April 24, 2007 – 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Once again, Attorney Iredale asked Doug Powanda many questions about his written plea agreement in his cross-examination. Mr. Powanda testified that under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, his prison sentence should be set between 324-405 months (approximately 30 years). Gene Iredale asked the witness questions that implied that Mr. Powanda is motivated to implicate the defendants in order to receive a more lenient sentencing recommendation from the Government at the time of sentencing.
Mr. Powanda admitted the details of several wrongful acts today. For example, Mr. Powanda estimated that Barnhill (a Peregrine partner company) had approximately $8 million worth of contracts with Peregrine that had been recognized as revenue but that did not actually have to be paid to Peregrine. The fraudulent deals were entered into with Barnhill, in order to recognize revenue that did not really exist. Eventually, Peregrine acquired Barnhill with the illegal intent of "erasing" the fraudulent Barnhill debt.
Witness Powanda did not name Joseph Reichner as having been involved in any of the illegal deals that he testified about today. Powanda said that other people involved included Gardner and Gless (these two have both pled guilty and will be testifying as Government witnesses in this trial), and Nelson and Crook (these two are scheduled to go on trial after the present trial ends).
The Government considered Mr. Powanda to be the third most culpable of all Peregrine defendants, after CEO Gardner and CFO Gless. Powanda's testimony supports his ranking.
Attorney Iredale showed about eight photos of a large home in Rancho Santa Fe, which Powanda had bought with some of the proceeds of stock options that he exercised. Iredale asked a number of questions about Powanda's sale of this house in 2003 to Representative Duke Cunningham (who is serving a prison sentence of over eight years for corruption). AUSA Beste objected to these questions on the grounds of relevance, and the court sustained these objections.
The cross-examination of Douglas Powanda will continue tomorrow. The pace of this trial is not what Judge Whelan had hoped for when he agreed to the defense request to a shortened trial schedule.
April 25, 2007 – 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Before testimony resumed today, Judge Whelan told the jury that because of testimony regarding punishment and the plea agreements of the cooperating co-defendants, he had an instruction for them. Judge Whelan told the jury that the question of punishment is strictly for the court to decide. It is relevant only as to how it may affect the testimony of any witness, not as to the guilt or innocence of any accused.
Today was Douglas Powanda's fourth day of testimony (and third day on cross-examination). Defendant Reichner's lawyer, Gene Iredale, continued his cross-examination. He led Powanda through a number of transactions that involved illegal side deals, including Morgan Stanley, AVNET and Citicom. Conspirators, including Spitzer and Larry Rodda of KPMG, were involved with Powanda in these deals, which occurred before Reichner even worked for Peregrine. Iredale closed his cross-examination of Powanda by totaling the amount of money that Powanda made from August 1999 to May 2001. The figure was over $24 million, of which the total gain to Powanda was $15 or $16 million (apparently this is the gain after taxes).
Towle's attorney, Leff, cross-examined Powanda in about 15 minutes of very focused questioning. She had Powanda describe the sales process, in which the salespeople generally do about 95% of the work negotiating a contract. Powanda was the closer, and would meet with customers at the end to resolve sticking points. Powanda started working at Peregrine in 1992, and was familiar with the generally accepted accounting principals used in the software industry. The commissions of salespeople (including Powanda) depended on the recognition of revenue under the contract. In spite of his admittedly fraudulent behavior, Powanda believed in Peregrine. He testified that it was a good company with great products, and the vast majority of its sales were completely legitimate.
Lenz's attorney, Beinert, cross-examined Powanda from about 10:25 a.m. until the end of the court day at close to 1:30 p.m., and will resume his cross-examination tomorrow. He went over a lot of the ground covered during the three previous days of testimony, but also brought out some specific points favorable to Lenz. Powanda and the primary co-conspirators Gardner and Gless had been doing fraudulent transactions for years before Lenz began working at Peregrine in mid-2000. At one time, Powanda was supposed to report to Lenz, but Powanda objected to this and complained to Gardner – Powanda was even considering leaving Peregrine. Gardner felt that Powanda was valuable to Peregrine and persuaded him to stay, in a high management capacity. In early 2001, when Gardner was off work for about six weeks because of an operation, many people at Peregrine would go to Powanda for authority and direction that they normally would have sought from Gardner. Even when Lenz was President and Chief Operations Officer, a number of high-ranking Peregrine officers did not report to Lenz.
Gary Lenz came to Peregrine from Arthur Andersen LLP, where he had worked on large accounts of hospitality companies, and his main job at Peregrine was supposed to be forming alliances with other companies to sell Peregrine software. Powanda said that Lenz did not understand the software industry and did not know as much about Peregrine as others.
Powanda previously testified to Lenz's participation in a deal with Fujitsu United States where a contract was signed on October 3, 2000, but dated September 28, 2000. The Government has alleged that this was part of Lenz's involvement in the conspiracy, and it was alleged as an overt act against Lenz. Under cross-examination by Beinert, Powanda testified that this was a legitimate deal with a very legitimate company. The Fijitsu executives were on one side of the table in the conference room on the fifth floor of Peregrine's offices, and a number of senior Peregrine officials were present, including Powanda, Gardner, Gless, and Cahill. Not a single person in the room thought that this was a bad deal. Powanda had directed that the September 28 date be typed into the contract, and most (perhaps all) of the real negotiation had been accomplished by September 28 or 29 (September 29 was a Friday). Powanda signed the contract on behalf of Peregrine and received a substantial commision for the Fujitsu deal. Lenz, who had only been at Peregrine since about May or June of that year, received no commission.
Beinert's cross-examination of Powanda continues tomorrow. Cross-examination of Powanda by the defense has brought out some points favorable to the defendants, but has probably taken significantly more time than the court expected. The court has also sustained objections by AUSA Beste to quite a number of defense questions on grounds of asked and answered, irrelevant, and misstating the evidence.
April 26, 2007 – 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
AUSA Bhandari argued that there is no basis for any inquiry into the sale of Mr. Powanda's Rancho Santa Fe home to former Rep. Duke Cunningham. After some dispute, all parties agreed to never mention it again.
Attorney Thomas Bienert asked Mr. Powanda many questions about the Fujitsu deal that was discussed yesterday. Doug Powanda testified that the conflicts that arose at Peregrine after the Fujitsu contract was signed, occurred due to in-house fighting between Fujitsu Europe and Fujitsu U.S.A., and had nothing to do with any possible illegalities in the contract.
Attorney Bienert referred Powanda to the transcript of his SEC deposition. In the transcript, Mr. Bienert pointed out that Mr. Powanda told the SEC that he never wrote "side letters" or engaged in "side agreements" while working at Peregrine. Powanda admitted today that he had engaged in side agreements while at Peregrine.
Attorney for Daniel Stulac, Mike Attanasio, argued that certain Peregrine employees conspired with others not only to conceal information from Arthur Andersen but to deceive them. Attorney Attanasio made this point by showing several e-mails that would have been of interest to Arthur Andersen, but Arthur Andersen employees did not receive the e-mails.
On re-direct by AUSA Beste, Mr. Powanda testified that he was not the closer for the Fujitsu deal because Peregrine expected Fujitsu to sign. Doug Powanda also testified that a written 30-day cancellation clause was put into the contract, at the request of Gary Lenz. Doug Powanda does not know anything about the negotiations that led Lenz to concede to allow Fujitsu to have this clause. Perhaps later we will hear testimony that will explain this but so far it does not seem to incriminate Gary Lenz. We also have not heard evidence that anyone except Mr. Powanda knew that the contract had been backdated on the signature line, where Doug Powanda signed.
Inez Luna, a former Contracts Administrator at Peregrine, testified that she boxed up the documents in Gary Lenz's office after he was terminated.
Ms. Morimoto worked at Peregrine in the Sales Operation department from 1991 until 2004. Under direct examination by AUSA Bhandari, she said that the basic documents for each deal included a Revenue Booking Form, a Schedule A (that specifies the contract terms, price and product sold), and a SLA (the Software Licensing Agreement). In some situations there were additional documents. After being received by the Sales Operations department, these documents would be sent to Revenue Recognition, which was headed by Patrick Towle.
Ms. Morimoto testified that on a number of occassions, Patrick Towle would ask her to remove the fax header (showing the date the contract was received by fax) by whiting out the fax header. She testified that this would usually be done when the fax header showed that a contract was received after the end of a quarter, and generally was on the larger contracts. Ms. Morimoto started doing this automatically. When BMC was considering the acquisition of Peregrine in 2000, and was doing its due diligence, her department was providing a lot of existing Peregrine contracts to BMC. She said that if the fax header had the "wrong date" on it, she would white it out. Ms. Morimoto said that she did not know what Patrick Towle was going to do with these contracts with the fax headers whited out. However, she knew it was wrong, and knows that the auditors need to look at this information. AUSA Bhandari had her hold a number of contracts up to the light to see if she could see the real date on the contract through the white out. She was having some trouble reading the dates. Mr. Bhandari asked Judge Whelan for permission to publish the contracts to the jury. Prior to this point, the jury has been shown hundreds of documents on the projection screen. In this case, the actual contracts were passed from juror to juror, and each one held them up to the light.
Attorney Kate Leff, who represents Patrick Towle, cross-examined the witness. Ms. Leff established that when Lynn Morimoto was dismissed in June 2004, she was escorted from the building. Ms. Morimoto testified that in Sales Operations, she drafted the standard contract language, sometimes with help from the Legal Department or the Accounting Department in complex deals. After negotiations with a customer, the sales staff would ask Sales Operations to prepare the contracts. Sometimes there would be hundreds of contracts in a quarter, mostly at the end of the quarter.
Attorney Leff referred to an interview that Ms. Morimoto had with the FBI in 2003 in which she said that she did not know it was wrong to white out the fax headers. Today she testified on direct that she knew it was wrong.
Attorney for Patrick Towle, Kate Leff, established that it was Lynn Morimoto's testimony yesterday that both Matt Gless and Patrick Towle had instructed her to white out fax headers on Peregrine contracts. Attorney Leff asked Witness Morimoto about the time period around June 2002, when Peregrine hired the law firm of Latham & Watkins to conduct an internal investigation of accounting irregularities. Morimoto admitted today that when she was interviewed by the attorneys for Latham & Watkins, she only told the attorneys that Gless asked her to white out dates, she did not mention Patrick Towle's name. Ms. Morimoto testified today that she did the same thing when the SEC interviewed her in June of 2003. Morimoto told the SEC that Gless had instructed her to white out fax headers, but failed to mention Patrick Towle. Attorney Leff established that Ms. Morimoto first stated that both Gless and Towle instructed her to white out fax dates on Peregrine contracts in August 2003 when the FBI interviewed her.
On cross-examination, Attorney Iredale asked Ms. Morimoto if she ever whited out dates by the customer signature line on Peregrine contracts. Witness Morimoto testified that she did not ever do that.
Attorney Bienert introduced a Peregrine Schedule A into evidence that showed the reseller as being SMF Systems and the end-user as being the FBI. This contract also contained a 30-day cancellation clause. On re-direct AUSA Bhandari pointed out that since the FBI was the end-user in this contract, the 30-day "out" clause was actually between Peregrine and SMF Systems.
In Attorney Mike Attanasio's cross-examination of Morimoto, he clarified that when Ms. Morimoto speaks of the Accounting Department, that she is referring to the internal Accounting Department of Peregrine, and not the outside accounting firm of Arthur Andersen. Gless and Towle worked for Peregrine and Attanasio's client, Stulac, worked for AA. Mr. Attanasio also had Ms. Morimoto explain that when she whited out faxes, she made copies of the whited out contracts so that the whited out part was not visible. Morimoto testified that she sent out the clean copy and kept the whited out original in her own department.
On re-direct of this witness, Bhandari brought out the fact that in order for a 30-day clause to be inserted into a contract, someone at a high level of management at Peregrine had to authorize it. Morimoto testified that these clauses usually occurred on large contracts that were signed at the end of a quarter.
Karen Logan worked at Peregrine from 1999 until 2006 as a director of purchasing. AUSA Beste asked her many questions regarding Valentine Enterprises, which is a consulting firm made up of one individual, Peter Valentine. Beste established that in the 12-month period from April 1, 2001 until March 31, 2002, Peregrine hired Valentine to consult with the company for $270,000. Witness Logan testified that Gary Lenz, and to some extent, Joe Reichner, dealt with Peter Valentine.
The Government asked Karen Logan to explain why she referred to the outside auditors from Arthur Andersen as the "the Gestapo" in one of her e-mails (Daniel Stulac was one of these auditors). She laughed and explained that she had no problem with the AA auditors but that they were demanding because they asked for a great deal of documents and they worked long hours for many days in a row.
On cross-examination of this witness, Attanasio made a point of having her explain that the Arthur Andersen auditors worked extremely hard and behaved professionally.
Thomas Bienert asked Ms. Logan questions that illustrated that the contract between Peter Valentine and Peregrine for $270,000 had been negotiated before Lenz or Reichner went to work at Peregrine.
Steven Spitzer worked at Peregrine in Channel Sales and Alliances from August 1997 until June 2002. Spitzer's work involved selling Peregrine software to third parties who would resell it to end-users. Spitzer characterized Lenz and Reichner as having been hired by Peregrine because of their experience and contacts at high levels in the business world. Steve Spitzer testified that Peter Valentine also had high-level contacts in the area of real estate. On direct by AUSA Beste, Spitzer testified about a contract for $572,000 that Valentine signed with Peregrine as a reseller of Peregrine software, but with the designated end-user to be Chevron. Witness Spitzer testified that both Powanda and Gless directed him to ask Valentine to sign the contract. At first, Valentine refused because he said he could not afford to pay for the software if he did not sell it and futhermore, that he did not know anything about reselling software. When Spitzer explained that Valentine would not be liable for the software if Chevron did not buy it, Valentine signed the contract, and Peregrine booked the revenue. In the following quarter, Chevron did close a deal for a similar amount of Peregrine software but the transaction had already been booked in the preceding quarter.
At 1:30 p.m., the jury and the witness were excused. A heated argument between some of the lawyers commenced. Bienert argued that the Government should have informed the defense that Doug Powanda was involved in the Chevron/Valentine deal. AUSA Beste replied that this information was provided in the materials that were given to the defense. Judge Whelan said that he trusts that the Government knows its ethical obligations regarding the discovery rules and that if the Government asserts that they have upheld their obligations, he trusts that they have done so.
Attorney Attanasio renewed his motion on behalf of Daniel Stulac, for a separate trial from Patrick Towle, and Towle's attorney, Kate Leff, joined him. Attanasio pointed out that today it has become apparent that Towle and Stulac have mutually inconsistent defenses because today's testimony was exculpatory to Stulac but incriminating to Towle. He said that he felt like he was prosecuting Towle (Attorney Leff's client) when he brought out testimony that Towle had allegedly been involved in causing fax headers on contracts to be whited out before copies of contracts were sent to the group of independent auditors at AA, which was headed by his client, Stulac. Judge Whelan denied the motion.


Lunch is an important meal in your day, so don't skip it, even if you are tempted to do so. Many people believe that eating a big breakfast means that lunch is unnecessary, but that's simply not the case. When you don't eat lunch, you are more likely to snack during the day on unhealthy foods or overeat at suppertime. Your body also becomes depleted of nutrients when you skip lunch, so it s better for you to always eat lunch, even if it means making a bit of extra free time available in your day. However, there are ways in which you can ensure that your lunch is fairly healthy, no matter what your specific needs.
If you are at work or school over lunchtime, you can save lots of money by carrying a lunch rather than grabbing lunch from a fast food restaurant or other food source. Your own meals will also be more nutritious and, in many cases, tastier. If you are not a morning person, packing a lunch doesn't mean that you have to wake up earlier to prepare this. Simply pack it the night before. Many food choices can help you to pack a lunch that will be the envy of your coworkers.
You can also consider stopping at a supermarket and picking up frozen diet meals for lunch as well. These meals are usually low in fat and high in nutrition and come in enough varieties for you to have a different lunch every day of the year. This option is sometimes a bit more expensive than making and packing your own lunch, but it can still be fairly inexpensive. Remember to look at the packaging to determine the best frozen meals for you. Some are not made for those looking for a healthy diet, and although they may taste good, they will be full of preservatives and calories.
You can also stock your desk at work with healthy lunch choices in order to save time. Lots of foods come in non-perishable varieties, which can easily fit into your desk and be microwaved with water when it comes time to eat lunch. Try soups, pretzels, crackers with peanut butter, cereal bars, or instant oatmeal for lunchtime at the office.
When you have to eat out, such as if you are meeting an associate or client for lunch, make healthy food choices. Avoid skipping lunch altogether just to have a meeting. Instead, see if your company will chip in to pay for the client's meal. Usually, companies are more than happy to reimburse you or provide a company credit card or tab information. Good choices for lunch include light meals, like wraps, sandwiches with wheat bread and light on the spreads, salads with light dressing, and fruit. Avoid fast food, pizza, and bulky meals, like pasta for lunch, unless you plan to b very active during the afternoon at work.
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It comes just days after she was removed from the judiciary after being jailed for her part in the speeding points scandal that saw former Liberal Democrat minister Chris Huhne and his estranged wife sent to prison.
The university confirmed it was considering stripping Briscoe of the award in May and has now revealed it did go ahead with the removal.
Professor Ann Holmes, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, said: "The University of Wolverhampton's nominations committee has revoked Constance Briscoe's honorary award, as we take the award of honorary degrees very seriously."
Briscoe was jailed for 16 months in May after being convicted of three counts of trying to pervert the course of justice over the investigation into how disgraced MP and former energy secretary Huhne passed speeding points to his then-wife Vicky Pryce a decade earlier.
The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said Briscoe had been removed from judicial office this week.
The 57-year-old, who was one of the first black women to sit as a judge in the UK, was jailed for twice the amount of time handed to Huhne and Pryce, after it emerged that she had helped economist Pryce, a friend and also her neighbour, to reveal information about Huhne's points-swapping to newspapers after the couple split in 2010.
Details of the lawyer's Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws in 2011 from Wolverhampton were removed from the university's website after her conviction.
Briscoe got the degree for her 'outstanding contribution to the law profession and as an inspirational role model'.
But Gavin Williamson, Conservative MP for South Staffordshire, said it was right that the university had removed it from her.
"When someone is given an honorary degree it is exactly that - an honour and a privilege.
"This degree was awarded because at the time Constance Briscoe was a leading light in the legal profession.
"Due to the nature of her conviction it would have been very odd for her to have continued to hold such a prestigious honour.
"So I think most people will agree with the university's decision to remove it given the circumstances."
When she was awarded the degree, Briscoe said: "I am deeply honoured to have received this award. This is in fact the first time that I have attended a graduation ceremony. I would very much like to play an active part in whatever capacity I can to promote the School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications and I am particularly keen to meet and actively engage with the law department."


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He beat David Zegarra on his return to boxing
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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. He returned to the ring with a victory in his 61st fight with the desire to resume his professional career. However, he did not convince his fans.
Junior (53-6-1-1NC, 34 KO's) was imposed by unanimous decision, although the cards were not released at the Palenque of the Livestock Fair in Culiacán, against the Peruvian David zegarra (34-7, 21 KO's) in a 10-round semi-heavyweight battle.
The 35-year-old fighter made it clear that he is far from the level that led him to win the Middle World title of the World Boxing Council (CMB), when suffering from more in some assaults before Zegarra, who added his fourth consecutive defeat, so there are many doubts in the final stretch of his career.
The Sinaloan pulled out his "thorn" after the defeat he suffered last June by split decision (77-75, 77-75, 77-75) against the mixed martial arts star, Anderson Silva.
At this stage of his career, in which he assured he is more focused, Junior he hopes to return to his sporting best level to contest a world title fight and, if given the opportunity, have a rematch contest against the best pound for pound on the planet, Saúl 'Canelo' Álvarez.
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The Global Gardens Project is a three year program that works to develop vacant lots into garden spaces for refugees to grow. Many refugees come from agricultural backgrounds, and when they find themselves living in apartments in the urban core, they long for land to grow vegetables that are familiar to them. We find suitable lots in refugees' neighborhoods, transforming them to gardens, and connecting refugees with a garden plot. JVS provides educational workshops to train refugees about growing in the U.S., climate, soils, water, organic growing methods, and nutrition are offered. Gardeners are given the chance to sell at the Northeast Farmers Market as well as tour other Community Garden spaces to assist as they transition out of the program after year three. The goals of the Global Gardens Project are to increase access to and consumption of healthy food, improve physical health indicators, improve mental health indicators, and increase social integration of refugees.


It has become fashionable to say a bit of nuance when something is compared to a Swiss Army Knife: a Swiss Army Knife is a collection of second-rate tools: the can opener may be better than nothing, but it is a surrogate for a real can opener. At least it seems to be sophisticated nuance, but I write after having opened a can with my Swiss Army Knife when a "real" can opener was right in the drawer in front of me.
I carry four Swiss Army Knives, or at least material Swiss Army Knives, besides my wallet.
The first is a Swisschamp my parents got for me in England when we traveled when I was a teen, and I've made a couple of custom modifications to it: I filed away at part of the metal saw/nail file/metal file to make a harder-than-steel blade for cutting at screens, and I also narrowed the end of the tweezers to try and make it work better as a splinter tweezers. I've stopped carrying it once or twice, but so far at least I have gotten back to carrying it again. I know its features by heart: large blade, small blade, metal saw, metal file, nail file, nail cleaner, added harder-than-steel blade, wood saw, scissors, magnifying glass, Phillips screwdriver, pliers, large slotted screwdriver, can opener, wire stripper, small slotted screwdriver, can opener, corkscrew, jeweler's screwdriver, pin, wood chisel, additional slotted screwdriver, hook, reamer, pen, toothpick, tweezers (sadly replaced with a regular tweezers when I sent it in for repairs—I'm sure they meant it well).
The second Swiss Army Knife I carry is one that I purchased in a moment of "sacramental shopping" against my best judgment: my watch was having problems, but I already had a perfectly useful way to tell time. I had quite vulgarly agreed with the contents of my spam folder to believe that I needed an extra special watch and it would make me special. And so I purchased a Casio Pathfinder watch, water resistant to 100 meters, and besides the normal time, five alarms, stopwatch, and timer one might expect of a digital watch, it has a compass, barometer/altimeter, a surprisingly useless thermometer, tells time in other time zones, is set each night by a signal from an atomic clock and is probably within a second of the "official" absolute time without my ever setting it, and recharges by solar power even when I do nothing to make sure it gets light. It has never been below the highest level of charge. Oh, and its color is a military olive green with black highlight, so it fits in with my green and earth tone wardrobe. I have, as it turns out, used the compass, and I do hope it lasts me a while, but I regard the purchase as an ersatz sacrament, vulgar as a "replica luxury watch" hawked in spam.
The third Swiss Army Knife I carry is an iPhone; I upgraded in the recent past from my iPhone 1 to an iPhone 4 because AT&T's rate limiting was getting to be a quite practical limitation; sending a thank-you note after a job interview was like breathing through a straw. I have not upgraded to the 4 S; it sounds impressive, but my present iPhone 4 works as nicely today as when I got it, good enough that the fact that something better is out there does not concern me.
My fourth Swiss Army Knife, which I use rarely, is/was (it is lost now) an Ubuntu USB key: it can store files and it can boot (or install) Ubuntu Linux. While I use thend as someone answered a forum question, "I've installed Linux, now where I can get some games," and answered, "Linux is the game!" other three Swiss Army Knives all the time, this one is there but there are not too many situations to use it. I did install Linux at a friend's house when he requested it and there was no question of going somewhere else to get media, but the way life moves today I spend little time using it; there may be students storing all their homework on a USB key, but I don't find myself using it often.
Part of the reasons people compare things to Swiss Army Knives (and call Perl "Unix's Swiss Army Chainsaw", Python being a lightsabre that cuts like a hot knife through butter), is that there is a mystique to this one bit of Swiss machinecraft that can do so many things. As a relatively young boy, I believe after addictively watching MacGyver, I was asked what I wanted for Christmas and said I wanted a Swiss Army Knife, and my Mom, who would not have been making the choice out of financial constraint, purchased me a wooden-handled pocketknife with two (literal) blades, and said, "See, I got you a Swiss Army Knife!" I tried to contain my disappointment; it was as if I had asked for a bacon cheeseburger, and imagined a good sit-down restaurant bacon cheeseburger piled high with toppings, and was told in perfect sincerity, "Here's the hamburger you asked for," and been given a tiny White Castle burger.
It was perhaps out of this experience that I made a purchase for a boy at church: his parents had told him, perhaps not strangely, that he could own a pocketknife (I believe he owns a couple), but he could not carry anything dangerous. I think sometime back I had given him a vaguely Swiss Army-like folding tool, but more recently I found out there was a Leatherman expressly designed to be able to be taken through airport security, having been cleared approval with the TSA and 315 airports, and they had rather ingeniously made a mechanical folding pliers that was a bit small, but folded out to a pliers, scissors, nail file, carabiner, and (I believe) a screwdriver designed to work with either slotted or Phillips screws, and a tweezers, but all of this without being like a weapon. And he thanked me for it, once initially as one would expect from politeness, and once a week later (and he showed me its features!). The gift had scored home with him, and I believe my actions were conditioned (though I did not think of it at the time) by my disappointment when my parents admittedly entrusted me with a blade, but did not give the abounding mechanical clockwork-like coolness that motivated my request for a Swiss Army Knife.
The liturgical flow of day and year is intricate, with its ebb and flow and nooks and crannies, and the exact combination of songs, musical tones, readings, and so on for a Divine Liturgy are something that may not be exactly repeated for hundreds of years. And a certain sense you can say that God is a Swiss Army Knife, and the saints are his blades—or, really, the whole race of mankind.
But on a deeper level the image does not fit, and here we run into a basic difficulty in theology. There are two basic modes of theology in talking about God, and they are opposite. One mode, the cataphatic, is to say that God is described by the images of his Creation, that he is King and Father, and so on. And there is some element of truth even in comparing HE WHO IS to solid stone: "Blessed be my rock," the Psalmist bard proclaims. But in a deeper sense these images all ultimately fail, as loudly proclaims apophatic theology. The image of God as stone fails more quickly, but ultimately even the images of a Father and King run dry.
The spiritual life is one of simplicity, praying the Jesus Prayer, "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner," and the Swiss-like clockwork of the liturgy is paradoxically an entryway into this simplicity.
The most interesting way a Swiss Army Knife illumines God is not in its similarity, but precisely how its fundamental beauty differs from God's fundamental beauty.
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Вале́рій Анато́лійович Числю́к ( — ) — старший солдат Збройних сил України, учасник російсько-української війни.

Життєпис
Народився 1976 року в місті Шепетівка Хмельницької області. 1980 року переїхала у місто Прокоп'євськ Кемеровської області РФ. 1986 року родина повертається додому, жили в Шепетівці. У Білополі проживали його дідусь та бабуся; дідусь працював завідувачем ферми, Валерій любив коней, вчився сільських робіт. Закінчив 9 класів шепетівської ЗОШ № 3, від 12 років працював на колгоспному току, за хорошу роботу Валерія нагородили будильником. Одного разу врятував дитину, яка сиділа на возі — віз мчав у став (їздовий був нетверезий). 1992 року закінчив Шепетівський професійний ліцей — за спеціальністю токар. Працював токарем, трактористом, у Мокіївській селянській спілці «Нива» водієм, згодом — у Шепетівській ЦРЛ; останніми роками їздив на заробітки до Києва. Проживав у селі Білопіль Шепетівського району.

Мобілізований в квітні 2015 року, місяць проходив бойову підготовку на Рівненському військовому полігоні; солдат 21-го окремого мотопіхотного батальйону 56-ї окремої мотопіхотної бригади, старший водій БРДМ-2.

3 грудня 2015 року група військовиків в кількості 15 осіб здійснює рух у напрямі спостережного пункту, за 500—600 метрів ДРГ терористів відкриває прицільний вогонь на ураження по спостережному посту. Військовики на посту відкрили вогонь у відповідь та просять підтримку, було прийнято рішення направити резерв роти (2 мотопіхотні відділення на 2-х БРДМ-2). Близько 17:20 поблизу села Гнутове на ворожій міні підірвалася БРДМ-2. Внаслідок підриву Валерій Числюк загинув, 5 вояків зазнали поранень.

Похований в селі Білопіль Шепетівського району.

Без сина лишилася мама Любов Іванівна.

Нагороди та вшанування
 За особисту мужність, сумлінне та бездоганне служіння Українському народові, зразкове виконання військового обов'язку відзначений — нагороджений орденом «За мужність» ІІІ ступеня (16.1.2016, посмертно)
 19 лютого 2016 року у селі Білопіль відкрили меморіальну дошку бійцю АТО Валерію Числюку
 23 червня 2016 року в Шепетівському професійному ліцеї відкрито та освячено меморіальні дошки випускникам Ярославу Давидову та Валерію Числюку

Примітки

Джерела
 Числюк Валерій Анатолійович // Книга пам'яті загиблих
 Числюк Валерій Анатолійович. Доки живе пам'ять, доти живуть герої

Уродженці Шепетівки
Померли в Маріуполі
Поховані в Шепетівському районі

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What does it look and sound like? This small parrot shows strong sexual dimorphism. The male has a turquoise head, yellow underparts and an olive-green back. While the median, outer lesser wing-coverts and secondary-coverts are turquoise blue with the innermost median coverts chestnut red, appearing as a band running down the shoulders when not in flight. The female lacks the chestnut wing patch and the yellow of the undersurface extends to the upper belly, with the chest being grassy green. The turquoise on the head is restricted to the cheeks and above the eyes, but the lores and around the eyes are white. The female resembles the female Scarlet-chested Parrot Neophema splendida, but the two species do not overlap in range. The call while flying is a 'tseet-tseet' and a 'zit-zit-zit' when alarmed.
Where does it live? The Turquoise Parrot is confined to the eastern states, between southern Qld and central Victoria (the Scarlet-chested Parrot is found throughout southern Australia from central Western Australia to eastern NSW).