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Oxidised silver
I wanted to welcome in this autumnal weather with a post about oxidised jewellery - what is it? How is it made? How do you care for it? Oxidised jewellery is the perfect accompaniment to your autumnal fashion with its dark and broody colours showing off those fall tones.
What is oxidised silver?
Oxidised silver has been treated to turn black in a process called "oxidation". Oxidation occurs naturally over time - you will see this when you leave an item of silver jewellery unworn in your jewellery box for a long time - it will start to turn a yellow/brown colour. By applying a patina called liver of sulphur we can accelerate this process and turn the silver a beautiful dark grey/black colour.
How do you oxidise silver?
Liver of sulphur must be dealt with responsibly in order not to harm the environment, it is both toxic and corrosive. For a more environmentally friendly method you can use eggs to oxidise your jewellery. Place your jewellery in a sandwich bag on top of some kitchen roll, place a freshly hard boiled egg in the bag. Seal the bag, smash the egg and watch your jewellery change colour! This process works well for an "antiqued" effect but for use over a large surface area the results can be patchy. The moisture produced from the heat of the egg can interfere with the uniformity of the patina but can also produce an interesting rainbow effect, or sometimes (more annoyingly) a muddy brown colour.
An antique effect is achieved when the jewellery is oxidised and then the patina is removed from the surface and remains in the crevasses. This creates the look of aged jewellery that has naturally oxidised over a long period of time.
Oxidised jewellery has risen in popularity among contemporary jewellers, using the patina over large surface areas to create a uniform grey/black colour. The oxidised effect masks the identity of the precious materials underneath, putting in to question the value of precious metals.
Caring for your oxidised jewellery
Oxidised finishes wear with time from the most touched areas of the jewellery. It will wear down to an "antiqued" effect - still oxidised in the dips, grooves and crevasses - which is just as desirable as the original finish. I like to think that each person's jewellery will wear to its own unique patina, depending on how that person wears, touches and fiddles with their jewellery. Depending on the type and style of jewellery some will wear quicker than others. Brooches for example should see very slow wear due to being in such little contact with skin and rings will wear very quickly as they are in constant contact with the skin.
Jewellers usually prolong this effect by using a protective wax or lacquer (I've always found wax gives the most natural finish, and darkens the silver beautifully). To keep your oxidised jewellery looking its best for the longest follow these simple steps:
- Remove jewellery when doing anything that may cause it to be scratched or rubbed and take it off before getting in to bed.
- Remove jewellery when showering, washing up or swimming.
- If your jewellery needs cleaning, dab gently with a cloth soaked in warm soapy water. Do not scrub or this will accelerate the wear of the patina.
- ENJOY! Watch your own unique jewellery patina evolve and wear with time :)


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Adam Lambert: Finally photographed with fans he would make whoopie with
Thank you, Deez, for bringing this gem over. This photo makes the leather bar behind my apartment look like Cheers.
But WHOA. Read the comments. Someone is claiming HBD's brother is one of them! Supposedly these are all buddies of HBD! And they're all taking their shirts off for LAMBERT!!! (So…do the heads of Kradamites explode now? Not sure.)
I've been to a gay bar in Little Rock. I swear. Crap, I cannot remember the name of it for the life of me, but it was off a dirt road somewhere. I went on a Saturday night during a long weekend to visit my buddy Pinky while she was working as a producer for the CBS affiliate in the area (Trivia: Walker Texas Ranger was their top-rated show in the late 90s). We ended up arriving during the Miss Gay Arkansas pageant. At that time, the only other drag show I had really seen before was at Tunnel in NYC, so seeing a bunch of Arkansan drag queens was quite a sight, especially the oil paintings of the previous winners.
I hope Lambert and these guys got to go to that bar while the Idols were in Little Rock. Those oil paintings are amazing. Everyone should go see them.
(But these photos were probably taken in Memphis…although only 2.5 hours away from Little Rock, so…hey, it's in the neighborhood.)
Meanwhile, all of HBD's BFFs were in town! Including the big guy! I love the big guy (his name is Charles)!!!! Charles is hilarious, which is completely obvious in a bunch of other photos taken of him backstage. Hey, Kris Allen, I love your big guy friend. This guy is too funny. Please make him the Turtle of your Entourage. (And hell, Kris Allen is pretty damn funny, too, as he is fun-time photo gold. I hope his fans stop making him bizarro bedazzled boxer shorts as gifts. HBD does not deserve such batshit craziness.)
ETA: Thank you, Yuppie, for clarifying.
Kris's brother Daniel is not one of the people in the photo. But, those guys are friends of Daniel's. Daniel is a cheerleader at University of Central Arkansas and I think these guys are some of his squadmates. It makes the already awesome picture even awesomer. BTW, I'm pretty sure this pic is actually from Memphis. Daniel went up for that show as well. I know this because I am a certified Kris Allen tard. I've just decided to accept it and be proud of it now.
Also, yes, his big guy friend Charles is awesome! You should read his twitter. One of my personal faves from quite a while back: "Everytime someone says they like Nickelback, an angel dies."
BTW, who else loves Charles Browder?
Just Passing Through permalinkAugust 1, 2009 9:04 pm
The bar in Little Rock was Discovery. 🙂
Catttt permalinkJuly 30, 2009 11:08 pm
Hey! The boxers were awesome! This was a major group effort – some made them, and others did the strategic tossing! I was in the loop on that in the cheering them on and congratulating department! The guys put the boxers up on the bulletin board in the bus! (Confirmed by Matt) And Adam got his briefs (every inch of my love!) too! They were even more awesome! Huh!
July 30, 2009 3:22 pm
Passing on more awesome Charles:
(HBD is also in the video, but…of course, Charles(or possibly the dog) steals the show.
d. b. cooper permalinkJuly 30, 2009 1:15 am
Adam Lambert: Finally photographed with fans he would make whoopie with"
Wait, are you implying that Adam Lambert is a homosexual?
Starkvegas permalinkJuly 28, 2009 1:09 pm
Those guys were in the entourage of HBD's brother at the Memphis show, they were all on the row in front of us. Sadly they were wearing clothes. I thought it was weird that people were asking to take pics with the brother(that is how we first noticed him).
July 28, 2009 5:46 pm
With all the Adam/Kris tour comparisons going on, I wonder which "famous"(or infamous) brother has been able to "make the most" *ahem* out of his newfound fame-by-association….Neil or Daniel?
RheaTard permalinkJuly 29, 2009 2:36 am
Probably Neil as all the Adam frau who can't get into his pants would be willing to suck-face (or whatever else) with Neil just to get close to Adam.
July 29, 2009 10:20 am
Heh…wonder how many degrees of separation that extends to? The crossing guard at Adam's elementary school could be reaping some benefits as we speak. (Too bad it's probably with a 50 year old dressed like Joan Jett circa 1983.)
SarahBeth permalinkJuly 28, 2009 10:54 am
Great picture! I always approve of pictures with hot guys without their shirts on. 😉
Rachel_M permalinkJuly 28, 2009 8:35 am
Hey, I spotted another Jestrofrau commenting on the shirtless pic! It's Altrock4u, a middle-aged Jestrofrau who tortures the college students where she works with spam messages about Jestro (how does she not get fired?), and now she's moved on to being a Madamfrau. My, my, my, how easily they jump from one failed karaoke singer to another.
Verbally Dyslexic permalinkJuly 28, 2009 6:44 am
Charles reminds me of my friend Chris. The pics of him and HBD remind me of university days with Chris and my then boyfriend. Particularly a photo I took of them looking "100% straight". Good times.
Mormor permalinkJuly 28, 2009 1:59 am
I'm old very old and I don't know what HBD means. I tried to look it up, are any of theseAcronym Definition
HBD Happy Birthday
HBD Homebrew Digest
HBD Here Be Dragons
HBD Hydrogen Bond Donor
HBD Has Been Drinking (police communications)
HBD Hadron Blind Detector
HBD Human Biodiversity
HBD Hypophosphatemic Bone Disease
HBD Hemoglobin–Delta Locus
HBD Hot Bearing Detector (trains)
HBD Half Board
HBD Honored By Death (gaming clan)
HBD Honored By Death (gaming clan, Battlefield 2)
HBD Hybrid Booster Drive (Electric Vehicle Institute)
HBD Handheld Business Device whoa
HBD Hydraulic Bottom Detector!!!
HBD Hierarchical Block Design
HBD Highest Benefit Density$
HBD Hot Bus Driver
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Hanna permalinkJuly 28, 2009 1:27 am
My friend took that pic of Adam with the 3 guys in Memphis. She should get credit…she posts as needacoke on TALC (TheAdamLambertConnection).
Hanna permalinkJuly 28, 2009 1:49 am
Why the cough? I'm a Jason Castro fan. In fact I'm a Mod on one of his forums and on an Adam Lambert forum.
July 27, 2009 11:12 pm
No harmful intent…just havin' a little fun. Adam's a cool guy…he'll be fine.
carla permalinkJuly 27, 2009 10:14 pm
I am an Adam fan and love him very much. As much as i think this pic is epic, let's not forget that the focus now for HBIC is music and less on his sexuality. Sorry as fantard, am concern about his career. I want to see Adam from my teens years until when i am really really old. Just want my bb to soar as high as he can. I know he has a tendency to indulge but let's not make it a big deal.
July 27, 2009 9:09 pm
Photographic evidence of the cheerleader connection:
Daniel Allen is the one on the left.
I seriously need to get a life.
yuppie permalinkJuly 27, 2009 8:10 pm
Kris's brother Daniel is not one of the people in the photo. But, those guys are friends of Daniel's. Daniel is a cheerleader at University of Central Arkansas and I think these guys are some of his squadmates. It makes the already awesome picture even awesomer. BTW, I'm pretty sure this pic is actually from Memphis. Daniel went up for that show as well. I know this because I am a certified Kris Allen tard. I've just decided to accept it and be proud of it now.
Also, yes, his big guy friend Charles is awesome! You should read his twitter. One of my personal faves from quite a while back: "Everytime someone says they like Nickelback, an angel dies."


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No More Robots, the brand new publishing label from Mike Rose, came out with a bang yesterday when he announced the new label and the first game from the studio, and it looks like a corker.
Descenders is an "extreme downhill freeriding for the modern era", and has been described as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, but on a bike. It's been truly an age since we last had a decent extreme cycling game, so I welcome Descenders with open arms.
The game is due to launch soon on Steam and consoles, throwing players into a procedurally-generated world where every movement is counted for, and every mistake could mean certain death for your little rider. The game features a fully-fledged physics system which allows the freedom to pull of some truly insane tricks and earn players Rep points. However, it also allows for some incredibly painful looking crashes, too.
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They say that everything's up to date in Kansas City, and if that's true, the place should be ready tonight for new WWE Universal Champion Kevin Owens. But will we discover why Triple H helped him win the belt? That's the number one question on everyone's mind as we go live on USA.
The cozy working relationship between Mick Foley and Stephanie McMahon has hit a bit of a snag. Mick doesn�t believe that Steph didn�t know that Triple H was going to turn on Seth Rollins and hand the WWE Universal Championship to Kevin Owens. His plea is answered just as passionately by Steph�s assertion that she was embarrassed as a leader and wife. Foley decides he has to believe her because if he doesn�t, that means she�s a really bad liar and a really bad person. But was that a grin starting as he walked away?
As the new champion, Owens cleans up pretty good. He�s in a suit as he comes to the ring, skipping a handshake with Foley as a ton of pyro goes off behind him on stage. An unusual mix of boos and �You deserve it� chants rings out, one that continues when Steph agrees he deserves the title. The boos get louder as he runs down the fans for hijacking his moment and making it about them. Owens admits that Triple H showed up at the end and give him �a little nudge,� though he claims he did 98 percent of the work before that happened. Rollins joins this party and tells the new champ to shut up so he can yell at Steph. Like Mick, Seth doesn�t buy the idea that HHH acted alone, forcing Mick to come to her defense. If the powers that be want to hitch their wagons to KO, Seth promises to be the one to burn everything to the ground. That gets Kevin to jump in and opine that the only thing the architect has been designing is blueprints for failure. Rollins attacks Owens, causing McMahon to angrily suspend him. But wait: Mick interjects that he has the power to make matches, and that people in the WWE who are wronged don�t get suspensions, they get rematches. In this case, Rollins will get his at Clash of Champions.
Chris Jericho wants to jump in on this controversy as well. Alas, calling Mick a stupid idiot is a bridge too far, and now Y2J will have to face Rollins tonight.
Match 1 - Charlotte vs. Bayley
Dana Brooke has been ordered to take notes tonight in order to figure out how the queen takes care of business. She does just that up to and through the commercial break, with Charlotte concentrating her attack on one of Bayley�s knees. That leads to a half crab, and Bayley is pretty far from the ropes. She survives and eve rolls up Charlotte for a near fall, but it isn�t until she�s placed on the top turnbuckle that she fires back with a back elbow. Bayley limps through some forearm shots and axe handles, forcing Dana to interject. Charlotte gets shoved into Dana, distracting the champ long enough for the Bayley-to-Belly to put her away. No title on the line, but that�s a big won for Bayley.
Charlotte is about as upset as you might expect. She takes it out on Dana, who has to be reaching her limit of abuse soon. And if not, that smack in the face might push him there.
Match 2 - Bo Dallas vs. Local Talent
Just an idea, but maybe they shouldn�t have done a brand split if there weren�t enough people to fill out both shows. He makes short work of Kyle Roberts, and his new gimmick of �Bo-lieve in BO� seems a tad more serious. But just a tad.
Jericho is upset at the way his best friend has been treated, so Owens tells him to go give �it� to Rollins.
Match 3 - Chris Jericho vs. Seth Rollins
If Jericho thought he was going to get the calculating Rollins tonight, he�s in for a bit of a shock. The angry architect tears right into Y2J, jumping right on him and unleashing a suicide dive to the floor. Corey Graves seems a little confused about who to cheer on, so maybe someone wants to fill in the heel announcer on Seth�s seeming face turn. Jericho finally get some momentum by using the referee as a shield, but it comes right before we step out for ads. It doesn�t take long for Rollins to get his mojo back, earning a near fall with a Sling Blade. A boot to the face sets up a somersault neckbreaker out of the corner, but Jericho rallies to come off the top rope. He�s greeted by a kick to the gut, but several reversals ends with Rollins in the Walls of Jericho. Will Seth tap? Seems doubtful, and he crawls to grab the bottom rope. A superkick still isn�t enough to win it for Rollins, and his top rope splash is off target. Jericho hits a Lionsault and it�s almost three -- but not quite. An enzuigiri for Y2J has him thinking finish, but Rollins wraps him up coming off the ropes and connects with a Pedigree to finally get the victory.
Match 4 - Cesaro vs. Sheamus - Match 3 in Best of 7 Series
The Swiss Superman is down two matches and has an injured back, but he still seems confident. Naturally, Sheamus is feeling at least as good about his own chances, and he is going to town on Cesaro�s already weakened back. Cesaro manages to stay alive, but that backbreaker did not look comfortable. The ref backs the Celtic Warrior up so he can ask his opponent about medical attention. There�s a Brogue Kick, and now Sheamus has a nearly insurmountable 3-0 lead.
Um, the Shining Stars are going to talk. Not sure that�s a great idea. How about Enzo and Cass instead? Enzo says no one in K.C. is going to buy any of their Caribbean timeshares. The guys get a little confused about Labor Day, but fortunately, Cass has �seen a lot of ER,� and he remembers his labor breathing techniques. Uh, I don�t think � You know what, never mind! There�s a match coming after this.
Match 5 - The Shining Stars vs. Enzo and Big Cass
Hey, Primo and Epico are allowed to get in some offense. Good for them! Byron Saxton jokes that he can�t go to Puerto Rico because he has no vacation days, which is pretty darn funny. Just when Cass tags in and runs wild, the Shining Stars are able to steal a victory anyway. Wait, are they getting pushed here? Interesting.
Sami Zayn admits to Tom Phillips that he�s a little jealous of his old rival Owens, but the man himself shows up to insinuate it�s more than a little. To that, Zayn only replies that he�ll win the Universal Championship one day too, and he won�t need help from Triple H to do it.
Match 6 - Nia Jax vs. Local Talent
Sigh � Hopefully something surprising will happen here. Well, Ann Esposito manages to get in some kicks to the shin and a sleeperhold, so that�s slightly better than normal. Jax still crushes her about 45 seconds later. Thanks for playing! Sorry, no lovely gifts for our parting contestant.
Doctors Gallows and Anderson are set to show everyone how they can help the New Day once all three of the group�s members are retired. They do so by bringing out the Old Day, bring back some fond memories of the Attitude Era. The segment goes a bit long, but the New Day comes out and Kofi Kingston explains what would happen if they ended up touching their future selves. Science! The tag team champs resolve to just �beat up the bald guys,� but the doctors are already gone. The Old Day does some dancing to celebrate, and it�s as painful as you�d imagine.
Match 7 - Darren Young vs. Jinder Mahal
Titus O�Neil joins the announcers, and they talk through most of the action. The new announce location means it�s a long walk down the ramp to get to ringside, so Titus gets there just in time to see the Gut Check pin Mahal. A brawl breaks out after the match between the former Prime Time Players, with Young looking pissed about O�Neil menacing Bob Backlund.
Nia Jax confronts Alicia Fox, who was apparently friends with the jobber she squashed earlier. A pretty ridiculous confrontation ensues, and I don�t mean the good kind of ridiculous.
Match 8 - Braun Strowman vs. Sin Cara
Hey, at least this guy has moved out of the jobber squash match zone. Sin Cara says he took this match because Strowman has been disrespecting lucha culture, which is funny for several reasons I don�t have time to go into now. This is still a squash, just a bit longer and with a more famous victim.
Sasha Banks comes to the ring and supposedly has bad news to share with the WWE Universe. She begins by giving props to the female stars of the past and speaks with pride about her part in ridding the WWE of Bra and Panties Matches and the �butterfly� title. From Divas to superstars, in other words. This sounds like it�s headed for a retirement, but once Charlotte is mentioned and Dana Brooke comes out, it has the feel of a work. There�s a Bank Statement as Dana rushes in, and we find out the bad news was for Charlotte, not for everyone else. She�s going to be ready for action at Clash of Champions.
Main Event - Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens
If we�re going to see two guys go at it who have already wrestled a bunch of times, it would be hard to pick a better duo than this one. Zayn is able to keep the champ somewhat off-balance with his aerial attack, somersaulting out to the floor on both sides of the ring in quick succession. There�s a Blue Thunder Bomb as well, but Owens kicks out. An exploder suplex has the Helluva Kick teed up, but Owens smartly slides out of the ring. KO has his mind set on a powerbomb on the apron, but it appears neither man is going to hit hard on the outside of the ring. Owens takes the action back inside for a cannonball, but Zayn counters the Pop-Up Powerbomb and earns another near fall. Back to the outside they go, where Zayn is able to evade an apron powerbomb again, dumping the champ on his head with a suplex instead. Zayn eyes a Helluva Kick again, but his ankle has taken too much damage, and Owens nails him with a superkick/Pop-Up Powerbomb combo to get the victory. As soon as the bell rings, Roman Reigns� music hits, and he strides down the ramp. Owens thinks better of an in-ring confrontation, and Jericho is quick to come out as well. With Reigns surrounded, Foley hits the stage and sets something up for next week. Reigns will face Owens for the right to turn Clash of Champions into a Triple Threat main event. Either he�s getting in or Roman will end up with a new feud to occupy his time. Either way, we�ll see you in seven -- after a spear to Jericho, that is.
Hey, thanks for showing up and explaining your actions Triple H. Not like that was an important part of what's been going on or anything. Oh well.
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I read two stories this week that caught my attention as an information security professional (no really, I have letters after my name and everything. ) Both are about information warfare. One story was about the stuxnet virus, which was used, most likely by Israeli security, to disable the centrifuges in Iran that were being used to weaponize uranium.
The second story was about the conficker and the book, "Worm." Conficker is a networked computer virus or "worm" that exploits a hole in windows xp and allows a remote user to take control of the computer. That's nothing new, there are many kinds malware that can take over and control a computer. The interesting part of the conficker story is that conficker was so successful and widespread that it could have brought down the entire internet. The people who made conficker didn't want that of course. Their goal is to rent out the "botnet" computers that they control. Why? Well usually to steal money, but it is thought that the smaller governments might rent the conficker botnet to attack the information infrastructure of large enemy nations. In an even more interesting turn, a band of security professionals, known as Cabal, got together to try and stop it. When the Cabal started looking into where conficker came from, they determined that it had likely been written by an ex-eastern block intelligence agent.
Einstein said "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" I think it might be possible that WW3 will be fought with computer viruses.
Oh just as an aside, information security professional, does not mean "hacker." I don't know how many people have asked me, "Could you hack into <insert whatever here>?" Real hacking is long, laborious, and truthfully, kinda boring, so no I cannot hack into your facebook account. I can tell you how to stop it though:
1. Patch your computer with the latest patches
2. Use a virus scanner (Microsoft gives one away for free.)
3. Use a desktop firewall (Windows has one built in.)
4. And for the last time, don't send any Nigerian's money.


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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Flash in the pan
Bloggers generating rumors are as common as videos of kids doing dangerous activities for attention. Both are obvious, familar grabs for traffic and attention. So why do I care so much about this phony (albeit awesome) trailer for The Flash?
The execution, the production value, the carefully crafted back story, even the idea that they secured an actual theater to shoot this in, it's stirred something in me. But let's ignore all the work and resources and love this hoax must have consumed for a moment. For these hoaxsters, the point is this; they wanted to prove to Warner Brothers that the general public would be excited about a Flash movie. They're insisting that not only is the Flash a viable franchise, but that the attention paid to this video is proof. Every time someone views, blogs about, or comments on this video, it's another step towards convincing Warner Brothers that we want a Flash movie.
Now I'm no fanatic. I'd love to see a Flash film, but this is not my agenda. What's got me so jazzed is the mentality this hoax embodies. This home made video has become a tool in provoking the creation of the film these fans so desperately want. Let's show Warner that there's legitimate interest in a Flash movie (and therefore cash), then maybe we'll get one.
That's a big step in geekdom. We may have had the gumption and desire to insist on a film, but never the power. But why shouldn't these guys think they're capable of getting a film made? Fans are saving TV shows, running websites, determining buzz and box office dollars, and filling convention halls. So why cant we get a movie made? Maybe we can. And if blogging about a hoax some film students pulled over on the internet means that they get the movie they want, and that more fans determine what content get's made and seen, then isn't that the goal of this whole movement?
Who knows how this whole thing will shake down. There's a grab for power and eyeballs and big teams and big money are all vying for the same pie. Let's just hope whoever ends up with the opportunity to put some real resources behind their content takes the time to listen to what we all want to see.
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India's YES BANK is tapping into tax data to expand small business (SMB) lending.
Reports in MENAFN on Friday (April 13) said the company plans to offer loans to micro, small and medium-sized businesses based on their Goods and Services Tax (GST) returns.
Dubbed YES GST, the product is an overdraft facility that provides small business owners with funding based on their annual turnover and data from tax returns. According to YES BANK Group President and Head of Branch and Retail Banking Rajan Pental, the new solution is part of the financial institution's (FI) broad efforts to expand access to faster financing for India's SMBs.
The solution also will not require a deeper analysis of borrowers' balance sheets or bank statements, reports said, and SMBs don't have to borrow funds against property mortgages. YES BANK will assess tax data from the last six months, and, if approved, businesses can access funds within a day.
YES BANK has introduced separate measures to extend access to small business loans in the past. In 2016, the FI collaborated with Amazon to link Amazon India sellers to financing and trade services. More recently, last month, YES BANK announced the launch of a Digital Export and Import Payments solution, an addition to YES TRANSACT Smart Trade. The tools offer businesses access to export-import services to enable the sharing of digital information between trading partners, including payment instructions.
The bank noted it would deploy APIs and robotics process automation technologies to facilitate global trade transactions, with a focus on deals with China, the U.S., Singapore, Germany and Hong Kong.
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From 1992-1995, Serbs from heavily militarized villages around Srebrenica had terrorized Srebrenica population and constantly attacked neighbouring Bosnian Muslim village. In just a few days of July 1995, Serbs committed genocide against the Bosniaks in a U.N. protected enclave of Srebrenica. The Srebrenica genocide resulted in a mass scale ethnic cleansing of 30,000 and a massacre of at least 8,372 Bosniaks. Radovan Karadzic (photo above) is the architect of this genocide.
The latest scandal with the international justice started when MIKE CORDER accurately reported for The Herald that "the judge preparing Radovan Karadzic's genocide trial… was considering dropping some charges to shorten court proceedings that could take years." His report in The Herald was, for some reason, not dated, but it appeared sometime between June 28 and July 2nd.
Then, the Congress of North American Bosniaks protested this decision with the Court and asked thousands of its members to contact the ICTY and express their concerns to both the Judges and the Prosecutor. The campaign prompted the Office of the Prosecutor to respond on July 8:
"At no point did Judge Bonomy invite the Prosecution to drop the 'Srebrenica or Sarajevo counts' as reported by the media. The Prosecution was told that they may need to start thinking about how to reduce the length of the trial and a number of possibilities were mentioned, including reducing the number of crime sites and not proceeding on certain counts."
Then, on July 22nd, AFP reported that "Judges have ordered prosecutors in the upcoming trial of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic to try and reduce the charge sheet against him in a bid to speed things up." The story continued:
[QUOTE, AFP] "Judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or ICTY, pointed out the indictment covered 11 charges on crimes alleged to have been committed in 27 municipalities – already reduced from an initial 41.
The prosecution intended to call 500 witnesses, with 490 hours needed to examine them in the witness stand. But an order from the court published Thursday said if prosecutors couldn't narrow the charge sheet down, the court would do the job for them.
The U.N. court was initially meant to finish all trials by 2008 and appeals by 2010. The court's most recent estimates suggest its final trial, that of Karadzic, would only conclude in early 2012 while some appeals may run into 2013.
The U.N. Security Council recently prolonged the mandate of some ICTY appeal judges to Dec. 31, 2010.
Karadzic was arrested a year ago on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. A trial date has yet to be set.
Key among the 11 counts against him is the 44-month siege of Sarajevo that left 10,000 people dead, and the July 1995 massacre of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica. Bosnia's inter-ethnic 1992-95 war cost an estimated 100,000 lives." [ END QUOTE]
PHOTO: Nerma Jelačić, Spokesperson for Registry and Chambers.
RESPONSE from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Office of the Prosecutor:
Asked about the recent reports in the media that Judge Bonomy invited Prosecution during the last Status Conference in the Karadžić to think about dropping either Srebrenica or Sarajevo charge of the indictment, Nerma Jelačić responded that at no point did Judge Bonomy invite the Prosecution to drop the 'Srebrenica or Sarajevo counts' as reported by the media. The Prosecution was told that they may need to start thinking about how to reduce the length of the trial and a number of possibilities were mentioned, including reducing the number of crime sites and not proceeding on certain counts. These were simply hypothetical examples to illustrate the application of the Rules. The Tribunal's rules stipulate that the Trial Chambers can invite the Prosecutor to reduce the number of counts or crime scenes charged in the indictment in the interest of a fair and expeditious trial and issue any appropriate orders.
PHOTO of Radovan Karadzic, the architect of genocide in Srebrenica. In several days of July 1995, the Srebrenica genocide resulted in a mass scale ethnic cleansing of 30000 and a massacre of at least 8372 Bosniaks.
According to The Herald: "The judge preparing Radovan Karadzic's genocide trial… was considering dropping some charges to shorten court proceedings that could take years."
Scottish judge Iain Bonomy "indicated prosecutors might have to drop one of two key parts of the 11-count indictment: either the deadly siege of Sarajevo or the July 1995 killing of 8000 Muslims in the UN safe haven of Srebrenica, Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War."
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The State Department on June 25 announced it would make public documents pertaining to new accusations by Radovan Karadzic, the indicted Serbian war leader, that the U.S. government and specifically U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke had promised him immunity from prosecution for war crimes during the Bosnian war (1992-1995) if he would withdraw from public life.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 1995 indicted Karadzic for war crimes, including charges that his forces killed at least 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys from Srebrenica in 1995 as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat population. A year after his indictment, Karadzic stepped down as president of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) and went into hiding. Serbian authorities arrested Karadzic in 2008 – nearly 13 years after being on the run.
Karadzic on May 25, 2009 filed a motion entitled "Holbrooke Agreement Motion" before the ICTY arguing that his indictment should be dismissed on the grounds that the U.S. government had offered him a "quid pro quo." The State Department's newly released documents show that the U.S. government repeatedly made clear that it expected Karadzic to be tried at The Hague, even following his agreement to retire from public life. Link to State Department Press Release.
Upon learning of the new documents, USIP vice president Daniel Serwer said "I am delighted to see these documents, which clarify the US Government's position in 1996 and refute Karadzic's "immunity" claims."
U.S. Institute of Peace staff have worked in many ways to address the complex conflicts in the Balkans since the Dayton agreements were signed in late 1995. The Institute recently published three reports on the current situation in Bosnia as well as a USIP grant-supported volume entitled "Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies," edited by Charles W. Ingrao, in which scholars from throughout the Balkans, Western Europe and the U.S. attempt to clarify controversial issues in recent Balkans history.
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Federal Television in Bosnia-Herzegovina (FTV) aired a shocking video on Wednesday evening (June 10th) in the programme 60 Minutes. The footage shows former Bosnian Serb Army Commander, Ratko Mladic, enjoying his life in plain sight in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ratko Mladic, 67, has been on the run from the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for 14 years, when he was indicted for the Srebrenica genocide and other serious crimes against humanity.
As expected, Serbia's minister in charge of co-operation with the UN tribunal – Rasim Ljajic – claimed the footage was old. "Not a single shot is less than eight years old," he said. Ratko Mladic has never been seriously pursued by nationalist governments in Serbia and therefore, anything that the Serbian ultra-nationalist government says should be taken with a grain of salt.
The video was found and confiscated during search of the flat of Mladic's wife Bosiljka on December 4 last year at the order of the Chamber for war crimes of the District court in Belgrade. During the search, Belgrade investigators also found Ratko Mladic diaries, some of which we republished on June 7th.
The footage shows Ratko Mladic receiving guests at his house in a Belgrade neighbourhood of Kosutnjak (location) where he introduces guests to BILJANA. "Biljana" is a wife of his son, Darko Mladic. She was Muslim, her previous name was AIDA, but she quietly changed her Muslim name into Serbian name BILJANA. She gave birth on March 2, 2006 to a boy, Mladic's grandchild. The child has been named after St. Stefan. They apparently have one more daughter, Anastazija, who was born in 2001. It is unclear which baby he was holding on his lap.
Some parts of this amateur video show Ratko Mladic attending a wedding party of one his bodyguards in a restaurant Kula near Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in September 2000. The restaurant is situated in the so called "East Sarajevo", rural part of Sarajevo held by Bosnian Serbs, which is close to the main military NATO headquarters located in the Federal part of Sarajevo. The restaurant is also near Ratko Mladic's village of birth – Božinovići. The village is located near the Jahorina mountain, southeast of Sarajevo.
Another part of this video shows Mladic as slowly walking on a snow-covered mountain path with a cane, looking significantly older than in other footage. According to some reports, he had a "stroke" in 2006 and he hardly recovered from it. Since then, he started walking with a cane. Therefore, it looks like this part of the footage is indeed from 2006 or even 2008 as claimed by FTV.
Then, the video also shows Ratko Mladic sitting in peaceful wooded surroundings of what the television said were Serbian Army military barracks. Serbian government said that "the last time Mladic was in military premises was at the Krcmari army barracks near [the eastern Serbian town of] Valjevo on June 1, 2002." However, the footage shows significantly older Ratko Mladic holding onto his cane while sitting with his wife in a compound surrounded by trees. He jokingly complains there is not enough coffee on the table.
The compound looks a like guarded military base. The entrance sign to the compound reads, "Barutana. Izgradjena 1807 god. Restaurirana 1976 god." (Gun Powder Factory. Built in 1807. Restored in 1976.), which is part of Belgrade Castle (Beogradska Tvrdjava) built by Ottomans.
The oldest portion of this video shows Ratko Mladic attending a funeral of his daughter, Ana, who committed a suicide in 1994. You may recall that in 1994, Mladic was actively murdering Bosniak civilians – women, children, men, and elderly – in Sarajevo and other cities in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He felt no emotion for mass murders of Bosniaks, but he sobs uncontrollably in front of his daughter's coffin. A perfect psychopath, indeed.
A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office at the ICTY said that they were examining the footage and would comment later. In the meantime, former Ratko Mladic bodyguard, Branislav Puhalo, told a Belgrade court Tuesday that Mladic was guarded by about 50 heavily armed men who were staying at an army barracks in Belgrade. He said the protection unit was set up in 1997 under orders from former President Slobodan Milosevic.
"It was all legal," Puhalo said at the trial of 10 people charged with helping Mladic evade justice. "We were tasked with protecting Mladic from criminals and bounty hunters." Puhalo said that Mladic's protection unit was disbanded in March 2002.
So we have 10 people standing trial for helping Ratko Mladic evade justice, but what about Radovan Karadzic's supporters? We wonder, why the same Belgrade Court failed to charge family members of Radovan Karadzic for helping him evade justice? Remember that Ratko Mladic's boss, Radovan Karadzic, freely traveled and regularly stayed in touch with his family, especially his wife Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic – all with the help of Dragan Karadzic, son of Radovan's brother Luka Karadzic. None of these people have ever been charged with obstruction of justice.
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PHOTO: Relative of the Omarska concentration camp victims near the Western Bosnian town of Prijedor in Bosnia-Herzegovina holds photos of excavated bodies of her relatives on 06 August, 2006. You can view more concentration camp photos from Bosnian Genocide at this link.
By Tovah Lazaroff, JPost Correspondent in Geneva
Originally published: Apr 26, 2009.
JERUSALEM POST – As an inmate in the Omarska concentration camp in Bosnia, in 1992, Nusreta Sivac began her days by counting the corpses of those who had been killed overnight.
"We would see them on the grass in front of the 'white house,' which was a little building where the worst torture was committed," she told the audience who had gathered on Friday to hear her and other victims of racism, including some from Rwanda. They spoke on the sidelines of the United Nations anti-racism conference that met in Geneva last week.
They sat on a small stage, set off from one of the main corridors in the UN's European headquarters, at an event titled "Voices: Everyone affected by racism has a story that should be heard."
Speaking with the help of a translator, Sivac explained how in April 1992 Serbs took over her native city of Prijedor, in the northwest part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and went about "ethnically cleansing" the area of Muslims (Bosniaks) and Catholics (Croats).
First, "freedom of movement was strictly limited. Muslims and Croats had to wear white bands around their arms and to have white flags on the windows of their apartments," she said.
Sivac was 40 and a judge in the municipal court. Within a few days of the takeover, she was banned from her job.
"I thought that was the worst thing that could ever happen to me, and later I realized that was only the introduction to the worst thing that could ever happen to a human being," she said.
In June, she was asked to come to the police station, where she was forced onto a bus and driven away by members of the Serb military forces.
"I did not know in what direction I was taken. Only when we arrived I understood that I was taken to the Omarska concentration camp," she said.
It was an unusual move because mostly it was men who were sent there, while women and children were typically driven to the border with the Bosnian-controlled area, where they sought protection, Sivac said.
She was one of 36 women among 3,500 men detained at the camp.
The women were given rooms above a restaurant. During the day they were forced to serve food or clean while the rooms that they slept in were used to torture prisoners.
"We would hear them screaming every day… When we would come up to the rooms to sleep, we first had to clean because blood was everywhere," she said.
Every day, people were tortured to death and massacred. Drunken guards jumped on the bodies and sang Serb nationalist songs, she said.
Fathers would see their sons tortured and killed and sons would watch their fathers being murdered, she said.
"Even some of the detained women saw their husbands tortured, and no one was ever allowed to help anyone. They would have risked their lives," she said.
"Once I saw my cousin running on the grass area covered by the massacred bodies and he was desperately looking for his son. Then I saw them killing him."
Another time, she saw a Serb soldier take a knife and make a cross on a woman's face.
Male prisoners were only given one meal a day, a small piece of bread, bean soup and coleslaw, she said.
"When detainees would go to eat, they had to pass a line of Serb guards that would beat them," she said.
If prisoners did not finish the meal within minutes, they risked being beaten, sometimes to death, Sivac said.
Many people stopped going to meals to avoid the beatings.
For the women, nighttime was the worst, she said.
"The guards would come to the rooms and take us somewhere in the camp and rape us. That happened on a regular basis. We were not allowed to say anything to anyone. I was regularly raped and beaten," said Sivac.
She was the only judge to survive the camp. All the male Muslim and Croat judges were killed. But Sivac survived until her release in August 1992, right before Western journalists and the Red Cross were brought in to see the camp, which was closed later that month.
Today, she has returned to live in Prijedor, which is now part of the Republic of Srpska. The city is now 99 percent ethnic Serb. Most of the Muslims live in the Federation of Bosnia, where there are some 500,000 Muslim refugees.
No one in the Republic of Srpska talks about what happened in 1992.
"I am surrounded by a society that does not recognize what happened, which I find very difficult," Sivac said.
In Prijedor, "I see some of the perpetrators and some of those who came already out from The Hague," she said.
Prejudice still runs so deep in Prijedor that she cannot work there. Instead she travels more than an hour to the Federation of Bosnia to work.
"I have been called to witness in The Hague and I have seen the man [Zeljko Mejakic] that was regularly raping and beating me and other women," Sivac said.
"He was the worst to the women in the camp. I know that many of the women did not talk about their experiences, because it is extremely difficult to think and to talk about it, even for me today, but I have to be strong and let my voice be heard."
In 1996, an American documentary, Calling the Ghosts, was made about her story.
Still, she told the audience in Geneva on Friday, very little attention is paid to what happened in Bosnia.
"Unfortunately, the concentration camps in Bosnia is something very rarely spoken about, which is dangerous. We should not close our eyes to what happened. We should condemn it and never allow it to happen again," she said.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay, who joined the panel, said, "This is why this conference matters. It is because of your experiences."
Racism, she said, "is a global human tragedy blighting lives and destroying the future of men, women and children in every corner of the world. We must always insure that the voices of the victims are heard and that they resonate."
PHOTO: Serge Brammertz, Chief United Nations' Prosecutor of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
"The same legal team which led the prosecution in the [Momcilo] Krajisnik case is in charge of prosecuting [Radovan] Karadzic, too, and unless they change their strategy, they could repeat the same mistakes."
Appeals verdict in Momcilo Krajisnik case suggests prosecution could have trouble proving charges against former Bosnian Serb president.
By Edina Becirevic in Sarajevo
Last week's appeals judgement against Momcilo Krajisnik surprised many by reducing the sentence awarded and clouding the trail of responsibility for atrocities committed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Hercegovina.
On March 17, appeals judges at the Hague tribunal confirmed the conviction of former president of the Bosnian Serb assembly for the persecution of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in 32 Bosnian municipalities through acts of deportation and forcible transfer of the non-Serb population out of Bosnia.
However, they reduced his prison sentence by seven years, after reversing convictions against him for murder, extermination and persecutions (through crimes other than deportation and forcible transfer).
The reasoning of the final verdict yet again highlights key weaknesses of the system and practice of the Hague tribunal.
It could also have implications for the genocide case of the highest-profile indictee currently in custody – former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic.
In the trial chamber judgement of September 27, 2006, Krajisnik was sentenced to 27 years' imprisonment after judges convicted him of killing some 3,000 non-Serbs and forcibly removing another 100,000 non-Serbs from large swathes of Bosnia in 1991 and 1992.
Trial judges acquitted him of genocide, as while they found evidence that this crime had been committed, they did not establish that Krajisnik had shown the criminal intent necessary to secure a conviction. (Page 305 of the first-instance judgment is available at: www.icty.org/x/cases/krajisnik/tjug/en/kra-jud060927e.pdf)
By not appealing the genocide acquittal, prosecutors showed they accepted their own failure to prove that Krajisnik intended to commit genocide in Bosnia.
The appeals chamber ruling highlights another shortcoming of the prosecution case against Krajisnik – the attempt to establish the accused's responsibility for crimes through use of the "joint criminal enterprise" doctrine.
This is legal doctrine under which members of a group are considered to be part of a conspiracy and are held responsible for each other's criminal acts.
One problem with its use in the Krajisnik case seems to be that it wasn't clearly established during the trial at what point the members of the joint criminal enterprise intended to commit certain crimes.
Appeals judges confirmed the trial chamber verdict that the accused "shared the intent" to commit deportation, forcible transfer and persecution "from the beginning of the joint criminal enterprise".
Yet they found that trial judges did not clearly set out in their judgement at what point the Bosnian Serb leaders conspired to commit murder, extermination and persecution (excluding acts of deportation and forcible transfer) and so convictions against Krajisnik on these charges were overturned.
"..The Appeals Chamber is not able to conclude with the necessary preciseness how and at which point in time the common objective of the joint criminal enterprise included the expanded crimes [of murder, extermination and persecution] and, consequently, on what basis the Trial Chamber imputed those expanded crimes to Krajisnik," stated the appeals judgement.
Another problem seems to stem from the fact that prosecutors failed to name all members of the joint criminal enterprise in the indictment.
Appeals judges accepted the argument submitted by the defence that trial judges had not clearly established who prosecutors were referring to when they mentioned lower-level participants, including paramilitaries and politicians.
In Krajisnik's indictment, prosecutors identified a diverse group of people as taking part in the same joint criminal enterprise as the accused.
The list included Bosnian Serbian politicians Biljana Plavsic, Radovan Karadzic, Radoslav Brdjanin and Nikola Koljevic; Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, Serbian paramilitary leader Zeljko Raznjatovic (aka "Arkan"); as well as Bosnian Serb generals Ratko Mladic and Momir Talic.
While other members are not individually named, the indictment states that "numerous individuals participated".
The indictment vaguely alludes to these individuals – implicating members of the Bosnian Serb leadership, the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS, leadership, the Yugoslav army, the Bosnian Serb army, police and territorial defence, the Serbian and Bosnian Serb paramilitary forces and volunteer units, and military and political figures from the former Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro.
But by not specifying clearly who all the individual members of the joint criminal enterprise were, prosecutors made it harder to prove that Krajisnik was responsible for their crimes.
A further flaw with prosecution's attempts to prove Krajisnik's participation in a joint criminal enterprise, as well as his responsibility for genocide, was the limited time covered by his indictment, which spans only the period from July 1, 1991, to December 30, 1992.
It is hard to follow the logic of the prosecution for restricting the indictment to these 18 months, as he remained president of the Bosnian Serb assembly for the entire period of the 1992-95 war.
He was therefore a key member of the Bosnian Serb leadership at the time of the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995, which both the Hague tribunal and the International Court of Justice, ICJ, have found to have been genocide.
By limiting their case to this narrow window, prosecutors made it harder to demonstrate the extent of the criminal plan in which Krajisnik took part.
This can be illustrated further by comparing the case to that of Milosevic.
Prosecutors in the Milosevic case attempted to prove that the accused participated in a joint criminal enterprise and possessed genocidal intent by demonstrating his involvement in an alleged plan drawn up at the Bosnian Serb assembly on May 12, 1992.
They argued that the so-called Six Strategic Objectives of the Serbian People set out the Bosnian Serb leadership's plan to separate Serbs from Bosnia's Bosniak and Croat communities by carving up the country.
According to the prosecution, they defined the leaders' military objectives in the war – to create an ethnically pure Republika Srpska which would later become part of a Greater Serbia – and were clearly pursued until the conflict ended.
When presenting their case, the prosecutors of Milosevic clearly linked the six strategic goals to crimes committed on the ground throughout the war, with an indictment covering a period from August 1, 1991, to "at least" December 31, 1995.
They argued that the strategic goals were a clear manifestation "that a plan existed to remove non-Serbs from power in all targeted areas and to essentially remove non-Serbs physically from targeted parts of Bosnia, regardless of whether they formed the ethnic majority or not".
A key argument in their case was that this document could be seen as a vehicle "employed by the Bosnian Serb leadership to implement a genocidal plan".
Although Milosevic died while in detention in March 2006, before a judgement was passed in his trial, judges found following the presentation of the prosecution case that there was enough evidence on all charges in the indictment to proceed with the case.
Perhaps if prosecutors had charged Krajisnik for crimes committed throughout the entire war – and related his actions to the pursuit of these strategic goals – they would have managed to prove his responsibility for more atrocities, including genocide.
The same legal team which led the prosecution in the Krajisnik case is in charge of prosecuting Karadzic, too, and unless they change their strategy, they could repeat the same mistakes.
The amended Karadzic indictment is an improvement on the last version, updated in April 2000, in which he was not accused of taking part in a joint criminal enterprise at all.
Introducing the joint criminal enterprise doctrine should give prosecutors the opportunity to demonstrate the full extent of the Bosnian Serb leadership's role in the war, and perhaps prove a link to Belgrade, thus giving a clearer picture of what went on in the conflict.
Furthermore, the time-frame of the Karadzic indictment – which covers the entire 1992-95 period – will allow prosecutors to draw on more evidence to support charges in the indictment.
But a glance at the Karadzic indictment would suggest that prosecutors could learn more from their experience of prosecuting Krajisnik.
When setting out the joint criminal enterprise in the Karadzic indictment, they have failed to include certain key figures, who acted in concert with the Bosnian Serb leadership during the war.
In Karadzic's indictment, the joint criminal enterprise is defined with the same vagueness that ultimately hamstrung the prosecution in the Krajisnik case.
It states that members of the joint criminal enterprise included, "members of the Bosnian Serb leadership; members of SDS and Bosnian Serb government bodies at the republic, regional, municipal, and local levels, including Crisis Staffs, War Presidencies, and War Commissions".
To overcome this vagueness, during the presentation of their case, prosecutors must attempt to show a link between Karadzic and the particular individuals who implemented the criminal plan he is accused of orchestrating.
It is very likely that Karadzic's defence will be based on the notion that Milosevic was responsible for everything and the accused was only a cog in the machine.
Prosecutors must therefore use the evidence of the six strategic goals adopted by the Bosnian Serb parliament at the start of the war to demonstrate evidence of both a joint criminal enterprise and of genocidal intent.
Edina Becirevic is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Criminal Justice Science, University of Sarajevo. Her OP/ED comment was published by IWPR (Institute for War & Peace Reporting) on March 27, 2009.


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The recent deal between CapitaLand and Ascott Residence Trust (Ascott Reit) gained a lukewarm reaction from the market, with both counters recording only a mild boost in prices.
Although CapitaLand is considered the "greater beneficiary" of the deal, shares increased a mere 1.4 percent since Monday while Ascott Reit's share price increased only half a cent, according to media reports.
The S$642 million deal between the two companies involved three properties, namely Somerset Grand Cairnhill Singapore, Ascott Guangzhou and Ascott Raffles Place.
CapitaLand is set to acquire and redevelop Ascott's Somerset Grand Cairnhill Singapore into a mixed residential and hospitality development and then sell it back for S$405 million by 2017.
"Whilst the asset swap will be a 'win-win' deal for both CapitaLand and Ascott Residence Trust according to management, we see the deal as being a better transaction for CapitaLand, with return on 53 percent of the total estimated development cost locked in on Day 1 and improvement in asset turns through the asset swap," said Joy Wang, analyst at JP Morgan.
"This also serves as an alternative way of obtaining landbank for the group in our view."
But the deal is also beneficial for Ascott Reit as it will unlock value in its portfolio. Upon completion of the transactions, the deal is also expected to reduce its gearing level to 39 percent from 41 percent.
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What We Do
The Partnership focuses on the following areas.
Ensuring the protection of rights to prevent the adverse impacts renewable energy development on indigenous communities.
Indigenous peoples should have their rights systematically upheld through energy planning and development processes, with big utilities, governments and private companies side-lining their human rights. Some renewable energy projects have negative impacts on communities and are not being implemented in a manner that respects their rights to their lands and resources and to their free, prior and informed consent (FPIC).
Empowering indigenous communities in their self-determined sustainable development, specifically with regards to access to appropriate renewable energy to deliver equitable benefits.
Millions of indigenous peoples do not have basic access to energy and there is a lack of capacity and knowledge in many communities to make an informed choice on what energy solutions can bring the most benefits and least harm to support their self-determined development. Additionally, indigenous-led innovative and powerful energy solutions are not well recorded, recognised and promoted.
Strengthening knowledge exchange, solidarity and collaboration between indigenous peoples and other actors to contribute towards the goals of the Partnership.
Documenting and sharing knowledge and best practice between indigenous and non-indigenous partners can amplify the outputs of the Partnership.


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From the Virtual World to the Real One: The Comeback of Brick and Mortar
By Seema Punwani, Principal Consultant, R3
Seema Punwani, Principal Consultant, R3
In online customer experience has been trying to mimic offline since the onset of e-commerce. When e-commerce players wanted to move shoppers to the digital space, they took cues from the real-world shopping experience and then enhanced it and made it more convenient.
eMarketer estimates that global retail sales growth is slowing, but year-over-year increases will continue, mainly fuelled by sales in China, India, the US and developing countries in the Middle East and Africa. E-commerce sales growth will outpace brick-and-mortar sales growth by a more than 3-to-1 margin over the forecast period. Asia-Pacific is said to be the main driver behind this growth, accounting for over half of global retail e-commerce sales in 2015.
So if e-commerce is where the growth is why did the online retail giant Amazon open its first physical book store in Seattle last year? On the surface it appears counterintuitive, but this is a growing trend among successful online retailers. Let's take a closer look at the growth of O2O (online to offline) -- what is making e-commerce retailers shift from online to offline?
1) It Makes Business Sense
While Amazon and other online retailers have chewed away at physical stores' sales, e-commerce still only makes up 9 percent of the overall space, according to Forrester Research's 2016 forecast. Meaning there is plenty of money to be made offline and it's not about to change anytime soon. According to McKinsey, in 2020, 80 percent of US retail sales will still happen in brick-and-mortar stores. This does not mean online retail is dying, it just means that a synergy between online and offline will be the key to retail success in the near future. Enter omni-channel retail, where the real and virtual world not only merge, but learn from each other for an enhanced customer experience.
Amazon's store doesn't look much different than an average book shop, but it is unique in that it includes reviews customers have posted on its website. Amazon used what works in e-commerce and bought it to life in its physical store. The books are placed coverout, rather than the traditional spine-out, and it includes categories based on shopping habits from Amazon. Merchandise is sorted by how many stars it has received online, and although Amazon sells physical books in its store, there are stations for its Kindle e-reader as well. Perhaps the best part is that the books are priced the same as on the website.
2) Physical Stores Play Role of Brand Ambassadors
Just like movies need a fancy trailer to drive movie-goers into the cinema, a physical store attracts customers with its aesthetics, design and ability to create the sensorial experience. Displays make products more desirable. Oneon-one customer service helps increase sales. TimeTrade's State of Retail 2015 Report reveals that one third of customers like to receive product advice from sales associates, and a whopping 90 percent of shoppers are likely to buy after receiving help from knowledgeable staff in-store. Despite the popularity of online shopping, the human touch still seems to be good for business.
Pepperfry, a popular Indian online furniture retailer, recently joined the growing list of e-tailers by going 'hybrid' and opening a flagship 'experiential' store in the heart of Mumbai's shopping district. They reported that almost 20 percent of online purchase came from customer experience in the offline store. The key advantage of such a store is that products can be curated.
Leveraging online habits in the physical world was also recently put into practice by Tok&Stok, Brazil's biggest design furniture store, when they took the Pinterest virtual "Pin" button and modeled a physical pin. The store had actual bright red pins that let shoppers pin items in store and save them immediately to virtual inspiration boards on Pinterest. The pins used Bluetooth low energy (BLE) to connect with a "PinList" app that the shoppers had to download to their phone.
3) Seamless Consumer Experience
Customers' virtual and real worlds are not diverse. They are looking for a unified shopping experience. Ikea is a classic example of a retailer who does this well. Their website allows consumers to make a digital shopping list, but then come into the stores to make their purchases.
In China, where retailer space comes at a premium, leading UK high street fashion brand Topshop partnered with luxury e-commerce site, ShangPin, to create a pop-up store in Beijing's down town retail hub. Pop-up stations around the mall were equipped with giant iPhones loaded with Topshop fashion looks styled by ShangPin. Visitors could access a mobile adventure by scanning QR codes, allowing them to share looks on social media and order items for delivery.
4) Physical Store Help Deal with Credibility Issues
Opening online stores does not always involve a stringent quality control process, especially in markets like India and China. In China, anything could be counterfeit, and consumers are getting tired of gambling with their health every time they make a purchase. Online Chinese retailers such as Alibaba have been facing pressure from both consumers and the government over the massive number of fake items in the underground 'daigou' market, which is worth billions.
Hence in order to build brand trust, Remy Martin created the "Smart Bottle" for the China market to test if the product is legitimate and safe. The brand collaborated with Selinko, an anti-counterfeiting service, to produce a smart bottle, which works in conjunction with mobile phones. The bottle uses near field communication (NFC) tags to verify its authenticity and whether or not it's been opened prior to purchase.
5) O2O to Outperform Logistics
During the last "Single's Day," Alibaba virtually merged physical stores' stocks with online shops' stocks so consumers were delivered the nearest stock and there was less chaos in the delivery. O2O can thus help e-commerce retailers save time and money with better logistics by leveraging physical stores as part of their supply chain, thus cutting the costs of inventory management and increasing speed of delivery.
It's ultimately about physical stores supplementing online stores - not replacing them. Or vice-versa. Convergence is the name of the game today.
R3 is a marketing and advertising industry based organization, founded in 2002, providing services specializing in Marketing Consulting, Independent Research, Agency Selection and Compensation, Independent Media Auditing and Analysis.


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Who said eating healthy couldn't be delicious! Try out these recipes I've either created myself, adapted from other recipes, or found!
If you have any awesome recipes you'd like me to include with this list, PLEASE email me (firstname.lastname@example.com). I love trying out new recipes!
Vegetable Fritatta with Mexican Cheese – South Beach Diet (Suitable for all phases)
Dan's Mexican Breakfast Sandwich
Roasted Green Cabbage Wedges These are so good that I find myself craving them from time to time. Craving cabbage?!
Eat Clean Chicken Stir Fry with Quinoa – Eat Clean Diet: Recharged! by Tosca Reno <– This recipe originally called for scallops but since I don't like them I substituted chicken in.
Garlic-Chile Flank Steak – Eating Well Magazine
Shrimp and Zucchini Barley Risotto
Mini Zucchini Pizzas Arguably could be a side or snack too. Sometimes I stack these little pizzas up on each other in a dish and eat it like lasagna.. Mmm!
Hummus Stuffed Chicken Breast – Sabra.com
Chocolate Lover's Cookies – Clean Eating Magazine
Chocolate Spiked Oatmeal Cookies – Clean Eating Magazine
Blueberry Tartlet – Self Magazine
Vanilla Cinnamon Ricotta Creme – South Beach Diet (Suitable for all phases)
Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Dipped Strawberries


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Birmingham's New Alexandra Theatre is set to host The Abba Reunion Tribute Show - Live in Concert, an evening full of the hits of Abba, one of the world's most iconic pop groups.
The show - on Saturday, June 28 - will mark the 40th anniversary of the group's first classic hit Waterloo.
Having taken Europe by storm in 1974 when they won the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo, Abba went onto top pop charts worldwide for well over a decade.
Their much-loved songs have featured in some of the most popular films of the past thirty years including Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Pricilla, Queen of the Desert.
In 1999, Abba's songs were adapted into the phenomenally successful musical Mamma Mia, which has grossed over $2 billion worldwide and introduced a whole new generation to hit songs including "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Take A Chance On Me", "Thank You for the Music", "Money, Money, Money", "The Winner Takes It All", "Voulez Vous" and "SOS".
A spokesman for the tribute show said: "Abba Reunion gives Abba fans old and new the opportunity to once again get together and relive the addictive Abba phenomenon that swept the airwaves and discos during the 70s and 80s in this truly feel good, party style concert.
"From Dancing Queen to Waterloo all of the hits are performed with an incredible attention to detail resulting in the perfect Abba look and sound.
"This tribute concert continues to entertain and enthrall throughout the world and leaves fans asking the question... "Did we just see the Abba Reunion Concert that never was?"."
Tickets for the Abba Reunion Show are available from 0844 871 7627 or from the theatre website.


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We'll be tasting six different wines from the Beaujolais region of France. We'll be talking about how each subregion of Beaujolais produces different tasting wines based on their terroir.
- Cremant de Bourgogne - Grande Cuvee
- Beaujolais-Villages
- Saint-Amour
- Chenas
- Domaine de la Source - Chiroubles
- Domaine des Ailes - Moulin-A-Vent


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An uplifting blend of zesty Ceylon teas expertly combined with rich, robust Indian teas.
The sun never sets on this bright and perky British blend of black tea leaves. Carefully selected by our tea experts from the best plantations of Ceylon and India, this fine tea is rich and complex yet perfectly balanced to refresh. Enjoy with or without milk and sugar.
Each silk pyramid tea bag contains loose whole leaves and flowers, providing robust flavors and an intoxicating aroma. True Indulgence.
Selected Ceylon, Assam Tea & Safflower Blossom.
Pour freshly boiled water over the teabag, leave the tea tag out and allow to brew for 3-5 minutes or until the beverage reaches desired strength.


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Floor Plans
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The 2493
Bedrooms: 4
Baths: 3
Half Baths: 0
Square Feet: 2,493
Garages: 3
Stories: 2.5
Daylight basement
3 car garage
Walk in master closet
Gas Fireplace
The 2493 is a 2.5 story daylight basement plan featuring 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. The open kitchen includes slab quartz or granite counter tops, under-mount sink, and shaker style Pacific Crest cabinetry. The combination great room and dining area includes full lite door access to the backyard. An inviting gas fireplace beckons you back inside to relax and warm up on chilly nights. The second level includes a spacious bonus room/loft, master suite offering a bath with dual vanity and a spacious walk-in closet. This home boasts a large 3 car garage. Holt Homes includes these desirable features as part of our standard pricing so that future homeowners gain the best value out of their purchase. Don't wait, call today!*
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I bought a bunch of magnetic notepads at AC Moore last night with the idea that I would make a covered set and sell them at the craft fair. I couldn't find any tutorials anywhere for this size notepad, so I improvised and came up with my own (which I'm rather proud of). I love the Flirtatious Specialty DSP and it sort-of matched the notepad, so I went with it. I hope you like it!
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