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Ishita Dutta (born 26 August 1990) is an Indian actress and model who works in films and television serials. The younger sister of actress Tanushree Dutta, Dutta made her television debut in 2013 with Star Plus's soap opera Ek Ghar Banaunga as Poonam. Two years later, she made her Bollywood debut with Movie Drishyam (2015). Currently, she is appearing in Colors TV's show Bepanah Pyaar as Pragati.
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Birth Name Ishita Dutta
Nick Name Ishu, Ishi
Age (as in 2020) 30 Years
Debut Films Telugu: Chanakyudu (2012)
Kannada: Raja Rajendra (2015)
Bollywood: Drishyam (2015)
Debut Hindi TV Show Ek Ghar Banaunga (2013)
Religion Hinduism
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign Virgo
Birth Place Jamshedpur, Bihar, India
Date of Birth 26 August 1990
Home Town Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Hobbies Travelling, Dancing
Mother's Name Shikha Dutta (Homemaker)
Father's Name Tapan Dutta (Ex-employee at Life Insurance Corporation)
Brother None
Sister Tanushree Dutta (Actress)
Boyfriends/Affairs Not Known
Husband/Spouse Vatsal Sheth (Actor)
Marriage Date 28 November 2017
Marriage Place ISKON Temple in Juhu, Mumbai
Children None
School Dakshin Bharat Mahila Samaj English School, Jamshedpur
College/University Not Known
Educational Qualification Media Studies
Brands Endorsed Not Known
Career Manager Not Known
Height (Approx.) in centimeters- 163 cm
Weight (Approx.) in kilograms- 50 kg
in pounds- 110 lbs
Breast Size 34
Hips Size 34
Race / Ethnicity Not Known
Eye Color Dark Brown
S*xual Orientation Not Known
Dress Size Not Known
Shoe Size Not Known
Favourite Actress Priyanka Chopra
Favourite Actors Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Hugh Jackman, Chris Hemsworth
Favourite Food(s) Samosa, Mishti Doi, Cake
Favourite Perfume Clinique Happy
Favourite Destination Goa
Favourite Colors Not Known
Favourite Sport Not Known
Controversies Not Known
Dutta was raised in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand in a Bengali Hindu family. She attended D.B.M.S. English School in Jamshedpur and studied Media Studies in Mumbai. Her sister, Tanushree Dutta, is also a model/actress known for winning the Femina Miss India title (2004).
According to Woodgram, Ishita Dutta's estimated Net Worth, Salary, Income, Cars, Lifestyles & much more details has been updated below. Let's check, How Rich is Ishita Dutta in 2020?
Estimated Net Worth in 2020 (Approx) Altogether, she has collected a lucrative net worth of $2 million from her acting. Currently, Ishita is living a luxurious life with her family in the city of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India.
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In 2012, Dutta made her Telugu cinema debut with the film Chanakyudu alongside Tanish. The same year, she starred alongside her sister Tanushree Dutta in the drama Yenidu Manasali. Both of these films failed to perform well commercially.
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In 2013, Dutta made her television debut opposite TV actor Rahul Sharma in Star Plus's soap opera Ek Ghar Banaunga, in which she was cast in the role of Poonam Nath, a girl who marries Sharma's character and faces the dilemma of how to provide care to her parents. The show earned her praise from people and several awards and nominations at major television award ceremonies until the show culminated in June 2014.
After making her television debut, Dutta made her Bollywood debut with the suspense thriller Drishyam (2015). Co-starring alongside Ajay Devgn, Tabu, and Shriya Saran, she was cast as Anju Salgaonkar, a twelve class girl who is the elder daughter of Vijay Salgaonkar, played by Devgn. With worldwide revenue of approximately ₹1.10 billion (US$16 million), Drishyam proved to be a box-office hit.
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In 2016, Dutta made a comeback to television shows by featuring as the female lead in Life OK's thriller Rishton Ka Saudagar – Baazigar, in which she was paired opposite her future husband Vatsal Sheth. The show ended after 3 months of its premiere due to low TRP ratings. The following year, Dutta made her Kannada debut with the film Raja Rajendra (2017). The film was a box-office flop. Later that year, she played the female lead opposite actor/comedian Kapil Sharma in the romantic comedy Firangi. The film was a commercial failure.
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In 2018, after marrying Vatsal Sheth, Dutta played the female lead alongside him and TV actress Amrapali Gupta in the second season of Colors TV's supernatural episodic series Kaun Hai? titled Kaun Hai? – Khauff Ka Ek Naya Adhyaay. Credited as an 8 episode-supernatural romantic thriller, the season saw Dutta portray the lead role of Vaishnavi Bajpai, the reincarnation of the Matrika goddess Vaishnavi, who marries Yatin (Sheth), the reincarnated version of Hiranyaksha. After 8 episodes, the show ended in October 2018.
Since June 2019, Dutta has been portraying the lead role of Pragati in Colors TV's drama Bepanah Pyaar opposite Pearl V Puri.
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Yenidu Manasali Kannada
2015 Raja Rajendra
Drishyam Hindi Anju Salgaonkar
2017 Firangi Sargi
2018 Lashtam Pashtam Zayanah
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2013 Nach Baliye 6 Guest
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2019 Khatra Khatra Khatra Herself
2013 Star Parivaar Awards Favourite Beti Ek Ghar Banaunga Nominated
2014 Favourite Beti
Does Ishita smoke?: No
Does Ishita drink alcohol?: Not Known
Ishita was born in a Bengali family.
She is the younger sister of 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne' fame actress "Tanushree Dutta."
Earlier, she was reluctant to come into the entertainment industry; as she was a shy person, but her sister insisted her to join Anupam Kher's Actor Prepares school.
Ishita got her first break in 2012 in the Telugu film 'Chanakyudu' as Swetha.
In the same year, she worked with her sister "Tanushree Dutta" in the film 'Yenidu Manasali', but unfortunately, the film was not released.
She has worked in different languages like Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi.
Ishita and her husband "Vatsal Sheth" first met on the set of 'Rishton Ka Saudagar – Baazigar', in which they both played the lead roles. Until the end of the TV show, they never revealed their relationship publicly; as the producer of that TV serial made them sign the no dating clause.
Though she is very close to her sister, Tanushree was not present at Ishita's wedding due to some visa issues; as Tanushree was in the U.S. at that time.
She has appeared on the cover of various magazines like FHM, iCraze, Bollywood Town, etc.
Is Tanushree Dutta married?
Actress Ishita Dutta is married to actor Vatsal Sheth. She is known for her role in Ajay Devgn's Drishyam. At the Mumbai airport, Tanushree smiled for the paparazzi and showed a victory sign.
Who is the husband of Ishita?
Vatsal Sheth, Ishita Dutta is married to Vatsal Sheth on 28 November 2017 in the ISKCON temple of Juhu, Mumbai. Vatsal Sheth is an actor by profession and was the boyfriend of Ishita Dutta before they got married.
What is the age of Ishita?
29 years (26 August 1990)
Is Ishita Dutta's sister of Tanushree Dutta?
Ishita Dutta. … The younger sister of actress Tanushree Dutta, Dutta made her television debut in 2013 with Star Plus's soap opera Ek Ghar Banaunga as Poonam. Two years later, she made her Bollywood debut with Drishyam (2015). Currently, she is appearing in Colors TV's show Bepanah Pyaar as Pragati.
Who is behind Tanushree Dutta?
Tanushree Dutta (pronounced [t̪ənʊʃri]) is an Indian model and actress who primarily appeared in Bollywood movies. Dutta is the recipient of the Femina Miss India Universe title in 2004 at age 20. During the same year at the Miss Universe beauty pageant, she was among the top ten finalists.
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Who can resist singing along to their favorite Disney songs? No one! Disney Music shared with us their fun new Disney playlists and invited us to curate the See Mom Click Family Dance Party Playlist for the month of September 2017. My daughter is the music guru in this house so we put our heads together over her iPod and came up chose 16 songs that are perfect to sing and dance to!
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NBC SPORTS NETWORK TO AIR 10 MOUNTAIN WEST MEN'S BASKETBALL GAMES THIS SEASON
Live Coverage Kicks Off With Colorado State at San Diego State on Saturday, January 12 at 8 p.m. ET
NEW YORK – September 27, 2012 – NBC Sports Network will telecast 10 Mountain West men's basketball games in 2012-13. NBC Sports Network's Mountain West schedule will feature Boise State, Colorado State, Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State and UNLV.
Coverage of the Mountain West on NBC Sports Network begins Saturday, January 12 at 8 p.m. ET, when San Diego State hosts Colorado State. The 2012-13 schedule also includes defending Mountain West Tournament winner New Mexico at San Diego State on Saturday January 26 at 4 p.m. ET, New Mexico vs. UNLV on February 9 at 9 p.m. ET, and wraps up with San Diego State vs. Boise State on March 9 at 3:30 p.m. ET.
This year, NBC Sports Network will televise more than 50 college basketball games, the most in the network's history. A complete list of the 2012-2013 NBC Sports Network college basketball schedule is forthcoming.
Following is NBC Sports Network's 2012-13 Mountain West men's basketball schedule (all times ET):
Date Opponent Time
Sat., Jan. 12 Colorado State at San Diego State 8:00 p.m. ET
Sat., Jan. 19 UNLV at Colorado State 7:00 p.m. ET
Sat., Jan. 26 New Mexico at San Diego State 4:00 p.m. ET
Sat., Feb. 2 Nevada at New Mexico 8:00 p.m. ET
Sat., Feb. 9 New Mexico at UNLV 9:00 p.m. ET
Sat., Feb. 16 San Diego State at UNLV 9:00 p.m. ET
Sat., Feb. 23 New Mexico at Colorado State 4:00 p.m. ET
Sat., Feb. 23 Nevada at San Diego State 6:00 p.m. ET
Sat., March 2 UNLV at Nevada 4:00 p.m. ET
Sat., March 9 San Diego State at Boise State 3:30 p.m. ET
About the Mountain West:
From its inception in 1999, the Mountain West has been committed to excellence in intercollegiate athletics, while promoting the academic missions of its member institutions. Progressive in its approach, the Mountain West continues to cultivate opportunities for student-athletes to compete at the highest level, while fostering academic achievement and sportsmanship. The MW has been assertive in its involvement with the NCAA governance structure and has taken a leadership role in the overall administration of intercollegiate athletics. As of July 1, 2012, the Mountain West will be comprised of 10 Division I institutions: The United States Air Force Academy, Boise State University, Colorado State University, Fresno State, University of Hawai'i (football only), University of Nevada, The University of New Mexico, San Diego State University, UNLV, and the University of Wyoming. San Jose State University and Utah State University will join the Mountain West effective July 1, 2013.
About the NBC Sports Network:
NBC Sports Network, part of the NBC Sports Group, is dedicated to serving passionate sports fans. Now in nearly 80 million homes, the network is the cable television home of the Summer and Winter Olympics, National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Soccer (MLS), IZOD IndyCar Series, Tour de France and 34th America's Cup. In addition, NBC Sports Network telecasts college football, college basketball, college hockey, horse racing surrounding the Triple Crown, Fight Night boxing, Ironman, the Dew Action Sports Tour and USA Sevens Rugby. The network is also home to original programs such as Costas Tonight, NFL Turning Point, Caught Looking, NBC Sports Talk, and Pro Football Talk. NBC Sports Network is distributed via cable systems and satellite operators throughout the United States.

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This weekend, I participated in TJCTF. This was an enjoyable CTF, with a good variety of challenges. Unfortunately, my lack of focus (specifically, not playing CTF to write fuzzer code and play EVE Online) cost me dearly in terms of points.
I tackled a variety of challenges, including the "six thousand idle" (I don't have the original name – this was the Google Translate of the Chinese [?] characters presented). This challenge was presented as a single text file, containing a number of public keys as well as ciphertext.
RSA's private key (to decrypt things) is derived from prime1 and prime2. If you know prime1, you can work out prime2.
RSA's security depends on the fact that there's no efficient way to work out prime1 and prime2. Yes, you can brute force, good luck brute forcing 2^1030 bits of keyspace or whatever it was and then doing primality checks.
The weakness in this particular challenge was that there were a large number of public keys, some of which shared the same prime factors. If for pubkey1 and pubkey2, we can calculate a greatest common divisor (which is fast), we can then derive privkey1 and privkey2, and thus decrypt the messages.
If you read the comments of the script, you'll notice that where I made my first mistake, of trying to factor the keys individually.
Thankyou to the TJCTF organisers for putting on this set of challenges -I had a lot of fun tackling not just this, but also a number of challenges in the other categories.
See you all at ALICTF on the weekend!
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Springboks draw All Blacks in 2019 Rugby World Cup
The Springboks will have their work cut out for them if they hope to progress to the knockout stages at the 2019 IRB Rugby World Cup. Allister Coetzee's men were handed what many would consider a nightmarish draw after being grouped with Italy and defending champions New Zealand.
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen said their match-up against South Africa in Pool B would now give their annual Rugby Championship games extra meaning.
"Everyone will get excited by it, and we know each other pretty well so we'll just continue to get to understand each other before we get here," Hansen said.
England and France were drawn in the same pool alongside Argentina as they were handed a tough assignment for the 2019 World Cup on Wednesday.
Hosts Japan got a kinder draw against Ireland and Scotland at a ceremony in Kyoto.
England's draw in Pool C alongside age-old rivals France, and 2015 semi-finalists Argentina, evoked memories of their nightmare showing four years ago.
On home turf, the 2003 champions embarrassingly failed to reach the knock-outs after landing in a group with Wales, Australia, Fiji and Uruguay.
Twelve teams were included in Wednesday's draw by virtue of finishing in the top three of their groups at the 2015 tournament.
Another eight teams from Oceania, Europe, the Americas and Africa will be added after qualifying for the tournament in Japan in two years' time.
Full draw:
Pool A: Ireland, Scotland, Japan, Europe 1, Play-off Winner
Pool B: New Zealand, South Africa, Italy, Africa 1, Repechage Winner
Pool C: England, France, Argentina, Americas 1, Oceania 2
Pool D: Australia, Wales, Georgia, Oceania 1, Americas 2
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Queensland Institutions a house of horror for children
The Royal Commission found Queensland was over-represented in terms of victims of institutional child sex abuse. For some reason, Queensland had more sexual predators 'pound for pound' than any other state. Its children's institutions were notorious. Like something you'd read about in an old Charles Dickens novel.
Queensland recently changed its laws surrounding old compensation payments – victims who have previously been paid compensation, by the old Forde Scheme or directly by churches and the government, can have the courts review their settlements and ask for a significant top up.
Many abuse victims in Queensland came from one of the following institutions – these were real houses of horror. So many were located miles from anywhere. So isolated that nobody could hear you scream. Running away was pointless. There was nowhere to go.
If you were abused while living in these institutions, contact our team today. We would like to help you.
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Top 7 Worst Queensland Institutions
Neerkol Orphanage
St Joseph's, Neerkol was an orphanage for boys and girls near Rockhampton. Everyone just called it 'Neerkol' after the name of the nearby township.
It was run day to day by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy. The orphanage and the Sisters were subject to great scrutiny by the Royal Commission. The Catholic Diocese of Rockhampton was also involved with the orphanage. Priests from the Diocese frequented the orphanage to say mass for the nuns and the children. The children were a mixture of government-appointed State wards and those voluntarily handed over to the nuns by parents who were not coping.
The abuse of children at Neerkol went on for decades. Priests raped the boys and girls on a regular basis while nuns often dispensed brutal punishments. There was no compassion. They were not laughing nuns. It was far from a loving and safe place. It was a dark and disgraceful place way out in the country.
There were so many complaints that the Royal Commission travelled to Rockhampton for a case study hearing. Throughout hearings into the orphanage, the Royal Commission heard how children were repeatedly raped, sodomised and physically abused in their time at the institution.
One victim was raped over 100 times, starting when she was just 11 years old.
The Sisters of Mercy, the Catholic Diocese of Rockhampton and the Queensland Government have all faced strong criticism for their poor responses to complaints of abuse. Neither the local bishops, the nuns or the government showed any interest in taking the complaints seriously. One former resident wrote a book in the 1990's about abuse at the orphanage. But the bishop at the time told the Royal Commission he didn't bother to read it.
If the children weren't being sexually abused by the priests, they were being physically and psychologically abused by the nuns, If the children dared to speak out against the priests' abuse against themselves, or other children, they were punished – some sexually assaulted by the very people they saw abusing others.
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Riverview was a Salvation Army home where countless boys were raped, tortured and forced to live in filth under the watch of The Salvation Army and the State Government.
Riverview was run as a training farm where boys learned skills which might prepare them for employment when they left. The Salvos were paid by the government to look after the boys. They were paid a fee for each boy. The more boys they took on the more money they got.
Five notorious predators including Victor Bennett, Lawrence Wilson, Donald Schultz and John McIver were allowed to move around Salvation Army Homes, including Riverview and Alkira, despite repeated complaints of abuse.
These men were allowed to roam between the Homes, picking out boys to abuse or send elsewhere to suffer abuse.
Of the five officers being focused on as part of the case study, Major Bennett was the only one who worked at all four of the Salvation Army's disgraced boys homes – Riverview, Alkira at Indooroopilly and Bexley and Gill in NSW.
The Royal Commission heard stories of young boys reporting being raped by older residents of the home, only to be raped again by the officers they confided in.
One particular victim had been placed in an orphanage in NSW when he was four. At age 11 he was moved to St Vincent's Boys Home at Westmead, Sydney where he was sexually abused by a Marist Brother. He ended up at Riverview in Queensland where: "I felt Captain Bennett hated me from the start."
Wally McLeod, who was a resident at Indooroopilly Boys Home and Riverview Training Farm from 1960 to 1966, said he saw Victor Bennett grab children as young as four and punch them.
There was evidence that the Government was aware of the appalling conditions at Riverview at least as early as 1970, but failed to act to protect the children. Reports from the 1970s show that the Government was even aware of multiple incidents of rape in the home, but declined to cancel the Riverview's licence because the Government was in 'urgent need of accommodation' for unwanted children.
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Westbrook Farm was a notorious Queensland institution for boys with a dark history of beatings, neglect and rape. It was known as "the most feared "reformatory" in the country." The isolated Farm was the subject of a Foxtel documentary with an introduction by former Premier Anna Bligh.
Run by the Queensland State Government from 1900 until its closure in 2012, Westbrook was a place of hell for young boys, where whippings, starvation and deprivation of medical care were commonplace. There was a long history of sexual abuse, with ex-residents stating abuse in the showers was 'commonplace'.
Some boys were beaten till they bled.
Others had their hands broken so they couldn't write.
One survivor of the institution has gone on to write a book on the abuse that occurred in the reformatory, letters from parents that were never given to him, visits that were turned down – all done to break the boy's spirit.
Boys Town Beaudesert
Boys Town was run by the De La Salle Brothers at Beaudesert from 1961 to 2001. BoysTown Beaudesert housed disadvantaged boys in their early teens and was established by Monsignor Owen Steele, who was the priest in charge of St Mary's Catholic parish at Beaudesert at the time.
It was staffed by the Brothers, assisted by some lay employees and received state government funding. The Brothers received a payment for every boy they housed at Boys Town. The residential accommodation closed in 2001.
More than 1600 boys passed through it during those 40 years.
Boys Town had the highest number of sexual abuse claims against it than any other single Catholic institution in Australia. It featured in the Child Abuse Royal Commission but was not the subject of a particular Case Study hearing like Neerkol, Riverview and Alkira.
In 2012 the Nine Network's 60 Minutes ran a story on Boys Town which included interviews with former residents. The next year, Queensland Police set up a special operation named Operation Kilo Lariat to investigate the allegations. Since then, three former De La Salle brothers have been charged with child sex offences. Research shows there have been a massive 219 plausible claims made against the Catholic Brothers and staff who worked at Boys Town.
Wilson Youth Hospital
Wilson was a State-run institution for the detention of children usually via the Children's Court. The Forde Inquiry found that children's needs and educational entitlements at Wilson were neglected, that they were stigmatised as criminal and psychiatric cases, and they were exposed to the significant risk of physical and sexual abuse.
In 2017 a former officer at Wilson was charged in relation to 41 offences between 1981 and 1995. The charges included indecent treatment of boys, carnal knowledge and deprivation of liberty.
In 2003, a previous Wilson Youth Hospital chaplain wrote a submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care. Some of his remarks show the sheer impact of this ongoing abuse has on the lives of the victims;
On my first visits to Wilson, I could not believe what I saw taking place. Most, but not all, of the young inmates found their way into Wilson through the Children's Courts. Many young people – in fact, most of the girls on their first admission – were placed in Wilson for non-criminal offences…
Wilson was a place of institutionalised violence. Most children had not committed serious crimes, contrary to what the Minister for Children's Services, Mr John Herbert, often used to say: "Wilson is full of murderers, rapists and arsonists"…
All young people who had the misfortune of entering Wilson were treated psychiatrically which often meant in practice that they were treated with drugs. The result of this in many cases was that these young people were released from Wilson with a drug habit…
When a young person's dignity had been attacked and destroyed, it is very difficult and in many instances impossible for them to recover their dignity and live a 'normal' life."…
Staff were also using drugs to control the young people. Young people were often injected with sedatives. If some staff wanted to have a quiet shift, they were not above giving sedatives to their young charges. Some young people who did not have a drug problem when they entered Wilson certainly had a raging habit by the time they were discharged.
Alkira
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Alkira was a Salvation Army Boys' Home in Indooroopilly. There were numerous cases of sexual assaults and severe beatings. There have also been allegations of an organised prostitution network, where boys were flown to Sydney to participate in prostitution.
The Royal Commission also received evidence confirming that the Queensland Government was aware of serious concerns about the home, but turned a blind eye. It is also alleged that the Alkira home was part of a paedophile ring. Boys were allegedly picked up from the home where they were then abused in Brisbane, before being transported to Sydney to be abused by wealthy men.
Boys were then responsible for making their own way home.
Salvation Army whistleblower, Major Clifford Randall, spoke to the Royal Commission about the abuse senior Salvation Army personnel dealt out to the boys at the Indooroopilly home.
He said the boy had spun around while Captain McIver was whipping his genitals and caused him to break a cuff link on the table.
"McIver just went crazy … he slammed the boy into the wall, hitting his face and dislocating his shoulder.
"I threw him into his chair and said 'If you want to hit somebody, hit somebody your own size'."
Enoggera Boys' School (sometimes called the 'Church of England Boys' Home') was opened in 1906 and managed through the Anglican Archdiocese of Brisbane.
In 1940, Enoggera was licensed under the State Children Act 1911 – meaning the Church would be paid by the government to look after the children.
While Enoggera should have been a safe space for boys in need, it quickly became a black spot on the map of Queensland.
Throughout the 1960s, Enoggera was also home to a trainee policeman who volunteered to help care for the children. His name was Graham Noyes. He sexually abused the boys on a regular basis.
The Royal Commission heard from former state ward, Dennis Dodt, who reported Noyes once pinned him to a bed and forced his penis into Dennis' mouth until he blacked out. Dennis was seven-years-old at the time.
After finishing school, Dennis reported the abuse to a police officer in 1993. Several years later, Dennis was contacted and told the authorities were investigating Noyes for child sexual abuse charges.
In 1999, Noyes was indicted on 53 child sex abuse offences involving ten victims. He was acquitted three times but was found guilty in the fourth trial. Strangely, Noyes was ultimately convicted of offences unrelated to any of the crimes he committed at Enoggera.
These stories of abuse are horrific. It's horrific to think young boys were so regularly abused without anyone to save them.
If you were abused while at any of the above homes, the team at Kelso Lawyers would like to hear from you. The Queensland Government has changed their laws – if you previously received monetary compensation your claim can be reviewed and you may be eligible for a top up.
Please get in touch with us today. The team at Kelso Lawyers will help you achieve the result you deserve.
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Powell departs, Black available for loan
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Midfielder Adam Powell has left Cheltenham Town, while left-back Paul Black has been made available for loan.
Worcester based Powell, 19, graduated from the Robins' youth team and signed a one-year professional contract last summer.
He spent time on loan at John Brough's Cinderford Town in the Southern League Division One South and West earlier this season.
"We have agreed to let Adam move on and he wants to go down a different avenue in his life, so we wish him all the best," boss Paul Buckle said.
Black, 24, has made four starts and one substitute appearance since joining the Robins from Mansfield Town ahead of the 2014/15 campaign.
"Paul needs to go and get some games and we have good cover in the left-back position with Craig Braham-Barrett and James Bowen," Buckle said.
Cheltenham play Hartlepool United away tomorrow (3pm).


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Víktor Ipátievich Askóchenski (; 13 de octubre de 1813, Vorónezh - 30 de mayo de 1879, San Petersburgo) fue un escritor, periodista e historiador ruso. Sus escritos más importantes fueron los análisis sobre la historia de la ortodoxia en la Ucrania del Imperio ruso.

Biografía
Nació en Vorónezh, hijo de un clérigo que había dirigido el coro de su provincia natal. Tras unos breves años siendo educado en casa, fue a estudiar al Seminario Teológico de Vorónezh. Allí completó el curso como uno de los mejores alumnos, ingresando en la Academia Teológica de Kiev. Como estudiante de teología, filología e historia, obtuvo su licenciatura cum laude a finales de 1839.

Así, fue nombrado profesor adjunto de  polaco y alemán, además de patrología a partir de 1841. Durante este tiempo se dedicó a estudiar a fondo la Biblia y los Padres de la Iglesia. Escribió su primer escrito en la revista Voskresnoye chteniye (Lectura dominical), en 1839, continuando su labor periodística en revistas como Mayak (Faro) y Moskvityanin (El Moscovita) con poemas y artículos.

En 1844, abandonó la Academia y fue a vivir con el gobernador general del territorio sudoeste, Dimitri Gavrílovich Bíbikov, como tutor de uno de sus parientes, muriendo en el mismo año su esposa. En 1846, publicó en Kiev su primer libro, Kratkoye nacheptanye istorii russkoy literatury (Breve reseña de la historia de la literatura rusa), una compilación biográfica de escritores tanto ateos como religiosos, junto con comentarios de Askóchenski a las obras.

Entre 1846 y 1849, trabajó en Zhytómyr como asesor de la Gobernación de Volinsky, y desde el fin de esta labor hasta 1851 el cargo de juez de conciencia y presidente de la Cámara Civil en Kamianéts-Podilskyi. Al término de dicha labor, se instaló en Kiev, como asesor universitario.

Durante este período experimentó una profunda crisis interna, fruto de la muerte de su segunda esposa (1847). Así, un escepticismo juvenil, acompañado de una actitud crítica ante aspectos de la vida pública y la Iglesia (educación espiritual, monasticismo...), dio paso a una cosmovisión conservadora. Su producción pasó a ser entonces exclusivamente literaria, siendo, hasta el final de su vida, su única fuente de ingresos.

De este modo comenzó su producción sobre la historia de la ortodoxia, con una biografía sobre el monje Vasili Grigorovich-Barski, titulada V. G. Grigorovich-Barskiy, znamenityy puteshestvennik v. (V. G. Grigorovich-Barski, el famoso explorador del siglo XVIII, 1854). A esta obra siguieron su Kiyev s drevneyshim yego uchilishchem Akademiyeyu (Kiev con su Academia más antigua, 1856) y su obra cumbre, Istoriya Kiyevskoy dukhovnoy akademii, po preobrazovanii yeye, v 1819 godu (Historia de la Academia Teológica de Kiev, en su transformación, desde 1819; 1863).

En 1857, se trasladó a San Petersburgo, lanzando en julio del año siguiente el semanal Domashney Besedy (Conversaciones en el hogar), el cual editó durante veinte años. Ensalzando los valores espirituales de la civilización ortodoxa rusa, escribió un artículo contra Aleksandr Pushkin, titulado «¡Dejadnos tener nuestra propia opinión!». En la línea defendida por Avsenkti Martinov en la década de 1840, le acusó de atacar a la Iglesia ortodoxa y sostener los «aborrecibles valores europeos» que habían «corrompido el honor nacional».

También publicó una novela, El Asmodeo de nuestro tiempo (Asmodey nashego vremeni, 1858), un apasionado peán a la ortodoxia. En esta obra, Askochénski plasma cómo una imagen exagerada y distorsionada puede corromper al lector, abocándolo a tendencias anticristianas como el escepticismo o el nihilismo. Con ella hizo su debut literario como acusador de la inmoralidad y ateísmo de la sociedad rusa.

Asimismo, criticó ferozmente la compilación de artículos del archimandrita Aleksandr Matveevich Bukharev, titulada Sobre la ortodoxia en relación con el mundo contemporáneo, en diferentes artículos (Opravoslavii ν otnosheniiksovremennosti, ν raznykhstat'yakh, 1860). Contra ella alegó que cualquier persona que «defiende la Ortodoxia y extiende su mano a la civilización contemporánea es un cobarde, renegado y traidor». Cuando posteriormente Bukharev se disponía a publicar un libro sobre el Apocalipsis, el sínodo lo prohibió, a recomendación de Askóchenski.

A causa de una enfermedad mental, en 1877 fue internado en el Hospital Petropavlovskoy (de Pedro y Pablo) de San Petersburgo. Con motivo de este suceso, en el número 45 de Domashney Besedy (5 de noviembre) aparece el siguiente texto, titulado «Anuncio triste, pero necesario, para suscriptores, lectores y admiradores de Domashney Besedy» (Грустное, но необходимое объявление подписчикам, читателям и почитателям "Домашней Беседы"):

Fallecería en dicho hospital el 30 de mayo de 1879, sepultado en el Monasterio Costero de San Sergio.

De poco talento para la ficción artística, fue un publicista por vocación, adquiriendo notoriedad en el campo periodístico gracias a sus fervorosos ataques, más que por su ingenio y sabiduría. Todas sus obras literarias alcanzaron cierto éxito, siendo vendidas a cabo de la primera edición. De este modo, sus escritos dividieron a la crítica. Entre sus detractores sen encontraban Alexander Herzen, Apollón Grigóriev y Fiódor Dostoyevski; mientras que sus seguidores fueron Nikolái Leskov, Lev Tolstói y Serguéi Nilus. Mayor importancia tuvieron sus trabajos históricos.

Carácter
La publicación de su Dnevnik (Diario), en 1882, muestra que su oscurantismo se explica por sus fracasos personales. Así, los pasajes correspondientes a su época como profesor muestran a una persona totalmente diferente. La muerte de su primera (1844) y segunda esposa (1847), junto con la crisis sufrida tras su instalación en Kiev (1851), convirtieron a Askóchenski en un individuo no sólo más conservador, sino también más mordaz e introvertido.

Obras

 Kratkoye nacheptanye istorii russkoy literatury (Breve reseña de la historia de la literatura rusa), 1846.
 Pansionerka (Pensionista), 1848.
 V. G. Grigorovich-Barskiy, znamenityy puteshestvennik XVIII veka (V. G. Grigorovich-Barski, el famoso viajero del siglo XVIII), 1854.
 Zamorskim vitiyam (Visiones en el extranjero), 1854.
 Kiyev s drevneyshim yego uchilishchem Akademiyeyu (Kiev con su Academia más antigua), 1856.
 Ya. K. Amfiteatrov, 1857. Una biografía del escritor Yakov Kosmich Amfiteatrov.
 Asmodey nashego vremeni (El Asmodeo de nuestro tiempo), 1858.
 Zapiski zvonarya (Notas del campanero), 1862.
 Basni (Fábulas), 1863.
 Nigilistu (Nihilista), 1863.
 Istoriya Kiyevskoy dukhovnoy akademii, po preobrazovanii yeye, v 1819 godu (Historia de la Academia Teológica de Kiev, en su transformación, desde 1819), 1863.
 Po prochtenii vysochayshego reskripta gr. M. N. Murav'yevu (Al leer el rescripto más alto de M. N. Muravyov), 1865;
 Uzhasnoye otkrytiye (Terrible descubrimiento), 1866.
 Marfa Posadnitsa, ili Padeniye Novgoroda (Marfa Posádnitsa, o la Caída de Nóvgorod), 1870.
 Pis'ma s togo sveta pyatiletnego brata k svoyey sestre (Cartas desde la luz de un hermano de cinco años a su hermana), 1871.

Póstumo

 Dnevnik (1835-1857) (Diario [1835-1857]), 1882, en el «Boletín Histórico» y con prefacio de F. I. Bulkanov.

Notas

Referencias

Bibliografía

Véase también

 Imperio ruso
 Iglesia ortodoxa rusa

Escritores de Rusia del siglo XIX
Nacidos en Vorónezh
Fallecidos en San Petersburgo


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Tell Beit Mirsim est un site archéologue d'Israël situé à la frontière entre la Shéphélah et le Mont Hebron.

Histoire

Le site est exploré en 1926, 1928, 1930 et 1932 par William Foxwell Albright, parfois accompagné de Nelson Glueck. Il s'agit d'un exemple caractéristique d'une ville du royaume de Juda à l'exemple de Beit Shemesh, , Khirbet Qeiyafa et Beer-Sheva : un mur de casemates a été construit sur tous ces sites et les maisons de la ville proche ont incorporé les casemates comme l'une des pièces de l'habitation. Ce modèle n'est connu d'aucun site cananéen, philistin ou du royaume d'Israël. Lors des fouilles Albright découvre deux fragments d'anses de jarres portant l'inscription hébraïque  qui signifie

Albright identifie le site avec la ville biblique de Débir mais cette identification n'est pas acceptée par la communauté archéologique,  étant considéré comme l'emplacement le plus probable.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 (pp. 279,  290)

 (p. 349)
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Liens externes

Site archéologique en Israël


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Niall Ferguson is an erudite historian who has written a classic biography on the Rothschild family and so has the credentials to write a major work on money. Money, finance and the financial crises that we have experienced in recent times are worthy topics for further historical exploration. Ferguson's area of study is one that has not been overworked by the academic community. It is striking to note how few articles have been devoted to analysing the anatomies of financial crises in economic journals dominated by a multiplicity of articles on arcane and peripheral issues. This will of course change, albeit a little late for those looking for information on why markets rise and crash. The situation is somewhat similar with respect to books on the subject. When the most recent financial crisis started to develop in the summer of 2007 the search for books dealing with previous financial crises produced meagre pickings. Charles Kindleberger's important book Manias, Panics and Crashes (1978) was dusted off shelves. Many media commentators rushed to read John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash (1971), a stylishly written work which unfortunately does not contain a great deal of substance. Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) was consulted again and chapter 12 on "The State of Long Term Expectations" quoted extensively. Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960 (1963) was also reread by certain cognoscenti, most notably Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve System. After that the cupboard containing books dealing with recent financial crises was quite bare, leaving some writers searching for inspiration to reach back to that highly successful but massively inaccurate nineteenth century potboiler Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay.
The reason for the shortage of books on financial crises could be that in recent years many economic writers lost interest in such matters because first, some of them believed that the keys to controlling crises had been discovered through Friedman and Schwartz's work on the causes of the Great Depression and therefore there was no real need to worry; second, other economists, those belonging to the new classical macroeconomics approach, did not believe in the possibility of financial bubbles. The latter group, fully paid up subscribers to the theory of rational expectations, are of the view that homo economicus is rational, ergo financial bubbles cannot arise. Having contented themselves with writing about methods of controlling inflation and policies to increase output on the supply side of the economy they have had nothing to say on our most recent crisis. Keynes, whom they believed they had academically buried by their research, had to be resurrected to provide economists with some policy initiatives to combat what increasingly appeared to be the arrival of the second Great Depression.
Against this background I had high expectations that Ferguson's work might fill part of the gap in our knowledge of money and financial crises. It is not just a book but also the text for a successful Channel Four television series, narrated by Ferguson himself. And therein lies the problem, since the finished work reads more like a television script rather than a printed book. There is an imbalance as the author uses material that is eminently suitable for engaging the minds of a television audience but which appears a little thin when presented to a readership expecting detailed historical scholarship.
Perhaps I can best illustrate the problem by concentrating on the chapter dealing with financial bubbles, with its sound bite heading "Blowing Bubbles". Ferguson concentrates on John Law's Mississippi System, which in turn spawned the South Sea Bubble. The system arose in France when John Law, a more than colourful Scotsman, persuaded the regent, Philippe duc d'Orléans, to create a bank in 1716.
The objective of the General Bank was to substitute paper money for gold and silver coins. Law believed that by increasing the paper money supply it would be feasible to drive economic activity upwards. The title of his book, Money and Trade, published in 1705, said it all. Law believed that money had a real role to play in the economy and that it was a causa causans of trade. Law's General Bank, later to become the Royal Bank, was the first part of his overall strategy aimed at addressing France's monetary crisis as reflected in the shortage of gold and silver coinage. However, Law was sufficiently astute to recognise that France had a further problem, a financial crisis, marked by a highly imbalanced superstructure of public sector debt that had been accumulated by a spendthrift and bellicose Louis XIV.
On his death Louis had left France bankrupt, with international bankers either refusing to lend to the French crown or alternatively charging extortionate interest rates on each new loan. Law set out to address this financial crisis by offering the holders of debt shares in a newly created company, the Company of the West, which would later be popularly referred to as the Mississippi Company. The shares were backed the assets of the company, most notably its monopoly trading concessions to French Louisiana, a vast territory constituting around half of the United States today (excluding Alaska).
Law hoped that by building up the company's trading concessions in French Louisiana he would generate a stream of revenue to pay dividends on the company's shares. The issue of the shares was initially successful and their price rose from an effective 170 French livres in 1717 to over 10,000 livres in early January 1720. Paris was the centre of the world's first stock market boom and such was Law's success that he was appointed the equivalent of prime minister in early January 1720. This was quite an achievement for a man with the reputation of a dandy, gambler and murderer (he had killed another dandy in a duel in London's Bloomsbury Square in 1694). Unfortunately, Law pushed the system too far and used the banks' issues of paper money to monetise the shares. The system collapsed from May 1720 onwards and Law was lucky enough to escape from France with his life.
Ferguson, a fellow Scotsman, is obviously fascinated by Law's story and devotes a considerable part of his chapter on bubbles to it. He quotes many times from my own work, John Law Economic Theorist and Policy-Maker (Oxford University Press, 1997). However, in his search for a good television script he has gone for the easy story, stereotyping Law as a financial charlatan. In so doing so he has adopted the position of most Scottish historians and of famous Scottish economists such as David Hume and Adam Smith.
Ferguson contends that Law's System had "to create a bubble or it would fail". He refers to the "con at the heart of Law's confidence" and calls him a "con artist". In other words he does not wish to treat him as a serious theorist and policy-maker. To do so would be bad television. Here I disagree with him and believe that if he had read Money and Trade (1705) and John Law's Essay on a Land Bank (written in 1704 and published in 1994) he would have found that Law was an inspired monetary theorist with a vision hundreds of years ahead of his time. Law was able to visualise, and to implement temporarily, an economic system based on paper money and bank credit long before the last vestiges of the gold standard were finally removed in 1971. He was centuries in advance of the so called Scottish "enlightened" economists, David Hume and Adam Smith, in visualising the type of financial system that mankind needed to adopt. He was very much someone who understood money. By dint of changing a simple preposition he produced a great definition, writing that money is the value by which goods are exchanged and not the value for which goods are exchanged. By replacing "for" with "by" he was able to show that money did not have to be intrinsically valuable. By this analysis Law was able to show that gold and silver were very limited forms of money and that emphasis on them retarded the monetary progress of humanity. It is a great pity that Ferguson did not understand this and fell into the Scottish trap of regarding Law as a type of financial charlatan. If he does not accept my word for Law's brilliance and feels that I am suffering from that dreaded biographer's disease, Lues Boswelliana, then he might possibly look at the judgement of Joseph Schumpeter, the greatest analyst of the history of economic thought, who wrote that Law "is in a class by himself" and that he "worked out the economics of his projects with a brilliance and, yes, profundity, which places him in the front rank of monetary theorists of all time" (Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, 1954).
Niall Ferguson is a serious historian who has managed to popularise a difficult subject, namely money, and produce a television series and book for a mass audience. This is no easy feat. He is to be congratulated, but he needs to avoid the characteristic defect of popularisers, that of rushing to facile judgements. He had a great opportunity to show that his fellow countryman John Law was at the vanguard of the Ascent of Money. He did not take this opportunity and instead relegated him to the ranks of confidence trickster. This is a disservice by a great Scottish historian to an even greater Scottish economist.
Antoin E Murphy is an associate professor of economics in Trinity College Dublin. His most recent book, The Genesis of Macroeconomics: New Ideas from Sir William Petty to Henry Thornton, was published by Oxford University Press in December 2008.


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By: David G. Bayliss and Luka Rados, David G. Bayliss Professional Corporation, April 5, 2015.
This article discusses Canadian Drinking and Driving legislation and its interpretation by the courts since the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was proclaimed in 1982. It is intended as overview for the layperson and not as an authoritative academic discussion of the subject. Anyone seeking a more comprehensive understanding of drinking and driving law in Canada may access, free of charge, The Criminal Code of Canada, legal academic writings and Canadian court decisions on the topic at the free website of the Canadian Legal Information Institute at www.canlii.ca. The law in this area is technical and complex and anyone charged under this legislation is unlikely to obtain success without the assistance of a lawyer. Any commentary about the state of drinking and driving law in Canada is the opinion of the authors alone.
Driving is a privilege, not a right
In 1959, Alberta Supreme Court Justice W. Gordon Egbert remarked (angrily):
At the outset I must express my shocked amazement at the contention of counsel for the minister that the claim of a resident of Alberta to a driver's licence – and consequently to drive upon the highways of Alberta – is a privilege and not a right. Since time immemorial the Queen's subjects have been free to move along the Queen's highway provided only they kept the Queen's peace…. I know of no legislation which has reduced my inviolable right to drive into a privilege to be granted or refused at the uncontrolled whim of some petty bureaucrat (Regina ex rel. Christofferson v. The Minister of Highway, 123 C.C.C. 275)
In 1985, three years after the enactment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (but based on facts that arose before the Charter was signed), the Supreme Court of Canada, in the split decision of R. v. Dedman, approved random stops of motorists for highway traffic purposes. Dedman was followed by R. v. Hufsky, in which the Supreme Court ruled that random vehicle stops do violate the Charter right not to be arbitrarily detained. Unfortunately, the Court also ruled that the violation was justified, under section 1 of the Charter, to promote highway traffic safety. Random vehicle stops were therefore constitutional.
Few court decisions, if any, have had a more profound and far reaching effect on the lives of millions of ordinary Canadians. Hufsky is nothing less than the wholesale abolition of the right of Canadians not to be arbitrarily detained when in their motor vehicles. These cases eventually led to the judicial conclusion that Charter rights do not apply to the act of driving at all. Indeed, within a decade of Dedman, the adage "driving is a privilege, not a right" was a judicial mantra and the starting point of each and every analysis of legal disputes concerning the act of driving. Judge Egbert's unthinkable has become the law of Canada.
The categorization of driving as a privilege rather than a right has had at least three momentous consequences for Canadian residents, the majority of whose lives, in one way or another, are intertwined with the automobile.
First, the act of driving in Canada is, as Judge Egbert feared, indeed now abided only at the whim of the humblest of state officials, whether bureaucrat or junior traffic officer, without regard to guilt or innocence. This is vividly illustrated by provincial licensing legislation in Ontario (and most provinces and territories) automatically suspending one's driving license, at the roadside, for 90 days, upon merely being charged with a drinking and driving offence. This extraordinary legislation was declared constitutional by the Ontario Court of Appeal in the 1999 case of Horsefield v. Ontario (registrar of Motor Vehicles). Since driving a motor vehicle is a mere privilege, the Court reasoned, the presumption of innocence, the most fundamental and sacred right in the criminal law, did not apply. There is no entitlement to fairness. By the same logic, legislation in various provinces, including Ontario, grants a traffic officer authority to suspend, on the spot, a driver's license for blood alcohol levels below the Criminal Code legal limit (when a roadside screening device registers a "warn" rather than a "fail"). The Supreme Court is expected to consider this issue some time in 2015 in the case of Lee Michael Wilson v. Superintendent of Motor Vehicles, et al. case 35959. Based on past judicial practice, it is difficult to be optimistic that recognition will be finally given to the true importance of the ability to drive in Canada.
In the roadside scenarios, the potentially catastrophic punishment of license suspension is imposed without trial or exceptions to permit vehicle dependent employment to continue, irrespective of any defences to the charge that may exist such as testing equipment malfunction, false positives, mistaken or dishonest police work. All defences are irrelevant. Indeed, innocence itself is irrelevant. The license suspension may be unfair, unjust, completely illogical and without merit. The ability to drive may be critical to the financial viability of the motorist's family. None of this matters, our courts have ruled, because the ability to drive in the 21st century, like reserving the corner seat at your favourite restaurant, is a mere privilege.
The Orwellian end result of this way of thinking is exemplified in legislation in most provinces and territories, including Ontario, permitting license suspension for activity (or non-action) that is entirely unrelated to the act of driving itself. For example, one's license can be suspended, again, without notice or hearing, for an allegation of non-payment of child support. Some judges have instinctively railed against the manifest injustice of this law only to be quickly silenced by higher courts. See, for example, Paynter v. Henderson [2012] M.J. No. 272.
The second consequence of denying the status of right to the act of driving is a post-conviction punishment regime which emphasises driving prohibition rather than the traditional criminal law sentencing remedies of restitution, fine, probation or jail. A first time conviction for a drinking and driving related offense in Canada triggers a mandatory one year driving prohibition (concurrent to provincially imposed license suspension). Subsequent convictions carry longer mandatory driving prohibitions.
This punishment scheme is morally and logically flawed. First, it discriminates against Canadians for whom the ability to drive is essential to daily survival. Stories abound among defence lawyers of marriages broken, homes lost and families bankrupted because the breadwinner has been rendered unemployable as a result of a driving prohibition, often for a fleeting error in judgment, sometimes in the absence of any actual impairment at all.
In sentencing criminal offenders, Canadian judges have traditionally attempted to fashion sentences that preserve the offender's ability to work and thus his self-worth and value as a contributing member of society and, most importantly, the security of his dependents. No such latitude is available to Judges when it comes to those convicted of a drinking and driving offence.
Logical analysis suggests that a driving prohibition is a poor general deterrent against drinking and driving. Those who do not need to drive are not likely to be dissuaded from drinking and driving by the prospect of a driving prohibition. For such individuals, being unable to drive is a mere inconvenience and, therefore, a weak deterrent. An office worker can take the bus to work; the wealthy can hire a chauffeur. In addition to being discriminatory, the current sentencing regime fails to deter many who might be inclined to break this law.
The havoc caused by drunk drivers cannot be denied. However, we do not suspend the fundamental rights of alleged murderers, drug dealers, robbers or those who illegally carry firearms. Why is the wholesale suspension of rights acceptable for alleged impaired drivers? Would we think it fair to prohibit the carpenter from using his hammer or the chef his knife, even if those tools were alleged to have been used in a crime? Yet, often for single or technical error in judgment, our courts have told the cabbie, the courier, the truck driver, the linesman, the farmer, the transit worker, the heavy equipment operator, the travelling salesperson, the rural resident and millions of other Canadians who depend on the automobile to survive, that their right to work or move about is unworthy of the protection of the law.
It may well be that sometimes, in the case of repetitive offenders for example, a driving prohibition as a term of bail or as condition of a sentence may be an appropriate and necessary societal protective measure. As an across the board automatic remedy, however, driving prohibition is a blunt, unfair and unsuccessful sentencing technique. Traditional sentencing tools such as restitution, probation, community service and incarceration, imposed after a fair investigation and trial are a far more effective general deterrent that lacks the taint of injustice and discrimination that permeates our current legal framework for the management of motor vehicle crimes.
The third consequence of undermining fundamental rights in relation to the act of driving has been a wholesale devaluation of the rights of anyone who happens to be in a motor vehicle, whether driving or not. While early cases like Hufsky emphasized that the suspension of the arbitrary detention right was justified only to address highway traffic safety concerns, the courts have not held true to this promise. The development of the "dual purpose" motor vehicle stop case-law, which permits a police officer to stop a motor vehicle for any purpose as long as one of his purposes is related to highway traffic regulation, has led to abuse of Charter rights on a grand scale (see R. v.Nolet, 2010 SCC 24 for the most recent Supreme Court pronouncement on this issue).
Canadian police officers, whether on traffic patrol or not, have developed a keen concern for dirty license plates, tinted windows, rolling stops, failures to signal and confirming vehicle documentation. Despite earlier assurances to the contrary, our courts have enthusiastically accommodated abuse of the highway safety rational for random motor vehicle stops to enable groundless criminal investigations that have nothing whatever to do with highway safety. The practice is now routine. The resulting vehicle searches and arrests have generated countless hours of court time spent litigating the details of police and occupant conduct after a vehicle stop. Thousands more "highway traffic" stops, occupant interrogations and improper searches never see the light of a courtroom because no crimes are discovered by investigating officers. The characterization of driving in Canada as a "privilege" has come at an unacceptably high price—the defeat of Charter protections on a massive scale. The notorious "driving while black" vehicle stops, as one example, are the progeny of Dedman and Hufsky.
Essential Information About the Drinking and Driving Law in Canada
First, it cannot be overstated that the application of the drinking and driving laws is complicated and technical. This summary is intended to provide the lay reader with an introduction to the legislative framework and to discuss, in general terms, the means by which the charges can be defended. It is folly for any layperson to attempt to represent him or herself on a driving under the influence allegation. A lawyer familiar with this area of law should always be consulted about the specific facts of your case before meaningful advice can be given.
The Offences
The core drinking and driving offences are recited in section 253 of the Criminal Code of Canada. The statutory regime also deals with the issue of impairment by drugs. This topic, a subject that will be discussed in a separate article, is not discussed here.
Section 253 states:
(1) Every one commits an offence who operates a motor vehicle or vessel or operates or assists in the operation of an aircraft or of railway equipment or has the care or control of a motor vehicle, vessel, aircraft or railway equipment, whether it is in motion or not,
(a) while the person's ability to operate the vehicle, vessel, aircraft or railway equipment is impaired by alcohol or a drug; or
(b) having consumed alcohol in such a quantity that the concentration in the person's blood exceeds eighty milligrams of alcohol in one hundred millilitres of blood.
(2) For greater certainty, the reference to impairment by alcohol or a drug in paragraph (1)(a) includes impairment by a combination of alcohol and a drug.
The two offences are operating a motor vehicle (a) while impaired by alcohol or a drug or a combination thereof and (b) while one's blood exceeds the specified blood alcohol concentration ("over 80") However, note the following:
The motor vehicle need not be moving or the motor running. If one is in care or control of the motor vehicle, one is liable under the provisions whether the vehicle is motion or not. The concept of care and control has been much litigated but, at a minimum, being seated in the driving seat of a vehicle will usually be considered care and control. Indeed, once it is established that one was in the driver's seat, a presumption of care and control exists. The onus shifts to the defendant to prove that he or she was not occupying the driver's seat for the purpose of setting the vehicle in motion. There are innocent reasons why one may be in the driver's seat of a vehicle while impaired, such as sleeping, charging a phone or trying to stay warm while waiting for a tow truck or a sober driver to render assistance. Advancing a defence to care and control can nevertheless be challenging. New technology has created additional barriers. With the option of keyless start, for instance, it is more difficult to exclude the possibility of inadvertent activation, even if the keys have been kept well away from the ignition.
The impaired and blood alcohol concentration offences are independent of each other. If a driver is found to be "over 80," which requires administration of a breathalyzer test, the offence is made out even if there are no signs of impairment whatsoever. Conversely, a driver can be found to be impaired even if there is no breathalyzer evidence of the blood alcohol concentration or, indeed, even if the blood alcohol concentration is below the legal limit.
At various stages during an investigation, a police officer may make a demand of a driver to provide a breath sample, either into a roadside screening device or a breathalyzer machine at the police station. Refusal to comply, without reasonable excuse, with a police officer's demands in this regard, is itself a separate criminal offence with the same penal consequences as driving while impaired or with excess blood alcohol concentration.
You have a right to speak to a lawyer before submitting to a breathalyzer test but not, usually, at earlier stages of a police investigation. In particular, there is ordinarily no right to speak to a lawyer prior to providing a breath sample into a roadside screening device ( the quick tests commonly administered at RIDE program stops).
For a first conviction of impaired driving, driving with a blood alcohol concentration beyond the legal limit, or refusing without reasonable excuse to comply with a demand to provide a breath sample, the minimum sanction is a fine of $1000. For a second offence, a 30 day jail sentence is mandated and for a third, a 120 day jail term is the minimum sentence that can be imposed.
More significantly, every finding of guilt for an alcohol related driving offence, including the refusal to comply with a police demand to provide a sample, carries with it mandatory minimum periods of prohibition from driving, as follows:
First offence………………minimum one year driving prohibition
Second offence…………..minimum two year prohibition
Third offence…………….minimum three year prohibition
Concurrent provincial legislation also calls for automatic driving license suspension upon conviction for a Criminal Code drinking and driving offence. Moreover, the Ministry of Transportation, rather than the Court itself, is often the final arbiter of the period for which the person convicted cannot drive. For instance, if a plea to a second offence is negotiated where the Crown does not file notice of a mandatory sentence and the judge imposed a one-year suspension, the Ministry will likely not conform to that order but instead suspend the license for at least as long as the period mandated by the Criminal Code tariff of two years.
Ignition interlock program
The ignition interlock program is one small concession government has made to the reality that many working people must drive to earn a living. Having said that, it is doubtful that sensitivity to the working bloke, as opposed to the desire to reduce the number of trials by encouraging guilty pleas, is what motived the program.
Available in Ontario to first time offenders only, this program shortens the mandatory minimum driving prohibition period from one year to either three months or six months, depending on how the program is accessed. For the remainder of what would have been the full prohibition period, the offender may drive if an ignition interlock device is installed in his or her personal vehicle. This apparatus is essentially a mini-breathalyzer hard wired into the vehicle. The offender must test his or her breath before starting the vehicle. In the event of a fail, the device prevents the vehicle from starting.
To be eligible for the program, one must have been convicted of an impaired driving offence under s. 253, 254 or 255(1) of the Criminal Code and have had their driver's license consequently suspended. The underlying offence must not have involved drugs, must not have resulted in death or injury, and must not have taken place while the offender was already subject to an ignition interlock licence condition. The offender must not have been convicted of drive while disqualified within five years of the new offence taking place, must not have previously been granted a reduction to 10 years of an indefinite licence suspension, and must not be subject to a court order barring participation in the program.
There are two streams under which one may qualify for and participate in the ignition interlock program. Under "Stream A," one's license is suspended for three months after conviction. After the three months have passed, the ignition interlock system must be installed and used for a further nine months. To qualify for "Stream A," one must enter a plea of guilty to the underlying drinking and driving offence and be convicted and sentenced within 90 days of the offence date. An assessment program must also be successfully completed within the three month license suspension period. Since admission into "Stream A" requires pleading within a short period of time after being charged, those that need to drive are left in the unfortunate position of rushing into an ill informed decision with potentially far reaching consequences. They might find themselves feeling compelled to plead guilty without necessarily having full disclosure of the evidence in their case or without having properly retained and consulted a lawyer on the strength of this evidence.
The alternative to "Steam A" is "Stream B." Under "Stream B," one's licence is suspended for six months, after which one may drive but only with the ignition interlock system installed and used for a further six months. Everyone that is eligible for the interlock program that does not meet the criteria specific to "Stream A" falls into the "Stream B" category.
Details of eligibility criteria and requirements for completion of the ignition interlock program can be viewed at the Ontario government website at
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/safety/impaired/conduct.shtml
The ignition interlock program, combined with the provincially imposed automatic 90 day suspension upon being charged with a Criminal Code drinking and driving offence has encouraged an unprecedented number of guilty pleas in drinking and driving cases. As government no doubt anticipated, defendants desperate to drive realized that an immediate guilty plea could have the effect of re-instating the ability to drive immediately after the automatic 90 day suspension on being charged, with no threat of a longer prohibition or license suspension. The basic logic (and sound logic it is) is that, if one will be precluded from driving for 90 days anyway, regardless of guilt or innocence, why not just plead guilty and run the sentence prohibition concurrent to the automatic roadside suspension and begin to drive again at the earliest possible moment?
Of course, one can still have a trial; but the risk of conviction and further prohibition from driving can never be entirely avoided. As often happens, elimination of one right, such as the presumption of innocence, renders another, such as the right to a fair trial, irrelevant. What is the point of a trial if punishment is imposed before the trial takes place? This is the cynical approach that Canada has taken with respect to the "privilege" of driving, a privilege without access to which millions of Canadians could not support their dependants or, in the case of rural residents, even leave home.
Defences to Drinking and Driving Allegations
For those who choose to exercise their right to a trial, defences to drinking and driving charges can often be successfully mounted. The defences generally fall into 3 categories or a combination thereof:
Failure of Crown to prove factual requirements beyond a reasonable doubt, for example, that the defendant was in care and control of the vehicle, that the care and control was at the relevant time or that there was sufficient evidence of impairment or excess blood alcohol concentration at the relevant time.
2. Achieving exclusion of evidence such as breathalyzer results based on scientific evidence that the breathalyzer machine was defective, or that the statutory requirements for their admission to evidence have not been satisfied by the Crown.
3. Achieving exclusion at trial of all evidence of excess blood alcohol and/or impairment (from a breathalyzer machine or any other source such as a police officer's observations) due to violations of the defendant's constitutional rights, for instance, the right not to be arbitrarily arrested or detained or the right to consult a lawyer.
Appeal and Suspension of Prohibition
If convicted, an appeal may be brought. As part of the appeal, the lawyer can seek a suspension of the court order prohibiting driving so that the defendant may drive while waiting for the Appeal to be heard.
It cannot be overstated that this area of law is complex and technical. A proper defence usually requires cross examination of seasoned police officers and management of specialized prosecutors and expert witnesses before specially designated judges. This is not an area of law in which self-represented defendants are likely to fare well. Indeed, it is unlikely a layperson would be able to even identify the defences that exist.
However, with competent legal counsel, success is often achieved in defending drinking and driving allegations.
© David G. Bayliss and Luka Rados, David G. Bayliss Professional Corporation, April 5, 2015
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"IBM, you got my attention and I'm all over this case now. But we're going to do it my way. Don't worry, IBM. The briefs have convinced me that you are going to win this case, so I'm going to help you win.
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Fair disclosure: I used to collect a paycheck from IBM, but I've been a Free Software fan (especially NetBSD) since before I had a job there.


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Xavier Miserachs i Ribalta (Barcelona, 12 de juliol de 1937 - Badalona, 14 d'agost de 1998) fou un fotògraf català. El 1952 es va fer membre de l'Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya, on va conèixer Oriol Maspons, amb qui va iniciar una amistat que va durar tota la vida. El 1954, a l'edat de disset anys, va guanyar el I Trofeu Luis Navarro, atorgat pel II Saló Nacional de Fotografia Moderna de l'Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya. Aquell mateix any va començar els estudis de medicina, que va abandonar a l'últim curs per dedicar-se plenament a la fotografia.

El 1957 hi va haver la primera de les dues exposicions –ja clàssiques– que van reunir fotografies de Xavier Miserachs, Ricard Terré i Ramon Masats, a l'Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya a Barcelona, a la seu d'AFAL a Almeria i a la Real Sociedad Fotográfica de Madrid. Al cap de dos anys, el 1959, es va presentar la segona exposició del trio Terré-Miserachs-Masats a la Sala Aixelà de Barcelona. Des de llavors, Miserachs va ser un dels artífexs de la renovació del gènere de fotografia documental que es va viure al país i que entroncava amb una tradició iniciada abans de la Guerra Civil. Alguns dels llibres fotogràfics de Miserachs han configurat durant dècades la imatge de Barcelona i la Costa Brava. Barcelona. Blanc i negre (Aymà, 1964), Costa Brava Show (Kairós, 1966) i Los cachorros (Lumen, 1967) són algunes de les obres fonamentals de l'avantguarda fotogràfica de l'època. Entre les principals influències destaquen l'obra del fotògraf William Klein i els seus llibres de ciutats, en particular el primer, dedicat a Nova York i publicat el 1955. Així mateix, l'exposició The Family of Man (1955) va causar en Miserachs, igual que en els seus companys de generació, una profunda impressió que va ser determinant per articular una poètica neorealista que representava el pas de les classes populars cap al nou entorn urbà.

Des de finals dels anys seixanta, Miserachs va anar ampliant la seva activitat com a fotògraf per incloure la publicitat, el reportatge i la fotografia editorial. A partir del 1966 va començar a viatjar pel món com a corresponsal per a les publicacions La Actualidad Española, Gaceta Ilustrada, La Vanguardia, Interviú i Triunfo. El 1969 va ser cofundador i primer professor de fotografia de l'escola Eina, i el 1970 la seva activitat es va estendre puntualment al cinema: va ser realitzador i director de fotografia de dues pel·lícules underground, dirigides per Enrique Vila-Matas i Emma Cohen, i aquell mateix any va dirigir i va produir el curtmetratge Amén, historieta muda. En els últims anys de la seva vida, Miserachs es va dedicar a escriure amb la voluntat de deixar testimoni de la seva concepció de la fotografia amb llibres com Profesiones con futuro: fotógrafo (Grijalbo, 1995), Fulls de contactes. Memòries (Edicions 62, 1998) i Criterio fotográfico (Omega, 1998). Les seves fotografies formen part de les col·leccions més destacades de fotografia, com Fotocolectania i el MACBA. El 2011 les seves hereves van dipositar l'arxiu de Miserachs al Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, el qual està format per més de 80.000 imatges.

Biografia
Xavier Miserachs va néixer en plena Guerra Civil espanyola, fill d'un hematòleg i d'una bibliotecària, Manuel Miserachs i Montserrat Ribalta. Va entrar en contacte amb el món de la fotografia a l'Institut Tècnic Eulàlia, on va conèixer Ramon Fabregat i el seu germà Antoni. Va estudiar quatre cursos de la carrera de medicina, però l'abandonà poc abans de finalitzar-la per dedicar-se professionalment a la fotografia.

El 1952 es va fer soci de l'Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya, on va conèixer Oriol Maspons, amb qui establí una molt bona amistat. L'any 1957 va presentar la seva primera exposició a la seu de l'Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya, juntament amb Ricard Terré i Ramon Masats. El 1959 exposaren de nou junts a la Sala Aixelà de Barcelona. Aquí fou on va començar, de fet, la seva activitat professional. El 1959 va fer el cartell del Premi Formentor de l'editorial Seix Barral. El mateix 1959, Xavier Busquets li va encarregar un treball sobre l'emplaçament on es construiria el Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya per tal d'orientar Picasso en els seus dibuixos de la façana.

El 1961, en tornar de realitzar el servei militar, Miserachs va independitzar-se professionalment, i instal·là el seu primer estudi a l'edifici David del carrer Tuset de Barcelona. Va començar alternant treballs per encàrrec –en els quals retratà personatges com Teresa Gimpera per a campanyes de publicitat– i les seves obres d'autor, que més endavant compilà en llibres com Barcelona. Blanc i negre, amb 400 fotografies relatant la recuperació econòmica a la capital catalana, o Costa Brava Show.

Durant la dècada de 1960 també va exercir de reporter en revistes com Actualidad Española. El 1968 va signar un contracte d'exclusivitat amb la Revista Triunfo. També li van publicar diversos reportatges en mitjans com La Vanguardia, Gaceta Ilustrada, Interviú, Bazaar o Magazin, entre d'altres. Va ser així com va poder presenciar esdeveniments històrics com el Maig del 68, el Londres dels Beatles o la Primavera de Praga. També va viatjar per un gran nombre de països com França (París), Regne Unit (Londres), Camerun, Estats Units (Nova York), Marroc, Uganda, Somàlia, Iran, Costa de Marfil, Guinea, Senegal i el Sud-est asiàtic. Miserachs, a més a més, va treballar fent reportatges i també es va dedicar principalment a la fotografia editorial.

El gener del 1967 col·laborà en la fundació de l'Escola Eina, on va ser un dels primers professors de fotografia. Ocasionalment va col·laborar amb la selecció musical de la discoteca Bocaccio, llavors lloc de reunió per excel·lència de la gauche divine. El 1997 va publicar el seu llibre de memòries Fulls de contacte, amb el qual guanyà un Premi Gaziel de biografies i memòries l'any següent.

Xavier Miserachs va morir el 14 d'agost de 1998 amb 61 anys a l'Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol de Badalona a causa d'un càncer de pulmó. El seu funeral va tenir lloc a Esclanyà, on tenia una casa.

Obra

Marc històric
Xavier Miserachs és un exponent de les aportacions artístiques dels anys cinquanta i seixanta, període fronterer que va sintetitzar l'evolució cap a la maduresa del mitjà fotogràfic i que marcaria moltes de les tendències que seguirien després. La seva fotografia té reminiscències estilístiques del neorealisme. El fet que prengués gran part de les seves imatges justament durant una època de represa econòmica i política com van ser els anys 50 i 60 a Espanya, a més a més, converteix el seu llegat fotogràfic en testimoni no només estètic, sinó també documental d'un moment històric molt específic.

Influències
Els anys 50 són considerats com els de la consolidació de l'expressió en fotografia, els de l'assoliment d'una retòrica expressiva que dona supremacia al contingut. Les fites d'aquest període són la publicació del llibre Images à la sauvette, de Henry Cartier-Bresson (1952), o Les Américains a Paris, de Robert Frank (1958, amb pròleg de Jack Kerouac). William Klein publicà una sèrie de llibres sobre ciutats: Nova York (1956), Roma (1958), Moscou (1964) i Tòquio (1964). Una altra influència fou l'exposició The Family of Man celebrada al MoMA de Nova York l'any 1955.

En aquesta època es va consolidar el concepte modern del reportatge fotogràfic, diferenciat del fotoperiodisme i de la fotografia documental, pel que fa a l'abast i el concepte. El reportatge fotogràfic implica més la idea de relat: un treball que vol més dedicació de temps, un esforç d'interpretació d'una situació i que culmina en un conjunt d'imatges. Això implica, d'una banda, la reivindicació del fotògraf per opinar, fet que li atorgarà estatus d'autor; l'autor proposa,  ja que , una interpretació pròpia de la realitat. D'altra banda, el consens que s'estableix entre la majoria de fotògrafs és que el vehicle natural de la imatge fotogràfica és la pàgina impresa. Això suposà que revistes com Life, Paris-Match, Stern o Época assolissin la màxima esplendor en aquest període.

El període es va concloure amb una inclinació cap a la fotografia aplicada, en detriment d'una fotografia artística, reforçant el caràcter utilitari de la imatge fotogràfica: la seva missió cal situar-la en el periodisme, la publicitat, la moda, el disseny o la ciència. Aquesta servitud, però, no els eximia de qualitat creativa ni de la seva valoració artística, com valorava Walter Benjamin.

Característiques

Xavier Miserachs fou el membre més jove d'un grup de fotògrafs catalans encapçalats –per edat i mestratge– per Francesc Català-Roca (1922) i que també incloïa noms com Oriol Maspons (1928), Ricard Terré (1928), Paco Ontañón (1930), Leopold Pomés (1930), Ramon Masats (1931) i Joaquim Fort de Ribot (1924).

En aquells temps l'única revista especialitzada era Arte Fotográfico, fundada pel mallorquí Ignacio Barceló el 1952 i dirigida al món amateur. Aquí es donà a conèixer Josep M. Casademont, que assumiria el paper de teòric i promotor entre els fotògrafs catalans. El 1963 publicà la seva pròpia revista, Imagen y Sonido, portant alhora la direcció de la Sala Aixelà de Barcelona, per on desfilaren els fotògrafs més coneguts del moment. Casademont descriu l'obra del grup neorealista:

El cas és que els autors, volgudament o no, amb la seva visió aguda i insolent, manifestaven una ruptura amb l'academicisme oficial. Així, la publicació de Barcelona. Blanc i negre (1964) va ser un fet rellevant no només en la carrera de Xavier Miserachs sinó en la mirada àcida i caòtica del món urbà, ja que completava les Visions de Barcelona (Wolfgang Weber, 1929 i Català-Roca, 1954) que anaven més enllà del caràcter entranyable i pintoresc, transmetent una nova sensibilitat.

Cinema
Miserachs va tenir una petita incursió en el món del cinema, fent de càmera en algunes pel·lícules underground dels seus amics Enric Vila-Matas, Emma Cohen i Jordi Cadena, i fins i tot arribà a dirigir i produir un curtmetratge propi, Amén, historieta muda. També va fer la foto fixa de la pel·lícula Juguetes Rotos, dirigida per Manuel Summers, el 1966.

Llegat

Memorials

Després de la seva mort, s'han celebrat diversos actes i exposicions en honor de Xavier Miserachs, i també s'han anomenat diferents premis o vies amb el seu nom. L'any 2001 se celebrà el I Premi de Fotografia Xavier Miserachs, organitzat per l'empresa hotelera Hotusa, que consistia en un certamen de fotografia en blanc i negre sobre Barcelona; duu el nom de l'autor per la seva obra Barcelona. Blanc i negre.

Palafrugell va anomenar el passeig de ronda entre les platges de Calella de Palafrugell i Llafranc amb el nom del fotògraf, i es convertí així l'any 1998 en la primera vila –i fins al moment, l'única– que ha anomenat alguna de les seves vies amb el nom del fotògraf. També a Palafrugell se celebra des de 1999 la Biennal de Fotografia Xavier Miserachs, dedicada a la fotografia documental, amb la participació de 90 fotògrafs; en les edicions de 1999, 2004, 2008 i 2010 s'hi van organitzar exposicions específiques de l'autor.

A Barcelona, la sala d'exposicions de la planta baixa del Palau de la Virreina va dur entre el 17 de desembre de 1998 i el 2010 el nom del fotògraf en honor seu. El 2010, la Sala Xavier Miserachs es va traslladar a l'antiga Sala de Numismàtica, i la de la planta baixa passà a denominar-se Virreina Lab.

Arxiu Xavier Miserachs

L'Arxiu Miserachs està constituït per aproximadament unes 80.000 imatges fotogràfiques, junt amb tota mena de documentació del fotògraf, així com part de la seva biblioteca personal. Actualment es troba dipositat al Centre d'Estudis i Documentació del Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona des del 3 de febrer de 2011 i per un període (renovable) de 25 anys. Els primers contactes entre el museu i la família es van realitzar el 2009. Junts van arribar a l'acord que el museu custodiaria les obres, les digitalitzaria i en faria difusió, afavorint l'estudi i la investigació del fons, tant a nivell universitari com a nivell popular. Un dels fets més destacats d'aquest dipòsit va ser que, al cap de pocs dies de realitzar-se, el museu va penjar al popular web de fotografies Flickr una sèrie de fotografies de l'artista, algunes d'elles amb llicència Creative Commons BY-NC-ND (Reconeixement-NoComercial-SenseObraDerivada).

Fons de l'arxiu
 60.000 negatius
 20.000 diapositives o transparències
 2.500 fulls de contactes
 Quaderns amb notes personals
 Documentació administrativa
 Biblioteca personal (no completa)

Publicacions

Exposicions rellevants
 1957 — Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya (Barcelona), AFAL (Almeria) i Real Sociedad Fotográfica de Madrid: Terré-Miserachs-Masats
 1959 — Sala Aixelà, Barcelona Terré-Miserachs-Masats, dirigida per Josep Maria Casademont
 1982 — Galeria René Metras, Barcelona. Exposició conjunta amb Leopold Pomés i Francesc Català-Roca. Fotografia catalana als anys 50-60
 1987 — Barcelona Metrópolis. Instal·lació a la Gran Via de Barcelona de l'exposició conjunta amb Colita, Oriol Maspons i Francesc Català-Roca
 1991 — Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Almería. Grupo AFAL 1956-1991. Exposició col·lectiva, organitzada per la Junta de Andalucía, la Diputación Provincial de Almería y Almediterránea'92
 1992 — Centre d'Art Santa Mònica: Temps de Silenci, Exposició organitzada pel Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya i la Fundació Caixa de Catalunya
 1992 — Fundació "la Caixa" 1 segon i 25 centèsimes. Exposició retrospectiva comisariada per Alain Dupuy
 2000 — Col·legi de Periodistes de Catalunya, (Barcelona) Xavier Miserachs, un luxe periodístic
 2004 — MARCO, Vigo i Madrid, Fotografía y Arte. Variaciones en España 1900-1980 Comissariada per Horacio Fernández, PhotoEspaña 04, Madrid.
 2006 — CAAC de Sevilla - El Grupo Fotográfico AFAL 1956 - 1963 Comissariada per Laura Terré. .
 2006 — Galería Josef Sudek (Praga) Barcelona. Blanco y Negro
 2007 — Centre Fontana d'Or (Girona) Francesc Català-Roca i Xavier Miserachs. Dues mirades al territori de la Costa Brava
 2008 — Galeria Hartmann (Barcelona) En clau de dona 2015 — Miserachs Barcelona, MACBA
 2015 — A.XMI'', MACBA. Selecció d'imatges fotogràfiques, documents, llibres i revistes del Fons, així com un recorregut pel procés de treball que el Centre d'Estudis i Documentació MACBA ha portat a terme per incorporar, catalogar i difondre aquest important conjunt.

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Bibliografia

Enllaços externs

 Arxiu Xavier Miserachs
 Fons Xavier Miserachs a l'arxiu del MACBA
 Portfoli de Miserachs  a la Fundació Foto Colectania
 Xavier Miserachs a "Fotografia a Catalunya"

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