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An Unhealthy Marriage and a Responsible Mother: Mrs. & Mrs. Garrido & Jaycee Dugard [posting my Sept. 2009 draft]
I told readers I couldn't handle a lot more on the Garrido/Dugard case.
The fact is, kidnapping, abduction, and even "child-stealing" is indeed a crime, and affects the community horribly. But it affects those kidnapped, abducted, and stolen the most, not to mention the families they were kidnapped, abducted, and stolen from. It goes down to the next generation, generally BUT it seems in this case that the positive factor in the case was Jaycee herself, despite being stolen at age 11, raped repeatedly, impregnated twice by her kidnapper (!!), and I've not yet heard how or where these children were born, and then falsely imprisoned by the kidnappers' WIFE, for 5 months, while he did time (again) for violating parole.
The story of Jaycee Dugard, and the Garridos has caught the public attention. Jaycee and her two daughters' escape, after 18 years of captivity and abuse, is close to a miracle, given the odds. The latest round indicates that, amazingly, the daughters turned out really WELL (Jaycee was a great Mom), and, even in prosecution, Mrs. Garrido is going to take a harder hit than Mr., charged with more crimes and be held to a higher standard.
As the public engages in self-flagellation in some categories (why wasn't he caught? We never knew!) and self-exoneration in others (what a creep! That would never happen in OUR neighborhood). After the sense of communal "monday night quarterbacking," analyses, shock, awe, relief, heartwarming tales of family reunion and indignation (particularly with the female Garrido), and eventually, back to business as usual. News has been sold, tales have been told, and we all must get on with life til the next shock, outrage, awe, and "we never knew" story hits the headlines.
Sometimes this won't take long:
Cops: Lodi Correction worker held wife captive 22 months
Published online on Friday, Sep. 04, 2009
LODI, CALIF. A corrections worker is under arrest for allegedly abusing his wife while holding her captive in the couple's Lodi home for nearly two years.
The victim's ordeal ended Thursday when police arrived at the home in response to a 911 call. When they arrived, the 44-year-old woman ran toward one of the police cars and tried to jump through an open passenger window.
She told authorities that her husband, Michael O'Riley, had sexually abused her, threatened her and denied her food and money for nearly 22 months.
O'Riley, a counselor at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center, has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, false imprisonment, sex crimes and terrorist threats, among other charges. Police say they also seized nine firearms from him.
Police say his wife is being housed at an undisclosed location.
Was this just a normal marriage that went south? Or had she been targeted for "use" before marriage, and actually feeding her was becoming bothersome? Was it the economy, and lack of materials on what marriage is really about? Well, speculate for yourself:
LODI, Calif. — A Northern California corrections worker is being held on suspicion of sexually abusing his Chinese immigrant wife and holding her captive for nearly two years.
Authorities say Michael O'Riley, 60, a social worker at a prison outside Sacramento, (!! ) (!! ) was arrested Thursday after his 44-year-old wife called police and reported he was threatening to kill her. The woman told police O'Riley forced her to perform sex acts, deprived her of food and took her places against her will over the last 22 months after he married her four years ago and brought her to the United States, said Cpl. Dale Eubanks, a Lodi police spokesman.
16 year age difference. Kind of makes you wonder about what makes a social worker tick, eh? There are some good apples, some bad apples in the bunch.
"It got to the point where she feared for her life," he said.
When officers were near the home Thursday, the woman ran toward the patrol car and jumped through an open passenger window.
O'Riley was arrested as he was loading several firearms into his truck, Eubanks said. He was apparently carrying $23,000 in cash.
"Way to go," Lodi. . . .
Lodi is making news with the fight over whether or not city officials can invoke the name of Jesus in public. Indignant Christian groups have taken up the noble cause. {{Prayer Warrior former navy Chaplain exhorts "invite every Christian in California!"}}
But this woman was invisible, so no one took up HER causes: (1) eating and (2) escaping. I wonder whether she invoked that name, called 911, or both. I'll bet it wasn't easy to get to the phone (and take that risk) when dealing with a professional trained in the corrections industry. How'd you like to weigh the odds between 9 firearms and a 911 call?
How about THIS woman, who didn't have time for 9-1-1, besides her hands were full, holding her 4 year old daughter:
"Suspect at large after shooting wife to death."
Published online on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police are searching for a man who shot his wife to death and wounded his 11-year-old son in front of three other children.
Lt. Walt Teague says 36-year-old Carlos Anibal Lopez opened fire during a family fight late Friday in the West Adams district.
Teague says the man's 36-year-old wife was holding her 4-year-old daughter when she was shot in the forehead. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The child was uninjured.
At least one bullet grazed the head of a 11-year-old boy. He was taken to a hospital.
Teague says the couple's daughter, a girl about 10, gave police an account of what happened.
11 yr old son + 3 other children = 4. 11, 10, and 4 yr olds = 3 kids, so another mystery child got to witness intimate partner assassination. 3 are now motherless and now at least temporarily fatherless. So if they grow up to be at-risk,
so if they grow up to be at-risk, substance abusers, WOMAN abusers, self-abusers or engage in promiscuous sex, or any other risky behaviors, sooner or later they, too, are "at risk" of becoming the target population for another government study stating that the social crisis of our times is "fatherlessness." And this is indeed what they are "at risk" of becoming, unless there are some countering positive attachments and values they can create and get help healing from this experience.
Investigators have found Lopez's vehicle abandoned with a gun left inside.
This family had a man in the home, too, like healthy marriages are supposed to:
Police: Man shoots wife, tells son, 'Let her die'
Published online on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009
YORK, Pa. — Police say a Pennsylvania man shot his wife then told the couple's 18-year-old son to "just let her die."
York police say 50-year-old Francis Plaza is heard in the background of the 911 call as his 18-year-old son was summoning help.
Authorities say Plaza can be heard saying, "Just let her die, boy. Let her die."
Plaza is charged in the July 25 slaying of Michelle Plaza. He has admitted killing his wife but maintains it was not premeditated.
He is due in court for an arraignment on Sept. 25.
Everyone has their favorite causes to get indignant over. While women like these are fighting for their lives (and sometimes losing that battle), our government has another goal in mind, and powerful policies & procedures to make it happen:
Contracts $310,620,677,722
Grants $402,220,049,067
Loans $38,911,442
Insurance $4,499,573,186
Direct Payments $59,147,547,147
Other Assistance $38,112,170,774
(See site for disclaimers, descriptions)
Of these grants, the LARGEST chunk is going to the Department of Health and Human Services, which is a VERY nebulous term to start with, and the NEXT largest chunk to the Department of Education, at which it's acknowledged the U.S. is failing when compared to other "developed" countries. Viewing the pie below, it seems clear that our Federal Government values several things higher than the most basic infrastructure of life: Housing, Transportation, and Food (agriculture) and is more interested (or invested, for sure) in the ones dealing with values formation and endlessly studying and (re)defining the words "health" not to mention "humans."
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Here is (only) prosperous business (out of Oklahoma) getting significant grants for promoting health in the marital & family arena:
Assistance to Recipient(s) "Public Strategies Inc."
(FY 2000-2009)
Federal dollars: $8,497,864
Total number of recipients: 1
Total number of transactions: 5
While USASPENDING.GOV (when I searched on "Public Strategies Inc.") came up with grants in 2007 & 2008 only, totalling "$8,397,864 "only," the SAME "recipient" search on another site, http://www.taggs.hhs.gov produced another year of grants, and another $3,000,000 of them, too. So much for the accuracy of the former site. Incidentally, ALL of these grants come under 93.086, which is a searchable program on the TAGGS site and NOT a searchable program (readily) or even listed under HHS "programs" on the USASpending.gov site, which gets its figures from the gov't to start with.
Recipient: PUBLIC STRATEGIES INC Recipient ZIP Code: 73116
FY Award Number Budget Year of Support Agency Award Code Action Issue Date Amount This Action
2008 90FE0026 3 ACF 0 09-22-2008 $1,000,000.00
2008 90FH0001 3 ACF 0 09-29-2008 $3,250,000.00
Award Subtotal: $4,250,000.00
I'm not sure whether the Garrido case is or is not representative of the level to which we have "developed" since 1776.
The post-mortems continue in an attempt to explain why they were a "THEM" but we are an "US."
Here is some of Garrido's ramblings, attempting to save the world and I guess to achieve some immortality (added July 2010), and the comments below responding to it run the gamut as well. But I think it illustrates (to an extreme) where some people's religious heads can get at when not tuned into the concrete practicalities of life — like LAWS
GARRIDO'S 1972 (NOT 1976, WHICH WAS MENTIONED IN LAST BLOG) RAPE CASE
(09-03) 15:58 PDT ANTIOCH — Antioch police said today that they do not intend to pursue for a second time allegations that accused kidnapper Phillip Craig Garrido raped and drugged a 14-year–old girl in 1972.
Garrido was charged by Contra Costa County prosecutors in 1972 after he allegedly assaulted the girl in an Antioch motel, but the case was dropped after the teenager decided not to testify, police Lt. Leonard Orman said at a news conference today.
The alleged victim contacted police after Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were arrested last week on charges that they kidnapped Jaycee Dugard in South Lake Tahoe in 1991, when she was 11, and held her for 18 years.
The woman was not interested in pressing her case, Orman said, but wanted to make sure that investigators looking into the Dugard matter were aware of the 1972 incident. Other investigators said the statute of limitations on rape in that era was three years.
Orman said the department had records showing that police arrested Phillip Garrido, then 21, on April 17, 1972, on suspicion of rape, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and providing drugs to a minor.
The girl told investigators that she and a female friend had met up with Garrido and another man at the Antioch Public Library and had gotten into a car with them.
OK, NO MORE GETTING INTO CARS WITH MEN AT LIBRARIES, GIRLS!! MOMS, DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR JUST-TEENAGED DAUGHTERS ARE AFTER SCHOOL? ARE YOU WORKING BECAUSE CHILD SUPPORT AIN'T COMING IN? OR ARE YOU, AS OUR PRESIDENT WANTS US TO, GOING BACK TO SCHOOL? OR ARE YOU MARRIED, AND STILL WORKING . . . . WORKING . . . . HOUSECLEANING . ..COOKING. . . AND HAVING A HEALTHY MARRIAGE. . . .
She said she had later awakened at a motel on East 18th Street and contacted her parents, saying Garrido had raped her and given her barbiturates, Orman said.
The police were contacted, and Garrido was arrested within days, police said.
Because many years have passed, the original case file was destroyed, police said. Orman said he did not know whether Garrido's reported companion had been arrested. (THAT'S REASSURING….)
Garrido was convicted in 1977 of kidnapping a woman in South Lake Tahoe and driving her to Reno, where he imprisoned her in a storage unit and raped her repeatedly. He served just over 10 years of a 50-year sentence and was paroled in 1988.
Orman said police were releasing information about the 1972 case now to address questions from the media and to ask that reporters refrain from contacting the alleged victim. Her name was not released.
DID the kidnapped, raped, held hostage, pimped out (at a minimum for Garrido's printing business, it appears) young mother who had no "father" (other than the rapist, and any other men brought in contact with them, about which we have no definitive information) behave IRresponsibly as a mother? After all, wasn't that a female-headed household? Or did Phil Garrido count as a male role model?
(09-03) 12:13 PDT LOS ANGELES ––
Kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard has done "a truly amazing job" raising the two daughters allegedly fathered by her abductor, giving them an education while all three were kept captive in a backyard compound in Antioch, her aunt said today.
Dugard, 29, is with her mother, Terry Probyn, her two daughters, ages 11 and 15, and her younger sister "in a secluded place, reconnecting," Tina Dugard said at a televised news conference at the FBI's Los Angeles office. . . .
"I was with them until recently," she said. "We spent time sharing memories and stories and getting to know each other again. Jaycee remembers all of us.
Dugard's daughters, the older one reportedly named Starlet and the younger one Angel, are faring well and are quite bright, despite never having attended school, Tina Dugard said.
She called them "clever, articulate and curious."
"Although they have no formal education, they are certainly educated," she said. "Jaycee did a truly amazing job with the limited resources and education that she herself had, and we are so proud of her."
She declined to take questions or discuss her niece's time with the Garridos.
NANCY GARRIDO:
"Participant: Nancy Garrido is facing more charges than her husband for the abduction and systematic abused (sic) suffered by Jaycee Lee Dugard"
THIS WOMAN MAY BE IN MORE TROUBLE THAN HER HUSBAND, PHILLIP…..
Garrido's Wife Kept Jaycee While He Was in Prison
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8468178
Nancy Garrido, the wife of Jaycee Dugard's accused kidnapper, has a serious legal problem in her defense: She apparently kept the girl prisoner for a five month period while her husband Phillip Garrido went to prison for violating his parole, her lawyer acknowledged today.
A look at the role Phillip Garrido's wife might have played in the kidnapping.
But Nancy Garrido's lawyer suggested today that she was powerless to free the girl because she was under the control of Phillip Garrido.
I CAN'T WAIT TO FIND OUT WHETHER ANOTHER WOMAN IS GOING TO TRY THIS DEFENSE REGARDING MY DAUGHTERS….IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO THEM. . . . .
"If she's being controlled, he doesn't have to be there physically. If she's being controlled, she's being controlled," Nancy Garrido's attorney Gilbert Maines told "Good Morning America" today.
"I guess I would say she's a victim," he said.
Maines said he has only had the case for five days and has met with Nancy Garrido twice. So far he has not seen "any evidence whatsoever" in order to formulate a defense for his client.
Nancy Garrido faces the same 29 felony charges her husband does for Dugard's abduction in 1991, including committing a forcible lewd act upon a child. During her arraignment last week she repeatedly put her face in her hands and sobbed.
Maines said today that Garrido remains in an emotional state and said she misses the two girls, Angel and Starlet, that her husband fathered with Dugard.
One of the many legal dilemmas Nancy Garrido faces is what she did during five months when Phillip was serving a prison sentence for violating his parole in 1993, just two years after Dugard was snatched off a school bus stop. Dugard was still only 13 when Phillip Garrido was returned to prison.
But Nancy Garrido clearly made no effort to send Dugard home during that time.
"If she was there alone with the girl for an extended period of time, then it would defy logic and common sense for her not to know that this is a stranger in their home and you know criminal activity is afoot," said ABC News consultant Dana Cole.
Yeah, and we all run OUR lives by "logic and common sense, too."
Well, his job is to defend her. The question comes up, where are all these easily controllable and gullible, and/or don't know right from wrong WOMEN coming from? ?? Are they being mass-produced in some institution, or is this just an inherent part of human nature that, but for the grace of God, there might WE go too?
Here's a (sensationalist, and self-promoting, probably) opinion from a UK on-line. The author wrote a book about a similar case:
Is this the new Rose West? It's beyond belief Nancy Garrido didn't know what was going on.
(Geoffrey Wansell. Above photo from this source); Aug. 31,
2009, updated 6:43pm, the Mail On-line.
On Saturday, Californian prosecutors claimed she played an 'equal role' with her husband in their crimes, and charged her directly with kidnapping the blonde Jaycee Lee Dugard 'for sexual purposes'.
They also accused her of 'forcible rape', 'committing a forcible lewd act upon a child' and 'false imprisonment by violence'. She faces no fewer than 16 charges – three MORE than her husband.
THIS IS SIMPLY NOT UNCOMMON IN ANY CULTURE — THE DOUBLE STANDARD. I HAVE MIXE
As the case unfolds, the world will ask how this apparently ordinary Californian woman – who never had children of her own – could have participated in the enforced subjugation of Jaycee.
Just curious, I looked up "Oxytocin, Motherhood, bonding" People were meant to feel good. This includes sex, having children, nursing and taking care of them, and having intimate relationships with other human beings. Hormones are involved in this. Get people deprived too long, it can get kind of crazy, go in other directions, who knows and what not. This is speculation on my part, but I KNOW how having children changed and empowered me, and in particular right after they were gone.
This is not going to be a pleasant topic to bring up, but SOMETIMES certain types of people cluster around professions that give them this feel-good feeling by being around children. Now, because this includes me, maybe I can say it without too much flak. But as a mother, I also SAW the reactions of people to our kids. And different people handled it differently. Some were FINE interacting with them (when little) and acknowledging me as their mother also. And others, won't mention names, had a serious issue with this and seemed threatened by this. It's a difference of approach one can sense. Of the latter, many were teachers.
ANyhow, as to them hormones, we have a strait-laced Jehovah's witness with an uncle in jail for (something), marrying a man in prison (bring out that motherly, helping instinct, pity? which otherwise might go to one's own kids…..)
(HEY! If this Brit can speculate from across a continent AND the Atlantic ocean, I can too, OK?)
Oxytocin, motherhood and bonding
KM Kendrick
Experimental Physiology 85.90001 pp 111-124
© The Physiological Society 2000
Experimental Physiology, Vol 85, Suppl 1, 111S-124S
Copyright © 2000 by The Physiological Society
Release of the peptide hormone oxytocin in the brain has been shown to influence both maternal, sexual and social bonding behaviours although there are a number of species differences. This review summarizes findings on the distributions of oxytocin and oxytocin receptors in the brain, together with factors governing their expression, release of the peptide in the brain and its behavioural actions. A model of how oxytocin may act to alter maternal and socio–sexual behaviours is proposed which initially involves activation of oxytocin neurones in a single brain site, the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN), following vaginal and cervical stimulation. {{Sex, Childbirth, eh?]] This causes a co–ordinated release of the peptide in the PVN and its terminal projection regions for up to 1 h and this promotes different behavioural components, primarily through modulation of classical transmitter systems.
OK, back to the Nancy Garrido is in some serious trouble article from the UK:
But as the official biographer of the late serial killer Frederick West, I am utterly convinced that Garrido, like Rosemary, not only knew what her husband was doing but was an active participant in the depraved abduction of Jaycee.
But why does a woman take part in such depravity? Details of Nancy's life story are still sketchy, but from the scraps of information which have already come to light, a sinister pattern is taking shape.
Psychologists suggest that a woman such as this, who fell for a convicted sex offender and then married him in jail, is subconsciously putting herself into his hands for abuse.
(This is not an apparently ordinary Californian woman)(Is that Male or Female Psychologists? Or both).
Seeing him as glamorous, and worldly, {{according to??}} she would do anything he asked, even though – it is reported – he rarely had sex with her. Nancy Garrido, like Rosemary West, might also come from an abusive family herself.
{{Well, what was her UNCLE in Leavenworth prison for?? That she was visiting. Musta wanted a male role model, and been a sympathetic, empathetic kind of young lady? SO – – – was it fatherlessness or abuse, that is causing the social ills of our time? Or just the climate of the times??}}
It is significant that so far we have heard nothing from her parents or relatives – unusual in a high profile case such as this.
{{If you were an adult parent of this woman, would you come rushing forward to claim ownership?}}
What we do know is that Nancy seems to have been raised as a Jehovah's Witness.
{{BINGO! OK, friends we are now learning something. Anyone know how controlling this international witnessing proselytizing group is? Particularly of women (let alone the men? The rigorously prescribed behavior, the isolation from the mainstream lifestyle, the dress codes, the drills? I've seen some things in recent days, locally, that really concern me. If you read this blog, you know I'm a Christian, and kinda tough on the religious strains in general, but this one point speaks loudly to me.}}
She met Garrido – who was then serving 50 years for the rape and abduction of a 25–year–old casino waitress in Reno, Nevada in 1977* – while visiting an uncle who was also a prisoner at Le(a)venworth prison in Kansas. {{*AND SHE KNEW THIS?}}
Psychologists think that Nancy, naive, impressionable and sexually inexperienced, would have been impressed, sexualised and then overpowered by Garrido's stories of sexual brutality. {{I'll bet that's true, given the background}}
Meanwhile, she served an added purpose for Garrido – she was proof to the prison authorities that he was reformed.
Readers, you GOT that? Now translate this into the Family Law Arena.
2nd wife, 2nd women, etc., when there was abuse, I mean Violence!, the first time round?
The fact that they married behind bars in 1988, and he was released shortly afterwards, proves how valuable she was. She gave him what seemed like a family life, and, by implication, proved that he would not offend again.
You GOT it? I know I do: the author has a point.
No one has given me a Federal GRANT from the OVW or elsewhere for this common sense (yet), but let me EXPLICATE one possible (common) scenario of domestic violence in the custody arena.
If I had a Ph.D. in this topic, I'd probably be considered an "expert" and get paid — a LOT — to miss the obvious. However, I have a different kind of "Ph.D." — experiencing excuses being piled higher and deeper for years, from this man, and later others, for years afterwards, in litigation in the family law arena. And this one, "But I have a woman now" was indeed used (post-repeated violations of custody orders) – and worked like a charm. It was a brilliant strategy, and in our FAMILY-oriented society,
not to mention misogynist (that's "sexist," against the females, folks…) society, a man behaving badly with a woman in tow is worth a woman working and behaving reasonably without a man in tow. I WONDER if this Garrido case is going to change that. I doubt it….
(NOTE: I'm not personally aware of any such scenarios, but I guess they aren't the ones showing up in family court arena, or thereafter on newspaper headlines).
Violence, domestic violence, did indeed cause separation. The man who formerly was very violent indeed repented — had a GENUINE change of heart (not a feeling of personal sorrow that finally some consequences came his way, and interrupted whatever good feeling or other wierd perks that the violence — which is intended to control, generally — brought his way), and gets help. The woman, after some time to heal, can indeed tell the difference, and welcomes the father of her kids back.
. . . . And with proper (ongoing, of course) therapy from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage grants (local service agency), and a bit of coaching from a faith-based community organization, they get it together again and live happily ever after, sparing the children, the next generation, from the dangerous, high-risk and traumatic situation of being raised in a fatherless (a.k.a. female-headed) household, i.e., not having a REAL man around.
Scenario 2: (Much more common, I'd bet):
Violence, domestic violence, did indeed cause separation. Frustrated and irate, the man changes for a while, meanwhile stewing how to get even and get back at this woman for upsetting the pattern of dominance that had served him (if not her, or the kids) pretty well up to date, in cluding social acceptance for having a family. PARTICULARLY in religious circles or other places where this is highly valued and a gauge of success/character in life.
What to do? She got custody, temporarily, he did not.
Solution: Find another woman to lend legitimacy, and help with the removal of children from first woman. Added benefit to controllers: .
Gets to stand on the sidelines a bit (abuse takes diligence and work! It gets tiring. Batterers and child molesters need to take a break every now and then, when's a guy to get some sleep??) and watch the catfight
Phillip Garrido (above) needed to take a break to go back to prison again: 3 hots and a cot for 5 months. I wonder if he was worried that his former efforts would"ve been in vain, and he "'d go have to kidnap, drug and domesticate ANOTHER 11 year old… Rather than keep the home-grown ones about to come out of Jaycee. Plus, he" d have to locate and charm another "enabler."
Garrido took Nancy back to his mother Patricia's house in Antioch – Patricia was separated from Garrido's–father, Manuel.
The manipulative, shrewd Garrido would then have brought both women steadily under his spell – his mother would have become ever more dependent as she descended into dementia.
And it could well be that Nancy's religious upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness provided her new husband with another means of manipulating her – telling her, as he was to tell the world, that God spoke directly to him.
This author clearly hasn't been hanging around Jehovah's witnesses. It's not necessary to claim direct personal revelation. She'd be groomed, by men and women both, by the general culture (which IS — and intentionally so — an alternate lifestyle) and there's that verse applied universally to the men around, "go ask your husband at home."
Religion would be a powerful tool in the hands of a man who wanted nothing more than to manipulate – and ultimately humiliate – any woman with whom he had a relationship.
And if there IS a God (I believe there is…) these institutions will have a LOT to answer for why they didn't protect women in their ranks from creeps like this — or at least how to tell a GOOD apple from a ROTTEN apple.
The fact is, many churches (cannot speak for the others) these days are desperate for men, so they have adjusted their teaching to appeal to this. Men bring in tithes, too. There is a backlash against being seen as at all "feminine." See the Catholic (Knights of Columbus, as I recall) "Fathersforgood.org" for some clues.
Think I'm kidding? See: http://www.themanlymanconference.com/ "There will be no singing, crying, no holding of hands, and no altar calls
I'd tell you more about this one, but it appears to have a membership and log-in….
I am certain that Nancy Garrido, like Rosemary West, was groomed and manipulated by her violent husband. But that does not make either woman innocent – they did what they did willingly.
I certainly wouldn't be surprised to hear that Nancy helped her husband rape Jaycee Lee Dugard. Rosemary West did precisely that with her stepdaughter Anne–Marie, just as she did with her own daughters thereafter. Fred insisted he had to 'break them in' for sex, as early as the age of eight – and Rosemary went along with it.
The 'alternative universe' that Nancy's husband had created for her behind their tumbledown shack in Antioch had become the only world she knew – her reality. In that distorted reality, her treatment of Jaycee was normal.
They also accused her of 'forcible rape', 'committing a forcible lewd act upon a child' and 'false imprisonment by violence'. She faces no fewer than 16 charges – three MORE than her husband. As the case unfolds, the world will ask how this apparently ordinary Californian woman – who never had children of her own – could have participated in the enforced subjugation of Jaycee. As the case unfolds, the world will ask how this apparently ordinary Californian woman – who never had children of her own – could have participated in the enforced subjugation of Jaycee.
But why does a woman take part in such depravity? Details of Nancy's life story are still sketchy, but from the scraps of information which have already come to light, a sinister pattern is taking shape.
What we do know is that Nancy seems to have been raised as a Jehovah's Witness.
{{BINGO! OK, friends we are now learning something. Anyone know how controlling this international witnessing proselytizing group is? Particularly of women (let alone the men? The rigorously prescribed behavior, the isolation from the mainstream lifestyle, the dress codes, the drills? I've seen some things in recent days, locally, that really concern me. If you read this blog, you know I'm a Christian, and kinda tough on the religious strains in general, but this one point speaks loudly to me.}}
She met Garrido – who was then serving 50 years for the rape and abduction of a 25-year-old casino waitress in Reno, Nevada in 1977* – while visiting an uncle who was also a prisoner at Le(a)venworth prison in Kansas. {{*AND SHE KNEW THIS?}}
Psychologists think that Nancy, naive, impressionable and sexually inexperienced, would have been impressed, sexualised and then overpowered by Garrido's stories of sexual brutality. {{I'll bet that's true, given the background}}
Garrido took Nancy back to his mother Patricia's house in Antioch – Patricia was separated from Garrido's-father, Manuel.
And it could well be that Nancy's religious upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness provided her new husband with another means of manipulating her – telling her, as he was to tell the world, that God spoke directly to him.
I certainly wouldn't be surprised to hear that Nancy helped her husband rape Jaycee Lee Dugard. Rosemary West did precisely that with her stepdaughter Anne-Marie, just as she did with her own daughters thereafter. Fred insisted he had to 'break them in' for sex, as early as the age of eight – and Rosemary went along with it.
The 'alternative universe' that Nancy's husband had created for her behind their tumbledown shack in Antioch had become the only world she knew – her reality. In that distorted reality, her treatment of Jaycee was normal.
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Wow, you knocked it out of the ballpark on this one dear! What a great piece of work!
Nancy Carroll
How could anyone with common sense doubt that Nancy Garrido participated in the sexual abuse of Jaycee? Because Jaycee says she didn't? PLEASE! If the Grand Jury transcrpts had been released as they were legally supposed to, they would have told a lot of truths that have been denied about this SAGA. I am sure the thousands of pictures and hundreds of videos that Garrido took of Jaycee's sexual use/abuse showed Nancy playing a major role. Of course those would have also probably shown a lot of other, powerful/wealthy people useing/abusing Jaycee, as well. ( and probably a very large number of non-wealthy/unknown people also) That could never be allowed. Why they would probably pay as much as ….$20 MILLION….to keep that from the public.
SpaceCowby43
Good point — I'm not doubting she participated. He went in jail, Nancy didn't exactly release her captive during that time did she?
This post is an older one. (See first sentence at top, I can't handle too much of this topic). I thought the amount the state paid to settle this was around $29 million, DNR. See more recent posts which talk about money.
Good comment about the Grand Jury transcripts. (See also The Franklin Coverup, Nebraska, John DeCamp)


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For the launch of our next issue of Geez we've invited two guest speakers to talk about their exodus from Syria and how they made their way to Canada as refugees, Maysoun Darweesh and Nour Ali.
As a young adult, Maysoun rebelled against social norms. She resisted the pressure to get married and have children, and enrolled instead in university.
"I needed to prove myself in some way," she said in an interview published by the Immigrant Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. "I rejected many things I love. I decided not to marry or have children. I chose my own way in life because I couldn't follow blindly," she said.
However, her perspective changed when she met Nour in 2001 while studying journalism at the University of Damascus. After only five dates, Nour proposed. They were married two years later. Both of their daughters were born in Syria. But they were living in an unstable and often terrifying environment.
Nour ran his own company in Syria and was very active in promoting human rights. This got him into trouble. The government captured and tortured him three times. He was warned of a fourth arrest and fled to protect himself and his family. "He left without telling me anything. I didn't see him for one year. He disappeared," Maysoun said.
Months later, Nour called from Turkey. "He told me: they want to capture me and they will torture me and probably put me in jail for a long, long time. Maybe they will kill me," she said. Nour went to China while Maysoun and her girls stayed in Syria, facing daily home invasions from government officials who suspected Maysoun of harbouring her husband. "It was terrible. A nightmare," she said. "I told him he had to find a solution because I couldn't continue."
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You can find here a lot examples from electrical engineering and electrical circuits. Every example is solved step by step. Electrical engineering is a strict science which examines and applies in practice electromagnetism phenomenons. Electromagnetism is a branch of physics. In electrical engineering we use various methods for electrical network analysis. The most basic laws, which are applied in electrical engineering, are Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's laws.
Collection of exercises where Kirchhoff's current law (KCL) and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) are used. Kirchhoff's law for electrical circuits were formed by German scientist Gustav Kirchhoff. Kirchhoff's law for electrical circuits are nothing other like the principle of charge conservation and the principle of energy conservation. Both mentioned principles are formed in way useful in electrical circuits.
Kirchhoff's current law (KCL) tell us that sum of currents which flow to and flow out from node is equal to zero. Kirchhoff's current law came from the principle of electric charge conservation. We apply Kirchhoff's current law we use convention that currents which flow to node are with sign "+" and currents which flow out from node are with sign "-".
Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) tell us that sum of voltages in specified mesh is equal to zero. Kirchhoff's voltage law came from the principle of energy conservation. Application of Kirchhoff's voltage law is following. In specified mesh we mark a direction of voltages circulation. When voltages in mesh has equal direction we give them sign "+" otherwise we give them sign "-".
Node voltage method is one of methods used for electrical network analysis. Node voltage method is based on Kirchhoff's current law. We can say that node voltage method does not see physical voltage sources. In node voltage method we have to transform all voltage sources to virtual current sources. Additional important rule of node voltage method is that we have to assume that one of node has electric potential equal to zero. On schematics we mark it by connecting symbol of ground to chosen node.
Mesh current method is one of basic method for solving electrical circuits. Mesh current method is one of method used for electrical network analysis. Mesh current method is based on Kirchhoff's voltage law. It means that this mesh current method sees only voltage sources. If in circuit is a current source we have to transform it to virtual voltage source.
Exercises in which total resistance of electrical circuits is calculated. In some exercises relation between resistance R[Ω] and conductance G[S] is applied → G=1/R. In DC electrical circuits analysis we often have to calculate its total resistance which is seen from power supply terminals. Knowledge about total resistance value is necessary to calculate value of current which flows through circuit. Value of main current which flows through circuit can be calculated with application of Ohm's law → I=U/R.
Calculating total impedance Z in AC circuits. In collection of examples you can find derivation of formulas for capacitive reactance and inductive reactance. Impedance is wider magnitude than resistance. Impedance has three components which are: resistance, capacitive reactance and inductive reactance. Impedance in general case is a vector. Components of impedance are geometric sum, because they also are vectors. We use complex numbers to calculate impedance and its components.
Example electrical circuits in which transient states are examined. In this series of examples differential equations and Laplace transformations are used. Formulas for charging and discharging currents during transient states of circuits with capacitors and inductors are possible to find. In previously considered examples it was assumed that states of electrical circuits were not transient. If an electrical circuit is examined during transient state then commutation laws have to be applied.
Collection of exercises which are about power P in electrical DC circuits. In DC circuits formula for power is quite simple because it is a multiply of voltage U and current I → P=U·I. Power in electrical DC circuits represents heat produced on resistance R or mechanical energy in electrical motors. Power is a measure how work W is changing in time → P=W/t. Unit of power P is Watt → [W]. Temporary power p is defined as p=dW/dt. From formula for temporary power p, a formula work is possible to designate → W=∫p·dt. Unit of work W is Joule [J]=[W·s].
Apparent power S is a geometric sum of active power P and reactive power Q. Active power P (real power) is a power which is possible to convert to mechanical work (mechanical energy) or heat. Reactive power Q is tied with energy transformations in reactive electrical parts like capacitor C or inductivity L. Reactive power Q cannot be converted to mechanical energy or heat. During calculations of power in electrical AC circuits complex numbers are applied. Components of power are represented by vectors on complex variable plane. Vectors of apparent power S, real power P and reactive power create power triangle. In electroenergetic transmission lines quantity of reactive power is minimized because reactive power causes increase of current amplitude. As a result which is related to reactive power transmission, loss on transmission lines resistance increase. Loss on transmission lines resistance Rt_l depends from current in square → ΔP=I2·Rt_l. Mentioned mechanism of loss explains why electrical energy is transferred on transmission lines by voltage with very high amplitude and current with low amplitude. Electrical energy producers demand from clients to retrieve very low quantity of reactive power. Maximum level of retrieved reactive power is described by minimum cosφ for basic harmonic frequency. Reactive power is possible to produce by client on its own but it has to be compensated.


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Attacking RSA exponentiation with fault injection
Filed under: Crypto,Embedded,Hardware,Network,Protocols,Security — Nate Lawson @ 10:25 am
A new paper, "Fault-Based Attack of RSA Authentication" (pdf) by Pellegrini et al, is making the rounds. The general idea is that an attacker can disrupt an RSA private key operation to cause an invalid signature to be returned, then use that result to extract the private key. If you're new to fault injection attacks on RSA, I previously wrote an intro that should help.
The main concept to grasp is that public key crypto is brittle. In the case of RSA's CRT operation, a single bit error in one multiplication result is enough to fully compromise your private key. We've known this since 1997. The solution is simple: validate every signature with the public key before returning it to the caller.
The authors noticed something curious. OpenSSL does verify signatures it generates before returning them, but if it detects a problem, it does not just return an error. It then tries again using a different exponentiation process, and then returns that signature without validating it.
Think about this for a moment. What conditions could cause an RSA private key operation to compute an invalid answer? An innocent possibility is cosmic radiation, bad RAM, etc. In this case, all computations should be considered unreliable and any retried operation should be checked very carefully. The other and more likely possibility is that the system is under attack by someone with physical proximity. In this case, OpenSSL should generate a very obvious log message and the operation should not be retried. If it is, the result should be checked very carefully.
For whatever reason, the OpenSSL programmers decided to retry with fixed-window exponentiation and trust that since there were no published fault attacks for it, they didn't have to validate its result. This is a foolhardy attitude — not something you want to see in your crypto library. There had been many other fault injection attacks against various components or implementation approaches for RSA, including right-to-left exponentiation. There was no reason to consider left-to-right exponentiation invulnerable to this kind of attack.
Fixed-window exponentiation is a form of sliding window exponentiation. This is just a table-based optimization, where a window (say, 3 bits wide) is moved across the exponent, computing the final result incrementally. While this may be resistant to some timing attacks (but not cache timing or branch prediction attacks), there is nothing that would prevent fault injection attacks.
Indeed, it turns out to be vulnerable. The authors generate a few thousand signatures with single bit-flips in some window of the signature. Then they compare the faulty signatures to a correct signature over the same message. They compute the value for that portion of the private exponent since there are only 2w possibilities for that location if w is the window size in bits. This is repeated until enough of the private key is known.
The method they used to create the faulty signatures was a bit artificial. They built a SPARC system on an FPGA running Linux and OpenSSL. They then decreased the power supply voltage until multiplies started to fail. Since multiplication logic is a relatively long chain, it is often one of the first things to fail. However, a more interesting hardware result would be to attempt this kind of attack on an actual server because FPGAs work differently than ASICs. It might require careful targeting of the right power pins on the CPU. Since power pins are numerous in modern systems, this may be more effective than only modulating the system power supply.
This was a nice attack but nothing earth-shattering. The only thing I was floored by (yet again), was the willingness of crypto implementers to perform unsafe operations in the face of an almost certain attack. Shame on OpenSSL.
I agree that the method used in this attack was a bit artificial, but it's also been used in a more realistic attack on a commercial ARM9 CPU (specifically the widely-used ARM926EJ-S) running Linux, see http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/130 (although as with the FPGA-CPU attack, they also disabled blinding and signature-verification in their attack).
Comment by Dave — March 14, 2010 @ 7:58 pm
Yeah, that's a slightly more realistic environment. It's crazy how close these papers were in timing (pun intended).
Comment by Nate Lawson — March 15, 2010 @ 7:16 pm
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Spotify would have been an easy choice for Microsoft, given the fact that it is the largest streaming music service in terms of paid users.
An update for the Groove Music app is scheduled for the next Patch Tuesday - to be deployed on October 9 - which prompts paying Groove Music Pass customers to move their music collections over to Spotify accounts.
Those who hold a Groove Music Pass subscription that extends beyond December 31 will be given a prorated refund or a Microsoft gift card for the remaining value. Microsoft will also begin recommending Windows users to try Spotify to stream music. The Groove application will keep on being ideal with downloaded buys and different other privately put away music, notes Engadget. It is one of the few cloud services by Microsoft, which is purely focused by the consumers. Microsoft will stop selling Groove Music passes soon and customers will be refunded after the specified date. Johnson provided instructions in his blog post, but essentially it involves launching the Groove app and clicking on a prompt to either log on to Spotify or create a new Spotify account.
All Groove Music Pass content will be unplayable. The software behemoth has announced that it's axing its Groove Music services (streaming, purchases and re-downloads) after December 31st, 2017.
Windows Insiders will be able to test this out with the next update, which is scheduled to roll out next week. There's also an FAQ with more details for users who have an annual subscription. There were sightings previous year of a "Groove Music Maker" application, which could be similar to Apple's Garage Band.
The shutdown of a minor streaming service wouldn't usually be our lead story, but what's interesting is Microsoft's new plans: a partnership with Spotify.
Spotify was only recently released on Xbox One and Windows 10 after being exclusive to PlayStation platforms for over two years.


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Q: URGENT: Can you please help decide the correct verb to be? Please leave the construction the same way - unless there is something seriously wrong with it - and please help decide the verb:
There IS much information to be reviewed and processed, and more information to be obtained, then many meetings to be made.
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There ARE much information to be reviewed and processed, and more information to be obtained, then many meetings to be made.
The confusion is not because of the uncountable noun 'information' but rather because the construction of the sentence should suggest:

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*There IS/ARE 1) much information to be reviewed and processed and 2) more information to be obtained then 3) many meetings to be made.

But since the flow of the sentence seems interrupted, I think 'is' the right verb to be, but not sure if this would be ok because the rest will be without a verb then. Again, the key is to keep the construction the same because it relays a specific message.
Thank you very much!

A: I'm a bit conflicted over the form the sentence takes as a whole, and would strongly suggest reformulating it:

There is much information to be reviewed and processed, and more information to be obtained; there are then many meetings to be made.

By doing so you avoid needing to use a single copula for every aspect of the sentence, and although largely subjective, I'd suggest it reads better as well.

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Q: Suspend ios application running in background I'm writing an app that sometimes needs to run in background ( something like a navigator, if navigation is active it should go on while if it's not it should be suspended ); how can I force force the application state after user clicks home ? ( suspended or executing in background )

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exit(0);

At the application delegate state, either the background one, the foreground or whichever is most suitable for your case.


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Cloudy skies early, then partly cloudy after midnight. Low 13F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph.
Residents who live in unincorporated territory, represented by the dark blue areas in this graphic, will not be able to vote in the upcoming West Lafayette elections because they do not technically live in the city.
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Students at several major complexes unable to vote in municipal election
By JORDAN SMITH Staff Reporter
Students who live in certain major apartment complexes serving Purdue will be unable to vote in the West Lafayette municipal election this November.
In an annexation attempt prior to the 2013 ordinance which incorporated Purdue into the city of West Lafayette, property owners of the land that holds The Cottages on Lindberg and Village West refused to become an official part of the city. Both apartments are located on Lindberg Road, about two miles north of the Purdue campus.
Residents of the area are currently living in unincorporated territory, which means they are regarded as citizens of the county but not the city. As such, their participation is prohibited in the election of West Lafayette government officials, the likes of which include the city judge, the city clerk, city councilors and the mayor. Renters won't be prohibited from casting votes during county, state or federal elections, as they'll be included in voting districts established on a broader scale.
Village West was constructed nearly two decades ago by a company called Mida Development. The Cottages were built around 2010 by Trinitas Ventures, a real estate development company that previously managed both properties. Trinitas CEO Loren King said the previous property owners were worried about either the cost or adequacy of the provision of city utilities, namely sanitation, which led to the property remaining a part of the county. He added that Trinitas no longer has any affiliation with either of the properties.
City Attorney Eric Burns, who manages West Lafayette's legal affairs and prepares city ordinances, said that owners of property being considered for annexation are often reluctant to pay additional taxes. By refusing to concede, the complexes avoided taxation at the municipal level.
Legal scholars define municipal annexation as the process by which a municipality can expand into surrounding territory by incorporating that territory into its legal boundaries. It's a strategy often pursued by rapidly growing cities seeking control over their suburbs. It can also stem from a demand for municipal services, such as sanitation and water, that arises in areas that are unincorporated.
"When you do annexations, you like to do them voluntarily," Burns said. "And when you do a voluntary annexation, you must have the consent, or at least the acquiescence, of the property owners."
Burns recalled that over 80% of the property owners being considered for annexation were willing to comply with the ordinance. A problem arose, however, when two refused to be incorporated into the city. The process for involuntary annexation is much more complicated because of the legal battles that can ensue. Burns mentioned a small township outside of Fort Wayne that mounted a resistance to annexation that spanned several years, with "lawsuits flying all over the place." He said the fiery response shifted the opinions of Indiana legislators to move toward reducing municipal power.
The city was unwilling to compromise its unwritten policy requiring the process to be consensual. But unanimous agreement is not necessary for the process to be legally voluntary.
Indiana state law allows for petitions to halt annexation if they're signed by at least 65% of property owners — or owners of 75% of the assessed land value — in the proposed territory. Neither of those requirements were met, but an obscure state law prevented the city from carrying out the process without consideration for the dissenting owners.
The width of the property "is too narrow to comply with the state statute for annexation and for it to be a part of the same annexation," Burns said. "That is a rule that is used to prevent cities from going out and capturing pieces of property remote from the city."
Burns said the area containing the two apartment complexes was not discussed during the more salient 2013 annexation because Purdue was the primary focus. City councilor Nick DeBoer, who was preparing to succeed his District 1 predecessor as discussions transpired, agreed the council was preoccupied with Purdue.
"Pulling the University in as quickly as possible, with the least amount of legal fights possible, in order to kick the State Street project off was the overarching goal that we were pursuing," DeBoer said.
Municipal elections in West Lafayette have historically been decided by thin margins, usually only several hundreds of votes. Data from Trinitas shows that The Cottages hold 745 rooms while Village West has 1,134. The 2013 Annexation was done in part to promote political representation for Purdue students, achieved through the creation of District 3. That district centers around residence halls on campus, where younger undergraduates are likely to live, but does not extend to off-campus housing alternatives.
The city council will redraw the political districts in 2020 because of a legal mandate requiring them to do so every 10 years, but annexation is an entirely separate process. The Cottages and Village West would not be incorporated into the city as a result of redistricting and Indiana state law requires property owners to initiate their own requests for annexation to occur. DeBoer said that since he assumed office in 2014, there have not been any new discussions of annexation among city councilors.
Purdue student and District 6 candidate Austin Bohlin was made aware of the issue but has not elevated it to be a major platform of his campaign. He did call the issue "troubling" and said he would like to pursue possible mechanisms for annexing the two complexes as a city councilor if he is triumphant in Tuesday's election.
Given that the area is comprised mostly of students, he added, "I'd imagine they'd want to have somebody who is in their same exact position represent them, but a good chunk of them can't even vote."
Current District 6 city councilor Norris Wang did not respond to request for comment.
Bohlin added that neither The Avenue North nor The Avenue South, another major set of apartment complexes designed to accommodate Purdue students, is incorporated into the city of West Lafayette. The Avenue North and South are split by Sagamore Parkway, which is about two miles north of Lindberg Road. During early voting Friday at Krach Leadership Center, a student resident of The Avenue North was turned away and prevented from casting a vote.
"I am a little bothered," said Dawson Reprogle, a freshman in the College of Engineering. "I do wish there was a little more information so I could have known that ahead of time."
Adjacent complexes, such as Blackbird Farms and The Quarters, are incorporated into the city and thus allow students the opportunity to participate in municipal elections. The Lodge on the Trail and The Ivy Towns and Flats are two additional neighboring properties incorporated into the city's sixth district. Their location on Cumberland Avenue is a mile north of Lindberg Road and therefore farther from the center of West Lafayette.
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Leading Financial Services Marketplace, IndianMoney.com Raises $3 M From SRI Capital, Others
Bangalore, India, January 29, 2018 –(PR.com)– IndianMoney.com has raised $3 Million from SRI Capital, a US-based early stage venture capital fund. Existing investors – Hyderabad Angels – and others also participated in this round.
IndianMoney.com has been a pioneer in serving hundreds of thousands of middle income people who are deprived of unbiased financial information and education. The company will use this new investment to augment its capacity to educate about 100,000 people every day. Currently, the company educates about 18,000 people every day. In the next 2-3 years, the company will ensure that its consumers get education, transactional guidance, ability to transact and custodian services in one place. The company plans to accomplish all these without watering down its core competency of being an unbiased support to the consumer.
C S Sudheer – CEO & Founder said, "Since inception the company has been a pioneer in empowering the common man with much needed financial education in easy to comprehend language. All you need to do is to just leave a missed call on our helpline no 022-6181-6111 and relax. We now employ people across length and breadth of the country and educate 18,000 people every day. We provide our consumers unbiased access to over 15,000 retail financial intermediaries."
There are estimated to be about 4 million retail financial intermediaries in India. IndianMoney.com, which runs Lead Market mobile application, empowers these financial intermediaries to distribute all financial products under one virtual roof. Lead Market is a mobile application which connects interested consumers and service providers. With this fund infusion, IndianMoney.com expects to be the largest financial services marketplace in India, connecting millions of consumers with over 100,000 financial intermediaries in the near future.
Sashi Reddi, Managing Partner of SRI Capital, states, "We are proud to back Sudheer who is a visionary in bringing millions of consumers, the financial literacy they need to survive and prosper in this new digital economy. Serving people who have never had the benefit of unbiased financial advice and education will finally enable over 200 million salaried employees and small businesses to participate in the new India."
About IndianMoney.com
Started in 2008 by Mr. C S Sudheer, the vision of the company is to create a financially literate India by providing free consultation to anyone looking for an expert opinion on matters related to personal finance. In the process, IndianMoney.com also provides this unique service of educating the consumers on how not to fall prey for unscrupulous practices in financial services industry. Further, it helps financial intermediaries get connected to educated and interested consumers of financial products on fingertips through 'Lead Market' mobile application.
It is backed by Vertexperts Consulting (Bangalore) and Hyderabad Angels (Hyderabad). It has accomplished investors like Mr. Ravindra Krishnappa (Founder of Erasmic Venture Fund) and Mr. Pradeep Mittal (Co-founder of Magna Infotech) on its board; and Mr. Shekhar Kirani (partner at Accel Partners), Mr. Ramanand Baliga (Ex-IBM India Director) and Srini Koppolu (Former MD at Microsoft Development Center, India) on its advisory panel. It also has banking industry veterans Mr. G Narayanan (Chairman of Vijaya Bank) and Mr. T V Rao (Former Director of EXIM Bank) on its advisory board.
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Why Modi Govt's Patience Ran Out On Finance Secretary Subhash Garg
Former Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg's days in North Block became numbered after the budget.
Puja Mehra
Updated: 26 Jul 2019, 12:17 PM IST
Former Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg's days in North Block became numbered as soon as it emerged that in pre-budget briefings to his political bosses, he had not dwelled sufficiently on the potential downside of issuing foreign currency-denominated sovereign debt. He had focussed chiefly on the positives.
Handed over charge of Economic Affairs today. Learnt so much in the Finance Ministry and Economic Affairs Dept. Will take charge in Power Ministry tomorrow. Have also applied for Voluntary Retirement from the IAS with effect from 31st October. Last tweet from this handle.
— Subhash Chandra Garg (@SecretaryDEA) July 25, 2019
The idea made it to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's July 5 speech in Parliament. Soon after which the government found itself pitted against the collective wisdom and counsel of former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governors and deputy governors. Regardless of profile and background, each one these well-respected economists advised against going down the path of raising sovereign debt in foreign currency, a desperate measure India has not pursued even at the peak of crises such as the one in 1991.
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The economic advisers in North Block also did not seek to provide the missing perspective on why, how and in what circumstances the proposal could end up spelling trouble for the economy, rather than proving to be a reliable source of low-cost borrowings for the central government.
Its full import finally became clear after New Delhi heard out RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on the matter.
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) then took the call that the question at hand was not whether or not sovereign debt should be raised in foreign currency but that the Department of Economic Affairs as a whole had failed to provide full information required by government to take decisions that have inter-generation implications and costs.
The drama would have been avoided all together, though. Garg was a key personality at the centre of the avoidable and unprecedented public spat between the government and the RBI over long standing policy differences that ultimately led to the resignations of a deputy governor, Viral Acharya, and a governor, Urjit Patel, of the RBI.
Extra Budget borrowings may shoot up in FY20
Subhash Chandra Garg's Career At A Glance
Garg, a 1983-batch IAS officer from Rajasthan cadre, took over as Economic Affairs Secretary in July 2017, succeeding Das, and was designated Finance Secretary in March this year after the retirement of Hasmukh Adhia.
On Wednesday, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a member of which is Home Minister Amit Shah, approved Garg's ouster from North Block. He was to move to the power ministry to replace Power Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla who is to succeed the Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba, and has reportedly resigned from service, preferring to opt for voluntary retirement, rather than move to the new position assigned to him
The rejig of senior bureaucrats saw portfolios of secretaries of as many as 12 departments reshuffled. The ACC has appointed 1985-batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer Atanu Chakraborty as Garg's replacement as Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs in Finance Ministry.
Garg's 24-month tenure in North Block is dotted with a series of policy positions that led to serious complications for economic policy formulation.
Garg's Fight With the RBI
In August 2018, he circulated a note reigniting a long-drawn battle between the RBI and the Finance Ministry on the central bank's cash reserves. The two sides have differed on the matter traditionally. Successive governments have negotiated those differences professionally and decorously even as a permanent solution has proved elusive.
Last year, those differences escalated to unprecedented levels when the Finance Ministry sent letters—on three matters where policy differences swiftly turned irreconcilable—to the RBI threatening to initiate the process for invoking section 7 of the RBI Act.
Section 7, dubbed the 'nuclear option', had never been invoked in the RBI's 83-year history until then. It empowers the ministry to issue written directions to the RBI to comply with its decisions.
In response, then Deputy Governor Acharya, with the approval of then Governor Patel, delivered a sharp speech defending the RBI's autonomy. A particular remark in the speech stoked a huge controversy: that the governments that do not respect their central bank's independence sooner or later incur the wrath of financial markets, ignite economic fire, and come to rue the day they undermined the regulatory institution.
Garg chose to post a retort on Twitter.
"Rupee trading at less than 73 to a dollar, Brent crude below $73 a barrel, markets up by over 4 per cent during the week and bond yields below 7.8 per cent. Wrath of the markets?," he tweeted, getting into an avoidable and unprecedented public spat with the RBI.
Rupee trading at less than 73 to a dollar, Brent crude below $73 a barrel, markets up by over 4% during the week and bond yields below 7.8%. Wrath of the markets?
— Subhash Chandra Garg (@SecretaryDEA) November 2, 2018
Continuance of Disagreements and Flawed Policy Recommendations
The cross-fire did not go down well on either side. Garg was now clearly one of the key personalities that had a role in the souring of relations. But the government did not act against him.
He did not back down still and got into fresh disagreements with members of an RBI panel appointed to sort out one of the three issues over which the government had sought to initiate the Section 7 process: the formula on basis of which the central bank's accumulated economic capital could be shared with New Delhi to the satisfaction of both sides.
Under pressure to find resources to finance the government's spending, at a time tax collections are not growing quickly enough, Garg demanded the transfer of the surplus at one go.
The other members pushed instalments. To press his point, he did not attend a meeting of the panel and wrote a strong dissent note to go with the report of this committee headed by former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan.
Even as the matter was playing out, and the money did not become available in time for making the July 5 budget, another of Garg's ideas for raising non-tax revenues to compensate for the shortfall in tax collections threatened to stir relations with yet another regulator. Sebi Chairman Ajay Tyagi writing to the finance ministry, requisitioned a review of the Budget proposal seeking transfer of 75 per cent of the market regulator's surplus funds to the central government.
The PMO's patience finally broke when it emerged that the budget's estimates for tax revenue had been pegged much in excess of the provisional actuals reported by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) figures, drawing charges from the Opposition of fudging, and forcing the unenviable task of defending the budget estimates in Parliament on Sitharaman.
The order transferring Garg, as part of the overall bureaucratic reshuffle, was issued a day after Parliament approved the budget.
(Puja Mehra is a Delhi-based journalist. Her first book, The Lost Decade (2008-18): How India's Growth Story Devolved Into Growth Without a Story, has been published by Penguin Random House. This is an opinion piece and the views expressed above are the author's own. The Quintneither endorses nor is responsible for the same.)
Published: 25 Jul 2019, 4:52 PM IST


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Arrgh! it's going on and on in my head now.
You're to blame. I don't think I'm going to be able to think of the original without remembering this for a while now.
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Standard dvou velmocí, či zásada dvou přídí, (anglicky: Two Power Standard) byla koncepce britské námořní politiky z druhé poloviny 19. století.

Smysl koncepce
Od doby bitvy u Trafalgaru britská námořní politika  zastávala koncepci disponovat alespoň o jednu třetinu větší silou, než její největší  rival na mořích a oceánech. Tato strategie byla opuštěna v předvečer 19. století, kdy  došlo v britském parlamentu k přijetí Zákona o námořní obraně (1889), předloženého vládou lorda Salisburyho, který zaručoval navýšení rozpočtu pro financování britského královského námořnictva o 20 miliónů liber ročně po další čtyři léta. Cílem tohoto kroku byl nově formulovaný tzv. standard dvou velmocí, podle kterého měla Velká Británie disponovat významnou a trvalou převahou na mořích a oceánech světa – tedy měla mít takovou moc, aby její úderná síla byla větší než jakou mohou vyvinout jakékoli další dvě země dohromady (tehdy to bylo vztaženo k námořní síle druhé a třetí  největší velmoci světa – Francii a Rusku.)

Jednalo se vůbec o největší  zvýšení počtu námořní síly v mírové době. Královské námořnictvo získalo deset nových bitevních lodí (predreadnoughtů), třicet osm křižníků, osmnáct torpédoborců a čtyři rychlé dělové čluny.

Opuštění koncepce

Počátkem 20. století – s příchodem HMS Dreadnought v roce 1906, restartem námořního zbrojení a vzestupem císařského Německa – se tento britský standard ukázal jako nereálný a dále neudržitelný. Definitivní konec této politiky přišel v roce 1912, kdy britské královské námořnictvo iniciovalo novou koncepci mít ve svém držení nejméně o 60% více bitevních lodí typu dreadnought než jakákoli jiná flota světa.

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Q: surpress output of telnet in bash I'm telnetting to a machine via a bash script. Everything works ok except that the output of the telnet session is displayed on the screen. I'd like to know how to suppress this. I can't seem to find the right place to put /dev/null in.
I don't want to run script.sh > /dev/null as I need to see other output from it.
expect <<EOF
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Connected to 0.0.0.0.\r
Escape character is '^\]'.\r
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A: You can use netcat (nc) instead of telnet. Netcat doesn't have the extra output that telnet displays.


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I had a wonderful time at the Unofficial Histories conference-thank you for having me!
I have had a wonderful weekend of connecting and reconnecting with histories and people.
I would just like to thank you and the organisers for an interesting day in Manchester.
What an amazing weekend. Reaffirmed my love of History. And Manchester.
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Great day at Unofficial Histories in Manchester. Heard some absolutely fascinating papers.
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thank you again for organising another successful unofficial histories conference. I went away with much to think about – always a good thing!
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Q: Gradle Groovy property logical results appear wrong? I have this debug code in root/build.gradle:
task copyJenkinsIdea(type: Copy) {
    onlyIf {
        project.hasProperty("isJenkins")
    }
    doLast {
        println "Do Jenkins-specific setup"
        println "${project.hasProperty("isJenkins")} && ${isJenkins} = ${(project.hasProperty("isJenkins") && isJenkins)}"
        println "${project.hasProperty("isJenkins")} && ${project.isJenkins} = ${(project.hasProperty("isJenkins") && project.isJenkins)}"
        println "true && false = ${(true && false)}"
    }
        from ".idea/Jenkins"
        into ".idea"

}

I run it with this command:
./gradlew --console=verbose -PisJenkins=false assembleDebug

Task dependency in root/app/build.gradle
preBuild.dependsOn(":copyJenkinsIdea")

And it gives me this output:
> Configure project :app
[snip]

> Task :copyJenkinsIdea
Do Jenkins-specific setup
true && false = true
true && false = true
true && false = false

The property is not present in the gradle.properties file.
I've got to be missing something, because this is impossible.

A: Turns out, Groovy can't know that the property being passed in is a boolean.
It's doing
class java.lang.Boolean && class java.lang.String
true && "false"

Which is, in fact, true.


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