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Galerie Michel Guimont, Quebec, will present Golland's most recent paintings and collages. For more information please see the following
Papier 2019 art fair link: http://papiermontreal.com/en/
Exhibition on view: September 6 - October 13
Themes of the human and nonhuman, biological and cultural entropy exist throughout this new body of work by Martin Golland. The
scenes exist within an unfixed time and space as a strategy for undermining fixed chronologies in the history of painting. Originally seen as
oppositions, constructive devices such as representation and abstraction, fragmentation and totality, surface and space are collapsed into
new complexities and revelations. Out of necessity, Golland's works are created as a patchwork of glimpses, where unlikely juxtapositions
of imagery, paint materiality, form and surface coalesce within the frame. Image and gesture are interchangeable in the topsy-turvy
environment of each tableau and collage, offering tight-fitted networks that the viewer is left to decode.
GROUP EXHIBITION: Àdisòkàmagan/Nous connaître un peu nous mêmes/We'll all become stories
On view April 28 – September 16, 2018
This landmark exhibition surveys art in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. It brings historical art into dialogue with contemporary practices,
including a series of newly commissioned works. It is a story told from various perspectives, reflecting the interests and histories of diverse
Located at the confluence of three rivers, this region has long been a site of exchange and interaction. The intertwining concepts of the
exhibition's Anishnābe (Algonquin), French and English titles encapsulate its layered narrative. The Anishnābe concept of Àdisòkàmagan
implies that every object tells a story. In bringing these objects together, we emphasize the crucial role of the arts in how we come to know
ourselves. Author Gabrielle Roy underscored this with her statement, "nous connaîtrions-nous seulement un peu nous-mêmes sans les
arts?" Mapping the overlapping artistic narratives of this region also confirms what Margaret Atwood's character Nell from "The Entities"
observed: "In the end, we'll all become stories."
The works of art in this exhibition are presented along four thematic lines — Bodies, Bridging, Mapping, and Technologies — which
emerged from an exploration of the art and history of this region. Together, they offer a glimpse at how we interpret our world, and
ourselves within it.
Curators: Rebecca Basciano, Jim Burant, Michelle Gewurtz and Catherine Sinclair
Works presented by Birch Contemporary and Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Oct 28 -31st, Toronto Convention Center
RBC prize-winning alumni will be featured in a map of the fair. Look for the RBC wall stickers at the booths.
birchcontemporary.com, galerieantoineertaskiran.com
Intercambiador Acart artist residency, Madrid, Spain. June-July 2016
During Golland's Madrid residency he will be working on large scale collage works on paper. The production during this residency will
culminate in a group show at Quinta Del Sordo, where he will exhibit an installation piece responding to the passageway of a converted
garage. This interventional work will form a confrontational lintel across above the main passageway into the exhibition space.
Papier 15 Art Fair, Montreal, QC - April 24- 26, 2015
A selection of Golland's mylar works will be on display at Papier 15 Art Fair at the Birch Contemporary booth. For more details about the
Fair and to advance purchase VIP tickets please follow this link:
Upcoming Group Exhibition: Human Nature - Curated by Corinna Ghaznavi - April 27 to August 23, 2015
New works by Martin Golland will on view in the upcoming group exhibition Human Nature curated by Corinna Ghaznavi at the Carleton University
Art Gallery (CUAG), Ottawa, ON.
Please visit back closer April 27th for more details regarding date and time of CUAG opening. Artists featured: Mary Anne Barkhouse (Minden),
Panya Clark Espinal (Toronto), John Dickson (Toronto), Soheila Esfahani (Waterloo), FASTWÜRMS(Creemore), Martin Golland (Ottawa), Sherri Hay
(Toronto), Kelly Jazvac (London), Gareth Lichty (Kitchener), Gavin Lynch (Ottawa), Lisa Myers (Port Severn), David Ruben Piqtoukun (Sutton West),
Su Rynard (Toronto), TH&B (Hamilton)
Human Nature presents fourteen contemporary Ontario artists whose works look at the state of the natural world and our impact on it. Playing on
the idea of human nature as a force that exploits and innovates, creates and destroys, the artists explore a range of such critical issues as food
production, habitat loss, post-industrialization, and natural disaster. Taken together, the works of these artists reflect on human constructions and
the complex interconnections between nature, culture, and technology. Human Nature is presented in collaboration with the National Arts Centre's
Ontario Scene.
Upcoming Solo Exhibition: Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC - July/August, 2015
New works will be on view in upcoming solo exhibition at Montreal's Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran. This exhibition is slated for summer 2015. Please
visit back for more details.


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6 Months • September 2016 - February 2017
reed.co.uk is the UK's no.1 job site
The first of its kind in the industry, the reed.co.uk Recruiter App initially started as a pilot with minimal functionality. I joined the project as a consultant to support and mentor a junior UX designer, assisting with testing sessions, wireframing, overall planning, as well as completing the finished designs for the project.
Working to very tight deadlines we were tasked with condensing much functionality into a small space, eventually ending up with an app in which recruiters can: post and edit job adverts, manage applications, search the reed.co.uk CV database and view and contact candidates - all from within the app.
The app initially only allowed users to view applications to jobs that they had previously posted on the reed.co.uk website. Below are the finished designs for viewing live job adverts, displaying a list of applicants and a candidate profile.
You can click/tap any image to enlarge it.
Next, we added functionality to allow recruiters to manage their existing job adverts, as well as create new ones. During user interviews it became clear that while on occasion recruiters would want to add a job from scratch, they were far more likely to want to edit and then re-post existing jobs - given the amount of information and typing needed to post a job advert. This insight made the ability to duplicate existing job adverts a priority as well as being able to distinguish between live, draft and ended jobs.
After further testing, it became clear that "CV Search" (a feature on the reed.co.uk Recruiter website) was also crucial for the mobile app audience. I made it clear at this point that having used a hamburger menu due to there not being many sections to navigate, we would need to revisit the IA as we were adding further sections.
We discussed and estimated what changing the navigation would do to the timelines of delivery and agreed that to look into it post-release.
Below are the designs for the CV Search results page, a free profile preview of a candidate (as it costs money to view candidates), and a candidate profile.
After we had met our deadlines, we were able to design and test a different navigation style, an always visible bottom navigation bar. Using this navigation style proved to be a far more natural way for users to cycle through different parts of the app, minimising the interaction cost as well as freeing up valuable real estate at the top of the screen.
While designing this new navigation, we also had a chance to revisit the IA. "Jobs" and "Applications" had previously been separate menu items; however it became clear that they were inextricably linked, so we put everything under "Jobs". Implementing this navigation style meant that we had to re-design the contact options on a candidate profile, moving them further up the screen.
We then conducted further interviews to understand what problems users were having. As multiple users in agencies use the same login, we needed a way to distinguish between different user accounts which you can see in the below designs. With the new navigation bar, we were able to clean up the top of the screen and remove a lot of the clutter, as well as adding a different button style for sorting and filtering that you can see below. In testing these designs, we got some great feedback to vindicate the choice to move to this navigation style.
This project threw up lots of exciting challenges. Supporting a junior UX designer, imparting knowledge and mentoring was a gratifying experience. Collaborating on design decisions was ultimately the most rewarding, having worked in plenty of teams but often as a sole designer, it was great to work alongside another designer full-time.
Working with an external development team based outside of the UK led to its challenges initially, but we adapted quickly. We were also working to very tight deadlines as this project was the idea of our chairman James Reed, so it had a lot of attention - this, however, is something I'm used to and thrive on.
As a team, we can be proud of what we achieved with rave reviews so far, and I am proud of being able to work across multiple product teams with no loss in quality output.

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Publication: The laboratory domestication of Caenorhabditis elegans
Model organisms like Caenorhabditis elegans are of great importance to our understanding of basic biology and to making advances in biomedical research. However, the influence of laboratory cultivation on these organisms is underappreciated, and especially how that environment can affect research outcomes.
The impact of laboratory cultivation on C. elegans was reviewed by Mark Sterken, Basten Snoek, and Jan Kammenga from Wageningen University and Erik Andersen from Northwestern University. The review in Trends in Genetics describes how the reference strain of the nematode C. elegans (N2) compares with natural strains. The authors indicate the selective pressures that led to the fixation of laboratory-derived alleles for the genes npr-1, glb-5, and nath-10. Especially, the effects of these genes on the phenotype of N2 are discussed.
Finally, strategies are offered that aim to reduce the influence of laboratory-derived alleles and to harness the power of the N2 strain and wild isolates.


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HAAN is a blistering 4 piece noise rock band from NYC, operating in the spirit of all that description implies. In the grand, grimy tradition of their forebears like Helmet and Unsane, HAAN will hit you in the gut and leave you lying breathless in the street. Their particular fusion of post punk/hardcore and hard rock is muscular and undulating, not leaving anything to the imagination as they strip all of the filth and stress and rage off of daily life and hold it up in front of your face. This is exactly what the band accomplishes on their new offering By the Grace of Blood and Guts, out 8/10/18 on Aqualamb Records.
Formed in 2012 under the name No Way, a few years, an EP, name change, and a lineup shuffle leave us with the band HAAN firing on all cylinders and delivering a legitimate slab of heavy. By the Grace of Blood and Guts showcases the work the band has put into the craft since the release of their short but powerful 2014 EP Sing Praises. HAAN have refined their approach to the point that it delivers maximum punch, and each song is like a bloody little chunk of raw meat dusted with cocaine.
Something I have always appreciated about noise rock as a subgenre is that its oeuvre is basic enough that it can be executed by a trio or a quartet perfectly, but the only way that is possible is if every player pulls off their part flawlessly. HAAN understands this, and each member spends the entire running time of By the Grace of Blood and Guts laying solidly in the cut and making it look/sound easy.
Drummer Chris Enriquez (who has since moved on from the band and also plays in NYC bands Spotlights and Primitive Weapons) pounds inexorably toward climax on each track while bassist Dave Maffei locks in with him like one of the robot lions that form Voltron and completely solidifies the band's rhythmic backbone, which sounds like it is made of braided steel cables covered in shards of glass.
Guitarist Jordan Melkin RIFFS like Jesus performing a tone-based miracle. His parts chunk, they slither, and they slice – there's beef and distortion and there's dissonance, but there's also some memorable hooks and shining little moments of melody – whatever you need, whenever you need it.
Chuck Berrett's vocals are the caterwaul of a desperate, angry man howling at the cold and uncaring moon at midnight. Berrett's voice is not exactly a scream or a shout, but is shaded in tones of both frustration and exhaustion with the world in which he finds himself, and there is a bone deep malaise evident in his expression of that.
The album opens with a suitably husky track called Thy Tongues that kicks off the whole affair with a pulsating tension that eventually develops into a punishing mid-tempo burner that hits like a hammer to the back of the head.
That is followed by a standout jam in the form of Hyena Moan, which marries the best aspects of late-era Daughters with late 90's Clutch. It pummels with a simple, chunky riff and Berrett's vocals hit tent-revival/snake handler levels as he rasps and wails that he'll "sort you out with a taste of hell". This is the track I find myself coming back to most often, but it's early days still.
Another high point is The Woke, which runs the gamut of noise rock's various charms, which include, but are not limited to Slaves and Bulldozers-esque chunky palm mutes and gnarly guitar dissonance as a 3 foot thick bassline holds it all down in the background. Late album cut Diminuendo comes in with the nastiest, most motivated riff on the record, and pushes things into decidedly post-hardcore territory with noisy aggression and feedback oozing out of almost every bar. You will lose your shoes in that mosh pit, unless they are the combat boots from the back of your Agnostic Front shirt.
All of the above is basically a super roundabout way of saying that By the Grace of Blood and Guts is a proper burner, an authentic artifact of NYC noise rock deserving of its place in the books and your attention right now. HAAN have made a record that will hit you and stick to you, climb up under your fingernails like subway grime and come home with you, and it will take you days to wash it off. I personally haven't even gotten around to trying yet. Grab it HERE when it pops off this Friday.
Rating: 8/10
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Label: Aqualamb Records
For Fans Of: Unsane, Helmet, Young Widows, Whores.


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Summer Computer Science Mentor
At Kinet-X we pride ourselves on providing the most comprehensive curriculum around, and programming is a vital part of it. We're looking for summer instructors who'll work in our classrooms, teaching our students the fundamentals of computer science.
What you'll do
Lead lessons on CS
Work with students to develop their projects
Provide constant feedback to students
Contribute to the Kinet-X curriculum
What you'll need to have
Proficient in at least one of the following languages - HTML/CSS, Javascript, Python, Arduino C
Experience or knowledge teaching
A good sense of patience/perseverance
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Passion for both learning and sharing knowledge
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Decent pay
Free(awesomely delicious) catered lunch daily as well as drinks and snacks
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Classes are held from 7/22-8/16 from Mondays to Fridays.
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A friendly and interesting community choir for anyone who enjoys singing in harmony
We sing accessible unaccompanied harmony songs from around the world. No experience or training is needed, everything's taught by ear so you don't need to be able to read music. Anyone is welcome, there's no audition and no pressure.
We meet every Thursday at 7.30pm in Daisy St. Join us!
Keep in touch with what we're up to week by week at our Facebook page:
If you would like to join our mailing list and receive an occasional email newsletter, contact us on firstname.lastname@example.com.
You can see some pictures of us on our Flickr album at flickr.com/GovanhillVoices, and hear us on Soundcloud at soundcloud.com/govanhillvoices and soundcloud.com/govanhillvoicesbsides
We're also on Instagram @govanhill_voices
Voicemale, a weekly harmony singing session for men, takes place on Wednesdays at 8pm at Langside Parish Church, 167 Ledard Rd, GLASGOW G42 9QU, as part of the community outreach programme called Finn's Place. All sorts of harmony styles traditionally sung by men, just for fun, taught by ear.
Every first Friday of the month, you can sing shapenote ("Sacred Harp") music in Glasgow at an informal gathering known as the First Friday Sing run by Shapenote Scotland. There is also a Third Friday Sing in Edinburgh, and occasional singings from the Shenandoah Harmony.
A long list of choirs in the greater Glasgow area can be found here: http://www.muldoonspicnic.org.uk/glasgow-choirs


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NASELLE — Bank robberies are rare in Pacific County. However, the July 25 robbery at the Naselle Bank of the Pacific was actually the third holdup at that location, and it was far from the strangest crime to occur there. That distinction goes to two armed robberies almost exactly a year apart in 1983 and 1984.
In 1983, a former teacher in one of America's most notorious prisons tricked a sidekick into helping him rob the bank. He'd planned every detail of the clever heist. But he didn't count on John Didion and Jerry Benning, the tenacious deputies who kept working the case when even the FBI had given up, or the quick-witted tellers who helped them solve it.
Joe and Obie thought they had it all figured out. Being from Montana, they weren't likely to be recognized in the remote Grays River Valley, but they didn't take chances. By the time Joseph Scott Gertz, then 35, and O'Bert Leroy Myers, then 25, walked into the Naselle bank on October 11, 1983, Gertz had spent almost a year planning what seemed like a perfect heist and getaway. And it almost was.
By late 1982, Gertz had left behind a string of near-death experiences for the relative peace of Polson, Montana, but he was still spending a lot of time on the road. Gertz's friend Lisa McComa later told an FBI agent that she knew he was a bank robber who "traveled around the western states, casing out banks."
"He spent a lot of time driving down backroads, finding out routes in and out of town and determining how the police were set up," former Pacific County Prosecutor Jeff Campiche said in an affidavit.
Just before Christmas, Gertz went to the Washington coast to scout banks and try out a young potential sidekick named Mike. He came back with fresh oysters and crab, but no sidekick.
Gertz kept scouting, taking McComa on a few trips. She was with him in the spring of '83 when he bought a wig and food coloring at a Missoula K-Mart, and later, when he used hair from the wig to fashion a beard. After painting his skin with the dye and donning the hairpieces, he "looked almost like a Mexican," McComa said.
In August 1983, Gertz robbed a bank in Big Fork, Montana, but he still didn't have a sidekick. Mike had refused to sit in the pickup watching banks, and was "too afraid and not heavy enough to do the kind of work Joe wanted to do." Gertz considered his younger half-brother, but "Apparently, he refused to cooperate, or at least talked too much," Campiche said.
The women in Gertz's life knew he was up to no good long before the men got the credit for catching him.
In summer 1983, Gertz dated Pamela Houle, a single mom who lived near Polson. To explain his frequent travel, he told her he was a bounty hunter. Houle grew suspicious when he said he'd have a lot of money after his upcoming trip to Washington. He wanted her brother, who worked in finance, to invest it.
In early fall, he called her collect from Longview. He told her she was to call his lawyer if he ever got into trouble. Gertz wouldn't say any more — he already regretted the call. It would show up on her bill, he said, and then "they" would know he was in Washington.
In Naselle, Gertz started watching the bank, not realizing that part-time teller Debi Tolva was also watching him.
About a week before the robbery, Tolva noticed a customer taking an undue interest in a display of brochures.
"I was watching him from the moment he came through the door," Tolva, now 65, said on August 7. The man looked around when he thought no one was watching. When he asked a teller to change a $20 bill for smaller bills and coins, she knew he was bad.
"That's the oldest trick in the book," Tolva explained; it helps crooks learn how tellers access drawers, and how the money is organized.
"This guy's casing the joint. I just know he is," she told her manager. A customer followed him out. He said the suspicious man drove a blue pickup with Montana plates.
That afternoon, Tolva and her coworker Kata Varila were driving to Astoria when they saw the blue pickup ahead of them on the Megler Bridge. Tolva accelerated, getting as close as she dared, while Varila wrote his license down. They followed him all the way to Warrenton, and watched as he looked at Halloween costumes in a drug store.
"We talked about it the whole way home — 'Was it a stupid thing to do?'" She said. The next day at work, however, "No one was interested. No one. Not even the sheriff's office. They just kind of blew me off. I knew in my gut, and so did Kata."
People said Myers seemed like a nice enough kid, if a bit feckless. Like Gertz, he was a refugee from his past.
When he was two, his alcoholic father was sentenced to three years in a Montana prison for vehicular manslaughter. When he was seven, his father died and his mother was placed in a rest home, according to a parole officer's report. He had no contact with her after that.
Myers went to a foster home, and seemed to do fine. In high school, he played sports, earned a 3.5 GPA and enlisted in the Navy after graduation. When he finished his tour in 1981, he took a couple of terms at junior college and worked as a night watchman in Polson.
By summer '83, he was at loose ends. His 1978 marriage had recently imploded. Then Gertz called, saying he needed help with a bounty hunting job — could Obie fly out to Portland?
Myers later claimed that as they left the airport, Gertz said he was going to rob some banks, and Myers was going to help, whether he wanted to or not. Gertz allegedly wouldn't let him out of his sight, and threatened to hurt him if he tried to leave.
"Myers, at this point, felt it was best to go along with Gertz, as he feared for his safety," the parole officer wrote.
On a Tuesday morning in October, a brown pickup pulled up in front of the bank. The window teller watched as two masked men jumped out.
Gertz wore a white jumpsuit, surgical gloves and sunglasses along with his "Mexican" skin-dye, wig and beard. He carried a large-caliber Beretta pistol. Myers wore a red wig, and long green canvas overcoat "with something stuffed underneath."
Gertz pushed the four female tellers around and ordered them to open their cash drawers. Vault teller Diana Lindstrom, now 78, was in the back when they arrived.
"One of the tellers came in and said 'We're being robbed. You have to come out,'" she recalled on August 3. Pointing his Beretta at her, Gertz commanded her to open the vault. Then he herded the tellers into the restroom. Myers hovered near the entrance until Gertz tossed him a bag and told him to fill it.
"I don't think we did too much talking," Lindstrom said. "We were just in disbelief, you know?"
A few minutes later, the pair hotwired the '73 Ford truck they'd stolen in Astoria the previous day, and took off. They'd taken more than $20,000 — the equivalent of about $50,000 today.
Tolva returned from her daily walk to the post office, and found the bank empty. There was money lying on the floor. Her heart started pounding.
"I started yelling for coworkers," she recalled. They emerged slowly, fearing the robbers might still be there.
One of the suspects looked Mexican, a teller said. But she thought his hair was fake.
As the newly-rich bandits sped east on State Road 4, it seemed like Gertz's obsessive planning was paying off. The two had also stolen a motorcycle, a skiff and an outboard motor and hidden them at strategic points along their getaway route.
Near the Wahkiakum County line, they turned south onto Oneida Road, and then onto an abandoned road near the bank of Deep River. After wiping the truck clean of fingerprints, they sprinted to the water's edge, and climbed into the skiff.
All they had to do was follow the bends in Deep River until it spilled into the Columbia. They'd planned to beach the boat upriver near Westport, Oregon, and rob the Wauna Federal Credit Union. Then, they'd ride the motorcycle to Astoria, ditch it, and head back to Montana in Gertz's blue pickup.
If only they'd stolen a better outboard motor.
Maybe Gertz thought a tiny logging town would be an easy target, but it soon became clear he'd underestimated the cops, and just about everyone else in Pacific County.
The tellers called the phone company operators. Minutes later, "every available deputy" in Pacific and Wahkiakum counties had been called out, and workers on the Astoria-Megler Bridge alerted, according to the Chinook Observer. In short order, the FBI was assisting, and police were surveilling every route out of the county and setting up roadblocks. While state game wardens patrolled the waters and woods, Oregon State Police searched their side of the river. Loggers were asked to keep a lookout on the vast web of logging roads. Even the Coast Guard pitched in, searching for the suspects in a helicopter that nearly crashed, according to Campiche. But the responders were too late.
That afternoon, deputies Benning and Didion found the brown truck and footprints leading to the river. Then fishermen found the stolen skiff drifting near the Oregon slough town of Brownsmead. There, the trail went cold.
Trouble seemed to follow Joe Gertz everywhere he went, and he had been a lot of places.
A registered nurse, he had once been a teacher at the infamous Angola Prison in northern Louisiana. That ended when he was arrested on suspicion of burglary and theft. The state agreed to defer prosecution, provided Gertz commit no more crimes.
A 1975 letter from his doctor in Oakdale Louisiana said that in 1968, a bloody, unconscious Gertz was delivered to a New Orleans hospital after he was "accidentally" shot twice in the head with a .30 caliber pistol. The bullets left metal fragments in his scalp, and caused tissue and nerve damage. For eight days, he drifted in and out of consciousness.
In 1972, he nearly died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in Denver. In 1982, he was logging near Polson, when a tree hit him in the face, causing "a serious fracture".
His bad luck was with him when he and Myers set out from Deep River. As they crossed the Columbia, the outboard froze up. They had little choice but to make land near Bug Hole Road in Brownsmead, Oregon, about 10 miles short of their destination. A pair of local boys gave the hitchhikers a ride to Astoria.
Gertz gave Myers his $4,000 cut, and the two parted ways.
Myers went to Missoula and put his money in the bank. Gertz worried the bills might be marked. He drove to Polson, "laundering money as he went," Campiche said.
When Gertz showed up at Pamela Houle's place, he had "wads" of $100 bills, and paid the $5,000 he owed her with cash. In hopes of getting bills with different serial numbers, he asked Houle to deposit a large sum in her account, and then withdraw it again later.
He warned her never to mention his trip to Washington; to say nothing and ask for a lawyer if anyone asked her about him. She should stay away from the phone, he said.
"When he talked about these things, he always whispered, and preferred to leave the house, telling her he felt the house was bugged," Campiche said in an affidavit. "When she said this was stupid, he became very angry and paranoid." Gertz even interviewed her child, demanding to know if Houle had said anything about the robbery.
He stashed money around her property, but never seemed satisfied with the hiding places.
"He would move it every day, and always carried a handgun," Campiche said.
The FBI quickly gave up on the case, but the deputies didn't. Like Benning, Didion would go on to serve as Pacific County Sheriff. But at the time, the former pro football player had only been a cop for about five years. The robbery was his first big case.
"Didion really wanted these guys," Benning told the Observer. "He just kept at it and checked out thoroughly every lead. We kept working it and working it."
Benning and Didion went door-to-door in Brownsmead until they found the boys who gave the robbers a lift. The license plate number provided by Tolva and Varila led them to a driver's license photo of Gertz. It looked strikingly like the sketch a forensic artist had done, based partly on Tolva and Varila's description.
"The real reason we found him was the persistence of Benning, sitting there in the office making phone calls," Campiche said. "'Do you have a robbery like this? Do you have a robbery like that?'" Finally, Benning learned there had been a similar robbery in Big Fork over the summer.
In mid-November, the deputies hit the road.
Benning and Didion couldn't get warrants in Polson. Campiche flew out to help. In the meantime, the FBI took an interest in the case again. Agents offered some rather dubious help with the warrants.
"They got the wrong house," Campiche explained. "... This line of police cars went by Gertz's house, and took down this house that was filled with two young people who were waiting for their parents to come home. Gertz saw that and fled."
"Seeing red," and starving, they retreated to a bar. Campiche read while he worked on his burger and Coke, still wearing a suit that was soaked to the knees with melted snow.
"This cowboy comes over to me and says, 'How come you're not drinking beer? Are you some kind of faggot or something?'" Campiche remembered. He told the cowboy to leave him alone.
"All of a sudden, I hear this 'Whack!'" It was Didion, 6'4 and almost 300 pounds, clapping the cowboy on the shoulder.
"I think you'll want to be moving on," Didion said. Benning, who was almost as imposing, joined Didion. The cowboy left, mumbling something about Mafiosos.
The Pacific County men went to Houle, who gave them Myers' name. Didion and Benning went to Missoula to confront him.
"Myers spilled the beans," Campiche said. "He said — and I think it's true — that he didn't know Gertz was going to pull a gun out. Myers isn't all that bright."
Myers also told them Gertz had taken off for Mandan, North Dakota, where he planned to rob another bank. Benning and Campiche got on a plane to Bismarck, North Dakota, while Didion stayed behind with Myers.
Gertz's run came to an end at an FBI roadblock on the morning of Nov. 18, 1983.
"When Gertz came over the rise of those gently rolling hills toward the bank he was going to rob, he was confronted by all of the cops," Campiche said. He was armed, but he didn't resist arrest.
"It looks like I'm going to need a lawyer," he said.
"Benning walks up and looks at Gertz and goes, 'Hi, I'm Jerry Benning from Naselle Washington,' and Gertz just turns green," Campiche remembered. Gertz clearly hadn't expected the long arm of Pacific County law to reach all the way to North Dakota — when detectives searched the room where he'd been staying, they found the gun, dye and costume he'd used to rob the Naselle bank.
Myers agreed to go back to Washington and testify against Gertz, who initially planned to fight the charges. Campiche rode in the back with him during the snowy 14-hour drive home. Myers was officially arrested after they crossed the Washington state line.
"He was a very courteous, pleasant fellow," Campiche said in an Observer article.
Myers returned his $4,000 share and pleaded guilty to second-degree robbery in December.
"He wrote a letter of apology to the tellers of the bank," Campiche wrote in a sentencing document. The parole officer who evaluated him said the robbery had been "completely out of character," but didn't believe Myers had no choice.
"I find it very difficult to believe that Myers did not know what was going on, and that he could not back out at any time," he wrote. In February 1984, Myers was given a light sentence of up to 10 years in a state prison.
After the arrest, Gertz was charged in federal court for the Big Fork robbery. In January 1984, he was charged with attempted murder and escape, after a Morton County Jail officer said Gertz attacked him. Gertz alleged the guard had actually slammed him into a wall and shoved him down the stairs, worsening symptoms from his gunshot wounds, poisoning and skull fracture. Eventually, the charges were dropped, and by late January, he was in Pacific County Jail.
Gertz, who could be incredibly charming when he wanted to be, found no allies in Washington. Campiche noted that he had planned to take one of the tellers hostage if things went sideways in Naselle. Gertz, "is a very dangerous criminal," Campiche wrote. " Although polite and articulate, it's clear that Mr. Gertz will do what he has to do … It's also clear that Gertz manipulates whoever he can to his own needs."
On Jan. 30, Gertz pleaded guilty to first-degree armed robbery in Pacific County. A half-hour later, U.S. Marshals drove him to Seattle so he could plead to the federal charges. He was ordered to serve two concurrent 20-year sentences in federal prison.
Between the two robberies, Gertz took about $40,000. Most of it was never found.
In prison, he represented himself in an appeal of his plea deal. In well-crafted legal briefs, he argued that due to brain damage from his many injuries, "he lacked a rational, as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him."
He continued his itinerant lifestyle after being released in the early 1990s. Public records show that he has lived in Billings, Montana; Maui, Hawaii; Sophia, West Virginia; and the Puget Sound area. He does not appear to have gotten in serious trouble again.
Myers served a few years, then moved to a desert town in southern California. Though he was never convicted of another bank robbery, he's been arrested a couple more times, most recently on suspicion of spousal abuse in 2006. Both men appear to still be alive, but could not be reached for comment.
Bank supervisors told the tellers not to discuss the robbery. Lindstrom, Tolva, Varila and the others quickly returned to their normal work routines, until the November 1984 robbery. It was all a little too quick, Tolva said. She and Varila hadn't expected any kind of reward, but it stung when their bosses didn't recognize their contribution.
"They never thanked us or gave us any acknowledgment at all. It was disheartening," Tolva said. "There just wasn't any support."
However, Didion and Benning both insisted later that the cool-headed tellers had been the real heroes.
"The girls really made the case," Benning told the Observer. "We would have had nothing without them."
EDITOR'S NOTE: Part 2 of this report will examine the 1984 Naselle bank robbery. The suspect in July 25's robbery remains at large.


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Tongwancheng (统万城) is the only city ever left behind by the Huns, from the fifth century, recently uncovered in the deserts of central China. I should probably visit sometime, once it's cleaned up a bit! [1] [2] [pic]
Kowloon Walled City is probably more well-known, a cramped mega city block in Hong Kong, long abandoned, finally torn down in 1993 to be replaced by a park. [more] This temple buried amongst the buildings surrounding it is like something straight out of a dystopian sci-fi movie. Awesome.
I wish I had time to travel more.