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Corruption, State-Sponsored Murder & Twelve Angry Men
Jodi Arias: Justice Denied
Michael Melendez – Perjury Exposed
The Presumption of Innocence
The Immaculate Deception – Exposed
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Jodi is not going to receive any form of justice until this case emerges from the rat infested sewer it originated in.
Anyone who thinks Stephens was just exercising her "style" and letting the lawyers try their case, I couldn't disagree more. The unmistakeable fact is that she doesn't have a clue about what the fuck she's doing.
She didn't belong on this case any more than a welder should be doing brain surgery. This was a capital case. It requires totally different temperament and courtroom administration exceptionalism, with extraordinary knowledge in case law precedent in death penalty cases.
Just the bajillion sidebars should tell anyone she was exponentially pathetic. You put a judge on the bench that has never in her life presided over a death penalty trial for one of the most publicized cases in the last 50 years? A defendant who is indigent and must count on her constitutional rights to a fair trial being litigated by the lowest level of representation afforded by the legal system?
It's obvious going in that it's going to be the David versus Goliath premier death camp Nazi against a public defender. And this Einstein decision is made to have a rookie trainee get on-the-job training at the expense of the fate of Jodi Arias' life or death? Whatsa matter? Couldn't you find a more inexperienced one? The deck was already stacked from day one.
She's more qualified to be a grease monkey at Jiffy Lube. You unscrew the plug, the oil comes out, you put the plug back in. That's something they could train her for and with enough practice I think it's something she could probably master. But in a courtroom, she's as useless as a book in braille on high-wire walking.
As just one example in probably over a hundred others, this is the "judge" who overruled an objection when Jodi was asked, if someone was wearing socks and was tromping around in blood on a carpet, would it look like what was shown in the photograph at the end of the hallway? Nurmi objected. Stephens blurts out "overruled!"
In other words, Jodi is a qualified blood expert who can testify what sock prints are supposed to look like in a carpet that has blood on it? I almost fell out of my chair? Ten out of ten other capital case judges would have sustained that objection. Just this example alone shows she is an embarrassment to the rotation roster of any judge circuit. She must think that little hammer is for cracking walnuts.
She did everything for Martinez except give him a lap dance. And she probably did that at lunch. She let the Alexanders run the courtroom and did everything for them except put them on the jury. Asked and answered is a foreign concept to her. The only person that could have been more bellicose than Martinez was in the courtroom, is Al Sharpton. And his pacing back and forth like a chimpanzee wearing a path in the carpet, had her googly eyed and transfixed. Either that or she was using the monitors on her desk to watch soap operas and keeping tabs on her appointments at the hair salons.
Sidebars are supposed to be for issues where attorneys appear about to broach testimony that may be more prejudicial than probative. Or to seek guidance on exhibits that are about to be offered for admittance. They shouldn't be like a quarterback going into a huddle after every play. The balance of judges discourage an extensive number of sidebars, because it can alienate or bore a jury. Plus it's by it's very nature, secretive from the triers of fact and can influence opinion of who a judge favors.
After all, the judge is supposed to be a referee who can make rulings from the bench without little gossip parties needed for the slightest damn objection. Also the attorneys are supposed to know the boundaries they must stay within as part of being qualified by the BAR.
The time spent in sidebars in these two trials, probably equals 60% of the total time presenting and arguing the case. She simply didn't know how to rule on objections and the overwhelming balance of objections overruled, went against the defense.
There is little doubt in my mind that when the transcripts of these sidebars are released, there is going to be even MORE evidence of error that will be fodder for appeal. And I'd also bet the farm it will be more than harmless error. Some of the best ammunition for her incompetence in preserving Jodi's rights may be in those sidebars or the in camera daily rituals, which were almost as frequent.
Air purifier manufacturers boast that their purifiers can filter 99.7% of the particulates out of the air. That's the same percentage of likelihood that Stephens will give Jodi anything but life without parole. And I'm probably being too generous to even give her that much benefit of the doubt.
Jodi shouldn't even dignify prostrating herself for "leniency" and having her pretend to listen. Don't even give her the satisfaction to ignore it. She will gloat just that much more when she pronounces sentence and tells Jodi she will spend the rest of her life in prison. Piss on her. Just make it as unsatisfying for as possible. She almost cried when the first jury didn't come back with death.
This is the judge who rolled her eyes at Nurmi after putting him through about five different attempts to just have a relatively inconsequential exhibit admitted. Which was a page torn out of her journal.
Jodi is testifying and identifies where the page was torn out. Foundation? It was HER journal and she's showing you the ripped page! How much more fucking foundation do you need? The exhibit should have been admitted and frog's objection should have been overruled. But no, you got to throw up every roadblock possible to make it embarrassing and help your buddy. I posted the link where she does the eyeroll. She's a prosecution cheerleading leading, hamfisted bitty. She would have had to struggle to contain her jubilation if it wasn't for Juror 17 spoiling the death verdict celebration party for good.
It has to get totally beyond her ability to interfere. And to the level where SHE is judged by those who set the wrongs right. Appeals courts are loathe to overturn verdicts and it is seldom in any appealed trial, that there hasn't been prosecutor misconduct or error that is seriously borderline reversible. But they give deference to the judge in most cases and dial it down to harmless error, because the judge has made SOME documented effort to remediate the grievances. Here, this witch hasn't done ANYTHING. Not one single thing!
There hasn't been one reprimand or even a dress-down in front of the jury. Not one sanction. Not a small fine, not even the teensiest damn WARNING in open court. She is appraised of one blatant violation of juris ethics after the other. His phony family members are doing everything but waving at the jurors to make sure they see them cry and make swirly eyes on cue.
A crucial element of evidence is deliberately thrown to the floor, which is already damaged. She says nothing. She even has Martinez sarcastically telling her how to conduct her rulings. Try that with other competent judges and see where you end up. Nurmi presents her with case law that is right on point for mistrial motions and sanctions, and it's summarily ignored.
The little pencil dick blurts out the name of what should have been–as declared and on the record prior to his affidavit being read–a protected, anonymous witness. And he says his name three separate times within 5 minutes. Does the phony act of being frustrated with himself after the second time–and then a minute later, he says it again! Accidental my ass. And she just sits there on the bench like a cannabis tripping twit.
Instead of keeping the testimony focused on the 35 years of experience of a domestic violence expert, she lets it devolve into a Romper Room laughathon about Sneezy, Dopey, and Grumpy's heritage and family tree. Jodi would have had a better chance at a fair trial if there was a small claims court judge.
This is what is going to make the difference, when the appeal court judges look for what steps were taken to assume control, take corrective action and keep the trial fair for the defendant. Here, it's been virtually non existent. These judges will not like that. And the cumulative effect of showing bias against the defendant, will be overwhelming.
There is something we may be forgetting that came out in testimony in the penalty trial that is extraordinarily pertinent to the first trial. It is regarding the virtual pornucopia of smut. There is no denying now, that there was porn galore on his computer. It's proven and so is the perjury trying to cover it up. And this is just what Alexander hadn't gotten to erase yet, or preserve somewhere in a private hiding place. He would have been whipping those nineteen trace cleaners into action furiously.
Before the guilt trial started, Stephens ruled against the admission of the letters that Jodi said were sent to her by Travis, ADMITTING his perversion. This was blockbuster error. Because now we know that those letters (and letters that Nurmi had authenticated by a handwriting expert) were authentic and those letters should have been ADMITTED. Martinez went postal to keep them out, and no wonder. They put the nails right in Alexander's coffin and would have blew the State's case of bullshit sky high. Proving that Jodi had not conjured up a fairytale spin story and would have devastated the daily theme of painting her as a serial liar .
Childvilla.com wasn't a site where you buy men's shoes. Or a site where you would find something you needed to brush up on for the next Mormon church services. It was a kiddie site. And porn watching was his passion–almost as much as his playing women full time, like the gigolo he was.
If they were not original letters, but it was still HIS handwriting, then he wrote the goddamned things. And those letters would have been her emperical proof that validated what she knew. And more so, what he couldn't possibly afford to have be known. I don't recall seeing him in the courtroom to affirm that it was his voice on the tape recording. But that was accepted that it was him, wasn't it Stephens.
When somebody receives a fax, is that a copy? Yet that is accepted as a legal document in every venue I am aware of. Banks and mortgage companies verify signatures using fax copies. And they do it every day. They sure as hell aren't originals. Forged documents can be identified and exposed easily by handwriting experts with comparative samples and exemplars. Stephens prevented Jodi her right to argue those letters. And we don't need any more proof than what was on his hard drive that they WEREN'T forged.
And need I remind anybody who is still deluded that her testimony was a rehearsed concoction of lies–about the polygraph test she was willing to take and have admitted? Take the best pathological liar you know and let me set them up with an expert examiner. I'll show you a pathological liar who fails the polygraph test. The U.S Secret Service uses them and per the Director who just testified in congress recently, he said they use them "extensively." Even relying on them heavily in their hiring process.
So if you think polygraphs are easy to fake, maybe you should speak to them. They protect the president! If you think that's not a good enough endorsement of their reliability, I'm wasting my time talking to you. And need I remind you too, that polygraph results are admissible in Arizona if both defense and prosecution stipulate to it? But guess who the chicken was. You can recognize him by his beak.
There are so many examples of blunders by Stephens, that I would need a file system and a secretary to keep track. I especially loved the numerous times she would say–ove…ove…overruled. As if she just woke up from a trance and hadn't been paying any attention at all to the testimony. Nurmi should have said, sorry…don't mean to be disturbing your nap there judge.
I would love to know how many judges were astonished at your daily ineptitude and rolling their eyes at you Stephens. To say nothing about the time you pissed away coming close to almost not having enough alternates left to deliberate–which ironically would have made me let out a whoop you could hear at 35,000 feet. Too bad, you couldn't have been just a little more pathetic. You came close.
Arizona if you're not scrambling to the voting booth to make her an ex-judge in 2016, it's like putting a drunk at the pole position in the Indy 500. If you don't think it's worth investing the effort, I hope she presides over a trial that involves you. Maybe then my point will be more clear.
When the decision process finally DOES get beyond this covert hand-picked prosecution plant, the appeal briefs should be written by a consummate wordsmith. The first thing I would bring to the court's attention is the long known den of iniquity this county attorney's office is, that filed the case. And I would highlight the evidence-withholding Milke comparisons that were proven, and could only have been a result of perjury IN THIS CASE also. And from this very same state prosecutor's office.
I would put it in verbal neon lights. I would have them know that this prosecutor is a familiar name for his misconduct before the Arizona Supreme Court. And here he is again. This time for one of the most notorious trials in Arizona history. This county is already well known and famous for its pattern and practice. And I would make it eminently clear, this case originates from the same swamp.
I would point out that this is the same M.C.A.O, that when Milke's attorneys requested all the personnel files of the testifying detective who was held up as a model of honesty for the police department. That same detective was found to have committed perjury by four other district courts–and in addition, four more courts cited him for violations of the Miranda warning.
When the personnel records of this detective were subpoenaed–they turned over TWO years of his reviews to the defense. Only one problem–he held his detective's job for TWENTY ONE years. The years of those withheld files contained all the exculpatory secrets. They also casually forgot to mention to the defense that he was suspended for five days for sexually imposing himself on a motorist he stopped, and then lied to his supervisors about that ever happening. Yet, it resulted in his five days suspension.
And THIS is the DA's office we are to trust is interested in the truth? I would in fact make the pdf of the Mike case an appendage to the brief, for the amazing similarities of a lying detective and similar violations of Brady and Giglio. These astonishing blunders were also supplanted by that State court judge who presided over THAT trial, and the post conviction proceedings. Apparently, amazing as it is to comprehend, Stephens has a Superior Court twin neophyte. Maybe they trained each other.
Although it may be tempting to make this a stem to stern assemblage of the laundry list of errors, it should elicit only select egregious instances of error by this so–called judge. The ideal goal should be that the judge panel finds it so egregious, it deems it worthy of oral argument. Which gives you a whole new venue of opportunity. It should be such that when the appellate judges get to the final paragraph, they are stunned with the constitutional abridgements to Jodi's right to a fair trial. And it shouldn't be hard to do.
It starts almost from day one and prompted Nurmi to file the timely motions for mistrial almost every few days. Mistrial motions that were supported by case citings of appropriate law. And which in THOSE cases required a remedy to correct the infractions. What the hell is case law for Stephens, if not to establish demand that judges follow it? Case law is not a suggestion that Supreme Courts just hand down for rulings in their spare time. It becomes the fucking law! Did you get that memo? What part of that is difficult for you to process?
Few trials would have had such a compendium of boners by a Superior Court judge. It traverses the full gamut. It starts with the premise that, essentially, evidence that was withheld or never turned over by the prosecution, should have been examined anyway by the defense. Un-fucking believable. It's just got to leave your head spinning. I guess Nurmi should have consulted a psychic to find out what evidence Martinez was hiding.
It continues all the way to letting jurors play with their digital toys during lapses in the trial. Why not just save them a lot of trouble and set up a TV in the jury waiting room and put it on HLN.
No doesn't sequester them, just relies on violators raising their hands. Violators who would volunteer information to get them kicked off a trial they can write a book about, go on media shows or get paid for juicy inside information interviews by tabloid rags. But their value to these rags is only worth something, if they go all the way through deliberations. This is like asking someone if they would like to give you their winning Powerball lottery ticket. Ugh.
Then she gives a modification to an Allen Charge when two of the three conditions that prohibit you in Arizona from giving a modified instruction, couldn't be more blatantly existing in THIS case.
1) Judge is not supposed to know what the vote split is.
Uhm, if it's eleven jurors signing the note complaining that one juror–JUROR 17 won't deliberate….uh knock knock, hel-l-l-o….only you could be so stupid Stephens that you wouldn't know what the split was.
Hence, violation one.
2) Not supposed to single out any one juror for their views or their vote. Uhm….Einstein, see #1.
Violation two.
So it was impossible not to know BEFORE you gave the modified instruction, that you were giving it I-L-L-E-G-A-L-L-Y per the Arizona statute.
Yet, nothing like giving it the old prosecution push for your miniature perjury suborning death-titillated serpent driving the scat train. Isn't that right Stephens. Of course you had a lot of practice ignoring those rules, you did the same thing in the first trial. It must have made you all giggly and fuzzy inside, until they all still remained stubborn. Two tries at death and came up snake eyes. Probably went back to your chambers, threw your iPhone down and said, shit!
I think there may be enough for serious consideration to remand a retrial, that just due to the fact that almost until the actual start of the trial, the defense was under the impression that the prosecution was going to present evidence that the shot was first. In agreement with the defense. When this was changed, it turned the entire defense case inside out.
If this kind of surprise trick is pulled on a defense during the course of trial, it is known as sandbagging. Which at the minimum often requires stiff sanctions, and in the extreme, can force a mistrial depending on the seriousness. If this wasn't a case of sandbagging, I don't know what was. And it couldn't have been more serious.
What Martinez did was move the eight ball from in front of the pocket, when it was the defense's turn to shoot and win the game. And then put it BACK, using the gunshot against her–AFTER–he got the one qualifying aggravator through the perjury of Flores, with the Chronis hearing judge. They won a trial motion proffered to the judge based on a fraud on the court.
This has to be spelled out to perfection in the brief. And hopefully Nurmi filed a request for delay of trial motion at the very least, to preserve the outrage and the error. Any top defense attorney would have claimed this as blatant blindsiding, preventing Jodi from receiving an adequately prepared defense. It is inextricably linked to her version of events as self defense, and torpedoed the prosecution case. Any legal high court authority should be able to spot this immediately and conclude the reason was to sandbag the defense. And because the State's case was in deep, deep trouble. It won't pass the laugh test, let alone the smell test.
A defendant's rights must be preserved to have sufficient time to defend against the case as set out by a prosecution, to adequately prepare. It cannot be a guessing game that they have to figure out the evidence to be presented against their client at the start of trial. What if all prosecutors did that? It would be chaos. They could fix the evidence around the facts and lie to hearing officers in pre-trial hearings to win their motions.
A prosecution has a duty to be above board and seek only the truth, wherever it leads. It cannot play "gotcha" or hide-the-ball. Brady case law expressly forbids it. I think this is going to be a monumental consideration before the Supremes, if it gets that far. And if this is explained in precision-grade detail, this may be enough to flip the case in itself.
We know the autopsy photos were used strictly to ingrain animosity against Jodi with gratuitous graphics. It's just another of the litany of courtroom antics by an unhinged, deranged pros-e-tator, that wasn't reigned in by an inept judge.
The neck wound didn't look remotely as it was demonically planned, with intent to incite the desired reaction. And it was even left on the Elmo machine, projecting on the giant screen (which Martinez plotted) as he strolled up to the bench for one of the five or ten minute sidebar du jours of the hour.
When an autopsy is done, a "body block" is used. It is a block of hard plastic or rubber and it is placed under the back to make the chest protrude when the Y incision is made from the shoulders and the straight line down to the pelvis, resembling the letter "Y." This is to better aide the examination of the chest cavity and the organs of the subject.
When the back is raised, it automatically makes the chin fall back and the neck distends to it's fullest. This is what caused the large gaping appearance of the neck wound and was conveyed to the jurors as being the natural unenhanced condition of the sliced throat. And for them to assume it was without any manipulation to embellish it.
It was rotten, sick, prejudicial to the defendant being used in the manner and frequency that it was, and most judges would have prohibited this obvious gratuitous ploy. It is deserving of a Nancy Grace Award for being as revulsing as she is.
It was deliberate. It was of course designed to inflame the jury. And here's how that desired photo was achieved, to emblazon the most possible visceral resentment against Jodi into the memory of the jurors.
But this is also a grenade that exploded right in Martinez' crotch. Because it CONFIRMS something else. In the dragging photo, if he was at that angle and his throat was already cut, the same effect would have been INEVITABLE. And would have caused his head to fall back as we see above in the throat photo. It would have had to reveal at least the top of his forehead and it would be visible. It's proof POSITIVE that his throat was not cut in this photo!
In fact, if his head was not supported as it was on the autopsy table, it would have more than likely flopped back EVEN MORE at that angle he was laying. Because there was virtually nothing holding it intact in the front anymore. The weight of his head at that angle, gravity would have made it flop back almost like a "hinge.
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So the same evidence created by manipulation in the autopsy to create the worst possible image to implant on the jury, totally screws the prosecution's theory. Let anybody explain the impossibility of why that photo does not replicate what the body-block causes it to do on the autopsy table you T-Dogg boot licking oafs. Gravity doesn't work today and then not tomorrow. It isn't possible. That's why it's called an impossibility.
Another thing I think should weigh heavily with appeal judges, is the strained relationship (and that's an understatement) between Jodi and Nurmi, who was designated as her lead attorney. In her long letter to the blonde addlebrain, she details an extraordinary pattern of being ignored and rejected, even though she is forced by indigence to have him appointed to her.
If Nurmi will INDEMNIFY that he refused to take her calls for months at a time–and we know he petitioned the judge HIMSELF at least twice to be removed from her case–I don't see any way this can be ignored and considered to be effective counsel.
No defendant assigned to a public defender should have to beg to talk to her attorney. Especially when she is facing a death penalty trial! This goes beyond a normal relationship of any client–attorney, where they are excommunicated from having effective access and cannot be involved in evidence consultations and progression of her case.
It is an astounding twelve page account that she lays out, of being shunned by the very person who is supposed to be in concert with her at every stage and to be her strongest advocate.
Instead she is treated as a nuisance, to the point of his secretary being instructed to hang up on her. Despite this obvious dereliction of his duty to provide effective representation, old reliable still refused to let her have new counsel.
Even in FRONT OF THE JURY, he says that he doesn't like her nine days out of ten. There is no way this cannot almost guarantee a causable finding of ineffective counsel. She wanted to fire him. He wanted to withdraw. How can this not scream that she wasn't being vigorously, properly, and effectively represented? It's almost like he was her worst enemy.
If you haven't seen this, you need to read it. I would also make this a primary attachment to the appeal brief evidence appendix.
Click here to read Jodi's Motion to Change Counsel – (from October 2013)
The surest and rocket–fast way to get remand for a new trial is with the discovery of new evidence. Almost everything, where experts and private investigators and cracker jack attorneys take interest in looking for this new evidence, relates to money and how they will be compensated. No one likes to donate their time and expertise. It usually has a price tag.
But I have a way that one of they KEY pieces of evidence could be discovered and shake the very foundation of this case without the risk investment of ANY time or money, that wouldn't be repaid at least twenty times over. In fact, it would get world wide attention and instant fame for the individual.
It would assure sweat pouring off the faces of every one of those bastards at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. I'm talking about the gun. If that gun can be recovered, it will be on every major news station in the world.
If the word can be put out to interest somebody who is wealthy, and to incentivize them to offer a substantial enough reward for turning in of that gun, this will get the attention of the media. If this can get publicized to the extent that it becomes widely known to the public–and most important–to the people who may likely HAVE that gun or know where it is, such as gang members or where guns are most often found, this could PRODUCE that gun.
The benefactor could make it a no-questions-asked assurance for whoever turns it in. And that they will be assured of the money reward with no questions asked. We know that gun is somewhere, if not in the Yrkeka area, at least somewhere probably in California. It could be sitting unceremoniously in a pawn shop somewhere if the owner didn't correlate records with police accounts of stolen guns.
The gun would have to be identifiable as indisputably being the gun stolen from her grandfather to claim the reward. And perhaps her grandfather could provide the way to ascertain that it is the gun he owned. For example, if he recorded the serial number. California has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the U.S. and all handguns in California are supposed to be registered. If not in California's database–in the Department of Justice Automated Firearms System database.
If the publicity is great enough, everyone who has a .25 acp will be checking their gun's serial number or description specifics to see if it matches to get the reward. It could become known in all 50 states with the publicity a large enough reward would generate.
However no matter HOW much money is offered in the reward–and it should be substantial to get the attention we need it to have–not a single penny is risked or put out unless the authenticated gun is found and turned in.
When that happens, the benefits that will flow to the investor who put up the reward will be astronomical. Media will be be like a beehive of hornets around this person. They will be sought for paid interviews and recover well beyond their investment with the opportunities that will abound to them. It is a no–lose, huge–win proposition.
Even if–and we know this is not the case–but even if the gun is found and proves to MATCH the bullet used at the crime scene, the story would be equally as huge and the investor couldn't possibly lose in that eventuality either. If the gun is not found, the investor doesn't lose a penny. So how could a wise rich savvy individual turn this kind of a golden opportunity down?
When the ballistics tests of this gun reveal that the striations of a bullet fired from this gun do NOT match the striations of the bullet found in Alexander's jaw, the State's case for premeditation is exposed as a total fraud. It will instantly assure a new trial, because the guilt phase jury did not vote unanimously for felony murder. The felony murder charge would not have depended on the fact that she stole the gun from her grandfather. Because that charge relied on her taking ALEXANDER'S gun.
But FIVE didn't vote for felony murder. They voted ONLY for premeditated murder based on the theft of the gun from Yreka. Which was the heart of the prosecution's case. Martinez stated outright that she stole the gun. Five jurors didn't buy that story that she shot Travis with his own gun. They convicted her only on the belief she stole her grandfather's gun, brought it to Mesa with the intention to kill Travis.
If we find that gun, we would have incontrovertible proof she didn't use, steal, or bring that gun from Yreka. The appeals court would have no choice but to overturn the verdict and remand it for retrial based on new evidence. It would be guaranteed.
The appeals panel couldn't possibly say that wouldn't likely have made a difference in achieving a unanimous verdict of premeditation. If it only changed ONE mind out of 5, the jury is hung and the worst possible result would be a lesser conviction.
What a day that would be. For everybody, including the lucky and smart investor who would put up this reward. It would be like a smoking gun that proved that Obama's birth certificate was a fake.
What we need to do is find a wealthy individual who can recognize this opportunity.
Nurmi and Willmott graduated from a 2 on a five scale in the first trial, to a 3.8 in the second trial. But that wasn't the money shot. The first trial verdict is the verdict that has to be overturned. And other than the timely filing of motions and objections preserving the record for appeal, that performance was abysmal.
If Nurmi just fluffed off the opportunity to bring back Fonseca and Pseudonym just recently when it would been a lambasting with what they probably found on the hard drive, and then Fonseca would have tore up trainee-doc, I would be up in arms. It would have been the testimony that Martinez was dreading–his worst nightmare. And what the hell happened, I'm just baffled.
If Nurmi didn't get something that made it worth giving up all that potential testimony, that's more than enough right there for me to UNQUESTIONABLY and categorically cement the case that he is TOTALLY ineffective counsel. I was looking forward to it more than any testimony in the whole trial. I'm just dumbfounded as to what happened. Why do you let Martinez off the meat hook just when the proof of perjury and Alexander's cache of vile secrets is about to be revealed? I really want to know that answer.
But right now, we need to take that record–which is the only thing that's important at this stage–and turn that crapfest of a six month violation of Jodi's constitutional rights, into a new trial.
Where deja vu all over again will not be so pretty for the Martinez family of criminals, if they even have the balls to retry it. We have to insure that they have to make that choice.
Let's really rock their world. I say let's put an APB out on that gun, find it.
And let's get this party started!
Debra, I hope you end up owning Maricopa County. Sell the M.C.A.O to ISIS. Put those Montgomery and Martinez duo POS carnivores in the back of a C-130 and drop them out over Mosul.
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Onto my review of Julep in general... Formula of their polishes seems to be pleasant, a little on the thinner side, yet still very opaque and only requires 2-3 coats. The brush size is nice, I'd say it is slightly larger than an Essie brush, and there were no stray hairs.
While I like the brush, the brush stem is really long. This allows lots of polish to collect on the brush stem, and drip down onto your brush. Using Hayden was the first time I've ever dripped polish on anything- fortunately it was just on my hand (phew!). I do realize that the brush stem length is directly related to how tall and slender Julep's bottles are, which leads me to my next topic...
While I think the tall, slender Julep bottles are aesthetically pleasing, I find them to ultimately fall in the "cons" list. A tall, slender bottle requires a long and annoying brush stem, and it also leaves you with literally half the amount of polish that you would find in your average full size polish. This wouldn't bother me if the price reflected the polish size- at $14 for a half bottle of polish, I don't picture myself ever purchasing these polishes outside of the Maven program.
I may be tempted to purchase another Maven box in the future, but only if I am really intrigued by the colors. I did skip the February's box because I wasn't really digging the color selections (copper, gold & navy? No thanks) but I'm not going to cancel my account just yet.


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Northumberland has been shortlisted for a major tourism prize – but it needs the public's support to help it win.
The county is in the running to be crowned Best Domestic Destination in the Family Traveller Awards 2015.
It comes a month after the Secret Kingdom was named as a finalist for the Best UK Holiday County/Destination in the prestigious 2015 British Travel Awards, with the winner announced in November.
The Family Traveller Awards, in association with Family and Friends Railcard, are the first of their kind and have been devised by Family Traveller magazine and familytraveller.com to recognise the best in family travel.
They are now open to reader and public votes and Northumbrians and fans of the county are being encouraged to show their support by voting online at www.familytravellerawards.com
Each voter will automatically be entered into a prize draw to win an all-inclusive, luxury family holiday to destinations including Mauritius, Thailand and Florida.
Jude Leitch, director of Northumberland Tourism, said: "It is a fantastic achievement for Northumberland to be nominated in two major tourism awards this year.
"Tourism is important for Northumberland and being shortlisted for the Family Traveller Awards is further proof that Northumberland is an increasingly popular destination for visitors."
The county is up against Brighton & Hove, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, North Norfolk, Cardiff Bay, Devon, Cairngorm Mountains, Argyllshire, Guernsey and the Isle of Wight in the Best Domestic Destination category. The winner will be announced in September.


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I have a whole bunch of mottoes, but one of the front-runners is this one from composer Virgil Thomson:
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.So this evening I tried to figure out how Aquacise works.
It sounds simple enough: Go to pool. Change into bathing suit. Jump in pool and flail about for a while, trying to keep time to the music.
The problem, as I see it, is that I am an overly buoyant goddess. It's hard to keep time when Your feet won't stay on the bottom of the pool.
Now, about that pool noodle...
When warmups were over and we started into the deep-water part of the class, we each were given a flexible cylindrical fiendish thingie to use in the exercises. If this had been a judo tournament or a rodeo, I would have been eliminated in the first round because that razzafracking flotation device kept dumping Me. When it wasn't sneaking out from underneath and bobbing to the surface while I fell sideways in the opposite direction, it had Me doing involuntary ballet moves en pointe or trying very hard not to stick a foot in My ear.
Maybe I'll just skip tries #2 and #3 and go straight to rock climbing or biathlon instead.


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As always the 15th of the month is a special day around DPE, and one of those things that makes the 15th special is that we get to announce our favorite images from the DPE Flickr Pool.
And this months picks are:
Congratulations to Talke Photography & Jan!
If you would like to enter for a chance to be featured next month, simply submit your images to the DPE Flickr group.
The DPE Flickr group is approaching 6,000 images (almost 1,500 new images in the last month!) submitted and we are over 600 members!!! Very, very cool!
If you want to be inspired, make sure to check the submission in this Flickr group. The quality of the images is outstanding.
Good luck!


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Let's Go to the Videotapeby Paul Tarricone, Assoc. Editor;
Serial Information: Civil Engineering—ASCE, 1994, Vol. 64, Issue 6, Pg. 42-45
Document Type: Feature article
Illustrating a design concept to educate and soften the resistance of community groups, environmentalists, government regulators and funding agencies is not a new idea. But the state of the art is continuing its evolution from drawings, pictures and models to computer renderings and videotape — the most advanced of which merges computer images with reality in the same frame. Advocates of this cutting-edge technology argue that traditional design illustration techniques do not offer the same perspective that renderings and videotape do. Design visualization tools, then, can be used by engineers and their clients to market projects to a wary public. For example, computerized renderings have allowed computer experts to superimpose light rail stations and rail cars over photographs of existing conditions to let citizens see exactly what a project would like from their own backyard. Less sophisticated techniques include walk-throughs and aerial fly-overs, which give audiences a sense of the scope of a project. This article focuses on a number of case studies, such as light rail extensions in Denver and Oakland, new school construction in South Bend, Ind., a Wal-Mart construction project in California and highway expansions in Tampa and Las Vegas.
Subject Headings: Computer models | Railroad trains | Railroad stations | Infrastructure construction | Load and resistance factor design | Professional societies | Light rail transit | Case studies | United States | Denver | Colorado | California | Tampa | Florida | Las Vegas | Nevada
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Delivering cost-effective justice services in a State the size of Western Australia is extremely challenging.
Traditionally, parties involved in a court case (including witnesses, parties, lawyers and judicial officers like judges, magistrates and JPs) had to be physically present in the one location for the matter to proceed. This can be very expensive in terms of time, travel and accommodation costs.
The District Court is one of the courts in the justice system in Western Australia that uses video conferencing systems to help resolve some of these problems. This technology provides interactive video and audio communications between parties in different locations.
The District Court routinely uses video link facilities for hearings involving circuit locations. It also uses video links for routine criminal hearings to avoid the cost and inconvenience of moving persons in custody from a detention facility to court and back, for what is sometimes a very short hearing.
The Court has also established a remote witness room for video links in the District Court Building. This can be used for circuit trials to obviate the need for a witness to travel to the circuit locations. The room number is 123 and is located on the first floor, adjacent to Court 1.1. The District Court Building video link room can be booked using the usual Video Link Booking Request form
In appropriate situations, a party to proceedings can seek an order from the Court pursuant to Evidence Act 1906 (WA) s121 that a witness give evidence at a trial by video link.
The Court's policy on witnesses giving evidence by video link is set out in Practice Direction GEN 1 of 2011 - Use of Video Link Facilities. The Practice Direction imposes an obligation on a party who has obtained an order for the use of video link facilities to use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the video link facility is one set out in the Court's List of Preferred Video Link Facilities.
The Practice Direction also sets out some specific obligations to ensure that the dignity and solemnity of the court is maintained throughout the reception of the evidence by video link.
Once an order has been obtained for a witness to give evidence by video link, the party who has obtained the order will need to make the necessary administrative arrangements with the Court. To do so, the party will need to provide a Video Link Booking Request to the Court, not less than 14 days before the date of the hearing in which the evidence is to be taken. There are two forms:
The District Court does not charge parties for the use of video link facilities in criminal matters Where the venue at which the witness, party or practitioner will appear is not on the Court's List of Preferred Video Link Facilities (essentially court houses and police multi function facilities), then any charges levied by that venue will remain the responsibility of the party making the application.
For all other matters where an order has been obtained for the use of video link facilities, the use of the facilities are funded by a user-pays system. The fees for a video link are set out in the Evidence (Video and Audio Links Fees and Expenses) Regulations 1999 (WA), as follows (current as at 8 August 2011):
One invoice only will be issued for all facilities within the Court's List of Preferred Video Link Facilities. The invoice will be issued by the Registry of the Courthouse at which the hearing took place.
For more information, contact the Court's Technology Officer on (08) 9425 2278 or Facsimile: (08) 9425 2268
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Dr. Ronald J. Polinsky, Jr. joined Berks Cardiology in 2006. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Nuclear Cardiology.
Dr. Polinsky was raised in Columbia, MD, and earned his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, from where he graduated magna cum laude. He later received his medical degree at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ. His postgraduate training included Internal Medicine Residency at University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, and a Fellowship in Cardiology at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA.
I view cardiology as an exciting field which is constantly searching for novel ways to improve a patient's quality of life. Of particular interest, are emerging technologies which allow earlier diagnosis and less invasive treatment methods for relief of cardiovascular symptoms. I urge each of my patients to enjoy life's indulgences in moderation, get plenty of sleep and exercise, and listen to their body. ~Ronald J. Polinsky, Jr., MD, FACC
Dr. Polinsky is married with two children. His hobbies include running, cooking, and spending time with his family.
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"No Siesta" is perhaps one of the most seminal and hardest, long, mixed routes in the Alps and its difficulty has been confirmed by the likes of repeat ascensionists Marko Lukic and Robert Jasper to name a few. After having a very abbortive attempt on the line this time last year, due to nasty conditions very low on the route, Jon and myself were really motivated to get it done.
Although conditions on the Jorasses this year aren't exactly perfect, especially on the first third of the face, the plan was to get on it almost as soon as i arrived back in the valley. Unfortunately however, i came down with a nasty chest infection for a week, and had to spend 7 beautiful blue sky days sitting inside popping pills and hearing about what everyone else was doing.
Eventually, after letting the illness have its time we felt we could get stuck in, and amazingly the weather was still on our side. Once again we found ourselves bivvying half an hours walk from the schrund, gazing up at without-a-doubt the most beautiful and striking face in the Alps. I truly believe that if the Grande Jorasses north face was in Alaska or the Himalaya it would still be a standout feature, it has something unique and special about its broad shape, splitting spurs, dark recesses and crenelated summit ridge.
The night before we left Jon had received a text from our friend Korra Pesce letting us know that him and his partner Jeff Mercier had at the last minute also decided to go for No Siesta, so stood at the bottom i scoured the route for signs of them, and when it got dark enough i could make out two tiny pricks of light inching their way up the crux pitches. I always think there's something awesome about watching lights on a big face like that, it looks so strung out and involved, two tiny pricks of light amidst a huge vast blackness, it always seems scary to spectate, but when you're one of the pricks of light, it usually feels manageable and under control, a case of seeing the big picture being misleading.
After a while watching them, we were both slightly horrified by the fact that it was gone 10pm and they were still going, this being their second and crux day on the route. When their progress finally stopped, Jon received a text from Korra saying "slow progress, bring big balls and some extra cams.....". Although humerous, i have to say this was also slightly worrying, coming from Frances two strongest mixed climbers, M14 arms and definitive wads.
We got off to possibly the worst start, or none-start in the world the next morning. 4a.m. and bags on backs, Jon went to put his crampons on only to see that one of his toe bails was completely missing! after a hopeless search we accepted that it could be anywhere along the Leshaux glacier or Mer De Glace. Shocked and depressed i curled back up in my sleeping bag, and Jon headed off back down to town, where he would get hold of a new bail before walking back up and starting again the next day. Apart from being hard on psyche, it could have been a lot worse were it not for Jon's amazing girlfriend Sandra who met him on the Mer de Glace with a new crampon bail and some nice food.
Fast forward many hours, and we wake up once again and head up towards the schrund. I like to talk about routes in a more photo-orientated way, otherwise i feel myself getting lost in waffle, not able to prioritise events and feelings in to elequont text. So here we go:
|This is where we joined No Siesta again, around 150 metres over the schrund.
|Horrible slabby traverse on black ice.
|We moved together up all this section in a 150 metre pitch. Killer rope drag and a big bag for the second made things tiring.
|Once deposited on to this small snowfield, we got our first gaze at some of the more meaty climbing. The next few pitches go up the cracked rock just left of the compact headwall on the far right. Steep!
|Teaching myself to aid climb on one of the route's cruxes. This pitch is given A2, and i climbed it with a mixture of DIY aiding and some exciting free climbing.
|The pitch off the bivi was hard to get in to to begin with, but after 10 metres i felt in the zone again.
|The pitch was a full 70 metres, with the rope tugging tight on Jon just as i found somewhere to belay. We took 70 metre ropes on the route as we had heard that many pitches were huge.
|Starting another monster 70 metre pitch. These pitches were all absolutely brilliant climbing.
|Getting dry and steep. Jon leads a very loose small pitch on to the headwall.
|Same pitch.
|Seconding with the big bag was pretty torturous, on both the steep and the less steep pitches.
|A fun torqueing crack on the "Traverse Luminese".
|Steep! Here Jon's standing on some big loose flakes directly above my head.
|Good exposure.
|Solid rock at last!
|A fun feety pitch, with the top of the Walker Spur on the left.
|Jon on one of the cruxes.
|A mixture of free and aid.
|We brought a pair of jumars on the route, which i've never ever packed on an alpine route before. We only used them on two pitchs so i'm undecided on whether they were "weight well spent".
A terrifying loose pitch followed, and soon after that it got dark and we found a place to bivi. Smaller than the night before but thankfully partly chopped out by Korra and Jeff, we melted snow in to the night.
|The next morning.
|A fun technical pitch for breakfast.
|Ice again!
|This pitch summed up the route. It looked about 30 metres but turned out to be a full 70 and a little harder than expected.
|Beautiful climbing.
|But again, much longer than it looks!
|The route goes out with a bang. A totally awesome steep goullotte. (well actually theres still quite abit more after this pitch...)
|First sun in three days!
I strongly believe that this was the first British ascent of "No Siesta". There has been another claim which would say otherwise, this claim however has an enormous amount of doubt surrounding it. I think that's as far as i'll take the topic.
Of course stay tuned for some great shots here also - http://www.alpineexposures.com/blogs/chamonix-conditions .


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Saturday, 30 August 2014
Veggie Challenge
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Your veggies look real good. Will they have time to mature now before cold weather? I've never eaten raw beets, but with red wine vinegar they sound o.k. I love pickled beats...have the tried that?ReplyDelete
I agree with you that it has been a challenging year for growing veg. floods in the Spring; really hot and dry in July, really cold and wet in August. some amazing storms; hail; thunder and lightning; what else can happen?? Try pairing your beetroot with Balsamic vinegar and chopped chives...ReplyDelete
My beetroot harvest has been non-existent this year but I have sown some late ones which have now popped through. The courgettes are slowing down now - that picture of yours almost looks like a melon.ReplyDelete
I don't know if it is just me but each year seems to bring a fresh challenge and some nice surprises too though.ReplyDelete
Your cold weather has moved here :) We haven't had so much rain and cold day in decades. I gave up growing Pak Choi because of it's early bolting. I've sown them for years and never got the chance to try them.ReplyDelete
Beets always look so funny growing out of the ground like that. I have to fight the urge to stick them back in. My tomatoes had a horrible foliar disease and I'm waiting for the last ones to ripen before ripping them out. They look wretched. Your courgettes look wonderful!ReplyDelete
That's very well growing vegetables! Hope you have good harvest!ReplyDelete
Of our beet row, we have 3. Not because of pests or disease, but because someone forgot that he had planted seeds when he cultivated ditches. We ate lots and lots of red beets when I was a kid. My favorite was boiled with lots of butter, salt and pepper. Mom always pickled and canned them. She said that they had to be pickled to can them. Not always my fav.ReplyDelete
I envy you those beetroot, I had problems with germination this year and the one which did germinate hasn't grown very well so I'm left without. Still, there's always next year.ReplyDelete
I'm surprised that vegetables do so well there where it's cool. How about warm weather veg like tomatoes and peppers, do they grow well for you?ReplyDelete


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Ohio State hits the road this week in search of its first win in Big Ten play. The Buckeyes, 3-2 on the year and 0-2 in the Big Ten, are coming off a 24-13 setback at the hands of Wisconsin in Columbus. The loss was the second in the row for Jim Tressel's Buckeyes who are trying to avoid their first 0-3 league start since 1988.
Iowa enters the game with a 3-2 record, including a 1-1 mark in conference action. The Hawkeyes were idle last week after defeating Michigan State two weeks ago 38-16 in Iowa City. Their losses have come at the hands of Arizona State and Michigan, both contested on the road.
This will be the Buckeyes first trip to Iowa City since the 2000 season. The Buckeyes and Hawkeyes did not meet in either 2001 or 2002, but they shared the Big Ten title in the latter year with identical 8-0 records. The two teams renewed their rivalry last year with Ohio State prevailing 19-10 in Columbus.
Saturday's game in sold out Kinnick Stadium (70,397) will be televised by ABC-TV and will kickoff at 3:36 p.m. EDT. Brad Nessler, Bob Griese and Lynn Swann will call the game.
As always, WBNS Radio will carry the game on the statewide Ohio State radio network with network programming beginning an hour before kickoff. Paul Keels, Jim Lachey and Jim Karsatos will describe the action.
The Buckeyes will depart Rickenbacker Airport Friday via private charter and will stay at the Sheraton in Cedar Rapids. There will not be a walk through. The team and official party will return to Columbus immediately after the game.
Ohio State opened the season ranked ninth in both the ESPN/USA TODAY and the Associated Press preseason polls. The Buckeyes, who climbed to sixth in the former and seventh in the latter following a 3-0 start, are 23rd and 25th in the voting this week.
The Buckeyes are hoping to get back into the win column and keep themselves in the mix in the Big Ten race.
"We have our work cut out for us against a good Iowa team," Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, said. "We played hard against Wisconsin. We need to cut down on our mistakes and become a much more consistent football team on both sides of the ball."
The Buckeyes enter the week second in the Big Ten in passing defense and fourth in total defense, allowing an average of 314.4 yards per game in the latter category. The Hawkeyes are sixth at 327 yards per game in total defense.
Nugent sets career field goal mark: Ohio State's sensational senior kicker Mike Nugent has set yet another record. With a pair of field goals last week against Wisconsin (from 42 and 55 yards out), Nugent has become the school's all-time leader in field goals made with 60, breaking the previous record of 59 that had belonged to Dan Stultz (1996-2000). It is the 17th school record for Nugent, who now has 301 career points and is just the fourth player in Ohio State history to top the 300-point plateau. Nugent needs 48 points to surpass Pete Johnson (348 points, 1973-76) as the school's all-time point leader.
On the year, Nugent, a first-team All-American in 2002, is 12-of-14 in the field goal department and 11-for-11 in PATs. His lone two FG misses came from 53 yards out in the season opener against Cincinnati and from 40 yards away in the overtime loss at Northwestern. Both were just wide to the right.
Nugent, a Lou Groza Award candidate, is the most accurate kicker in Ohio State history with a conversion rate of 80 percent (60 of 75). The Buckeyes' co-captain has been especially accurate the past three seasons, hitting 53 of 61 attempts (87 percent).
With Saturday's 55-yard field goal on the final play of the first half, Mike Nugent has now hit six-of-seven FGAs from 50 or more yards, including three of four this year. Nooge's only miss in that span was a 53-yard attempt against Cincinnati that was wide to the right. Nugent's 55-yard kick against the Badgers tied his career long, set earlier this year when he won the Marshall game as time expired in a thrilling 24-21 OSU victory.
For the third time in five games, Ohio State kicker Mike Nugent has been selected as the Big Ten's Special Teams Player of the Week. Nugent was honored again this week on the heels of a 42 and a 55-yard field goal against Wisconsin. The two treys give him 60 career field goals, making him Ohio State's all-time leader in that department. Nugent also was selected following the Marshall and North Carolina State games. He kicked the game winner in the former (55 yards as time expired) and was five-for-five in the latter.
Junior linebacker A.J. Hawk recorded a career-high 20 tackles against Wisconsin this past week. Hawk was credited with eight solos and 12 assists. He also recorded a tackle-for-loss and forced a Badger fumble. Hawk's previous high had been 14 tackles against Northwestern this year. He is the ninth player in Ohio State history to have 20 or more tackles in a game and the first since Chris Spielman had 29 against Michigan in 1986. Spielman and Tom Cousineau (29 against Penn State in 1978) share the school single-game record.
"A.J. Hawk is a football player," praised Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel. "He comes to play every game. The great thing about him is that as soon as one play is over, he is ready for the next. Nothing bothers him."
Hawk was recently announced as a candidate for the Lott Award as the top all-around defensive player in college football. He has also been nominated for the Butkus and Lombardi Awards.
The 6-1, 238-pound Hawk leads the Big Ten in average tackles per game with an average of 12.8 per outing.
Hard-hitting strong safety Donte Whitner made his presence felt in the Wisconsin game with a career best 17 tackles. The Buckeye sophomore had 11 solo stops against the Badgers and now has a team-high 32 solos on the year. Whitner is the Buckeyes' second leading tackler with 43 total participations.
Freshman Ted Ginn Jr. scored his first collegiate touchdown Saturday, returning a punt 65 yards to pay dirt against Wisconsin. "It was a great feeling, something I have waited for my entire life," said Ginn, a world-class sprinter. Ginn prepped at Glenville High School in suburban Cleveland. The last true freshman to score a touchdown on a punt return was Donte Whitner who recovered a blocked punt in the end zone against Iowa last year. Whitner also prepped at Glenville.
Five games into the season, the Buckeyes are averaging 22.9 points and 306 yards per game. Against Wisconsin's rugged defense, the Buckeyes were held to 224 total yards – 125 passing and 99 on the ground. On the year, the Buckeyes are rushing for 111.8 yards per game and throwing for 195.
In the passing department, sophomore quarterback Justin Zwick has thrown for 946 yards and completed 51.4 percent of his passes. Split end Santonio Holmes has been on the receiving end of 29 of those passes and leads the team in touchdown receptions with four. Flanker Bam Childress and split end Roy Hall have 16 and 12 catches, respectively.
Senior Lydell Ross continues to lead the Buckeyes in rushing with 343 yards and is averaging 4.1 yards per carry and has scored three touchdowns. Freshman Antonio Pittman has chipped in with 155 yards and is averaging 6.5 yards per attempt. Pittman turned in a career-long 43 yard run against Wisconsin.
Defensively, the Buckeyes are allowing 19.6 points and 314 yards per game. The Buckeyes' first five opponents are throwing for 167.8 yards per game and rushing for 146.6.
Linebacker A.J. Hawk leads the Buckeyes in tackles with 64. Strong safety Donte Whitner, a true sophomore, has 43 and leads the team in solos with 32 – one more than Hawk. Linebacker Bobby Carpenter checks in with 41 tackles.
Turnovers continue to plague the Buckeyes. OSU turned the ball over twice against Wisconsin, giving the Buckeyes 12 miscues on the year, compared to seven takeaways.
"We need to do a much better job in that area," Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, said. "We can't expect to lose the turnover battle and win the football game."
OHIO STATE COACH Jim Tressel
Now in his fourth year at the helm of the Buckeyes, Jim Tressel has compiled an impressive 35-9 record during his stay in Columbus. Included in that figure is a 19-7 mark in Big Ten play and a 16-2 record in non-conference action. His teams have been especially successful at home, winning 22 of 25 starts.
After a 7-5 record in 2001, Tressel led the Buckeyes to a perfect 14-0 record, a share of the Big Ten title and a consensus national championship in 2002. He was the Football Writers choice as national coach of the year in 2002. In 2003, the Buckeyes posted an 11-2 record and played in a BCS game for the second-consecutive year.
Now in his 19th season as a head coach, the 51-year-old Tressel has compiled a lifetime record of 170-66-2. During his stay with the Buckeyes, he has posted a 14-5 record against teams in the Top 25 and a 5-1 slate against teams in the Top 10. Masterful in close games, he is 16-6 in games decided by a touchdown or less, including a 13-2 mark in the last 15 games. Each of his last two teams finished the season ranked in the Top 5 (1st in 2002 and 4th last year).
Prior to coming to Ohio State, Tressel spent 15 years as the head coach at Division I-AA Youngstown State, where he won four national championships and appeared in the playoffs 10 times.
A crowd of 105,090 was on hand for the Wisconsin game, the fifth largest crowd in Ohio Stadium history. In three home games this year, the Buckeyes have drawn a total of 314,316, an average of 104,772 in the famed horseshoe-shaped structure.
Ohio State leads the series 42-13-3 and has a 16-5-2 edge in the 23 games that have been played in Iowa City. The Buckeyes have won the last eight games in the series dating back to a 16-9 loss to the Hawkeyes in Columbus in 1991. OSU has a 6-0-1 record in its last seven games in Kinnick Stadium, last losing there in 1983. The Buckeyes downed the Hawkeyes 19-10 last year in the first meeting between the two teams in three seasons.
The host Buckeyes jumped out to an early 10-3 lead, upped that margin to 17-3 after three quarters and went on to record their sixth victory of the year in seven tries. Mike Nugent's 53-yard field goal put OSU up 3-0 and Michael Jenkins' 54-yard punt return for a touchdown, and Nugent's PAT, made it 10-0. It was Jenkins' first career punt return. The special teams also accounted for the Buckeyes only other touchdown of the day, a blocked punt by Roy Hall that Donte Whitner recovered in the end zone. Ohio State's final two points came on a safety that gave the Buckeyes some breathing room with 3:03 to play.
In 1973, sophomore tailback Archie Griffin set an Ohio State single-game rushing record with 246 yards on 30 carries in a 55-13 win over the Hawkeyes. That record was later broken by Keith Byars (174 yards vs. Illinois in 1984) and Eddie George (314 yards vs. Illinois in 1995), but still stands as the third-best effort in Ohio State annals and the best ever by Griffin – college football's only two-time Heisman Trophy winner. In 1988, Iowa quarterback Chuck Hartlieb filled the air with footballs and threw for 360 yards and a pair of touchdowns as the two teams battled to a 24-all tie in Iowa City. Other memorable efforts include 319 yards passing and three touchdowns by OSU's Joe Germaine in 1998 and nine receptions for 159 yards by Iowa tight end Marv Cook in a 1987 upset of the Buckeyes.
All-American Mike Nugent continues to lead the Big Ten in several categories including kick scoring (9.4 ppg.), field goals made per game (2.40) and field goal percentage (85.7). He is tied for the lead in PAT percentage at 100.0 with a perfect 11-of-11 and is second in the league in overall scoring at 9.4 points a game. Linebacker A.J. Hawk is the league leader in average tackles per game. The Buckeye junior has 64 tackles on the year and is averaging 12.8 stops per game. His 64 tackles is topped only by Kyle Killion of Indiana and Tim McGarigle of Northwestern, both of whom have 66 in six games. Split end Santonio Holmes is fourth in both receiving yards per game (92.8) and receptions per game (5.8). Holmes, who twice this year has had double figures in receptions, is averaging 16.0 yards per catch. Senior Maurice Hall leads the Big Ten in kickoff returns with an average of 34.0 on five tries.
Kicker Mike Nugent is one of several Ohio State players who are in the running for major individual awards in 2004. Nugent, a leading candidate for the Lou Groza Award, is joined by center Nick Mangold (Rimington Award), tailback Lydell Ross (Doak Walker Award), linebacker Bobby Carpenter (Butkus Award), linebacker A.J. Hawk (Butkus, Lombardi, Lott and Walter Camp Awards), defensive end Simon Fraser (Ted Hendricks Award), cornerback Dustin Fox (Thorpe Award) and flanker Santonio Holmes (Biletnikoff Award).
Jim Tressel's Buckeye teams have won 13 of the last 15 games decided by seven points or less. That ledger includes victories in four of five overtime games, one of which was the 2002 National Championship game. During his stay at Ohio State, Tressel is 16-6 in games decided by a touchdown or less and the Buckeyes are 24-2 when leading at the half and 26-3 when ahead at the start of the fourth quarter.
Flanker Santonio Holmes caught 10 passes for 99 yards and a touchdown at Northwestern. He also returned a punt 63 yards for a score against the Wildcats to record his fifth multiple touchdown game as a Buckeye. Holmes had 10 receptions earlier this year in the Buckeyes' win over Marshall. He racked up 224 receiving yards in that game, the second highest total in Ohio State history, surpassed only by Terry Glenn's 253 against Pitt in 1995 and the most ever by an OSU receiver in Ohio Stadium. His 80-yard TD catch in the Marshall game ties for the third longest pass play in Ohio State history. Holmes leads the Buckeyes in receiving with 29 catches for 464 yards and four touchdowns and has caught passes in 11 consecutive games.
Senior wide receiver Bam Childress has 11 catches in his last three games, including a career-best five at North Carolina State. Childress has 16 receptions for 193 yards in the Buckeyes' first five games. The 5-10, 185-pound Childress had 16 career receptions prior to this year. The elusive receiver, who starts at flanker, is still waiting for his first collegiate touchdown. He had one called back in the opener against Cincinnati.
The Buckeyes first fielded a football team in 1890, compiling a 1-3 record in their first season. From that modest beginning, Ohio State has gone on to post an all-time record of 760-296-53 in 114 years and has experienced just 11 losing seasons.
Ohio State has an all-time record of 352-102-25 in Ohio Stadium (opened in 1922). The Buckeyes are 18-1 at home since the beginning of the 2002 season and are 22-3 in three years under head coach Jim Tressel.
Seniors Mike Nugent, Lydell Ross, Simon Fraser and Dustin Fox have been selected by their teammates as the 2004 captains. Nugent is the first kicker to be chosen since Tom Skladany in 1976. Fox is the fourth member of his family to captain the Buckeyes, joining uncles Mark Stier (1968), Ken Kuhn (1975) and Tim Fox (1975).
Fifth-year seniors Kyle Turano (punter, Worthington Kilbourne), Roshawn Parker (tailback, Columbus Eastmoor), Mike DeMaria (tailback, Oregon Cardinal Stritch) and John McLaughlin (offensive tackle, Cleveland St. Ignatius) have been awarded scholarships for the 2004 academic year.
There are two new faces on the Ohio State staff this year. Darrell Hazell has taken over as coach of the wide receivers and John Peterson is the new tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator. Hazell, a graduate of Muskingum College, comes to Ohio State from Rutgers. Peterson, a former OSU offensive lineman (1987-90), has spent the past five seasons at Miami of Ohio. Additionally, Dick Tressel has replaced Tim Spencer as running backs coach. Tressel has spent the past three seasons as associate director of football operations for the Buckeyes.
Starting cornerback Dustin Fox, who broke his left forearm in the first quarter of the Marshall game, is expected to return to action this week after missing three games. The senior co-captain had started 30 consecutive games before being sidelined. Junior linebacker Mike D'Andrea will miss the remainder of the season because of a knee injury. D'Andrea played in the Buckeyes first four games and had 13 tackles, including a team-high 3.5 tackles-for-loss. This is the second straight year that the Avon Lake, Ohio-product has had his season cut short. He missed the final three games of last year with a shoulder injury.
Ohio State's highly touted freshman class is making its presence felt. Thus far eight members of the class have seen action in the Buckeyes' first three games. They are: Ted Ginn Jr. (WR), Rory Nicol (TE), Antonio Pittman (TB), Devon Lyons (WR), Curtis Terry (ST), Vernon Gholston (DE), Marcus Freeman (LB) and Sirjo Welch (ST).
Six current players have fathers who played for Ohio State: offensive guard Doug Datish (Mike Datish, offensive lineman), fullback Dionte Johnson (Thomas "Pepper" Johnson, linebacker), cornerback Shaun Lane (Garcia Lane, cornerback), linebacker Ryan Lukens (Bill Lukens, offensive guard), flanker Kyle Ruhl (Bruce Ruhl, defensive back), fullback Stan White Jr. (Stan White, linebacker).
Iowa is 3-2 overall and 1-1 in the Big Ten and will be trying to protect a 15-game home win streak Saturday against Ohio State. The Hawkeyes, who are celebrating the 75th anniversary of Kinnick Stadium, have posted home wins against Kent State (39-7), Iowa State (17-10) and Michigan State (38-16). The losses have come on the road at Arizona State (44-7) and Michigan (30-17).
The Hawkeyes are averaging 23.6 points and 312.2 yards of total offense per game. That breaks down to 92.8 yards rushing and 219.4 yards passing. Quarterback Drew Tate has completed 65.6 percent of his passes (86-of-131) for 1,010 yards with six interceptions to go with six scoring strikes. His favorite target is Ed Hinkel, who in five games has 23 catches for 317 yards and four touchdowns. He is averaging 63.4 yards per game. There is a bevy of receivers as 15 players have caught passes for the Hawkeyes this season. The other two touchdown grabs have been to the hands of Matt Melloy, who played in the season opener before getting sidelined with injury. He returned to action against Michigan State. Jermelle Lewis is the leading ground gainer with 57 carries for 200 yards and one TD.
On defense, Iowa is allowing 21.4 points and 327.0 total yards per contest. Opponents are running for 85.2 yards and passing for 241.8 yards per game. Iowa has 10 sacks totaling 55 yards and have intercepted opposing quarterbacks three times, while benefiting from five fumbles. Opponents are converting 38 percent on third and fourth down, 31/81 on third and 3/8 on fourth. Chad Greenway has 50 tackles, including 24 solos, to lead the team. He has five tackles-for-losses of 14 yards, two sacks and a pair of the team's three interceptions. Abdul Hodge has 43 tackles and has recovered one fumble. Half of Jonathan Babineaux's 18 tackles have been behind the line of scrimmage for losses of 31 yards. He also has a team-high three sacks.
Field goal kicker Kyle Schlicher is 5-of-7 and has made his last three tries, including a season long of 39 yards. His two misses are from 44 yards. David Bradley is averaging 40.5 yards per punt, including four touchbacks and seven inside the 20-yard line.
Iowa had a bye week last Saturday as Ohio State played host to Wisconsin in Columbus. The week before the Hawkeyes claimed a 38-16 victory at home against Michigan State. Drew Tate finished the game with 340 yards and a touchdown in going 25-for-36 and tied for the 15th-best performance by an Iowa quarterback. The Hawkeyes finished with a season-high 464 yards on offense. Jermelle Lewis carried three times for 49 yards and a score while Marques Simmons added 47 yards on 13 carries and a pair of TDs as the offense added 124 yards to Tate's passing total. The Iowa defense allowed 204 yards rushing and 245 yards passing.
Kirk Ferentz (Connecticut, 1978) is in his sixth season as the head football coach at Iowa and is 35-31. Combined with a three-year stint as the head coach at Maine from 1990-92, his career record is 47-52. In 1999, Ferentz's first year at Iowa, the Hawkeyes were 1-10 overall and 0-8 in the Big Ten. Just three years later in 2002, Ferentz had guided the Hawkeyes to an 11-2 record and went perfect in eight conference games to share the Big Ten championship with Ohio State. It was the first conference championship for Iowa since 1990 and the 11 wins were the most in the program's history. Last season, Ferentz and the Hawkeyes finished 10-3 giving the Hawkeyes 21 wins in two seasons, the most of any team in school history.
The Buckeyes return home Saturday (10/23) to face the Indiana Hoosiers. Kickoff is set for 12:10 p.m. EDT on ESPN Regional Television. It is Homecoming weekend on the Ohio State campus and planned activities include the annual Captains' Breakfast on Saturday morning and reunions of the 1949 and 1954 football teams. The former squad posted a 7-1-2 record and won the Big Ten, capping off the season with a 17-14 win over No. 3 California in the Rose Bowl. The '54 team won the National Championship with a perfect 10-0 record that included a 20-7 win over Southern Cal in the Rose Bowl. Both teams will be introduced at halftime of Saturday's game.


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British people are ignorant of some of the most important events and people in this country's history, a new survey has revealed.
As well as an inability to recall the dates of military victories and the personalities involved, there is also huge confusion about which characters and battles are fact and fiction.
One in 10 of the 2,000 adults questioned in the survey commissioned by Blenheim Palace thought that Adolf Hitler was not a real person, and half were convinced that King Arthur existed.
Almost three-quarters did not know that the Battle of Blenheim took place 300 years ago, even though it is one of the greatest British military triumphs. Fewer than one in eight had heard of John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, who led the British to victory against the French and for whom the palace was built by the nation as a reward.
A quarter of the adults were unsure whether the Battle of Trafalgar was a real historical event, and more than half thought that Horatio Nelson commanded British troops at the battle of Waterloo. Similarly, one in seven Britons did not know that the Battle of Hastings was real.
The lack of knowledge was greeted with alarm by historians. Tristram Hunt, the historian and television presenter, said: "Perhaps more worrying is the apparent merging of fact and fiction. There has always been myth and legend in history, but these findings show that there is a real need for clear understanding. There is a clear challenge here for academics to engage with a popular audience."
John Hoy, the chief executive of Blenheim Palace - the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill - said that he was amazed that so few people had heard of the battle in whose honour the palace was named.
"By defeating the forces of Louis XIV in the War of the Spanish Succession, John Churchill changed the history of Britain and Europe. It was such a momentous event that it led Queen Anne to bestow Blenheim Palace on Churchill as a gift from 'a grateful nation'.
"The problem for many people is that they associate history with dry and dusty dates and facts. Once they realise that history is about people - the way we used to live and the way we live now - it becomes more relevant and exciting."
Researchers also found that respondents struggled with modern history. One in five believed that Harold Wilson was prime minister during the Second World War. Confusion about Britain's historical figures was laid at the door of Hollywood films, such as Braveheart, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Almost half the adults surveyed believed that Sir William Wallace was not a real person, and a quarter were convinced that Robin Hood was.
One in 20 thought that Conan the Barbarian, a character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, was a genuine person. Some also believed that Lord Edmund Blackadder and Xena Warrior Princess, characters from television series, were real.
Children are similarly ignorant of British history. Thirty per cent of 11 to 18-year-olds in a recent survey thought that Oliver Cromwell fought at the Battle of Hastings. A similar proportion did not know in which century the First World War took place.
However, Peter Furtado, the editor of History Today magazine, said that history teaching had been praised by inspectors as excellent. "There has been a greater emphasis in schools on dates and historical timelines," he said.
"In a way, there is just too much history and the most we can hope is that pupils are inspired to learn more and continue with history study.
"People have always been inspired by fiction to learn history. Many historians talk about the fact that a rollicking good read or film caught their imagination. It means that some people are inspired to find out more. Inevitably though, some people will get the wrong end of the stick."
Blenheim Palace, in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, was designed by the architect Sir John Vanbrugh and built between 1705 and 1722 in honour of the British victory over Louis XIV of France at Blenheim, a small village on the banks of the River Danube, in 1704.


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Amicus Briefing
An amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief is filed by a person or entity who is not a party to the action but who is interested in the legal principle to be developed because of the importance of that principle to their own interests or later litigation. An amicus brief can be important to the outcome of an appeal because it brings to the court's attention legal arguments and perspectives that are different from those advanced by the parties.
The Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group provides pro bono representation of amicus curiae on matters of significance to the Firm's clients. Because the Firm's clients have varied interests, the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group has filed amici briefs in a variety of cases in the United States Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal involving issues relating to many of the areas in which the Firm practices.
The securities cases in which the Firm has filed important amicus curiae briefs include: Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., No. 06-43, and Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd., No. 06-484, both before the United States Supreme Court, and In re Dynex Capital Securities Litigation, No. 06-2902-cv, before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. These briefs were filed on behalf of states and public pension funds in three cases concerning critical issues of investor protection and securities litigation. These states and public pension funds collectively manage approximately $568 billion of pension funds, represent millions of pensioners, and have an acute interest in ensuring that investor rights are protected.
The Firm also filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court on behalf of Professor Arthur R. Miller, co-author of the authoritative Federal Practice and Procedure, in Exxon Shipping Company v. Baker, No. 07-219. The appeal, arising from the protracted litigation following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, addressed complex issues of procedural law, including the proper application of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50.
In August 2008, the Firm's Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Wyeth v. Levine, No. 06-1249. The Court issued its ruling in a landmark decision in March 2009. Ruling in favor of the plaintiffs and siding with Bernstein Liebhard's clients, the Court concluded that FDA-approved labeling of pharmaceutical drugs does not preempt state law product liability claims for injuries caused by the drugs. The Firm's Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group prepared the amicus brief on behalf of various doctors and third-party payer union health and welfare funds.
On July 1, 2009, the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group filed an amicus curiae brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in UCFW Local 1776 v. Eli Lilly and Co., 09-0222-CV, on behalf of the AARP and Prescription Access Litigation LLC ("PAL") in support of plaintiff-appellees. The AARP is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization of nearly forty million members that is dedicated to addressing the needs and interests of people 50 and over, including advocating for access to affordable health care. PAL is a national coalition of more than 130 organizations in 36 states and the District of Columbia that seeks to make prescription drugs affordable for consumers by challenging illegal pricing tactics and deceptive marketing by pharmaceutical companies and others.
In October 2009, the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group filed an amicus curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court in Merck & Co. v. Richard Reynolds, No. 08-905 (U.S.), which the Court decided in April 2010. The Court resolved the standard to be applied by lower courts ruling on the deadline for filing a securities fraud lawsuit under federal law. While there had been broad agreement among lower courts that the law's two-year filing period for such lawsuits begins to run once an investor becomes aware that fraud may have occurred, those courts were widely split on how to apply that standard. At issue in the Merck case was the view adopted by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which was that the investor has no duty to investigate suspicion of fraud, and the two-year filing period does not begin to run until the investor comes upon evidence of scienter, i.e., that the fraud was intentional. Affirming the Third Circuit and adopting the position Bernstein Liebhard LLP advocated for our clients, the Court held that a plain reading of the statute of limitations – "two years after discovery of the facts constituting the violation" – can only mean that the clock starts running when the plaintiff actually discovers facts sufficient to state a claim.
If you would like additional information about the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group's amicus curiae briefing, please contact Stanley D. Bernstein.


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One Direction star Harry Styles reportedly got bored with his rumoured girlfriend, American television reality star Kendall Jenner, leading to their split after a three-month romance.
Styles was first linked to Jenner in November when they were spotted leaving a dinner date at Craig's restaurant in West Hollywood.
A source told Heat magazine the 18-year-old Keeping Up With the Kardashians star was not expecting to receive so much of attention because of her relationship with Styles.
"Kendall was overwhelmed by the attention they got - and that she got from One Direction fans," the report said
"Harry and Kendall's romance has been slowly fizzling out since he left LA - in fact they didn't see each other for about a week before he left," a source said, according to Belfast Telegraph.
However, the two also avoided each other while Jenner was in London for the Fashion Week.
"When Kendall came to London, Harry purposefully took a step back as he wanted it to be her time and didn't want to distract from it. He's also admitted that he got a bit bored with the whole thing," the insider added.
"It's nearly impossible for him to maintain a relationship at the moment. The next couple of months will be busy with tour rehearsals and work on a new album in the UK, then One Direction are off on another world tour. He's still in touch with Kendall, though."
It was reported previously by the Daily Star that the 20-year-old was more inclined to British girls.
"Harry finds Kendall very attractive but finds her personality practically non-existent," a source said, "The thought of spending time with her family is terrifying for him and he has no plans to turn Kendall into his girlfriend."
"Harry has a very dry, British humour and thinks he'd be better off with an English girl who gets his sarcasm," the insider added.


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In the minds of the New Delhi elite, India's South Asian neighbourhood is made up of solely the seven members of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, even though we share no land borders with three of its members. In the process, we tend to forget that four of our North-East States — Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram — share a 1,640-kilometre land border with Myanmar.
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- Not only is Myanmar a member of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, the Bay of Bengal Grouping linking Saarc and Association of South East Asian Nations, it is also our gateway to the fast growing economies of East and Southeast Asia.
- While successive leaders of Myanmar, who are devout Buddhists, have looked on India predominantly in spiritual terms, as the Home of Lord Buddha, they recognise that an economically vibrant India provides a balance to a growingly assertive China.
- Sadly, we have not been able to take full advantage of either our shared Buddhist heritage by facilitating increased pilgrimages, or used our economic potential effectively to promote our interests.
Past ties with India !!
- Ties between India and Myanmar have quietly blossomed over the past two decades.
- Mechanisms have been built between the militaries and security agencies of the two countries, which have facilitated cooperation across the border.
- This has led to taking effective action to deal with cross border insurgencies and narcotics smuggling.
- Myanmar's Information Minister recently reiterated to India's new Government, his Government's readiness to crackdown on Indian insurgent groups like the United Liberation Front of Asom, PLA (Manipur) and the NSCN-K (Nagaland). India, in turn, has acted firmly against Myanmar insurgents.
Myanmar in current context !!
- Myanmar has moved steadily in easing the rigours of military rule, since the elections that swept President Thein Sein to power in 2011.
- The military still has a crucial role in national life, as negotiations are in progress to achieve a comprehensive ceasefire with 16 well armed insurgent groups, drawn from ethnic non-Burmese minorities.
- This is no easy task, but is a prelude to negotiations on the highly sensitive issue of federalism and provincial autonomy for ethnic minority areas.
Myanmar's growing apprehension against China !!
- After years of bonhomie during military rule, which accompanied its international isolation, Myanmar's relationship with its largest neighbour China is facing strains.
- China's Yunnan Province borders the sensitive and insurgency-ridden Kachin and Shan States in Myanmar.
- China has helped significantly in building Myanmar's infrastructure and equipping its military. India's fears of Chinese bases in Myanmar were not borne out.
- But, differences between China and Myanmar have grown recently, especially on large projects like the Myistone Dam, which had to be junked, and a proposed railway line, to connect Yunnan to the Bay of Bengal.
- There is also growing opposition to Chinese projects in copper and nickel mining and sentiments expressed that China has taken Myanmar for a ride, on an oil pipeline linking Yunnan to the Bay of Bengal Port of Kyaukphu.
- There are also concerns of Chinese involvement with insurgent groups like the Kachin Independence Army and the United Wa Army, in Shan State.
- Despite this, border trade across the Yunnan-Myanmar border is booming, reaching $4.17 billion in 2013, against a mere $35 million of border trade across the India-Myanmar border, though the 'unofficial trade' (smuggling) across this border is estimated at around $300 million annually.
Attitude of NORTH BLOCK towards Myanmar ?
- India's
former Ambassador to Myanmar VS Seshadri has authored a recent report
spelling out how India has proceeded tardily in building up connectivity
through Myanmar to Thailand and Vietnam and in securing access of our
landlocked North-East to the Bay of Bengal.
- Our border trade regulations are formulated by mandarins in North Block and Udyog Bhavan, who have no idea either of the ground situation along the India-Myanmar border or the pragmatism that China shows in treating the markets with its neighbours — not as foreign markets, but as extensions of China's own markets.
- Opening up such trade will also enable our North-East to meet its growing requirements of rice, at very competitive rates.
A way forward for India !!
- Unless we learn to look at our neighbours like China does, bearing in mind the inherent strengths of our economy, we can never match the economic influence of China on our borders in the North-East.
- The new Minister for North Eastern Affairs, General VK Singh, has long experience of the North-East. One hopes that as a pragmatist, he will liberalise procedures and practises and permit trade across borders with Myanmar in currencies traders mutually agree upon.
- Vehicles should move freely across the borders on roads now envisaged through Myanmar, to Thailand and Vietnam.
- Moreover, the 'Kaladan Multimodal Corridor' linking our North-eastern States through the Port of Sittwe in Myanmar will be useful only if Sittwe becomes the key port for India-Myanmar trade.
India's minimal success as far as Myanmar is concerned !!
- India has done remarkably well in projects in Myanmar intended for the development of human resources. It has played the lead role in the establishment of the Myanmar Institute of Information Technology, an Advanced Centre for Agricultural Research and Education, an Agricultural University and welcomed many Myanmar professionals for training in its medical and engineering institutions.
How India kept on missing OPPURTUNITIES in past to harness MYANMAR !!
- But, we would be less than honest if we did not admit that in project and investment cooperation, our record has been tardy and has not exactly enhanced our image as a modern, emerging economy. After having secured exploration rights for gas in the Bay of Bengal, we conducted our project planning and diplomacy so clumsily that we did not have a strategy ready for taking the gas to India through a pipeline across Myanmar and our North-East, or as LNG. China deftly stepped in and took away all this gas, expeditiously building a pipeline to its Yunnan Province.
- In the mid-1990s, Myanmar offered us hydro-electric projects with a potential of over 1000 MW, across rivers near our borders. We took years to scrutinise these projects, which companies in South Korea earlier offered to construct. After nearly two decades, we backed off. Our private companies have similarly not been able to avail offers of land for plantations across Myanmar. India was offered hundreds of acres of land for agriculture, and bamboo plantations for making paper pulp, close to its borders.
- Two private sector companies signed the Memoranda of Understanding with their Myanmar counterparts. But Myanmar officials found that our private sector was even more bureaucratic than our Government organisations. India lost access to huge bamboo resources to a Thai company, which clinched a deal in weeks- something our companies could not achieve for nearly two decades.


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