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TCL > January 2006 Issue > Disciplinary Case Summaries for Matters Resulting in Diversion and Private Admonition
Editor's Note: Articles describing Diversion Agreements and private admonitions as part of the Attorney Regulation System are published on a quarterly basis. These summaries are contributed by the Colorado Supreme Court Office of Regulation Counsel.
Diversion and Private Admonition Summaries
Background Information Regarding Diversion
Diversion is an alternative to discipline. See, C R.C.P. 251.13. Pursuant to the rule and depending on the stage of the proceeding, Attorney Regulation Counsel ("Regulation Counsel"), the Attorney Regulation Committee ("ARC"), the Presiding Disciplinary Judge ("PDJ"), the hearing board, or the Supreme Court may offer diversion as an alternative to discipline. For example, Regulation Counsel can offer a Diversion Agreement when the complaint is at the central intake level in the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel ("OARC"). Thereafter, ARC or some other entity must approve the agreement.
From August 19, 2005, through November 16, 2005, at the intake stage, Regulation Counsel entered into 10 Diversion Agreements involving 13 separate requests for investigation. ARC entered into 6 Diversion Agreements involving 10 requests for investigation during this time frame. The PDJ did not approve any Diversion Agreements during this time frame. ARC issued 2 private admonitions involving 2 requests for investigation during this time frame. The PDJ did not approve any private admonitions during this time frame.
Regulation Counsel reviews the following factors to determine if diversion is appropriate: (1) there is little likelihood that the attorney will harm the public during the period of participation; (2) Regulation Counsel can adequately supervise the conditions of diversion; and (3) the attorney is likely to benefit by participation in the program.
Regulation Counsel will consider diversion only if the presumptive range of discipline in the particular matter is likely to result in a public censure or less. However, if the attorney has been publicly disciplined in the last three years, the matter generally will not be diverted under the rule. See C.R.C.P. 251.13(b). Other factors Regulation Counsel considers may preclude Regulation Counsel from agreeing to diversion. See C.R.C.P. 251.13(b).
The purpose of a Diversion Agreement is to educate and rehabilitate the attorney so that the attorney does not engage in such misconduct in the future. Furthermore, the Diversion Agreement also may address some of the systemic problems an attorney may be having. For example, if an attorney engaged in minor misconduct (neglect), and the reason for such conduct was poor office management, then one of the conditions of diversion may be a law office management audit and/or practice monitor. The time period for a Diversion Agreement is generally no less than one year nor greater than two years.
Types of Misconduct
The type of misconduct dictates the conditions of the Diversion Agreement. Although each Diversion Agreement is factually unique and different from other agreements, many times the requirements are similar. Generally, the attorney is required to attend Ethics School and/or Trust Account School that are conducted by attorneys from the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel. An attorney also may be required to fulfill any of the following conditions: law office audit; practice monitor; financial audit; restitution; payment of costs; mental health evaluation and treatment; attend CLE courses; and any other conditions that may be appropriate for the particular type of misconduct. Note: The terms of a Diversion Agreement may not be detailed in this summary if the terms are generally included within Diversion Agreements.
After the attorney successfully completes the requirements of the Diversion Agreement, Regulation Counsel will close its file, and the matter will be expunged, pursuant to C.R.C.P. 251.33(d). If Regulation Counsel has reason to believe that the attorney has breached the Diversion Agreement, then Regulation Counsel must follow the steps provided in C.R.C.P 251.13 before an agreement can be revoked.
The types of misconduct resulting in diversion for the time period described above generally involve the following: an attorney's lack of competence, implicating Colo. RPC 1.1; an attorney's neglect of a matter and/or failure to communicate, implicating Colo. RPC 1.3 and Colo. RPC 1.4, where client is not harmed or restitution is paid to redress the harm or malpractice insurance exits; fee issues, implicating Colo. RPC 1.5; conflicts of interest, implicating Colo. RPC 1.7 and Colo. RPC 1.8(a); trust account issues, implicating Colo. RPC 1.15; discovery issues, implicating Colo. RPC 3.4(d) and Colo. RPC 8.4(d); and criminal conduct, implicating Colo. RPC 8.4(b).
Some cases resulted from personal problems the attorney was experiencing at the time of the misconduct. In those situations, the Diversion Agreements may include a requirement for a mental health evaluation and, if necessary, counseling to address the underlying problems of depression, alcoholism, or other mental health issues that may be affecting the attorney's ability to practice law.
Random Samples of Diversion Agreements
— Respondent was both a licensed real estate broker and a licensed Colorado attorney. Respondent received two unsolicited fax ads offering mortgage products. The faxes contained only the sender's ("sender") first name. Before suing under state and federal no-fax laws, respondent first wanted to verify who sender was and the nature of sender's business. Approximately one year later, respondent phoned sender and stated he was a realtor interested in sender's products, and asked to meet. Respondent did not disclose that respondent also was an attorney or that respondent's actual purpose was to gather information for a lawsuit against sender. Sender agreed to meet with respondent the next day. When he met with sender, respondent asked about sender's products but still did not disclose that he was an attorney or the true purpose of his inquiry. During the meeting, respondent produced a copy of the fax at issue and asked sender if it was his. Sender admitted the fax looked like one he used some time ago. Respondent concluded the meeting and left. Respondent then filed a lawsuit naming himself and his real estate company as co-plaintiffs against sender. At trial respondent was awarded a judgment. Respondent then began representing other clients who had received unsolicited faxes from sender. Respondent filed a civil action for his clients against sender and personally served the summons and complaint on sender to save his clients the cost of service. Respondent was unaware that C.R.C.P. 4 and Colorado case law prohibit an attorney from personally performing service of process for his own clients. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School. The rules implicated are Colo. RPC 1.1, Colo. RPC 4.3, and Colo. RPC 8.4(c).
— Client hired respondent for a dispute over client's former spouse relocating the parties' children out of state. The court ordered no relocation until a full hearing could be held. After a hearing, the court directed respondent to prepare and file the written order within sixteen days. When respondent failed to file the order on time, the court directed him to file it within twenty days. Respondent still did not file the order on time. Respondent later filed the proposed order. Both parties then filed motions regarding custody and child support. At a hearing in October 2002, the trial court ordered the city attorney to calculate child support and arrearages using the parties' incomes and amounts paid for private school tuition and medical insurance. The court awarded the former spouse custody of the parties' daughter and awarded custody of their son to client. The court directed respondent to prepare the written order no later than October 30, 2002. Respondent did not prepare the written order. Respondent's billing records reflect no further work on client's case after the October 2002 hearing. The city attorney ultimately filed the proposed order, which the trial court signed on November 20, 2002. Respondent did not provide client a copy of the order. Client found out about the order when his wages were garnished in December 2002. Client then obtained the order from the court and found the calculations were incorrect. Client wanted the order corrected, but had been unable to contact respondent in November and December. In December 2002, client filed his own motion asking the court to remove respondent as counsel, as well as an objection to the child support calculations and orders. In February 2003, respondent sent client a draft motion to amend or correct the trial court's order, but did not explain why he failed to file it. Respondent's draft notes the incorrect calculations and that the written order was inconsistent with the oral orders as confirmed by the hearing transcript. At the hearing on client's objection, the reviewing judge acknowledged that the trial court's written order conflicted with its oral orders, but ruled that he must assume the trial court examined and agreed with the proposed order. The court also found client's objection was untimely, because any objection had to be filed no later than December 5, 2002. Respondent and client are in dispute about the fees. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School. The rules implicated are Colo. RPC 1.1, Colo. RPC 1.2(a), Colo. RPC 1.3, Colo. RPC 1.4, Colo. RPC 1.5(a), and Colo. RPC 8.4(d).
Diligence and/or Failure to Communicate
— Client hired respondent to represent the grandson of client in four domestic cases, including paternity, child support, and termination of parental rights. In August 2002, client paid respondent a $2,000 retainer to represent the grandson. In approximately February 2003, respondent sent a letter to client advising that there were irreconcilable differences between respondent and the grandson, and that he was withdrawing from the matter. Between March 2003 and March 2005, client sent respondent numerous letters and made numerous phone calls, requesting an itemized accounting of his time spent on the case, a refund of the unearned retainer, and a return of the file on the matter. Respondent failed to respond or otherwise comply with those requests until receiving notification from the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel. Upon contact from the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, respondent immediately provided the file to client, an itemized accounting of the fees earned, and refunded the unearned retainer in the amount of $1,115. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School and Trust Account School. The rules implicated are Colo. RPC 1.4 and Colo. RPC 1.15(b).
— Respondent entered an oral appearance on behalf of a juvenile. Respondent was retained through a prepaid legal plan and therefore did not have a written fee agreement or send an engagement letter. Respondent wrote to client's parents and incorrectly informed them that client did not have to appear for a hearing. Based on respondent's advice, client did not appear and a bench warrant was issued. Client and his mother got the bench warrant quashed. The case register indicates respondent failed to appear. Thereafter a pretrial conference was held. Respondent was late for the conference. The court noted that fact, as well as the fact that respondent has not yet obtained discovery or communicated with client's defense counsel on another case pending in another county. Client's attorney in the other county negotiated a plea, which included dismissal of the case respondent was handling. Respondent was present when the court scheduled a status conference in the case he was handling. Respondent failed to appear at the status conference because it was not calendared properly. The court dismissed the case at the status conference. Additionally, respondent's letterhead used the term "Associates" when respondent had no associates. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School and revise his letterhead. The rules implicated are Colo. RPC 1.3, Colo. RPC 1.4(a), Colo. RPC 1.5(b), and Colo. RPC 7.1(a).
— Respondent failed to advise client in writing of the basis of his fee. Further, respondent failed to communicate with another client about his fees for approximately a ten-month period. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School. The rules implicated are Colo. RPC 1.4(a), Colo. RPC 1.5(b), and Colo. RPC 1.15(c).
— In four bankruptcy matters, respondent neglected client matters and failed to communicate with clients over a period of time. At the time, respondent was a sole practitioner and was experiencing anxiety and feelings of being overwhelmed. After the clients filed requests for investigation, respondent promptly returned the clients' fees and files. Respondent closed the practice and began working with another attorney. Respondent has no prior discipline. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School and continue with a mental health professional. The rules implicated are Colo. RPC 1.3 and Colo. RPC 1.4(a).
— Respondent's clients paid respondent a total of $1,859 to prepare, file, and represent them in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The above-mentioned monetary amount included the filing fee. Clients provided respondent the final payment and paperwork necessary to file the action in February 2005. Respondent filed the bankruptcy petition and the next day the court entered a Notice of Deficiency for failure to file Statement of Financial Affidavits, Schedules and Summary Schedules. The court ordered all schedules and statement of financial affairs to be filed in two weeks. A Motion for Relief from Stay was filed by a creditor. A Notice of Deficiency, Requirement to Cure and Recommendation for Dismissal was entered by the court. Respondent failed to cure the deficiency in the bankruptcy filing and failed to respond to the Motion for Relief from Stay. The court issued an order dismissing the case for failure to cure the deficiency. Subsequent to the court dismissing clients' bankruptcy petition, respondent informed clients that he would take action to correct the situation and get the bankruptcy case reopened. During this time frame, clients made repeated attempts to communicate with respondent by telephone, written correspondence, and e-mail. Respondent failed to take any action to have the bankruptcy case re-opened, or to communicate with his clients, until months after meeting with Assistant Regulation Counsel. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall prepare the bankruptcy petition or withdraw as requested by clients, be responsible for any additional filing fees, and give notice to OARC within seven days of either the re-filed bankruptcy petition or withdrawing. The rules implicated are Colo. RPC 1.3 and Colo. RPC 1.4.
Conflict of Interest
— Respondent entered into a business transaction with his client, a corporation. Respondent loaned money to client without adequate disclosures or compliance with all of the conditions of Colo. RPC 1.8(a). As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School. The rules implicated are Colo. RPC 1.7(b) and Colo. RPC 1.8(a).
— Respondent and his former employer represented a client in a divorce case. Immediately prior to the final orders hearing, and upon respondent's request, client paid $2,000 to respondent to satisfy the estimated attorney fees for representation at the hearing. Respondent represented client until filing a motion to withdraw approximately one month after the hearing. An order granting the motion to withdraw was entered several weeks after respondent filed the motion. Client had requested communication from respondent regarding ongoing contested post-decree issues that respondent did not adequately address between the permanent orders hearing and the effective date of his withdrawal. Prior to entry of an order allowing respondent to withdraw, respondent accepted employment with a firm where opposing counsel in client's divorce case was a partner. Respondent commenced employment one day after filing his motion to withdraw. Respondent failed to communicate the possibility of said employment or his negotiations for employment with the new law firm to his client. Respondent admits this failure may have contributed to the lack of communication regarding other issues and that his employment at the new firm began before an order was entered allowing respondent to withdraw from the case. Respondent and his former firm also had a dispute with client regarding the reasonable amount of fees client had paid. Further, client disputed certain fees that respondent and firm were owed after the representation ceased. As part of an agreement to resolve the dispute, the parties agreed that client balance due and owing to the former law firm would be written off. The write-off of the fees was to mitigate harm to client as a result of any conflict. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School. The rules implicated are Colo. RPC 1.4 and Colo. RPC 1.7(b).
Fairness to Opposing Party and Counsel with Regard to Discovery
— Respondent was aware that co-counsel drafted interrogatory responses that, it was determined, were misleading to the extent they were inconsistent with existing information claimed to be privileged in the possession of respondent and client. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School. The rules implicated are Colo. RPC 3.4(d) and Colo. RPC 8.4(d).
— Respondent signed interrogatory responses that, it was determined, were misleading to the extent they were inconsistent with existing information claimed to be privileged in the possession of respondent and client. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School. The rules implicated are Colo. RPC 3.4(d) and Colo. RPC 8.4(d).
False or Misleading Communication
— For several years, respondent published an advertisement for his law office in a foreign language newspaper that circulated in Colorado. The ad was misleading in certain respects. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall submit all advertising in advance to the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel. The rules implicated are Colo. RPC 7.1(a) and Colo. RPC 7.5(b).
Criminal Conduct
— Respondent was convicted of driving while ability impaired ("DWAI"). Respondent had been arrested for driving under the influence ("DUI") of alcohol in two separate incidents. Respondent was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol following a single motor vehicle accident in which respondent lost control of the vehicle he was operating. Respondent was not injured. Respondent was released from jail to a friend who picked him up. The friend took respondent home, where respondent drank several glasses of vodka. Following the consumption of several glasses of vodka, respondent borrowed the friend's vehicle and drove back toward his home. On the way home, respondent stopped at the drive-through window of a fast food restaurant to order food. While there, respondent became belligerent and started yelling obscenities. A police officer saw the behavior and arrested the respondent for DUI. Respondent had been under the care of a doctor at the time of these two incidents and had maintained sobriety for two years. Following the two incidents, the respondent began treatment with another doctor and was prescribed Antabuse. Respondent shall continue taking Antabuse as long as recommended by his doctor. Respondent pled guilty to DWAI in the first case and the second case was reduced to a non-alcohol related offense. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School, comply with the court sentence, submit monthly reports to OARC, abstain from alcohol consumption, continue treatment with his doctor, attend a recovery program, and submit to random urinalysis testing. The rule implicated is Colo. RPC 8.4(b).
— Respondent was operating his vehicle when it struck another vehicle. Respondent received a citation for his fault in the incident. Pursuant to the investigation following the collision, respondent was charged with DUI. There were no serious injuries as a result of the collision. Respondent subsequently was evaluated by an alcohol abuse evaluator and was recommended to undergo alcohol abuse treatment and individual psychotherapy for the diagnosis of an alcohol abuse problem. This is respondent's second alcohol-related offense. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School, comply with terms and conditions of sentence imposed and with evaluation, attend Alcoholics Anonymous or other equivalent recovery program, participate in any treatment or support program recommended by evaluator and provide monthly progress reports, abstain from use of alcohol or mood altering substance unless prescribed, undergo random urinalysis or breathalyzers, and make arrangements with OARC for continued treatment if out-of- state travel is anticipated. The rule implicated is Colo. RPC 8.4(b).
— Respondent was convicted pursuant to his guilty plea of DWAI. The conviction resulted from an incident when respondent was stopped for speeding and weaving. At that time, respondent's blood alcohol concentration was measured at .158. This is respondent's first alcohol-related conviction. As part of the conditions of the Diversion Agreement, respondent shall attend Ethics School and comply with terms of court sentence. The rule implicated is Colo. RPC 8.4(b).
Private Admonitions
— Respondents were supervisors in a litigation matter. They directed the drafting and service of interrogatory responses that ARC determined to be misleading. The interrogatory responses concerned certain information in the possession of respondents and their client. Respondents believed the information was privileged and objected on that ground; therefore, they believed that they did not have a duty to disclose the information. The responses were misleading because they were inconsistent with the undisclosed information. The responses resulted in the trial court's conducting further proceedings. The rules violated are Colo. RPC 3.4(d) and Colo. RPC 8.4(d).


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|Thomas Allen Reed, From A Biography of Isaac Pitman (Inventor of Phonography). London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden, the Welsh, 1890
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In: Educational , Arts & CraftsAs children begin to learn about seasons, it is important to help them understand that learning about seasons is really learning about change. Keeping my child in the center of the seasonal changes sparked her interest in discovering new characteristics about each season.
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Back in January of 2010 we reported that there was a break in at one of BRMC's storage lockers and all of Michel Been's vintage guitars and keep-sakes were stolen. We are thrilled to report that over a year later, almost all the stolen items have been recovered!
A fan of BRMC and The Call noticed one of the guitars for sale on eBay that turned out to be Michael's signature Ampeg Fretless Bass and through that information and with the aid of the LAPD and some other helpful sources, all the stolen instruments have been returned and the prime suspect apprehended.
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hello everyone im getting a new fantail goldfish tonight and i have no idea what to name it i was wondering if anyone knew of a good name for a male more then likely orange and white fantail goldfish or black moor fantail thanks for your help ive been racking my brains for the last week and a half over what to name it. :wink: [/img]
Holy crap quick! Someone think of a name fast, it's an EMERGENCY!
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Forensic Science and Wine Fingerprinting, pt. 1
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A small article appeared on Decanter.com January 23rd reporting on the discovery by wine scientists of a way to prove the origin of a wine chemically, what is called 'wine fingerprinting', through the measurement of 'over 60 trace elements' not only in the wine but also in associated vineyard soils. What caught my attention, apart from the subject itself, was that the two scientists whose original work was cited, Alex Martin and John Watling, both of the University of Western Australia, were not wine scientists per se but forensic scientists, an interesting distinction unexplored by Decanter. Now, forensics is 'the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to the legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or to a civil action.' It was clear the work of Mr. Martin and Mr. Watling must be of a different intellectual character, perhaps using different tools, than found in a strictly viticultural research program.
I wrote Mr. Martin for a few additional details, and also asked after an interview. He responded quickly, providing me with all the information I had requested, including this paper Mr. Martin wrote which appeared in the Dec. 2008 Western Australia Wine Industry Newsletter, the basis, I believe, of the Decanter gloss. He added that he was a PhD candidate working under the very capable Prof. Watling, a man of 30 years experience as a scientist. I should instead contact him. I did. What follows is, quite frankly, the most intriguing and rich conversation I have enjoyed in quite some time. Not only was Prof. Watling forthcoming, tolerant of my questions, but by his rapid fire responses, the full command of his subject, it was very clear to me I was speaking with a first-rate mind. Shuttling between the role of student and interviewer, the conversation took me back to my own university days, to the thrill of discovery.
As you will read in greater detail below, and in a subsequent post of the balance of this extensive interview coming by Friday, February the 13th, Prof. Watling is the head of a group of scientists whose larger mission is the determination of the provenance of a great many objects and products through the use of forensic science. Though we as readers may be principally interested in wine, for Prof. Watling this is just one subject with which he works. And his success in other forensic research areas leads him and his group to believe that one may be able, in the not too distant future, through the careful analysis of the concentrations of trace elements in a given wine, to determine that wine's origin to the very vineyard from which it came.
Though the full list elements searched for is, in fact, longer, a matter explained below, I had asked Mr. Martin for his list of 60 elements measured for the purposes of determining a wine's fingerprint. They are:
Li7 Be9 B11 Na23 Al27 P31 S32 K39 Ca40 Sc45 Ti49 V51 Cr53 Mn55 Fe57 Co59 Ni60 Cu65 Zn66 Ga69 Ge72 As75 Se82 Rb85 Sr87 Sr88 Y89 Zr90 Nb93 Mo95 Pd105 Ag107 Cd111 In115 Sn120 Sb121 Te125 Cs133 Ba138 La139 Ce140 Pr141 Nd146 Sm147 Eu153 Gd157 Tb159 Dy163 Ho165 Er166 Lu175 Hf178 Ta181 W182 Hg202 Tl205 Pb208 Bi209 Th232 U238
(A final note. The interview occurred the day before the terrible fires began raging in South-Eastern Australia. Our hearts go out to the families of the souls lost.)
Admin We're enjoying some delightful rain here in California just now. I'm sure you'd welcome such a change to the awful heat you're currently going through.
John Watling Yes, it's quite hot at the moment. This weekend [2/7,8] it's going to be 28, 29 [centigrade] but we're looking forward to 48 this week. It's just too hot. It's just incredibly too hot!
And I imagine the grapes are suffering.
JW They are indeed. It's a big problem, though on this side they are probably two or three weeks behind in maturation. In the Eastern States they're coming on board now. But we are two or three weeks at least behind. We had very, very bad wind in one of the areas of Margaret River which is south of us, which is a wine growing area. The wind ripped trees up that were over a 100 years old and did damage to the grapes and vines as well.
Well, the first question is about your general research background in forensic science, and how forensics assist in the determination of a wine's geographical origins.
JW My recent background, I am the head of a group of scientists in forensic science. We exist to establish the provenance of where various things come from, in your case I guess it's called terroir or something like that. But what we do in our group is we have developed technologies to source the provenance of crime scene debris, things like bullets, like plastics, like paper, cannabis, drugs, plants, diamonds, all of this encompassing about 47 different matrices, including foods. We've a major part of a Eurasian/Australasian program that is centered around determining the provenance of foodstuffs, and in that respect we provenance things like tea, coffee, cocoa, and meat, milk, vegetables, determining exactly where the come from. In terms of why the country of origin is so that the sales can be confirmed. You can't sell, let us say, Brazilian orange juice if in fact it comes from somewhere else, and we can't sell Australian orange juice if it's Brazilian. We trace these things back.
So is your research program associated with the Australian government in coordination with law enforcement?
JW No. We follow in a dual role. We're a university group that has a spin off commercial company that does this kind of work. The university recognizes the fact that senior members of staff and research scientists are hamstrung in their communications when working within industry and government. There is too much bureaucracy in the university to be able to work effectively and efficiently with industry and with commerce and with government. So they have allowed us, as a trial group, to go essentially independent, with a number of strings and a number of caveats. Essentially we are independent of the university but still retain our university obligations in terms of teaching and PhD students and that sort of stuff. We are a commercial group allowed to interact privately with the community to support our infrastructure and to grow in that environment. We are an independent company.
What we also do is we are the primary provider to the Australian Federal Police Force, which is the police force that governs the whole of the country, and we are also a provider of forensic services to the state police of Western Australia. In that aspect we cover Australia, but we also provide internationally. I've worked with your FBI, I've worked with your companies and excise people, and I work internationally around the globe. So we have a reputation with Europeans. We work with your universities as well, and we work with European and Asian police forces, law enforcement agencies in forensic services in order to establish provenance of various things that they're interested in.
We have a very large footprint! (laughs) It's a smallish group but it has a very large foorprint.
I see. That is much more elaborate than I had imagined. So your lab's determinations carry significant weight.
JW Yes, they do. We work with about twenty international police forensic services and law enforcement agencies, including, as I said, your FBI, your CIA, people like that, in England with Scotland Yard, in France with Deuxieme Bureau, those types of internationally recognized police forces. Our services, obviously we don't do everything, of course we don't, but we supply some specialist services to those groups and to commercial companies in the US. I have major contracts with US companies to do the provenance of their products and… let's leave it at products, shall we. We work internationally with governments, companies, and law enforcement agencies. We are internationally recognized as expert witnesses in these particular areas.
So, the recent Chinese milk scandal, for example, is something your research group might have looked into.
JW It certainly might.
I see. Now, specifically with respect to the geographical origins of wine, you've chosen about 60 elements, all stable isotopes. I imagine that you've chosen 60 elements to, first of all, provide the widest possible, most useful data base. Is that fair to say?
JW Pretty much. We also look at light stable isotopes as well, the Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen isotopes, Deuterium, C12, C13… We look at those isotopes as well, not just the metals. We use where we can the simplest techniques which may be the metal examination. We use the methodologies we have developed for provenancing tea, for example, where we use a combination of light stable isotopes (C, H, N) and trace element association patterns to link specific tea samples back to the "Garden of Growth". We are capable of identifying the actual plantation from which a tea sample was taken, this is stopping mislabeling (e.g. Darjeeling tea which is not from that area or specifically from a tea garden), an "industry" worth many millions a year. And we're doing the same with wine.
We have in fact worked for about six years trying to get the right mechanisms, the right sampling, the right techniques for analysis, the right analytes sorted out for wines. We think we've done that now. That's why we've put Alex Martin on to a PhD degree to actually reel all this together and sort of tie it up in a nice bow for the sake of his PhD.
Indeed. He sent me a list of the elements you search for. And Carbon 12 and Carbon 13, both stable, were left off the list. Is there any reason one stable isotope is chosen and not another?
JW Well, we use both of those. Essentially, Alex has left Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen off the list because somebody else is doing that work. He's concentrating on the metals per se. Somebody else is looking at the light stable isotopes. But the light stable isotopes at the moment are being used mainly for our work in provenancing oil and producing a fingerprint of all reservoirs of oil so that we can use it for exploration. So we're not really developing the technology beyond oil at the moment, although we're applying it to this work.
In your research have you detected differences a grape variety might make in the taking up of trace elements, in their concentrations? For example, with respect to flavor characteristics, the phenolics, are they at all dependent on the soil micro-nutrients or elements, a pinot as opposed to a cabernet?
JW What we're looking at, and let me stick with what we're doing with provenance establishment for wines at the moment with Alex, is that we are looking at a wide variety of of grape varieties in a range of soils, in a range of areas.
Let's go back just one small step. A lot of soil scientists say, well, if you look at the particular vineyard the soil varies incredibly all over the vineyard. And that is absolutely true. You have some areas that are better drained than others, some areas that are more gravely than others, you have some areas with a different soil chemistry, but what we do find is, though, that the plant roots themselves, the vine roots themselves, have the capability of selectively removing metals from the soil and taking it up through the plants. The uptake of those metals into the leaves and into the grape, and into the wine itself does vary with species. They are subtle variations but there are some variations with species, so that if you grew right next door to each other two different varietals you would get slightly different fingerprints for those. So we do need to know what the varietal is before we can confirm the fingerprint. But generically we can get a good fingerprint on the wine from a particular area.
We know that in certain areas certain trace metals are present, so we can use that as a mechanism to, if you like, generically say these wines came from particular areas. And then we start going into detail with variety and metal content and metal distribution factors.
As far as the taste is concerned, taste is essentially on organic compounds, it's not on metals. The range of variety of organic compounds is something, at the moment, that we are not looking at in detail. Our brief is only to virtually find out if we take a bottle of wine coming from this particular vineyard, can we trace it back unambiguously. And that's where we're going rather than the taste and the flavor, all those sorts of things.
Are the soil samples taken from the root zone?
JW Soil samples are taken, from every vine that we sample, from the surface, in ten centimeter intervals, down to seventy centimeters. So we have seven soil samples from the surface to below the root level. A few [vine roots] go down to that depth but not many. We go down from above the root level, right at the surface, right down to below the root level. We are looking at extraction of metals, various solubilization mechanisms, from each of those zones, for each of those vines, to each plant we actually look at. What we are doing is undertaking a variety of chemical extraction techniques at each level to establish which metals are mobile and under what conditions. And in an area we will take, I guess if you imagine that the study areas we're looking at vary, of course, but we will take no fewer than eight plants in a single area be it small, let us say half a hectare, something like that. We would take about eight samples, eight individual plants in that area.
Of the participating wineries in your study, are they producers of more expensive bottlings?
JW Not necessarily at all! It doesn't matter how expensive the wine is. You're dealing with uptake mechanisms that are the same with an expensive wine as a cheap wine, it's just the varietal and how you actually produce it, and what you do with it. The uptake chemistry of the vine is the same. I mean, a fast race horse is pretty much the same as a slow race horse. A very expensive grape is produced in the same type of soil, in different areas, of course, but the flavors are there because of the plant and what the plant puts into the grape and the grape into the wine. The uptake of metals is not associated with that.
I see. Can you tell me the names of any of the participating wineries?
JW I'm just thinking about that one. At the moment we haven't released the [names] of the specific wineries that we have dealt with. But I can tell you that because we are in Perth in Western Australia, and Western Australia is obviously a wine growing area, we are very involved with vineyards in the Margaret River area, the Pemberton area, and in Swan Valley in Perth. Those are the three major wine growing areas. In addition to that we have material from the Hunter Valley and the Barossa Valley which is probably more familiar to you guys in America, so we have samples from other areas, from the Eastern states of Australia.
Is it possible for viticultural practices to skew the elemental signature?
JW Well, we look at the leachability of various leach fractions and various leach techniques on the soil. We constantly monitor the water that's coming into the area. We look at the agricultural water that's used for irrigation plus the rainwater, and we look at the fertilizing regime as well, what's put on the material [vine] in terms of anti-fungicides and fertilizers onto the soil the vines are grown on. All of these are taken into consideration.
And what of an organic vineyard grown alongside a conventionally farmed vineyard?
JW In the metals, I don't believe so. We are looking at that. There are not a huge number of organically grown wines; we have one organic vineyard in our work program. But we have looked at organic versus commercial, if you like to call it that, onions, potatoes, carrots, apples, plums, we've looked at a number of these vegetables to see if we can tell, trace chemically as far as the metals are concerned, the difference between plants that are grown near each other, one in an organic environment, one in a more commercial environment. You can't. The only thing we've gone a little bit towards is the difference between onions that are grown organically and more commercially. But that's about it. Oh, and tomatoes, that was the other thing we looked at.
Actually, the trace metals that come in, come in predominantly from the soil and these ones are the same whether you're growing in a soil that is maintained in an organic regime or more commercial regime. The only differences that occur are if you start using hydroponics and then you can pick up significant differences. We've seen this with hydroponic cannabis as opposed to soil cannabis.
Alex Martin, your PhD student, has written "there was a significant degradation in concentration of elements present in bottled wines with respect to delay in analysis after opening the bottle. Consequently, to achieve optimum sensitivity, the wine should be analysed within the first 24 hours after opening the bottle."
Why might this be the case?
JW I think you're getting tannin precipitation in some cases. If you don't store it [the sample] correctly you are getting oxygen present in the sample, there would be some degree of oxidation, an oxidative breakdown of some of the sugars, and the chemical composition of the wine changes slightly. If you actually leave wine around and let it evaporate, let it get oxidized, let air get into it, you're changing the chemical composition of the organics to a large extent, and this is also reflecting precipitation of organics and the sequestration of the metals onto the walls of the bottle and into tannins which precipitate out.
So, can we say to a vineyard in the Eastern states, can you put some of your wine into this tube and send it to us and two or three days later it arrives, that it is the same now as when it started? That is one of the studies we've been working on for the past six years. We now have protocols in place that can keep the metals in solution in analyzable form for period of five to six weeks. So we reckon any where in the world can send samples to us, backwards and forwards, and still preserve it. The initial studies were certainly indicative that the trace metal chemistry changed in the identified wine but we've now ways to preserve the wines in trials for six weeks with no change in their chemical composition.
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'Suwanda Denuna Jeewithe' (Fragrance of Life) the maiden directorial venture of producer Dhammika Siriwardena will be released on EAP circuit cinemas from June 11.
Starring Roshan Ranawana and Pooja Umashanker in the lead roles, the movie revolves around a love story between a wealthy young man who finds an ordinary girl when he was suffering from the want of 'true love'.
Ayeshmantha son of a wealthy businessman runs his father's businesses. He had fallen in love with a girl and she one day shocks him by handing over her wedding invitation. Deeply disturbed by this the young man looses his interest in everything including the businesses and leaves home. While roaming aimlessly he goes to the extent of committing suicide.
It is at this point he accidentally meets Rashmi who saves him and changes his mind. Rashmi takes Ayeshmantha to her relatives and makes arrangements to keep him with them for sometime. He recovers from the unhappy past and returns home with the idea to restart businesses.
Meanwhile Rashmi who is getting ready for her marriage to Prasad comes across a similar experience of Ayeshmantha. Prasad refuses to marry her on a personal reason. This paves the way for a new relationship between Ayeshmantha and Rashmi with which the film develops through a series of interesting entertaining incidents.
Others in the cast include Maureen Charuni, Ramani Siriwardena, Rex Kodippili, Janak Premalal, Richard Manamudali, Ishan Gammudali, Dayadewa Edirisinghe, Gayathri Dias and Pubudu Chathuranga.
Behind the screen Jayantah Gunawardena handled the camera, edited by Ajith Ramanayake and art director is Lal Harindranatha.
Set in the popular formula, 'Suwanda Denuna Jeewithe' is shot in locations around Colombo, Nuwara Eliya, Ambewela and Mahiyanganaya.


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42 Lovely Comments:
- Alisa said...
Lovely as always! Did you receive the necklace? Hope it was waht you were looking for. I love your new sea tile! Can't wait to print them. Have a great day!
- ale said...
geninne!!!que hermoso collage!!!besos enormes y muy feliz fin de semana!!!
- MoninchenR said...
Looks great!You are a great inspiration! I wish I had moleskine diary:) I would start 2010! xxx from Ireland!
- ariadne said...
Oh I wish I could paint!
Every year I buy a diary that has coloured designs and pictures in every page so that I can have a look at each one while keeping my diary.Yours would be just a dream to write on.I wonder if you are selling somewhere on line!Ariadne from Greece
- life in yonder said...
El dia de los muertos siempre me recuerda a Mexico y el viaje que hice en el 1993.Dos meses, 26 ciudades. De Matamoros a Puebla y de DF a Mexicali. Un pais precioso.
- Marie said...
très beau travail !
- Heather T. said...
Heehee, love the curly-haired smiling skull... =)
- Vickie Hallmark said...
Every time you show these pages I think I need to try that for myself!! Soon...
- agirlwrites said...
What book do you use for your journal?
- Mary Ann said...
Intriguing pages, Geninne. Is that kelp? It's beautiful whatever it is. I was a little freaked out at the head =:o until I saw notation... how does your family celebrate the Day of the Dead?
- SuzMc said...
Ohhh, Geninne - so lovely & so inspiring. Maybe I will actually do this instead of just thinking about it every time I see your blog. I'll be in Oaxaca during the day of the dead, so should have much to draw.
- Carissa said...
that's beautiful! what a fabulous way to go through the next 2 weeks!
- Heleen said...
So so beautiful!! publish agenda's and let me buy one!
- Caty said...
que beeeeeeeeeeeeello Geninne!
- pien said...
oohw i wish you was gonna make that for next year..
[and the year after next year etcetc]
in your shop, for all of us to buy!!!!
soo good!
- lolly-jolly said...
love your journal, geni!
- fleur said...
So beautiful! I love it!
- Christina said...
i adore these and look forward to these so much.
- amida said...
geminne -- I don't know how you do it. My journal never looks this good. Yours are beautiful!
- meandering pearl said...
How beautiful!!! every time i meander by, its vivid inspiration!
so much loveliness
- Lau said...
Hermoso e inspirador !! un saludo ... buen fin de semana!
- Art DepartMENTAL said...
That is such a great idea. I don't know why I never thought of that before. Why not make your own planner. The other ones are always so sterile. Great job!
- Shillu said...
Love your work!
- Carola Zajdman said...
Me encanta !!! qué lindo !!!!
- Marie said...
If I had a journal like that...:)
- Ludid said...
your calendar entries are full of personality.
- Heather said...
i adore your renderings in your journal. Never tire of your brave use of color. :)
- Juddie said...
Thank you for your email Geninne - I've blogged about your lovely journal over at Flightless Boyds.
- tiel said...
i so envy your patience and time Geninne.
this is so lovely and I wish I could have the time to do this.
hope you are well.
- Tabuena arts central said...
Genine...am I seeing a skull element on this latest obra of yours?, or it's because halloween is not far away?!
I wonder what you have in store for us come haloween!
will it be birds with skull heads?
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- thedoodlegirl said...
um...WOW. This is so incredible!!
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- Betty Beatrix said...
This is amazing. I kept thinking about it for days after looking at it...I am putting it on my blog :)
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Love your blog and amazing work!
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Hola me llamo Jolana y escribo de republica Checa. Me he enamorado de tus paginas y antetodo de tu trabajo TODO ES FENOMENAL. A mi me encanta probar varias maniobras, cuando he visto tus dibujos, me compre tinturas de aqua, una carpeta de papel y he empezado :-) Trabajo en oficina y esto me relaja un monton. En mi tiempo libre me dedico a renovar mueble, hacer decoraciones de varios typos. Gracias a ti he ampliado mis aficiones. Espero que entiendas mi espaňol, prefireo espaňol que ingles, que no me va muy bien. Lo que me interesa mucho es de que material haces tus cellos, si no¨es secreto. Gracias Jolana
- Justin Kim said...
I try to use watercolor in my work but just don't know how to paint, you do a great job! Wonder how it'll turn out after two weeks.
- Art Voyeur said...
your journal is so unique looking. the musical notes are a nifty inclusion.
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