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Thanksgiving may scream "turkey!" to you, but everyone celebrates it in their own way. Today we talk with AsianSupper's tum about how her multicultural Thanksgiving shapes up.
Q: How do you typically celebrate Thanksgiving?
A: My entire family and close friends come over … we usually have about 20 people altogether. We're a multi-cultural group – Thai, American, Chinese, African-American so we have a lot of flavors going on!
Q: Let's talk a little about hosting etiquette. Do you expect people to bring over something?
A: [Thai] people don't bring wine or flowers or chocolate or things like that. Normally it's fruit or a potluck dish.
Q: Who does the cooking and when do you get started preparing?
A: I do most of it, and I start the night before.
Q: How does the prep start?
A: The day of, all the females in the family come over, and they come over starting around 10am for coffee and milk toast, or turkey congee. There's a set menu, but everyone gets assigned a unique dish that they do well. The younger folk get assigned the side dishes or prep work that they help the older kids with, while the adults handle the proteins. In traditional Thai and Laotian cooking, you do a lot of prep work on the floor, since there wasn't counterspace, so we follow that tradition.
Q: Tell us about what the spread looks like.
A: It's east meets West. We cook with turkey, but we don't actually have a whole turkey to carve. So there might be turkey lettuce cups, turkey curry, turkey larb or we do a turkey soup – bok choi and shredded turkey. Most Southeast Asians don't like turkey, since it's expensive and fairly foreign. The first time we were introduced to turkey growing up, it was when my father brought it home from the factory one day. My mom had no idea what to do with it! We didn't know that you needed to defrost it, and so we invented dishes for it. Our main entrees will typically be steamed fish, an Asian style pork loin (using this beef recipe), and my godmother always makes a lamb dish that's crusted with curry. And for sides, we make snow peas with chili oil, Chinese broccoli, or other types of vegetable stir fry. We do roast a butternut squash and kombucha squash as a side.
Q: And how do you manage to seat a group of 20?
A: Everything is laid out at once and people can pick and choose what they want, but it's important for everyone to sit together.
Q: Are there any religious traditions you observe?
A: We don't have blessings, but everyone gets to stay what they are most thankful for this year.
Q: What about traditional American Thanksgiving food, like cranberry sauce, or mashed potatoes or stuffing?
A: Nope, nope and nope. We do serve sticky rice in place of stuffing, and for carbs we have a noodle dish. The only truly American thing we have is apple and pumpkin pie, though we top it with coconut whipped cream – with no milk, whipped from the fat of coconuts, vanilla and sugar. Really good. For dessert, we have a buffet -- we usually serve traditional green noodles, tapioca and pudding with mango. We make the desserts the night before.
Q: What's the most longstanding dish in your Thanksgiving tradition?
A: Tapioca pudding. Everyone gets to customize it – people can always choose their own fruit topping, and we manage to change it every year.
Image via Flickr / izik


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Monday, October 31, 2005
Bad idea: Microsoft bid for Siebel
Forrester has an interesting angle on Oracle's bid for Siebel. The research firm thinks that Microsoft should step in and make a counter offer. Interesting, but wrong. I think that a Microsoft acquisition of Siebel would be a disaster for both parties.
But first, Forrester's idea. The article is entitled, "Memo to Microsoft: Why Not Buy Siebel?" The abstract reads:Microsoft: You have a unique opportunity to change the dynamic in the enterprise applications market. With Siebel's strong enterprise customer base, domain expertise in verticals, integration with existing Microsoft technologies, and interoperability with .NET and J2EE, this is a unique opportunity to bring much-needed CRM credibility to the Microsoft Business Solutions Group. If Microsoft does not make the offer to purchase Siebel, you will lose a unique opportunity to Oracle, leave only two tier one players in the applications market, and make a later entry into the market more costly and more risky.A Microsoft acquisition of Siebel would be foolish because Siebel's client base requires a significant amount of professional services, something that is foreign to Microsoft's business model.
Interestingly, a Spectator reader and I had some correspondence on this very subject last week. He wrote,IBM/HP-like consulting does not fit the Microsoft model. Microsoft is more about delivering packaged software to a customer through a product management process (exaggerating -- in its worst incarnation -- throwing a half ready app to the customer). In a consulting business you need to listen to the customer and understand the problem in order to find a solution--if necessary, pushing it through as a side product, and enhancing the product over time.Microsoft's foray into business applications, with its purchase of Great Plains and Navision, has already been a humbling experience (Microsoft's words, not mine). Its business applications are sold entirely through VARs and resellers. Siebel's products are sold largely through a direct sales force, something Microsoft Business Solutions has never really done. So, even though Siebel's technology is Microsoft-friendly, I think that Siebel is a bad fit for Microsoft's business model.
What is meant by consulting at Microsoft is way different from the definition at IBM.
Now, on the other hand, if IBM, HP, CSC, or any other number of large service organizations wanted to step in and make a counter-offer for Siebel--now that would be an interesting proposition.
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Big eyes, big stomach: Oracle buying Siebelby Frank Scavo, 10/31/2005 02:01:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
Latest JDE service pack spells trouble for Oracle
Today a Spectator reader has emailed me with news about the latest service pack for J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne, 8.11 (SP1), indicating that there are serious problems with it, and that the problems are so severe that it represents a significant setback in the company's implementation schedule.
JDE customers have been waiting to see whether Oracle can deliver on its promise of "lifetime support" for JDE customers. If the service pack problems are as serious as my reader indicates, Oracle needs to take corrective action immediately. Otherwise, Oracle's relationship with the JDE installed base is in trouble.
If you have better, or different, or confirming information about this latest service pack, please email me, or leave a comment on this post.
Update, Oct. 31. Word from this new JDE customer in the field indicates that the Enterprise One 8.11 SP1 problems are finally getting some attention at the senior executive level at Oracle and that there is a SWAT team of three people dedicated to fixing them. That's good news. But, one has to ask, why did it take Oracle so long to get on top of this, and why was the service pack released in the first place if it wasn't adequately tested?
Update, Nov. 4. Oracle is working on the service pack problems, but they are not yet out of the woods. The customer's system is still unusable, hence the JDE implementation has ground to a halt.
Update, Nov. 28. Oracle appears to be making progress resolving problems with 8.11 SP1. Also, there are indications that the service pack has not been widely distributed, which may explain why I have been unable to locate anyone else that has implemented it or is reporting problems with it.
Update, Dec. 9. The customer's problems are getting high level attention within Oracle. Oracle has resolved a number of the outstanding issues and is making good progress on the rest.
Update, Mar. 8, 2006. For the sake of those that come across this post from search engines, I want to close the loop and report the final outcome of this case study. The client went live on JDE earlier this week.
The go-live went flawlessly with very few post-implementation problems. The implementation was a "large footprint" (i.e. quite a bit of functionality), and it took 11 months, four of which were due to the problems with service pack 1 (SP1) outlined earlier in this post. Implementation costs exceeded budget, but to the credit of Oracle and the implementation partner, much of the expense for correcting the problems was covered under Oracle's maintenance agreement.
Bottom line: the ultimate outcome of this implementation for the client is a success, and it is evidence that Oracle intends to make JDE a successful and viable choice for companies going forward.by Frank Scavo, 10/27/2005 06:37:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Sunday, October 23, 2005
Another false start for Microsoft's business apps
Microsoft just can't seem to finish anything related to business applications these days.
The latest case in point is the Microsoft Business Framework (MBF). Microsoft appears to have all but given up on building the MBF, sending half of the 200-plus development team back to Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS), the unit responsible for business applications, and half remaining with the Platform and Tools division, where they've been working for the past two years.
MBF was to be a set of lower level software application components to provide core business functionality upon which higher level applications and systems could be constructed. The original plan was for MBF to be the underlayer for Project Green, the successor to Microsoft's current disparate business applications, such as Great Plains, Axapta, Solomon, and Navision. MBF would be an open platform that would also allow third-party developers to build industry specific applications that would easily interoperate with Microsoft's own business apps.
Microsoft, of course, is claiming that the break up of the MBF development team really doesn't mean anything, and that MBF will still be delivered, but just in a different way, with bits and pieces showing up in other products, etc., etc. Mary Jo Foley at Microsoft Watch has a good summary of the history of fits and starts with MBF.
One Spectator reader has given me some interesting insights into the history of MBF and the current situation with Microsoft Business Solutions. Note that my editorial comments are in [brackets].The pre-history of MBF originates from then independent Great Plains where they worked on the next generation Business Apps Platform. One of the reasons that Microsoft bought Great Plains was some promising ideas from the Great Plains R&D team.My source goes on to provide some insights into MBS product development in general.
However, the release of even bits of the new generation technology was characterized by constant delays and problems. At Stampede 2002 the MBS people even joked that every year since 1999 a new and better thing was promised but either was not delivered or when it was launched the result was a failure. Mostly it was related to portal technology and it was more related to Solomon than Great Plains.
The first working commercial piece [for MBF] was Business Portal 1.0 - now in C# sitting on top of MS Portal technologies....
Surprisingly, the [MBF] development environment for the entity persistence model was Rational Rose. Microsoft distributed a MBS Great Plains branded Rational Rose trial as THE development environment for MBF, but alas, IBM bought Rational Rose. Then the big issue was to tweak MS Visual Studio to accommodate all that was lost when they had to abandon use of Rational Rose.
There was a big undertaking by the MBF team and the Navision team in Denmark to port Axapta to .NET-MBF, but that effort was soon abandoned.
Part of delay for MBF may be associated with the delays and stripped down functionality for Longhorn [the next generation of MS operating systems], but I do not believe that this is the core reason. The most important reason for the delay of MBF is the delay of WinFS [the next generation Windows file system]. In the entity persistence model, the integrated security model is actually the core function related to MBF.In the meanwhile in 2002-2003, project Magellan was started....The outcome was MS Office Small Business Accounting, which was a total re-write in C# and MSDE. The database layer for this product is very heavy, with hundreds of stored procedures, functions, and triggers. It is really more like Great Plains, not like Axapta and Navision. The database layer is so heavy and the database normalization structure is so far thinking that it makes me think that this is the way the next generation unified business applications will be developed.He also speculates on potential acquisitions and the situation among the MBS VARs.
The packaged software thinking of Microsoft was reflected in many product policies over time. Now they have finally switched back to developing all products independently and trying to rescue Project Green by releasing it in waves.
Surprisingly, Navision is not a friend of MS SQL Server at all. There is big degradation at 30 users and a plateau at approximately 100 users. Furthermore, Axapta scales better on Oracle than on MS SQL Server, and it does not support SQL Server 2005 up till 4.0 or even later.It is possible that Microsoft will start buying market share. Epicor may be the prime candidate, but there may be others.Although this entire post paints a pretty bleak picture concerning Microsoft's development efforts in business software, I am not by any means suggesting that software buyers stay away from Microsoft's offerings. I continue to short list Microsoft's business solutions where they appear to be a good functional fit. Microsoft may be having difficulties, but it has the resources to deliver--something that can't be said for many of its competitors in the small and mid-sized business market these days. But first, it needs to get its act together and start delivering stuff.
Just as there are problems with MBS being profitable, the MBS VARs also have been in trouble, especially the large ones. Some have been running at huge losses for several years before being bought by someone. At least so far this has not resulted in Microsoft buying some of its big VARs--that would definitely upset the community. But watch out for hidden support measures, such as more discriminatory margin structures or industry builder initiative financing.
If you have different information, or an opinion on anything in this post, please feel free to email me or use the comments section of this post.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Salesforce.com set to strike out with AppExchange?
Josh Greenbaum thinks that Salesforce.com is going to fail with its strategy of allowing software developers to use Salesforce.com as a platform to sell add-on components. Josh takes issue in particular with CEO Marc Benioff's analogy of AppExchange as the "eBay for enterprise applications" that will be "as easy as buying music on iTunes and playing it on your iPod."
Josh writes,eBay is many things, but a secure and safe place to buy reliable products it isn't...Even more significantly, as Marc most certainly knows, enterprise software is not like a three-minute song, however well-produced it may be, and an iPod is no enterprise software platform, however high-tech they now are.Although Salesforce.com certainly has its work cut out for it, I think Josh is being a bit harsh. I agree that the eBay analogy is not the best, but no analogy is perfect. What Salesforce.com is attempting with AppExchange--allowing customers to build and share extensions on top of an on-demand offering--has never been done before. If this works, it breaks one of the major objections to software on-demand: the inability to customize and extend it.
But if AppExchange works, it would be a powerful example of how commercial software might be built and deployed in the future--sort of a combination of software on-demand and open source that is extremely scaleable.
My main concern at this point is whether there will be any sort of quality control over the extensions written for AppExchange. If the first apps deployed are junk, it will sour users toward the whole idea, and AppExchange might not recover. I suspect that Salesforce.com is aware of this problem and will be working hard to ensure that early adopters are satisfied.
Josh concludes,Ironically, Marc is finding himself in the same situation that Tom Siebel found himself in: Too focused on standalone CRM functionality in a market that is increasingly interested in linking CRM to everything else in the enterprise. It was this requirement, Siebel acknowledged in his concession speech, that prompted his retreat from the field and into the arms of his rival, Oracle. And this is a requirement that Salesforce.com has even less ability to meet than Siebel did.I don't agree that Salesforce.com is another Siebel. Yes, both are focused on standalone CRM functionality. But Siebel was competing with Oracle and SAP on the same turf--big deals for traditional license sales. As SAP and Oracle filled out their CRM functionality, Siebel was unable to compete effectively. Its functionality might still be marginally better, but it didn't make up for the need to integrate it with the rest of the enterprise.
Salesforce.com, for the most part, is competing on different turf. It offers an a low-cost, quick-to-implement, alternative to the traditional license model of SAP and Oracle. For small or mid-sized firms, or for large companies that have two to three years of projects backed up in their IT department, it's an attractive alternative.
It's too early to say whether Salesforce.com will be successful with its AppExchange program. But at least it has a strategy.
Computerworld has a summary of AppExchange.
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Software on demand: attacking the cost structure of business systemsby Frank Scavo, 10/19/2005 09:56:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Sunday, October 16, 2005
Oracle bid for Innobase a threat to MySQL?
Reader Alan Rein has called my attention to Oracle's recent acquisition of Innobase Oy, an open source developer in Finland. Why is this a big deal? Because Innobase is the primary development organization for InnoDB, which is used as a free component for the open source MySQL database by users that want high concurrency, row-level locking, and transactions in MySQL.
In other words, if you are running MySQL--an increasingly popular choice for database applications--and you need it for higher end applications, you use InnoDB as the storage engine.
And Oracle, which has been watching MySQL move up the food chain over the past few years, just bought InnoDB.
The open source community is not quite sure how to interpret Oracle's move. Is it a further endorsement of the open source movement? Oracle has been a huge supporter of Linux, an open source operating system. But Oracle doesn't sell operating systems. Oracle sells databases, among other things. And InnoDB is at the heart of the open source database movement.
The more cynical view is that Oracle is buying InnoDB in order to divert its five (yes, just five) developers away from supporting open source development and the MySQL relationship. The InnoDB/MySQL agreement is up for renewal next year, and Oracle's press release says they expect to see it continue. But who knows?
Jeremy Zawodny has a good summary of the situation on his blog. ZDNet also has a good analysis of Oracle's move. As expected, there's a (ahem) lively debate over on Slashdot as well.
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Friday, October 14, 2005
U.S. Department of Justice visits the Spectator
No, I'm not in trouble--at least I don't think so.
I just noticed that a visitor from the US DoJ hit this website today and read five articles, the first of which was "SOX insanity takes hold in the IT department," and the last of which was "Sarbanes-Oxley compliance too often a wasted effort."
Hopefully, this is a good sign that someone at DoJ is paying attention to the enormous waste of time, money, and effort going on in the U.S. economy under the name of Sarbanes-Oxley.by Frank Scavo, 10/14/2005 01:48:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, October 13, 2005
The secondary market for computer hardware
We've put up a new quickpoll up on the Computer Economics website:Hop over to the Computer Economics home page (right column) and take the poll now. It will take about five seconds.
How often does your company purchase computer equipment on the secondary (used) hardware market?
After the poll closes at the end of the month, we'll use the data as part of our analysis of trends in this market.by Frank Scavo, 10/13/2005 06:37:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Business brightens for Lawson
Things are looking up for Lawson lately. A week or so ago it announced quarterly results that were better than expected, with revenue rising over six percent from a year earlier.
Then today, Lawson announced that it closed a big deal with Mervyns, a major U.S. department store chain. Mervyns will implement Lawson Financials, Procurement, Budgeting and Planning, and Reporting suites to replace business applications that it was using prior to being spin off as an independent firm. Mervyns plans to complete its implementation of Lawson by August 2006--a pretty aggressive timeframe, for a company with 250 locations in 13 U.S. states.
Lawson has been targeting the retail industry for many years. According to its press release, its customers include "five of the top 10 U.S.-based retailers, eight of the top 20 apparel retailers, seven of the top 25 grocery chains, 23 of the top 100 restaurant chains, and 20 of the top 100 specialty chains."
Lawson's win at Mervyns shows that a strategy of intense industry focus can be successful in competing against larger vendors, namely SAP and Oracle, that are increasingly dominating the ERP market.
What other vendors are executing such a strategy? Mincom is an example in the mining industry, as seen in its win over SAP at Newmont Mines, which I mentioned in the previous post. QAD's success among automotive suppliers is another example. IFS has success in aerospace, transportation, and others. And Intentia, which Lawson is acquiring, has a similar track record in the apparel industry as well as food and beverage.
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Monday, October 10, 2005
SAP loses big deal to...Mincom?
The deal is Newmont Mines in Australia, and the winner is Mincom. Both SAP and Mincom were incumbent vendors, with Mincom installed at Newmont, and SAP installed at Normandy Gold, which Newmont recently acquired.
Mincom, which is a vendor of enterprise asset management (EAM) systems, is not usually thought of as a competitor to SAP. But in capital intensive industries, such as mining, EAM systems are effectively the equivalent of ERP systems.
The mining industry in Australia, which is undergoing an economic boom, is currently a battleground for SAP and other vendors. Although SAP lost the deal at Mincom, it is gaining additional sales at BHP Billiton, another natural resources firm with market capitalization of $90 billion U.S.
Mincom's win at Newmont shows that there is still plenty of competition for Tier I vendors such as SAP and Oracle, even at the top end of large enterprises. The key is for vendors to pick the verticals in which they can win.by Frank Scavo, 10/10/2005 10:52:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, October 06, 2005
Dave Duffield's next thing: bigger than the White House
Apparently, after helping stray cats and dogs and unemployed ex-PeopleSoft employees, David Duffield still has money left over from Oracle's buy-out of PeopleSoft.
The Contra Costa Times is reporting that Duffield is planning to build a new home in Alamo, CA that will comprise a 72,000 square foot main house, plus 25,000 square feet of outbuildings that include a stable, swimming pool, and 20-car underground garage.
According to the Times, Duffield's main house alone will be bigger than the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (64,108 square feet), Hearst Castle (60,645), and the White House (55,000).
By comparison, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison looks positively thrifty. His house in Atherton is only 8,000 square feet.
Update, Jan. 23, 2006: It appears that in December, Duffield scaled back his footage by 70%. He's now planning to build a home of only 21,461 square feet.
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Ministries
Risking a new vision for our world since 1973.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Ministries (LGBTQ Ministries) is guided by the vision that someday we will be able to put ourselves out of business and that oppression against people of all ages, abilities, colors, and economic classes who are marginalized on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity—whether the oppression be overt or subtle—will be a thing of the past.
For resources on welcome, ministry, and advocacy for people with marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities, please check out LGBTQ Welcome & Equality.
This Unitarian Universalist Association office has had many names over the years, as the language of sexuality and gender has shifted and changed. In 2010 the name became LGBT Ministries, and July 1, 2012, it became LGBTQ Ministries.
LGBTQ Ministries is a department of the Multicultural Ministries team. Multicultural ministry encompasses many aspects of identity—race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ability/disability, class, age, language, citizenship status, and more. Our LGBTQ ministry efforts are grounded in the intersections of these identities.


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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
ODD Bits 6
Grade yourself based on the number of questions you answered correctly*:
5: Unbelievable, 4: Outstanding, 3: Well Done, 2: Not Bad, 1: Not Good,
0: Embarrassing
* - Sham is the referee here, so any rules interpretations taken are final, even if viewed through his warped lens.
ODD Bits 6
1. When surprised, a character has a __________ chance to drop a hand-held item. A. 1 in 6, B. 2 in 6, C. 1 in 4.
2. Characters must spend 1% of their experience points in gold for support and upkeep until they do what, short of dying?
3. True or False: Of all weapons, only swords, war hammers and axes can be found with a magic bonus of +3.
4. True or False: In Volume I, players are guided to decide what role they will play, "human or otherwise, fighter, cleric or magic-user."
5. Wights, Wraiths, Spectres and Vampires all drain life levels with a hit in melee. Name a fifth monster capable of draining life levels.
Good Luck!
6 comments:
- Sham aka Dave said...
1. C. 25% or 1 in 4.
2. Build a stronghold.
3. False. Not axes but spears.
4. True. Usage of the words human and fighter might suggest otherwise.
5. Giant Leeches (Vol. III, p. 35)
- March 15, 2011 at 8:45 AM
- Will Douglas said...
I got 2, although based on the wording, I should get three:
1 - I put B (wrong)
2 - Build a stronghold (but it must be in the wilderness, else upkeep payments continue)
3 - I put true
4 - True
5 - This is the wording one: Based on the wording, my answer of "um, no?" is actually correct...
- March 15, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- Sham aka Dave said...
Haha good catch Will. I'll leave #2 as is, I think most understand what is meant. I will however change the wording on #5. That last one is tough.
- March 15, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- Will Douglas said...
Yeah, that last one is tough. I just today found that one while I was looking up something else.
Pretty sneaky!
- March 16, 2011 at 3:17 PM
- Sham aka Dave said...
Indeed! Those are some nasty suckers.
- March 16, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- JJ said...
4 outta 5.
Missed the Giant Leeches question.
Only knew the Dropped Torches Rule (as I call it) b/c I use it all the time to great effect.
I think Holmes has a different rule as far as surprise goes, can't be arsed to dig my book out of the car though.
- March 16, 2011 at 10:01 PM


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Without even realizing that you do it!
My girlfriend pointed this out to me and I have to admit. I do not do it on purpose it is just the way it is.
I spent the better part of two hours theming my phone and when I finished I had a blue and green dream. Even apps that I installed, I changed the color options either blue or green when I was allowed to. My desktop. A solid deep blue. My tool bars. Deep blue. The text, green. When I buy shirts, I tend to go for slate blue colors. My last three vehicles have been blue or green. My guitar, Blue. It just goes on and on in a never ending sea of Blue and green. I think I have issues!
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England WAGs not welcome at Rio base
England's FIFA World Cup training base in Brazil will be a partner-free zone, Club England managing director Adrian Bevington has revealed.
Eight years ago the sight of wives and girlfriends (colloquially known as WAGs) wandering around Baden-Baden attracted a frenzy of media attention during England's 2006 FIFA World Cup campaign in Germany.
The presence of the players' partners was deemed to be a distraction and England managers in tournaments since then have been eager to avoid a repeat.
Roy Hodgson's squad will be based in Rio de Janeiro for this year's showpiece and Bevington has stressed that WAGs will not be present at the team hotel.
"We will not be organising any official trips to the World Cup for the families." he told Sky Sports.
"We had a situation in Poland (at the 2012 UEFA European Championship) where lots of families did come out, and that is entirely at the discretion of the individual players.
"There may be some time when we are in Miami (where England will prepare for the tournament) for families to come out and spend some time with the players but again it will not be arranged by us.
"They will not be with us in the hotel in Rio."
England begin their World Cup campaign with a Group D clash against Italy in Manaus on June 14, before facing Uruguay and Costa Rica.


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Chapter 1 General rules
Article 1 Purpose
All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as ANA) manages the ANA Mileage Club (hereinafter referred to as AMC), a membership program that provides awards in return for the use of services and products of ANA, its partner airlines, and participating program partners. These terms and conditions set out various conditions on the use of the AMC that are agreed between the members and ANA.
Article 2 Definitions
[Member] : A customer who has applied to join AMC on an individual basis and for whom the membership has been approved by ANA.
[Mile] : Mileage that members earn by using eligible services.
[Bonus mile] : Miles earned under special conditions in addition to regular miles. The use of bonus miles may be subject to restrictions.
[Mileage accounts] : Account in which miles are accumulated.
[Awards] : Products such as Flight awards and services provided by ANA or its participating program partners (including partner airlines) at a member's request for redeeming mileage.
[Flight award] : Flight tickets offered by ANA or its partner airlines as an award.
[Upgrade award] : Upgrade to a higher class of service when traveling on a flight at an applicable fare is offered as an award.
[Partner airline] : An airline that offers miles or awards to members under certain conditions.
[Participating program partners] : A company that offers miles to members who use its services and products or offers services and products as awards under certain conditions.
[Membership card] : A general term for various types of AMC card issued to members. This includes AMC cards, ANA cards, and affiliated cards.
[AMC card] : Membership card issued independently by ANA. Special features are added to some types of the card.
[ANA card] : Membership card with credit function jointly issued by ANA and its partner credit card companies.
[Affiliated card] : Membership card jointly issued by ANA and participating program partners.
[Card with IC function] : Membership card with electronic money function.
[Partner credit card company] : A credit card company that jointly issues ANA cards with ANA.
[Main card] : A main card to be used for mileage accrual or award redemption after combining multiple mileage accounts in accordance with Article 4, Clause 2 of the membership rules.
[Temporary card] : Provisional membership card used for earning mileage until membership is formally approved after applying to join AMC.
[Designated user] : Award users who are designated by a member.
["Diamond Service," "Platinum Service," and "Bronze Service"] : Services offered to members who have earned a certain amount of premium points.
[ANA Mileage Club Service Center] : Information desk that handles various inquires concerning AMC, including applications for the AMC membership and awards.
[ANA Mileage Club Card Desk] : Information desk that handles applications for ANA card and various inquiries.
[ANA Card Family Mile] : By registering, ANA Card members who are residents of Japan and meet certain conditions can combine earned miles with their family who are also Members.
[AMC Family Account Service] : By registering, Members who do not reside in Japan and meet certain conditions can combine earned miles with their family who are also Members.
Article 3 Enrollment
- Those who have agreed to the terms and conditions, have submitted applications and passed the screening of ANA are officially accepted as AMC members. Applications for ANA card or affiliated cards will also be examined by partner credit card companies or participating program partners issuing the affiliated cards.
- The issuing of a temporary card, which is a provisional procedure before enrollment is completed, does not mean that ANA has officially approved the membership.
Article 4 Commencement of membership
- When ANA receives an application for membership and opens a mileage account for a member after screening, the membership becomes effective and a membership card will be sent to a member. If an application should be declined, the applicant will be notified of the result and mileage earned by a temporary card is treated as nonexistent.
- One mileage account is permitted for each member. If one member holds more than one AMC mileage accounts, ANA reserves the right to integrate/combine these accounts. Miles from the same transaction cannot be credited to more than one account. Miles that have been credited for the same transaction to more than one account will be adjusted to reflect the correct mileage accrual for the activity.
- One password is set for each member. The password, which confirms the member's identity, is required for using various services, including award redemption. Only the member should use the password and keep it secure. ANA cannot be held responsible for awards defrauded by one who pretends to be the member using his/her password.
- A member who did not set a password when applying for membership has the initial one set by ANA. When the ANA number is established, please immediately change the password. Members should be responsible for the management of their passwords by changing them as needed.
Article 5 Use of membership card
- A membership card is issued to a member.
- The ownership of membership cards belongs to ANA (and its joint issuers if there are any), and cards are loaned to members.
When there is a signature panel on the membership card, members must sign their names in it immediately.
- A member's name and membership number (including a number provided by participating program partners issuing affiliated cards or partner credit card companies, hereinafter referred to as card information) are shown on a membership card. A membership card cannot be used by anyone other than the member named on the card.
- All claims for mileage accrual, balance inquiry and redemption must be made by the registered member in person and members may be asked to confirm their identity. Claims for mileage accrual, balance inquiry and redemption for infants or child members should be made by the parent or legal guardian.
- Members should use and manage their membership cards and card information with the diligence of good management. Members are strictly prohibited from lending or transferring their membership cards to others, offering them as collateral, or allowing others to use their card information.
- In the event of loss, theft, damage, or defacement, a membership card will be reissued at the request of the member after ANA screens and approves it. (In case of ANA card and affiliated cards, its partner credit card companies or participating program partners issuing the affiliated cards will also participate in the screening.)A set fee will be charged for reissuing the membership card.
- ANA (and its joint issuers if there are any) must set a special membership card title (hereinafter referred to as card name). Duplicate cards that have the same card name cannot be held by the same member. However, exceptions can be made if ANA (and its joint issuers, if there are any) agree.
Article 6 Services provided by participating program partners
- Participating program partners assume responsibility for all the activities including the quality, content, price and advertising of products and services that they offer, and ANA does not guarantee them. Members should use the services and products offered by the participating program partners based on their own judgment and responsibility, whether it is to earn miles or to use them as awards. ANA shall not be held responsible for these products and services.
- The use of flight awards or other benefits offered by program partners is subjected to the rules of each partner airline.
- The pooling, combining or transferring of mileage earned in different programs is not permitted. Also, the accumulated mileage may be canceled due to cancellations or refunds of the services and products offered by the partner airlines.
- ANA shall not be held responsible for changes in various conditions, including participating program partners' withdrawal from the AMC program, the cancellation of awards offered by them, mileage earned from using them and mileage necessary for redeeming awards.
- ANA reserves the right to change or terminate partnerships. However, ANA will communicate any changes or notice of partnership termination to its members at least 3 months in advance. In the event of changes in partnership, applications to use partner services will be valid for 3 months from the date of notification, according to the agreement between ANA and the respective partner. Awards which have been issued will be valid for the period stated on the award regardless of partnership termination.
Chapter 2 Earning mileage
Article 7 Eligibility for earning mileage
- Miles are earned when members travel on eligible flights of ANA or its partner airlines at eligible booking classes and fares on eligible sectors. ANA has the right to freely review standards used for mileage accrual, such as eligible airlines (partner airlines), eligible sectors, eligible regions, eligible cabin classes, eligible booking classes and eligible fares as needed.
- Miles are earned by purchasing products or using services offered by participating program partners. However, products and services eligible for earning mileage are restricted to ones designated by the partners. Members may be required to join the customer programs of participating program partners in order to convert the program points to miles. Program partners can freely review products and services eligible for earning mileage as needed.
Article 8 Methods for earning mileage
- Miles will be based on the ticketed booking class which are paid, not the actual class flown. In case of a downgrade, miles will be based on the actual boarding class. Members may not earn miles unless they travel the entire flight segment that they booked. Miles may not be accrued depending on the type of fares.
- Miles can only be earned once per flight per member, regardless of the number of seats purchased. Miles are credited to members who have actually traveled on the eligible sector.
- Mileage accumulated in one flight will be credited to only one account and not to any other accounts.
- Unless otherwise specified, members who earn miles or points in the customer programs of participating program partners cannot earn AMC miles at the same time.
- Miles are credited when they are recorded in the members' mileage accounts. Miles cannot be redeemed until they are recorded in the mileage accounts.
- In the event that miles were not automatically recorded in mileage accounts, members can claim these miles based on the method designated by ANA.
(Members must be enrolled in AMC at the time of boarding the fight and the claims must be made within 6 months from the date of boarding or transaction in order to be eligible for earning miles.) However, retroactive registration may not be accepted or requesting period may vary depending on the partner companies.
- Members who have an objection to the mileage which have already been credited must make a claim to the AMC service center within 6 months from the date of travel or transaction. Members may be requested to submit proof of travel in the relevant sector (including the retained segment of the boarding pass and passenger receipt for the sector claimed to have been flown).
- Miles are calculated based on the flight mileage chart prepared by ANA according to the distance between the departure city and the destination city.
- Children (3 to 11 years old for domestic flight, 2 to 11 years old for international flight) may earn the same amount of mileage as an adult (12 years or older), excluding promotional bonus miles. When a child is redeeming an award, the same amount of mileage as an adult will be deducted.
- When an infant (under 3 years old for domestic flight and under 2 years old for international flight) is traveling on infant fare, mileage will not be accumulated. When an infant is redeeming flight award or upgrade award, the infant may hold a seat by redeeming the same amount of mileage as an adult. Infants traveling on an upgrade award must hold a valid ticket purchased in the applicable class at an eligible fare.
On the other hand, if an infant is not using the award, but is accompanied by an adult using a flight award or upgrade award, infant fare (unable to hold a seat) or child fare (able to hold a seat) ticket in the same class as an adult must be purchased.
- Members can earn mileage and redeem awards from the participating program partners by providing their membership numbers when they purchase products or use services offered by them.
Article 9 Combining mileage
You cannot share or combine earned miles with other Members, or transfer miles to other Members. However, as a Benefit of the ANA Card Family Mile and AMC Family Account Service, you can combine earned miles with registered family members only when using the award. In addition, if the Member passes away, their designated heir can complete the prescribed procedures to inherit the valid miles remaining in the Member's account.
Article 10 Mileage validity
Mileage is valid until the end of the 36th month counting from the month a service or a product was used to earn miles. ANA is not responsible for exprired mileage.
Chapter 3 Redemption of awards
Article 11 Users of awards
Awards may be used by members and designated users, although some awards are excluded. However, designated users are limited to member's spouse and family members within 2 generations (family members of the relation in the second degree). There are certain restrictions that apply to the designated users, and advance registration is required when redeeming awards. ANA is entitled to ask member and designated award users to provide documentation proving a family relationship.
Article 12 Applying for awards
- Only members are eligible to apply for the awards. Members must also apply for the awards even if they are to be redeemed by the designated users.
- When redeeming awards, members are asked to confirm their identity. If the member's identity cannot be confirmed, the application for awards will be rejected.
- All information and awards will be sent to the address registered with the AMC by the member. Members must notify the AMC Service Center regarding any changes to the registered address or personal information. In the case of ANA cards and affiliated cards, members should notify these changes to the credit card companies or the participating program partners issuing the affiliated cards. If this notification is not completed, ANA is not responsible for failing to communicate important information, failing to deliver awards, or loss to the member in terms of mileage credit.
Article 13 Restrictions on award use
- Flight awards and upgrade awards may be subjected to restrictions, such as blackout periods and limited seat availability. Some flights may not be available. ANA cannot be held responsible for refunds, conversion of awards to mileage credit or extensions of validity due to the above restrictions.
- Once the flight awards and upgrade awards have been redeemed, the names of the passenger and the mileage provider cannot be changed.
- Flight awards cannot be combined with upgrade awards.
- When using flight awards or upgrade awards, members may be asked to confirm their identity. Members should carry their membership cards and identification documents. Members whose identities are not confirmed may not be allowed to use the awards.
- Members or designated users are not permitted in any way to transfer awards to a third party, resell them or exchange them for profits. Awards have no cash value and are void if sold, purchased, brokered, or bartered.
- Awards with a set expiration date should be used within their period of validity.
- Members should check various restrictions and conditions on the use of awards prior to using them.
Article 14 Lost or stolen awards
ANA is not responsible for reissuing any of the awards offered by AMC to its members for reasons of loss or theft. ANA is also not responsible for reimbursement to its members who are unable to use their awards due to delivery delay, loss or other accidental damage.
Article 15 Mileage refund
Apart from awards that are eligible for the Mileage Refund Service, mileage cannot be refunded to the account of members or designated users for awards that were not used or be exchanged for another award. ANA cannot be held responsible for award refunds in the event that a member was unable to use the award, provided, however, that routes were not altered due to company's circumstance.
Article 16 Taxes, user fees and incidental expenses
Taxes, airport fees and any incidental expenses arising from the acquisition and use of awards are the sole responsibility of the user.
Any taxes, airport charges or expenses incurred in issuing the award must be paid in advance.
Article 17 Transferring to partner flights
In the event of flight delays, cancellations or other irregularities, ANA is not required to transfer members or designated users traveling on flight award tickets onto a partner flight.
Article 18 Handling of submitted documents
ANA reserves the right to manage and dispose documents submitted to the AMC Service Center, and these documents are not returnable. Please send the original document after making copies of any necessary documents for your record.
Chapter 4 Handling personal information
Article 19 Purpose of using personal information
- Personal information obtained from members will be used for the following purposes:
(1) Reservations, ticket sales, check-in, airport services, and in-flight services with regard to air freight services
(2) Reservations, ticket sales, check-in, and airport services for interline transportation, wet lease, code share, intermodal transportation, and commissioned transportation
(3) Service provisions for ANA Mileage Club members
(4) Guidance, provision, and management of services and products offered by ANA
(5) All operations incidental or related to the above (1) - (4)
(6) Implementation of questionnaires concerning services and products, etc. offered by ANA
(7) Development of new services and products
(8) Guidance, operation, management, and information provision for various events and campaigns
(9) Notification of services and products offered by ANA
(10) Guidance, operation, management, and information provision for services, products, and various events and campaigns offered by ANA Group companies and their partner companies
(11) Response to inquiries and requests
- If members do not wish to provide information necessary for membership application or if members cannot agree to the handling of personal information described in this chapter, ANA may decline the applications or cancel the membership.
- Even if the membership applications were declined, the fact that applications have been submitted will be used for a certain period regardless of the reasons for the decline, but it will not be used in any other scope.
Article 20 Proper management
As part of the operation of the AMC, ANA recognizes the importance of personal information provided by the members and will handle it with extreme caution under strict management. Furthermore, ANA has established company regulations and systems that ensure the proper and safe management of personal information.
Article 21 Data sharing
As part of the operation of AMC, ANA shall share personal information of the members as follows.
|Provision of travel services
|Air transportation
|Scope of data sharing
|ANA Sales Co., Ltd. companies *1
|Air Japan Co., Ltd.
ANA WINGS Co., Ltd.
|Purpose of use by the user
|Provision of travel services, such as tours and hotels, as well as provision of information required for other related operations
|Provision of air transportation services
|Personal information items to be shared
|AMC number, Customer name, Address, Telephone and Fax numbers, E-mail address, Business contact (Name of company, Department, Title, Address, Telephone and Fax numbers), Mailing address, Member card type, Member service qualification, Membership area, Mileage status, Credit card number and expiration date, etc.
|AMC number, Customer name, Address, Telephone and Fax numbers, E-mail address, Business contact (Name of company, Department, Title, Address, Telephone and Fax numbers), Mailing address, Member card type, Member service qualification, Membership area, Mileage status, Credit card number and expiration date, Boarding history, etc.
|Party responsible for the management of personal information
- *1 ANA Sales Co., Ltd. companies
(ANA Sales Co., Ltd., ANA Tours China Co., Ltd., ANA Sales Americas, ANA Sales Europe Ltd.,ANA Sales France S.A.S)
Article 22 Business entrustment
From time to time, ANA may entrust its business operations concerning AMC to third parties to which personal information may also be disclosed to the extent required.
Article 23 Disclosure, correction, deletion, addition, discontinuance and erasure based on Personal Information Protection Act
Member's request submitted in the manner specified for the disclosure, correction, deletion, addition, discontinuance or erasure of their personal information held by ANA shall be accommodated within a reasonable time frame and to a reasonable extent, once the identity of the requesting party is confirmed to be the member in question. A fee will be charged for disclosure, etc. A member can easily confirm their personal information on the website of ANA.
Article 24 Handling personal information on ANA card and affiliated cards
The handling of personal information of members of ANA card and affiliated cards concerning the AMC is as described in this chapter. However, each partner credit card company or program partner issuing an affiliated card has its own policy on handling personal information, and each card holder should check such information.
Article 25 Notification of personal information changes
Members must notify the AMC Service center regarding any changes in the registered personal information. ANA card members should also contact the relevant partner credit card company. In case of affiliated cards, members should notify the program partners issuing these cards.
Article 26 ANA Privacy policy
The handling of personal information of ANA customers, including AMC members, is stipulated in ANA Privacy Policy as well as in this chapter. ANA Privacy Policy is available on the website of ANA.
Chapter 5 Termination of membership
Article 27 Procedure of membership withdrawal
Members can withdraw their membership from the AMC by notifying the AMC Service Center of their intention. ANA card members should contact the relevant partner credit card company. In case of affiliated cards, members should also notify the participating program partners issuing these cards of their intention.
Article 28 Cancellation of membership
If no mileage is accrued for three years, the membership may be canceled.
Article 29 Suspension of member privileges/awards
Dishonest acquisition of mileage, improper use of awards, violation of the program rules or procedures, false notification, behavior described in Article 19-2, or other behavior that significantly damages the trust relationship with ANA will result in cancellation of membership, including suspension of the "Diamond Service", "Platinum Service", and "Bronze Service", loss of all accumulated mileage, suspension of the use of all unused awards, and restitution may be demanded. In addition, these members may also be denied of any subsequent participation in AMC.
Article 30 Death of a member
Mileage accumulated by the member can be passed to the legal beneficiary in the event of the member's death. The beneficiary will be required to present the member's death certificate and conclusive evidence, such as a court order, that he/she is entitled to inherit such accrued mileage within 6 months after the member's death. If such claim is not made within the period, mileage accumulated by the member in question will be canceled.
Article 31 Handling mileage after membership withdrawal
Excluding cases stipulated in the previous article, miles belonging to members who have withdrawn from the membership or have lost their qualification may not be redeemed for awards.
Article 32 Procedure after termination of membership
When a membership is terminated due to any cause referred to in the articles of this chapter, members should return their membership cards immediately.
Chapter 6 Others
Article 33 Measures against illicit activities
Dishonest acquisition of mileage, improper use of awards, violation of the program rules or procedures, false notification, or other illicit activities may result in legal measures such as compensation claim (including attorney's fee and cost of lawsuit) as needed, in addition to measures described in Article 29. Members or travelers who have illicitly used flight awards or upgrade awards are required to pay regular fares.
Article 34 Notification of program termination
- ANA reserves the right to terminate the AMC program on its own accord. Except otherwise provided, unused mileage accumulated by members will be canceled and the use of unused awards will be suspended.
- In the event of AMC program termination, ANA will inform the members at least 3 months in advance.
Article 35 Program changes
Various terms and conditions, including the AMC rules, regulations, awards, mileage accrual levels and conditions, are subject to changes without notice, regardless of their effects on the value of mileage already accumulated by members.
Article 36 Revision of regulations
The contents of regulations, notices, etc. and other information listed on pamphlets published on the ANA website take precedence over any previously published contents. If the most recently printed version of the above information differs from its earlier versions, the most recently printed version will be considered the revised and current version.
Article 37 Campaigns for specific members
ANA may target specific member groups for special bonus miles, awards, and other campaign benefits depending on the accumulated mileage, residential area or other conditions for participating in AMC membership.
Article 38 Direct mailing rights
ANA has the right to send campaign information and other advertising materials by direct mail or email. All mailing can be stopped if the members request so to the AMC Service Center.
Article 39 Use of electronic money
Some member cards come with IC (electronic money) functions. The electronic money function is serviced by the value issuer of each card and is governed by regulations stipulated by each company. ANA shall not be liable for the electronic money service. The value issuer of each card is marked on the back of the card.


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Monday, April 05, 2010
'Witnesses not called'
In yesterday's post about the appeal by the British couple against their sentence for alleged kissing I said:
At an earlier hearing there were claims that witnesses would be presented. There's been no mention of them in the radio and print reports I've come across, so I assume none appeared.
The BBC now has a quote from Ayman Najafi, one of the accused, that adds yet another very disturbing factor to the case:
"It's very harsh, based on contradictory evidence. The courts haven't called on any of our witnesses who are prepared to testify that this didn't happen."
Why would witnesses not be called?
Was the court asked to hear them?
If not why not?
And if it was, why were they not called?
Add to that the previous factors I highlighted in earlier posts; the accuser said her two year old had complained that the couple were kissing indecently, then that she had seen it herself. The discrepancy in the complaint and the validity of a two-year-old's word were not questioned. The accuser did not appear in court, her complaint was a written statement.
Maybe the accused are guilty, maybe they're not. That's what a justice system is supposed to resolve. Call witnesses, insist that the accuser is in court to give evidence, hear all the evidence, weigh the evidence - true evidence, not just one person's unsubstantiated claim - and then arrive at a decision based on that evidence.
No-one knows whether the couple in this case, and others like them, are actually guilty because none of that happened.
The other case going on is similar - I posted about it on March 29.
Briefly, back in November Simon Andrews and an 19 year old Iraqi student got into a stupid road rage situation - the usual tailgating light-flashing thing that goes on daily. They had an argument. Then the student called the police and claimed that Simon gave him the finger so he was charged with indecency.
No witnesses, one word against another, the student has never bothered to turn up in court, and isn't required to.
How does this sound? The student was mad at the traffic situation and in a rage called the police to make things as bad as possible for the other motorist.
A few hours later he'd calmed down and forgotten the whole incident.
The other motorist, Simon, however, has already been punished because his passport has been confiscated. He has to keep appearing in court to defend himsef yet the accuser doesn't have to appear even once.
If the accuser can't be bothered to appear in court to present his claim, and be questioned in an attempt to arrive at the truth, the case should be dismissed.
All cases where the accuser doesn't bother to appear should be dismissed.
One word against another, maybe he's guilty maybe he isn't. But if the evidence isn't presented, witnesses aren't sought and questioned, the accuser isn't in court, the verdict may just as well be based on the toss of a coin.
Justice should not only be done, it must be seen to be done.
BBC report here.
Simon Andrews, Gulf News.
In 7Days the Simon Andrews story says that "the case was adjourned yesterday for the defence to prepare its case." Simon Andrews, 7Days. 'Prepare the case' after all this time? That's bizzare.
17 comments:
- Susan said...
Its all extremely depressing. I love living here but stuff like this makes me wonder. Now I have to reassure worried elderly relatives at home that everything is fine, but I'm not really sure it is.
- April 05, 2010 11:36 am
Her two year old daughter made the complaint? My god, my daughter turned two in mid-March and so far her vocabulary consists of 8 or 9 words. I obviously need to enrol her in one of these Arabic nurseries to expedite her language skills!
I also find it strangely ironic that the incident happened in an American-style Diner. Emirati woman complains of an insult to her religion and way of life while tucking into burger and fries at 2am. Talk about wanting your cake and eating it too...
- April 05, 2010 11:56 am
- Oussama said...
It appears that Dubai is undergoing changes, major cultural changes and they are not sure how to handle it. They are reluctant to come out and say we are going to be like Sharjah, so they are testing the water. If Dubai elect to change then expats will adapt as long as they know the rules. How the world will view this and whether it will be considered a cosmopolitan progressive destination in the MENA region remains to be seen.
- April 05, 2010 12:04 pm
The whole Law & Judiciary system here needs a major overhaul. And at the rate at which things are progressing here, I don't see that happening in the near future.
- April 05, 2010 12:09 pm
Oussama, its not about ultural change, and I have become hoarse saying that.
The issue is:
1) Why are witnesses not allowed to testify for the accused?
2) Why didnt the prosecution not be asked to bring forward the witness?
This way, if I dont like the way someone looks or maybe is wearing the jersey of a club I hate, I will just raise a false complaint and not even be required to come to court for that...
- April 05, 2010 12:24 pm
- Seabee said...
Oussama, "How the world will view this and whether it will be considered a cosmopolitan progressive destination in the MENA region remains to be seen."
I think that's already clear by the reporting of these cases in the international media and in the comments left and on internet forums. They're not talking about the system as I am but emphasise the laws themselves. The general theme is that Dubai is very different from the image it's projected and visitors need to be on their guard.
firstname.lastname@example.com, I couldn't agree more. As I've said so many times it's not the law itself that I have a problem with, it's the way the law is administered. It allows any heat-of-the-moment anger or any vindictive, malicious person to damage another person's life.
- April 05, 2010 12:34 pm
- Dave said...
I've never been a big fan of political interference in the legal system (in any country), but if ever there was a need for the ruler to step in and add some immediate sanity to this situation then this is it!!!
- April 05, 2010 1:28 pm
Actually similar things are begining to happen in Britland now.
The case of Kevin Hughes for instance. He was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison (and served it!) for allegedly insulting an illegal immigant by telling him what he thought of him after the immigrant threatened him. An off duty police officer sitting at the next table arrested Kevin Hughes for "incitement".
When it came to court the immigrant didn't give evidence because he didn't understand or speak English! How bizzare is that?
- April 05, 2010 1:37 pm
- samuraisam said...
Read some of the Arabic papers and see how people are praising the result of the court case as an example of justice being served:
"yesssssss, this is very good news, when people say dubai is an open city and we answer yes but there are rules and regulations concerning our religion and culture"
"God forgive walker brothers shyness officials to postpone the laws of tourism, so they know that the United Arab Emirates Arab and a Muslim, but does not allow such acts"
- April 05, 2010 2:00 pm
- HE said...
I feel like its becoming a "tit for tat" sort of situation.
"No burqas in France and Belgium, well here you go! no appeal, take that!"
"No minarets in Switzerland, ok then, here take this! you deny giving the finger? LIAR!! this guy said you did!"
"Article about Dubai in the U.K., you're bashing us in your media?! BOOM, take that!! you have no right for witnesses!"
I know this is a bit extreme, but I honestly feel like this is what is happening.
- April 05, 2010 2:16 pm
- LDU said...
Seabee, do you know whether there is a Law Reform Commission providing opinions on such matters?
- April 05, 2010 3:10 pm
- Seabee said...
Sam, as I keep saying, they're all missing the main point, and a huge point it is. The fact that they have different views and laws on what constitutes public indecency is not the issue. The fact that a law is enforced is not the issue (although arbitrarily enforcing it in one instance out of ten thousand is an issue).
Regardless of the nationality, race, religion, creed, tribe, religion or any other bloody thing, of the defendant, if s/he can be convicted on nothing more than the word of an accuser, if no evidence is presented, the accuser does not appear in court, no witnesses are called, then it's not justice and it's wrong.
It has nothing to do with different cultural values, or foreigners not obeying the laws it's to do with the administration of justice.
Dave I agree, there's a huge and urgent need for an overhaul, not of the laws but of the way the justice system is operating.
There also needs to be consistency. Either change the laws or don't let tens of thousands of unmarried couples share hotel rooms. Round up the prostitutes who are openly roaming the streets of Deira and Bur Dubai and the hotels & clubs and deport them. Close the brothels. Sex outside marriage is illegal so what's the justification for allowing all this?
Enforce the dress codes, which relate to public decency. Dressing inappropriately has been getting more common, and accelerating, the past couple of years but the law is not enforced.
Change what's being allowed or change the laws, one or the other.
Keith it seems to me the UK is going from bad to worse.
LDU there may be one but I don't know of any such body.
- April 05, 2010 3:54 pm
- samuraisam said...
Seabee: I totally agree; I was just pasting those comments in so people could see what was being said in the Arabic-language press.
I don't think this is the first time questionable things have happened with witnesses (Vince Acors/Michelle Palmer case had some funny witnesses too).
- April 05, 2010 4:46 pm
- April 05, 2010 10:02 pm
- Seabee said...
email@example.com Good point. Why are they not in jail?
Sex outside marriage, an unmarried couple staying together, kissing in public.
- April 06, 2010 9:52 am
- the real nick said...
Should you find yourself a defendant in a similar situation then there is only one way out: counter sue the other party for defamation.
- April 06, 2010 10:31 am
The "counter sue" wont work if the other party is "higher in status" than you.
One should always remember that swearing, overt PDA, flipping the finger is considered a worse crime than driving recklessly or breaking queues.
In fact I would guess that bad driving and breaking queues are the 2 main things to which expats react by swearing and get in trouble.
- April 06, 2010 11:46 am


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It was just 2003 when he was in 8th grade at St. Peter's School in Lewiston. They were fundraising for their class trip to Splash Mountain in Erie, PA. There were only 16 kids in his class at that point and they seemed to have passed that petty junior high nonsense.
Age 14, as a freshman at Canisius High School, he endured one of the biggest disappointments of his life: getting cut from the swim team. It was a hugely humbling experience which he ultimately turned around by working out, eating better and swimming more with his club. By senior year he was voted a captain and contributed to another championship.
Age 15 was frustrating for him because his high school friends were largely located 45 minutes from home with the reliance of parents to get them together. This was the year where all he did was wish away time…I wish I could drive…I wish I could just go out with my friends without it being a huge production…I wish I were older…I wish…I wish…I wish…
Age 16 – oh, how I remember this day! Anthony, being Anthony, had done all the research and knew what pieces of ID we needed to get his learners permit. He probably lined them all up in a folder, clearly marked. I had the folder with me when I dropped him off at school with the understanding I would pick him up immediately following school and bring him to the DMV. I picked him up but realized when were nearly on the Grand Island bridge that I forgot the neat folder of ID in my office. We had to go back, delaying us about 35 minutes. We got to the DMV at 3:55pm and the woman at the window would not process the paperwork and let him take the test. You see, there was a clearly marked sign explaining that right next to the window…in four languages so it would be understood by all parents and guardians from all walks of life and continents. Needless to say, he was not a happy camper. Bad mother. I did bring him to the Power Vista parking lot near Niagara University and let him drive around there. If I was busted, I didn't care. Arrest me for letting my "undocumented minor" drive around a parking lot!
Age 17 – college applications were nearly done and waiting for guidance to complete the process. Little did I know, that was when the true teen angst (his and mine) would begin. My angst: him driving at night. His angst: where to go to college.
Age 18 and 19 – freshman and sophomore year at Fairfield University, accounting major and swim team…
We had dinner with him on Friday, saw him swim at UConn Saturday and took him to breakfast this morning. Zoom zoom…he's 20!
The older I get, the faster time goes!
Life is good!
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Department Of Insurance Issues Warning Regarding Bogus checks
News: 2012 Press Release
The California Department of Insurance (CDI) today announced that some checks bearing the name of the Department and purportedly signed by the Insurance Commissioner are fraudulent.
Recently, checks have been circulated and presented as a "payment" or "refund" from the CDI; however, the Department does not issue checks such as these and is warning consumers and businesses to be on alert if they are presented with a check of this type.
Investigators report that the fraudulent checks have been found in Southern California and five other states, with values between $2,000 and $5,000.
Any consumer or business that questions the validity of a check, or persons with information about this fraudulent activity, should contact the CDI at (909) 919-2200.
The California Department of Insurance, established in 1868, is the largest consumer protection agency in California. Insurers collect $310 billion in premiums annually in California. Since 2011 the California Department of Insurance received more than 1,000,000 calls from consumers and helped recover over $469 million in claims and premiums. Please visit the Department of Insurance website at www.insurance.ca.gov. Non-media inquiries should be directed to the Consumer Hotline at 800.927.4357. Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TDD), please dial 800.482.4833.


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The Habs were so pre-occupied with the fact that they were up 2-0 on the Sabres with fewer than 5 minutes left that most of them lost focus on the game and started dealing with other endeavours. The result of course led to Sabres comeback and to another frustrating Habs loss.
We asked the Habs players to finish this sentence:
'I would have paid attention to the last 5 minutes, overtime, and shootout of tonight's game, but I was too busy....'
Jacques Martin: .....looking at the vein on Lindy Ruff's forehead...it was mesmerizing.
Jaroslav Halak: .....trying to get the lighter that I was holding under my Carey Price voodoo doll to work.
Ryan O'Byrne: ....sitting in the penalty box, apparently hitting someone in the face with your stick is illegal. Hogwash.
Maxime Lapierre: ...laughing my ass off.
Mike Cammalleri: ...tweeting about how we won after my triumphant return!
Dominic Moore: ...trying to get away from Pierre McGuire...he kept calling me a Monster.
Hal Gill: Break-Dancing in front of the net.
Carey Price: ...thinking about what new apparel I was going to show off during my next start.
Scott Gomez: ...calling Travis Moen and telling him the score....he was in stitches! ...Too soon?
Andrei Kostitsyn: ...score two goals, I do enough.
M.A. Bergeron: ...preventing myself from shitting my pants on account of the fact that I still have a job with an NHL team.
Tomas Plekanec: ...texting my agent telling him that I'm for sure staying in Montreal. I sent him a different text 15 minutes later....
Benoit Pouliot: ....not being Guillaume Latendresse....that should be enough for you people.
The Sabres fans in the HSBC Arena: ...waking up.
Sergei Kostitsyn: I no understyand Kvestion.


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After making Mr. P. these two pirate swords (see my how-to here) we thought it would be fun to make a holster belt to go with them. After all, a pirate needs to be hands-free at times, in case he has an important phone call to answer. Let's face it, today's pirates are much more technologically advanced than the pirates of yesteryear.
This is an easy sewing project that took about 30 minutes and can be custom made to fit whatever "weapon / accessory" needs your child may have.
I started with cutting a large rectangle. 10 inches by whatever your child's waist is plus 5 inches (you can always make it shorter.) I used a thicker linen / canvass material to make it sturdy-looking.
Once you have your rectangle, you fold it lengthwise, right sides together (see below).
The side where the fold occurs is a "sewing optional" spot. I thought it had a more polished look when it was sewn. But if you have more pressing things to do, then just leave it.
Now turn the whole thing right side out and you will have one side (a short side) that remains to be sewn. Fold the sides inward and sew as close to the edge as possible.
Next, you need to figure out where your Velcro is going to go. I chose a pretty hearty piece of Velcro to attach, about 4 inches x 2 inches. Figure out where you want to place your Velcro pieces and pin. Then sew the Velcro on in a square.
Here's the side of the Velcro you won't see.
And here's what it will look like on the belt. I chose a contrasting color to make that rectangular shape pop. Pirates can have keen senses of fashion too.
Here's the whole thing...but we're not done yet!!
Now you need to figure out how many holster loops you need. we had two swords, hence two loops. Our cutlass has a curved, odd shape, so I had to test the loop size in order to make sure it would properly fit in.
Cut out another rectangle - mine was about 1 1/2 inches x 4 inches and fold and then sew it right sides together 3/4 of the way around, leaving a short side open (the same thing you did with the belt material except on a smaller scale.)
Turn it inside out through that unsewn fourth side.
Figure how big you need the loop to be and where on the belt you would like it to sit. You can trim it smaller if need be. Or tuck the end pieces under before you sew it to the belt if you need to adjust the length.
Pin and sew.
Mr. P. wanted his swords to fall at his hips.
Do another loop for the other side (or if you have more than two accessories, add more loops!)
Place your swords in and enjoy!!


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Snort 126.96.36.199 is now available on snort.org, at
https://www.snort.org/downloads in the Latest Release section.
Snort 126.96.36.199 includes changes for the following:
[*] Improvements
* Improved support for DAQ verdicts of whitelist and blacklist for 6in4 and 4in6 encapsulated traffic (similar to Teredo & GTP). See the Snort manual for configuration details.
* Avoid changing the length of IP options in frag3 when receiving duplicate 0-offset fragments that have IP options.
See the Release Notes and ChangeLog for more details.
Please submit bugs, questions, and feedback to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Happy Snorting!
The Snort Release Team
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Snort 22.214.171.124 has been released!
Posted by Joel Esler
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Thank you Joel. The 6in4, 4in6 has been a great bypass for some time.ReplyDeleteReplies
We aren't aware of 6in4, 4in6 bypasses. This version simply improved the DAQ blacklist/whitelist support, which has nothing to do with inspection. We've been inspecting 6in4, 4in6 for some time now.Delete
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LAPD Cop Killer Left Messages for Tim Tebow, Charlie Sheen, Ellen DeGeneres and More
Ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner -- the accused killer at the center of a citywide manhunt -- posted a rambling message to various celebrities ... including Tim Tebow ... before embarking on his murderous rampage.
The message is part of an "uncensored manifesto" that law enforcement confirms to TMZ was posted to the Internet by Dorner. Besides various threats to police officers and their families ... Dorner --who's now accused of killing 3 people including a cop -- also blogs goodbye messages to his favorite stars, as if he's planning on dying.
His message to Tim Tebow reads:
Tebow, I really wanted to see you take charge of an offense again and the game. You are not a good QB by todays standards, but you are a great football player who knows how to lead a team and WIN. You will be "Tebowing" when you reach your next team. I have faith in you. Get out of that circus they call the Jets and away from the reality TV star, Rex Ryan, and Mark Rapist Sanchez.
He also included a note to "Inglourious Basterds" star Christoph Waltz:
Christopher Walz, you impressed me in Inglorious Basterds. After viewing Django Unchained, I was sold. I have come to the conclusion that you are well on your way to becoming one of the greats if not already and show glimpses of Daniel Day Lewis and Morgan Freeman-esque type qualities of greatness. Trust me when I say that you will be one of the greatest ever.
Super chef Anthony Bourdain:
Anthony Bourdain, you're a modern renaissance man who epitomizes the saying "too cool for school".
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Larry David:
Larry David, I agree. 72-82 degrees is way to hot in a residence. 68 , degrees is perfect.
Larry David, Kevin Hart, the late Patrice Oneal, Lisa Lampanelli, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Louis CK, Dave Chapelle, Jon Stewart, Wanda Sykes, Dennis Miller, and Jeff Ross are pure geniuses.
Ellen DeGeneres:
Ellen Degeneres, continue your excellent contribution to entertaining America and bringing the human factor to entertainment. You changed the perception of your gay community and how we as Americans view the LGBT community. I congratulate you on your success and opening my eyes as a young adult, and my generation to the fact that you are know different from us other than who you choose to love. Oh, and you Prop 8 supporters, why the f*ck do you care who your neighbor marries. Hypocritical pieces of sh*t.
Charlie Sheen:
Charlie Sheen, you're effin awesome.
He continues with the following messages ...
"Jennifer Beals, Serena Williams, Grae Drake, Lisa Nicole-Carson, Diana Taurasi, N'bushe Wright, Brenda Villa, Kate Winslet, Ashley Graham, Erika Christensen, Gabrielle Union, Isabella Soprano, Zain Verjee, Tamron Hall, Gina Carano, America Ferrara, Giana Michaels, Nene, Natalie Portman, Queen Latifah, Michelle Rodriguez, Anjelah Johnson, Kelly Clarkson, Nora Jones, Laura Prepon, Margaret Cho, and Rutina Wesley, you are THE MOST beautiful women on this planet, period. Never settle, professionally or personally."
Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" is the greatest piece of music ever, period. Hanz Zimmer, William Bell, Eric Clapton, BB King, Bob Marley, Sam Cooke, Metallica, Rob Zombie, Nora Jones, Marvin Gaye, Jay-Z, and the King (Louis Armstrong) are musical prodigies.
Jeffrey Toobin and David Gergen, you are political geniuses and modern scholars. Hopefully Toobin is nominated for the Supreme Court and implements some damn common sense and reasoning instead of partisan bickering. But in true Toobin fashion, we all know he would not accept the nomination.
John and Ken from KFI, never mute your facts and personal opinions. You are one of the few media personalities who speak the truth, even when the truth is not popular. I will miss listening to your discussions.
Dorner also trashed some of his least favorite people, including Cardinal Mahony and the Westboro Baptist Church:
Cardinal Mahoney, you are in essence a predator yourself as you enabled your subordinates to molest multiple children in the church over many decades. May you die a long and slow painful death.
Westboro Baptist Church, may you all burn slowly in a fire, not from smoke inhalation, but from the flames and only the flames.
Gov. Chris Christie. What can I say? You're the only person I would like to see in the White House in 2016 other than Hillary. You're America's no shit taking uncle. Do one thing for your wife, kids, and supporters. Start walking at night and eat a little less, not a lot less, just a little. We want to see you around for a long time. Your leadership is greatly needed.
George H.W. Bush:
The honorable President George H.W. Bush, they never give you enough credit for your successful Presidency. You were always one of my favorite Presidents (2nd favorite). I hope your health improves greatly. You are the epitome of an American and service to country.
He complains about "misandrist" "lesbians" on the LAPD:
Those lesbian officers in supervising positions who go to work, day in day out, with the sole intent of attempting to prove your misandrist authority (not feminism) to degrade male officers. You are a high value target.
Dorner advocates for gun control:
If you had a well regulated AWB, this would not happen. The time is now to reinstitute a ban that will save lives. Why does any sportsman need a 30 round magazine for hunting? Why does anyone need a suppressor? Why does anyone need a AR15 rifle?Mia Farrow said it best. "Gun control is no longer debatable, it's not a conversation, its a moral mandate." Sen. Feinstein, you are doing the right thing in leading the re-institution of a national AWB. Never again should any public official state that their prayers and thoughts are with the family.
Dorner is "not a fucking Christian":
He stated as good Christians we are to turn the other cheek as Jesus did. Problem is, I'm not a fucking Christian and that old book, made of fiction and limited non-fiction, called the bible, never once stated Jesus was called a nigger.
Dorner wants to "smash George Zimmerman's skull":
If you continuously followed me while I was walking at dusk/night I would confront you as well. Too bad Trayvon didn't smash your skull completely open, Zim.
Dorner thinks he is suffering from concussion-related brain damage from playing football:
If possible, I want my brain preserved for science/research to study the effects of severe depression on an individual's brain. Since 6/26/08 when I was relieved of duty and 1/2/09 when I was terminated I have been afflicted with severe depression. I've had two CT scans during my lifetime that are in my medical record at Kaiser Permanente. Both are from concussions resulting from playing football. The first one was in high school, 10/96. The second was in college and occurred in 10/99. Both were conducted at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in LA/Orange county. These two CT scans should give a good baseline for my brain activity before severe depression began in late 2008.
The Killer Cop's Insane Facebook Manifesto, Part 1: 'I assure you that the casualty rate will be high.'
The Killer Cop's Insane Facebook Manifesto, Part 2: 'Charlie Sheen, you're effin awesome.


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New worm is attachment(as ''BRITNEY.CHM'') on an e-mail with subject ''RE:Britney Pics'' and text the following: ''Take a look at these pics...''. When somebody try to open the attachment it appears a message: ''Enable ActiveX To See Britny Pictures''. Because this thing is neccesery for the virus.
Then it searches for the file "MIRC.INI" and if it finds it, it makes a new file called "SCRIPT.INI", by this file it sends copies of itself to other user on every channel on irc and on everyone, who is on the address book of Outlook. Updates for this virus has made Sophos ,but not Nortons.


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Henry Clinton letter on Penobscot River fort, 1779Item 7475 info
Maine Historical Society
In 1779, much of the action of the American Revolution had moved south.
But, the British saw an opportunity on the Downeast coast of Maine to establish a strategic naval position to challenge American privateers, set up a loyalist community, access needed timber resources, and establish a coastal trading post.
British General Henry Clinton wrote a letter concerning construction of a fort on the Penobscot River and activities of troops there "to defend themselves against any Attempt the Rebels in those parts may be able to make ..."
Copy of letter from Francis McLean to Henry Clinton, 1779Item 7477 info
Maine Historical Society
Brig. Gen. Francis McLean, then in Halifax, Nova Scotia, wrote back to Clinton, telling him that 500 men were ready to leave for Penobscot Bay and begin building a fort.
He commented that the British might need more naval power than the Albany, commanded by Capt. Henry Mowat.
McLean's troops arrived June 12 and soon occupied Majabigwaduce (now Castine), between the mouth of the Bagaduce River and a finger of the bay leading to the Penobscot River.
On the rise above the town the British forces built a small network of fortifications and redoubts known as Fort George, in honor of the King.
From there, McLean was to intercept privateer raiders headed for Nova Scotia harbors, and possibly establish a new Loyalist colony called New Ireland in eastern Maine.
William McLellan Sr., Portland, ca.1800Item 18426 info
Maine Historical Society
The General Court of Massachusetts responded on June 24 to the British occupation of Penobscot Bay without waiting for Continental Army assistance.
With promise of fair compensation for all losses, the Court requisitioned a fleet of privateers, merchant ships, and state warships, and with three Continental ships headed east.
Dudley Saltonstall of the Continental Navy assumed charge of the expedition, while ground forces and artillery were commanded by Brigadier-Generals Solomon Lovell and Peleg Wadsworth and Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Revere.
Capt. William McLellan Sr. (ca. 1735-1815) of Portland, was owner and master of the sloop Centurian, one of the ships that responded to the Massachusetts plea.
After the war, McLellan was a leading Portland merchant.
Peleg Wadsworth letter about Penobscot Expedition, July 31, 1779Item 9966 info
Maine Historical Society
The American fleet totaled 16 to 18 armed vessels, 24 transports, and around 1,500 troops, vastly outnumbering the British forces at Castine.
The fleet arrived off Bagaduce on July 25 to find Captain Mowat with three armed sloops in the small harbor.
The Americans launched an amphibious assault, but strong winds and tidal currents brought a quick retreat. Saltonstall anchored his ships out of cannon range, and aside from ineffective small land assaults refused to commit troops or ships.
Peleg Wadsworth wrote to his wife, Betsey, on July 31, describing the position of the American ships and forces and the strength of the British and the ineffectiveness of the early actions.
He noted that Americans had suffered more casualties than had the British.
Peleg Wadsworth letter on the Penobscot Expedition, 1779Item 9965 info
Maine Historical Society
Since most of Saltonstall's armed vessels were square rigged, maneuvering in the confined harbor against wind and tide would have been difficult, and he mistrusted the sullen privateer captains, many of whom joined under threat of impressment.
Wadsworth wrote again on Aug. 13, 1779 to his wife, telling her that the "work" at Bagaduce likely would take longer than expected and that "the Harmony between the Fleet & Army is not perfect Unison."
Saltonstall was known to be difficult, while Gen. Lovell was generally pleasant and thought to be a good leader.
Silhouette of Peleg Wadsworth, Portland, ca. 1800Item 136 info
Maine Historical Society
While it appeared that the Americans had a lot of naval power, the British were trained and had better armaments.
The American forces generally were young boys and old men as most of the more "fit" men already had been drafted into the Continental Army.
In August, British Admiral Sir George Collier arrived with a fleet from Halifax, further expanding the British forces.
Peleg Wadsworth letter about Penobscot Expedition, 1779Item 9964 info
Maine Historical Society
Wadsworth wrote to his wife on Aug. 14, 1779, commenting on the arrival of the new fleet.
"They are now proceeding up the Bay & our Fleet is waiting to meet them; our Army is on board the Transports & proceeding up the River in Case of a Superior Force, to be out of Danger..," Wadsworth wrote.
He added, "we were oblig'd to give up the ground that cost us so much Labour & so many brave men & officers."
Colliers victory in Penobscot Bay, 1779Item 23347 info
Maine Historical Society
The Americans went upriver to be "out of danger," but unfavorable winds and tides trapped them there.
The Americans burned or scuttled their vessels and made their way home on overland trails.
Peleg Wadsworth was alone among the American commanders to attempt to rally the troops and save equipment.
He managed only to leave the area with five companies of militia.
Letter from Francis McLean to Henry Clinton, 1779Item 7472 info
Maine Historical Society
British Brig. Gen. McLean reported to Gen. Henry Clinton about the British victory at Bagaduce.
He wrote, "From the point we were observing the Confusion of the Enemys fleet which we were endeavouring to increase by bringing down two twelve pounders to play on them when we aw the appearance of His Majestys fleet under Commodore Sir George Collier..."
He added, referring to the American fleet, "I am happy to inform your Excellency that their destruction has been compleat not one having escaped being either taken or burnt."
Stephen Hall on Penobscot Expedition, 1779Item 1323 info
Maine Historical Society
In a letter of a quite different tone, Stephen Hall of Falmouth wrote to Jeremiah Powell, a member of the Massachusetts Council and a resident of North Yarmouth, "It is needless for me, at this time, to mention to you ye disaster that has attended our Eastern Expedition."
He also refers to it as "that unhappy Event."
He offers to fill the position of procurer of provisions and notes that his service to that point had been at his own expense.
Receipt for Penobscot Expedition service, Falmouth, 1779Item 25164 info
Maine Historical Society
Participants in the Penobscot Expedition were paid as evidenced by a receipt Capt. John Starbird signed for partial payment for Josiah Bayley's service.
The receipt is dated July 8, 1779.
But payments to shipowners and others were quite expensive.
Massachusetts convinced Congress to pay, but the defeat bankrupted the Massachusetts navy, decimated New England's privateer fleet, and underscored Maine's military vulnerability.
Pay voucher for the expenses of the ship the AlbanyItem 1329 info
Maine Historical Society
The British fared better.
Brig. Gen. McLean authorized the British naval paymaster to release 1,000 pounds sterling to Captain Henry Mowat for the expenses of the ship the Albany "for Contingencies and other Expenses attending His Majestys Fort at Majibigwaduce."
Charter for New Ireland, 1780Item 6949 info
Maine Historical Society
Another sign of the spoils of victory is the charter for the loyalist colony of New Ireland.
The charter provides for the new province between "Sawhno River and the St. Croix" to have a governor and council, chief justice and other necessary civil officers -- and no local legislature until "circumstances of the Province will admit of it."
"It has been found by sad experience," the document notes, "that the Democratic power is predominant on all parts of the British America."
Peleg Wadsworth's PistolItem 11144 info
Maine Historical Society
For the rest of the war eastern Maine was an occupied territory and a rallying point for Loyalist refugees, who conducted plunder expeditions against coastal towns.
While most settlers of the area remained, their loyalty often was unclear.
The British offered amnesty to anyone who took an oath to the king. Many settlers probably were interested in protecting their land and livelihoods.
Peleg Wadsworth III canteen, ca. 1812Item 11147 info
Maine Historical Society
Defense of the coast, such as it was, was given over to John Allan in the east and Peleg Wadsworth west of the Penobscot.
They urged settlers to help defend towns against British raids, but were unable to stop the British.
Wadsworth was captured by the British after a fierce standoff in Thomaston in 1781.
Imprisoned in Fort George, he later escaped.
Letter requesting aid for losses to British, 1783Item 13412 info
Maine Historical Society
The American victory over the British ended the province of New Ireland.
Majabigwaduce, seeking to start anew, changed its name to Castine.
Some former residents who fled during British in 1779 sought reparations for the property they lost.


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Read from Anywhere. Yes, Anywhere.
To read from anywhere means having access to your patient studies, reporting tools, and sometimes scheduling and demographics tools, so you may conduct business and provide patient reports no matter your location.
This ability improves your workflow and makes your practice more efficient; something that is appreciated by your referring physicians and most importantly the patients.
Who Reads From Anywhere?
- Independent radiologists reading for multiple facilities/locations
- Radiology groups, including teleradiology
- Multi-facility imaging centers
- Hospitals
Why Read From Anywhere?
- Ability to expand your business
- Provide specialty reading services to remote areas
How To Read From Anywhere?
- Web-based diagnostic workstations
- Web-based physician portal
- Platform independent mobile physician portals iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets
Advantages of Read From Anywhere Technology
- No Citrix or VPNs required
- Eliminates the need to be onsite to provide final reports
- Access the physician portal from any device or PC and provide preliminary reads
- Customizable routing rules so your current and prior studies are available when and where you need them