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http://www.mediafire.com/download/480lvs22lj55mx5/kmt_rc_082314_F.zip (Updated 8-23-14 5:13 PM CST)082314_F Fixes:Fixed bug causing Devil Analyzer to crash the game when Azazel's entry is visible.Some modifications to MT2's fusion tutorial text to be more accurate.Special Announcement:The translation is now entering the final stages before release. I have started labeling the patches as "release candidates", which means that, barring anything going wrong or no more input during the testing phase, it will be ready for release. I encourage anyone who might still want to affect the development of the translation by reporting bugs or translation errors: Please try out the patch and let me know of anything that needs to be changed. I will be playing through the game myself as well now, and hopefully by the time I finish (which may be a while since I'm a slow player :) ), it will finally be ready for a real release. Thank you everyone for all the help you've given, it has certainly paid off and this will be the product of everyone's cooperation.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/4r15clpjyrvqvca/kmt_rc_082214_E.zip (Updated 8-22-14 5:00 PM CST)082214_E Fixes:Unless anything else comes up, MT1 looks like it's complete!Fixed bug in original game that looked up treasure chests incorrectly and presented them as empty.Tweaks to MT1's ending to play correctly.Various dialogue modifications to MT1's script (typos, re-translations, rewordings).
http://www.mediafire.com/download/tf1qkf4olrynr0t/kmt_rc_082014_D.zip (Updated 8-20-14 4:02 PM CST)082014_D Fixes:Fixed game crash when using the Core Shield item.Fixed dialogues that cut off some text when displaying "Yes/No" prompts.Changed spell names: "Agilama" to "Agirama", "Bufulama" to "Bufurama", "Dorminal" to "Dormina".Fixed display error with elevator displaying "B5F".Collecting a "SPD Incense" item should no longer say you found a "Death's Scythe".
http://www.mediafire.com/download/n2es0dwo12a7kwd/kmt_rc_081714_C.zip (Updated 8-17-14 5:32 PM CST)081714_C Fixes:Code Breaker solution should now appear correctly after losing.Fixed status screen scrolling for situations where you have more than 8 spare equipment items, treasures and spells.(Hopefully) fixed problem of party list not always displaying in first person mode.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/1zjngn37mw142cn/kmt_rc_081714_B.zip (Updated 8-17-14 12:53 AM CST)081714_B Fixes:Fixed terminal teleport menu not scrolling or showing options correctly.Fixed Royal Castle teleport incorrectly displaying options and sending the player to bugged locations.Fixed shop dialogue displaying placeholder text.Fixed text error with demon class name "Divine" and item name "Metal Boots".Renamed some spells that already exist in modern SMT games to match them better ("Tentarafu" to "Tentarafoo", "Shibabu" to "Shibaboo", "Marinkarin" to "Marin Karin", "Traest" to "Traesto", "Makajama" to "Makajam").Fixed Magic column in status screen cutting off spell names.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/am2k2uhbchw40bk/kmt_rc_081614_A.zip (Updated 8-16-14 2:03 AM CST)081614_A Fixes:Fixed save game screen displaying garbage characters for empty save slots.Fixed background not appearing for Big & Small minigame.Teleport screens (terminals, Royal Castle, Tranpa spell) now use a scrolling interface to display all options.Added subtitles for the MT1 and MT2 title screens.Various dialogue and text modifications.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/95q90azf8s6l1d3/kmt_beta_081314_10.zip (Updated 8-13-14 4:16 AM CST)081314_10 Fixes:Attempt #4 at fixing demon stats not displaying. Please work this time...Name entry screen should function without a problem now.Staff credits are now properly aligned.Script has been checked for consistency and text spacing, and some item names have been changed.Town names in the Demon World should now display correctly.Save file location names have been expanded.
All of the demons are named after real-life counterparts, but even after some painstaking research, there are still a few whose origins elude me.
Wow. That's...that's really freakin' impressive. O_O;
Quote from: Ryusui on March 31, 2008, 02:23:06 amWow. That's...that's really freakin' impressive. O_O;What he said.
I always dreamed of doing a Pokemon hack
Apollyon: In the Bible, this is the Greek name for Abaddon. I'm pretty sure the latter has more recognition and evokes different images in a person's mind than the former. And also, there is another entity in the game named Apollon, the Greek god. The Japanese text is capable of spelling both names differently, but they seemed to adopt the former as what they want. Should I respect the original intent of the writers, or change it in the interest of maintaining clarity?
Susa-no-O: Obviously this can be spelled multiple ways. Susanoo, Susano'o, etc. This might not seem like a big deal to some people, but perfectionism is my flaw.
Tanki: A Chinese turtle of some sort, but should I call it by its Chinese name, Dan Gui? Same for Chinron, which is Japanese but the Chinese name is Qing Long.
Pulukisi: This has been called everything from Purski, Phurski, and Purksi. The name may have a history among the game, but I think it had a flawed spelling.サウォバク = Sawobak, though I mostly found hits for "Sawo Bhaku". Appears as a skeleton in game, and supposedly based on a demon in a Nepalese mask dance.ハクマ・ブドー = Hakuma Budo, though some sites say the real spelling is ハク・マ・ブートゥ or プートゥ. It's based on some demon in the Mahakali Pyakhan dance. Supposedly a kind of demon used by Shumbha in the fight against Kali.
ストーンカ = Stonka, I hate this one the most. It's supposed to be based on a folktale from Bulgaria. A bull with skin as tough as bronze and causes thunder when it stomps. It killed peasants and their horses, and was slain when one of the peasants disguised themselves as a horse, and impaled it with a golden sword.
ラクチャランゴ = Rakcharango, another hard one to find. It's a bull or cow that's been showered in blood, giving it a crimson color. My note says it may be related to Yamantaka, and also that "rakta" means red or blood, so that may be how the beginning is spelled.
ファライ = Farai, I have no clue on this one. It shows up as a Naga woman in game, and is classified as a "Kijo", or demoness. The closest match I could find was Foraii, but that's a male demon.
ゾマ = Zoma, this one is easy to spell, but I'm just curious as to where this really comes from. And I'm pretty sure it's not Dragon Quest 3.
Kami = (True) God
Quote from: ddstranslation on March 31, 2008, 12:18:14 pmKami = (True) GodIf it's the Judeo-Christian God, you could go with Yahweh.
It'd help a *lot* with offering suggestions, since for example 'youjuu' isn't a word. ['youjutsu' is, though.]
I can't find anything like "stonka", even searching in Cyrillic. Stonka apparently means "ladybug" in Polish, but....
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One final stirring parade bearing the New Zealand Scottish Regiment colours brought central Dunedin to a standstill on Saturday, before the colours were presented to a city museum for posterity and safekeeping.
The military parade and formal ceremony marked the disbandment of the final components of the regiment, which formed in 1939.
In his speech at the ceremony outside Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull told guests and members of the public that as the "spiritual home'' of Scottish identity in New Zealand, Dunedin was a fitting place for the colours to rest and it was "an honour and a privilege to be here to receive the colours''.
The impetus for establishing the regiment had come from Dunedin's Scottish community.
The colours would be on display at the settlers museum each year around Anzac Day, and at other times by request.
The colours were presented to the museum, while the regiment's charter was presented to the city council.
The colours were officially handed over by Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles commanding officer Lieutenant-colonel Hamish Gibbons to museum director Jennifer Evans.
They were piped into the museum to the strains of Auld Lang Syne.
The Dunedin RSA choir had performed Highland Cathedral, proposed as a possible Scottish anthem.
About 200 people attended the ceremony outside the museum which followed the parade.
Protocol decreed that 100 soldiers take part in the final parade before the colours were laid up.
About 80 of the soldiers were from the Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles, and about 20 were Otago members of the 2/4 Battalion of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
The parade started in the Queen's Gardens at 1.15pm, involving more than 100 soldiers, about 50 veterans, two light armoured vehicles and the New Zealand Army Band.
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Another firm is challenging the Federal Trade Commission's authority to regulate corporate cybersecurity.
Medical testing laboratory LabMD Inc. is fighting back against an August FTC complaint that alleged the company failed to protect consumers' personal data.
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Lawyers for the two firms say the FTC has no authority to regulate cybersecurity. "Both the Wyndham and the LabMD cases show businesses are ready to force this issue with the FTC," said Craig Newman, partner at Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP and chief executive of the Freedom2Connect Foundation, a nonprofit organization that opposesIinternet censorship.
The FTC filed a complaint against LabMD in August alleging that the firm failed to reasonably protect data. It alleged that information on more than 9,000 consumers was found on a file-sharing network and that LabMD documents with "sensitive personal information" of at least 500 consumers were "found in the hands of identity thieves."
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Dina sent me this article from the UK Daily Mail about the push by Prime Minister David Cameron to legalize same-sex marriage in the UK. Although Cameron calls himself a conservative, I can't think of anything that he's done that's conservative. It's nice to see that there is a sizable minority in his party that opposes his plans to legalize SSM.
The full extent of the revolt among Tory MPs over plans to allow gay marriage was revealed last night. In all, more than 100 Conservatives out of 303 have written to constituents indicating their unease. If they all vote against, it would be the biggest Tory rebellion in modern times.
[…]The vote could happen as early as January after Mr Cameron decided this week to 'get it done and get it done quickly'.
[…]The sheer scale of the opposition means Mr Cameron is facing what has become the biggest Tory rebellion in recent history.
Even though No 10 has signalled that it will be a free vote in the Commons, ministers will be under huge pressure to back the measure because the PM has staked so much personal authority on the change.
Even though the policy was not in the party's election manifesto, his Old Etonian-dominated kitchen cabinet have told the PM that this legislation is a litmus test of his efforts to 'decontaminate' the Tories' image on social issues.
[…][A] survey by the polling organisation ComRes found that 62 per cent of voters and 68 per cent of Tory supporters believe marriage should continue to be defined as a 'life-long exclusive commitment between a man and a woman'.
A further 65 per cent said that plans to legalise gay marriage are 'more to do with trying to make the Conservative Party look trendy and modern' than a matter of conviction.
These findings are reinforced by a petition set up by the lobby group Coalition For Marriage (C4M) which has been signed by 612,000 people. It declares: 'I support the legal definition of marriage which is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.'
The Prime Minister has exacerbated tension on the Tory benches by issuing what has been described as a 'guillotine' – rushing the Bill into the Commons to fast-track the reform.
[…]One can only assume that the Tory whips have drawn Mr Cameron's attention to this growing rebellion. In any case, it is now patently clear that the PM cannot write off opponents of his policy as the usual hardline right-wingers who have never been reconciled to his modernisation efforts.
The UK has a Parliamentary system that normally does not allow free votes. I would expect that even a view people in the Labour Party might vote against the legalization of same-sex marriage.
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- What is Collaborative Family Law?
- How does the Collaborative Process work?
- Is Collaborative Law right for me and my spouse?
- How do I know if it is safe for me to work in the Collaborative Practice?
- How expensive is collaborative law?
- How does the cost of Collaborative Law compare with the cost of litigation?
- Is Collaborative Practice a faster way to get a divorce?
- How is the Collaborative Law different from settlement negotiations between divorce attorneys?
- Are my spouse and I required to give financial information to each other in Collaborative Practice?
- What happens if one side or the other hides documents or is dishonest in some way, misusing the Collaborative Law process to take advantage of the other party?
- If I choose Collaborative Law, will my rights be protected and, if so how?9
- How can I get my spouse to participate?
- What happens if agreement cannot be reached and one or both parties want a conventional divorce?
- Can either of us terminate the process?
- Why must the collaborative lawyers resign if one of us decided to go to court?
- What is a "Collaborative Team?"
- What if my spouse chooses a lawyer who doesn't know about or isn't trained in collaborative law?
- Why would I choose Collaborative Practice over other options?
- What is the difference between Collaborative Practice and conventional divorce?
- There is a lot of anger between us right now. Is Collaborative Practice only for "amicable" divorces or separations?
- Will Collaborative Law replace the traditional litigation process?
- I am interested in getting trained in Collaborative Law, how can I learn more?
- How do I find an attorney trained in Collaborative Law?
What is Collaborative Family Law?
Collaborative Family Law is a problem-solving process that gives divorcing parties and their lawyers a way to end a marriage and restructure families without the stress, delay, and expense of litigation.
Collaborative family law is founded on three principles:
- a pledge not to litigate disputes in court
- an honest, voluntary, prompt, and good-faith exchange of relevant information without formal discovery
- a commitment to strive for solutions that take into account the highest priorities of both parties and their children.
Although the lawyers share a commitment to collaborative law principles, each lawyer has a professional duty to represent his or her own client diligently, and is not the attorney for the other party.
How does the Collaborative Process work?
When a couple decides to pursue a collaborative divorce without going to court, they each hire lawyers trained in collaborative law. Collaborative lawyers and their clients sit together in face-to-face meetings to identify and address issues in need of resolution. The lawyers focus the clients on problem-solving and making plans for the future, rather than on casting blame or making accusations for what may have happened in the past.
In Collaborative Law, the parties and their lawyers all agree that should the negotiations fall apart and the parties wish to proceed to court - they will do so with new lawyers. Additionally, each collaborative lawyer is required to withdraw upon becoming aware that his or her client is being less than fully honest, or is participating in the process in bad faith. Since all meetings with the collaborative team are confidential, discussions, disclosures or any concessions that may have been made during the four-way conferences cannot be used against either party in any subsequent court proceeding.
Because ending a marriage has emotional and economic consequences, as well as legal consequences, the parties may have trouble communicating and making decisions without the help of other professionals in addition to their lawyers. That is why collaborative lawyers often rely on an interdisciplinary team approach. This means that the parties may jointly hire personal coaches (generally a mental health professional), child specialists, and financial experts to assist in gathering information and problem-solving. The professionals working as part of the collaborative team share the belief that is in the parties and their families best interests to avoid litigation, and to settle differences fairly, honestly, and efficiently.
Is Collaborative Law right for me and my spouse?
The collaborative process is for couples who want a respectful end to their marriage for the sake of all family members. Ultimately, you must be the judge of the other person's honesty and integrity, as well as be responsible for your own. If the following things are important to you, Collaborative Law could be the best process for you.
- You seek a respectful, creative and individual process for ending your marriage.
- You want to retain control over the decisions that will effect your lives during and after your divorce.
- You recognize the potential importance of future relationships even after divorce.
- You believe it is important to protect children from the harm that parental conflict can inflict.
- You place a high value on personal responsibility for managing conflict with integrity.
The Collaborative Family Law Center is unable to provide services if you are unable to locate your spouse or if you are unable or unwilling to sit at a table with your spouse to discuss difficult issues or in cases involving domestic violence or child abuse.
How do I know if it is safe for me to work in the Collaborative Practice?
In the collaborative process, both clients must agree to communicate in a respectful manner. However, oftentimes there are issues of power imbalance or even abuse between people seeking to end their marriage or partnership. While personal coaches can be brought in to help couples struggling to communicate effectively, the collaborative process cannot work when even one of the parties is in fear of or under the control of another. That is why the Collaborative Family Law Center will not refer cases involving domestic violence to collaborative law.
How expensive is collaborative law?
Collaborative lawyers generally charge by the hour as do conventional family lawyers. Rates vary from locale to locale and according to the experience of the lawyer. No one can predict exactly what you will pay for this kind of representation because every case is different. Your issues may be simple or complex; you and your partner may have already reached agreement on most, or none, of your issues. You may be very precise or very casual in your approach to problems. You and your partner may be at very different emotional stages in coming to terms with separating from one another. While the cost of your own fees cannot be predicted accurately, a rule of thumb is that collaborative law representation will cost from one tenth to one twentieth as much as being represented conventionally by a lawyer who takes issues in your case to court.
How does the cost of Collaborative Law compare with the cost of litigation?
Litigation is often the most expensive way of resolving a dispute. It is common for litigated divorces to begin with a motion for temporary support. The result is exactly that—a temporary order, not any final resolution of any issues. It is not uncommon for a single temporary support motion to cost as much or more in lawyers' fees and costs as it costs for an entire collaborative law representation.
Is Collaborative Practice a faster way to get a divorce?
Individual circumstances determine how quickly any divorce process proceeds. However, Collaborative Practice can be a more direct and efficient form of divorce. From the start, it focuses on problem solving, not blaming or endlessly airing grievances. Full disclosure and open communications help to assure that all issues are discussed in a timely manner. Finally, because settlement is reached out of court, there is no waiting for the multiple court appointments that may be necessary with conventional divorce.
How is the Collaborative Law different from settlement negotiations between divorce attorneys?
- In Collaborative Law, all participate in an open, honest exchange of information. Neither party takes advantage of the miscalculations or mistakes of the others, but instead identifies and corrects them.
- In Collaborative Law, both parties insulate their children from their disputes and, should custody be an issue, they avoid the professional custody evaluation process.
- Both parties in Collaborative Law use joint accountants, mental health consultants, appraisers, and other consultants, instead of adversarial experts.
- In Collaborative Law, a respectful, creative effort to meet the legitimate needs of both spouses replaces tactical bargaining backed by threats of litigation.
- In Collaborative Law, lawyers must guide the process to settlement or withdraw from further participation, unlike adversarial lawyers, who remain involved whether the case settles or is tried. Because of the withdrawal possibility, the interests of attorneys and their clients are aligned in favor of settlement.
- In Collaborative Law, there is parity of payment to each lawyer so that neither party's representation is disadvantaged vis-à-vis the other by lack of funds, a frequent problem in adversarial litigation.
Most conventional family law cases settle figuratively, if not literally, "on the courthouse steps." By that time, a great deal of money has been spent, and a great deal of emotional damage can have been caused. The settlements are reached under conditions of considerable tension and anxiety, and both "buyer's remorse" and "seller's remorse" are common. Moreover, the settlements are reached in the shadow of trial, and are generally shaped largely by what the lawyers believe the judge in the case is likely to do. Nothing could be more different from what happens in a typical collaborative law settlement. The process is geared from day one to make it possible for creative, respectful collective problem solving to happen. It is quicker, less costly, more creative, more individualized, less stressful, and overall more satisfying in its results than what occurs in most conventional settlement negotiations.
Are my spouse and I required to give financial information to each other in Collaborative Practice?
Yes. Both parties will be required to fill out a financial disclosure form and to provide statements to confirm amounts in accounts. Although no one can give you an absolute guarantee that every asset or every bit of income will be disclosed, in the collaborative process both parties sign a binding agreement to disclose all documents and information that relate to the issues – early, fully, and voluntarily. If a collaborative lawyer learns that the client has withheld or misrepresented information that should have been disclosed, the participation agreement requires the lawyer to withdraw if the client refuses to authorize the correction.
What happens if one side or the other hides documents or is dishonest in some way, misusing the Collaborative Law process to take advantage of the other party?
This could happen. It also can and does happen in conventional legal representation. What is different about Collaborative Law is that the collaborative law agreement requires the lawyer to withdraw if the client is being less than fully honest, or is participating in the process with less than good faith. For instance, if documents are altered or withheld, or if a client is deliberately delaying matters for economic or other gain, the lawyers have promised in advance that they will withdraw, discontinuing representation of the client.
If I choose Collaborative Law, will my rights be protected and, if so how?
In a collaborative law process, each party's attorney has an absolute duty to represent solely his or her client's interests. The collaborative law process does not mean that an attorney can or should be anything less than 100% on the side of his or her client. What is unique about collaborative law, however, is that the collaborative lawyer takes responsibility for advancing the client's interest in settlement (as well as other interests), and therefore zealous advocacy in a collaborative negotiation is focused on finding a mutually agreeable solution.
How can I get my spouse to participate?
Talk with your spouse about the benefits you see in using the collaborative process. Give your spouse this web site address, or print out these FAQs. Encourage your spouse to Find a Collaborative Lawyer. If it is difficult to talk to your spouse or partner, you might enlist the help of your clergy person, a psychologist/therapist, or a mutual friend to talk about Collaborative Practice.
What happens if agreement cannot be reached and one or both parties want a conventional divorce?
The spouses and attorneys are bound by a written pledge not to go to court over any contested issue. If agreement can't be reached, Collaborative Law attorneys may suggest bringing in mediators or other professionals to facilitate a settlement. However, if one or both parties wish to discontinue the collaborative process, both attorneys are legally obligated to withdraw from representing their clients. This means that both spouses have an incentive to settle their case collaboratively in order to avoid having to hire new attorneys and begin a traditional divorce process through the court system, adding time and expense to the divorce.
Can either of us terminate the process?
Yes. Either client can always choose to end the collaborative process and go to court. However, if the collaborative process terminates, both clients will be required to hire new lawyers.
Why must the collaborative lawyers resign if one of us decided to go to court?
Requiring the collaborative lawyers to resign if one party terminates the process protects the confidentiality of the collaborative meetings. The requirement that the collaborative lawyers be disqualified in the event of a breakdown also guarantees that all participating lawyers will be totally and exclusively motivated to have the process succeed. This way, all participants are equally and fully invested in finding the solutions to all problems. In addition, it is believed that the way people participate in negotiation, and especially the way lawyers participate, is affected by the certainty that the lawyer will never litigate the case. Openness, mutual trust, and cooperation replace guardedness, secrecy, and threats as the techniques most likely to achieve ultimate success.
What is a "Collaborative Team?"
The premise of the "collaborative team" is that parties and their chosen professionals act as a problem-solving team rather than as adversaries. A collaborative team can be any combination of professionals that the parties choose to work with to resolve their dispute. It can be just the parties and their collaborative lawyers, which in all cases comprise the Collaborative Law component of Collaborative Practice. It can be the parties, their collaborative attorneys and a financial professional or a child care specialist. It can be the parties and divorce coaches, working as a team either before or after the collaborative attorneys are chosen and the legal process begins.
What if my spouse chooses a lawyer who doesn't know about or isn't trained in collaborative law?
Collaborative lawyers have different views about this. Some will "sign on" to a collaborative representation with any lawyer who is willing to give it a try. Others believe that is unwise and will not do that.
Trust between the lawyers is essential for the collaborative law process to work at its best. Unless the lawyers can rely on one another's representations about full disclosure, for example, there can be insufficient protection against dishonesty by a party. If your lawyer lacks confidence that the other lawyer will withdraw from representing a dishonest client, it might be unwise to sign on to a formal collaborative law process (involving disqualification of both lawyers from representation in court if the collaborative law process fails).
Similarly, collaborative law demands special skills from the lawyers—skills in guiding negotiations and in managing conflict. Lawyers need to study and practice to learn these new skills, which are quite different from the skills offered by conventional adversarial lawyers. Without them, a lawyer would have a hard time working effectively in a collaborative law negotiation.
And some lawyers might even collude with their clients to misuse the collaborative law process, for delay, or to get an unfair edge in negotiations. For these reasons, some lawyers hesitate to sign on to a formal collaborative law representation with a lawyer inexperienced in this model. That doesn't mean your lawyer could not work cordially or cooperatively with that lawyer, but caution is advised in signing the formal agreements that are the heart of collaborative law where there is no track record of mutual trust between the lawyers. You and your spouse will get the best results by retaining two lawyers who both can show that they have committed to learning how to practice collaborative law by obtaining training as well as experience in this new way of helping clients through divorce.
Why would I choose Collaborative Practice over other options?
Collaborative Practice or Do-it-Yourself: There are many legal aspects that you may not be aware of involved in divorcing, separating or even working out parenting arrangements. There is always a risk to negotiating issues that have legal implications without a good understanding of the applicable law. Even if you "work things out" and then take your agreement to a lawyer to "file the paperwork," there may be significant issues that you did not address, or that have been resolved in a one-sided way. If there is a power disparity in the relationship, one party may be at a disadvantage right from the beginning. You may not know what information to ask "the other side" to provide, potentially resulting in decisions made on incomplete information, which may then lead to further disputes. You may not fully understand your legal rights, and may unknowingly give up important legal rights. While this may be the least expensive option, it runs the risk of resulting in an incomplete and potentially unfair resolution.
In the Collaborative process, each party is represented by his or her own attorney. The attorneys make sure that all the necessary issues are addressed, and all necessary information is obtained, with the final decisions being made by the clients. The clients have the benefit of their attorneys' help and advice while maintaining their ability to set the pace and goals of the process. If there are questions that require the help of other professionals, such as financial specialists, mental health professionals or child specialists, these experts can be brought in to work for the clients. The collaborative lawyers will file the necessary documents with the court at the end of the process with the clients' consent.
Collaborative Practice or Mediation:
single neutral person, who may be a lawyer, a mental health professional, or simply someone with an interest in mediation, acts as the mediator for and with the couple. The mediator helps the couple reach agreement, but does not give individual legal advice, and may or may not prepare the divorce agreement. Very few mediators will process the divorce itself through the court system. You would have to do that yourself or hire a lawyer to do it. Retaining your own lawyer to give you independent legal advice throughout a mediation is wise, and most good mediators recommend this. Waiting to secure independent legal advice until late in a mediation often causes difficulties. It is generally better for both spouses to have that legal advice available from the start. In some locales the two lawyers (yours and your spouse's) sit in on the mediation process, and in other locales they remain outside the mediation process and meet privately with their own client to give their legal advice. Either way, in a mediation, you and your partner should expect to negotiate face to face, directly, with the mediator's assistance. The two lawyers ordinarily do not take an active role in a mediation. While mediation can work very well for motivated couples with emotional maturity and a shared desire to reach agreement, it can be challenging for many people to negotiate in this way, face to face with a partner during the turmoil of ending an intimate relationship—especially where emotions run high or where communications are difficult.
Collaborative Practice was designed to allow clients to have their lawyers with them during the negotiation process, while maintaining the same absolute commitment to cooperation and settlement as mediation.18 It is the job of the collaborative lawyers to work with their own clients and one another to assure that the process stays balanced, positive and productive. Once an agreement is reached, it is drafted by the lawyers and reviewed and edited by both the lawyers and the clients, until both clients are satisfied with the document.
Both Collaborative Practice and mediation rely on the voluntary and free exchange of information and a commitment to resolutions that respect the parties' shared goals. If mediation does not result in a settlement, the parties may choose to use their attorneys in litigation, if this is consistent with the scope of representation upon which the client and lawyer have agreed. Consulting experts used during mediation are not typically required to sign a contract limiting their work to the context of the mediation, and therefore they are not restricted from participating in litigation if the parties go to court.
In Collaborative Practice, the lawyers and parties sign an agreement, which aligns everyone's interests in the direction of resolution, and specifically provides that the collaborative lawyers and any consulting experts will be disqualified from participating in litigation if the collaborative process is terminated without an agreement being reached.
What is the difference between Collaborative Practice and conventional divorce?
In conventional divorce, one spouse sues the other for divorce and sets in motion a series of legal steps. These steps often result in a settlement achieved with the court's involvement. Even though the parties ultimately settle, as the spouses go through this process, they often come to view each other as adversaries, and their divorce as a battleground. The conflict that the process breeds often harms the parties' children.
Collaborative Practice, by definition, is a non-adversarial approach to divorce. The spouses—and their lawyers—pledge in writing not to go to court. They negotiate in good faith, and achieve a mutually-agreed upon settlement outside of court. The cooperative nature of Collaborative Practice can greatly ease the emotional strain caused by the breakup of a relationship, and protect the well-being of children.
There is a lot of anger between us right now. Is Collaborative Practice only for "amicable" divorces or separations?
Not at all. Anger is a natural response to the disruption of our primary relationships in life. We know that it is not easy to detach from a primary emotional relationship. This is true even if we are unhappy in that relationship. In Collaborative Practice, clients receive support and guidance to better understand and manage the delicate process of detachment, including the strong feelings—such as grief and anger—that often accompany it. Where emotions are running high and there is conflict between you, the collaborative process won't suppress or deny it, but the process can offer both of you effective support by giving you a place to deal with that conflict as you work through your issues.
Will Collaborative Law replace the traditional litigation process?
No. Collaborative Law is not intended to replace the litigation process. Collaborative Law is an alternative to litigation for people to consider in resolving their disputes. The judicial system and the litigation process are essential to a lawful society. However, in some situations people, with the help of their attorneys, are able to resolve their own disputes without resorting to adversarial litigation.
I am interested in getting trained in Collaborative Law, how can I learn more?
If you are an attorney practicing in New York City, visit the Upcoming Events section of this website to learn about upcoming training opportunities in the New York City area for eligible professionals. For attorneys or affiliated professionals outside New York City, visit the web site for the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals at http://www.collaborativepractice.com to learn about upcoming training opportunities in your area.
How do I find an attorney trained in Collaborative Law?
Click on Find a Collaborative Lawyer.
Adapted from the website of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, http://www.collaborativepractice.com/, and the websites of member organizations engaged in Collaborative Practice.


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A Canadian fertilizer company is determined to buy a major Israeli chemical company, despite opposition among MKs and employees of the Israeli company. Potash Corp of Saskatchewan is seeking to acquire a controlling stake in ICL, Israel Chemicals Ltd., Israel's second-largest corporation by market size. Potash Corp is the largest producer of the potash crop nutrient and currently owns a 14 per cent stake in ICL, which mines chemicals from the Dead Sea and is the world's sixth-largest producer of potash.
More than 20 Israeli lawmakers met in Jerusalem on Feb. 27 to discuss the issue, with some voicing strong opposition to the deal, according to Bloomberg.
"The sale of ICL to a foreign company would be abandoning residents of the Negev region and a slap in the face of every citizen of Israel," Yesh Atid MK Meir Cohen was quoted as saying.
"The opposition you're seeing now is fear of the unknown," Potash Corp chief financial officer Wayne Brownlee said Feb. 26. Brownlee, speaking at a conference in Florida, said Potash Corp wouldn't cut production or lay off ICL employees.
But that hasn't placated Israel Chemicals employees, who plan to stage protests in coming weeks to try to block the deal, according to Reuters.
Before discussions begin between the companies, Potash Corp must secure approval from the Israeli government, and talks are currently suspended due to "political events," Brownlee said Feb. 26. Israel is currently in the process of forming a new government.
The removal of water from the Dead Water to mine lucrative chemical products such as potash has been blamed for the shrinking of the popular natural attraction. The flow of water into the sea was 100 million cubic metres in 2008, down from 1.4 billion cubic meters in 1948 when Israel was founded.
In additional to fertilizer, potash is also used to make glass and soap.
This article was originally published in the Canadian Jewish news.
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Abuse Of India's Information Technology Act Results In India's First Arrested Twitter User
from the #guinnessbookofhorribleworldrecords deptIndia's somewhat schizophrenic relationship with privacy and freedom of speech has been discussed here before. The Indian government, on one hand, seems to want to do the right thing and safeguard its citizens from censorship and surveillance... but only up to a point. Once the going gets rough (i.e., outbreaks of violence, demonstrations), the government begins ramping up its surveillance and cracking down on free speakers.
Given this background, it's a bit surprising to hear that India has only just recently chalked up its first Twitter-related arrest. After all, the UK and the US have been doing it for years already. The person on the receiving end of this unfortunate record-setting event made the mistake of criticizing a politician (of course).
On 20 October, he (Ravi Srinivasan) posted a tweet to his 16 followers saying that Karti Chidambaram, a politician belonging to India's ruling Congress party and son of Finance Minister P Chidambaram, had "amassed more wealth than Vadra".This message ("got reports that karthick chidambaram has amassed more wealth than vadra") went out to all of 16 followers and somehow found its way to Karti himself, who responded like anyone else would when mildly insulted: by contacting law enforcement...
He was alluding to Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, who was at the centre of a political row after allegations over his links with a top Indian property firm.
Karti Chidambaram (@KartiPC) did not take the tweet in good humour and filed a police complaint on 29 October.… which immediately responded with the sort of speed reserved for appeasing angry politicians.
They arrested Mr Srinivasan early next morning, charged him under Section 66A of India's Information Technology [IT] Act, and demanded 15 days of police custody.Srinivasan's single allegation could have been addressed through India's libel laws, but since that route takes time and money, the offended politician instead used the police department to take care of the "problem" by using the "sweeping power" of Section 66A of the IT Act of 2000.
[Section 66A] can send you to jail for three years for sending an email or other electronic message that "causes annoyance or inconvenience".Loosely worded laws, ostensibly designed to "protect" citizens, usually devolve into tools of censorship. For some strange reason, those with the most power are the ones who feel the most "threatened" by open criticism and dissent. It's little wonder that legislators are more than willing to push through open-ended "cyberlaws" that can be bent to fit any situation. The end result is this fact, which is perhaps least surprising of all:
On the face of it, this protects citizens against online harassment.
In reality, the law is more often used by the state as a weapon against dissent. In each such case, police action has been swift and harsh.
In April, the West Bengal government led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee used Section 66A against a teacher who had emailed to friends a cartoon that was mildly critical of her.
And, interestingly, Section 66A has never been used against politicians.To Srinivasan's credit, he refused to back down from his statement. In addition, his arrest and subsequent appearance on television led to him gaining another 2,300 followers, many of whom are wondering if his arrest was tied to his anti-corruption campaigning. Despite the public support of the arrested tweeter, the politician behind his arrest remains unrepentant, tweeting out this amazing statement in his own defense:
"Free speech is subject to reasonable restrictions. I have a right to seek constitutional/legal remedies over defamatory/scurrilous tweets."There's nothing "reasonable" about arresting someone rather than following the "constitutional/legal remedies" set up by India's libel law. This is simple thug tactics being deployed by someone operating without fear of reprisal. Section 66A needs to be cleaned up if freedom of speech and privacy are going to be protected, rather than just paid lip service at convenient intervals.
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Movie review: Words and Pictures is predictable yet magical (with video)
Words and Pictures
Three and a half stars out of five
Starring: Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, Valerie Tian, Navid Negahban, Bruce Davison, Amy Brenneman
Directed by: Fred Schepisi
Running time: 111 minutes
It's a story pulled straight out of today's headlines: Supposedly no one reads.
The next generation believes words and text are pitiful cousins to pictures, heralding the end of literature and all complex abstract thought, which in turn leads to the end of civilization as we know it.
That last apocalyptic part isn't exactly shown in this new Fred Schepisi movie, but the dramatic consequences of a growing disinterest in the word is a major concern for Jack Marcus (Clive Owen), an English teacher at an upscale prep school.
Jack is your classic creative burnout.
A published author who was once hailed as the next T.S. Eliot, Jack's been running short of inspiration while drinking tall vodkas for years now.
He sits in his classroom and berates the kids for being so blasé but does nothing to jumpstart their intellect.
We know Jack is on thin ice with the school trustees.
We also sense he's just waiting for the right moment to stomp his foot down with suicidal intent.
The only thing that could possibly save him is the love of a good woman, who rather fortuitously shows up in the first act with a cane and an equal amount of attitude.
Dina Delsanto is the new art teacher who still carries the fresh scent of celebrity, even though she, too, is suffering from an inability to create.
Delsanto suffers from rheumatoid arthritis. Painting is becoming increasingly difficult and without being able to express herself, Delsanto is staring down the same black hole as Jack — only she refuses to jump in.
She is light. He is dark, and while romance seems just a kiss away, Schepisi (Six Degrees of Separation) makes us wait for the inevitable union because this Gerald Di Pego (Sharky's Machine, Phenomenon) script wants to hash out the war between words and pictures.
Using a school contest as the central device, Jack and Delsanto lead opposing teams in a battle to prove what form of human expression is most valuable and most meaningful: words or pictures.
It's all relatively predictable for anyone who's ever seen Good Will Hunting or Dead Poets Society, or any episode of Love Boat, for that matter, because Words and Pictures suffers from an inherent ennui with form.
The movie feels hampered by its own meter, some invisible journeyman need to hit each scene on schedule, which undercuts its secret message of personal liberation and creative expression.
Yet, it still works for two big reasons. First, it suggests that you don't have to make great art to appreciate it, and second, we're watching Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche seduce each other.
These two veterans create screen magic every time the camera finds their handsome faces.
They bring palpable, moving truth to even the most hackneyed material and make it feel real and honest.
It's enough to help us transcend the after-school-special tone of the Vancouver-shot feature and make us ponder the movie's words and pictures from a different, emotionally literate, perspective.


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We have two margined madtom catfish Noturus insignis in our Maryland: Mountains to the Sea exhibit. These fish were transferred from their home at National Aquarium, Washington DC to their new home here in Baltimore!
This species of catfish is commonly found in rocky riffles and small rivers throughout the Atlantic slope, from southern Quebec to Georgia.
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We saw your story on BlackBerry 10 today. We wanted to let you know that Sprint plans to bring BlackBerry 10 to our customers later this year. We will share more details soon.
With time ticking down until the BlackBerry 10 launch event, more and more carriers are coming out and letting the world know if they will be carrying the new devices. Plenty of carriers in Canada are on board as well as AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile in the US. We don't have official launch dates or info for any carrier, but we do know who has pledged to carry BlackBerry 10 at launch. It was unclear as to if Sprint would be coming along for the BlackBerry 10 ride, but things look to be cleared up on that front now as well.
In an interview with FierceWireless, Sprint's director of device product marketing Trevor Van Norman said that Sprint will be listed as a partner at the January 30th launch event however gave no details as to when Sprint will actually have the devices available. So Sprint customers rejoice - you won't be left off the BlackBerry 10 bus. We're sure to find out all about carriers and release dates on January 30th.


text: Show Hide image Culture 21 February 2013 Tracey Thorn: "The question was always, 'Do I fit in? Do I want to fit in?'" The Books Interview. Sign-up On the cover of your book, Bedsit Disco Queen, Caitlin Moran describes you as the "Alan Bennett of pop memoirists". What do you think she meant by that? Thanks Caitlin! Essentially, this is a story about ambivalence, about wanting it [being in the spotlight] and not wanting it. The question was always, "Do I fit in? Do I want to fit in?" There was always a tug between wanting attention and wanting to hide. That ambivalence is also related to the aesthetic choices you made, isn't it – the privileging of quietness and reticence? It's an argument I feel I've been having since the very beginning. I talk in the book about the early interviews where people would throw words like "easy listening" at us and I'd storm out of the room. I think, right from the beginning, I knew that what I was doing sonically couldn't level people with sheer volume and bluster. The cover of the book shows you playing the first guitar you bought – a black Les Paul copy. Were you aware of the iconography of that instrument, the sexual politics of it? Well, no. As I try to point out in the book, I was much more innocent about it all. And ignorant – I didn't even really understand how an electric guitar works. When I look back now, I think, "That's really revolutionary." To be a girl and go and buy this thing just because you think it's cool, when you haven't even worked out how it works . . . In a way, just with that level of ignorance, you're undermining all the seriousness and pre-existing iconography of the Les Paul guitar. From very early on, you were struggling to find musical forms that could accommodate your desire to write raw, intimate songs. In the Marine Girls, for instance, things were very rough and ready sonically and we were genuinely amateurish-sounding. So it was easy for people to see the rawness. But I got a bit tired of that. I thought it was a bit of a dead end. As a singer, I could already hear that I had the potential to get a bit better than that. Inevitably, the records we made as Everything but the Girl became more polished-sounding and people lost the ability to say, "It's punky because it's rough-andready- sounding." Do you think you were misunderstood? In the mid-1980s, we were writing often quite political lyrics but again they would sometimes be missed within the sonic setting. I do say something about coming on like the Gang of Four but sounding like Astrud Gilberto! This was something that other people were wrestling with at the time, wasn't it? Green Gartside of Scritti Politti, for instance. Yes. He had come from the absolute outer limits of demystification and went as far as you could go in the other direction, in terms of pop production, gloss, appearance. It was a very bold journey to undertake. As the 1980s progressed, a kind of political ambivalence set in. It was difficult. We hit that point where I sometimes felt I was ranting on like an old harpy when everyone else had stopped thinking that argument was worth having. Then it struck me: "Is the 'Should we or shouldn't we go on Top of the Pops?' argument actually over?" One gets the impression that your career has been something that happened to you rather than being something you actively desired. I didn't start out wanting one. I'm sure there are people who started out genuinely believing in being pop stars but I honestly hadn't thought about that. Also, I don't think we were a very careerist generation. We were much less organised than it seems to me young people are today. They're terribly organised and ambitious and have everything mapped out. I think that's because there's less of a safety net now so you need to be organised. But we had the luxury of just bumbling along and assuming it'd all be fine. Interview by Jonathan Derbyshire Tracey Thorn's "Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star" is published by Virago, (£13.99) Jonathan Derbyshire is executive opinion editor of the Financial Times. He was formerly managing editor of Prospect and culture editor of the New Statesman. Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 18 February 2013 issue of the New Statesman, Iraq: ten years on SUBSCRIBE More


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A Jalopnik reader spotted Berlin's favorite taxi roaming the streets of Aurora, CO, where Mercedes-Benz regularly drives its test vehicles. It's the upcoming B-Class, Mercedes' mini-minivan that could be coming to the US for the first time next year.
Our spotter couldn't tell if this camouflaged B-Class sounded like the car's 1.8-liter diesel engine, or one of the B's 1.6-liter gas motors.
Mercedes-Benz already sells the B-Class to our moose-herding northern neighbors, and Autoweek and others are claiming that the B will be US-bound for 2013.
But will it end up being your town's next tipsy taxi? Given the Mercedes-Benz strategy of up-selling base models here in the U.S. with a luxury brand's price point? Probably not.


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(NewsUSA) - Anyone who's ever suffered with chronic back pain can tell you how debilitating it can be. Take Naomi Morgan, a 65-year-old nursing assistant from Maryland who's been living with it for more than 20 years.
"The pain was beyond terrible," Morgan recalls. "There were times when I could barely walk."
Long-popular steroid injections have been linked to medical complications and side effects. So patients like Naomi are now looking for safer ways to manage their pain.
"I had already had two surgeries and my doctor recommended a third," she says. "But I swore that the only way I would ever have surgery again is if I wasn't able to move my legs, back or anything else."
Morgan turned to Dr. Alan Sokoloff, the chiropractor for the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens.
"Often times, patients want instant relief or a quick fix," says Dr. Sokoloff, "even if it means choosing a more aggressive route. Research continues to show the effectiveness of the conservative method: Trying chiropractic first, then medicine and surgery, is gaining in demand with its safe and positive results."


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A lung needle biopsy is a method to remove a piece of lung tissue for examination. If it is done through the wall of your chest, it is called a transthoracic lung biopsy.
Transthoracic needle aspiration; Percutaneous needle aspiration
A chest x-ray or chest CT scan may be used to find the exact spot for the biopsy. If the biopsy is done using a CT scan, you may be lying down during the exam.
A needle biopsy of the lung may also be performed during bronchoscopy or mediastinoscopy.
You sit with your arms resting forward on a table. You should try to keep still and not cough during the biopsy. The doctor will ask you to hold your breath. The skin is scrubbed and a local pain-killing medicine (anesthetic) is injected.
The physician will make a small (about 1/8-inch) cut in the skin, and will insert the biopsy needle into the abnormal tissue, tumor, or lung tissue. A small piece of tissue is removed with the needle and sent to a laboratory for examination.
When the biopsy is done, pressure is placed over the site. Once bleeding has stopped, a bandage is applied.
A chest x-ray is taken immediately after the biopsy.
The procedure usually takes 30 - 60 minutes. Laboratory analysis usually takes a few days.
You should not eat for 6 - 12 hours before the test. Your health care provider will likely tell you to avoid aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen, or blood thinners such as warfarin for a period of time before the procedure. Always check with your health care provider before changing or stopping any medications.
Before a needle biopsy of the lung, a chest x-ray or chest CT scan may be performed. Sometimes, you will be given a mild sedative before the biopsy to relax you. You must sign a consent form. It is important to remain as still as possible for the biopsy and avoid coughing.
You will receive an injection of anesthetic before the biopsy. This injection will sting for a moment. You will feel pressure and a brief, sharp pain when the needle touches the lung.
A lung needle biopsy is performed when there is an abnormal condition near the surface of the lung, in the lung itself, or on the chest wall. Most often, it is done to rule out cancer. The biopsy is usually performed after abnormalities appear on chest x-ray or CT scan.
In a normal test, the tissues are normal and there is no growth of bacteria, viruses, or fungi if a culture is performed.
Sometimes, a collapsed lung (pneumothorax) occurs after this test. A chest x-ray will be done to check for this. The risk is higher if you have certain lung diseases such as emphysema. Usually, a collapsed lung after a biopsy does not need treatment. However, if the pneumothorax is large or does not improve, a chest tube may need to be inserted to expand your lung.
In rare cases, pneumothorax can be life threatening if air escapes from the lung, gets trapped in the chest, and presses on the rest of your lungs or heart.
Whenever a biopsy is done, there is a risk of excessive bleeding (hemorrhage). Some bleeding is common, and a health care provider will monitor the amount of bleeding. Rarely, major and life-threatening bleeding may occur.
A needle biopsy should NOT be performed if other tests show that you have:
Signs of a collapsed lung include:
If any of these occur, report them to your health care provider immediately.
Ettinger DS. Lung cancer and other pulmonary neoplasms. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 197.
Silvestri GA, Jett JR. Clinical aspects of lung cancer. In: Mason RJ, Broaddus CV, Martin TR, et al, eds. Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 47.
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April 5, 2012
In case you missed it this week, an Afghan War veteran and one other active duty serviceman – along with multiple accomplices, were indicted for their involvement in a year-long federal agency sting. This particular story reads like a supermarket aisle fantasy novel… if only it were.
A gang which included US soldiers allegedly offered 'wet-work' murder-for-hire services, narcotics trafficking and stolen US military weapons to undercover Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents… posing as foot soldiers for Mexico's notorious Los Zetas drug cartel.
Following the conclusion of a year long sting which ended in Laredo Texas, Kevin Corley, a 29 year old formerly active US Army Drill Seargent and Afghan veteran from Fort Carson, active duty soldier Samuel Walker, 28, both of Colorado Springs, CO, and Shavar Davis, 29, of Denver, CO, while two other men – Marcus Mickle, 20, and Calvin Epps, 26 have been arrested and charged in a conspiracy related to drug trafficking and attempted murder. A sixth man, Mario Corley, 40, from Saginaw, Texas, was also arrested in Charleston, S.C. as part of the same investigation.
During the arrest on last Saturday, another man, Jerome Corley was fatally shot.
The federal sting started back in January 2011, when Mr. Mickle entered negotiations with what he thought were members of the Lot Zetas Cartel, in order to purchase marijuana in return for stolen weapons.
(From left, Kevin Corley, Shavar Davis and Samuel Walker)
Mickle and Epps, first tried to organize the drugs shipment with the undercover agents, but are said to have brought Kevin Corley in after agents inquired about arms.
In addition, Kevin Corley offered to provide full combat training for 40 cartel members in just two weeks. The Army soldier explained that an array of military weapons could be easily stolen from army posts. According to the complaint document, Corley also "offered to provide tactical training for cartel members, including approaches, room clearing, security, and convoy security. Kevin Corley also offered to purchase weapons for the cartel under his name as long as he could destroy serial numbers."
Kevin Corley traveled to Laredo on Jan. 7, to meet with undercover DEA agents and discuss the murder-for-hire scheme, where, according to the official complaint filing (PDF), "Kevin Corley proposed a $50,000 fee to perform the contract killing and retrieve the 20 kilograms of cocaine, and Kevin Corley offered to refund the money if the victim survived… also told the agents he would accept cocaine in lieu of the fee for his service, but ultimately agreed to accept $50,000 and five kilograms of cocaine for a full team."
So we have Kevin Corley leading a US Military hit-squad for the DEA's faux Zetas, and later conspiring to supplying drugs to these same Zetas.
A few interesting questions remain regarding this latest bizarre operation:
One of the unanswered questions here is why Kevin Corley and Walker was discharged from duty right before their unit were due to be deployed to Afghanistan in February? According to an earlier AP/Huff Post report:
Kevin Corley was discharged from the Army on March 13, according to the Army Human Resources Command. Fort Carson officials said Walker is on active duty, and that both men were assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, part of the 4th Infantry Division.
Fort Carson didn't know the circumstances of Corley's discharge, and the Army Human Resources Command declined to provide details. The 4th Brigade began deploying to Afghanistan in mid-February, though it wasn't immediately known whether Walker or Corley had been expected to be part of that deployment.
More importantly, however, is the question of how Sgt. Corley and his gang were able to organize a 500 lb truck load of marijuana for his undercover DEA associates. The gang's truck load containing their consignment of marijuana was pulled over and seized by federal agents in mid-January. Kevin Corley, Jerome Corley and Epps were driving in the vehicle ahead of the shipment, but were not pulled over.
Faster and More Furious?
It is within these very kind of operations where Congress has raised the same concern over a gun-smuggling operation known as Fast and Furious, in which agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives(under the direction of the US Department of Justice) allowed suspected smugglers to buy and transport some 30,000 guns across the Mexican border- an operation which eventually led to the death of at least one American Border Patrol agent who was shot to death by Mexican drug cartel gunman, but who really knows how many lives those 30,000+ guns claimed after they were shipped into Mexico via the US federal government.
Corley's initial truck load of marijuana is said to have been apprehended in South Carolina, but oddly, this set-back which would normally amount to a huge loss in terms of the street value of the drugs lost, did not seem to deter Corley and his gang from continuing to be strung along by the DEA as their sting continued. Despite the seizure, the official complaint alleges that Kevin Corley continued trying to arrange for marijuana shipments in February and March to his accomplice Mario Corley in South Carolina.
One might ask: how could a couple of Afghan soldiers might get a hold of 500 lbs haul of drugs? Possibly Mexico. But Mexico is one of the world's top marijuana producers…
It might be worth some consideration here that according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Afghanistan is now the world's largest cannabis producer, surpassing Morocco. It's well known already that Afghanistan is the world's largest opium poppy producer as well, supplying more than 90% of the illicit global market for opium and heroin – and that the US military and the CIA, are known to play a pivotal role in facilitating both the production and export side of this lucrative product.
Not that the war zone drug cultivation business is any real surprise to readers who have been following developments in Afghanistan. Still though, it remains one of the most hush-hush subjects, and one which will rarely appear in the spotlight.
Opium production used to be down to almost zero under the Taliban, pre-2001. After the U.S. and UK forces invaded, production picked up exponentially from around 700 tons in 2001, to about 8,000 tons in 2008, for a profit in the region of $500 billion. So by now, in 2012, few can argue against the reality that there exists a genuine link between the War on Terror and the War on Drugs.
U.S. Army soldiers have been growers and guards of the poppy fields in Afghanistan, assisting banks who launder billions and support war lords like Whalid Karzai maintain control of the business there.
As author Michel Chossudovsky explains in his 2007 article on the drugs trade,"The Golden Crescent drug trade, launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liaison with NATO occupation forces and the British military. In recent developments, British occupation forces have promoted opium cultivation through paid radio advertisements."
Only last month, national reports exposed the likelihood that US forces have recently handed over much of this regional drug-mule work to the Afghan Air Force (AAF), which was established largely with American funds, using their airplanes to transport drugs and arm around the region.
The other protagonist disguised as Los Zetas, the DEA, are by no means above the fray here, as they also have a history of profiting from the very drug trade they are meant to be curtailing, as the New York Times reported in as recently as last year:
"Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington's expanding role in Mexico's fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials."
Corley's 4th Brigade Combat Team is part of the 4th Infantry Division – a unique division where unit are organized in 3-year life cycles, designed to enhance 'predictability' for members of the unit. Certainly, it would be within this very environment that soldiers inclined towards entrepreneurship could forge strong relationship, and links – even illicit ones.
Far-fetched? Perhaps. But on its face, this federal case involving arms, drugs and active duty US soldiers – is no ordinary one.
But neither are the black operations currently being conducted by the DEA and the CIA.
And neither is the decade-long war in Afghanistan.
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Suborder: Haplorrhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Superfamily: Hominoidea
Family: Hylobatidae
Genus: Hylobates
Species: H. lar
Subspecies: H. l. carpenteri, H. l. entelloides, H. l. lar, H. l. vestitus
Other names: H. albimana, H. longimana, H. variegates, H. varius, common
gibbon, lar gibbon, white-handed gibbon; withandgibbon (Dutch); gibbon à
mains blanches, gibbon lar (French); gibbon de manos blancas (Spanish); lar,
vanlig gibbon, vithandad gibbon (Swedish); H. l. carpenteri: Carpenter's lar; H.
l. entelloides: central lar; H. l. lar: Malaysian lar; H. l. vestitus: Sumatran
The subspecific status of the Yunnan lar, H. l. yunnanensis, is doubtful as it
is likely synonymous with H. l. carpenteri and as such, is not considered as a
subspecies here (Geissmann 1995; Brandon-Jones et al. 2004; Groves &
Geissmann pers comm. cited in Geissmann 2007). Some publications still do
consider H. l. yunnanensis a valid subspecies, however all of this may be moot
as the populations which may have made up H. l. yunnanensis are in all
likelihood extinct (Geissmann 2008). All subspecies need to be better defined
and are not highly distinct (Brockelman & Geissmann 2008).
Lar gibbons weigh on average between 5.0-7.6 kg (11.0-16.8 lb)(M) and 4.4-6.8
kg (9.7-15.0 lb) (F). Head and body lengths range from 43.5-58.5 cm (17.1-23.0
in) (M) and 42.0-58.0 cm (16.5-22.8 in) (F) (Roonwal & Mohnot 1977). Like
all apes, lar gibbons have no tail and also possess small ischial callosities as
well as long arms suited for brachiation (Ankel-Simons 2007).
Pelage is creamy, brown, or black in both sexes and at all ages (Roonwal
& Mohnot 1977; Mootnick 2006; Bartlett 2009). Adults have a ring around the
hairless face (less apparent in lighter individuals) and have white feet and
hands that contrast with the rest of the body (Marshall & Sugardjito 1986;
Groves 2001; Mootnick 2006; Ankel-Simons 2007; Bartlett 2009). Individuals are
either light or dark in overall color (often called light and dark phases), with
light individuals having buff or creamy pelage, and dark individuals with brown
or black pelage (Groves 2001). The deciding factor whether a lar gibbon is dark
or light is simple genetic inheritance from its parents, in which the dark form
is the dominant allele (Brockelman 2004). The proportion of dark to light individuals
varies in lar gibbons, with some populations being
mostly light and others being mostly dark and with various proportions
in-between, often varying greatly between populations (Marshall & Sugardjito
1986; Brockelman 2004). Mating is random with respect to pelage color
(Brockelman 2004).
H. l. carpenteri are long-haired and almost black or brownish charcoal in the
dark form and are creamy white or white-buff in the light form (Groves 2001;
Mootnick 2006). H. l. entelloides are black or black-brown in the dark form and
honey-colored in the light form with darker legs (Groves 2001; Mootnick 2006).
H. l. lar are medium brown or dark chocolate brown in the dark form with a
lighter torso and darker legs (Groves 2001; Mootnick 2006). This subspecies is
creamy in the light form (Groves 2001). H. l. vestitus are always light with no
dark form and are typically light brown, with a buff back, pale lower back and a
brown head, ventrum and limbs (Marshall & Sugardjito 1986; Groves 2001).
However, due to variation across their distribution, if a specific lar gibbon's
place or origin is unknown, it is difficult to assign it subspecifically based
on morphology (Geissmann 1995). Morphological differences between subspecies
need to be further documented (Brandon-Jones et al. 2004).
Lar gibbons are adapted for arboreal locomotion and usually move through
their environment using brachiation, but also through other forms of movement
(Roonwal & Mohnot 1977; Vereecke et al. 2006). These include walking
(bipedal, tripedal, and quadrupedal), hopping, running (bipedal, tripedal, and
quadrupedal), climbing, swinging, bridging and leaping (Baldwin & Teleki
1976; Carpenter 1976). Lar gibbons are also capable of rapid terrestrial
movement using 7 types of gait even though they are adapted for arboreal
locomotion (Vereecke et al. 2006).
In captivity, lar gibbons have lived up to around 50 years of age (Weigl
Lar gibbons are mainly found in Southeast Asia and in a small portion
of South Asia. They have the greatest north-south range of any of the
gibbons (Bartlett 2007). The species is found in Indonesia, Laos,
Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand (Brandon-Jones et al. 2004). Lar gibbons
are probably extinct in China but if they still exist, they would only
be found in Southwest Yunnan, their former range (Brandon-Jones et al.
2004; Brockelman & Geissmann 2008; Geissmann 2008). Moving south from
southwest Yunnan, lar gibbons are found in the majority of Thailand excepting
the north-eastern areas of the country. The range extends south through
southern and eastern Myanmar but only east of the Salween River (Brockelman &
Geissmann 2008). They are found through the Malay Peninsula except for a
discontinuity in their distribution between the Perak and Muda Rivers, very
roughly near the Thai-Malay border (Brockelman & Geissmann 2008). Lar
gibbons also exist west of the Mekong River in northwestern Laos and in northern
Sumatra (Brandon-Jones et al. 2004; Brockelman & Geissmann 2008).
Subspecifically, H. l. lar are found in peninsular Malaysia and possibly
Thailand. H. l. carpenteri is found in Myanmar, west Laos, and north
Thailand. H. l. entelloides is found in southeast Myanmar, and in central and
south Thailand (Brandon-Jones et al. 2004). In Indonesia, H. l. vestitus is
found over the northern third of the island of Sumatra (MacKinnon 1984;
Brandon-Jones et al. 2004; Brockelman & Geissmann 2008).
In Thailand, there are probably between 15,000-20,000 lar gibbons (Geissmann
In general, lar gibbons are found in lowland dipterocarp forest, hill
dipterocarp forest, and upper dipterocarp forests, including primary lowland and
submontane rainforest, mixed deciduous bamboo forest, and seasonal evergreen
forests, but are not usually found higher than 1200 meters above sea level
(Chivers 1972; Ellefson 1974; Caldecott 1980; Palombit 1992; Ungar 1996;
Reichard & Sommer 1997; Brockelman et al. 1998; Yimkao & Srikosamatara
2006; Bartlett 2009). Lar gibbons are also found in peat swamp forest
(Norhayati et al. 2004).
Perhaps the most important study site of lar gibbons is at Khao Yai,
Thailand, northeast of Bangkok, home to many studies (some long-term)
since the 1970's (Brockelman et al. 1998; Bartlett 2009). The
vegetation type at this site is mostly seasonally wet evergreen rainforest
(Brockelman et al. 1998; Bartlett 2009). Three seasons are experienced in this
part of Thailand; a cool season (November to February), a hot season (March-May)
and a wet season (June-October) (Bartlett 2009). Annual rainfall at this site
averages between 200 and 300 cm (78.7 and 118.1 in) (mostly falling
June-September) and daytime high temperatures usually average between 25°C
and 30°C (77°F and 86°F) year-round. The coldest lows are
usually no colder than 10°C (50°F) (Tangtham 1991 cited in Bartlett
2009; Bartlett 2009).
Lar gibbons are usually found high in the canopy and are rarely found in
the understory (Ungar 1996). At Khao Yai, the average height of feeding trees
was 23.7 meters (77.8 ft) (Bartlett 2009).
Lar gibbons eat a large variety of foods, especially fruit, including figs
and other small, sweet fruits, liana fruit, tree fruit and berries but also
young leaves, buds & flowers, new shoots, vines, vine shoots, insects
including mantids and wasps, and even birds' eggs (Carpenter 1940; Ellefson
1974; Raemaekers 1979; MacKinnon & MacKinnon 1980; Ungar 1995; Palombit
1997; Yimkao & Srikosamatara 2006; Bartlett 1999; 2009). They are known to
eat parts of over 100 species of plants (Bartlett 1999; 2009). In general, when
data is combined among study sites, the lar gibbon diet includes fruit (66%),
leaves (24%), flowers (1%), and insects (9%) although in individual studies
there can be some significant variation by locality (see review in Bartlett
2007; Bartlett 2007). Figs often make up a large proportion of the diet, on
average around 27%, but sometimes up to half of the total foods eaten (Palombit
1997; Bartlett 2007). Feeding on figs increases during times that other
preferred resources are scarce (Bartlett 1999). Food transfer between lar
gibbons has been seen often accompanied by begging of one animal for food from
another (Nettelbeck 1998). Most leaves that are eaten are young. One
method that lar gibbons drink water is from tree holes by cupping their
hands (Bartlett 1999).
Diet can vary quite a bit with the seasons. For example, at Khao Yai,
non-fig fruits dominated in the diet through the year excepting November and
December. At this study site, flowers are most available during the cool
season, while ripe fruit is most abundant during the hot and wet seasons. At
this study site, ripe fruit is preferred when available, with the variability of
the diet increasing when ripe fruit is less available during the cool season.
However, fruit including figs never fell below 50% of the diet year-round
(Bartlett 2009).
Food competition may exist between lar gibbons and pigtail macaques
(Macaca nemestrina) as the two species have been seen foraging near one another
and sometimes interacting (Whitington 1992). Feeding competition between lar
gibbons and long-tailed macaques (M. fascicularis) and dusky leaf monkeys
(Trachypithecus obscurus) has also been seen (Ellefson 1974). Lar gibbons
compete with sympatric siamangs (Symphalangus syndactylus), the presence of
which usually causes conflict and probably reduces the foraging success of lar
gibbons (Palombit 1996).
Diurnal lar gibbons in Thailand are active for an average of 8.7 hours per
day, leaving their sleeping sites right around sunrise and entering sleeping
tress an average of 3.4 hours before sunset (Bartlett 2009). On average, lar
gibbons spend their days feeding (32.6%), resting (26.2%), traveling (24.2%), in
social activities (11.3%), vocalizing (4.0%) and in inter-group encounters
(1.9%), although actual proportions of activities can change significantly over
the course of the year (Bartlett 2009). Daily, if the morning is clear before
dawn, an adult male will solo call, usually from its sleeping tree. At
sunrise, all group gibbons will awaken, then defecate and urinate while
hanging from a branch. Usually, the group will then move to a feeding
tree. There is normally
a duet call among the adult pair before noon and the rest of the day is spent
alternating between feeding and traveling to new trees to feed. With seasonal
reductions in the amount of available fruit, feeding time increases and,
correspondingly, less time is spent in social activities (Bartlett 2009). A
group pause for about an hour of rest and social activities usually
occurs each day (Bartlett 2009). During the cool season, lar gibbons can often
be found for up to several hours a day in big fig trees (Bartlett 2009).
Average home range is 0.4 km² (0.15 mi²), with a daily path length of 1.4
kilometers (0.87 mi) although there is considerable variation among study sites
(Bartlett 2007). Daily path length tends to increase with increased fruit
availability (Bartlett 1999). Group progressions at some locations are usually
led by the adult male, while at other sites females may do so, and coordinate group
movements as well (Yimkao & Srikosamatara 2006; Barelli et al. 2008a).
Within the home range is a territory defended from other groups averaging around
76% of the home range (Bartlett 2007). The home ranges of different groups
often overlap, sometimes extensively (Ellefson 1974; Reichard & Sommer 1997;
Bartlett 1999).
Sleeping trees are not manipulated and group members usually sleep one to a
tree nearby each other. Often the tallest trees available are chosen for
sleeping and lar gibbons try to avoid notice when moving to sleeping sites,
possibly as a way of reducing predation (Reichard 1998). Often, sleeping trees
are located on steep slopes or on cliffs (Yimkao & Srikosamatara 2006).
There are a number of potential predators of adult or infant lar gibbons.
These may include clouded leopards (Neofelis nebulosa), marbled cats (Pardofelis
marmorata), Asian golden cats (Catopuma temmincki), leopard cats (Prionailurus
bengalensis) tigers (Panthera tigris), leopards (Panthera pardus), pythons
(Python sp.), hawk eagle species (Spizaetus sp.), black eagles (Ictinaetus
malayensis), and crested sepent eagles (Spilornis cheela) (Reichard 1998; Uhde
& Sommer 2002). White-bellied sea eagles (Haliaeetus leucogaster) are also
capable of taking a lar gibbon (Ellefson 1974). Lar gibbons may mob and chase
off potential predators (Reichard 1998; Uhude & Sommer 2002).
While the specific composition of the primate community varies across the
distribution of the lar gibbon, the species can be found living in sympatry with
several other primates and apes, including orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), siamangs
(S. syndactylus), pileated gibbons (Hylobates pileatus), purple-faced
langurs (Trachypithecus sp.),
Thomas's langur (Presbytis thomasi), slow loris
(Nycticebus coucang),
and several macaque species (Macaca sp.) (Ellefson 1974;
Geissmann 1991; Palombit 1992; Ungar 1995; Palombit 1996; Bartlett 1999; Yimkao
& Srikosamatara 2006).
Content last modified: November 17, 2010
Written by Kurt Gron. Reviewed by Alan Mootnick.
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According to the New York Times, US officials have concluded, based on classified intelligence, that "senior officials of [Pakistan's] spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence," directed the killing of Asia Times Online investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad, who disappeared in Islamabad on May 29th, "in an effort to silence criticism" of the agency:
The intelligence, which several administration officials said they believed was reliable and conclusive, showed that the actions of the ISI, as it is known, were "barbaric and unacceptable," one of the officials said. They would not disclose further details about the intelligence.
* * *
The disclosure of the intelligence was made in answer to questions about the possibility of its existence, and was reluctantly confirmed by the two officials. "There is a lot of high-level concern about the murder; no one is too busy not to look at this," said one.
A third senior American official said there was enough other intelligence and indicators immediately after Mr. Shahzad's death for the Americans to conclude that the ISI had ordered him killed.
"Every indication is that this was a deliberate, targeted killing that was most likely meant to send shock waves through Pakistan's journalist community and civil society," said the official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate nature of the information. [link]
[HT: Azmat Khan and Declan Walsh.] More from the Times's Eric Schmitt, appearing this morning on The Takeaway (audio player embedded to the right). As the Times reports, the ISI has threatened other journalists in the wake of Shahzad's killing:
The anger over Mr. Shahzad's death followed unprecedented questioning in the media about the professionalism of the army and the ISI, a military-controlled spy agency, in the aftermath of the Bin Laden raid.
Since that initial volley of questioning, the ISI has mounted a steady counter-campaign. Senior ISI officials have called and visited journalists, warning them to douse their criticisms and rally around the theme of a united country, according to three journalists who declined to be named for fear of reprisals.
* * *
The efforts by the ISI to constrain the Pakistani news media have, to a degree, worked in recent days. The virulent criticism after Mr. Shahzad's death has tempered a bit.
A Pakistani reporter, Waqar Kiani, who works for the British newspaper The Guardian, was beaten in the capital after Mr. Shahzad's death with wooden batons and a rubber whip, by men who said: "You want to be a hero. We'll make you a hero," the newspaper reported. Mr. Kiani had just published an account of his abduction two years earlier at the hands of intelligence agents. [link]
This "counter-campaign" now may also have a legal component, in the form of a petition recently filed in the Supreme Court by a former government official seeking to ban certain journalists and media organizations from criticizing military and intelligence agencies:
The petitioner, Sardar Muhammad Ghazi, a former deputy attorney general for Pakistan, filed the petition under Article 184 (3) making the federation through Ministry of Information secretary, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), Geo TV anchors Najam Sethi and Hamid Mir, and Ijaz Haider, who wrote an open letter to ISI chief Lt General Shuja Pasha in the Express Tribune, as respondents.
* * *
"The pen pushers and anchor persons are spitting venom against the ISI and the armed forces," he said.
Ghazi contended that after the May 2 Abbottabad operation, which resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces, and the attack on PNS Mehran in Karachi, a well-organised campaign was launched in the world media targeting army and ISI
"The anchorpersons and the writer jointly and severally are trying to run down the army generals and as such their command stands eroded in the eyes of the force being commanded by them," he stated. [link]
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 39 journalists have been killed in Pakistan since 1992, with eight journalists killed in 2010 -- making Pakistan the year's deadliest country in the world for journalists -- and at least five journalists killed so far in 2011. Overall, Pakistan ranks 10th on the CPJ's Impunity Index, which is based on unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of the country's population.
At this year's annual convention in June, SAJA hosted a roundtable discussion on "The Perils of Reporting in Pakistan," featuring Beena Sarwar, Malik Siraj Akbar, Kamran Shafi, and David Rohde.
See also:
- Pakistani Journalists Honored in US Ceremony (The News International, July 4, 2011)
- A Journalist in Pakistan: Living on the Edge (Sabin Agha, Express Tribune, July 3, 2011)
- Silent No More: Pakistani Journalist Speaks Out (Jonathan Ernst, St. Louis Beacon, July 2, 2011)
- A Legal Attack Accompanies Assault on Pakistani Journalists (Bob Dietz, Committee to Protect Journalists, June 24, 2011)
- Journalist's Killing Unites Pakistan's Media (Julie McCarthy, NPR, June 21, 2011)
- Dying to Tell the Story (Umar Cheema, New York Times, June 11, 2011)
- RIP Saleem Shahzad (Kalsoom Lakhani, Changing Up Pakistan, June 1, 2011)
- The Perils of Covering Pakistan's Military (Huma Imtiaz, Foreign Policy AfPak Channel, May 31, 2011)


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