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I am attempting to “calibrate” the recommendations for timing seasonal work on trees based on the differences between climates at Mirai (Oregon) and where I am located (Mississippi). Looking at historical weather averages it appears that there is ~3 mo shift in avg Low/High Temperatures. For instance In Oregon the Average early spring temperatures are ~36F-51F, where my local climate sees these temperatures in Mid Winter.
My question is how heavily should I adjust my own work based on temperature alone? I know there are many other factors that determine this such as daylight length and local adaptations but just looking for some rough guidance as I am starting fresh in this climate with brand new trees. Over time I know I will begin to learn nuances with the trees based off the physiological signs they give (when buds form, leaves drop etc…). I am also just starting to get connected with a local bonsai club but they are ~2.5hrs away from me with a slightly different climate.
Any insight is appreciated!
I live in a pretty different climate that Mirai as well and I am just down the coast from them in Southern California. I’m finding for me, I am about 1/4 to 1/2 a season temperature and weather wise ahead of Mirai when it comes to working on my natives. Going roughly off daylight hours is where I start to try and match work and timing. Then I gauge temperature where I am at to a similar temperature Mirai might experience when they would be performing their work.
So for example, I have a coastal oak that is already in its post flush hardened state of spring growth. I am a couple weeks ahead of probably trees at Mirai, so my work on these trees would be slightly earlier. Same with a black pine that is really close to needing its candles cut (like any day now). But at Mirai, they won’t think about that until first of June.
Biggest advice is, watch the videos and glean what technique is being done BECAUSE the tree was showing signs that it’s ready for that seasons work. Don’t go just based off a date on the calendar. Pay attention to the trees in nature too. They will give you an idea of when one of your bonsai of the same species will possibly be ready for work.
Hope that makes sense
Its tough and some guesswork is involved. One of the best things you can do is talk to experienced members of your local club and find out how far off the Mirai calendar they are on average, and factor that in. Watching the physical signs of the trees themselves is also great.
My take other than the above is to start early. We (south texas) very rarely freeze after March 01, but we do get very hot in the summer. So I’d rather start earlier and give trees time to adjust before June / July hits.
SolCalNative is right really focus on the visual cues, I try to observe my trees daily to plan and execute activities. It might be a challenge at first as the change is gradual this way.


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I was so excited for this dark 1970s show about criminal profiling, produced and partly directed by David Fincher, that I was almost scared to watch it in case it didn’t live up to my expectations. Two days of binge-watching later and I was not disappointed – Mindhunter is excellent, and it is especially essential viewing for any true crime fan.
A 1970s aesthetic can be cheesy and jarring on TV, but Mindhunter pulls it off with style, and your attention isn’t drawn away from the plot by anyone’s outrageously patterned shirt or comedy flares. As you’d expect, there’s a lot of brown, but the washed-out and slightly colourless production design works with the subject matter – dark basements and dingy dive bars seem like appropriate places to be talking about some of the worst serial crimes imaginable.
Considering the subject matter, though, there’s surprisingly little gore, and what there is tends to be contained within grainy photographs being analysed by the police and FBI. The viewer is seeing the crimes as the FBI agents are – after the fact, rather than as it happens.
One of the best parts of Mindhunter is the way Holden Ford’s character develops. At the start, he’s a somewhat awkward and naive idealist, who is excited to create the new science of criminal profiling. He’s so passionate about the project that it rubs a lot of his colleagues up the wrong way, especially his boss, who asks Agent Tench in one episode if it’s possible to make Ford shut up. Tench replies, “I have not been able to do that, sir.”
As the series progresses, Ford becomes more arrogant, and you get the feeling that his newfound fame as the FBI’s new star of criminal profiling is going to his head. His behaviour towards his girlfriend becomes more antagonistic, and he begins to flout rules and protocol at work. His interviews with serial killers become an obsession, and an opportunity for him to go toe-to-toe with brutal murderers in a kind of psychological battle, which he is determined to win. By the end of episode 10, you see his steely facade crumbling when he finally understands quite how frightening the people he’s spent so many hours with really are. He says in one scene that if “you want truffles, you’ve got to get in the dirt with the pigs”, but clearly the dirt is beginning to rub off on him.
One criticism is in regards to the two female characters in the show. Dr Wendy Carr is a smart, intelligent woman who will not be patronised by her male colleagues and is not afraid to stand her ground, but there could have been more development of her character. I’m still not exactly sure what the scenes where she was feeding a cat in her basement were supposed to mean. I feel like they were supposed to tell us something deep and revealing about her personality, but the point was lost on me. Holden’s girlfriend, Debbie, is delightfully snarky and self-confident. I wanted to see more of her, and more of Debbie and Holden’s odd-couple dynamic.
Something else that’s left me a little confused is the appearance of a character who crops up throughout the episodes in very short scenes, working for a security firm and creeping around in darkened houses waiting for his victims. True crime nerds will recognise this character as Dennis Rader, who was active as a serial killer in the 1970s. They’re obviously going to pick him up again in series two, because there was no big reveal about him this series, but I’m slightly confused as to how he’s going to fit into the timeline because he wasn’t caught by police until 2005.
My favourite two things about Mindhunter are the excellent soundtrack, which I need to download immediately, and Cameron Britton, the actor who played Edmund Kemper. I might be biased, because Edmund Kemper is the serial killer I am most fascinated by, so I was really excited to see him portrayed on screen, but I really think Cameron Britton stole the show. He managed to portray Ed Kemper as creepy, smart and terrifying, while also making you feel empathy for this rather sad and lonely outcast. I really hope Kemper will return in series two, because I just couldn’t get enough of his scenes.
The only question that remains about Mindhunter now is how many times I’m going to re-watch it before series two premieres.

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The Impossible Years, Cinderella
Cindy Carol, Noreen Corcoran, Jesse Pearson, Michael Gordon, Robert Iscove
Trudi Ziskind November 10, 1946 (age 73)
Steven R. Lenenberg (m. 1971 div. 1974)
Trudi Ames (born Trudi Ziskind) is a former actress most notable for her uncredited but memorable role in Bye Bye Birdie as Kim's best friend Ursula. She also had a notable role as Libby in Gidget Goes to Rome and was an extra in Gypsy. In a TV special on January 7, 1965, she was named by ABC as one of the twelve most promising young actresses. She later appeared on such television series as The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Make Room for Daddy, Green Acres and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
The daughter of Louis Ziskind, a social worker for Los Angeles' Jewish Committee for Personal Service, Ames married Steven R. Lenenberg in 1971; the couple divorced in 1974.
Her post-acting life has included teaching in the Los Angeles area public schools for twenty years, and working for the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1978-83 as a brakeman and locomotive engineer.
As Prashant Ziskind, she has worked as a life transitions coach, particularly for creative people including performance artists.

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Joseph McNulty recently returned from the 2019 conference in Miami. He auditioned for the ITG Collegiate Scholarship Competition this spring and he received a scholarship to attend.
For this competition, he had to prepare, record, and submit recordings of himself playing a solo piece as well as a professional étude. Collegiate students worldwide were able to submit recordings for one of the scholarships, and McNulty’s submission was selected as one of the winning entries. Along with receiving a waiver of registration fees for the 2019 ITG Conference in Miami, he received a $250 check as well as a certificate of recognition for the award.
McNulty said he Was ecstatic to have the opportunity to attend the conference alongside many world known professional musicians.
Professor Donald Sorah accompanied McNulty to Miami.
“It has been a pleasure working with Joseph as a member of my trumpet studio over the past two years,” Sorah said. “Joseph arrived on campus with a great set of skills, but in need of polishing. Due to his willingness to invest the time necessary to refine his skills and improve his abilities, he has experienced a great deal of success. It is a joy to work with Joseph as he is always prepared, has a pleasant personality, and a great sense of humor. I am proud of his work ethic and anticipate much success as a musician and as an educator.”
The senior music education major is focused primary on trumpet. He is a current member of the UVA-Wise Concert Choir, Highland Winds, Marching Highland Cavaliers, Men’s Chorus, Pep Band, Jazz Band, and Trumpet Ensemble. While at UVA-Wise, he has had the honor of performing in the 2018 VMEA Collegiate Recital as well as the 2018 and 2019 Honors Recitals on campus. Additional performances outside of school include performing with The Winds of The Mountain Empire, as well as with Southwest Virginia Community College’s Jazz Band performing at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City and for the 2019 Virginia Community College System’s Legislative Reception with members of the Virginia General Assembly present.
In addition to being the Assistant Drum Major and Brass Captain in the Marching Highland Cavaliers, he has served as both treasurer and president of the UVa-Wise NAfME chapter and is also a member of the International Trumpet Guild. After graduation, he plans to attend graduate school to pursue a master’s degree in trumpet performance.
Attendance and participation in the International Trumpet Guild Conference provides great opportunities for networking, professional development, and instills motivation and inspiration. I am excited that Joseph has earned the scholarship to attend the conference. He will truly appreciate the opportunities this conference will provide.


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Welcome to Third Eye Weekly. On this podcast we try and answer the big questions with intimate, personal narratives that give insight into the human experience that others might over-look.
Today’s podcast is about being unprepared. Our big question is: When in your life have you felt least prepared to do something? What could you have done to better prepare, and what are ways to do so moving forward?
First, we took it to the streets to ask people when they felt least prepared.
We talk with Dr. Michael Smith, author of the Supplemental Pyramid, about how we can prepare ourselves to lead more nutritious lives.
We’ll also chat with Lee Rainie, director of internet, science, and technology research at the PEW Research Center. He’ll share some of his findings into our society’s new role as an online network, and a number of the ways we can prepare to maximize the benefits of that role.
Lastly, for our Third Eye perspective into the question this week we’ll wrap it up by talking with Favio Chavez, a musician and teacher who has created the Recycled Orchestra, which magically transforms the devastating garbage of one of the poorest slums in Cateura, Paraguay into musical instruments the children can play.
They sound unexpectedly beautiful. Translating for Favio is Brad Allgood, director of a film that chronicles Favio’s noble and musical journey. The film is called the Landfill Harmonic, and just premiered at SXSW Festival.
You can also check out a video of our interview with Dr. Michael Smith, on our unprepared expectations for the lack of nutrition healthy food in America provide and supplements to correct those imbalances.
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PM Narendra Modi holds face-to-face talks with several pro-India leaders from disputed Kashmir, the first such meeting since his right-wing government annexed the Himalayan territory, detained thousands and imposed a tough crackdown.
Farooq Abdullah had been confined to his residence in the main city of Srinagar since August 5 when the Indian government split the Muslim majority state and put it under direct New Delhi rule.
From Prime Minister Narendra Modi down to the average citizen, the scourge of fake news is ravaging India's public discourse.
Meanwhile, former Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah was detained in state capital Srinagar under the Public Safety Act, a special law that allows detention for up to two years without trial.
In the Kashmir Valley rebellion has become a way of life. What are the forces that inspire a near thirty year insurgency?
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Kelly Ripa has been noticeably absent from her hosting duties on Live with Kelly and Ryan so that she can spend quality time with her family.
But while she and her husband, Mark Consuelos, relax at their luxury home in The Hamptons with their children, fans have been asking what happened to their oldest son, Michael, who seems to have disappeared from the staycation.
MORE: When is Kelly Ripa returning to Live following Hamptons vacation?
It could well be a case of no rest for the wicked though, as while Kelly has no doubt been getting some quality R&R, her 24-year-old offspring was recently hard at work.
WATCH: Kelly Ripa melts hearts with touching montage for oldest son Michael
Michael updated his social media followers with photos from the set of Riverdale, where he got a guest role as a younger version of his father's character.
He had to spend time away from his mum, dad, sister, Lola, 20, and brother, Joaquin, 18, while filming in Canada and quarantining too.
MORE: Where is Kelly Ripa and why isn't she on Live?
READ: Kelly Ripa's son Michael makes revelation about famous family in rare interview
Mark also took time out from his loved ones to shoot scenes for the CW series, but it's been far from hardship for Michael to work with his father.
Michael plays a young version of his dad's character in Riverdale
"Acting opposite my dad was such a surreal experience," he told People. "But we both had the BEST time.
"Working on Riverdale was a bucket list moment for me. I immediately felt welcomed by the amazing cast and crew and am grateful for this wonderful opportunity to continue to learn and grow as an actor."
MORE: Kelly Ripa reveals incredible news and husband Mark Consuelos 'can't wait'
READ: Kelly Ripa prepares for bittersweet end of an era in her family
Michael did appear in several vacation snapshots Kelly shared on Instagram from their previous Italian getaway and they were surrounded by other friends and family too.
Michael vacationed with his family in Italy recently
They appear to be squeezing in as much time together as possible before their youngest, Joaquin, goes to college after the summer break.
He'll be headed off to Michigan and leaving New York behind him, meaning Kelly and Mark will be empty nesters.
Michael already graduated from university last year and Kelly and Mark's daughter is a student at NYU.
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Holiday reading has revealed fascinating differences (and similarities) between UK and US nimbyism. The two sources were:
- Research by UCLA revealing the true reasons why US nimbys dislike developers and development;
- The superb book, ‘Snob Zones’ by New York Times journalist Lisa Prevost. It describes the uglier side of localism in some of the quaint towns of New England.
This post looks as those sources and draws conclusions on the lessons and potential implications for the UK.
Opposition to development or opposition to developers? (UCLA, Feb 2018)
In a nutshell this research concludes that the key reason local residents don’t like development is because developers make a profit. And lurking beneath it says there is also a “resentment of new people who might be a different racial or income group”.
Other key points in the report were:
- In the US there is a long established negative cultural perception of developers as greedy or rapacious. Think; Its a Wonderful Life, or even Donald Trump. And more examples HERE ;
- In a controlled experiment, resident opposition to a development doubled when the group were told that the developers would be making a large profit;
- A vicious circle gets created whereby (a) development is unpopular, (b) zoning gets stricter, (c) development therefore gets riskier, (d) developers who are able to take on the risks make larger profits and (e) development becomes even more unpopular (see diagram, below);
- The cycle is exacerbated as successful developers in strict zoning areas need deep pockets and a confrontational mindset. That mindset engenders the obvious counterpoise from residents;
- The biggest financial beneficiaries of anti-development zoning are existing homeowners who are then able to behave as a highly effective cartel;
- Despite the findings of the survey-framed experiment, the research found that nimbys disguise the true underlying reasons for opposition, “even from themselves”;
- Whilst concerns over fairness may drive the anti-development mindset the researchers were not clear who actually benefits (or doesn’t benefit) from the supposed fairness created by preventing new homes.
The paper notes that, surprisingly, in a country where nearly everyone lives in a home built by a developer, the instinct in many areas is to punish the producer of that home.
Snob Zones, Lisa Prevost
This searing insight looks at a number of New England towns, and argues that, in some areas, the American dream of of “opportunity for all” appears to have been replaced by, “every town for itself”.
Prevost argues that localism is leading to shortfalls of housing, ageing towns, rising prices and hugely increased disparities and inequalities.
The book describes in captivating detail:
- The upmarket Connecticut town where the zoning commission has ensured there isn’t a single apartment building or condominium in the town;
- The town in Massachusetts where a small development of 4 ‘cottage apartments’, proposed in full accordance with the State policy to support lower income households, was rebuffed and rebuffed until the developer went bust;
- The town in Maine where an affordable housing scheme by a local non-profit organisation was stalled by the zoning commission until the State funding ran out. Luckily the scheme got built and was actually accepted as successful by residents;
- And another town in Connecticut where legal action by the State was necessary to overcome exclusionary practices by local officials.
Prevost concludes that the baby boomer generation is driving the opposition to development. Perhaps even without realising that encouraging more McMansions, whilst opposing more smaller homes, is increasingly out of step with younger aspirations. And therefore more likely to devalue their house.
Lessons for the UK
The first lesson is the pride we must take in the UK planning system. Generally transparent, accountable, rooted in a meaningful democratic process and free from malign influence. Talking to Barratt old timers, about the time when we had French, Spanish and US businesses, that is not something to take for granted.
And secondly, that however frustrating some UK nimbys are, we developers need to work harder to build trust and respect for our product. Especially as perceptions of the sector are perhaps less negative as in the US.
Houses are becoming both scarcer and more financially important to their owners. We need to understand that and perhaps message to local residents on these concerns rather than just about the tilted balance or traffic congestion. And, however difficult, recognise that being confrontational in a confrontational process often doesn’t end well.
But if the US does precede UK trends and cultures then Snob Zones does not paint an attractive housing future. It foretells of increasing societal separation and greater polarisation between perceptions of conservation and new development. Watching UK suburban Council leaders proclaiming a need for less housing within 24 hours of new lower household projections isn’t grounds for optimism.
The possible rise of an “I was here first” mentality, focused on certain age and income groups, pulling up a ladder they were pleased to climb up themselves. Perhaps we need more granular research on the drivers and nature of localism and nimbyism in the UK.
Developers, planners, politicians, and others, with influence in addressing the housing crisis perhaps need to step up. An approach which restricts aspiration and access to capital appears only likely to store up trouble. Especially as the UK public debate appears to be moving away from the shortage of homes and more towards the profits of landowners.

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Reflecting the recent dramatic rise in the value of mining stocks, the multinational professional services firm Ernst & Young’s Canadian Mining Eye index gained 42% during Q2 2016, outperforming indexes around the world. This follows a gain of 26% in the Canadian index in Q1, which was already a significant turnaround compared to 2015. After some four years of low commodity prices and negative investor sentiment, the turnaround began in February 2016 after the TSX Venture Exchange hit a bottom on January 28.
The report noted that the S&P/TSX Composite Metals and Mining index witnessed a significant gain of 40% in Q2 2016, following gain of 34% in Q1 2016. The index’s gains were predominately due to increase in gold and base metal prices. Majors witnessed a robust gain of 29% in Q2 2016 compared to a gain of 21% in Q1 2016.
“Mining companies are seeing significant improvements in their earnings, and their results are better than expected,” says Bruce Sprague, EY’s Canadian Mining & Metals Leader. “The index’s gains were due in large part to an increase in gold and base metals prices, but the growth also comes from the debt and operational restructuring we’ve seen in the sector, including deleveraging, cost optimization and capex suspension.”
The Canadian Mining Eye: Q2 2016 report suggested gold prices may get a further boost by the continuing market uncertainty. Some of the key commodity changes in Q2 include:
- Gold increased by 7% in Q1, a modest gain after a 16% gain in Q1
- Zinc continues to be the best performing of the metal group with 16% gain in Q2 following a 14% gain in Q1
- Nickel prices increased by 11% in Q2, compared to a 4% decline in the previous quarter
- Both copper and nickel continue to operate in over-supply markets
“The mining sector is already seeing the benefits of reduced interest costs, reduced cash costs and operating efficiencies,” says Jay Patel, EY’s Mining & Metals Transactions Leader. “Looking ahead to the rest of the year, supply reductions and commodity price improvements are indicating a positive outlook for the sector.”
Many Canadian miners such as Barrick, Northern Star, Newcrest, Agnico Eagle and Detour Gold Corporation have reduced their all-in sustaining costs (AISC) and have provided guidance of further reduced levels for 2016, the report stated. The majority of the mining companies reported lower capital expenditures in Q1 2016 compared to the same period last year, further enhancing the cash flows of the companies.
Dr. Mark O’Dea, President and Founder of Oxygen Capital Corp., told EY: “With the wave of M&A activity that has taken place recently, investors are definitely looking at recycling some of their money into exploration companies. My advice is to not be afraid to step out of your comfort zone.”
Looking ahead, EY’s Canadian Mining Eye forecast: In the face of an anticipated ongoing uncertainty in the major equities markets triggered by Brexit, metal prices are expected to remain volatile in near term while gold will benefit as a safe-haven investment instrument. In addition, lowered US economy growth expectations from 2.4% in April to 2.2% in 2016 are expected to drive gold prices higher as investors look to shift investment from equities to gold. Concerning base metals, zinc is expected to gain as the sector continues to balance its demand-supply deficit in the near term, following plant closures in 2015. Copper and nickel will remain under supply pressure, but nickel prices are expected to improve in the second half of 2016 and 2017, underscored by rising stainless steel consumption in China.
The Canadian Mining Eye tracks Canadian mining sector performance of 100 TSX and TSXV mid-tier and junior companies with market capitalizations at the end, broadly falling between CDN $1.6b and CDN $47m.


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"I cannot understand how the police could have been so blind..."- The Old Man (Baroness Orczy's "The York Mystery," collected in The Old Man in the Corner, 1908)
Back in May, I reviewed a Dutch short (locked room) story by Anne van Doorn, titled "De dichter die zichzelf opsloot" ("The Poet Who Locked Himself In"), which was offered at the time as a freebie by E-Pulp Publishers. A small, independent, publishing outfit that had turned its back on the drab, gloomy realism of the psychological school of modern crime-fiction and vowed to return to "the time of pulp fiction" when mystery and imagination would await all who would seek it – be it in a short story or a full-length novel. So you'll not find a single title in their catalog with the predicate "literary thriller" emblazoned on the front-cover.
Several months have passed since my previously mentioned blog-post and a number of potentially interesting titles were published during that period. One of these releases was Van Doorn's De geliefde die in het veen verdween en andere mysteries (The Lover Who Disappeared in the Bog and Other Mysteries, 2017), which is a rare, modern-day, collection of short stories and includes "The Poet Who Locked Himself In."
The Lover Who Disappeared in the Bog and Other Mysteries consists of five short stories about Van Doorn's series-characters, Robbie Corbijn and Lowina de Jong, who are particuliere onderzoekers (private investigators) specialized in oude zaken (old cases) that the police were unable to successfully bring to a close – which vary from long-standing missing person cases to unsolved murders. Corbijn is both the head and brains of Recherchebureau Corbijn – Research & Discover, while De Jong acts as his assistant, pupil and chronicler. She pretty much plays the Dr. Watson to his Sherlock Holmes. They work from an apartment in a residential tower, called the Kolos van Cronesteyn, standing on the outskirts of Leiden, South-Holland.
This compendium opens with a brief opmerking vooraf (comment in advance), in which Van Doorn laments the lack of room in today's literary landscape for the short story and professed an admiration for the short detective stories by Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Baroness Orczy. And told that the five stories that make up this collection were written in the tradition of those three classic mystery writers. Lastly, Van Doorn ended with the suggestion to read the stories in the order they appear and no more than a day, because "each story only comes into its own when you read no more than one per day."
Apparently, that's how Van Doorn learned to read and appreciate short stories. Well, I succeeded in reading them in order, but burned through them in less than five days. What can I say? I'm a wholesale consumer of detective fiction. So, let's take down these stories from the top.
The first story in this collection is the locked room yarn I reviewed back in May, "The Poet Who Locked Himself In," which is why I'm not going to discuss it here again, but, needless to say, it's always a special treat to come across an impossible crime story in my own language – particularly when the locked room trick is a good one. And it was this specific story that inspired me to compile a list of Dutch-language locked room novels and short stories, which you can find here.
The second story lends its name to this collection, "De geliefde die in het veen verdween" ("The Lover Who Disappeared in the Bog"), which begins as a modern-day crime story about a missing property developer, who had ties with the underworld, but ended in the most classical way imaginable.
Corbijn and De Jong are approached by the woman living next to the office, Letty Kreft, whose niece, Ingeborg Greshoff, has a boyfriend who has been missing for six-and-a-half years. Guido Eickhout was a project developer and an ardent hiker, but on his last hike in the Belgian Ardennes, in the Hoge Vennen, he simply vanished from the face of the Earth. Tragically, Greshoff learned that he had ordered golden engagement rings and planned to propose to her upon his return.
The local police believes Eickhout had been murdered by one of his criminal associates and the body had been hidden somewhere in "the outstretched forests, marshy peatlands, bogs" and the heathlands. Greshoff is well aware that the murderer might never be caught or has perhaps been killed himself in another criminal related shooting, which is why she now only wants to find the body and give her would-be-fiance a decent burial. Corbijn accepts the case and travels to the misty, boggy Ardennes and slowly begins to unravel the tapestry of a plot as clever and intricate as anything found in Ellery Queen or Edward D. Hoch. A plot that consists of such tricky puzzle-pieces as "a man with a red sports bag," the pealing of the warning bell at a small chapel, once used as a "beacon for wandering hikers," and a local story from the 19th century – about two lovers who got lost on the fens and perished in a snowstorm.
Plot-wise, "The Lover Who Disappeared in the Bog" is the strongest of the five stories in this collection and one of my two personal favorites, which goes to show that even in this country some form of shin honkaku detective fiction can exist.
The next story is titled "De arts die de weg kwijt was" ("The Doctor Who Got Lost On the Way") and is a departure from the cold case formula of the series, because the problem at hand is only a couple of days old. And consists of no less than two seemingly impossible situations!
A doctor from the Laakkwartier in Den Haag (The Hague), named Thomas van Ooijen, is in desperate need for an answer as to what has happened to him several days ago. One night, he was called on his smartphone by a patient, who needed special care, but when he arrived in the street where his patient lived he was waited upon by an unknown man and was ushered to a top-floor apartment – where he found a young woman strapped to a bed with an inflamed gunshot wound. A second man, who was present in the room, came across very threateningly and made it abundantly clear that it was in his best interest to help the girl without asking questions. This situation recalls the premise of R. Austin Freeman's The Mystery of 31, New Inn (1912), but what happens next takes the story in an entirely different direction.
When Van Ooijen finished working on the woman, he blacked out and was found later that night by two policemen inside his locked car that had been parked near the Kurhaus in Scheveningen. He had a splitting headache, the smell of alcohol clung to him and the keys, with remote control attached to it, lay on the dash board. Only he himself could have locked himself into his own car. So the police had a hard time believing his story, but what made Van Ooijen doubt himself is when the police accompanied him to the address and discovered that the place was a ground-floor house. The stairs and the entire top-floor apartment had disappeared!
The premise of the story and the explanation for the two impossibilities constitute the best aspects of this story. Corbijn practically solves the problem of the vanishing top-floor apartment from his armchair by consulting Google Maps, but the mystery of the locked car is a little bit more involved and requires a practical demonstration to show how it was done. I've seen the principle behind this particular trick before, but to apply this idea to a modern car with a remote control key is a new ripple.
However, I was not very impressed by the ending of the story or how an all-important plot-thread was left dangling in the wind. The story literally ended with “we will probably never know why [redacted] did so much to save her life.” What? That was, like, the entire mainspring of the plot and you leave it hanging in the air! Very, very disappointing. And the reason why this story ended up as the weakest entry in this collection. It began strong, but ended weakly.
Luckily, the next story in this collection, “Het joch dat grenzen overschreed” (“The Brat Who Went Too Far”), is my second favorite and is a good example of, what Bill Pronzini calls, humanist detective fiction. A sad and tragic murder case that would “never have become a case if there was no loneliness.” Or rather if the people involved had someone close to them to care about.
A lawyer, Elvira Guikema, calls in the help of Corbijn and De Jong on behalf of one of her clients, Geertruida Smelinck, who has been convicted for the premeditated murder of her neighbor's nine-year-old son, Ward Koehoorn – who was a regular Denis the Menace. The backdrop of this case is a glumly, dead-end side street with only three houses. It's a neglected neighborhood where people on one of the bottom rungs of society live a dismal, monotonous life.
Smelinck was a recluse with a dark past and the mother of the victim, Debby, had begun to prostitute herself after she was abandoned by Ward's father. An elderly retiree, Mr. Van den Ham, lived in the third home and filled his days by taking care of his sick wife and was an important witness as to what happened that fateful day. The last person is their landlord, Dirk van Grijpskerk, who lives far more comfortable than his tenants in a brand new bungalow.
On this already gloomy, dismal existence, Ward was an additional burden and the boy had picked Smelinck as his favorite target. So there was no question about her guilt when the boy was found in her garden with a rusty rod sticking out of his body. A year before, Ward had stolen all of the apples from the tree in her garden and everyone assumed he was caught and killed when he tried to repeat it a second time.
However, Smelinck maintained her innocence and Corbijn, alongside De Jong, travel to the province of Groningen to visit the desolate place where the murder took place three years ago. The plot is not overly complicated and the evidence, consisting of a key of the garden door, fingerprints and the witness statements, eventually bears out the simple truth. A simple truth I almost completely missed, because I was staring myself blind on my own pet hypothesis. I was only correct on a single technical aspect of the plot, but hey, being proven wrong can be as fun as completely solving the case. And really liked the background and story-telling of this one.
Finally, the last story of the lot, "De vluchteling die alles achterliet" ("The Refugee Who Left Everything Behind"), is yet another nail in the coffin of the ludicrous claim that the advance of forensic science, such as DNA, has made clever and classically-styled detective plots absolute – which is simply not true. This claim had already been shattered, decades before it was made, by Isaac Asimov in The Caves of Steel (1954) and again demonstrated to be false by Keigo Higashino's controversial Yogisha X no kenshin (The Devotion of Suspect X, 2005). Van Doorn approach to this is not as grand as those by Asimov and Higashino, but it nonetheless shows how DNA can be used as misdirection when manipulated and/or misinterpreted.
The background of the story has its roots in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. A Bosnian refugee, Zlatko Hodzic, came to the Netherlands in 1994 and vanished from an asylum center in 1996 without a trace.
One day earlier, Susanne Westera, disappeared under equally inexplicable circumstances from her home on the Wadden Island of Terschelling. A thorough police investigation determined that Zlatko and Susanna were in secret relationship, which was confirmed by DNA found in her home, but nothing else materialized from this discovery and they were relegated to never-ending list of missing persons who were never found. And the case remained unresolved for more than twenty years. Now the father of Susanne is terminally ill and wants to make a last ditch effort to clear up the case, which brings Corbijn and De Jong into the picture.
This story is, structurally, similar to the title story of this collection as both begin as apparently modern-crime stories, with a problem rooted in contemporary times, but the resolutions to these two stories are classic examples of old-fashioned misdirection and craftsman-like plotting – topped, in this case, with a nifty trick to get rid of a pesky body. So not a bad story to close out this collection.
All in all, The Lover Who Disappeared in the Bog and Other Mysteries is a solid collection of contemporary detective stories in the classic mold and a fine showcase of the all-but-lost art form known as the short story format. A form preferred by the early Titans of the genre. So it does me great joy to see a mystery writer from my own country continuing this age-old tradition and a second short story collection has already been announced for next year, De bergen die geen vergetelheid kennen en andere mysteries (The Mountains That Do Not Forget and Other Mysteries, 2018).
Finally, I want to point out my own objectivity. There were two impossible crime stories in this volume, but my two favorites were "The Lover Who Disappeared in the Bog" and "The Brat Who Went Too Far." So maybe my obsession with locked room mysteries hasn't really gone all that far after all! But is that a good thing or have I just let down the spirit of John Dickson Carr?

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A survey of feature selection algorithms based on graph
- 软件学院－已发表论文
特征选择作为数据处理的预步骤成为近年来的研究热点.借鉴图的方法,可认为重要的特征应该具有使同类样本更加聚集在同类之中,而使非同类样本间的间隔应该尽可能大的特点.首先详细介绍了当前常用的基于图的特征选择算法,并对其进行了分类比较;接着给出了当前基于图的特征选择算法存在的问题;最后指出了基于图的特征选择算法的研究趋势.Feature selection as the pre-step in the data processing has become a hot topic in recent years. Using the methods of graphs, it can be considered that the important features should be more aggregated in the same class, and more dispersed in the different class. This paper firstly introduced classification and compared the current familiar feature selection algorithms based on graph. Secondly, it pointed out the existing problems of feature selection algorithms based on graph. Finally, this paper involved what calls for future study.


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October kicks off with a mega-dose of new fiction: Ancient Light by John Banville, The Round House by Louise Erdrich, It’s Fine By Me by Per Petterson, The Heart Broke In by James Meek, In Sunlight and in Shadow by Mark Helprin, Live by Night by Dennis Lehane, and Have You Seen Marie? by Sandra Cisneros. And that doesn’t even include debuts Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, That’s Not a Feeling by Dan Josefson, and Safe As Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino. And there’s more: graphic novel master Chris Ware’s Building Stories, The Paris Review’s collection Object Lessons (we interviewed one of the Steins behind the book) and this year’s Best American Short Stories collection. Finally, Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim is out in a new NYRB Classics edition with an introduction by Keith Gessen.
Over at the Story Prize blog, Year in Reading alumnus Colum McCann shares a letter of advice to writers starting their career. As he puts it, “A story begins long before its first word. It ends long after its last… [it] reveal[s] a truth that isn’t yet there.”
On June 7th Canteen is hosting a battle in NYC’s KGB Bar. The event is called Outwrite and will pit Matthew Aaron Goodman, author of Hold Love Strong, against twelve two unknown volunteers in a flash writing competition. Alexander Chee will be reading from his new novel while the contestants prepare their weapons. This would make a great #LitBeat, and if you’re interested in covering this, get in touch with me here.


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Good for Pilaster Base, Wainscoting
The most common use of this molding is on the inside panels of wainscoting.
But an even better use is for making pilaster bases.
If you’re a Metro Detroit reader and looking for this molding profile, you might try looking at Bolyard Lumber in Rochester or John’s Lumber in Shelby Township.
For the rest of you, the best place to find this profile is at a lumber yard with a large molding department or a specialty molding store.
Prices & Specs
- Price Per Foot $1.75/lf
- Price Per Unit $14.00/8′ stick
- Vendor Lumber Yards
- Material Poplar
- Dimensions 2-1/2″ tall X 7/8″ thick
Patterns that Use this Profile
Before & After: Oak Wainscoting on Stairs
[This post is part of my Molding & Millwork Inventory series.]

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St. Patrick's Day Recipes
This St. Patrick’s Day, make traditional Irish food from scratch or whip up an easy recipe on the quick. From appetizers to dessert, the best St. Patty’s Day menu is here—lucky you!
“I love salads…especially refreshing ones that taste great!" says Michelle Bagwell of Alamosa, Colorado. "This simple salad has it all and is very adaptable. If you love bacon bits, spinach or cheese, add a little more to suit your personal taste.”

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Juggling multiple medications
Q: I am having a hard time juggling multiple medications. Can you give me tips on how best to deal with this problem?
Multiple medications are common among the elderly as they tend to have more medical conditions. According to a 2012 study done by the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore (PSS) and the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) on a VWO-run nursing home in Singapore, residents were on an average on 7.5 drugs each.
With the different medications, there comes a risk of duplication as well as drug interactions. Here’s some tips:
• Try to get medications from the same clinic, hospital or pharmacy so that the records are easily accessible.
• When seeing a doctor, dentist or pharmacist, especially for the first time, show them a list of medications that you are taking. Be sure to include supplements in the list as they can interact with certain medications.
• Consider using a pill box to organise your medication. There are weekly as well as monthly pill boxes; find the one that suits you the best.
• Keep a well-maintained and updated medication list (right), which could reduce duplication of medication. Make sure you are aware which medications are to be taken daily, and which ones are to be taken on an as-needed basis (to avoid taking medication when not needed, e.g. painkillers).
• If in doubt, contact your doctor or pharmacist. – Chung Wing Lam, senior pharmacist, Watson’s Personal Care Stores
(** PHOTO CREDIT: Assorted capsules and tablets, zeathiel, stock.xchng)

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YCM was founded because when asked, most people answered 'true' to the following statements.
I take responsibility for every word I say and build on my ability to respond vs. react.
I am a leader with or without a tag. I commit and I show up for myself and for those around me to build a reliable system.
I practice what I believe and I believe what I practice before I preach.
I constantly travel to-&-fro between self to society for self-awareness. I experiment with a change on myself before I propose a societal level change.
I use compassionate language to build human connection by recognizing needs, and feelings and developing strategies to meet needs and achieve satisfaction.
I build bottom-up sustainable models and networks. I grow, I co-support those around me to grow and the system we are a part of grows consequentially.

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Canon EOS R body, RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM lens + RF 1.4x extender. 700 mm, f/10, 1/60'', ISO 1600. Monopod.
Roosting wood duck drake on Roosevelt Island --- one of my favorite nature escapes in Washington, D.C. Captured this image around sunset, so had to work with relatively low light, but a welcomed challenge.


Richie Havens recorded some wonderful albums for Verve Records prior to appearing at Woodstock, but it was the festival that defined his career.
Capaldi's third solo album features former Traffic colleague Steve Winwood and Chris Wood, among many other distinguished guests.
Nicky Hopkins was one of the most in demand session players of his generation and featured on one of Rolling Stones Records’ first releases, ‘Jamming With Edward.’
Big Star drummer Jody Stephens helps us celebrate ‘Radio City,’ the album that cemented the group as the archetypal cult band.
From acoustic demo to an epic promo video, the history of ‘November Rain’ traces the creation of one of rock’s greatest ballads.
The best Rolling Stones 60s songs are timeless classics that trace the band’s evolution from bratty upstarts to voices of a generation.
Heavy with radio-friendly rock, Heart’s ‘Dreamboat Annie’ introduced the Wilson sisters as forces to be reckoned with in a male-dominated rock scene.
From the opening bars of ‘Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More,’ The Allman Brothers Band set out to ensure that ‘Eat A Peach’ would be remembered as a classic.
On February 8, 1969, a new band formed by Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker in the wake of Cream’s demise went into the studio. Blind Faith was born.
Harvey’s was an improbable tale of dues-paying from the mid-1950s onwards, before he found belated stardom as the leader of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
The sophomore album 'Grand Funk' saw the trio expanding on the confidently hard-rocking sound of their debut release.
‘Have You Ever Seen The Rain’ was one of the last great Creedence Clearwater Revival songs, as underlined by the dozens of cover versions, from Johnny Cash to Rod Stewart.
Steppenwolf released their debut album in January 1968, but it didn't fully take off until 'Born To Be Wild' was featured in 'Easy Rider' and made them stars.
Andrew Loog Oldham was 19 years old when he signed The Rolling Stones to a management deal; his genius helped make them the band they became.
The Coda Collection will feature exclusive video content, rare documentaries, and insightful programming.
Both albums have been remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios.


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On April 1st, 2020, the 100th birthday of H.E. Erwin Walther, composer, and music teacher from Amberg, could be celebrated. For that reason, the city of Amberg paid homage to its cultural laureate by organizing a year of versatile concert events.
“We should not stop at remembrance”, says Michaela Grammer, the artist’s daughter, and administrator, and puts the anniversary under the motto “Walther and the Next Generation”. Following that, the two graduates from ‘Max-Reger-Gymnasium’ in Amberg and awardees of the ‘Kulturförderpreis’ (youth cultural award) of the city of Amberg, Katrin Klose and Christof Johannes Weiß, dealt with Walther’s compositions and ignite a creative spark within two concerts. This would have totally been to the composer’s delight since he always valued the conveyance of music to the young generation as indispensable.
Kartin Klose und Christof Weiß are outstanding musicians who not only follow the beaten tracks in reproducing but strike the unknown and often difficult path of a career as a composer in a courageous and highly motivated way. It is a special gift of two young composers to Erwin Walther since they represent the next generation of artists, who – as Walther – are deeply connected to their homeland but also reach out far over its borders.
Katrin Klose and Christof Weiß perfectly personify the vision of the motto “Next Generation” but without the “broad minded”, the “doer”, the great interpreter of Walther’s versatile opus, the colourful anniversary would not be complete.
Already since 2004 pianist Frank Gutschmidt analyses and interprets Walther’s musical graphics, named ‘Audiogramme’ and produces together with soprano Yvonne Friedli, tenor Joachim Vogt, and clarinettist Ib Hausmann an extraordinary studio concert.
Jelena Lichtman (piano) and Michael Rupprecht (cello), who already shortly after Walther’s death had the courage to include his challenging scores into their repertoire, place them into a contemporary context during their concert ‘Seelenverwandschaft’ (congeniality of souls) in the town hall of Sulzbach-Rosenberg.
Heinz Grobmeier, “multi-instrumentalist”, jack-of-all-trades, and creative powerhouse together with three musicians interprets graphical music in Air Museum Amberg.
All these artists are completely acting according to Walther’s words in his acceptance speech for ‘Kulturpreis’ (cultural award), which he addressed to the representatives of the city of Amberg: “Do not forget your artists – they make [the city] glow from within, they vivify the reconstructed, mollify the broken, and elevate the banality, … for the province not to sink into provinciality!”


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Title: The Child at Home
or The Principles of Filial Duty
Author: John S.C. Abbott
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gratitude for their parents' love, and in forming characters which
shall ensure future usefulness and happiness.
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The stocky, short-legged penguins, the flightless aquatic birds covered with striking black and white coat, live exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, except only one species, the Galapagos penguins that are found north of the Equator. Living in colonies with large population, and surviving in harsh cold conditions, they are often seen as the emblem of Antarctica. However, only two species, the Emperor and Adelie, make the Antarctic continent their true home,while the others breed on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where conditions are less harsh.
It is considered by many that the name penguin originates from the Welsh pen gwyn, which means white head, or from the Latin penguins, referring to the fat or blubber of the bird. The name penguin was first given to another type of bird, the great auk. Later, when the European explorers discovered actual penguins in the hemisphere, they found their resemblance with the great auk of the Northern Hemisphere and named them after that. However, despite their resemblance, the penguins are not closely related to the great auk.
Most of the penguins are black on the back and white below, somewhat look-alike gentlemen in white trousers and black coats. Often they have black lines across the upper breast or white spots on the head. Some species have yellow brow tufts and orange and yellow on the head, neck, and breast in the emperor and king penguins. Although penguins belonging to different species have similar body form and structure, their sizes vary greatly in size. While the little blue penguin, also known as the fairy penguin, stands around 13 to 16 inches (33 to 40 cm) tall and weighs about 1 kg, the adult emperor penguins are about 3 feet 7 inches (3`60 m) tall and weigh 35 kg.
The penguins are flightless seabirds, and nature has provided them with a thick layer of blubber or tallow and tightly packed oily feathers, ideally suited to confront the challenge of harsh cold temperature. They do not have the wings to fly, but their wings, which have evolved to become stiff flippers, webbed feet, and body shape, are perfect for good swimming. They can swim about 24 km (15 miles) an hour and often leap out of the water as they swim. In fact, the penguins spend most of their time in the ocean and hunt squid, krill, and crabs. They are good divers too. However, the small penguins dive to catch their prey near the surface, and their dives normally last only a minute or two. But the large penguins, especially the emperor penguins, are the world’s deepest-diving bird and can dive to about 1800 feet (550 m) deep while searching for food. While not in the water, the penguins with their upright stance tend to waddle, hop, or even run ridiculously, with their bodies angled forward. The penguins in the polar region often travel long distances by sliding across the ice on their bellies while pushing their bodies forward with their feet.
Except for the yellowed-eyed and the Fiordland species, penguins for the most part breed in large colonies, which may vary in size from 100 pairs of gentoo penguins to several hundred thousand in the case of the king, macaroni, and chinstrap penguins. For the breeding season, they form monogamous pairs. Penguins come ashore to their eggs and raise their chicks. Usually, the females lay two eggs in a clutch, except the emperor and the king penguins, who lay only one. Both the male and the female penguins share the incubation duties, except for the emperor penguins, where the males take the responsibility alone.
Unfortunately, about two-thirds of penguin species are enlisted as one of the most endangered seabirds. Apart from the loss of habitat, infectious diseases spread by the tourists, getting accidentally captured by the fishing nets, especially by commercial fishing in the Sothern Ocean, and hunting and poaching for their oil and egg, the biggest threat to the penguin population is global warming, resulting in the melted sea ice in the Polar Regions.


Customized sms gateway development is the process of developing and release of the software tailored to the needs of a specific entity. For example, major corporate companies have their own softwares which are specific only to their organisation and department for which it is designed. This may be an application software for specific needs like consumer management, project management, HR management and project needs etc.
All the organisations needs cannot be satisfied by off-the-shelf software. Every organisation works differently, hence the needs are also different. Custom made software provides a lot of specific functionalities as it is made in accordance with the needs of the organisation. This will definitely increase the ease of work and improve productivity.
If a software application is developed to address an internal need, the cost of it will be recovered through increased efficiency. The system will return profit in the long run along with increased productivity. If your organisation has an internal needs which cannot be addressed by an off-the-shelf application, then a custom software is a smart option. The Cons of Custom Software Development
Purchasing an off-the-shelf software costs you much less than developing a custom software in-house. It involves a lot of risks. Custom software development requires a huge investment and a dedicated software development team. The cost alone can be hefty. Off-the-shelf software can afford a hefty price point as it is sold to different users, but custom software is created for one user. The software is not intended for sale and you cannot profit any money from it.
The value it gives your business will be based on the productivity and efficiency improvement. Any design flaws or inconsistency leads to huge loss.Therefore the software is designed in accordance with the company infrastructure, branding and implementation in mind. The Pros of Custom Software Development


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Can someone tell me if you make your own chocolate fondant....how dark does it turn out?
Does anyone have a picture??
it doesn't turn out really really dark but it does turn out dark, you just have to make sure you use a dark good quality cocoa to get a darker colour. If you want it darker maybe add a bit of black but try not to make it black lol
here is how dark it turned out for me on one of my dummy cakes:


Fast and safe in Industry 4.0 - with smart igus energy supply on long travels
Published by : Industrial Automation
New: smart plastics EC.T sensor monitors the condition of five times more abrasion-resistant high-speed polymer glide bars in e-chains.
High speeds on long travels are special challenges for energy chain systems on machines and plants. Therefore, igus has now developed a new glide bar made of high-performance plastics with a five times longer service life. To monitor the wear-resistant rail, users now have the smart plastics EC.T sensor. This provides regular information about the condition of the rail and sends important technical information to the maintenance engineer in good time.
The new EC.T sensor measures the condition and gives maintenance recommendations
The new EC.T sensor is cast directly into the new high-speed rail. The sensor works wirelessly and is battery powered. At regular intervals, it sends a signal about its condition to the communication module icom. This prepares the data of all igus isense sensors and offers the option of integration in any desired maintenance tool. If there is an interruption of the conductor loop in the sensor, the service life algorithms can be used to predict the number of days until the next maintenance using the maintenance tool. The new glide bars with the sensor are used, for example, on linear robots in automotive production, on gantries in machine tool construction or on the 7th axis of industrial robots.
Travels up to 1000 metres or more are implemented by igus with its rolling energy chains. Users can rely on a long-lasting and intelligent solution offered by the latest generation of P4.1 rolling chains. This is because a sensor is available for the plain bearings used, which ensure the lubrication-free mounting of the individual chain links. This informs about the condition of the sliding element. Additional sensors which provide information about the condition of the data and power cables, the abrasion of the energy chain or even measure push and pull forces, are also available for all igus energy chains. In combination with our own guaranteed and tested chainflex Ethernet, Profinet, servo, hybrid and fibre optic cables, igus offers state-of-the-art machine components that are equipped for all requirements in Industry 4.0.
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The U.S. Defense Department has charged six detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay detention center with murder and war crimes in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The six include Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the attacks. All six face the death penalty. VOA Correspondent Cindy Saine reports from Washington.
Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon today, Air Force Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann announced the first sweeping charges brought against suspected conspirators in the September 11th attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
General Hartmann, the legal adviser to the U.S. military tribunal system identified the six men facing charges.
The accused are Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi and Mohammed al Kahtani.
Each of the defendants is charged with conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects and terrorism, among other charges.
The military is recommending that the six men be tried together before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is seeking the death penalty for all six defendants. Hartmann says the charges lay out a long-term, sophisticated plan by al-Qaida to attack the United States, coordinated by Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
"The charges allege that Khalid Sheik Mohammed was the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks by proposing the operational concept to Osama bin Laden as early as 1996, obtaining approval and funding from Osama bin Laden for the attacks, overseeing the entire operation and training the hijackers in all aspects of the operation in Afghanistan and Pakistan," he said.
The charges are now being translated into all the defendants' native languages and served. The charges will then go to convening authority Judge Susan Crawford who will have sole discretion on whether to proceed with them and whether or not to seek the death penalty.
If the cases go to to trial, it will bring increased scrutiny to the military commission system, which has been criticized by civil rights groups for not providing the same legal protection as American civilian courts. Another issue is whether prosecutors will be able to use confessions or other information obtained during controversial interrogation techniques. Last week, CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed publicly for the first time that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and two other terror suspects were subjected to a procedure called "waterboarding", which simulates drowning.
Today, General Hartmann said the court will decide what evidence will be admissible.
"Let me be clear," he said. "We are a nation of law and not of men, and the question of what evidence, will be admitted, whether waterboarding or otherwise will be decided in the courts, in front of a judge, after it is fought out between the defense and the prosecution in these cases."
Hartmann stressed that the accused will receive a fair trial and said they will have virtually the same rights as U.S. military personnel, including the right to be represented in court, the right to examine all evidence used against them, and the right to call witnesses on their own behalf.
The United States is still holding some 275 men at the controversial Guantanamo detention center.

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Builder Association Zirakpur to help poor families during Curfew period
Chandigarh, March 26, 2020 : Builder Association Zirakpur has decide to help out poor families in this time of curfew and lockdown. A spokesman of the association announced that association will donate grocery for 20 days to 1000 families. He said that we will pickup material from metro and reliance and start distribution tomorrow in different labour colonies. He also said that they will motive other builders also to contribute in service of mankind.