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Masaryk Stationby David Downing
Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties—a paradise for spies. As spring unfolds, a Western withdrawal looks increasingly likely. Berlin's German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviet forces who occupy half the city, and whose legacy of violence has ripped apart many families.
John Russell works for both Stalin's NKVD and the newly created CIA, trying his best to cut himself loose from both before his double-agency is discovered by either. As tensions between the great powers escalate, each passing day makes Russell's position more treacherous. He and his Soviet liaison, Shchepkin, seek out one final operation—one piece of intelligence so damning it could silence the wrath of one nation and solicit the protection of the other. It will be the most dangerous task Russell has ever taken on, but one way or the other, it will be his last.
Editorial Reviews
"Epic in scope, Mr. Downing's "Station" cycle creates a fictional universe rich with a historian's expertise but rendered with literary style and heart."
—The Wall Street Journal
"Downing adroitly elucidates the morass that was post-World War II geopolitics without dumbing it down... One can only marvel at his talent for infusing such a rangy cast of characters with nuance and soul."
—The New York Times Book Review
"This is a brilliant finale to one of spydom's best series. If you haven't read all the others, get them first and enjoy the whole feast."
—The Globe and Mail
"Downing is one of a trio of exceptional writers (Philip Kerr and Alan Furst being the other two) who have managed to re-create a time and place when much of the world seemed to have gone temporarily mad."
—The Denver Post
"Downing's outstanding evocation of the times (as masterly as that found in Alan Furst's novels or Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series), thematic complexity (as rich as that of John le Carré), and the wide assortment of fully rendered characters provide as much or more pleasure than the plot, where disparate threads are tied together in satisfying and unexpected ways."
—Library Journal, STARRED Review
"Downing returns with another taut tale of espionage as World War II shades deeper into the Cold War and good guys get harder to tell from bad.... Downing writes with a sure grasp of the way bad situations become worse; he's a master of heightened tension and the sweat-bedewed upper lip... The local color and cigarette smoke are thick, and so is the plot, with fine MacGuffins, a truly red herring or two, and even a man in the boot to keep things interesting."
—Kirkus Reviews
"If your reaction is anything like mine, you'll want to continue through the entire series."
—Books & Culture
"The Station books are without a doubt some of the finest espionage novels these days, easily inviting comparisons to the legends of the genre like John le Carre, Frederick Forsyth and Tom Clancy… You won't want to read anything else until you have devoured the entire series."
—BookPage (Top Pick in Mystery)
"David Downing has created a complicated plot with many twists and turns while the hero seems caught in a maze."
—Historical Novel Society
"This is a thrilling and suspenseful espionage series, one of the best being written today. One cares about Russell and his family and even the somewhat oily Shchepkin as they attempt to unravel themselves from the brutal and unfeeling intelligence services. It's an extremely dangerous time and the likelihood for failure is high. If you like spy novels, you need to read all of the John Russell series."
"I loved Masaryk Station. The plot in interesting, but the real point is the insight into the times. It provided insights and aroused emotions in me concerning my own experiences during the Cold War and helped build some perspective over the world events that I, in my youth, only knew asfact."
—Gumshoe Review
"A wonderfully written mixture of history, espionage, and suspense. Downing perfectly captures post-war Berlin.... Intelligently written, provocatively told, and thoroughly convincing in every aspect, [John] Russell is a man who will not soon be forgotten by the readers of these books."
—Deadly Pleasures
"The book is a wonderful introduction to the Berlin Blockade, told through an exciting story with likeable characters."
Praise for David Downing
"Full of striking inventions."
─Kingsley Amis, author of Lucky Jim
"A beautifully crafted and compelling thriller with a heart-stopping ending as John Russell learns the personal faces of good and evil. An unforgettable read."
─Charles Todd, author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge Series
"One of the most intelligent and persuasive realizations of Germany immediately before the war."
─Wall Street Journal
"In the elite company of literary spy masters Alan Furst and Philip Kerr ... [Downing is] brilliant at evoking even the smallest details of wartime Berlin on its last legs."
─Washington Post
"Downing distinguishes himself by eschewing the easy ways out. He doesn't shy away from portraying the cold brutality of the Third Reich, and his characters are far from stereotypes—they're flawed, confused and real."
Product Details
- 9781616952228
- Publisher:
- Soho Press, Incorporated
- Publication date:
- 06/18/2013
- Series:
- A John Russell WWII Spy Thriller , #6
- Sold by:
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- Pages:
- 330
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February 11, 1948
They were on their way to bed when the two Russians arrived, but the lateness of the hour was apparently irrelevant—she and her sister were to come at once. She asked if they knew who she was, but of course they did. Refusal was not an option.
Their destination was also secret. "Very nice house," the one with some German told them, as if that might make all the difference. He even helped her into the fur coat. Nina looked terribly scared, but the best she could do was squeeze her sister's hand as they sat in the back of the gleaming Audi.
Soon the car was purring its way eastward along a dimly-lit and mostly empty Frankfurter Allee. The men in the front exchanged an occasional line in Russian, but were mostly silent.
Like thousands of others she'd been raped in '45, but only on the one occasion. The three soldiers had been too excited by her house and possessions to do more than satisfy their immediate lust.
And now it was going to happen again. In a "very nice house."
She could feel her sister quivering beside her. Nina had only been twelve in '45, tall for her age, but still with the chest and hips of a child, and the soldiers had left her alone. She had blossomed since, but was still a virgin. This was going to be so much harder for her.
They were leaving the city behind, driving through snow-covered fields. Three years after the war, the road signs caught in the headlamp beams bore Cyrillic script, and she had only the vaguest idea where they were. Not that it mattered.
They turned off the road up a tree-lined drive, and swung to a halt before a large three-storey house. There were soldiers on guard either side of the door, and another inside who gave them both a curious look. There was only one man in civilian clothes and he had a classic Russian face. This was an enemy camp, she thought. There wouldn't be anyone there to whom they could appeal.
They were hustled upstairs and down a richly-carpeted corridor to a door at its end. One of their escorts tapped it lightly with his knuckles, then responded to words from within by pushing it open and ushering them inside.
It was a large room, with several arm chairs and a large four poster bed. A fire was burning in the grate, and several electric lamps were glowing behind their shades, but the light was far from bright. She had never been in a brothel, but she imagined the better ones looked like this.
And then she saw who it was, and her heart and stomach seemed to plummet.
He was wearing a dressing-gown, and probably nothing else. The smile on his face was only for himself.
After calmly locking the door, he walked to a table holding several bottles, poured himself a tumbler-full of clear liquid, and gulped half of it down. As he turned back to them the fire briefly glinted in his spectacles.
"Zieh dich aus," he said. Take off your clothes.
"No," Nina almost whispered.
"We must do as he says," she told her sister.
Nina stared back at her. There was fear in her eyes, and pleading, and sheer disbelief.
"Take me," she begged him. "She's only a girl, take me."
If he understood her—and she thought he did—all it did was increase his impatience.
They slowly stripped to their underwear, pausing there without much hope.
He gestured for them to continue, then stared at their naked bodies. She watched his growing erection strain at the dressing gown, then finally break free. Nina's gasp made him smile. He took two steps forward, grabbed her wrist, and tugged her towards the bed.
Nina jerked herself free and ran for the door, which rattled loudly but resisted her attempt to pull it off its hinges. As he crossed the room in pursuit, she tried to block his way, but he grabbed her by the arm and casually threw her aside.
Nina grabbed a convenient ashtray, and hurled it in his direction. She didn't see where it struck him, but the grunt of pain as he doubled over left little room for doubt..
For a few brief seconds the world stood still.
Then he gingerly walked to his desk, and took a gun from the drawer.
"No," she screamed, scrambling towards him.
He lashed out with the barrel, catching her across the cheek and putting her back on the carpet.
Nina had sunk to her knees, and now he stood before her, his penis dangling in front of her face. He lifted her hair with the gun, and slowly walked around her, his erection returning.
She thought he would force the sobbing girl to suck him off, but what could she do that wouldn't make things worse?
And then he was had the barrel of the gun in the nape of Nina's neck, and his finger was pulling the trigger. There was no explosion, just a coughing sound, an almost derisory spurt of blood, a silent Nina crumpling onto the carpet.
She tried to speak, to rise from the floor, but both were beyond her.
He came across the room, gun in hand. Expecting to die, she felt almost disoriented when he pulled her up by her hair, and threw her face down on the bed. There was cold metal in the back of her neck, but his hands were wrenching her legs apart, and she knew there was one last thing to endure before she joined her sister.
And then he was ramming himself inside her, and urgently pumping away. It only lasted a few seconds, and once he was out again, she lay there waiting for an end to it all, for the blackness the bullet would bring.
It didn't come. After several moments his hands reached down for one of hers, and cradled it around the butt of the pistol. At first she didn't resist, and by the time she realised the implication, he had taken it back again.
"You're too famous to kill," he said in explanation.
The Russian was almost certainly lying, but John Russell had no intention of sharing this suspicion with his British and American employers. If there was one thing he'd learnt over the last few years, it was never to divulge any information without first thoroughly assessing how much it might be worth in money, favours or blood.
The British major and American captain who shared command of the Trieste interrogation centre seemed less inclined to doubt the Russian. A kind reading might have them lacking Russell's suspicious nature, though one would have thought that a necessary qualification for intelligence officers. Being about half his age and coming from two different realms of Anglo-American privilege, they certainly lacked his experience of European intrigue. But having said all that, a third explanation for their naivety—that both were essentially idiots—seemed by far the most relevant.
The Brit's name was Alex Farquhar-Smith, and Russell would have bet money on a rural pile, minor public school and Oxford. At the latter he had probably spent more time rowing than reading, and only been saved from a poor Third by a timely world war. The Yank, Buzz Dempsey, was a Chicago boy with a haircut to suit his name, and a brashness only slightly less annoying than his English colleague's emotional constipation. Usually they spent most of their working hours getting up each other's noses, but today they were both too excited.
The source of their exhilaration was the tall, rather elegant, chain-smoking Soviet major sitting on the other side of the table. "I have some information about the Red Army's battle order in Hungary," Petr Kuznakov had casually mentioned on arriving in Trieste the previous day, as if unaware that such intelligence was the current holy grail of every American and British officer charged with debriefing the steady stream of defectors and refugees from Stalin's rapidly coagulating empire. That had made Russell suspicious, as had the Russian's choice of Trieste. Had his superiors calculated that the chances of encountering real professionals would be less in such a relative backwater? If so, they'd done their homework.
The Russian lit another cigarette and said, for the fourth or fifth time, that the NKVD would be frantically looking for him, and that he would be of no use to "the great world of freedom" if his new friends allowed him to be killed. Surely it was time to move him somewhere safe, where they could discuss what sort of life they were offering in exchange for everything he knew.
Russell translated this as faithfully as he could; so far that day he had seen no potential benefit in concealing anything specific from the two English-speakers.
"Tell him he's quite safe here," Farquhar-Smith said reassuringly. "But don't tell him why," he added for the third time that morning, as if afraid that Russell had the attention span of a three year-old.
He did as he was told, and was treated to another look of hurt incomprehension from Kuznakov. Russell had a sneaking feeling that the Russian already knew about the tip-off, and the two Ukrainians in the Old City hotel. He said he was worried, but the eyes seemed very calm for a man expecting his executioners.
On that thought, the telephone rang. Dempsey went to answer it, and the rest of them sat there in silence, trying in vain to decipher the American's murmured responses. Call concluded, they heard him go outside, where the half-dozen soldiers had been waiting all morning. A few minutes later he was back. "They're on their way,"he told Russell and Farquhar-Smith. "They'll be here in about ten minutes."
"Just the two of them?" Russell asked, in case Dempsey had forgotten to.
"Yeah. You take Ivan here out to the stables, and we'll come get you when it's all over."
"But don't tell him anything," Farquhar-Smith added. "We don't want him getting too high an opinion of himself." He gave the Russian a smile as he said it, and received one back in return.
They deserved each other, Russell thought, as he escorted the Russian across the courtyard and down the side of the villa to the stable block. There were no horses in residence; all had been stolen by the locals three years earlier after the Italian fascist owner's mysterious plummet down the property's well. A horsey odour persisted though, and Russell took up position outside the entrance, where the sweeter smell of pine wafted by on the warm breeze, his ears pricked for the sound of an approaching vehicle. Kuznakov had asked what was happening, but only belatedly, as if remembering he should. There was watchfulness in the Russian's eyes, but no hint of alarm.
In the event, the two Ukrainians must have parked their car down the road and walked up, because the first thing Russell heard was gunfire. Quite a lot of it in a very short time. In the enduring silence that followed, he saw the look on Kuznakov's face change from slight trepidation to something approaching satisfaction.
The birds were finding their voices again when Dempsey came to fetch them. The two would-be assassins were lying bloody and crumpled on the courtyard stones, their British killers arguing ownership of the shiny new Soviet machine pistols. Neither of the dead men looked particularly young, and both had tattoos visible on their bare forearms which Russell recognised. These two Ukrainians had fought in the SS Galician Division; there would be other tattoos on their upper arms announcing their blood groups. Strange people for the NKVD to employ, if survival was desired.
There was no sign that Dempsey and Farquhar-Smith had worked it out—on the contrary, they seemed slightly more respectful toward their Soviet guest, and eager to continue with the interrogation. Not that they learned very much. Over the next three hours Kuznakov promised a lot but revealed little, teasing his audience with the assurance of a veteran stripper. He would only tell them everything when he really felt safe, he repeated more than once, before casually specifying another cache of vital intelligence which he could hardly wait to divulge.
It was almost six when Russell's bosses decided to call it day, and by that time the four of them could barely make each other out through the fug of Russian smoke. Outside the sky was clear, the sun sinking behind the wall of pines which lined the southern border of the property. Leaving Farquhar-Smith to sort out the nocturnal arrangements, Russell and Dempsey roared off in the latter's jeep, and were soon bouncing down the Ljubljana road, city and sea spread out before them. There was already an evening chill, but the short drive rarely failed to raise Russell's spirits, no matter how depressing the events of the day.
He had been in Trieste for two months, having been loaned out by the American Berlin Operations Base – "BOB" for short – for "a week or two," after the local Russian interpreter's wife had been taken ill back home in the States. At this point in time, all the American intelligence organisations in Europe—and there were a bewildering number of them—had only three Russian speakers between them, and since Russell was one of two in Berlin, a fortnight's temporary secondment to the joint Anglo-American unit in Trieste had been considered acceptable. And by the time news arrived that his predecessor had died in a New Jersey highway pile-up, a veritable flood of interesting-looking defectors had stumbled into Trieste with stories to tell, and Russell had been declared indispensable by Messrs Farquhar-Smith and Dempsey. A replacement was always on the way, but never seemed to arrive.
In truth, Russell was not altogether sorry to be away from Berlin. He missed Effi of course, but she was currently shooting another movie for the Soviet-backed DEFA production company, and he knew from long experience how little he saw her when she was working. The German capital was still on its knees in most of the ways that counted, and over the previous winter the threat of a Soviet takeover had loomed larger with each passing week. Having failed to win control of the city's Western sectors through political chicanery, the Russians had opted for economic pressure—exploiting the western sectors' position deep inside the Soviet Zone, and their consequent reliance on Russian good will for all their fuel and food. Until a couple of weeks ago, it had all seemed little more than gestures, but on April Fool's Day—a scant twenty-four hours after the US Congress approved the Marshall Plan—the Soviet authorities in Germany had upped the stakes, placing new restrictions on traffic using the road, rail and air corridors which linked Berlin with the Western zones. This had continued for several days, until a Soviet fighter had buzzed an American cargo plane a little too closely and brought them both down. Since then, things had got back to normal, but no one knew for how long.
Berlin's intelligence outfits would still be in a frenzy, and that was something worth missing. His American controller Brent Johannsen, though a decent enough man, was handicapped by his ignorance of Europe in general and the Soviets in particular, and his misreading of the latter's intentions could be downright dangerous to his subordinates. Russell's Soviet controller Andrei Tikhomirov was usually too drunk to bother with orders, but in January he and Yevgeny Shchepkin had been farmed out to one of the new K-5 whiz kids, a young Berliner named Schneider, who seemed to think the best way to impress his Russian mentors was to behave like the Gestapo.
No, Effi might be calling him home, but Berlin most definitely wasn't. Trieste was a monument to failure, a city crowded with people who only wanted to leave—it often reminded Russell of a film called Casablanca which he'd seen during the war—but the food and weather were a huge improvement on Berlin's. And the "Rat Line" story he'd been working on for over a month was making him feel like a journalist again. Over the last three years he had almost forgotten how much he enjoyed digging up such stories, sod by clinging sod.
"This okay?" Dempsey asked him, breaking his reverie. The American had stopped outside a tobacconist's about halfway down the Via del Corso. "I need a new pipe," he added. In the distance there was some sort of demonstration underway—in Trieste there usually was. Yugoslavs wanting the Italians out, Italians wanting the Yugoslavs out, everyone keen to see the backs of the Brits and the Yanks.
Russell thanked Dempsey for the lift and took the first turning into the Old City's maze of narrow streets and alleys. His hostel was on a small plaza nestling beneath the steep slope of St Giusto's hill, a Serb family business which he had judged much cleaner than its Italian neighbour. The supply of hot water was, at best, sporadic, and his clothes always came back from washing looking remarkably untouched by soap, but he liked the proprietor Marko and his ever-cheerful wife Mira, not to mention their seven or eight children, several of whom were almost guaranteed to be blocking the staircase with some game or other.
There was no one at the desk, no letters for him in the pigeonhole, and only one daughter on the stairs, twirling hair between her fingers and deep in a book. Russell worked his way round her and let himself in to his home away from home, a room some five metres square with an iron bedstead and faded rug, an armchair that probably remembered the Habsburgs, and, by day, a wonderful view of receding roofs and the distant Adriatic. The bathroom he shared with his mostly Serbian fellow-guests was just across the hall.
He laid himself out on the over-soft bed, disappointed but hardly surprised by the lack of a letter from Effi—even when "resting," she had never been a great correspondent. In compensation, he re-read the one from Paul which had arrived a few days earlier. As usual, his son's written language was strangely, almost touchingly, formal. He was marrying Marisa on Friday the 10th of September, and the two of them hoped that Effi and his father would do them the honour of attending the ceremony at St. Mary's in Kentish Town. Solly Bernstein, Russell's long-time British agent and Paul's current employer, would be giving the bride away, Marisa's parents having died in a Romanian pogrom. Solly also sent his love, and wanted to know where the new story was.
"I'm working on it," Russell murmured to himself. London, like September, seemed a long way away.
Meet the Author
David Downing grew up in suburban London. He is the author of five previous books in the John Russell series, Zoo Station, Silesian Station, Stettin Station, Potsdam Station, and Lehrter Station. He lives with his wife, an American
acupuncturist, in Guildford, England.
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David Downing has written unforgettable characters into his John Russell series against the backdrop of WWII. Because his lead character, journalist John Russell, although British, lives in Berlin throughout the war, the reader is given a historical perspective that is fresh and compelling. Masaryk Station is the conclusion to this fine series and, once again, Downing takes the reader back in time to post war Berlin. His historical research and attention to detail make this book a truly gratifying read. If you are not familiar with David Downing, do yourself a favor and begin with the first book in this series (Zoo Station) and read all the way through to this conclusion - you'll be glad that you did! Buy all six novels!
I am a big fan of the John Russell series. We follow the fate of John Russell, a journalist and reluctant spy in Nazi Germany from the mid thirties to postwar Berlin. He is trapped by his loyalties to family, friends and idealism. This particular book deals with postwar Berlin, before the wall was built. During this time, Stalin's USSR showed its true commitment to the self-determination of the peoples of Eastern Europe. Any government was fine as long as it toed the Comintern Party line. Berlin is divided into sections governed by the victors, an uneasy cohabitation - not unlike living with a bear. As far as I can tell, the history is dead right. We behold the magic of the Berlin airlift, and John Russell's final disenchantment with the western allies, when they start hiring Nazis to help fend off the Russians. I really would start with the books in order. Downing is a writer on par with Alan Furst. If you like historical thrillers, you will not be disappointed with this complex view of Germany, before, during, and after the Second World War
With this, the sixth novel in the John Russell series, David Downing brings to a finale the chronicle covering the years between the World Wars, those following the collapse of Nazi Germany. It has been quite a journey, with Russell having served as a double agent for both the Soviets and Americans, certainly as dangerous as an existence can be. Each of the novels reflected the times and the clashes of the ideological differences between the two countries. In the final book, the story of a divided Germany and Berlin is recounted, ending with the seeds that were sown in the fall of the Soviet Empire. At the same time, the personal conflicts that beset Russell and others who at first embraced and then questioned socialism are explored and analyzed. Each entry in the series was well-crafted to not only tell a gripping story of our times, but to call to mind the era as portrayed by real-life characters. It has been an excellently told saga. (It is unfortunate that the latest volume suffers from poor production, editing and proofreading, riddled with typographical and grammatical errors.) Next spring, we are promised a new series by the author moving back in time to World War I. My parenthetical criticism notwithstanding, the novel is recommended.
Masaryk Station by David Downing is the last novel in the John Russell series. The story takes place in the chaotic time in 1948 Berlin, when the city was divided in the post-war era. John Russell is an American journalist living in Berlin for a long time. Even though he was linked to the Communist Party he is involved in spying for the Americans and the Russians trying to keep his family secure and safe. John is married to a German actress named Effie, they have a son and an adopted daughter. John is planning one final job which will cement the financial security and well being of his family before he retires. However that final reward will take guts, cunning and an enormous risk which he might not be willing to take. Masaryk Station by David Downing ties up the John Russell series nicely, will giving the reader much to think about even thought the story takes place 7 decades ago. In this book Mr. Russell struggles to the do the right thing but doesn't really know what the right thing is, or even what is the right course of action he should take. Mr. Downing does an excellent job writing characters. All of the characters in the book, bad or good, felt as if they could have been real people. However, the plot is still dark and brutal against the backdrop of Prague and Berlin. The interesting part of the book was the currency reform of Berlin, when both American and Russian interests wanted to control the currency and hence the economy. Both countries try to reassert their power and legitimacy over Berlin, neither willing (nor politically able) to back out. The author also recognizes the famed Berlin Blockade in which Russia blocked all passages by air, road, rail and water between the East and West zones. The blockade was designed to force the USA, England and France to leaver Berlin or at least accept Russian currency in their areas. It didn't work! This is the final book to an excellent series in which the author appraises post World War II Europe in a cynical, tired, yet clear manner. The book is a wonderful introduction to the Berlin Blockade, told through an exciting story with likeable characters. Disclaimer: I got this book for free
The end of this terrific series and I'll definitely miss John Russell. All the loose ends are taken care of and this is like a going away party for all the characters we've come to know through David Downing's wonderful characterizations. Hopefully Mr. Downing will keep writing and start another series as gripping as this one has been.
Slow starting but picked up in the end. Tied up all loose ends and finished the series.


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Sellers of anything from fine silks, perfumes and jewelry to food and weapons. The Latin word for merchant was Mercator. A Mercatoriam Mancipium, for example, was a dealer in slaves.
Publicani were associations formed higher up members of the mercantile class, often Equestrians, who were contracted by the Roman authorities with the collection of taxes, hence they labelled as "tax-farmers". With the expansion of Roman rule across the Mediterranean, publicani, both Roman and allied Italians, moved to the provinces and opened their offices, and carried out the collection of revenue on behlf of the provincial governor in return for their commission. Publicani also supplied essential goods and equipment to the Roman legions posted abroad.
On a more individual basis, there were the Negotiatores, who were part-way moneylenders, in addition to whatever commodities they traded. A subset of negotiatores who specialized as private bankers were known as Argentarii. Some negotiatores were even employed by the state as public bankers, and were called Mensarii.
Lower level Mercatores were often Plebeians, immigrant Peregrini (foreigners) or freedmen.

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Evan Rachel Wood & Shia LaBeouf Premiere "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman" at Sundance
Hoping to create buzz for their new film, Shia LaBeouf and Evan Rachel Wood attended the screening of "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman" at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday (January 21).
In the movie, the "Transformers" star portrays the title character, who falls for a woman (played by the "True Blood" beauty) who's claimed by a violent crime boss.
Directed by Fredrik Bond, the rom-com also stars Mads Mikkelsen, Rupert Grint, and Melissa Leo.
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Atlantic Cape inducts students into Phi Theta Kappa
Atlantic Cape Community College welcomed 209 inductees into the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society on April 18 in the Walter Edge Theater at the Mays Landing Campus.
Established by two-year college presidents in 1918, Phi Theta Kappa recognizes the academic achievements of two-year college students and encourages academic growth. Candidates must be a full- or part-time student enrolled at Atlantic Cape, have earned 12 general education credits to date, either from Atlantic Cape or another community college, and hold a 3.5 cumulative GPA. Inductees included:
Olga Asadulaeva, Sharon Beals, Jaclyn Brown, Cara Burrows, Joshua Haeffner, Peter Hall, Jessica King, Brenda Kuhar, Jennifer Simon, Annemarie Steelman, Rhonda Welcer and Christopher Wells, all of Egg Harbor City.
Council of County Colleges honors Hall
The New Jersey Council of County Colleges honored Atlantic Cape Community College student Peter Hall, of Egg Harbor City, and 39 other New Jersey community college students and their families at its 19th annual Phi Theta Kappa Day celebration May 2 in Trenton.
Phi Theta Kappa has recognized and encouraged scholarship among community college students for 95 years while promoting the academic integrity of the associate degree program. Students with grade point averages of 3.5 or higher are invited to join Phi Theta Kappa.
Absegami teachers honored
Absegami High School media teachers Ed Johnson and Michael Piotrowski were honored May 3 at the annual Atlantic Cape Community College media awards ceremony for their contributions to media education. The entire ceremony was created and run by students of the ACCC media and communications program. Johnson and Piotrowski received the Pioneer Award for their contributions to media education in South Jersey.
Also honored at the event and receiving Pioneer Awards were Oakcrest High School media teachers Charles Lockwood and Jason Thomas.


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AOD 4 speed transmission AUTOMATIC? both are AOD series check the coding labels on the transmission both EECIV computer. '91 Thunderbird is a fox platform too should be the same.
Yes both automatic thank you so much what can I google to obtain a real live picture to compare my transmission to what will be sold to me or should I go based simply off the labels
The tag is ideal take a photo of the label / tag if possible make sure the numbers match exactly, also check the warranty and mileage warranty of the "new" transmission if its sourced (salvage) or from a second hand vehicle (as still place) check the odometer reading on the vehicle to view miles on the transmission , the lower the better. Regards
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The Supreme Court has changed the way in which the Courts are to determine whether to grant an injunction in cases relating to infringement of private property rights, or whether to award damages in lieu of an injunction. This is a major shift and is likely to be music to developers' ears, as the Court must in future adopt a more flexible approach in these matters rather than being compelled to apply with rigidity a set of rules created in the nineteenth century. The impact on negotiations between developers and adjoining owners is likely to be significant as, after a period of heavy expectation of the right to injunctive relief (see Regan v Paul Properties Ltd and others [2006] All ER (D) 327 (Oct) and HK RUK II (CHC) v Heaney [2010] All ER (D) 101 (Sep)), financial compensation has again become a realistic result of litigation.
The judgment also deals with a number of interesting questions regarding the tort of nuisance, in this case, caused by noise.
Summary of facts
This case concerned noise from a speedway stadium and motocross track near Mildenhall in Suffolk which had been in use since the 1970s and which was some 500-800 meters from a bungalow called Fenland, built in the 1950s. The nearest residential property to Fenland is about half a mile away and the nearest village one and a half miles away. After Ms Lawrence and her partner moved into Fenland in 2006, they became concerned at the noise from the motocross events held at the track.
The activities at the stadium and track, which included speedway, stock car racing and motocross, had been the subject of a noise abatement notice in 1995. Ms Lawrence's complaints to the council resulted in further noise abatement notices being served and noise attenuation works being carried out. She and her partner subsequently issued proceedings in 2008 for an injunction to restrain what they believed was a nuisance. By the time the case was heard in 2011, there had been a serious fire at Fenland and it has yet to be rebuilt.
At first instance the judge granted an injunction although it was suspended pending such time as Fenland was occupied once more. The Court of Appeal overturned that decision and decided that the Respondents' activities did not amount to a nuisance. Ms Lawrence and her partner (the Appellants) then took the case to the Supreme Court.
The issues before the Court
- If the activities complained of were found to be a nuisance, should the Respondents be restrained by an injunction, or should damages be awarded in lieu?
- What is the effect of existing planning permission for the activities complained of in a nuisance claim?
- Can a defendant rely on his own activities when asking the Court to assess the character of the locality for the purposes of defending a nuisance claim?
- Is it a defence to a nuisance claim that the claimant 'came to the nuisance'?
- Can a right to make noise which would otherwise be a nuisance be acquired by prescription?
As the matters covered various aspects of nuisance the Supreme Court took the opportunity to revisit the whole area of law, which it felt had developed rather unsatisfactorily. Of particular concern was the approach taken by the Courts when deciding whether to grant injunctive relief or damages in lieu.
Damages in lieu of an injunction – Shelfer revisited
The leading case on awarding damages in lieu of an injunction in a case of noise nuisance was the Court of Appeal decision in Shelfer v City of London Electric Lighting Co [1895] 1Ch 287. The position was held to be that in cases where the activities complained of constitute a nuisance, the claimant is entitled to an injunction. However, AL Smith LJ considered that there would be exceptional circumstances when this rule could be relaxed and suggested a four-stage test as a guide to when damages in lieu could be awarded:
- Where injury to the claimant's rights is small; and
- The injury is capable of being estimated in money; and
- The injury is one which can adequately be compensated by a small money payment; and
- Where it would be oppressive to the defendant to grant an injunction.
The law has developed such that in recent times, the Courts have considered that unless all four of the Shelfer tests were satisfied, there was no jurisdiction to refuse an injunction.
In Coventry, Lord Neuberger's view was that 'an almost mechanical application of AL Smith's four tests' and an approach where damages are awarded only in exceptional circumstances were 'simply wrong in principle and give rise to a serious risk of going wrong in practice'. He considered that a more flexible approach should be adopted with the Court exercising its discretion on the facts in each case. The four Shelfer tests could still be a useful guide in cases where the evidence did not support the granting of an injunction, although it did not mean that if all four were not satisfied then an injunction should be granted.
As to the basis upon which damages would be awarded, Lord Neuberger considered that there was an argument that those damages should not always be limited to a diminution in value of the claimant's property but that they may be assessed by reference to the benefit to a defendant in the injunction being refused. Nevertheless, all the Lords agreed that this was not an issue to be decided by the Court in this case.
From a procedural point of view, the question of whether damages should have been awarded in lieu of an injunction was raised for the first time only when the matter came before the Supreme Court and consequently the lower Courts had not heard arguments on it. As such, permission to raise it at that stage was refused. It was held that the Respondents should have at least reserved their position on that point. The Supreme Court restored the first instance decision but gave the Respondents permission to raise the argument that the injunction should be discharged. As such, this case may well continue for many years if the litigants want to pursue it.
The effect of planning permission
The Supreme Court upheld the general principle that the existence of planning permission does not of itself supply a defence to a nuisance. However, planning permission may be a factor when looking at the remedies.
Lord Neuberger considered that planning permission for a particular activity may support the contention that it is of benefit to the public, which would be relevant when deciding whether or not to grant an injunction. Lord Sumption went further, coming to the conclusion that the 'obvious solution' where planning permission had been granted was to allow the activity to continue and award damages in lieu.
The effect of a defendant's activities
The character of the locality is a major factor when assessing whether a particular activity constitutes a nuisance. Lord Neuberger considered that a Defendant's activities on the premises in question could be taken into account in that assessment, but only to the extent that they do not cause a nuisance. In Coventry, the activities at the stadium and track were relevant to the character of the locality but only to the extent they did not cause a nuisance.
Coming to the nuisance
As the stadium and track were well-established by the time the Appellants moved into Fenland, the Supreme Court considered whether it was a defence to the nuisance claim that they had 'come to the nuisance' and should therefore accept the situation as it was when they arrived? The Court confirmed the long-established principle that 'coming to the nuisance' is no defence. This was the case as long as the claimants did not alter their activity on the land which would result in the defendant's activity becoming a nuisance.
Right to make noise acquired by prescription
The Court held that it was possible to obtain a prescriptive right to commit what would otherwise be nuisance by noise. In this case, that right had not been acquired as it could not be shown that the nuisance had been continuing for 20 years.
Developers will no doubt be delighted that the Courts are able to take a more flexible and case-by-case approach to awarding damages in lieu of an injunction as this will enable them better to prepare their arguments against injunctive relief. Time will tell how willing the Courts are to exercise that discretion in favour of developers, but in the meantime the judgment presents an opportunity for the negotiating table. The obtaining of planning permission for the activity may well be persuasive in certain cases where the public interest is such that damages in lieu of an injunction are an adequate remedy. Landowners complaining of nuisance will not feel quite so comfortable and although the position remains that injunctive relief is the prima facie remedy, they are likely to have to work much harder to persuade a Court that damages are not an adequate alternative.
For further information, please contact Helena Davies or Kathy Harris, in our Real Estate Litigation team.This information is intended as a general discussion surrounding the topics covered and is for guidance purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be regarded as a substitute for taking legal advice. DWF is not responsible for any activity undertaken based on this information.


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Winner Announcement
Response to our Gracie's Get Well Garden contest has been truly great! From a total of 9,307 votes cast, raising $9,307 for our chapters, we are excited to announce our winners.
First Prize Winner
Sylvie LeClair - 1,990 votes
First prize winner Sylvie LeClair was awarded a Janome 2016 NQM Sewing Machine (a $999.00 value), donated by The Times Square Sewing Complex in Jacksonville Illinois.
Second Prize Winner
Regina Forthman - 1,733 votes
Second prize winner Regina Forthman was awarded 100 assorted fat quarters, a $300 value.
Third Prize Winner
Ralu Rorrer - 779 votes
Third prize winner Ralu Rorrer was awarded Gracie's pre-cut fabric assortment, accompanied by two books (Holiday Wishes and Precut Primer) donated by The Fat Quarter Shop.
Honorable Mention
Agnes Ratliff
Agnes Ratliff was awarded two books and some pre-cuts.
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Daidoji Sabaru was a yojimbo of the Crane Clan.
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Sabaru was born into a moderately wealthy family, and he wished to be trained as a yojimbo. If he had one major fault, it was his unwillingness to lie. Sabaru was given the post of yojimbo to Kakita Mai by Doji Tanitsu. He was present when Mai's and Kakita Noritoshi's son was born, ready to protect them from the False Hoturi. [1]
Retirement Edit
Sabaru was left behind when Noritoshi went into hiding, during his mission against the Emerald Champion Shosuro Jimen. For this reason he was not at the side of Mai when she died, but he swore to protect their son. Sabaru retired upon the gempukku of his lord, the Kakita Daimyo who would be known as Kakita Ikaru. [1]
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Contrary to popular belief there is no evidence that Napoleon ever said: "China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." But he could (should?) have. For most of recorded history, China's was the world's biggest economy. Then in the course of the 19th century it collapsed and found itself a passive victim of globalization. Since 1979, when the late Deng Xiaoping launched what is arguably the most radical economic reform program in history, China, in Napoleon's supposed words, is "shaking the world". In the process, it is also shaping the world.
The proposed One Belt – One Road (OBOR - also known as the New Silk Road and Maritime Route) may be the most dramatic transformation of the world economy since the industrial revolution. It is likely to re-engineer the planet by incorporating much of the Eurasian continent in a new infrastructure network, with linkages to Africa and Latin America.
It is without a doubt the "hottest" phenomenon of the world business environment.
Key learning objectives:
The project was initiated in 2013, hence very recently, but it has gathered momentum at great speed. This Discovery Event will be a discovery in the true sense of the term. Through a multi-dimension and multi-disciplinary approach, the geographic, geopolitical, institutional, economic, financial, environmental and technological features and forces of the project will be discussed and analyzed. The most important objective is to achieve an understanding of the framework of the OBOR project, and the business challenges and opportunities arising. This will include a study of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Participants in this event will be equipped with a map (GPS) of OBOR that will serve as vital input to firms' global strategies. The event will take the form of a roundtable brainstorming which will include guest panelists from various sectors concerned with OBOR.
Target audience:
Executives from all sectors responsible for their firm's global strategies, wishing to engage in enhancing knowledge of arguably the most challenging development and prospect of the 21st century world economy.


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- Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Opportunity Offering. Wholesale/Distribution. Tool and Machine Company for Sale. • Over 67 years in operation with present control assumed in 2009, • Turnkey transition of this company for the right individual or corporation, • Provides machines, tools, accessories, service and solutions to...
Computer Equipment Manufacturing Business #470509 posted Jun 16, 2017
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Between $802,213 and $2,406,639 (Converted from CAD)
Long established manufacturer of industrial grade computer equipment is currently available. This would be of interest to a company already operating in the computer, communication, control, and automation industries, who is intent on growing by acquisitions. Would also be of interest to a well-qualified...
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Established Packaging Equipment Manufacturer & Distribution, in business for over 18 years and profitable. The business has a large 17,000+ Sq. ft facility in Toronto as well as a 9000sq. ft location in China. Both locations are included in the Purchase Price. Factory in China in operation for 10 years...
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Prime Property (20 Acres) & Business On Hwy 6. Since 1979, Flamborough Patio Furniture Manufacturers Of Custom Indoor & Patio Furniture, Has Been Renowned For Top Quality Family & Bench Swings, Chaise Lounges, Rocking Chairs, Children's Play Centres, Gazebos, Decks, Sheds + Lot More... Owner Retiring....
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Dear WDFW, I am writing to express my deep concern regarding WDFW's "# 69. Reduce lingcod season in Marine Area 4B" rule change proposal. If this rule went into effect it would have a HUGE impact on Washington's fishing community and the economy that supports it. Additionally, I believe this rule change would create a serious safety issue. Most importantly, the data behind this proposal does not justify the action.
I understand that this rule change is being considered in order to reduce the by catch of "protected" rockfish species. We anglers are very interested in conservation, because we know if we are not, we are compromising the future of the sport we love. However, as avid fishermen of area 4B for Lingcod, the by-catch issue just does not correlate for me and my colleagues at the North West Kayak Anglers (NWKA). We know from experience that very few rockfish are caught while targeting Lingcod. And, it is rare to catch Canary or Yelloweye in 4B due to the 120 foot depth restriction. If you are catching rockfish, you either change bait or move. Nobody wants to sit there and catch rockfish after rockfish that are illegal to retain.
But we didn't want to rely on our own experience alone, so we inquired to WDFW to find out what data was used to back the proposal. A WDFW representative sent us data that was from 2010 and 2011 dockside sampling. This sampling occurred throughout the entire season and has standard statistical methods for determining complete harvest from MA4B. This data, which the WDFW considers valid, shows that for each legal Lingcod caught, 1.6 "protected" rockfish were caught.
Furthermore, according to this WDFW document: http://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/00035/wdfw00035.pdf "...For rockfish found in Puget Sound, mortality rates of released rockfish from 120 feet (36 m) or less in depth ranged from 17% to 37%." During the dockside sampling period, the total number of "protected" rockfish encountered in 4B was on average 4195 rockfish per year. Considering the mortality rates above, this translates to 712-1552 rockfish that perished. Consider that there were 18,905 black rockfish retained per year on average. Now, if you considered only Yelloweye and Canary, there were 242 Yelloweye and 642 Canary encountered per year on average. The resulting mortality would be 41-90 Yelloweye and 109-238 Canary.
The 120 foot depth restriction already sufficiently protects rockfish, which is why the WDFW itself is estimating a survival rate of roughly 75%. And the average depth Lingcod are targeted (by NWKA estimation) is 70-80 feet, which gives rockfish an even better chance.
While by-catch is never great, it is a reality in both commercial and sportfishing and there is an acceptable threshold…these numbers just do not merit a 75% reduction in the Lingcod sportfishing season for 4B, from 180 to 45 days. That is the most important reason why this rule change proposal should not be passed. And if that weren't enough, here's a couple more…
The first is safety. Because of its unique geographical situation, 4B allows anglers access to rich, world-class, ocean fishing with good protection from westerly wind and swell. Naturally, 4B is fished by anglers with smaller boats that can't normally fish the ocean side (4A), and by almost ALL boats on choppy or bigger swell days. Severely restricting 4B to bottomfishing will likely result in more boats taking risks they shouldn't, by trying to fish 4A.
A scenario: A few guys with a smaller boat, an 18', plan a July weekend out at Neah Bay targeting bottomfish. Saturday's weather is great, they get out to 4A and the fishing is good. Sunday the weather is marginal...the kind of day they would in the past stay in 4B, but with the rule change they can't. Rather than cut their big fishing weekend short, they take the risk and run out to 4A...and put themselves in danger and those that have to come to their aid, be it private boats or the Coast Guard.
And for every scenario like that, there will likely be many trips that get cancelled because 4B would no longer be an option. Because of fast-changing coastal weather, planning a fishing trip where only 4A is fishable is too risky, given 4B would be illegal to bottomfish. Not to mention the many, many trips never even planned by those who ONLY fish 4B. That would add up to a lot of fishing trips that never get made.
Which leads to another important factor…economic impact. Neah Bay is a community that depends on sport fishing, of which 4B's Lingcod season is a large part. Guides, foodservice, lodging would all take a severe hit. And it's not just Neah Bay, but all the towns in the Olympic Peninsula anglers pass through on their way to Neah Bay, where they stay, eat and fill up their tanks. Then the tackle shops across Washington that won't sell the bottomfishing gear, the manufacturers who make that gear…even lost WDFW license revenue from those who come from out of state just to fish Neah Bay (it is, most definitely, a world-class fishing destination). And that's just naming a few.
The American Sportfishing Association reported that Washington State's saltwater fishing economy is worth nearly $600 million http://asafishing.org/uploads/2011_ASASportfishing_in_America_Report_January_2013.pdf. It's hard to say how much of that MA4 is responsible for, but given that area 4B's unique geographic protection from the ocean, access to world-class fish, and the fact that it's considered fishing heaven by so many anglers...I'm quite certain it's responsible for a good chunk. The economic ripple effect of this rule change would be devastating. Please consider the livelihoods that would be impacted by this single rule change.
Fishing is something I am very passionate about, and 4B is one of my favorite places to fish on this earth. It's a place myself and my fishing friends visit often throughout the 180-day season (most of those trips take place AFTER June 15, when the weather is more predictable). Marine area 4B's fishing, and it's beauty, is unparalleled. Please do not make this proposal a rule change.
Thanks for your consideration and all of your hard work,
R. O'Connor
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Harnaam Kaur, a 25-year-old Indian Origin from Slough, Berkshire, has made history by becoming the first bearded woman to hit the runway for a celebrity designer.
Harnaam Kaur was bullied at a young age due to her facial hair, so much so that she even contemplated suicide in her teen years. She spent years removing the hair and trying to hide her condition. Kaur has polycystic ovary syndrome, a hormonal condition that causes growth of excess facial hair.
Recently she was also in Rock n Roll Bride Magazine's Bridal Body Confidence.
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Because the Government has released its latest detailed survey of just how many gypsies and travellers are living in Britain. As of January 2009 there were 17,865 caravans dotted across the country which belong predominantly to either Romani Gypsies or Irish Traveller communities. The highest concentration of caravan sites can be found across East Anglia, the south-west and the south, which account for more than half of all the sites within the UK.
Is that a problem?
Overall, no. But in some areas tensions are palpable. The problem is that a small but significant proportion of gypsy sites in Britain are completely illegal. Travellers have either created their own camps without planning permission or are essentially squatting on someone else's land. For settled locals who live nearby there are often nasty clashes between the two communities. Local residents often complain of loud noise and increased crime, while the travellers argue that they are simply trying to put roots down but are stymied by centuries of anti-gypsy prejudice and planning laws that are biased against them.
Who exactly are Britain's gypsies?
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