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A multidisciplinary evidence-based guideline for minimally invasive surgery: part 2—laparoscopic port instruments, trocar site closure, and electrosurgical techniques
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Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is practiced by different surgical disciplines applying similar basic techniques. In 2007, the Dutch Health Care inspectorate indicated the need for a guideline including multidisciplinary agreements for MIS aiming towards better patient care and safety. A multidisciplinary guideline development group was founded consisting of general surgeons, gynecologists, an anesthesiologist, and an urologist. All members were authorized by their scientific professional associations. Clinically important aspects were identified and discussed. The best available evidence on these aspects was gathered by systematic review. Recommendations for clinical practice were formulated based on the evidence and a consensus of expert opinion. The guideline was externally reviewed by members of the participating scientific associations and their feedback was integrated. Identified important topics were: laparoscopic entry techniques, intra-abdominal pressure, laparoscopic port instruments, electrosurgical techniques, prevention of trocar site herniation, patient positioning, anesthesiology, perioperative care, patient information, multidisciplinary user consultation, and complication registration. The text of each topic contains an introduction with an explanation of the problem and a summary of the current literature. The current available evidence on safety aspects in minimally invasive surgery is limited. Few conclusions could be deduced from evidence-based data. This underscores the need for larger studies with adequate design and methodology to define conclusions of importance. Above all, the development of this multidisciplinary guideline facilitated a rich discussion, which resulted in a very complete and implementable guideline. This is the second of three papers on the multidisciplinary guideline for minimally invasive surgery, in which we present our literature reviews, conclusions, and practical recommendations for the use of specific port instruments, port site closure, and electrosurgical and ultrasonic techniques.
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- Title
- A multidisciplinary evidence-based guideline for minimally invasive surgery: part 2—laparoscopic port instruments, trocar site closure, and electrosurgical techniques
- Journal
Gynecological Surgery
Volume 10, Issue 1 , pp 11-23
- Cover Date
- 2013-02-01
- 10.1007/s10397-012-0776-y
- Print ISSN
- 1613-2076
- Online ISSN
- 1613-2084
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Multidisciplinary guideline
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Laparoscopic ports
- Trocars
- Port-related complications
- Electrosurgical techniques
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Gynecology, Leiden University Medical Center, K6 room 76, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC, Leiden, the Netherlands
- 2. Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 3. Department of Gynecology, Maxima Medical Center, Veldhoven, the Netherlands
- 4. Department of Quality in Healthcare, Dutch Association of Medical Specialists, Utrecht, the Netherlands


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Edna woman receives heart transplant
JR Ortega
March 9, 2011 at 10:02 p.m.
Updated March 8, 2011 at 9:09 p.m.
About 2,163 heart transplants were performed in the United States in 2008 and 2,210 in 2007.
As of June 2009, the one-year survival rate was 88 percent for males and 77.2 percent for females; the three-year survival rate was about 79.3 percent for males and 77.2 percent for females. The five-year survival rate was 73.1 percent for males and 67.4 percent for females.
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SAN ANTONIO - A 36-year-old Edna woman had heart transplant surgery and is in stable condition in the surgical intensive care unit, a nurse said.
Kelley Drastata had the surgery at the Methodist Heart Hospital on Monday, said Dr. Yusuke Yahagi, who performed a double bypass on Drastata in January 2010.
Since then, Drastata had been on a left ventricular assisted device.
Wall posts of "We love you's" and "You are in our thoughts and prayers" poured onto Drastata's Facebook wall since the announcement of the heart transplant.
Finding a heart is a miracle because they are not easy to come by, Yahagi said.
"There is a mass of people who wait for the heart," Yahagi said. "The organ is very scarce. It is very tough to get a heart."
A benefit concert was held in late February to raise awareness about heart disease and Drastata's story.
Coincidentally, the heart became available after the concert.
Three types of rejection exist: acute, sub-acute and chronic.
Acute occurs on the operating table, which Drastata did well with.
Sub-acute happens between the date of operation and about two weeks after the surgery, and chronic can happen anytime during the person's lifetime, he said.
The journey is a lengthy one, but Yahagi has hope in Drastata's strength.
"There's a lot of support from Victoria," he said. "All the praying did it all."


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Jesse Sola, the man behind the musical soundworlds of Numina, is a relative newcomer in the genres of Spacemusic and Dark-ambient. Seemingly coming out of nowhere, Numina.s 2001 release .Evolving Visions. has gained this small-time independent artist renowned acclaim. Here are some excerpts of various reviews of the music of Numina:This is floating ambient music of the first order, the kind that you can't help but draw in a deep, relaxing breath and just let it go.. ~ Phil Derby / Electroambient Space
Lush ambiences and themes mix with rich synthetic orchestrations to create a masterpiece that just floats and hovers over you like a thick fog.. ~ Lloyd Barde of Backroads Music
Numina sends sweet sonic gaseous space between your ears. Good old ambient floatations! . ~ David J. Opdyke / Ambientrance
From beginning to end it makes you feel like you're floating way off in space, watching galaxies spin and grow, hovering in star dust, hiding from everyone and everything on some distant planet. I love the deep pulsing tones and the angelic tides of sound that swirl all around you. It sounds like a sea of deep green space. Like you have your ears submerged in water looking up into endless oceans of stars and universe. ~ Tara VanFlower of Lycia
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Whereas most ambient artists will compose about "The beauty of nature" and all that, Numina eschews a feeling of being totally lost in that same nature.. ~ David Holton of Ashengrace
This review is for anyone into beautiful ambient music, Jesse, to me is one of the newer ambient musicians who makes music for the soul, his work is quiet and etherealingly chaotic, deep and dark, full of contemplation and honest reflection. Wide drones that could fill up the sky.. ~ Erick of Translucia
Jesse has very quickly established himself as a candidate for ambient greatness!. ~ Jim Brenholts for Ambient Visions
Numina kicks ambient butt. . Mike Scheibinger / Sonic Foundry


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EX1/EX3 IR Filter Shoot-Out
The EX1/EX3 built-in Hot Mirrors suck. Or do they? One way to find out...
By Art Adams | February 26, 2009
The Sony EX1 and EX3 are great cameras for the price, but they do have some fairly obvious issues with IR/far red when used with neutral density filters in front of the lens. This test taught me far more, though, than just what filters to use to eliminate a color problem on these cameras: I learned never to make assumptions about how a piece of equipment works until I've tested all possible options.
I'm not going to recap my testing procedures or the physics behind how the different filters work. You can find those details in my F35 and RED IR articles. I've gotten a lot of requests for an EX1/EX3 IR article, and as I've previously explained the basics this article is going to focus solely on results.
Here's what the test setup looked like, without any on-lens filtration:
The setup consists of a DSC Labs Chroma Du Monde chart, the Chroma Du Monde polyester chart bag as an IR/far red reflector, and a slate.
Here's the same setup with Schneider Optics ND 1.2 filters in front of the lens:
As I've explained before, all heavy ND filters show some color shifts because it's impossible to make a dye that is perfectly neutral. Some ND filters go warm and others cool. In this case the Schneider filters add a reddish hue, which I've attempted to correct out in Photoshop. A simple white balance is enough to get rid of this hue in camera, but I chose to do it in post in order to observe the various filters' color shifts.
In spite of white, black and gray balancing in Photoshop, the black DSC chart bag has turned a bright maroon color with four stops of ND in front of the lens--brighter than I've seen on any other camera I've tested.
The first time I looked at a black cotton shirt under tungsten light on an EX1 it turned bright maroon even without ND. Between that experience, and seeing how much red I saw with some ND in front of the lens, I figured that the built-in Hot Mirror on these cameras was either very bad or nonexistent. I was wrong, but I wouldn't figure that out until later. Read on...
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DR: | February, 26, 2009
Excellent test! Would the Tiffen IRND have to be the first filter light hits, or could it be used as a screw-in filter on the lens behind a matte box?
Art Adams: | February, 26, 2009
It doesn't have a reflective Hot Mirror so I don't see a need for it to be the first filter in the matte box.
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Michael B. McGee: | March, 14, 2009
where does one find a Schneider Tru-Cut 680? i've looked everywhere.
Art Adams: | March, 14, 2009
I don't know that they are commercially available. I got one to test when Schneider first brought IR filters on the market but I think the only one they've officially released is the Tru-Cut 750, which works great on the RED.
You should give them a call. They're about the nicest people you'd ever hope to do business with.
Michael B. McGee: | March, 14, 2009
Thanks Art. yeah,i've gotta EX1. i second that about Scheider. I see many of their reps through the year. very nice people. i'll call them monday.


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You know what happens when you assume don't you.
Why do you support people being less knowledgeable about the laws that they are carrying under?


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Joseph Apostol is appearing on The Voice
By Joe Bill
Friday, May 31, 2013
Performer talks about the future and being coached by Tom Jones
FROM singing in the church choir to performing on stage in front of millions of viewers, Joseph Apostol has captured the nation's heart with his stunning voice.
And not only has the 21-year-old from Gillingham become favourite to win hit BBC talent show The Voice but he's been well and truly taken under the wing of music legend Sir Tom Jones.
The Welsh star chose to take him through to the next stage of the competition following a beautiful rendition of Elton John and George Michael's classic Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me in the knockout rounds.
Despite his impressive talent, the shy singer is only now coming to terms with his progress.
"There are mixed emotions because it was so nerve-racking being up there [on stage] at the time, but watching the show back I know what is about to happen," he said.
Joseph came to the UK with his mother when he was 10 years old and attended the St John Fisher Catholic School in Chatham.
It was in his local church that the performer really found his voice.
"I've been singing since I was about six, but I have always been into music. The first time I started singing in front of people was when I started going to Christian church."
And Joseph's time at MidKent College, where he studies music, has helped to propel him towards stardom.
"My aim is to be heard by everyone and to perform on that stage," he said.
"The college has really helped me to build my confidence when I perform – they have been a great basis to work from when I am performing.
"I do still have nerves, but that helps me perform. It gives me the right adrenalin."
And there to help keep the Medway man on track in The Voice's latter rounds is his coach and team mentor, Sir Tom Jones.
The show's three other coaches – Jessie J, Will.i.am and The Script's Danny O'Donoghue – are also big fans.
"Tom has been an amazing coach. I believe he trusts me as an artist and as a singer and that is the one thing you want and hope for from a coach.
"He has given me so many tips as well. The one that really stuck with me was when he said 'Just be Joseph, just be you'. That means he trusts me. So I am thankful for that."
Joseph is not your typical pop performer, either, citing jazz and soul legends like Etta James, Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald as heroes.
And that is the direction he would like to take his music in the future should his stint on The Voice propel him to his desired industry.
He said: "I love classic jazz and soul music. And of course I like R&B, too, and a bit of pop.
"I think the body of my album would have to be jazz, soul and blues but incorporating a bit of pop for that money-making music.
"Ultimately I'd love to work with Adele. She is that kind of soulful, bluesy type of singer I like.
"I do believe I can win the show. I have to believe in myself and show my confidence in terms of my performances. But also the ultimate dream is to get a recording contract, make my own music and tour all over the world.
"That is why I joined the show."
As he has stormed through the show, his popularity with the public has grown, with a number of Medway locals and London fans stopping to talk to the young man.
"I have had people come up to me in the street – that was a bit crazy," he said.
■ You can see Joseph Apostol perform in the knockout rounds this weekend on BBC One.
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In spite of the migraine I have had for the past week, I did manage to have a nice Easter weekend. On Saturday my husband and I went over to the Sheep Festival in Waterloo. It was a good time, but I was a little disappointed that there weren't more animals and vendors. I guess maybe I am spoiled from going to Estes. We had fun anyway and I bought a couple of fleeces from my friend Cindy. Watching the dogs herding the sheep is always neat and the dogs were such sweet dogs too.
I was actually looking forward to cooking an Easter dinner this year. I even bought new table linens for it. But thank goodness my SIL invited us to her dinner. My migraine was so bad Sunday morning that I didn't think I was going to make it through church. I got home, took my meds and I was fine for the rest of the day and our dinner was wonderful! I wished I would have taken a picture of our salads. They were so pretty and each one had an easter egg placed in the center with our name on it.
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Battling the Copyright Monster
How does a filmmaker document the world around her when the sights and sounds that make up that world are copyright protected?
Law professors Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins co-wrote and produced the comic book Bound By Law? Tales From the Public Domain. It explores the legal barriers documentary filmmakers in particular must hurdle, or simply avoid.
Aoki, a professor at the University of Oregon who studied art before going to law school, drew the panels. Likenesses of Boyle and Jenkins, both professors at Duke University Law School, act as guides for the story's fictional heroine, a young filmmaker named Akiko.
The story is itself an exercise in fair use, using copyright images and references to documentaries such as Eyes on the Prize and Outfoxed. The book was recently released under a Creative Commons license. A free digital version is available online. Soft Skull Press will publish a print version later this year. Images of some of the comic book's pages are available at the Wired News Bound by Law gallery. Wired News spoke with the three authors by phone recently about the book's creation.
Wired News: Who is the audience for this book?
James Boyle: Our first audience is documentary filmmakers and film students. But we're also trying to reach people who might not think of themselves as documentary filmmakers, people who have video blogs for example, who are using digital tools and editing software to put things online.
But beyond that, there's a larger audience of people who are interested in the effect of copyright on culture, in the free-culture movement, people who are interested in what a world without gatekeepers might look like.
WN: What inspired you to make it a comic book?
Keith Aoki: In my former life as an artist, I was a student of Art Spiegelman, and one of the things he instilled in me is a deep appreciation for the history of comics. Jamie and Jennifer and I are children of the Mad magazine generation, which taught kids to be very distrustful of authority, of ads and hype. That was my first encounter with using copyrighted imagery and turning it around on itself to make a critical comment on the culture.
Boyle: A lot of people imagine that mashup culture is something unique to the digital age, but it goes all the way back to Benjamin Franklin taking popular songs and changing the lyrics to make a comment or a protest about a political situation. The notion that you might need to take a copyrighted, or in that case widely recognized, piece of art and use it in your own work goes all the way through our culture. It's just that in the digital realm it happens so much more and so much faster. The technology lets more people do it more often and reach a wider audience.
WN: Why did you decide to focus on documentary film in this book? What is it about that art form in particular that makes it an especially good topic?
Jennifer Jenkins: First of all, documentaries are incredibly important records of our history and culture. They're visual histories, and they're increasingly based on copyrighted culture. Our book describes several instances in which the telling of that history has been thwarted by permissions issues. An example is Jon Else having to pay $10,000 for a four-and-a-half-second clip of The Simpsons playing in the background of his film (Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle). The makers of Mad Hot Ballroom had to pay that same amount to EMI because a cell phone rings in the background of one of the scenes, and the ringtone is the theme from Rocky. These examples really resonate with people. They understand that these are instances where copyright is not working the way it's supposed to.
Boyle: The history of our culture is in large part the history of a mass of copyrighted material. The question is, are we going to put our own history off-limits to the documentarians, the historians of the future? Copyright is supposed to encourage the dissemination of knowledge, but in those cases it does exactly the opposite.
WN: In the book, you talk about copyright law being out of balance. Can you explain that?
Boyle: There are several ways this has happened. For one thing, copyright now lasts longer than it ever has before, so anyone who's telling the history of American culture after 1923 is using stuff that's copyrighted. That's a long time ago. A lot of people who were working in the past were working under certain rules, knowing that work would soon be in the public domain. Well, we're unfortunately unique as a generation completely cut off from the past 80 years because of the continual extension of copyright terms.
The second thing is that there are a lot of claims under copyright that really have nothing to do with copyright law. This is what Larry Lessig calls the "permissions culture," where people ask permission for the use of tiny fragments that end up in the background of their films or music out of fear or under threat of lawsuit.
And the third thing is the technology. In the '50s, it was quite hard to violate copyright. You needed a printing press or a movie studio. Now all of us make copies of things all the time.
A fourth thing that cuts the other way is the fear-and-loathing syndrome. There's a whole generation of filmmakers and digital creators whose only experience of copyright is as a hassle, as an obstruction, as a cease-and-desist letter preventing them from making or distributing their work. They see copyright as a pointless labyrinth they have to make their way through to make their art. We actually view ourselves as copyright defenders, showing how copyright is supposed to work. We're saying this imbalance could cause us to lose the next generation of artists, if they think of copyright as worthless.


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Or Pat, which is the adjective that best describes the play's dynamic. Mastrosimone, who also wrote the sensationally specious 1982 rape-drama Extremities, has concocted a story that sets out to prove that Homer can save, well, homeboys. If that isn't pat, then Achilles didn't drag the Hector of the Iliad three times around the gates of Troy before, as the Hector of Tamer of Horses puts it, "smoking him." What's a play about a street kid, after all, without some catchy urban dialogue?
Ty is a burned-out prep-school teacher who is caught up in a struggle with his headmaster over whether it's right to pass a failing student just because his father is a big donor to the school. When Hector appears in his stable one winter morning, lost and on the run, Ty sees him as a welcome relief to the spoiled rich kids in his classes. Not that Hector has a passion for learning: He's ill-mannered, sassy, suspicious, and, as Ty discovers, illiterate. But Ty finds him charming, particularly after the kid makes up a rap to commemorate his encounter with the Fletchers' barbed wire fence. When Hector confesses to Ty that he's also responsible for a robbery at a neighbor's house, Ty makes a deal with him. Ty won't turn him in if Hector agrees to be tutored in classics and literacy. No idiot, Hector chooses reading over Rikers.
In making this offer, the well-intentioned Ty intends to prove to himself, if not his headmaster, that the classics are essential to real life. The rich kids he teaches may be a waste of time, but Hector provides Ty with a chance to inject morals into a still-unformed character. Hector is the same age as Ty's students, and therefore similarly beyond Ty's power to change him, but that detail does not seem to have occurred to the playwright or to Ty. At the same time, we learn through tedious exposition that Ty also wants to redeem himself after a failed experience with his younger brother. His effort to help Sam, also a street kid, didn't take. Sam, it seems, ended up dead in his prison cell, a sharp object stuck in his ribs.
Set entirely in the Fletchers' kitchen and its adjoining stable (Richard Crowell's set is quite handsome), the play unfolds as a series of encounters between Hector and his hosts. From Georgiane he learns good manners. From Ty he learns the meaning of hard work and big words. Wakened early to help with the chores, Hector insists he wants to eat breakfast first. "My hunger is unequivocal," he brags.
He also learns how to read, and how to re-evaluate some of his experiences as a petty thief terrorizing riders on New York's subway cars. When Ty explains to him the meaning of conscience, Hector recounts a story about a robbery that turned fatal when an older man was taken by surprise by the boy and his friends. Hector also appears to be a quick learner. While it may take him a good half-hour to sound out the letters D-O-G written on the blackboard in the stable, when confronted with the notion of morality, he absorbs it in mere minutes.
Dramatic shortcomings aside, the notion that a teacher can reach a street kid with more ease than he can his prep-school students is remarkably patronizing. Is Hector so lacking in complexity that he can be molded instantly by Ty's values, while the kids in his class are not? "I never felt more like a teacher than right here with him," Ty says of his new pet project. Ty's rich students may be thankless, but Hector is a kid who readily soaks up Ty's wisdom. Indeed the playwright seems to think there's something noble about taking a kid off the streets, reading him a famous poem, and, with a few hitches, having him go off into the world a new person, saved by the middle class.
Tamer of Horses won the Best Play award in 1987 from the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP. But does it really matter that Hector's saviors are black? Black yuppies have been in existence long enough not to need validation from white playwrights, one would think. If anything the back story of Ty's brother only makes the play more maudlin than it needs to be. Things are weepy enough in Tamer of Horses, thank you very much, with its young protagonist who relates his early start in life as an unborn baby rescued from a late-term abortion by a nurse, nurtured to viability, and put into a series of bad foster homes. Just before he arrived at the Fletchers, Hector had escaped from a Dickensian youth home. But despite all that, he's really good at heart. Sigh.


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The 50-year-old drifter read a script into a "voice exemplar." He played the part of a man calling 911 from a pay phone to report that his roommate had a gun and planned to "start shooting people" on Yale's Campus.
That voice exemplar recording—analyzed by a New Jersey criminologist recommended by Dr. Henry Lee—gave Detective Kealyn Nivakoff (pictured at left) the key piece of evidence she needed to convince a judge that the drifter wasn't saying those words for the first time.
She convinced the judge that he had in fact on Nov. 25 called in a hoax that sent downtown New Haven into a day-long panic and cost the government tens of thousands of dollars. (Click here for a blow-by-blow account of how the threat turned into a full-blown downtown panic bringing federal and state agents swarming onto closed-off downtown streets and onto Yale's locked-down campus.)
The recording figures prominently in an arrest warrant affidavit that Nivakoff wrote. A judge signed the warrant on Tuesday. Later that day the 50-year-old turned himself in to police, who arrested him on charges of falsely reporting an incident, threatening in the second degree, reckless endangerment in the second degree, misuse of the emergency 911 system and breach of peace in connection with the Nov. 25 Yale incident.
The man made a brief appearance in state Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon before Judge Maureen Keegan, who ordered him held on $250,000 bond. He did not enter a plea during his brief appearance. It was the latest in a string of arrests of the man, here and in other states, for alleged hoaxes and criminal acts acts police or police property. Police also suspect him of calling in a violent hoax to Hillhouse High School on Dec. 19 and, on March 13, of calling in a false report, from a Mobil gas station phone on Leetes Island Road in Branford, of a robbery and shooting at a Citizens Bank branch at 568 E. Main St. He has not been charged in either of those cases.
Outside the courtroom Wednesday, the drifter's mother and older brother asserted his innocence.
"I believe that he is innocent," the defendant's mother, Jacqueline Sperry, declared after her son was returned to the lock-up following his court appearance. "He's quiet and subdued." She described her son as a "loner."
The defendant's older brother, Douglas Jones, accompanied her to court Wednesday and echoed her sentiments. "There were 30 or 40 people sucked up off the street [for questioning] for this phone call," Jones said. "The bureaucracy seeks the path of least resistance." Jones complained that when four state troopers came with a canine to his mother's Westbrook house Tuesday looking for the suspect, they approached the family in an "adversarial" and "confrontational" way, "as though I'm an advance warning of a secret cell of al Qaeda." (State police spokesman Lt. Paul Vance could not be reached for comment.) He said the family subsequently informed the suspect, "There's a warrant. Get your ass to New Haven." His brother subsequently turned himself in, according to Jones.
Later Wednesday afternoon, Detective Nivakoff joined top New Haven and Yale cops at a press conference at 1 Union Ave. to announce the arrest.
Nivakoff served as lead investigator in the case. She said police identified him as a suspect early on in the investigation. He wasn't cooperating. So they had to build the case piece by piece—leading up to the fateful voice exemplar recording.
A Prime Suspect Emerges
New Haven beat officers and detectives, aided by state cops and federal agents, swarmed through New Haven on Nov. 25 looking for a person who matched the description of the man who phoned in the hoax from a pay phone outside Columbus Market Store on Columbus Avenue. They rounded up lots of people that day. The 50-year-old drifter was not among them.
Nov. 25 also happened to be the day the state released an investigative report on the massacre of schoolchildren at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. (More on that later.)
Police soon had "10 to 14" people of interest to investigate, Nivakoff said.
One by one the police eliminated each of them as suspects.
"Sometimes the fast answer," Police Chief Dean Esserman noted Wednesday, "isn't the right answer." Investigators, with the help of a surveillance photo enhanced by the FBI, kept looking for suspects.
Here's how they ended up focusing on the drifter, based on a conversation with Nivakoff as well as details contained in the arrest warrant affidavit:
On Dec. 6., two city detectives, Martin Podsiad and Matt Merced, spotted a man walking a couple of blocks from the police station. They thought he matched the physical description of the hoax caller, including the "distinct walking gait" signalling an injured left leg. They stopped him. At first he allegedly tried to flee. Then he "hesitant[ly]" turned over a Louisiana ID and "mumbled, as if to disguise his voice." The detectives learned the drifter had outstanding warrants issued in Louisiana. They told him why they had stopped him; they placed him in a cruiser. He then "spilled out of the rear seat" of the cruiser and claimed he had a leg injury. He was taken by ambulance to Yale-New Haven Hospital.
There, according to the warrant, the cops and hospital security "struggled" with him "in order for hospital personnel to obtain his vitals and collect his clothing." While struggling with detectives, the drifter allegedly stated: "All those kids died in Newtown. You're not doing shit about that."
The hospital released the drifter the next day back into police custody. Detective Nivakoff tried to interview him. He asked for a lawyer, and returned to the lock-up to await a court appearance on the outstanding warrants.
In court on Dec. 9, it was revealed that the drifter has a criminal record going back years in multiple states, including a 2006 attempted arson and battery of a police officer. New Orleans police charged him with attempted arson, among other charges, when he allegedly poured gasoline in one instance, bleach and ammonia in another, in their department elevator. He allegedly confessed to those two incidents, telling police, "I'm sorry for pouring the stuff in the elevator. I don't know why I did it. I think I did it because I was mad at the police. One of them beat me up last week. ... I didn't mean it. Please let me go. I will clean it up," according to the new New Haven warrant. He also allegedly slashed tires and scratched the exterior of police vehicles.
On Dec. 19 a caller, also using a pay phone, transmitted a hoax threat to Hillhouse High School, leading to a lockdown there. Hearing the recording of that call, Nivakoff concluded it was the same caller as the Yale hoax caller, and she believed it to be the drifter. Investigators also came up with a physical description of the Hillhouse caller that also seemed to match the drifter again, in the view of police. They thought they had the right suspect. Assembling the evidence to prove it would take months.
He Shows Up Again
The drifter helped, in part by staying within sight.
On Jan. 9, for instance, an officer saw the drifter "walking around the perimeter" of police headquarters, then "throw nails underneath several vehicles," according to the affidavit. Spotting the officer, the drifter flashed his middle finger, then hid behind a car. They arrested him. He has a May 2 court date scheduled on felony attempt to commit criminal mischief and misdemeanor charges in connection with that incident; he has not entered a plea. Police also discovered that someone had scratched numerous cruisers and slashed and flattened tires on some of them in a previous incident by the police station. They suspect the drifter but didn't charge him in that previous case.
As the investigation progressed, detectives spoke with famed criminologist Dr. Henry Lee about their take on the similarities between the Yale and Hillhouse hoax calls. Lee steered them to a forensic audio, video and voice identification expert named Thomas J. Owens of Colonia, N.J. Yale hired Owens' firm on behalf of the city cops to conduct a "voice exemplar." That involves taking a recording of someone's voice and comparing it to a voice on a recording for pitch, breath patterns, mannerisms, dialect, and "syllable coupling." A suspect is asked to recite the same words found on the recording.
Detectives obtained a search and seizure warrant on Feb. 11 to conduct a voice exemplar with the drifter. Ten days later Detective Nivakoff and two colleagues met up with the drifter at the Elm Street courthouse, where he had an unrelated appearance. They brought him to 1 Union Ave. to conduct the voice exemplar.
The drifter asked his attorney, public defender Jennifer Mellon, to accompany him. The detectives called Owens in New Jersey; the recording would take place over the phone.
At first, the drifter "disguised his voice by speaking in a high pitch and almost childlike manner," Nivakoff reported. Warned about the need to comply with the warrant, the drifter nevertheless allegedly repeated the fake voice a second time.
At that point, after another warning, attorney Mellon spoke privately with the drifter. Then he read the script, this time in his natural voice.
On April 1, Owens handed over his findings to the cops: "It is the opinion of this examiner based on my education, training, experience, and to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty, that [the suspect] is the person who made the 911 call in question on November 25, 2013." He wasn't able to produce a similar finding about the Hillhouse call, because it "cut in and out" and "the words were not pronounced clearly," among other problems.
Nivakoff now had the material she needed to put into an arrest warrant affidavit, and on Wednesday saw her work lead to an arrest.
After Wednesday's press conference, Police Chief Archie Generoso called hoax calls a growing problem not just in New Haven, but throughout the country.
Authorities at first have no choice but to react as if lives are at stake, he said. That raises the potential for other problems. At Yale on Nov. 25, New Haven got lucky that no accidental shootings or other injuries occurred based on mistaken gun sightings, say, or the flagging down of a motorist by a mentally disturbed man, who got into his car. (The driver took him around the block to police without incident.)
As it was, New Haven taxpayers shelled out more than $30,000 on police overtime that day. That's on top of the regular costs of the officers working that day. That's on top of the cost of federal agents and state cops hauling their equipment downtown and working the streets all day.
And it doesn't count the delays in police response to lower priority calls while they combed the city seeking a man who might be looking to shoot up a college campus.
"People don't realize," Generoso said, "how serious this is."
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posted by: Rosas on April 23, 2014 3:52pm
"Drifter" is a curious label. What makes a person a drifter? Having lived in several places in rapid succession? That would mean half the fledgling academics in East Rock are drifters.
posted by: JustAnotherTaxPayer on April 23, 2014 6:25pm
It's a shame that the resources brought to bear in making and arrest on an event that already been made expensive by possibley a lack of insight within the emergency communication center, and management of both the Yale police department, and New Haven Police Department.
The efforts of the investigators, and the investigative supervisors; forensic experts, and man hours, particularly overtime by pulled to cover the initial call, and now the investigation, is going to be impressive.
It would be interesting to see the last time this much effort and expense was made to try and solve the greater than 400 unsolved murders of young black men in New Haven over the past thirty years. There is no statute of limitations on a Capitol Crime.
posted by: Noteworthy on April 23, 2014 7:39pm
Innocent or not, the response by law enforcement was nothing short of stupid, irresponsible and over the top. The amount of resources then spent investigating a false call in order to justify the overkill - and of course, throw every obscure charge you can including the predictable "breach of peace." Is any poor defendant not charged with "breach of peace?"
posted by: Rosas on April 24, 2014 11:04am
Great point, Noteworthy. I think the best single service to justice the legislature could do is to take "breach of peace" off the books. It would also save taxpayers millions in policing, court processing and incarceration for people who are not any threat to public safety.