This is for you Bumper - from our old SAS mate John Anon.

Thanks to the incomparable Jill Jacks who's raced down to the video vault and extracted this:

Remember when Malcolm had that 'secret' lunch with the Chinese donor who didn't speak English. (A little something I put together at the time.)
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Maybe the ABC had Malcolm in mind when it titled last night's 4 Corners show Interference.

It was about China and the Communist Party meddling in Australia.

The program included a few minutes on Peter Dutton's refusal to grant Chinese businessman Huang Xiangmo Australian citizenship - but that was all it took to launch this morning's Turnbull tirade.

This is the relevant bit from 4 Corners:

In 2016, as Huang become increasingly anxious about securing his own citizenship, he put Santoro on a retainer. In March that year, Santoro delivered... arranging a lunch between Huang and Dutton and the minister's senior staffer in a private room at Master Ken's restaurant in Sydney's Chinatown. This gave Huang Xiangmo direct access to the man most citizenship applicants could only dream of meeting to push their case. Santoro told Four Corners his work with Huang was limited to providing introductory services. Both Huang and Santoro deny their arrangement was aimed at getting Huang citizenship. Peter Dutton confirmed the lunch, but denied he assisted Huang. Huang's attempt to get a passport failed and last November, on advice from ASIO he posed a risk of foreign interference, he was banned from re-entering Australia.

ANDREW HASTIE, CHAIR, COMMITTEE FOR INTELLIFENCE & SECURITY: Well, we've heard from our security agencies that espionage and foreign interference in Australia is being conducted at unprecedented levels. So, Mr. Huang being denied citizenship is very significant, because it shows that this government is prepared, ah, to use the powers at their disposal to protect our sovereignty and our democracy

https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/interference/10982212

So Dutton had lunch with Santo Santoro and a Chinese billionaire.

After the lunch Dutton refused to grant the man citizenship.

Dutton presided over the decision to refuse Huang reentry to Australia.

Turnbull needs serious help.

UPDATE

This from Nine newspapers after speaking with Peter Dutton and the Prime Minister.

Speaking in Rockhampton today, Mr Dutton said Mr Huang was denied citizenship in a decision made by his department.

"As I turns out, this individual is now offshore because an agency within my department took a decision to take certain action in relation to his visa so that person wouldn't be able to return to Australia," Mr Dutton said.

"So the suggestion that somehow I've provided anything to this individual is just a nonsense."

News of the meeting was first reported by Nine Newspapers and the ABC.

Mr Dutton challenged journalists to "strip it back to the facts" and tell him what the allegation is.

"I have never received a dollar from this individual," he said.

"I had that one meeting with him over lunch. I have never seen him since."

Mr Dutton said he met with Mr Huang in his capacity as a "significant leader within the Chinese community".

Mr Huang's family was granted Australian citizenship in 2015, and former Labor Senator Sam Dastyari attended their private ceremony.

Mr Morrison took care to highlight that connection when speaking to reporters in Gosford this morning.

"I think when it comes to our government's acting on foreign interference, we've got a pretty strong track record," Mr Morrison said.

"I think that compares very significantly to that of the Labor Party, where Senator Sam Dastyari had to resign in disgrace because he not only compromised himself in standing in front of an Australian government insignia, standing there with the very individual you're referring to."

Senator Dastyari resigned from the frontbench, and then from Parliament, facing scrutiny over his ties to Mr Huang and other influential Chinese figures.

Remember the ideas boom?

The end of the mining age, the start of the innovation age?

Many otherwise useful members of society got a bit too close to Turnbull.

Some got far too excited.

Malcolm's gone, but his ghost may be heard as you pass by.........

Here's Josh Frydenberg laying out the red carpet for Australia's Electric Car Revolution - published in the then Fairfax press on 12 January, 2018.

The numbers are illustrative. Today, there are two million electric vehicles on the road around the world, a tenfold increase over the last five years and these cars represent around one per cent of new annual vehicle sales.

Two thirds of electric vehicles can be found in just three countries: the United States, Japan and China, which has the greatest number at over 650,000.

While Norway and the Netherlands have smaller markets, they have an incredible penetration rate, with electric vehicles in Norway making up more than 20 percent of new sales.

But it is the projections that are staggering. China is the largest vehicle market in the world with 25 million annual vehicle sales, with an expectation that electric vehicles will make up 10 per cent of new sales by 2025 and 30 per cent by 2030.

 

France and the United Kingdom have announced that they will end the sale of new diesel and petrol cars by 2040 and Norway and the Netherlands aim to do so by 2025. California has mandated that there be 1.5 million zero emission vehicles in that state by 2025 with already five times as many electric vehicle sales as the US average.

Car manufacturers are also on board. Volvo has said that it will only build hybrid and electric vehicles from 2019, General Motors has announced that they have 20 new electric models under design, Jaguar and Land Rover say all their new model lines from 2020 will be electric and Volkswagen, the world's biggest car maker, is targeting three million electric vehicle sales per year by 2025.

But in Australia, the emergence of electric vehicles is a different story. Currently, there are 4000 such vehicles on the road, making up just 0.1 per cent of new vehicle sales. Indeed, New Zealand, which is one-fifth of the population of Australia, has already similar number of electric vehicles on its roads.

The lack of take-up is not because of a lack of consumer interest. Australian surveys show that about half the people in the market for a new car are prepared to consider purchasing an electric vehicle with many investigating it. But what holds them back are issues relating to price, range and infrastructure. But on each count, there are good things happening, with more to be come.

On price, of the 16 electric vehicle models on sale in Australia, 13 are over $60,000. But the next generation Tesla for example, will sell for less than half the cost of existing models and the convergence in price is on the way. Bloomberg Energy Finance estimates that electric and conventional vehicles will be of a similar price by 2025.

With the purchase of more electric vehicles as part of company and government fleets and fleet cars being turned over on average every 3-5 years, the range of second-hand electric vehicles is also likely to increase exponentially.

With regards to range and recharging, the Chevrolet and Renault models already travel around 350 kilometres without needing to be recharged and using the increasingly prominent DC recharging stations, an electric vehicle can be recharged in less than 30 minutes. Indeed, it's the view of Australia's Chief Scientist that by 2025 there might be electric vehicles in production that can drive 1000 kilometres on a single charge. This will be remarkable.

Not insignificantly too the fuel cost of a 300-km journey in an electric vehicle is currently about a third of that of a petrol-fuelled car.

The technology around batteries is also improving rapidly. The density of batteries has nearly doubled on average every five years and the price has halved in the same period.

The infrastructure of electric vehicles is also rapidly becoming more feasible for long distance journeys. In Western Australia, the Royal Automobile Club recently rolled out 11 fast charging stations in the south-west, in Queensland the state government is creating a superhighway of charging stations between the Gold Coast and Cairns, in NSW the NRMA is building 40 fast charging stations suitable for a range of car types and Tesla has built a network of fast-charging stations between Adelaide and Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. While Australia's 476 public charging stations are just a fraction of the more than 60,000 you can find across Europe, it will quickly grow over time.

With these changes coming to the cost, range and infrastructure for electric vehicles in Australia, it is estimated that by 2025 there will be 230,000 such cars on our roads and more than one million by 2030. This will not only produce a good economic dividend for consumers, but also a better environmental outcome.

With transport responsible for around 18 per cent of Australia's emissions, the CSIRO Energy Roadmap estimates electric vehicles could reduce CO2 emissions by at least 15 million tonnes by 2030.

One of the challenges that will come from the big increase in electric vehicles in Australia will be the demands on the electricity grid. An extra one million electric cars is the equivalent of 5.2 terawatt hours of power demand. This is about a 2 per cent increase in overall grid demand.

The issue is not whether the grid has capacity to meet this increased demand, for it does. The Finkel Review found electric vehicle charging can be 'relatively easily managed' and AEMO has said something similar. The question rather is whether with sufficient system planning the new demand can be scheduled to come at off peak times to maximise the efficient utilisation of the grid. With 90 per cent of electric vehicles likely to be charged at home, the technology needs to be such that electric vehicle owners have the systems in place to charge their battery in the middle of the night when prices are low and not at the 5pm to 6pm time slot after work when prices are typically higher, reflecting increased household demand.

So, what are the next steps for the electric vehicle industry in Australia? Well firstly, there is a lot of activity already occurring at federal, state and industry level, but there is a need for greater coordination. This is where the Turnbull Government's Vehicle Emissions Forum, which my colleague Paul Fletcher and I lead, can play an important role. Working on new vehicle emission and fuel efficiency standards it can provide a national platform for key stakeholders to share ideas and work together.

At a federal level, we already support electric vehicles in a number of ways. The government provides a discount on the luxury car tax threshold for low emission vehicles; companies can earn carbon credit units under the Emissions Reduction Fund to transition their fleets to electric vehicles; the Clean Energy Finance Corporation is funding a number of programs that enable the purchase of electric vehicles and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency has provided financial support for research by ClimateWorks which has partnered with the Electric Vehicle Council, the national body representing the industry in Australia.

At a state level, governments have responsibility for vehicle registration, stamp duty, government purchasing and are undertaking new charging infrastructure roll-outs. All important areas for reducing the costs for electric vehicle customers and thereby incentivising their uptake.

Better coordination of existing and future activities around research and development, charging infrastructure planning, vehicle fleet targets and financial incentives, will bode well for the industry in the exciting decade ahead.

A global revolution in electric vehicles is under way and with the right preparation, planning and policies, Australian consumers are set to be the big beneficiaries.

Josh Frydenberg is the Minister for the Environment and Energy.

"All West Auckland RSAs have also cancelled their local events ... Due to government policy only selected sites are suitable.

Disgusting.

This is not the Anzac spirit.

Lest We Forget.

There will be no Anzac Day commemorations at most West Auckland-based Returned Services Associations locations this year.

Helensville RSA president Les Coste said local events had been scrapped following fears over counter-actions to the Christchurch terrorist attacks.

"It is with regret that we have had to cancel the Helensville Anzac Day events for this year only," Coste said in a post to Facebook.

"All West Auckland RSAs have also cancelled their local events ... Due to government policy only selected sites are suitable.

"We are all disappointed that the event cannot go ahead this year and thank you to everyone for their understanding."

Council buses will be operating from Helensville to Glen Eden for an Anzac Day service, however, the exact details are yet to be confirmed.

 

The announcement from Coste follows recommendations from Auckland Police on Friday for fewer Anzac Day events to be held throughout the city.

Auckland City district commander Superintendent Karyn Malthus said fewer events would make it easier for officers to ensure the safety of those attending.

She did not have any information to suggest there was a "specific risk" to the safety of the public, however.

"In the current environment, police are continuing to provide a visible presence nationwide for the safety and reassurance of the community," she said.

"We recognise the public will want to commemorate Anzac Day across the region and we are wanting them to do that in the safest way possible, which may mean some have to travel a little further to an event."

In his Facebook post, Coste said he and police had inspected potential locations for the service to be held but they did not meet safety requirements.

The national terror threat level was lifted to high following the Christchurch terrorist attacks on March 15 and have not been lowered since.

A Buddhist woman has a private conversation about a Mosque's loudspeakers.  She says they're too loud.

In contemporary Indonesia those private comments are blasphemous.  Those words have cost her 18 months jail.  

Her appeal went all the way to the Supreme Court in Jakarta.

Here's Reuters with their report.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia’s Supreme Court has upheld a jail sentence for a mother of four who was convicted last year on blasphemy charges for complaining that her neighborhood mosque was too loud.

In a March 27 ruling posted on the court’s website on Monday, the court rejected the appeal by Meliana, a 44-year old ethnic Chinese, Buddhist resident of Medan on Sumatra island.

Indonesia has the world’s largest population of Muslims, and sizable Buddhist, Christian and other religious minorities, but the propagation of conservative and hardline interpretations of Islam in recent years has fanned fears that the secular nation is becoming less tolerant.

“This is another nail in the coffin of religious freedom and tolerance in Indonesia because of institutionalized discrimination,” said Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch.

Meliana’s lawyers said she had made remarks in a private conversation in 2016 on the volume of mosque loudspeakers. Those remarks were twisted to appear like she was objecting to the call to prayer itself and repeated in the community and on social media, her legal team said.

Meliana is serving an 18-month sentence in a Medan prison.

There are hundreds of thousands of mosques across the vast Indonesian archipelago and most use loudspeakers to play the ‘azan’ or call to prayer, which lasts a few minutes.

But many also play lengthy versions of prayers or sermons lasting over 30 minutes, which the Indonesian Mosque Council has deemed unnecessary.

Great stuff!  (Readers of a certain age might remember Gerry's Sir Joh back in the day!)

Thanks to Mr Peter Ford for the tip!

Ever heard of Alamance County's Elon University?

Neither had I.  

It's a private concern in the US, offering courses in Physician Assistant Studies, Physical Therapy, and Interactive Media.

But even though it's in a remote part of North Carolina, it's quite significant for Australia.

Last Thursday the staff at Elon put away the vaulting horses and mini-trampolines in the gymnasium to make way for a guest speaker - Julia Gillard.

Here's Ms Gillard's marketing material.

The demographer Bernard Salt describes the period 2010 to now as "The decade when trust went bust". 

It's no coincidence it started with Gillard's vaulting ambition and the knifing of Kevin Rudd.  

And it's ending with her outrageously false claims that go unchecked and uncommented on.

Isn't anyone in Australia's public life prepared to say, "Hang on, she's lying"?

Do you believe Gillard when she says that she:

• reformed Australia's education system from early childhood to university
• restructured the telecoms sector
• built a national broadband network
• was "central" to managing Australia's economy during the 2007-08 global financial crisis?

I'd love to hear Lindsay Tanner, Kevin Rudd or the RBA on Gillard's claim to a pivotal GFC position.

We wouldn't cop a government appointment to someone who'd lied on their CV.

So why do we cop it when Gillard lies to the world about our country?

It's a small step from lying about a carbon tax, or her role with her boyfriend Bruce Wilson in the AWU Scandal - to lying under oath to a Royal Commission.

One small step for Gillard - but one giant leap for Australia.

That's if we let her get away with it.

I'm here to make sure we don't.

Every touch leaves its trace.

Never give up.

This video is a chilling insight into the mind of a serial, recidivist Paedophile and a cruel, calculating, sadistic murderer.  It's the moment he realised that he'd been outwitted for months by a team of dedicated, undercover police.

In 2003 I lived a few kilometres away from where Daniel was abducted.  Cowan wounded our whole community, every parent, every child.

He killed the Morcombe's 13 year old boy, Daniel for his own perverted satisfaction.

No one can bring Bruce and Denise's boy back. But police brought us justice.

Here's how they did it - and our thanks to Rockhampton's The Morning Bulletin and their talented young reporter Rae Wilson for this comprehensive report.

COVERT police officers spent four months convincing Brett Peter Cowan they were part of a powerful, sophisticated, organised crime gang with far-reaching tentacles across Australia.

They skilfully crafted this illusion through 24 planned scenarios to assure Mr Cowan that he too could profit lucratively from the many and varied crimes this phony group were involved in.

With the lure of a $100,000 pay packet from a "big job" dangled in front of him, he was keen to prove his mettle.

Mr Cowan's new "friends" reinforced three gang rules every time they hung out - respect, loyalty and honesty.

That last mantra was where the Crown will allege he came unstuck and truly fell for the ruse.

Clothes found 15m from where accused said he dumped them

The Crown told Brisbane Supreme Court this week that Mr Cowan, also known as Shaddo N-unyah Hunter, desperately wanted to be part of the gang and share in the spoils of the upcoming job.

One of the key players in the ruse was Craig - who pretended to be a corrupt cop in Western Australia with access to high-level information.

He met with Mr Cowan on August 4, 2011, to tell him a Queensland coroner had issued a subpoena requiring him to reappear in an inquest into Daniel's disappearance.

The Crown said that was an important event in the undercover operation because Mr Cowan had never even uttered Daniel Morcombe's name in the four months since covert officer "Joe" befriended him on a plane from Brisbane to Perth on April 1, 2011.

Is this the tiny house in which Daniel was murdered?

Mr Cowan knew that his mate Joe had been given $10,000 to disappear overseas when he had some problems that needed to be "cleaned up".

It was repeatedly reinforced that this gang was capable of fixing up problems for its members.

Mr Cowan told his mate Fitzy, also known as Paul, that he had never mentioned his involvement in the Morcombe investigation because he thought it was over.

When the "big boss", Arnold, requested a meeting with Mr Cowan at a hotel in Perth on August 9, he learned he was too "hot" to be involved in the big job coming up and it might need to be postponed.

But, if they could "sort out" or "clean up" the Morcombe mess, he wanted Mr Cowan on board because the other boys had vouched for him.

Morcombe accused wanted to have fun with Daniel

Mr Cowan initially denied any involvement.

His lawyers say he only changed his tune after learning his $100,000 windfall was at stake and realising he could shore up an alibi.

"Yeah, okay, no, yeah, I did it," he said before detailing how he abducted Daniel, tried to molest him, killed him and then dumped the body.

Mr Cowan was on a plane to Brisbane the next day with two gang members.

He pointed out the spot, a demountable building, where he claimed Daniel died, once sat on Lot 2, 510 Kings Road, Glasshouse Mountains and guided his friends to where he threw Daniel's body from an embankment at an overgrown former sand mine.

Mr Cowan showed the clean-up crew, who were yet to reveal they were undercover cops, where he dragged the body and covered it in branches.

He said when he returned a week later, all he found was a piece of bone he believed to be part of Daniel's skull.

His lawyers make the point the bones were found about 60m from where he indicated.

Mr Cowan showed them a low timber bridge over Coochin Creek where he claimed he threw Daniel's clothes. Clothes were found 15m downstream from that location.

Crown prosecutors have this week forensically tried to give weight to each element of Mr Cowan's story to prove he knew intimate details of Daniel's final moments and resting place.

More than 30 witnesses have told the court about water flows, flood events, DNA matches, bone degradation, wild animals, how bones could have spread and how they could prove the shoes and underpants uncovered belonged to Daniel.

The jury heard a potential witness list on Monday, containing 158 names, which indicated there would be many more specialists to come in the next five weeks.

No doubt Brett Peter Cowan confessed to the murder of Daniel Morcombe

THERE is no doubt Brett Peter Cowan confessed to undercover police that he killed Daniel Morcombe.

His lawyers conceded that on the first day of the trial.

But they suggest he knew exactly where to send his new "friends" to find Daniel's body and his clothes because someone else told him.

Defence barrister Angus Edwards did not confirm how he got the information but in his opening address he pointed the finger straight to Douglas Jackway.

Jackway was driving a blue car at the time and many witnesses driving along Nambour Connection Road the day Daniel went missing claim that is what they saw, he said.

"It became a central aspect of the investigation. They set up a room called the 'blue car room'. They printed out photos and stuck them around the room," he said.

Mr Edwards, whose role as Mr Cowan's legal advocate is to highlight any evidence that could form reasonable doubt about his guilt, told the jury Jackway was supposed to be on the Sunshine Coast that day but there was a large gap between the time he was supposed to arrive at his sister's house and when he actually did.

He told them Jackway had only been out of jail for a month after spending eight years behind bars for abducting a boy from the side of the road and taking him away to rape him.

"You see, at the end of this trial I would like you to conclude that Mr Cowan's confession was a false confession, not a true confession," he said.

Crown prosecutor Michael Byrne had pre-empted defence would make Jackway appear "to be a person responsible for the abduction and killing", earlier telling the jury it was the Crown case that Mr Cowan acted alone.

Mr Byrne said the Crown case was that the people with the blue car had nothing to do with Daniel's abduction.

"Let me make it perfectly clear, the Crown case is that (Mr Cowan) had nothing to do with that blue car," he said.

Mr Cowan told undercover cops he was annoyed that witnesses reported seeing a blue car and two blokes talking to Daniel when it was just he and the boy.

The court has now heard there were multiple searches relating to Daniel Morcombe's disappearance, several resulting from fake confessions.

Mr Edwards has questioned various police officers about these other searches and spoken about other murders but he has not explained yet how they might be connected.

He also has been forensically testing whether the story Mr Cowan gave about how Daniel died was even plausible.

"I never got to molest him … he panicked, I panicked, I grabbed him around the throat and just before I knew it he was dead," Mr Cowan reportedly said in a video recording with undercover police.

Mr Edwards asked forensic pathologist Peter Ellis about airway compression leading to death, questioning what might happen in a struggle.

Mr Ellis said, hypothetically, if one's airway was blocked then they could lose consciousness "very quickly" with irreversible brain damage possible in about four minutes if oxygenated blood to the brain had ceased.

"Once you get irreversible brain damage … (and) the interruption of oxygen supply persists then death will occur in a small number of minutes," he said.

When asked what could cause a crack or clicking noise, Mr Ellis said the only thing he could think of was that the force around the neck was so much that it broke the spine.

Mr Ellis said a chokehold could break the thyroid cartilage, which is the voice box, which could cause damage to the airway.

"In a child of Daniel's age they would be very soft. They wouldn't break easily," he said

Trial facts

• Police divers Chae Philip Rowland and Gordon Paul Thiry located Bonds underpants, dark, long shorts and a belt when they searched Coochin Creek, 15m downstream from where Mr Cowan said he threw Daniel's clothes. Bruce Morcombe had previously told the court Daniel wore Bonds brand underwear. He said Daniel commonly wore dark shorts, that hung below the knee.

•  Water science expert Jonathon Olley said Daniel's remains would have under water from flooding twice since 2003. Mr Olley said nearby Coochin Creek would have flooded on May 21, 2009, and January 21, 2011. He said those floods would have produced small flushing flows which meant any fabrics thrown into the creek would not have moved far and would quickly have hooked on vegetation.

• Police scientific officer Donna Marie MacGregor, who specialises in human anatomy and forensic anthropology, concluded Daniel's body was most likely left on the ground at Glasshouse Mountains, rather than being buried, because all 17 bones were found in the top 10cm of leaf and soil on the forest floor. She said she was able to determine the bones belonged to someone aged 9.5 to 14 years with a height between 127.3cm to 135.6cm but she could not determine gender. Mr Cowan told undercover police officers that he left Daniel's body above ground covered in branches.

• New Zealand forensic scientist Catherine McGovern said she believed an upper arm bone she examined was 540 times more likely to come from Daniel Morcombe than from the rest of the Queensland population.

• Ancient DNA expert Jeremy James Austin said he had no doubt the bones belonged to Daniel Morcombe after matching mitochondrial DNA, which comes from the maternal ancestry, to his mother Denise and brothers Dean and Bradley.

• Forensic scientist Dadna Harthman, from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, also tested bone samples and confirmed a match for Mrs Morcombe and Daniel's brothers.

•  Forensic pathologist Peter Ellis told the court he too believed the bones belonged to Daniel but he could not establish a cause of death because of the degradation. He said scratches on one bone could have come from animal teeth or excavation tools during the search.

• Police scientific officer Ashley Huth was not surprised when he found no trace of Daniel Morcombe in a white four-wheel-drive Pajero that Mr Cowan confessed to abducting the boy in. He said he analysed the car eight years after the event and the car was in poor condition.

• SES volunteers crawled in a line on hands and knees, shoulder to shoulder, using small garden tools to search the ground. Photos showed of the bones could easily have been mistaken for sticks from the pine trees above but volunteers had been shown worn animal bones to help them identify bone fragments during the painstaking search.

• The search included excavations, police divers, cadaver dogs, metal detectors, sandbagging, pumping water out of search sites and using large purpose-build sieves to go through mud and 500 cubic metres of sand.

• Two Globe shoes, believed to be the ones Daniel Morcombe was wearing when he went missing, were found. Searchers then uncovered 17 human bones - the left and right upper arm bones, left shoulder blade, one of the bones from a right forearm, parts of the left and right pelvis, the left and right thigh and lower leg bones as well as five vertebrae from the lower back between August 20 and September 9, 2011.

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• Jury instructed on murder conviction for Morcombe trial
• Daniel Morcombe trial hears of pack of wild dogs roaming
• Woman recalls seeing "little boy in red shirt" at roadside
• Daughter became introverted and withdrawn after abuse
• Witnesses recount seeing Daniel before disappearance
• Bus driver missed Daniel by less than two minutes
• The two minutes that cost Daniel Morcombe his life
• Elderly man recalls seeing Cowan on the day Daniel vanished
• Accused murderer popped in for coffee-chats and drugs
• Cowan took me to Daniel site, girlfriend tells court
• First photos reveal family life of Daniel's accused killer

ENDS

The murder of Daniel Morcombe affected a whole community, but I can't imagine the Morcombe family's suffering.

My prayers and condolences to Bruce and Denise.