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BY SARATH Malalasekera
FORMER senior Minister of the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Government Felix
R. Dias Bandaranaike undertook a series of measures to modernise the
performance of the public service, said Finance Minister Dr. Sarath
"Felix Dias Bandaranaike was the first Minister to make good use of
the computer. In those days we had to send the data to the Central Bank
which alone was the proud owner of a large computer," Dr. Amunugama said
delivering the Felix R. Dias Bandaranaike Memorial lecture at the
Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Hall, Colombo on Sunday.
Ms. Laxmi Dias Bandaranaike and former senior public servant Baku
Mahadeva were at the head table.
The Finance Minister speaking on Felix Dias Bandaranaike and the
modernisation of the Sri Lankan economy, before a distinguished
gathering said the results were startling.
"We were able to establish the job bank for clerical and allied
grades. Instead of the system of recruitment, which depended on
cumbersome and time consuming examination procedures, a new system based
on the allocation of marks on the candidates' GCE examination results
was introduced," he said.
There are many anecdotes about his scepticism followed by cutting
repartee when authority was thrust on him. While he could be very gentle
and even deferential with a humble Dompe constituent, he could be an
awesome opponent in the face of pomposity and privilege, Amunugama said.
As the Minister of Public Administration, Felix Dias Bandaranaike
pragmatism helped him to innovate, break traditions and rationalise so
that his contributions endure to this day. For instance he found that
Finance and Administrative Regulations were not codified, the Finance
Minister said.
"At a time when the public service was the leash pin in our economy
there were much needed innovations. Unfortunately the public sector has
become the achilles' heel of the Sri Lanka growth process.
Though Felix Dias Bandaranaike was out of power by then, the
Socialist world was overtaken by events which were the logical
consequences of the difficulties he had so clearly identified while in
the SLFP camp.
The Perestroika of Michael Gorbachev attempted to remedy these flaws
of Socialist enterprises, the Finance Minister added.
Dr. Amunugama said: "I consider it a great honour to be invited to
deliver this year's Felix Dias Bandaranaike commemoration lecture. It is
also a great pleasure to see so many of FDB's relations and friends who
admired him in his lifetime and now cherish his memory.
If I may be permitted to briefly go back in line, I recall with great
affection and nostalgia the happy days when we served as his officers in
the Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs.
Felix, in fact, was the first to hold the Office of Minister of
Public Administration when it was hived off from the Ministry of Finance
when Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike formed her Cabinet after the victory of
He then had the pick of the Public Service at his command as well as
experts from the private sector. Among these officials were Baku
Mahadeva, D. B. S. Siriwardene, P. H. Siriwardena, Gamini Wickramanayake,
Francis Pieterz, R. M. B. Senanayake and H. S. Wanasinghe.
Though the press was prove to describe our Minister as a storm
disciplinarian and a hard task-master, we officials found him to be
extremely considerate and friendly though he expected the highest
standards of performance and probity.
I still recall his decisions on our minutes which had to properly use
legal verbiage. In his hardly visible minutes handwriting we would read
I agree with Siriwardene C.J. or I agree with Amunugama.
Many of us here will also recall those lovely birthday and Christmas
parties at Mahanuga Gardens or Gamini Wickramanayake's Farm in Navinna
where FDB went out of his way to make us all feel at home.
Those are memories we share of a colossus of the politics of his time
whose life was tragically cut short.
I have chosen as my theme FDB's contribution to the modernisation of
the Sri Lankan economy not only because he handled key economic
ministries such as Finance, Planning and Agricultural Development but
also because he stood out in his time as a practical and original
decision-maker who was hampered by the dominant political dogmas that
prevailed then.
His highly rational approach to development quickly led him to the
conclusion that whatever theories were peddled at that time and however
pervasive they were, such theories did not provide a roadmap to
investment and growth which was badly needed at that time.
FDB proposed an adjustment of the subsidy and had to face the wrath
of the government parliamentary group. He then resigned his Finance
portfolio vowing never to return to 'growing grass.'
As Finance Minister, he was confronted with a very difficult economic
situation. The pro-population growth policies that all governments had
been following since the days of the State Council were leading to high
population increases in the late sixties and seventies. This growing
population demanded more and more allocation of public funds for social
National Budgets showed growing financial commitments for food
subsidies, free education, free health, welfare payments etc., which
drew away resources, which were badly needed for investment in
They were postponing the inevitable. The day would come when without
growth unemployment, poverty and an uneven distribution of wealth would
lead to a political and social crisis.
In fact, this day of reckoning came in April 1971 with the first JVP
insurrection. It is perhaps not well known that unlike many members of
the political elite at that time FDB took a very understanding view of
this revolt.
The manner in which Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike and FDB handled the
insurrectionary youth of that time is in stark contrast to the mass
laughter that took place on both sides in the 87 and 89 period in our
We have to remember that the dominant idealogies of that time were
Statist and Socialist. All the developing countries in the immediate
post - independence period chose to follow a socialist model of
centrally planned economics, state enterprises in almost all sectors of
the economy and a bureaucratic control system which has been described
as the "license Raj".
There were of course different models of socialism that were part of
the ideological mosaic of those newly emergent nations. They ranged from
the Fabian and Dirigiste socialism of Nehru, Bandaranaike, Nasser,
Nknsot and Sukarno to hard Marzist formulations of Stataxists and
Trobkyites who played on important role both inside and outside
In such mixture of so-called progressive and socialist policies in
Sri Lanka it was Felix Dias Bandaranaike who attempted to clarify the
SLFP approach.
He became, perhaps at the cost of becoming the most, if I may coin a
term, 'unfavourite' SLFPer vis a vis the hard left, the best articulator
of the Sirimavo Bandaranaike regimes concept of economic and social
He did not hesitate to distance his parties policies from those of
the hard left. I would like to quote from one of his parliamentary
speeches. It was part of his contribution to the 62/63 Budget.
Naturally such sentiments were not received with favour by some
leaders of the Marxist parties. This conflict finally led to the exist
of the LSSP from the ruling coalition. It must be mentioned here that
these differences were regarding economic issues. They do not pertain to
racial and religious issues which have unfortunately come to dominate
the political debate today.
Looking back now, it would not be wrong to describe FDB as the most
modern person in the Cabinet of his day. At a time when the ideological
temper in developing countries was decidedly collectivist and socialist
he had the intellectual acumen and social background not to be overawed
by these bookist theories.
His training as a lawyer made his question the validity of theories
which he was not willing to accept until his own thought processes and
practical experience had subjected them to scrutiny. It may have been a
psychological predisposition but FDB would take great delight in
questioning received wisdom.
The Central Planning System was replaced by a market economy. Loss
making state enterprises which pulled funds away from investment were
either reformed or shut down. Subsidies were either eliminated or better
targeted. Economics were made open for foreign investment. Given the
earlier mentioned pragmatism of FDB it is no surprise that he shared
that attribute with the modernisation of socialist economics.
In his 1976 Budget he proposed to introduce a new Foreign Investment
Law to encourage foreign investment. Together with Mrs. Bandaranaike he
laid the foundation of Tourist Development in Sri Lanka. If any meaning
serves are light even the idea of a Free Trade Zone was being pursued
when the government fell in 1977.
Many of these things have now come to pass. Economic concepts and
strategies have changed. It is fitting therefore that we celebrate the
life and chinoh memories of a man who could sense such a need for he
sought above all to help in improving the lives of the poor and
defenceless people of his country".
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We enjoyed our stay at this Campground very much. There are various sites available for tents, motorhomes and smaller travel trailers. Big rigs and even medium size travel trailers exceeding 27ft might have problems getting through the rather narrow campground loop and are likely to be directed to the overflow or special RV-area. The main campground is located on a small hill so the view around through the trees on the nearby lakes is quite nice. The sites are in between the trees and rather private. Showers and restrooms are in very good shape and clean. Park staff is very friendly and helpful (as in all NP's). There are plenty of amenities around for a joyful stay such a trails, cooking shelters, a playground and even a golf course (of course to be paid separately) with an adjacent club house with restaurant (open to the public). During our stay, we have been able to see bisons grazing right in front of our trailer location. (Although the campground is fenced, bison are able to 'swim in' through the lake!) - dbo73
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The interface is designed to be used by retailers and restaurants and could even make an appearance in the educational environment.
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Since I'm mainly riding my fixed gear road bike these days, I've got time to work on my BMX.
Last year, I devised a linkage to get my straddle cable hanger behind the seat tube on my Macneil. This worked pretty well. Its got a lot of mechanical advantage.
Recently, I noticed my braking wasn't what it used to be, and a few minor things were pissing me off. So I ripped it apart and started over.
Here's the newest revision:
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-drilled out the aluminum plates for weight weenie points (no reason really)
-added heat shrink to the spokes so they don't scuff my seat tube
-cleaned all the burnt salmon from my rim with acetone and a scotch brite pad
-sanded the pads w/ 100 grit
-new linear cable, covered in blue heat shrink to make the casing more durable (the old one was kinked, with braids poking out, and some strands were broken at the clamped end)
-bent and cut my primo lever into a single finger trigger (the end was hitting my middle finger knuckle)
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Popular Kauai swimming hole gets deadly reputation
LIHUE, Hawaii Travel guidebooks call Kipu Falls "a glorious little hidden place" and a "swimming hole extraordinaire." But the alluring beauty of the waterfall and natural pool conceals a deadly side.
Five visitors have drowned at Kipu Falls in the past five years, including two since December. In most of the cases, the swimmers jumped off the top of the waterfall into the pool of blue-green water about 20 feet below, then were pulled to their deaths while attempting to swim to the shore. Others have suffered chest injuries, rope burns, perforated eardrums and broken and sprained ankles. A teenage girl was paralyzed after jumping there.
The deaths have given rise to speculation about whether there's a powerful whirlpool current in the swimming hole and prompted local authorities to push for greater restrictions to the site. The local tourism bureau became so alarmed by the toll that it mounted a campaign last year to push guidebooks to remove all references to the place.
It supported a bill before the Hawaii legislature that would have made writers and publishers of travel guides liable if a reader is injured or dies while trespassing on private property they have depicted. The bill died amid protests from publishers who said it violated their First Amendment rights.
The latest victim, Santhosh Heddese of Irvine, Calif., drowned on June 26. Rescue divers found the 35-year-old's body at the bottom of the pool an hour later.
The Kauai Visitors Bureau is also urging hotel concierges and tour operators to steer people away from the area.
Sue Kanoho, the agency's director, notes anyone who goes to the falls is trespassing.
Kanoho helped Heddese's widow get the couple's luggage home after he died last month. She said it was "devastating" to see another tragedy.
"I've really asked the community and the visitor industry, please, let's not send people there," Kanoho said.
The deaths have some locally questioning whether an angry "mo'o" - a Hawaiian water spirit lizard - lives in Kipu Falls.
"I kept thinking, something just held him down there. What possibly could have sucked him back down to the bottom of the pond?" said Christine Kauhi, whose 26-year-old son, Kulana Kauhi-Apao, from the Honolulu suburb of Kaneohe, drowned last December.
Kipu Falls sits in a clearing along the Huleia Stream, which pours out of the hills of southeastern Kauai into the island's biggest harbor, Nawiliwili. It's rimmed by banyan and other large trees. Most people get there by driving along a paved road that's only a few miles from downtown Lihue and some of Kauai's biggest hotels. From there, they walk about five minutes down a narrow dirt trail flanked by 6-foot-tall growths of invasive Guinea grass.
The pool and falls are on private property owned by Grove Farm, but locals have been swimming there for decades largely without problems. Residents say tourists arrived when guidebooks started mentioning it in the mid-90s. Though multiple guidebooks tout it is as "hidden," it was crowded with several dozen tourists on a recent weekday. A consistent trickle of people walked to and from the spot along the trail.
The Kauai Fire Department sent rescue crews to Kipu Falls 10 times last year, and twice so far this year.
Dr. Monty Downs, a doctor at Kauai's Wilcox hospital, said someone comes to his emergency room from Kipu Falls every few months. In recent years, they've included a 25-year-old man who suffered major chest injuries when he swung from a rope over the pool but failed to let go and slammed into the cliff. He required surgery, but survived.
Despite suspicions about mysterious forces, John Blalock, deputy chief of the Kauai Fire Department, said Kipu Falls doesn't have any strange or unusual currents. His rescue divers tell him the water is actually calm under the surface.


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Almost all channels and newspapers, it appears, are eager to cover each and every news aspect about the new upcoming star of Indian politicsAam Aadmi Partyand its posterboy Arvind Kejriwal. However, despite the success of the party, one major issue which is being constantly debated upon is whether the party will deliver when the D-day arrives.
Newcomers have always been subject to blatant, harsh and sadistic criticism in order to help them. And once again a question arises: Will the Aam Aadmi Party hinder the economic growth of the country because of its illiteracy on economic matters? This is an important question since the answer to it will determine the new growth trajectory of our country.
Economists are sceptical of the AAP. Their concerns are regarding the lack of exposure of the AAP in political matters. Whether the AAP will be successful in drawing a better economic policy than its predecessor is debatable.
But one thing is certain that the AAP can be very successful in running the country and accelerating economic growth because its core competency lies in its intent and moral integrity which other parties arguably lack. As Indians, we can be very impatient and expect results in no time, thus we must give them time and space to breathe. Imagine, in the next five years, a country with no major scams and every single penny of taxes is spent wisely. This is a trade-off one must be ready to pay for lack in political experience.
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Albany Med and Wadsworth to Lead International "Cyber Brain" Collaboration
July 25, 2012 - Albany , NY
ALBANY, N.Y., July 25, 2012-Supported by a multi-million dollar grant from the European Union, Albany Medical Center researchers will lead an international academic partnership to create a research lab in Italy that may someday help those who are paralyzed or disabled communicate with computers and a new generation of prosthetic devices using only their thoughts.
Modeled after the brain-computer interface (BCI) lab at Albany Med/Wadsworth and supported by a three-million euro ($3.7 million) grant from the European Union to the Italian government, the newly created BCI lab will be the first of its kind in southern Italy.
Every facet of the new laboratory's development will be overseen by Albany Med faculty members Anthony Ritaccio, M.D., J. Spencer Standish professor of neurology and neurosurgery and director of the Epilepsy and Human Brain Mapping Program at Albany Medical Center; and Gerwin Schalk, Ph.D., associate professor of neurology at Albany Medical College and senior research scientist at the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health. Peter Brunner, M.S., will assist in managing the project.
Through their work, Drs. Ritaccio and Schalk have implanted sensors onto the surface of the brain that detect the electrical activity of the brain. This electrical activity is then transmitted to a computer. The system uses complex software and algorithms to allow individuals to spell words on a computer without a keyboard, and to operate a computer-generated hand by thinking commands, an application that could lead to thought-controlled communication or prosthetic systems for people that are severely paralyzed.
Video is available at: http://www.amc.edu/patient/services/neurosciences/neurology/bci_video.cfm
Dr. Ritaccio said, "This will be a potent and immediate technology transfer to the Italians. We are humbled by the endorsement of our work represented by this invitation to lead and collaborate in Italy."
Dr. Schalk added, "We are honored to be invited to this joint project, which has important scientific, technical, clinical, and societal implications for a currently underrepresented region in southern Italy."
The announcement of the new lab was attended by members of the European Parliament and Italian dignitaries including Dr. Nicolo Meldolesi, head of Fondazione Neurone, as well as regional presidents and representatives of Italy's leading health and research institutes.
Dr. Meldolesi said the collaboration will "facilitate academic and scholarly exchange and promote developments in innovative human brain mapping and brain-computer interface technology."
The new laboratory will be located in southern Italy at Neuromed Institute, Italy's leading academic medical center specializing in neurosciences. It represents an academic collaboration among Albany Medical Center, the University of Rome Sapienza, and Neuromed Institute and also will receive support from the Fondazione Neurone, a non-profit organization supporting innovations in the treatment of severe neurological diseases. News of the joint agreement was announced at an international press conference that was held in a restored 15th century church in Avellino, Italy, on June 15.
Albany Med's BCI research has garnered widespread national and international attention and has been featured in the The New York Times Magazine, National Public Radio, El Mundo (Spain), on CBS Sunday Morning, and permanently exhibited in the American Museum of Natural History.
In addition, Albany Medical College and Wadsworth jointly host an annual international workshop on electrocorticography (ECoG) on the practice of using electrodes placed on the surface of the brain to record electrical signals from the cerebral cortex.
Albany Medical Center, northeastern New York's only academic health sciences center, is one of the largest private employers in the Capital Region. It incorporates the 651-bed Albany Medical Center Hospital, which offers the widest range of medical and surgical services in the region, and the Albany Medical College, which trains the next generation of doctors, scientists and other healthcare professionals, and also includes a biomedical research enterprise and the region's largest physicians practice with 350 doctors. Albany Medical Center works with dozens of community partners to improve the region's health and quality of life. For more information: www.amc.edu or www.facebook.com/albanymedicalcenter.
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Ok, let me see if I can summarize, as it appears to me, the philosophical difference between your, my (and Marshall?), and Dmitry's viewpoints.
Let us call OD = O - OA 'derived' operations. And let us call a subset OS of OD 'scoped' operations which are operations that are currently "in scope".
3a) I (and Marshall?) say that S + OA defines a data type T. 3b) You (Bob) say that S + O defines a data type T. 3c) Dmitry says that S + OA + OS defines a data type T.
Do you Bob, Marshall, and Dmitry find this summary accurate?
> > > What is important is not which operations we consider
> > > fundamental and which we consider auxiliary. What is
> > > important is all of those operations exist and we can
> > > communicate them to each other.
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> > Not important? Well that is a large part of mathematics,
> > finding sets of operations (the smaller the better) we
> > consider fundamental and from which we can derive other
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> Axiomatization is arbitrary. Mathematicians also spend
> time trying to find completely different sets of axioms
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It may be arbitrary (if by arbitrary you meant the "subject to judgment" and not "without reason") but it is obviously valuable. No?
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The Battle Of Berlin
Via Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box,
"When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
-Otto von Bismarck
In what has become a typical pattern; Europe has a summit, everyone says this, that, their own variation of that and the other to appease their citizens and it is not until days later that some sort of reality begins to be released to the Press. Not only has this become the pattern but it generally comes over the weekend when the markets are not open and when no one is paying much attention. It is a purposeful scheme and useful I suppose for dampening effects and it allows the bliss to continue. In the meantime there is no ESM in place, only $65 billion left in the EFSF after Spain and Cyprus are funded and the German Constitutional Court declared over the weekend that there would be no ruling on the ESM until September 12. For those that believe in the usefulness of firewalls, which would not include me, you are now staring at bricks to build dollhouses and it is not just the flank but the center that is fully exposed and vulnerable.
Not long ago I wrote a piece about how to rank the statements be various European governments and governmental agencies. Germany got the top score as they are the paymaster and because nothing in the European Union will be happening without their acquiescence and the Golden Rule lives on; "He that has the Gold rules." Over the weekend Ms. Merkel made her position quite clear; there will be no money lent to any banks until there is a financial oversight authority that has the regulatory powers to control the finances, the economy and the banks of every nation in Europe. There are several ways to read this of course with the first being "that Berlin, through Brussels, will control the money of every nation in Europe before any help will be provided" and the second viewpoint is "that Berlin, through Brussels, will control the money of every nation in Europe before any help will be provided." You may choose number one or number two because both are exact and exactly correct. It is not just a loss of some sovereignty that is being requested but absolute control of the economy of every nation in Europe, fiscal domination centered in Belgium and a Brussels that is the puppet of Berlin. He that controls the finances and the banks of a country controls the country; make no mistake here and this is exactly what Germany is trying to accomplish.
Ms. Merkel cited various attempts by any number of political leaders to get at the money without all of this being in place as she responded, "All of these attempts will have no chance with me or with Germany." In other words, a resounding "Nein" to Spain, Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Italy that any money would be lent directly to their banks without full and absolute submission. Now you can make nice all you like and you may think it impolite to foster ill intentions on Germany but the facts speak resolutely for themselves; Germany has banged the gavel and stated that any money for any banks will not be given until they control the nations of Europe and that is "period and end of story." World War I was fought with rifles and tanks and World War II was fought with planes and aircraft carriers and World War III is being fought with Euros and Capital and in each case, without exception, Germany has tried to control the Continent of Europe.
There is a long history of lambs being led to slaughter and all of the reasons given for Germany's position does not change the result one whit. You may cloak it all under the banner of financial responsibility and Germany wanting to control how their money is spent and the masquerade is obviously wonderfully successful as hardly any objections are heard but where this is going is no different than Germany rolling in with her tanks and assuming control. This is Vichy reborn and Anschluss déjà vu and the takeover of Poland just accomplished on a different battlefield. The weapon is money and not armaments and while the stench is more polite the demand for victory has not lessened.
"The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react."
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"penetrating like lightning deep into the rear" oh they have done that to the people of the PIIGS. and then some.
Treaty of Rome before the final signing of the treaty in 1957 .... Rothschild was standing beside Spaak gazing over the Forum Romanum in Rome, when Spaak said "I think that we have re-established the [Holy] Roman Empire without a single shot being fired!"
It becomes boring how this carpet-bomber guy keeps mixing his hardly-any-value-added economic ideas with his anti-German reflex.
Unfortunately dilutung overall ZH quality.
It's not like these beggars don't have a choice..., grow a pair and take the route Iceland took!
Yes but it is Kiddies Korner and they have no historical or geopolitical grasp. Privately they probably blame it on the Jews but publicly make it out to be some grand German Plot. Funny really because anyone with a grasp can see Germany is in a bind having had the Currency Cartel (Euro) unravel leaving them with the Costs as the others chisel on their commitments. Standard Cartel politics. Germany has been caught and is simply trying to quantify Risk and Exposure.
Silly comments about Poland and how Americans were such close allies of Stalin who also invaded Poland and kept what he seized blessed by Roosevelt and simply gave large slices of Germany to Poland instead. The real question is how far the US sees the Euro as the firewall holding the vultures off the US Dollar and the rather bombed-out economy between Canada and Mexico.
If the global financial system has allowed the USA to live way beyond its means since 1945 it looks like the Endgame is nigh. After all Deficits in the EuroZone are smaller than in the USA and Merkel is simply proposing the kind of oversight that the US seems unable to develop in its own system. Can anyone control Congressional Budgets ?
Grant peddles a sizeable chunk of revisionist history in this piece. Wasn't the Euro/EU an Anglo-Franco led initiative designed to constrain Germany expansionist tendencies?
To ensure Germany could never threaten the peace again, its heavy industry was partly dismantled (See: Industrial plans for Germany) and its main coal-producing regions were detached (Saarland, Silesia), or put under international control (Ruhr area).[6] (See: Monnet Plan)
With statements such as Winston Churchill's 1946 call for a "United States of Europe" becoming louder, in 1949 the Council of Europe was established as the first pan-European organisation. In the year following, on 9 May 1950, the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed a community to integrate the coal and steel industries of Europe - these being the two elements necessary to make weapons of war. (See: Schuman declaration).
Indeed. Somebody replied before I could edit in Spaak's full name and title, and that of Baron Robert de Rothschild, Chef de Cabinet in the Belgian Foreign Ministry.
Belgium and France (we can just call them "the Franks") were the prime movers kick starting the EU. Coincidentally, Charlemagne the Great, Merovingian King of the Franks, was born just outside Liège in Belgium.
Carolingian king; his grandfather was just a palace official of the dying Merovingian dynasty. Mad hatters and corrupt barbarians the Mero lot. Pepin of Herstal and Charles MArtel were a lot better...until Charles's grandsons split up ! 843 AD and created France and Germany from empire in Verdun Treaty. I don't think Charlemagne was direct Clovis-Mero blood line.
You're right, Chuck wasn't direct Merovingian-Clovis royal line. Apologies. My [hasty] mistake...I generally double-check before posting rather than only from memory.
Though, he was still of the Merovingian tribe since, as you say, his grand-father was the Mayor of the palace and direct descendant of Pippin, also Mayor of the palace and one of the most powerful Merovingian nobles under the final Merovingian boy-kings. They were all born around Liège.
Germany Likes It Greek Style
We need a " war on banking"
We already have one. They declared war on us.
Bernanke is president of the US. Obama's the token. Same with most movies. TV shows and NPR presentations. It's a conspiracy.
Mit dem angriff steiner's wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.
keep eye on euro then .. EUR/GBP Trade Pattern 1H Chart Channel Down
The EUR is going to go to exactly where the central bankers have decided they want it to go.
What we really need is fuckers hanging from trees and lamposts, lots and fucking lots of them, theiving bastards
This will take a year at least to put together..if ever...on the other hand you just showed us how many Bond sales are coming up with Italy and Spain....NOW....how does that all work out...who buys what and when....this is what is mindboggeling to me.....the average Juan in Spain wants his paycheck next week...as usual....unemplyment no less...but the Kings have no clothes...and have to go begging....somewhere and sometime the little red light goes off on someones computer that says "out of funds"...or the checks bounce...
Via our debt ceiling target2.
Silver holders will rule the world but do the banksters have any silver ?
The propaganda is all anti-silver because the vampire bankster undead will be put out of our misery with a silver bullet.
As much as people do not care to admit it - we are still far from realizing the reality of ecomic truth as should be seen in the clear light of day. All these summits, meetings and pronouccements for various enteties have dulled the senses. Whether by design or not, most have been lulled into a false sense of security that this is "fixable if we all try harder and accept a little more austerity."
Untill world leaders, courts, legislators and the MSM tell us the truth then nothing will change. If truth of our predicament is not forthcoming, we will wallow in this malaise untill the pitchforks and torches come out.
TRUTH is the key word.......It was just a month ago that Spain said they didn´t need a bailout right......???? Libor....great job boys....the Whale in London.....where there are no rules....and that is why bankers have offices there.....Greek financials....what a joke they are..Obamacare is going to save money....where???? not even a hope and changer believes that one....Truth....we do not have it..and we never will....invest accordinly..to me a base metal in my hand is TRUTH
'They' have a date in mind to which they need to kick the can. In the meantime they will lie, delay, meet, lie again, ponder in the courts, delay again, lie again......... until that date (whatever it may be - I say Sept-Oct, others say next week or next decade).
Nothing CAN be fixed by government action (too many pressure groups from all angles, including factions within the NWO itself), so nothing WILL be fixed by government action ... and they know it. Prepare accordingly.
Merkel would certainly look better with a mustache.
Thought she already had one!
Europe collectively is in for a flogging. It is beyond me as to how she proposes to come up with a plan that can wash and iron at the same time, that is, a plan that can solve the accumulated debt problem as well as come up with a viable fiscal program going forwards in an area that has so many different speed economies.
They are better off coming up with a plan for dissolution rather than a plan for resolution. The first will be painful whilst the second will be wishful thinking.
Whine, Whine, Whine, Whine about the mean old Germans. If they are that bad dump the Euro and go back to your old national currency. Back it with what ever assets you can round up and take it till things settle out.
is this article the same as the last 20 posts from him, just with different quotations? these are better than the alice in wonderland ones
Fairly simple way to avoid German hegemony. Be like Finland!
Hmmm...while I tend to agree with the general sentiment (that big banks want to rule the world)....the choice of phrasing in this article tends to leave the reader with the impression that the "Germans" are trying to take-over the world again. Just as Americans don't want to be lumped in with the shennigans of big banks (or the Federal Reserve) ....I'm a bit uncomfortable with articles that lump all Germans in with the actions of their banks.
It's a meme he's being paid to push. (Either that, or he has an IQ in the mid-50s).
"This is Vichy reborn and Anschluss déjà vu and the takeover of Poland"
What a load of horseshit. This nothing more than Central Banks doing what Central Banks do. The same crap is going on here in the States. Can we expect the author to grace us with lines about The Bernanks' March on Atlanta? Maybe Timmy at Bull Run would make a good headline. At least the Bull part would be correct.
The notion that "Germany" is trying to take over Europe is false.
A financial elite, who control the international organizations, and the global corporations are attempting to solidify and expand their control over all Europe and beyond.
Any assumption that the financial elite is composed entirely of Germans is false. Any assumption that the consensus policies agreed are directed to benefit "Germany" is false. Any assumption that "Germany" is free from the control of that global elite and the institutions they head is false.
"Germany" does not "control" NATO, the IMF, the World Bank, the EU, nor most of the global corporations. "Germany" does not announce policies at the global elite conferences for the other members to obey.
Merkel is no more "independent" of her sponsors than is Cameron, Hollande, or Obama. The notion of diminishing the sovereignty of nations is not a "German" idea. All the financial elite share that vision. All of them promote it. From the USA, to England, to Japan, to France, to Germany. Hollande supports it as does Merkel.
The aim is not for "Germany" , with "German" institutions, headed by Germans, to be sovereign over Europe.
The bankster elite, controlling through the global institutions they head, intend to be sovereign over all nations, including Germany.
Bulls eye!
sometimes these posters make me feel some guys have memory damage; of the recent events since 2008...can't tell fiat s*** from...shine... And private banksta debt from sovereign grind under the cabalista heel. We keep going round and round. Denial, deleveraging via ZIRP fiat pumping and Twist, sovereign speculation and peripheral burning...all Dementia based reasoning.
the bankstas and their central planing minnions require germany to stay in to be bled by the parasites and that is why statements like this -----> " there will be no money lent to any banks until there is a financial oversight authority that has the regulatory powers to control the finances, the economy and the banks of every nation in Europe." are made. Germany the voice of reason. Fiscal responsibility ya ya.
Germany, dump the Euro. All you will end up being is Greeces Bitch.
Judging by your rant here, you must think that it was Germany that was in charge of carrying out the 2 world wars during the last century.
You are wrong if you do because it was the same bankster elite who did it back then that are doing it now.
In case you weren't informed, wars don't happen without money and guess who has the money. In fact, I'd say the coincidence of the creation of the FED and the beginning of WWI a short year later almost leaves a smoking gun in the hands of the bankster elite.
Of course, that was just a coincidence, right? RIGHT?
So if Germany is trying to control all of Europe as the auther says, did Germany force all of these countries to spend more than they could afford, forcing them to borrow money? Would you not yourself force conditions upon a drug addict before you loan him money? Is there not a principle older than Germany at work, a debtor is slave to his lender?
German taxpayers need to cough it up.
They need to trust that Greece and Spain will use the money wisely to repair their balance of payments.
"He that controls the finances and the banks of a country controls the country; make no mistake here and this is exactly what Germany is trying to accomplish."
Well, just -- who controls the so called 'German' banks, with their assets safely offshored to taxhavens? It ain't the Germans, nor their neighbors... Ferkel is as much a fifth column tool as Geithner, Brown and Sarkozy are.


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Director Louis Leterrier has confirmed with ComingSoon that he'll be back to helm the followup, though it sounds like it's still in very early stages. "I'm currently, not writing, but we're coming up with the story, the plot, the everything, the twist and the new characters and everything," he explained. "It was always at least a diptych, two movies, to tell one long story, so yeah, I'm very much involved in it. I don't know if it's going to be my next movie. I know we want to do it pretty fast but I might be able to do another movie in between."
Leterrier also noted that on the forthcoming DVD/Blu-ray release there would be a credits stinger—one that was shot, but kept out of the theatrical cut—that points much more heavily toward a followup. There's also no word if any of the cast—Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Melanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco—will be back. And while a 2015 release has been tossed around, considering Leterrier is already hinting he might make something else first, this might be a bit further off.
Meanwhile, in less convincing reasons for a sequel, "Act Of Valor 2" is a thing that is happening. Deadline reports that Relativity is pushing ahead with plans to followup the cheapie, decently successful, Navy SEALS movie with the Bandito Brothers producing, and Scott Wiper ("The Condemned," "A Better Way To Die") writing and directing. We presume this will use the same low budget approach, and with a TV show also in development, it seems everyone is really trying to make 'Valor' a big deal.


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ISBN13:by Robuck, Erika
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"She remembered when Hemingway had planted a banyan tree at his house and told her its parasitic roots were like human desire. At the time she'd thought it romantic. She hadn't understood his warning." In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, the daughter of an American fisherman and a Cuban woman, knows hunger. Her struggle to support her family following her father's death leads her to a bar and bordello, where she bets on a risky boxing match...and attracts the interest of two men: world-famous writer, Ernest Hemingway, and Gavin Murray, one of the WWI veterans who are laboring to build the Overseas Highway. When Mariella is hired as a maid by Hemingway's second wife, Pauline, she enters a rarified world of lavish, celebrity-filled dinner parties and elaborate off-island excursions. As she becomes caught up in the tensions and excesses of the Hemingway household, the attentions of the larger-than-life writer become a dangerous temptation...even as straightforward Gavin Murray draws her back to what matters most. Will she cross an invisible line with the volatile Hemingway, or find a way to claim her own dreams? As a massive hurricane bears down on Key West, Mariella faces some harsh truths...and the possibility of losing everything she loves.
Author Biography
Erika Robuck is a contributor to popular fiction blog, Writer Unboxed, and maintains her own blog called Muse. She is a member of The Hemingway Society and The Historical Novel Society.


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In weighing an applicant's credentials, the law school looks at such factors as grade point average (GPA), the strength of the undergraduate institution, and the rigor of his or her course of study. The law school also considers an applicant's score on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), a reliable measure of academic preparation.
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Senior Airman Clayton Valentine, 437th Maintenance Group jet-propulsion specialist, walks toward a C-17 Globemaster III after setting up a generator to be used during a routine engine check June 26, 2013, at Joint Base Charleston – Air Base, S.C. Airmen from the 437th MXG perform routine maintenance to C-17s daily. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Dennis Sloan)
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WWU's Young Alumnus of the Year leverages a career in international shipping into a life as an investor and business advisor
Story by Mary Lane Gallagher
2009 WWU Alumni of the Year
Frank "Moose" ('50) and Vi Zurline, Larry "Go Vikings!" Taylor Alumni Service Award
"Moose" Zurline learned a lot of important life lessons on Western's football and basketball teams in the 1940s, and he and his wife, Vi, have supported Western athletics ever since. The Zurlines, now retired, have funded many scholarships for Western student athletes.
John Wolfe ('74), College of Business and Economics Distinguished Alumnus
A leading white-collar criminal defense attorney in the Puget Sound region and a member of the CBE Dean's Advisory Board.
Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus ('74), Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies Distinguished Alumna
President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, an organization of 1,800 Reform rabbis.
Steven Arnold ('79, '81), College of Fine and Performing Arts Distinguished Alumnus
A motion picture art director whose work can be seen in "Bewitched," "Van Helsing," "Solaris," "Spider-Man," "Unbreakable," "Get Shorty" and "Face/Off."
Kevin Jackson ('92), College of Humanities and Social Sciences Distinguished Alumnus
Four-time Emmy Award-winning vice president and executive editor for ESPN.com.
Mike Town ('84, '85), Huxley College of the Environment Distinguished Alumnus
An environmental science teacher who spearheaded a grassroots effort to establish the 106,000-acre Wild Sky Wilderness.
Kathleen Grega Digges ('71), College of Sciences and Technology Distinguished Alumna
A physician in Northern Virginia whose financial support established four endowments in the Geology Department, including one creating a field trip program.
Ronald H. LaFayette ('69, '71), Woodring College of Education Distinguished Alumnus
President of North Seattle Community College who has played a critical role in creating pathways for nontraditional students to become teachers.
Bill Kalenius ('74), Alumni Community Service Recognition
The driving force behind the volunteer-run Vancouver Lake Crew program, who rallied the community to help the club recover from a destructive tornado in early 2008.
The Bowman-Frazier Family, Legacy Family of the Year
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Main, 36, was selected as Westerns Young Alumnus of the Year for his success in building both businesses and relationships. A self-described serial entrepreneur, Main is the owner and managing director of his own investment company, the SARAME Corp., as well as chief operating officer of the Pennsylvania-based Carbon Nanoprobes Inc., one of SARAMEs portfolio companies, where hes helping the young CEO build the operation.
Carbon Nanoprobes builds carbon nanotube tips, which enable atomic force microscopes to take three-dimensional, digital images of very, very small things. How small is a nanotube tip? Imagine a strand of human hair, Main says, then imagine splitting it 10,000 times.
Carbon nanotubes will play a critical role in the emerging field of nanotechnology, Main says.
As transistors and computer chips get smaller and smaller, we have to have an imaging device to look at them, Main says. Nano is the next-level generation that everythings moving to, but we cant move to it until we can image it and see it.
He first became familiar with Carbon Nanoprobes as an early-round angel investor. But CEO Brian Ruby soon realized that Mains business know-how was as valuable as his investment capital and asked Main to join the company as a fulltime executive.
Main is also a mentor to Ruby, 25.
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Main built his own business knowledge through several years in the international logistics and shipping industry. After helping to build other companies and watch them be sold and profit someone else, he decided he wanted to build his own companies.
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Sarah OBrien Parker, CEO of Spacecraft Clothing, first met Main years ago when he worked in the logistics industry. Like Ruby, she also counts Main among her mentors.
There hasnt been a question that Main couldnt answer, Parker says, even if he couldnt answer right away.
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2015 Homecoming Schedule
The 2015 Homecoming schedule will be updated as more details become available. This schedule is tentative and is subject to change.
|Thursday, Oct. 1
|3 - 6 p.m.
|4th Annual Alumni Career Fair
Open to the Public
|Friday, Oct. 2
|8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
|Admissions Discovery Day
|York Performance Hall,
Kane Dining Room
|6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
|Reception in the Valley
Special Performances at 8 & 9 p.m.
(free event)
|Campus Illumination, weather permitting
|6:30 p.m.
| L'Amifidel Alumni Cookout
Cost: $7
| Bottom of Decker Hall,
Decker Commons Courtyard
|7:30 p.m.
|School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Homecoming Concert
Outstanding Music Alumni Award Presentation
(free event)
|Park Place Church of God
|8 & 9 p.m.
|AU Dance Ensemble special dance performances
during the Reception in the Valley
(free event)
|8 p.m.
|Cultural Research Center Pep Rally
|Macholtz Stadium
|9 p.m.
|Oksober Fest
Cost - TBD
|Rice Hall lobby
|9 p.m.
|Late Night with Adelphi
(free event)
|Saturday, Oct. 3
|9 a.m.
|University Bookstore open, closes at 6 p.m.
|Olt Student Center
|9 a.m.
|Avanti Boosters Alumni Breakfast Cost: $10
|Kane Dining Room, Olt Student Center
|9 a.m.
|Camarada/Dativus Alumni Breakfast Cost: $10
|Schield Dining Room, Olt Student Center
|9 a.m.
|Department of Biology Breakfast Reception (free event)
|Hartung Hall, Room 213
|9 a.m.
|Department of Science and Engineering Breakfast Reception (free event)
|Hartung Hall, third floor central area
|9:30 a.m.
|Honors Reunion (free event)
|Honors Lounge, Nicholson Library
|10 a.m.
|Alumni Baseball Game (free event)
|Don Brandon Field
|10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
|Street Fair, Rain-or-shine event
|University Blvd.
|10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
|Boostore at the Street Fair
|University Blvd.
|10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
|Tri-S Alumni Tent at the Street Fair
|University Blvd.
|10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
|History & Political Science Tent at the Street Fair
|University Blvd.
|10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
|Warner Sallman works on display
|York Performance Hall, Scheierman Gallery
|10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
|Psychology Alumni Tent at the Street Fair
|University Blvd.
|11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
|Live webcast of Street Fair Watch online at anderson.edu/homecoming/webcast
|Dunn Hall lawn
|AU Women's Volleyball Game vs. Transylvania University (free event)
|O.C. Lewis Gymnasium
|12:30 p.m.
|Alumni Baseball Cookout (free event, donations appreciated)
|Macholtz Stadium Entrance
|1 p.m.
|Bookstore at Macholtz Stadium
|Macholtz Stadium
|1 p.m.
|AU Women's Soccer vs. Earlham College
|AU Soccer Field
|1-4:30 p.m.
|~22nd Annual 1950s Hospitality Tent (invitation for the 1960s to join).
~6th Annual 1970s Hospitality Tent
~2nd Annual 1980s Hospitality Tent
|Inside Macholtz Stadium entrance
|1:30 p.m.
|AU Football vs. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
|Macholtz Stadium
|3 p.m.
|AU Women's Soccer Alumni Reception (free event)
|Campground Pavilion
|3:30 p.m.
|AU Men's Soccer vs. Earlam College
|AU Soccer Field
|4:30 p.m.
|English Department Alumni Reception (free event)
|Home of Deborah Miller Fox
|5:30 p.m.
|Men's Alumni Soccer Game (free event)
|AU Soccer Field
|7 and 10:30 p.m.
|Encore, sponsored by Avanti Boosters Cost is $4 at the door
|Reardon Auditorium
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Images: VMFA-115 preps for UDP [Image 1 of 2]
Photo by Sgt. Marcy Sanchez
Corporals Kyle Thompson (left), a native of Warren, Mich., and Zak Reed (right), a native of St. Augustine, Fla., both powerline mechanics with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115, inspect an F/A-18C Hornet engine bay prior to installing an engine during maintenance aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort's flightline, June 19. Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115 is slated to deploy in support of the Marine Corps' Unit Deployment Program in July. While supporting the UDP, VMFA-115, also known as the Silver Eagles, will increase forward presence in the Western Pacific area of operations while participating in theater security cooperation activities with regional allies.
This work, VMFA-115 preps for UDP [Image 1 of 2], by Marcy Sanchez, identified by DVIDS, is free of known copyright restrictions under U.S. copyright law.
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I have a specific question about reversing $a\tan2$. (I am programmer, sorry for the jargon). I also use the $a\tan2$ function in my example, but I think everybody knows what it means.
radial = 1.12*PI => transformed = -atan2(cos(radial)∗2,sin(radial)*1.5)
Is there a way to reverse the transformed value to the start radial, without knowing the start radial? This is how codeflow should be
radial => transform(radial) => transformback(transform(radial)) => radial.
I have searched on the web (incl. stack) but I couldn't find any correct code. Also looked on Wikipedia, but it was overwhelming. My question is more a algebra question I think ;).
Let me know what you think!


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Sister Sarah
Comedic Vocal Ensemble
Sister Sarah is a comedic vocal ensemble, performing songs about the humorous aspects of church life, often from the women's perspective. We perform for retreats, concerts, church functions, services, or any place people wish to gather, laugh and listen to beautiful vocal music in 4 part harmony.
Sister Sarah Performs "Church Laydee"
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Edward Hutabarat love of art and fashion in the world Indonesia longstanding relationship Appreciation of the famous designer was also given by Luminar Star Award 2012 as the best fashion designer.
Richness of Indonesian culture has become a focus for Edward Hutabarat. Through his work, designer Tarutung born, August 31, 1958 is senatiasa lifting beauty cloth bandage dress tradition of being a returning beloved community. For his dedication over the years, the designer who is familiarly called Edo was awarded the title as the best fashion designer by Luminar Star Award 2012.
The development of the world of entertainment art and fashion in Indonesia is growing up to the international world. As an appreciation of the art of man the country, the Foundation's work Copyright held Luminar Star Award 2012 which is the selection of the most shining star in the entertainment and fashion industry in Indonesia this year.
In the early years of implementation Luminar Star Award (ABL) 2012 appreciation to nine category winners The nominees were selected by the 2012 ABL Team Nomination Committee consisting of Irma Hardisurya, Mayong Suryo Laksono, Bens Leo, Rosiana Silalahi, and Jay Subyakto.
Tonight is very special because the leaders of art, entertainment and fashion Indonesia, which has inspired many people through their achievements and contributions to the field they pursue through awards received special appreciation ABL 2012," said Miranty Abidin, Founder of the Foundation's work Star Notices in press conferences ABL night 2012 at Balai Kartini, Jakarta, Friday, September 14, 2012.
Nine category winners were chosen by public voting through SMS and the website was conducted from July 30 to August 30, 2012.
The ABL 2012 winner gets a trophy, and carves like a hand prints your name and the Hollywood Walk of Fame at Avenue of The Star, Lippo Mall later.
This is more a list of the winners from the nominees in each category ABL 2012.
Television host women: Becky Tumewu
TV Announcer man: Andy F Noya
Actress film / TV ladies: Christine judge
Actor films / TV guy: Deddy Mizwar
Fashion designer: Edward Hutabarat
Singer Duo / group: Slank
Male solo artist: John FALS
Female soloists: Vina Panduwinata
Singer public option (People's Choice Award): Agnes Monica
Lifelong devotion: Waldjinah


text: Inquest order over father-of-eight's death 07 Aug 2014 The Attorney General has ordered an inquest into the death of a father-of-eight in a Belfast hospital, saying any further delay could have an adverse affect on public safety. Share Share Share Story by UTV Staff, Belfast Alfie Hannaway died of a brain haemorrhage in the Royal Victoria Hospital last September, three weeks after a quadruple heart bypass.The 61-year-old had been allowed back home after the major surgery and was on the blood-thinning drug Warfarin.But, he was readmitted to hospital after he took a turn for the worst.His daughter Roisin Carlile said: "We didn't get to say our final goodbyes and it was just the most heartbreaking experience because daddy was our best friend."We were told that it was a major extensive bleed to the brain and we questioned if there was an operation, if there was anything we could do and we were told there was nothing that could be done and he would pass away within a few hours."It was just unbelievable that this was happening to daddy after everything being positive and looking to a new life."The Belfast Trust has already admitted failings in his care. His family says the intervention of the Attorney General, John Larkin is a significant development.Alfie's family now believe they are edging closer to finding out if his death could have been prevented.In a letter to the family, the Attorney General confirmed that he has ordered an inquest into Alfie's death, and questioned why one didn't commence immediately.The letter stated that any further delay could have an adverse affect on public safety.This development was largely brought about because of the persistence of Alfie's family.They felt something wasn't right and began asking questions.As a result, the trust investigated.Shortcomings in Alfie's care were found including serious deficiencies regarding communication about his surgery and discharge and about the management of the drug Warfarin.The Trust apologised.Alfie's daughter Marie-Therese Robinson added: "We want the truth. First and foremost for our daddy."If he was here and it happened to one of us he would have been the one to do it for us. We want no other family to go through what we're going through at the minute. The last ten months have been the worst ten months of our lives."Roisin continued: "There's nothing that's going to bring our daddy back. People have said to us that you'll get closure."There's no closure in this for us because our loss has been so great and because daddy was only 61 years old. He should have been here for a lot longer."The Belfast Trust said it cannot discuss any individual's treatment or care, but confirmed it is in contact with the Hannaway family. © UTV Share Share Share