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Making A Spam Filter
It started out as an itch. An itch I had to scratch. A publishing platform I use forwarded a good deal of comment spam to my personal e-mail, so I decided to do something about it. I shot off an e-mail.
Years passed. The spam comments continued trickling in to my mailbox. One day, almost as if by coincidence, I found myself working for this very publishing platform. It was finally time to scratch the itch.
Considerations were considered. Thoughts were thought. Plans were planned. The project that would come to be known as the "War on Spam" was afoot. The goals were simple enough:
- Learning: it's useless to try to come up with rules to match all the spam. Instead the system must learn from user guidance.
- Assisted: while rule writing is out there still is a point to giving hints about features (like very long body, number of links, time of day, entry age, etc).
- Debuggable: it has to answer the question "why is this comment spam?" Statistics are essential.
- Resilience: spammers know about self-learning classifiers and try to cheat them. We musn't be fooled.
We chose a so-called naive Bayes classifier. It uses Bayesian probabilities, a curious invention. It can answer the question "what is the probability of the sun shining given that the lawn is dry?" by looking at the probability that the lawn is dry; that the sun shining; and that, given the sun is shining, the lawn is dry.
I'm satisfied with the result. In the end I integrated SpamBayes, a popular open-source spam filtering solution.
There are of course kinks to work out, for one there's a strong language bias in the training sample. Almost all the spam is in English, and ham in Swedish. I'm not too worried though.
Go ahead and try it out, make a comment!
Basic Git integration with Google App Engine
So we at sendapatch.se use Git a lot for the our productions. It's great.
One vital detail you need to know in App Engine development is what's up there, … y'know, up in the cloud.
The solution is as obvious as it is useful and tedious to write, for your consideration: a script that updates App Engine from the current HEAD and bookmarks it in a branch named uploaded-<version>
#!/bin/bash # updates appengine from current HEAD and puts tree in uploaded-<version> BASE=. PYTHON=python2.7 APPENGINE=$BASE/google_appengine APP=$BASE/app VERSION="$(grep '^version: ' "$APP/app.yaml" | cut -c 10-)" BRANCH="uploaded-$VERSION" echo "Creating snapshot for $VERSION" >&2 TREE="$(git write-tree)" COMMIT="$(git commit-tree $TREE -p HEAD <<COMMIT Upload $VERSION to Google App Engine COMMIT )" echo "commit $COMMIT" git branch -f "$BRANCH" "$COMMIT" || exit exec "$PYTHON" "$APPENGINE/appcfg.py" update app "$@"
pylibmc 1.2.3 release candidate
A new pylibmc is in the works and I would love it if I could get some attention to this, the release is available on the Google Group thread:
Ten Ways to Solve DNS Problems (or: the web is amazing)
So I wrote about my woes with DNS, bemoaning how our VPS provider GleSYS's DNS servers were not performing well enough. As usual with the web, I was blown away by the feedback; not only did I get over a dozen tips on what to do, GleSYS themselves chimed in to say they've fixed the problem.
Either that's a PR move on their part, or their technicians are very attentive. I'd like to think the latter. So without further ado, here are the ten ways in which to solve the case of the slow DNS look-up:
- OpenDNS
- Google Public DNS
- djbdns
- Unbound
- Deadwood/MaraDNS
- PowerDNS
- dnsmasq
- Twisted Names
- blog about it
- pray for rain
There are of course pros and cons to every single one of these options above, and I'll just quickly address some obvious questions.
First up, BIND. As much as I love ISC software, BIND feels a little too heavy-duty for a one-off thing like this.
djbdns is, I'm sure, quality software too; here the problem is deployment. For djbdns, "integrating with the OS" means "write your own rc replacement and shove it down people's throats". I refer of course to the bane that is daemontools. I gave it a shot with qmail, never ever again.
As for OpenDNS and Google Public DNS, I'd have to benchmark them over a week or so to know what to think of them. However I'd much prefer to do business with people who will be accountable for downtime.
By far the most interesting of them is Unbound, because of what it says on the box: a lightweight caching DNS server.
For now it looks like GleSYS have fixed things on their end; if this becomes a problem again, it might be better to change VPS provider.


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Take a break from the scandal du jour for something that's just darn nice.
A little girl was running in circles at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., this week. On the other side of a window, a sea lion was mimicking her moves — playing something of a game of tag without the tagging part.
Until, that is, the little miss tripped and fell. We think you'll enjoy the sea lion's reaction.
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Makes 8 servings
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 cup chopped peeled carrot
- 1 tablespoon minced peeled ginger
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 3 cups 1/2-inch cubes peeled seeded butternut squash
- 1 cup wild rice
- 1 cup long-grain brown rice
- 1 Fuji apple, peeled, cored, diced
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 3 3/4 cups water
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
Heat oil in heavy large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and carrot; sauté 5 minutes. Add ginger, curry powder, cumin, and garlic; stir 1 minute. Stir in squash and next 4 ingredients. Add 3 3/4 cups water and salt. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until water is absorbed and rice is tender, about 45 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in cranberries. Cover; let stand until cranberries soften, about 10 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer to bowl. (Can be made 2 hours ahead. Let stand uncovered at room temperature. Cover with plastic wrap; rewarm in microwave.)
Per serving: calories, 271; total fat, 4 g; saturated fat, 0.5 g; cholesterol, 0.
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A view of people walking in the Facebook main campus in Menlo Park, California, May 15, 2012.
The show "Silicon Valley" addresses some of the challenges of living among millionaires and billionaires. The main character rents a room in a suburban ranch house with five other guys, the only option on his modest beginning programmer salary.
But what about those who don't even make that? The cooks and housekeepers who staff the mansions of the Silicon Valley rich? For them, the options are even more limited.
Reporter Heather Perlberg recently wrote about this in Bloomberg News and joins the show to discuss.


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Part of my Actionable post on this topic.
On the agenda, and I think well underway, are Orwellian programs based upon the psychological theories of Marty Seligman, among others. Seligman introduced the theory of "learned helplessness" in the 1960s, after shocking beagles until they cowered and urinated in their cages. Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, created the modern field of public perception manipulation, and the U.S. government has extensively used his techniques. Coming from these theories is a massive DoD "war game" called Sentient World, where people are avatars who react to propaganda, events and "emergencies" and are gamed out, based upon data collected about us from government records and the Internet. With the BigBrother complex in place, it is not not difficult to imagine a sceanrio where every man, woman and child in the US can be rapidly "risk assessed" and dealt with accordingly.
All these schemes utilize black propaganda, aka "known lies." I think there is a heavy emphasis on dirty tricks and psych-ops online. Much of it at this point may be coming from corporate and financial fascists. I was going to post Mark Grant's latest excellent piece on Greece in the comments section. But while scanning it, I noticed something that illustrates my point: The first two posters, "Gene Marchbanks" and "financial apoca." The pysch-ops operation tip off is their out-of-place, intentionally toxic, illogically negative comments, their artificiality, and the fact that they were the first to post within mere minutes to ensure their comment is the first seen.
These operatives — not trolls, in the normal sense — often use words like "dude" in a disparaging way. Readers and writers have to be strong and independent to not be impacted by barrages. What difference does this make you ask? Nothing, in isolation, but an onslaught of it compounds to the point where readers will avoid sites and refuse to engage in healthy debate. I think the trick for them is mostly to demoralize people (Seligman theory) to make them feel helpless. Then they tune out and can be controlled.
To illustrate this concept, contrast it with the very challenging disagreements I get on my Actionables site sometimes on my Iran writings from "crimsonghost." His comments are heartfelt and reflect his underlying anti-war belief system, and are clearly those of an actual engaged person. Pysch-operators are nothing like this. Their "comments" merely exhibit a very strange, Orwellian-like artificial intelligence. It's like night and day.
The psychops' method also divides and conquers. I saw that first hand at the Americans Elect delegate leader site, where the AE staff couldn't seem to separate honest disagreements from the pysch-ops campaigns that were being waged against them elsewhere and would negatively and defensively react to anyone who offered challenging questions or constructive criticisms.
There was a huge amount of psych-ops activity online when OWS was getting underway. But the OWS sites seemed to adapt and counter it, which leads me to believe there is software out there to address this issue. And the psych-ops tend to show up frequently when online publications and newspapers publish something controversial, or anti-sistema. I've encountered some of this, but obviously someone like Mark Grant, who exposes the truth as well as anybody, is in the cross hairs and has at least two psych-operators working him over at any given time. I guess I need to graduate to a higher place to earn that honor. I'm working on it. Welcome to Orwell's 2012.


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One of my favorite hobbies is creating jewelry. Last week I found some cute pendant bases at Joann's called Signed, Sealed, and Remembered that I wanted to try and use. There were different sized pendants to choose from, along with a lot of other fun jewelry pieces.
I loved the weight on these, and they came with a clear, puffy sticker to seal it. The best part was that all of the pendants were 40% off! Love that!
To make my pendants I searched through my scrapbook papers and fabric that had small floral and heart designs. I thought my girls and I might enjoy wearing them for Valentine's Day or this spring.
Once I found a few designs that fit, I placed each sticker onto the paper or fabric I had chosen. Then I simply cut around the sticker as closely as possible. To the back of my paper, I applied a very thin layer of tacky glue and gently pressed it into place. I wiped up any of the extra glue.
I loved this sweet purple flower.
The flower pendant turned out so cute. I was out of my favorite black cording, so I substituted a simple black ribbon. You could easily put it onto a chain or ribbon of your choice once you add a jump ring.
To finish the necklace, I made my own beaded wire-wrapped hook and clasp. I love making them because I can match the bead to my pendant.
I thought this little flower pendant would look cute as a hang for my daughter's backpack. I added a heavier clasp and three crystal beads on headpins.
I thought it would be fun to make a Valentine pendant, too, and found this fun heart in some Valentine scrapbook paper.
I think it turned out really cute. I'm a little undecided if we will actually wear it, but I still think it's cute. It may end up being reformed into a hang tag for a backpack or something else around the house!
These pendants were a really quick and fun project! They could be used for so many things – to wear or around the house – and for so many different occasions. Wouldn't they be nice to hang around a votive candle, tied with some ribbon, too?
Have you used them before? I'd love to hear what you made yours into!
I'm loving all your wonderful comments. Feel free to leave a reply below and I'll do my best to respond.
Have a happy Wednesday,
Laurie ♥
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"We don't want to be another Midlothian Turnpike," said Jane Winder of the Rock Springs Farms. This is often the cry of neighborhoods that access or are close to Jefferson Davis Highway. A new development at Iron Bridge and Jessup roads is not different. When the original request for rezoning was submitted to Chesterfield's planning department, the plan featured a gas station/convenience store, a fast food restaurant, shopping strip and a hotel.
While these were suggestions, they were not completely ruled out. Although Balzer and Associates, the architectural group who planned the site for owner, Darrel Gilliam, it is not apparent that Mr. Gilliam will develop his property or sell it to another developer. The case goes to Chesterfield's planning commission on January 21 after being deferred (continued) twice.
Two separate meetings were held by neighborhoods close to the proposed development. One meeting held at Southside Baptist Church was attended by as many as 200 people. The temperament of the crowd was not positive about the proposed use of the Gilliam property.
Since then, a meeting including representatives from local neighborhoods, Balzer and Associates, county planning member Darla Orr and Dale District Supervisor Jim Holland, the proffers have been slightly softened. The businesses that would be located on the property can be open only 18 hours a day and the proposed hotel has been dropped and the fuel station would have less pumps.
Phil Lohr of the Chester area has been involved with the Jessup Road issue from the start. He said residents have come a long way from just saying no development to considering the 18 hours a day proffer – much like the Walmart, on Iron Bridge Road agreement – and leaving out the hotel.
Kermit Spruill, president of the Braxton Homeowners Association said, "Many people in Braxton said that a nice restaurant would be appropriate for that corner."
Mr. Spruill, added that no one wants a fast food restaurant either.
There are a number of issues that concern area residents, traffic, crime, ambiance and property values.
"This is the entrance to Chesterfield County and they want to put a gas station and Wendy's as our entrance? said Ms. Winder. "What does this do to our property values? It can't help."
Winder is also concern about traffic. "There's traffic light at the fire house that is only activated when the fire trucks have to cross the road. Why that signal can't be activated I don't know, but it would help with the traffic."
Preston Cuneo, who grew up on Iron Bridge Road, said the transportation Capital Improvement Program did not have this listed just two years ago and now it is at the top of the list."
Lohr wondered the same thing, why the developer did not take into account the traffic counts he received from the transportation department.
The transportation staff report indicates an increase in traffic at the Iron Bridge and Jessup roads intersection "[The] proposed, development of the property could generate approximately 11,000 average daily trips (ADT). This traffic will be distributed to Route 10 and Jessup Road, which had 2012 traffic counts of 37,689 and 5,947 vehicles per day, respectively.
Crime being another issue, Cuneo said, kids and grownups walk up and down Iron Bridge Road regularly. He said he does not know where they come from, but it is dangerous and alluded to a convenience store and gas station becoming a hang out.
Both Lohr and Cuneo suspected that the county is looking for commercial development where ever they can get it.


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Nov 26, 2012 9:00 AM by Katie Ferber, KSBY News
Earlier this year, we watched Cayucos resident Jodi Fisher capture the hearts of so many people.
She passed out ice cream on her birthday, met the President, and was on the "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
It was all part of Jodi's "fun list" before she passed away of cancer.
DeGeneres says the Fisher family left a lasting impact on her and the staff of "Ellen." She welcomed them back to the show to check-in and see how they are doing.
Jodi's family is getting some pretty neat gifts from a woman who saw their story the first time they were on "Ellen."
You can see the show Monday afternoon on KSBY at 4 p.m.
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CLOVIS, Calif. (AP) - Bikini-clad baristas working at a Northern California coffee shop are brewing up a bit of controversy with some folks upset with their attire.
The Fresno Bee reports residents in Clovis are seeking signatures for a petition telling city council members that they want the servers at the Bottom's Up to either cover up or be told to close up shop permanently.
Clovis City Attorney David Wolfe said the city probably can't do anything about the business. Wolfe says residents began calling the city after a TV story on the shop featured a barista apparently showing too much skin when she bent over.
Bottom's Up co-owner Alexandra Ireland says she was just as surprised to see that on TV and the barista has since been let go.
Ireland says she wants to add 10 more stores in the Central Valley.
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Aliens: Colonial Marines and Gearbox Software are being treated to a thorough roasting this morning, as less-than-appreciative reviews and scores go live. According to one source, who describes himself/herself as a former Gearbox employee, the bulk of Colonial Marines development was carried out not by the creators of Borderlands, but by less-sung Section 8 developer Timegate Studios.
"Hate to say it, but I wouldn't get your hopes up too high for Colonial Marines," the unnamed developer commented over at TexAgs last year, via Eurogamer. "I used to work at Gearbox, and the development of that game has been a total train wreck, going on what, 6 years now?"
"Gearbox isn't even making the game, except for the multiplayer," he/she went on. "Primary development was outsourced to TimeGate Studios, which has a less than stellar past. I hope it proves me wrong, as I still have a lot of friends still working at Gearbox, but I am expecting it to be average at best."
The game's Metascore currently sits at a dismal 49 on Xbox 360.
In Gearbox's defence, the studio has been reasonably upfront about the role played by external developers. "It's a big, ambitious game," bossman Randy Pitchford told IGN yesterday. "Some of the other studios involved, we decided that these guys are awesome. They did a lot of really valuable work.
"We're not contractually obligated to put anybody's credits there, but we value talent and respect talent. We wanted to make sure that those logos were there and that work was represented. In big efforts, that's not an uncommon thing. You don't usually see it up front."
TimeGate, Shoot Many Robots outfit Demiurge Studios and Nerve Software get namechecks on the Alien: Colonial Marines credits reel, presented at the start of the game. According to Pitchford, Demiurge "with us at the very beginning, helping us to explore networking and multiplayer" while TimeGate accounted for "probably about 20 or 25 percent of the total time" - on par with Gearbox's input less the preproduction work, although as Pitchford notes "it's not fair to take preproduction out of it, but that says a lot about how much horsepower those guys put into it."
"We wanted some more multiplayer stuff, more content and more features for the game that we shipped rather than parceling it all out for downloadable content," he added. "We wanted to put more in the game that shipped. Nerve had some time and those guys are badass. They're right down the street. That just made sense. They got some of their awesome guys to do some cool sh*t. Some of my favorite multiplayer maps came out of that group.
"They're good guys. They care," Pitchford went on. "We know the mission. It's about building the game. Let's say you imagine the house you want to build. You have the blueprints, and you want to get someone that's really awesome at making stairs to help make the stairs. You want to get someone that lays carpet like a mother**ker to come down and lay some carpet.
"These guys are hardcore. They have talent. If I was going to lay all that carpet myself and build the stairs myself and do all the countertops myself, that house would never get done."
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Some of the questions we address: How does the increasing transparency of data influence the process of buying and selling homes? How can homeowners control the information that's revealed about their homes online? And for the startups out there, what's the secret to getting featured in the App Store's "Best New Apps" section, as Estately is right now?
We also get into the behind-the-scenes details about Estately's business, and the startup's strategy for competing against some of the giants of the online real estate world, at least a couple of which are based here in its backyard.
That conversation begins in the second segment of the segment, after our weekly news roundup, in which we gloat about our victory over Re/code (thanks to the Seahawks' victory over the 49ers), compare the Seattle and Denver startup scenes, and talk about Microsoft's surprising earnings report.
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Colorado Renewable Energy Mapping Task Force Members Named |
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Gov. Bill Ritter, D-Colo., has appointed seven Coloradans to the Renewable Resource Generation Development Area Task Force. Eight other members of the task force have [read more] |
Sterling Planet Hires New Business Development Executive |
on Wednesday July 18 2007 by NAW Staff |
Alden Hathaway II has joined Norcross, Ga.-headquartered renewable energy retailer Sterling Planet as senior vice president of business development. In this role, Hathaway will be [read more] |
CanWEA Welcomes Kucera, Thibedeau |
on Tuesday July 17 2007 by NAW Staff |
Ulrike Kucera has joined the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) as media relations officer for the association's communications and public outreach team. Kucera joins CanWEA [read more] |
Commtest Hires Toronto District Sales Manager |
on Friday July 13 2007 by NAW Staff |
Commtest, a Knoxville, Tenn.-based provider of vibration analysis and data acquisition products, has named Robert Dent district sales manager in Toronto, where his duties will [read more] |
Nordic Windpower Appoints Two New Executives |
on Wednesday July 11 2007 by NAW Staff |
Nordic Windpower, a San Rafael, Calif.-based wind turbine manufacturer, has named Walter Chang chief financial officer (CFO) and Gregg Mead vice president of manufacturing [read more] |
WEICan Executive Director Resigns |
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Anne Forbes, executive director of the Wind Energy Institute of Canada (WEICan), has resigned in order to allow the organization to move on to its [read more] |
Noble Environmental Names Chief Financial Officer |
on Friday July 06 2007 by NAW Staff |
Noble Environmental Power, an Essex, Conn.-based renewable energy company, has appointed Christopher Lowe chief financial officer. In this role, Lowe will hold responsibility for the [read more] |
UWIG Announces 2007 Wind Integration Honorees |
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The Utility Wind Integration Group (UWIG) has announced that Ken Wolf, reliability administrator for the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission; Matt Schuerger of Energy Systems Consulting; [read more] |
Maine Wind Power Task Force Members Named |
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According to the office of Gov. John Baldacci, D-Maine, the 16 members of the Maine Governor's Task Force on Wind Power Development in Maine have [read more] |
MN Governor Appoints Seven Members To NextGen Energy Board |
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn., has selected his appointments to the NextGen Energy Board. This new board, proposed by Pawlenty as part of his Next Generation [read more] |
AWEA Names Four Executives To Board Of Directors |
on Wednesday June 27 2007 by NAW Staff |
The American Wind Association (AWEA) has named four members - all from utility, financial and energy development companies - to its board of directors. The [read more] |
REpower Systems AG Appoints Chairman Of Supervisory Board |
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At its annual general meeting, Germany-based turbine manufacturer REpower Systems AG named Tulsi R. Tanti chairman of the supervisory board. Tanti, who is also chairman [read more] |
SMUD Names Manager Of Power Development |
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The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) has named Scott Flake manager of power generation. In this position, Flake will oversee the operation of the utility's [read more] |
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Kermit Nash has joined Minneapolis-based Fredrikson & Byron as an officer in the law firm's corporate group.Nash practices in the areas of business transactions, mergers [read more] |
Commtest Names New Finance And Human Resource Manager |
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Commtest, a Knoxville, Tenn.-based provider of vibration analysis and data acquisition products, has appointed Deborah Block finance and human resource manager. In this position, she [read more] |


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Breaking up is hard to do … especially when you know that your face is going to be smeared all over every 'bloid and the paps will be stalking you for months. So grim. Celebrity breakups suck for them, but—sure I'll admit it—they're sources of endless entertainment for us. It's hard to believe the media s**t show that ensued when TLC reality stars Jon and Kate Gosselin announced that they were getting divorced on TV. I actually feel bad for the kids and I'm glad that the judge finally banned Jon from making any further media appearances.
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when i was a kid i had a jolly jumper, and now i want one for my child. does anyone know where i can find one (new) online? |
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- Posted by Pam_from_the_PNW (My Page) on Sat, Dec 29, 01 at 16:54
Ebay sells them - some new, some used. Amazon.com has them too and I've seen them at WalMart (not online). They're called Johnny Jump-Ups now though, so maybe that's why you had a hard time finding them? Pam |
Target has them! |
I have seen them at Toys R Us (of course right after I spent way more on one at Once Upon a Child). -Tara W |
Whatever they are called, wherever you buy them, what ever you pay for them, aren't they just the best? Yeah for Jolly Johnny Jumper ups! |
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The department delivered high-quality consular and passport services to Australians travelling and living overseas and to their families in Australia.
Angky Septiana OAM, former locally engaged staff member of the Australian Consulate-General in Bali, placed flowers in the Remembrance Pond at the 1st Anniversary ceremony of the Bali bombings. Photo: AUSPIC/David Foote. |
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The first anniversary memorial service for the victims of the Bali bombings, and terrorist attacks in Indonesia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Spain and elsewhere, were compelling reminders of the difficult international security environment faced by Australian travellers. High priority was given to providing continuing support to the survivors and families and friends of the victims of the Bali bombings, including through the organisation of the moving memorial service in October 2003 and support for those survivors who appeared at the trial of the perpetrators.
As part of the Government's commitment to keeping Australians informed about risks overseas, Mr Downer launched a major $9.7 million public information campaign, smartraveller, to promote safe overseas travel. A total of 527 travel advisory updates were issued for 144 destinations, providing Australians with up-to-date advice on security and related conditions at overseas destinations. The department worked to combat child sex tourism overseas through cooperative arrangements with child protection advocacy groups and representations to governments on Australia's strong commitment to protecting children from sexual exploitation.
Throughout 2003–04, consular staff directly helped almost 13 000 Australians with a wide range of challenging consular problems. Every day an average of two Australians died overseas. On average, another two were hospitalised, with many requiring evacuation to Australia for treatment. At least two more were arrested on charges ranging from kissing in public to suspicion of participation in terrorist activities.
The department strengthened its capacity, with other agencies, to respond to mass-casualty or terrorism incidents involving Australians overseas. Our crisis management arrangements were tested through the hostage-taking incident in Manila in July 2003 and the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in August 2003. We invested considerable effort in advance contingency planning for the Anzac Day services in Turkey and for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Greece.
Passport applications increased significantly in October 2003 and continued to rise for the remainder of the financial year. This increase in demand saw applications received at an average rate of 12 per cent above projections. While we gave considerable attention to dealing with the influx, the average turnaround time grew from 6.7 to 9.4 days. As the situation showed no signs of abating, we implemented a strategy to deal with the possibility of a prolonged period of increased demand. This included increasing staff numbers in passport offices, an extensive recruitment program and improvements to our production system.
We introduced a new and more secure passport in December 2003 and made substantial changes to passport production arrangements. We introduced centralised production in Australia and overseas to improve the security and efficiency of the passports issuing system. We continued our development of a biometric identifier for the Australian passport and created a new section in the department dedicated exclusively to fraud-related work.
The department enhanced online passport services in November 2003, reflecting our continuing focus on client services. Users can complete and download an application form and get information about the status of an application. Other online services include the ability to report a lost or stolen passport and to pay priority processing fees. These new services have proved very popular with the Australian public.
Remembering Bali: First anniversary memorial service
On 12 October 2003, the department organised—in cooperation with Indonesian authorities and other Australian Government agencies—a memorial service in Bali for the first anniversary of the Bali terrorist attacks, which killed 88 Australians and 114 others. It was a dignified tribute to the victims and sent an important message of comfort to their families and to Australians generally.
More than 2000 people attended the memorial service, including the Prime Minister, Indonesia's then Security Minister, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and around 500 family members of the victims and survivors. Organisation of the service at an outdoor venue in Bali was a major logistical challenge, involving more than 40 staff of the department from the consulate-general in Bali, the embassy in Jakarta and from Canberra.
Departmental staff worked closely with colleagues from Centrelink, the Australian Federal Police, the Department of Defence and other agencies in arranging the event and supporting Australian families in Bali. We organised visits for families and survivors to the Sanglah hospital—where many victims were treated—and the site of the bombing. Our state and territory offices made a valuable contribution by helping the families before their departure from Australia.
The Prime Minister and Australian families expressed warm appreciation for the work of officials in organising what was a very appropriate and moving service.
Consular services
Consular services are among the most important—and often the most challenging—tasks performed by the department. They include helping Australians who are hospitalised or imprisoned, helping families when Australians die, are injured or go missing, and coordinating evacuations when necessary from trouble spots.
Accessibility of consular services
The department improved the accessibility of its consular services through the expansion of the consular network. Mr Downer agreed to the establishment of two further consulates headed by honorary consuls in Almaty, Kazakhstan and Lagos, Nigeria. This brings the total number of consulates headed by Honorary Consuls to 49.
We reached agreement with Canada to provide consular services to Australians in Afghanistan, Ghana and Venezuela. Canada now offers consular services to Australians in 21 countries.
The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) undertook a follow-up audit to its Audit Report of March 2001 on the administration of consular services. It found that over the past two years, the department had responded to changes in global security by expanding public access to travel information and consular assistance, particularly during crisis situations. The ANAO noted that new systems were in place to centralise monitoring of key consular activities, to improve risk assessment, and to strengthen post contingency plans. The ANAO also found that some aspects of project management, and documentation of key consular processes and decisions, could be strengthened for greater efficiency and effectiveness. The department agreed with the ANAO's two recommendations in these areas.
Travel advice: protecting Australians overseas
Against a backdrop of strong media and community interest in the department's consular information services, we continued to improve the format, presentation and dissemination of travel advisories. Travel advisories provide up-to-date, practical information about most destinations to which Australians travel, helping Australians make informed decisions about travelling safely. A total of 527 travel advice updates were issued during the year, and the number of destinations covered by travel advisories grew from 139 to 144. These included advisories for a number of countries where the security risk is low but where there is a high volume of travel by Australians, such as New Zealand.
The department paid particularly close attention to alerting Australians to possible terrorist and other security-related threats that could affect their safety overseas. Mindful of the need to ensure that advice remains credible in the public mind and is not blunted by a perception that risk is overstated, we took further steps to strengthen the link between travel advice and the country threat assessments produced by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's new National Threat Assessment Centre.
The Government provided the department with new funding to improve significantly the dissemination of travel advisories. A four-year, $9.7 million public information campaign, smartraveller, was launched by Mr Downer in September 2003 (see box below). As part of the smartraveller campaign we redesigned the consular pages on the department's website (smartraveller.gov.au), promoting further easy access to our advice. Market surveys showed the Internet to be the most popular method of accessing travel advice. The 164 000 web page-views per week (a 27 per cent increase over the average for the previous year) and over 42 000 email subscribers to travel advice updates (up from 25 000 last year) confirmed that trend. A new automated smartraveller telephone service (1300 139 281) was introduced to ensure travel advisories were accessible to Australians without Internet access. It registered an average of 3000 calls a month.
The department continued to work closely and cooperatively with the Australian travel industry. We secured a significant increase in membership of the Charter for Safe Travel and agreement from the Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) to make participation in the Charter a condition of AFTA membership. Charter members—currently numbering over 1150—promote awareness and use of the department's travel advisories and work with the Government to promote safe travel. In May 2004 we established the joint government–industry smartraveller Consultative Committee to further strengthen cooperation and advance the aims of the Charter. A large number of travel agents in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as 100 branch managers from the Student Travel Association, received training from departmental officers on travel advice.
It's a must see destination
On 7 September 2003, Mr Downer launched the Government's travel advice public information campaign—smartraveller.gov.au: it's a must see destination—at Adelaide International Airport. Over the next few years, the $9.7 million campaign will highlight a simple but important message for all Australian travellers: consult travel advice as part of routine preparation for overseas travel.
The campaign aims to broaden the public's understanding of the Government's travel advisory service. The campaign is built on targeted national television and print advertising, and a new-look for consular information on the website smartraveller.gov.au. The website is a critical tool for disseminating travel advice to travellers and the campaign has already resulted in a marked increase in the number of people accessing travel advice via the website.
Early research indicates a significant increase in awareness of the Government's travel advice as a result of the campaign. There has also been a significant increase in the number of travellers who consider it a high priority to check the advice before travel. A very high percentage of travellers now acknowledge that it is their responsibility to be informed before they travel. Research also indicates that the campaign is not dissuading people from travelling but is informing them of the risks before they go.
The campaign also includes:
- a smartraveller automated phone service that provides travel advice 24 hours a day
- consular touchscreen kiosks installed in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin and Adelaide international airports and in the Canberra and Sydney passport offices.
In addition to the smartraveller campaign, we undertook a range of other public information activities to raise awareness of travel advice and consular services. We participated in eleven holiday and travel expos in capital cities. Feedback from attendees at the expos about our consular service (an average of 15 000 people attended), including our online smartraveller information, was overwhelmingly positive.
Our 14 consular information publications continued to generate considerable public interest, with nearly 1.3 million paper brochures distributed throughout the year. We continue to promote online access to the brochures, including through our redesigned website. In line with smartraveller branding we updated the content and style of most of our publications—such as Hints for Australian travellers—and published two new brochures. In particular, in anticipation of strong public appetite for information about travelling to the Olympic Games in Athens in August 2004, we prepared and distributed over 5500 copies of a new Travelling to the Athens Olympics brochure.
Efforts to combat child sex crime overseas
The department further boosted its efforts to combat the sexual exploitation of children overseas, including through improved inter-agency consultation with the Australian Federal Police, the Attorney-General's Department and AusAID. We undertook a program to brief foreign governments on Australia's child sex tourism legislation and underlined the Government's strong commitment to working with international partners to punish the perpetrators of such crimes. The response to our representations was positive. A number of countries sought further advice on Australian government child protection strategies, ongoing information exchange, and model legislation.
The department used its consular public information program to deliver strong messages against child sex tourism and to raise awareness of the serious criminal penalties for these crimes. We launched a revised bulletin on the smartraveller website warning travellers against involvement in child sex crimes overseas and included references to the extra-territorial application of Australian law relating to child sex crimes in all travel advisories. We implemented new guidelines to help staff properly manage and report cases of child sexual exploitation.
Our work against child sex crimes also included closer cooperation with a key child protection advocacy group, Child Wise—a leading international non-government organisation fighting child sex tourism. We endorsed a public information campaign entitled Don't let child abuse travel that was launched by Child Wise in December 2003. We promoted the campaign through our overseas missions and state and territory offices.
Responsiveness to consular crises
The difficult international security environment presents a continuing challenge in ensuring our crisis management arrangements are effective, particularly in the event of any mass-casualty incident involving Australians overseas. During the reporting period we twice activated our systems, including the standing interdepartmental emergency task force mechanism—during the hostage taking in Manila (July 2003), which involved Australia's Ambassador, and the Marriott Hotel bombing in Jakarta (August 2003).
In the case of the Marriott bombing, our officials from the embassy in Jakarta were at the scene within 15 minutes of the bombing. They worked quickly to establish the safety and whereabouts of Australian guests that evening. The embassy established within one hour of the explosion the identities of the two Australians who had been affected. The department's Canberra-based crisis centre and emergency call unit, which took 350 calls, were operating within two hours of the explosion.
Contingency planning has been refined and improved over the past year. Building on the whole-of-government response to the Bali bombings, the department has worked closely with other agencies to strengthen rapid-response capabilities across agencies in the event of a mass-casualty incident overseas. We have also made improvements to the management and critical evaluation of overseas posts' contingency plans.
In recognition of the need for continuous preparedness in the event of a crisis overseas, the department introduced further technical improvements to the emergency call unit, which will improve handling and monitoring of telephone calls. We have also trained an additional 145 of our staff for work in the crisis centre and the emergency call unit.
In cooperation with other relevant government agencies, the department developed detailed contingency plans for the Anzac Day commemoration ceremony in Turkey. Work continued with the Greek Government and the Australian Olympic and Paralympic Committees to ensure that an appropriate level of security would be provided by the Greek Government to protect Australian athletes, officials and travellers to Athens for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Detailed contingency plans were also developed to enable the Government to respond to an emergency over the Games period.
Assisting Australians overseas
The department helped over 12 900 Australians overseas, compared with 19 000 in 2002–03. This decrease is mainly due to the large number of cases in 2002–03 associated with the Bali bombings, particularly hospitalisation cases, medical evacuations and whereabouts inquiries. Despite the renewed growth in the number of Australians travelling overseas, there was a welcome decline in most categories of consular cases over the past year, including medical cases, deaths, general welfare cases and Australians requiring financial assistance. This suggests a greater degree of care and preparation by Australians travelling overseas, consistent with key messages in the smartraveller campaign. There were, however, increases in the number of Australians arrested and imprisoned overseas. See table 11 for details.
Many of the cases we managed were complex and difficult, reflecting the kinds of divergent cultural practices, legal loopholes and local security risks about which we seek to warn Australians through our travel advisories. They include, for example, the rescue of a woman at risk from traditional witchdoctor practices in Africa, repatriation of a woman at grave risk of an 'honour' killing, and the repatriation of a number of young girls offered as child brides. We also helped a young man return to Australia from an overseas holiday in his ancestral homeland, where he had found an arranged marriage and a commitment to military service waiting for him.
In continuing our constructive work with consular partner governments, the department hosted the Five-Nation Consular Colloque in Sydney in March 2004, which drew together the heads of the consular services from Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand. The colloque was an opportunity to discuss emerging challenges in the consular field, including passport security, children's issues, comparison of travel advice preparation and examination of opportunities for coordination of crisis response arrangements overseas. All governments thanked the department for the assistance rendered by Australia to their nationals caught up in the Bali bombings.
Mr Downer signed a Consular Agreement with Vietnam with the Vietnamese Foreign Minister in July 2003. The agreement will help Australian consular officials deliver consular services with greater certainty to Australians in Vietnam, including dual nationals.
The department also delivers a wide range of services to Australians either resident or visiting overseas for other government agencies. In consultation with the Australian Electoral Commission, we have set in place new arrangements for providing voting services overseas for federal elections, including through early provision of ballot papers electronically to our overseas missions. We experienced an 18 per cent increase in the number of notarial acts undertaken by the department in Australia and overseas.
1999–00 | 2000–01 | 2001–02 | 2002–03 | 2003–04 | |
Australian travellers1 | 3 417 140* | 3 670 260* | 3 459 970* | 3 379 5001 | 4 021 230 |
Australians given general welfare and guidance2 | 16 085 | 16 975 | 19 914 | 10 129 | 9 478 |
Hospitalised Australians given general welfare and guidance | 656 | 766 | 722 | 864 | 666 |
Australians evacuated to another location for medical purposes | 103 | 138 | 116 | 203 | 81 |
Next of kin guided or assisted with disposal of remains in relation to overseas deaths | 604 | 547 | 639 | 681 | 547 |
Australians having difficulty arranging their own return to Australia given guidance and assistance | 60 | 71 | 81 | 109 | 66 |
Inquiries made about Australians overseas who could not be contacted by their next of kin3 | 1 850 | 1 712 | 1 838 | 5767 | 711 |
Australians arrested overseas | 453 | 568 | 649 | 649 | 728 |
Australians in prison overseas (as at 30 June) | 155 | 208 | 180 | 184 | 215 |
Australians in financial difficulty who were lent public funds to cover immediate needs (travellers' emergency loans) | 775 | 738 | 739 | 610 | 454 |
Total number of cases involving Australians in difficulty | 20 741 | 21 723 | 24 158 | 19 196 | 12 946 |
Notarial acts4 | 64 889* | 67 319* | 74 932* | 73 514 | 87 545 |
Total number of Australians provided with consular assistance | 85 630 | 89 042 | 99 090 | 92 710 | 100 491 |
1 These figures draw on ABS data and include permanent departures, long term departures and short term departures of Australian residents.
2 The method of data collection for general welfare and guidance has been defined more precisely and includes the following sub-categories: assaults (126), theft (3925), welfare of children (325) and other serious welfare matters (3925). Estimates of non-case consular welfare matters, which were recorded here until 2001–02, are now recorded separately under quantity information—overseas post non-case enquiries.
3 These statistics refer specifically to inquiries about actual cases at posts. Total inquiries, including non-case-related inquiries, in Australia and at overseas posts, are recorded under quantity information.
* These figures have been revised following revisions to ABS data.
4 Includes notarial acts performed by overseas posts, Canberra and state and territory offices in Australia.
Passport services
The department provides Australian citizens with passport services under the Passports Act 1938 through its passport offices in nine cities around Australia and our diplomatic and consular missions overseas. Australia Post conducts interviews throughout Australia on behalf of the department. We have made available information about the passport issuing process and requirements via the Australian Passport Information Service (APIS) and the passports website. The department took a number of initiatives during the year to improve passport services.
In a major organisational reform, passport production was centralised with the introduction of the new M-series passport in December 2003. This initiative was taken to improve the security and efficiency of the issuing process. Since then, 80 per cent of the production in Australia has been undertaken at a new facility at the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra. Applications from posts in Asia and the Pacific have also been processed at this facility. Similar production centres were established in Washington and London to handle applications lodged overseas. We engaged a safehand commercial courier service to return passports from these production centres to posts. We introduced an emergency passport overseas to meet the needs of Australians who could not wait the ten days customary processing period to receive a new passport.
Demand for Australian travel documents grew significantly during the year with 1 086 366 documents issued compared to 906 049 for the previous year. The stronger Australian dollar and resulting decrease in the cost of overseas travel appeared to be a contributing factor. Analysis suggests that the increased rate of applications also represents a catch-up in demand following the substantial drop experienced after the events of 11 September 2001, the Bali bombings and the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus. Average staff levels in passport offices were increased by 50 to 230 to cope with the heavy demand.
Figure 14. Travel documents approved (TEXT DESCRIPTION)
Australia Post continued to provide ease of access for Australians attending a passport interview, with 84.7 per cent of all applications in Australia lodged by this method. Training was a key element of our partnership with Australia Post, resulting in a reduction in the national interview error rate from 4 per cent in 2002–03 to 3.5 per cent in 2003–04.
Passport services were further improved in November 2003 with the introduction of a range of interactive online services designed to provide the public with continuous access to passport services. This completed Phase 2 of the four-phased 'passports online' strategy, for which the Government has allocated $3.1 million. Australians are now able to complete application forms online, pay priority processing fees, report a passport lost or stolen, track the progress of an application and view personal passport details online. Response to the new services has been very positive with 82 504 application forms downloaded, 57 550 clients viewing the status of their application in the production process, 186 032 passport ready emails being sent to clients and 202 clients having paid the priority processing fee online. A content management system will be introduced in 2004–05, as part of the next phase, to manage the regular update of passport online information. An online passport renewal service will also be introduced.
Introduction of the M-series passport
The department introduced a new and more secure Australian passport—the M-series—in December 2003 as a replacement for the L-series, which had been in use since 1995.
The M-series passport blends the latest in secure printing techniques with technical sophistication. It includes state-of-the-art security features which have been designed to ensure that any attempt to tamper with the document will be clearly evident. While some of these features are visible to the naked eye, others require the use of special detection devices.
Careful design has achieved balance between durability and the need for sensitive security improvements. This combination has been designed to indicate quickly and clearly that the document is a genuine Australian passport.
One obvious change is the relocation of the data page from the inside cover to the first free-standing page in the document. This change was made to make this important part of the booklet more tamper-resistant. The most striking feature of the new data page is the images of small and large kangaroos embedded in the laminate. Viewed under normal lighting, these kangaroos appear to hop when the page is moved up and down.
The security printing techniques employed in the M-series passport include intaglio printing, microprinting and complexity of design. Many of the visa pages contain microtext in the background incorporating the words to Waltzing Matilda. There are also special watermarks featuring kangaroos and the Federation Star.
The department manages a contract with Centrelink for the provision of the Australian Passport Information Service (APIS). This service provides advice and assistance to the public on all passport matters seven days a week. Arrangements are in place to expand the APIS network to handle passport calls from Australians resident in New Zealand.
Efforts to combat passport fraud remained a high priority during the year. We worked closely with other agencies on a whole-of-government approach to develop a common proof-of-identity procedure and to enhance identity validation arrangements between agencies. A major review of the department's Passport Fraud and Review Unit was also undertaken to ensure we had the capacity and specialised skills to meet the challenges posed by an increase in identity-related fraud. This review led to the creation of a new Passport Fraud Section within the department.
Three-year old Sally Jackson (centre) and her two-year old brother, Alan, received the first M-series passports issued in Manila from Australias Ambassador to the Philippines, Ruth Pearce. Photo: Rey Mondez. |
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Passport security
Passport security was improved by a number of new measures, particularly with the introduction of the new, and more secure, M-series passport in December 2003. Other initiatives included the introduction of new passport forms designed to strengthen the proof-of-identity requirements. A new change of name policy ensures that passports are only issued in the applicant's birth name or a name formally registered with the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Procedures to improve the quality control of the finished passport and to identify errors before the document is issued to the customer were introduced in December 2003 with the new centralised production arrangements. We continued efforts to minimise the number of passports lost in the mail. We made good progress in negotiating a new secure delivery arrangement with Australia Post. A costed proposal is now under examination in the department.
Negotiations began to provide Interpol, New Zealand and the United States with data on Australian lost and stolen passports. This initiative will help control the illegal use of these documents.
The Government provided the department with new funding of $3 million in 2003–04 for more research and development on the use of facial biometric technology in travel documents. We improved matching rates for identity verification and fraud control and produced a prototype biometrically enabled Australian passport.
Passport Client Service Charter
During 2003–04, the department reviewed the Passports Client Service Charter. As a result of this review we drafted a revised interim Charter in June 2004.
The Charter commits the department to a turnaround time of ten working days. A significant increase in passport demand from November 2003 saw a slippage of passport turnaround times from 6.7 days in 2002–03 to 9.4 working days in 2003–04.
The department has implemented measures to ensure that the turnaround time is lowered during 2004–05. A major revision of the Passports Client Service Charter will also be undertaken.
Passport legislation
The department prepared legislation introduced into Parliament in June 2004 to replace the Passports Act 1938 and to provide a modern legal structure to maintain access by Australian citizens to passports of the highest integrity while ensuring passports law complements national security, border protection, Australian law-enforcement measures and international law-enforcement cooperation.
The Australian Passports Bill 2004:
- increases penalties for passport fraud
- provides measures to minimise problems caused by lost and stolen passports
- establishes an improved mechanism for refusal or cancellation of a passport on law-enforcement and security grounds.
The Australian Passports (Application Fees) Bill 2004 seeks to create a simpler structure to deal with changes in the costs and validity of Australian travel documents.
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during bloom is the worst time to move *anything*. there's a good chance they won't make it. is it feasible to mark the white ones (with a toothpick?) and move them when they go dormant instead? |
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True the CW is that they should be moved while dormant, but I would move them as soon as the flowers aren't pretty anymore, not bare-rooting like I would a dormant bulb, but more like transplanting a "regular" plant, if it's few enough plants to do so. Also done this many times with hardy, bought-in-bloom bulbs and almost always got flowers the next year, certainly no dead bulbs. You would know best if you're likely to follow through later, but waiting in fear of killing the bulbs is not something I'd worry about. I've never killed any kind of healthy, mature bulb by moving it at any time, but I usually do it as soon as the flowers aren't pretty anymore (if that's an option, whenever if not.) That gives it a whole year to get ready to do it again. |
I realized that in bloom or near blooming tulips should not be moved. However, I am in dilemma where a family "home house" has been sold and I must move them immediately. The species is unknown, but they are sturdy, repeat bloom, have been at this home for at least 50 years. Soil in their new location has been worked and amended. I plan on removing any stems and cutting leaves back by about 1/3, and of course will keep watered. Any thoughts on success rate or other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. |
Well in your case, you can't help it to wait, so yes, you'll have to do that. Give them all the chance to survive and make it. It's good to hear you say that they have been reblooming or naturalizing for at least 50 years. I've heard differently about tulips but it may be the specific variety. |
When you remove them from the soil try and take as much soil with them as possible and keep the soil damp and replant in the new location immediately. Al |
.... also don't cut the foliage, they need to have all their foliage in order to store the energy for next year. |
Yes - don't cut them back - just pack in moist soil and heel them in as soon as you can when you get to the new place if you can't put them in their new position immediately. You can deal with them at your leisure after that. |
Remove the stems but not the leaves. |
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dangerous move the IRGC-QF would do so.
On 10/26/11 3:29 PM, Sean Noonan wrote:
Canada is not Mexico, thank god.
Everybody makes mistakes, Kamran.
On 10/26/11 2:16 PM, Carlos Lopez Portillo wrote:
That's funny, letting business go just because of that...narrow minded
I think.
On 10/26/11 1:57 PM, Kamran Bokhari wrote:
I was talking to an Iranian (a greenie opponent of the regime)
earlier today and he said that he has not met anyone from the expat
community in the Toronto who buys this plot - except some MeK folks
who he said were obviously seeking to benefit from it. He said the
community here is largely anti-IR and very secular and everyone
believes it is BS (even the pro-Shah elements) and for a variety of
reasons. But the key one is that every Iranian anywhere in the world
knows that wiring money will raise red flags.
And actually I myself recently had a personal experience. My
mother-in-law recently retired from the World Bank and invested the
money she received in a property here. The money was wired from a
credit union attached to the World Bank in DC in U.S. dollars. I was
trying to get the best possible exchange rate to convert to Canadian
currency and I got it from a large money trading firm owned by
Iranian-Canadians. But they refused to do business with me because
they could not verify where the money came from and were fearful
that they could get into trouble for such a large transaction. He
said he would love to have my business but the risk is just too
On 10/26/11 2:28 PM, Sean Noonan wrote:
I usually pull my hair out when Fred forwards crap from Kessler.
But he has good sources in the FBI, and this provides a little bit
of insight on their thinking on the plot. But it does not add any
more evidence.
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FBI Had to Overcome Doubts on Iran's D.C. Assassination Plot
Wednesday, 26 Oct 2011 11:18 AM
By Ronald Kessler
Like everyone else who heard about the scheme, FBI officials
were at first skeptical that Iran was behind a plot to
assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
On its face, it didn't make sense. Why would any country face
possible retaliation over taking out an ambassador? From the
clumsy planning to the amateurish conspirators to the effort to
involve Mexican drug traffickers, the plot sounded like a B
Yet in announcing criminal charges, Attorney General Eric H.
Holder Jr. said the plot was "directed and approved by elements
of the Iranian government and, specifically, senior members of
the Quds Force."
The FBI Had to Overcome Doubts on Iran's D.C. Assassination
"Initially, some of us were shaking our heads, asking is this
for real," says an FBI official. "One would assume we were
dealing with a sophisticated, well-funded service," referring to
Iran's Quds Force.
The Quds Force is a special operations unit of the Iranian
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that sponsors and promotes
terrorist activities abroad.
Then, as skepticism grew, "additional corroboration came in,"
the FBI official says. "Then the money trail gave support."
The FBI monitored calls to Iran about the plot and traced
$100,000 that had been wired from a bank account linked to the
Quds Force. Manssor Arbabsiar, an Iranian-American charged in
the scheme, is a cousin of Abdul Reza Shahlai, a senior
commander in the Quds Force who allegedly tasked Arbabsiar to
carry out the assassination.
The second person charged, Gholam Shakuri, is an Iran-based
member of the Quds Force.
The FBI is convinced that Major General Qassem Suleimani, the
Quds Force chief, and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei were at least aware of the plot's outlines.
"At the end, we had to take action," the FBI official says. "The
main suspect was going to travel. The other fear you had was
they had fallback plans for others to assassinate ambassador
Adel al-Jubeir. The plot could show a level of desperation."
In the intelligence business, the assumption that leaders of
another country will think as American leaders would is known as
mirror-imaging. As noted in my book "The CIA at War: Inside the
Secret Campaign Against Terror," it was mirror-imaging that led
the CIA initially to discount the possibility that the Soviet
Union would deploy ballistic missiles in Cuba in September 1962.
Back then, the CIA received eyewitness reports of such a
deployment but dismissed them because placing ballistic missiles
in Cuba would not fit the Soviet Union's behavior patterns.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev "would not do anything so
uncharacteristic, provocative, and unrewarding," an intelligence
estimate said.
But a month later, photographs taken by a U-2 spy plane showed
conclusively that the Soviets were indeed moving missiles into
We often see the same blindness when the FBI uncovers a
terrorist plot. The media find that the plotters are not rocket
scientists and claim that the FBI over-hyped the case.
The truth is that if they were smart, criminals likely would not
be criminals. Outlandish though some cases may sound, virtually
every federal indictment based on an FBI investigation winds up
with a conviction.
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The Hotel Arcadia is located in the hub of Kottayam town with just walking distance from all major theaters and other city centers and opposite to KSRTC bus stand. The Railway station and the Boat jetty are located within 1 km from the hotel.
Hotel Arcadia is the epitome of Kerala's hospitality and a fully equipped three star business hotel all at once, which offers an array of services to make your work and play an overwhelming affair. From gracefully appointed rooms to a baffling range of restaurants; from refined and experienced staff to thoughtfully set conference & banquet halls, Arcadia is all primed to treat you to the best of Kerala.
The Lake View Restaurant on the 14th floor of the Arcadia gives a panoramic view of the town as you savour an impressive array of delicacies while the lounge bar is a great bet to enjoy an evening drink. The roof top pool on the 15th floor ensures an amazing experience of a refreshing swim right under the starlit sky. There is a sprawling exhibition room and banquets halls with diverse seating capacities to fit the bill of all your needs.
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Thank you, Ottilie, I love you. Without your help I would probably have much more names and not so good ones(who suggested Leocadia and Constance, reminded me of Ottoline, Olympia, Ceridwen?). Thanks thanks thanks!
I love seeing your positive comments about them all and the top! I simply couldn't cut it down shorter and better. Then there will be a problem with picking one but I have twins running in my family so there is a small chance I may end with two or(!) three babes . And two middles is a relief.
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Alright, I've made you a Top 8. In order of preference next to Cornelia (which is why the C's are that the bottom, I'm not big on repeating initials, but they are still great names). I'm kinda dying to see your final Top 10 so you can make a middle name post! Haha, these are amazing. =]
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