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I don't intend many posts on this subject here, but at least two to start, plus this overview page. This appalling case and its details are being explored in much detail at the research wiki A Closer Look On Syria (ACLOS) on these pages and sub-pages (Talk pages are more active and full - front pages largely waiting to be filled in)
* Main page - Main talk page - All sub-pages and sub-(talk)pages (list in time)
Posts here:* Stairwell Victims - Murdered and Burned Later
* The Red Tape Behind Odessa Police Purge
By way of an intro, I cite Stephen F. Cohen's description from The Nation, June 30, 2014
On May 2 ... a horrific event occurred in the southern city of Odessa, awakening memories of Nazi German extermination squads in Ukraine and other Soviet republics during World War II. An organized pro-Kiev mob chased protesters into a building, set it on fire and tried to block the exits. Some forty people, perhaps more, perished in the flames or were murdered as they fled the inferno. A still unknown number of other victims were seriously injured. ... Kiev alleged that the victims had themselves accidentally started the fire, but eyewitnesses, television footage and social media videos told the true story, as they have about subsequent atrocities.Not everyone realizes, after they surrounded the building with hate and lit up some windowsills with molotov cocktails, the "rally for a United Ukraine" then entered the building. Hundreds of people armed with clubs are seen lining up at two forced-open doors on the building's un-policed south end. From there, they were reported all over the building, roving the halls in aggressive packs. Numerous witnesses describe parts of the MO employed - the invaders smashed in locked doors and barricades to take over occupied rooms, even spraying some debilitating gas at the defenders. Once in control they would either shoot or beat to death all the men (to be quieter about it?) and take the women, in some cases apparently to rape (see witnesses). Victims' bodies show signs of gunshots and other violent death, and of being re-arranged and deliberately burned after death (detailed post here - based on ACLOS analysis).
The scene, oriented to regular north.
The two corners where hundreds of armed Euromaidan militants visibly entered the building are best called south (first, prior to 7:45) and southeast (after 7:46, both calculated from given video start times)
(note: back stairwell fires might have been a bit earlier than indicated - the first might be the blaze mentioned in a 7:45 call about fire inside on floor 2, "above the entrance")
What About the First Half where "They Started It?"
The above makes it sound like everything happened at Kulikovo with no preceding events. And in contrast, according to Kiev and sympathetic sources, this massacre stuff doesn't matter compared to the all-important preceding events. To them, the fire and bulk of the death was all accidents and "unknowns" and stuff, and was "probably inevitable," after people dressed as anti-Maidan militants first opened fire. This escalation of the clashes with no adequate reason, killed a few people on both sides and injured many more on both sides and among the police. These "pro-Russian Fascists" and they alone "orchestrated" anything that could be called a "massacre." They and the police who failed to stop the provocation (or the resulting massacre!) bear full responsibility, the massacre absolvers claim. The Maidan-Right Sector hate machine here was just a blameless slave of the "probably inevitable" - that still didn't kill anybody.
There are extremely valid issues worth considering in the early clashes set-up, the provocateurs, and the police inaction. And we do cover this at the ACLOS Clashes page, and in the red armbands post here. But we're all sick of hearing about this one lesser half of events as if it could possibly explain away the kind of unhinged brutality that marks this act of state-sponsored political terrorism.
State and Allied Response:
Kiev's new NSDC (security) chief Andriy Parubiy was in Odessa three days before the pogrom, meeting with local deputized criminal Mykola Volkov, delivering body armor for anti-terrorism use. Volkov and many others were seen wearing this body armor as they assaulted the Trade Union hall (Mykola seen firing a pistol, replica apparently). Parubiy's deputy in Odessa, Sergei Gutsalyuk, was seen monitorin the attack and working with police as they did nothing.
The police at first only stood in formation some distance from the building, with no effort to slow the mob's invasion and ignition of the building. Later they somewhat shielded the survivors as they arrested almost every one of them - and no one from the attacking mob - for their protection and also on terrorism and related charges (or, one could say, on charges of surviving). It took the fire department nearly an hour to respond from the first flames, with operators apparently ordered to ignore emergency calls on the basis there was and could be no fire emergency (calls analysis). Someone turned off the building's water prior to the fire's outbreak. The fire response units finally sent between 8:09 and 8:16 PM were inadequate, the rescue process painfully slow (see Fire Response). It's reported that authorities refused to accept missing person reports- leaving an unknown number of (probably dead) people simply written off as mysteries that never came home that day.
The current Ukrainian government has launched six official investigations, five being insider whitewashes, one a compromised parliamentary investigation that reached a few relevant conclusions, the most important of which were edited out after everyone signed (at least one committee member withdrew her signature after seeing the edits). Kiev blames only "pro-Russian terrorists" and allies in the police and general society for sparking events, the massacre part of which was just an accident (unless, as they sometimes hint, the terrorists gassed and burned themselves on purpose!)
Somehow, this basic view carries over to at least one public "independent" investigation ("Group 2 May") and apparently another (Information Center). Governments that support Kiev, and the Western mass media, have virtually ignored the story past their initial reports of a murky fire that apparently never seemed worth figuring out.
Our Response:
It's been six bleak months for truth and justice in Odessa. Time for action. Many others are already working on this case. (For example, the May 2 Committee) I plan to start networking with them for best effect. Below I will gather some useful links and pointers for spreading the word, the best word, and the best way. Also, ideas and tips are more than welcome in the comments section.
Things we support:
* Anti-fascists massacred in Odessa to be remembered, honored
On the six-month anniversary, activists around the world will remember this crime and honor the victims with memorials, rallies, meetings and photo exhibits.
In New York, the International Action Center has called for a protest at the U.S. military recruiting station in Times Square on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 1 p.m., to remember the murdered anti-fascists. Participants will tell Washington, Kiev and the corporate media to stop the cover-up of those responsible for the massacre.
* Events in Lugansk People's Republic, Russia, Germany, Netherlands, elsewhere plus some links to info resources, etc. at the new Facebook page Odessa Massacre: Six Months Later


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|December 8, 1998, 05:34 PM
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Anyone wanting to share some different or unusual training scenarios with Simunitions. One that we use with GSGI is based on an actual incident. An officer responded to an alarm call with an open door. Unknown to him was the owner inside asleep. The owner, hearing a noise from the other side of a door, opened it quickly to the surprise of the officer. Out of shock, the officer fired one round, hitting the owner in the Fermoral artery. The owner bleed to death at the scene, even with medics a minute away.
We set up the same situation with a subject standing on the other side of a door. Any thoughts???
Any other scenarios for the forum.
|December 8, 1998, 06:19 PM
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That is a good one. I like training scenarios which put surprises into "everyday" occurances. The idea being to catch the student as off gaurd as possible. During a training scenario that is tough, becuase the person knows that he is in the training scenario and that something is going to happen.
There are a few of us who train together regularly and know each other's capabilities very well. One thing we do is have a "hot session" which is a time that we all wear hot weapons and keep very aware of each other throughout the session. (I should mention here that we never have done this with more than 3 people and usually it is just two of us.. also that I would consider this something that is definitely not for everyone with live ammo, but would be great for simunition.)
At anytime during this session one or the other of us may call out "Gun Red Plate!!" or some other appropriate designation of Threat and Target, the idea being for the other person or two people to engage that target appropriatley given the proposed threat.
In any situation any target not specifically indicated as a potential threat is considered to be a innocent, adding another twist, depending on the position of the shooter.
We have called one target while the shooter was putting up a new target. We call "body armor", requiring the appropriate response. we call multiple targets. A call of "left silohuette, charging!!" might be met with the drawing of a weapon and the order to stop or an immediate shot, but it is up to the shooter to deal with the situation as called, with no questions asked.
I've been caught standing next to a tactical ted at various times and responded with a physical strike. Once I was caught off gaurd with an empty gun and engaged with a weak handed knife strike.
All three of us have done a fair amount of executive protection and we all have badges of one sort or another. As a standing rule, the caller is considered a VIP if he is near the shooter and must be removed from danger during the engagment. It is not uncommon for a caller to stand directly in front of or beside the shooter. We almost always have vehicles within 20 yards or so of the targets ( we don't ever shoot further than that) that serve as "cover" and safe areas for the "VIP".
Of course, we are all very familar with the proper shoot/noshoot angles at our range, and do not violate them. We all have ear and eye protection on at all times when the session is "hot". I have to repeat that we all know each other very well and trust each other, this not somehting you do the first time you head to the range with someone.
The point is to train as realisticaly as possible and try to catch people off gaurd.
Now, introducing Simuntions to this concept to me makes perfect sense. If I were running a training academy which involved simunitions I would have a day at the end of the class that everyone wore safety gear and hot guns and were told that, regardless of the perceived situation, the range was "hot" until 5pm or whatever. Of course all instuctors that they came into contact with would have safety gear on as well. They could be hit in the head, (stalls and urinals would have to be declared "no fire zones" (orange tape on the floor or something), at lunch. While walking between classes, etc.
Realistically, I am sure that liability and safety issues would cut back on how much of a surprise you could really pull on people. But I would try to get at least a kill house with a classroom in it, that the students could be properly equipped and outfitted in, where at least one "surprise" could be sprung. Or hit them during scoring or discussion of one stage with the next stage, etc.,etc.
Without surprise, training loses a lot for me. How many of us LEOs have done stupid things during real traffic stops, for example, that we would never have done during a training scenario traffic stop. I know I have.
please don't get shot trying to do any of the things I describe, which I admit stretch most accpetable envelopes of safety like Bob Villa putting on Sho Koshugi's spandex pants.
|December 8, 1998, 06:19 PM
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|December 14, 1998, 05:12 PM
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Mike ,I haven't received a classroom package from GSGI yet, and was wondering if they offer Simunitions training for non LEO?
|December 14, 1998, 08:14 PM
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Hi David,
Yes we do, it depends on the course. You can always look us up at www.gsgi.org
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Pietro Paolini: Ecuador: Balance on the Zero (Terra Project)
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Andy Levin: Coney Island (NYT Lens)
Daniel Love: 200 Hours (Guardian)
Robert Herman: New York: A View of Inner Turmoil (NYT Lens)
Reed Young: The Ground Zero of Immigration: El Paso (LightBox)
Sara Lewkowicz: An unflinching look at domestic abuse (CNN photo blog)
Tony Fouhse: The Simple View of Ottawa (NYT Lens)
Justin Jin: A Chinese Push for Urbanization (NYT)
Sean Gallagher: Climate change on the Tibetan plateau (Guardian) audio slideshow
Nic Dunlop: On the frontlines of a 'Brave New Burma' (CNN photo blog)
Zohra Bensemra: Pakistan's female Top Gun (Reuters)
Paolo Marchetti: The Stains of Kerala (LightBox)
Behrouz Mehri: Life in Tehran, glimpsed through the rear window (AFP Correspondent)
Tyler Hicks: A New Strategy on One Syrian Front (NYT)
Laurent Van der Stockt: On The Damascus Front Lines (Le Monde)
Jason Larkin: Suez – Egypt's Lifeline (Panos Pictures)
Nyani Quarmyne: Bridging Approaches to Mental Illness in Sierra Leone (NYT Lens)
Jake Naughton: Education of Girls in Kibera (Feature Shoot)
David Guttenfelder: Last Song for Migrating Birds (NGM) Across the Mediterranean, millions are killed for food, profit, and cruel amusement.
Nick Cobbing: Follow the Creatures (Photographer's website) Antarctica
Nelli Palomäki: Portraits of Children (LightBox)
The Burning Monk 50th anniversary (AP) Malcolm Wilde Browne was 30 years old when he arrived in Saigon on Nov. 7, 1961, as AP's first permanent correspondent there. From the start, Browne was filing the kind of big stories that would win him the Pulitzer Prize for reporting in 1964. But today, he is primarily remembered for a photograph taken 50 years ago on June 11, 1963, depicting the dignified yet horrific death by fiery suicide of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc.
Malcolm Browne: The Story Behind The Burning Monk (LightBox)
Love struck: Photographs of JFK's visit to Berlin 50 years ago reveal a nation instantly smitten (The Independent) Photographer Ulrich Mack accompanied Kennedy on the entire trip. The results, published this month as Kennedy in Berlin, have mostly never been seen before
Images of Protest in Istanbul: The Woman in Red (No Caption Needed)
Turkey's "Lady in Red" and the Importance of Professional Photographers (NPPA)
The photo that encapsulates Turkey's protests and the severe police crackdown (Washington Post)
'Woman in red' sprayed with teargas becomes symbol of Turkey protests (Guardian)
Photographer documents Istanbul 'war zone' in his own backyard on Facebook (NBC News photo blog)
Photographic Mood, on the Eve of Destruction (No Caption Needed)
Photographer Injured in Istanbul Protests (PDN)
Pixelating the reality? (Al Jazeera: Listening Post) Photography is a subjective medium, and how it is used will always depend on who is using it. | On Paul Hansen's World Press Photo of the Year and post-processing in photojournalism in general
The Art of War – Ron Haviv (Viewpoint on Vimeo) A documentary from the public television of Greece, year 2013. Language: English | Greek Subtitles
Leading photojournalist captures the beating heart of a brutal world (Sydney Morning Herald) Forty years of covering atrocities has only reinforced James Nachtwey's faith in humanity
Rita Leistner: Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan (BagNewsNotes)
Profile of a Curatorial Master: Yolanda Cuomo (LightBox)
A Glance at the 2013 LOOK3 Photo Festival (LightBox)
Two journalists, including photographer Edouard Elias, abducted in Syria (BJP) According to Le Monde and BBC News, the two journalists, Didier François and Edouard Elias, were travelling to Aleppo in Syria when they were abducted by four armed men at a checkpoint
Syrian teacher turned war photographer (CNN) Nour Kelze describes her transition from English teacher in Aleppo to war photographer in the middle of Syria's conflict.
Frontline Freelance Register created to help freelance war reporters (BJP)
Margaret Bourke-White's Damaged Negatives From a Classic Assignment (LIFE)
A Paean to Forbearance (the Rough Draft) (NYT) The origins behind James Agee's 1941 book, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," a literary description of abject poverty in the South, accompanied by Walker Evans photographs.
In pictures: Saul Leiter's pioneering colour photography (BBC)
Ageing and creative decline in photography: a taboo subject (BJP)
The Woman in a Jim Crow Photo (NYT Lens)
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Conditions in Europe are set to be ideal for perfect views of the International Space Station (ISS) as it passes overhead up to four times a night this coming weekend.
Provided you know in which direction to look, spotting the ISS with the naked eye is not as difficult as it might seem. Although the ISS travels at a speed of 7.7 km per second, it is just 400 km above our heads – and thanks to its large solar panels it is one of the brightest objects in the night sky, making it fairly easy to spot from when it rises above the horizon in a westerly direction, until it sets towards the East.
The ISS passes over most points on Earth every day, but cannot always be seen. Normally the best time for ISS-gazing is just before dawn or just after sunset, when the observer is in the dark but the ISS is in the Sun. But for two short periods in June and December each year, the ISS doesn't pass through Earth's shadow at all, and its passes are visible all through the night if the sky is clear.
For most locations in Europe the period of frequent visibility is between 17-21 June – although in some places the ISS is already making a regular appearance throughout the night.
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It is possible to take ISS viewing a step further – some enthusiasts take still photographs or make videos as the Station passes overhead. A team at the Public Observatory in Munich, Germany, use professional equipment to capture spectacularly detailed images, some of which even show the Station's communication antennae.
If you want to photograph the ISS you don't need such specialist equipment used by the team in Munich. Gerhard Holtkamp sent us his time-lapse image taken from a location in Western Australia, which shows the Station as a trail among the stars.
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It was growing late on the night of Nov. 9, 2011. John P. Surma, the chief executive of U.S. Steel and the vice chairman of Penn State University's board of trustees, sat at a rectangular table at the Penn Stater Hotel. Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania was on the speaker phone. Other trustees were present, many emotionally spent.
The board, scrambling to address the child sexual abuse scandal involving the university and its football program, had already decided to remove Graham B. Spanier as president. Then, many of those present recalled this week, the tension in the room mounted. Joe Paterno's future was next up. Surma announced that an agreement appeared to have been reached to fire Paterno, too — the trustees having determined that he had failed to take adequate action when he was told that one of his longtime assistants had been seen molesting a 10-year-old boy in Paterno's football facility.
Surma, those present recalled, surveyed the other trustees — there are 32 — for their opinions and emotions before asking one last question: "Does anyone have any objections? If you have an objection, we're open to it."
No one in the room spoke. There was silence from the phone speakers. Paterno's 46-year tenure as head coach of one of the country's storied college football programs was over, and the gravity of the action began to sink in.
"It was hard for us to want to get to the point where we were going to say that," said Ira M. Lubert, a board member who works in private equity. "I was laying in bed that night shaking. And I couldn't sleep — thinking: We just terminated Joe Paterno."
The 100 or so hours beginning with the arrest of Jerry Sandusky, a former defensive coordinator for the football team, had built to a crescendo by that Wednesday night's meeting of the trustees. By then, the campus was aflame with discontent. Penn State students and faculty, its alumni and its growing number of outside critics had been roiled by anger and confusion, embarrassment and sorrow. Reporters had inundated State College. It was, plainly put, the most trying time in Penn State's 156-year history.
On Wednesday, in a conference room in New Jersey, a group of 13 trustees spoke to The New York Times in detail about that week — a somewhat frantic, certainly exhausting week that led to the firings of Paterno and Spanier and to the disturbances on campus that those dismissals set off.
The board decided to share its story because it grew weary of hearing criticism, which included calls from alumni who started a group known as Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship in an effort to replace the current board members. The trustees, over three hours, described how they had felt blindsided by Spanier's failure to keep them informed of the nature and scope of the Pennsylvania attorney general's investigation of Sandusky, along with the investigation of university officials.
Spanier, two other senior university administrators and Paterno had all given testimony before a criminal grand jury by late spring of 2011. They had been questioned extensively about what they had done after learning of a report in 2002 that said Sandusky had molested a young boy in the showers of the football building. According to the trustees, Spanier never informed them of any of that before Sandusky's arrest on Nov. 5.
The trustees also laid out what they said were three key reasons for firing Paterno: his failure to do more when told about the suspected sexual assault in 2002; what they regarded as his questioning of the board's authority in the days after Sandusky's arrest; and what they determined to be his inability to effectively continue coaching in the face of continuing questions surrounding the program.
The trustees, who had not spoken publicly in any detail since the firings, also disclosed that, while having fired Paterno, they were still honoring the terms of his contract and are treating him financially as if he had retired at the end of the 2011 season.
To some trustees, Paterno failed in not reporting to the police what he had been told of Sandusky's suspected assault. Some of the trustees were also upset that Paterno was seen leading "We are Penn State" cheers on his lawn with students and fans who had gathered after Sandusky's arrest, which some board members viewed as insensitive.
That Paterno knew of the nature of the suspected 2002 assault, which he stated in his grand jury testimony, was enough for some to decide that he had not acted appropriately in simply informing the university's athletic director, Tim Curley, and another top official, Gary Schultz. Both of them have been charged with failure to report to the authorities what they knew about the incident and for subsequently lying to a grand jury.
"To me, it wasn't about guilt or innocence in a legal sense," the trustee Kenneth C. Frazier, the chief executive at Merck, said of Paterno's decision not to go to police. "It was about these norms of society that I'm talking about: that every adult has a responsibility for every other child in our community. And that we have a responsibility not to do the minimum, the legal requirement. We have a responsibility for ensuring that we can take every effort that's within our power not only to prevent further harm to that child, but to every other child."
Saturday, Nov. 5
At 5 p.m., the trustees met via telephone for an emergency session.
The trustees on the conference call who had read the details of the charges against Sandusky and the two senior university officials felt a distinct lack of urgency by the university. Many were irked that Spanier had released a statement in full support of Curley and Schultz, who were indicted for perjury. The trustees were floored, they said, that Spanier did not seem to recognize the severity of the situation.
"We deal with crisis every day at this university," they recalled Spanier saying. "We won't have a problem with this."
The trustees, meanwhile, were shocked by the charges — and caught completely unaware. There had been reports in The Patriot News of Harrisburg that a grand jury was investigating a claim that Sandusky had molested a local high school boy. But Sandusky had been retired from Penn State for years.
"There was a lack of information being provided to us," said Mark H. Dambly, a trustee and the president of a real estate development company. "We found out about it when the rest of the world found out about it."
Lubert, for his part, had just dropped off his son and daughter-in-law after brunch when he got a call from his son while driving home to Philadelphia. His son told him that Curley and Schultz had just been indicted on perjury charges.
"That's impossible," Lubert said. "If they were, I would know that."
His son responded: "Do yourself a favor and when you get home turn on the television. It doesn't matter what channel."
Anne Riley, another trustee, said she would always remember being at the opera, sitting in seat 15, Row B, of the balcony, when she heard the news. The trustee Keith E. Masser was playing golf in Naples, Fla., and found out by peeking at his phone. Frazier heard about the severity of the situation while sitting in his car outside a burger place.
The trustees quickly realized that Spanier had chosen not to keep them informed.
During a board meeting last May, after Spanier had testified before the grand jury, the board received a short briefing — the trustees estimated it was 5 to 10 minutes — on Sandusky's being under investigation by a grand jury.
The briefing, which took place during a "seminar" session not open to the public, included an explanation of what a grand jury investigation was by the university counsel Cynthia Baldwin. (Baldwin had sat in on the grand jury testimony but was not legally allowed to speak to the trustees about the contents of the testimony, according to Lanny J. Davis, external counsel and crisis management adviser to the office of the Penn State president and to the board of trustees.)
The trustees this week said that they were disappointed that Spanier, who was legally allowed to speak about his grand jury testimony, did not brief the board on the nature of the questions by the grand jury about the 2002 episode.
"He should have told us a lot more," Lubert said. "He should have let us know much more of the background. He was able to legally share his testimony and I think that he had an obligation to do that with the board so we could get more engaged with the problem."
The mention of the grand jury investigation by Baldwin and Spanier was so brief that Surma barely remembered it. No one asked questions.
"Part of being a leader at that level is to be a risk manager and to think through what might happen," the trustee Karen B. Peetz, an executive with Bank of New York Mellon, said of Spanier.
Spanier has not been charged in the perjury case. He told the grand jury he was never told that Sandusky's encounter with the young boy in the showers in 2002 involved sexual assault.
Spanier declined to comment for this article when reached on his cellphone. He listened, but would not respond, when told how the trustees had described his actions.
Paul Suhey, a former football captain for Paterno and an orthopedic surgeon in the State College area, was the only trustee on campus for the 5 p.m. conference call as others dialed in from around the country.
"I was pretty upset," Suhey said. "I knew we had a problem."
Steve Garban, the board's chairman, admitted to not reading the grand jury's charges until late Sunday night, more than 24 hours after it went public. After he did, he felt that Paterno, his former coach, lifelong friend and occasional drinking buddy, needed to be let go.
But the trustees concluded their call with a deepening skepticism about how the university administrators would handle it.
Peetz, the bank executive, said she came to a simple conclusion: "We are up against the challenge of our lives."
Sunday, Nov. 6
The trustees met again Sunday night, some of them now on the scene in State College, having arrived by private plane or car. When they met, they realized that Spanier and others had already arranged for lawyers from two firms to be present, as well as representatives from a public relations firm. They were meant to brief the trustees on how to handle the crisis.
"It was indicative of the culture," Dambly said. "We showed up and it was already determined what law firm it was going to be."
The Sunday meeting ended with the trustees eager to issue a news release, expressing a commitment to a full internal investigation and sympathy for any victims.
In the interviews this week, they accused Spanier of having altered the release. It was made to appear as a joint release from Spanier and the board, and diluted the language involving the promised investigation.
"I got up the next morning to read the press release online and it really didn't reflect what we had come to the conclusion of as a board," Lubert said. "I remember reading that, and I was sick. I then knew we had a serious problem."
Surma added: "The big difference that I remember was that we had very explicit comments about the independent investigation and what it would investigate and its freedom of access. What came out was something much different than that."
Garban said he soon informed Spanier that he could no longer speak for the university on the issue.
"I have to take some blame for this," Garban said. "I still sort of thought Graham could get us through this or help get us through this. And he participated in writing the press release, and after it came out, I knew it wasn't right."
Garban read the grand jury report after the meeting and regretted not reading it sooner: "It was like, 'Oh my God, Steve, where've you been?' It floored me."
Tuesday, Nov. 8
On Tuesday, Surma and Garban met to have breakfast at the Nittany Lion Inn around 7:30 a.m. Sandusky's arrest had been headline news for four days. Paterno was supposed to meet with reporters for his weekly conversation about the team's next game.
A 1959 Penn State graduate, Garban was a former captain of the football team, and he subsequently had a 33-year career at the university. But several members of the board were upset with his leadership during the days after Sandusky's arrest. Garban had remained loyal to Spanier for too long, some felt; other trustees wanted Spanier gone.
The trustees, indeed, were clamoring for a change. Garban recognized the discontent among the board members. So Garban and Surma asked for time alone. Sitting at the breakfast table, Garban broached the subject of changing the board's leadership before Surma could even bring it up.
"John, let's not go there," Garban recalled telling Surma. "You need to take this over. And let's agree — take it over."
Stepping into the power vacuum, Surma joined Garban at Old Main, the central administration building on campus, to meet with university personnel, including Spanier. Surma said that it became clear to him that Spanier was no longer in control of the university. Surma said Spanier seemed to realize as much himself.
"Do I have support of the board?" Spanier asked Garban.
"I can't answer that question," Garban recalled replying.
The trustees promptly canceled Paterno's weekly news conference. It was evidence of how much the board's confidence in Paterno had eroded.
Then Surma said he started making preparations for what might come next with Spanier. He handed out orders to the university's counsel and the public relations firms working on its behalf.
Perhaps the most important moment came when Surma met with Rodney A. Erickson, the university's executive vice president and provost. Erickson explained to Surma that he did not know anything about the allegations until shortly before Sandusky was arrested. Surma believed Erickson was sincere.
Then Surma hinted that Erickson, who had been looking to retire in the near future, might be asked to take over the presidency.
"If it comes to it, we may need you," Surma told Erickson.
Erickson simply replied, "O.K."
Spanier's inquiry about the board's support set the agenda for what would be a conference call among trustees at 7 p.m. The call lasted two to three hours. Surma chaired the discussion and told the trustees that Erickson could be an alternative to Spanier.
That Erickson, who was widely respected by the trustees for his broad understanding of the university, said he would be willing to replace Spanier gave the trustees confidence about firing Spanier. But the trustees still had to make a final decision on Paterno. The seriousness of the task was not lost on the board members, and it was decided that the board would meet in person the next night.
"I'd like everyone to come together tomorrow and look people in the eyes," Lubert recalled saying during the call.
Wednesday, Nov. 9
The trustees glumly descended on State College for what they knew would be a long and painful day. Lubert said that he had trouble sleeping. Peetz recalled feeling as if she were an executioner going to the guillotine. Stephanie Nolan Deviney, a trustee and a partner at the law firm Fox Rothschild in Exton, Pa., remembered going to the bedroom of her 7-year-old to kiss him before she left for State College.
"I thought of the mothers of all those boys in the presentment," Deviney recalled this week. "And I thought about what they must feel when they kiss their sons good night."
The trustees gathered in a conference room at the Penn Stater at 7 p.m. In a rare occurrence, the governor joined the meeting by telephone for its duration. However, the soberness of the discussion was broken up by the clamor of tool-belted workers crawling around under the table trying to fix the telephone line. "Governor," Surma asked every few minutes, "are you still with us?"
The trustees first discussed Spanier's status. The trustees said that they sensed there was a consensus about Spanier's future as the president. Earlier, Spanier had tried to submit his resignation, but Garban and Surma did not accept it. Garban told Spanier that the board felt it needed to deal with the matter itself. So, instead, the trustees paged through Spanier's contract, and then decided to fire him. They named Erickson the interim president.
Then the trustees decided the fate of Paterno, who had come to Penn State as a young assistant coach in 1950 and who had helped build it into a national university, to which he donated more than $4 million. The 13 trustees interviewed Wednesday said that Paterno did not reach out to them before the Nov. 9 board meeting, and some said that it would not have mattered, because they did not believe that he could say anything to save his job.
Wick Sollers, Paterno's lawyer, issued a statement Wednesday in response to the accounts offered by the trustees: "After learning of the alleged incident in 2002, Joe Paterno reported it immediately and fully to his superiors at the university. He believed these officials, who had the authority and responsibility to conduct investigations, would act appropriately. He did what he thought was right with the information he had at the time. Blaming Joe Paterno for the failure of administration officials and the board to properly investigate Jerry Sandusky is unjustified."
On that Wednesday night in November, though, the only thing left for the board to do was to figure out how to carry out the firing. Could representatives safely show up at Paterno's home amid the media frenzy? Was it realistic to expect Paterno, then 84, to meet with the trustees? The trustees decided to fire him by telephone, a decision that many board members interviewed expressed as their biggest regret.
Shortly before 10 p.m., Fran Ganter, the associate athletic director for football, delivered an envelope to Paterno's home, just off Penn State's campus. Inside the envelope was a telephone number. Paterno called the number, and Garban answered. Then he passed the telephone to Surma, who was seated next to him. Surma asked if Paterno could hear him O.K. Paterno said that he could. Then Surma told Paterno of the trustees' decision. "The board of trustees has determined effective immediately you are no longer the football coach," Surma recalled saying.
Then he heard a click. Paterno hung up.
Surma and Garban sat at the table for a moment, numb. Then the telephone rang again. Surma answered. It was Paterno's wife, Sue, who said, during a short conversation: "After 61 years, he deserved better." Then she hung up on Surma.
Board members at the meeting lingered and eventually decided that they would join Surma at a news conference at a ballroom elsewhere in the Penn Stater. The ballroom quickly filled as hundreds of onlookers gathered. Trustees sat on a raised dais behind Surma, who sat stoically as Garban turned over the news conference to him.
Then Surma announced to a room full of reporters and television cameras, and to the country watching at home, that Penn State's board of trustees had fired Joe Paterno.


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I live in Rochester, MN...population 106,000+, an agricultural area here in southeast Minnesota, but Rochester is a professional town, the Mayo Clinic obviously, pushing 40,000 employees there. Wow. Rochester has a lively and growing farmers market, like many urban areas around the U.S.
As I pass by the local farmers market here in town on Saturday morning and see all the busy folks, young doctors, white collar workers, moms & dad with their young kids in tow perusing the fresh tomatos, green peppers, melons....it strikes me.
They are buying the seller.
It's just human nature. We all feel better buying when we feel good about who we are buying from. The more we know about them the better. Comfort level, familarity and trust all lead us to in fact, be willing to pay MORE for whatever it is we're buying.
Yep, even used farm equipment.
Think about it, over the years, all those farm auctions you've gone to. Which ones stand out? The ones where when you park your pickup and walk up the seller's drive you notice how neat the farmyard looks. You peek in the shed...immaculate. His line of equipment speaks to years of diligent care, always washed off, waxed yearly, never sat outside at night, complete & extensive service records right there for everyone to view. Guess how that equipment winds up selling? Yes sir, take it from a guy crazy enough to have spent the past 24 years compiling auction sale price data on all types of used farm & construction equipment sold all over North America.....that equipment sells HIGH. Why?
Because you are buying the seller.
The same principle applies when buying used equipment privately or through an implement dealer. When you get a greater sense of how the piece of equipment was cared for, who owned it, if everything is right you're willing to pay the bit of a premium to acquire that piece of equipment. Again, you're buying the seller.
Now, let's think about video and the world we live in today for a moment. Those cell phones we ALL carry around with us 24/7, most every one can shoot the most amazing HD video you'll ever see. See where I'm going with this? It's so simple it seems funny to write or talk about, but I've been doing just that for 2-3 years now. When you are running that combine of yours in the fall, or planting in the spring, pushing snow in the winter with your favorite trusty tractor....what should be thinking about doing?
Yep, shooting a bit of video.
Why you ask? Let's say 1, 2, 5 years down the road it comes time to sell or trade that combine/planter/tractor of yours. What if your son, daughter or grandkids had those video clips of your combine mowing through that beautiful bumper corn crop, video of your planter humming along through smoothly or your tractor in action making that wonderful familar sound you've grown to love? They can grab those fun little video snips and in the blink of an eye make a cool little video you'd have to show prospective buyers of your combine, planter, or tractor.
Remember, they are buying YOU.
How about if you are trading with your dealer? Again, think about being able to give your dealer that cool little video of your combine, planter or tractor doing its thing. Think about your dealer being to show that video to folks they'll try to sell to. Could your video make your equipment worth more and maybe easier for the dealer to sell? Maybe so. Might that mean your dealer would give you more $$ for your combine, planter or tractor in on trade? I don't think he'll give you less! You'd have just made it easier for him to sell YOU to the next buyer.
I shot and posted my first Machinery Pete Youtube video on July 31, 2009. I had no clue what I was doing. Our oldest daughter, in high school at the time, had to show me everything. It was so easy even an idiot like me could get the hang of it in short order. All I knew was the internet was on a high speed rush towards becoming a video medium. Change is only coming faster. Warp speed Scotty. I tell people, and its 100% true, I've never had more fun than I've had the last four years. Why? Youtube and Facebook. Connecting with a growing audience, relating in new ways, the ability to tell new stories about interesting equipment and people. Video is making this possible.
What got me yammering down this path tonight was an email I got tonight from my long-time friends at Sullivan Auctioneers in Hamilton, IL. Many of you know Dan, Jim and Joe Sullivan and crew, good folks, hard workers, expert marketers. I'm guessing the 3 Sullivan brothers maybe aren't expert video editors, but they know how to empower young people. Luke Sullivan shot and edited an auction preview video for their Dec. 6th farm auction near Athens, IL. They sent me the link to the auction preview tonight....beautiful....and SO smart. See the equipment you'll be bidding on Dec. 6th in action, watch that beautiful CaseIH 2588 combine roar past, see the golden grain flow into the bright Brent 776 grain cart, see the selling family on their farm...get to know them and their equipment. Watch for yourself:
Buying the sellers. See why & how video is a good idea?
Now the same age old theories are still at play. Best thing to do when selling is "tell it like it is". If it's a piece of junk, call it a piece of junk. Using video to try and make a piece of equipment seem better than it is....no good, very shortsited. Buyers will see through it when it gets right down it, and worse, they won't trust the next preview video you spit out. But.....using video to simply convey what I like to call...."realness".....that's where it's at. Show me farmer Joe's tractor next to farmer Joe's barn. Let me hear farmer Joe tell me about his tractor, let me see him behind the wheel.
I'm buying farmer Joe.
Like it or not, it's a video world and we're living in it.....even out here in the used farm equipment market.


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If you're the type of traveler who goes to Rome and can't get enough of the beautiful and historic sights, such as the Borghese Villa and Gardens, the Fountain of Trevi, the Spanish Steps, the great museums like the Museo Nationale, then Hotel Barocco could be for you. If you love the high-end fashion shopping or going to see a performance at Teatro dell'Opera, then Hotel Barocco could be for you. Whether you like to walk as much as possible or ride the great Metro to get around in a flash, or sightsee while bussing it between places, or even enjoy the luxury of quick cab service, then again, Hotel Barocco could be for you.
Hotel Barocco is located at Piazza Barberini, which is so very centrally located. Although I had been to Rome before many times, I never fully realized what an incredible location is Piazza Barberini. When we stayed there recently at the charming and elegant Hotel Barocco, we visited all the above-mentioned sights and more on foot. And yet there is also a Metro stop, a bus stop, and a taxi stand right in the piazza. You couldn't get more centrally located!
Piazza Barberini is a busy, noisy and bustling place, and there are many hotels that flank it. Why Hotel Barocco you might ask? Whereas some of the many hotels are old, austere types with big chandeliered lobbies, and some are small pensiones, Hotel Barocco is a boutique 4-star hotel that prides itself on its cleanliness and extra-special services. There are 25 people serving 41 rooms! At the front desk there were always two or three friendly and helpful agents greeting you or helping you along your way.
Even though you are at one of the busiest places in Rome, inside all is comfy, still and serene, and you can't hear a peep from the outdoors. Every corner of the hotel is pristine and artistic as well. On the first day you are treated to flowers and a large basket of fruit in the room. No two rooms are alike, and all are decorated with only the finest linens, drapes and luxury furnishings. The attention to detail makes a big difference.
Another point of pride for Hotel Barocco is the food. A full and glorious brunch is served daily until 10:30 AM as part of your stay. Besides eggs and meats, there is an abundance of fresh fruits and juices, homemade Italian pastries, great Roman bread, olives and marinated vegetables. We love olive oil and only buy the top brands. And the olive oil at Hotel Barocco is some of the very best we ever had! Massimo Argenziano, Resident Manager, personally travels to the farms in the Sabina area, the award-winning region famous for olive oil, often winning first place in the national competition. It is over 50 miles from Rome, and he enjoys going and picking out the best batch.
The breakfast rooms are small and personal, with white tablecloths and formal servers. What a great way to start your day—and keep you going until dinner! If you let them know in advance, they will make all the items gluten-free. And vegetarians—prepare to be delighted. Every day I was treated to the most delicious soy cappuccinos!
The building itself has gone through many restorations and renovations and is constantly being updated. It goes back to the 1600s when it was owned by one of the Barberinis or other of the few dominant rich families in Rome. Today Hotel Barocco is also expanding into the neighboring buildings as well. A few of the suites have terraces and there is a pool.
Another service Hotel Barocco prides itself on is the quick booking and no checkout lines as may be found in some of the bigger hotels. In the economic downturn of 2008-09, many of the competing hotels downsized their staffs. Meanwhile - Hotel Barocco kept improving and adding staff. (Some of them have worked there for decades.)
Double rooms range from $200 to $350 and $300-$500 for suites depending on the season. Peak season is spring and fall. Summer is a higher season. We traveled in December and found it to be a wonderful time of year. Off-season you feel more like a native and don't have to rub elbows or compete with other tourists.
Some families have been returning since 1991, explained Signor Argenziano, "because Hotel Barocco is not just a stay, but an experience where they get special treatment." He loves to surprise returning guests with gifts in their rooms. It is also attracts the business traveler, he said, "the high-end businessman, like a CEO." Soon the owners of Hotel Barocco will be opening a grand resort on the beach on the Island of Sardinia.
The best thing about Hotel Barocco is that it is small and classy and inside you are treated like a royal family of Rome!
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Until the establishment of the Royal Naval Dockyard there in 1814, Pembroke Dock was a small fishing village called Paterchurch.
The arrival of the Dockyard and the development of an Army Garrison there triggered a rapid expansion programme and, like Milford Haven, the streets were laid out in a grid-iron pattern of parallel lines with back lanes to service the houses.
It was from the Haven Waterway at this location that Henry 11 assembled his troops for the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1172, and Richard 11 did the same in 1397.
First mention of the name Paterchurch was made in 1289 when a tower was built there as a look-out, the area being mainly farmland belonging to various local gentry families including the Adamses of Holyland and the Owens of Orielton, but when the Dockyard came, the landowner was the Meyrick family of Bush.
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The Royal Dockyard provided valuable jobs for thousands of men during its century of building warships, and, together with its large Army presence, the economy of the town burgeoned. But in the 1920s the bonanza ended and the resultant slump saw hundreds of skilled men leave the town for work in other dockyards or taking different employment elsewhere. Some of the Navy's finest warships ships were built there, and several Royal yachts, and, when the Navy left, the RAF arrived to establish a flying-boat base there in 1931. During World War Two the base played a vital role in the Battle of the Atlantic, its Sunderland flying boats proving a very effective defence against German U-boats. During the war Pembroke Dock suffered enemy bombing on a scale in ratio to its population far greater than bigger cities such as Coventry and Swansea. There were many bombing attacks and heavy casualties and damage were caused, and in one raid in 1940 a group of oil tanks at Llanreath were hit and set alight, bringing firemen from a total of 22 brigades down from as far afield as Swansea and Cardiff to battle with the inferno. Five Cardiff firemen were killed when the wall of one of the blazing tanks collapsed and engulfed them. They are still remembered in an annual ceremony at the site, now at South Pembrokeshire Golf Club, The worst blitz came in May 1941 when 32 people died. Since the war Pembroke Dock's flagging economy has received a boost by the arrival of the Irish ferry service in 1979, the construction of the Haven Bridge, and various developments in the old dockyard where an interesting Museum has been established by the town's Sunderland Trust.


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PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The lead investigator in the murder case against Oscar Pistorius faces attempted murder charges himself over a 2011 shooting, police said Thursday in another potentially damaging blow to the prosecution.
Prosecutors said they were unaware of the charges against veteran detective Hilton Botha when they put him on the stand in court to explain why Pistorius should not be given bail in the Valentine's Day shooting death of his girlfriend.
Prosecutors say Pistorius intentionally killed model Reeva Steenkamp and have charged him with premeditated murder. Pistorius says he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder and that the shooting was accidental.
Police Brig. Neville Malila told The Associated Press that Botha — who gave testimony in the Pistorius bail hearing on Wednesday — is scheduled to appear in court in May on seven counts of attempted murder related to an incident in October 2011 when Botha and two other police officers fired at a minibus they were trying to stop.
Malila said police had learned Wednesday, the same day that Botha appeared in court to oppose Pistorius' bail application, that the charges against Botha and the two others had been reinstated by the Director of Public Prosecutions. They were initially dropped following the shooting incident.
Malila said police were now waiting for details from the Botha case file from the public prosecutor.
Medupe Simasiku, the spokesman for the prosecutors charging Pistorius with premeditated murder, said he couldn't say how the charges against Botha would affect their case against Pistorius.
In the state case against the Olympic athlete, Botha offered often confused testimony and conceded that nothing in Pistorius' account the Steenkamp shooting contradicted the police's version.
Simasiku said that based on the reinstated accusation against Botha, "we can take action and see if we remove him from the investigation or if he stays."
Botha was the lead investigator in an assault claim against Pistorius in 2009. Pistorius' lawyers said police arrested the athlete and held him overnight at a police station and said they will pursue a lawsuit against police for wrongful arrest.
The current case against Pistorius, which is still only in a bail hearing, has riveted much of the world. Pistorius, 26-year-old the man known as the Blade Runner for his carbon-fiber running prosthetic legs, says he fired shots through the locked door of a toilet enclosed inside his bathroom because he thought there was an intruder in there.
Steenkamp was hit three times, in the head, right elbow and right hip, police say, and prosecutors argue Pistorius intended to kill his 29-year-old girlfriend after a fight in the early hours of Valentine's Day.
AP Sports Writer Gerald Imray in Johannesburg contributed to this report.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The French government could propose cutting labour charges for selected sectors and companies as part of its plan to kickstart competitiveness, the junior minister for small and medium-sized business said on Sunday.
In an interview with TV channel France 5, Fleur Pellerin said small-to-medium enterprises will play an important role in a government plan due to be outlined on Tuesday, the day after the publication of a government-commissioned report by industrialist Louis Gallois on how to improve competitiveness.
Asked about demands to slash France's high labour charges, which business leaders say put them at a disadvantage against foreign rivals, Pellerin said: "There are sectors exposed to international competition where this makes sense and other sectors where it makes less sense."
Pellerin said there is an issue of labour charges for certain sectors as well as certain types of companies and that it would be addressed "with courage and lucidity."
Gallois, the former head of aerospace group EADS, has said publicly that to increase competitiveness, France needs "shock therapy" through a rapid payroll tax cut worth 30 billion to 50 billion euros ($38.5 billion-$64.2 billion) financed by increasing other taxes.
However, the Socialist government has rebuffed calls from business leaders to slash labour charges to boost competitiveness and raise VAT, saying that would hit consumers.
The country has some of the highest labour charges in the world in order to finance its welfare state. Business leaders blame those hefty costs for putting them at a disadvantage with foreign competitors and driving France to a record trade deficit last year of more than 70 billion euros. ($1 = 0.7785 euros)
Reporting by Jean-Baptiste Vey; Writing by Elena Berton; Editing by Marguerita Choy