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NSW Metropolitan Police, NSW Police, NSW Police Department and NSW Police Service badge history. Note: The State arms, seal and name "New South Wales (N.S.W) Police Force" are Copyright © State of New South Wales, Australia.
HRH "The Queen's Crown" ("Saint Edward's Crown") is Copyright © The Royal Household and its use granted solely by Royal Warrant.
T he first official badge of the New South Wales Police Force:
This is the beautiful, intricately engraved, New South Wales Police, "roundel" helmet plate c 1870. The badge is "shellbacked" and fully die struck. * N.S.W. Police first and possibly Australia's oldest and rarest "custom made" helmet plate / Police badge. Known to be issued to "sworn" NSW Police on duty, as the Governor's Mounted Escort. Only two of the original examples are thought to have survived. One is on display at the Justice and Police Museum in The Rocks, Sydney.
* See below about replicas.
Of note: There may have been another NEW SOUTH WALES MOUNTED POLICE plate, parts of which were excavated at the Conservatorium of Music site. It was noted and photographed by Mike NEVILLE of Ozbadge in 2003, during a visit to the site and seems to have a classic "Maltese Cross" shape. It is now thought to possibly be a Cross-belt badge. More to come.
Queen Victoria Crown "VR" cypher NSW Police Helmet plate. Circa 1880.
Most likely the first helmet plate style issued and worn by both the "mounted" and the "foot" police; on a blue helmet, with white "pugaree", for the mounted police and on a plain white helmet for the foot police. The design came from a London "Metropolitan Police" helmet plate, issued at around the same time. They were made and issued in "blackened" brass for "Night Duty"; which would normally wear off with use (and unofficial polishing}. This "Sterling Silver" and later "white metal" plate (right) is therefore * One of the Rarest.; as they were only issued to the Inspector General and a select group of about 10 Senior Officers. Although none are hallmarked, due to their thinness, the maker of the earlier Queen Victoria (VR) and Edward 7th (EVII R) NSW Police Helmet plates was JR Gaunt and Son, Birmingham, UK. The George 5th (GvR) and likely Edward 8th (EVIIII R) plates were probably made locally in Australia; notice the incorrect use of the "Queen Victoria" style Crown on these later two plates. which should have had the "King's" crown and also note the inaccurate style of cyphers that were used on these plates.
* N.B: Some fully die struck replicas were made by Ozbadge, under NSW Police licence in 2005. These were made slightly smaller than the originals. A small "Oz" plate / "bug" is soldered on the back near the crown for authenticity. Old and apparently, unauthorized, "cast" filled, replicas still exist.
* FYI. The original plates were fully die struck from almost "paper thin" metal and weigh just under 20 grams (0.7 ounce). The QVC versions should be 100mm in height.
NSW Police, King Edward 7th, King's Crown "EVII R" cypher, helmet plate. Issued c1901 to 1910. Maker: J.R. Gaunt and Sons, Ltd. London.
Extremely Rare.
During the late 1800's, Commissioned Officers wore many variations of a QVC "style bullion crown" on their kepis.
The NSW Police "Silver" "1915" Cap Badge. First version. A small badge based on the "helmet plate" style, designed for use with the newly issued, WW1, military style, forage caps. Issued for a very short time during 1915/16 and then replaced by the "skeleton" series; probably due its small size and maybe also because of its "illegal" use of the Royal Garter; which surrounds the NSW Coat of Arms. It is made of un hallmarked silver and is "shellbacked" i.e., fully "die struck".
.* One of the Rarest.
NSW Police, King's Crown, Commissioner's or Senior Commissioned Officer's cap badge; with the very large padded crown. Hand made. Hallmarked with the makers initials, "SILVER" and "AMOR".
c 1916 * One of the Rarest.
NSW Police Queen's Crown Commissioner's or Senior Commissioned Officer's chromed cap badge; with the large, padded crown. Hand made. c 1953 - 1972. Very Rare. Versions were made in Sterling Silver and are Extremely Rare.
NSW Police "skeleton" style reflective badge decal for motorcycle helmets and rescue squad helmets. Made by 3M © . C 1954 - 1972. Rare.
The all new, 1969, NSW Police Force , cap badge.
This is the original "mock-up" of the current style of NSW Police badge.
Although the new insignia or logo was designed and adopted for various official uses in 1959, the cap badge was not designed until 1969. This new insignia was designed by Norman A. MERCHANT (D.I.) originally for use on "table name cards" for the 1959 Commissioner's Conference. This original mock up of the badge was purchased at the AMOR Archives auction. It is built upon an old QC skeleton badge. Notice a suggested badge name change to NSW Police "Department". Apparently, only two original mockups were ever made; one is in a private collectors hands, the other with the NSW Police.
* One of the Rarest.
NSW Parking Police and Patrol.
The NSW "Parking Police" were formed in 1945 as "Special Constables" of the NSW Police "Department"; not the NSW Police "Force", who were "sworn police".
The "Parking Police" designation was changed to NSW Parking "Patrol" in 1985. This then became an organisation of "unsworn", civilian employees and was totally disbanded and made defunct in 2003; with local councils assuming their duties.
The NSW Police "Department" and the NSW Police "Force" were amalgamated in 1990.
The King's Crown skelton style badges are Very Rare, the Queen's Crown Parking Police skeleton badges are Rare and the "Parking Patrol Officer" badge is Rare.
The KC badges are normally hallmarked and made of a light, alloy metal.
BE AWARE of replicas.
NSW Parking Patrol officer cap badge. Disbanded in 2003. Scarce
Be AWARE of replicas; flat badges with screw mountings.
Early "carte de visite" photograph of Sergeant Charles Dalton of the N.S.W. Police Governor's Escort in full ceremonial uniform (based on the 8th Hussar's uniform). "Curly Brim" style helmet with horse hair "plume" and N.S.W. Police "roundel" helmet plate on it, next to him. Photograph by William Freeman. c 1876.
* This is probably the earliest known photo of any NSW Police officer in uniform. Ozbadge thanks Alan Davies and the State Library of New South Wales. © Ozbadge.
NSW Police, King George 5th, "GvR" style cypher, helmet plate issued from c1911 and may have been worn by some officers up to 1935 (it was a common practice in those days, for some senior officers to continue to wear older, outdated style plates and badges, to denote seniority). Probably made locally in Australia. Note the incorrect use of the "Queen Victoria" crown and inaccurate cypher on this original issued plate. Extremely Rare.
The NSW Police "1915" Cap Badge; the "voided" 2nd version, with triangular lugs. The "voiding" was an attempt to make it stand out more than the original (see left). A small, unhallmarked silver badge designed for use with the newly issued, WW1, military style forage caps during 1915/16. 2nd version. Issued for a very short time in 1915 and then replaced by the "skeleton" series; probably due to its small size but maybe also because of its "illegal" use of the Royal Garter, which surrounds the NSW Coat of Arms. It is a fully die struck badge.
The NSW Police, King's Crown, "Commissioned Officer's" cap badge. c 1916. Each badge was diestruck and then each letter was cut out by hand with a jewellers saw; after the initial stamping. Early, Extremely Rare versions were made of solid, "Sterling Silver". Most of these were hallmarked by Amor and held onto by senior officers to denote their "seniority", as only "white metal" versions were issued from c 1926; now Very Rare. From the mid 1930's to c1954, Rare "chrome plated" versions (as above) were issued. *A one of a kind, "Gold plated" version was made for Commmissioner Scott (1948-1952).
NSW Police Queen's crown chromed "Officer's" Cap badge.
Each letter was cut out and finished by hand with a jewellers saw after it was pressed. Very Rare. c 1953-1972.
NSW Police "skelton" style Cadet chromed cap badge. c 1959-1972. Rare. The NSW Police cadets were an elite corp formed in 1933 by Superintendent W.J.McKay (who became Commissioner McKay in 1935). Pre 1960, a Very Rare "skeleton style" set, consisting of a voided "POLICE" and a "CADET" badge, were worn on opposing lapels (instead of numbers). In the late 1960's, the Scarce oval shaped, black enamel and chrome "Police Cadet" epaulette badges (pair) were issued.
N.S.W. Police Force.
The "Bishop made" cap badge.
Introduced: circa 1970.
This was the first, issued, version (of now around 18 updated versions) of the current metal, cap and ID badge; issued by the NSW Police Force. Unfortunately, this first issue looks like it may have been "hand painted" on a pewter style metal and had thin, wire type lugs; it is now considered an Extremely Rare badge. There were another 2 Very Rare versions of these "W.Bishop" made series of cap badges, before the contract was returned to the badge maker "Amor" (Sydney) in 1971, The designer of the badge was apparently, SGT. Norman A. MERCHANT' (later an Inspector of the then Scientific Branch) and well known to the author, who originally designed the badge as a logo for table "name cards", under direction of Commissioner DELANEY, for the 1956 "Commissioner's Conference" ; and who apparently wanted a more impressive NSW Police Department "logo" to be used. The "second" issued version of the "Bishop" made badge still looked "hand painted", but was made of a better looking "chromed" type metal and had thicker "lugs", The "third version" used, what looks like, "hard - fired enamel" and also looked the "quality" of the current style badge. There was also an early badge made around this time with the word "Department"; replacing or co-existing with the "Force" badge.
In c1971, the contract was returned to the Sydney badge maker, "Amor", (W.J.Amor Pty.Ltd, aka Amor-Sanders until 1996), who began making their own version of the "curved" cap badge and also started making the first "flat", ID wallet badge, to be used with the NSW Police Force photographic "Warrant Card" . These ID badges featured unique, 3 screw, wallet fittings and were fitted over plastic, colour coded rank backings. These earlier badges, by the original "Amor" badge maker, are now Rare badges. In 1990, the word "FORCE" was removed from all badges and all insignia; by order of Commissioner AVERY.
Other makers of this style of badge, in the previous "Force" and the now obsolete "Police" only, versions over the years, have included: Swann & Hudson, Cash's and currently, G.A. (Gustav?) Miller's Sydney; who also curiously seem to hold the famous, STOKES BADGES (MELB.) and PERFECTION trade names (under Custom Badges & Medals PTY LTD).
There was also an Extremely Rare, and very slightly curved, "Pipe Band" version with three screw lugs and hand numbered, made by AMOR; specifically designed and made from a separate die, for the Glengarry cap. There is also an Extremely Rare "mistake" version, with black emamel "fill" (instead of red) within the N.S.W. State "badge" emblem on an an issued "Force" badge; made by the original "Amor" (Sydney).
UPDATES FOR THIS BADGE:
i) In 2002, all new "NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE" cap and ID badges, made by GA (Gustav) Miller's Sydney, were "serial numbered" on the reverse.
ii) Under the direction of Commissioner K.E. Moroney AO APM, the NSW Police reverted to the name "NSW Police FORCE" for use on all insignia; from February 1st, 2007.
iii) A slightly revised and elongated NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE FORCE cap and ID badge were introduced in 2008; made by GA Miller's Sydney and "serial numbered" on the back.
iv) A prototype, "gold", badge (5) was made in 2010 for evaluation by the NSW Police Force "State Crime Command", intended for use by DETECTIVES, but has not yet been approved or issued. Apparently, an unauthorised fake or replica (40) of a "gold", Detective type badge has also been made, but with incorrect, corporate design, "deviations" and a lighter blue enamel. These badges may be numbered on the back (0001-0040?) and are not maker marked. Email: fake@ozbadge.com; if you require any further information or confirmation.
v) In June 2011, a shiny gold, N.S.W. "Special Constable", ID badge was apparently issued to some NSWPF "Security" personnel. It was apparently "recalled" just two weeks later; due to NSWPF "protocol" disapproving of it.
VI) In 2020, a new DETECTIVE ID badge in a fitted, leather holder was issued by NSW POLICE FORCE. Also in a plain clothes officer (PCO) version. See: Ozbadge Studio.
VII) An Official, NSW POLICE FORCE DETECTIVE badge, in a RETIRED version was awarded to qualified retirees in January, 2022. This was the first gold badge issued, using the current insignia. See more from Ozbadge.
NSW Police Force Pilots Wings. Issued. c 1979. Rare.
(For the Police "Wings" page just click here!)
Inspector General E.C. Day c 1911.
NSW Police, Edward 8th, "EVIII R" style cypher Helmet plate. Edward 8th ruled for only one year in 1936 and abdicated, before being crowned. Probably made locally in Australia. Extremely Rare.
Note the use of the incorrect, "Queen Victoria" type crown and also the inaccurate cypher. Was this an earlier, King Edward 7th (c1901) plate, that was "withdrawn", because of the inaccurate cypher and "Queen Victoria" crown? If so, why would the exact, same mistakes be made on a "later" GvR (c1911) plate (left)? Issued, but not widely, or for long.
A plaque mounted, untrimmed, "pressing" of the NSW Police "1915" Cap Badge. A small badge based on the "helmet plate" style designed for use with the newly issued, WW1, military style, forage caps. Issued for a short time and then replaced by the skelton badges. It was die struck from un hallmarked silver. and used as an ID badge by Investigations and Intelligence. *One of the Rarest.>
The NSW Police King's Crown Cap badge. Known as the "skeleton" badge or "anchor" badge was introduced in c 1916. The earlier badges were stamped from SOLID BRASS and "nickel plated" and were introduced as a cap badge only. They were also utilised as a helmet badge in later years. After the mid 1930's, they were chrome plated. The cap badge has two lugs; the helmet badge has three. Most were made by AMOR (Sydney); some were made by K.G. Luke (Melb.) and were hallmarked. Scarce. c 1916 - 1954.
Some officer's continued to wear these badges after to 1952 to denote their "seniority". Note: The original badges were NOT known to be marked "AMOR" and should have a rectangular "brace bar" on the back; so be aware of "replicas". Rumour has it that the "patee and orb" above the crown was removed to denote membership of the "Freemonsary".
NSW Police Queen's Crown "skeleton" chrome plated Cap or Helmet badge. Scarce. The cap badge has two lugs with brace bar; the helmet badge has three lugs and a brace bar. c 1953-1972. Note: Be aware of replicas.
An oval shaped, black enamel and chrome "NSW Police" epaulette badge (pair) was also issued. Also Scarce.
NSW Police "skeleton" style Band cap badge. These badges are hand painted enamel on a bare, brass metal base. c 1955-1972. Very Rare.
The NSW Police "Junior Trainee" even had a cap badge. There were only about 18 uniformed "Trainees" in the short time this badge was issued and only 30 badges struck by the Department. Extremely Rare. c1975.
More recently, this style of cap badge and/or ID badge has been used in a "Student Police Officer" version, a "NSW Police Security Officer" version, a "NSW Transit Police" version, a green enameled " Parking Patrol Officer" version (see below left) and various NSW Government agencies (using the NSW State Government "Coat of Arms" in the centre); such as Fisheries and Agriculture Inspectors.
These later, but now mostly obsolete versions, are considered Scarce. There are also current, "NSW Police / Force Special Constable" cap/hat versions and flat ID wallet version; the later apparently made by Miller's and normally serial numbered on the back of the badges (not shown).
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Covid-19: J&K records 17339 positive cases; 326 deaths in August
Fresh 535 cases take tally in UT to 37,698
Srinagar: The month of August proved to be the deadliest month on the Covid-19 front so far as 17339 COVID positive cases and 326 deaths were recorded in the Union Territory of J&K during past 31 days.
As per the official data, in the first 115 days (from March 08-June 30) 101 Covid-19 related deaths were witnessed in Jammu and Kashmir including 89 from Kashmir division and 12 from Jammu division, news agency KNO reported.
From July 01 to 31st of July, J&K recorded 276 Covid-19 deaths. As per the official data, in the month of August, 326 deaths including 286 from Kashmir division and 40 from Jammu division were reported.
The data, as per KNO reveals that 17,339 new positive cases were reported from J&K in month of August including 13,002 from Kashmir division and 4,337 from Jammu division, so the share of positive cases in Kashmir division is 74.98 percent while that of Jammu is 25.02 percent.
The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in India was reported on 30 January 2020. Slowly, the pandemic spread to various states and union territories including Jammu & Kashmir.
Two suspected cases with high virus load were detected and isolated on 4 March in Government Medical College, Jammu. One of them became the first confirmed positive case on 09 March, 2020. Both individuals had a travel history to Iran.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir on Monday recorded 535 new cases of coronavirus, taking the total number of infected persons to 37,698, officials said.
They said among the new cases, 245 were from the Jammu region while 290 were from the Kashmir valley.
Jammu district reported the highest number of 139 new cases, followed by 90 in Srinagar district, the officials said.
There are 7,980 active cases of the coronavirus disease in the UT at present while 29,015 patients have recovered so far, they said.
In the meantime, a 25-year-old youth was among eight more persons who died due to covid-19 in Jammu and Kashmir since overnight, taking the fatality count to 705, officials said on Monday.
Among the victims, official sources told GNS, four were from Jammu division and as many from Kashmir Valley.
A 46-year-old woman from Bakshi Nagar Jammu, at present Raj Pura Magotrian, died a day after she was admitted to the Government Medical College hospital Jammu.
The doctors said a 65-year-old woman from Gangyal Jammu who was admitted on August 28 died at GMC hospital Jammu.
A 45-year-old woman from sector no. 7 Upper Ploura Janipur Jammu who was suffering from "hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus with bilateral infilterates" died at 8.10 a.m. today at the hospital, the doctors said.
A 38-year-old man from Mir Pur Khour Jammu died 13 days after he was admitted to the hospital with "Type 2 diabetes mellitus, acute on CKD, pleural effusion pyrexia.with covid positive.
Official sources told GNS that a 25-year-old porter from Macchil Kupwara died at army hospital where he had a surgery some days back. He had tested positive subsequently, they said.
Late last night, they said, an elderly person from Kralgund area of the district died at SMHS hospital here where he was admitted.
A 65-year-old from Baghi Sundar Bala Chattabal died four days after being admitted to SMHS hospital with "HTN and COPD," they added.
With these deaths, officials said, 705 people have succumbed to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir so far. Among them, they said, 638 are from the Valley while 67 others are from Jammu division.

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RH023 Railways in the UK and Overseas 1893
NEW JANUARY 2014. In 1893 Cassell's published a book by J. Pearson Pattinson entitled British Railways. His aim was to compare the passengers' experience of railways at that date in the UK with those overseas - especially in France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Italy and the USA.
The book began with a general comparison in terms of train speeds, punctuality, ticket costs, the carriages provided for the different classes of traveller and matters of safety. This file contains nine pages comprising a selection of extracts from that, judged to be particularly interesting and informative.
The rest of the book described the situation on the main British companies individually, devoting a chapter to each. This file includes the chapter on the Great Eastern Railway and a page on the London Tilbury and Southend line, whose punctuality was rated as excellent. Two sample trips on each are given in tabular form, listing scheduled and actual times.
The text from the book is unaltered, but has been put into more modern font and is fully word-searchable.
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#include "ProceduralStableHeaders.h"
#include "Primitives.h"
#include "Procedural.h"

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void Sample_Primitives::createScene(void)
{
	// Generates every type of primitive
	Procedural::PlaneGenerator().setNumSegX(20).setNumSegY(20).setSizeX(150).setSizeY(150).setUTile(5.0).setVTile(5.0).realizeMesh("planeMesh");
	putMesh2("planeMesh");
	Procedural::SphereGenerator().setRadius(2.f).setUTile(5.).setVTile(5.).realizeMesh("sphereMesh");
	putMesh("sphereMesh", Vector3(0,10,0));
	Procedural::CylinderGenerator().setHeight(3.f).setRadius(1.f).setUTile(3.).realizeMesh("cylinderMesh");
	putMesh("cylinderMesh", Vector3(10,10,0));
	Procedural::TorusGenerator().setRadius(3.f).setSectionRadius(1.f).setUTile(10.).setVTile(5.).realizeMesh("torusMesh");
	putMesh("torusMesh", Vector3(-10,10,0));
	Procedural::ConeGenerator().setRadius(2.f).setHeight(3.f).setNumSegBase(36).setNumSegHeight(2).setUTile(3.).realizeMesh("coneMesh");
	putMesh("coneMesh", Vector3(0,10,-10));
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	Procedural::BoxGenerator().setSizeX(2.0).setSizeY(4.f).setSizeZ(6.f).realizeMesh("boxMesh");
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	putMesh("icoSphereMesh", Vector3(10,10,10));
	Procedural::RoundedBoxGenerator().setSizeX(1.f).setSizeY(5.f).setSizeZ(5.f).setChamferSize(1.f).realizeMesh("roundedBoxMesh");
	putMesh("roundedBoxMesh", Vector3(20,10,10));
	Procedural::SpringGenerator().setNumSegCircle(32).setNumSegPath(30).realizeMesh("springMesh");
	putMesh("springMesh", Vector3(20,10,0));
}
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void Sample_Primitives::createCamera(void)
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}
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bool Sample_Primitives::frameStarted(const FrameEvent& evt)
{
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	movingLight->getParentSceneNode()->setPosition(mCamera->getPosition());
#endif
	return true;
}
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#endif

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extern "C" {
#endif

#if OGRE_PLATFORM == OGRE_PLATFORM_WIN32
	INT WINAPI WinMain( HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE, LPSTR strCmdLine, INT )
#else
	int main(int argc, char* argv[])
#endif
	{
		// Create application object
		Sample_Primitives app;

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		{
			app.go();
		}
		catch ( Ogre::Exception& e )
		{
#if OGRE_PLATFORM == OGRE_PLATFORM_WIN32
			MessageBox( NULL, e.getFullDescription().c_str(), "An exception has occured!", MB_OK | MB_ICONERROR | MB_TASKMODAL);
#else
			std::cerr << "An exception has occured: " <<
			          e.getFullDescription().c_str() << std::endl;
#endif
		}

		return 0;
	}

#ifdef __cplusplus
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Čevica (v starejših virih Čevice, ) je nekdanja vas v zahodni Sloveniji v Občini Logatec. Sedaj je del mesta Logatca. Leži znotraj tradicionalne dežele Notranjske in je danes vključena v Osrednjeslovensko statistično regijo.

Geografija
Čevica leži v središču Logaške kotline. Na jugu meji na Brod–Logatec, na vzhodu pa na Dolenji Logatec in z njima tvori neprekinjeno somestje. Severno od naselja se nahaja Pusto polje z njivami in travniki na prodnatih tleh.

Zgodovina

Vas je leta 1874 zgorela v požaru. Med prvo svetovno vojno so ruski vojni ujetniki pod hribom Naklo izkopali predor za železniško progo od Logatca do Črnega Vrha. Proga je služila za dostavo materiala na soško fronto. Predor je med drugo svetovno vojno služil kot bombno zaklonišče.

Med drugo svetovno vojno je 24. februarja 1944 v Kotlicah strmoglavil ameriški bombnik B-24 Liberator z imenom Double Trouble, gozdnatem območju severno od Čevice, blizu vznožja hriba Sleme (578 mnm). Bombnik je bil na poti na bombardiranje tovarn v Regensburgu, vendar so letalo na poti napadla nemška lovska letala, to je zagorelo. Pet članov posadke se je rešilo, postali so vojni ujetniki. Preostanek posadke – štirje strelci in pilot Edwin H. Pries (1918–1944) – so bili ubit v prvem napadu in strmoglavljenju. Ostanke bombnika in trupla njegove posadke so domačini izropali, mrtve pa pokopali v Dolenjem Logatcu. Njihovi posmrtni ostanki so bili najprej prekopani v Beogradu leta 1946, nato pa leta 1949 v Italiji in ZDA. Leta 2014 je bilo na kraju nesreče postavljeno obeležje.

Čevica je imela leta 1880 43 hiš in 326 prebivalcev, leta 1900 50 hiš in 332 prebivalcev, leta 1931 pa 416 (v 64 hišah). Čevica je bila leta 1972 priključena Logatcu in s tem končala svoj obstoj kot ločeno naselje.

Cerkev

Cerkev na Čevici je posvečena svetemu Jožefu. Zgrajena je bila v prvi polovici 16. stoletja, v njej pa je freska Marijinega kronanja iz 18. stoletja Franca Ksaverja Oblaka.

Tolazzijeva štirna
Tolazzijeva štirna ('pipa', 'vodnjak') je bila zgrajena leta 1883 po naročilu vaškega trgovca Tomà Tollazzija. Zajetje vode polni izvirska voda, saj je Logatec vodovod dobil šele 14 let kasneje. Po arhitekturni in umetniški zasnovi je edinstven primer med vodnjaki in fontanami v Logatcu. Oblikovalski koncept temelji na podobnih delih v Furlaniji, ki izražajo kulturne, zgodovinske, tehnične, arhitekturne, umetniške in krajinske vrednote. Tollazzijev vodnjak je bil v drugi polovici leta 2008 razglašen za spomenik lokalnega pomena. Leta 2009 jo je obnovila Občina Logatec z lastnimi sredstvi, sredstvi Ministrstva za kmetijstvo, gozdarstvo in prehrano ter sredstvi Heliosovega sklada za ohranjanje čistih slovenskih voda. Vsako leto na kresni večer (24. junija) poleg vodnjaka poteka etnološko-glasbena prireditev Večer pri vodnjaku.

Sklici

Zunanje povezave

 Čevica na Geopedii

Opuščena naselja v Sloveniji
Naselja Občine Logatec
Koordinate v Wikipodatkih
Ukinitve leta 1972

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Home Business South African Govt Wants To Sell Africa's Largest Weapons Manufacturer To The...
South African Govt Wants To Sell Africa's Largest Weapons Manufacturer To The Arabs
Denel is the largest and most sophisticated weapons manufacturer on the African continent.
AFRICANGLOBE – South African weapons manufacturer Denel has a problem as it fights to survive. Its potential saviour is Saudi Arabia, now drawing fierce criticism following the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
But after being mismanaged for years and tainted by a far-reaching influence-peddling scandal, state-owned Denel now needs the kind of help that the deep-pocketed Saudis can provide.
Reuters analysed five years of South African arms export data, spoke to former and current Denel employees and obtained internal Denel presentations on plans to rescue the company.
What emerged is that Saudi Arabia and its allies account for almost half of South Africa's recent arms exports and a significant portion of future orders.
So rejecting Riyadh's $1 billion offer could severely hamper efforts to save Denel, which relies on foreign sales for more than 60 percent of its revenue.
Saudi Arabia is seeking a broad partnership with Denel that would include acquisition of the company's minority stake in a joint venture with Germany's Rheinmetall.
The Saudis – on a drive to build a domestic arms industry as traditional suppliers worry about its human rights record – are keen to close the deal by the end of next month. A source with knowledge of its offer said the kingdom could take its business elsewhere if that does not happen.
Some Denel employees are also keen on a tie-up, seeing it as the only way to rescue the firm, which is struggling to pay salaries. But some South African officials are concerned about doing business with Saudi Arabia.
"Denel depends on the deal. The entire industry depends on the deal," said Helmoed Heitman, a defence analyst. "I think it's 50/50. The pragmatists want to go in, but the Khashoggi thing is bad PR."
With President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ruling African National Congress facing an election next year, the deal promises to become a political issue.
South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, says the Saudi offer should be rejected.
Denel also manufactures the Rooivalk attack helicopter.
"Putting our state defence firm at the disposal of a murderous despot would make the whole nation complicit in the human rights atrocities of the regime of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman," said DA lawmaker Stevens Mokgalapa.
"That there are negotiations to consider this at all is an indictment of the approach of the Ramaphosa government to international human rights violations."
Saudi Arabia denies that the crown prince ordered Khashoggi's killing.
Denel owes its existence to South Africa's apartheid past.
Its direct forebear, Armscor, was forced to produce nearly all of its own defence and security hardware in response to sanctions on the apartheid government.
It's that expertise that is now so attractive to Saudi Arabia as it seeks to build its own industry, Andreas Schwer, head of the Saudi state defence company, SAMI, told reporters.
"South Africa is very integrated in their capabilities because they had to become quite independent," he said last month. "We believe South Africa can offer us more than just products. They can help us on this journey."
Denel – formed in 1992 – only started to turn a regular profit from 2011 after being restructured several times. But its financial position remained weak as it used profits from some divisions to subsidise others.
In 2016 senior management became embroiled in a corruption scandal involving friends of former president Jacob Zuma, the Gupta brothers. In response, banks pulled lending. The company recorded a 1.7 billion rand ($122 million) loss – its first in eight years – in the financial year that ended in March.
Denel's new management is working on a turnaround plan to secure new funding and exit some loss-making business units, like satellite development and its Pretoria Metal Pressings foundry, a presentation seen by Reuters showed.
It also wants to cut its salary bill by 20 percent and achieve cost savings of between 157 million and 608 million rand in each of the next five years, the presentation showed.
But it missed out on additional state funds in last month's budget, and labour unions reject wage cuts. A cash crunch has become so dire that the company cannot provide toilet paper to some employees, and production lines sometimes stand idle as payments to suppliers fall behind.
Members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, which represents a quarter of Denel's 4,000-strong workforce, marched to the public enterprises ministry this month to demand a 7 billion rand ($500 million) bailout.
Insiders say even that would be little more than a stopgap.
"The machine has stopped," a former Denel executive told reporters. "I can't see how Denel can pull itself up by its bootstraps without an equity partner."
'Our Common Religion'
South Africa is being run by fools.
Ramaphosa appeared open to bringing in a partner to bolster Denel when he acknowledged the Saudi bid earlier this month.
Foreign Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said any deliberations over a potential deal would be based on South Africa's values.
"Our common religion is human rights. We have suffered too long to ever veer away from that religious belief," she told journalists last month.
But Khashoggi's death has created a dilemma.
Asked about the killing, Ramaphosa told reporters: "We are hoping that they will deal with the matter speedily so that the truth will come out."
The United States has announced sanctions against those believed to have been directly involved. Germany is halting arms exports to Saudi Arabia until it explains the killing.
It's the kind of backlash that Riyadh – under fire since 2015 over its war against in Yemen – has long feared and it explains why the government is building its own arms industry. It's also why it has turned to South Africa.
"South Africa's export policy was always stable and robust … and we need very reliable partners on the political side, on the export policy side. Partners who do not change their minds," SAMI CEO Schwer said before Khashoggi's murder.
In 2013, South African sales to coalition allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates made up around 9 percent of total arms exports, data shows.
Since the Yemen war began, South Africa has sold the two countries military hardware – armoured vehicles, sniper rifles, bombs, mortars and surveillance equipment – worth 4.6 billion rand, or 44 percent of total arms exports.
But what might have appeared a natural arrangement to save Denel now appears fraught.
Despite apparent government enthusiasm to do business with Saudi Arabia and Denel's pressing need for financial rescue, not everyone is open to the kingdom's overtures.
Responding to publication of details of the Saudi bid, Denel chairperson Monhla Hlahla rejected out of hand a sell-off of Denel's stake in Rheinmetall Denel Munition.
"The board of Denel is selling neither Denel, or RDM. I want to be clear about that," she told a local television network.
News of the Saudi overtures has also provoked an outcry on South African social media, but a senior ANC source said the government would not be rushed into a decision.
"It's a strategic asset, so I would be wary about dealing with any foreign country, be that the Saudis or anyone else," the source said.
But despite Ramaphosa's assertion that Saudi Arabia was only one of several suitors, no others have come forward publicly.
"A billion dollars over two or three years would turn around Denel," said Heitman, the defence analyst. "The longer we wait, the less Denel is worth. People will leave and that's where the value lies."
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Louisiana Court Declares State's Non-Unanimous Jury Verdict Scheme Unconstitutional, Motivated By Racial Discrimination
Kevin Gosztola and Brian Sonenstein 2018-10-18
18 Oct 2018 Kevin Gosztola and Brian Sonenstein
District court in Sabine Parish, where decision against Louisiana's non-unanimous jury verdict system was issued (Photo from Jimmy Emerson, DVM)
A district court in Louisiana ruled the state's use of non-unanimous juries is unconstitutional and violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
The court found the "non-unanimous jury verdict scheme in Louisiana was motivated by invidious racial discrimination."
"All cases that are currently pending trial and all cases on direct review must now be adjudicated subject ot a unanimous jury requirement," the court ordered. However, prior cases and convictions may not be challenged.
According to the state's constitution and a section of the state's criminal code, cases involving capital punishment require a unanimous decision by jurors.
But in cases where the punishment is "necessarily confinement at hard labor," only 10 of 12 jurors are required to find a defendant guilty. Cases where imprisonment is only a possible outcome require an even lower threshold—six jurors.
The ruling comes as Louisiana residents vote on Amendment 2, a ballot initiative that would "require the unanimous agreement of jurors, rather than just 10 of 12 jurors, to convict people charged with felonies."
Louisiana and Oregon are the only states that permit juries to convict defendants without unanimous agreement.
The ruling stems from a case involving Melvin Cartez Maxie, who was convicted for killing Tyrus Thomas in a shoot-out and car chase after a fight at a party in 2013. The court ordered a new trial for Maxie with a unanimous jury verdict for any conviction.
Prosecutors initially sought the death penalty against Maxie, which would have required a unanimous jury to convict him. But in August 2016, they abandoned that pursuit.
The Capital Assistance Project (CAP), which provides legal representation to defendants facing the death penalty, no longer had to represent Maxie. Yet, the organization chose to train less-experienced attorneys and stay on the case.
CAP filed a motion declaring the non-unanimous jury provisions in the constitution and criminal code unconstitutional. The following month, the court held a hearing on the merits of the requirement that Maxie be convicted by a unanimous jury verdict. The court denied that motion.
In 2017, Maxie went to trial and was convicted of second-degree murder.
Maxie's attorneys continued to fight, and in July 2018, a hearing was held where they presented testimony on the constitutionality of these provisions.
John Simerman, a journalist for the New Orleans-based newspaper, The Advocate, testified about his series investigating Louisiana's non-unanimous jury verdict system, "Tilting the Scales." He testified on his research and analysis, which covered 2,931 cases of the 3,906 cases reported to the state's supreme court between 2011 and 2016.
Research showed the racial composition of juries, particularly in the East Baton Rouge Parish, was representative of the population in the state. Simerman also highlighted how minority jurors were often peremptorily struck by prosecutors at significant rates while white jurors were not.
Thomas Aiello, an associate professor of history and African-American studies at Voldasta state University in Georgia, testified as an expert and placed the non-unanimous verdict system in a historical context.
As the court described, Aiello "persuasively demonstrated that race was a motivating factor behind the adoption of the 1898 constitution, especially with respect to disenfranchisement of minority voters and stripping the ability of minorities to influence the judicial system."
His testimony, Judge Stephen Beasley wrote in the ruling, showed the non-unanimous jury verdict scheme in Louisiana "was motivated by invidious racial discrimination."
The post-Reconstruction South wanted to remove black Americans from all political and legal processes. White supremacists viewed African-American jury service as "counter-productive" to their cause. They also saw African-Americans as a "homogeneous group, whose beliefs were antithetical to those of the whites and that African-Americans would "thwart" "justice" at every opportunity."
At the 1898 convention for the state's constitution, delegates were concerned the federal government might intervene. They "adopted a facially race-neutral law that was designed to ensure that African-American jury service would be meaningless by constructing a non-unanimous jury verdict system based on relative demographics of the population."
"It would be highly unlikely that any jury would ever have more than three African-Americans, and therefore their service would be silenced," Beasley summarized. "This was all predicated on the belief that the races voted as groups and African-Americans as a group could not be trusted with the administration of justice."
The court noted African-American jurors were 250 percent "more likely to cast an empty vote, that is, a vote that has no impact on the outcome of a jury trial than a white juror."
"It is clear that non-unanimous jury verdicts were motivated by racial animus. The historical context in which the rule was adopted was clearly hostile to African-Americans," Beasley concluded.
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Most of you reading this blog must be B-Tech Biotechnology students on the lookout for the next best course that can win you a fortune. If yes, read till the end to come across options that most students choose along with the statistics that support their decision.
Advices for pursuing a M. Tech in Biotechnology must have come in plenty. For majority parents and B-Tech Biotechnology graduates, this is the most natural step to follow. The conventional route does offer you a decent pay packagebut you might be compromising on the excitement and future prospects that a degree can offer by banking on this one.
If not M-Tech or any other conventional degree, what is the alternative?
You must have come across Clinical Research Course for the headlines it has been making due to the relaxation in reforms and regulations made by CDSCO. This is certainly an excellent career option to look out for before you arrive at a decision.
Clinical Research, a branch of healthcare, is a study about safe and effective a certain drug, medical device, or procedure is for human use. The study develops learning about ICH-GCP guidelines, invention and formulation of drugs, approvals and processes involved, conducting a trial in small batch samples and on larger ones and checking its effectiveness/toxic levels.
Why MSC in Clinical Research?
whereas, only 1.4% global clinical trials are conducted in India, a fact in itself that proposes a huge scope for growth.
If you are convinced by the immense scope for Clinical Research in India, the next step is to look out for the best institute where you can enrol for MSc course. Institute of Clinical Research India (ICRI), one of the oldest and most sought after institute that provides full time M.Sc in Clinical Research can be a perfect choice. Present across multiple cities in India and equipped with best-in-class amenities and qualitative teaching abilities, ICRI will not disappoint you.


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Bossypants
Author: Tina FeyPublish On: 2011-04-05
The breakout star of Saturday Night Live and Thirty Rock gives a humorous account of her life, as well as behind-the-scenes stories from her hit shows. 1 million first printing.
Author: Tina Fey
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Bossypants Enhanced Edition
She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told.
This enhanced edition features excerpts from the audio edition of Bossypants, recently named Audio Book of the Year! Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy. (Includes Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake! This Enhanced eBook experience also includes special audio clips from Tina Fey, speculation on what an eBook really is, a bonus section of new-to-you photos, interpretive drawings, and a chapter read by the author!)
Categories: Humor
The Pushback
Author: Kaitlyn E. HaynalPublish On: 2014
The potential for Tina Fey's Bossypants (2011) and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (2011) to successfully resist and challenge hegemonic discourse through confronting adversity are explored in this thesis.
Author: Kaitlyn E. Haynal
Category: American wit and humor
The potential for Tina Fey's Bossypants (2011) and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (2011) to successfully resist and challenge hegemonic discourse through confronting adversity are explored in this thesis. Narrative criticism, feminist standpoint theory, analytic induction, and critical discourse analysis are used as theoretical and methodological tools of analysis to assess the liberatory potential of Fey and Kaling's autobiographical narratives. Specifically, the narratives are analyzed in order to understand how silence in the face of adversity may result in complicity with hegemonic discourse, and conversely how direct confrontation can create positive counter-narratives that may empower women. Topical themes analyzed include body image, self-esteem, relationships, and career. Analysis of Fey and Kaling's narratives found conflicting impulses including several instances of silence, as well as counter-narratives of resistance through the use of humor and the sharing of experiences of pushing back against hegemonic norms when facing adversity. Overall, when critically read, both of these narratives can be empowering for readers and of importance to communication scholars because of the attention given to the harms of hegemonic patriarchal discourse has on the lived-experiences of women.
Categories: American wit and humor
Author: SupersummaryPublish On: 2019-08-22
This 88-page guide for "Bossypants" by Tina Fey includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 25 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis.
Author: Supersummary
SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 88-page guide for "Bossypants" by Tina Fey includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 25 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Impossible Standards for Women Due to Patriarchy and Continuous Learning and Self-Improvement.
Author: Melissa Raé ShofnerPublish On: 2016-12-15
Quoted in Hiltbrand, "A 'Grounded' Tina Fey Expands Her Territory to Movies." 80. Quoted in Spitznagel, "Tina Fey." 81. Tina Fey, Bossypants. New York, NY: Little, Brown Book Group, 2011. 82. Quoted in "She Who Dares," The Edit, ...
Author: Melissa Raé Shofner
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Tina Fey, one of the most prominent women in comedy, is well known for her work on shows such as Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock. As a writer and actress, she has changed the way people see female comedians and altered the "boys club" mentality that characterized the working environment of Saturday Night Live. Readers are presented with fascinating details about Fey's life, from the childhood experiences that inspired Mean Girls to her rise to stardom. This engaging text is enhanced with full-color photographs, detailed sidebars, and a comprehensive timeline.
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Author: Kathryn HarrisonPublish On: 2015-12-15
This absorbing volume takes a look at how the beloved comedian evolved into a multiple award-winning entertainment powerhouse and self-proclaimed Bossypants.
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After formal ceremonies, official document signing, and the requisite exchange of fancy dinners, Gorbachev again followed in Ceauşescu's footsteps by turning on the charm for members of Congress and high-level American businessmen. Both groups have often made themselves useful to foreign despots.
Both Gorbachev and Ceauşescu came to Washington accompanied by their wives, a diplomatic first. Both first ladies were promoted as intellectuals in their own right. In Washington, the Romanians publicized a scientific study by Elena Ceauşescu—actually ghostwritten by my DIE. Soviet advance publicity glowed over Raisa Gorbachev's university dissertation, even getting excerpts from it published in the American press. On her fourth visit to Washington, Elena Ceauşescu demanded that I get her an American academic title. It was not easy, but I managed to arrange a ceremony at Blair House making her an honorary member of the Illinois Academy of Science. Raisa Gorbachev returned to the United States in 1990 and was honored at a highly publicized Wellesley College graduation. Toward the end of their visits, both Eastern bloc leaders received a taste of American democracy in action. Ceauşescu had to face the thousands of Romanian and Hungarian émigrés who besieged his residence at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, calling him "Dracula" for his ultra-Marxist domestic policies. Gorbachev had to put up with a large demonstration asking for the right of Jews to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Those confrontations momentarily caused both communist leaders to let slip their smiling masks, allowing a glimpse of their steel teeth. In the end, however, both won the American public back over to their side by stopping their motorcades and impulsively plunging into the crowd to shake hands.
In retrospect, it is easy to see that all of this was a product of sophisticateddezinformatsiya experts and public relations crews, employing all their reliable, smoke-and-mirrors framing techniques.
At the time, however, both leaders were perceived as modern pragmatists who deserved to be supported. Indeed, they were believed by many in diplomatic and academic circles to really be—deep down—on America's side. It was argued that they needed US support to help them in impending tough struggles with their own domestic "hardliners."
I do not mean to imply that the mighty Gorbachev would necessarily have been trying to copy Ceauşescu word for word and step by step, but Andropov's resounding success at stage-directing Ceauşescu was certainly there for Gorbachev to consider. It seems particularly significant that Gorbachev, a couple of weeks after returning home from his 1987 trip to Washington, quietly awarded Ceauşescu the Order of Lenin, the highest decoration in the Soviet bloc, in spite of the two men's strong public differences. As far as I know, Ceauşescu was the only East European leader Gorbachev ever decorated with that high award.
I noted only one fundamental difference between Gorbachev's and
Ceauşescu's strategies to butter up the West. Three months after Ceauşescu left Washington, the acting chief of his foreign intelligence service—this writer—was granted political asylum by the United States.
That event shattered the smiling mask Ceauşescu had worn in Washington and allowed the inner workings of his glasnost machine to lie spread out on the table for all to see. From among Gorbachev's innermost circle, no one has yet stepped forward with the truth about that last Soviet monarch's methods of governing the country and about his still-admired glasnost. At the beginning of 2001, Gorbachev was still publicly asserting that hisglasnost (for which he had been granted the Nobel Prize and named "Man of the Decade" by Time magazine) was "leading the country out of its totalitarian state and to democracy, to freedom, to openness."1 In March 2002, however, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who had prominently endorsed glasnost in the 1980s, cast the first doubt on Gorbachev. She conceded that "the role of Mikhail Gorbachev, who failed miserably in his declared objective of saving Communism and the Soviet Union, has been absurdly misunderstood."12
3 DEFECTING TO AMERICA
GLASNOST REALLY MEANS LYING, and lying is the first step toward stealing and killing. On the memorable day of July 2, 1978, Romanian president Nicolae Ceauşescu whispered in my ear, "I w-want
Noel k-k-killed." Ceauşescu stammered both when nervous and when excited. "You don't need to r-report back to me," he added. "I'l learn about it from the W-Western m-media when he croaks."
Noel Bernard was the director of Radio Free Europe's Romanian program, and for years he had been blackening Ceauşescu's carefully crafted cult of personality.
Ceauşescu continued: "And a few days later, blow up that whole w-wasp's n-nest." The "wasp's nest" was the Munich headquarters of Radio Free Europe. "With a briefcase of S-Semtex," Ceauşescu expertly specified, referring to an explosive that had been developed in communist Czechoslovakia for use in international terrorism. "We've g-got to f-finish with all that shit."
All through those twenty-seven years I had spent in the Soviet bloc intelligence community, I had been living with the nightmare that, sooner or later, orders to have someone killed would land on my plate. In 1951, when I became an intelligence officer in the KGB community, I swore to myself that I would avoid involvement in any operations that could lead to a loss of life. I may have done a lot of reprehensible things during all those years, but I had kept that resolution. Up until that moment I had been safe, since General Nicolae Doicaru, the longtime chief of Romania's foreign intelligence service, the DIE, had been in charge of "wet operations," as the KGB community's jargon termed the killing and kidnapping of political opponents abroad.
The previous June, however, Ceauşescu had anointed me as head of his
Presidential House, a new position, and there was no way for me to avoid further involvement in political assassinations, which had grown into a main instrument of foreign policy throughout the Soviet bloc.
Head of Presidential House was a job essentially like chief of staff in the American White House. Ceauşescu had invented this post in April 1978, after his triumphant visit to Washington—where I had accompanied him—but within it he had also included the day-to-day handling of Romania's intelligence services. It was like being the White House chief of staff, national security adviser, director of the CIA and head of the Department for Homeland Security all at the same time.
Since 1972, when I had risen to enter the inner sanctum of the Soviet bloc, I had come to realize that sooner or later I would have to screw up my courage and break with that evil society, which I was sure would eventually either quietly collapse or else lead to worldwide cataclysm. The physical step, however, proved to be much harder than the mental one.
Privilege can generate cowardice, as it did in my case. Communist rulers have always been very generous with their spy chiefs—that is, until they tire of them and kill them off. It proved not easy for me to renounce my exorbitantly luxurious life at the top of Romanian society, my Bucharest villa with its swimming pool and sauna, my fleet of cars and drivers, my summer house at the Black Sea, and my hunting lodges in the Carpathian Mountains. "Defector"—that word used by the US government for a Soviet bloc official who chose freedom in the West—also acted as a chain around my ankles, for the word lay in frighteningly close proximity to the word "traitor."
The prospect of being involved in political killings was the drop that finally burst the dam of my indecision. On Sunday, July 23, 1978, I flew to Bonn, where I had to deliver a message from Ceauşescu to the West German chancellor, Helmut Schmidt. Soviet ruler Leonid Brezhnev had asked Ceauşescu for help in stealing the technology and blueprints for a VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) military airplane that had been developed by Fokker A.G., West Germany's main airplane producer. The Kremlin believed that using the "independent" Ceauşescu to build a cooperative venture with Fokker for producing a civilian airplane (Fokker-614) would afford the best access for stealing the VTOL technology. The German chancellor, however, had shown reluctance to approve the venture, rightly fearing that the secret military technologies involved might end up in Moscow.
"Just make sure you plant the conviction in his thick German skull that
Moscow will never see one iota of anything," Ceauşescu instructed me, after he had finished dictating his message to the West German chancellor. "Promise him anything he wants."
That Sunday, the music suddenly went dead on my TAROM flight to Vienna, where I was to pick up an Austrian plane for the rest of my trip. A woman's voice cut in fuzzily with an announcement in Romanian and German: "Ladies and Gentlemen, our plane will land at Schwechat Airport in a few minutes. Captain Georgescu and his crew wish you a pleasant sojourn in Vienna and hope you will fly TAROM soon again."
The door of the plane had barely been cracked open when Romania's ambassador in Vienna, Dumitru Aninoiu, whose wife was an undercover DIE officer, hopped on board. "Welcome to Vienna, comrade state secretary," he greeted me loudly, using my cover title, as he reached out to grab my briefcase. "We'l have lunch together."
As we were leaving for the airport's VIP salon, I cast one final glance over my shoulder at the white BAC 1-1 plane with the Romanian flag painted on its tail. I knew I had flown TAROM for the last time.
Two days later, a black taxi dropped me off in front of the United States Embassy in Bonn. As I stepped out onto the sidewalk, I could hear my heart pounding in my ears. My mouth felt as if it had been freeze-dried, although the palms of my hands were unaccustomedly moist. With a few rapid steps, I crossed over to the entrance and went inside.
The lobby for the general public was small but crowded. A statuesque woman squeezed into a chic khaki safari suit and draped in several pounds of gold jewelry, who was casually leaning against the wall next to the door, suddenly stopped talking when I came in. She measured me up and down for a very long moment, as did her companion, a short, pudgy man in an ill-fitting suit of light gray silk. Some of the other people also turned to look at me. Even the old-fashioned bureaucrat behind the teller-like window, his coat sleeves protected by black sleevelets, raised his eyes to peer out at me. In short, the whole room seemed to be watching me.
Of course, I knew that it was normal for a waiting room crowd to give every new arrival a careful going-over. On that day, though, I could not think about what was or was not normal.
I approached the Marine officer, who stood like a statue, feet apart and arms crossed over his chest, barring the only door leading to the inside of the embassy, and said to him, dropping my voice as low as I could: "I am a Soviet bloc two-star intelligence general, and I want to defect to the United States."
I became a free man on July 27, 1978. Because of my extremely high position in the Soviet bloc, only the president of the United States could approve my request for political asylum. Thus, Pete, the CIA officer I talked to at the US embassy, scheduled another meeting for 10 p.m. three days later at the Dom-Hotel in Cologne, to give me the answer. Those were three very long days.
When I arrived at the Dom-Hotel that fateful Wednesday night, the first thing I did was look around for the men's room. As I opened the door, I saw Pete inside. My biochemistry was, evidently, not unique.
Pete seemed embarrassed for only a second. Then he took an envelope from his breast pocket and gave it to me. It contained a cable signed by Adm. Stansfield Turner, the director of Central Intelligence, stating that President Jimmy Carter was granting me political asylum, security protection, and help for starting a new life in America. It also said that a CIA airplane sent from Washington was waiting at the Rhein-Main Air Base to pick me up.
Reading that cable over and over again gave me an enormous feeling of relief. Not in my wildest dreams, though, had I ever imagined that I would become a free man in a restroom.
It was past midnight when our four-car motorcade came roaring up to the gate at the US Rhein-Main Air Base. I was pleasantly surprised to find a pile of clothes waiting for me on the plane, as all I had with me was the shirt and pants I was wearing.
Throughout all those years of torment in Romania, the only things of which I had been certain of were that I would not die under communism and that no matter how high I might have been shoved up the communist ladder, I would start my new life in America without any encumbrances from my past. That was why, when I set out from my room at the Intercontinental Hotel in Cologne to board the CIA plane, the only things I took with me were my passport; my personal notes; a camera containing a couple of snapshots of my daughter, Dana; and a wristwatch with the signature of King Hussein of Jordan on its dial, which I had just gotten from the king for—as he put it—saving his life from an assassination attempt organized by PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
After we had been served dinner, Pete called it a day. "Let's catch a few hours of sleep," he suggested, guiding me to the airplane's bedroom. Pete took a pair of pajamas and a travel kit out of his garment bag. After a couple of moments, he quietly put them back and, still dressed, scrunched up under the blanket covering his bed. Pete's weariness may have been less overwhelming than his embarrassment when he realized that I had neither pajamas nor toothbrush. A few minutes later, Pete was sawing wood.
Of course, I was also exhausted and could hardly believe everything was over. That whole Thursday, I had tried to look as if I had been indeed getting ready for a routine trip back to Bucharest, not for the voyage of a lifetime. I had spent the morning in the acoustically protected "bubble" at the Romanian Embassy, in the company of the DIE chief of station, General Stefan Constantin. At noon, I had again met Chancellery Minister Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski at the Bundeskanzleramt in Bonn to get Chancellor Schmidt's answer to Ceauşescu's message. From the twinkle in his eye and his warm handshake, I understood he must have known about my decision, and that cheered me up enormously—I had tremendous confidence in that bulldog of a man.
Afterward I had flown to Bremen, where I held a meeting with Fokker representatives, and in the evening I had been back in Cologne to meet with Frederick W. Smith, founder and chairman of the American shipping company Federal Express, who wanted to buy one hundred commercial Fokker-614 planes that would be produced in Romania in cooperation with Fokker. Then I had attended the official dinner given for me by the Romanian ambassador, Ion Morega, in the salons of the embassy, where I had even told a few jokes.
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Should State Lawmakers Give More Budget Scrutiny to Santee Cooper, Ports Authority?
Every legislative session comes with a parade of officials from dozens of state agencies who make their case for funding in the upcoming fiscal year.
However, many South Carolina taxpayers may not know about the "off-budget" agencies or "authorities" created by the state years ago that generate millions – and, in at least one case, billions – of dollars of revenue, and yet legislators have no say on their final budget.
The state-owned utility Santee Cooper and the S.C. Ports Authority are two main examples.
Santee Cooper and Ports Authority officials made presentations last week to the Economic Development and Natural Resources Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee. But they weren't asking lawmakers to approve their upcoming budgets, as other state agencies typically do.
In fact, the Office of State Budget has no budget documents here for either Santee Cooper, based in Moncks Corner, or the Ports Authority, located in Charleston.
When the Ports Authority's fiscal year 2014 budget is approved this spring, it will happen by a vote of its board of directors, according to a spokeswoman for the authority. The same thing will occur for Santee Cooper when its calendar year 2014 budget gets final approval.
Under state law, Santee Cooper's 12-member board of directors is appointed by the governor with consent of the S.C. Senate, after those candidates have been found qualified by the State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee.
The governor and Senate also are responsible for selecting the nine voting members of the Ports Authority's 11-member board. The other two non-voting members are the state transportation and commerce secretaries, or their designees.
Contacted after last week's hearing, Rep. Gary Simrill, R-York and subcommittee chairman, told The Nerve that the difference between Santee Cooper and the Ports Authority and other state agencies is the two in question are classified as "authorities."
"An authority means they produce their own income," Simrill said. "They were created by the Legislature, and because of that they must appear before the Legislature to tell us what's going on."
Santee Cooper provides the state 1 percent of its revenues, and in 2012 that totaled $20 million, said utility spokeswoman Mollie Gore.
Meanwhile, Ports Authority leaders told the subcommittee that it would pay another $1 million to the S.C. Transportation Infrastructure Bank to dredge the Charleston Harbor shipping channel. A proviso in the proposed fiscal 2014 budget would change the date of the authorized expenditure.
Asked why Ports Authority officials appear before Legislative budget-writing panels, authority spokeswoman Allison Skipper in an email to The Nerve said, "We accept invitations to appear before the Legislature, including Ways and Means and Senate Finance."
Santee Cooper spokeswoman Mollie Gore echoed Skipper.
"We are certainly always happy to tell our story, whether it's the State Legislature or a Rotary club," Gore said in a written response to The Nerve.
Gore said Santee Cooper expects to generate more than $2 billion in revenue this year. Its expenses include $1.7 billion plus interest expenses of $210 million, reinvested earnings of $132 million, and the state payment of $20 million.
The Ports Authority presentation to the subcommittee revealed the authority has $68.6 million in revenues so far for this fiscal year, with $60.9 million in expenses.
Simrill said lawmakers must amend existing state law to do anything more than what the House budget-writing committee does now with both entities, adding there must be a "cause" to compel him and his colleagues to change the law.
Yet the Legislature's handling of Santee Cooper and the Ports Authority raises some questions:
If officials from those entities are going to appear before budget-writing panels, shouldn't lawmakers be able to sign off on their budgets?
Santee Cooper and the Ports Authority aren't the only state agencies to receive no general funds, so why not give more scrutiny to their budgets?
And why not require greater transparency of their annual revenues and expenditures?
More than a dozen agencies or funds in the state budget have little or no appropriated general funds but sustain their operations with federal or "other" funds, or a combination of the two. For example, the Patients Compensation Fund is projected to receive $996,000 in "other" funds this fiscal year, which started July 1, while the Department of Motor Vehicles was approved to receive $85 million in federal and "other" funds.
The S.C. Department of Transportation – one of the state's biggest agencies –is authorized to receive just $57,270 in general funds this fiscal year, while the remainder of its $1.4 billion budget is made up of federal and "other" funds.
In response to a question from The Nerve, Simrill said an independent audit of Santee Cooper and the Ports Authority was not needed because both entities have proper oversight from the Governor's Office.
"I don't see where there is a need because there are very capable hands on the boards of directors," he said.
Simrill also said those boards need as little outside influence from public officials as possible.
However, critics say more attention should be given to how much top executives are paid at Santee Cooper and the Ports Authority.
Lonnie Carter, Santee Cooper's president and chief executive officer, earns $416,899 excluding benefits, according to a salary database maintain by The State newspaper.
The other nine highest-paid officials at Santee Cooper are:
Elaine Peterson, executive vice president and chief financial officer, $303,667;
Rennie Singletary, executive VP for corporate services, $261,162;
James Brogdon, executive VP and general counsel, $249,534;
Lewis Pierce, senior VP for generation, $215,540;
Terry Blackwell, senior VP of power delivery, $212,806;
Jeffrey Armfield, VP of fuels strategy and supply, $203,928;
Shawn Abrams, VP of planning and power supply, $202,306;
William Brown, VP of human resource management, $195,139; and
Marc Tye, senior VP of customer service, $192,266.
Jim Newsome, the Ports Authority's president and CEO, will make $370,000 this year, Skipper said in her email.
Among other top-paid Ports Authority employees are:
Paul McClintock, senior VP & chief commercial officer, $245,000;
Peter Hughes, senior VP and chief financial officer, $215,000;
William McLean, senior VP and chief operations officer, $190,000;
Barbara Melvin, senior VP of external affairs, $170,000;
Philip Lawrence, general counsel, $170,000;
John Ellenberg, senior VP of economic development and projects, $170,000;
Pamela Everitt, chief information officer, $154,000;
Stephen Connor, VP of senior, human resources and administration, $154,000;
John Wheeler, VP of carrier sales, $150,000;
Robert Reinecke, VP of global account sales, $150,000; and
Stevenson Kemp, VP of terminal operations, $150,000.