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  • January 31, 2024 10:15 AM | Anonymous

    Reposted from Yale News

    As the Yale Peabody Museum prepares to reopen after a major renovation, a team of skilled specialists is helping its smaller fossil exhibits come to life. A pair of prehistoric predators stand together in the preparators’ lab in the basement of the Yale Peabody Museum. Poposaurus, a 200-million-year-old bipedal carnivore, bares its pointy teeth. To its right, Deinonychus, a nimble raptor that roamed present-day Montana 108 million years ago, seems poised to sink its sickle-shaped talons into hapless prey. Both skeletons will reside in the Peabody’s Burke Hall of Dinosaurs alongside refurbished and reposed Brontosaurus and Stegosaurus specimens, among other fossilized wonders, when the museum reopens this spring after a transformative, building-wide renovation.

    Deinonychus, whose discovery in the late 1960s by Yale paleontologist John Ostrom helped dispel the notion that dinosaurs were plodding brutes, prowled Burke Hall for decades before the renovation. Poposaurus, a more recent discovery, will make its debut in the revamped space where Rudolph Zallinger’s famed mural, “The Age of Dinosaurs,” still stretches across the south wall. For the Peabody’s preparators, whose work often combines scholarly discipline with artistic techniques to reanimate these and other prehistoric creatures for public view, readying Deinonychus for public display required just a few touch ups. But creating the new Poposaurus skeleton demonstrated the full range of the preparators’ skills. The team’s expertise in excavating and preserving fossils, their mastery of long-extinct animals’ anatomy, and a creative touch bring the predatory reptile specimen to life.   But it’s just one example of the work the preparators — Marilyn Fox, Cathy Lash, and Christina Lutz — have done, with the help of a group of dedicated volunteers, to ready the Peabody’s fossil specimens for the museum’s historic reopening. In 2003, Yale paleontologists discovered the Poposaurus skeleton in Utah’s late Triassic Chinle Formation. The excavated bones include the hind legs and feet, the left forelimb, and much of the spine and tail, making it by far the most complete specimen of its kind. To allow for the original fossil material to remain accessible for ongoing research, the Peabody preparators reproduced the skeleton, making molds and casts of the fossilized bones, and carefully crafted reconstructions of the missing pieces based on existing fossils from the ancient predator. The reconstructed specimen — about 14 feet long from the tip of the snout to the tip of the tail — demonstrates the importance of the preparators to the museum’s scientific and educational missions, said Vanessa Rhue, the Peabody’s collections manager for vertebrate paleontology.

    The team collected the specimen in Utah, made the field jackets to protect the fossils, removed the bones from the rock matrix that encased them, molded and casted each existing bone, and sculpted the absent components based on meticulous research, she said. No Poposaurus skulls are known to exist, so Lash sculpted one based on the skulls of related animals. “His head and neck had weathered out in the gulley before we got there,” said Fox, the museum’s chief preparator for vertebrate fossils. “Cathy did a lot of research to figure out the most accurate shape for the reconstruction.” Lutz painted the cast portions of the mounted specimen that represent the actual fossils so that they resemble the genuine bones — mottled and cracked — while the remaining components are a flat brown, which will allow visitors to discern the elements based on fossilized bones from those that are not. (A fragment from the end of the snout was the only portion of the skull the paleontologists discovered.) “When you look at this specimen, it’s very difficult to distinguish, even with a trained eye, that it’s not an actual fossil,” Rhue said. “That’s no easy feat. It’s a phenomenal job and every step of it was a product of Yale expertise.” Burke Hall’s exhibits will trace the evolution of life on Earth from the earliest ocean life, through the Permian-Triassic extinction event 251 million years ago — when volcanic eruptions poisoned the air and oceans, killing off most plants and animals — to the meteor strike 66 million years ago that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. Visitors will learn how animals adapted to life in water and on land, and how scientists believe birds developed the ability to fly. “Roughly speaking, visitors will be traveling through time as they walk through the gallery,” said Chris Norris, the museum’s director of public programs.

    The next gallery takes visitors across the extinction boundary to explore the interplay between plants, animals, and the environment, including the effects of a changing climate over the past 66 million years. The final gallery introduces human evolution to the story, examining how modern humans have changed the environment, and how the environment has changed them. Exhibits throughout the three galleries have benefitted from the preparators’ time and attention, said Kailen Rogers, the museum’s associate director of exhibitions. “The preparators are incredibly knowledgeable,” Rogers said. “We’ve had wide-ranging conversations about what is best for the specimens and how they should be displayed. It’s been rewarding to work with them and recognize how they care for and understand these materials.” A skeleton of Hesperornis, a 5-foot-long flightless bird with tiny wings and a beak lined with sharp teeth, offers a sense of the preparators’ role in creating the displays. Discovered in 1876 during a Yale expedition to Kansas (which was led by famed paleontologist Othniel Charles “O.C.” Marsh), the extraordinary fossil provides insight into the evolutionary link between modern birds and dinosaurs. A mainstay at the Peabody since it was mounted more than a century ago, the skeleton has acquired a new and more scientifically accurate skull during the museum’s closure.

    During the skeleton’s original mounting, the replaced skull was sculpted from plaster and wasn’t closely based on actual fossils. But a few years ago, Michael Hanson, at the time a Yale graduate student in geology and geophysics (and who is now a research fellow at the Smithsonian Institution), used a CT scanner to image fragments of Hesperornis skulls in the museum’s collection. He assembled the scans into a more accurate digital version of the skull, which was then 3D printed at the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design (CEID). “It’s much more detailed, delicate, and accurate than the original reconstructed skull. Every bone is represented,” said Fox, who conserved the specimen and worked with Hanson and the CEID on the skull. “The folks at the CEID did a great job printing it.” The restored Hesperornis will be displayed alongside fossilized remains of other animals that inhabited the Western Interior Seaway, a vast inland sea that split the North American continent in two, including the paddle of a Plesiosaur — a marine reptile with a long neck and small head — and the flattened skull of a Pteranodon, a flying reptile that inhabited cliffsides along the seaway and preyed on the fish that inhabited it. New galleries charting life on Earth after the cataclysmic meteor impact at the end of the Cretaceous Period offer more examples of the preparators’ ingenuity. Plans for the display originally included the fossilized front portion of a skull that belonged to a small, female Arsinoitherium — an extinct rhino-like herbivore with a pair of horns protruding above its snout that inhabited North Africa 30 million years ago. (The specimen was unearthed by Yale paleontologists in the Oligocene Jebel el Qatrani Formation in the Fayum region of Egypt in 1966.) But Rogers, the associate director of exhibitions, thought the incomplete specimen would be difficult for non-paleontologists to understand. “To me, I could look at the fossilized portion of the skull and still have no idea what the animal looked like,” she said. “I suggested we make it easier for visitors to understand what they’re seeing.” To that end, preparator Lutz sculpted the skull’s back section based on existing casts of complete skeletons and the skulls of similar animals. She attached the reconstructed portion with magnets so that it can be easily removed, allowing researchers to access the fossilized portions. Making the reconstructions reversible also allows for the fossil mounts to be revised as more is learned about how the animals looked and behaved, Rhue said. “The foundational conservation the preparators have done on this material allows for individual parts of the skull to be modified if needed at a later date and you can also remove individual portions of the specimen off exhibit for research as well,” she said. “Providing scholars access is very important for the Peabody as a research institution because not a lot is yet known about Arsinoitherium and many of the other extinct animals on display.”  

    Not far from the reconstructed skull is a hulking skeleton of Megacerops, which inhabited present-day South Dakota 35 million years ago. A behemoth with two blunt horns protruding from its snout, it appears ready to step from its exhibit platform and stride through the gallery. A previous inhabitant of the museum’s mammal hall, the skeleton was completely covered in old paint and adhesives, which stained its bones dark brown. Armed with toothbrushes and ethanol, Fox, Lutz, and volunteers scrubbed the entire skeleton — which is about the length of a pickup truck and composed of hundreds of genuine and reconstructed bones, restoring the fossil’s bright eggshell color. Back in the lab, a state-of-the art facility built during the renovation to accommodate the preparator’s needs, volunteer Joe Peters works to free a fossil — a plate that belonged to an armored reptile called an aetosaur from the Triassic Period — from its matrix, the rock surrounding the specimen. Peters, a retired industrial chemist and engineer who lives in North Haven, Connecticut, uses a small, stainless-steel spatula to carefully scrape away red-colored dirt and rock. “It’s nice to have something to do that is mentally stimulating,” said Peters, who has volunteered at the museum for several years, working as a docent and teaching geology classes in addition to lending the preparators a hand. “This is interesting work.” “It can also be frustrating because fossils are delicate and tend to fall apart,” Fox said. Peters shrugs. “I try not to panic when that happens,” he said. A skull larger than a Thanksgiving turkey rests on a table behind Peters’ workstation. It belonged to a duck-billed dinosaur known as Lambeosaurus, which was collected by paleontologist Charles Sternberg in 1919 from the Oldman Formation in Alberta, Canada. The skull was covered with an unknown adhesive that the preparators cleaned off. Lutz is painting the skull’s reconstructed sections before it returns to the Great Hall. “It’s almost done,” Fox said.

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  • January 31, 2024 10:04 AM | Anonymous

    Reposted from Tim Richardson

    Last week, many parts of the U.S. had extremely cold temperatures. Where I live in East, Tennessee, it was bitter cold with temperatures reaching below zero. Unfortunately, for many, including my family, that meant frozen pipes. As fate would have it, I didn’t find out that some of the pipes leaked until the temperature warmed up. Life without water makes everyday living inconvenient. Because the pipes had been frozen for a few days, we had a mountain of dirty laundry that needed attention. The water problem needed to be quickly fixed. I reasoned that a lot of people would be experiencing plumbing problems and that scheduling a plumber quickly might prove challenging on a Monday after a week of record lows. I replayed possible scenarios in my mind. I didn’t like any of the alternatives.

    Even though I am not particularly skilled at plumbing repairs, I began thinking about attempting the repair myself. I really dreaded it because of the location of the pipes – in a very difficult to reach location under the house. I thought of a lot of excuses. I had an extremely negative internal dialogue going on in my head. I procrastinated big time! After a lot of negative reflection, I decided to act. First, I watched some videos on YouTube on repairing plumbing leaks. Then I went to Home Depot to gather everything I could think of that might be needed to fix the leaky pipes. Finally, I consulted a friend who can fix anything. I ventured under the house to the area where the leak was located and assessed the situation. While it wasn’t particularly enjoyable, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I had played repeatedly in my mind. It wasn’t as cold as I had imagined. It wasn’t as wet I thought it would be and getting to the broken pipes took less effort that I figured. The repair even looked doable – IF the right tools were available. However, even with the right tools, the repair would have had to be made while I was on my back, in an extremely cramped location that was surrounded by other pipes and even some electrical wiring. My knowledge and tools were limited and as much as I wanted water for my family, I decided to call a professional.

    Sometimes we face situations in our lives that make us imagine the worst. We replay them repeatedly in our minds making the problem worse than it really might be. Then we procrastinate over taking any action delaying a possible solution while we fret.

    While it’s important to take time to think about a difficulty we are facing, pondering too long can become paralyzing – delaying potential solutions. The steps that I took to try to solve my plumbing problem could also be used in a variety of professional or even personal situations. 

    • Decide to act. Just deciding to proactively begin ends the wasted time of negative reflection and thinking.
    • Educate yourself. While it doesn’t solve every problem, education can help you solve some problems. Even if you can’t solve them, you might gain some necessary information to help prevent the problems from happening in the future.
    • Consider all your available tools and resources. What tools do have available? What tools or skills do you need? Who do you know who has skills or resources you may not possess?
    • Know when to engage a professional. If you clearly don’t have the expertise or tools it’s perfectly fine to hire someone who does.

    Remember, you can’t solve every problem you face in your work or personal life by yourself. There’s no reason to feel like a failure if you seek the advice and counsel of someone with more skills, experience, and knowledge.

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  • January 31, 2024 9:36 AM | Anonymous

    Reposted from Tim Richardson

    “You’re fired!”

    Nearly 1/4 of NFL coaches have heard those words recently. These firings include coaches who have won Super Bowls and coaches who have a roster that includes All-Pro players even past MVPs on their teams. Some of these coaches will likely end up in the NFL Hall of Fame because of their astonishingly successful careers. However, none of those things can protect a coach forever. Unfortunately, that is also true in other organizations. Like NFL coaches, leaders must maintain an environment of continuous improvement. Coaches and business leaders are a lot alike in several waysJust like in the NFL, your role players are constantly changing. A great leader should always be considering what new talent is needed and making appropriate hires to compliment the team. Leading NFL teams win because they execute the basics extraordinarily well. The same applies in the workplace. When you get the basics like sales, customer service, finances, and human resources mastered, everything else will improve.

    Sports teams rely on a massive roster off the field to succeed: assistant coaches, trainers, strength and conditioning coaches, therapist, sports psychologists, medical professionals, and others to keep the team functioning optimally. The same applies in business–supporting roles are essential to keep teams strong. Professional football has evolved and will continue to involve in the years ahead. What worked last season may not be the key to future success. In the business world, it’s important to continually look at new ways of executing tasks, serving customers, and branding products and services. Innovation is key. During a game, coaches adjust their strategies all the time. Business leaders must do the same. Feedback is vital and must be ongoing. Don’t wait until it’s too late to ask for or give important feedback. There’s a lot of on the field and post-game celebration in football. Players perform better when they receive praise and recognition. It’s amazing how much better a work team can be when they work in an environment with healthy and regular encouragement. Like in sports, sometimes in business there are changes in ownership, new board of directors and even politics that can undo everything. But the winners in football and in business play their best game, treat their teams well, and focus on what they can control, and as a result, find themselves always winning regardless of the score.

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  • January 31, 2024 9:23 AM | Anonymous

    Reposted from EMR-ISAC

    Registration is now open for the 9th Annual Tribal Nations Training Week at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) in Anniston, Alabama. This event is open to all personnel who work in an emergency response capacity and are affiliated with one or more tribal nations or the Indian Health Service, and those who work directly with tribal nations. Tribal Nations Training Week will take place from March 9-16, 2024. The theme for this year’s weeklong training event is “Developing Generational Resiliency Through Training.” The deadline to register is Wednesday, March 6, 2024.

    In addition to an extensive list of course offerings, the week will feature an executive session for tribal leaders or their designated representatives. The executive session is comprised of a Tribal Leaders Symposium, followed by Continuity of Government Operations Planning for Rural Communities, NIMS Overview for Senior Officials, a closed listening session with FEMA Headquarters and the Department of Homeland Security’s Tribal Advisory Council, a workshop discussion on the disaster declaration process and its requirements, and a Senior Officials Workshop for All-Hazards Preparedness.

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  • January 31, 2024 9:13 AM | Anonymous

    Reposted From USSS



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    New Dates Added!

    Live Virtual Presentations on Targeted Violence Prevention 

    The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) is pleased to offer new opportunities to attend live virtual presentations on preventing targeted violence. In these presentations, our expert researchers will share findings and implications from decades of research on targeted violence and offer strategies for preventing acts of violence impacting the places where we work, learn, worship, and otherwise live our daily lives. This list of available virtual training events is regularly updated, and presentation topics change from month to month.

    To learn more about this series of live virtual presentations, or to register for one or more of these events, please follow the link below.

    Register Here

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  • January 31, 2024 9:00 AM | Anonymous

    Reposted from Art Sentry

    Museums and cultural institutions hold profound significance, serving as custodians not only of invaluable artworks but also as reflective mirrors of society, situated at the intersection of history, creativity, and human experience. Within the confines of a gallery, occasional confrontations arise, often avoidable—some visitors, whether due to real experiences or perceptions, feel targeted by security personnel. Allegations range from intentional surveillance based on age, race, or other false accusations. The motivations behind such incidents may vary, with guards potentially harboring prejudices or simply executing their duties diligently patrolling exhibits to safeguard paintings, sculptures, and historical artifacts. Instances arise where individuals inadvertently breach display boundaries, prompting guards to issue warnings like, "Please step away." A seemingly harmless act, such as leaning in to look at a painting's details or reaching out to point out an interesting feature on a sculpture, can escalate into an argument, creating an undesirable atmosphere for everyone involved. To foster an inclusive environment and address bias concerns while maintaining collection safety, museums turn to Art Sentry—a system designed to prevent unwanted touches through camera-based motion detection and alarms. This technology establishes an imperceptible protective zone around valuable pieces, issuing audible alerts to deter potential interactions. The neutral, automated alert ensures a non-confrontational response.

    Museums face constant challenges in safeguarding their collections, such as unintentional damage from visitors taking selfies, handling artifacts, or exploring exhibits. While security guards diligently fulfill their roles, Art Sentry complements their efforts, mitigating biases and enhancing the overall visitor experience. Furthermore, it enables guards to cover more space without incurring additional security costs. With the Art Sentry System in place, security guards intervene only when visitors disregard audible alerts, allowing them to focus on tasks beyond continuous gallery surveillance. This technology empowers security personnel to engage with visitors, answer inquiries, and provide directions, fostering a more welcoming environment. By employing Art Sentry, museums reduce the risk of artwork damage and align with Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI) goals. Implementing comprehensive measures, including security protocols, signage, stanchions, and innovative technologies, ensures a balance between preserving precious collections and creating a positive, inclusive visitor experience.

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  • January 31, 2024 8:20 AM | Anonymous

    Reposted from The Independant

    An 18th century British painting stolen by mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than half a century later to the family that bought the artwork during the Great Depression, the FBI has said. The John Opie painting - titled The Schoolmistress - is the sister painting of a similar work housed in the Tate Britain Art Gallery in London. Authorities believe the Opie piece was stolen with the help of a former New Jersey politician then passed among organized crime members for years before it ended up in the southern Utah city of St George A Utah man had purchased a house in Florida in 1989 from a convicted mobster and the painting was included in the sale. When the buyer died in 2020, a Utah accounting firm that was seeking to liquidate his property sought an appraisal for the painting and it was discovered to likely be the stolen piece, the FBI said. 

    The painting was taken into custody by the agency pending resolution of who owned it and returned on January 11 to Dr Francis Wood, 96, of Newark, the son of the painting’s original owner, Dr Earl Wood - who bought it during the 1930s, the FBI said. Opie was a British historical and portrait painter who portrayed many people, including British royals. His paintings have sold at auction houses including Sotheby’s and Christie’s, including one that sold in 2007 for almost one million dollars. According to the FBI, The Schoolmistress was taken from Earl Wood’s house by three men working at the direction of former New Jersey state Senator Anthony Imperiale. But the claims against the state lawmaker, who died in 1999, were not sufficiently corroborated and he was never charged, the agency said. Authorities say the men broke into the house in July 1969 in a bid to steal a coin collection but were foiled by a burglar alarm. Local police and Mr. Imperiale responded to the attempted burglary, and the home’s caretaker told the lawmaker that the Opie painting in the home was “priceless”, the FBI said. The men returned to the house later that month and stole the painting, the FBI said, adding that one of the men later admitted to the theft and testified that they had been acting under Mr. Imperiale.

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  • January 31, 2024 8:01 AM | Anonymous

    Reposted from TCU 360

    The pre-Columbian antiquities housed in a glass case in Scharbauer Hall don’t just tell stories from ancient times, they also have a pretty good tale from 2001.  Known as the Moorehead collection in honor of the couple who donated them, the pieces were the center of a heist from TCU and a lawsuit regarding their value.  At the time of the theft, the Andean artifacts were housed in the Mary Couts Burnett Library after Donald and Shelley Moorehead donated them in 1997. Even before the theft, there were questions about the collection’s value. This led to an investigation of tax fraud and an appraiser filed suit. When two professors went to look at the collection, they found empty boxes and shards of broken pottery when they entered the basement area where they were stored. “It should definitely be noted that over 400 individuals had access to the room such as student workers, faculty, maintenance, staff and instructional personnel,” said Ph.D. student, Michael Fung. He and other students in Dr. Alex Hidalgo’s graduate seminar, “Collecting the Mesoamerican Past,” have been studying the heist. They recently discussed their findings with the Center for Texas Studies and the Friends of the Fort Worth Library

    After breaking news to the media, the public was incentivized to return the stolen artifacts. A tip from Houston led to the recovery of 10 pieces and a private investigator helped recover an additional 66.  The suspect David Earl Word was arrested in connection with the theft. Word worked as a temporary painter at the library between 1998 and 2000.  Many other institutions have fallen victim to the tax fraud artifacts scheme as Texas is a popular import for art theft. “Pre-Columbian antiquities are much more present in Texas life than one would imagine, and Texas has a long history of serving as a transit station or destination for illicit antiquities,” Hidalgo said.

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  • January 31, 2024 7:52 AM | Anonymous

    Reposted from NYTimes

    A fire in Abkhazia, a Russian-backed breakaway region of Georgia, destroyed thousands of paintings early Sunday morning, devastating a collection that locals had cherished as a national treasure — albeit of a country only recognized as such by Russia and some of its allies, including Syria and Venezuela. Almost 4,000 paintings belonging to the National Gallery of Abkhazia were destroyed when a fire swept through an exhibition hall in central Sukhumi, the region’s capital, Abkhazia’s acting culture minister said in a statement. The minister, Dinara Smyr, said that those included 300 works by Aleksandr Chachba-Sharvashidze, a celebrated Abkhazian artist and stage designer, who worked with renowned artists and theaters in Russia and France. “This is an irreparable loss for Abkhazia’s national culture,” she said. The National Gallery is more of a storage space than a museum, however.

    Residents rushed to the scene on Sunday to rescue paintings, but only 200 artworks were removed from the burning building. Photos from the scene, released by Apsnypress, a local news agency, showed people carrying framed canvases, some charred and burned. Local law enforcement officials said they were investigating all possible causes, including arson. The director of the gallery, Suram Sakaniya, blamed a short circuit for the fire, according to the news agency.

    Abkhazia, a mountainous region on the Black Sea with a population of about 245,000, is internationally recognized as part of Georgia. Since the late 1980s, its status has been disputed, and the dying Soviet Union stirred up tensions between the ethnic Abkhaz and Georgian people who both populated the area at the time. In 1994, after a bloody war of secession against Georgian forces, Abkhazia enacted a constitution declaring itself a sovereign state. This was followed by decades of crisis, underfunding and neglect. Many of the region’s resorts, once famed throughout the Soviet Union, have been abandoned and fallen into disrepair. Local authorities promised to build a dedicated building for the gallery, so the art could be displayed on a regular basis, but it never materialized. The National Gallery had to store its entire collection crammed together in a few rooms at the top of the exhibition hall used by the local union of artists. The fire destroyed the building’s roof and the entire floor where the works were stored. In 2008, after a five-day war with Georgia, Russia recognized Abkhazia as an independent state. Moscow established a full-fledged military base in the region and has been holding sway over Abkhazia’s politics and finances. Georgia considers Abkhazia to be under Russian occupation.

    In 2016, speaking about the gallery’s state in an interview with a local news website, Mr. Sakaniya, the director, characterized his institution’s premises as “not suited for storing paintings, nor exhibiting them in any way.” In a statement on Monday, President Salome Zourabichvili of Georgia blamed the fire in Abkhazia on “the neglect of cultural identity both by the de facto leadership and the Russian occupants.” The fire was “a tragedy for us all,” Ms. Zourabichvili said in a statement on X. Established in 1963 as part of a regional state museum, the National Gallery of Abkhazia collects works by local and Russian artists. Russia’s Culture Minister, Olga Lyubimova, promised to send Russian specialists to help restore the surviving paintings. But Mr. Sakaniya, the gallery director, told Apsnypress that the damage would hit hard at Abkhazia’s sense of itself. “It is impossible to assess the damage done to the Abkhaz culture,” he said. “I walk around, and I cry.”

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  • January 31, 2024 7:43 AM | Anonymous

    Reposted from National Crime Agency

    Storage facilities are often used to store high value artworks and other cultural objects, due to the special conditions required to prevent damage, or for security reasons. Such facilities provide a discreet and secure storage service to art collectors, but also represent money laundering and terrorist financing vulnerabilities.Some other entities offer storage services in addition to their main business purpose, which may include logistics, packing, transport, removals, installations, gallery displays, restorations, valuations, auction representations and sales, and online/physical retail sales.Such services may be manipulated by criminals in order to facilitate illicit activity. Criminals may recruit professional enablers working in these fields to assist them in obfuscating and conducting criminal activity through wilful blindness and/or active participation. Illicit activity may be hidden amongst legitimate activity, making it harder to detect.

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