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Maike van Niekerk named Dalhousie University's 90th Rhodes Scholar,van cleef fake necklace alhambra
SubscriptionsGo to the Subscriptions Centre to manage your:My Profile"It's still kind of all setting in. I'm a bit in disbelief, still. I'll probably become even more nervous as the time comes to move to Oxford, but if anything I'm really excited for the challenge and to meet such a diverse group of people."Personal connection to oncologyShe will complete her PhD in psychiatry at the University of Oxford. She hopes to develop tools to improve the overall well being of cancer patients. She specifically hopes to work with Indigenous Canadian and refugee cancer patients.When she was 15, van Niekerk lost her mother Katrin to breast cancer. Ever since,van cleef knock off necklace alhambra, she has dedicated herself to helping people with cancer.In the summer of 2014, she bicycled from St. Anthony to St. John's to raise $35,000 for cancer treatment.The funds went to a charity she founded called Katrin's Karepackage, which helps offset the costs for cancer patients who have to travel to medical appointments.'A little bit stressful'A year ago, she ran seven marathons in seven days across Newfoundland to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society. Van Niekerk's mother was on her mind throughout the Rhodes application process."I was thinking about her when I was writing my essay, my personal statement for the Rhodes Scholarship," van Niekerk said. "How she's influenced my everyday life,van cleef necklace fake wholesale, how she's influenced the way that I treat other people, my future career goals."She said the scholarship interview itself was "a little bit stressful" but thinking about her mother helped."I think she would probably cry and just be so happy for me, but she would also probably have a little bit of an 'I told you so' moment,van cleef fake clover necklace, because she knew that this was probably the field that I would end up going into. She knew that I always loved academics," she said.3 scholars from regionVan Niekerk has received numerous awards for scholarship and for her humanitarian efforts. Van Niekerk will be Dalhousie's 90th Rhodes Scholar.
SubscriptionsGo to the Subscriptions Centre to manage your:My Profile"It's still kind of all setting in. I'm a bit in disbelief, still. I'll probably become even more nervous as the time comes to move to Oxford, but if anything I'm really excited for the challenge and to meet such a diverse group of people."Personal connection to oncologyShe will complete her PhD in psychiatry at the University of Oxford. She hopes to develop tools to improve the overall well being of cancer patients. She specifically hopes to work with Indigenous Canadian and refugee cancer patients.When she was 15, van Niekerk lost her mother Katrin to breast cancer. Ever since,van cleef knock off necklace alhambra, she has dedicated herself to helping people with cancer.In the summer of 2014, she bicycled from St. Anthony to St. John's to raise $35,000 for cancer treatment.The funds went to a charity she founded called Katrin's Karepackage, which helps offset the costs for cancer patients who have to travel to medical appointments.'A little bit stressful'A year ago, she ran seven marathons in seven days across Newfoundland to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society. Van Niekerk's mother was on her mind throughout the Rhodes application process."I was thinking about her when I was writing my essay, my personal statement for the Rhodes Scholarship," van Niekerk said. "How she's influenced my everyday life,van cleef necklace fake wholesale, how she's influenced the way that I treat other people, my future career goals."She said the scholarship interview itself was "a little bit stressful" but thinking about her mother helped."I think she would probably cry and just be so happy for me, but she would also probably have a little bit of an 'I told you so' moment,van cleef fake clover necklace, because she knew that this was probably the field that I would end up going into. She knew that I always loved academics," she said.3 scholars from regionVan Niekerk has received numerous awards for scholarship and for her humanitarian efforts. Van Niekerk will be Dalhousie's 90th Rhodes Scholar.
Karate Olympic debut shines light on the ancient art
HOLLYWOOD may have kicked karate onto the world stage, but its first ever inclusion at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics promises to shine a light on the rich history of the discipline.
At 78, sensei Masahiro Nakamoto has been waiting decades for this decision, insisting there is far more to the martial art than the caricature depicted in films such as Karate Kid and by action stars Chuck Norris and Jean Claude Van Damme.
"This is the art of defence, the karate master told AFP at his dojo in Naha, Okinawa an island chain some 600 kilometres from the southern tip of mainland Japan.
"You don't go just kicking and punching,van cleef arpels alhambra knock off necklace, you receive your opponent's blow. Defending yourself translates into offence," he added.
At the Tokyo Games, 80 competitors will take part in the karate event. It joins surfing, skateboarding, climbing and baseball softball as new sports included for the 2020 edition.
"The dreams of the world's karate athletes came true when the (International Olympic Committee) made its decision," said Japan Karate do Federation vice president Shigeo Kurihara.
"It's an historic event it was a day of joy for all of us."
A blend of indigenous fighting styles, karate was born in Okinawa in the 15th century when the area was ruled by the independent Ryukyu Kingdom. Strong trading links meant the sport was also influenced by Chinese martial arts.
It is far older than the modern Olympics and today has at least 10 million registered practitioners worldwide, and yet it has struggled to make the case for inclusion in the Games.
By contrast, judo, a Japanese martial art,van cleef clover copy necklace, and Korea's taekwondo are already permanent fixtures on the roster. Judo made its Olympic debut when Tokyo hosted the 1964 Games while taekwondo made its first appearance at the global event in 1988 in Seoul.
Integrating karate into the Olympics has been delayed by divisions in the movement around the world, with stalwarts long preferring to adhere to their interpretation rather than to work together to create an global art form.
"The variety of styles more than 20 complicated efforts to unify karate," said Francis Didier, vice president of the World Karate Federation.
"It took a bit too long to modernise the rules of competition," he admitted.
Sport karate,van cleef and arpels knock off necklace, for example, calls for competition rules where opponents have to control their blows, while traditional karate allows for harder shots but requires significant protective gear, such as boxing gloves and helmets.
The martial art was only brought to Tokyo in the early 20th century when Gichin Funakoshi, regarded as the father of modern karate, moved from Naha.
"Okinawa was the place where karate's spirituality developed," explains Kurihara.
Frustrations remain however, that Okinawa's role in the development of karate has been airbrushed out of history. For Nakamoto, the Olympic Games in four years time, is a chance to redress that.
"This is a great chance to show the world where karate has its roots. The world may be surprised to know that it was developed here," he said, adding that it was inexorably linked to the island chain's politics.
When the Ryukyu Kingdom ruled Okinawa for more than 400 years starting in the 15th century, brewers hired karate masters to protect shipments of indigenous rice based liquor called Awamori, Nakamoto explained.
A vital tool of diplomacy at the time keeping leaders on good terms with China and Japan.
"Brewers could sell their surplus so it was the jobs of karate masters to protect convoys from robbery," Nakamoto said.
"This is going to boost the sport's visibility. The Games are a great showcase," he told AFP.
Still, Fauchard doesn't expect one big happy karate family.
He explained: "Sport karate will continue to develop in national federations while traditional karate will still be taught in schools,van cleef arpels knock off alhambra necklace. They'll both benefit from the media attention brought by the Olympics and continue to exist side by side."
Karate will still have to prove its credentials to retain an Olympic sport beyond 2020 however, the IOC will review whether its inclusion was a success.
HOLLYWOOD may have kicked karate onto the world stage, but its first ever inclusion at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics promises to shine a light on the rich history of the discipline.
At 78, sensei Masahiro Nakamoto has been waiting decades for this decision, insisting there is far more to the martial art than the caricature depicted in films such as Karate Kid and by action stars Chuck Norris and Jean Claude Van Damme.
"This is the art of defence, the karate master told AFP at his dojo in Naha, Okinawa an island chain some 600 kilometres from the southern tip of mainland Japan.
"You don't go just kicking and punching,van cleef arpels alhambra knock off necklace, you receive your opponent's blow. Defending yourself translates into offence," he added.
At the Tokyo Games, 80 competitors will take part in the karate event. It joins surfing, skateboarding, climbing and baseball softball as new sports included for the 2020 edition.
"The dreams of the world's karate athletes came true when the (International Olympic Committee) made its decision," said Japan Karate do Federation vice president Shigeo Kurihara.
"It's an historic event it was a day of joy for all of us."
A blend of indigenous fighting styles, karate was born in Okinawa in the 15th century when the area was ruled by the independent Ryukyu Kingdom. Strong trading links meant the sport was also influenced by Chinese martial arts.
It is far older than the modern Olympics and today has at least 10 million registered practitioners worldwide, and yet it has struggled to make the case for inclusion in the Games.
By contrast, judo, a Japanese martial art,van cleef clover copy necklace, and Korea's taekwondo are already permanent fixtures on the roster. Judo made its Olympic debut when Tokyo hosted the 1964 Games while taekwondo made its first appearance at the global event in 1988 in Seoul.
Integrating karate into the Olympics has been delayed by divisions in the movement around the world, with stalwarts long preferring to adhere to their interpretation rather than to work together to create an global art form.
"The variety of styles more than 20 complicated efforts to unify karate," said Francis Didier, vice president of the World Karate Federation.
"It took a bit too long to modernise the rules of competition," he admitted.
Sport karate,van cleef and arpels knock off necklace, for example, calls for competition rules where opponents have to control their blows, while traditional karate allows for harder shots but requires significant protective gear, such as boxing gloves and helmets.
The martial art was only brought to Tokyo in the early 20th century when Gichin Funakoshi, regarded as the father of modern karate, moved from Naha.
"Okinawa was the place where karate's spirituality developed," explains Kurihara.
Frustrations remain however, that Okinawa's role in the development of karate has been airbrushed out of history. For Nakamoto, the Olympic Games in four years time, is a chance to redress that.
"This is a great chance to show the world where karate has its roots. The world may be surprised to know that it was developed here," he said, adding that it was inexorably linked to the island chain's politics.
When the Ryukyu Kingdom ruled Okinawa for more than 400 years starting in the 15th century, brewers hired karate masters to protect shipments of indigenous rice based liquor called Awamori, Nakamoto explained.
A vital tool of diplomacy at the time keeping leaders on good terms with China and Japan.
"Brewers could sell their surplus so it was the jobs of karate masters to protect convoys from robbery," Nakamoto said.
"This is going to boost the sport's visibility. The Games are a great showcase," he told AFP.
Still, Fauchard doesn't expect one big happy karate family.
He explained: "Sport karate will continue to develop in national federations while traditional karate will still be taught in schools,van cleef arpels knock off alhambra necklace. They'll both benefit from the media attention brought by the Olympics and continue to exist side by side."
Karate will still have to prove its credentials to retain an Olympic sport beyond 2020 however, the IOC will review whether its inclusion was a success.
Lamb's drafting a story of immense courage
WHILE the background story of many teenage draft candidates now receive widespread coverage, the tale of the Sydney Swans first pick in last night's national draft is far more unusual and far more moving than most.
The second youngest son of a family of eight children from the town of Yarram, in eastern Victoria, Jed Lamb has already suffered a setback that would shake the nerve and confidence of most young players.
When aged just seven, Lamb arrived home to be told that his father Colin,van cleef arpels copy necklace, then separated from his mother Kerrie, had been brutally murdered. The incident happened after Colin Lamb argued with a former friend, who returned later to his house and attacked him with a wood splitter. Lamb spoke about his memories of the incident before the draft including the fact that, had he gone to the house that afternoon as planned, he might well have found his father's body. Fortunately, a friend got there first.
It is a thought that still makes Lamb's mother shudder.
''It was awful, a really awful time. It was really hard trying to tell the kids and explain it,'' she said. ''There were a lot of stories in the local paper other kids would take the paper to school and show them things and it was tough for them because they had to think about things only adults should have to.
''We were living with an old lady at the time, and I'll never forget her saying to me a couple of days later: 'For God's sake, would you stop grieving and stop crying in front of those children?' So that was it, after that. I didn't have much time to grieve, because of the kids. I put all of my attention into them.''
Lamb's own memories of that day are hazy. ''I guess you hear about these sorts of things on the news, and then you realise it's actually happened to you,'' he said. ''I guess that's when the reality hits, but my mum's just been an inspiration,van cleef and arpels copy necklace, raising all us kids like she has. She did everything for us, and we all stuck together.
''Looking back, I can't even remember what I did or what I thought or even what mum told us. As I've grown up I guess I've understood more about it, but all I remember is how close we were. I think what we've been through has just brought us all closer together.''
The death of Colin Lamb meant Kerrie Lamb was left to raise the eight children with little support. Lamb was nicknamed ''half a job'' by his older siblings as a child because he was not always fully dedicated to household chores.
''They say if we were outside planting trees or something, I'd get halfway done and go back to the house because I couldn't be bothered any more,van cleef copy necklace,'' he said.
Football was an outlet for the family. As kids, Jed, brother Zeke, sister Kaylah and older brother Shaun played together in the same side. For a couple of years, Kerrie served as ''team manager'' of Jed's junior team. ''Mum used to wash the water bottles out, and on one morning she forgot to rinse them, so all the boys were drinking White King and water. They were all blowing bubbles and gagging,'' he said.
Each weekend, the family would cram into the back of their white van to go and watch Jed play. From an early age, he was quicker than the other kids better able to pick where the ball was about to go although it was only last year, playing his first season with Gippsland Power in the elite under 18 competition, moving to the forward line and starting to kick goals, that he believed he would be good enough to make it to an AFL team.
With his siblings watching on television in the local pub,van cleef arpels alhambra replica necklace, that ambition was fulfilled last night when the Swans, who had visited the family this week, made Lamb their first pick the 21st in the draft overall.
The Swans next picks were Victorian teenagers Luke Parker (No.40), a tough midfielder, and Alex Johnson (No.57) a versatile key position. They also used a late pick (No.73) to take 23 year old former West Coast defender Matthew Spangher.
WHILE the background story of many teenage draft candidates now receive widespread coverage, the tale of the Sydney Swans first pick in last night's national draft is far more unusual and far more moving than most.
The second youngest son of a family of eight children from the town of Yarram, in eastern Victoria, Jed Lamb has already suffered a setback that would shake the nerve and confidence of most young players.
When aged just seven, Lamb arrived home to be told that his father Colin,van cleef arpels copy necklace, then separated from his mother Kerrie, had been brutally murdered. The incident happened after Colin Lamb argued with a former friend, who returned later to his house and attacked him with a wood splitter. Lamb spoke about his memories of the incident before the draft including the fact that, had he gone to the house that afternoon as planned, he might well have found his father's body. Fortunately, a friend got there first.
It is a thought that still makes Lamb's mother shudder.
''It was awful, a really awful time. It was really hard trying to tell the kids and explain it,'' she said. ''There were a lot of stories in the local paper other kids would take the paper to school and show them things and it was tough for them because they had to think about things only adults should have to.
''We were living with an old lady at the time, and I'll never forget her saying to me a couple of days later: 'For God's sake, would you stop grieving and stop crying in front of those children?' So that was it, after that. I didn't have much time to grieve, because of the kids. I put all of my attention into them.''
Lamb's own memories of that day are hazy. ''I guess you hear about these sorts of things on the news, and then you realise it's actually happened to you,'' he said. ''I guess that's when the reality hits, but my mum's just been an inspiration,van cleef and arpels copy necklace, raising all us kids like she has. She did everything for us, and we all stuck together.
''Looking back, I can't even remember what I did or what I thought or even what mum told us. As I've grown up I guess I've understood more about it, but all I remember is how close we were. I think what we've been through has just brought us all closer together.''
The death of Colin Lamb meant Kerrie Lamb was left to raise the eight children with little support. Lamb was nicknamed ''half a job'' by his older siblings as a child because he was not always fully dedicated to household chores.
''They say if we were outside planting trees or something, I'd get halfway done and go back to the house because I couldn't be bothered any more,van cleef copy necklace,'' he said.
Football was an outlet for the family. As kids, Jed, brother Zeke, sister Kaylah and older brother Shaun played together in the same side. For a couple of years, Kerrie served as ''team manager'' of Jed's junior team. ''Mum used to wash the water bottles out, and on one morning she forgot to rinse them, so all the boys were drinking White King and water. They were all blowing bubbles and gagging,'' he said.
Each weekend, the family would cram into the back of their white van to go and watch Jed play. From an early age, he was quicker than the other kids better able to pick where the ball was about to go although it was only last year, playing his first season with Gippsland Power in the elite under 18 competition, moving to the forward line and starting to kick goals, that he believed he would be good enough to make it to an AFL team.
With his siblings watching on television in the local pub,van cleef arpels alhambra replica necklace, that ambition was fulfilled last night when the Swans, who had visited the family this week, made Lamb their first pick the 21st in the draft overall.
The Swans next picks were Victorian teenagers Luke Parker (No.40), a tough midfielder, and Alex Johnson (No.57) a versatile key position. They also used a late pick (No.73) to take 23 year old former West Coast defender Matthew Spangher.
Man wanted in stepson's death arrested in Kenora
Justin Kuijer is shown in a Niagara Regional Police Service handout photo. Police are expected to provide more details today on the end of a four day manhunt for a stepfather accused of killing his seven year old stepson. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO Niagara Regional Police Service MANDATORY CREDIT
A member of the public who had heard of the search for Kuijer recognized the van in which the man allegedly fled. Six provincial police officers responded to the tip and arrested the former roofing company owner without incident, McGuire said.
Kuijer had been the subject of a Canada wide warrant on a charge of second degree murder in the death of his stepson, Nathan Dumas, but McGuire said the man will in fact be charged with first degree murder in the boy's death, as well as attempted murder in the attack on the bank employee.
McGuire credited steady media exposure and public vigilance for Kuijer's arrest, saying the end of the manhunt can help a devastated community begin to heal.
"It's because of those efforts that Kuijer is in custody today, and the community is safer than it was before his arrest yesterday," he said at a press conference.
Outside a St. Catharines sandwich shop owned by Nathan's grandparents, flowers and stuffed animals formed a makeshift memorial for the slain boy.
Residents walking by expressed rage at the attacks and relief that a suspect had been caught.
Ken Chipman, who was walking his dog near the school Nathan attended a short drive away, said news of the attacks had left him "really upset."
"I thought it was horrible," he said, adding he was glad the search for Kuijer was over.
McGuire provided few new details on Kuijer's alleged crimes or on the massive manhunt, citing the need to keep certain details confidential. But he did provide insight on how police began their investigation.
Police were first summoned to a RBC branch in St. Catharines on Friday morning after reports of an assault. Officers found an employee suffering from stab wounds, he said.
McGuire confirmed that the woman,van cleef necklace knock off alhambra, who has not been named, had worked with Kuijer on financial matters in the past.
Witnesses reported seeing Kuijer fleeing the scene in a dark grey van, which enabled police to connect the attack at the bank to another call they were fielding at essentially the same time, he said.
Across town, in a home above the family's sandwich shop, police said a relative discovered that Nathan had been critically injured.
The boy was rushed to hospital with undisclosed injuries and died the next morning,van cleef and arpels copy necklace. Police learned that the van in which Kuijer allegedly fled the bank was registered to the address where Nathan was found.
McGuire said the dual attacks had a wide ranging impact across St. Catharines, a small city in the heart of Ontario's wine country.
He read a note from a staff member at the school Nathan attended which outlined the grief experienced by staff, parents and fellow students.
Another anecdote from McGuire highlighted the national scope of the hunt for Kuijer.
"One of the detectives answered the phone, and it was two officers sitting on the side of the TransCanada Highway in Alberta to say they that they're out looking for our man,van cleef arpels alhambra fake necklace," he said.
McGuire said Nathan's mother and the RBC victim were "elated" at news of Kuijer's arrest, but were asking to have their privacy respected in the wake of the attacks. The bank employee remains in hospital but is expected to make a full recovery, he added.
Kuijer will be returned to the Niagara region on Wednesday in advance of a bail hearing scheduled for Thursday.
The next day, Nathan's family plans to lay the boy to rest at a funeral in neighbouring Thorold, Ont.
"Nathan was truly a kind, loving boy with a big heart, full of compassion for everyone and everything. He was always quick to help anyone who may have been in need," reads an obituary for the boy.
"As the polite young gentleman he was, he never missed an opportunity to open a door, give a gift or come to the defence of a good friend. Nathan truly felt the joy of giving,van cleef knock off alhambra necklace, never looking for anything in return. There are no words to express the unbearable heartbreak we feel in his loss."
Nathan is survived by his mother and younger siblings, the obituary states, adding that his little brother looked up to him as a "best buddy" while his baby sister will be told growing up "what an amazing big brother she had"
Justin Kuijer is shown in a Niagara Regional Police Service handout photo. Police are expected to provide more details today on the end of a four day manhunt for a stepfather accused of killing his seven year old stepson. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO Niagara Regional Police Service MANDATORY CREDIT
A member of the public who had heard of the search for Kuijer recognized the van in which the man allegedly fled. Six provincial police officers responded to the tip and arrested the former roofing company owner without incident, McGuire said.
Kuijer had been the subject of a Canada wide warrant on a charge of second degree murder in the death of his stepson, Nathan Dumas, but McGuire said the man will in fact be charged with first degree murder in the boy's death, as well as attempted murder in the attack on the bank employee.
McGuire credited steady media exposure and public vigilance for Kuijer's arrest, saying the end of the manhunt can help a devastated community begin to heal.
"It's because of those efforts that Kuijer is in custody today, and the community is safer than it was before his arrest yesterday," he said at a press conference.
Outside a St. Catharines sandwich shop owned by Nathan's grandparents, flowers and stuffed animals formed a makeshift memorial for the slain boy.
Residents walking by expressed rage at the attacks and relief that a suspect had been caught.
Ken Chipman, who was walking his dog near the school Nathan attended a short drive away, said news of the attacks had left him "really upset."
"I thought it was horrible," he said, adding he was glad the search for Kuijer was over.
McGuire provided few new details on Kuijer's alleged crimes or on the massive manhunt, citing the need to keep certain details confidential. But he did provide insight on how police began their investigation.
Police were first summoned to a RBC branch in St. Catharines on Friday morning after reports of an assault. Officers found an employee suffering from stab wounds, he said.
McGuire confirmed that the woman,van cleef necklace knock off alhambra, who has not been named, had worked with Kuijer on financial matters in the past.
Witnesses reported seeing Kuijer fleeing the scene in a dark grey van, which enabled police to connect the attack at the bank to another call they were fielding at essentially the same time, he said.
Across town, in a home above the family's sandwich shop, police said a relative discovered that Nathan had been critically injured.
The boy was rushed to hospital with undisclosed injuries and died the next morning,van cleef and arpels copy necklace. Police learned that the van in which Kuijer allegedly fled the bank was registered to the address where Nathan was found.
McGuire said the dual attacks had a wide ranging impact across St. Catharines, a small city in the heart of Ontario's wine country.
He read a note from a staff member at the school Nathan attended which outlined the grief experienced by staff, parents and fellow students.
Another anecdote from McGuire highlighted the national scope of the hunt for Kuijer.
"One of the detectives answered the phone, and it was two officers sitting on the side of the TransCanada Highway in Alberta to say they that they're out looking for our man,van cleef arpels alhambra fake necklace," he said.
McGuire said Nathan's mother and the RBC victim were "elated" at news of Kuijer's arrest, but were asking to have their privacy respected in the wake of the attacks. The bank employee remains in hospital but is expected to make a full recovery, he added.
Kuijer will be returned to the Niagara region on Wednesday in advance of a bail hearing scheduled for Thursday.
The next day, Nathan's family plans to lay the boy to rest at a funeral in neighbouring Thorold, Ont.
"Nathan was truly a kind, loving boy with a big heart, full of compassion for everyone and everything. He was always quick to help anyone who may have been in need," reads an obituary for the boy.
"As the polite young gentleman he was, he never missed an opportunity to open a door, give a gift or come to the defence of a good friend. Nathan truly felt the joy of giving,van cleef knock off alhambra necklace, never looking for anything in return. There are no words to express the unbearable heartbreak we feel in his loss."
Nathan is survived by his mother and younger siblings, the obituary states, adding that his little brother looked up to him as a "best buddy" while his baby sister will be told growing up "what an amazing big brother she had"
Lost Since 9
America has entered its third great era: the post constitutional one. In the first, in the colonial years,van cleef and arpels fake necklace, a unitary executive, the King of England, ruled without checks and balances, allowing no freedom of speech, due process, or privacy when it came to protecting his power.In the second, the principles of the Enlightenment and an armed rebellion were used to push back the king abuses. The result was a new country and a new constitution with a Bill of Rights expressly meant to check the government's power. Now, we are wading into the shallow waters of a third era, a time when that government is abandoning the basic ideas that saw our nation through centuries of challenges far more daunting than terrorism. Those ideas enshrined in the Bill of Rights are disarmingly concise. Think of them as the haiku of a genuine people's government.Deeper, darker waters lie ahead and we seem drawn down into them. For here there be monsters.The Powers of a Police State DeniedAmerica in its pre constitutional days may seem eerily familiar even to casual readers of current events. We lived then under the control of a king. (Think now: the imperial presidency.) That king was a powerful, unitary executive who ruled at a distance. His goal was simple: to use his power over American colonies to draw the maximum financial gain while suppressing any dissent that might endanger his control.In those years, protest was dangerous. Speech could indeed make you the enemy of the government. Journalism could be a crime if you didn write in support of those in power. A citizen needed to watch what he said, for there were spies everywhere, including fellow colonists hoping for a few crumbs from the king's table. Laws could be brutal and punishments swift as well as extra judicial. In extreme cases, troops shot down those simply assembling to speak out.Among the many offenses against liberty in pre constitutional America, one pivotal event, the Stamp Act of 1765, stands out. To enforce the taxes imposed by the Act,van cleef and arpel replica necklace, the king's men used "writs of assistance" that allowed them to burst into any home or business, with or without suspicion of wrongdoing. American privacy was violated and property ransacked, often simply as a warning of the king power. Some colonist was then undoubtedly the first American to mutter,van cleef and arpels replica clover necklace, if I have nothing to hide, why should I be afraid? He soon learned that when a population is categorically treated as a potential enemy, everyone has something to hide if the government claims they do.The Stamp Act and the flood of kingly offenses that followed created in those who founded the United States a profound suspicion of what an unchecked government could do, and a sense that power and freedom are not likely to coexist comfortably in a democracy. A balancing mechanism was required. In addition to the body of the Constitution outlining what the new nation's government could do, needed was an accounting of what it could not do. The answer was the Bill of Rights.The Bill's preamble explained the matter this way: order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of [the government's] powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added. Thomas Jefferson commented separately, "[A] bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth."In other words, the Bill of Rights was written to make sure that the new government would not replicate the abuses of power of the old one. Each amendment spoke directly to a specific offense committed by the king. Their purpose collectively was to lay out what the government could never take away. Knowing first hand the dangers of a police state and unchecked power, those who wrote the Constitution wanted to be clear: never again.It needs to be said that those imperfect men were very much of their era. They were right about much, but desperately wrong about other things. They addressed but ignored the rights of women and Native Americans. Above all, they did not abolish the institution of slavery, our nation Original Sin. It would take many years, and much blood, to begin to rectify those mistakes.Still, for more than two centuries, the meaning of the Bill of Rights was generally expanded, though especially in wartime it sometimes temporarily contracted. Yet the basic principles that guided America were sustained despite civil war, world wars, depressions, and endless challenges. Then, one September morning, our Post Constitutional era began amid falling towers and empty skies. What have we lost since? More than we imagine. A look at the Bill of Rights, amendment by amendment, tells the tale."Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."The First Amendment was meant to make one thing indisputably clear: free speech was the basis for a government of the people. Without a free press, as well as the ability to openly gather, debate, protest, and criticize, how would the people be able to judge their government's adherence to the other rights? How could people vote knowledgeably if they didn know what was being done in their name by their government? An informed citizenry, Thomas Jefferson stated, was "a vital requisite for our survival as a free people."That was how it was seen long ago. In Post Constitutional America, however, the government strives to "control the message," to actively thwart efforts to maintain a citizenry informed about what done in its name, a concept that these days seems as quaint as Jefferson's powdered wig. There are far too many examples of the post 9/11 erosion of the First Amendment to list here. Let's just look at a few important ones that tell the tale of what we have lost since 9/11.(Lack of) Freedom of InformationIn 1966, an idea for keeping Americans better informed on the workings of their government was hatched: the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Strengthened in 1974, it began with the premise that, except for some obvious categories (like serious national security matters and personal information), the position of the government should be: everything it does is available to the public. Like the Bill of Rights, which made specific the limits of government, FOIA began with a presumption that it was the government duty to make information available and quickly to the people, unless a convincing case could be made otherwise. The default position of the FOIA switch was set to ON.Three decades later, the FOIA system works far differently. Agencies are generally loath to release documents of any sort and instead put their efforts into creating roadblocks to legitimate requests. Some still require signatures on paper. (The State Department notes, for personal information cannot be submitted electronically and should be submitted by mail. Others demand hyper detailed information like the precise dates and titles of documents whose dates and titles may be classified and unavailable. The NSA simply denies almost all FOIA requests out of hand, absent a court order.Most federal agencies now regard the deadline mandated for a response as the time period to send out a received note. They tend to assign only a few staff members to processing requests, leading to near endless delays. At the State Department, most FOIA work is done on a part time basis by retirees. The CIA won directly release electronic versions of documents. Even when a request is fulfilled, copying is often denied and reproduction costs exaggerated.In some cases, the requested records have a way of disappearing or are simply removed. The ACLU experience when it filed an FOIA style request with the Sarasota police department on its use of the cell phone surveillance tool Stingray could be considered typical. The morning the ACLU was to review the files, Federal Marshals arrived and physically took possession of them, claiming they had deputized the local cops and made the files federal property.John Young, who runs the web site Cryptome and is a steadfast FOIA requester, stated, delay, brush off, lying are normal. It is a delusion for ordinary requesters and a bitch of a challenge for professionals. Churning has become a way of life for FOIA, costly as hell for little results. Lips and the WhistleblowerAll government agencies have regulations requiring employees to obtain permission before speaking to the representatives of the people that is, journalists. Even speaking about unclassified information is a no no that may cost you your job. A government ever more in lockdown mode has created what one journalist calls a where censorship is the norm. who does speak to Americans about their government? Growing hordes of spokespeople, communications staff, trained PR crews, and those anonymous officials who pop up so regularly in news articles in major papers.With the government obsessively seeking to hide or spin what it does, in the sunlight contact barred, and those inside locked behind an iron curtain of secrecy, the whistleblower has become the paradigmatic figure of the era. Not surprisingly, anyone who blows a whistle has, in these years, come under fierce attack.Pick a case: Tom Drake exposing early NSA efforts to turn its spy tools on Americans, Edward Snowden proving that the government has us under constant surveillance, Chelsea Manning documenting war crimes in Iraq and sleazy diplomacy everywhere, John Kiriakou acknowledging torture by his former employer the CIA, or Robert MacLean revealing Transportation Safety Administration malfeasance. In each instance, the threat of jail was quick to surface. The nuclear option against such truthtellers is the Espionage Act, a law that offended the Constitution when implemented in the midst of World War I. It has been resurrected by the Obama administration as a blunt tool for silencing and punishing whistleblowers.The Obama administration has already charged six people under that act for allegedly mishandling classified information. Even Richard Nixon only invoked it once, in a failed prosecution against Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.Indeed, the very word couldn be stranger in the context of these cases. None of those charged spied. None sought to aid an enemy or make money selling secrets. No matter. In Post Constitutional America, the powers that be stand ready to twist language in whatever Orwellian direction is necessary to bridge the gap between reality and the king's needs. national security or benefit a foreign power. It could still be a part of an charge.A final question might be: How could a law designed almost 100 years ago to stop German spies in wartime have become a tool to silence the few Americans willing to risk everything to exercise their First Amendment rights? When did free speech become a crime?Each person charged under the Espionage Act in these years was primarily a source for a journalist. The press was necessary to question government officials directly, comment on their actions,van cleef and arpels fake butterfly necklace, and inform the citizenry about what its government was doing. Sadly, as the Obama administration is moving ever more fiercely against those who might reveal its acts or documents, the bulk of the media have acquiesced. Glenn Greenwald said it plainly: too many journalists have gone into a self censoring mode, practicing "obsequious journalism."
America has entered its third great era: the post constitutional one. In the first, in the colonial years,van cleef and arpels fake necklace, a unitary executive, the King of England, ruled without checks and balances, allowing no freedom of speech, due process, or privacy when it came to protecting his power.In the second, the principles of the Enlightenment and an armed rebellion were used to push back the king abuses. The result was a new country and a new constitution with a Bill of Rights expressly meant to check the government's power. Now, we are wading into the shallow waters of a third era, a time when that government is abandoning the basic ideas that saw our nation through centuries of challenges far more daunting than terrorism. Those ideas enshrined in the Bill of Rights are disarmingly concise. Think of them as the haiku of a genuine people's government.Deeper, darker waters lie ahead and we seem drawn down into them. For here there be monsters.The Powers of a Police State DeniedAmerica in its pre constitutional days may seem eerily familiar even to casual readers of current events. We lived then under the control of a king. (Think now: the imperial presidency.) That king was a powerful, unitary executive who ruled at a distance. His goal was simple: to use his power over American colonies to draw the maximum financial gain while suppressing any dissent that might endanger his control.In those years, protest was dangerous. Speech could indeed make you the enemy of the government. Journalism could be a crime if you didn write in support of those in power. A citizen needed to watch what he said, for there were spies everywhere, including fellow colonists hoping for a few crumbs from the king's table. Laws could be brutal and punishments swift as well as extra judicial. In extreme cases, troops shot down those simply assembling to speak out.Among the many offenses against liberty in pre constitutional America, one pivotal event, the Stamp Act of 1765, stands out. To enforce the taxes imposed by the Act,van cleef and arpel replica necklace, the king's men used "writs of assistance" that allowed them to burst into any home or business, with or without suspicion of wrongdoing. American privacy was violated and property ransacked, often simply as a warning of the king power. Some colonist was then undoubtedly the first American to mutter,van cleef and arpels replica clover necklace, if I have nothing to hide, why should I be afraid? He soon learned that when a population is categorically treated as a potential enemy, everyone has something to hide if the government claims they do.The Stamp Act and the flood of kingly offenses that followed created in those who founded the United States a profound suspicion of what an unchecked government could do, and a sense that power and freedom are not likely to coexist comfortably in a democracy. A balancing mechanism was required. In addition to the body of the Constitution outlining what the new nation's government could do, needed was an accounting of what it could not do. The answer was the Bill of Rights.The Bill's preamble explained the matter this way: order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of [the government's] powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added. Thomas Jefferson commented separately, "[A] bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth."In other words, the Bill of Rights was written to make sure that the new government would not replicate the abuses of power of the old one. Each amendment spoke directly to a specific offense committed by the king. Their purpose collectively was to lay out what the government could never take away. Knowing first hand the dangers of a police state and unchecked power, those who wrote the Constitution wanted to be clear: never again.It needs to be said that those imperfect men were very much of their era. They were right about much, but desperately wrong about other things. They addressed but ignored the rights of women and Native Americans. Above all, they did not abolish the institution of slavery, our nation Original Sin. It would take many years, and much blood, to begin to rectify those mistakes.Still, for more than two centuries, the meaning of the Bill of Rights was generally expanded, though especially in wartime it sometimes temporarily contracted. Yet the basic principles that guided America were sustained despite civil war, world wars, depressions, and endless challenges. Then, one September morning, our Post Constitutional era began amid falling towers and empty skies. What have we lost since? More than we imagine. A look at the Bill of Rights, amendment by amendment, tells the tale."Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."The First Amendment was meant to make one thing indisputably clear: free speech was the basis for a government of the people. Without a free press, as well as the ability to openly gather, debate, protest, and criticize, how would the people be able to judge their government's adherence to the other rights? How could people vote knowledgeably if they didn know what was being done in their name by their government? An informed citizenry, Thomas Jefferson stated, was "a vital requisite for our survival as a free people."That was how it was seen long ago. In Post Constitutional America, however, the government strives to "control the message," to actively thwart efforts to maintain a citizenry informed about what done in its name, a concept that these days seems as quaint as Jefferson's powdered wig. There are far too many examples of the post 9/11 erosion of the First Amendment to list here. Let's just look at a few important ones that tell the tale of what we have lost since 9/11.(Lack of) Freedom of InformationIn 1966, an idea for keeping Americans better informed on the workings of their government was hatched: the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Strengthened in 1974, it began with the premise that, except for some obvious categories (like serious national security matters and personal information), the position of the government should be: everything it does is available to the public. Like the Bill of Rights, which made specific the limits of government, FOIA began with a presumption that it was the government duty to make information available and quickly to the people, unless a convincing case could be made otherwise. The default position of the FOIA switch was set to ON.Three decades later, the FOIA system works far differently. Agencies are generally loath to release documents of any sort and instead put their efforts into creating roadblocks to legitimate requests. Some still require signatures on paper. (The State Department notes, for personal information cannot be submitted electronically and should be submitted by mail. Others demand hyper detailed information like the precise dates and titles of documents whose dates and titles may be classified and unavailable. The NSA simply denies almost all FOIA requests out of hand, absent a court order.Most federal agencies now regard the deadline mandated for a response as the time period to send out a received note. They tend to assign only a few staff members to processing requests, leading to near endless delays. At the State Department, most FOIA work is done on a part time basis by retirees. The CIA won directly release electronic versions of documents. Even when a request is fulfilled, copying is often denied and reproduction costs exaggerated.In some cases, the requested records have a way of disappearing or are simply removed. The ACLU experience when it filed an FOIA style request with the Sarasota police department on its use of the cell phone surveillance tool Stingray could be considered typical. The morning the ACLU was to review the files, Federal Marshals arrived and physically took possession of them, claiming they had deputized the local cops and made the files federal property.John Young, who runs the web site Cryptome and is a steadfast FOIA requester, stated, delay, brush off, lying are normal. It is a delusion for ordinary requesters and a bitch of a challenge for professionals. Churning has become a way of life for FOIA, costly as hell for little results. Lips and the WhistleblowerAll government agencies have regulations requiring employees to obtain permission before speaking to the representatives of the people that is, journalists. Even speaking about unclassified information is a no no that may cost you your job. A government ever more in lockdown mode has created what one journalist calls a where censorship is the norm. who does speak to Americans about their government? Growing hordes of spokespeople, communications staff, trained PR crews, and those anonymous officials who pop up so regularly in news articles in major papers.With the government obsessively seeking to hide or spin what it does, in the sunlight contact barred, and those inside locked behind an iron curtain of secrecy, the whistleblower has become the paradigmatic figure of the era. Not surprisingly, anyone who blows a whistle has, in these years, come under fierce attack.Pick a case: Tom Drake exposing early NSA efforts to turn its spy tools on Americans, Edward Snowden proving that the government has us under constant surveillance, Chelsea Manning documenting war crimes in Iraq and sleazy diplomacy everywhere, John Kiriakou acknowledging torture by his former employer the CIA, or Robert MacLean revealing Transportation Safety Administration malfeasance. In each instance, the threat of jail was quick to surface. The nuclear option against such truthtellers is the Espionage Act, a law that offended the Constitution when implemented in the midst of World War I. It has been resurrected by the Obama administration as a blunt tool for silencing and punishing whistleblowers.The Obama administration has already charged six people under that act for allegedly mishandling classified information. Even Richard Nixon only invoked it once, in a failed prosecution against Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.Indeed, the very word couldn be stranger in the context of these cases. None of those charged spied. None sought to aid an enemy or make money selling secrets. No matter. In Post Constitutional America, the powers that be stand ready to twist language in whatever Orwellian direction is necessary to bridge the gap between reality and the king's needs. national security or benefit a foreign power. It could still be a part of an charge.A final question might be: How could a law designed almost 100 years ago to stop German spies in wartime have become a tool to silence the few Americans willing to risk everything to exercise their First Amendment rights? When did free speech become a crime?Each person charged under the Espionage Act in these years was primarily a source for a journalist. The press was necessary to question government officials directly, comment on their actions,van cleef and arpels fake butterfly necklace, and inform the citizenry about what its government was doing. Sadly, as the Obama administration is moving ever more fiercely against those who might reveal its acts or documents, the bulk of the media have acquiesced. Glenn Greenwald said it plainly: too many journalists have gone into a self censoring mode, practicing "obsequious journalism."
KKR thrash RCB
Asplendid opening wicket stand by the belligerent Manoj Tiwary (50) and Brad Hodge (50)ensured the Kolkata Knight Ridersa comfortable seven wicketwin in their IPLmatch againstthe Bangalore Royal Challengers at the Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Chasing just 136 to win, thelocal side cruised home with four balls to spare, withCheteshwar Pujara on five and Owais Shah on two.
Tiwary, out for a duck in the opening match against Deccan Chargers, made a maiden IPL fifty. His aggressive 29 ball knock comprised of six boundaries and two massive hits over it.
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Two balls later, Ganguly, also out for a golden duck again the Chargers, was dropped by Sreevats.
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Rahul Dravid (21) and Kallis put on38 runs for the fifth wicket before another fatal inside edge (off Matthews) ended Dravid's innings.
Robin Uthappa (20) lasted 17 balls before edging an Matthews delivery straight to Saha behind the stumps.
Three balls later, a Roelef van der Merwe mishit was snapped up by Brad Hodge at backward point, giving Matthews his fourth wicket of the innings.
Asplendid opening wicket stand by the belligerent Manoj Tiwary (50) and Brad Hodge (50)ensured the Kolkata Knight Ridersa comfortable seven wicketwin in their IPLmatch againstthe Bangalore Royal Challengers at the Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Chasing just 136 to win, thelocal side cruised home with four balls to spare, withCheteshwar Pujara on five and Owais Shah on two.
Tiwary, out for a duck in the opening match against Deccan Chargers, made a maiden IPL fifty. His aggressive 29 ball knock comprised of six boundaries and two massive hits over it.
However, soon after he reached the landmark, he hit a Roelof van der Merwe delivery straight back to the bowler to give Bangalore their first wicket, albeit a tad too late.
Two balls later, Ganguly, also out for a golden duck again the Chargers, was dropped by Sreevats.
Hodge completed his fourth IPL half century soon after but was dismissed in the same over. The Australian's 45 ball knock was inclusive of seven hits to the fence.
Sourav Ganguly made an almost run a ball 23 before being dismissed with just trequired.
The KKR captain hit a Praveen Kumar delivery straight to Eoin Morgan at deep midwicket.
Earlier,van cleef zipper necklace replica, a superlative unbeaten 65 by veteran Jacques Kallis helped the Bangalore Royal Challengerspost atotal with a semblance of respectability.
The Bangalore team, afterstruggling at 35 for four in the eighth over,managed 135 for seven in their stipulated 20 overs.
Kallis' masterclass came off just 52 balls and consisted of seven hits to the fence and a huge one over it,van cleef and arpels magic alhambra necklace replica.
Angelo Matthews was the most successful Kolkata bowler with figures of four for19 in his four overs,van cleef and arpels sweet alhambra necklace replica. Murali Kartik impressed again with his two for 22.
The home team made most of their decision to bowl first.
Charl Langeveldt dismissed Sreevats Goswami in his second over to give Kolkata Knight Riders an early breakthrough.
Goswami (8) was caiught by Ishant Sharma at third man.
Two overs later, Manish Pandey (0)) dragged an Matthews delivery to his stumps to make it a double celebrations for the hosts.
Virat Kohli (2) was caught by Matthews off Kartik to ensure another setback for Bangalore and their woes were compounded when Eoin Morgan (10) dragged a Kartik delivery onto his stumps,magic alhambra necklace replica.
Rahul Dravid (21) and Kallis put on38 runs for the fifth wicket before another fatal inside edge (off Matthews) ended Dravid's innings.
Robin Uthappa (20) lasted 17 balls before edging an Matthews delivery straight to Saha behind the stumps.
Three balls later, a Roelef van der Merwe mishit was snapped up by Brad Hodge at backward point, giving Matthews his fourth wicket of the innings.
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Huebner used an enclosed trailer attached to his truck as a workshop when he started the business. It was a far from ideal situation, so he started looking around for a better option.
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How a rogue trader crashed UBS
ZURICH/SINGAPORE Late last Friday afternoon, as Formula One teams readied their cars for a practice session ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix, the entrance hall of the nearby Ritz Carlton buzzed with activity.
One by one, senior executives of Swiss bank UBS entered the lobby, which is designed by Pritzker winning architect Kevin Roche and features a soaring glass ceiling, and made their way to the gold colored lifts that whisk guests up to rooms that overlook the Marina Bay street circuit.
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For UBS chief Oswald Gruebel and perhaps for UBS as it is currently constituted it was more like the end of the road. The bank's board had met in Singapore that afternoon to discuss the loss of $2.3 billion by an alleged rogue trader in its London based investment banking arm. Though the board had not yet gone public with the news, it had decided to accept Gruebel's resignation and appoint an interim replacement.
Gruebel's decision to leave a year or so ahead of schedule was not just a response to the immediate crisis at UBS. It was also an admission that the bank's latest scandal has effectively undone all his efforts over the past two years to lobby against tougher bank regulations.
The alleged rogue trades have killed any remaining ambitions UBS might have to compete with the titans of Wall Street. They also cast a huge shadow across the entire industry and make tough new regulations far more likely,vintage alhambra necklace 10 motifs replica, as the 67 year old hinted in a memo to staff after he quit. This incident has worldwide repercussions, including political ones," he wrote.
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Global lenders such as UBS and Deutsche Bank have already cut the size of their balance sheets by at least a third since 2007, and are set to further shed risky assets to meet Basel rules on capital which will come into force in 2013. UBS said in August it would axe 3,500 more jobs to cut 2 billion Swiss francs ($2.2 billion) in annual costs, with almost half of those at the investment bank.
Interim CEO Sergio Ermotti, who until now ran UBS's European operations, told journalists on Saturday that his fellow bankers had to accept investment banking "is an industry that is due to shrink, not due to expand. Therefore anybody who wants to have a job and who is really keen to be in this industry will have to accept this new paradigm."
"This could not have happened at a worse time for the industry in general terms," said London based banking headhunter Jonathan Evans, Chairman of Sammons Associates. "Investment banking activities have been under the spotlight too much in recent times for all the wrong reasons and this news will just produce further negativity from the man in the street."
Most of the bank's executives decided to fly home early from the Singapore board meeting. Chief Operating Officer Ulrich Koerner gathered with a few colleagues in a corner of the hotel's Chihuly lounge, looking glum and speaking in hushed tones as they shared a bottle of white wine.
A lawyer, part of the UBS team, paced up and down the marble floored lobby muttering into his BlackBerry, "No . no golden parachute".
As the cars began to wail on the track below, Gruebel appeared in the lounge through a side door. He had changed into casual clothes, and was sporting a black polo shirt and slacks. His hair was slicked back in its trademark style. As he moved across the room toward the grand piano he noticed Koerner and looked visibly relieved. He walked over to his colleague, who was perched on a low slung three seater couch, and stood behind him chuckling.
Speaking in Gruebel's native German, the two men reminisced about what a momentous day it had been. Each tried to reassure the other, until eventually Kroener looked up and said, "It has to be said: You know how to make the best of it, don't you?"
Gruebel chuckled again, smiled and walked back toward the lifts, waving goodbye as he retreated down a corridor toward a green glass sculpture called "sunset."
Asked to comment on his future by Reuters that evening, Gruebel shook his head and walked away. on Wednesday, September 14. The German was in Zurich in UBS's four storey stone headquarters when Carsten Kengeter, who Gruebel had promoted less than a year earlier to head the investment bank, phoned from London.
UBS had only recently started to win back the trust of its wealthy private banking clients after risky bets on subprime mortgages came close to felling it in the financial crisis of 2008. Kengeter knew only that the trades had left it exposed to massive new losses, probably amounting to billions of dollars.
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Exposed, Adoboli had reported himself to his boss John Hughes who had alerted his bosses.
Gruebel and Kengeter, both seasoned former traders, knew they had no time to lose. They ordered a small taskforce dubbed "Project Bronze" by those involved to immediately close Adoboli's open positions. the next morning, as the extent of the problem became clearer, UBS informed City of London police who arrested the trader at around 3.30 at UBS's London headquarters, and then took him to the nearby Bishopsgate police station.
A couple of hours later, executives in Zurich were called in to a pre dawn crisis meeting to decide whether to go public with the news. Project Bronze was scrambling to unwind Adoboli's positions in Asian trading. The bank had to balance its regulatory requirements with concerns that alerting the market could exacerbate losses. With two thirds of Adoboli's open positions closed out overnight, the scale of the losses was clear and executives agreed they would have to say something, especially as it would be almost impossible to keep the arrest secret.
UBS's media department rushed to prepare a statement. Five minutes before European markets opened, the bank dropped its bombshell, first in German and minutes later in English. Chairman Kaspar Villiger said Kengeter and his team had done an "excellent job" to limit losses by moving so fast, contrasting their actions with the hesitation that compounded losses at Societe Generale after rogue trades by Jerome Kerviel three years ago.
ZURICH/SINGAPORE Late last Friday afternoon, as Formula One teams readied their cars for a practice session ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix, the entrance hall of the nearby Ritz Carlton buzzed with activity.
One by one, senior executives of Swiss bank UBS entered the lobby, which is designed by Pritzker winning architect Kevin Roche and features a soaring glass ceiling, and made their way to the gold colored lifts that whisk guests up to rooms that overlook the Marina Bay street circuit.
As the bankers sped past works of art by the likes of Henry Moore, David Hockney and Frank Stella, some made their way straight to a lounge UBS had hired to entertain clients during the race weekend. At its entrance stood three Singaporean women wearing red and white polo shirts,fake van cleef alhambra necklace, each holding a sign emblazoned with the UBS logo and the slogan "Welcome, the race starts here".
For UBS chief Oswald Gruebel and perhaps for UBS as it is currently constituted it was more like the end of the road. The bank's board had met in Singapore that afternoon to discuss the loss of $2.3 billion by an alleged rogue trader in its London based investment banking arm. Though the board had not yet gone public with the news, it had decided to accept Gruebel's resignation and appoint an interim replacement.
Gruebel's decision to leave a year or so ahead of schedule was not just a response to the immediate crisis at UBS. It was also an admission that the bank's latest scandal has effectively undone all his efforts over the past two years to lobby against tougher bank regulations.
The alleged rogue trades have killed any remaining ambitions UBS might have to compete with the titans of Wall Street. They also cast a huge shadow across the entire industry and make tough new regulations far more likely,vintage alhambra necklace 10 motifs replica, as the 67 year old hinted in a memo to staff after he quit. This incident has worldwide repercussions, including political ones," he wrote.
In the aftermath of the scandal, the Swiss parliament narrowly rejected a bid to ban investment banking outright. Governments elsewhere are now more likely to push through regulations such as the Volcker rule,van cleef arpel alhambra necklace replica, which is under discussion in the United States and would ban proprietary trading by investment banks, and proposals in Britain that would force banks to "ring fence" their investment banking activities from their consumer banking side.
Global lenders such as UBS and Deutsche Bank have already cut the size of their balance sheets by at least a third since 2007, and are set to further shed risky assets to meet Basel rules on capital which will come into force in 2013. UBS said in August it would axe 3,500 more jobs to cut 2 billion Swiss francs ($2.2 billion) in annual costs, with almost half of those at the investment bank.
Interim CEO Sergio Ermotti, who until now ran UBS's European operations, told journalists on Saturday that his fellow bankers had to accept investment banking "is an industry that is due to shrink, not due to expand. Therefore anybody who wants to have a job and who is really keen to be in this industry will have to accept this new paradigm."
"This could not have happened at a worse time for the industry in general terms," said London based banking headhunter Jonathan Evans, Chairman of Sammons Associates. "Investment banking activities have been under the spotlight too much in recent times for all the wrong reasons and this news will just produce further negativity from the man in the street."
Most of the bank's executives decided to fly home early from the Singapore board meeting. Chief Operating Officer Ulrich Koerner gathered with a few colleagues in a corner of the hotel's Chihuly lounge, looking glum and speaking in hushed tones as they shared a bottle of white wine.
A lawyer, part of the UBS team, paced up and down the marble floored lobby muttering into his BlackBerry, "No . no golden parachute".
As the cars began to wail on the track below, Gruebel appeared in the lounge through a side door. He had changed into casual clothes, and was sporting a black polo shirt and slacks. His hair was slicked back in its trademark style. As he moved across the room toward the grand piano he noticed Koerner and looked visibly relieved. He walked over to his colleague, who was perched on a low slung three seater couch, and stood behind him chuckling.
Speaking in Gruebel's native German, the two men reminisced about what a momentous day it had been. Each tried to reassure the other, until eventually Kroener looked up and said, "It has to be said: You know how to make the best of it, don't you?"
Gruebel chuckled again, smiled and walked back toward the lifts, waving goodbye as he retreated down a corridor toward a green glass sculpture called "sunset."
Asked to comment on his future by Reuters that evening, Gruebel shook his head and walked away. on Wednesday, September 14. The German was in Zurich in UBS's four storey stone headquarters when Carsten Kengeter, who Gruebel had promoted less than a year earlier to head the investment bank, phoned from London.
UBS had only recently started to win back the trust of its wealthy private banking clients after risky bets on subprime mortgages came close to felling it in the financial crisis of 2008. Kengeter knew only that the trades had left it exposed to massive new losses, probably amounting to billions of dollars.
Lawyers and executives were already grilling 31 year old Kweku Adoboli,van cleef mother of pearl clover necklace replica, who had joined the bank five years earlier as a trainee and worked in the equities division. A UBS insider told Reuters that senior managers had been "flabbergasted" after discovering the alleged trades, which had come to light when controllers making routine checks demanded an explanation for positions that were due to settle on September 22. Another insider described the news as like a "meteorite strike".
Exposed, Adoboli had reported himself to his boss John Hughes who had alerted his bosses.
Gruebel and Kengeter, both seasoned former traders, knew they had no time to lose. They ordered a small taskforce dubbed "Project Bronze" by those involved to immediately close Adoboli's open positions. the next morning, as the extent of the problem became clearer, UBS informed City of London police who arrested the trader at around 3.30 at UBS's London headquarters, and then took him to the nearby Bishopsgate police station.
A couple of hours later, executives in Zurich were called in to a pre dawn crisis meeting to decide whether to go public with the news. Project Bronze was scrambling to unwind Adoboli's positions in Asian trading. The bank had to balance its regulatory requirements with concerns that alerting the market could exacerbate losses. With two thirds of Adoboli's open positions closed out overnight, the scale of the losses was clear and executives agreed they would have to say something, especially as it would be almost impossible to keep the arrest secret.
UBS's media department rushed to prepare a statement. Five minutes before European markets opened, the bank dropped its bombshell, first in German and minutes later in English. Chairman Kaspar Villiger said Kengeter and his team had done an "excellent job" to limit losses by moving so fast, contrasting their actions with the hesitation that compounded losses at Societe Generale after rogue trades by Jerome Kerviel three years ago.
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I know I will make my first chunk of money with my stop smoking handbook. I think I will title it "How to quit smoking in 40 years or less." It won't be too big a book, so maybe I will only charge $10. In the world of stop smoking paraphernalia, nothing is anywhere near that cheap,van cleef arpels alhambra replica bracelet, so it might sell.
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I will figure out how to freeze dry nicotine so a person can put it on their foods. I can just see restaurants with salt, pepper and nicotine shakers on all the tables. I'm sure eventually I can come up with a nicotine cookbook after people start trying my foods in various measures and ways.
I can see me holding seminars on how I quit. It might be several sessions long, as I will have to explain the 40 year process. I could come out with an abridged version,van cleef and arpels fake clover bracelet, I imagine. I could title it "The 40 steps to quitting cigarettes." It would be Step one, year one: smoke. Step two, year two: smoke. Step three, year three: smoke,van cleef replica bracelet alhambra, etc.; until I get to Step 40, year 40: quit.
I figure I might have to throw some comedy into that speech or it might get a little boring.
There are companies that make wooden fake cigarettes, and I can see how they can help with the hand to mouth habit of a smoker. The problem is, they are way overpriced. So I will start my own factory. All I need is a bunch of three eighths inch dowel rods and a saw to cut them into four inch long lengths. Then I spray paint them white and I can sell them for a buck apiece.
Now the companies that charge as much as $19.95 for these wooden cigs claim that they use a safe, nontoxic paint and that adds to their price, but that is bogus. Anyone who spent years sucking down methane isn't going to worry about a little paint here and there,bracelet alhambra fake van cleef, unless I use that old lead paint I still have around. I might even get fancy and offer non filter, filter and even menthol looking wooden cigs.
Maybe I should package them with some kind of signature stamp on the side like Mikey's Smokes. I could even have an ad campaign and go national, but I fear then the government might get involved if I become too well known. I can just see "60 Minutes" coming to the house because my wooden cigarettes have been found to cause splinters in laboratory rats.
All in all, I think I have found my chance at really hitting the mother lode of financial independence. Who knew all I had to do was quit a miserable habit that now is making me miserable since I quit.
I have to go now. The semi truck of dowel rods just pulled up. I also ordered a van of illegal immigrants to work the saws. I have to keep my costs down, you know.
Just because I will be saving almost three grand a year by not buying smokes doesn't mean I should just throw money away. I did that for 40 years, I guess. We will see eventually if I threw something else away in those years of smoking: me.
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After the premiere, Nicholas Hytner said that seeing it for the first time on a big screen with an audience made him realize it resonated with the great British toleration of strangers in our midst, however difficult "I hope that's who we are, that is who we want to be", obviously alluding to current circs, winning applause.
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