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Chief Executive Officer
Chief Inclusion Officer
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As Bama's Chief Executive Officer, Paula provides strategic leadership and direction to the entire organization. Her vision stands as a beacon for Bama team members, inspiring the organization to achieve the Bama mission – "People Helping People Be Successful".
Paula assumed responsibility as CEO of the Bama Companies in 1984, which now includes Bama Pie, Bama Foods, Bama Frozen Dough, Beijing Bama and Bama Europa. Under her leadership Bama has expanded to provide a wide variety of frozen desserts and baked goods to fast food chains and casual and family dining restaurants.
Paula received her Bachelor of Science in business from Oklahoma City University (OCU) in 1982, and her PhD in commercial science, also from OCU, in 1993.
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Kevin joined Bama in 2011, bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience in the food industry. He has spent the majority of his career working in strategic sales, marketing, M&A, and business development roles within the global food industry. Since 2005, he held the position of Managing Director for Cherry Tree & Associates, LLC, a boutique firm that specializes in representing private owners of middle-market companies. His other work experience includes a variety of key leadership roles with CNS, Inc., General Mills, The Pillsbury Company and The Liggett Group.
Kevin earned his bachelors degree in business administration, cum laude, from Temple University. He is a Senior Advisor to Cherry Tree & Associates and has published numerous articles and research pieces on various segments of the food industry and related sectors.
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Joined Bama in 2001
Rocky Moore is the Chief Financial Officer at The Bama Companies, Inc. His responsibilities include finance, accounting, banking, information services, strategic planning, legal, and merger / acquisition activity in the U.S. and abroad. Rocky works to position Bama for long term success by helping create strategies designed to drive profitable, sustainable growth.
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VP, Global Business Execution
Joined Bama in 1999
Tenille serves as the VP of Global Business Execution for The Bama Companies, Inc. Her responsibilities include setting strategic direction and ensuring alignment in growth strategies, overseeing project management and commercialization of new products.
Tenille spent many years as the Director of the McDonald's business unit, where her team was responsible for innovation, commercialization, sourcing and pricing, compliance, marketing insight, production and assured supply, distribution, and customer service.
Tenille has worked with Bama for over 14 years, and the vast majority of her experience has been in the McDonald's System. She has 2 years of experience in People Systems and Organizational Development, and during that time she worked with staffing, policy and procedure manuals, regulatory reporting, and overall team member engagement.
Tenille received her Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Oklahoma, and her MBA from the University of Tulsa.
Vice President R&D, QA
Joined Bama in 1991
Mike received his Bachelor of Science degree from Oklahoma State University. He joined Bama in 1991. Mike has worked with Bama for over 20 years, where he began his career. Mike spent 15 years as the Director of Operations for each of the Bama Facilities. During his career he has been involved in commissioning several production lines while at Bama. In his first years, he held various positions at Bama's facilities in Supply Quality, Plant Quality and Production.
Mike currently serves as the VP of R&D and QA for The Bama Companies, Inc. His responsibilities include strategy and alignment for the Corporate Quality, R&D, Sanitation and Culinary teams as it relates to Bama's customers and business.
Vice President, US Operations
Joined Bama in 2001
Jeff graduated with an MBA from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. He has held various roles in the food industry for over 20 years. He has been with Bama for 14 years. Jeff began his career with Bama in Purchasing and transitioned into Supplier Quality. From Supplier Quality, Jeff moved into Operations and has held the position of Operations Manager and Plant Manager at the Bama Pie and Bama Frozen Dough facilities.
Jeff currently serves as the VP of Operations for the Bama Companies. His responsibilities include aligning Bama's strategic direction with our Tulsa production facilities as well as overseeing our Engineering and Supply Chain Groups to do the same.
Vice President & General Manager, Asia
Joined Bama in 1999
As Vice President and General Manager for Bama's operations in Asia, Bernie has led the company's growth there. In this role, he is responsible for all facets of sales, operations and administration for Bama's three facilities in China, which serve all of Asia. Grounded in operations, Bernie has also overseen the construction and start-up of four processing facilities in China, two of them for Bama.
Bernie joined The Bama Companies, Inc. in 1999 after spending 12 years with Chicago-based meat processor OSI Industries, Inc. He has spent 22 years living and working in the Greater China region including the last 16 years in the People's Republic of China both for Bama and OSI and six years in Taipei, Taiwan where he ran a meat processing facility for OSI. Prior to that, Bernie also spent 10 years working for the McDonald's Corporation.
Bernie serves on the Board of Directors for McDonald's China Ronald McDonald House Charities and is the Chairman for the McDonald's China Supply Chain Leadership Council. As an active member of the American Chamber of Commerce – China, he has served in various committee leadership roles.
SVP, International Business Development
Joined Bama in 2015
Eivind is responsible for further development and enhancement of Bama's international business, with a particular emphasis on the management of Bama Europa.
Prior to joining Bama, Eivind spent 33 years with a global multinational in the food and agricultural industry. He held various trading, management and leadership roles, both in the United States and in Eastern and Western Europe. During his prior career, he gained deep and broad knowledge of starting as well as leading and expanding existing businesses, in domestic, internationally mature and developing economies. His responsibilities included strategic customers, strategy development and execution, as well as investments. Eivind is passionate about talent development and mentoring.
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Hopefully, I haven't missed a thread about the new season of American Horror Story: Coven. Anyone watching? Thoughts?
I thought the first episode was good.
I did not watch the first two seasons. I watched this because of all the commercials everywhere and the creepy imagery in them. Theme: disturbing.
Um, the beginning was like Django Unchained or something....very disturbing stuff.
It was creepy in a Friday the 13th kind of way. Jessica Lange is cray, and nice to see Sarah Paulson (I remember her from American Gothic).
Other than that I don't know if I'm going to watch. That one scene in the frat house....that made me want to write the show off all together. As disturbing as the beginning.
The rest was kind of boring.
I really like Kathy Bates, but her character was also disturbing.
I did watch the first two seasons, and the first one has been my favorite so far. Asylum was OK, but didn't keep my interest as much as Murder House. Although, the season finale of Asylum was a lot better than Murder House.
Coven is a bit disturbing...and from preview for next week's episode, it looks as if zombies are coming to NO.
I am interested to see where the story will be taken, so I will watch a few more episodes.
Another person who remembers American Gothic, definitely a show before its time. It would be great to have a remake of it.
Murder House has been my favorite so far, but I enjoyed Asylum. It just took me a little longer to get interested. The way they are doing the show is a different, but interesting format.
I think I am going to like this season. This show is always disturbing, and parts are always hard to watch. The creators will not consider holding back, no matter the topic (I kind of admire that). It is absolutely hitting hard this season but I like how all are throwing the punches.
Kathy, Jessica and Angela are three amazing actresses, and their interaction is... Jaw dropping. They are doing their job.
CA, Sarah has been in all three seasons (along with Jessica, Evan Peters (the nicer frat boy) and Dennis O'Hare. Her smallest role was in the first, but she has been great in all. Jessica has been mind blowing, every time.
Dennis O'Hare has been in all three? Wow...I totally missed him in the first two.
Is CA the actress who plays Misty Day?
Last night's episode was interesting...I can't wait until Misy meets the other ladies.
Lilly Rabe is the actress who plays Misty Day (and played the young nun in Asylum). CA is Curlyarca ;) Dennis O'Hare was in 2 seasons, not 3. Sorry about that. He was in the first, and will be in Coven. He was the man on fire in season 1, if that makes sense (w/o spoiling for those who have not seen it).
I adore him. He is an incredible actor. They could not have found a better person to play Russell, the Vampire King of Mississippi on True Blood.
I really do appreciate the writers approach to topics. The show is supposed to be horrifying and they have covered several sensitive subjects in American History (and current events), in a unusual way.
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Ha...I was wondering who CA was.
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I hope Frances Conroy is back for more, too. I want to see her with a larger role again. She is another talented soul. They do a great job with casting.
Lard knows I am always willing to see Dillon McDermott and Adam Levine come back again.
Adam Levine? What part did he play and which season?
I don't know what's creepier; American Horror Story: Coven or the fact that so far two of the characters and their stories are semi-real.
Watching all seasons gives you an idea of how tremendous the talent is.
What the heck!!!??????
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I don't know if I can take this. Were the past seasons like this, too? Extremely disturbing.
Jamie Brewer is really good, wow.
Truly horrifying, right? And it's not so much the witches, it's the human underbelly.
Yes, the other seasons were like this. I have a feeling the first will remain my favorite, but so far I am more captivated by this one than the second season. I can't look away.
Jamie Brewer is fantastic! She played Jessica's daughter in the first season. That was a disturbing relationship.
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Do we really think Fiona killed the correct next in line Supreme?
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That was intense.
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It seems that Tom could be a serial killer. In his words, a monster.
I wonder if Kyle found his way to Misty Day.
Can't wait for next week's episode.
I would say Tom was doing the exact same thing the Halloween before. Meeting unsuspecting women in chat rooms, starting a relationship, and murdering them. Yet another horrible reality based theme.
I was reading through a blog a few days ago and shaking my head at how clueless the author was. It was written during Asylum. He was chastising the writers for not pulling from more reality based crimes. While Asylum didn't technically have as many real life account connections as Coven, or Murder House, it has the same themes. Several characters/plots in MH were loosely based on real crimes, or reflections of not so great moments in time. One infamous victim was officially named.
Asylum pretty much so covered some of the more horrific reasons why people were committed, treatment of patients in mental health facilities, and had a plot loosely based on a couple of real murderers.
As we know Coven has at least 2 infamous women in NOLA history, covers Salem to some degree, has what I am sure is a cyber reality based killer, and I you can bet more is to come.
I can't wait until they do their Manson based season...
I can't wait for tonight's episode.
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In the five years prior to the First World War, eight policemen were murdered in London, two of these killings took place in 1909, ending a ten-year period (1898-1908) in which no policemen on duty had been killed. The worst year for the murder of policemen was 1876, when six policemen died.
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More than half of the sixty-eight women hanged for murder in Britain between 1843 and 1956 were poisoners. The murders women commit were mostly domestic ones – of a child, husband or lover, and occur when the murderess can no longer endure the anguish of a relationship or a situation.
The scaffold at England's infamous Newgate Prison was described by hangman, Harry Pierrepoint, as, "the finest scaffold in the whole country, being fitted to hang three persons side by side." The scaffold was moved to Pentonville Prison in 1902 when Newgate was demolished. The first hanging at Pentonville took place on this scaffold on September 30, 1902, an event that was also marked by the discontinuance of the practice of flying a black flag when an execution occurred.
In 1903 the number of people executed for murder in Britain rose to its highest level for over seventy years – twenty-seven people being hanged. This, however, was below the average for the years between 1811 and 1832, when about eighty people were hanged every year.
The trial of the Stratton brothers in London's Old Bailey in May, 1905, was unique in that it was the first time in a British court that fingerprint evidence was used to obtain a conviction for murder.
In 1903 building was commenced on the site of the demolished Newgate Prison in London and was completed three years later. The new edifice, topped by a large bronze figure of Justice, was the imposing Central Criminal Court, which became known by the name of the street in which it stood, the Old Bailey.
In 1908, the hanging of persons under the age of sixteen was abolished. Between 1908 and 1921 inclusive, a period of fourteen years, no woman was hanged in Britain, although fifty-one women were convicted of murder, sentenced to death and then reprieved.
In 1916, Britain's chief executioner, Henry Albert Pierrepoint, retired after ten years in office. The highest number of executions he carried out in one year was in 1909, when he hanged nineteen people. In all, Harry Pierre point executed ninety-nine people, six of his execution being double hangings. The fees, which remained unchanged for many years were – ten guineas ($21) for the chief executioner and two guineas ($4.20) for his assistant.
In 1914, when the First World War began a Police Constable in Britain was earning thirty shillings ($3) per week; in 1918 the basic pay was put up to forty-three shillings ($4.30) and by 1931 it had risen to seventy shillings ($7.00).
By the First World War the first Detective Training School had been started in England, and the Criminal Record Office set up. By then the Metropolitan Police were equipped with a few bicycles and cars.
The first telephone was installed at Scotland Yard in 1901, and the first police telephone box was erected twenty years later (1921).
Although Elizabeth Woolcock was the only woman to be executed for crime in South Australia, the following six women have lived to tell of having received a reprieve from a death sentence in South Australia during the years, 1842 - 1882
1842 Elizabeth Davy, Mary A. Davy, and Sarah Green.
1870 Mary Partington.
1879 Johanna Sullivan.
1882 Elizabeth Magree.
James Yates, who was hanged at the Adelaide Gaol in September 1850 for the murder of an unnamed shepherd, sent the following poorly written, yet touching poem to his lawyer, Mr. G M Stephen in appreciation of his tireless yet unsuccessful efforts in defending him.
If I had always refrained from drink
and paid attenshion to the word of God
I never would have had to have rued the day
Or on the wretched scaffold to have trod
Since i have now come to this untimely end
And in this world i found one onely friend
Who tried his utmost for me to defend
I hope God will reward him in the end
His honner the guge to me he has proved kind
Nearley three weeks he has gave me to make up my mind
For this wicked world to leave behind
And in the next i hope soon my God to find
I was brought up by my tender parents
Who always was to me so kind and free
But little did they ever think
That i should di on the gallows tree
Michael Flanigan a native of Ireland and a member of that country's constabulary migrated to Australia in 1859 where he joined the Victoria Police Force two years later.
Stationed in Victoria's western districts he was persistently charged with drunkenness and breeches of conduct, losing his horse, telling lies, and being found at the racetrack without permission whilst on duty.
When transferred to Hamilton, Flanigan found himself in constant conflict with the Station Sergeant, Thomas Hull who appeared to take great delight in reporting Flanigan for his continual breaches of discipline.
Finally, after being found guilty of drunkenness Flanigan was dismissed and instructed to clean and return his accoutrements
It was part of Sergeant Hull's duty to inspect the equipment and to issue a receipt for the return of it. On carrying out the inspection he harshly reprimanded Flanigan for the dirty condition of his sidearm and told him to clean it again.
As the sergeant turned to leave the room, Flanigan stood and fired a number of shots at the sergeant's back mortally wounding him.
Thirty-six year-old Michael Flanigan, was subsequently found guilty of the murder of Thomas Hull and sentenced to be hanged.
On March 31, 1869, having been granted special permission to do so, Flanigan strode boldly onto the gallows at the Melbourne Gaol and was duly executed, wearing his police uniform.
During Elections in South Australia in the early 1900s Police Inspector John Kelly of Blinman received an urgent message advising that the keys of the polling booth at Sliding Rock had been sent to Blinman by mistake.
Inspector Kelly set off into a blinding dust storm across forty miles (65 Km.) of country he barely knew to deliver the keys. He arrived at the polling booth at 6 a.m. the following day much the worse for wear and opened the booth in time for the voting to commence, but not a single person turned up to vote.
Among items confiscated by Customs Officers at Sydney Airport in 1978 were twenty-six pigeons, four hedgehogs, two tortoises, one snake, sixty clams, 7.35 Kg. of snails, and one bumble-bee.
A police sergeant, on duty at the Dannevirke Court in New Zealand in the 1930s noticed smoke billowing from the pocket of a witness after the man had hurriedly put his pipe there when called to give evidence. The witness was quickly extinguished, and the case was resumed after just a short delay.
In 1978 a motor vehicle driven by Wayne Purkiss of Nambucca Heads in N S W ran off the road, mounted an embankment and brought down power lines after colliding with a pole. He explained to police that he had been distracted by a mouse running up his trouser leg.
While waiting for a tram in Redfern, Sydney, sixty year old Claude McNamara was knocked over by a bullet which struck him in the leg. The bullet, which had been fired into the head of a dying dog by a policeman a hundred and fifty metres away, had passed through the animal and bounced off a pipe before striking its unintended victim.
Ten years prior to the discovery of four female bodies in shallow graves near Truro South Australia, four women had been found in shallow graves in similar circumstances at Truro, Massachusetts U.S.A.
Irishman H. J. O'Farrell attempted to assassinate Prince Alfred by shooting him in the back in Sydney in 1868. It was later learned that O'Farrell's brother had made two unsuccessful attempts on the life of Catholic Archbishop Gould.
The owner of a Wild West Show touring Queensland in the early 1900s placed a rubber ring over the tail of a black snake, tied one end of a piece if string to the ring and attached the other end to his cash box. He was never robbed.
Because the buildings were in such a state of disrepair, Judges in Sydney's old law courts in the 1940s often found it necessary to sit with blankets wrapped around their legs during the cold weather. Orderlies were required to stand by Barristers' tables with mops to mop up puddles formed by the dripping water caused by the rain.
Just forty-five minutes before the ship Neo Hebridais was due to leave Sydney for Noumea in the late 1940s, custom officers found two ounces (56 grams) of liquid opium behind some panelling. They conducted an investigation, arrested a man, and took him to court where he was fined a total of £25 ($50) they then returned him to the ship. All before the scheduled departure time.
In 1803, Henry Hacking was found guilty of shooting and wounding a woman and was sentenced to death. He received a reprieve, but within a year was once again sentenced to death for theft. But fate stepped in and he was again reprieved and banished to Van Diemen's Land. Here he later took to heavy drinking and died of alcohol related liver damage at the age of eighty-three.
Scotsman, Frank McCullum was transported to Australia in 1850, to serve a seven-year sentence for snatching a potato from a pushcart.
Smithfield, a small town near Cairns in Queensland, gained the reputation of being Australia's most evil town after its founder, John Smith, killed a business associate in 1878 then committed suicide. This was believed to be the first of fifty murders and suicides to be recorded in the town in just one year. When the town was ultimately destroyed by flood-waters, it was unanimously agreed that it should not be rebuilt.
A policeman asked to investigate a theft in the community of Iron Range on the remote Cape York Peninsula found that it was the temporarily closed police station that had been taken. The building had been sawn from its stumps and carted away. When the investigating officer made it known around the town that he was not in the least amused by the theft, one of the thieves brought back a police badge and left it on one of the stumps.
In 1933 many hundreds of bicycles were stolen in Australia, many by well organised gangs like that of Bruce and Cedric Beatie and Eric Westbrook. They appeared in Burwood Court, in New South Wales, in 1933 charged with stealing no less than 132 bicycles. They were, of course, summarily dealt with.
By 1928, thieves in New South Wales had already realised the profitability of stealing motor vehicles. In that year almost 1700 vehicles, including 224 motorbikes, were stolen, an average of five thefts per day. The police recovery rate however was extremely good, with all but two or three of the stolen units being returned to their owners.
Prisoner Peter Degraves earned time off his sentence in Hobart in the mid 1800s by designing a new gaol for the government.
There were a total of 52,776 motor vehicles stolen in New South Wales in 1982-83 – an average of 144 every day. Of these 44,794 were recovered, a success rate of 85 per cent. Unfortunately arrests were made in just 10 per cent of the cases.
A Chinaman named Sam Poo became one of the most elusive bushrangers in New South Wales. For several weeks in 1865 he preyed on travellers along the Gulgong-Mudgee road and on one occasion he bailed up no less than ten of his fellow country-men relieving them of the gold dust hidden under their pigtails.
Unfortunately, Poo did not stick to gold thefts, but raped a settler's wife and murdered a police trooper and soon found himself pursued by a very determined posse. After days of running, in which he proved himself to be a very able bushman, Poo was finally tracked down and wounded in the leg. Nine months later, when Poo had recovered, he was tried and executed at Bathurst.
His stolen gold has supposedly, never been recovered, and still inspires the occasional treasure hunt.
A Queensland police blacktracker was once foiled by torrential rain while following the tracks of a murderer. But two weeks later he discovered the murderer's tracks in a street in Cooktown and followed them to the local pub where the wanted man stood at the bar. The police were called and the man was arrested and brought before the court.
On October 22, 1843 Lucretia Dunkley, the first woman hanged at Berrima prison, N.S.W. died for murdering her husband, Henry. Her lover, Martin Beach, was hanged for the same crime.
Sydney demonstrators stormed St. James Police Watchhouse in 1848 and released its prisoners.
Prior to being executed in 1846, William John Westwood, better known as 'Jackey-Jackey – the gentleman bushranger', wrote a letter to a prison chaplain who had shown him kindness during his time at the penal settlement at Norfolk Island, it concluded with these words: -
"My grave will be a haven. Flogged, goaded and tantalized, I have been reduced to a lunatic and savage. Out of my bitter cup of sorrow the sweetest draught is that which takes away the misery of a living death."
In 1837 wheelbarrows were issued to various watchhouses around Sydney where they were to be used by the police. Their purpose was to convey drunken persons to the lockups. The Sydney Gazette of 1838, writes.
"On Tuesday afternoon a constable in a state of intoxication was observed wheeling a man in a barrow to the watchhouse who was also drunk. Instead of taking the man to the nearest watchhouse, the intoxicated policeman wheeled him over half of Sydney, every now and then capsizing him into the road, to the mirth of the citizens and the gratification of his own drunken propensities."
After a series of bushranging activities in 1871, John Baker returned to South Australia where he asked a local barber to dye his distinctive red hair. The barber refused and Baker was subsequently recognised and arrested. Before being extradited to New South Wales where he was later hanged, Baker swore he would kill the barber.
It has been said that the early London "Bobbies" wore top hats lined with steel – not to protect their heads in case of attack, but so that they could stand on them when looking over a wall or through a window above eye level.
One of America's most famous unsolved crimes is that involving Lizzie Borden, who, in 1892 at the age of 32 was charged with the axe murder of her father and her stepmother. Though she was later acquitted of the crime many people thereafter insisted that the jury had erred, and that she was in fact guilty of the brutal crime. The following rhyme was often recited within her hearing:-
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
A similar case arose in South Australia in 1902 when 21-year-old Mary Schippan was charged with the stabbing death of her 13-year-old sister at the family home at Towitta. Mary had excellent Court representation and was acquitted of the crime but faced a lifetime of being taunted and accused of having committed the crime.
As with the Borden case the crime was never officially solved.
As Abraham Lincoln sat in Ford's Theatre in Washington on the night of April 14, 1865, a 26-year-old actor named John Wilkes Booth walked into Lincoln's box and shot him behind the left ear with a single barrel Derringer pistol. Then, shouting "Sic semper tyrannis" ("Ever thus to tyrants") he leapt to the stage. In doing so his spur caught in the curtain and he fell, fracturing his left shinbone. The injury slowed his escape, and twelve days later, he and fellow conspirator, David Herold, were surrounded by Union soldiers in a barn in Virginia. When Booth refused to surrender, the barn was set on fire. Shortly afterwards a shot rang out, and Booth fell dead – whether he shot himself, or was shot by one of the soldiers, was never discovered with any degree of certainty.
Hungarian murderer, Sylvester Matushka, gained erotic excitement by blowing up trains. In 1932 he was gaoled for life for causing two train wrecks in which twenty-two people were killed and over one hundred injured, he was released during Word War Two. During the Korean War he worked for the Americans as an explosives expert.
In 1885, John Lee, of Babbacombe, Devon, England, was sentenced to hang for murder. On February 22, of that year he was taken to the scaffold, but when the hangman pulled the lever, the trapdoor, which had been repeatedly tested, refused to open. Three times the exercise was repeated with the same result, though testing between each attempt proved the lever to be operating perfectly. After the third attempt, Lee, who became known as "the man they couldn't hang", had his sentence commuted to one of twenty-two years imprisonment. He was released from prison in 1907. He insisted to the day he died that he had dreamt the night before his execution was to take place that the trapdoor would not work.
By a strange quirk of coincidence Joseph Samuels who had been sentenced to death in Sydney in 1803 for the murder of a constable, was also saved from death when the rope failed to support him on the three attempts that were made to hang him. Later testing of the rope, proved that each of the three strands of the rope, when tested individually, was more than capable of supporting a weight three times greater than that of Samuels' body.
Those who have studied the two very bizarre cases in depth have said that the one major difference between the two was that while Samuels may well have been innocent of the crime for which he was convicted, Lee was almost certainly guilty.
A robbery at an Amsterdam business failed when the masked gunman could not make his request for cash understood. The only staff member present at the time could not speak Dutch.
Surprised while burgling a house in Antwerp, Belgium, a thief fled out the back door, clambered over a nine-foot wall, dropped down and found himself in the city prison.
As a result of a daring robbery in Hong Kong in December 1996, six men got away with 6 containers of frozen chicken wings valued at $323,400.
Would-be thieves broke into a Coca-Cola plant in Ontario, Canada, and went to work on the company safe with an arc welder. They fled empty handed when they realised that instead of cutting open the safe they had actually welded it shut.
A twenty-six year-old, man walked into a Bank in Montreal, Canada armed with a gun, and stole $2,600 (CAN). He was arrested a short time later when he returned to the very same branch and attempted to deposit $2,000 cash into his personal account.
French customs officials seized more than 5,000 counterfeit baseball caps at a Paris airport, because of their knowledge of U.S.A. sports. The officers noticed that the caps featuring the names of American basketball and hockey teams, bore the initials N.F.L. (National Football League) across the top.
Police in the U. S. A. became suspicious when they saw a man arrive at the Virginia Beach court-house to attend his preliminary grand theft auto hearing in a brand new Volvo. A quick check revealed that the car had been stolen from a dealership the night before, and that the number plates on the car belonged to a Mercedes Benz.
'Twas Christmas, December 1996 ...
· Police in Baltimore, USA, came across a very seasonal thief, 33 year old Dwayne Terry was found stuck inside a convenience store chimney. He told police he was hungry and decided to enter the store through the chimney.
· Meanwhile in Miami, thieves hiding in the air conditioning system of a Toys 'R' Us store waiting for closing time were talking so loudly that they attracted the attention of several employees.
· A purse snatcher in Wisconsin must have had an attack of the Christmas guilts. After having her purse containing $1,800 stolen, the snatchers elderly victim was no doubt surprised when Federal Express returned $1,000 of the money and other contents of her purse. The budget-conscious thief has not been located.
· Annoyed after several hours of her husband's constant singing of the carol "Silent Night", a 55-year-old Netherlands woman stabbed the man in the chest.
Detective Tom Pellechio of the Miami Police, arrested Wesley Steny, 16, and Jeanis Caty, 18, after they (allegedly) attempted to hold up a local grocery store. During the robbery, each youth had produced a gun, ordered the clerks to the floor, and demanded that the register be opened.
Witnesses say that as Caty leaned over the counter to reach the till, he accidentally discharged his gun, striking Steny in the thigh. The second youth - surprised, and no doubt in some pain - panicked and fired his own gun, hitting Caty in the hands and leg.
The pair - and a third, uninjured youth - grabbed $200 from the register and limped out of the store, leaving a clear trail of blood behind them. They were eventually picked up at the local hospital, though the third youth, the cash and the guns, have not yet been located.
A Swedish man was arrested when he threatened to kill his neighbour with his pet poisonous snake, a King Cobra.
Police said he was the first person in Sweden to be arrested for using a snake as a weapon. The cobra was taken to a nearby zoo.
Here are some of the things spotted by California Highway Patrol Officers on Los Angeles freeways:
- A driver of a small Volkswagen bug had packed more than 900 phone books in his car. The man, who gets paid according to the number of phone books delivered, had removed all the seats from his car and was sitting on phone books. When asked how he intended to drive the vehicle once he delivered all the phone books, he answered: "I hadn't thought of that."
- A man explained to a CHP officer that his seat belt was unfastened because he wanted to smell his feet.
- Another man was trying to pass a note to a young woman driving in the next lane. They were both cited for unsafe driving.
- ...eating a can of chili with both hands.
- ...eating a baked potato at 55 mph.
- ...cutting children's hair.
- ...brushing teeth and rinsing with a cup of water.
- ...grooming a pet.
- ...typing on a laptop computer.
- ...removing pantyhose.
- ...reading a book.
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Rape and other forms of extreme sexual violence in Syria is a major reason for increasing numbers of people to flee their homeland, the International Rescue Commission has said.
"Many women and girls relayed accounts of being attacked in public or in their homes, primarily by armed men," according to the 28-page report from the New York-based refugee assistance agency. "Sexual violence was consistently identified by Syrian women, men and community leaders as a primary reason their families fled the country."
Cases described in the report included attacks by armed rapists, especially at the roadblocks that have proliferated across Syria. The IRC was told of a nine-year-old girl who had been brutally raped, of a man whose genitalia were destroyed by attackers and of a father "who shot his daughter when an armed group approached to prevent the 'disgrace' of her being raped."
More than 600,000 Syrians have fled the country to seek refuge in countries including Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey since the conflict began in March 2011, the United Nations estimates. Another 200,000 are awaiting registration or are unaccounted for, and about 4 million Syrians are in dire need of assistance, the IRC said.
The last four months of 2012 saw a "dramatic spike" in Syrian refugee numbers which would strain the already limited resources in host countries and threaten to increase political, ethnic and sectarian tensions throughout the region, it said.
"The Middle East is once again facing a human displacement tragedy," the IRC said. "The magnitude of the crisis demands a decisive response from the international community."
The group proposed a six-point plan to address the crisis that includes increasing humanitarian aid and preparations for a protracted humanitarian emergency.
In addition, the IRC recommends opening borders, expanding assistance inside Syria and offering additional assistance to women and girls in and outside refugee camps.
Victims of sexual violence need medical and counseling services in the countries to which they have fled to help them recover, the IRC said. They also need help in face of unsafe conditions in camps and increased levels of domestic violence.
The stigma around the "dishonor" of rape means the crime is rarely reported, the IRC said. Many of those interviewed said they feared retribution or were afraid of being killed by family members for bringing shame to the family if they spoke out, it added. As a result, reports of early and or forced marriage of women and girls are increasing, it said.
IRC was founded in 1933 after Albert Einstein called for an American branch of the European International Relief Association. It works in more than 40 countries, according to its website.
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Archive for February 11, 2010
Iowa Air Quality: Hazy Shade of Grassley
Air Quality in Iowa: A Hazy Shade of Grassley
Our friend Phyllis Weeks who runs the website for the Marion County Democrats sent this to us. We are reposting it in its entirety here, but she is doing such a great job organizing progressives down in Knoxville, we highly recommend checking out their site. Click here
February 9, 2010 –
HAZY SHADE OF GRASSLEY – by Dr. Catherine Haustein (Dr. Haustein received her degree in chemistry from the University of Iowa.)
Issued by The National Weather Service, Des Moines, IA, 1:23 p.m. CST, Fri., February 5, 2010: AIR QUALITY ADVISORY FOR ALL OF CENTRAL IOWA THROUGH NOON ON SATURDAY. THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES HAS EXPANDED AN AIR QUALITY ADVISORY INTO ALL OF CENTRAL IOWA. FINE PARTICULATE LEVELS NEAR EPA HEALTH STANDARDS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA UNTIL NOON ON SATURDAY. THE DEPARTMENT OF NATUAL RESOURCES RECOMMENDS THAT INDIVIDUALS WITH RESPIRATORY OR HEART DISEASE…THE ELDERLY AND CHILDREN LIMIT PROLONGED EXERTION UNTIL AIR QUALITY CONDITIONS IMPROVE.
There is nothing more annoying than someone who is willfully ignorant, and last week I went to bed mightily annoyed. It began with a random Robocall from Chuck Grassley inviting me to participate in a telephone town hall meeting. In his words, a democracy is a two-way street. I was delighted to be invited. In the end I was never allowed to ask a question, and it was a forum for Obama bashing and tidbits of information taken out of context. The two-way street was in fact a one-way highway of partisanship.
Maybe it was my phone connection, but Grassley seemed to be slurring his words. It sounded like he had a mouth full of marbles. He went off the deep end and got quite dramatic when he talked about dust and particulates. Grassley launched into outrage because the EPA is concerned about particulates; and in his words, "Whoever heard about them anyway?" Now granted, only 5% of Congress has a degree in science or engineering, but you don't have to be a scientist to have heard tales of the Dust Bowl. And anybody who knows anybody with respiratory problems knows that dust and particulates will harm you.
Many studies have connected sickness and hospitalization for respiratory problems with air pollution. Particulates are a pervasive form of air pollution here in Iowa. The most hazardous of particles are the very fine ones known as PM2.5. These tiny particles can clog your lungs and accumulate. You can never cough them out. Once your lungs are coated with them, you either need a lung transplant, or you will die. They come from combustion. Cars, power plants, fires, and cigarettes all contribute to these damaging particles. Chemical reactions such as those associated with farming and industry are other contributors. Course particles known as PM10 will cause respiratory illness. They come from such things as grinding and crushing rocks along with dust from unpaved roads. Course particles can aggravate existing conditions, cause shortness of breath that could result in a hospital visit, create susceptibility to respiratory infections like pneumonia and bronchitis, and cause excess strain on heart muscles.
The EPA has the nerve (in Grassley's opinion) to suggest that farm workers need some protection. Grassley even said that shaming the EPA was one of his goals. Why?
Particulates harm more than humans. Particulates can make bodies of water more acidic, kill aquatic life, reduce visibility, and damage crops. When there is haze in the air, there are particulates. Haze is most often found in the winter when the air is dry. If there is no wind, the particulates accumulate and the hazy shade of winter results.
Although particulates and what to do about them is a complex problem, we can look to other parts of the world for what happens when governments deny that any problem exists. Haze is a severe problem in Indonesia and Asia, especially in periods before the rainy season. In parts of Sumatra, motorists have had to run their headlights during the day to cut through the haze. In that country, the haze is often associated with run away slash and burn agriculture.
The most puzzling thing about this issue and Grassley's reaction to it is that particulates have been somewhat regulated since 1997. Grassley was in office then, and so he should really know something about particulates. Yet in his phone town hall forum he acted as if the idea of regulating particulates was a new and bizarre concept and way beyond his intellectual capabilities. He is doing those who voted for him a disservice and is being disrespectful too. Science issues are nuanced and require careful study and thoughtfulness from our elected officials. Iowans are intelligent and thoughtful people, not dumb hicks who don't know nothin' and don't care to learn. He should not represent us in such a know-nothing manner.
We might ask ourselves, why is an educated man acting in such an irresponsible way? Might it be due to ties with the Cato Institute, which receives funding from some dirty places–the tobacco and oil industries? If Grassley can't engage in an honest and mature discussion of complex issues that affect our health, he needs to be given a time out. He is beginning to show his true colors, and his style is not one of response to his people, but of strong-arming public discussion. Let's hope that as the election grows near, Iowans get a good look at his top-down style and reject it.
Hang on to your hopes, my friends.
* Further reading:
* ScienceDaily.com
* Dirt on windows contributes to pollution
* How cigarette smoke kills
* Particulate pollution
* Particulates
* Haze over China
* Sumatra
* More about Cato
* Cato
(1) If you would like to help retire Chuck Grassley, check out the three Democratic challengers, Roxanne Conlin, Bob Krause,and Tom Fiegen. See the top left sidebar for links to their webpages.
(2) If you live in Marion county, you can help push the progressive agenda and help elect local Democrats by attending the next Central Committee Meeting to be held on Wed., Feb., 24, Swamp Fox Restaurant, Knoxville, 6:30 p.m. (Dinner gathering – 5:30). Or find the Marion County Dems on Facebook.
Steve King Challenger Mike Denklau: "I'm A Fiscally Conservative Progressive Democrat"
Steve King Challenger Mike Denklau: "I'm A Fiscally Conservative Progressive Democrat"
Guy Gerhard, progressive activist from Council Bluffs, conducted an in-depth interview for Blog for Iowa with Mike Denklau, candidate for U.S. Representative for Iowa's 5th District. This is the first of three parts.
BFIA: We're here today with Mike Denklau, who is running for the 5th District Congressional seat in Iowa currently held by Steve King. Let's get started: I suppose you get asked this question a lot: What made you decide to run for Congress at this time?
Denklau: It was a combination of things. I had worked in the financial industry for a few years and had been at Lehman Brothers which, as you probably saw on the news, collapsed last year. So, going through that bankruptcy process really makes you take stock of your life and what you're trying to accomplish. And it hit me, I had been very fortunate in my life, growing up in Iowa, having a great opportunity to go to the University of Iowa and getting an outstanding education for a great value and then to be able to get a banking job. So I thought [that] this was a prime opportunity for me to help make a difference and do something for my home state.
That's what led me to think about moving back home and getting involved in this. And in that process, I came across our Congressman Steve King in some editorials, and it struck me as really odd, some of the actions he was taking. As I researched further, I noticed that there is a lot that needs to be done out here. There's a lot in this district that has been ignored, and people that are suffering from a lack of health care coverage, or quality jobs―a whole list of things that need to be addressed.
So, I decided to try to change that, to return a voice to the people out here and to address some other problems that haven't been addressed as well, such as the regulatory system around the financial markets and the fact that we still have the same problems we had before all this mess started except, perhaps, worse because we have bigger banks and fewer of them. I think these are things that Congress has ignored and it's time for us to take action and not just have these partisan fights.
BFIA: As you know, Blog for Iowa is a progressive blog. Where do you see yourself on that political spectrum?
Denklau: I'm a fiscally conservative, progressive Democrat. Having been a banker….
BFIA: Sounds like an oxymoron.
Denklau: [Laughs] Well, but I think it's not, actually. If you look back to the '90s, we had a government that was paying down the debt, improving the credit markets, helping our businesses – but, at the same time, was trying to do some of the more progressive actions. We tried to change health care in '93 and, unfortunately, it's taken us well over a decade to get back there. But I think those things can fit very nicely together and could do a lot of good for this district.
BFIA: Steve King has refused to debate every opponent he has ever faced. His campaign strategy has always been, about two weeks before the election, he will place a bunch of ads that are full of distortions and out-and-out lies. Because there have not been any debates and there is very little time to counter it, our side always comes up short. How are you going to fight that?
Denklau: I think the distortions are something we see continuously from his side. We see all these false numbers around the health care debate and immigration issues, so this is not a total surprise. I think our job, throughout the next year, is to show what we stand for and what we're going to do and make sure that people are aware of what's actually being done for them in Congress which, unfortunately, to this point has been very little, if you look at Congressman King's voting record, there is not much of substance. You can look specifically at things such as completing Highway 20 and the fact that there has been a mile or two paved based on his efforts in six years.
BFIA: That was his big issue [in 2008]. In fact, he claimed that he secured the funding for that. The bill that he put forth as the source for the funding―I did some research on it and it wasn't in there. Even if the funding had been in the bill, he voted against it.
Denklau: Right. Actually, a large portion of what has been done up there were state funds, which he does not influence.
BFIA: One of the things on your web site that really jumped out at me was where you talk about "Bipartisan Solutions in Congress." Republicans have shown, time and time again, that they are not interested in bipartisan solutions. To them, bipartisanship means doing things their way. Why is this an ideal that we need to pursue? We won big last year. Isn't it time to do things our way?
Denklau: I think there are good ideas on both sides. The unfortunate matter is that, perhaps, some on the other side of the aisle don't understand the concept of compromise and getting things done. It seems there are a great number of Republican amendments that have made it into the various health care bills. I don't think the minority party should ever expect to get everything they want and it's probably not good for the majority to get everything they want. But that middle ground often leads to some good compromises and good policy. That's one of the things I'm hoping to change. By getting rid of one of the most partisan Congressmen we have, we can start working toward serious compromise and serious progress on these issues.
BFIA: One of the issues you brought up right away was health care reform. On your web site, you mention refusing health care until we get meaningful health care reform. What do you see as "meaningful health care reform?"
Denklau: First, on my statement, I'm very committed to making sure that I'm connected to the people of this district. I think that's one of the issues we see, is that there is a very large disconnect from our office-holders and the people they're supposed to represent. I feel that, if you align those interests, you'll have much better results on the policy side. As far as health care specifically, I think it's an imperative economically that we have comprehensive reform that starts to bring down costs and covers those who are not covered. Clearly, the system is broken when you look at western Iowa and you see that we have 83,000 people uninsured. That's 15 per cent of the population out here….
BFIA: I was going to ask if you knew that figure. Steve King did not.
Denklau: Right. So you look at that and then you look at the number of bankruptcies out here, and it's something over 700 now, just in this district. If you think about that, there's serious potential down the road for financial threats to the stability of our own federal government, given all the entitlement programs and the liabilities we have down the road. We need to start focusing on these costs. That's where I think, hopefully, this current bill, when it is finalized, will address that.
But I think it's very important that we have more competition. If you look at states now, oftentimes, there is one, two, maybe a handful at best, of insurance companies that control those markets. That's not quality competition. That's not giving people an opportunity to really get the best that they can out of their health care dollars. So, we need to increase that competition. We need to give people access to pooling so that they can take advantage of economies of scale.
We also need to change the focus here to more of a wellness and prevention system. It's too often that we are just focused on the critical care aspect, but not preventing those illnesses from happening in the first place. There's massive amounts of savings that we could attain there.
Then, of course, the other things like promoting the technologies and management improvements that will cut costs in the system going into the future. So I think the final solution could come in a variety of forms. I think that whatever passes, hopefully in the next few weeks or the next few months in Congress, it's going to evolve. Unfortunately, I doubt that we'll get this perfect on the first try, but we shouldn't let the perfect get in the way of the good. It is time to do something and we've been waiting since 1993 to take a step here.
To me, it's very important that we increase competition, hopefully through a national exchange. I would also be very interested to see movement, or at least a discussion towards a regulated private insurance system that would keep the liabilities off the federal government books, would make sure that we wouldn't have to cut spending for Medicare and senior health care coverage, but at the same time, reduce costs and provide quality care for our people.
BFIA: What about the Public Option or Medicare for All? Does that play a part in this?
Denklau: I definitely think it could be a vital part of providing alternatives. My preferred method is a regulated private system. If you look at government debt…. it concerns me greatly to be putting more liabilities on the books. But if you look at a system like the Netherlands or Switzerland has, with a regulated private insurance system, they set a very affordable rate that all the companies can charge. They can't go above that. There are protections, so you can't deny people based on age or pre-existing conditions, so everyone is covered. Since those insurance companies are not allowed to compete on price, they now have to compete on quality of care and services that they provide. Since there's a cap on how much they can charge, they're incentivized to reduce costs.
Therefore, everyone now has a responsibility, instead of just passing those costs along to the person who's paying for the insurance, now the insurance company actually has an incentive to work with the health care providers to make sure the best practices are implemented, that generic drugs are being used whenever possible….. So those sorts of things work very well. If you look at those systems, people are very happy with them. They get equal or better results and they cost half as much as our system does.
BFIA: United Health Care's CEO received over one billion dollars in compensation last year. Do we need to cap that? Not just for him, but for other executives?
Denklau: There's a very broad debate about executive compensation. I was a banker for a few years, so I saw some of those mega-salaries. Unfortunately, not coming to me personally. But I did see some of them going out. This is a very difficult issue because, I think, if you look at historically the way pay has gone, there is clearly a large distortion going towards the top compared to where it was two or three decades ago.
However, I don't believe that the government should be in the business of micro-managing companies. That should be the responsibility of the shareholders and the boards of directors of those companies. I would leave that to them to decide what's best for those businesses. In particular, the businesses that you and I are now investors in: the AIGs, the General Motors, the Chryslers of the world, we do need to be very careful that we retain the talent that makes those companies valuable, particularly the financial institutions. Because without that talent, there's very little value in those companies. And I would personally like to see us get our money back, so I think that's a good investment.
BFIA: I think we'd all like to get our money back.
Denklau: [Laughs]
Check back next Thursday for Part II
Guy E. Gerhard is a life-long liberal who has been involved in many progressive causes and campaigns including civil rights, voting rights, reproductive rights and a woman's right to choose, nuclear disarmament (he was arrested with 200 of his closest friends at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site in Mercury back in the '80s), workers' rights and union organization and civil rights for gays, lesbians and same-sex couples. He currently is focused on getting Steve King, the embarrassment of Iowa, out of office. He occasionally blogs under the pen-name Iowa Guy at swiowaguy.blogspot.com and can be contacted through Facebook. He lives in Council Bluffs with his spouse of 16-plus years, two cats and three rather unpleasant little dogs.


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du's family of employees spreads the spirit of Ramadan with Iftar donations
du's family of employees spreads the spirit of Ramadan with Iftar donations
Employee contributions will enable du to offer 55 thousand Iftar meals during Ramadan – up from 45 thousands – and help the needy enjoy the season
As part of efforts to bring comfort to those less fortunate during Ramadan, du is providing Mawaed Al Rahman – special Iftar tents – in three convenient locations close to Mosques: near Masjid Sh Hazza Bin Zayed on Hamdan Street in Abu Dhabi; near Masjid Bin Salmeen in Dubai's Al Qusais 2 neighbourhood; and near Masjid Al Quds in Sharjah's Al Fasht area. Each air-conditioned tent will be open every evening throughout the Holy Month, offering people a welcoming place to break their fast and enjoy the festiveness of the season. Thanks to generous donations from du employees, each of the three tent capacities has been increased from 500 to 600 daily meals.
"Through a special internal campaign, we invited our employees to embrace the spirit of generosity that makes this time of year so special – and they responded with true compassion. The donations collected from our family of employees will allow us to serve an additional 300 free Iftar meals per day for the duration of Ramadan," said Hala Badri, EVP Brand and Communications, du. "du's corporate social responsibility initiatives are supported by our entire organization, and we are proud to serve the communities that have contributed to our success as a home-grown UAE company."
For the second consecutive year, du's Mawaed Al Rahman will be situated in highly-visible locations in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah that are all close to mosques, making them convenient for Muslims performing the Maghrib prayer around Iftar time. Each tent can provide meals to 600 people every evening – 375 at tables and 225 at takeaway counters – and all food is prepared in a manner that is fully compliant with health and safety standards.
However, food is not all that is on offer at du's Mawaed Al Rahman: these welcoming tents encourage a spirit of togetherness and provide a joyful atmosphere for people who may be living alone in the UAE, far from their families. With comfortable seating, air-conditioning and the fellowship of shared tables, those enjoying Iftar in the Mawaed Al Rahman will have a truly memorable Ramadan experience.
du's array of Ramadan initiatives and special offers include an 'SMS to Donate' campaign to facilitate charitable donations to various causes (text 'Ramadan' to short-code 8000 for a list of causes and corresponding short-codes); 1 fils credit for every second of international calls made between 21:00 and 07:00 during Ramadan; and a 'double your talk-time' offer for Pay as you Go customers. For further information, visit www.du.ae.
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