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On a dark night in May, five employees of a prominent French private security company left a restaurant in the Libyan revolutionary capitol of Benghazi. Before they could return to their hotel, they were accosted by a group of armed rebels. As their colleagues explain it, they had little reason to believe there would be trouble: In the morning, the guards had an appointment with representatives of the rebel government to discuss a contract about securing a crucial material transit route from Cairo.
Very little about what happened next is clear. But one stark, bloody fact remains. Moments later, the rebels shot dead Pierre Marziali, a French ex-paratrooper who founded the security company, Secopex.
But this was no random hit by unruly gunmen who happened to wave the banner of opposition to Moammar Gadhafi. The Libyan opposition government quickly took Marziali's men into custody, even though they were citizens of France, one of "Free Benghazi's" most important foreign benefactors.
An official statement issued on May 11 accused the security contractors of "illicit activities that jeopardized the security of free Libya." A promised investigation would determine if they were "spies hired by the Gadhafi regime."
The curious incident made headlines – briefly. Then it faded away, a murky incident in a confusing war. Secopex has said next to nothing about the incident publicly – until now. Karen Wallier, a Secopex representative, told Danger Room that she herself "do[es] not have all of the answers" to what happened that night. But she said that the Secopex team "made no resistance" to the gunmen before Marziali was shot.
"The circumstances of his death were accidental," Wallier added. "Allegations of espionage are totally unfounded."
It is unclear if the Libyan government still believes Secopex spied for Gadhafi. But some in the private security business remain suspicious.
The Libyan rebel leadership has taken many steps in recent weeks to dispel the western suspicion, widespread when the uprising began in February, that the rebels are a shadowy band of unsavory characters. Since capturing most of Tripoli on Sunday, they've sounded notes about amnesty for former Gadhafi loyalists and pledged to retain most government bureaucrats.
But the May killing of the security guards is a big reminder that there is much the west does not know about the post-Gadhafi Libyan leadership – and the bands of private mercenaries that made their way to Libya to cash in on the revolution. Was Marziali, pictured above, and his Secopex guards casualties of the fog of war? Did Secopex in fact have any connection to the Gadhafi regime?
Paris might have been expected to fight for the Secopex employees. It might have been expected to condemn Marziali's killing. Instead, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, a key supporter of the rebels, declaimed any official links with Secopex.
"Those companies are private, as you've said: in other words, they have no relations with the public or in particular the French government," he told a reporter on June 1, weeks after the killing. For good measure, Juppe referred to "reprehensible" activities taken "all over the place" by private security contractors.
By then, Marziali's four employees had been freed and unceremoniously sent back to France. What they spent their time in Libya doing remains a mystery.
Secopex may not be familiar in the United States, but it's one of France's leading private military companies, one that industry observers compare to U.S. security giant DynCorp. Founded in 2003 by Marziali, a charismatic ex-paratrooper, the company got a brief burst of Anglophone attention in 2008, when it sought to station armed guards aboard commercial ships to protect them from Somali pirates – an idea that proved farsighted. Marziali even boasted of having a contract with Somalia's interim government to build it an anti-pirate coast guard.
Secopex hasn't said much about the killing or the detention. Its website announces that the company has shut down operations until September. But its representative, Wallier, agreed to answer Danger Room's questions – or some of them, at least.
According to Wallier, the Secopex team had been in Benghazi "for several weeks making contacts." (That account was confirmed by another industry source who requested anonymity.) It scrounged a meeting with the Transitional National Council to pitch its services protecting the Cairo-Benghazi route. The meeting, scheduled for May 12, was important enough for Marziali to personally oversee it. He arrived in Benghazi on May 11 – the same day he died.
But Wallier did not address one of the biggest points of dispute with the Libyan government: whether Secopex met with any members of Gadhafi's government.
According to the industry source – whose business interests are not in conflict with Secopex's – the rebels who stopped the Secopex team discovered their passports had Tripoli entry stamps.
"When asked to explain how they got to Tripoli and what they did, they said they had been on a [security] detail for communications businessmen, but yes, they were in contact with Gadhafi intelligence and that they were asked to establish communications to supporters in Benghazi," the source told Danger Room. "They claimed they refused the offer but could not explain how they got through the battle lines.... I think they were dirty. Their story didn't hold water at all."
Wallier did not respond to Danger Room's questions about alleged Secopex interaction with Gadhafi intelligence; rumored interaction on behalf of "communications businessmen"; or possible entry into Tripoli. Nor did she respond to a request to interview the surviving Secopex guards.
Shortly after the deadly incident, the Transitional National Council pledged to conduct an inquiry into those allegations. But it is unclear if any such inquiry exists. Several efforts at contacting representatives for the interim Libyan government proved unsuccessful.
One thing is not in dispute: Ten days after the Secopex guards were taken into custody, the Libyans released them without charge, sending them back to France. Outside of Secopex, the incident has been all but forgotten.
Forgotten, perhaps, but not resolved. It could be argued that after the initial shooting, the Libyan rebel government acted responsibly by releasing the Secopex guards without charge, instead of keeping them detained. But if their release is an implicit admission of error, the Transitional National Council has never owned up to it – nor apologized to Secopex, France and Marziali's family. Will that be the style in which it governs Libya?
By the same token, Secopex hasn't fully explained what it was doing in Libya, a country that has become awash in private security firms and mercenaries. And with Gadhafi still on the loose and NATO sending mixed signals on putting peacekeepers into a wealthy country, it's unlikely that private security firms are done with Libya.
But for now, Secopex is. "Mr. Marziali was a man of honor, having served his country for 25 years. He would not have worked against French interests," Wallier said. "Under the circumstances, Secopex will not be returning to Libya."
Photo: France 3
See Also:
- Overthrow Gadhafi in 90 Days: Just Add Mercs, Cash
- The 'Mercs for Libyan Rebels' Drumbeat Begins
- Somalia Nixes Anti-Pirate Militia — For Now
- Gadhafi's Loose Weapons Could Number a 'Thousand Times' Saddam's
- Libyan Rebel: Destroy Gadhafi's Army for Us!
- U.S., UK, France: Libya War Will End When Gadhafi Goes


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State Sen. Donna Campbell's campaign released a poll Tuesday that showed her with a strong lead over her primary challenger Mike Novak, but also indicated she has lost 15 percent of voters from the same pool who elected her last year over seven-term incumbent Sen. Jeff Wentworth.
Novak, a lifelong San Antonio businessman and former Bexar County Commissioner, announced his candidacy – and a supporting coalition of elected Republicans – last month in an interview with the Express-News.
Some key numbers from the poll, which was funded by Campbell, a tea party conservative:
- In a primary election between Campbell and Novak, 51 percent said they would vote for Campbell and 11 percent chose Novak, while 38 percent are undecided. Analysis: Campbell won last year's primary runoff against Wentworth with 66 percent of the vote, indicating she has dropped in support, according to her own poll numbers. The large number of undecided voters, 38 percent, leaves Novak, or any challenger, room to work to usurp votes.
- Campbell had a favorable rating from 56 percent and an unfavorable from 15 percent of those polled, while 6 percent had a favorable opinion of Novak and 2 percent view him as unfavorable. Analysis: More than half of the GOP primary electorate had a positive opinion of Campbell's work. These numbers are strong for Campbell, but not game-ending for a challenger.
- Name ID: 86 percent of respondents said they recognize Campbell's name, while 25 percent said they know Novak. Analysis: No surprise the incumbent has high name recognition, but a quarter is a high percentage for someone who has been out of office (Bexar County Commissioners Court) since 1998.
The poll was conducted by a national pollster, Wilson Perkins Allen, September 10-11, 2013, and used a "sample size of 300 likely Republican primary voters in Texas' 25th Senate District." Read the full poll here.
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Posted by dandare on August 28, 2007
On the BBC website, an article "apollo moon photos reveal detail" (posted 28th August,2007) mentions that:
"Highly detailed photographs of the moon taken by the Apollo missions are being made available to the public for the first time in more than 30 years".
There are a few scans on the website at the moment (15 in total), but they will be adding more all the time….. the archived site can be seen here . There are several options for downloading the files, including the raw scan; there is also photo support documents too, which is a nice touch, and a resources section.
Also of possible interest, is google sky, which is written about here , with links to the website in the article.
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A little over a week ago, I received a phone call from my friend Eddie Ross. He needed some lampshades and lamps for Bloomingdale's Big Window Challenge. He brought in a pair of wonderful peacock blue, mid century lamps that he got from Deborah at Buck House.
We had a wonderful time designing the shades for these, going through 100's of papers, fabrics and trims. Settling on Gold Leaf wallpaper from Phillip Jeffries. The lamps had so much to offer in the way of design and color, the shade for them needed to be just as strong, but not overpowering. I think they came out fantastic.
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Coaches and players will have access to vision used by umpires and to notes taken during their weekly debrief in an initiative designed to generate greater understanding.
Umpires Association chief executive Peter Howe said the move would help clubs and hopefully debunk a theory umpires have a "rule of the week" during the season, when it can seem a certain rule has been focused on because of controversy from a match the previous weekend.
Howe said the system would prove umpires maintained a balanced view on all rules.
"It demystifies the whole process. The clubs are able to see what the umpires are being coached on and those sort of things," Howe said. "They will realise there isn't a rule of the week, and that sort of stuff. I think it's quite good.
"What it does is continue to improve the relationship between the umpiring department and all the clubs."
Clubs already have access to vision through the host broadcaster, but the emailed notes will go some way to shedding light on an umpire's interpretation of a particular incident, analysed during their midweek training session.
"The clubs will get everything that is run in the coaching session. Pretty much what happens in the coaching session is that the umpires will want to see a range of decisions that they have seen on the weekend, and seek clarification of," Howe said.
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"What it will do for clubs is allow them to see what the umpires have been talking about and the vision they see."
There was a similar system years ago during the tenure of previous AFLUA boss Bill Deller, when umpiring notes were faxed to clubs and the media, but that disappeared.
The initiative should also help clubs understand better why, for instance, the contentious negating tactics of a tagger or run-with player were approved or penalised.
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Japan is home to many well-known companies, and is a commercial giant in the world. Japan is also home to many department stores. Sogo in Yokohama is one of the largest in the country, as is Takashimaya Times Square in Shinjuku. The Yokohama store of Takashimaya has 8 floors above ground and 2 underground floors. It contains many restaurants, a supermarket, and more. This picture was taken across the street from the store.
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After five of the seven members of the Butler Police Department were implicated in racist and sexist behavior on the job, the village said it is working to hire a new chief from within the department's ranks.
A months-long investigation found the former chief and others would view pornography at work in a common area and would use racial slurs frequently.
The chief retired, and one officer was disciplined and has been suspended while the district attorney's office decides whether criminal charges will be filed.
"We understand something bad happened here," said village administrator Jesse Thyes. "Fix it and move on as a better department, and that is the overwhelming support we have received from the community."
While 25 people have applied to replace the chief who retired amidst the report, a panel of four Waukesha County police chiefs recommended that the village hire acting chief Lt. Dave Wentland.
Thyes said Wentland was cleared in the investigation, and "knows the cast of characters" in the department.
But when asked whether the village had interviewed any external candidates, Thyes said they had not.
"With that very strong and unanimous recommendation from the four chiefs of police, the village board felt comfortable," he said.
Longtime Butler resident Rosemary Burdon said she is not quite sure whether the choice of Wentland is the correct one.
"We all make mistakes, but I haven't heard any repentance going on there," she said. "There should be."
Vicki Bira told WISN 12 News that the department does not need a complete overhaul.
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The start of the fall semester is an exciting time for student-athletes and fans alike. It represents the start of a new year, full of possibilities both on the field and in the classroom. Student-athletes are moving into their dorms, kicking off their first practices and preparing for the new academic year.
These videos were submitted by schools to highlight the return to campus life and the playing field.
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The NCAA Eligibility Center works with more than 90,000 college-bound student-athletes every year to confirm they qualify to play college sports.
Division I schools are raising academic standards in 2016 to ensure college-bound student-athletes are ready to succeed in the college classroom. Learn more.
Student-athletes in all three divisions across the nation are joining their peers in new classes, with many of them fresh from summer internships or study abroad trips.
Many student-athletes earn their undergraduate degrees before exhausting their athletics eligibility and continue to pursue graduate level degrees. In the most recent academic year, more than 19,131 student-athletes had already earned their undergraduate degrees.
Indeed, for the great majority of student-athletes, most will go pro in something other than sports.
As it works to help student-athletes be successful on the field, in the classroom and in life, the NCAA has several measuring tools to track and improve the academic success of student-athletes.
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For the first time, student-athletes will have a seat on the highest DI governance committees.
Earlier this summer, Division I adopted a new governance model intended to preserve Division I and better support student-athletes. The restructuring process was presidentially led, membership-driven and included voices from all different segments of the division. The end result is a simpler, easy-to-navigate structure that allows for more participation opportunities for key decision-makers and gives a vote to student-athletes for the first time. As part of the new structure, a group of schools in the five highest-resourced conferences were given the flexibility to make rules that will better allow them to use their resources to benefit student-athletes. The new structure will be fully implemented by mid-2015.
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Student-athletes compete in 23 NCAA sports, vying for a spot in one or more of 89 national championships.
As NCAA teams start in-season competition this fall, fans will see several rules changes in football, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball, field hockey, and water polo.
Each of those sport's rules committees met last winter to recommend changes to improve the quality of play and enhance student-athlete safety. These recommendations were approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel and are now official rules changes effective for the 2014 season.
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The staff has reviewed and processed 19,000 secondary violations since January 1, 2010.
As members head back to school this fall, the NCAA marks just over a year since Division I adopted sweeping changes to the infractions process. Those changes were made to hold schools and administrators accountable for issues that directly affect fairness and integrity in college sports. Investigations currently underway and cases with the DI Committee on Infractions will begin to use more meaningful penalties that align with the significance of the wrongdoing.
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So, I just activated the new Timeline today, and it was a fascinating experience. Primarily, I noticed that my 15 minutes of allowed social web time on Chrome ran out very quickly.* I wasn't spending a lot more time looking at others' pages, new Twitter accounts, recommended friends, or any of the other normal rabbit trails that make you lose 15 minutes in the blink of an eye. Instead, I was deep in the historical archives of my own Facebook page.
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A word from Jean at Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church for Advent. And very timely for me.
December 8 The True Vine
"I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing."
John 15:5
Perhaps the reason I love this name of Jesus so much is the beautiful word picture it paints. It's probable that when Jesus spoke these words to His disciples they had just left the upper room and were walking through a vineyard on the way to the Garden of Gethsemane. It was the night of His betrayal. He was preparing His followers for life without His physical presence. How could they conceive that it would be better for them for Jesus to go away? What could be better than the flesh-and-blood nearness of their Master, hearing His voice, looking into His eyes, feeling the warmth of His touch, following in His footsteps as together they walked the dusty roads? How could they live apart from Him?
As Jesus had done with His disciples so often, He again chose to use something in the earthy physical realm to illustrate something in the spiritual realm. From this time forward, the sight of vines and branches heavy with clusters of grapes would hold new meaning. They would see what happened to the branches that were attached to the vine; they would bear fruit. As well, they would see what happened to the branches that were no longer attached to the vine; they would not bear fruit.
Jesus' use of this simple metaphor has provided a profound truth for all those who would follow Him from that time forward. Just as the branch is completely dependent upon the vine to provide everything needed to produce its fruit; so are Jesus' disciples completely dependent upon Him to provide everything needed to produce the fruit of lives that bring glory to His name.
Was it better for His disciples that Jesus would no longer be with them in the flesh? Yes, for though He would walk beside them no longer, through His Holy Spirit He would soon be within them. They would then experience the life of the True Vine flowing through them, infusing them with power and enabling them to live fruitfully for Him. Time and again in my own life I have experienced the dismal results of attempting life on my own, apart from Him. Thankfully however, because of His mercy and grace, He is using those times to teach me this timeless truth – apart from Him I cannot do a thing of eternal value!
Follower of Jesus, can you live apart from Him?
Heavenly Father, help me to stay, to remain, to abide in vital union with Jesus, the One True Vine, knowing that without Him I can do nothing. AMEN
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DALLAS (KTVT/CNN) - A neighborhood is stunned after a young girl was shot and killed on Wednesday.
Dallas Police said on Wednesday around 5:30 p.m., they arrived to find a 9-year-old girl with a gunshot wound.
They performed CPR, and she was taken to a nearby hospital but didn't make it.
Police said the shooting appears to be gang-related.
Multiple suspects came to an apartment looking for a tenant inside.
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"I can't hardly imagine the toll this has taken on the family, but even the officers that have to respond to scenes like this. Its a scene that we never want to respond to," Sgt. Warren Mitchell said.
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Bridgette Daniels was walking to the mailbox when she heard gunshots.
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Xavier Usanga, 7, was shot and killed Monday while he and his sisters played in the backyard of their home in St. Louis, CNN reported.
He is one of seven children killed by gunfire in St. Louis so far this year.
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TEL AVIV -- The Connecticut school massacre has raised the issue of gun control not only in the United States but also in Israel, where self-defense is not so much a point of law as a way of life.
In Israel, schools are protected by armed guards, and everyone is on some sort of an alert for suspicious objects or people.
Cars and personal belongings are checked at cafés, movies theaters, public buildings and malls.
Although security guards here are not your typical ex-Navy SEALS, they do act as a first barrier – a line of defense that could have saved the lives of the innocent children at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Young men carrying M16 rifles – soldiers either on their way back or coming home from their military base – are a common sight on main streets in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
However, it is very difficult for any Israeli civilian to purchase and own a gun, and all must have a license to do so. The ownership of assault rifles by a private person is forbidden, and pistols are limited to one per person.
In a country with a population of almost 8 million there are only about 300,000 weapons, of which just over half - 170,000 - belong to private individuals. The rest belong to security institutions.
The license process, which must be completed every year, includes mental and physical health checkups as well as a firing-range exercise. Most importantly, it is a crime with harsh penalty to carry a weapon in Israel without a license.
Security guards must meet regulations before they are granted the license to carry a gun; they must be at least 27 years old, unless they served in the army, in which case they can apply at the age of 21. They also need to be a resident of Israel for at least three years and sign a waiver that gives the health ministry and the police the right to check their health and criminal records.
Yariv, owner of the Lahav weapon shop in Tel Aviv, told Israeli Army radio: "A very little amount of people buy private guns, since the Israeli citizen knows in advance that his chances to buy and own a gun amounts to zero.
"Most of the buyers are men who are demanded by their work to carry a weapon."
There are only a few tens of thousands of legal guns in Israel, most owned by settlers living in the West Bank who are granted dispensation because of the need for self-defense while traveling to and from the West Bank.
Such measures mean that, despite a backdrop of violence committed with illegal weapons, there are hardly any random killings at all. It is impossible for a 20-year-old to buy and own a gun openly.
Paul Goldman is an NBC journalist based in Tel Aviv.
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Our delightful family-friendly holiday cottages are nestled in a quiet corner on the edge of Hotham parkland, at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds. Stracey, Clitherow and Park cottages can sleep between four and five people (Z-bed optional) and each has its own private garden/patio area.
All three of our gorgeous cottages have been tastefully renovated and boast their own wood burning stoves, open plan living spaces, cosy sofas and beautiful bedrooms. Clitherow Cottage and Park Cottage have separate snugs for children or adults to escape to. We've endeavoured to think of everything you could possibly need in the cottages to make your stay memorable, mixing vintage with contemporary designs, comfortable and understated furnishings with luxurious fabrics.
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Clitherow Cottage - Sleeps 5 (max 8 people)
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Hot Tub in garden of Park Cottage KP Golf Club near Pocklington: 15 Miles/ Cave Castle Spa & Health Club: 3 miles Brough Golf Course: 6 Miles White Rose Polo Club: 3 Miles York Racecourse: 27 Miles Beverley Racecourse: 14 Miles The Deep: 17 Miles Children welcome from any age.
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We are very pleased to announce that Ben Zimmer, executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, has just been named the "On Language" columnist for The New York Times Magazine. He will be replacing William Safire, who passed away last year after writing the "On Language" column for thirty years. Beginning with the March 21 issue of the Magazine, Ben will be writing the column on a biweekly basis.
Loyal readers will be familiar with Ben's work here in his "Word Routes" column, which he has written regularly since joining the Visual Thesaurus team in 2008. Before that time, he had worked as editor for American dictionaries at Oxford University Press, and he remains a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, as well as a member of the American Dialect Society and the Dictionary Society of North America.
Ben's writing about language has also appeared in Slate, the Boston Globe, Forbes.com, and the linguistics blog Language Log. William Safire frequently called upon his linguistic expertise, once calling him "that etymological Inspector Javert." He filled in as "On Language" columnist in 2009 when Safire went on hiatus due to ill health, and after Safire's passing he wrote a touching tribute in the Magazine entitled, "The Maven, Nevermore."
In the official announcement from The New York Times, Ben said, "It's an honor and a privilege to be welcomed in the space that William Safire called home for thirty years. I look forward to continuing this fine tradition with my own take on how language shapes our past, present and future."
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Badaracco's wife 'did some banking'
BRIDGEPORT -- Just days after learning a grand jury was looking into the disappearance of her husband's former wife, Joan Badaracco withdrew $185,000 from her husband's retirement accounts and deposited the money in her checking account.
She testified Wednesday she did it because she believed her husband, Dominic Badaracco, was about to be arrested and she wanted to be able to post his bond.
Prosecutors, however, contend Dominic Badaracco planned to pay $100,000 to a judge to influence the grand jury probe.
Joan Badaracco testified Wednesday that when she heard about the grand jury in October 2010, she did three things.
"I got my house appraised, I contacted a bail bondsman in case Dom got arrested, and I did some banking," she testified under questioning by co-defense counsel Edward Gavin.
Told that bond in a murder case could be $1 million, she said she and her husband cashed in two of his IRAs for about $185,000 and put the money in her checking account.
"If he did get arrested, I didn't want him to sit in jail while I arranged bond," she said.
But after a month passed and with no charges against Badaracco in connection with his former wife's disappearance, Joan Badaracco said, they deposited the money back into the IRAs.
Under cross-examination by Deputy Chief State's Attorney Leonard Boyle, Joan Badaracco admitted that in 2010 she and her husband were worth $1.5 million. She said she also later learned investigators had found $35,000 in cash in their house.
"I knew (Dominic Badaracco) kept some cash in the house, but I never knew the amount," she shrugged.
Joan Badaracco missed a step coming out of the witness box and went sprawling onto the floor of the courtroom.
"I'm more embarrassed than hurt," she said after being helped up from the courtroom.
Her husband, 77, later put on the record through his lawyer, Richard Meehan Jr., that he had been prepared to help his wife, but was restricted because he was under guard at the defense table.
In the afternoon, the defense lawyers presented ear, nose and throat doctor Dov Bloch, who testified he has been treating the defendant for a profound hearing loss since 2007.
Bloch said the condition can lead to confusion, dizziness and problems communicating.
A suspect in the disappearance of his former wife, Mary, from their Sherman home in 1984, Badaracco is accused of offering a $100,000 bribe to Superior Court Judge Robert Brunetti to influence a one-man grand jury looking into the former wife's disappearance in November 2010.
"I'm only gonna say this one time ... it's worth 100 Gs," Brunetti quoted Badaracco as saying, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.
The grand jury ended without indicting Dominic Badaracco or anyone else for any crime.
Testimony is scheduled to continue Thursday, when Gavin said he will present testimony from other Badaracco friends and family members.
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New Seasons Market has officially qualified as a "zero waste" company by recycling 92 percent of the waste that comes through its grocery stores.
How do they do it, and what's in that last 8 percent that winds up in a landfill? I went on a tour of the Hawthorne New Seasons store with a team of experts to find out.
New Seasons CEO Wendy Collie said one of the biggest steps toward zero waste is donating edible and non-edible food for reuse. That diverts more than 35 percent of the company's waste stream. New Seasons has donated 1 ton of edible food to Urban Gleaners, which delivers it to hungry people throughout the city. And the non-edible foods, including food scraps from grocery store kitchens, get turned into compost.
Another key factor, she said, is having employees who go the extra mile to separate trash from recyclables and compostables, who make sure all the recyclable stretchy plastic is separated from hard plastic, and that none of the recyclable material is contaminated. That way, the stuff everybody wants to recycle actually gets recycled.
"Our team will actually get into that trash and make sure that nothing is contaminated before we sent it forward into the cycle," said Collie, "because contamination actually is the biggest issue – getting the wrong product in the wrong place or having something that has some kind of contaminant on it. So it's a huge commitment to make sure that happens."
New Seasons stores have recycling and compost bins behind the registers, in the kitchen, and at the loading docks, and they have a combined waste bin for cafe customers that employees sort themselves. At some stores the employees actually drive recyclable material to a place that will recycle it.
The stores also have collection bins for customers to deposit the items that aren't recycled in Portland's curbside recycling program, including plastic lids, clamshell containers and plastic bags.
But there are still some pesky items that can't be recycled or composted, like receipt paper, potato chip bags, styrofoam, packaging with fused cardboard, plastic and metal materials like a Pringles can, and paper towels from the restrooms, which aren't eligible for composting.
"We tell people when in doubt throw it out," said Laura Kremser, a New Seasons Green Team member who focuses on environmental improvements at the Seven Corners store on SE Division. "If they're not sure what type of plastic it is, often styrofoam products will end up in the garbage, sometimes if it's a piece of cardboard or a piece of recyclable plastic with too much food debris on it to get it clean then they'll throw it out."
That's the kind of stuff that made up the 8 percent of material that went to landfills after leaving New Seasons stores, according to Eric Crum, director of Portland State University's Community Environmental Services. His office inventoried the waste stream at four New Seasons locations to determine how much waste is being recycled and how much is going to the dump.
"We literally hand-sorted everything or tracked it from reports," said Crum. "We took the landfill waste, compost and recycling, we hand sorted that and split it up in to material categories to find the makeup of it. It took us a month and a half and 330 staff hours, and we basically got a 24-hour snapshot of all the materials coming through the four representative stores."
The Center found that by diverting 92 percent of its waste from landfills, New Seasons is reducing energy consumption by the equivalent of 34,545 gallons of gasoline.
"I've been doing this for six years, and I've never seen such a large organization be so successful in a diversion program," said Crum. "It's really difficult to get those division rates up without the correct buy-in from everybody, and it seems like the staff here are really bought in."
A large component of the stores trash pile was restroom waste, he said, and that's a universal problem.
"A lot of people think paper towel waste is compostable, and it is, but there are systems and regulations that don't allow us to compost those paper towels in the region," he said. "It would take a lot of city and county buy-in to change that, but we need to talk about this issue and explain that we have companies striving for zero waste and they're getting hung up on paper towel waste."
Collie said the PSU assessment, which the company paid for, has helped give her and her staff ideas for what they can do next to chip away at the remaining 8 percent, including working with suppliers to eliminate disposable packaging. The stores have started to do that already by providing reusable plastic crates for produce suppliers delivering fresh fruit and veggies.
"We can go upstream and start to influence some of our distributors and manufactures to help us reduce waste, and that's pretty big," said Collie. "It's not just how we're managing it here at the store, but from the onset of where the waste starts."


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Homemade hummus with pitta chips
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We are proud to release the Infinite Lunar Tracking Device. This KeeganMeegan creation has been circling our brains (and hearts) for a while. It was inspired by our infinite wonder and awe of the mass of rock we call the moon. We continue to be interested in it's phases and the affects it has not only on the way we see things, but also on how we feel things. We've created a participatory keepsake calendar that can be used, over and over, every year. As the month and day changes, so does the phase of the moon. You can track it by watching the lunar phases in the sky or when life (and/or the clouds) makes it difficult to stay connected to the moon, you can use our Lunar Art Print cheat sheet to get back on track. Available for sale over here. Sized at 5 x 7.5″
Like the natural and cosmic worlds, this calendar will allow for some bits of ambiguity as well as some precise tracking… We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Each infinite calendar comes with a stand and a small art print that contains the dates and times of the Phases of the Moon for that year – New Moon, Full Moon, First and Thirds Quarters. The chart was converted to Pacific Time (since that's where we were when this lunar device was conceived). Every year a new chart, along with a new tiny art print, will be produced for you to reference and to replace the previous year's.< Read More >
Our neighbor The Daylight Studio posted a great review of the business cards we printed for their talented crew. Here is a small excerpt written by Tyler Davis of Daylight. Also check out the cool video they made during their press check at the bottom of this post
As our Daylight team has grown, we've felt the need for new business cards to reflect our fresh new group. To some this is a quick and simple project, and certainly not a blog-worthy one. But we at Daylight refused to take the easy route. Instead of reprinting an outdated design, we started back at square one. When it comes to your own business, nothing is good enough and this project was held against that high bar. A growing company that sells design needs to present attractive cards when meeting new people (and potential clients!), so we went the extra mile and had beautiful letterpressed cards printed here in Southeast Portland.< Read More >
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Fuzz Interactive, rising stars in the design and web development community approached us to assist in making a show stopping business card. The final product is one of our favorites. They were printed on 220# Lettra Pearl White with a Red 032 flood with an additional deboss pattern on the front. It brings new meaning to a tactile feel.
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Gingrich Acknowledges the Inevitable: He Won't Be the Nominee
Not exactly, but it does seem as if Newt Gingrich is writing his own presidential campaign obit.
On "Fox News Sunday," Gingrich described Mitt Romney as "far and away the most likely" GOP nominee.
"I hit him as hard as I could. He hit me as hard as he could. It turned out he had more things to hit with than I did. And, that's part of the business. He's done the fundraising side brilliantly," Gingrich said, adding that he'll campaign "as hard for Romney as I would for myself."
For now, he acknowledges, he has $4.5 million in campaign debt, and he's "operating on a shoestring." Two weeks ago, he laid off one-third of his campaign staff.
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Except for South Carolina and his home state of Georgia, Gingrich has been unable to win any presidential primaries or caucuses. He kept saying he'd fight it out at least until the Texas primary May 29, and he may have survived a string of southern primaries earlier that month (although probably not as long as Rick Santorum stayed in the race).
But money is the mother's milk of politics, as they say, and the handwriting had been on the wall going back at least two weeks.
That's when his principal financial angel, billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson, began considering a move to the Romney campaign.
"It appears as though he's at the end of his line," Adelson said of Gingrich at the time. "Because, I mean, mathematically, he can't get anywhere near the numbers, and it's unlikely to be a brokered convention."
But like all politicians with major egos (is that redundant?) Gingrich has continued to find it difficult to say he's going to drop out of the race.
As recently as yesterday, he was telling the Washington Post there was "nothing" that would make him quit his run for the presidency.
"The only way I'll be the nominee is if Romney makes a major mistake and ends up with a number of his delegates saying they just can't do that," he said.
So far, that's an unforeseeable outcome. Romney runs a very disciplined campaign, and he has mega-resources to keep at it until his nomination is confirmed in the number of delegates he's won (which at this point is many more than Gingrich, Santorum, and Ron Paul combined). He's already pivoted from running against the other three GOP hopefuls and begun taking on incumbent Barack Obama.
"It never occurred to me - and this is one of the lessons I'm contemplating for some future memoir - it never occurred to me the scale of the Romney fundraising capability," Gingrich told the Washington Post. "I was fully prepared to be outspent 2-to-1, even 3-to-1. But when you're up to 5- or 6-to-1, you're being drowned. You're not going to be able to match it."
Gingrich has had a campaign full of ups and downs. Just weeks after entering the race last year, his campaign imploded. Months later, in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses, he surged. He came in behind Romney and Santorum in Iowa, but won South Carolina. He had several losses before winning his home state of Georgia. He had hoped to carry the momentum of that win to other contests in the South, so far unsuccessfully.


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"C--- punt" never sounded so awesome.
Ever since the infamous, profanity-laced Delta Gamma sorority letter was released last week, everyone has been clamoring for a celebrity to do a dramatic reading of the e-mail that featured one of the best expletives of the year. It seems only fitting that Michael Shannon, the Boardwalk Empire star who will next play psychotic villain General Zod in Man of Steel, is the lucky actor!
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Last week, Rebecca Martinson of the University of Maryland's chapter of Delta Gamma sent her sorority sisters an expletive-laden email in which she berated them for being inappropriate around their match fraternity Sigma Nu.
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I got home from work to find that the entry packets for next month's Group Health Seattle to Portland Classic (STP) had arrived for my wife and I. I'd actually been kinda looking forward to this. However, upon opening one of the two envelopes, I was a little bit overwhelmed by the explosion of materials and promotional items that poured out.
- Flier for an additional 10% off of anything (including bikes) at select Pacific Northwest Performance Bicycle shops. Also worthy of note – the Seattle location near the start line is open 24 hours on the night before the start. Brilliant thinking on the part of the store management if you ask me.
- Ad from Carter Subaru. Apparently the Subaru Outback is great for carrying mountain bikes.
- Flier for STP merchandise.
- Sample of Chamois Butt'r. Cause there is no better time to try out a new chamois cream than on a double century!
- Ticket to get my bike transported back to the University of Washington from Portland at the end of the ride.
- Parking pass allowing me to leave my car (the Prius mentioned earlier) on the UW campus while I do the ride.
- Flier for Marathonfoto.com. Apparently they will take pictures of me.
- Jersey number with 2 attached luggage tags. They transport bags for you from Seattle to the end, and to the midway point if you are doing the ride over two days as my wife and I are. My wife got number 4771, I got 4772. Clearly she is the team leader.
- Handle bar numbers. (Huh?)
- Helmet number (a sticker). (OK, so to end the confusion that I had on the handlebar/helmet numbers, I read the FAQ.)
- 4 saftey pins. Presumably for jersey number.
- 3 twisty-ties (you know – those paper-coated metal wires) Presumably for the handlebar numbers.
- One branded rain jacket / wind breaker
- Cloth bag. I'd like to say it is a musette, but the straps aren't nearly long enough.
- Route sheet for the Personal Support Vehicles. I don't have one currently. Maybe I can pick one up from Carter Subaru?
- And finally – the ride guide. All 23 pages of it.
All joking aside, I've been very impressed with the organization of this event from the first minute I started checking out the website. Given over 200 miles of planned route and 10,000 participants, I would hope for nothing less.


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Following the recent release of EDGECAM Workflow 2014 R1, we are delighted to announce the first of many Lunch & Learn productivity days throughout the Americas.
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In the past four seasons, the Sanibel Farmer's Market has become a favorite outdoor activity to islanders and visitors from November to April. Now entering its fifth season, the farmer's market will continue to offer fresh items from local vendors -- some returning and a few new ones.
"I am looking forward to providing Sanibel and Captiva residents and visitors a farmer's market that's better each year and one they will want to return to Sunday after Sunday," said Betsy Ventura, co-manager of the market with Jean Baer, who is looking forward to eating half sour pickles and chocolate almond croissants, warm Sundays, new and familiar faces and welcoming new vendors.
For the first time, Andy's Seafood from Pine Island will be joining the vendors this year. As a member of the Seafood Choices Alliances, an international association that promotes and supports ocean-friendly seafood business, Andy's embraces environmentally responsible seafood and will offer approved farm raised local fish at the market. Andy's specialities include award-winning crab cakes, chowder, smoked fish and seafood spreads.
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Managers of the Sanibel Farmers Market, Jean Baer and Besty Ventura, are ready for the 5th season, which kicked off Nov. 4. The farmer's market is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Sunday through April at city hall, 800 Dunlop Rd.
Farmer Mike from Bonita Springs will also be in this year's market. With more than 400 acres of land in Lee and Collier counties, Mike is a well respected and notable local farmer. Some of his produce includes tomatoes, zucchini, beets, carrots, strawberries and more. Look for his mobile market trailer.
"The locals, as well as visitors, have appreciated the variety of products, many of which are very unique offerings," said Baer. "People also enjoy the camaraderie of seeing friends and meeting new people. It's a great destination by bike and for a family outing; people love to have an outing with their dog; and kids love the donuts from The Sanibel Deli."
Ventura said better than all the comments they have received throughout the past 4 years are the smiles and positive energy they see and feel from open to close each Sunday. The market is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Sunday November to April at Sanibel City Hall, 800 Dunlop Rd.
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"For the consumer to buy directly from the producer or grower; and lowering the carbon footprint on our planet by reducing packaging of products and minimizing the distance food travels," added Ventura. "The market is a pleasure for everyone, even men and children enjoy shopping."