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VANCOUVER -- It is a divorce case unlike any other in B.C. history. On one side, a husband with enormous assets, including some very public ones, tied up in complex family trusts that denote he isn't the owner.
On the other side is an aggrieved wife, angrily alleging adultery, and fighting over things like a $789,000 rare wine collection.
Caught in the middle like a herd of deer in the headlights are their children and the husband's family trust members and business partners, all of whom would rather be some place else.
The bitter fight between Francesco and Tali'ah Aquilini is about to spill into B.C. Supreme Court, and over the next six weeks the public will get a rare look at what happens when high net worth couples can't settle their personal differences privately.
This is a case of Titanic proportions, more than a simple matrimonial dispute with aggrieved spouses pitted against each other over who gets the family home, the kids, the dog and a share of pension benefits.
This dispute involves a vast family empire that owns the Vancouver Canucks hockey team, development companies, investment and hotel properties, North America's largest blueberry and cranberry farms, and a lot more.
The empire is wrapped up tightly in an extraordinarily complex trust system that Francesco's father Luigi set up years ago to protect the family assets for his wife Elisa, their three sons Francesco, Roberto and Paolo, and others.
At the core of the dispute is whether Francesco has any ownership in those assets or whether they are well beyond the reach of his ex-wife because they are separate corporate entities held by a trust.
While neither side will talk about the impending court case or the trust structure, previously published stories suggest the vast Aquilini empire, administered nominally through Aquilini Investment Group Limited Partnership, is worth more than $5 billion.
Like any divorce action involving children, this case is also about parenting and influence.
The couple married in 1994 and have four children of their own, ranging from 11 to 18 years old. Francesco also has a 21-year-old daughter from a previous marriage.
Francesco has gone to the extraordinary length of applying to have the divorce file sealed and is also asking the court to ban publication of certain personal and financial details that may come up in the six-week trial. He has said he is deeply worried about the effect the divorce and spectacle of a public trial are having on his children.
Lawyers for Francesco have argued he's not the owner of most of the assets. Lawyers for Tali'ah, who is trying to retain custody of their children, will suggest otherwise.
In preparation for any settlement, Francesco has already transferred their $12-million family home near the University of B.C. to his ex-wife but says he has title to little else in the family empire.
On the other hand, Tali'ah earlier this year argued she should have access to the Aquilini dynasty's Hawaii condos, Canucks suite and other perks until the case is heard, and that she should be given most of the couple's rare wine collection to pay her legal bills. She also sought an order compelling her ex-husband to answer to her allegations of adultery. The court ruled against her.
It is a train wreck of a case that should never have got this far, one Vancouver divorce lawyer and arbitrator said last week.
"I already knew from the get-go that this was going to be a disastrous lawsuit," said Georgialee Lang, who is also an expert in family trusts. "It is just the way it started. Often these big money cases are quietly resolved with senior, reasonable counsel and nobody really hears about it. But this case has got all of the elements of a disaster."
A small primer in corporate and trust law is necessary to set the stage for why the Aquilinis' trusts and assets are a central aspect of the divorce case.
Corporate and family trusts have become popular vehicles for people, regardless of their net worth, to guard and guide how assets are used. In its simplest form, a trust is where the initiator, called a "settlor", places an asset such as company shares, property or money into the trust for the benefit of others. A trustee then administers the trust, managing the asset and distributing either capital or other proceeds as directed by the original agreement. Neither the settlor nor the beneficiaries have any ownership of the assets after that point, according to Peter Ramsay, a B.C. lawyer who specializes in corporate trust law.
"In trust law, when you see the ownership of the land or shares in a company or whatever, you see the trustees as the owners," he said.
"What trust law is doing is taking what most people think of ownership and splitting it into two part parts, what we call the legal ownership and the beneficial ownership. The trustee holds the legal ownership and the beneficiaries have the beneficial ownership."
Trusts can be found in wills and estates as a way of ensuring surviving children are looked after. They are also largely used to limit tax exposure of both the settlor and the beneficiaries, and can become powerful vehicles for investment and leveraging of assets.
Because they are considered to be their own entities, trusts are also generally protected from any financial liabilities the settlor or beneficiaries might incur. Over the years, trust case law has ensured that a properly settled trust is virtually unbreakable, Ramsay said.
Except, it turns out, in British Columbia, where courts have steadily recognized cases where trust assets are family assets in a marital dispute if they were used to support the family.
"In the Family Relations Act, there is a clause that says if a spouse owns property that is held in corporation or a trust that, if not held in a corporation or a trust would be a family asset, then the property in the corporation or trust is a family asset," Lang said. "That means everything to this case. Over the last 15 years, this section has been adjudicated and has been considered by a whole number of judges."
Lang, who has waged divorce actions that touch on family trusts, said B.C. courts have recognized trusts as family assets in a growing number of cases. She said she recently acted in an out-of-court divorce settlement involving an oil and gas family trust worth an estimated $1 billion. In that case, the wife, who, like Tali'ah, had been married for a long time and has four children, settled for $80 million.
Lang would not identify the parties in that case, but said it bore striking resemblance to the Aquilini dispute. And she thinks that despite the convoluted corporate structure of the Aquilini trusts, Tali'ah has some powerful ammunition.
"This was a long marriage, which has a huge impact. Another significant factor is that she has children. It is a huge factor in her favour," Lang said. "That is an extraordinary amount of children in this day and age and that gives her a huge card to play."
Francesco Aquilini is, to many Canadians, a household name by virtue of his company's ownership of the Vancouver Canucks. He's a governor in the National Hockey League. His very public court fight with former business associates Ryan Beedie and Tom Gaglardi over ownership of the team cemented his reputation as a tough-guy businessman willing to choose business over friendship. There are few Canucks faces more public than his, save perhaps Roberto Luongo or the Sedin twins.
Tali'ah is less well-known, but has been involved in a number of charitable causes championed by the Aquilinis. She was often seen on his arm at various charity functions.
Luigi, the patriarch of the family, is equally as well-known as his 53-year-old eldest son. An immigrant from Brescia, Italy, who at 81 still has a prodigious capacity for hard work, Luigi over the past half century has built a dynasty for his family. A man who brags he got two jobs a day after arriving virtually penniless from Italy in 1956, Luigi leapfrogged his way from bricklaying, foundry work and landscaping to building houses and apartments, to owning investment properties to buying vast tracts of farm land that is bringing him close to cornering the year-round supply of blueberries to major food markets. Which job or trade he dropped was dependent upon what other business made him more money.
Luigi's flinty business and family dealings revolve around two overarching and unbendable rules: make money and contribute. If you don't contribute, he said in a recent interview, "you can't take out" of the company. No one, he said, gets a free ride in his empire. Not his children, not their children, not his employees, not even himself.
That attitude appears to be in large part why Francesco and Tali'ah Aquilini are deeply disputing what constitutes his assets in this marital breakup.
In recent interviews, both Francesco and Luigi repeatedly declined to talk about the structure of their companies, in part citing the impending divorce case and also because Aquilini Investment Group is a private company. However, a story in Saturday's Vancouver Sun attempted to lay out the vastness of AIG, showing it is concentrated in four broad divisions of real estate development, agriculture, hospitality and investments.
The father and son would not identify the trustees or the beneficiaries of the head trust, which appears from published material to be Aquilini (2001) Family Trust. They would not even confirm that the original owner or settlor of the trust assets was Luigi. It is unclear whether the trust also includes the spouses of the three sons — Tali'ah (Francesco), Deanna (Roberto) and Clara (Paolo). However, in a 2000 securities filing dealing with one of AIG's companies, Norton Motors, Luigi indicated the stockholders of Global Coin Corporation, another one of Norton's owners, were his wife and boys and that he "disclaims beneficial ownership of all such shares."
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Francesco, Roberto, Paolo and Elisa also have family trusts set up in their names, according to public records.
Several calls to Tali'ah's lawyer, Paul Daltrop, were not returned. However, in one brief note he released Wednesday on behalf of Tali'ah, he appeared to indicate she will oppose keeping much of the trial behind a curtain.
"Mrs. Aquilini is confident of a fair trial based on the principle of open and accessible court proceedings, which is a cornerstone of Canada's justice system" Daltrop said in an emailed statement. He did not return calls asking for clarification.
Sarah Boulby, an Ontario family relations lawyer who also specializes in trusts, says that while Tali'ah may be entitled to some share of the Aquilini trust fortunes, it is not likely that she would cause the empire to break up.
"If it is settled properly, done properly, it is not going to be possible to break up the trust and to say the trust owns these assets and these assets are going to be given to the ex-spouse of the beneficiary. That couldn't happen." Boulby said. It is more likely Francesco would simply pay her out, rather than transfer corporate assets.
Lang said the trick for Tali'ah's team will be to determine an accurate valuation of Francesco's net worth.
"You really want to find out what he's got, what's the ballpark. But the other question you have to ask is what does she need?" Lang said. "It is not about how much can she get, but how much does she need to have a really lavish lifestyle in keeping with the marital standard, which is the measuring stick in British Columbia."
Lang also believes the case turns on the judge hearing the case. B.C. has no specialized family judicial bench which, she says, is a problem.
"If you get a judge who is a real black-letter law guy, corporate law, tax law, mergers and acquisitions law, he's going to find this B.C. Family Relations Act kind of airy-fairy," she said. "While we have excellent judges and they do the best to apply the law as they see it and to look at the precedents, they all come with a mindset based on their legal career and how they saw the law working."
One last note: this case is being heard under the old Family Relations Act. It was replaced this spring by the new Family Law Act, which more strictly limits what trust assets can be considered a family asset in a marital dispute. But in the Aquilini's case that's a moot point, since their divorce action started before the new law was proclaimed.


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Douglas' 3-pointer leads East to WNBA All-Star win
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – There were the record number of first-time WNBA All-Stars, and a halftime ceremony honoring the best players in WNBA history. Indiana Fever guard Katie Douglas didn't fit into either category.
So she made her mark another way.
The four-time All-Star capped one of the closest WNBA midseason showcases ever by hitting the go-ahead 3-pointer with 56.7 seconds left, and the Eastern Conference hung on for just its third All-Star game victory over the West, 118-113 on Saturday.
"We got together during practice and the first thing we said was that we wanted to win," said New York Liberty guard Cappie Pondexter, who led the East with 17 points. "Alongside of having fun we wanted to be victorious today and we accomplished that. Good job."
At halftime, Pondexter was also named one of the WNBA's Top 15 players of all-time, in celebration of this league's 15th season.
Douglas finished with 15 points and helped the East win just its third All-Star game in 10 tries – but also third in the last four. Connecticut Sun center Tina Charles scored 15, and headlined a record group of 10 players who made their All-Star debuts in this year's game.
Swin Cash led the West with 21 points and 12 rebounds and was named MVP for the second time. Former WNBA star Lisa Leslie is the only other player with multiple All-Star MVP awards.
Cash, the Seattle Storm's four-time All-Star, was also named MVP in 2009. She is also the league's first All-Star MVP from the losing team.
"I think so many players played well. It could've been anyone," Cash said.
The four-time All-Star singled out Rebekkah Brunson, who had 20 points and nine rebounds for the West. Brunson started in place of Los Angeles Sparks center Candace Parker, who is out due to a knee injury and still has yet to play in an All-Star game despite ranking among the WNBA's elite players since her 2008 rookie year.
Parker's next chance may not come until 2013. Next summer is the Olympics, and the league may cancel the game – as it did in 2008 – while its biggest names play for the U.S. national team.
"We're thrilled that it's an Olympic year, and we'll obviously build our schedule to accommodate that," WNBA president Laurel Richie said before the game.
Neither side led by more than five points. The West's last chance came down to San Antonio's Becky Hammon scrambling to shoot a 3-pointer, but she instead found herself without an open shot and nowhere to pass. Her desperate bid to escape a trap ended with her whistled for traveling with 3.5 seconds left.
"I think about midway through the fourth quarter both teams decided they wanted to win," Hammon said. "We just came up a little bit short today."
It was a disappointing end in an otherwise humbling day for Hammon, who was among the 15 current and former WNBA players named as the league's best ever. All-Stars Sue Bird, Tamika Catchings and Diana Taurasi also made the list.
"I was young when the WNBA started, at the end of my high school career," Bird said. "I watched them on TV and watched them in the Olympics. To be in the same group as those players is such an honor."
Tulsa's Liz Cambage, a late All-Star addition in place of Parker, scored 13 points for the West. Taurasi also had 13 points and Phoenix's Penny Taylor added 11.
New York's Essence Carson scored 13 points off the bench for the East and Connecticut's Renee Montgomery added 12. Catchings, playing in her seventh All-Star game, finished with 11 points.
Douglas' 3 summed up how the East won the game. The East shot 47 percent from behind the arc while hitting 16 3s, more than twice as many as the West. Douglas, Carson and Montgomery each hit three 3s.
It was the East's first victory since 2007, when it won 103-99.


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Here we go, also for this month the PaperChef challenge has gone by and, judging from the submissions, surely not unnoticed; the hosts (Ilva and Mikey) have received in total 10 submissions.
As monthly co-host my duty was to choose a winner among them. Let me first remind you the ingredients you were supposed to use in your creative efforts: Dried cranberries, dates, candied orange peel and flour.
It was very interesting to see what these magic four have inspired in you. The entries may be divided in roughly 3 groups: leavened goodies, savories and baked desserts.
Let's start with the breads and rolls.
To Karen from Prospect in the Pantry, the monthly ingredients were simply speaking tea-times with her siblings in Scotland. She wanted to share with us the relaxed and elegant atmosphere of these occasions with a Date-Nut Bread with Cranberry Orange Cream Cheese.
When talking about Mike, from Spikey Mikeys; our four actors simply tickled his curiosity strongly enough to force him in producing some lovely Spiced Fruit Scrolls (cake, I would add).
Our four ingredients played the right music also to Susan's ears. After realising that flour was actually one of the required ingredients, she was ready to bake a tin of little Orange Pecan Sticky Buns with Dates and Cranberries, showing us also a straightforward technique to produce these little good morning kisses perfectly sticky and elegantly decorated.
Also Tanna, from My Kitchen in Half Cups, heard the bread call but with the enticing addition of booze! With her entry of Breakfast Fruit Bread she brought us to sunny Tuscany with a magic ingredient that speaks the song of sunny Italian countryside: rosemary.
Now to the savory entries.
Asa, from Miss Meister's mat med mera, took the chance of this monthly challenge to write her first post in English doing a really a great job. She came up with a tasty vegetarian dish: Zucchini and date vegetter with fresh cranberries served with Beluga lentils with smoky bell pepper sauce.
I was the other one posting a savory entry with Middle Eastern raviolo served with cranberry-sage butter sauce, fresh peach crescents and thyme leaves.
And what about desserts? Adele from from Will Work For Biltong, offered us a Chocolate, Date and Cranberry Cake with Candied Olives & Orange. Taking inspiration from a classic Nigella's recipe she leap forward in the unknown pairing it with the candied olives.
Naomi, from Bakers Royale, instead presents us a French inspired dessert that clings the eye to the tastiest of Middle Eastern pastry traditions: Crisp Poached Pears Stuffed with Chevre & Haroseth; Served over a Pomegranate Molasses Sauce. The crispy layer around the poached pear is unusual and enticing in the promise to balance the smooth firmness of the poached pear with its creamy stuffing.
Sarah of Simply Cooked, baked for us some Cranberry and Date Jammy Biscuits, rolled with her faithful rolling pin: a cold soda can; a great solution to keep the pastry cold while working it.
In the spirit of Ramadan, Kizzy, from Culinary Annotations created little Orange-Scented Date-Cranberry-Pinoli Pastry. Sweet half-moon of pastry filled with a rich nuts and dried fruits filling, simple decadent pleasure for every coffee break.
And the winner is... Asa! Her smoky pepper sauce just won me over. The coupling with the Beluga lentils and onions complete the perfect mouthbite.
Congratulation Asa!
20 Aug 2010
The decision has been made
Published by AlessioFangano Labels: bread, cranberries, dates, dessert, nuts, olives, oranges, pasta
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Brilliant round-up, Mr Witty Comments. You have a great writing style. :) And a well-deserved winner. Those veggie pancakes are so wonderful I wish I had made them myself.ReplyDelete
I don't envy you having to pick a winner, they are all wonderful dishes!ReplyDelete
Are you kidding me?? That is so fun! Thank you :-) I kind of surprised myself with that smokey sauce and use it for various dishes. Now I have to start writing more posts in English ;-)ReplyDelete
Wow! What a great start on this grey and rainy saturday. I'm off to our yearly Farmers Market that starts today :-)
Very tasty roundup. Congratulations to Asa!ReplyDelete
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Bridge group sues to stop brewery deal
A group behind the restoration of the Hays Street Bridge has sued the City of San Antonio to try to stop the transfer of land next to the landmark to the Alamo Beer Co. for construction of an $8 million microbrewery.
The Hays Street Bridge Restoration Group alleges in its suit, filed Thursday, that the city breached a contract that calls for the 1.7 acres at 803 Cherry St. to be used for a park.
The City Council in August approved a measure to sell the land to Alamo Beer for $295,000 and to grant the company an $800,000 incentive package for construction of a 25,000-square-foot brewery.
About 50 members of the restoration group gathered at the bridge Thursday to protest the deal, chanting "Whose bridge? Our bridge" and "Whose land? Our land." A large black banner hung from atop the bridge read, "Keep public land out of private hands."
The group later gathered on the steps of the Bexar County Courthouse, where they held a news conference to announce the lawsuit against the city.
"We believe that the sale of the land next to the bridge contravenes law," community activist Nettie Hinton, a member of the group, told the audience. "The city should be ashamed of its unethical behavior."
City Attorney Michael Bernard said the city intends "to vigorously defend the lawsuit and the project, and bring increased, attractive development to the East Side of San Antonio."
In an emailed statement, Alamo Beer President Eugene Simor expressed disappointment over efforts to derail the deal.
"It is unfortunate for this community and those that advocate for Eastside development that a few individuals will go to extreme and counterproductive lengths to slow a major redevelopment project that is widely supported and embraced by nearby residents and businesses," Simor said.
In October, brewery opponents submitted a petition with about 2,800 signatures in an attempt to put the land sale to a public vote. The petition cited a section of Texas Local Government Code that says the conveyance of public parkland is subject to an election if there are at least 1,500 signatures from registered voters.
The city dismissed the petition, contending the land wasn't deeded as parkland or ever added to the books of the city's Parks and Recreation Department.
Beer distributor BudCo Ltd. donated the land to the city in 2007, the same year Houston-based Silver Eagle acquired the company. A former BudCo official told the Express-News in October the land was donated to the city with the intent to become a park. However, no such demand could be attached to the donation.
The restoration group argues in its suit that the city lacks the authority to transfer the land to Alamo Beer. The city, the suit says, should be "enjoined from refusing to submit this (matter) to (an) election."
The group maintains it entered into a contract with the city in 2002 that required the group to raise funds to restore the bridge. The group raised some $800,000 for the project, according to Amy Kastely, an attorney for the group.
"In exchange, the city promised to use all of the money and in-kind donations that were solicited and acquired by the restoration group towards the Hays Street Bridge restoration project, which included the land and included the park," Kastely said.
Bernard, the city attorney, disputed that assertion.
"It's not a park. It was never a park," he said. "It was never dedicated as a park. We never represented it would be a park in any agreement."
The group Kastely represents has the support of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center.
The restoration project received matching federal money. The funds would have to be returned if the restoration benefits private development, a Texas Department of Transportation official wrote in a September letter to the Federal Highway Administration, the Express-News previously reported.
As part of his plans for the microbrewery, Simor wants to use a portion of the bridge for chairs and tables for customers.
Despite the lawsuit, Simor wrote in his email that he's proceeding with plans for the project. The brewery is slated to include a tasting room, a beer garden under the bridge and a skywalk that will connect to the nonhistoric part of the bridge. The developer won't pay rent on those spaces for 10 years, according to the incentive package from the city.
The deal for the city-owned land has not been finalized, but Simor expects to have the project complete before the end of next year.
Simor's Alamo Golden Ale is brewed at the Real Ale Brewing Co. in Blanco. He wants to build a 60-barrel brewery because the company's operations have outgrown the Blanco facility, he said.


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The Last Bison, pictured above, is performing Tuesday at Club Garibaldi. But the Joy Formidable is also playing Tuesday at Turner Hall Ballroom. Decisions, decisions.
The Joy Formidable has one of the most electryfying rock releases of recent months in January album "Wolf's Law."
The Last Bison is one of the more promising acts to emerge out of the folk revival scene with last month's rich debut full-length album "Inheritence."
Both bands are playing Milwaukee Tuesday night, just not at the same place.
Formidable's show is at 8 p.m. at Turner Hall Ballroom, 1040 N. 4th St. Tickets are $20. The band is bringing along Boston-based trio Ribs as well as Kitten, a post-punk dance rock band on Elektra Records (whose president is Milwaukee native Jeff Castelaz).
Last Bison has its own exciting opener in Madison band PHOX, which recently finished a run of buzz-building shows in Austin, Texas during South by Southwest. Paste magazine declared Phox one of the 25 best it caught in Austin that week.
That show also begins at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Club Garibaldi, 2501 S. Superior St. Tickets are $10.
Be sure to check come back to Tap Milwaukee early Tuesday evening to see the Last Bison perform exclusively for the Tap Pre-Show music video series.
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Tokyo, Japan, November 10, 2010 – Poland overcame Turkey 3-1 (25-23, 24-26, 27-25, 25-22) in a tight FIVB Women's World Championship Japan 2010 second-round match at the Yoyogi Gymnasium – a result that left both sides with an identical 3-4 record and confirmed their progress to the semifinals on points ratio difference.
Poland will participate in the semifinals for 9-12 and Turkey in the 5-8 semifinals. The Poles' victory also ensured Korea's exit from the tournament as they finished in seventh spot in Pool E, also on points ratio. Turkey's Neslihan Darnel top-scored in the match with 25 points while Anna Werblinska collected 22 for a Poland side who reversed their 3-1 loss to Turkey in the World Championship qualifiers a year ago.FIVB Women's World Championship Japan 2010 official page
Two spiking errors by Katarzyna Gajgal allowed Turkey to take a narrow lead early in the first set, but Malgorzata Glinka-Mogentale landed two trademark bullets to level the scores. The two teams were all-square at 10-each after a blast by Werblinska, but a spike by Esra Gumus and two Polish errors prompted Poland coach Jerzy Matlak to call a timeout with his side trailing 13-10.
Werblinska helped Poland draw level with a service bomb before Turkey moved four points ahead after good offensive work by Bahar Toksoy and Neriman Ozsoy. Matlak called his second timeout, however, and Poland started to turn things around after a wide spike by Darnel and two big hits by Glinka-Mogentale. Although Turkey moved ahead again, Werblinska came up with two great spikes and Aleksandra Jagielo produced a service ace. She netted her next serve to level the scores at 23 but Gajgal then spiked Poland to set-point and Werblinska delivered another blistering serve to put her side 1-0 in front.
After great work by Joanna Kaczor had spurred Poland to a 4-1 lead, the Turks clawed their way back into the second set and were level at 6-6. Kaczor kept spurring Poland on but they were undone by several errors and the scores were level again at 12-12. Turkey led by two points at the Second Technical Timeout (STT) after a crisp line drive by Eda Erdem and a fabulous block by the same player on Werblinska, but the contest remained tight and a great block by Gajgal on Ozsoy brought set-point for the Poles. Werblinska netted her serve, however, and when Poland failed to return the ball on the next point, it was set-point to Turkey. Erdem's serve was too much for the opposition and Mehmet Bedestenlioglu's side were back level.
Errors kept the scores close at the start of the third set, but a netted serve by Kaczor started a Turkey run that included a great block by Gumus on Kaczor and two impressive service aces by Darnel. Kaczor stopped the rot temporarily with a big spike at 11-5, but the Turks then moved 15-7 in front. They were still five points ahead at the STT before Poland began a fightback, reducing the deficit to just one at 21-20. A Polish error and a terrific block by Gumus on Katarzyna Zarolinska gave the Turks some breathing space, and a long spike by Werblinska handed them set-point at 24-22. But the Poles fought back and, with the help of two Turkish errors, earned a set-point at 26-25. Werblinska delivered a mild serve but Turkey failed to get the ball back, putting Poland 2-1 up in the match.
The contest stayed tight at the start of the fourth set, but Poland pulled away from 6-6 to 11-7, with good work from Glinka-Mogentale and Agnieszka Bednarek-Kasza. A timeout brought some stability to the Turkey team and two Darnel spikes helped narrow the gap to two points at 13-11, when Matlak called a timeout for Poland. Poland edged ahead again and a big hit by Berenika Okuniewska gave the Poles a four-point lead at the STT. Turkey edged back to 22-21, but could not sustain their challenge. A wide spike by Darnel brought up match point and Werblinska sealed the win with a spike.


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In a world convinced that peril looms and that the entire financial world is built on fraud and illusion, it is neither chic nor popular to laud those who are keeping the dogs of anarchy at bay. Yet that is precisely what the central banks of the world are doing today.
It may be that they are doing so by default and that their efforts only seem Herculean because of the Lilliputian efforts of so many elected officials and private industry. Even so, in the past week alone, the dual actions of the European Central Bank, headed by the uncharismatic yet intense Mario Draghi, and the Federal Reserve, led by the equally uncharismatic and diligent Ben Bernanke, have ensured that while the global economic system may not thrive for some time, it will at the very least not collapse.
And let us not understate how important that it is. Stirring, no; vital, yes. Last week Draghi unveiled a wide-ranging policy to purchase the debt of euro zone countries, to be a buyer of last resort. Today, the Federal Reserve unveiled a program to keep interest rates at or near zero until 2015 and to buy up to $40 billion a month of mortgage bonds and related securities in order to lower rates and ensure that the market is buoyed. Stocks markets have reacted with predictable glee: equity investors like it when banks guarantee that someone will buy. Bond markets also responded, sending the dangerously high rates for Italian and Spanish bonds back towards 5 percent—well out of the danger zone.
But the larger impact is as much psychological as financial. Central banks understand that the confidence of financial markets rests on shaky foundations, especially after the shocks of the past four years. They also recognize that to date, elected officials have done a lousy job of dealing with structural unemployment and an equally poor job coming to grips with the issues of too little revenue and too much spending. They have responded by acting as elites—a dirty word today but one that need not be. They have acted as the proverbial guardians of the temple and done what is in their power to make sure that at the very least, the financial system, held together globally by thin bonds, does not implode.
You can already hear the howls of protest: bankers are idiots, just as they were before the Great Depression, slavishly devoted to academic theories and addicted to easy money. They may have forestalled collapse now only to guarantee that it will be that much more severe when it does inevitably happen. There will be artificially low interest rates, violations of the free market, and looming, perilous inflation. Republicans in this election season already have attacked the Fed for these and other perceived sins, and immediately pounced on the decision today as more of the same ineffective medicine.
Some of the old criticisms have merit: central bankers are wedded to theories and can be both arrogant in their belief they can tame the system and mistaken in the choices they make to maintain it. But for the moment, they are doing society a needed a service. The Tea Party would prefer "burn baby burn," for the rotten edifice to implode so that a new one can be built in its place. But deep in the DNA of central banks is an awareness that the real collapse of financial systems lead to political chaos, global anarchy, and, in the 20th century, war. That may seem far-fetched today, but I doubt we want to test the extent of our social resilience if the system indeed unwinds, as it threatened to do in 2008-2009 and briefly again in the fall of 2011.
The recent moves of banks bolster the financial system. The effect on daily life can be immediate. Pension plans go up, mortgage rates stay low, credit can flow more easily, and people are not assaulted with the immediate fear and anxiety that preclude other actions. These moves also place the onus for what to do next and how to address the structural issues firmly in the laps of elected officials, and in the U.S. on Congress and the White House. Central banks understand that they cannot fix fiscal issues; they can't solve the long-term issues of health-care costs, defense budgets and Social Security along with tax rates. They can't get private or public companies to hire domestically. They can only make sure that that financial system functions fluidly.
So now it is up to the people, to elections and elected representatives, and to companies large and small, to innovate and to solve problems. The record for Congress and for legislatures everywhere in recent years is not inspiring. The record of companies large and small is more so. We may soon be revisiting these crises, in Europe if the economic swoon isn't reversed and in the United States if we remain frozen in place. But for now, central banks, the Fed especially, have done what they can, and for that we should be thankful.


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OKLAHOMA CITY – EMBARK recently released its Fiscal Year 2016 research results revealing that investment in public transportation is important to Oklahoma City's long-term future, while existing customers would like to see service enhancements continue. Highlights from the research were presented today to the City Council by ETC Institute, a research group that collected more than 2,000 responses from Oklahoma City residents and EMBARK customers.
The non-rider report details that 78 percent of the respondents stated that investment in public transit in Oklahoma City's long-term future is important. This finding supports results from the City of Oklahoma City's citizen survey, reported earlier this year, that residents believe public transit should receive emphasis over the next two years.
"We know that convenient and efficient connections throughout our city are important if we want to OKC to be the most desired place to live and work," said Jason Ferbrache, administrator of EMBARK. "We are committed to developing a multi-modal transit system to get our residents and commuters to work, boost our economy, and provide vital mobility options for seniors, students, persons with a disability, and anyone without their own car."
Other results noted that non-riders indicated they would use public transportation under the right conditions:
Results from the customer survey include:
Ferbrache says the survey results are a critical part of EMBARK's planning process.
"Since the 2011 customer survey, EMBARK has systematically implemented service enhancements based on the results from a Transit System Analysis and on what our riders have told us. We see in our recent survey a response to those improvements – in both satisfaction ratings as well as areas riders want to see more improvements."
In the past three years, EMBARK has realigned routes to improve bus frequency, expanded service hours until midnight on four of its most popular routes, improved bus stops, doubled the number of bus shelters, and added real-time arrival information, a journey planner and Wi-Fi on every bus.
Those were improvements riders requested in the last survey and they have been well received; EMBARK ridership increased 18 percent since the last survey in FY 2011.
"Funding has a direct impact on our ability to operate a system that works for everyone. City Council has increased funding for transit and we've seen our ridership increase dramatically. We are serving more people and expect to continue this trajectory."
Full survey reports are available for download from www.embarkok.com. The presentation to council may also be found on EMBARK's YouTube channel.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Prohibition and the Functional Approach
As is well known, Thurman Arnold, William Douglas, Wesley Sturges and the other legal realists at the Yale Law School never let a little thing like illegality get in the way of raucous, alcohol-fueled partying during the last years of Prohibition. Jerome Frank, who in this period was a corporate reorganizer in New York City, used to say that his principal responsibility as a "lecturer" at YLS was to import liquor to New Haven. One of the few Harvardarians welcomed at their brawls was Thomas Reed Powell, the brilliant and acerbic professor of constitutional law who had been Douglas's teacher at the Columbia Law School before moving to Cambridge in 1925. (I still laugh out loud every time I read his review of James Montgomery Beck's Constitution of the United States (1924).)
In 1930, Douglas learned that William Clark, a federal judge in New Jersey was about to publish an opinion that drew upon some of Powell's learning in quashing an indictment under the Volstead Act on the ground that the Eighteenth Amendment had been improperly ratified and wondered what Powell thought of the argument. (See H.H. Creekmore, "The Sprague Case," Mississippi Law Journal 3 (1931): 282-91.) Powell replied that it was too late in the day to argue the unconstitutionality of the Eighteenth Amendment. Besides, he continued, "'it would be much pleasanter to talk about the distinction between law in books and law in action and to approach the problem functionally and realistically, as we did at Al McCormack's dinner." (McCormack was a Columbia law graduate, Harlan Fiske Stone clerk, and a lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where Douglas had also worked.)
Douglas took up the jest in his response. "I never realized before I received your letter of the 14th what the functional approach was. Now that I have found out I have climbed on the band wagon. Evidently I have been a functionalist for years and did not know it."
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- Shag from Brookline said...
You made my day with this post and the link to Thomas Reed Powell's review. I had the pleasure of taking ConLaw with Prof. Powell in the fall of 1952. At other blogs I have posted comments on my exposure to Prof. Powell. Back in those days (Ike/Nixon v. Adlai, plus Joe McCarthy), ConLaw was basically the Commerce Clause.
As for Prohibition, Prof. Powell regaled the class with the story of the professor who kept nagging his mailman about a shipment of books he was expecting that seemed late in arriving. Several days later the mailman was at the door of the professor's home with a large crate stamped with the word "BOOKS" for the professor, informing the professor that his "box of books was leaking."
In explaining the Mann Act, Prof. Powell stated that a violation depended upon "whether it was purely for pleasure or pure pleasure."
As I read Prof. Powell's review linked to, I thought I read between the lines the foundation for the subsequently developed (and continuing) search for the Holy Grail of Constitutional Interpretation and the battle of originalism versus living constitutionalism with Beck's comparison of the Rock of Gibraltar and sandy beaches in considering the Constitution. That in turn reminded me of Prof. Powell's 1955 James S. Carpentier Lectures at Columbia titled: "Vagaries ad Varieties in Constitutional Interpretation" published in 1956 by Columbia University Press. The Foreword by Paul Freund and the Preface by William Warren provide insights to the wit and wisdom of Prof. Powell.
Is Prof. Teachout still working on a bio of Prof. Powell?
- May 28, 2009 at 7:22:00 AM EDT
- Shag from Brookline said...
Those amused with Prof. Powell's review linked to might also enjoy Melvin I Urofsky's "Dear Teacher: The Correspondence of William O. Douglas and Thomas Reed Powell." I'm not good with links. Perhaps Dan can supply it.
I wonder if in more recent years similar correspondences have taken place. Prof. Powell knew many of the Justices on a personal basis. This did not keep him from being critical of their opinions. Perhaps times have changed such that such personal relationships are avoided both by Justices and ConLaw scholars.
I remember asking Prof. Powell after class one day what subject he taught at Harvard Law when Felix Frankfurter taught ConLaw. Prof. Powell retorted, "Why you young whipersnapper, I taught Constitutional Law and Felix taught a new-fangled course called Administrative Law." Acerbic, yes; but I loved it.
- May 29, 2009 at 10:13:00 AM EDT
- Dan Ernst said...
Thanks, Shag. The cite is Melvin I. Urofsky, "'Dear Teacher': The Correspondence of William O. Douglas and Thomas Reed Powell," Law and History Review 7 (1989): 331-86. I'm afraid I can't find an ungated version, although it's available via Hein-on-Line, JSTOR, et al.
- May 29, 2009 at 12:38:00 PM EDT
- Dan Ernst said...
In going through a file tonight, I came upon a note on a letter from Powell to Thurman Arnold, March 28, 1934, from Arnold's papers in Laramie. Powell, who had taught administrative law at Columbia, took over Frankfurter's class at Harvard when he left for his year in England. He claimed to have been bored by the experience, especially because he used the Frankfurter and Davidson casebook, which was heavily weighted to cases showing the flexibility of the doctrine of separation of powers. Powell wrote, "Felix's kind of Administrative Law is not the kind of Administrative Law to which I was brought up, and I wish I had taken [Ernst] Freund's casebook instead of his. I hope after this year that I shall never have to hear the words 'separation of powers' again."
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Winfrey on Wednesday not only made Harpo Studios Presidents Erik Logan and Sheri Salata presidents of the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) effective immediately, but she also named herself chief executive officer.
Starting this fall, Winfrey will expand her role as chairman of the network to become CEO and also chief creative officer.
"I am ready to dedicate my full creative energy and focus as the full time CEO of OWN," she said in a statement.
All future television production at Harpo Studios will be OWN's, she said, including Rosie O'Donnell's new talk show, "Rosie," debuting in October, as well as "Oprah Presents Master Class," "In the Bedroom With Dr. Laura Berman" and "Oprah's Next Chapter" in January 2012.
All this makes good on a promise she made to the network before ending her 25-year run of the top-rated "Oprah Show" on May 25 in Chicago.
"With the final taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show only a few weeks away, I will soon be able to devote my full energies to OWN," Winfrey said in May.
She has her work cut out for her.
As OWN's ratings plummeted from an average 204,000 viewers in its first week to 153,000 as of May 15, experts began equating poor numbers to the lack of Oprah face time on the network. And on May 6, OWN announced that Winfrey and Discovery Communications replaced CEO Christina Norman after just five months.
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"By aligning the mission, talent and leadership of Erik, Sheri, the OWN team, the Harpo team, along with expertise of David Zaslav, Peter and all of Discovery behind us, we can unleash the full potential of the network," Winfrey said.
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Being American…. For Dummies.May 21, 2010
We as Americans have become lazy, co-dependent, irresponsible, and for lack of a better word….stupid. We have abandoned our common sense. We rely on others to think our thoughts. 50 years ago, if you told someone you needed to read a book to figure out how to listen to your wife….they would look at you like you should reside in a state institution. We have warning labels on our coffee to remind us it's hot. We have laws requiring food be labeled telling us how much we should consume. We have self-help sections in bookstores that are larger than the children's sections. We read books on how to be good parents, how to save money, how to be more organized, how to dress appropriately for work, how to talk to people, and we have even sunk so low as to read books on how to read books faster. Our newspapers are written on a THIRD GRADE reading level so the majority of Americans can comprehend the news. We have machines that answer our phones for us. We use GPS to find out where our children are. We have videos that potty-train kids. We have vacuums that clean our house when we aren't there. We have labels reminding us not to smoke while pregnant. We have to be told that our shampoo is not to be taken orally. We are told at the beginning of movie entitled "House Of A Thousand Corpses" that it might not be appropriate for little kids to watch alone.
Apparently, we have lost the ability to do, think, or act like decent, smart, responsible adults on our own. We make ourselves feel better by calling it self-help…but based solely on the fact you are reading someone else's words and abiding by them… we did nothing for ourselves but let someone else tell us how to be. I am not saying that there aren't some people who benefit from all of these things. There have been people who have been helped by these things. The point isn't that these things don't have the ability to improve our lives. The point is…it's sad that we have lost the ability to do it without being told how to.
Obviously, the reason there is such a demand and need for things like these is because somewhere there was someone who said…"If someone had only told Sally not to use her hair dryer while taking a shower, she would be alive right now." When all of the rest of America thought it was obvious, because Sally was a moron, we lose a little more accountability. There are people in this world that need to be told that Wal-mart shopping bags aren't the best toys for infants, because someone somewhere thought they would be.
It's common sense to me…and maybe to you…but apparently not to everyone.
Therefore, I have realized that I have foolishly assumed that because you have lived in America your entire life, that because you have sat through the same history classes in school, that because you have seen the video of the planes crashing into the WTC, that you would able to figure out how to be a good American. But, how could you? There isn't a label on the flag instructing you how to feel proud when it flies and how to treat it with reverence. There is no instructional video on "10 Simple Tips and Tricks To Remember The Men And Women Who Died To Protect Your Freedom". There isn't a warning label on the Declaration of Independence that says "FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE UNITED STATES WARNING: This is a declaration of the below signed individuals and their respective independence. This is JUST A GUIDE. This document does NOT guarantee individual freedom. Results are not typical. Constant vigilance on your personal freedom is required to guarantee personal freedom. If loss of freedom has occurred, please contact an informed histornian immediately." There isn't a seminar you can attend at the Hilton called "Being A Good Boss For Your Congressman: Make Them Work With Accountability" with the follow-up seminar "Being A Good Boss For Your Congressman: Knowing When To Terminate Employment".
America needs a free pamphlet "Defining of the word UNITED, how to be enraged when your president forgets that Arizona is a state we are UNITED with, what to do when the President sides with a different country against a state he vowed to be UNITED with, and 7 simple ways to tell if you are breaking the law by living here illegally." We need to a book on how to see voting as a privilege and not a chore to ignore. We need to take a class on keeping track of how your family and your government is spending your money.
We need a big manual given out to everyone at birth, and to every person when they become a citizen. We need a "BEING AMERICAN….For Dummies." Maybe then you wouldn't have an excuse. Maybe then you couldn't claim that you didn't know that our government is out of control. Maybe…just maybe…you'd learn what I already know, that being American takes pride, responsibility, and courage and if you don't meet the job requirements than you won't be offered the position.


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Long before the introduction of struck coinage into ancient Celtic Europe, these copper rings were used as trade currency by Celtic tribes and were often worn on clothing or tied together by ropes. These particular rings, often refered to as "proto-money", were created in ancient Moesia (Bulgaria) as long ago as 7th Cent. B.C. The sizes range from 10mm-40mm.
Yes, I know they really don't belong in this particular catagory, but they seem to fit in with the "funny money" scheme of things, eh? ;-)
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From bold jewel tones to soft neutrals, our curated collection of Samarkand shades was chosen by our lighting buyer to reflect the shades that you will see in the Houses. Each one is hand-cut from a vintage silk saree, sourced by Samarkand's founders in India, and then hand-pleated by skilled craftsmen in Devon.• Hand-gathered pleated silk shade by Samarkand Design • Made from vintage Indian silk sarees using traditional skills • Duplex fitting to be used with shade carrier, included• Exclusive collection by Samarkand for Soho Home• Samarkand shades can be seen throughout the HousesPlease note our Samarkand shades are individually hand cut from vintage silk sarees, meaning each one will have unique characteristics which is why we love using them in the Houses. Photography is for colour and pattern reference only.
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1) H25 x W41 x D26cm
2) H33 x W50 x D33cm
Material: Silk
Care Instructions: Clean with a soft dry cloth only. Do not use polishing agents, harsh chemicals or abrasive cleaners as they may damage the finish. Always switch off the electricity supply before cleaning
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Nanci was at Brat Fest I was in Burlington teenagers were skulking on park benches Guido and Vince were eating chocolate covered bacon and chili suckers.
While Andy tried his chili sucker, Vince's Dulces Karla Jilotes Grande Chile never touched the inside of his mouth, and he claims to like spicy food.
It's just as well according to this article from the wire on lead in Mexican candy. Wish I would have been armed with that little tidbit before I hit The Expo. Take a whirl around the Food and Drug Administration Web site and you may never eat again.
Oh don't feel sorry for him, if you only knew; not too long ago he was grabbing my purse and dumping its contents on the floor of the Cub Foods check out line.
While I was lost in the month of May, June happened.
Who out there would buy a dairy cow t-shirt that said, "Kiss Me, I'm Lactating?"
One of the most exciting things this June was when the White Sox came to Miller Park and properly spanked the Brewers. Twice.
NOTE to the unattractive man in the second row left of the visitor's dug out: Chill the f*&@ out, I have a point and shoot camera without a telephoto lens and I will obstruct your view of J.D.'s butt for a full 1.3 seconds while I take his picture.
The very end of June means the Largest Firework's Display in the Midwest, Rhythm and Booms.
This is what fireworksguide.com said about it:
Rhythm & Booms is Madison, Wisconsin's premier Independence Day Celebration and fireworks display. As the "largest fireworks display in the Midwest", it easily surpasses other fireworks events in Chicago, Minneapolis and Milwaukee because of the length of the show (approximately 35 minutes), the number of shells fired (15,000) during the show, and the size of its annual budget. It is the largest single-day event in Wisconsin.
Take that Chicago, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee.
The very end of June means not venturing too far from home for fear of running into a buzzing swarm of pyromaniacs and their ghastly hive of traffic.
Little Vito and the Torpedoes vs. The Booze Brothers would be a great cage matchWeren't Little Vito and the Torpedoes in their late 20s and 30s when I was sneaking into the Shuffle Inn as a teenager? I say this with love. Hell, all I did was eat, drink, watch baseball, and pet dogs, and I was wiped out. You go, Little Vito and your Torpedoes.
Cable on this ferris wheel snapped while Madison's local news media ate funnel cake and cheese curds.
Everyone was all right, but somehow a policeman got caught up on one of the cars, dangled out of his seat, and dropped down to a freaked out kid a few cars below.
I got there while firemen were rigging cables to pull the cars down one at a time.
I kept seeing crazy ferris wheels and carousels everywhere I looked.
Things I learned at this year's Rhythm & Booms:
Cable access and the Shopper Stopper can scoop the Madison news media
Never ride ferris wheels or carousels
Don't eat anything, ever
Old rockers never die, they keep playing until you can take a left on Sherman Avenue