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"As far as I know, no one has ever come up with an effective solution to the Jewish problem. Solving the riddle of the Sphinx would be easier."
Part 1: A Problem without a Solution
by Lasha Darkmoon
Why all attempts to solve the Jewish Problem have failed
The Jewish Problem, more commonly and euphemistically known as the "Jewish Question", has agitated the minds of political analysts throughout history but has remained unresolved to this day.
For centuries, a ready and makeshift solution to the problem consisted of the mass expulsion of the Jews.
Just get rid of the Jews, it was thought, and the problem would go away. This didn't work. The Jews simply migrated and created problems elsewhere. And then, after a few years, their descendants came trickling back into the same countries from which their ancestors had been forcibly evicted.
Here is Queen Maria Theresa in a decree dated 1777, during the heyday of the Enlightenment period. The Queen of Austria-Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Galicia, Parma, and the Austrian Netherlands had grown weary of the Jews and the never-ending problems they had caused in her extensive dominions.
"Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him." — Maurice Samuel, You Gentiles
Her expulsion order is typical of the many others issued by other countries before her time, so we shall quote the angry queen in her own words:
"Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome plague within the state than this race, which impoverished the people by their fraud, usury, and money-lending and commits all deeds which an honorable man despises. Subsequently, they have to be removed and excluded from here as much as possible." (See here)
Though Jews have been expelled from 109 locations from AD 250,
expulsion failed to solve the Jewish Problem.
The next attempted solution to the Jewish problem, primarily advocated by the Jews themselves and their philosemitic supporters, was complete emancipation of the Jews.
It was widely believed that if their crippling disabilities were removed, and if Jews were made equal citizens, the Jewish problem would just "disappear" — especially with assimilation. The Jew's antisocial behavior, it was argued, was the natural result of his unfair treatment. Treat him well and he would behave properly.
It was always understood that assimilation was a necessary precondition for Jewish emancipation. In order to become equal citizens, Jews had to promise to fit in with the society around them and become part of a happy and homogenous whole.
They were told: to intermarry with the natives, convert to Christianity, learn the language of the country, dress like other people, adopt the manners and customs of those around them, and, above all, take a back seat and keep out of trouble.
It was a rare Jew who followed all these instructions to the letter. Some refused to follow any. As for the final injunction — take a back seat and keep out of trouble — most Jews found this impossible to keep. It ran against the grain of their nature. It was almost like expecting a cat not to kill birds or a fox not to raid the hen house.
The Jews received their first emancipation in France. This was in 1791 after the French Revolution, a catastrophic event engineered by Masonic secret societies in which the Jews featured predominantly and wielded the most influence. Several other revolutions were to follow in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. All of these, without exception, were masterminded by Jews.
"At the front of every one of these revolutionary movements for the destruction of authority, nationhood, and religion," noted an eminent elder statesman, "you find a Jew."
These inflammatory words were written by Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of England, himself a Jew who had converted to Christianity.
Emancipation proceeded at a rapid rate in the country after country throughout the 19th century. Far from "solving" the Jewish problem, this merely made matters worse. This was because Jewish emancipation inevitably led to Jewish supremacy.
Every single country that emancipated its Jews was soon taken over by Jews.
In Russia, the Jews took their emancipation by force. This was in 1917 after the Bolshevik Revolution: an event carefully planned, financed, and largely administered by Jews from New York. Communism was then ushered in, the Pale of Settlement abolished, and Jews thereafter emigrated in swarms to the United States, Canada, South America, various other European countries, and, finally, to Palestine — where they immediately began to make themselves a thorough nuisance to the Arabs.
Did emancipating the Jews in Russia solve the Jewish problem? No, it did not. It made matters infinitely worse: not only in Russia but in every single country to which these refugees from the Pale of Settlement came with their beaky noses under black hats, their raggedy beards, their wild eyes, and their clack clacking Yiddisher tongues.
The Red Terror was soon to follow. The Russian peasants, who constituted 90 percent of the population at that time, were massacred in their millions, with Jewish commissars in the vanguard giving the orders to kill. Blood ran in rivers through the streets of Moscow and St Petersburg, much to the delight of psychopaths like Leon Trotsky, Lazar Kaganovich, and Ilya Ehrenberg — all of them Jews with lots of blood on their hands.
Over 66 million Russian Christians, according to Solzhenitsyn, were genocided by an essentially Jewish regime in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1953. In comparison, the French Revolution had been a nun's picnic.
Here is the psychopathic Leon Trotsky (pictured), shortly after the violent emancipation of Jews in Russia that followed in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917):
"We must turn Russia into a desert populated by white negroes upon whom we shall impose a tyranny such as the most terrible Eastern despots never dreamt of…. We shall shed such floods of blood as will make all the human losses suffered in the capitalist wars pale by comparison…. By means of terror and bloodbaths, we shall reduce the Russian intelligentsia to a state of complete stupefaction and idiocy and to an animal existence." (Full quote here)
— From the 'Memoirs of Aron Simanovich', quoted in The Nature of Zionism by Vladimir Stepin, Moscow, 1993, and translated from Russian into English by Clive Lindhurst.
Zionism promoted as a solution to the Jewish Problem
A new "cure" for the Jewish problem was offered by Theodor Herzl in the late 1890s: Zionism.
"Give us a country of our own," the Zionists said in so many words, "and this will solve the Jewish problem."
Quite simply, the idea was this: if Jews were given their own country, they would all go and live there and get out of everyone's way. It was thought that the removal of their presence from every country, as they proceeded to settle in their new homeland, Israel, would solve the Jewish problem once and for all.
The formula was axiomatic and self-evident: No Jews, no Jewish Problem.
Is it anti-Semitic to say this? No, it is not, given that the pioneers of Zionism put forward exactly the same idea in different words. They demanded a separate Jewish homeland for Jews on the grounds that Jews were a headstrong and highly-strung race incapable of living in other people's countries without creating problems sooner or later. The Talmudic mentality insisted: that we Jews will not take orders from our inferiors.
Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, wrote in his memoirs:
"Whenever the quantity of Jews in any country reaches the saturation point, that country reacts against them. [This] reaction…cannot be looked upon as anti-Semitism in the ordinary or vulgar sense of that word; it is a universal social and economic concomitant of Jewish immigration, and we cannot shake it off. — Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error (1949). Quoted in Albert S. Lindemann's The Jew Accused, 1991 (p. 277).
Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, had himself made the same point much earlier. "Anti-Semitism," he wrote, is "an understandable reaction to Jewish defects." And in his diary, he added: "I find the anti-Semites are fully within their rights." (See here)
It has long been recognized by intelligent Jews that mutual antagonism between Jew and gentiles is only to be expected and that any attempt to achieve lasting peace and harmony between the two groups is doomed to failure. "I do not believe that the primal difference between gentile and Jew is reconcilable," Jewish author Maurice Samuel points out in his book You Gentiles. "You and we may come to an understanding, never to a reconciliation. There will be irritation between us as long as we are in intimate contact." (See here)
Why Zionism failed to solve the Jewish problem
Zionism seemed a neat solution to the Jewish problem initially. This was because, on the one hand, it meant that the Jews got their own country; and, on the other, it meant that non-Jews got rid of Jews and no longer had to put up with their pesky presence — which, as both Herzl and Weizmann had already conceded, was the root cause of anti-Semitism.
And so it came about that Zionism was widely seen in these early days as an original and workable solution to the Jewish problem, even though Zionism meant stealing Arab land on which to park this recalcitrant race of rootless cosmopolitans.
The awkward question nevertheless needs to be asked: did Zionism actually succeed in solving the Jewish problem, as it was widely expected to do? No, unfortunately, it did not. Like all other solutions hitherto tried, Zionism was to prove an abysmal failure.
This was because Jewish leaders reneged on their implicit promise, or rather on the tacit understanding, that those who are given a homeland are under obligation to go and live there. The Jews were expected to emigrate to Israel en masse, thereby solving the Jewish Problem by removing the root cause of the problem, i.e., themselves: meaning, their presence in other people's countries as undesirable maladapts.
The Jews' reluctance to emigrate to Israel en masse after 1948 defeated the whole purpose of giving them their own country in the first place. It made a mockery of Zionism and its rationale.
There are almost as many Jews in North America today (5.8 million) as there are in Israel (5.9 million). An enormous 40 percent of world Jewry now choose to live in the United States. Vast numbers of Jews moreover continue to live in other people's countries where they continue to excite anti-Semitism by their domineering presence, their over-representation in key professions, their tendency to network, and their constant involvement in fraud and financial scams.
This was not as it was meant to be. Why give the Jews a homeland if they refuse to live there? Why buy a man a horse, you might similarly ask, if he refuses to ride it?
So here we are now: at this awkward impasse.
By giving the Jews Israel, the Brits and the Americans possibly made history's most costly mistake. No decision they could have made is likely to have more catastrophic consequences. The Jews now have nuclear weapons. More than once, they have threatened the world with their Samson Option, i.e., world annihilation if ever Israel is existentially threatened. And needless to say, they are currently engaged in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians, a people whose only crime is that they happen to own the land the Jews covet.
Adolf Hitler once described America as the Jews' "new hunting grounds". I apologize for quoting the most hated man in history, but it seems there were times when Hitler actually hit the nail on the head. With remarkable prescience, he saw that the state of Israel would one day develop into organized Jewry's international crime base from which it would plunder other countries, including America, with impunity:
"It doesn't even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organization for their international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks." — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 11
In 1946 the Jews owned 6 percent of Palestine.
Today they occupy (illegally) roughly 90 percent.
In his final years, Stalin appears to have developed a negative attitude toward Israel, seeing it as a giant military base run by a Jew-controlled America that would one day threaten the vital interests of the Soviet Union. Before he could do anything about it, Stalin was assassinated.
The one man who could have stopped international Jewry in its tracks, as it ran its rollercoaster ride to world domination with the United States as its battering ram, had been secretly poisoned to death — either by Beria, thought by many to be Jewish or by another Jew in Stalin's entourage.
The date of Stalin's death, March 1, 1953, happened by a strange coincidence to fall on the Jewish feast of Purim.
International Jewry today continues its triumphant march in North America, Europe, and elsewhere.
Continued in Part 2: 7 Drastic Remedies for the Jewish Problem
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Washington (CNN) - CNN has exclusively learned that Rep. Michele Bachmann will form a presidential exploratory committee. The Minnesota Republican plans to file papers for the committee in early June, with an announcement likely around that same time.
But a source close to the congresswoman said that Bachmann could form the exploratory committee even earlier than June so that she could participate in early Republican presidential debates.
"She's been telling everyone early summer," the source told CNN regarding Bachmann's planned June filing and announcement. But the source said that nothing is static.
"If you [debate sponsors] come to us and say, 'To be in our debates, you have to have an exploratory committee,' then we'll say, 'Okay, fine...I'll go file the forms.'"
Three GOP presidential primary debates are planned before and during early June: The first one on May 2 at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California and another on May 5 in South Carolina. CNN plans a GOP presidential primary debate in New Hampshire in early June.
Meanwhile, CNN has also learned that Iowa Republican state Sen. Kent Sorenson will likely be hired to be Bachmann's political director for the state - and that Bachmann aides hope to have a complete team together for Iowa by this weekend.
Sorenson is a prominent Tea Party figure in Iowa and holds sway with evangelicals in the state. He has publicly said he will support Bachmann if she mounts a presidential bid.
The three-term congresswoman and Tea Party favorite hopes to also have political teams in place - very soon - in New Hampshire, home to the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, and South Carolina, host of the first presidential primary in the South.
"I could have state directors in all those states within a week," Bachmann Chief of Staff Andy Parrish said.
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Bachmann does not look presidential; she looks like a moron.
This should push "Cris" right over the edge!!
I wonder if George Will thinks Michelle Bachmann could run a lemonade stand.
Oh, congrats. Your chances went from 1% to 1.1% with this action.
Who in their right mind would vote for this person? Does the GOP not have anyone left in their ranks with an intellect? It's beginning to get a little scary.
I hope she goes for it and wins the nomination.
wow, what a slap in the face. Can the GOP really not attract better candidates? Seriously?
You know, I think my cat wants to form an "exploratory committee" in June, too. Hey, don't laugh. My cat would make a better president than Bachmann.
I can only hope this woman runs for president and draws the evangelical zealot vote. People like this have no business in politics and while she obviously has a "constitutional right" to be voted in as a representative, I think we can all agree her experience and intellect are lacking tremendously. How anyone could justify voting for someone of this quality is beyond me and hopefully beyond most Americans. If it isn't then we're seriously in trouble. (Then again this country did vote George W. Bush into office for 8 years so I suppose anything is possible)
Oh God, please let it be true!! Obama in a land slide!
Palin / Bachmann 2012
Divas of Doom Tour !
Let the circus begin! This is just perfect, the idiot of the Tea Bagging/Republican party announces her explotatory committe for president. Just when it was begining to look like there would be no lonny toons female candidate for 2012, we have the looniest of them all running. She make sarah palin look normal.
She is another embarrassment to the American people.
I am embarrassed and somewhat ashamed to be an American right now. To think that someone as obnoxious and insane as Michele Bachmann could run for PRESIDENT of the USA???..... it`s embarrassing and shameful.
Maybe an exploratory committee could try to find her brain.
There's obviously been a mistake here. Bachman thought you said they were forming a Pez committee, because otherwise, she's either flipped her lid or eating some of that funny candy again.


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Of all the headphone specialists, Sennheiser probably offers the broadest and most closely spaced range, with something for practically every conceivable application.
Once upon a time, the range included a model called the Orpheus that cost around £10,000, however, these days the range tops out just one model above the HD600.
Appropriately for such a 'premium' product the HD600 is very smartly turned out and features well-judged ear pads that fit snugly round all the sets of ears we tried, applying firm but not irritating pressure, and maintaining stable positioning under all circumstances. The headband is comfortably padded, too.
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For Rent – Interior of Sandwich Tiny Home
Last week I have presented the floor plan and exterior sketch of the sandwich tiny home under the post "Sandwich Tiny Home For Rent – Exterior & Floor Plan " For today's post I will finished the design with the tiny home interior and exterior in colors. It shows how's the ambience inside. My tiny home design is a very functional house with tiny spaces which is perfect for rent or a guest house. This tiny home is able to fit 1-2 person at least.
This tiny home for rent is 3 m x 5 m (around 10 ft x 17 ft) with an open porch of 1.5 m (around 5 ft) width. The interior floor plan is consist of :
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Last week, Justin Bieber released his sophomore LP, Believe, and we'd be lying to say some of us at FADER didn't care, at least a little. (This roundup of the album's best songs is our thirty-fifth post tagged with his name.) If you're curious but not quite ready to brave the deluxe edition's seventeen tracks, we've compiled four noteworthy picks, a shorthand guide to conversation-piece pop.
Justin Bieber f. Drake, "Right Here"
When Bieber hits the low notes on "Right Here," especially at 28 seconds, it's undeniably Drake-inspired, which takes a lot of guts considering the real Drake is on the track. (For another prolonged impression, complete with 40-style filtered toms, check the "Marvins Room"-lite of "Love Me Like You Do"). Produced by Hit-Boy ("Niggas in Paris"), "Right Here" is the only hip-hop song of the album's four with actual hip-hop artists as guests, and it's the best. DC
Justin Bieber, "Thought of You" (Prod. by Ariel Rechtshaid and Diplo)
"Thought of You" is Believe's big, wall-of-lightbulbs-bursting moment. It pulses with arena-sized energy, pings of high synth bouncing off big stabs of bass. On top, Bieber's vocal is impossibly bright. In the second verse, I did but I don't know how tumbles out of him like a single word, and "Pon de Floor"-style drums march towards the chorus, with Rechtshaid and Diplo changing the rhythm each time it comes around. First, it's compact and explosive, then it's stripped away and completely replaced with sparse, glimmering keys and finally, as if autographing the track at the last-possble moment, Diplo mixes in pitched-up Yeahs! and closes the the track with a final siren scream. NZ
Justin Bieber, "Maria"
Last November, 20-year-old Mariah Yeater filed a lawsuit claiming that she got pregnant after taking Justin Bieber's virginity, their encounter in a bathroom backstage after a Bieber show allegedly lasting just 30 seconds. Bieber denied the claims, Beliebers threatened to kill Yeater and the suit was quickly dismissed. The incident, Bieber's first true scandal, lives on in the thinly-disguised diss "Maria." Over a jerky, buoyant beat by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Bieber gets raw: She's talkin it/ She needs to quit/ But I never hit it/ I know she's not mine. Hollering She's not my girl! in homage to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," he plays the role of tightly wound, manic megastar more convincingly than the whispering heartthrob found on Believe's minimal first single, "Boyfriend." NZ
Justin Bieber, "Catching Feelings"
With its coffee-house guitar and slow-nod shakers, "Catching Feelings" is Bieber at his most adult contemporary, the type of song you'd imagine him imagining is timeless. If it seems like the bridge between Believe and his sincere Christmas album, Under the Mistletoe, that's largely because it borrows a chord progression and vocal riff from its opening track, "Only Thing I Ever Get for Christmas," albeit with slightly more gravelly vocals. A video of the studio recording featuring Bieber's mother soulfully nodding with her eyes closed and three men swaying with arms over each other's shoulders, keeping Bieber's earnest quotient high. DC


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Here's what I wrote for The Baltimore Sun on the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks. My own children were 11 and 8 at the time of 9/11, so I was thinking about them, their schoolmates, teammates and friends, a whole generation stuck with the memory of what happened on that day in 2001.
I WOULD LIKE to say something to the kids today, so you grown-ups will have to excuse me. All memories of the year past have me thinking of the future, and the future is where children live. So this is for them. Some of you kids might be reading this during the hour that exactly marks the one-year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Most of you were in school when that happened. A lot of you were dismissed from class and sent home by midday. Remember?
It was a clear and sunny day, and you'll all live forever with the glaring contradiction of such a horrible act on such a beautiful, late-summer, back-to-school, back-to-work day. "The sky's still the same unbelievable blue, " Bruce Springsteen sings in one of the tracks on his new CD.
I have a similar memory from nearly 40 years ago — the dismissal from school on the Friday afternoon President Kennedy was killed. It was a November day, but clear and bright, and Officer Charlie Thomas, the usually jolly crossing guard, wept as he held up his arms to stop traffic in front of our school. Whenever we get to November, around Thanksgiving, I look at the silver bark of trees, washed in bright afternoon sunlight, and I think of the day Kennedy died and how the world seemed to shatter. Every generation lives with the memory of a day like that. Yours is Sept. 11. Sorry to say that, but I can't imagine any of you ever forgetting it. You know how parents are. We always want to keep the dam of bad news from breaking. For as long as possible, we want to protect you from all the ugly things that occur in the world, at the hands of cruel and ignorant and greedy and fanatical people. We want to extend your childhood for as long as possible, so that you have time to experience the good things and come to know life on Earth first as a great field of possibilities and pleasures. We figure you'll learn about the bad stuff in bits and pieces as you grow up. We just hate to see you become jaded by, say, 12.
But Sept. 11 was the day the dam broke. There was nothing we could do to protect you. A lot of parents felt helpless that day. We might have shown you a strong face, but inside we were crumbling. Which probably makes you wonder why I would conjure up that awful day again. It's because I had an idea to put in a plug for thinking in a way that's bigger than the day. I want you to think of yourselves in a grand way — as true citizens of the Earth and the Future Earth — and to consider all that could be done to make life better and maybe even reduce the chances of another Sept. 11.
I know that sounds like something you might have heard at a high school commencement, or in church, in synagogue or mosque. But, look, you either have to think in these grand terms or became a cynical crank who crawls through life, contributing nothing. We have the choice of stewing in our anger, bewilderment and hatred or reaching deep inside and pulling out the good stuff that could actually make a difference in the world.
I heard Rush Limbaugh say on the radio that Americans haven't been angry enough, that we're too soft, too caught up in trying to understand those who hate us instead of just hating them back. But Rush is wrong. Americans went through their anger and their hate, and if you're scraping around for a sign of hope today, it's that the anger and the hate did not fester. It turned into action and into displays of concern and kindness, of patriotism, of faith and love.
Hate begets hate; anger begets anger. Many generations have failed to grasp that lesson. You can do better than that.
Elizabeth Wainio's last act in a life of 27 years was to use her cell phone to call her mother, Esther Heymann, from one of the hijacked airliners. "Elizabeth wanted to tell me how much she loved each of us in the family," her mother wrote me from Catonsville in July. "She expressed concern for the well-being of those who would have to recover from this murderous act. In her typical style of thoughtfulness, Elizabeth calmly expressed more concern for how her family would recover [than] about herself. … Elizabeth knew what mattered: love well, and be unselfish."
I promise, kids, no one is going to give you a hard time if you bake cookies for the old woman who lives alone down the street, or call up a grandfather in the middle of a day to tell him he's loved. You can do something selfless for a classmate or a teammate, or your club or your neighborhood. You can read a good book, or encourage someone else to read it. You could teach someone to read it. Look for what's good in the orneriest person you know. Say hello to someone who usually looks too shy to start a conversation. Make a stranger feel included by kicking the soccer ball or throwing the basketball his way. Make someone laugh. Write a thank-you note to someone who deserves it — a teacher, a mentor, a coach — just so they feel appreciated and remembered. Be generous. Open your eyes and ears to the world, to people who are different. Dare to be smart. Dare to do something great. You're stuck with this day as a landmark in your lives. Use it for something good.


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Garrad replaces Arthouros Zervos who announced he was stepping down from the role last month after 12 years in the role.
The election of Garrad follows the appointment of former Danish civil servant Thomas Becker as EWEA chief executive. Becker formally takes up the position in April.
In a statement, Garrad said: "I believe that the wind industry needs to respond urgently to the market conditions that face us now to ensure that we are positioned to become the major provider of Europe's energy early in the 21st century. I am honoured by my election and humbled by the task ahead."


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On May 30, 1997, patrolman Gregory Gallagher got out of his squad car in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood and approached a young man who was acting suspiciously. The man started running, and Gallagher chased him down an alley and over a fence. When the patrolman landed on the other side, the man grappled with him and took his handgun, opening fire as Gallagher scrambled back over the fence. One round hit Gallagher's bulletproof vest; another found flesh, hitting him in the leg. The assailant then jumped a couple of more fences into another backyard. He entered the house and demanded a glass of water from the terrified occupants.
On that glass were fingerprints that experts matched to Stephan Cowans, a Boston local who had an outstanding warrant for larceny. Gallagher identified Cowans as his assailant, as did another witness. But, it was testimony from two members of the fingerprint team that clinched the conviction: The prints, they said, unquestionably matched Cowans's.
In 2004, more than five years into Cowans's 35- to 50-year sentence, analysis of DNA left on the glass—and on a sweat shirt and baseball cap the assailant also left behind—proved Cowans to be innocent. It was hardly Boston's finest's finest hour. In fact, it was such an embarrassment for the department that the police commissioner closed the fingerprint lab for almost two years.
The Cowans case gave Boston a whopping headache, and it generated a lasting shiver in crime labs across the country. Fingerprinting was their gold standard; never before had DNA evidence overturned a conviction based on matching prints. Now, says Lawrence Kobilinsky, professor of forensic science at the John Jay College of Justice at the City University of New York, "this is happening across the board. Whether you're talking fingerprints, tire marks or firearms, DNA has caused people to realize that these disciplines are not completely reliable."
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As a result, prosecutors have begun to change their strategy in court. "Some methods you lean on less readily these days," says Astoria, Ore., District Attorney Joshua Marquis. "Hair analysis, fiber analysis, bite marks—you don't want to base too much of a case on those. Some prosecutors succumb to the temptation to rest their case on a fiber or a hair. But a good case is made up of a bunch of little things."
The new gold standard in forensic ID is the DNA match. A product of modern biological science, the DNA match was vigorously challenged when first used in court in the mid-1980s. DNA experts then did what traditional forensic ID experts never had to do: They thoroughly documented their technique. Put simply, DNA matching identifies the most distinctive genetic sequence in a sample of hair, tissue or fluid and calculates the likelihood that sequence exists in more than one person. If the sample quality is high enough, the odds can be one in trillions.
The Supreme Court shook the foundation of forensic science in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, when it ruled in 1993 that evidence should meet standards of peer review, replicability, documentation and stated rates of probable error—all of which DNA analysis can claim. Traditional methods, in comparison, fall far short. "These techniques are not quite junk science," says Michael Saks, a law professor at Arizona State University, "but they are junky. They make claims of accuracy or even infallibility that they can't back up. The fact is," he says, "we don't know how accurate these methods are because no one's ever done extensive studies to find out."
The few small studies that have been conducted suggest that error rates run from the low single digits (for fingerprints) to the teens (hair matching) and the 60s (voice recognition). The accuracy of a match depends not just on the sample quality but on the experience, judgment and integrity of the forensic examiner.
In addition, practices may differ significantly among labs. The procedures for analyzing fingerprints, for example, vary from nation to nation, state to state and town to town. Depending on the jurisdiction, eight or 12 or 16 identical "points," or ridge endings, qualify two fingerprints as a match. Given that many crime-scene prints are only partial, discerning these points can be difficult. And while no deep data exists for error rates, fingerprint examiners often express certainty on the stand.
Of 86 convictions overturned by DNA analysis, Saks found that traditional forensic evidence had played a role in securing 54; among factors such as poor legal representation and botched police work, only eyewitness testimony was involved in more wrongful convictions (61). "These methods may help convict the guilty," Saks says, "but they also convict the innocent. We've got to stop overselling them so juries can make fair decisions."
Bite-mark evidence was first used in court in 1954, and has been helping win convictions, including that of serial killer Ted Bundy, ever since. Few dispute that every person has a unique arrangement of teeth. The question is whether a bite mark reliably reflects it. Skin is elastic—it slips and moves, compresses and stretches—and bite marks change even in dead flesh. Sometimes the marks are so distinctive that identification is straightforward. More often, they appear vague or ordinary. Experts, certified as forensic odontologists, try to find similarities of general characteristics. Some analysts compare dental impressions to bite-mark photographs, or overlay computerized versions of these; more rarely, some compare 3D images of wounds, created with CT scans, to 3D images of teeth.
The most damaging challenge to bite-mark evidence involved a Phoenix cocktail waitress found stabbed to death in 1991 in the nightclub where she worked. She had been bitten twice, and the marks suggested a gap-toothed assailant. Suspicion soon centered on bar patron Ray Krone. Branded by the press as "the snaggletooth killer," he was convicted and sentenced to death. Ten years later, DNA testing of saliva on the woman's tank top was used to free Krone from death row and identify the real murderer.
Another forensic standby, firearm identification, has been used since the early 1800s. But it, too, is losing legal ground. To link a gun to a specific crime, examiners assume two things: that each firearm consistently leaves unique marks on bullets and spent casings; and that an expert can reliably match these to the weapon. In order to do this, an examiner fires rounds from a suspect's gun and places the bullets or casings under a microscope with those found at the crime scene, searching for similarities.
Simple—but complicated. Guns of the same type tend to leave similar marks, so an examiner must learn to distinguish those made by an individual weapon. In addition, bullets of different brands fired from the same gun may take on different markings.
This ambiguity was argued in the courtroom in 1996 when Michael Prochilo was tried for shooting at police. A Raven .25-cal. pistol was found between the used car lot, where the shots were fired, and the place where Prochilo had stolen a vehicle. An expert testified that bullets found at the scene matched those fired from the gun. Prochilo's lawyers moved to exclude the evidence on the grounds that it didn't meet the Supreme Court's Daubert criteria. The judge allowed the testimony, but the jury found reasonable doubt. Prochilo walked.
Forensic examiners seek patterns. While few would deny the legal pattern seen here, many still believe that, when performed conscientiously and rigorously, traditional forensic methods are reliable. "But we're facing a degree of skepticism we've not seen before," says Pat Wertheim, a fingerprint expert and consultant. "It's clear that we need to do more to demonstrate [these methods'] scientific basis."
Each time DNA evidence reverses a conviction, or prosecutors use Daubert to exclude evidence from a case, the pressure increases to prove the validity of a given forensic technique. This spring, the National Institute of Justice earmarked $600,000 to study the role and impact of forensic science. This research could help provide the scientific underpinnings that traditional methods now lack.
In the meantime, some forensics experts are already working to ensure more rigorous and objective analysis. Jennifer Hannaford, a fingerprint analyst with a degree in forensic science and nearly 10 years' experience in the field, was assigned to head the newly reopened Boston Police Department fingerprint lab.
Her first step was to hire four examiners who all entered forensics through academic training, and who, to promote objectivity, are employed as civilians. She plans to test the examiners for proficiency annually, standardize protocols for state-of-the-art analysis and gain accreditation from the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors.
"In the history of a science, it is not unusual to ask new questions from time to time," says Hannaford, who views the challenges facing forensics as an opportunity to re-examine the discipline—a necessary step for progress. "We need forensics for good law enforcement," she says. "But justice requires that it be sound. If we want to convince juries that it is, we have to raise our standards."


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i2010: Digital libraries
Outline of the Community (European Union) legislation about i2010: Digital libraries
These categories group together and put in context the legislative and non-legislative initiatives which deal with the same topic.
Information society > Digital Strategy i2010 Strategy eEurope Action Plan Digital Strategy Programmes
i2010: Digital libraries
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Communication from the Commission of 30 September 2005 to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions – i2010: digital libraries [COM(2005) 465 final – Official Journal C 49 of 28.2.2008].
The purpose of the Digital Libraries Initiative is to make Europe's cultural, audiovisual and scientific heritage accessible to all.
More specifically, the initiative aims to make European information sources more accessible and easier and more interesting to use in an online environment. Taking as its starting point our rich European heritage, the initiative combines cultural diversity, multilingualism and technological progress.
Digital libraries are organised collections of digital content made available to the public. The content is material that has either been digitised (copies of books and other documents) or that was initially produced in digital format.
There are three priority areas in which the potential of digital technologies is to be exploited to widen access to information:
- online accessibility;
- the digitisation of analogue collections;
- the preservation and storage of digital content.
In addition to our European cultural heritage, another key area for digital libraries is scientific information.
Cultural, social and economic aspects
Digital libraries provide considerable added value in terms not only of cultural visibility, but also of jobs and investment.
Making the wealth of material contained in European libraries, museums and archives (books, newspapers, films, photographs, maps, etc.) available online will make it easier for citizens to appreciate their cultural heritage and use it for study, work or leisure. This will complement and support the objectives of the European Union (EU) action on culture.
Libraries and archives are major sectors of activity in terms of investments and employment. By increasing their use and the visibility of their resources, digitisation could significantly increase their already considerable impact on the economy as a whole.
There are two main reasons for digitising these resources:
- to provide the widest possible access for the general public;
- to ensure their survival.
At present, only a small part of our European collections has been digitised. In order to ensure that digitisation proceeds efficiently and at a reasonable pace, a number of challenges have to be overcome, one of these being the remarkable quantity and range of material held by European libraries and archives. The others fall into four categories:
- financial challenges (the considerable investments and labour required);
- organisational challenges (the risk of digitising the same works several times, and the need to upgrade the skills of the staff involved);
- technical challenges (the need to improve digitisation techniques);
- legal challenges (the compatibility of digitisation with intellectual property rights- IPRs).
Online accessibility
The system used by traditional libraries for lending material is not suitable for the digital environment. In addition, the prior consent of the holder of property rights is needed before material can be made available online, except where the material is in the public domain. Consequently, a European library will basically have to concentrate on public domain material. In some cases, the costs of establishing the IPR-status of a work will be higher than the cost of digitising it and bringing it online. This is particularly true for so-called 'orphan works' – films or books for which it is impossible or very difficult to determine who holds the rights.
Improving online accessibility also requires appropriate multilingual services to allow users to explore and work with the content.
Preserving digital content: the present situation and the challenges
Making a digital copy of a book or a film does not necessarily guarantee its long-term survival and so, digitisation without a suitable strategy for preserving material can result in a large-scale waste of resources (human and financial).
In addition, digital preservation is a serious problem for the information society, with the supply of information growing exponentially and content becoming more and more dynamic. At present, we have little experience with digital preservation, the legal framework is evolving, resources are scarce and the outcome of work to preserve content is uncertain.
The main causes of the loss of digital content are the:
- succession of generations of computer hardware that can render files unreadable;
- rapid succession and obsolescence of software applications;
- limited lifetime of digital storage devices, such as CD-ROMs.
Libraries and archives have started tackling the issue of preservation in the digital age on a limited scale. However, within the individual Member States there is, in general, no clear policy.
Although most progress has been made in the area of legal deposit, the scope of this varies widely from country to country.
As with digitisation, the preservation of content also poses a number of challenges:
- financial challenges (the actual long-term cost of preservation is still not known for sure);
- organisational challenges (there is a risk that differing approaches will be adopted, effort will be duplicated, working methods will be inappropriate, staff will not have the necessary skills and there will be a lack of cooperation between public and private players);
- technical challenges (essentially, digital preservation needs to be made more cost-efficient and affordable);
- legal challenges (as digital preservation depends on copying and migration, it must comply with IPR legislation. The legal deposit of digital material also raises a number of questions, including the different rules in force).
A European response
While organising and funding the digitisation of cultural collections and their digital preservation is primarily a responsibility of the Member States, considerable European added value can be achieved in certain specific areas.
A number of initiatives have already been taken at European level, including:
- the eEurope Action Plan launched by the Commission in 1999, which was followed by further Action Plans in 2002 and 2005;
- the Lund Principles and the corresponding Action Plan;
- the creation of a National Representatives Group on digitisation;
- the Council Resolution of 25 June 2002 on preserving tomorrow's memory – preserving digital content for future generations;
- the Council Recommendation 2005/835/EC of 14 November 2005 on priority actions to increase cooperation in the field of archives in Europe.
Further initiatives will be taken in the near future:
- a proposal for a Recommendation on digitisation and digital preservation;
- a Communication on digital libraries of scientific information.
As regards co-financing at Community level, the research programmes, the eContentplus and Culture programmes as well as the Regional Funds will be used for actions with a European interest for the digitisation, digital preservation and accessibility of cultural content:
- under the Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development, the Commission will part-finance the establishment of a network of centres of competence for digitisation and preservation;
- under the eContentplus programme, EUR 60 million will be available in the period 2005-08 for projects improving the accessibility and usability of European cultural and scientific content;
- the Regional Funds already part-finance digitisation initiatives in some of the Member States;
- digitisation is one of the principal objectives of the cooperation projects part-financed under the "Culture 2000" programme. Part-financing is also available under the "Culture 2007" programme. This should improve the transnational circulation of cultural works and products.
Related Acts
Commission Recommendation 2006/585/EC of 24 August 2006 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation [Official Journal L 236 of 31.8.2006].
In this Recommendation, the Commission calls on Member States to speed up the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material (books, films, photographs, manuscripts, etc). The aim is to put Europe's cultural heritage online through the European Digital Library. To this end, Member States are encouraged to:
- collect information for producing overviews of digitisation;
- develop quantitative targets for digitisation;
- create public-private partnerships for funding purposes;
- develop facilities for large-scale digitisation;
- endorse the European Digital Library;
- improve the conditions in which cultural material is digitised and accessed online.
Furthermore, the Commission is recommending that Member States take steps to further the digital preservation of cultural material by:
- setting-up national strategies and action plans, and exchanging information on these;
- establishing appropriate legislative provisions for the multiple copying and migration of digital material, as well as for the preservation of web-content;
- creating policies and procedures for the deposit of digital material, with due consideration given to the measures of other Member States.
Communication from the Commission of 1 June 2005 to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions – "i2010 – A European Information Society for growth and employment" [COM(2005) 229 final – Official Journal C 236 of 24.9.2005].


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As a young man, John R. Christopher told his mother he wanted to become a doctor. His mother laughed because of his squeamishness at watching her kill the farm's chickens or even prepare them. He declared, "I want to be the kind of doctor that heals people without cutting them." A few years later, traditional doctors had given up hope that their medicines and practices would relieve his mother of her pain and suffering from diabetes. Bloated and with gangrene poisoning, her life was limited. A gentle and efficient man came to help, referring to himself as a Naturopathic doctor.
Before John's mother could tell him what was wrong, he silently observed her and then began to give a litany of her ailments. He was right on. He then told her of changes she needed to make in her eating habits. Before leaving he gave her some herbs. The recovery was remarkable. John was deeply impressed. John's own early life was marked by great health frustrations. Shortly after his birth on November 25, 1909, John's parents left him at an orphanage where Melissa and Leander Christopher discovered him when he crawled over and perched himself on Melissa's lap. It was a match made by heaven.
As a baby John developed a type of croup that left him gasping for air and the parents praying for a solution. That night a stranger came to their door, said he understood their baby was sick and told them exactly what to do. After following the advice, John was healed. The stranger never returned. John struggled with Advanced Rheumatoid Arthritis, hardening of the arteries and other ailments that led doctors to declare he wouldn't live to thirty.
A good student with a photographic memory, he was accepted to study law. Just days before starting, he was pronounced dead at the scene of a car crash. At the morgue, while his parents were identifying the body, his mother detected a glimmer of life. He was then hospitalized with little hope of recovery. John did regain consciousness from the coma, but after six weeks, he was still paralyzed. Against John's wishes, his parents took John to a chiropractor. To his amazement, the next week he resumed his job at the lumber mill.
But the accident had ruined his photographic memory. He had frequent bouts of amnesia. Nothing seemed to help. In his studying he came across advise that told him he needed to eat meat sparingly, eat fruits, grains and nuts in their seasons. A proper diet.The words rang true and by 1939 he'd developed a stringent diet of fresh fruits and vegetables. As he changed his diet, he noticed his rheumatism changed. With the full diet, he suffered little from the disease. When he used processed flour, he soon had to use a cane. If he ate refined sugars, he had to use a wheel chair. When he included red meats, he'd find himself confined to bed.Soon he immersed himself in studies of plants and how they could be used by humans for medicinal purposes. In the meantime he married and began a family. Then came the war. At age 35 he was drafted into the Army. The Army sent him to a mid-west infirmary where he tried to help soldiers with his herbal formulas that he'd been creating, but was prohibited by the officer in charge.
One day the officer announced that a young soldier would be discharged because of a Impetigo, a severe skin condition. John volunteered to help the man. The major gave him a week. John treated the soldier with a tincture made from the bark of a black walnut tree. On the day the bandages were removed, the man's previously scabbed covered head was clean as a baby's scalp. The major made John Christopher the only practicing herbalist in the United States Army. In those days no one sold wholesale herbs, so John had to find his herbs and create his own formulas. Over the years he created more than sixty-six formulas, combining herbs in proper proportions, but never extracting single ingredients. He understood the necessity of using herbs the way nature had intended them – in their whole state. "Dr. Christopher," as he was known to his friends, graduated from Iowa's Institute of Drugless Therapy, and from the Los Angeles Herbal Institute.
"Dr. Christopher's" fame grew rapidly. In 1953 he set up the School of Natural Healing that is still operating today. His five books sold well. Soon he was giving more than 120 lectures and seminars internationally and in the United States. Everyone wanted to hear from this famous man – one of the world's leading authorities on herbs. Even the prestigious Cambridge University in England had him speak. John was a pioneer – far ahead of his time. Years after John advocated the use of cruciferous vegetables, particularly cabbage and broccoli, for healing and prevention, the American Cancer Society issued a similar recommendation. John was one of the first to stress a low fat, high fiber diet without processed flour, refined sugars and sparing use of red meat.
Today thousands of individuals practice the art of natural healing thanks to the directorship and education provided by John R. Christopher , M.H. and his son David Christopher M.H. Thousands have credited John R. Christopher's diet and herbal advise for their health, although John refused credit. He'd say, "I've never cured anyone."
In Evanston, Wyoming, people still talk about a polio victim who changed his diet and started to seriously use herbs and then walked around town for the first time in years, telling everyone of his "miraculous" change. Or the two mothers on opposite sides of town threatening miscarriage, who drank a half cup of false unicorn tea at regular half hour intervals. Both miscarriages ceased and both moms later gave birth to healthy babies. The stories, although anecdotal and not part of a scientific controlled study, are told by people who used herbs and learned proper diet.
"Dr." Christopher is remembered by so many for his extraordinary happiness, even though he had such a rough childhood. He hid his physical suffering with good cheer, making countless journeys into the blackness of night on his famed "house calls." Many wondered where he found the energy for the long journeys. Many wondered where he found such true happiness. However, those very close to him knew it was from the people whose lives he touched. It was from the six-month-old blind baby whose sight was restored, and from the elderly asthmatic who was able to sleep in a bed for the first time in four decades.
At age 73 John R. Christopher passed away from complications of a traumatic head injury. His legacy continues in the lives he touched before his death and those his herbal formulas and teaching will aid through the generations to come.MindTrac Formula 100 Vegicaps Christopher's Original Formulas
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Since the passing of Dr. John R. Christopher, his family has always been concerned with the manufacturing of his time tested formulas. Wholistic Botanicals L.L.C. has been chosen as the company because of it's commitment to the Christopher philosophy in manufacturing and marketing of Dr Christopher's formulas. The advisory board consists of Dr Christopher's family:
David Christopher, Director of Dr Christopher's School of Natural Healing, Master Herbalist Fawn Christopher, Master Herbalist Ruth Christopher Bacalla, Herbalist Norman Bacalla, President of Christopher Enterprises Dr. Christopher's Philosphy Cleanse, Nourish, Heal.
Dr. Christopher's common sense approach to natural health is based on three vital processes. Dr. Christopher taught his students that Cleansing is the first & most important stage of restoring a healthy body. The ultimate purpose of cleansing is to prepare the body for natural healing through purification of all the body's organs down to the cellular level. This protocol is designed to naturally bring the body to its normal weight range, whether the body is over weight or under weight by first eliminating any accumulation or retention of morbid matter in the bowel.
Cleansing eliminates the unwanted mucus out of the organs which can lead to premature aging, allergies, and contributes to diseases in general. Perspiration is a natural action of the sweat glands which throws off toxins can be restricted by the use of synthetic dry deodorants. Once the body is purified it is ready to accept the highest vibratory quality foods so natural healing takes place as nature intended!
Secondly nourishment from live, nutritious, foods support the natural body's function by balancing everything from balancing the ph of an acidic body to restoring the natural glow of the largest organ of the body—the skin.
Lastly Healing occurs naturally, sometimes quickly & sometimes slowly as the body continues to eliminate impurities and strengthen through proper nourishment. One of the signs of healing comes with periodic aches & pains in the areas where the cleaning action is most acute. Patience is required as the body cycles through these three phases. s Healing is a natural gift from the way the body was designed by our Maker. John Christopher taught over & over again that That there are not incurable diseases- only incurable people.
You may enjoy reading one of Dr. Christopher's short books the Three Day cleansing Program which introduces the importance of a mucusless diet & herbal cleansing & nourishment.
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Hedge Fund Operations & Technology Benchmark Study
If you missed it yesterday, we presented the results of our 2011 Hedge Fund Operations & Technology Benchmark Study. The purpose of this study was to examine the key front, middle and back office systems and technologies being used by alternative investment managers today.
As a means to gather this information, Eze Castle Integration surveyed over 200 hedge funds and alternative investment firms in 2010 regarding their hardware and software, applications, communications devices, and more. Below is a short summary of our findings*:
Respondent Profile
Of 223 total firms who responded, 56% reported their assets under management to be less than $250mm. 17% of our respondents had an AUM of between $250-750mm at the time of the survey, and 27% had more than $750mm in assets.
The majority of firms indicated that they had just 1 office location, which was in the United States. Only about ¼ of respondents had an international office and/or multiple office locations.
These demographics indicate that possibly there is a large number of small firms in the industry now, which is supported by the fact that more than half of firms surveyed reported that they had less than 10 employees.
When asked about their primary investment strategies, the majority of firms responded that they traded Long/Short Equity. However, aside from that particular strategy, there were a variety of answers provided. Some of the most popular strategies included fixed income, distressed securities, and emerging markets. Thirty-five percent of firms indicated they use a multi-strategy approach; of those firms, more than half said they trade Long/Short Equity as part of their strategy set.
We also asked respondents about their primary and secondary prime brokers. There was little to no variance between primary and secondary primes, with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse maintaining a stronghold over the majority of firms.
Front Office
When it comes to front office operations and technologies, we asked respondents to shed light on the types of tools and vendors they are using on a day-to-day basis; specifically, we asked about order and execution management systems, market data and market analytics tools, and research management software.
Below is a snapshot of our findings:
OMS/EMS: The market leader is clearly Eze OMS, offered by Eze Software. The second and third most popular order management systems were Bloomberg's OMS and Advent's Moxy, respectively.
Market Data: The vast majority of firms use Bloomberg for their market data, however Thomson Reuters continues to be a player in the market, particularly for firms looking for more flexibility and cost-savings.
Market Analytics: Forty-three percent of firms reported that they use multiple vendors for market analytics. The most popular combinations were Bloomberg & Capital IQ and Bloomberg & Thomson Reuters.
Research & Document Management: Code Red (now part of FactSet) and Tamale appear to be emerging as leaders in the marketplace, however the most popular research management software reported was a custom or in-house solution.
Middle and Back Office
Middle and back office operations are being more closely scrutinized in today's economy, as investors are placing greater important on risk management and transparency. Additionally, the Dodd-Frank Act is rearing its head and may be contributing to certain back office technology solutions, including email and instant message archiving.
Portfolio Accounting: According to our survey results, Advent is the most popular vendor for portfolio accounting software. However, there still remains great diversity in this marketplace, and respondents gave a variety of answers, including SS&C, Wall Street Offices, and Fiserve.
Risk Management: Advent is also a player in the risk management field, along with RiskMetrics, Calypso, and others. But again, diversity is evident in the variety of responses.
Email Archiving: Sixty-one percent of firms are using Global Relay to archive their electronic messages. Other vendors include Symantec and Iron Mountain.
Instant Messaging: AOL Instant Messenger garnered 76% of respondents, however many said they used this service in addition to others, such as Bloomberg Messaging or Yahoo Messenger.
Mobile Devices: BlackBerry continues to remain the top player in the enterprise world, as evidenced by 95% of our respondents. However, we do expect to see more and more firms using iPhones, iPads and other tablets in the future.
What Do These Numbers Mean?
Overall, we're seeing hedge funds and alternative investment firms placing importance on their front, middle and back office operations and technologies, particularly as new regulations are put into place and as investors continue to demand higher levels of transparency. Ultimately, our 2011 Benchmark Study was created to offer hedge funds a look into the industry and to provide some insight into the critical decisions being made my fund managers today.
Eze Castle Integration is well-versed in the understandings of the alternative investment market, and provides consultation to hedge funds looking for advice on various hardware and software platforms. For more information on how we can help your firm make critical operational and technological decisions, please contact us.
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(CNN) -- The Gulf Coast Claims Facility "is fully functioning and will begin to process claims for emergency payment," a statement from the agency said on Monday, the same day BP reported having paid out $399 million in claims to date.
The independent group, headed by attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who handled the 9/11 victims' compensation fund, was established in June as part of an agreement between the Obama administration and BP to facilitate processing of the personal and business claims from those affected by the Gulf oil disaster stemming from the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20.
BP said last week that it was no longer accepting claims as the transition to the new entity was taking place. The oil giant, which said Monday that it has written 127,000 checks to pay $399 million in claims so far, will continue to handle claims put in by government entities.
BP said Monday that 27,000 claimants who filed paperwork have not yet been paid. According to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility statement, claims previously filed with the BP Claims Process have been transitioned to the new claims facility for review, evaluation and determination. However, claimants will be required to file new forms with the Gulf Coast Claims Facility to receive payments.
Feinberg, who now controls a $20 billion escrow account established by BP to compensate for damage, said in the statement, "I want to make sure the people in the Gulf understand we will not let you go out of business or lose your home. The No. 1 priority of the GCCF is to assist the people in the Gulf."
He added, "Now that the claim centers are open and ready for business, the goal will be to get the emergency six month payment checks out the door, within 48 hours for individuals, after receipt of the claim form and sufficient supporting documentation and no more than seven days for businesses, after receipt of claim form and supporting documentation, and help people on the path to rebuilding their lives."
To date, BP has funded $3 billion of the $20 billion total, ahead of its payment schedule.
In a conference call Sunday, Feinberg said he plans to be more generous than any court would be in determining payments. However, he said if potential claimants don't like the offer the Gulf Coast Claims Facility makes, and believe they can do better, they can file suit -- although he doesn't advise it.
"It is not in your interest to tie up you and the courts in years of uncertain, protracted litigation when there is an alternative that has been created," he said.
Feinberg stresed on Sunday that his facility is independent of both the government and BP. Claimants can file online, by fax, by mail or in person. All 35 of BP's claims offices will remain open, but will be staffed with newly trained workers with the goal of quickly and efficiently answering questions, Feinberg said.
On Monday, Feinberg is scheduled to hold three town hall meetings in Mississippi. Each site is also supposed to have people from the fund to help Mississippians file their claims and answer specific questions. The meetings are scheduled for Bay St. Louis, Biloxi, and Pascagoula.
Claimants can receive between one and six months' compensation without waiving their right to sue, Feinberg said. Only those who file for and receive a lump-sum payment later in the year will waive their right to litigate. Feinberg said it is still being determined whether those people will be required to release just BP, or other potential defendants, from lawsuits.
He said determining eligibility in some cases could be tricky. The farther a person or a business is from the Gulf, the less likely they are to be determined eligible. However, Feinberg said, proximity is only one factor that is being looked at. A shrimp processor located 100 miles inland that solely processes Gulf shrimp would be one example of a case where other factors come into play, he said.
"I don't want to underestimate the importance of proximity to the Gulf, but we'll have to be looking at the nature of your industry and how dependent you are on Gulf resources," he said. "I'm going to have to draw some tough lines, but I'm hoping I'll be able to enjoy the benefit of saying, 'If I haven't found you eligible, no court will find you eligible.'"
BP has done a pretty good job of claims payment in some cases, but has not been very effective in processing business claims, he said. Under his purview, "they may not always like their answer, but they'll get their answer within seven days."
He said he anticipates "a flood of early emergency claims" beginning Monday, but hopes the tide may be lessened by claimants' ability to file and track their claim processing online.
He said he plans to be transparent about budgets and payments, even his own compensation. A summary narrative on how adjusters will process claims has already been made public.
Asked about Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's Friday letter to Feinberg criticizing the claims process under the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Feinberg again emphasized that the program is voluntary.
McCollum said the program appears to be less generous to Floridians than the BP claims process, but "appearances are deceiving, and that is not the case," Feinberg said. He encouraged potential claimants to "test" the program and see how they will be treated.
While Gulf Coast residents are applying for payments onshore, offshore BP has renewed "fishing operations" on the sunken, crippled Macondo oil well, BP spokeswoman Catherine Hill said Monday.
As a prelude to permanently shutting down the well, crews are trying to withdraw drill pipe hanging below the bottom of the blowout preventer and remove it from the well, so they can then remove the capping stack that's kept oil from leaking since July 15 and replace the old blowout preventer with a new one.
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man in the region, said BP has determined there are three sections of drill pipe that need to be removed -- a main pipe and two shorter ones. The largest pipe is roughly 3,000 feet long. The government wants to preserve the removed pipe to use for study and possibly as evidence down the road.
Development Driller II, the rig drilling a second relief well as a redundancy measure, is completing preparations for its blowout preventer to be used on the Macondo well, while the Development Driller III -- the rig drilling the relief well expected to intercept the main well -- is standing by until that's done.
Once the blowout preventer is replaced to mitigate the risk of pressure in the well, it will take about four days to drill through the relief well and intercept the main well, based on statements from Allen. From that point, it will take another few days to permanently seal the well with mud and cement from below in what's called a "bottom kill" procedure.


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Steve Matterne's co-pilot, Rik Vanless, died on a grand road along the Ben-Ahin stage.
The sixth stage of the Condroz Rally was neutralized in the middle of Saturday afternoon when it was on the go. The seventh pilot who set off on the track, Steve Matterne was behind Skoda Fabia's wheel. The car hit the pole in a special post on the road.
If the pilot was injured, the condition of the co-driver of Rik Vanlessen seemed to be worrisome. There were two ambulances on the spot. The pilot would be unconscious. The direction of the race has not yet been announced, but it has been merged into the office for a long time.
According to the Belgian agency's data, Rik Vanlessen is a death.
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Well, it's taking me a little while, but am getting there – the next big stop on our Patagonian adventure after Torres del Paine, was to head by bus from Puerto Natales, into Argentina's tourist town of Calafate (quick day trip to the spectacular Perito Moreno glacier) and then across the border via the iconic Route 40 to the amazing walking in and around El Chalten. Just a word on Patagonian buses: they are fast, clean, affordable, regular, on time, comfortable, and have free wi-fi!
We based ourselves for 5 days at the low key outdoors-focussed climbers town of El Chalten, set smack in the middle of the Los Glaciares National Park. With a very cool but unselfconscious frontier vibe, this was a spectacular part of an already spectacular trip – even the view from the bathroom of our little flat was of the beautiful peaks of the mountains (we stayed at Apart el Cabure and I'd recommend it – just 3 little low key local flats, around USD$50 per person per night for 4; warm and good hot water, and super lovely and helpful owners).
Somehow, the cloud gods were on holidays on the day we chose to hike up to the peak, and we were blessed with beyond perfect weather – mild, sunny and not a breath of wind. Apparently this is pretty rare – or so everyone told us. But as you can see from the pics, it really was impossible not to be gobsmacked every which way you looked.
Take a quick tip from me (which we took from the owners of our accommodation) – fork out for the bus which takes you up the valley from el Chalten early in the morning for about 40 minutes, so you can take the less trafficked, more gradual and absolutely beautiful walk beside and above the river through up to the Poincenot campsite at the base of the massif. It's an alternate walk-in instead of constant 4-hours of steep uphill direct from the township. Your knees and lungs will love you for it. This way takes you through mossy Antarctic Beech forests and above roaring rivers, and also has curious signs that basically say 'run like hell if there is a fire' (because apparently you have to be told!).
If you have it in you, when you get to the base of the Cerro Torres (Mt Fitzroy's towers), on the other side of the campsite, where climbers camp overnight before tackling the towers, there is a hell of a final steep rocky switchback slog, gaining another 400m in altitude, up to the famous Laguna de Los Tres glacier lakes above. Worth every bit of blood, sweat and tears, according to my Duracel-bunny-like buddy, Deb and her loping son Tas, who made it look like a Sunday stroll. I meantime sat at the now tiny Rio Blanca at the base, and just took it all, in blissful peace. The extraordinary shininess of the rock towers is apparently caused by the repeated frosts, sluicing off the surface of the rock over millenia. Whatever it is, it's spectacular.
Going up via the valley means you get to descend an entirely different route on the way back to town, which seems to be a never-ending down hill, passing troops of seemingly ill-prepared Argentinian families, out for a wander in nature. Watch (and listen!) out for the amazing red-headed Magellan Woodpeckers as you reach the treed areas above the valley floor on the way back down. Prepare for a FULL, but incredibly worthwhile day. It really is hard to describe in words how beautiful a walk this was – I felt incredibly privileged to have had the opportunity in my lifetime to have done this, and perhaps on this occasion, will have to let my pictures speak, where words fail me: