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Dose of Apathy

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Dose of apathy are a Hardcore/metalcore from Caboolture, Brisbane which was made by now rhythm guitarist Chris Walton and drummer Josh Willes. They started jamming punk/pop punk song and covers but decided that they needed a bass player and vocalist to get this band going. They next found Daniel Petley, a up and coming bass player with alot of good ideas. The band was like this for a while but they still needed to find a vocalist. They looked hard but couldnt find anyone that suited what they were looking for. Nothing came until Josh heard Adam Gaudion singing during a school lesson. He had potential so Josh approached him to join. Adam had no musical experience but the boys thought he had potentional to become good. Time passed like this but they found that they were starting to have problems with Adam...He could sing quite well during pracs and rehersals but couldnt bring it to the performances. The last performance the band did with adam as vocalist was the St Columbans College Battle of the Bands. After this,they decided it was time to drop adam and take the band in a new direction. Now they faced a problem they faced in the bands early days...finding a vocalist. After yet another search they were shocked when one day at school,one of their close friends Tom West surprised the boys with his awesome singing voice. So with the audition of Tom, the band started to finally kick off. They were doing mostly cover gig while doing a few originals and found that they were getting a decent crowd response. But the music still wasnt what the band were hoping for so after alot of discussing and searching they decided that Hardcore was the way to go. This proved to be a good move because once they made the change, they found that they were making better music then ever before. But something still wasnt right....the lack of a lead guitarist???this is how Tyler Wely came into the scene. Long time friend of Daniel and one of the best guitarist for his age he was very muched welcomed into the band.

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Ezio Testa

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Ezio Testa is Chief Executive Officer of IHC Services which acts as a go-between, or “vendor intermediary” for suppliers to the United Nations. Ezio Testa and IHC Services are involved in a bid rigging corruption scandal for the UK catering giant company, the Compass Group.

A multi-million dollar contract to provide food to UN peacekeepers was awarded to Eurest Support Services (ESS) a subsidiary of the Compass Group, days after Andy Seiwert a senior executive at ESS received confidential bid information from IHC Services's CEO, Ezio Testa. At the time UN officials estimated the total value of ESS food contracts with the United Nations at $237 million, with renewals and add-ons that could reach $351 million.

Attached to the e-mail were commercially sensitive UN documents that no one outside of highly restricted circles within the UN was supposed to have access to; and that the contracts committee itself would not ponder for five more days.

The first document was a draft of the official recommendation by the UN procurement department that a $62 million contract for UN peacekeepers in Liberia be awarded to Eurest Support Services.
The second document was a detailed United Nations evaluation of the technical abilities of 12 different food supply firms to meet UN requirements for feeding separate UN peacekeeping missions.
The third document was a detailed list of the price bids, that three of the five firms had submitted for the UN contract. The document showed that ESS had bested its nearest rival, a food services firm known as Es-Ko, by literally pennies per ration unit, and had also underbid its competitors in virtually every other service category.

Such information is considered top-secret by the United Nations, and is submitted in a sealed-bid process that UN officials have touted as foolproof. Nonetheless, all this information was clearly available to the business executive who sent the e-mail: Ezio Testa.

Compass Group's business development executive Andy Siewert, who received Testa's e-mail had a vital interest in it. Siewert was the ESS/Compass executive described by sources close to the UN as having the most frequent day-to-day contact with the scandal-plagued UN procurement department. That contact included frequent meetings with Alexander Yakovlev.

Alexander Yakovlev pleaded guilty to charges of corruption, wire fraud and money-laundering after his personal ties were exposed to IHC Services. Vladimir Kuznetsov Head of the UN Committee for Administrative and Budgetary Issues was also arrested and indicted after taking nearly $1 million in bribes from the Compass Group.

Competitors ES-KO and Supreme Food Services AG have initiated lawsuits claiming violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, the Sherman Antitrust Act and New York State's Donnelly Act regulating free trade. Federal investigations are underway and the case has been referred to the Serious Fraud Office (UK).

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The Tomorrow River

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The Tomorrow River is a branch of the Waupaca River and is a Native American word which means tomorrow. It was a good trout stream before the mill was constructed but a new day has risen on the river and through hard work of dam removal and restoration it is a great trout stream again. The river has a muck bottom in areas, bolders, trees and shallow sandy areas. You will cross under an old RxR bridge now the Tomorrow River Bike Trail before you reach Cate Park, located in Amherst, Wi The pullout at Cate Park is hard but there is a lot of parking. If you continue south there is a Portage County Park landing on the east edge of the Amherst Pond. From Amherst the river continues south east and flows to the Waupaca River making it part of the Great Lakes Watershed.

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IHC Services

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IHC Services Inc is a vendor intermediary company aiding suppliers win United Nations contracts.

IHC was until recently a registered vendor to the UN procurement department, acting both as a contractor selling goods directly to the world body and as a go-between, or vendor intermediary for a number of other suppliers. Eurest Support Services (ESS), a subsidiary of the Compass Group, won a multi-million dollar contract to provide food to UN peacekeepers in Liberia five days after Andy Seiwert a senior executive at ESS, received confidential bid information from IHC Services CEO, Ezio Testa. IHC Services, a second supplier to the United Nations, acted as a consultant to ESS helping it win more than $240m (£140m) worth of contracts since 2000. Peter R. Harris, Andy Seiwert and Doug Kerr, top-ranking executives at ESS, were all dismissed for actions relating to dealings with IHC Services.

Peter R. Harris was sacked as boss of Compass Group in the UK, Ireland and Middle East and Africa, for allegedly asking Compass senior management if he could raise money to buy IHC Services. Harris was allegedly told that it would be inappropriate, as it would present a conflict of interest with his role as head of Eurest Support Services. Freshfields and E&Y concluded after their three-month investigation, that Harris then worked with an investment consortium that granted him power of attorney to complete the deal. Mr Harris joined the board of Alliance International Development, the company that took control of IHC Services.

Around the same time, IHC Services twice temporarily employed the son of a UN procurement officer Alexander Yakovlev - who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in August after receiving money from "foreign companies" seeking to secure contracts with the UN.

IHC’s Chief Executive Officer, Ezio Testa, has denied any wrongdoing. In recent interview, Testa was emphatic that IHC did no business with the scandal-wracked Oil-for-Food program, and was not registered as an Oil-for-Food vendor. International caterer Compass Group has said it is one of a number of US suppliers that has received a subpoena from US authorities investigating millions of dollars of bribery at the United Nations.

There was a private sale of IHC on June 3, 2005, just as the procurement scandal was about to break. It now appears that while doing business with the UN, IHC had links both to Saddam Hussein’s old sanctions-busting networks, and to a Liechtenstein-based businessman, Engelbert Schreiber, Jr., known among other things for his ties to a figure designated by the UN itself as a financier of Al-Qaeda. IHC itself turns out to have a connection with Saddam’s former networks by way of a shipping company based in Jordan, Petra Navigation Group which advertises itself on its Web site as IHC’s agent in the Middle East, and has also been a registered vendor to the UN since mid-2003.

By 1997, Giandomenico Picco had signed on as an IHC director. He was a veteran of many years on the UN staff, but at that time working in the private sector. Just before leaving the UN, Picco had also led a round of the early negotiations with Saddam Hussein’s regime over setting up the UN Oil-for-Food program in Iraq. Later that same year, Picco left the UN and founded his own private consulting business. His arrival on IHC’s board came at roughly the same time that IHC appears to have first established ties to the UN. On Dec. 22, 1996, according to the UN, the company was registered on the UN Procurement Department’s list of approved vendors. That was the same month that the UN Oil-for-Food program began operation in Iraq. From 1998 until at least February, 2000, Picco went on to serve as chairman of the board of IHC Services.

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Vladimir Kuznetsov

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Vladimir Kuznetsov was the Head of the United Nations Committee for Administrative and Budgetary Issues. He has been indicted after taking bribes from the Compass Group.

The UN Procurement Scandal

Kuznetsov was indicted in September 2005. He was charged with laundering money (at least $1m in bribes from foreign companies seeking contracts with the world body). He is said to have laundered this money on behalf of Russian UN Procurement officer Alexander Yakovlev, from UN Procurement contracts (notably Compass Group’s subsidiary Eurest Support Services) and Oil-for-Food. Vladimir Kuznetsov has also been named in recent lawsuits by Swiss catering group Supreme Foodservice AG, and Monaco-based Es-Ko International, relating to the UN Procurement contracts.

Kuznetsov set up an offshore company, Moxyco, and opened a bank account in its name in the Caribbean island of Antigua. Yakovlev then transferred the funds into that account between 2000 and 2005. After Yakovlev told him of the secret payments, Kuznetsov agreed to take a share of the money rather than turn him in to the authorities. He was arrested by the FBI, and pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in Manhattan federal court. He was released on a $1.5 million bond and agreement to surrender his travel documents.

Russian authorities paid to have Kuznetsov released from the Manhattan prison; however he must remain under house-arrest during the court proceedings, until at least April 2006, when the next court session will be held. All Kuznetsov’s movements are being monitored by electronic bracelet.

Background

Kuznetsov was elected to a three-year term on the budget advisory committee in January 2003. The prestigious panel’s 15 members, including a representative of the United States, then elected him as its chairman. He has worked in various budget-related positions in the U.N. Secretariat and the Russian Mission since 1980. The chairman is the only member of the ACABQ to draw a UN salary and benefits, and also gets diplomatic immunity. Committee members are not UN employees and do not normally enjoy diplomatic immunity. But the General Assembly granted him immunity because of his chairmanship. This diplomatic immunity was waived however, in August 2006, by the UN.

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lexander Yakovlev: In June, Manhattan prosecutors charged UN Procurement officer Yakovlev with having participated in laundering bribes from contractors in exchange for insider information under the food-for-oil program. Yakovlev was released till the date of the verdict on acknowledgement of guilt and agreement to cooperate. Yakovlev gave away certain top-ranked officials of the U.N., including Vladimir Kuznetsov. Yakovlev claims that Kuznetsov helped him to launder the money he received for bribes, for which he paid him a share on condition that he did not report him or the activity.

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