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Leaning back in a chair in his Mexico City office, systems analyst Roberto Garcia winces as he remembers the phone calls. The commands were simple. "Pick up the receiver by the second ring or we will beat your nephew until he bleeds. Fail to make the ransom demand and we will send him back to you in pieces."
Leaning back in a chair in his Mexico City office, systems analyst Roberto Garcia winces as he remembers the phone calls. The commands were simple. "Pick up the receiver by the second ring or we will beat your nephew until he bleeds. Fail to make the ransom demand and we will send him back to you in pieces."
Scooped off the streets of the Mexican capital as he went out for a hamburger near his home in the modest Iztapalapa neighbourhood, the youngster was held bound and blindfolded for five weeks. Threatened, abused and alone as his family scrabbled to pull together 1m peso (around £50,000) ransom, the middle-class Garcia family were thrown into a terrifying new world - but one that is becoming ever-more familiar to Mexicans.
"We thought that we wouldn't be vulnerable to kidnapping because we don't have the kind of money they ask for," says the soft-spoken 64-year-old as he recalls the ordeal. "Now the poor, the middle-income and the rich are all being targeted. Kidnapping has become an industry."
In a recent report, international risk consultants Kroll Inc estimated that some 3,000 people were victims of kidnapping in Mexico last year - around 20 times the number actually reported to the country's notoriously corrupt police force - placing the fast-modernizing nation of 100 million people second only to strife-torn Colombia in the global kidnapping league.
In June, the wave of abductions triggered the largest street demonstrations seen for a decade in Mexico which in turn led to the resignation of the country's public security minister. The kidnaps also form the chilling backdrop to Man on Fire, a fast-paced thriller by British director Tony Scott that premiere's across the UK next month.
While abductions are rife throughout the country, Mexico's vast capital bears the brunt. The largest city in Latin America with 20 million residents, smog-choked Mexico City is ringed by a dizzying labyrinth of cinder-block slums and has an urban sprawl that covers an area twice the size of Greater London - few taxi drivers claim to know more than half of its streets. The city is also home to 18 well-organised kidnap gangs that have an ever-broader range of carefully chosen victims.
Drawing on a range of conspirators including policemen, bank clerks, domestic servants and security guards at residential blocks across the capital, these gangs work up a detailed profile of their victims that enables them to choose a window of opportunity for the kidnap and set a realistic ransom. Whereas abductions were once cyclical, analysts say the activity now forms a year-round "war without quarter".
"It used to be that kidnappings would pick up just before holidays such as Mother's Day, Christmas and Holy Week because the criminals needed the money to party," says Max Morales, a Mexico City security analyst who is widely regarded as one of the country's foremost authorities on kidnapping. "But we started this year freeing two people on 4 January and there is no longer any respite."
The ransom market is thought to be worth in excess of $100m (£56m) a year. This huge pot is now also luring a range of opportunistic criminals from across Mexico City and beyond. The emerging gangs are less business oriented and more emotional than their predecessors and, as a result, more violent.
Since the beginning of 1996, Mexican kidnappers have shot, stabbed and strangled over 160 of their hostages, with more than half of the fatalities occurring during a surge of criminal activity in the past three years. In one recent case that sickened crime-weary Mexicans, two young brothers were shot dead and their bodies tossed in a skip even after their parents paid a $600,000 (£335,000) ransom.
Another case in July involved the kidnap and murder of Mexico's 1997 Woman of the Year, Carmen Gutierrez. A highly regarded specialist in rehabilitative medicine, Gutierrez was snatched as she left her smart apartment complex. Her abductors became jittery during negotiations, strangled her and tossed her body in a sewage canal on the city's outskirts. Then, noticing that she was still alive, they held her head under the water until she stopped breathing.
Most in Mexico find it difficult to conceive of anyone being capable of such brutality. Some clues as to what types of people the kidnappers might be came in a recent profile of six gang leaders that was leaked by the AFI - Mexico's equivalent of the FBI - to the newspaper Reforma. The profile showed them to be long-term offenders with a history of crimes including assault, robbery, extortion and murder, who had spent years in the brutal prison system.
Rounded up in separate swoops during the first half of the year, these mafia leaders had nicknames common in the Latin American underworld, including El Alacran and El Duende - The Scorpion and The Goblin - and liked to spend the freely flowing ransom money on baubles including white-gold watches and fast motorbikes. They were also armed with weapons including Uzi submachine guns, fancy Beretta, Colt and Taurus pistols and AK-47 assault rifles - known in gangland slang as the " cuerno de chivo" or "goat horn" because of its distinctive curved ammunition clip.
As in Scott's film, the Santa Muerte death cult also figured large in their stories. The scythe-wielding figurine of Our Lady of Death is revered by gangsters, thieves and prostitutes in the capital's crime-ridden Tepito neighbourhood who call on her for protection. Spurned by the Catholic Church, the cult has spilled out of the barrio and now counts policemen and politicians among its tattooed and talisman-wearing devotees, and has chapters as far away as Los Angeles.
The kidnappers do not work alone. Victims' testimonies routinely include accounts of "arrests" by uniformed police officers who have used their squad cars to pull over intended targets. Among those charged for several recent abductions are current and former employees of the various branches of the federal and municipal forces. In June, a group of elite officers was detained after abducting a businessman with the aid of false arrest warrants.
In a bid to cover their tracks and protect one another, corrupt, high-ranking officers band together in a secret group called La Hermandad - The Brotherhood. La Hermandad links the underworld gangs of the city's shantytowns to the upper echelons of the authorities, who profit from criminal endeavours ranging from drug trafficking to extortion.
"What you have to understand," says Morales, as we talk in his offices high above the thrumming traffic of the capital's smart Colonia del Valle district, "is that police corruption is not just a matter of taking bribes to turn a blind eye but of policeman who are active kidnappers. What's worse is that people charged with cracking the corruption continue to tolerate it."
So real is the fear of high-level corruption in law-enforcement circles that Mexico's attorney general, Raphael Macedo, recently had microchips implanted beneath the skin of 160 top federal prosecutors and investigators to ensure access to a highly sensitive new crime database that went live last month was secure. The devices, manufactured by the Florida-based VeriChip Corp, carry unique identification codes to foil attempts by impostors trying to gain access to the network.
While Mexico's law-enforcement community struggles to combat the corruption that threatens it from within, wealthy Mexicans are going to ever-greater lengths to protect themselves, turning to the private security companies piling into a booming market now worth hundreds of millions of pounds each year. It is estimated that up to 1,000 firms are currently offering security services, ranging from those supplying baton-toting guards to shopping malls, to a dozen or so companies that offer top-of-the-range VIP protection packages. The most comprehensive deals on offer include risk-assessment services, employee screening and crisis management - shorthand for kidnap negotiation in a worst-case scenario.
Also popular are armoured cars. The leading specialist in this market, O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, pegs the number of companies offering top-flight vehicle armour in the Mexican capital at 50, almost double the number five years ago. Piling state-of-the-art materials - including Kevlar, aramid fibres, blast- and bulletproof steels, and 2.1mm-thick ballistic glass - into the bodies of luxury European and American cars, is a $28m-a-year (£16m) industry in Mexico.
But with the simplest armour starting at $20,000 (£11,000), and the cost of providing armed guards for a family of four at $50,000 (£28,000) a year, protection is out of the reach of most Mexico City residents, four of whom are kidnapped on average each day. A further 70 or so a day, meanwhile, are snatched off the streets in what are known as "express" kidnappings, where criminals (often lurking among the city's taxi cabs) force their victims to withdraw money from their bank accounts before releasing them.
In late June, up to a million demonstrators dressed in white packed the streets of the city to demand government action in the biggest protest that the country had witnessed in more than a decade. The march, which filled the city's eight-lane Reforma thoroughfare from gutter to gutter, later claimed the scalp of Public Security Minister Alejandro Gertz, who stepped down in the face of such strong criticism.
"The rally's success didn't surprise me as crime is now one of Mexicans' greatest worries, although it may have taken some politicians by surprise," says march organiser Fernando Schutte from the office of his family estate agency in the city's colonial San Angel district. "Public security is the state's primary reason for being, and if it isn't providing it, then you have to go out and demand it. I don't want to hear speeches, I want to see results," he adds.
While Mexico's law enforcement and justice system is choked by corruption and a lack of resources that frustrates the best of political intentions, even the most severely tested in the crime-blighted capital share Schutte's steadfast conviction that the police and criminal-justice system must be made to work.
Among them is accountant Eduardo Gallo, whose 25-year-old daughter, Paola, was snatched four years ago by a kidnap gang and shot dead despite the prompt payment of a ransom. Facing indifference from prosecutors, Gallo singlehandedly tracked down Paola's killers in an 11-month manhunt that took him right up to the US border. Although there were moments when Gallo may have considered exacting his own brand of justice, in the end he simply handed the kidnappers over to the courts.
"It wasn't so much that I had the faith or confidence that the system of justice would work, but the alternative was to kill them," he says. "My parents brought me up with respect for the law, for society and for people's lives, and these were the values that I had passed on to my own children. I couldn't simply throw that aside when faced with a problem."
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EXPRESS KIDNAPPING: Maria Jose Cuevas, graphic designer, 32
Cuevas was pulling up outside her home (where she agreed to be photographed here) in the capital's fashionable La Condesa neighbourhood on a quiet Sunday evening in late spring. As she parked her VW, she felt the presence of a man nearby.
"I turned and saw that he had a pistol. He told me to get in the back of the car, then two more men got in: one up front accompanying the driver, and one in the back with me. All three were about 20 years old and had guns.
"The situation was desperate. I had a pistol pressed into my ankle and another stuck into my ribs. You are in your own space, your car, but you don't have control over it or anything else. Outside, you see life going on as if nothing was happening, and you can't call for help.
"My father is one of the most famous painters in Mexico - Jose Luis Cuevas - and at first I didn't know whether it was a kidnap that would last several days and end in a ransom demand, or if it was a so-called express kidnapping that would last just a couple of hours. But when they asked who my family was, I started to calm down a little as it looked like it was just random.
"They asked for my bank card, and they drove to three or four ATMs to withdraw cash. By sheer luck I only had 10,000 pesos (around £500). I told them to check the balance, and they believed I didn't come from a rich family.
"After they got the money, they carried on driving around and I got very anxious about where they were taking me. They hurl every kind of cliché at you to frighten you. They tell you you are going to sleep in a cellar - like a proper kidnap. They say they are going to take you out on to the highway, implying that they are going to kill or rape you.
"Inside I was dying of fright, but I was chatting to them and outwardly very calm. I was telling them how the situation in Mexico was very difficult, and that I didn't agree with robbery or hold-ups but I understood why they did it. I was becoming their accomplice.
"After about three hours, they decided to let me go. They parked up in a dark street. When everyone else had got out of the car, the driver reached out and squeezed my shoulder. He stayed looking right into my eyes for a few seconds. It was a little moment in which I felt like he was both trying to ask me to forgive him and thanking me."
KIDNAPPED BY POLICE: Miguel Castillo, marketing director, 35
Castillo was leaving the bakery he worked at in the capital's Barranca del Muerto district at around 9.30pm on a spring evening when he found the path to his Volkswagen GTI blocked by a federal police squad car.
"The police forced me to get out of my car, saying that it was stolen. Three or four officers then threw me face down into the back of the car and put their feet on top of me. They drove off with the radio turned on loud so that I couldn't figure out where I was going. I still don't know which route they followed.
"They handed me over to some civilians who held me captive in a safe house. I was stripped naked and placed in a completely dark room with a cement floor. They tied my left hand to a concrete post with wire, and left me there for five nights and six days.
"Their mistreatment was systematic. They didn't feed me. They beat me frequently, and they told me they were going to kill me. It was a psychological game. When they came for me, they always shoved a torch right in my face so that I couldn't identify them. You feel complete impotence as your life depends entirely on your kidnappers' attitude and moods.
"I had to identify my family and give them their details. It wasn't until the fifth day that they finally got in touch with them. My family was going frantic with worry as they had no idea where I was. They paid a ransom [he declines to say how much] and I was put back into the boot of my car and taken for a drive.
"They left me in the countryside in Morelos state - adjacent to Mexico City. After the sound of voices had receded, I began to call for help. A farmer heard me and helped me to climb out through the back seats. I went to a nearby house and used the phone to call my mother.
"It has left me with a lot of anger because of the situation they put my family in. If I lost a family member or a friend in a kidnapping, I would want to take revenge."
KIDNAPPED IN HIS OWN HOME: Jose Cohen, television producer, 34
Cohen was relaxing at home with his wife and three young children when he got a call from work. A colleague needed a telephone number, so he took the lift (which he returned to for the photo you see here) down from his 10th-floor apartment in the capital's swanky Polanco district to fetch his laptop from his car.
"When I pushed the elevator door open, a 9mm pistol was pointing in my face. I was told to close my eyes and look down at the floor, and I just remember seeing a bunch of feet walking into the elevator, at least four of five people. They took me back up to my apartment. It was a kidnap in my own home.
"They took us all into the bedroom where the shower was still on, and they tied my wife and me up. They just said to us, 'Keep cool and nothing is going to happen.' The kids were with us and the little one was crying for his bottle, so that was a little difficult.
"At first it was very frightening as they were very threatening. They said things like 'You son of a bitch' and 'If you open your eyes, I'll kill you.' But we were lucky because that particular day I had gone to change a cheque as I had to make some payments at the office the following day. I had around $3,000 (£2,000) in my pocket and I gave it to them immediately.
"We are not a Rolex family, so they took my wallet, my wife's jewellery, some antique watches inherited from my grandfather and my DVD player and our mobile phones. They were constantly talking on mobile phones, and only later did we realise they had taken over the whole building and were talking to accomplices in other apartments.
"After a couple of hours, they left, telling us not to do anything for 45 minutes. I put a chair against the elevator door, which was silly, and turned off the shower. At the end of the day they told me that if we took it easy and played along with their game, they wouldn't hurt us, and that was the most important thing for me, obviously, as I just wanted to protect my family.
"Only later when I checked the call log of my wife's mobile phone did I discover that the kidnappers had used it to call one particular number 17 times. I started to do my own investigation, but then decided to drop it. If you live in a place where there is no rule of law, then it's pretty damn scary to go ahead and do something on your own."Reuse content


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text: Introduction to Ising Model and Opinion Dynamics for non-physicists (hopefully) Sang Hoon Lee, Complex Systems and Statistical Physics Lab., Dept. of Physics, KAIST, June 23, 2007. What is the Ising model? • Ising model: a crude attempt to simulate the structure of a physical ferromagnetic substance • Main virtue(?): a 2D Ising model yields to an exact treatment in statistical mechanics • The only nontrivial example of a phase transition that can be worked out with mathematical rigor Basic terminologies in statistical physics, but (possibly) not familiar to non-physicists~ cf) ferromagnetic substance (강자성체): Fe(철), Co(코발트), Ni(니켈), etc What's the relationship with opinion dynamics? • The system is an array of N fixed points called lattice sites • Associated with each lattice site is a spin variable si (i = 1, …, N) which is a number that is either +1(↑; spin-up) or -1(↓; spin-down) • A given set of numbers {si} specifies a configuration of the whole system 3D spin configuration spin configuration in a non-regular lattice (or even a complex network!) What is spin? • Spin is the angular momentum intrinsic to particles such as atoms, protons, or electrons. Such particles and the spin of quantum mechanical systems ("particle spin") possesses several non-classical features and for such systems spin angular momentum cannot be associated "net" magnetization = +2 (x↑) with rotation but instead refers only to the presence of angular momentum … • For the purpose of qualitative understanding of Ising model, just consider the spin variable as the basic unit of magnetization~ N S S N N or S +1 -1 N S N S N S S N N S "Thermodynamic" quantities … Energy E {si } J si s j H ij … s i i interaction with the neighbor-interaction (ferromagnetic coupling) external magnetic field External +J if si & sj have different signs field H -J if s & s have the same sign Entropy i j … "Energy-minimized" configuration Entropy … < … S ( E ) k B log E # of possible configurations for a given energy value E … Helmholtz free energy F E TS T: temperature ("control parameter") cf) if T = 0, only the energy term is considered! Minimize F = "competition" between the energy and entropy with the control parameter T (energy minimization vs entropy maximization) Main question in statistical mechanics: What's the configuration that minimize F for given temperature values like? What's the average of {si}, the variance of {si}, etc? magnetization m susceptibility χ Phase transition (相轉移) We can expect that the magnetization is reduced as the temperature rises … Mathematical singularity: not differentiable, etc. ("singularity" class or type of phase transition) m disorder phase T TC (critical or Curie temperature) H=0 "spontaneous" magnetization: magnetized without any external magnetic field from the TV series "CSI" … If each spin variable represents the "individual opinion" … • Magnetization (average spin) → average opinion (majority vote) How to interpret T in the opinion dynamics? m disorder phase T ~ consensus Things to consider: "real" phase transition occurs only in the thermodynamic limit (N → ∞) & many other things, such as "how to simplify people's opinions to the magnetic Ising model?" Discontinuous (1st order) & continuous (2nd order) transition m m T Continuous transition T Discontinuous transition Solution of self-consistency equation Topology matters! Ising model energy E J ss i i, j Regular lattice in Euclidean space – dimension, coordination number Existence of shortcuts, randomness – Watts-Strogatz small-world network Heterogeneity of connections – scale-free network j Ising model on complex networks Review paper about the critical phenomena in complex network: S. N. Dorogovtsev, A. V. Goltsev, and J. F. F. Mendes, "Critical phenomena in complex networks", e-print arXiv:0705.0010 for physicists … scale-free network : probability distribution of degree follows the power law. P( k ) k in the log-log scale, of course … p (k ) p (k ) p (k ) 2 3 3 5 The hub (opinion) dominates !!! 5 k "always magnetized": no phase-transition k k similar to mean-field theory: mean-field theory: same different technical details as all-to-all interaction The "voter model" resembles the Ising model, but focuses on different aspects of the system the Ising model the voter model the Ising-Glauber dynamics equilibrium state pathway to equilibrium thermodynamic variables (consensus) state Monte Carlo simulation time to reach consensus (Metropolis algorithm) "Humans may dislike to be simulated like Ising spins, and clearly the brain is more complicated than one binary variables." – D. Stauffer The voter model is the simplest and most completed solved examples of cooperative behavior The Rule of the Model Each site of a graph is endowed with two states – spin up ↑(s = +1) and down ↓(s = -1) like the Ising model For each evolution time step, i) pick a random site ii) the selected site adopts the state of a randomly-chosen neighbor These steps are repeated until a finite system necessarily reaches consensus The voter model dynamics - illustration Random Field Ising Model on Scale-Free Networks adjacency matrix: 1 if i and j connected, 0 if not external field given by random variable f (m) f (m) p (h) p (h) discontinuous (1st order) transition continuous transition S. H. Lee, H. Jeong, and J. D. Noh, Phys. Rev. E 74, 031118 (2006). Interpretation as opinion dynamics model? In the original manuscript of our paper … An anonymous referee said, Investigating the Ising model • Analytic approach – 1D Ising model: no phase transition (transfer matrix) – 2D Ising model: Onsager solution (advanced graduate level) – 3D Ising model: no exact solution (yet!), approximation based on series expansion, etc. – Mean-field theory: (relatively) easy calculation with the self-consistency equation – exact for all-to-all coupling & valid for D > 4 (upper-critical dimension) • Numerical simulation – Monte Carlo simulation • Boltzmann factor and Metropolis algorithm • Voter model dynamics ~ T=0 Ising model simulation Boltzmann factor (before introducing the basic algorithm for Monte Carlo simulation) exp( Ei ~ probability that an equilibrium system has the energy Ei in the canonical ensemble with the temperature T ) k BT probabilit y pi exp( E i / k B T ) exp( E j exp( E i / k B T ) / k BT ) Z (partition function) j Basic idea: let the system configuration "evolve" by considering the Boltzmann factor and record the average magnetization, variance, etc. Energy E {si } J si s j H ij s i i Basic Monte Carlo Simulation: Metropolis algorithm • Prepare the system & initialize • System configuration evolution "loop" for each T … – Randomly pick a site and calculate the energy change if the spin at the site is flipped – If the energy is lowered, the spin flip is accepted – If the energy gets larger, the spin flip is accepted with the probability exp( E / k B T ) – Record the average, variance (2nd moment), 4th moment, etc. (after the initial transient period; the equilibration time) • After the simulation, thermodynamic quantities are calculated with the recorded data Monte Carlo Simulation with what …? • Nothing is impossible! Anything that can calculate the exponential function (even this is not necessary for T = 0) & generate random numbers • Usually, programming languages such as C, C++, python, Fortran, Java, etc. Surprisingly, even with Microsoft Excel !!! 2D Ising model Monte Carlo simulation: C code by me "spin flipping" part Boltzmann factor spin configuration initialization record various quantities call the spin flipping function Result: time series of magnetization T ~ TC T < TC spontaneous magnetization "critical slowing down" T > TC disorder phase Result: thermodynamic quantities depending on the temperature Exact T C 1 / ln( 1 2 ) 2 . 269 ... (from the Onsager solution) Java Applets • Prof. Jae Dong Noh's website • http://statphy1.uos.ac.kr/noh/java.html Summary • Ising model: "immortal" subject of statistical mechanics – application to opinion dynamics (with caution!) • Monte Carlo simulation based on Metropolis algorithm • Now, you'll take a look at how we can do the simulation with Microsoft Excel~ :) Any question or comment?


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Chapter Nineteen – Endings Are Hard
Everything's supposed to end.
He was supposed to end.
But not like this.
Out of control.
Possessing a girl.
Flying into a rage…
Breaking Charlie's arm.
Becoming something he'd hunt.
Needing to be put down.
No longer a hunter's funeral.
Now a salt-and-burn.
Vanquishing a vengeful spirit.
Losing him all over again…
Except this time by our actions.
Tossing his flask on the fire.
Watching as Bobby disintegrated in a fireball.
It was his choice.
Deciding now to go and not stay.
A decision that would have been easier in the beginning.
So hard letting go.
Rest, Bobby.
The End
June 2012
All standard disclaimers apply.
I'm firmly in the camp that Bobby needs to return. I don't care about the 'reality' of death or making it mean something in their universe. I know death and that reality, as do the Winchesters. Supernatural is fantasy and a suspension of our disbelief. Sam and Dean need Bobby, as much as I need them to have someone in their corner who cares.
I care about Bobby and righting a wrong! I care that the Winchesters have other players to react to and care about, that they aren't abandoned out there, alone, shut-off from all resources and left to fend for themselves. In theory it made sense for the season, but in reality it never felt like it was working as intended.
For S8, they need to bring back characters, re-establish bonds and let the characters interact and grow. Sam and Dean totally on their own is too claustrophobic after seven seasons. We gain much from seeing how they interact with characters that love them or hate them or are newly discovering them, and we can all use more Bobby-love when things get tough out there.
Who else is excited for S8? I love all of Supernatural, but I'm ready for Jeremy Carver to bring back more brotherly moments and to wow me again. Bring it!
This will be the last chapter until Bobby comes back. Then I might be inspired to add on.
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I finally updated my games list here on GB I have sold most of my PS3 games, some x360 and some WII games. I Haven't sold any 3DS games because I really like to play my 3DS games and of course the biggest grow has happen on the 3DS games section. This is probably going to be most growing section in the future too...
I have tried to look some interesting PS Vita games but it's no go. There is only one game which I have some light interest but I hope to find it on sale someday... this year seems to be bad to PS Vita gamers. I hope Sony brings some big games before christmas! (If you know some great games on the VITA, just tell me just check my games list before saying anything!)
I'm starting my vacation on friday and I'm trying to finish at least 2 games before my vacation is over (about 5 weeks). My main game is "Tales of the abyss" (3DS) which is almost finished but will take me about 5-10hours still to finish. I'm not sure what game will be second one... I have great games on my PS3, PC and 3DS... It's hard to chooce :/
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Producer J.J. Abrams' "Fringe" revolves around a trio who explore paranormal mysteries, while Jerry Bruckheimer's "Eleventh Hour" follows a government adviser who saves people from the worst abuses of science.
"Kath & Kim," based on an Australian show, stars Molly Shannon and Selma Blair as a dysfunctional mother-daughter combo. "Worst Week," an American version of the BBC's "The Worst Week of My Life," centers on an engaged couple.
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Jerusalem, Jan 24 (PTI) Palestinians were ready tocompromise over two of the critical issues, Jerusalem andrefugees during peace talks with Israel in 2008, an al-Jazeerareport has said, but the Palestinian Authority today describedit as "fabrication" and "lies and half-truths".
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has dismissed reportsby al-Jazeera TV yesterday that it had agreed to compromiseover two of the thorniest issues of Israel-Palestinianconflict, Jerusalem and the right of return of Palestinianrefugees.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert''s officereacted to the publications by saying that there were "manyinaccuracies" in them, while some other Israeli officialsinvolved in the negotiations also rejected much of the report.
Abbas told Egyptian newspaper editors in Cairo that hekept the Arab League updated on all the details of thenegotiations with Israel, PA state news agency Wafa said.
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Qurei denied making an offer to let go all the Jewishsettlements in east Jerusalem, except Har Homa, claiming thatIsrael refused to discuss the issue.
The current chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, dismissedthe documents as "a bunch of lies" during an appearance on AlJazeera shortly after the documents were released.
As many as 1,600 Palestinian documents on peace talkswith Israel said to have been obtained by al-Jazeera TV, thebiggest haul of leaked confidential documents in the historyof the conflict, claims that Palestinian negotiators secretlyagreed to accept Israel''s annexation of all but one of theneighbourhoods, Har Homa, built in East Jerusalem.
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By Benjamin Spillman, USA TODAY
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. When the sun sets on Southern California's Whitewater Canyon, it comes alive with snakes, frogs and lizards out to enjoy the warm desert air. It also comes alive with reptile enthusiasts and poachers.
The enthusiasts obey the law and troll for pets; the poachers ignore the law and snatch up slithering creatures to sell on the global market for wildlife. There's a license for the enthusiasts; there's not one for the poachers. The former would watch Snakes on a Plane with fascination; the latter with dollar signs in their eyes.
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The canyon and countless ponds, streams and prairies on public lands across the USA are the front lines of a cat-and-mouse game between reptile poachers and the people who watch over protected wildlife.
"Some nights are busy, some nights you don't see anything," said Kyle Chang, a game warden for the California Department of Fish and Game, who quietly stakes out the Whitewater Canyon several times a year.
On a busy night, Chang might make 10 stops, most to verify collectors are carrying a state fishing license, a prerequisite for catching reptiles such as the Whitewater rosy boa, a docile snake that makes a good pet.
Chang uses a rope taped to resemble a California king snake as a decoy. When somebody stops for the fake snake, he pulls up and checks for a license, bag limit or other violations.
While legitimate collectors — sometimes called "herpers" — don't cause problems, unlicensed poachers gathering for commercial gain can decimate an area.
Poachers flock to places such as Whitewater and Borrego canyons and Joshua Tree National Park in California and plentiful hunting grounds in Arizona, South Carolina, West Texas and countless spots in between. "It is definitely a problem," said Jeff Lovich, deputy director of the U.S. Geological Survey's Southwest Biological Science Center in Arizona.
Chang says California fines can be as low as $10 for people who forgot their license at home to $385 or more for blatant poaching offenses.
In nearby Joshua Tree National Park, federal penalties for pilfering wildlife can include jail time and fines up to $250,000, depending on the types and quantity of reptiles taken. Joe Zarki, a park spokesman, said penalties vary depending on whether the offender is part of a commercial ring or simply a child catching a lizard for a pet.
Rangers at Joshua Tree National Park say it's tough to quantify how much poaching occurs. That's because it's not enough to catch poachers with the tools of the trade — snake hooks, pillowcases, cages, Zarki said. "One of the problems is you have to actually catch people with the reptiles in hand," he said.
Lovich said Gila monsters are popular poaching targets. Named after the Gila River Basin in Arizona, they are one of two kinds of poisonous lizards. Those bred in captivity can be traded legally, but a price tag that can exceed $1,500 on the open market makes wild Gila monsters, which are a protected species, attractive to poachers.
Venomous snakes, and their non-poisonous cousins, are popular, too. The rosy boa sells on the Internet for $100 to $300.
"There is ... a bit of a thrill for people because there is a great deal of phobia among the general population," said Jack Crayon, a biologist and former herper (from the Greek word for reptile) who lives in Indio, Calif. "There is some satisfaction in handling something a lot of people are afraid of."
Chang says poachers occasionally will go to great lengths to snatch wildlife. He described finding people in Whitewater Canyon with frogs, toads and lizards stuffed into jars and snakes loose on the floorboard.
To sell native California reptiles within California, sellers need to produce documentation the reptiles were bred in captivity, not caught in the wild, Crayon said. California reptiles, however, can crop up without documentation in other states, and Lovich said he has encountered people offering wild-caught reptiles for sale.
Legal commercial operations, such as turtle farms in the southeastern United States, can lead to poaching, said Allen Salzberg, the New York-based publisher of Herp Digest.
"There is constant pressure for wild-caught males and females to bring into these farms," he said.
For some people, though, collecting reptiles isn't about money or thrill.
"They are so fun," said Mathew Bartol, 22, of Valencia, Calif., as he handled an 18-inch rosy boa he picked up on Whitewater Canyon Road. "What makes it so fun is the search."
Bartol, who had a license and could legally catch the boa, chatted with Chang and two other collectors. They talked about the weather and collecting conditions.
Chang said Bartol, who was collecting with his dad and a family friend, is more representative of snake-enthusiasts than poachers.
"Some people like fishing over hunting. Some people like reptile collecting over fishing," Chang said. "Like any sport you have good people, bad people and people who walk the line."
Contributing: Spillman reports daily for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs


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After fielding some half dozen TV offers, former Awake star Jason Isaacs has signed on as the lead of USA Network's six-episode event series DIG, an action adventure drama from Heroes creator Tim Kring and Gideon Raff, creator of the Israeli series on which Showtime's Homeland was based. Kring and Raff co-created DIG, which centers on Peter (Isaacs), an FBI agent stationed in Jerusalem who, while investigating a murder of a woman archaeologist, uncovers a conspiracy 2000 years in the making that threatens to change the course of history. The series is a production of Keshet Media Group for UCP in cooperation with the city of Jerusalem. It will start filming in Jerusalem and other oversees locations in May for a premiere on USA later this year. Kring and Raff are exec producing with Keshet Media Group CEO Avi Nir and Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein. Isaacs, repped by Gersh, Silver Lining Entertainment and and Karl Austen, is filming NBC's miniseries Rosemary's Baby and indie Stockholm, Pennsylvania. He was at the Berlin Film Festival last week with his film Things People Do.
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What happened to his CBS pilot Surgeon General pilot? I never heard of them officially passing on it.
Sadly, CBS renewed almost all of the Drama series last year so The Surgeon General was not picked up. I saw a promo video online and Jason was excellent in it, not to mention the best looking SG ever! :)
Sounds excellent.
Sounds cool. I liked Isaac's short-lived NBC show, Awake, and this looks like a good vehicle for him.
I'll watch. Glad that it will be six-episode event. They need to make more miniseries with six or ten episodes. When we would know that they will tell whole story and give it proper and planned end. Instead of doing Under the Dome like cheating.
The project is really middling at best.
MUMBLES gets another lead role? He was barely intelligible 50% of the time in that snoozefest AWAKE. He is a monotonous. And, regarding story " uncovering a conspiracy 2,000 years in the making that can change the course of history…" ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Sorry, dozed off there. Cause …and Defect.
Pedro, since the critics and fans have loved him in everything, including the fantastic Awake, since he's Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated, since all the networks seem to want him, since he has women everywhere including this one desperate to see more of him – in every way – here's some advice: CLEAN OUT YOUR EARS!!! By the way, why would you watch Awake if you didn't like it? Strange
You are spot on, Pedro, with regard to the mumbling, but that is ONLY when Isaacs has to do an American accent. This latest project sounds intriguing, but please, producers, take a page from Elementary, and keep him English, even if he has to work for the Americans. Isaacs is brilliant, but his American accent is not.
I have full faith that this series will be MORE than 'middling', and agree wholeheartedly with Isaacsfan. Pedro, and Thistle n weeds, his American accent is understood well by my kids, and that's my gauge of understanding (he beats MY British accent by miles).
This announcement was the best VD gift I've ever received. I can't wait to see it.


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Firm says use of drug in death penalty against its policies
Add another drug company to the list of potential sources of Alabama's death penalty drugs - a list state officials have long tried to keep secret.
Court documents filed last month in the case of death row inmate Tommy Arthur suggest New Jersey pharmaceutical manufacturer Becton Dickinson could be a maker of the midazolam Alabama uses as the 1st element of its 3-drug execution protocol.
The company, in a written statement, said its drugs are not intended for sale to U.S. prisons, and that its distributors have been warned of that fact. The company will take an "appropriate course of action" against any distributor found selling midazolam to prisons, according to the statement.
The new documents are not the 1st time lawyers have dropped the name of a drugmaker in court, though state officials have long declined to publicly name the sources of their lethal injection drugs.
"A company that's not involved in lethal injection would be very concerned about the potential unfair damage done to them by their association with executions," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit which studies the death penalty. "A company that is involved would be rightly concerned about the consequences of being known to be involved."
Alabama hasn't executed an inmate in more than two years. Drugs once used for lethal injection have become scarce as major drug companies - particularly those headquartered in Europe, where there's strong opposition to capital punishment - have backed away from providing those drugs to prison systems.
Several inmates have challenged the constitutionality of the state's current execution drug protocol, which consists of midazolam to kill pain, rocuronium to relax the muscles, and finally, potassium chloride to stop the heart. Inmates claim midazolam doesn't kill the pain of execution and thus violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
For the past 2 years, lawmakers have proposed bills to make the names of Alabama's lethal injection drug suppliers secret. Those bills didn't pass, but state officials still decline to name the sources of their drugs, citing a gag order in Arthur's case. Many of the documents in that case are sealed, and many non-sealed documents contain redacted passages.
Earlier this year, however, state officials included a "package insert" - essentially manufacturer's instructions - for midazolam produced by Illinois-based Akorn Pharmaceuticals as an exhibit in the case. The company denied selling any midazolam directly to the state.
More recent court documents refer to a similar package insert from Becton Dickinson. In a court order issued Friday, U.S. District Judge W. Keith Watkins ruled that Arthur's lawyers could conduct depositions to find out which company's insert best applies to the drugs used in Alabama's executions.
When Akorn's package insert surfaced in court documents earlier this year, the company said it "strongly objects" to use of its drugs in executions. Akorn later announced it would restrict sale of midazolam to wholesalers who "use their best efforts" to prevent sale of the drug to prisons.
Becton Dickinson took a similar position in its Tuesday statement, sent by public relations director Troy Kirkpatrick.
"All of our distributor partners have previously received formal notification ... that our products are not intended for use in U.S. prisons including state and federal penitentiaries," the statement read.
Becton Dickinson did $163,905 in direct business with the state so far this year, and $156,162 in fiscal 2014, but all those sales appear to have been to the Department of Public Health, not the Department of Corrections.
Dunham said it's possible for a drugmaker's products to be used in an execution without the company knowing it. But association with lethal injection is increasingly problematic for companies both ethically and from a marketing standpoint, he said.
"A company's good name is worth a fortune," Dunham said.
He cited the example of Mylan, a producer of rocuronium bromide, one of the drugs Alabama uses for lethal injection. According to Reuters, a Dutch public employees' pension fund last week divested itself of stock in Mylan. Mylan has said its drugs are not intended for use in capital punishment, but according to Reuters, pension fund managers thought the company wasn't doing enough to control use of its drugs.
Changing tactics
The judge's order comes as Arthur and other death row inmates search for a new defense in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the use of midazolam in executions.
An Oklahoma inmate, citing a botched 2014 execution which took more than half an hour, argued that midazolam shouldn't be used to kill inmates. The high court disagreed.
"The prisoners failed to identify a known and available alternative method of execution that entails a lesser risk of pain," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the opening lines of the majority opinion. The death penalty itself hasn't been ruled unconstitutional, Alito wrote, and there must therefore be a constitutional way to carry it out.
Lawyers for Arthur, who was convicted in the 1980s murder-for-hire of a Muscle Shoals man, have since argued that Alabama does have alternatives, including the firing squad.
"Execution by firing squad, if implemented properly, would result in a substantially lesser risk of harm than the state's continued use of the d-drug protocol involving midazolam," wrote Suhana Han, attorney for condemned inmate Tommy Arthur, in a court motion.
Arthur has also argued that the state could buy sodium thiopental - once the 1st drug in Alabama's execution protocol - from a drugmaker in India, or could hire a compounding pharmacist to mix the drug pentobarbital in small batches.
Pentobarbital, too, was once used by the state to kill inmates. Arthur challenged the constitutionality of that drug in his original 2011 suit against the state.
"Arthur cannot pretend that he has never adopted the position ... that pentobarbital violates the Eighth Amendment because it will cause him to have a heart attack and suffer a painful death before its anesthetic effects are achieved," lawyers for the attorney general's office wrote in a motion for summary judgment. Attempts to reach a spokesman for Arthur's legal team were unsuccessful Tuesday. Joy Patterson, a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office, said the office would not comment further on the case.
The judge's Friday order blocks Arthur from directly seeking information about the sources of the state's drugs, their expiration dates and any effort by the state to adopt an alternate form of execution.
Discovery in the case must be completed by Nov. 15, Watkins ordered.
Source: Anniston Star, Sept. 1, 2015
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Farooq Yusof, 50, groped one of his victims during a tutoring session at her home and admitted another similar offence.
He has been remanded in custody until sentencing and faces at least a six-month jail term.
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Yusof's daughter, Sufiah, won an Oxford University place at 13. She ran away three years later claiming that her parents - who schooled her at home - had placed her under intolerable pressure to succeed.
Her father was arrested after touching a girl on the chest and attempting to kiss her as her parents watched television in a nearby room.
The victim's father said: "This man came across as intelligent, smooth-talking, charming. He said my daughter was very bright and that he would be able to further develop her skills.
"He even told us that his daughter went to Oxford - but he didn't tell us the rest of her story.
"He took a strong interest in our daughter. Now I realise it was for all the wrong reasons and he was just trying to groom her."
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Appearing under his real surname of Khan at Coventry Crown Court last week, the private tutor pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault. Neither victim can be identified, but they were not relatives of Khan.
Sexual assault carries a maximum jail term of 14 years, with a minimum of six months.
Pakistan-born Khan, who lives in Coventry, came into contact with his first victim - a state school pupil - after being recommended to her parents by a family friend.
He visited the family home once a month for hour-long intensive sessions in maths and English.
Khan had charged the parents just £10 a time and claimed the fees were so low because his research attracted Government funding.
Khan and his wife Halimahton, a scientist, gave up their jobs to educate their five children at home.
Sufiah was admitted to Oxford in 1997 but fled from St Hilda's College three years later, aged 15. She was found by police 12 days later working as a waitress but refused to return to her parents.
She was taken into care by a foster family and, in a searing e-mail to her parents, revealed the "living hell" she said her father had created.
In 2004, she married trainee lawyer Jonathan Marshall, who converted to Islam after they met at the university. Sufiah invited her parents, but they did not attend the ceremony at Oxford register office. The couple divorced 13 months later.
In 1992 Khan was jailed for three years for his part in a £1.5million mortgage fraud.
His wife, now 51, received a suspended prison sentence after a court heard she was living in a house with a tennis court while receiving £180 a week benefits.
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Re: [TexasCzechs] The Eagle, the Man, and the Lions
- On Fri, 5 May 2000 18:45:00 EDT SRektorik@... writes:
> I am planning to start writing about the Joseph and Anna SvobodaSusan,
> Hrncir family who immigrated to Texas prior to the Civil War.
I'll put in my vote to start with the Joseph & Anna Story.
Rick Garza
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- I love your stories and I think you need to just keep writing period.
Lois Petter Pereira
SRektorik@... wrote:
The story ended with Part 3. This message contains some general information
on this folk tale. As I explained previously, this story was told to us, as
children; however, I wanted to just point out several other aspects of the
tale, although they might be obvious:
1. This story clearly was a way of telling of the hardship and oppression
experienced in the "Old Country." It also allows those who are oppressed
(or were) to tell of a time when one of their kind was victorious against
great odds. It also clearly establishes through the use of frequent
repetition of the adjectives "good" and "honest" who was on the honorable
side. The fact that a magical creature is necessary to make the good man
victorious is an indicator that the grip of the oppressors was very tight
2. This story also follows the path of a "Resurrection Myth" as seen in many
other cultures. Here we have, for all purposes, a man who is dead. When
the good man is sent to the great pit. He is sent to his death. There
then comes the intervention of a godly spirit. With the aid of this
spirit, the man is reborn through his escape from the great pit. With
great detail, we even have the man giving his flesh to be eaten. In truth,
at this level, this is a highly sophisticated myth.
3. In capturing this tale in writing, I have tried to retain some of the
rhythms and speech patterns used when it was told. The written story
will never have the same affect as when a real storyteller uses his voice
to greatly enhance the "Swoosh...Swoosh...Swoosh!" of the wings of the great
eagle and the great wind- swallowing "Gu-lump!" of the eagle asking for the
lion meat. This story is best when told in a quiet setting and with a great
deal of sound effects being provided by the storyteller including the
"yeowls and snarls'' of the lions and the slashing sound of the good man's
I suppose that, at the current time, this story would be considered to
graphic and gory to be told to children; however, I always listened
intently, no matter how many times I had heard it before...and I never
had nightmares about this tale.
I am planning to start writing about the Joseph and Anna Svoboda Hrncir
family who immigrated to Texas prior to the Civil War. I also need to
capture the folk tale of "Spriritus" a wee man who takes on a wealthy
nobleman in order to get food, clothing, and money for the oppressed
peasants. If any of you would rather read one or the other, please e-mail me
back and let me know your preference.
Susan Rektorik Henley
Kdo chce s vlky býti, musí s vlky výti!
"If you run with the wolves, you must howl with the wolves!"
"Remember who your people are, keep and tell their stories."
"Keep the fires of the culture alive!"
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- It would be nice of all you could download your stories and send by snail
mail or fax to Daniel Hrna: Czech Heritage Society of Texas-Harris County,
Texas, Inc. for our archives. This information is archival interest and gives
us a chance to share with others who are interested in family stories.
Presently, we are working on presentation of Czechs who contributed to the
Millennium and would like have a list of names and a short biography. This
information is very important as we are preparing for Czech Heritage Month
and Media Releases. that is why hard copy by snail mail is important.
My snail mail is: 11920 Beechnut, Houston, Texas 77072, Phone: (281)
564-9800, FAX: (281) 498-0851and e-mail is:dhrna@...
We would like to have many participants in this project.
Daniel Hrna
- Dear Daniel,
Thank you for expressing interest in my stories. I am more than willing to
share them as paper copies with the Harris County Czech Heritage Society.
The stories I have shared on the Texas Czech web site have been ones which
attempt to capture what the lives of Texas Czechs were like. These I can
forward as is. As far as Texas Czech and their contributions, I am sure I
can obtain permission to Mr. Jo Charba to submit a copy of his autobiography.
Already prepared, I have the life history of my father, Julius Rektorik,
which I researched and wrote when the Robstown Historical Commission honored
him as a life time citizen with a strong history of civil service. It is my
hope that this biography will be included as my Dad was one of the first
children of Texas Czech settlers who attended college, taught in a public
school system and was involved in the State Guard during World War II as an
air raid warden, coast watch for enemy planes and U-boats, and in many other
local civic organizations. I have not published his story on the Texas Czech
site for my dad was born in 1913 and is so much younger than the ones of
which I currently write. However, his contributions are noteworthy.
I am also the great-granddaughter of Tom Mrazek who designed, engineered, and
manufactured the Mrazek Grubbing Plow which allowed the area around Corpus
Christi to be cleared of the "running mesquite" and put into cultivation when
commercially available plows were not up to task. His plow cleared the
roadway for the first highway between Robstown and Corpus Christi. He is
noted in many references on Nueces County and Robstown. He also designed,
manufactured the parts for and built a steam-powered cotton gin in Williamson
County, Texas. Tom Mrazek was a Czech Texan worthy of mention in the history
books. I have been gathering information, photos and references on him for
several years. Because of his gifts and the practical application of his
genius, it is taking me a while to determine how best to capture him in
writing. Your project would give me impetus. Please let me know when Czech
Heritage Month is and I will pull together not only a biography but photos of
his Williamson County cotton gin, the Mrazek Grubbing Plow Factory in
Robstown, and a photo of the plow as well as a photo of the Mrazek homestead
here in Robstown. The significance of this man, Tom Mrazek, can be found in
the articles in both the Nueces County Historical Commission Bulletin, the
Robstown Record which is the local paper, as well as books on Williamson
County and the Czechs in Nueces County. I would love to do this and I would
appreciate having an outlet so that I can have a product which is shared with
a sizable audience. There is not a large audience which I have found which
will understand and appreciate the stories which I tell.
Please let me know if you are interested in the Tom Mrazek Profile and when
Czech History Month is. I will pull together a nifty and informative
package. I will also edit and send hard copies of the stories which I have
already published on the Texas Czechs web site.
With Interest and Appreciatively,
Susan Rektorik Henley