Gunman in $8.9M casino heist jailed
As a lengthy trial concluded at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, Magistrate Judy Latchman on Monday found a Bagotville, West Bank Demerara (WBD) resident guilty of the $8.9 million heist at the Ramada Princess Casino.Wayne Griffith was charged, along with Andre Blackman and Junior Stewart, for the April 29, 2016 robbery. On Monday, while Griffith was found guilty, Blackman was freed after he was found not culpable for the offence. Stewart was recently freed after it was found that there was no evidence against him.The charge stated that on April 29, 2016 at Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD) while being in the company of others, and armed with guns, Griffith robbed Daniel Roberts and Alfea Gajadhar of $8.9 million, property of Ramada PrincessJailed: Wayne GriffithCasino.According to reports, in the wee morning of April 29, 2016, four gunmen stormed the Princess Casino about 03:45h and discharged several rounds as they relieved patrons and staff of cash and other valuables. They held a security guard on duty at gunpoint and took away his shotgun and several rounds of ammunition.The men ordered everyone to lie on the ground and relieved the cashier of the $8.9 million. After hearing that he was found guilty of the charge, Griffith refused to answer further questions from Magistrate Latchman. He told her: “I have nothing more to say in this court, hurry up and give me a sentence; let me go downstairs.”Magistrate Latchman after considering the fact that persons were injured during the robbery, jailed him for five years.
He was given a re-skate about an hour later, but his time gave him fifth place, leaving him on the outside with Canada given only four berths in the distance for the Games in Sochi.However, the result does not spell the end of Morrison’s Olympic dreams, because he still has a chance to qualify on Thursday through the 1,500 hundred metres, another of his preferred events. – Advertisement –
Bromberg said as a judge he is not an advocate on one side or the other, but his aim was to lay out the law in a way that could be easily absorbed. Sgt. Ti Goetz, supervisor of the Hawthorne Police Department’s gang intelligence unit, said prosecutors have been more willing to use the STEP Act in gang cases in recent years. “I wanted to get \ take on \,” said Goetz, who brought two of his gang unit officers with him. “They implemented the law when gang violence was at an all-time high back in the ’80s.” In his speech, Bromberg described four essential aspects of a gang definition prosecutors must establish for gang injunctions. Similar rules exist for determining if someone is a gang member. The group must have three or more members whose “primary activities” were the commission of one or more of a list of 24 “serious” crimes. They must share an identifying name or signal and display a “pattern of criminal activity.” MONTEBELLO – An Orange County Superior Court judge briefed city and police representatives from more than 30 cities Monday in Montebello on California’s anti-gang law known as the STEP Act. The 1988 Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act outlawed gangs, made being a gang member a crime and allowed courts to increase penalties for the perpetrators of crimes that benefit a gang. Even though the law is not new, Judge Steven Bromberg agreed to speak at a luncheon at the Quiet Cannon Monday to give an overview to cities and police departments about how the law is used. The event was sponsored by the city of Montebello and the Montebello Chamber of Commerce. “This is like an education program,” Bromberg said. “I’ll try to set out the structure of California gang law. It’s about defining what a gang is, what a gang member is and what constitutes a gang crime. Even determining what a gang is is so complicated and convoluted.” Most significantly, Bromberg said, is the ability to charge someone who is associated with a crime with the same crime. For example, if someone is driving the car during a drive-by shooting, the driver is also considered the shooter, he said. Montebello police Chief Garry Couso-Vasquez said his city’s two-year-old gang injunction against a local gang has “given us a tool we didn’t have before.” One group, the ACLU, has argued since its inception that the law is unconstitutional and has failed to abate crime. pam.wight@sgvn.com (562) 698-0955, Ext. 3029160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set!
The Canadian Press This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 4, 2019.Companies in this story: (TSX:RY, TSX:BNS, TSX:TD, TSX:CNQ) TORONTO — Investment firms owned by three of Canada’s biggest banks have each agreed to pay a half-million-dollar penalty to settle charges of improperly trading shares.The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada or IIROC says a hearing panel has accepted a settlement whereby RBC Dominion Securities, Scotia Capital Inc. and TD Securities Inc. will each pay a $500,000 penalty — plus costs of $10,000 each — to settle charges they traded in a security by means other than the entry of an order on a marketplace.In an agreed statement, IIROC says the three Canadian firms chose to join lead underwriter Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in May 2018 to help Royal Dutch Shell sell 97.6 million shares in Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.- Advertisement -Goldman Sachs was to acquire the shares under U.S. securities law on a “bought deal basis,” which meant the shares would be sold at a specified discount from the closing market price. Each member of the underwriting consortium agreed to market one quarter of the shares, with Goldman Sachs responsible for settling the trades and making the required U.S. regulatory disclosures.However, Goldman Sachs discovered it was not in a position to deliver the shares to certain Canadian institutions which did not have accounts or required currency conversion and instead forwarded those shares to the three Canadian firms to settle the trades with their clients.IIROC says those trades should have been entered in a marketplace unless they were covered by an exemption, thus violating a measure designed to increase visibility in the marketplace. It said the largely technical violation didn’t cause any harm to clients.Advertisement
Donegal Donkey Sanctuary are running a fundraising barn dance this Friday night July the 4th to help towards replacement of vital equipment stolen in a robbery at their premises in early April.Supporters may remember that lots of equipment, such as the quad trailer and feed barrow along with a lot of smaller day to day animal handling equipment were heartlessly taken from the sanctuary buildings as well as extensive amounts of items from the family home.The Barn Dance, which has an American Independence Day theme will be held in the new barn and is an opportunity for people have a look at the facilities available at the centre and get some idea of how it operates to rescue and rehome hundreds of otherwise unwanted animals. Music is by the very popular David Craig and his Band with supporting disco.BBQ and bar on the night, starting at 10pm ‘til late!Garth Brooks tickets to be raffled on the night, western style dress optional!So come on cowboys and cowgirls join the fun this weekend and make it a night to remember! See you there! 🙂 INDEPENDENCE DAY BARN DANCE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR DONEGAL DONKEY SANCTUARY was last modified: July 2nd, 2014 by StephenShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:barn dancedonegal donkey sanctuaryFeaturesfundraisingnewsNotices
Donegal Junior LeagueReports SundayBrian Mc Cormick Sports Premier DivisionRathmullan Celtic 7 Gweedore Celtic 0 Rathmullan Celtic made it three wins on the bounce in all competitions with an emphatic seven goal victory over Gweedore Celtic at the Seaside. Dara Patton opened the scoring from the penalty spot after only five minutes. Two minutes later Shea Coyle doubled the lead with a superb volley. Hoops new recruit Shane Barclay put the contest out of the reach of Gweedore after 13 minutes when the young striker took advantage of a long bounce over the Gweedore keeper to calmly finish in the bottom corner. The Hoops rounded off the perfect half with winger Ryan Connolly heading home a Barclay cross from inside the area.The second half saw Patton scored again, this time at the second attempt after his initial strike came back off the crossbar. McFadden rounded off a great personal performance in midfield with a thunderous volley from 25 yards which rattled the back of the net on 68 minutes. Pauric Morrison added a seventh on eighty minutes to complete the scoring. Referee: Martin QuinnLifford Celtic 0 Drumoghill F.C. 8Drumoghill cruised to victory putting eight goals past an understrength Lifford team which was missing no fewer than eight regular first team starters. The first goal arrived on the half hour mark when Richie Moore converted a penalty, Terrence Shields added a second and Moore got Drumoghill’s third on the stroke of half time. The second half had just begun when Moore had the chance to complete his hat-trick but he blazed his spot kick high over the bar. The striker finished the game with four goals as he later registered Drumoghill’s fourth and fifth goals. Shields also went on to complete his hat-trick with two fine goals and player manager Michael Lynch rounded off the scoring close to full time.Milford United 2 Cappry Rovers 2The game ended in a draw following a tough battle at Moyle View Park Milford. Cappry took the lead on ten minutes when Kyle Lafferty tapped home following good work from Benny Bonner on the left wing. Milford equalised on thirty minutes when Brendan Murray drove home after good work by Gary Merritt and Mark Flood. Milford took the lead on the hour mark when Joey Cullen hit the roof of the net from six yards. Cappry had a great chance to level matters when Benny Mc Laughlin was one and one with Enda Mc Hugh in the Milford nets but Mc Hugh made a great save to deny Mc Laughlin. Cappry scored the equaliser when they broke and Aaron Kelly finished past the advancing keeper. Cappry also had a goal disallowed on nine minutes for offside. Good performance by both teamsKildrum Tigers 5 Cranford United 2 Kildrum Tigers strolled to an emphatic victory over Cranford on a fine spring day at Station Road. The Tigers opened the scoring after two minutes when a William Lynch effort, which was well saved, fell to Damian Crossan who made no mistake. Kildrum doubled their lead after eighteen minutes when Reece Laird squared to Declan Curtis who fired home. The tigers went three to the good when another Lynch effort fell to Crossan who exquisitely placed the ball beyond the keeper. Another followed quick after when Lynch made a great run in behind and pulled it back for Laird. Kildrum got their fifth after sixty minutes when Shane Mc Intyre beat two men and set up Laird for an easy finish. Cranford got two consolation goals late on through Doherty and an OG.Donegal Town 0 St. Catherines 2This game featured two teams at opposite ends of the Premier Division. St Catherine’s who currently sit top of the league and haven’t lost a league game all season and Donegal Town who have yet to win their first game this season. St Catherine’s took the lead midway through the first half when a Shane O’Rourke free kick passed through everyone in the box and bounced passed the Donegal goalkeeper. Donegal had some chances to level the game in the first half. A David “Ted” Bustard strike from the edge of the box looked like a certain goal but the Killybegs keeper pulled of a super save. Donegal’s Ciaran O’Reilly’s effort also passed just wide of the post. 1-0 St Catherine’s at the end of the first half. The second half saw a well contested game of football. St Catherine’s doubled their lead when they were awarded a penalty for a hand ball in the Donegal box. Jason Noctor made no mistake from the spot. St Catherine’s saw the rest of the game out comfortably and finished 2-0 winners.Watson Hire Division One Kilmacrennan Celtic 2 Keadue Rovers 1Kilmacrennan Celtic went away from Central Park on Sunday with a vital victory in the promotion battle. The home side went one up after thirteen minutes when, after a succession of corners, the Kilmacrennan keeper fumbled a cross and Ryan Greene was on hand to slot home from close range. The visitors though were generally on top in possession and looked the more likely to score. Kilmacrennan had a good effort from a free kick on thirty five minutes when Kevin Mc Menamin’s effort was well saved by Danny Rodgers. Keadue held firm until half time. Kilmacrennan were much quicker on the re-start and were level within four minutes when Eddie Doherty pounced on a defensive mistake and slotted home low to the net. They went ahead eight minutes later when Ryan Shields headed home at the far post from a well worked corner kick. At this stage Kilmacrennan were looking comfortable but to their credit Keadue kept battling but just couldn’t find the equaliser despite some good play.Best for Kilmacrennan were Declan O’Donnell and Christy Conaghan while best for Keadue were Packie Mc Gonagle and Adam Neely. Referee: James Malseed.Lagan Harps 2 Castlefin Celtic 1Lagan kept themselves in the promotion race when they ground out a win over league leaders Castlefin Celtic. Lagan started brightly with Kevin Kelly going close with a free-kick. Castlefin started to take control and Barry Tourish went close on a couple of occasions. They took the lead on twenty five minutes when Ronan Tourish crossed to the back post where Fergal Mc Nulty scrambled home. Lagan had a great chance to equalise late in the half when Chris Toner beat the offside trap however he shot over as Anthony O’Hagan rushed off his line. The second half followed a different pattern with Lagan dominating possession. Kevin Kelly went close with a free and Glen Gallagher fired just wide as the pressure mounted. Castlefin responded with Barry Tourish firing across the face of the goal. Lagan made the breakthrough on sixty three minutes when Chris Toner was fouled in the area and Kevin Kelly dispatched the penalty. Austin Marron had two great chances to increase Lagan’s lead but missed the target on both occasions. Castlefin almost regained the lead when JP Mailey crossed and Fergal Mc Nulty hit the post. Lagan got the winner on seventy eight minutes when Kenny Doran rose to head home a Kevin Kelly free. All in all a tough battle which Lagan just shaded. For Castlefin Barry Tourish and Fergal Mc Nulty were best, while Lagan’s best were Oisin Grant, Kevin Kelly and Conor Mc Gonigle. Referee: Marty Mc Garrigle.CT Ball Division TwoRaphoe Town 1 Deele Harps 2(No Report Submitted)Bonagee United 1 Eany Celtic 1Lee Mc Monagle gave table toppers Bonagee United a first half lead which they held until the interval. Eany, who have found a bit of form of late, got an equaliser when Paul Mc Groarty converted a free-kick. This match ended deadlocked and with Convoy also drawing it is as you were at the summit. Good point for Eany Celtic on the road.Convoy Arsenal 3 Dunlewey Celtic 3Dunlewey took the lead in the first five minutes when a mix up in the convoy defence saw Mc Geady nip in and put them into an early lead. Five minutes later it was all level when Mark Mailey scored a thunderous volley from 20 yards getting on the end of a Jonny Robb cross giving the keeper no chance. Dunlewey regained the lead after 20 minutes when Shane Mc Laughlin, under no pressure, slipped and Mc Geady stole the ball off him to race clear and make it two one. Ten minutes later it was 3-1 when Mc Geady completed his hat-trick from close range when Convoy failed to clear a corner. Dunlewey were deserving leaders at half time. The second half was a different story where the majority of the game was played in the Dunlewey half! Convoy created chance after chance before Darren Harvey converted from close range after getting on the end if a Dan O’ Brien through ball. With minutes remaining Gavin Sweeney was introduced into the game and with his first touch he pulled the tie level with a great finish after being put through from McLaughlin. Deep into added time he nearly broke Dunlewey hearts but the keeper made a great save to prevent the striker a winner.Both team performances. Referee: Michael MulhernGlenree United 3 Letterbarrow Celtic 1It was the home-side who came out victorious in this battle ensuring they kept up their promotion bid. Colin Gallagher struck first on 15 minutes for a well deserved lead. The visitors had a few half chances to pull a goal back but lacked the finishing touch. Glenree were spending a lot of time in the opposition box but at times were wasteful with some fine opportunities being missed. In the second half Letterbarrow tried to up it a gear but were getting no change out of the home defence. Damien Nelis cooly slotted the ball into the net in the 56th minute to make it 2 -0 after fine play from Oisin Langan to set him up. The away side got back into the game on the 78th minute when a free kick was floated in only to be misjudged by the defence and it trickled into the net. But any hopes of a comeback for the away side were dashed four minutes later when Colin Gallagher assisted the returning Marty Mc Laughlin to get on the score sheet. Best on the day for Glenree were : Oisin Langan and Colin Gallagher. Team effort from Letterbarrow Celtic. Referee: Michael Mc FaddenKnockalla CupGlenea United 2 Glengad F.C. 3ReportsSaturdayGlencar Inn Saturday Division TwoCurragh Athletic Reserves 0 Ramelton Mariners 1Curragh started well in this game and should have taken the lead through Simon Cromie. Mariners scored against the run of play in the 12th minute through Packie Durning. Curragh upped the pace and should have being level at half time but the visiting keeper saved well from Owen Harvey and Simon Cromie. Curragh changed things at half time and were unlucky time after time. Justin Mc Bride had shots brilliantly saved by Kevin Mc Cahill in Mariners’ nets. A brilliant double save in the 85th minute from a Justin Mc Bride shot and a follow up strike from Gary Quinn won this game for mariners .. Team effort from Curragh. Kevin Mc Cahill was best for Mariners.Strand Rovers 1 Mulroy Celtic 2This top of the table clash today in Strand Park, Maghery was a close affair. Mulroy’s best chance in the first half came from a free kick with which Seami Friel clipped the crossbar. Strand went in at half time one up with Brendan Glackin tucking away one of the many chances they had. Strand held onto the lead up until the 75th minute when a free kick from outside the box was tucked away by that man Friel. Strand had a few chances with Darragh Hanlon looking lively up top. The winner came on 89 minutes when Friel nipped in to tuck away another after a mix up at the back.Cranford United Reserves 2 Keadue Rovers Reserves 3Cranford took the lead with Chris Molloy finishing well in the opening 20 minutes. The game overall was a very open affair with both teams attacking and creating chances. Keadue went 2-1 up just before half time. Cranford then made it 2-2 in the first ten minutes of the second half. The game was now in the balance with both teams looking dangerous and it was the away side that capitalised with a winner with 10 minutes to go. Good team performances from both sides.Downtown CupGlenea United Reserves 3 Arranmore United 1In fine conditions for football it was the home side that came out on top to qualify for the quarter finals of the Downtown Cup. Glenea started well and took the lead on five minutes when Shane Ferry got free and slotted home past the keeper. Glenea continued to press but were unable to add the lead and the away side came more into the game. Glenea however extended their lead on forty minutes when Eugene Maguire’s pass found Aodhan Ferry and he found the corner of the net. In the 2nd half Arranmore tried hard to get back into game but it was the home side that extended their lead when Neil Mc Geever was on hand to drill the ball home after the away side failed to clear a corner. Arranmore pulled a goal back on ninety minutes when Christy Mc Glanaghey got onto a through ball and fired home. Best for Glenea were Shane Ferry and Martin Maguire, while it was a team effort from Arranmore. Referee: Michael McFadden.Milford United Reserves 3 Glenree United Reserves 1Milford continued their good home form taking all three points in a Cup game with nothing at stake for either team. The first half was a drab enough affair with neither team playing any great football. Milford took the lead on twenty minutes through Lee Burke, finishing off a good move from ten yards. Glenree equalised when Ross Hamlyn latched onto a through ball to slot home. Milford upped the tempo in the second half and Burke got his second after an excellent ball from Johnny Sweeney. Sweeney then rounded off his man of the match performance with a pile driver from twenty five yards to secure the three points.Drumoghill F.C. Reserves 1 Castlefin Celtic Reserves 2It wasn’t until the 30th minute that this hard fought game saw it’s first goal. Both teams where in fine form and Drumoghill took the lead when Kevin Higgins played an inch perfect pass to Ethan Mc Creedy and the young striker turned the defence and struck a 25 yard screamer into the top corner. The lead was short lived however as Castlefin got back on level term just before half-time when Brian Dooher slotted home from close range . The second half was again a tightly fought with both keepers on top form. In the 85 minute the game was settled as a contest when Matthew O’ Rourke fired home after beating the off-side trap. Referee: Seamus Mc Groary.Tullyvinney Rovers 1 Orchard F.C. 3A severely weakened Tullyvinney team, making a total of 9 changes from their previous encounter to Stand Rovers, battled hard but ultimately succumbed to a 3-1 loss to Division One side Orchard FC in Crossroads Park on Saturday afternoon. The visitors got off to a dream start as after just five minutes John Boyle found himself with just keeper Eamon Connaghan to beat after a bit of hesitation in the backline and he made no mistake from 10 yards. Tullyvinney battled hard for an equaliser. A few chances fell their way, the best of which to Mervyn White on 15 minutes but the midfielder saw his effort go agonisingly over the bar from 12 yards. Ten minutes later though, after a Redmond Doherty long range free kick was spilled by the Orchard keeper, White stepped up and smashed home an equaliser from 10 yards. Rovers could have had a second five minutes later after good work from Paul Carlin down the right hand side saw the winger turn inside his man inside the box but fail to get his shot away. Orchard started the second half as they started the first coming out an attacking the hosts and were rewarded on fifty minutes with their second goal of the game through Chrissy McLaughlin who rose highest at the back post to send his header into the roof of the Tullyvinney net from a Joe Mc Carron free kick wide on the right. Despite the best efforts of a weakened Tullyvinney side they were undone again five minutes from the end of the match when Orchard put the icing on the cake through Barney Mc Menamin. James Sweeney and Gavin Mc Brearty stood out for Tullyvinney while it was a good team performance from Orchard. Referee: Martin Mc Anneny.Drumbar F.C. 1 Donegal Town Reserves 1Great conditions in Drumbar for this local derby match in the Downtown Cup . Donegal Town dominated the first half creating most of the chances. Drumbar found it hard to get going but their defence were holding out well until Adam Enright crossed a great ball into the box for David Ted Bustard to get his head to, looping it over the Drumbar keeper, off the post and in. The second half was a different story with Drumbar coming out with a different attitude and creating many more chances. Ray Balogun got on the end of one of these chances and finished neatly past the Donegal keeper. Soon afterwards Balogun fired a shot just over the crossbar missing the chance to go ahead. Donegal had one great chance to take the lead again only for a top save from Kevin Mc Gurk for the home team. Nearing the end of the match Drumbar had two chances to finish it off but couldn’t capitalise! All round it was a fair result for both teams based on both halves. Best for Donegal Town was Pauric Sweeney.Daniel Bennett and Ray Balogun stood out for the home team with big performances on the day.St. Catherines Reserves 2 Erne Wanderers 6Erne opened the scoring in the second minute, Alan Russell had a spot kick saved by Shane O’Gara but found the net from the rebound. On ten minutes Michael Ward found the net from close range after a defensive mix up. Erne went further in front in the 20 minute when Ward got his second of the game. Erne got their fourth of the game on 47minutes when Barry Mulligan scored from the penalty spot. Gene Lett got St Catherine’s first goal after a goalmouth scramble. Mulligan got his second of the game and Ryan O’Brien added a sixth for Erne. Donal McGuire got a second goal for the Saints on 89minutes after good work down the left by Caolan Beirne. Best for Erne was Michael Ward and Declan Mc Loughlin was best for St Catherine’s.ResultsSaturdayGlencar Inn Saturday Division TwoCurragh Athletic Reserves 0 v 1 Ramelton MarinersStrand Rovers 1 v 2 Mulroy CelticCranford United Reserves 2 v 3 Keadue Rovers ReservesDowntown CupGlenea United Reserves 3 v 1 Arranmore UnitedMilford United Reserves 3 v 1 Glenree United ReservesDrumoghill F.C. Reserves 1 v 2 Castlefin Celtic ReservesTullyvinney Rovers 1 v 3 Orchard F.C.Drumbar F.C. 1 v 1 Donegal Town ReservesSt. Catherines Reserves 2 v 4 Erne WanderersSundayBrian Mc Cormick Sports Premier DivisionRathmullan Celtic 7 v 0 Gweedore CelticLifford Celtic 0 v 8 Drumoghill F.C.Milford United 2 v 2 Cappry RoversKildrum Tigers 5 v 2 Cranford UnitedDonegal Town 0 v 2 St. CatherinesWatson Hire Division OneKilmacrennan Celtic 2 v 1 Keadue RoversLagan Harps 2 v 1 Castlefin CelticCT Ball Division TwoRaphoe Town 1 v 2 Deele HarpsBonagee United 1 v 1 Eany CelticConvoy Arsenal 3 v 3 Dunlewey CelticGlenree United 3 v 1 Letterbarrow CelticKnockalla CupGlenea United 2 v 3 Glengad F.C.FixturesSaturday 14-02-2015 K.O. 2p.m. (Unless Stated)Old Orchard Saturday Division OneSt. Catherines Reserves v Arranmore United (K.O. 1p.m.)Orchard F. C. v Fintown Harps AFCGlenea United Reserves v Castlefin Celtic ReservesGlencar Inn Saturday Division TwoDrumoghill F.C. Reserves v Cranford United ReservesCurragh Athletic Reserves v Tullyvinney RoversStrand Rovers v Drumbar F.C.Mulroy Celtic v Keadue Rovers ReservesDowntown CupDonegal Town Reserves v Erne WanderersGlenree United Reserves v Ramelton MarinersGlencar Celtic v Milford UnitedSunday 15-02-2015 K.O. 2 p.m. (Unless Stated)Brian Mc Cormick Sports Premier DivisionDrumoghill F.C. v Gweedore CelticSt. Catherines v Rathmullan CelticCappry Rovers v Kildrum TigersCranford United v Glenea UnitedWatson Hire Division OneGweedore United v Kilmacrennan CelticLagan Harps v Kerrykeel ’71 F.C.Keadue Rovers v Castlefin CelticCT Ball Division TwoRaphoe Town v Bonagee UnitedConvoy Arsenal v Deele HarpsLetterbarrow Celtic v Eany CelticKnockalla Cup K.O. 1.30 p.m.Milford United v Lifford CelticDONEGAL LEAGUE: ALL THE REPORTS, RESULTS AND FIXTURES was last modified: February 8th, 2015 by StephenShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:Donegal League
It was fair to question the validity of the Niners’ unblemished record heading into the contest against the Browns, but folks, there’s no question about it now: this is a good football team.Oh, and that record is still unblemished — San Francisco is 4-0 now following a … CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos or videos on a mobile deviceSANTA CLARA — This 49ers team is not a fluke.No matter what happens from here on out, they proved that much on Monday night.
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Tags:#cloud#news Why Tech Companies Need Simpler Terms of Servic… Amazon Web Services disruption issues are now into their second day as engineers work to get the last of the availability zones restored. Meanwhile, the customers affected spent the day talking with their customers while others such as Twilio were able to show how they avoided outages.The latest update from AWS came late Thursday night:10:58 PM PDT Just a short note to let you know that the team continues to be all-hands on deck trying to add capacity to the affected Availability Zone to re-mirror stuck volumes. It’s taking us longer than we anticipated to add capacity to this fleet. When we have an updated ETA or meaningful new update, we will make sure to post it here. But, we can assure you that the team is working this hard and will do so as long as it takes to get this resolved.AWS kept its status page updated throughout the day. By early afternoon, all but one availability zone had been restored:12:30 PM PDT We have observed successful new launches of EBS (Elastic Block Storage) backed instances for the past 15 minutes in all but one of the availability zones in the US-EAST-1 Region. The team is continuing to work to recover the unavailable EBS volumes as quickly as possible.Data Center Knowledge wrote that the issue is specifically about EBS. You may recall that EBS has been something Reddit has struggled with for some time. We wrote about the issue in March.AWS briefly explained what happened in an update yesterday morning:8:54 AM PDT We’d like to provide additional color on what were working on right now (please note that we always know more and understand issues better after we fully recover and dive deep into the post mortem). A networking event early this morning triggered a large amount of re-mirroring of EBS volumes in US-EAST-1. This re-mirroring created a shortage of capacity in one of the US-EAST-1 Availability Zones, which impacted new EBS volume creation as well as the pace with which we could re-mirror and recover affected EBS volumes. Additionally, one of our internal control planes for EBS has become inundated such that it’s difficult to create new EBS volumes and EBS backed instances. We are working as quickly as possible to add capacity to that one Availability Zone to speed up the re-mirroring, and working to restore the control plane issue. We’re starting to see progress on these efforts, but are not there yet. We will continue to provide updates when we have them.The AWS region that went down is out of Northern Virginia. It has four availability zones. Customers have learned to use multiple availability zones within a region to avoid outages. And that’s what puzzling. How did this all happen? It may come down to how AWS defines availability zones.The founder of FathomDB reviewed that question himself in a post on the topic:AWS has two concepts that relate to availability – Regions and Availability Zones. They have five Regions – two in the US (one east coast, one west coast), one in Europe (Ireland), and two in Asia (Tokyo, Singapore). Each region has within it multiple “Availability Zones” (AZs), which are supposed to be isolated so that they have no single point of failure less than a natural disaster or something of that magnitude. AWS says that by “launching instances in separate Availability Zones, you can protect your applications from failure of a single location”. It’s not clear whether ‘location’ means separate datacenters or separate floors/areas of a single datacenter, but it doesn’t really matter – the point is that AZs should fail independently until a catastrophic failure occurs. [Update below: it seems likely that they are in fact separate datacenters]The post goes on to state that AWS, not customers are to blame:This morning, multiple availability zones failed in the us-east region. AWS broke their promises on the failure scenarios for Availability Zones. It means that AWS have a common single point of failure (assuming it wasn’t a winning-the-lottery-while-being-hit-by-a-meteor-odds coincidence). The sites that are down were correctly designing to the ‘contract’; the problem is that AWS didn’t follow their own specifications. Whether that happened through incompetence or dishonesty or something a lot more forgivable entirely, we simply don’t know at this point. But the engineers at quora, foursquare and reddit are very competent, and it’s wrong to point the blame in that direction.BigDoor CEO Keith Smith wrote in a blog post that he and his colleagues spent the day in crisis control. Amazon is historically pretty quiet about its problems. Smith said that has made it more difficult to respond to customers:We aren’t just sitting around waiting for systems to recover. We are actively moving instances to areas within the AWS cloud that are actually functioning. If Amazon had been more forthcoming with what they are experiencing, we would have been able to restore our systems sooner.But Twilio delighted in the outage as it gave it a chance to tout its architecture. Twilio has instituted a set of architectural design principles that minimize the impact of occasional, but inevitable, issues in underlying infrastructure. A post on the new Twilio engineering blog outlines the company’s approach.The AWS outage will pass but there are some things that need to be explained. In particular how it treats availability zones. Customers need that clarification to better prepare for future outages that may occur.
In the 27 years that I’ve owned my house in West Dummerston, Vermont, I’ve always used wood heat to some extent. But my commitment to it has ebbed and flowed. For about the first 15 years, I heated the house almost exclusively with wood. Built in 1785, the house had electric heat when I bought it, but with my work focused on energy efficiency and alternative energy sources, I couldn’t bring myself to use electricity for heating, because so much energy is wasted during power generation.A Vermont Castings Resolute wood stove was one of my first purchases when I bought the house in 1981. To save money, I picked up the stove at Vermont Castings’ factory in Randolph in my little Datsun pickup. I also tried to save money by installing it myself with galvanized stovepipe going up through the old, unlined chimney. (Not too many years later, after that stovepipe began rusting out, I had Friends of the Sun do a proper installation with stainless steel.)My experience with wood heat is probably not too different from that of a lot of people around here. For the first four or five years, I cut, hauled, split, and stacked all the wood myself, proving the old adage that burning wood warms you at least three or four times. I went through about four cords per year, so it was a lot of work. Though we had a through-the-wall venting gas space heater in our bedroom that we occasionally used, and though we kept the electric heat as back-up and for when we were going out of town (leaving the thermostats at 40 or 45 degrees), I’m guessing that wood provided about 90% of our heat.After enough years of cutting and hauling wood myself, I started having log-length wood delivered by the truckload, and I would cut, split, and stack it myself. I did that for a few years, then shifted to getting our wood delivered already cut and split, leaving only the stacking for us. Eventually, at my wife’s gentle urging and tired of having to stoke the wood stove at 3 am, we bit the bullet and installed a central oil heating system—and dramatically reduced our use of wood for the next eight or ten years. In the last few years—and especially with last year’s jump in heating oil prices—we’ve gone back to burning wood for a significant portion of our heat. (And in our garage apartment we recently installed a pellet stove, but I’ll cover that in another column.)Despite greatly enjoying sitting in front of a warm stove (where I’m sitting as I write this), I have reservations about burning wood. Of all our common fuels, wood produces the most pollution—especially the particulates we see as smoke. Byproducts of wood burning also include: carbon monoxide; nitrogen oxides (NOx); sulfur dioxide; hydrochloric acid; formaldehyde; and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are carcinogenic. The more smoke you see coming out of a chimney, the more particulate pollution is being generated.In general, older wood stoves pollute a lot more than newer models. Pollution from wood stoves is measured in grams per hour. In the early 1980s, many wood stoves were producing 40 to 60 grams of pollution per hour. To address this, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stepped in and, in 1988, issued standards for pollution emissions from wood stoves. EPA-certified stoves can emit no more than 7.5 grams per hour (under standard test conditions) for non-catalytic wood stoves and no more than 4.1 grams per hour for catalytic wood stoves. (Catalytic stoves have a coated ceramic honeycomb chamber that results in more complete, cleaner combustion.) Requiring wood stoves to be EPA-certified cleaned up wood burning dramatically.When we started relying on wood heat more actively a few years ago, we sold our old, first-generation Resolute and bought a Norwegian (non-catalytic) Jotul wood stove, which is much more efficient and cleaner-burning. If you are looking for a wood stove, avoid the temptation to buy an older, used, uncertified model, because it will burn less efficiently and pollute more. (Next week, we’ll look at techniques for burning wood as efficiently and cleanly as possible.)Along with producing these various pollutants, burning wood also gives off the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. (Water vapor and carbon dioxide are the primary combustion products from wood burning.) However, if the wood is produced sustainably (meaning that new trees replace those that are cut—which is typical in New England woodlots), wood is actually a “carbon-neutral” fuel. That’s because the process of photosynthesis pulls carbon dioxide out of atmosphere and stores that carbon in the tree’s biomass. When the tree is cut down, some of that biomass (stored carbon) remains in the ground as roots or is left on the forest floor as slag. Again, assuming sustainable forest management, more carbon is “sequestered” in growing trees than is released when the firewood from those trees is burned.Over the next few weeks, I’ll address various forms of wood burning, highlighting pros and cons and offering tips for cleaner, more efficient operation.
Nagpur: In the recently-concluded Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) elections, the Congress managed a tally of only 29 corporators in the 151-member House. The party couldn’t even capitalise on the anti-incumbency against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had two back-to-back terms in the civic body. However, two corporators of the party managed to secure a victory in the BJP-dominated wards of the city.All senior leaders of the Congress, including party’s city chief Vikas Thakre, suffered humiliating defeats in the election. However, the Nagpur Youth Congress president, 33-year-old Banty Shelke, who contested in the polls for the first time, managed to win his seat from Ward number 18, where the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) headquarters are based.Mr. Shelke also defeated senior BJP leader Sudhir Raut, who is considered a member of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari’s “kitchen cabinet.” His ward has high profile voters, including Mr. Gadkari and his family, and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.Another Congress corporator, Praffulla Gudadhe Patil, who is known for his in-depth knowledge of local issues, managed to trump Chief Minister Devendra Fandavis in his Assembly constituency and got an entire panel elected for the Congress from Ward number 38. The CM and the BJP had begun their election campaign for the 2017 NMC polls from this ward, but none of the party’s candidates won from there.‘No recognition’Despite their achievements, however, the two leaders said they did not even get a “few words of recognition” from senior leaders of the party and its city unit.Mr. Shelke said except Youth Congress State president Vishwajeet Kadam and Mr. Patil, no one from the party bothered to congratulate him. “One unit in Nagpur Congress is acting as if it’s a part of the BJP and gets salary from the CM.”He added, “The glasses of our leaders’ air-conditioned cars never slide down for ground-level party workers, which is why our party is sinking. I won the election despite every effort of intimidation and attempts to sabotage legal voting procedure. I could do it because of my team of workers. No party leader campaigned for me in my ward, whereas Mr. Gadkari addressed two rallies and 18 house meetings in the ward for the BJP candidate.”Mr. Patil was denied the post of the Leader of Opposition in the NMC after the election. However, both the corporators said they would wait for the party “to get rid of leaders who have lost people’s mandate.”Mr. Shelke added, “Everyone in the party knows that if there is anyone who can revive the Congress in the city, it is Mr. Patil. The voters of Congress are still with the party but they are waiting for it to be led by genuine Congressmen in the city and not the fixers.”