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Mitchell v. Mason, 60 F. Supp. 2d 655 (E.D. Mich. 1999)
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan - 60 F. Supp. 2d 655 (E.D. Mich. 1999)
60 F. Supp. 2d 655 (1999)
*656 Rolf E. Berg, Detroit, MI, for Petitioner.
Jeffrey W. Caminsky, Detroit, MI, for Respondant.
ORDER AND OPINION GRANTING HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF AND REJECTING THE MAGISTRATE'S REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION (DOCKET # 29)
Petitioner, Charlie Lee Mitchell filed an application for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on the basis that the trial judge denied him the constitutional guarantee to be represented by counsel as provided for by the Sixth Amendment. Mr. Mitchell informed the court several times prior to the start of his trial that he had never met privately with his attorney.[2] A week and half before trial was scheduled to begin, Mr. Mitchell requested that the court assign him new counsel to provide an opportunity to confer with a practicing and responsive attorney prior to and during his trial for first degree murder.
Having taken Mr. Mitchell's request under advisement to await the reinstatement of the attorney, the trial judge revisited the request with the attorney present in the courtroom. The trial judge informed Mr. Mitchell that subjective dissatisfaction with counsel does not require the court to assign a new attorney and, therefore, denied Mr. Mitchell's request. The trial court was correct, a subjective test of a defendant's satisfaction with counsel does not dictate an order for new counsel. However, the attorney's neglect of his client met the objective test of a denial of counsel. The Court grants Mr. Mitchell's petition of habeas corpus, because the state trial court committed constitutional error denying his request for new counsel.
Charged with first-degree murder, Mr. Mitchell faced a jury trial without ever having spoken with his attorney in private. The only conversations that took place between the two of them occurred in the bullpen of Recorder's Court, Detroit, Michigan, certainly not a private setting. Defense lawyers can meet with their clients in the bullpen, but the presence of others chills any meaningful or confidential exchange. In addition to the exposed atmosphere, Mr. Mitchell, without his needed hearing aid, could only understand about half of the things Mr. Evelyn said to him in the bullpen. Even these harried conversations were early in the process. From the delivery of discovery materials to Mr. Mitchell until the time of trial, a period of approximately six months, the attorney never communicated with his client.
Mr. Mitchell informed the system by writing six letters explaining the difficulties he endured as he tried to garner meaningful and private communication with his attorney of record, two letters to Judge Farmer, two to Judge Roberson, one to the clerk and one to the Attorney Grievance Commission. A week or so before the commencement of the trial and during the attorney's suspension period, Mr. Mitchell appeared before the trial judge in pro per to ask the court for withdrawal of counsel. After Mr. Mitchell told of the absence of communication with his attorney, the judge took the motion under advisement until he had a chance to *657 reexamine the issue with both the attorney and client present.
When trial began, Mr. Mitchell renewed his motion for withdrawal of counsel; counsel had not visited him the prior evening, a meeting ordered by the judge. The court recommended an adjournment of the trial at one o'clock that day to give Mr. Mitchell the opportunity to discuss matters with counsel. Mr. Mitchell, not satisfied with the proposed solution, posited the simple, yet poignant question of, "How can I make it all the way to trial when Mr. Evelyn has never heard my true side of the story?"
Counsel suggested that should Mr. Mitchell have discontent with counsel in the future, the court could afford him an opportunity to reassess the motion. The judge responded,
"I will listen to him at any time, but I don't want to mislead you with the impression that just because you're still dissatisfied with your attorney that the Court is going to discontinue the trial and appoint new counsel."
The trial judge denied Mr. Mitchell's motion for new counsel without prejudice and Mr. Mitchell did not raise the issue again. Counsel proceeded to represent Mr. Mitchell at the trial, cross-examining witnesses and addressing the jury. At the conclusion of the trial, the jury returned with a guilty verdict for second-degree murder. The judge sentenced Mr. Mitchell to 10-15 years of imprisonment.
Mr. Mitchell appealed as of right to the Michigan Court of Appeals and in an unpublished per curiam opinion, dated January 5, 1994, the court affirmed the conviction. The Michigan Supreme Court granted leave to appeal the decision. The majority held in part that no deprivation of effective assistance of counsel occurred, because the Court did not consider trial preparation a critical state of the proceedings. People v. Mitchell, 454 Mich. 145, 166, 560 N.W.2d 600 (1997). The majority focused on counsel's performance at trial, not the relationship between Mr. Mitchell and his attorney. Id. "If counsel is a reasonably effective advocate, he meets constitutional standards irrespective of his clients' evaluation of his performance." Id. at 167, 560 N.W.2d 600 (quoting United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648, 657 n. 21, 104 S. Ct. 2039, 80 L. Ed. 2d 657 (1984)).
The dissent, however, would have ruled that counsel's failure to ever interview his client translated into a per se violation of Mr. Mitchell's Sixth Amendment rights. The case should not have been analyzed under an ineffective assistance of counsel doctrine. The "facts of this case justify a presumption of ineffectiveness without inquiry into actual performance or prejudice." Id. at 178, 560 N.W.2d 600. The dissent, in criticism of the majority's narrow view of the facts, expanded the analysis from a focus on the attorney's one month suspension to the absence of communication between attorney and client during the entire pretrial preparation period of approximately six months. The dissent analyzed the facts under a totality of the circumstances' test, including the thirty-day suspension, the gravity of the charge, all of Mr. Mitchell's unheeded attempts to arrange a private meeting with Mr. Evelyn and the court's refusal of Mr. Mitchell's timely request for substitution of counsel. The dissent concluded that Mr. Mitchell had been denied his Sixth Amendment right per se. Mitchell at 193, 560 N.W.2d 600.
The Petitioner's application is governed by the provisions of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) because his application was filed after April 26, 1996.
*658 (1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or
28 U.S.C. § 2254(d); Harpster v. State of Ohio, 128 F.3d 322, 326 (6th Cir. 1997); cert den ___ U.S. ___, 118 S. Ct. 1044, 140 L. Ed. 2d 109 (1998). Habeas relief cannot be granted unless the state court's legal decision was contrary to, or was an unreasonable application of, "clearly established" United States Supreme Court law or the state court's application of the law to the facts was an "unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence ...". Id. at (d) (1)-(2).
The factual determinations of a state court are presumed correct unless rebutted by convincing evidence. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e) (1). A federal court must apply the presumption of correctness to state court findings of fact for habeas corpus purposes unless convincing evidence is offered to rebut this presumption. Warren v. Smith, 161 F.3d 358, 360-361 (6th Cir.1998); 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e) (1).
The Sixth Circuit has recently adopted a standard of review in Nevers v. Killinger, 169 F.3d 352, 1999 WL 97993 (6th Cir.1999) cert. denied, ___ S.Ct. ___, 119 S. Ct. 2340, 144 L. Ed. 2d 237 (1999). The Sixth Circuit held that the deference to the state courts' judgments required under the AEDPA would be achieved by adopting the rule that the unreasonableness of a state court's application of clearly established Supreme Court precedent will not be debatable among reasonable jurists if it is so offensive to existing precedent, so devoid of record support, or so arbitrary, as to indicate that it is outside the universe of plausible, credible outcomes. See also Tucker v. Prelesnik, 181 F.3d 747, 753-54 (6th Cir.1999) (discussing the Nevers decision); Lakin v. Stine, 44 F. Supp. 2d 897 (E.D.Mich.1999);French v. Jones, 41 F. Supp. 2d 726 (E.D.Mich.1999).
The trial court denied Mr. Mitchell's right to counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." U.S. Const. amend. VI. The actual or constructive denial of counsel can never be considered harmless error, because the right to counsel is core to our system. Holloway v. Arkansas, 435 U.S. 475, 489, 98 S. Ct. 1173, 55 L. Ed. 2d 426 (1978) (quoting from Chapman v. State of California, 386 U.S. 18, 23, 87 S. Ct. 824, 826, 17 L. Ed. 2d 705 (1967)).
As the trial judge correctly stated, no weight is attached to a defendant's expression of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with counsel. United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648, 657, n. 21, 104 S. Ct. 2039, 80 L. Ed. 2d 657 (1984), Ward v. United States, 995 F.2d 1317, 1321 (1993). Instead, an objective reasonableness test is applied to counsel's effective advocacy. Id.
Giving form to the relationship between attorney and client, the Supreme Court held that critical to the attorney's representation, communication between the two must exist. Geders v. United States, 425 U.S. 80, 91, 96 S. Ct. 1330, 47 L. Ed. 2d 592 (1976). The denial of the opportunity to confer with an attorney results in reversible constitutional error. Id.
The great lengths to which the system extends to protect attorney-client communication demonstrate the importance of conversation between attorney and client in the legal world. Swidler & Berlin, et al. v. United States, 524 U.S. 399, 118 S. Ct. 2081, 141 L. Ed. 2d 379 (1998) (Attorney-client privilege survives the death of the client). Habeas relief has been granted in similar circumstances where a petitioner had been denied the ability to speak in *659 private with his attorney and then forced to endure trial. See Lakin v. Stine, 44 F. Supp. 2d 897 (1999). Meaningful, confidential and private conversation creates the attorney-client relationship, without communication the attorney can only posture as one, the communication derives an attorney, a necessary element composing a lawyer. Id.
Mr. Mitchell's inability to secure private communication with counsel prior to trial rendered him without representation at his trial in violation of the Sixth Amendment. Pretrial preparation is a critical stage of the proceeding. Geders and Lakin, supra. The trial judge throughout the renewed motion to dismiss counsel kept voicing his concern that the trial had begun and he did not want to postpone trial. The repetition of the statements implied that the delay in Mr. Mitchell's request for new counsel was Mr. Mitchell's fault. Such a conclusion, however, could not be further from the truth, because Mr. Mitchell made substantial efforts prior to the commencement of trial to secure responsive counsel for himself.
He called his attorney collect in order to converse with him, but the attorney would not accept the charges. Mr. Mitchell had his mother phone and stop by the attorney's office in hopes of capturing some response from the attorney, but to no avail. Mr. Mitchell wrote six letters to the courts in an attempt to inform the system of the fact that counsel never met with him once to discuss the case. Mr. Evelyn broke promises to meet with Mr. Mitchell on many occasions, including failing to meet with him the night before the beginning of trial. A meeting that had been ordered by the trial judge. Mr. Mitchell brought a motion for appointment of new counsel a week and half before the trial was scheduled to begin. This was held in abeyance by the trial judge to the day of trial, not Mr. Mitchell. Thus, the trial judge was aware of all of Mr. Mitchell's efforts. He should not have blamed Mr. Mitchell for his delay in raising the issue.
Respondent conceded the factual underpinnings that no private communication took place between Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Evelyn, but argued that the Sixth Amendment does not guarantee such communication. Further, that pretrial preparation should not be considered a critical part of the proceeding. Respondent concluded that the contours of the Sixth Amendment have not been held to embody the chance to confer one-on-one with an attorney, and presents a case of first impression for the court. As such habeas relief cannot be granted for non-established law, only for the denial of a known federal or constitutional right.
The court holds that the Sixth Amendment does secure communication between attorney and client. It is not a new rule of law. See, Geders, supra. As the Supreme Court held in Geders, for an attorney-client relationship to exist, the two must communicate. Without the crucial condition of conversation between them a constitutional violation occurs. Given Supreme Court precedent that confidential and meaningful communication is critical to an attorney relationship, the fact that Mr. Evelyn never once spoke in private with Mr. Mitchell prior to a murder trial translates into a denial of Mr. Mitchell's right to counsel.
The reduction in the charge from first-degree murder to second degree is irrelevant to the instant analysis, because as the dissenting opinion of the Michigan Supreme Court in Mr. Mitchell's appeal indicated, the fact that an attorney can put on a good show in court does not mean that a defendant had been provided counsel. Furthermore, one cannot speculate as to what takes place behind the closed jury door. It may be that an attorney who had put forth a modicum of pretrial preparation would have been able to obtain an acquittal for the client. The jury's lowering of the charge does not provide a useful barometer as to Mr. Evelyn's representation of Mr. Mitchell, because no one knows why or how the jury decided to find Mr. *660 Mitchell guilty of second-degree murder, but not first degree. Consider also the fact that Mr. Mitchell's co-defendant, Mr. Lamont Mason, tried concurrently, but with a separate jury was acquitted of all charges by his jury. It is anybody's guess as to what the result would have been for Mr. Mitchell had he been given adequate representation at his trial.
In summary, prior to trial, Mr. Mitchell attempted many times to speak with his attorney in private, but could not. Once informed of this reality, the trial court should have taken proper steps to rectify the problem. For example, the judge could have removed Mr. Evelyn, found him in contempt, fined him and appointed new counsel, as Judge Vonda R. Evans for the Wayne Circuit Court did on the day of trial to a defense attorney, who failed to speak with his client for a period of 10 weeks. See David Shepardson, Court Delays Trial in Cop's Killing, The Detroit News, June 8, 1999. The trial judge's failure to correct the problem resulted in a denial of Mr. Mitchell's right to counsel. Therefore, the court grants habeas relief.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Magistrate's Report and Recommendation is rejected and the Petitioner's application for writ of habeas corpus is conditionally granted. Unless the state takes action to afford Petitioner a new trial within ninety (90) days of the date of the July 8, 1999 judgment, he may apply for a writ ordering respondent to vacate the sentence for the conviction.
[1] Law Clerk Emily Klarman provided quality research assistance.
[2] The State Bar of Michigan had suspended his attorney from practice for thirty (30) days one month prior to the commencement of Mr. Mitchell's trial. This is not the basis of this court's ruling.


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Let me tell you one of the simple, basic truths about the relationship between NBA players and the media: they don’t particularly enjoy talking with us, not usually at least.
It’s a fact that has pretty much shown itself to be true over the fifteen or so Chicago Bulls games I’ve attended this season, and over all the professional basketball players I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with. Don’t get it twisted; there are a lot of really nice guys in the league: Jermaine O’Neal, Derek Fisher, P.J. Brown, and the story I’m about to tell you is about one of those really nice guys.
But there are a ton of players who are either just too busy to chat with media, or who don’t have the necessary charisma and patience to conduct a cordial interview with me. Of course, if I was rich and/or famous, the novelty of it all would probably wear off very quickly and I’d grow bored and impatient with reporters, too. Can’t blame them, I guess.
The point is that usually I feel like I’m imposing on a player when I ask for a few minutes of his time before the game, just to chat a little so I can meet my needs for the company I work for. Last night, when I covered the Bulls-Hornets game, I had one of my best interviewing experiences of my young sports journalism career.
The way I do things is by first heading into the visitor’s locker room, since I can interview the Bulls whenever I want and only get a chance to see the guests maybe once the whole season. In this case it was the New Orleans Hornets, an extremely young team on the cusp’ve got their studs—a former rookie of the year, a dunk contest winner, and so on…
But the team also has a couple of rookies on the squad, one of whom a college teammate of Ben Gordon named Hilton Armstrong, so I had him on my list of guys to chat with. I generally enjoy talking to rookies because they don’t have that cocky feeling of entitlement yet, so they’re pretty easy-going about interviews. It’s all still pretty new, so they’re excited. Plus, they’re younger than me, unlike most of the other guys I talk to, so I end up feeling like I’m in the driver’s seat, which is a nice change of pace. Makes me less nervous.
Anyway, Hilton’s this huge kid, kind of lanky with a baby face, and I caught him chatting with a couple of teammates as I moseyed into the visitors’ locker room. I said what I always said when I initiate contact, “What’s going on man? Joel Brigham, nice to meet you. Got time for a few questions?”
To my surprise, however, Mr. Armstrong looked at me with an flabbergasted expression and gave me a rather unexpected response: “No one’s ever interviewed me yet.”
I sort of laughed, thinking he was feeding me a load of crap because come on, we’re 2/3 of the way through the season, this kid’s a lottery pick, and no one’s talked him at a game? But then I started to think about it. The kid hardly plays at all, he’s averaging something like 3 points a game, and with all the other media darlings and stud muffins on the team, I very much doubt he’s someone the Oklahoma City papers are dying to track down.
He’s just sitting in his spinny ergonomic chair looking at me like a little kid who’s just heard his father say, “Hey sport! I’ve got a surprise for you!” He’s giving me that “What is it?!” look.
So I conduct the interview, and though his answers were pretty stock and not particularly enlightening, he answered every single one of them with the fervor of a first-time interviewee. He was in the moment, loving every second of it, and I had a really nice time watching him love it.
See, so much of this sports writing this is hurried and cut-throat and political and fast, that it can surely be frustrating at times (as all jobs can be), but it was in this little poetic moment that I found a moment of peace. Just to think how cordial this young man was, how excited he was to be interviewed. He didn’t even get into the game last night, but at least in one way it was a special night for him.
I guess it’s the teacher in me to have found this so nice, but it was a cool thing. I wish more of this was like that, but I can assure you that Kevin Garnett was nowhere near as nice. Confident, funny, and informative, but not particularly nice. Like I said, though, if you’ve been that famous that long, you don’t have to be.
When you’re a rookie getting hardly any playing time, you do. And Hilton Armstrong was.
Hoopsworld.com interview with Hilton Armstrong
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COVID-19 hits the State House: Despite the mostly virtual session, COVID-19 cases keep racking up. Today Rep. Mari Leavitt tested positive. Last week, five state Senators came down with the bug.
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Interesting…I home schooled my children back in the day when we were considered pioneers and many states still considered us lawbreakers. The question of the day was "what kind of quality education could they possibly get?" and "what will you do about socialization?". Funny, no one asks those questions much anymore. Home schooli the fruit, and the educational outcomes from many public schools and accompanying issues with negative peer pressure has made many a doubter look longingly over to the other side of the home school fence. Perhaps home birthing will enjoy the same awakening if enough people buck the system to embrace birth as a normal event?
To quote again from the document: "The 'lay midwives' internal philosophy on state regulation and licensure appears to have shifted. In the past, their position on licensure reflected the dominance of midwives who did not want to be regulated, opposed state licensure, and defended within their individual guilds the right to stay unlicensed and practice underground. While there are midwives who still do not want to be regulated and who do not support the current licensure campaign, for the most part you don't see them speaking publicly against licensure in the legislature or elsewhere. Even the nurse-midwives no longer can be counted on to speak publicly against home birth or lesser trained midwives."
Excuse me while I take a moment to laugh out loud at this one. Even the nurse-midwives have turned coat and can't be counted on to speak out against home birth?Maybe a good portion of them are simply tired of following obstetrical authoritarian's non-evidenced based protocols and have had enough of a glimpse over the fence at the outcomes of their home birthing sister midwives to just decide not to say anything at all. Some of them have home birth practices of their own. I recently attended a Christian midwifery conference and there were midwives in attendance of every persuasion–'lay' midwives, CPMs, CNMs, whatever you call yourself. No one wore a name tag with their credentials, just our names. You know what sifted to the top?
Next point in the ACOG document says: "The term direct entry is used to refer to midwives who enter the profession of midwifery directly without earning a nursing degree. Both certified professional midwives (CPMs) and certified midwives (CMs) are considered direct-entry midwives, although their level of education and training varies markedly. CPMs are largely self-taught and their training is typically through aprenticeship. CPM was the title chosen by MANA and NARM in the mid-1990s for their credentialed direct entry midwives. By comparison, CMs must undergo three years of university-affliated training, and while there is no nursing prerequisite, these direct-entry midwives must complete the same science requirements and sit for the same certification exam as a nurse-midwife. ….More states are adopting the CPM credential as a requirement for midwifery licensure, and not the CM credential which both ACOG and ACNM recognize. Of the roughly 21 states that license midwives to attend home births, all use the CPM credential. By their lack of training and because they do not work collaboratively with hospital-based obstetric providers, CPMs are the least qualified midwives to attend a home birth."
So much is wrong in that one paragraph, I hardly know where to start. True that all midwives who enter the field without first becoming a nurse are called direct entry. It is odd that both the ACOG and ACNM recognize and approve of this route, as long as you can pass the certification exam and will work collaboratively with a hospital-based obstetric provider (can you say CONTROL?). But if you get an equal didactic education somewhere other than their own hallowed halls and your clinical experience occurs in a home birth setting, then you are seen as decidedly inferior. Anyone who calls the process to become a CPM a 'lack of training' has not actually seen the hoops you must jump through, nor understood the knowledge required to pass both the clinical and written exams. In this situation, I think 'lack of training' can be interpreted "we can't control them!
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"Physician back-up for midwives and out-of-hospital deliveries is a growing concern in some states. …In 1993, California licensed midwives to do home deliveries under physician supervision. But implementing regulations for the 1993 law were only recently finalized after years of wrangling over key issues including the physician supervision requirement in the authorizing legislation. Medical liability insurers in the state were refusing to cover physicians who back-up midwives and midwifery proponents in the legislature threatened to waive the requirement for physician supervision altogether."
It's slightly amusing that this review refers to legislative handbook developed by MANA as being full of "lobbying advice, tactics and propaganda". Is everyone aware that the ACOG is basically a lobbying organization for the advancement of obstetricians and gynecologists?Lastly, the document mentions the problem of hospitals refusing to do VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) deliveries as being one of the reasons many women are seeking out other alternatives, including home birth with midwives. The most up-to-date studies all support VBAC attempts as being the safer approach to subsequent births in the majority of situations. Yet hospital after hospital have closed out this option, choosing to bow under the pressure of regional medical standards and insurers demands, rather than evidence-based studies. What are women to do who don't wish to undergo major surgery to birth their babies again, especially when the number of primary unnecessary cesareans is so unreasonably high?
Pennsylvania reverses rulings against midwife Diane Goslin!
It's about time we had some good news on the legal front. Why are we allowing the financial and philosophical 'competition' to control this vital right of women to birth where and with whomever they desire?
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I'm going. This conference is sponsored by Ancient Art Midwifery Institute and Carla Hartley. She says it will be her last one and it is worth putting everything else aside to attend. Some of the biggest names in the birth community will be there. Dr. Sarah Buckley, Dr. Michel Odent, Dr. John Stevenson, Jan Tritten, Heather Cushman-Dowdee (Hathor, the cow-goddess), Rixa Freeze, Henci Goer, Mindy Goorchenko, Gail Hart, Ricki Lake, Gloria Lemay, Sheri Menelli, Shonda Parker, Karen Strange, Sheila Stubbs, Debby Takikawa, and many others. Everyone is talking about it…


That being said, I'm very excited for every other aspect of the curriculum redesign and to see what it will look like in a few years time. There is a lot to be excited about and the direction of education seems to be going the right way. I just hope it lives up to the hype!


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The boost in volume from the first half to the second would have been substantial just based on the changes in arrangement and personnel. If Concerto No. 22 is a walk in the park, Bruckner’s Ninth is a major ground invasion — even with the unfinished fourth movement. But Eschenbach and the expanded forces also leaned in harder, playing with an intensity and commitment of emotional resources that Bruckner — arguably more than Mozart — demands.
A work of dark romantic allure and enveloping soulfulness, it was Bruckner’s last, just as he said it would be before he died. Whether he was contemplating The End or just retirement due to ill health or creative exhaustion, Bruckner was communicating, in musical language, a heightened sense of retrospection, feeling and finality.
With three movements, and the central Scherzo as its thumping pizzicato heart, the hourlong Ninth unfolded elementally. The sound of brass, including Wagner horns, was an immediate and striking contrast to the more burnished woodwind contours of Mozart’s concerto. The few glimmers of pastoral lightness in the opening Feierlich movement were swept away, by design, by a seething, shape-shifting mass of instrumentation that threw off endlessly surprising configurations.
The entire symphony, in fact, seemed to serially disassemble and rebuild itself — rising, receding, and gathering to return again and again in ever more dramatic and towering form. Bruckner’s Ninth doesn’t dwell on any one idea for too long, even when circling back around to some of its central three- and four-note motifs. Yearning ascents give way to orchestral collisions, and to lulls primed by a low roll of timpani or isolated woodwinds. There are trembling strings overlaid with reeds, notes plucked with violent force, and competing major and minor phrases surfacing atop one other like tidal flows.
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Two factory fires kill more than 300 in Pakistan
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1. Utrera – Utrera is a municipality in south-west Spain. It is in the province of Seville, in the community of Andalusia. As of 2008 it has a close to 50,202. The town is of historical interest. It was occupied by Muslims in the 8th century and was not finally incorporated into the kingdom of Castile until 1340. Records about the date back to the 13th century, when Alfonso X overran Utrera as part of his conquest of Seville. However, archaeological work shows people have lived on the site since pre-Roman times, today the towns five chapels, dating from the 14th to 18th centuries, churches and 14th century castle are popular tourist attractions for visitors to Andalusia. Utrera is considered the cradle of the bull and the flamenco. The area is known for numerous festivities, particularly the fair, which is celebrated during the days before and after the day of Utreras patron saint and this fiesta attracts many people from all over Andalusia and Spain as a whole. Utrera is also known for the mostachón, a kind of small flattened cake made with sugar, Utreras climate is characterized by the annual alternation between a dry period, which lasts more than four months and which has high temperatures, and another one humid with mild temperatures. The 41% of the rain happens during the autumn, the average annual temperature is 17.5 °C. The average absolute maximum temperature is 41.9 °C, the coldest month is January and the average absolute minimum temperature id 0.8 °C. Summing up, the climate is excellent, although slightly harsh in the summer, the sun and a cloudless sky are predominant most of the time. Procession of the Three Wise Men,5 January, the Three Kings and more famous celebrities from tales and movies are got into floats and throw sweets and presents to all the children. In this day is typical to eat a cake called roscón de Reyes. Carnival, At the end of February and it is very famous in the area. There is a contest of fancy dresses organized by the hall with awards. It is a very funny day because everybody goes dressed, Andalusias Day & bicycles day,28 February


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Everyone who lives in a condo in Singapore knows how important their MCST and/or management is. Since the voting to elect the MCST is done at the AGM based on the principle of “one-unit-one-vote”, and normally only a fraction of the owners tends to attend the AGM, a minority well-organized group can “seize control” of the MCST by collecting the required number of proxy votes. In Singapore, this has given rise to some horror stories of out-of-control MCSTs. So retirees beware – if you are planning to enjoy your retirement in a condo, make sure you do due diligence of the type of MCST that is controlling your condo!
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If you live in a HDB, you may have seen this spray painted on doors: “O$P$” — which means “owe money pay money”. This is a well used method by “ah longs” to collect money owed by harassing and shaming the defaulter. However some condo management have taken a leaf from the old “ah long” playbook. Reported in 2010 by the New Paper (original link is removed but a copy of the article can be found here), the condo committee would paste the names of residents and the amount they owe next to letterboxes and lifts as way of exposing these “bad” residents. Some residents were upset and felt that such tactics belong only to “ah longs” — and certainly not in condo management. Even if fees were not paid, the residents should clearly.
There is nothing wrong with condo owners trying to preserve the aesthetics of their condo. In this case, the committee repeatedly turned down the application by one resident on the 13th floor to place child safety grills citing that it would affect the aesthetics of the condo. In a win for child safety over aesthetics, the Strata Title Board(STB) made clear in a 2015 ruling against 7 One North Residences (ONR) in Buona Vista citing “that children’s safety must be the overriding concern and the MC should support other such applications.” Good for the STB and a relieve for families in high floors with balconies living with small children. This is clearly an important landmark ruling.“… It’s a completely one-sided battle.” InExperienced condo owners already know this – to seniors who are buying in to a condo for the first time to enjoy their retirement, a well functioning and caring MCST and/or management should be on top of your checklist. No matter how nice the unit is or how prestigious the address, do your homework before taking the plunge. Or regret later.
The policy announced at the NDP 2019 Rally is overdue and the right one. For the senior citizen community, such a policy will support them working a few more years and allow them to put away more savings when they do retire.
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The Delphi technique provides a board of directors with a thorough, easy-to-follow structure for generating, examining, and prioritizing ideas and solutions. This technique is perfect for boards tasked with making well-informed, high stakes decisions.
Decision-makers use a series of questionnaires to deliberate on ideas and solutions with an anonymous panel of experts. The panel's anonymity is maintained by a facilitator who serves as a liaison between the two group. The facilitator administers the questionnaire and cleans up responses for clarity and relevance before passing them off to decision-makers.
The second questionnaire presents panelists with the decision-makers' summary of first round responses for commentary and clarification. In addition to answering Round One follow-up questions, panelists are asked to identify and rank (by priority) solutions or action items.
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s, keen to make their way from Jökulsárlón in the south to Myvatn in the north. But if adventures, the East is the place to do it.
This is the first sighting that the Vikings had of Iceland – the impressive mountains that come down right to the coast are some of the biggest in the country, the fjords some of the steepest. The ring road here snakes its way through the deeply-cut and narrow fjords, taking you through forgotten fishing villages and past valleys leadings towards the bleak interior and the behemoth Vatnajökull glacier. And thanks to its distance from Reykjavik, you’ll find it all pleasantly empty.
Putting aside 3-4 days to travel through this region will give you plenty of time to visit some waterfalls, traditional farms, the small fishing villages strung along the coast and undertake some interesting hikes as well. The more time people spend here, the more they tend to fall in love with the quiet area.
Unlike over in the Westfjords, the towns here are relatively close to one another, each offering a place to fuel up, restaurants and cafes, and a place to camp for the night. For a complete list of campsites in the area and their opening dates, check out our map of campsites in the country.
You’ll find some semblance of a supermarket in most towns, although if they’re small and localYou’ll find the cheap Bonus Supermarket in the unofficial capital of the region, Egilsstaðir, and a Kronan supermarket in Reyðarfjörður just 30 minutes’ drive south.
One of the best things to do in the East is just drive through the fjords. Only recently did the route 1 change to help you do this, as it used to cut inland and go up to Egilsstaðir and missed a lot of the impressive coast line (now marked as road 95). In most towns you’ll fin,
Hengifoss is Iceland’s third tallest waterfall, famed for its red and black basalt rock that you can see behind the water. At the end of a long valley, the steep hike up to the falls is 2.5km, taking around 45 minutes. On the way you’ll be able to see Litlanesfoss as well, a smaller waterfall surrounded by the distinctly Icelandic basalt columns that you can find at other locations around the country, like Reynisfjara beach in the south or Svartifoss waterfall in Skaftafell Nature Reserve.
Fardagafoss can be found just off the road on the way from Egilsstaðir towards Seyðisfjörður. It’s about a 30-minute walk from the parking lot to the thundering falls. Keep an eye out for fresh berries growing along the way.
Lagarfljót is Iceland’s answer to Loch Lomond in Scotland; this mysterious lake just next to Egilsstadir is said to have a monster lurking in its depth, akin to the Lochness Monster. Various eyewitness accounts over the years have shaped the image of the monster, a supposed worm-like beast that sometimes likes to sunbathe on the sand of the lake.
Hallormsstaðaskógur is Iceland’s largest forest, and an important and precious area for a country that’s devoid of trees in most other places. Beautiful walking trails, picnic areas and campsites can be found all through the forest. In the summertime, it’s obviously one of the most popular spots with Icelanders who like to get outdoors in the good weather that East Iceland sees.
Vestrahorn just outside of HöfTake the road marked to Stokksnes to find a beautiful black sand beach with tufts of grass growing on it, in the background the majestic mountains.
Stórurð is one of the more well-known spots in the East. Also referred to as ‘The Giant Boulders’, Stórurð isn’t any one thing; it’s the area. Just to the west of a small glacier along the Dyrfjoll Mountains, the hike from the parking spot on the road to Borgarfjörður Eystri will take you about 2.5 hours. Along the way you’ll pass by some beautiful meadows, gushing streams and intimidating mountain peaks; two of which once represented the gateway to Hell for local Icelanders in the area. The final destination of the hike is an area of large rocks strewn about glittering glacial pools of teal.
Papey Island is just off the coast of Djúpivogur and could quite well be the very first place in Iceland that was inhabited by humans. Named after the Irish Monks (papar) who were the first to settle here, possibly in the 8th or 9th Century, on this small island you’ll find Iceland’s smallest church and a large colony of puffins and guillemots. To get here you can catch a ferry across from Djúpivogur, which will also come with a tour guide who takes you around the island.
Borgarfjörður Eystri is another spotIcelandic puffins. The viewing point is one of the best in Iceland, with an inside part to keep you warm on those extremely windy days.
For the avid hikers, this is also one of the best spots to base yourself. Hiking over the peninsula into the abandoned bays to the east will provide you with some much-needed solitude, and there are multiple trails. For something more long-distance, you can attempt the 3-day hike all the way down to Seyðisfjörður.
The wildlife in the region is rich and varied. On the coast you can often find seals, particularly on the boat out to Papey Island. Hikers often report seeing whales splashing in the waters off the coast, traversing their way up and down the fjords. Of course, there are the two big puffin colonies in Borgarfjörður Eystri and on Papey Island. . Norwegians originally brought them over to farm, an industry that never took hold with Icelanders. Now, the population of about 3000 reindeer is strictly controlled, but mostly left to roam throughout the East. They’ll come down closer to the coast in the winter time and head back up to the desolate plains of the highlands near Mt Snæfell in the summer.
As mentioned above, Egilsstaðir is the unofficial capital of the Eastern region. Built as a service and supply point for the main route 1, life here moves quite slowly. It can feel busy at times, as it’s the main intersecting point for people catching/departing the ferry that arrives in Seyðisfjörður, just over the mountain pass to the east. The campsite is right next to the tourist centre in town, which could be possible the busiest in the entire country during the summer months.
Seyðisfjörður itself is a great little town, deserving much more than a passing glance. Its here where the ferry from Denmark docks, unloading travel-hungry tourists into the small town of just under 1000. Founded by Norwegian fisherman in the late 1800s, the town’s buildings are all very colourful and prefabricated, all of them with an interesting history. The beautiful pale-blue church is very photogenic with a rainbow road leading to the front door, and there’s an amazing sushi restaurant that uses the fresh ingredients brought in by the fishing boats called Norð Austur.
The small towns along the fjords south of here are all very old fishing villages with a lot of history. There’s Fáskrúðsfjörður, originally built in the mid-1800s by French fisherman, and Djúpivogur has committed to the slow-lifestyle and slow-travel way of life. In Breiðdalsvík you can find the Beljandi Brewery, a local pub that serves beer to the reindeer hunters and locals from neighbouring fjords.
Höfn is at the very bottom of the East, with commanding views of the spectacular Vatnajökull glacier. The town is famed for its lobster, so make sure to get some or sample the local lobster soup before you move on - it’s considered some of the best in Iceland.
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