is a must-see.
There is no mystery as to who killed Yingying Zhang (章莹颖 21 Dec 1990-9 June 2017) in Urbana, Illinois. Zhang arrived in Illinois in April 2017 to research in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (ACES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Six weeks later, she was kidnapped, raped and murdered on 9 June 2017 by a former UIUC physics grad student Brendt Allen Christensen. Christensen was convicted in 2019 and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on 18 July 2019.
If you're looking for a true crime story, "Finding Yingying" isn't it. Shi is less concerned with Christensen, and rather focuses on Zhang's family and her friends. Through them, and Zhang's diary, Shi attempts to show viewers who Zhang was and could have been, but she also explores who she is as a journalist.
At the time of Zhang's disappearance, Shi was at the end of her one-year journalism graduate student program at Northwestern University in Chicago. Shi became involved with the search for Zhang as a concerned member of the Chinese community in Illinois and had not originally intended to produce a documentary. As such, you can expect some shaky camera moments and some moments when Shi wonders if her ethics are shaky. As the search draws on and becomes less hopeful, Shi wonders if she's exploiting her relationship with Zhang's family. These are healthy questions for any journalist.
Shi and Zhang both attended Peking University. Shi graduated with a BA in broadcast journalism in 2016. She spent the summer of 2015 at the University of British Columbia, Canada, studying journalism. Entering a graduate journalism program in Chicago, Shi was still in classes in early June of 2017. Zhang received her BS from Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangdong, China) in environmental science in 2013, ranking second in her class behind her fiancé, Xiaolin Hou. Hou and Zhang both attended graduate school at Peking University with Zhang graduating in 2016. (Hou received his PhD in 2019).
According to the trial transcripts, Zhang traveled to UIUC because Professor Kaiyu Zhang had provided her with the opportunity be a visiting scholar researching photosynthesis in soybeans and corn. Her plans were to marry Hou that October and to apply to the UIUC doctoral program. Seeking cheaper accommodations, on June 9, 2017, Zhang disappeared on her way to meet with an apartment manager.
Shi provides a thoughtful commentary and narrates parts of Zhang's diary, giving voice to the hopeful thought lonesome young scholar on an ultimately tragic adventure. The visceral reaction of Yingying's mother (Lifeng Ye) brings emotion so raw to the screen that it's almost unbearable. You don't need to speak Chinese to understand her emotions.
With "Finding Yingying," Shi has become a new voice in the landscape of documentary films. Yet the documentary asks another question: When American universities profit from Chinese nationals coming to study, are there ways the colleges could better prepare them? This is an intelligent, sensitive look at a tragedy that gives voice to the victim over the perpetrator and forces one to see the US from an East Asian woman's point of view.
"Finding Yingying" won the VC FilmFest Emerging Filmmaker Award, the SXSW Film Festival Special Jury Award, the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival VTeddy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the Loudoun Arts Film Festival Award for Best Documentary Feature and the BendFilm Festival Special Jury Prize for Best Documentary Debut. "Finding Yingying" is available through virtual cinemas. In Mandarin and English with English subtitles.
For more information visit FindingYingying.com.
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Modelling Erosion and Deposition of Cohesive Sediments from Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada: Paper presented at the 13th Northern Res.Basins/Workshop (Saariselkä, Finland and Murmansk, Russia-Aug. 19-24 2001)
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B.G. Krishnappan
National Water Research Inst., Burlington, Ont.
David Milburn, B.G. Krishnappan; Modelling Erosion and Deposition of Cohesive Sediments from Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada: Paper presented at the 13th Northern Res.Basins/Workshop (Saariselkä, Finland and Murmansk, Russia-Aug. 19-24 2001). Hydrology Research 1 February 2003; 34 (1-2): 125–138. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2003.0032
A large volume sample of river-bed cohesive sediment and water from Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada was collected during a spring field program in 2000 as part of a study on under-ice movement of sediment just before breakup. Controlled laboratory experiments were subsequently conducted on the Hay River water/sediments in a rotating annular flume at Burlington, Ontario, Canada to better understand the deposition and erosion processes of cohesive sediment transport. The deposition experiments in the rotating flume confirmed that the Hay River sediment is cohesive and the critical shear stress for deposition and the rates of deposition are a function of bed shear stress and the initial concentration of the sediment in suspension. The erosion experiments provided quantitative data on the critical shear stress for erosion and the rates of erosion as a function of bed shear stress and the age of the sediment deposit. The erosion experiments also indicated that the growth of the biofilm had an influence on the erosion characteristics of the Hay River sediment. Based on the data from the rotating circular flume experiments, a modelling strategy is proposed for calculating the under-ice transport of the cohesive sediments in the Hay River.


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Bentley Celebrates 100 Years With an Electric Super Coupe
Bentley celebrates its 100th anniversary this month, and it's been quite a century. From racing glory and "the world's fastest lorries" at LeMans to what amounted to a rebadged Rolls-Royce in the 1970s and on to a turbocharged renaissance in 1980s, Bentley has had its share of ups and downs. Through it all, however, the Flying B remained a symbol of conspicuous wealth– but Bentleys will have to be more than expensive to survive another hundred years, and Volkswagen (Bentley's parent company) knows it. That's why the car that Bentley built to celebrate its first century and carry it into its second is what it is. Meet the Bentley EXP 100 GT, the most sustainable Bentley ever.
I know, I know– that sounds a bit absurd on the surface of it. But, consider: Bentley began toying with ethanol and biofuels in the earliest days after the housing bubble burst in a bid to stay relevant, and its E85-fueled, turbocharged Continental coupes remain among of the fastest cars ever built. So, like, a sustainable Bentley isn't totally totally crazy.
That said, the fully autonomous (of course) EXP 100 GT delivers the sustainable goods. Starting under the hood, the new Bentley concept is propelled by a massively powerful electric power train with a 400 mile range. Inside, 5,000 year old, copper-infused river wood adorns the interior, along with a 100% organic, leather-like textile made with old wine-making techniques. Even the floor mats are British-farmed wool with embroidered cotton interior surfaces all adding up to create, what Bentley calls, "a sustainable future luxury".
Heck, even the paint is sourced from 100% sustainable rice husks! "The Bentley EXP 100 GT represents the kind of cars we want to make in the future," explains Stefan Sielaff, Director of Design. "Like those iconic Bentleys of the past, this car connects with its passengers' emotions and helps them experience and safeguard the memories of the really extraordinary journeys they take."
Check out the official Bentley photo gallery and massive, 2500-word press release, below, to find out more about what the future of Bentley might hold. Once you're done digesting that, let us know what you think about how much of this sustainable tech will make it to production in the comments section at the bottom of the page.
BENTLEY REIMAGINES THE FUTURE OF GRAND TOURING WITH THE EXTRAORDINARY BENTLEY EXP 100 GT
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Crewe — Bentley Motors celebrates its 100th birthday today by unveiling its vision of the future of luxury mobility at The Home of Bentley in Crewe. The Bentley EXP 100 GT is a physical embodiment of the future Bentley brand, reimagining Grand Touring for the future.
Beyond mere mobility, the Bentley EXP 100 GT concept car will enhance the owner's Grand Touring experience, whether driving or being driven autonomously.
Bentley EXP 100 GT is borne from pure Bentley DNA and inspired by the company's deep understanding of the desires of its intelligent, forward-thinking customers. Beautifully styled, it embraces Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a means to reassert the car as a place for creating, experiencing and capturing extraordinary human experiences and emotions.
Designed from the inside out and taking advantage of an all-electric platform, Bentley EXP 100 GT reimagines the Grand Tourer for the world of 2035. This is a world of shared luxury experiences where passenger and driver enjoy equal status in their enjoyment of their extraordinary journeys. The cars' presence and impressive exterior proportions are reminiscent of many of Bentley's historic Grand Tourers but take these luxury hallmarks into the future. The result is a future vision commensurate with Bentley's status as the world's most sought after luxury brand.
The meticulously sculpted cabin is luxuriously tactile, helping to create a harmonious environment designed around the well-being of its passengers. This is seamlessly integrated with the unique AI, known as the Bentley Personal Assistant, which helps the car's occupants enhance and curate their Grand Tour experiences.
Sustainable innovation is also at the heart of the Bentley EXP 100 GT experience. The car is engineered to create a greater awareness of the world outside, with an intelligently-curated collection of materials including 5,000 year old Copper Infused Riverwood; Compass exterior paint made from recycled rice husks; 100% organic leather-like textile from wine making; British Farmed Wool carpets and embroidered cotton interior surfaces which all create sustainable future luxury, adding to the enhanced reality of the grand touring car of the future.
Adrian Hallmark, Bentley Chairman and CEO, said: "Today, on our Centenary, we demonstrate our vision of the future of our Marque, with the Bentley EXP 100 GT – a modern and definitive Grand Tourer designed to demonstrate that the future of luxury mobility is as inspirational and aspirational as the last 100 years.
Bentley has, and will continue to enhance and enrich every single journey and the lives of every single person who travels in, or has the honor to be a part of creating our extraordinary products."
Stefan Sielaff, Director of Design said: "The Bentley EXP 100 GT represents the kind of cars we want to make in the future. Like those iconic Bentleys of the past, this car connects with its passengers' emotions and helps them experience and safeguard the memories of the really extraordinary journeys they take."
An inspiring blend of performance, technology and craftsmanship, the Bentley EXP 100 GT is a beautiful, immersive and emotionally intelligent experience.
Luxury Beyond Mobility
The Bentley EXP 100 GT redefines the car as a space for extraordinary and emotional human experiences, ones that enrich and inspire. Bentley's vision imagines the journeys of the future, drawing on 100 years of expertise in luxury design and craftsmanship that are currently being celebrated around the world in the company's Centenary year.
The Bentley EXP 100 GT's sleek and muscular exterior explores the brand's future design direction. It incorporates the company's unmistakable DNA, remaining instantly recognizable as a Bentley. The famous R-Type Continental haunch at the rear, the round headlights that overlap the grille in a nod to the famous Bentley Blower and a long graceful body hint at famous models of yesteryear.
However, this Bentley journeys into the future. Made from lightweight aluminum and carbon fibre, the Bentley EXP 100 GT measures 5.8 meters long and almost 2.4 meters wide, and makes a statement of true luxury. This is further enhanced by decorative features crafted from copper and aluminum, both natural sustainable materials, which evoke founder W.O Bentley's choice of materials to create the alloy for his famous BR1 Aero engine piston that played a major role in securing the air theatre in World War 1.
The driver and passenger doors are two meters wide and pivot outwards and upwards for effortless access. Fully open, they rise to almost three meters, adding to the sense of occasion on arrival.
The new exterior paint color Compass is created using a special Colorstream pigment that reflects a beautiful spectrum of autumnal colors and is both sustainable and environmentally friendly. The pigment is synthetically made using rice husk ash, a harmful bi-product of the rice industry, remanufactured for the Bentley EXP 100 GT to reduce the amount that ends up in landfill waste.
The Bentley EXP 100 GT's expressive exterior lighting is both dynamic and dramatic. A focal point is the smart, illuminated matrix grille and Flying B mascot which come to life as one approaches the car, light playing across the grille, through the mascot and along the bonnet central spine of the car and into the cabin itself. The car literally comes alive.
At the rear, a 'horseshoe' section of the boot is a 3D OLED screen on which lighting effects can blend in with the rear lamps.
Inside a luxurious cockpit, Bentley craftspeople have taken hand-craftsmanship of materials to an as yet unseen level, setting the new benchmark for luxury interiors.
The finest natural materials such as wood, leather and glass are seamlessly blended with light, creating a unique interior environment that boosts the physical and mental well-being of passengers.
Exquisite materials graduate and flow throughout the handcrafted cabin of the Bentley EXP 100 GT. For example, the embroidery pattern of the sustainable textiles and leather complement the pattern of the grain in the naturally-felled wood veneer. These traditional, tactile materials reconnect passengers with the authentic, natural world around them.
Imperceptible joins between different materials such as wood, leather and wool allow an overall design motif to flow across all these surfaces. The materials are brought together by design, a seamless blend of patterns and forms, textures and colors. Glass flows into metal, into wood and into leather.
Light is core to life and in the Bentley EXP 100 GT it is harvested from the surrounding environment via an innovative glass roof embedded with prisms that collect light and transfer it into the cabin using fibre optics. The use of harvested natural light and synthesized light offers a new approach to enhancing wellness on board.
The Bentley Personal Assistant is a centre piece of the main console and visualized using illuminated crystal from Cumbria, England. Ambient lighting can also be modified to recreate a specific mood or exterior environment, while additional effects are delivered through projection mapping onto trim panels, such as door pads.
Intelligent, Adaptable Biometric Seating can be configured in three different ways, depending on whether the owner is driving or using autonomous mode. Biometric sensors monitor temperature, passenger position and environmental conditions to deliver the ultimate in comfort, whatever the conditions.
Bentley Personal Assistant pre-empts passenger needs and can even maximize comfort based on its knowledge of its owner. For example, reactive seat surfaces respond to passenger position during driving, automatically offering more support when the need is sensed.
In addition, biometrics are embedded throughout the Bentley EXP 100 GT to track eye and head movements, even blood pressure. It represents the future of customized, in-car comfort far beyond any seating experienced in a modern-day car.
An intelligent future for Grand Touring
Enhancing the occupants experience of their extraordinary journey in the Bentley EXP 100 GT is the Bentley Personal Assistant AI. This advanced, intelligent system defines the Grand Tourer of the future as it delivers a highly personalized experience to the passenger based on five distinct modes with individual characteristics: Enhance, Cocoon, Capture, Re-Live and Customize. Interaction with the AI is made through hand gestures made to the front or rear Cumbria Crystal interfaces that intuitively interpret the commands.
Enhance harvests inputs from the outside environment, such as light, sound, smell and air quality, offering a holistic grand tour, and a feeling of open top motoring from under the glass canopy.
Cocoon creates a protective space, including air purification and glass areas that turn opaque for privacy; while Capture records experiences from both inside and outside the car which become part of your car's unique history.
Re-Live replays highlights of your Grand Tour, while Customise combines elements of all the different modes and are individually selected by the driver or passenger.
Sustainable Innovation – The Future of Bentley
Bentley believes its approach to innovation is created through a balance: Preservation of the world and the self should be at the forefront, while purposeful and intuitive innovation remains essentially linked to sustainability.
The Bentley EXP 100 GT features air and sound curation that promotes self-care and well-being in the car. These create a physiological, health-enhancing environment for passengers, promoting increased mindfulness in the cabin.
For example, Capture mode on Bentley Personal Assistant brings the external environment into the cabin, creating an open-top driving experience without taking the roof down. It also cocoons passengers – blocking and filtering air pollution in cities.
The Bentley EXP 100 GT has passive and active air intakes in the front grille, cooling the drivetrain and batteries that drive the car's powerful electric motors. Unwanted air is channelled out of the car at the rear to aid aerodynamics.
The Air Purification System is located in the boot space to purify air before it is supplied into the cabin, with deployable air vents on the rear passenger shelf and static vents on the front passenger panel. The air vents undulate giving the appearance that the car is breathing and alive. Meanwhile, CO2 levels in the cabin are constantly monitored to maintain air quality.
As well as capturing exterior scents, Bentley has developed a unique scent for the Bentley EXP 100 GT. Created in collaboration with ethically-aware fragrance house 12.29, it builds on the rich heritage of Bentley, incorporating sandalwood and fresh moss.
The Bentley EXP 100 GT also puts passengers in control of how they disconnect and reflect, enhancing mindfulness by allowing occupants to live in the present. As screen-time become ever more present, these disconnecting, relaxing experiences have gained luxury status.
Rotary switches fashioned from copper and aluminum add tactility in a digital world.
The in-car displays enhance the grand tour experience using augmented reality, or can provide a relaxed cocoon on demand. All displays use a simple, intuitive interface that includes transparent OLED information displays in the doors, automatically darkening glass, and a front entertainment screen for displaying films, live video and other media when the Bentley EXP 100 GT is in autonomous driving mode.
Making a material difference to Sustainable Innovation
Bentley has collaborated with carefully selected industry experts to provide exceptional materials in the Bentley EXP 100 GT. All use sustainable and innovative techniques for customers who are environmentally-conscious and ethical in their brand choice.
Among them is the remarkable Copper Infused Riverwood, a sustainable wood from naturally fallen trees that has been preserved for 5,000 years in peat bogs, lakes and rivers. The Riverwood features in the cabin and has been sourced from The Fenland Black Oak Project, a British organization set up to preserve this material for future generations.
Hand and Lock is the London-based embroidery company that employs exquisite, traditional techniques that date back to 1767 and are used on Royal and Military Dress uniforms. Their techniques are primarily used on the door panels of the Bentley EXP 100 GT, creating a seamless integration between different materials and a beautiful contemporary embroidery pattern.
Bridge of Weir Leather of Scotland works with specifically selected, locally sourced hides for Bentley to create a soft, natural leather enhanced by its environment. With the ultimate Super Natural finish, this will be Bentley's benchmark for future luxury alternative materials.
Finally, in an exclusive collaboration, Bentley has used the by-products of wine-making to create the future of luxury eco-materials, creating a leather-like seating material which is 100 per cent bio-based.
Performance & Technology – Reimagining The Grand Tour
The Bentley EXP 100 GT is an extraordinary step on the road towards a carbon-free future.
Sustainable and intelligent, a battery electric power train, with intelligent power and charge management, will ensure that the Bentley EXP 100 GT is as powerful and exciting as its conventional predecessors.
Next Generation Traction Drive will enable maximum control via torque vectoring, applying 50 per cent increased power and 35 per cent less mass for more effective cornering. The battery system will power four motors that offer a 0-100 km (0-60 mph) time of less than 2.5 seconds, a top speed of 300 kph (186 mph) and maximum torque of 1,500 Nm.
Future battery technology will offer five times the conventional energy density, and charging the Bentley EXP 100 GT to 80 per cent of capacity will take only 15 minutes. Charging is automatically taken care of by the Bentley Personal Assistant. Weight will remain at a remarkably trim 1,900 kg and a range of 700 km (435 miles) will be possible.
To celebrate the drive, the Bentley EXP 100 GT is optionally autonomous. It manages the driving experience based on the external environment and passenger well-being. This might include maximizing an exhilarating self-drive across mountain roads, or disengaging from a stressful, inner-city commute.
Bentley Personal Assistant can curate personal driving experiences, offering points of information along a route, journey suggestions, or available luxury experiences nearby.
Key to this are a range of features based on passenger well-being and comfort. These include Active Aero Wheels that dynamically adjust to deliver efficiency or maximum performance feel; Intelligent Pirelli Tyres that adapt their contact patches based on weather conditions or driver demand; Adaptable Biometric Seating that adapts to the driver mode, or swivels rearward with the steering wheel retracted away in autonomous mode.
The use of artificial intelligence with the Bentley Personal Assistant, combined with expert engineering in the Bentley EXP 100 GT, has redefined the future of Grand Touring. AI manifests itself in the cabin as a 'feeling' light and is controlled through gestures and touch.
An example of gesture control can be demonstrated by a child looking out of the Bentley EXP 100 GT cabin at clouds, then pulling down content inside the vehicle through a gesture that explains what they are seeing to them. AI thus creates a joint, meaningful learning experience that can also be shared.
AI is controlled via an illuminated Cumbria Crystal centre piece and control centre, set in three layers. Cumbria Crystal, the last producer of completely hand-blown and hand-cut crystal in England.
A cartridge system in the centre of the Bentley EXP 100 GT delivers luxury items and services. The main features are a Purified Water Decanter and Crystal Glasses; a Cartridge Delivery System that can deliver items from an under the bonnet storage area into the cabin itself; and World Class Services, that could receive items requested by the car's AI and delivered from luxury service partners.
July 10, 2019 marks Bentley's 100th year – an extraordinary milestone achieved by only a few companies. A year-long series of special activities have been taking place, with celebrations at events around the world. They showcase Bentley's motoring evolution over the last 100 years, highlighting its global success today and the exciting future of innovation ahead.
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mdso 2019-07-08 17:58:01 UTC #5485
From my memory which is not great, Hird as Coach round 17 we were top 4, when our lost our place was given to Carlton who then made up the eight and many of our players went onto be banned and the team was full of top up players.
I don't know how anyone can say Hird was NOT a good coach because we'll never know whether he was or wasn't. Hird was also banned for 12 months.
None of the things being said about Bomber and drugs are proven, they are nothing but allegations, at this point in time. Let's not go via the way of the media he is entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.
So I didn't dream it.
Someone still said it.
After a good lie down.
LeonBaker4Eva 2019-07-08 20:55:31 UTC #5487
In regards to coaching why didn't Woosha notice or change what was happening in the ruck (Zac C tapping it forward and Aliir roving for seven kicks forward)? This lack of awareness is staggering.
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Sweet16 2019-07-08 21:52:28 UTC #5489
I like how our fwds where in our fwd half not up on the wings.
choppsuey 2019-07-08 22:10:30 UTC #5491
LeonBaker4Eva:
speaking of lack of awareness… there was only one centre bounce in the 3rd qtr where Allir didn't contest and roved Clarke's hitout. The only other stoppage that he didn't contest was a throw against McKernan, when McKernan clearly tried to hit the ball to space to avoid Allir who wasn't contesting but Allir was good enough to read it and rove the clearance. The one time Allir didn't contest in the last quarter, Clarke did the right thing a belted the ball forward to space but again our mids missed the memo.
Reality is that they did change what they were doing with their hitouts (trying to hit wide to space rather down to Allir) but Allir did a very good job of changing up his tactics to keep both Clarke and Mckernan off balance (not hard to be honest) and followed up well at ground level as you'd expect from a hybrid ruck rover. You should be directing your questions to the midfield group who continually got beaten by a Swans midfield who were content to rove to our hitouts pretty well every time. And if you think that's a coaching problem, which it probably is in part, then that criticism should be directed to their line coaches in Skipworth and Kelly.
Clarke is a spud and was probably always going to have a tough time of it against the far more agile Allir who had a clear instruction to rove to him and create an extra number at ground level. He's gonna play again this week and as limited as he is it's a far better match up against another genuine ruck in Goldy. Mids are going to need to look at plenty of footage of Goldstein's ruck work this week.
All_Things_Essendon 2019-07-08 22:26:49 UTC #5492
Woosh is doing ok under the circumstances… injuries, relatively inexperienced list. Yeah, skills are ordinary but the issue is league wide at the moment so I'm not putting that solely on the coaches. I think fatigue, tactics/zones + all ground pressure are huge factors. The bloke is methodical (boring as), deliberate and process driven. Mind you, I like what I'm seeing game day currently… engaged, animated, communicating with players directly. 4 wins from 5 is good. Hawks, GWS and Swans were significant. Smashing the Blues was satisfying. North, Crows, Suns and Port provide Essendon with an opportunity. 7 more home and away games. Win 5, they'll play finals. 4… unlikely with a inferior percentage? With the wins, once again it feels like there's progress in how the team play BUT consistency remains the biggest hurdle. Winning more than 2 consecutive games tells the story although like earlier in the year North could be their third win in succession?
I think "a bit too slow to react" is very much a valid criticism of the current snr coach, assistant coaches and leadership group
They seem to get to the right point, when it seems like they could've recognised and made the adjustment earlier. Tightening that up will go a long way.
premature_rookie_ele 2019-07-08 23:03:08 UTC #5495
so… it's an "i'm done" from SMJ ?
I concur…and I love it.
Lol. Never
The danger is jumping into a "discussion" half way through and not knowing what the hell is being argued about and who is on what side of the issue. That's fun and frustrating.
Doe why do you hate James Hird.
He touches on the game day coaching (both do), and some of the thoughts that go into the decisions.
This guy is the right guy to lead us to a flag.
Haven't seen it. They usually put up on efc site when players / coaches on TV segments
Not up as yet
Reckon scott challenging all the has been former players about skill levels was interesting.
Based on a TV interview? I thought you hated people analysing his interviews.


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Bohnert on track for continued growth
Sales record broken
With an increase in sales of five percent to 17.1 million euros, Bohnert GmbH achieved a sales record in its more than 40-year company history in the 2017/18 financial year.
The workforce grew by four percent to a total of 119 employees, including four apprentices in different years of apprenticeship – the junior staff of tomorrow.
"Well-trained and motivated employees, whose skills are used in many product groups, as well as an ability to get to grips with new technologies, are the basis for this great success," says Managing Director Michael Aust in praise of the workforce.
Bohnert GmbH is also looking to continue its growth in the recently started financial year. According to the company, the first major orders from established customers producing automotive door closing systems and low-voltage technology were secured in the first few weeks of July.
"Further investment in new technologies is also planned, with a view to continuing to develop innovative products and guaranteeing continuous growth at the Hardt location," explains Managing Director Aust.


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Eric Toussaint: "The Social Forum, upon contact with a reality at boiling point, has produced a positive chemical reaction"
by Eric Toussaint , Sergio Ferrari
Assessment after the World Social Forum in Tunis 2013
The World Social Forum (WSF) wound up its ninth centralized edition on Saturday, 30 March in the Tunisian capital with a significant quantifiable end result. More than 50,000 participants, almost one thousand activities of many kinds; an opening march on Tuesday the 26th that brought out 25,000 people and a tightly-packed closing march in solidarity with the Palestinian people. "A very positive forum" according to the analysis of Belgian historian and activist Eric Toussaint, coordinator of the Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt (Comité pour l'Annulation de la Dette du Tiers Monde – CADTM) member of the FSM International piloting committee since its inception.
Question: What were the most important aspects of this new edition of the WSF?
Eric Toussaint: There was a strong Tunisian presence in many activities. For example, we observed this in the workshops and activities on the debt. Also in the Social Movements Assembly on Friday the 29th. The great interest youth and social movements showed towards this initiative was obvious. This is a very positive aspect of our evaluation.
Q: Does this mean that the WSF comes out of this Maghrebi session strengthened ?
E.T: No doubt about it. WSF has been going through an obvious crisis for some years now. In particular, its International Piloting Committee, as a facilitating body, has faced huge difficulties finding a new dynamic. At the same time, the Social Forum indisputably remains the only worldwide arena and framework where social movements can meet. In this sense, in the absence of an alternative, the WSF remains very important. Since Tunisian and the region's civil society remain actively mobilized, this is a breath of fresh air and renewal for this international occasion. The Social forum, in coming into contact with a society in movement, in ebullition, has produced a chemical reaction; a very interesting interaction that we have observed during this edition.
Q: According to your assessment, holding the WSF in a country and region in turmoil could also be a future antidote against any risk of institutionalizing this global occasion…
E.T: Precisely. We could imagine an upcoming edition of the WSF in Egypt if a group of organizations there proposed to host it. In fact, Egypt is experiencing a completely electric situation with a trade union movement proportionally stronger in the industrial sector than in Tunisia, with a peasantry hard-hit by the World Bank's neoliberal policies and land privatization; but social explosions could take place in other parts of the world and different scenarios are imaginable.
Q: How can the difficulties and the sort of paralysis faced by the WSF International piloting committee be unblocked?
E.T: I don't have these solutions. I see that a series of forces on the committee want to continue to play this role. Tunis teaches us that a certain point we have to free the terrain and make way for new forces. The CADTM will continue to be a member of the International committee, there are very interesting and dynamic players within it, with whom we collaborate closely. We also know that there is a series of very institutionalized forces that manage the Social Forum "Brand" according to their interests.
Q: Despite all this, you think that we should continue to strengthen it?
E.T: Without a doubt the WSF is useful. We can see, as happened here, that a very positive dynamic is developing independently of operational problems.
Q: Within this optimistic assessment, what are the negative aspects that emerge from this edition?
E.T: USAID was among the organizations that set up stands. It is a US cooperation agency present in all destabilization operations around the planet. It is an instrument of US government international policy. This organization has no reason to be at the Forum. This is cause for concern, all the more so as it involves a violation of the 2001 Charter of Principles. So I understand the participants who ejected this organization from the perimeter of the El Manar university campus where the Forum was taking place.
We have also seen – just as happened during the earlier 2011 Social Forum in Dakar – that the Moroccan monarchy sent a hundred or so individuals paid to pose as members of non-governmental and social organizations. Some of these were police, whose mission was to prevent anyone from raising the demand for an independent Sahrawian State We saw that in Dakar, and it happened once again on Friday the 29th at the social movements assembly… Provocateurs linked to the Moroccan regime swarmed the floor in an attempt to prevent any reference being made, in the Social Movements declaration, to the necessary solidarity with the Sahrawian people. This was another negative aspect, though it was not the WSF's responsibility. In particular, we have to find ways of defending Moroccan activists who have the courage to speak out for the democratic right to national sovereignty.
Sergio Ferrari, from Tunis
Translated by Marie Lagatta and Mike Krolikowski
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He is the author of Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012 (see here), etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
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The Justice Department announced August 20 the unsealing of a superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Sacramento, California, charging Teresa Marie Marty, Charles Tingler, and Victoria Tingler, all of Placerville, California, with conspiracy to defraud the United States and filing multimillion-dollar liens against government officials.
Marty is charged with filing liens against the property of three IRS employees involved in the collection of taxes she owed the IRS. She also filed liens of at least $84 million against the property of two Justice Department attorneys involved in a lawsuit filed against her in 2009 to enjoin her and her business, Advanced Financial Services (AFS), from preparing tax returns.
According to the superseding indictment, the Tinglers were clients of Marty and AFS, who filed a false tax return in 2008 fraudulently claiming a refund of $358,415. The indictment charges the Tinglers, as well as Marty, with filing this tax return. When the IRS tried to collect the fraudulently obtained refund, both Charles and Victoria Tingler filed multiple liens against the IRS revenue officer who was handling their collection case.
According to the charging documents, the liens disclosed the Social Security numbers of the respective government employees. Marty and the Tinglers are also charged with multiple counts of unlawfully using the Social Security numbers of the government employees in the liens they filed with the California Secretary of State.
Finally, the indictment charges Marty, Charles Tingler, and AFS office manager Pamela Harris with participating in a conspiracy to defraud the IRS. The indictment alleges that as part of the conspiracy, Harris and Marty engaged a commercial collection agency to collect one of the three false liens that Charles Tingler had filed, one of which was in the amount of $500,000.
Marty, Harris, and Marty's daughter, Rebecca Bandera-Marty, had previously been indicted in June 2013 for a large-scale tax-fraud scheme. Those charges are included in this superseding indictment. According to the superseding indictment, in 2008 and 2009 Marty, Bandera-Marty, and Harris conspired to file at least 250 false individual federal income tax returns on behalf of individuals who resided in twenty-six states, and which claimed more than $60 million in false federal income tax refunds.
If convicted, the defendants face up to five years in prison for the conspiracy charge as well as each charge of filing a false claim and unlawfully disclosing a Social Security number. Each retaliatory lien count carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison.
Aaron Cohen of Encino, California, pleaded guilty August 29, 2013, in the US District Court for the Central District of California to conspiracy to defraud the United States, the Justice Department and IRS-CI announced.
According to court documents, Cohen, a US citizen, maintained undeclared bank accounts at two international banks headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, identified in court documents as Bank A and Bank B. One of Cohen's undeclared accounts was maintained at a branch of Bank A located in the Cayman Islands.
The accounts were held in the names of nominees in order to keep them secret from the US government. In or about 2000, Cohen began using the funds in his undeclared account in the Cayman Islands as collateral for back-to-back loans obtained from another branch of Bank A located in Los Angeles. Cohen's ownership of the funds in the Cayman Islands accounts was not identified in the loan records maintained at the Los Angeles branch, thus concealing the fact that he was borrowing his own money, paying tax-deductible interest on the loans, and not reporting the interest income he was earning in the Cayman Islands on his US tax returns.
According to the plea agreement, in or about 2009, Cohen transferred approximately $2 million from his Cayman Islands account at Bank A to a new offshore account at Bank B in Israel. Cohen then used the funds in the new account as collateral to obtain a back-to-back loan from the Los Angeles branch of Bank B. Cohen failed to report any income from the accounts on his individual income tax returns that were filed with the IRS.
For tax years 2006 through 2009, Cohen failed to report interest income of approximately $238,000. The highest balance in the undeclared accounts was approximately $3,450,000.
Cohen is the latest in a series of defendants charged in the US District Court for the Central District of California with failing to report income from undeclared accounts in Israel.
On March 29, 2013, Zvi Sperling of Beverly Hills, California, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States in connection with back-to-back loans obtained in Los Angeles at branches of Bank A and Bank B that were secured by funds in undeclared bank accounts in Israel. For tax years 2005 through 2008, Sperling failed to report income of approximately $381,563. The highest balance in Sperling's undeclared accounts was approximately $4 million.
On May 21, 2013, Guity Kashfi of Los Angeles, California, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States in connection with back-to-back loans obtained from branches of Bank A and Bank B in Los Angeles that were secured by funds in undeclared bank accounts in Israel and Luxembourg. For tax years 2005 through 2011, Kashfi failed to report interest income of approximately $221,306. The highest balance in Kashfi's undeclared accounts was approximately $2.5 million.
Cohen faces a potential maximum prison term of five years and a maximum fine of $250,000. In addition, Cohen has agreed to pay a civil penalty to the IRS in the amount of 50 percent of the high balance of his undeclared accounts for failing to file FBARs.
Chequlia Motley of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced August 13, 2013, to serve thirty-six months in prison for conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and the US Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama announced. Motley pleaded guilty to those charges in May 2013.
According to Motley's plea agreement, she was a former state employee who stole identities from state databases and sold them to coconspirators. As evidence presented at the sentencing hearing showed, Motley had previously worked for the Alabama State Employees' Insurance Board and stole the personal information of over a hundred state workers and their family members from the databases maintained by the board.
She provided this information to Veronica Temple, Yolanda Moses, and Barbara Murry, who used the stolen identities to file false tax returns that fraudulently requested tax refunds from the IRS. Temple, Moses, and Murry were previously convicted and each sentenced in February to fifty-seven months in prison.
In addition to the prison sentence, Motley was ordered to pay $179,946 in restitution to the IRS.
A federal court in Indianapolis permanently barred David Franklin and his company, Instant Refund Tax Service (IRTS), from preparing tax returns and from operating a tax-preparation business, the Justice Department announced August 19. The government alleged that IRTS, which Franklin wholly owns, operated as a franchisee of Instant Tax Service, a large national tax-preparation franchisor operated by ITS Financial LLC, based in Dayton, Ohio.
The order follows an earlier preliminary injunction against the defendants. In a separate case, a federal court in Ohio preliminarily enjoined the Dayton-based franchisor last November. The defendants in both cases consented to entry of the preliminary injunctions without admitting the allegations against them.
The Indiana permanent injunction order was signed by Judge Sarah Evans Barker of the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The government complaint in the case alleged that Franklin owned and operated twenty-two Instant Tax Service locations that prepared and filed false and fraudulent income tax returns for customers, fabricated income for phony businesses to obtain larger tax credits, forged W-2 forms, filed returns improperly based on paycheck stubs rather than W-2 forms, claimed false education tax credits, and reported false filing statuses for customers. The government also accused Franklin's offices of filing tax returns without customers' authorization and selling false and deceptive loan products to customers.
The case is one of five similar civil actions that the Justice Department brought against Instant Tax Service franchises and the corporate franchisor, ITS Financial, which claims to be the fourth-largest tax-preparation firm in the nation. The court recently conducted a two-week trial in the Ohio case in connection with the government's request to permanently enjoin the Instant Tax Service franchisor. A decision has not yet been issued.
The Justice Department announced August 20 that a fourteen-count superseding indictment was unsealed, charging JB Tax Professional Services Inc., Jacqueline J. Arias, and Jose Bayron Estrada, of Spruce Pine, Alabama, along with nineteen foreign nationals, many of whom resided in the New Orleans area, with conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud by filing fraudulent income tax returns. The indictment also charges certain defendants with aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Most of the defendants were previously indicted in May 2013 and arrested in June 2013.
According to the indictment, members of the conspiracy obtained Forms W-2, often by purchasing them for cash, for the purposes of filing fraudulent income tax returns. Conspirators further obtained individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs) for use in filing fraudulent tax returns, in some cases using false applications filed with the assistance of Arias and JB Tax Professional Services. An ITIN is a tax processing number issued by the IRS to individuals who do not have, and are not eligible to obtain, a Social Security number. Both Arias and the business were designated by the IRS as certified acceptance agents, which are entrusted by the IRS with the responsibility of reviewing the documentation of an ITIN applicant's identity and alien status for authenticity, completeness and accuracy before submitting their application to the IRS.
The charging documents allege that the defendants used the Social Security numbers of real persons to conduct mail and wire fraud. The defendants also allegedly disguised and concealed the proceeds of their fraud by agreeing to conduct certain types of financial transactions.
Each defendant faces a maximum potential sentence of five years in prison for the conspiracy charge. Each aggravated identity theft charge carries a mandatory two-year prison sentence, and the defendants charged in the money laundering conspiracy count face a possible maximum sentence of twenty years in prison. The defendants will also be subject to fines, mandatory restitution, and forfeiture if convicted.
On August 20, the Justice Department announced the guilty plea of Thomas Nastasi III of Mt. Kisco, New York, to one count of willful failure to pay the IRS the payroll taxes of his company, Nastasi Maintenance & Construction LLC. Nastasi pleaded guilty before US District Judge Paul G. Gardephe in the Southern District of New York.
According to the previously filed indictment and statements made during Nastasi's guilty plea, from 2001 through 2011, Nastasi owned and operated several Manhattan construction and maintenance companies, including Nastasi Maintenance & Construction. As the president of the companies, Nastasi was responsible for withholding payroll taxes from his employees and paying them over to the IRS. Those taxes included the employees' income taxes, Social Security, and Medicare taxes. Nastasi accumulated over $1.7 million in payroll taxes that were owed but never paid to the IRS.
Court documents and statements also established that instead of paying the companies' payroll taxes to the IRS, Nastasi used company funds to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal expenses, for items including boat-related expenses and cigars. Nastasi also made false statements to the IRS in the course of its attempts to obtain delinquent tax returns and collect the corporate and personal taxes owed by Nastasi and his companies. Sentencing is set for December 19, 2013.
The Justice Department announced that on August 22, 2013, a federal court in Ft. Worth, Texas, permanently barred Karena Mondrianh from preparing tax returns and from operating a tax-preparation business. Mondrianh consented to entry of the preliminary injunctions without admitting the allegations against her.
In its complaint, the government alleged that Mondrianh prepared fraudulent tax returns understating customers' income by inventing false business expenses and by falsely claiming that customers' income was exempt from tax. According to the complaint, most of Mondrianh's customers work overseas for defense contractors. The permanent injunction order was signed by Judge John H. McBryde of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
The complaint further alleged that Mondrianh provided false information to the IRS in improper attempts to delay IRS audits of customers. She also allegedly urged a customer to lie to an IRS agent in order to forestall an IRS audit.
Antoine Green, a former US Postal Service (USPS) employee, pleaded guilty August 26, 2013, in US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama to crimes related to his involvement in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced.
According to court documents, between November 2011 and October 2012, Green, who was employed as a postal carrier with the USPS in Montgomery, Alabama, stole at least sixty-one US Treasury tax refund checks from his mail route. The checks, which totaled approximately $145,952, were issued by the IRS in connection with fraudulent tax returns filed in the names of identity theft victims.
For his involvement in the scheme, Green pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government money and one count of theft of mail by a postal employee. He faces a maximum potential sentence of fifteen years in prison and a fine of up to $500,000.
The Justice Department and the IRS announced August 26, 2013, that Douglas R. Madsen, a former chiropractor from Ephraim, Utah, was sentenced by the US District Judge Clark Waddoups to thirty-three months in prison and restitution of over $500,000 following a conviction for attempted evasion of payment of income tax in the District of Utah.
On January 12, 2012, a jury convicted Madsen of one count of tax evasion. According to court documents, Madsen owed approximately $1.3 million in assessed income tax, interest, and penalties for the years 1995 and 1999 to 2004. Madsen's tax debt had grown, by the trial date, to over $1.7 million, after accrued interest.
The evidence presented at trial established that Madsen used nominee trusts to conceal the ownership of numerous acres of property, ultimately causing the transfer of that property to Grand Scale Inc., a Washington State corporation of which he was the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and chairman of the board. In addition, the evidence showed that Madsen used other entities to encumber property and cloud equity in that property through use of mortgages and Uniform Commercial Code financing statements. Madsen was previously held in civil contempt by the US District Court for the District of Utah for failure to comply with court orders with respect to an IRS summons.
The United States has requested the federal district court in Charleston, South Carolina, to permanently bar Jessica Geddis of Summerville, South Carolina, from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced August 27, 2013.
According to the complaint, Geddis prepared federal income tax returns from her home and as a tax preparer at MBM Tax and Accounting Services LLC. The complaint alleges that Geddis prepared returns for herself and others that overstate income by reporting fictitious household help income. Geddis overstated her customers' income in order to increase the amount of her customers' refundable tax credits, including the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Making Work Pay Credit.
The complaint further alleges that Geddis directed the IRS to deposit all, or a portion of, her customers' overstated refunds into bank accounts that she controls. According to the complaint, the IRS has reviewed Geddis' bank records and determined that she has received at least 148 fraudulent tax refunds totaling $281,678 between January 2008 and May 2012.
The owner of a Ventura County, California, residential and commercial paint business was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for failing to report to the IRS wages paid to employees totaling over $1.5 million.
Scott G. Titus, 53, of Ojai, the owner and operator of Scott Titus Painting, was sentenced by US District Judge Stephen V. Wilson, who also ordered Titus to pay restitution in the amount of $666,748.40 to the IRS.
In April of this year, Titus pleaded guilty to count one of the information charging him with subscribing to a false quarterly employment tax return for 2008.
According to the plea agreement, during the years 2008 through 2010, Titus owned and operated Scott Titus Painting. Titus painted residential and commercial properties and was paid by his clients in both cash and checks. Titus used the cash payments received from clients, along with cash derived from cashing checks and cash withdrawals from his business bank account, to pay his employees their wages in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
For the years in question, Titus failed to report $1,594,971 in wages paid to the employees of Scott Titus Painting on the quarterly and annual employment tax returns filed with the IRS resulting in a tax loss to the government of at least $666,748.
The count to which Titus pleaded guilty relates to the employment tax return for the second quarter of 2008. Specifically, Titus reported paying wages to employees of $22,195, when in fact he paid wages of $215,774, falsely underreporting the wages paid by $193,579.
The investigation of Titus was conducted by IRS Criminal Investigation in Los Angeles in conjunction with the US Attorney's Office Tax Division.
A Bellflower, California, man was sentenced to 102 months in federal prison for his role in a credit card fraud scheme that used the names of real and fictitious individuals and business entities to obtain fraudulent credit cards used to make unauthorized withdrawals and purchases.
Clayton Stewart, aka Douglas Blackburn, was sentenced in the fraud scheme by US District Judge Gary Allen Feess. In addition to the prison term, Judge Feess ordered Stewart to pay $404,284.80 in restitution to the victim financial institutions.
Clayton Stewart pleaded guilty in November to one count each of bank fraud conspiracy, access device fraud, and money laundering conspiracy admitting that he, together with his brother Johnny Stewart of Marina Del Rey, and codefendant Dexter Hardy of Los Angeles County, engaged in a scheme to defraud Bank of America, Chase Bank USA, and Capital One Bank of funds belonging to these financial institutions through the use of fraudulent credit card applications.
According to documents filed with the court, Clayton Stewart and Johnny Stewart were involved in a conspiracy in which the defendants fraudulently applied online for unauthorized credit cards from the financial institutions. For many of the cards, Clayton Stewart and his brother made calls to the bank in the names of actual victims to inquire about the cards opened in the names of the business entities. Once Clayton Stewart and his brother received the credit cards, they used the credit cards to make unauthorized bank ATM withdrawals and purchases, including purchases of department store gift cards and Apple iPads. To get more money out of the scheme, Clayton Stewart and his brother created sham entities so that charges could be made with the fraudulent credit cards on merchant processors for the entities. The intended dollar loss associated with the scheme is $652,050.00.
Johnny Stewart was convicted in November by a federal jury of eighteen felony counts, including bank fraud, access device fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft. He received a sentence of 144 months in federal prison. Dexter Hardy pleaded guilty in August of last year to one count of bank fraud conspiracy. He received a sentence of thirty-three months in federal prison.
In February 2008, Clayton Stewart was sentenced in US District Court to thirty-seven months in federal prison after pleading guilty to a similar access device fraud scheme. Clayton Stewart was released from federal custody on September 17, 2010. Search warrant records from the previous scheme uncovered letters from Johnny Stewart to Clayton Stewart on how to commit different types of fraud without being detected by law enforcement. In those letters, Johnny Stewart instructed Clayton Stewart how to conduct bank transactions on the home computer so that Clayton Stewart did not need to go to the bank and risk being detected.
A Lynn, Massachusetts, man was sentenced August 15, 2013, in US District Court in Boston for identity theft and tax fraud committed while operating a tax return preparation business. Roosevelt Fernandez was sentenced by to forty-two months in prison and ordered to pay $116,679 in restitution to the IRS. On January 16, 2013, Fernandez pleaded guilty to a thirteen-count superseding information charging him with aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns and identity theft.
Fernandez held himself out as an experienced tax return preparer operating a business called H&T Multi Services in Lynn. On numerous occasions, Fernandez inserted false and fabricated information into his clients' income tax returns. This information included wholly fictitious and fraudulently inflated claims relating to deductions and credits. In addition, Fernandez omitted the names and personal identifying information of dependent children from their actual parents' income tax returns, and then charged other clients $500 or more to add those dependents to their income tax returns in order to generate larger tax refunds.


"Coat Rack," photographed by Neil Rappaport (1942- 1998), colored by Susanne Rappaport (1944-2015), hand-colored silver gelatin print, 14 x 17 inches.
BENNINGTON — Who was Minnie Griswold and what her life was like? These are the questions being unwrapped in "Up Home: Hand-Colored Photographs by Susanne and Neil Rappaport." First unveiled at the Vermont Folklife Center in February, 2018, the collection of over 45 hand-colored photographs taken in Griswold's Pawlet home are now on view at Bennington Museum, March 30 through June 11. This exhibition brings together the best in documentary work and artistic expression.
Minnie Griswold died in 1952, at which time her sons locked up their mother's house in Pawlet and left all her belongings in place, untouched, unaltered, a type of shrine to their mother. Having lost their father to a mill accident when they were young, the boys had been raised single-handedly by their mother. Her life in Vermont was simple yet hard.
Thirty years later, in the 1980s, Pawlet documentarians Susanne and Neil Rappaport were invited by Charlie, one of Griswold's sons, then in his 80s, into the home. There they observed all of the home's belongings - in place, seemingly unaltered. Combining their creativity, Neil Rappaport went about photographing the rooms and everyday objects in black and white, using his large format camera.
"Black-and-white photography would tell of too somber a Minnie Griswold; its portrayal would make too much of her tragedies, too little of her joys," Neil Rappaport said at the time. "The photographs would have to be open to coloring if any sense of her true spirit was to be conveyed."
Susanne Rappaport then spent almost a year in Griswold's home hand-coloring the images, capturing the life that had been in the home. Susanne and Neil have since died, Neil in 1998 and Susanne in 2015, but the images they created provide insight into Griswold's life through the items left behind.
"Her [Griswold's] colors gave a living energy to the image space and it was a challenge to get better at making that happen. One at a time, the black-and-white photographs were being transformed and illuminated anew," Susanne Rappaport said.
As a part of her process, Susanne Rappaport completed a number of smaller practice prints. The photographs she practiced on where Neil Rappaport's contact prints—test prints he made as he worked toward creating the final versions. Before his final prints would become her canvas, these contact prints appear to have been her color sketchbook. Viewing the colored version of Living Room Sofa side-by-side with the uncolored print presents a striking contrast. By comparing the two, one can understand the impact of the Rappaports' creative decision - in seeing the Griswold home in color and not black and white.
On Sunday, from 3 to 5 p.m., special guest Alan David Griswold, great grandson of Minnie Griswold, will join Bennington Museum curator Jamie Franklin, Andy Kolovos of the Vermont Folklife Center, and Eileen Travell of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the museum's Spring Social and exhibit opening. This event is free and open to the public.


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Riccardo Zandonai (Sacco di Rovereto, 28 de mayo de 1883-Pésaro, 5 de junio de 1944) fue un compositor italiano de ópera.

Biografía
Zandonai nació en Sacco di Rovereto, entonces parte del Imperio austrohúngaro. Siendo un chico ya mostró especiales aptitudes en los estudios musicales, y fue admitido al Conservatorio de Pésaro en 1899, completando sus estudios en 1902 -cursó los estudios correspondientes a 9 años en sólo 3-. Entre sus profesores cabe mencionar a Pietro Mascagni, que lo estimaba mucho. Durante este periodo compuso el Inno degli studenti trentini, que se convirtió en el himno de la organización de jóvenes irredentistas de su provincia natal. Su trabajo de graduación fue la ópera Il ritorno di Odisseo, (El regreso de Ulisses) basada en un poema de Giovanni Pascoli. El mismo año 1902 puso música a otra obra de Pascoli: Il sogno di Rosetta. Inició su carretra como epígono verista bajo la protección de la casa Ricordi; por ende sus primeros éxitos pretenecen a la escuela verista como "Conchita"; continuó su trabajo creando óperas de considerable interés dramático e ingeniosa construcción llegando a tratar ideas de un movimiento posterior y continuo, el posverismo (Lo que cambia, sobre todo, es el enfoque argumental: mientras el verismo conservaba algo todavía del culto del amor romántico, conducía inevitablemente a la muerte, pero cuyos protagonistas intentaban sortear como podían, en el posverismo los protagonistas se lanzan abiertamente a chocar con el mundo que los rodea a fin de morir de modo espectacular; porque el amor es un sentimiento que no admite disimulos ni cobardías: los enamorados se enfrentan abiertamente con la muerte) tomado de "Historia de la Ópera" de Roger Alier

Su fama se asentó con la ópera Francesca da Rimini, una adaptación libre de una tragedia de Gabriele d'Annunzio que había sido escrita expandiendo un pasaje de La Divina Comedia de Dante. Esta ópera nunca ha caído completamente del repertorio y ha disfrutado de varias grabaciones. Al poco del estreno, Zandonai se casó con la soprano Tarquinia Tarquini, para la cual creó el papel de Conchita en la ópera homónima (sobre un tema que anteriormente Puccini había considerado y rechazado).

Pero pronto estalló la guerra mundial. El patriótico Zandonai compuso en el año 1916 la canción, Alla Patria, dedicada en Italia, con el resultado que su casa y propiedades en Sacco, entonces bajo el dominio Austro-Húngaro, fueron confiscadas. Después de la guerra le fueron devueltas.

Cuando Puccini murió dejando inacabado el último acto de Turandot, Zandonai estuvo entre los compositores que el editor Ricordi consideraba competentes para completarlo. Incluso parece que el mismo Puccini, en sus últimos días, había recomendado a Zandonai -y ciertamente Arturo Toscanini encontró adecuada esta decisión- pero Tonio, el hijo de Puccini, por razones que todavía son oscuras, vetó a Zandonai. Finalmente, fue Franco Alfano el encargado de acabar la ópera, y es la versión de este, que Toscanini arregló y alteró, la que habitualmente se escucha.

El 1935 Zandonai fue nombrado director del Conservatorio de su estimada Pesaro. Aquí recuperó algunas óperas olvidadas de Rossini, como Il viaggio a Reims y la apertura de Maometto secondo. En 1941 reorquestó y reorganizó en tres actos La gazza ladra.

En 1944 murió en Pesaro durante una operación quirúrgica para extraerle cálculos biliares.

Obras principales

Ópera
 La coppa del Re (c. 1904, nunca representada)
 L'uccellino d'oro, libreto de Giovanni Chelodi sobre un tema de los Hermanos Grimm, (1907)
 Il grillo del focolare, libreto de Cesare Hanau sobre El grillo del hogar (1908) de Charles Dickens. Estrenada en Turín en 1908.
 Conchita sobre "La femme et le pantin" de Pierre Louÿs, (1911). Estrenada en Milán en 1911.
 Melenis sobre un tema de Louis Bouilhet (1912). Estrenada en Milán en 1912.
 Francesca da Rímini libreto adaptado del drama de Gabriele d'Annunzio (1914). Estrenada en Turín en 1914.
 La via della finestra, sobre tema de Augustin Eugène Scribe (1919). Estrenada en Pésaro en 1919.
 Giulietta e Romeo, libreto de Arturo Rossato sobre el drama de William Shakespeare (1922). Estrenada en Roma en 1922. Existe una versión en alemán con libreto de Alfred Brüggemann.
 I cavalieri di Ekebù, libreto de Rossato sobre Gösta Berling de Selma Lagerlöf. Estrenada en Milán en 1925. La versión alemana, con libreto de Ernst Lert, lleva por título Die Kavaliere von Ekeby (1925).
 Giuliano, libreto de Rossato sobre tema de Santiago de la Vorágine y Gustave Flaubert (1928). Estrenada en Nápoles en 1928.
 Una partita, libreto de Rossato sobre tema de Alejandro Dumas (padre) (1933). Estrenada en Milán en 1933.
 La farsa amorosa, libret de Rossato sobre "El sombrero de tres picos" de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (1933). Estrenada en Roma en 1933.
 Il bacio, libreto de Rossato y Emilio Mucci sobre tema de Gottfried Keller (1944, el último acto dejado incompleto).

Obras religiosas
 Te Deum para coro masculino y órgano (1906)
 Dos libras de Melodie per canto e piano (1907, 1913)
 O Padre nostro che nei cieli stai para coro, órgano y orquesta (1912)
 Messa da Requiem para coro (1914)

Otros
Diversas composiciones sinfónicas:
 Primavera in Val di Sole
 Autunno fra i monti
 Ballata eroica
 Fra gli alberghi delle Dolomites
 Quadri di Segantini
 Rapsodia trentina
 Colombina
 Concerto romantico para violín.
 Concerto andaluso para violonchelo.
 Diversas bandas sonoras para películas.

Referencias
 Diccionario Biográfico de los Grandes Compositores de la Música. Marc Honegger. ESPASA CALPE. Madrid 1994.
 K. C. Dryden, Riccardo Zandonai: A Biography (Peter Lang Publishing, Berlin, 1999) - ISBN 0-8204-3649-6

Enlaces externos

Compositores de ópera de Italia
Compositores de música clásica de Italia del siglo XX
Nacidos en Rovereto
Fallecidos en Pésaro

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