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Morning on the Lot River
Meandering by slow roads, I crossed and recrossed the Lot River in the southwest of France. Parking by the river, a trail led me back along cliffs for about a mile. There were ancient steps carved in the rock down to the water, and I descended. Pausing, I looked down in the almost still reflection of the river—losing myself in water that seemed directionless and mystical in the early morning light.
Riders on the Storm meets Christina's World
In the surprising uplands of Dordogne and Lot in the southwest of France high alkaline plateaus are bisected by deep river valleys. You'll find medieval towns and castles, with markers from the history of the bloody 100 years war. The Brits may not have conquered back then, but today they've taken over, with everything from modest vacation bungalows to gated chateaus and estates.
Exploring the back country, in the smallest hamlets I could find, were also abandoned farms and ruined buildings. I paused in Saint-Romain, ahead of the storm, to photograph this farm house, intricate in its construction and picturesque in its decay. The wind whistled through the grass in the fields, with a sound as desolate as the abandoned buildings. The only thing missing was Christina, I thought, disassembling my camera and tripod and turning away as the first drops of rain began to fall.
Sainte Croixe de Beaumont
Way off the beaten track in the southwest of France, I stopped to photograph the ancient church at Sainte Croixe de Beaumont. This complex belonged to the Knights Templar, and is mostly abandoned. The interior of the church is still in decent shape, but the other buildings are heading for ruin.
All morning it had been threatening to rain, with swiftly moving clouds overhead. As I wandered through the fields with my camera on the tripod, the oncoming storm burst, and I made haste to take refuge in an abandoned building where I could protect my gear.
Overlooking the Dordogne River
I got to talking about photography with the couple who ran the B&B where I was staying in the ancient monastery town of Cadouin, France, and they suggested I check out a spot overlooking the Dordogne River a little way above the old riverside village of Tremolat. There was a little path from the parking area leading to the cliffs overlooking a bend in the river. By the time I got there rain was moving in, and the sky to the southwest was diffuse and soft, while the clouds to the the northeast were dark and ominous over the village of Lumeuil and the confluence of the Dordogne and Vezere Rivers.
I ignored the oncoming weather, and mounted my camera on the tripod. Looking left, straight ahead, and right and shot bracketed sequences of exposures for later HDR processing. I did my best to take my time and shoot following a proper and patient protocol despite the raindrops falling on my gear.
Combining the three images into a panorama meant first combining the exposure sequences, then using Photoshop's Photomerge capabilities. You'll find Photomerge in Photoshop on the File > Automate menu. After a bit of experimenting, I found the the Reposition layout setting with the Blend Images Together option checked worked best. There's always a bit of manual retouching after blending images together using Photomerge, and this set of images was no exception, but generally the Photoshop automation got me about 95% of the way!
The final image is really quite high resolution, about 50 inches wide at 300 ppi without any enlargement (the file size is about 450 megabytes). It's hard to see in an online version the level of detail this implies in some image areas, but you would see this detail if you were looking at a good print. You can begin to see the resolution in larger versions that will fit on the horizontally-oriented pages of my blog, click here to see a larger size black and white version, or here for the color version.
Speaking of black and white versus color, which version do you prefer?
Double Rainbow over Paris
In the afternoon the rain started to come down hard, with a lush, almost tropical sound as it fell hard on the rooftops of Paris. I went upstairs because I had left my window open. I stuck my head out the window before I shut it. Around the corner was a hint of a rainbow.
I grabbed my camera, dashed downstairs in my t-shirt and jeans, took an umbrella from the bin next to the front desk, and ran the two blocks to the Seine River. A double rainbow was forming, upstream in the direction of the Louvre and the Musee D'Orsay. Precariously balancing my camera and using the umbrella to shelter it from the wind and rain I snapped a few photos.
Sometimes you get lucky.
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday in the Park with George. "George" in this case was my Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 lens. The park is Square Jean XXIII, just behind Notre Dame in Paris, on a cold November day near twilight.
The most typical goal of photography is to render crisp images where camera motion is not an issue. This can be achieved by using a fast shutter speed—usually a shorter duration of time than 1/125 of a second—or by putting the camera on a solid support, such as a tripod.
What fun to turn this on its head by intentionally moving the camera during exposure. The results often don't look very photographic, and it takes a good bit of trial and error to find the right exposure combination. It's also easier when there is some light, but not too much light. Try this technique in the middle of the day, and even with loads of neutral density filters it is hard to get decent results.
As with the light, so with the motion—you want to move the camera in a consistent way, with enough movement to create an attractive effect but not so much as to turn the image to mush! In this case, "George" and I consistently panned slowly from left to right, pausing on the couple on the bench briefly, and going up and down at the right end of the exposure.
I feel lucky when shooting this way to get one out of a hundred shots turning out decently. Even a few seconds can seem like a very long time when one does it over and over again!
Exposure data: Nikon D800, Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 at f/4.5, 4 seconds at ISO 50, hand held.
Sunrise in the rice fields
Waking up just before dawn in the small Japanese village of Chikatsuyu (see bottom image), I threw my clothes on and hurried out with my camera. There were pockets of fog, and crystalline ice structures on some of the plants. As the sun rose, moisture evaporated up from the earth, and I headed for the nearby rice fields.
The trick when shooting into the sun is usually to radically underexpose—otherwise your image will be overexposed and full of blown-out highlights. The exposure data for this image in the rice fields using a 300mm lens on a full frame camera was 1/3200 of a second at f/5.6 and ISO, hand held. As you can see, I purposely selected a wide open aperture for shallow depth-of-field. My underexposure was by about 2 EV relative to what the light meter indicated.
Back along the Hiki River, the morning mists were rapidly clearing. I turned my camera away from the fields, and shot an image back towards the mountains.
The Minshuku—a budget version of a ryokan, roughly speaking a Japanese bed & breakfast—where I stayed is to the left in this photo, right along the river.
Distant Japanese Landscape
About half a mile before reaching Hyakken-gura, I paused in the steady rain. Peering out from beneath my umbrella, I could see through the pine trees to a distant landscape in which the cloud cover seemed to be breaking up. The view seemed to call for a panorama, so I mounted by camera on my tripod. Holding the umbrella over the camera, and ignoring the cold rain splashing on me, I panned from forest edge to forest edge, encompassing the entire view spread out below me. I knew there would be time enough later to warm myself in a hot communal bath, and to clean my camera lens from the drops of rain that were inevitably falling on it.
You can click here, or on the image, to view it wider than it is possible to see it on one of my vertically-oriented blog pages.
Related story: 3,600 Peaks of Kumano
Playing with my boys on Point Reyes
On the Friday of the Thanksgiving weekend I drove out with my boys—Julian, Nicky and Mathew—to Point Reyes. Nicky's friend Tamen came along too. It was a balmy, almost summer-like day. As I told people on my recent trip to Japan, we are lucky to live so near such a beautiful, spacious and wild park as Point Reyes National Seashore (many of them couldn't believe my description in terms of the sheer amount of wild land with so few people near a major city like San Francisco).
We parked at Drake's Bay, and walked along the beach under towering bluffs at extreme low tide until we reached the Drakes Estoro inlet to the Pacific. We rested a while, built a fort, and the boys splashed in the cold waters of the ocean.
On the way back, at sunset, I stopped to make the images of waves, camera on tripod for long, slow exposures. Meanwhile, I kept a weather eye out to make sure the boys didn't kill themselves trying to climb the unstable cliffs, or whack each other too hard with driftwood from the beach.
In other words, a good time was had by all, each of us in our own way!
If you are interested in Point Reyes, you might like the Point Reyes category on my blog and Point Reyes and the Marin Headlands, my postcard book. The postcards in this book show scenes from Point Reyes, Drakes Bay, Mount Tamalpais, the Marin Headlands, the Golden Gate, and more.
Along the Kumano Kodo
Along the ancient Kumano kodo pilgrimage trail there is mostly the silence of the weather. Wind whistles through the trees and a fine mist falls drop by drop. It wasn't always this way.
When nobles from Kyoto made the pilgrimage they would often travel with many retainers—sometimes as many as a hundred people. You see the remains of those days all along the trail, from the damp and moss-covered stone stairs to the remains of small settlements and tea houses. The tea houses would wait until they saw a party of pilgrims coming, then fire up the tea kettles and rice pots so they would have refreshments to offer.
But today the world of the Kumano kodo is an empty world, alone with its ghosts—and so different from the hustle and bustle of Japanese cities like Tokyo. There were almost no Japanese people on the trail, but one man from Tokyo I did meet was wearing a business suit, business shoes, and a winter fur-lined coat.
He was staring about him wildly at the emptiness of solitude, wide-eyed and obviously terrified and afraid of the unfamiliar surroundings of wilderness without people. I wish I could have spoken enough Japanese to have learned his story, but this was not possible.
What brought him to the Kumano kodo pilgrimage, so far from his usual haunts? Tokyo Station with its acres of platforms, trains and levels sees fourteen million passengers a day. For someone used to this volume of people, their absence must be terrifying. Why was he here? I have never seen anyone look so obviously and physically afraid. As Phyllis said when I told her about meeting this man in the wilderness along the Kumano kodo that was so alien to him, "He must have done something bad, very bad, and was atoning. Probably, he will never do it—whatever it was—again!"
Of drinking and not driving
Aya, her father, and a business associate met me at the small Awa Yamakawa train station. It was already getting dark, so we drove across the river to a restaurant in an old village for dinner. This was a reasonably traditional Japanese meal in a private room on a tatami mat with shoes removed.
My three companions had a beer each, but I passed and kept to tea with the meal. After we were through with dinner, and getting ready to drive me to the Japanese-style inn where I would be staying, Aya's father asked me, "Do you have an international driver's license?"
I did not, and frankly had no wish to drive on the left side of the road in a country with strange road signs that I could not read. But why?
It turns out that in Japan one beer puts you over the legal alcohol blood-level limit for driving. And the fines are enormous, 200,000 Yen (or about $2,000) for the driver and each passenger and the restaurant that served the booze and let them drive.
So what people do is call a special taxi service. The service shows up with two drivers—one for your car, and one for the taxi to follow it.
There's not much drinking and driving in Japan!
Misty Mountains
At 6AM my iPhone alarm rang. I raised my head off the futon, pulled the screen aside, and peered out the window at a world of driving rain. Yunomine Onsen is a country hot spring resort, so before starting up the trail I took a nice long soak, figuring as long as I was going to be wet, I might as well be warm AND wet.
Pack cover in place and umbrella in hand I started up the trail. At first the rain was heavy, then it subsided to a constant pitter-patter in the trees. Walking on a trail in the rain is fun, but it does lead to melancholy reflections, particularly when you pass settlements that were abandoned hundreds of years ago, as is often the case on the Kumano kodo.
Soon the trail started climbing towards a high pass, and I was blessed with a distant view of misty mountains as the storm began to clear.
Dawn in the High Fields
Early morning light coming through the Shoji screens woke me. I opened the screen and stared out at a chill world with fog hanging in the distant valleys. This was no time to dawdle indoors! I threw on my clothes, grabbed camera and tripod, and headed out to make photos.
Later, the hot communal bath would wash away my cold. Breakfast was many dishes. I could identify the smoked salmon, but others remained a mystery. Then, with pack on my back, I headed out into autumn to head along the trail to the next village.
Getting to know Kyoto
I don't know what to make of Kyoto yet. Coming from Tokyo on the Nozomi Super Express #23 bound for Hakata, a Shinkanzen (bullet train) among Shinkanzen, it was clear that the coast of Japan is densely populated. There are no small cities in Japan.
So it should not have surprised me when the outskirts of Kyoto were fairly brutal in their urban leanings, with a train station crowded with hordes going in every direction in apparent chaos that is in fact efficiency. The decorum makes up for a bit of this, with all the uniforms so roles are apparent, and the bows to arriving and departing buses and Shinkanzen (it is a deeper bow for a Shinkanzen than for a normal train!).
All that said, when you find the old Kyoto—temples beyond count, canals, ancient alleys and streets—it more than makes up for the rest. I'm looking forward to some real exploring tomorrow!
Just So Story
On an overcast and gray day, I took the RER (Réseau Express Régional) out of central Paris to the suburb of Bourg-la-Reine. From the train station in Bourg-la-Reine I humped my gear the mile or so to the Parc de Sceaux (pronounced "Park de So").
The Parc de Sceaux is a less-well-known masterpiece of landscape design by André Le Nôtre, the seventeenth century landscape architect of Louis XIV responsible for the gardens at Versaille, the Tuilleries, and other famous formal French gardens.
As I explored the area, my concern was that the looming clouds might turn to rain, making photography difficult. But as I approached the long channel of water that radiated across the width of the gardens in a cross formation, the clouds parted and the sun emerged, making the reflections just so…beautiful!

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Somehow I think we are getting one side here. The Arkansas legislature, in
spite of what Senator King says, approved the Arkansas medicaid plan for a
second year. According to Governor Beebe "failing to renew funding for the
state's alternative Medicaid expansion plan would result in a $90 million
gap in the state budget that would have to be balanced by other program
So there is a big difference between the Democratic governor and Senator King, who is no doubt a Republican. I wonder if the Deseret News would accept a Democratic version of the doings in Arkansas?
- 12:33 a.m. May 6, 2014
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Why do conservatives hate Americans so much they'd rather see them sick and dead than provide health care?
- 7:14 a.m. May 6, 2014
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"By one estimate, the cost overruns of the Private Option are projected to
cost Arkansas taxpayers between $6.6 million and $16.6 million"
After reading this doom and gloom article I was feeling sorry for Arkansas. After all they were facing total economic collapse because of Obamacare. Then I realized that in the worse case scenario Arkansas with have to pay an extra $16.6 million, out of their state budget of $22,000,000,000!
And don't forget this will take insure that about 105,000 uninsured Arkansonians get healthcare coverage!
- 7:17 a.m. May 6, 2014
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This is partisan drivel. So, did you see that Massachusetts has seen an enormous improvement in the health of its citizens since the passage of Romneycare, the parent of Obamacare? Better access to medical care, which both programs help happen, does matter.
- 7:45 a.m. May 6, 2014
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why do liberals hate productive people so much?
Why do liberals think government is the one and only answer to every problem?
Conervatives contribute more time and money to charitable causes than liberals ever dreamed of. Conservatives give thier OWN resorurces - they do not DEMAND someone ELSE's reaources be taken and spent the way liberals think they should be spent.
JUST SAY NO to medicaid expansion.
- 7:51 a.m. May 6, 2014
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The problem faced by both Arkansas and Utah is that they're trying to design a program that Republican politicians can claim is not really Obamacare. It would work much better if they would just accept the Medicaid expansion the way the program was designed.
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Physicians interviewed in Massachusetts said part of the reason health statistics have improved there is because many of their patients are not agonizing over the financial impact of getting healthcare, either what it will do to their personal finances or how their treatment might impact charitable sources.
What would you advise the family of a child with leukemia to do? If they look for charitable help it would prevent that source from helping others, and if they take on the burden themselves they may lose their house.
I can see how some folks resort to prayer and just hope the problem goes away, like the Wisconsin couple who prayed and prayed while their child died unnecessarily of diabetes.
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Of course NOW it makes sense to accept the FREE money. But Utah is smart. We
are looking ahead a few years (not just at what brings us the most Federal
dollars TODAY)!
In a few years... when Arkansas has the same expanded medicaid liabilities... and the Federal money is gone... and they have huge budget shortfalls (and have to take money from Education, roads, police, fire, etc... to fund this now UNFUNDED liability... we'll probably see letters in Arkansas newspaper saying, "We should have heeded Utah's fiscal foresight and commitment to living within their means, and not taken the bait to expand our medicaid system to levels we can't sustain".
And articles in the DesNews like "Utah is lucky they didn't take the short-term $$$ bait to Expand Medicaid in Utah"... because we can continue to fund our schools, police, roads, and even the people in Utah on Medicaid... While States that took the bait... are on the hook now... and have to pass NEW TAXES, or kick people off medicaid now.
The $$$ is bait. If you take it.. you must increase State Taxes when obamamoney ends.
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Here's a couple of responses to Sen. King's op-ed.
-The senator mentions the word "Obamacare" eight times in the first several paragraphs. His advisers told him it's a scary word, but I don't think he understands what it means. Obamacare is private insurance with subsidies to make it more affordable. During the last 6 months 84,601 Utahns purchased "Obamacare" private insurance on healthcare.gov. Not so scary.
-The "Obamacare Medicaid dollars" he mentions are YOUR tax dollars. These are tax dollars you are paying right now--about $4 million a month--that are leaving Utah to fund insurance coverage in other states. He's trying to scare us again.
-One reason Arkansas is paying more is because private insurance companies found a loophole to charge higher premiums for Silver-level plans and have the state and feds pick up the tab. Utah can learn from Arkansas and prevent this corruption from happening.
-The senator is right that private insurance costs more than traditional Medicaid. But it's the only plan that can get approved by the legislature.
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what would you advise the family that has to get their child to school and they are agonizing over the cost of the car because the bus route does not work for them? I guess we should force everyone to buy cars, and if they cannot afford them, we should subsidize them. And they cannot buy a compact or - heaven forbid! a SUBcompact! No!, they MUST by at least a midsize, whether they want or need that large a car at all. And then what about the cost of fuel for that car later on? Oh, we'll worry about that later on, or issue an executive order or something.
Did our healthcare payment system need fixing? did it need some work? One could reasonably make that argument. Too bad we got Obamacare instead of a fix.
Physicians in MA have a financial interest in the outcomes, so I would view their comments with a grain of salt. Friend I have from Boston HATES MA-Care, talks about all the fraud it has generated.
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I wonder if it will be States like Arkansas that have buyers remorse in a few
years (when the federal funding ends) not Utah...
I wonder if the people in those States will be upset when they have to either raise their taxes... or kick some people off Medicaid when the bait-funding ends???
I wonder if the people in Utah, who got insurance through the exchanges, and can continue that insurance after the federal-medicaid-expansion bait-money dries up... will be upset then. Or if they will wish that we had expanded medicaid with the temp-funding... only to have to kick them off Medicaid in a few years???
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your description of religion and donations thereto tells us exactly how you fell about so many of your fellow citizens; not that you don't care, you go beyond "not at all".
I'll repoeat what I said earlier, conservatives give more in time, money, and resources than liberals ever dreamed of. Whether or not you agree with the recipients is beside the point. You productively pay taxes - by your own choice? NO. you give to productive causes? I doubt it. I'll take your word for it that you give, but considering the opinions you express on these pages, I will not consider those causes to be productive. See? you can call causes with which you disagree worthless, and I can call to whom you give worthless.
facetious nonsense? only because you disagree. Sorry you do not understand my use of an analogy.
- 12:04 p.m. May 6, 2014
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Utah should learn from Arkansas and just get the Medicaid expansion. Don't
try to come up with some terrible knock off which provides much less but costs
much more.
Aren't we tired of the games? The GOP had no problem giving away our money to rich people, banks, war contractors, and foreign countries. Under Bush, foreign bribery errr aid reached all time levels.
The GOP prefers to give Iraqis and Ukrainians jobs and health care but not Americans.
- 12:32 p.m. May 6, 2014
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Something interesting... they want us to follow Arkansas... but Arkansas was not
listed in USA Today's "Best run States Survey"... Utah was.
We used to be number 1. Now we're #5. But that's not bad.
It's interesting that 5 "Best Run States" are "Conservative" States (ND, Wyo, Iowa, Neb, Utah).... and all 5 of the "Worst Run States" were "Liberal" States. Weird huh...?
Some interesting statistics...
5. Utah
> Debt per capita: $2,577 (17th-lowest)
> Budget deficit: 8.2% (32nd-largest)
> Unemployment: 5.7% (tied for 10th-lowest)
> Median household income: $57,049 (13th-highest)
> Pct. below poverty line: 12.8% (15th-lowest)
50. California
> Debt per capita: $3,990 (20th-highest)
> Budget deficit: 27.8% (3rd-largest)
> Unemployment: 10.5% (2nd-highest)
> Median household income: $58,328 (11th-highest)
> Pct. below poverty line: 17.0% (18th-highest)
For the third year in a row, California is the worst-run state in America, and Utah is in the top-5.
Interesting isn't it?
Yet it's UTAH that gets criticized (by big government fans) who want UTAH to be more like CALIFORNIA!
I don't get it!
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Ideology over common sense. The tea party is not designed to govern but to divide.
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It only cost Arkansas 16 million? Shoot even Becky Lockheart's plan would
spend 33 million and it wouldn't even cover anyone.
The drivel of this article shows what poor arguments there are in not accepting medicaid expansion. The state of Utah would get somewhere between 300 million and 500 million federal dollars that could easily generate that much state taxes, and all at the same time giving needed health insurance, peace of mind, and needed health care to over 100,000 of Utah's neediest residents and families.
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To 2 bits: California's numbers have improved significantly since they got a Democratic governor.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- An Alabama pastor has been charged with the murder of his wife who was found dead in their home in July 2013, according to a breaking story posted on The Alabama Baptist newspaper's website.
Richard Shahan, former children and families pastor at First Baptist Church, Birmingham, was arrested Wednesday (Jan. 1). At the time of his arrest he was attempting to board a flight to Frankfurt, Germany at the Nashville International Airport.
A warrant for Shahan's arrest was signed Dec. 31. Myfoxal.com reported First Baptist put Shahan on paid leave after Karen Shahan's body was discovered at the couple's house in Homewood.
The Alabama Baptist reported Dec. 19, 2013, that Shahan was planning to serve three years with Bible Mission International in Germany to develop teaching and discipleship materials for former Soviet countries.
First Baptist released the following statement on their website:
"All of us were saddened by the unexpected news that Richard Shahan was arrested by Homeland Security just moments before his planned flight departure for Frankfurt, Germany. There he was to assume his new role working with the Children's ministry of Bible Mission International, primarily in Kazakhstan.
"As we know, on November 29 Richard announced his plans to pursue this mission ministry. His resignation from First Baptist Church of Birmingham was effective December 31, 2013.
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- Elie Wiesel, author and holocaust survivor. The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity lost $15.2 million, "substantially all" of its assets.
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- Jeffrey Katzenberg, head of Dreamworks Animation and producer of Shrek films lost undisclosed millions.
- John Malkovich, actor, said he lost $2.3 million and was "ruined" financially.
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Madoff's personal accountant, David Friehling, age fifty-three, pled guilty to his role in the scheme back in 2009. He told the court he lost $4.3 million of his own money when Madoff's scheme collapsed. That included an investment his son made, beginning when the boy was just five years old. For his part in the massive fraud, Friehling could be looking at 114 years in prison, but his testimony might bring him some leniency.
Friehling told the court that for Madoff, the tax liability he paid each year was not an amount that was unknown before the taxes were done. It was a decision. Madoff and wife Ruth would decide how much tax they would pay, and then it was up to Friehling and others to back into that number and make it happen by faking documentation where necessary. He called it "fudging" the numbers, a sweet name for a federal crime that led to enormous deception.
Though they admit involvement, some former employees, including Friehling, maintain they didn't know the extent of the fraud. Others claim total innocence. Director of operations Daniel Bonventre pled not guilty, stating he was duped. Yet Bonventre prepared false general ledgers and corporate profit and loss statements in order to produce the desired tax results, Friehling told the court. Friehling said when he instructed Bonventre to destroy faked documents, Bonventre complied without objection.
Friehling also prepared taxes for Madoff's brother, Peter. Peter Madoff worked for the company for forty years and is now serving ten years in prison for his role in the scheme.
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David Kugel, a former securities trader, was actually the first of Madoff's former employees to cooperate with the investigation. He told the court he trusted Madoff, viewing him as a mentor. He admitted that he did understand there was an element of fiction to the investments, but had no idea his boss was involved in a Ponzi scheme. "I always thought he invested in shopping centers, foreign currencies, and other ventures. Ponzi scheme? I didn't think he was doing that."
Kugel, age sixty-eight, told the court he himself lost $10 million, and his children, mother, and siblings lost millions when Madoff's house of cards went tumbling down.
Kugel testified about the involvement of other employees who are now on trial. Joann Crupi, an account manager, and Madoff's secretary, Annette Bongiorno, would use old stock tables to create fake statements to show to clients. Those statements were intended to prove good returns on investments. Kugel himself would fabricate trades and give them to the two women to use in the deception. He also testified that two computer programmers on trial – George Perez and Jerome O'Hara – developed the software that automated the scheme.
What did all this do for the employees? According to Kugel, they were able to treat themselves to tens of millions of dollars in slush fund money, money that had been stolen from clients. Prosecutors are hoping to use Kugel's testimony to show that he and others purposely maintained a blind loyalty to their boss while growing wealthy from the fraud.
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Ambassador Basant Kumar Gupta was summoned "to express the bewilderment and profound disappointment of the Italian government", the foreign ministry said.
The move came just hours after Italy recalled its ambassador from India, Daniele Mancini, in protest over what it described as "a new and unacceptable delay by the Indian Supreme Court".
"The Indian judicial authorities' delaying tactics -- two years on from the incident -- are unacceptable and indicate an Indian desire to procrastinate beyond all limits," Italy's secretary general of the foreign ministry, Michele Valensise, said in a statement.
The delay in court proceedings came in spite of "authoritative stances taken by different international organisations", he said.
The two marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, who are staying at the Italian embassy in New Delhi, are accused of killing two Indian fishermen they mistook for pirates while guarding a cargo ship in 2012.
Foreign Minister Emma Bonino slammed "the evident incapacity of the Indian judicial authorities to handle this case" and said Italy "will continue and intensify action to defend its sovereign rights in line with international law."
"Italy's main aim remains trying to obtain the return of the two marines as quickly as possible," Bonino said.
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Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati has requested the pair be prosecuted under a maritime security law, which attracts a 10-year sentence, and on Tuesday said the matter was "under the consideration of the law ministry" and he needed "more time to work out a solution to the issue".
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"This is too much. There is no justice in this case. We are faced with an ambiguous behaviour and a lack of trustworthiness on the part of the Indian authorities," said Mario Mauro, Italy's defence minister.
"The decision to recall the ambassador is not only justified but inevitable and reflects the feelings of the Italian people," he said.
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Romero wins again, Lawrie steals home for Jays
Ricky Romero won his third straight start, Brett Lawrie stole home and drove in two runs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Kansas City 5-3 Sunday, sending the Royals to their 10th straight loss.
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Ricky Romero won his third straight start, Brett Lawrie stole home and drove in two runs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Kansas City 5-3 Sunday, sending the Royals to their 10th straight loss.
The Royals have only six skids longer than 10 in franchise history. It is their longest losing streak since dropping 12 consecutive May 19- 30, 2008.
Romero (3-0), who is 11-2 in 17 starts since July 21, gave up two runs on five hits in eight innings to earn the victory. In winning his past three starts, Romero has allowed 16 hits and six runs over 22 1-3 innings.
The Blue Jays scored four runs in the fifth to chase Royals left-hander Danny Duffy. Lawrie's two-out single to right scored Yunel Escobar and Jose Bautista. Rajai Davis led off the inning with a double and scored on Escobar's single. Bautista, who walked three times, singled home J.P. Arencibia with the other run.
Duffy labored through 4 2-3 innings, throwing 113 pitches and walking five. He did not give up a hit until Ben Francisco singled with two outs in the fourth, but yielded four hits and two walks in the fifth while retiring only two.
The Royals cut the lead in half in the bottom of the inning, which Jeff Francoeur and Mike Moustakas started with singles. Francoeur scored on an Alcides Escobar fielder's choice grounder, while Moustakas scored on Yunel Escobar's throwing error.
The Blue Jays added a run in the eighth, when Lawrie, who had walked and went to third on Arencibia's single, pulled off a double steal. Arencibia broke for second and catcher Humberto Quintero fired to second baseman Yuniesky Betancourt. Lawrie broke for home and beat Betancourt's throw to the plate.
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First of all, I'd like to thank Andy for this simple box design.
I decided to build each box with using only one type of wood. The first pair is lace, the second is zebra wood, and the last one is walnut. I used green flocking on the bottoms. The photos came out with a bit of a red tint…I'll stick to woodworking.
There are some woods that I love to cut, because they smell so good…cedar (of course), cherry, walnut…to name a few. Zebra wood is not one of them. It's beautiful, but has a bad stink.
I finished these just in time, as these boxes will be given away today.
I wish you all a safe and happy holiday.
Thanks for looking,
-- Steve-- http://www.urbanexteriors.biz
7 comments so far
#1 posted 1336 days ago
well done
simple is elegant
merry christmas
-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle
#2 posted 1336 days ago
They look wonderful.
-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon
#3 posted 1336 days ago
Beautiful!! Great gifts.
-- Jack, Albuquerque
#4 posted 1336 days ago
Beautiful! They really look great.
-- Robert B. Sabina, Ohio..... http://www.etsy.com/shop/WoodenfrogWoodenProd
#5 posted 1335 days ago
Gorgeous boxes Steve!
-- I am responsible for how I respond to everything in my life - - Deadwood SD
#6 posted 1335 days ago
They're gorgeous. I love the 'stinky' Zebra wood one. ;o)
-- Vicki on the Eastern Shore of MD
#7 posted 1333 days ago
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Coeur De Lion Bracelet 4091
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That means someone else has entered a code at one time or another. You will need to clear out the old code. Here are the steps for this: Philips:
Philips sets use a four digit code to control the v-chip. The override code for Philip sets is 0711, although it may say "Incorrect code" the first time to trick you. If "Incorrect code" is displayed, simply enter 0711 again.
To use it: hit the MENU key to get to the menus. Go up or down until you reach AUTOLOCK or SMARTLOCK, depending on the model, and push the "right arrow" key on the remote. Enter the override code, and enter it a second time if it says it is incorrect.
Once in the AUTOLOCK or SMARTLOCK menu, go to BLOCK, and push the "right arrow" key. Go to BLOCKING OPTIONS and press the "right arrow" key. Go to MASTER DISABLE and press the "right arrow" key so that it says "MASTER DISABLE ON". The v-chip is now deactivated.
Now uou can go and block any channels you want and enter your own code, and if you ever forget this code, simply use the override code BUT keep it away from the kids. You can get an owners manual for this TV set HERE Good Luck and let us know how you make out with this TV set.
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