Cyrille Jean Paul Larignon and Yves Claude Daniel Climent reenact the killing of Laurent Lacques Jean Delacherie in front of police Friday on Samui.
KOH SAMUI — Police have arrested three Frenchmen in connection with the killing of one of their countrymen on the southern resort island of Samui.
Samui police chief Col. Paitoon Krajajang said Friday the three had confessed to their parts in the Wednesday night shooting at a restaurant of 44-year-old Laurent Lacques Jean Delacherie. Police believe a business dispute was the cause.
Surat Thani provincial police chief Maj. Gen Apichart Boonsriroj said the man suspected of shooting, identified by his passport as Georges Michel, was captured Thursday after fleeing to the mainland.
The other two suspects – Cyrille Jean Paul Larignon, owner of the restaurant where the killing took place, and Yves Claude Daniel Climent – are accused of helping to dispose of the body.
A defaced portrait of South Korean President Park Geun-hye is seen as protesters sit demanding the parliamentary impeachment of Park in front of the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean lawmakers on Friday voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye, a stunning and swift fall for the country’s first female leader amid protests that drew millions into the streets in united fury.
Once formal documents are handed over to the presidential Blue House later Friday, Park will be stripped of her power and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn will assume leadership until the country’s Constitutional Court rules on whether Park must permanently step down.
The court has up to 180 days to decide. Park will be formally removed from office if six of the court’s nine justices support her impeachment, and the country would then hold a presidential election within 60 days.
National Assembly speaker Chung Sye-kyun said the bill on Park’s impeachment was passed by a vote of 236 for and 56 opposed, with 9 invalid votes and abstentions. That well surpassed the necessary two-thirds support in the 300-seat assembly. The opposition needed help from members of Park’s party to get the needed votes, and it got it.
Relatives of the victims from a 2014 ferry disaster that killed more than 300 and was blamed in part on government incompetence and corruption, who were in the parliament observing the vote, cheered and clapped after the outcome was announced. Most lawmakers left the hall quietly, though some could be seen taking selfies as they waited to vote.
Once called the “Queen of Elections” for her ability to pull off wins for her party, Park has been surrounded in the presidential Blue House in recent weeks by millions of South Koreans who have taken to the streets in protest. They are furious over what prosecutors say was collusion by Park with a longtime friend to extort money from companies and to give that confidante extraordinary sway over government decisions.
Her approval ratings had plunged to 4 percent, the lowest among South Korean leaders since democracy came in the late 1980s, and even elderly conservatives who once made up her political base have distanced themselves from her. An opinion survey released Thursday showed about 78 percent of respondents supported Park’s impeachment.
South Korean lawmakers last voted to impeach a president in 2004, when they accused late liberal President Roh Moo-hyun of minor election law violations and incompetence. The court restored Roh’s powers about two months later, ruling that his wrongdoings weren’t serious enough to justify his unseating.
The chances of the court reinstating Park are considered low because her charges are much graver. However, some legal experts say the court might need more than a couple of months to decide. This is because Park’s case is much more complicated than Roh’s, and because her lawyers will likely press the court not to uphold the impeachment unless the suspicions against her are proven.
Friday’s vote was a remarkable fall for Park, the daughter of slain military dictator Park Chung-hee who convincingly beat her liberal opponent in 2012. Park’s single, five-year term was originally set to end Feb. 24, 2018.
The political turmoil around Park comes after years of frustration over a leadership style that inspired comparisons to her father’s. Critics saw in Park an unwillingness to tolerate dissent as her government cracked down on press freedom, pushed to dissolve a leftist party and allowed aggressive police suppression of anti-government protests, which saw the death of an activist in 2016.
She also was heavily criticized over her government’s handling of the 2014 ferry sinking, a disaster partially blamed on official incompetence and corruption.
Park has repeatedly apologized over the public anger caused by the latest scandal, but has denied any legal wrongdoings. She attempted to avoid impeachment last month by making a conditional offer to step down if parliament comes up with a stable power-transfer plan, but the overture was dismissed by opposition lawmakers as a stalling ploy.
Talking with leaders of her conservative ruling party on Tuesday, Park said she would make “every available effort” to prepare for the court’s impeachment review.
In indicting Park’s longtime friend, Choi Soon-sil, and two former presidential aides last month, state prosecutors said they believed the president was “collusively involved” in criminal activities by the suspects. Choi and the two former aides were accused of bullying large companies into providing tens of millions of dollars and favors to foundations and businesses Choi controlled, and enabling Choi to interfere with state affairs.
Park’s lawyer has called the accusations groundless and said she would only cooperate with an independent probe led by a special prosecutor.
Park first met Choi in the 1970s, around the time Park was acting as first lady after her mother was killed during a 1974 assassination attempt on her father. Choi’s father, a shadowy figure named Choi Tae-min who was a Buddhist monk, a religious cult leader and a Christian pastor at different times, emerged as Park’s mentor.
The Choi clan has long been suspected of building a fortune by using their connections with Park to extort companies and government organizations. Choi’s ex-husband is also a former close aide of Park’s.
BANGKOK — Instead of ghosting, raging or lawyering up, a former flight attendant ridiculed online for her bogus travel photos thumbed her nose at the scorn and one-upped those mocking her.
In her Instagram reply to all the memes mocking her photoshopped travel pics, @Ticha_ek on Thursday night posted her face atop an image from the Apollo moon landing, scribbled some home colors over the flag and captioned it, “I’ve been to the moon … Opps! Would @nasa report me?”
“It’s my way of telling the bullies that they can’t knock me down,” she said Friday from Calgary, Canada.
So why did the former flight attendant, who appears in other videos and images to genuinely be widely traveled, photoshop herself into random images found online?
Identifying herself only as “Louktarn” for fear of further harassment, she said that she thought everyone was in on the joke.
“For example, that picture with the Northern Lights was done by my boyfriend as a joke,” she said.
She had been persistently nagging him to go see them, she said.
“So he photoshopped me with the Northern Lights and sent it to me as a joke, saying ‘Here, you get to go there already!’” Louktarn said.
Louktarn removed her original, now- infamous Northern Lights pic, but it was reproduced by countless haters. Photo: Niphon Saengpueng / Facebook
Thinking it was funny, she uploaded it with a caption about believing in magic.
“I thought it was obvious to anyone seeing it that it was photoshopped. It was done just for fun. I’m not a net idol or a celebrity, this is just my personal account where I like to edit photos and post them. My style of editing pics is to make them bright and dramatic.”
She said she was unaware of the copyright on images she used, but didn’t think too much about it as it was done for fun. Unlike most social media personalities, she doesn’t appear to sell anything to profit from her popularity.
In various videos, Louktarn is seen strolling through the American southwest, touring Easter Island and dog sledding in Lapland.
“I really did go to all these places, because when I was a flight attendant, I got really cheap tickets to go and traveled alone. Sometimes, when the pictures didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to, I just added stuff into them, like extra fish in the photo of me diving.”
She said she never expected anyone to take them seriously.
Like the photo with Lionel Messi.
A screengrab of ‘Louktarn and Messi.’ Image: Krittaya James Akajioyi / Facebook
“When I was at the stadium in Barcelona, they had this photo spot where you can take a photo with a cutout of Messi and they print it out for you. My IG post was a photo of that printout. I thought everybody would get it. It’s so obvious that it’s not really Messi!”
Yet many did not, and her username, @Ticha_ek, became the top trending hashtag Thursday on Twitter, in countless tweets faulting her for deception.
The internet drama took her by surprise.
“I’m in Calgary right now, so I was asleep when the whole thing happened,” she said. “I woke to tons of flames and spiteful messages. My mother was calling me from Thailand, she was so upset and worried about me.”
Louktarn said the cyberbullying was intense, and she had no chance to reply.
“I have to admit, I’m not so ‘Thai’ when it comes to replying to people who send me berating messages that are perverted or involve my parents. One message even said they would throw acid in my face and slap me if I showed my face again.”
She said it went too far.
“The bullies were really harsh. If I was someone weaker, it could’ve been very dangerous. There have been suicides due to cyberbullying before, so I’d like to ask Thai social media to give me some justice.”
“They’re funny, and if they make people happy, go ahead,” she said, giggling.
Louktarn said she was an air hostess for eight years until about three months ago when she quit. She hasn’t spent much time in Thailand since, where her gender seemed to be a factor in the criticism.
“A lot of the comments were in disbelief that a woman who looked like me could go traveling alone to places,” she said. “I seem cutesy, but I’m actually an adventurous person who loves to travel alone.”
She decided not to let them win.
“I don’t want to be a nang ek about this,” she said referring to the archetypal leading ladies-cum-victims of Thai soap operas. “But I remembered a story about the Buddha that inspired me to think, ‘You can’t hurt me if I don’t let you.’”
Still image from "Selamat" promotional video. Image: Preduce / YouTube
As a child in the ‘80s, I would vent my anger and frustration with the family warfare going on at home skateboarding with my friends. Like most kids from that era, we got into it watching cats like Tony Hawk hot dog around Southern California in Powell Peralta’s “Public Domain” (1988) and other videos. The skating skills were impressive but what really took a hold of our lives was skateboard culture.
The music and fashion has been mainstreamed since then, at the time this was our Punk Rock, and in conservative 1980s Thailand, being a part of it was the biggest “fuck you” out there.
As with many imports, the scene in Bangkok started with a handful of early adopters, but in the decades since has flourished into a thriving scene supported by its own domestic industry.
Preduce is a Thai skateboard company that’s putting the kingdom on the world map. The company had modest beginnings in 2003 when it was started by Rthit Phannikul, Simon Pellaux and Guillaume Wyss. Now it’s a powerhouse with its own pro team, clothing line, skateboard decks and five full-length skate videos.
Their latest, “Selamat,” video features footage from both their original and new team members but is focused on new addition Absar Lebeh from Indonesia. It premiers tonight at Whiteline.
I met up with Pellaux at Preduce’s flagship store in Siam Square on Father’s Day morning. Not exactly the time one would expect a meeting with a skater but, skaters gotta hustle too.
Simon Pellaux, at left, and Guillaume Wyss. Photo: Tetsuya Ishikawa
Born and raised in the Swiss town of Vevey, Simon’s interest in Thailand came when he watched Thai-American skater Eric Koston’s segment in 2000’s “Menikmati,” which was partially filmed in Bangkok.
“In 2001 I came for three weeks, went to Koh Chang. I really liked it here and had a hard time going back to Switzerland,” he said. “So I came back again the next summer, so after two months I called my university and said that I’m taking a year off.”
Mongkorn Timkul: Switzerland is most famous for its mountains and I guess it isn’t exactly the best place for skateboarding. Simon Pellaux: We skated in winter, it was super harsh (laughs). If it snowed, we couldn’t skate outside, but we would go skate in underground parking lots. We would always find a way.
MT: You got into skateboarding in the ‘90s. Who were some of the riders that got you into the sport?
SP: I looked up to the guys from World Industries, Girl Skateboard and Chocolate Skateboards
The author and Pellaux. Photo: Tetsuya Ishikawa
MT: What was it about them that inspired you?
SP: It’s hard to say because it was the skater, but it’s also the brand image, and it was the start of hip-hop being really influential in skating. We didn’t know much about their personalities but what came through the videos and interviews is what I really liked.
MT: From skating with friends and filming skate videos for fun, how did you get the idea of opening your store in Siam Square?
SP: In 2005 we premiered the first video “Smooth,” after that we got approached by Nike. They wanted to find an account where they could sell their skateboard shoes. So I told them to give us a year and that we’d open a shop. I didn’t know how yet, but I didn’t want to let that opportunity pass. So I went back to Switzerland with Guillaume and came up with a business plan and found some investors there. In 2006 we opened the shop and had our first pro board series.
Absar Lehbeh pro deck. Photo: Tetsuya Ishikawa
MT: So “Selemat” is your fifth full-length release and you will showcase some of your new riders, Absar Lebeh being one of them. How’d you link up with him?
SP: Absar has been with Preduce for two years and his section in our new video ”Selamat” is him turning pro. We met Absar while we were in Malaysia. A friend of ours there said he wanted to come skate with us. So Absar flew himself to Kuala Lumpur, we skated with him that week and got along with him really well. He’s an amazing skater, but he’s also a famous musician in Indonesia.
MT: You grew up in Europe and have traveled with the team to many countries in Asia. What do you think our scene lacks?
SP: The one thing that lacks in the scene in comparison to America or Europe is that there’s not much public support for skateboarding. Not that you need skateparks – because we can skate on the street – but if you want skateboarding to really progress, and for kids to get good, we need skateparks.
MT: And with skateboarding being part of the Olympics in 2020…
SP: Maybe it’s gonna be good for skateboarding, who knows? But for me I feel the Olympics needs skateboarding more than skateboarding needs the Olympics. They need young viewers, young viewers don’t give a fuck about track and field or horse racing, so skateboarding will appeal to a younger demographic.
Preduce’s shop in Siam Square. Photo: Courtesy
One positive thing about the Olympics is that they will showcase women’s skateboarding at the same level as men’s skateboarding.
What I fear the most is that now skaters, to some extent, control most of the skate industry and culture, but by putting it in the Olympics I feel there’s a big chance we might lose that control to big corporations.
The “Selamat” premiere is tonight, Friday, at Whiteline. There will be a screening for juniors followed by another for adults. Get a Preduce logo tattoo and stick around later for DJs Mt. Markus, Octo and Hibiya Line (The Observatory) to control of the booth and get the funk flowin’. Whiteline is located at Silom Soi 8.
Until next time, Dub be good to you.
Preduce team skater Absar Lebeh. Photo: Janchai Montrelerdrasme
The Royal Celebration Concert by Feroci Philharmonic Winds posted on Aug. 3, 2016. Photo: Feroci Philharmonic Society / Facebook.
BANGKOK — Several of His Majesty the Late King Bhumibol’s musical compositions will be performed by two orchestras next week to commemorate the late monarch.
College of Music from Mahidol University, and Faculty of Music from Silpakorn University will perform compositions of King Rama IX on the same week with their unique style.
The Mahidol Wind Orchestra
Various arrangements of the late King’s composition will be presented through a different perspective by the Mahidol Wind Orchestra. The program will feature famous pieces and rarely heard works by the King, including his ballet score “Kinari Suite.”
Tickets are 200 baht or 100 baht for students with ID cards and are available at the box office. For more details check out Mahidol’s College of Music on Facebook.
The performance begins from 7pm on Tuesday at college’s music auditorium located in Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom. It can be reached by taxi from BTS Bang Wa.
Silpakorn’s Feroci Philharmonic Winds
Apart from King Rama IX’s composition, Silpakorn University’s Feroci Philharmonic Winds will perform a recent composition of Princess Sirindhorn followed by their own works, Brahms’ requiem and Faure’s Cantique de Jean Racine. The Bangkok Music Society choir and Silpakorn’s Thai Music Club will also join, with former Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai bending the horn for a saxophone solo.
Admission is free. Polite mourning clothes are required. More information is available via email.
Prior to the concert, activities dedicated to the late King such as free T-shirt screenings, an art exhibition and a painting workshop will start from 2pm.
The show starts at 7pm on Dec. 18 at the Thailand Cultural Centre, a 10-minute walk from MRT Thailand Cultural Centre Exit No. 1.
Military officers confiscate shisha equipment Thursday night from She Bar in Bangkok’s Soi Thonglor 16.
BANGKOK — Soldiers hunting for contraband tobacco products raided three bars in the Thonglor and Ekkamai areas Thursday night.
Military officers confiscated shisha equipment from Muse in Soi Thonglor 10, She Bar in Soi Thonglor 16 and Cubic Bar near Big C Ekkamai. The managers of all three bars were hauled down to the Thonglor Police Station, but no customers were arrested.
Army 2nd Lt. Rinthong Namkot said the raid was conducted after they were tipped off the venues were selling shisha, known locally as barakoo. Long illegal, its use was widely tolerated until Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha made snuffing it out a priority after taking power in 2014.
Ten soldiers went to She Bar at 11pm, where they found 13 hookahs and three jars of tobacco. They went to Muse at 11:30pm and confiscated another 13 hookahs and a large pot of tobacco.
Since the regime seized power in 2014, military have often stepped in to conduct police work such as inspecting bars and clubs. Arrests in the nightlife scene have become routine on charges such as staying open past closing time or offering illegal services, such as selling shisha.
At 1am on Friday, the shisha squad moved on to Cubic Bar, which is located in a Soi Sukhumvit 63 beer garden. They found seven hookahs being using by customers. They went on to search the bar’s storage room, where they seized another 19 hookahs as well as two kilograms of tobacco and a gram of marijuana.
The banner installed on the street of On Nut recently, saying the street stalls are no longer allowed from January 3.
BANGKOK — The sidewalk bazaars of the On Nut area were living on borrowed time Friday under a city-imposed deadline to clear out, just as the vendors kicked out of Sukhumvit Road’s Nana area have quietly returned.
Notices were put up recently by Watthana district officials declaring that as of Jan. 3, no vendors would be allowed to set up their stalls on the street, from BTS On Nut through Soi Sukhumvit 77, including those in front of the Big C mall.
“For the cleanliness and order and to restore the sidewalks to the public,” read the announcement.
The area has long been a bustling commercial zone with all manner of merchandise, from clothing and electronic to fresh vegetables and sausages for sale.
Another banner displayed a Sept. 30 order signed by Bangkok Gov. Asawin Kwanmuang revoking permission granted to some vendors to sell from 7am to 10pm.
The banner installed on the street of On Nut recently, saying the street stalls are no longer allowed from January 3.
Asawin has been the driving force of City Hall’s campaign to clear the capital’s footpaths of the informal marketplaces for which it is famous. In fact his dogged execution of the policy set forth by the junta after it seized power in 2014 was partly credited for it naming him governor in October.
The city has forged ahead while the debate over the campaign’s merits – some cheer clearing sidewalks for pedestrians while others lament the city’s vanishing character and life – remains unresolved.
After months of piecemeal efforts, the city made its most aggressive move in October when it dispatched officers to forcibly end sidewalk sales in several key areas such as Siam, Silom and Nana.
Vendors have drifted back to some locations since then. On a recent evening, the hustle of street sales appeared in Sukhumvit Road’s Nana area.
Nana street vendors returned to their business on Oct. 29.
Tibetans protest Chinese rule in 2014 as a result of another case of self-immolation by student Lhamo Tashi in Tsoe city, Kanlho, in what was then the 138th case since 2009. Photo: Day Donaldson / Associated Press
BEIJING — A Tibetan Buddhist monk has set himself on fire in western China in what appeared to be the latest such radical protest against Beijing’s rule, a U.S. government-backed radio station and rights monitoring group said.
The unidentified monk set himself alight on a road outside the town of Machu in a traditionally Tibetan area of Gansu province at around 7 p.m. Thursday, Radio Free Asia and London-based Free Tibet reported.
Police who arrived shortly afterward took the monk away and there was no immediate word on his condition, they said.
A man who answered the phone at a regional police station hung up immediately after the caller asked for information. Calls to other government offices rang unanswered.
While information from the isolated area is incomplete, the incident is believed to bring to at least 146 the number of Tibetans who have self-immolated in recent years, about 125 of whom have died, according to monitoring groups.
Eyewitnesses have been quoted as saying that many of those who self-immolated cried out for Tibetan independence or prayed for the return of the Dalai Lama. Tibet’s Buddhist leader fled Tibet in 1959 amid an abortive uprising against Chinese forces who had occupied the Himalayan region a decade earlier.
While China claims Tibet has been part of its territory for more than seven centuries, many Tibetans say they were essentially independent for most of that time.
Thursday’s self-immolation was the first known to have occurred since either March or May, perhaps reflecting stepped-up security measures in Tibetan areas of western China where most such incidents have occurred.
The protests are seen as an extreme expression of the anger and frustration felt by many Tibetans — both lay people and members of the Buddhist clergy — living under heavy-handed Chinese rule.
In a new book on the self-immolations, Tibetan writer and rights activist Tsering Woeser describes them as forming a “broad protest movement that continues to this day.”
“Because no other method is available for Tibetans to voice their protests, and because only the horror of self-immolation is able to capture the attention of the world, it has become the choice of the bravest protesters in Tibet,” Woeser writes in “Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule.”
Tibetan monks and nuns are among the most active opponents of Chinese rule in the region and the strongest proponents of Tibet’s independent identity, prompting the authorities to subject them to some of the harshest and most intrusive restrictions.
Those include the stationing of police and informers inside monasteries and a 2007 regulation stating that reincarnations of high-ranking lamas — a central feature of Tibet’s unique tantric strain of Buddhism — must be subject to Communist Party approval.
Beijing blames the Dalai Lama and others for inciting the immolations and says it has made vast investments to develop the region’s economy and improve quality of life. The Dalai Lama says he opposes all violence but has neither publicly condemned nor encouraged the self-immolations.
Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz, left, Minister of Status of Women Patricia Hajdu, Minister of Finance Bill Morneau, right, and Wanda Robson unveil an image of Viola Desmond who will be featured on the new Canadian ten dollar bill during a ceremony Thursday in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. Photo: Adrian Wyld / Associated Press
GATINEAU, Quebec — A black woman often described as Canada’s Rosa Parks for her 1946 decision to sit in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theater will be the first Canadian woman to be celebrated on the face of a Canadian banknote.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Thursday that Viola Desmond will grace the front of the $10 bill when the next series goes into circulation in 2018.
A businesswoman turned civil libertarian, Desmond built a business as a beautician and mentored young black women in Nova Scotia.
It was in 1946 when she rejected racial discrimination by sitting in a whites-only section of a New Glasgow movie theatre. She was arrested and fined. Her actions inspired later generations of black people in Nova Scotia and the rest of Canada.
Racial segregation in Canada in the 1940s was not enforced in the same way it was in the U.S. when Jim Crow laws were in place between the late 19th-century and the mid-1960s. But there was an informal practice of segregation that took place quietly in Canadian theaters, hotels and restaurants.
Leicester City's Jamie Vardy, right, battles for the ball with Sunderland's Papy Djilobodji during their English Premier League soccer match last year at Selhurst Park, London. Photo: Olly Greenwood / Associated Press
LONDON — After spending last season as one of the key forces behind Leicester’s rise to the Premier League title, Jamie Vardy is now the symbol of the team’s alarming decline.
The rough diamond unearthed in non-league soccer helped power Leicester to its first English title by scoring 24 goals. Defenses struggled to contain him as he scored in a record 11 consecutive Premier League games from August to November 2015.
Now, the striker can barely get a shot on target and Leicester is struggling because of it.
If Vardy fails to score against Manchester City on Saturday, it will be 11 consecutive games without a Premier League goal. And if results go against Leicester, the team could start the game in the relegation zone.
The 29-year-old Vardy rejected the chance to join perennial top-four team Arsenal to see if Leicester could build on its fairytale season. That has happened in Europe, with Leicester qualifying for the round of 16 in its Champions League debut as group winners.
Leicester collected as many points in the six group games as in the 14 Premier League matches so far: 13.
Vardy didn’t find the net once in five European games before being rested in Wednesday’s 5-0 loss to FC Porto, which didn’t affect Leicester’s status as group winners but was a high-profile humiliation.
Vardy has only contributed two Premier League goals and managed a mere four shots on target in the competition dominated by Leicester so unexpectedly last season. What’s also been noticeable is how Vardy is no longer linking so effectively with Riyad Mahrez — if at all — as the supply line for scoring opportunities has fractured.
Unless the symbiotic relationship between Vardy and Mahrez rejuvenates in the second half of the season, Leicester is in real danger of seeing its three-season stay in the Premier League end on the first anniversary of its title triumph in May.
“Of course he’s not happy,” Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri said of the central England club’s Thai owner. “No one at the club is.”
The one player Leicester couldn’t persuade to stay offseason is being sorely missed. N’Golo Kante produced a league-leading 175 tackles and 156 interceptions last season before joining Chelsea. The midfielder would seem to perform the work of two men when he was on the field and without him Leicester’s defense has seemed easier to break through.
Many at the club have publicly attributed the drop in domestic form to the desire to impress on the continent. Now there are no distractions for the next two months before the Champions League knockout phase begins.
The visit of Manchester City is a timely reminder about the fate of champions. City was the last team to follow a title triumph with relegation, far back in 1938.
City’s current mission is coping for the next four games without Sergio Aguero, with Kelechi Iheanacho replacing the banned striker in the starting lineup. City is fourth in the standings, four points behind Chelsea.
